The closer the war came to an end, the busier people like Learwin became. In the post-war distribution of interests, a conspirator like her will inevitably run around, whether it is planning a conspiracy or cracking a game set by her opponent, she is needed.

Anyway, from June 1944 onwards, Learvin was not an ordinary busy, and became a veritable trapeze. One moment in China, one moment in the Middle East, one moment in France, and one moment in the United States.

But today Learvin is in London, and she is with Vovard Sław. Lachikievich held secret talks. This Vvardsław. Rachikijevic may not be familiar to everyone, but in fact, there is no need to be particularly familiar, because this is not an important person, and in history it belongs to the kind of goods that are slightly stronger than the little-known little people, as long as you know that he is the president of the Polish government-in-exile.

Although Poland was pitted very badly by Britain and France in World War II, at a critical moment, these foot-wiping bigwigs still ran to Britain to hug their thighs and set up a government-in-exile. Historically, with the liberation of Poland by the Soviet Red Army and the establishment of the People's Republic, there seems to be nothing about this government-in-exile. But no, the Polish government-in-exile operated until 1990, when the Soviet Union could no longer control Eastern Europe. In a sense, the Polish government of later generations was in fact a direct descendant of the government-in-exile.

As the bosses behind the Polish government-in-exile, the British naturally wanted to prop up this government to pursue future interests in Poland, and it would be better if Poland could be controlled through this government-in-exile. Of course, it is quite difficult to do this, because first of all, we have to ask whether the Soviet Union agrees, and if the Soviet Union does not agree, can the British still fight directly to Poland?

Churchill believed that they could only make a deal with the Soviet Union, which recognized the legitimacy of the government-in-exile, and Britain recognized that the Soviet Union enjoyed the same status in Poland as Britain, in short, Britain and the Soviet Union shared Polish interests.

The British felt that they had taken care of the Soviets with this proposal, and that if the polar bears knew each other, they should have welcomed them. It's just that in history, Comrade Iron didn't eat this set at all, and directly swallowed Poland with all the bones and skins, as for the legitimacy of the government-in-exile, I'm sorry that the Soviet Union didn't recognize it, so you can continue to play in London!

It is conceivable that if it had not been for the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Polish government-in-exile would have been meaningless, at least for the 45 years from 1945 to 1990.

Today, Learvin is the same as Vvardsław. At the talks, Rachikijevich naturally wanted to use the government-in-exile to gain Polish interests and curb the expansion of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe.

In fact, this was not the first time they had met in secret, and during the three months from May to August, Liervin and MI6 were in regular contact with Vvardslaw . The main issue discussed was the Warsaw uprising, or the Polish uprising.

Yes, in the original plan, Lierwin's vision was to incite a large-scale uprising throughout Poland and overthrow German rule in Poland in one fell swoop. The rule of the Germans was ended, and naturally the Polish government-in-exile could go home, and then naturally there would be nothing to do with the Soviet Red Army.

However, this is really wishful thinking, and MI6 contacted the government-in-exile in Poland and found that the Polish resistance was really not strong. Especially after the failure of the Jewish uprising in April 1943, the Soviet Union and East Prussia stopped supporting the Polish underground resistance, believing that it was feeding the dogs with real money. Closely following the limited support of Britain and the United States, the Polish Resistance was naturally not strong, and compared to the behemoth of the German army, it was as ridiculous as ants.

According to MI6 estimates, if an uprising is instigated throughout the country, it may cause some trouble for the Germans, but it will cost millions of heavy casualties, and if the Germans suppress it with all their might, it will be like a game to bloody Poland. At that time, not only did it fail to drive out the German invaders, but the power of the government-in-exile in Poland was severely damaged, so how could it deal with the Soviet Red Army, which was coming up with great momentum?

Therefore, after repeated research, MI6 and the Polish government-in-exile reached an agreement not to carry out an uprising that was blooming everywhere, but to choose a key breakthrough and simply carry out a large-scale uprising in Warsaw. First of all, Warsaw is the heart of Poland, and the uprising here has great political significance, and it can show the whole world the existence of the Polish government-in-exile, and once it succeeds, even the Soviet Union will not dare to pretend that it does not see it, right? Secondly, the Soviet Red Army was already close to Warsaw, and they could watch the uprising break out, and as long as the Soviet Union was in charge, it would be tantamount to a disguised recognition of the legitimacy of the Polish government-in-exile!

I have to say that Liervin's abacus is crackling, and he is ready to pit the Soviet Union fiercely. But the script was out of Liervin's control at the beginning, on the day of the Warsaw uprising, Zhukov's vanguard troops withdrew from the suburbs of Warsaw, and later Rokossovsky's mechanized army ignored Warsaw and began to advance in the direction of Poznan, the meaning is too obvious - Polish footwipes, you can play Warsaw, don't get rid of it!

So will the Poles get away with it? I am afraid that it was inevitable, according to Hitler's idea that Warsaw was ready to turn Warsaw into a giant fortress where the oncoming Red Army would run into a bloody head. So from June, Hitler began to desperately strengthen the city defense and defense of Warsaw. As of August 10, 1944. In this city, the German army invested a total of two corps, a total of seven infantry divisions, plus the doglegs of the Polish puppet army, the cumulative strength was about 150,000.

Don't underestimate these 150,000 people, because this is only the strength of the inner defensive ring of Warsaw, which means that there are so many troops within 10 kilometers or so of Warsaw. The outer German army was as high as three armies with a total of ten divisions, and if you count the second-line troops, you have to add three or four divisions. The cumulative strength of the entire Warsaw defensive circle was about 500,000.

And after several months of rushing to build, the Warsaw area is full of barricades, and reinforced concrete fortifications are endless, and it has simply become a smelly and hard fire hedgehog.

Let's put it this way, according to the estimates of the Military Commission of the Red Army, if you really want to attack this city, I am afraid that you will have to invest the 1st and 2nd Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts, which have a huge strength of 1.4 million troops on these three fronts. It was for this reason that the Central Military Commission felt a little nervous, believing that it was necessary to add the Central Front Army, which was the general reserve, to be more sure.

And this is also the last and this is an important reason why the Military Commission gave up the attack on Warsaw, because it requires too many troops, and it is really not cost-effective to stop all the main attack clusters of the Red Army in order to attack one Warsaw.

Therefore, in the end, the decision of the Military Commission was that the Third Belorussian Front and the Central Front were responsible for the siege of Warsaw, and these two fronts had nearly 800,000 troops, and the German troops in the encirclement were competent. The 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts and the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts continued to attack Poland in depth and strive to reach Germany as soon as possible.

Thus, on the very day of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, the Third Belorussian Front and the Central Front began to build positions on the outskirts of Warsaw, cutting off Warsaw's connection with the outside world and isolating it.

Therefore, when the Polish government-in-exile suddenly informed the Soviet Union that it was about to launch a major uprising and requested the Red Army to support it as soon as possible, the official reply of the Soviet government was: "The Red Army has no intention of capturing Warsaw in the near future, the supplies are seriously insufficient, and the troops are quite tired. So we advise the Polish people to exercise restraint......"

At first, the Polish government-in-exile and Lierwin were quite happy to receive this reply, and they wished that the Russians would stop, so that the political gains would be enormous if the Warsaw uprising was successful.

But Learvine and the Polish government-in-exile did not rejoice for more than three days, because the uprising was frantically suppressed by the Germans as soon as it broke out. More than 20,000 Polish insurgents were killed and wounded on the first day of the uprising, 30,000 on the second day, and more than 50,000 Poles killed and wounded on the seventh day.

Within a week of the uprising, the Poles in Warsaw had paid a heavy price of 100,000 men, but the effect was quite unsatisfactory, not controlling any of Warsaw's most important sectors, and on the contrary, the insurgents were divided and surrounded by the Germans, like rats in a cage.

At this time, the Polish government-in-exile was anxious and began to strongly ask the British to help, and the British had no good way to do it except to drop some weapons and ammunition by air. The ball could only be kicked to the side of the Soviet Union: the Red Army was asked to immediately reinforce the soldiers and civilians of the Warsaw uprising.

It's just that the Soviet Union didn't take this ball at all, and kicked him back with a kick: "The Soviet government has long made it clear that the Red Army is not capable of liberating Warsaw for the time being, and has clearly told the Polish government-in-exile not to act rashly, otherwise they will be responsible for all the consequences." It is clear that these exiles did not take the Soviet admonitions to heart and took risks without adequate preparation, which was simply not taking the lives of the Polish people seriously, and the Soviet government strongly condemned this speculation! ”

In any case, the Soviets said nothing but strong condemnation, and did not mention anything about supporting the Warsaw insurgents. This stunned the British, and Churchill immediately wrote a letter to the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, strongly urging the Soviet government to take responsibility and not watch the bloodshed of the inhabitants of Warsaw.

In this regard, the Soviet Union stated that of course I would not watch the inhabitants of Warsaw bleed, and I would have to move a small bench to sit and watch, anyway, it was not the Soviet dog's leg that died, but the British dog's leg died.

Seeing that writing a letter to the Soviet Union would not work, Churchill could only write another letter to Roosevelt, hoping that the US government would come to the aid and put pressure on the Soviet Union. On the question of Western Europe, the interests of the United States and Britain are relatively identical, but the Americans do not have the immediate pain of the British and are not so urgent, and they will not risk offending the Soviet Union until they get tangible benefits.

So Roosevelt merely sent a telegram to Trotsky asking for help, hoping that the Soviet Union would morally help the suffering Poles.

So how did Trotsky reply? Lao Tuo's face was also quite thick-skinned, and he immediately stretched out his hand towards the United States: "It's not that the Soviet Red Army doesn't want to liberate Warsaw, and it's not that the Soviet Red Army is watching the soldiers and civilians of Warsaw bleed...... There was really a lack of spare strength, and the supply of materials for the Red Army was too tight to bear the price needed to liberate Warsaw. If the United States can provide sufficient supplies, the Red Army is also willing to help within its capacity. ”

Trotsky openly asked for aid, which meant that the Red Army would not move without aid, and when the aid arrived, when the Red Army began to liberate Warsaw, everything would be free without aid.

It is conceivable that when Roosevelt saw such a telegram, he probably couldn't laugh or cry, this is blatant blackmail! We Americans don't owe the Poles, so why should we give aid?

So Roosevelt's reply to Churchill was like that, and now Churchill was completely dumbfounded, he really didn't expect the Soviet Union to be so reckless, and he couldn't say that he would be angry, and strongly demanded that Britain and the United States stand together to put pressure on the Soviet Union and force the Soviet Union to act according to their command.

Roosevelt naturally did not do anything about this, he knew that the Soviet Union would definitely not give in, so it was easy to intensify the contradictions, and the contradictions between the United States and the Soviet Union were not so acute.

So he "comforted" Churchill: "The Soviet Union has promised to provide air support and artillery support, not to death!" ”

For the Polish insurgents who were surrounded and suppressed by the German army, the Soviet Red Army's onslaught on the Germans on the periphery was the best support. On the contrary, the positions of the Red Army were thirty kilometers closest to Warsaw, and what was the use of artillery? Let's talk about the Air Force, how are you going to bomb such a big city as Warsaw? It's ready to put the insurgents and the Germans in one pot!

Don't say that's what Li Xiaofeng thinks, a devastating bombing of Warsaw, killing a little more footcloth, the burden after the war will be much less. Of course, Li Xiaofeng would not answer like this on the surface, on the contrary, his answer was really like that: "Of course, the Polish insurgents indicated the targets for the Red Air Force, and the targets of the Red Air Force's attacks were limited to their requirements. ”

Seems reasonable? But in fact, it is not reasonable at all, because it was in the forties of the twentieth century, and there was no GPS, how to accurately indicate the target. Back then, smoke grenades were basically relied upon, but who could guarantee that the footcloth in Warsaw would accurately throw the smoke grenades on the Germans' heads?

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if it is very accurate to wipe the footcloth and throw smoke bombs, but the bombing accuracy of the bombers of that era is really scum, and it is famous for pointing to the east and the west, otherwise why would Britain and the United States play any carpet bombing?

Anyway, the so-called air support is simply a joke, and the final result is probably to blow up the Germans and the insurgents into the sky together. Of course, this is what Li Xiaofeng wants, and this is the best result. He has already put his words away, only artillery fire and air support, whether you want it or not, forget it.

What else can the British and the footcloth do about this, I can only pinch my nose and admit it, if I don't really have any support. For the British, no matter how much they have to make the polar bear bleed, no!

Li Xiaofeng wished they wanted it, so that he could bomb Warsaw in the open, which must be very cool. At Li Xiaofeng's request, the Red Army immediately transferred nearly one-third of the bombers that had carried out strategic bombing against Germany to the bombing of Warsaw, and according to Li Xiaofeng's request, it was necessary to provide uninterrupted air support day and night, and to provide maximum support to the Warsaw insurgents.

But to the shock of the pilots of the Red Air Force, the air support bombing of Warsaw was so strange tactically, because according to the requirements of a certain immortal, all the bombers flew as high as they wanted, and the only requirement was to drop the bombs into the city of Warsaw, and as for accidentally throwing them out of Warsaw, it would be enough to criticize them verbally. In any case, in the eyes of the pilots, the higher authorities did not want to support the resistance in Warsaw, but to wipe them off the ground along with Warsaw and the Germans.

On the first night, about 300 bombers of various types visited Warsaw, dropping about 650 tons of aerial bombs in one go, and the whole of Warsaw was shrouded in flames as far as the night sky could see. During the day the next day, the Red Army carried out two more waves of massive bombardment of groups of 200 planes each, again dropping about 800 tons of bombs. The whole of Warsaw was almost covered in gunsmoke!

The heavy bombardment once made the Germans make a wrong judgment, thinking that this was the Red Army about to launch a general offensive, so they immediately raised the alert level, in order to make the rushing Red Army suffer a little. But they waited for a whole day, and did not see a single shadow of the Red Army, but in the evening they waited for another wave of bombardment by a group of 300 planes.

In two days and two nights, the Red Army dropped more than 2,000 tons of bombs on the head of Warsaw in one fell swoop, almost blowing up the ancient city to the ground. If it weren't for the fact that the bombing of these two days had exhausted the bomb reserves of the Red Army's long-range air force, it is estimated that Li Xiaofeng would have had to continue bombing.

Although the Red Army artillery positions were generally more than 30 kilometers away from Warsaw, a small number of cannons could reach a maximum range of nearly 40 kilometers when they used the concave and bottom row shells that had just been developed and equipped with troops...... (To be continued.) )