Was Pilsudski really a little bellied chicken intestine afraid of being robbed of the credit, so he ordered the besieging Wehrmacht to stop the attack?

No, although Pilsudski is not a first-class politician, he still has two brushes. If the Wehrmacht could eat the main force of the Olsztyn Jews in one fell swoop, he would naturally let them do it. As commander-in-chief, whether it is the victory of the Polish Corps or the miscellaneous Wehrmacht, the honor is his. How could Pilsudski be so short-sighted and bury himself in a good situation?

The reason why he wanted to call a halt to the siege force was very simple, because he felt that continuing to let the siege force launch a wild attack would not achieve the campaign goal he wanted.

What was Pilsudski's goal? It was the total annihilation of the Jewish army in Olsztyn, and then the camera broke through and annihilated the Jewish army that had come to reinforce them. But now if you continue to let the siege troops advance wildly, there is only one consequence, and that is to crush the Jewish army in Olsztyn and let them escape early!

Total annihilation and defeat are two different things, everyone understands that it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten fingers, and annihilating the enemy's living force is the king's way. What is the point of crushing the Jewish army in Olsztyn? It would only allow them to flee in the direction of Königsberg, which would not only drive the scattered enemy away, but also nullify all previous plans.

Pilsudski's battle plan is a bit of a siege to send reinforcements, and if you scare the enemy away, the battle plan can be taken directly to wipe your ass. Therefore, seeing that the enemy in the city is vulnerable, and the outflanking troops are not yet in place, there is no point in continuing to attack the city. Therefore, Pilsudski could only shout to the besieging troops to stop, and could only order his descendants to step up the pace of outflanking.

It should be said that this is a relatively wise decision, but this decision is controversial. But it can be misunderstood. For example, the siege troops that progress smoothly. None of them understood Pilsudski's painstaking efforts. unanimously felt that the goods just wanted to let their descendants be in the limelight, and they were complaining for a while.

"The Poles seem to be very unhappy!" Li Xiaofeng put down his binoculars and smiled at Ubolevich beside him.

"Well, their relationship with Pilsudski was originally average, and now they feel that Pilsudski is too partial, and it is certain that they are unhappy." Ubolevich replied, but he immediately added: "But this unhappiness is not enough to make them ignore Pilsudski's orders, we need to work harder!" ”

Ubolevich said to work harder. But the Jewish warriors were suffering, and each of them came to East Prussia with the determination to die, and they wanted to fight vigorously and vigorously, and they wanted to win a piece of land for the Jewish people with their own blood. They are not afraid of bloodshed, they are not afraid of sacrifice, they wish they were to die like heroes.

But now the superiors have asked these "heroes" to pretend to be bears, deliberately show weakness in front of the enemy, and to be honest, they don't understand why we can't fight the enemy in a real and open fight, we can completely defeat these self-righteous Poles!

But Li Xiaofeng said no. Ubolevich also said no, even after listening to Triandafilov's battle plan. Pavel also said no. So the Jewish warriors could only choose to pretend to be their grandsons very aggrievedly. They can only look as vulnerable as possible in front of the enemy, as ridiculous as possible.

"Jews are a bunch of clowns!"

After a new day of fighting, the besieging Polish Wehrmacht became even more disdainful of the enemy in front of them, believing that a single blow would make the Jewish clowns run a bloody out, while Pilsudski was angry that he tightened the chains around their necks, so that they could only watch the Jews perform all kinds of clumsy performance art, and they could only look at the fat that was put to their mouths but could not put down their mouths.

It's as uncomfortable as it gets, and to tell the truth, the Polish Wehrmacht is almost unbearable.

"Your Excellency, the siege troops have repeatedly asked for an immediate attack, and they promise to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop!"

"Your Excellency, the siege troops are strongly demanding to enter the battle, and the soldiers can no longer bear it!"

"Your Excellency, if the siege troops endure any longer, their morale will fall to the bottom, and they have already strongly questioned your command ability and have already lodged a strong protest to Congress!"

As head of state and chief of the General Staff of the army, Pilsudski was impatient with the protests and pleas of the dregs of the siege troops. Do you guys understand what the big picture is, and it's refreshing to let you go into battle, but we don't have to bother chasing after scaring away the enemy?

Of course, what made him even more impatient was the "clumsy" appearance of the lineage, and last night they had not been able to penetrate the Jewish line under the pretext that they were unfamiliar with the environment, and that the enemy was good at concealment. But if the light is bright today, you are still hiding from the Jews in the forest, what are you doing?

Pilsudski had to urge his descendants again: "Hurry up, all of Poland is watching you!" ”

The problem was that it was useless for the whole world to watch them, and most of the elite troops belonging to the Jewish Liberation Front, who were responsible for stopping the Polish Corps in the forest and lake area, received formal training at the Lagardo Lake training base and then experienced actual combat in Finland. The area around Vyborg is a dense environment of rivers and lakes and dense forests. Fighting in such terrain was not at all foreign to these Jewish warriors, and even like a fish in water. Not to mention Pilsudski's descendants, even the German regular army should not want to bargain from them in this environment.

The battle continued near the forests and lakes, and Pilsudski's descendants were mercilessly played like headless flies, let alone advancing, it was impossible to retreat!

"Okay, don't go too far, it's troublesome to arouse Pilsudski's vigilance."

Ubolevich gladly accepted the advice of a certain immortal, and according to the original battle plan, he could now move on to the next link: "Order the troops to begin to retreat, and be sure to disengage with the Poles before dawn!" ”

To tell the truth, the Jewish warriors in the forest really didn't want to let the stupid Poles go like that, and they hadn't enjoyed this day's fighting! But an order is an order, and even if they are reluctant to do so, they must carry it out!

"Forget about retreating, why throw away your weapons?" Dayan was unhappy and protested to his superiors.

This Russian-born Jewish man had an iron will. Belonged to the first group of Jews to return to Israel. I heard of a Jewish uprising in Königsberg. He immediately said goodbye to his wife and four-year-old son. Rushed to Königsberg.

During his month-long combat career, Dayan earned the respect of his comrades, who were braver than anyone else and fearless to death.

"Although these Mauser rifles are not as good as the SKS45, they can't just be given to the damn Polish chops!"

In the face of Dayan's protest, the superiors could only patiently explain: "We can't give up the child and can't trap the wolf, we have to pretend to be a little more like!" ”

After a long talk, Dayan accepted the order sullenly. Reluctantly discarded the German ordnance.

"The Jews collapsed?"

Pilsudski was still planning the night battle, preparing to take advantage of the darkness of the night to make a surprise attack to see if he could break through the two flanks of the Jews. Who would have thought that before he could start acting, the Jews themselves would collapse.

"Are you sure the enemy is collapsing, not luring the enemy deeper?" Pilsudski asked with a straight face.

"It is certain that the Jews have collapsed, their weapons and ammunition have been thrown to the ground, and they are more panicked than rabbits when they flee!"

When Pilsudski saw the "captured" ordnance, he believed a little, they were all standard German-made weapons, and some of them looked like new guns that had just been unpacked. No one would willingly drop this large arsenal of weapons and run away.

Just as Pilsudski was about to order his troops to quicken the pace. When the outflanking was completed and the Jews in the city were left behind. Here's the bad news.

"Your Excellency, the besieging forces have responded that the Jews in the city have begun to scatter and flee, and they ask if they want to pursue?"

"How can the enemies in the city run away if they are so good?" Pilsudski was furious when he heard this, and in his opinion it must have been the besieging troops who had launched an attack without authorization.

And the besieging troops felt that they had been wronged! From last night to now, they have followed Pilsudski's instructions in a proper manner, and they have not dared to take a step beyond the thunder pool. Obviously, there are many opportunities to expand the results of the battle and obtain the merits, but they have all given up. The enemy suddenly fled, how can this account be counted on their heads?

In the eyes of the besieging troops, it was definitely not them who were responsible for this, but Pilsudski's descendants, and it was precisely because they delayed the fighter plane that they cooked a pot of raw rice. If you guys move a little faster, decisively, and get to the outflanking position early, can there be so much? Can you let go of the Jewish turtle grandson?

Even many siege troops felt that Pilsudski was partial, that he was helping those bastards who were slow to delay the fighters, and that they were shirking their responsibilities. For a time, the siege troops had a stomach of opinions about Pilsudski and Pilsudski's descendants!

Of course, there was a great deal of opinion, but the troops in charge of the siege did not dare to disobey Pilsudski's order, and when Pilsudski gave the order to pursue the Jews, they chose to carry out the order, even if they were not very happy, but they complied.

Later summing up the campaign, Pilsudski made a great mistake at this time, and the prevailing view was that he should not have ordered the unreliable non-descendant troops to pursue him, because it would not have done any good at all.

Later analysts believed that the combat effectiveness of these non-descendant troops was quite limited, and because of the previous friction and unhappiness, they had accumulated considerable anger. It is very likely that at an unfavorable time, this fire will explode, and once it does, it will be fatal.

In hindsight, they all thought that Pilsudski should send his descendants to pursue, and that the Polish corps was more combatant and obedient to command, and that it was only fitting for them to fight in the front.

Do these analyses make sense? There must be, but it's all an afterthought, and it's pointless. In fact, Pilsudski was not unaware of the problems of the non-descendant troops, he was quite aware of them. So why did he send these troops to play the striker?

The reason is quite profound, Pilsudski is certainly not a military genius, objectively speaking, his military ability is also the posture of a man. But the posture of a middle-aged person is not the same as a metric, and Pilsudski still has strengths in individual aspects. For example, he was very vigilant and sensed something from the previous battles.

He could sense that something was unusual, and he had to see that because of the premature "collapse" of the Jews, the battle plan he had drawn up had been completely defeated. What lies ahead of him is a victory of little value. He failed to achieve his goal of annihilating the main Jewish force, and the Jews fled.

This makes him have to think carefully about what to do next. At this moment. Pilsudski stood at a fork in the road. It's a quick chase to beat the water dogs. Or do you want to move forward slowly?

Pilsudski, of course, wanted to get rid of the Jews as quickly as possible, so that he could go to Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic countries to get a vote, and the appeal of a quick victory was quite great for the dream of a great Poland in his head. But at the same time, he was vigilant enough that he always felt that the scene staged by the Jews was a bit unusual, and that the pursuit seemed risky.

Let's put it this way, Pilsudski is in his current state as a thief. has a thief's heart but a thief's courage is not big, compared with the historical Pilsudski who made a vote in Western Ukraine and was completely carried away, the current Pilsudski is more difficult to deal with.

After some thought, Pilsudski made what he thought was the most appropriate choice, sending non-related troops in pursuit. First of all, these people were basically watching a play in yesterday's battle, and they were more energetic than "the descendants who fought hard for a day and a night." While they were in pursuit, the descendants could take a break. When these motley gangs caught up with the Jews, they almost exhausted the energy of the Jews. It was easy for his descendants to go up and receive the fruits of victory.

Secondly, if the Jews really had a conspiracy and set up ambushes and traps in front, then it was these miscellaneous cards that went to the mines, and they would not be distressed if they were all dead. It's a big deal to pull another batch of strong men.

Was Pilsudski's idea wrong? From the perspective of self-preservation, his choice was absolutely correct. But from a purely military point of view, this choice is quite a pain in the ass. No one is a fool, can these little abacus miscellaneous troops of his not be able to see it? After seeing it, there will be fools who will die for him?

It can be said that Pilsudski's choice seems to have preserved his strength, but in fact it has weakened his strength, at least his troops can no longer be able to fight together with one heart and one mind. When you are fighting with the wind, this hidden danger is nothing, but once you reach adversity, it will collapse in minutes!

And it's never a good idea to send a ragtag to the road, if there is really a trap ahead, once these ragtags fall in, they will be annihilated. How do you get it later? After all, Pilsudski only had such a hundred thousand people, and he had an advantage over the Jewish Liberation Army, but he did not have an absolute advantage. Once the motley army is destroyed, it will be difficult to fight the battle in the future?

This is the difference between a politician and a politician, Pilsudski is just a politician, not a politician, he is ambitious but not very clever in his means. It can also be seen from history that this goods is a bit of a dog's power, relying on the support of the Entente bloc behind it, and the people's hearts are not enough to swallow the elephant to provoke the polar bear, and the result is almost to bury Poland, which has just won independence. Even if there was a victory in the Battle of Warsaw, the flaws of this good eye were completely exposed, and it can be said that it was his various choices that led to the tragedy of Poland in World War II and the later Katyn tragedy.

The same is true now, Pilsudski seems to have made the right decision, but in fact it has cast a shadow over his later failures. When the motley army reluctantly came forward to pursue, he took his descendants to sit in Olsztyn and watch the play. He used a trick to find out the truth of the Jews, but he could never have imagined that this trick was exactly what Ubolevich and Triandafilov wanted.

"Pilsudski has taken the bait, can we eat his motley troops?" Pavel asked with some excitement.

In this regard, Ubolevich shook his head: "It's not time yet, judging by Pilsudski's arrangement, this guy is already suspicious. At this time, when he counterattacks, his main force will immediately follow, and then it will be a pot of raw rice! ”

Triandafilov also said: "We have to put a little more distance between the Polish motley forces and Pilsudski's main force, so that we have enough space and time to eat them!" ”

Pavel was not good at military affairs and asked: "What exactly should be done?" ”

Li Xiaofeng said with a smile: "It's very simple, give up one or two more cities and bring in miscellaneous brands!" ”

Abandoning the city made Pavel a little painful, thousands of years of wandering life, so that the Jews have a deep attachment to the land, and now it is easy to grab these territories, let him give them away, really reluctant!

"It doesn't matter at all whether you gain or lose one city or one place!" Li Xiaofeng saw Pavel's entanglement and warned: "Only by annihilating Pilsudski's living forces can you really gain a foothold in East Prussia and Poland...... Besides, we're not really giving up the territory, it's just bait for fishing! ”

After thinking about it, Pavel took a deep breath and replied categorically: "That's it!" ”

Li Xiaofeng, Ubolevich and Triandafinov looked at each other and smiled, and said: "Then we can start the next stage of the operation, not only to continue fishing, but also to let Pilsudski's main force stay in Olsztyn for a while...... lest when he sees that the bait is so delicious, he can't wait to come up and grab the food, and it won't be beautiful! ”

Poor Pilsudski did not know that he was being targeted, and that he had a good time in Olsztyn, when a large number of reporters rushed to the city to interview him and his troops, and the high hat made him a little unable to find the north...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to Comrade hzwangdd and Comrade Juventus!