The blocking forces fought very hard, and every minute and every second had to pay the price of blood and lives. However, judging from the relevant information that was later declassified, Ubolevich was not without reserves at that time, and after collecting the rout of the Belarusian Front, he actually had seven or eight regiments of reserves on hand.

So why didn't Ubolevich send the reserves? To be honest, many people did not understand Ubolevich's approach at that time, especially the officers and soldiers of the Baltic Front and the East Prussian People's Liberation Army, and they did not understand why they had to watch their comrades-in-arms grit their teeth when they had reserves.

Is Ubolevich crazy? It is certainly impossible, it is impossible for a military strategist like him to be suddenly brain-dead, and it can be said that every order he gives and every decision he makes on the battlefield has a deep meaning.

For example, reserves are never used, and the reason is very simple, Ubolevich thinks that it is not the time to use reserves yet, why? There are three reasons for this:

The first reason is that although the blocking forces fought very hard, they did not reach the end of the mountain. That is to say, they can still hold on, and since they can hold on, then there is no need to rush to the reserves;

The second reason is that the reserves are actually not so reliable, as I said earlier, the remaining reserves of Ubolevich are the Belarusian Front that survived the previous escape, and most of them are defeated by the remnants of the Baltic Front and the East Prussian People's Liberation Army rescued and liberated from the battlefield.

Let's put it this way, in addition to the troops who escaped from the battlefield before the Entente troops were encircled, there was still a certain combat effectiveness. Most of the others were soldiers liberated from the Entente prisoner of war camps. As you can imagine. How low is the morale of this group? And it's hard to say whether it's really reliable or not. In light of this. It is understandable that Ubolevich did not let them go into battle right away.

It is not only a question of morale, but also the fundamental difference between the fighting patterns of the Belarusian Front and the Baltic Front and the East Prussian People's Liberation Army. The two sides have completely different ways of fighting, and it is inevitable that there will be problems with the reluctance to mix and match two units with very different styles. Maybe this group of reserves will be of the opposite help when they are sent to the front.

The third reason, and the most crucial reason, is also the most crucial reason. That is, Ubolevich once again sensed a change in the situation on the battlefield, and this change could well have fundamentally affected the outcome of this general battle.

From the beginning of the detachment of part of Foch's main forces from Warsaw and the storming of Ubolevich's blocking forces. The Allied army on the battlefield was actually divided into three parts, the first part was the completely encircled Seibert, although the Yankees fought very tenaciously, but objectively speaking, it was just a death struggle, and the biggest significance was to delay a little time.

The second part was the part of the Allied army that attacked the Ubolevich blockade, which was about seven divisions, and the last part was the three divisions that were stuck by Tukhachevsky in Warsaw.

That is, the enemy's forces have actually been dispersed, and with the main forces of the Belarusian Front and the Ukrainian Front about to rush to the battlefield, it is entirely possible that they will once again divide and surround the enemy!

If you can destroy Seibert and the six enemy divisions in Warsaw, you will eat half of Foch's army. Next, the shape on the battlefield will completely fall to the side of the Red Army. And want to eat these six divisions. It is necessary to keep the enemy in the current state of affairs. Once Foch realized that something was wrong, it was impossible for him to break through the lines of the Baltic Front and the East Prussian People's Liberation Army and rescue Seibert. Then it is very likely that this old man will turn around again, and once these seven divisions will join up with those three divisions in Warsaw again, then the fighting strength of the Red Army will not be able to gnaw.

So Ubolevich decided to give Foch a little hope, shrink the line of defense a little bit, hang the appetite of the old man, firmly attract his eyes to Seibert's side, and buy time and space for the Belarusian Front and the Ukrainian Front to rush to the battlefield.

It must be said that Ubolevich was very risky in doing so, and it was tantamount to dancing on the tip of a knife, but he had full confidence, and at that time he said in a telegram to the Military Commission: "I believe that my soldiers can do this, I am fully convinced that they have such ability, and the imperialist intervention army will never be able to break through my defenses!" ”

It turned out that Ubolevich was right, after another storming for a day and a night, the Allied army finally lost its sharpness, and their superiority in strength was not very obvious in the first place, and it was not easy to hold out for so long at the cost of their lives.

The onslaught of the past few days has been quite a great cost to the Entente intervention forces, and not only a large number of lives have been sacrificed, but the consumption of weapons and ammunition is also extremely amazing. Especially the latter, when the logistics line was cut off, Foch's troops used one less bullet and artillery shell, and after continuous onslaught, they could no longer use machine guns and artillery without scruples.

Without the superiority in firepower, the pressure on the blocking troops is naturally much less. So while Foch was still ordering his troops to attack, he was never able to shake the seemingly shaky defensive line of the Red Army and the People's Liberation Army.

Moreover, soon Foch did not have the heart to continue the onslaught, because the main forces of the Belarusian Front and the Ukrainian Front finally arrived on the battlefield. The fastest came Mironov's 2nd Cavalry Corps.

This cavalry unit had previously rested and replenished in the direction of Kiev, but after receiving Frunze's order, it rode its horses all the way and was the last to come. Although the 2nd Cavalry Corps had a limited strength (with two cavalry divisions and an armored car brigade with a total strength of about 20,000 men). But they have become a key force on the battlefield to change the situation.

After arriving near Warsaw, Mironov did not go directly to support Tukhachevsky in Warsaw. Mironov was well aware that his cavalry and armored car units were not suitable for street fighting, and going to Warsaw would be a waste of fighters.

Mironov believes that it is necessary to make full use of the strengths and avoid the weaknesses, and use all the most valuable forces on the blade! So after rushing to Warsaw, his troops directly bypassed the city of Warsaw. Straight to Foch's ass stabbed hard.

That's right. Mironov chose to take the initiative to attack. His cavalry kicked Foch in the back, completely severing the connection between Foch and Warsaw.

It has to be said that Mironov made the bravest and most correct choice, his sudden entry into the battlefield not only cut off the connection between Foch's main forces and Warsaw, but also forced Foch to stop the offensive and go on the defensive.

From Foch's later memoirs, we can see that the old man was frightened by the sudden appearance of Mironov, and at one time was very pessimistic that the main forces of the Belarusian Front and the Ukrainian Front had arrived on the battlefield, and may have even wiped out his troops left in Warsaw. Think the tide of war has completely collapsed. He may have no choice but to abandon Seibert's forces in order to break out of the encirclement with the main force of the British and French armies.

Fortunately, the frightened old man soon learned that Warsaw's troops had not been wiped out, and that no more Red Army troops had been found on the battlefield, and that it was very likely that the troops attacking him were only the vanguard of the Red Army.

To be honest, Foch was rather surprised, he really couldn't figure out how the Belorussian Front (he mistook Mironov for a unit of the Belorussian Front) would dare to take the initiative to attack him?

In the old man's words: "The Russians are all madmen, a bunch of madmen like Don Quixote, even if they have only a rudimentary rifle and a few machine guns." They all dared to take the initiative to attack. This kind of behavior is simply not something that a normal person would do, yes. I'm pretty sure I was fighting against the same group of abnormal non-humans at the time......"

At that time, Foch fell into deep thought after a brief moment of consternation, although he did not come from the main force of the enemy, but this group of people came really unlucky. Leave them alone, these guys are constantly harassing you. And turn around and repair them, whether you can catch up or not, even if you can catch up, what? It doesn't take time to destroy them, and Seibert's side really waits for no time!

Seibert's life was indeed very difficult, although the enemy's large-scale attack basically disappeared, but the small-scale harassment and non-stop artillery bombardment made his troops have to tense their nerves, because as long as they slack off a little, they will be attacked by the enemy, which is really painful!

And Seibert's troops were not only nervous, but even worse, supplies. When they came out, they didn't expect to be surrounded, and they only brought supplies from the normal base. After these days of consumption, the food has bottomed out, the ammunition is also quite tight, and the most fatal thing is the lack of water.

You can carry it without food, but you can't carry it without water to drink. Moreover, the Red Army watched his movements closely, and whenever his troops tried to approach the water source, the shells would call for their lives. After several attempts and heavy casualties, Seibert had to give up.

Of course, give up and give up, but Seibert did not intend to surrender, he just put all the hope of being rescued on Foch's side, and he tirelessly sent messages for help, urging Foch to come and help him immediately relieve him.

And under the harassment of Seibert's telegraph offensive, Foch was annoyed, of course he wanted to help Seibert break the siege, the problem was that he really couldn't break through the enemy's defense, and now Chrysanthemum was facing the enemy's harassment, and he was in a dilemma, he really couldn't concentrate his strength.

"Sue sù Seibert, I'm trying! And he can't wait for rescue stupidly, if he wants to break through his troops must be more proactive, he should take the initiative to move closer to me, and he should create more trouble for the enemy! ”

It seems that the old man's words have some truth, if Seibert's troops also attack the Red Army, it can naturally create more pressure on the Red Army's defensive line, and the two ends work together to maybe succeed?

The problem is that this is taken for granted, Seibert is also suppressed to the death, he has no ability to fight back at all, and it is not bad to fight a defensive war with the combat effectiveness and combat experience of the Americans, but the offensive operation is really lame. To put it mildly, as long as the Americans throw themselves into a counterattack, then they will be greeted with a face-to-face blow!

Sure enough, when Seibert organized a counterattack according to Foch's orders, he had just jumped out of the position for less than 200 meters, and the American GIs were beaten to pieces under the greeting of machine guns and artillery, and then fled back to the position one by one. This unsuccessful effort cost hundreds of lives, and Seibert was in vain.

"If it doesn't work once, do it again, if it doesn't work twice, come three times! As long as you keep trying, there will always be times when you succeed! ”

Unfortunately, Foch, who was so overwhelmed by Mironov, didn't bother with Seibert's problems at all. Instead, he thought Seipert should try a few more times. If Seibert really took Foch's instructions. Keep throwing precious living forces into the fire pit. Then Ubolevich will be quite happy.

Unfortunately, Seibert did not take Foch's instructions and no longer make any futile attempts, but instead ordered his troops to shrink again to further consolidate their positions.

The Americans, who are determined to defend to the end and are ready to be turtles, are really not easy to fight. Fortunately, by this time the shape of the battlefield had undergone a radical transformation, and Ubolevich no longer had to worry about the problem of the defensive line, and with the addition of Mironov, he was not worried about the enemy retreating back to Warsaw. He had no scruples about using the reserves.

What's more, Ubolevich was not only suppressing and harassing and blockading Seibert before, the Red Army and the People's Liberation Army just gave up the frontal assault and turned into the tense tunnel operation, one by one the tunnels hidden underground were slowly approaching the American positions, while the Americans' attention was distracted by artillery fire, and the deafening explosions made them ignore the danger from their feet until noon that day......

With a loud rumbling sound, Seibert's fortified fortress-like position was blasted straight into the sky. His frontal positions were blown open several large openings tens of meters wide, and the American soldiers in charge of guarding these positions went up into the sky in a daze, under the action of hundreds of tons of explosives. Not to mention the whole corpse, there are no broken pieces!

After the blasting is complete. Ubolevich's artillery immediately began to violently bombard the blown up breach, suppressing the second-line units of the Americans, preventing them from coming forward to close the gap. For a while, a dense rain of bullets poured incessantly towards the breach, and the Red Army soldiers also jumped out of the trenches and rushed in the direction of the breach.

Fifteen minutes later, the shelling stopped, and the Red Army soldiers rushed precisely to the vicinity of the breach, a perfect coordination of infantry and artillery, and almost effortlessly, the Red Army cut a wide hole in Seibert's tortoise shell.

Seibert's eyes were red, and he roared, "Fight back, fight back for me immediately!" Tune in a battalion, no! Send me two battalions up and take back my position at once! ”

Soon, on his orders, the Americans began a counter-charge unprecedented in density. For a time, the Red Army assault troops, which were based on maintaining stability, were under great pressure.

The 3rd Company and 2nd Platoon of the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion were responsible for garrisoning a 100-meter-wide breach, which had been blown up almost to the ground in the previous blasting, that is, what the 3rd Company needed to defend was a blank area without any fortifications and foxholes. And this is also the point where Seibert's counterattack is the strongest!

The Americans countercharged with the strength of a whole platoon and a whole company, and the machine guns and shells rained down on the head of the second platoon, almost crushing the fighters of the second platoon. Under the blow of the dense rain of bullets, the second platoon continued to suffer casualties, and only three or five fighters remained in each squad. But it was these remaining fighters who did not retreat under the command of the platoon commander, nailed to the position like steel nails, and when the enemy rushed in front of them, the platoon commander Alexander hissed and shouted into the intercom: "Fire at me!" Shoot at me! ”

Konstantin, the commander of the combat engineer battalion who commanded the operation, ordered the artillery to be opened with tears in his eyes, and as more than 300 rockets fell, the entire breakthrough turned into a hell of iron and fire. When the third platoon of the second platoon rushed to the vicinity of the breach, there was hardly a living person in this area!

After a whole day of repeated battles between the two sides around the breach, and after paying thousands of casualties, the Red Army finally gained a foothold at the breach. And as the defensive line was opened, Seibert's troops finally could not hold on, and on the second and third days of the next day, they continued to lose their positions and were constantly divided and surrounded. By the fifth day of the battle, all the formations had been disrupted, and Seibert, who had suffered more than half of the casualties, finally lowered his head and announced his surrender with a white flag!

Seibert's surrender was a major turning point on the battlefield in Poland, which heralded a great rewriting of the enemy's forces, the Red Army for the first time gained the overall upper hand, and more importantly, the initiative on the battlefield was completely grasped by the Red Army.

That is, on the day of Seibert's surrender, after a tense march, the main forces of the Belarusian Front and the Ukrainian Front finally arrived in Warsaw. This is a sign that the final showdown is coming!

Also late that night, after intense discussions between the Politburo and the Military Commission, it was ordered to establish the former enemy command in Warsaw, and Frunze was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, with full responsibility for commanding a Qiē unit on the battlefield. Tukhachevsky and Ubolevich were also appointed deputy commanders of the former enemy and general political commissars of the former enemy, responsible for assisting and cooperating with Frunze in his work.

This appointment came at a very timely time, as it announced that the Red Army would no longer fight alone on the battlefield of Warsaw, and would for the first time be engaged in the battle as an organic whole. And Frunze's first order after taking office was to order the siege of Foch's headquarters and ask for a beautiful war of annihilation in one go!

It was also the night when the Entente was nervously discussing the situation of the war, and they knew that the most critical and decisive moment of the battle was coming. What is more embarrassing is that the shape on the battlefield is quite unfavorable to them, and they can't find any opportunity to change the situation of the battle...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to the glorious Comrade Charter and Comrade Juventus!