488 Dying Struggle (I)
Pilsudski finally sensed that something was wrong, that the seven regular divisions and two militia divisions he had left near Vovomin had been tightly entangled by the Jews, and that with the annihilation of the 10th Division and the heavy loss of the 12th Division, the shape of the battlefield was moving in a direction that was becoming more and more favorable to the Jews.
At this time, he finally came to his senses and understood that if he didn't hurry up and find a way, the troops near Wowomin would also be dumplings at all. At that time, he will only have one empty city, Warsaw, and I am afraid that there is only one way to go out of the political stage.
Lifting the siege and allowing the remnants of the army to be safely withdrawn to Warsaw was Pilsudski's only prayer. But it's easier said than done. The 27th Division and the 1st and 2nd Militia Divisions that went to relieve the siege were blocked, and he no longer had any extra troops on the battlefield, so he couldn't be allowed to take the militia division guarding Warsaw to relieve the siege, right? If you really do that, I'm afraid it's not to break the siege, but to deliver food.
"Get the 29th Division out of the battle, immediately reinforce the 27th Division, be sure to repel the enemy in front of you by tomorrow morning, and restore contact with the 30th, 34th, and 11th Divisions."
The 29th Division can be said to be Pilsudski's last straw, and pulling this division out of the battle for the siege of Vovomin is his last resort. But it doesn't work!
Why?
How could Li Xiaofeng and Triandafyilov watch the 29th Division slip away from their eyes, and how could they comfortably go to reinforce the 27th Division? Therefore, as soon as the 29th Division tried to leave the battlefield, the GRU immediately turned into an offensive and firmly stuck to the other side.
"Commander, the attack of the Jewish bandits is fierce. The troops simply could not be withdrawn. Right! The enemy's counterattack was fierce. Can't withdraw, there's no way to ......"
The busy sound of the beep beet indicated that the telephone line of Kolesnko was broken, and the last voice left of his main 290th regiment was the neighing roar of the regiment commander Lindper: "Hold on, so that the 3rd battalion must withstand...... Be sure to resist ......."
A very bad feeling welled up in Kolesenko's heart, and looking at the smoky Vovomin in front of him, he felt that he would never be able to leave this hell.
The GRU's counterattack was quite sharp, and the 29th Division, which was caught off guard, was almost routed in front of it, if it weren't for the 202nd Mixed Brigade finding out that the situation was not good. Hurriedly pulled Koleson Nisenko, and they were probably over playing together.
After a long day of fierce fighting, Triandafillov commanded his troops to regain all the positions they had lost, sticking to the 29th Division and the 202nd Mixed Brigade like kraft candy, preventing them from dedicating a single soldier to support the 27th Division to the north. This also directly led to the bankruptcy of Pilsudski's attempt, and his troops could not get out of the siege with their existing forces!
At the critical moment, he still has to rely on his godfather, Pilsudski is like a little kid who has been robbed of a lollipop, crying and crying for help from his own son. The Entente bloc was also caught off guard by the rapid deterioration of the Polish battlefield. Before, they were still actively defending, still waiting for the Jews to "draw wages from the bottom of the kettle".
As a result, the Jews were paid at the bottom of the kettle, but only at the bottom of the kettle in Warsaw. This made them rejoice, who had been waiting in Szczecingan for a long time, ready to take the opportunity to involve the Germans as well.
The Jews did not attack Szczecin. Naturally, the German government did not need to jump its feet, and the Germans did not intervene, relying only on the volunteer brigade that had just arrived in Szczecin, let alone rescuing Pilsudski, and had to put themselves in it when they encountered the main Jewish force.
"It is extremely urgent, once Pilsudski's troops are surrounded and annihilated, the whole of Poland will be completely undefended. The Russians and Jews would sweep through Central and Eastern Europe and completely upend the European order. In order to preserve democracy and freedom, in order to maintain the order of the civilized world, in the current state of affairs, there is only a certain compromise with the Germans in exchange for them to resist the demons of the East! ”
This is not alarmist, if Poland collapses, the blockade chain of the Entente to contain Russia will be broken, and then communism will march into the belly of Europe in great strides, which will profoundly affect Eastern Europe and the Balkans, so to speak, it means that the sky will change!
At this time, even the Gallic rooster who disliked the Germans the most in the Entente group had to admit that the Germans had once again become relevant. If they can send troops decisively and can repel the Jews, then there is still room for salvation in Eastern and Central Europe, and the chain reaction is about to break out!
Even the French knew that the situation was urgent, and they had the intention of wooing the Germans, so there was no reason for the remaining two giants to stop them. In this existential crisis, the three giants quickly reached an agreement to exchange a certain amount of political compromise in exchange for the Germans to save the situation.
However, on the question of how to use the Germans and how much benefit they should give to the Germans, the Big Three are still quite divided. As far as the Americans are concerned, they don't have much thought about the old Europe, they want Europe to be divided, and they hope that the power of the big hooligans in Europe is as balanced as possible, and it is better that none of them can become bigger, so that the Europeans can contain each other.
Therefore, it is not unacceptable to loosen the ties of the Germans, and it is better to let England, France and Germany continue to fight each other.
And for the British, it was impossible to completely loosen the ties on Germany. After fighting for the past few years, spending a lot of money, and dying so many people, it is not to maintain his status as the world boss. How is it possible to make it easy for the enemy to pass the level?
Of course, as old rascals, the British knew how to balance the situation, and it was not advisable to completely untie the Germans or completely overthrow the Germans (the latter would have made France untied). Therefore, it is ideal to teach the Germans a hard lesson, to emasculate Hans's ambitions, and to turn them into pawns of the British Empire to maintain order in Europe.
To achieve this, it is one thing to teach the Germans a lesson, but it is another to give the Germans a proper breather.
As for the French, as the sworn enemies of the Germans, they were undoubtedly the country that wanted to destroy Germany the most. However, there is a British existence, which is an ambition that can never be realized. Moreover, as mentioned earlier, if Poland is finished, Germany will be the only firewall between France and the communist epidemic area. If the Germans were not given the slightest favor to help clean up the Polish mess, it was likely that France would face the threat of polar bears and communism in the future.
From this point of view. Germany was still valuable to France. So the ideal thing for the French would be to give the Germans a little favor. Send this wild wolf with three melons and two dates, and let them obediently clean up the mess in Poland. Wait for Poland's shape to be stable, and wait for the alarm to be lifted, and then completely skin and bleed this wolf.
It can be seen that the French just wanted to take advantage of the Germans, and then they were ready to cross the river and tear down the bridge. The question is, are the Germans so stupid?
The Germans, of course, were not stupid, and for them the situation in Poland became as bad as possible. The more out of control, the better. It would be better for the Jews and Russians to clean up the Polish footcloths in the same way that they cut melons and vegetables, and then they could take the opportunity to wash away the stains of the First World War and turn them into guards and fighters against the spread of communism.
Therefore, it is impossible for the French to expect to send Germany away with three melons and two dates, on the contrary, the Germans are very calm, and they will never give up if they sit firmly on the Diaoyutai and do not get enough benefits.
Therefore, it is not realistic for the Entente to expect the Germans to intervene quickly, and the Germans not only did not help, but set up obstacles without leaving a trace. For example, for supplies destined for Pilsudski, the Germans deliberately let the railway system drag on. For example, intelligence. They also misled the Entente group coldly. He even secretly communicated with the Jews and resold a considerable part of the "leftover" materials of the war. For example, rifles, for example, light artillery, ammunition. For example, airplanes.
Sukhoi and his military advisory corps arrived in Danzig in mid-May, and they were theoretically the navy's advisory corps responsible for training the naval aviation of the nascent East Prussian People's Republic. But fools know that this is nothing more than a cover, the Navy of the East Prussian People's Republic is simply the domain of the Russians, and it can be said that it is a detachment of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet.
The main task of Sukhoi was also not to train Jewish pilots, but to receive German arms and rearm the more powerful Russian naval aviation. After all, Russia's industrial capacity is quite limited, and the aviation industry cannot keep up with the rapid changes. From 1916 onwards, the main combat aircraft of the Russian Air Force relied on imports from France. After the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, this path did not work, which directly led to the rapid backwardness of the Russian Air Force.
Especially now that it was 1919, the Russian Air Force was rather shabby and outdated compared to the better fighters and bombers of the end of the war. Now that he can secretly use the channels of the Jews to obtain German planes, Li Xiaofeng naturally has to make good use of it.
After a series of secret deals, the Jews spent a lot of money to buy a number of new planes from the Germans, so to speak, the Germans sold all the most advanced planes originally stationed on the Eastern Front to the Jews, and the less advanced ones were destroyed on the spot, and the other part was left for Polish footcloths.
Let's put it this way, the air force of the Jews and the air force of the Poles were almost the same formation, and they were all German, but one was high-level, and the other was a rag-picker.
After almost a month of acclimatization training, at the end of June, Sukhoi's naval aviation units were initially established. It has more than 100 fighters and 30 bombers. Let's put it this way, the forces at his disposal are almost the essence of what is left of the Russian Air Force in World War I.
From the end of June, with the arrival of the air force of the so-called World People's Volunteer Army in Warsaw, the skies of Poland were occupied by the Entente bloc, both in Vovomin and in Obermauginia. Without an opponent, they can scout as much as they want, dive and strafe as much as they want, and drop bombs at will, and unless they play with it themselves, there will be no danger at all.
Although the Allied air force did not cause much trouble to the East Prussian People's Liberation Army on the ground, it was also very annoying to be ridden on the head and all the time. So when Sukhoi reported to a certain immortal that the troops had initially formed combat effectiveness, a certain immortal immediately ordered them to go to the battlefield!
On the outskirts of Ostruf, in a clearing that had just been leveled by manpower, one Ford after another was taking off. The leader of the long plane was none other than the mustachioed Sukhoi who liked to drink tea. The day after his arrival in Ostruf, he was eager to go on the offensive, eager to wrestle with the Allied pilots. Because he had heard some rumors that the self-righteous guys were said to be private: "The Russian pilots are a bunch of reckless men, a bunch of air tractor drivers." I don't know the art of flying at all! ”
Sukhoi, who considers himself very literate and artistic, certainly cannot accept such an evaluation. He wants to teach the other party a lesson with practical actions. Let those self-righteous guys know what the true art of flying is.
Sukhoi's formation flew straight southwest, and the written task was to conduct an aerial reconnaissance to find out the situation of the Poles and clear the fog for the next step of the battle. But in fact, Sukhoi was simply going for air combat, so after arriving at the predetermined airspace, he did not lower his altitude to reconnoitre, but constantly circled in search of enemy aircraft.
Soon the enemy appeared, and a two-seater reconnaissance plane swayed into Sukhoi's field of vision. The two poor creatures were not aware of the danger at all, and when they found Sukhoi, they shook their wings affectionately and greeted them in a friendly manner. The two poor creatures probably thought they had met a friend.
Although killing a target seems unskilled to Sukhoi, he will not be soft on his prey. After drawing a cross on his chest, Sukhoi sent the two-seater reconnaissance plane to the ground with billowing smoke with just one strafing shot.
Sukhoi could see that the two poor creatures were waving and shouting at him before they died, and judging by the shape of their mouth, they probably said, "Fool, you made a mistake, we are our own people!" ”
"You're stupid," Sukhoi pouted, "and we're not our own!" ”
After eliminating this pair of idiots. Sukhoi didn't find it enjoyable at all, and even a little regretful. How he longed to fight a real opponent, and hunting turkeys was so boring!
Mustache's hopes were soon fulfilled, and just as he had shot down three other enemy planes and was boredly venting his anger at the Polish footcloths charging on the ground, two murderous enemy planes appeared, the Sopwith F.1 Camel.
Sukhoi, who was in the cockpit, whistled: "British, aha, let's have a gentleman's duel!" With that, he pushed the throttle and began to accelerate.
However, to Sukhoi's disappointment, the gentlemanly spirit of the British has always been only in words, or only in the time when they are at a disadvantage. And when they have the upper hand, they are more like a bunch of pirates.
Now, for example, two camels rushed forward one after the other, aiming at the tail of Sukhoi's plane, and almost at the same time opened fire on him who was lonely, machine gun bullets whistling and greeting the mustache, and just the first shot made his fuselage pierce five or six holes.
"You're so bad!"
Sukhoi pulled up the lever and did a somersault, while twisting his neck to watch the other maneuver. The camel's mobility was still good, two English gentlemen bit his tail and chased after him, and the machine gun did not mean a ceasefire, and Sukhoi could see bullets with tracer flying around him.
Somersaulting, circling, rolling, Sukhoi did his best to accompany the two gentlemen, and I have to say that the performance of Fokker D.VII is very good, and he has never been seized by the British Yankees of any absolute opportunities. And with the massive maneuver, the formation of the two gentlemen became more and more loose, and all Sukhoi needed now was to wait for an opportunity.
And the opportunity soon appeared, and once again Sukhoi went into a somersault, and the three planes pulled up in turn and then dived down, but the more maneuverable Sukhoi got into the dive first and grabbed the tail of the second gentleman who had just entered the somersault.
Sudden ...... Sudden ......
After two short, powerful shots, the English gentleman's chrysanthemum was shattered, and the poor creature quickly stalled and then fell into a tailspin, and although he tried his best to save his car, the height was so low that the gentleman soon crashed head-on into the ground with a terrible scream.
The death of his comrade-in-arms spurred another gentleman hard, and this gentleman began to entangle with Sukhoi regardless of the situation, and whenever he had the opportunity, the machine gun bullets would be fired like a torrent, and the two sides fought from high altitude to low altitude, and then from low altitude back to high altitude, and the battle process was extremely complicated and tangled.
Even Comrade Sukhoi, who has always been very arrogant, had to admit that his opponent was very difficult to entangle, sticking to him like a piece of kraft candy, not giving him a chance to breathe.
Sukhoi, who couldn't get rid of his opponent after exhausting all conventional means, knew that he had to think of something unusual, otherwise he would definitely suffer if he continued to be entangled like this.
But where was the solution so easy to come up with, once again he was forced down from a high altitude by his opponent, forced into a dive, and it took a lot of effort to get lucky not to be shot down by the enemy who followed. Just as he was about to pull the lever again, regain the height and continue to think of a way, a burst of gunfire broke out on the ground.
The Poles finally set up the anti-aircraft gun mount of Makqin and began to greet him, an uninvited guest, and one of the bullets flew almost grazed Sukhoi's cheek, almost opening two holes in his brain.
"It's terrible, you can't get rid of that bastard at high altitude, and there are anti-aircraft machine guns at low altitudes that wipe your feet, isn't it fatal!"
Sukhoi felt that his luck today seemed to be exhausted, otherwise how could he not get rid of a so-called British, obviously the cargo plane was not as good as him, but why could he bite so tightly?
Well, if Sukhoi knew that he had just killed someone's own brother, then he should understand why they were biting him, but for the time being, let's ignore this overconfident flying genius and tell the story on the ground first...... (To be continued......)
PS: Bow and thank you to hzwangdd, Admiral Hood, Kill Potato and Comrade Juventus!