It was indeed very bad, and after the Anglo-French forces broke through the line of defense of the blocking forces of the Belorussian Front, the blocking troops became a mess. About five divisions retreated in the direction of Warsaw, and their lives were saved.

The other five divisions were not so lucky, and after a fierce battle, three divisions barely escaped from the direct attack of the Anglo-French forces, threw away most of the heavy weapons (in fact, they were not heavy weapons, that is, heavy machine guns and mortars) and fled in the direction of East Prussia.

As for the remaining two divisions, most of them were annihilated, and the remnants of the troops were scattered on the battlefield for the last resistance. All in all, Tukhachevsky annihilated a reorganized Rainbow Division, exterminated and captured tens of thousands of people. But the price paid for this is also extremely high, let's put it this way, counting the previous blocking battles and encirclement operations, the Belarusian Front paid the price of more than 60,000 casualties, while their opponents suffered more than 30,000 casualties.

In other words, for every two Red Army soldiers wounded or killed, the number of casualties of one Allied soldier was exchanged. Moreover, it must be noted that the soldiers of the Allied countries were able to receive relatively timely medical assistance after being wounded, and they could recover their combat effectiveness in a relatively short period of time.

First of all, the logistics system of the Red Army is quite rudimentary, and it is not easy to ensure that the soldiers have a full stomach to fight, as for medical care? Hehe, backward Russia really has no medical treatment at all, and ordinary soldiers in the tsarist era were gray animals, cannon fodder that could be sacrificed. In the era of the Red Army, although it has always emphasized the need to care for and love every soldier, there is really no such condition.

Secondly, the Belarusian Front was routed this time. Lost control of the battlefield. Most of the wounded were taken prisoner. Let's put it this way. Compared with the Entente, the Belorussian Front was a pure attrition and irreversible. That is to say, of the 60,000 casualties, excluding the 10,000 who died, only a few thousand escaped, and the rest went to the Allied prisoner of war camps.

After such a battle, the Belarusian Front not only lagged behind the Entente in terms of weapons and equipment, but even the only numerical superiority disappeared!

That's why Tukhachevsky was so frustrated. He hurriedly sent a telegram to Trotsky. The reason is very simple, Warsaw will definitely not be able to hold it, if it continues to resist hard, the entire Belarusian Front will be disabled, and the chain reaction will be terrifying!

In fact, the current situation is already very frightening, at least Trotsky is pale, and before the invasion of Poland, the old Tolotsky would never have imagined such an outcome. At that time, he was full of spirit and ambition, and he was ready to do a big job. Who would have thought that this good situation in less than a month would be gone?

To be honest, Trotsky was stunned at that time. He could not believe that this was the truth, and even less that the world revolution he advocated had just begun. It's time for the curtain call.

"We still have a chance," Ulitsky's face was also not good-looking, he bit his lip and said categorically: "The Ukrainian Front is almost here, with their help, I can fight a turnaround battle in Warsaw, and I will definitely be able to turn the situation around in one fell swoop!" ”

There seemed to be a glimmer of light in Trotsky's eyes, the Ukrainian Front was advancing towards Warsaw on the instructions of the Politburo and the Military Commissariat, and with their accession, it seemed that a turnaround could be made?

But the brilliance in Trotsky's eyes soon dimmed, for he discovered that it was not the Ukrainian Front that would now decide the fate of the World Revolution and the Belarusian Front, but the armies of the Entente. With the current scattered situation of the Belarusian Front, it is simply impossible to hold Warsaw!

"Why can't you hold it?" Ulitsky was anxious, "We can shrink our forces and fight in the streets of Warsaw!" ”

Trotsky shook his head dejectedly and asked, "What's the point?" ”

"Of course it makes sense, when the time comes, the Ukrainian Front and the Baltic Front will storm the armies of the Entente from both the north and the south, and they will definitely be able to repel them!"

Trotsky smiled bitterly: "It's impossible! ”

"Why can't it be? Isn't the Ukrainian Front already on the way? Ulitsky asked incomprehensibly.

Trotsky sighed dejectedly: "It's not the Ukrainian Front, it's the Baltic Front!" ”

Ulitsky still did not understand: "What's wrong with the Baltic Front?" Do they still dare not carry out the orders of the Military Commission? ”

Trotsky shook his head and said: "How dare they not carry out the orders of the Military Commission!" ”

Ulitsky dared to speak, and Trotsky explained: "Earlier, in order to relieve the pressure on the Belarusian Front, the Baltic Front launched attacks in the direction of Szczecin and Berlin, attracting the attention of a large number of enemies. Now the enemy, in order to recapture Szczecin, in order to completely solve the threat in the direction of Berlin, has concentrated the forces of ten divisions and is ready to destroy them in one fell swoop! ”

Trotsky glanced at Ulitsky, who was a little shocked, and said with a wry smile: "So the pressure on the Baltic Front is also very great, and they are not capable of going south to Warsaw......"

Judging from Trotsky's words, the pressure on Li Xiaofeng's side was not ordinarily great, and the Baltic Front, together with the East Prussian People's Liberation Army, was a dozen divisions, and there was no advantage in the face of the Allied armies, and the situation was precarious.

So is this really the case?

It is a pity that Trotsky was somewhat discreet, and the pressure on the Baltic Front was not so great. Let's take it step by step, let's start with the Allied army, and it is true that the Entente planned to sweep Szczecin and threaten East Prussia with ten divisions. But these two goals are not immediately ready to be achieved.

Let's put it this way, in fact, the forces of the Entente were also very tight, because the proletarian movement in the country was growing day by day, and they could not spare too many troops to interfere in the Russian revolution. As a result, the troops on the front line are very stretched.

Foch's side defeated the Belorussian Front, but it still paid a lot of price, and the old man kept shouting about the lack of troops and asking for support. And in the eyes of the Entente, Szczecin and East Prussia were minor issues, and the Warsaw direction was the focus. Therefore, whether it is enough troops or supplies, it is more inclined to the direction of Warsaw. Let's put it this way. The reconquest of Szczecin and the attack on East Prussia were not taken seriously at all.

In this case. The Entente felt that the first step was to regain Szczecin. After the recovery of Szczecin, we will look at the situation and solve the problem of East Prussia. Based on this idea, the so-called ten divisions were actually on paper, the forces that were planned to be used to solve East Prussia, and the recovery of Szczecin did not require ten divisions at all!

According to the reconnaissance of the Entente bloc, the Baltic Front should have only three to five divisions in Szczecin and northeastern Germany, and it was still scattered. To destroy these enemies, six or seven divisions are enough!

So how many troops did the Entente send to reclaim Szczecin? A division with a separate brigade. There may be comrades who want to be strange, didn't you just say that you need six or seven divisions? Why did you change your hexagram again in a blink of an eye?

It's not a hexagram. But the Entente could only take it, and it only needed to take out one and a half divisions to make up seven divisions. Because the German government of Albert also sent troops to recover Szczecin, how many of them? Five divisions!

It took great effort for the Germans to transfer the five divisions from Bavaria to the north, in preparation for the restoration of normal order in the territory to the northeast. In the eyes of the Entente, it would be very face-saving for the Germans to send one and a half divisions by themselves, and then let the Germans take the lead. Anyway, they are the masters of Germany, so they should be in a hurry.

Speaking of which, everyone should understand that the direction of Szczecin said that the Entente was in the lead, but the main thugs were actually the Germans. And the Germans and the Entente can pee into a pot?

If Li Xiaofeng had not reached a high level of consensus with Akimovich before. The Germans may be really anxious. But who made them secretly reach a high degree of agreement with a certain immortal on long-term development? In this way, the Germans are naturally not in such a hurry.

Why?

Because Li Xiaofeng promised them a little more, that he would not continue to stir up the feelings of the proletariat in the north-east of Germany. The two sides played a tacit game together, and in the end the Germans quietly restored order and the Baltic Front got what they wanted.

The Baltic Front, no, what should Li Xiaofeng want? Quite simply, the Szczecin shipyard was ready to be moved, so that he would not leave such an old factory to Poland to wipe his feet. As for the Germans, they also knew very well that Szczecin would not belong to Germany in the future, and that they could not fight for the Poles and the Entente.

Moving away the Szczecin shipyard is only one aspect, what Li Xiaofeng wants to do more is to knock the Entente in Szczecin, and plan to eat the Entente division and a half in one go. If you can defeat one and a half divisions of the Entente in Szczecin, then Poland will have one and a half divisions less to face on the battlefield.

It can be seen from this that in fact, the pressure on Li Xiaofeng's side is very small, so why didn't he tell Trotsky that he had no pressure? The reason is very simple, the first is that a certain immortal is not optimistic about Tukhachevsky, let alone Trotsky's method of death. If you let Lao Tuo know that he is under very little pressure, then Lao Tuo will definitely force him to fill the hole. Li Xiaofeng is reluctant to fill the pit, let alone help Lao Tuo fill the pit, so it is an inevitable choice to complain and complain.

Secondly, only children who have never heard of crying have milk? After this battle is over, there will be 20 years of peace, if you don't take advantage of the early credit to brush up a little more, how can you be justified and rewarded for meritorious deeds in the future?

Fools don't complain! It is to let the Central Committee know how much pressure there is on the Baltic Front, that is, to let the whole party know about the merits of the Baltic Front. If you don't make it bad, how can you highlight the greatness of your achievements?

Therefore, a certain immortal is trying his best to blow the enemy to a strong strength, and all in all, one must make the central government feel that the Baltic Front is very hard, and it is so hard that they can't bear it.

It has to be said that the strategy of a certain immortal was very successful, when Tukhachevsky's Belorussian Front was overwhelmed, and when Trotsky was also sad, the Baltic Front had a good life, or rather, they fought relatively easily.

Needless to say, the main forces that stayed in East Prussia were still seizing time to train and reorganize, and were gathering strength to prepare for the final decisive battle in Poland. And the three divisions that went forward to occupy Szczecin were also relatively easy.

When a certain immortal came to an agreement with the Albert government, he immediately took back the troops that had been scattered in northeastern Germany to incite workers' feelings, that is, the Allies were wrong in their judgment that they would face a scattered enemy. Waiting for them were three full-fledged divisions that were waiting for them. Ammunition is plentiful, fortifications are complete, and it has strong naval support firepower.

So the battle just broke out. The Allied armies suffered a loss. Just when they thought they could bully the Baltic Front with powerful firepower on the Polish battlefield, they were immediately met with a head-on attack. Not only is the firepower of the Baltic Front stronger than that of the Belarusian Front, but more importantly, their enemies also have 24-hour uninterrupted naval fire support.

Let's put it this way, as soon as the Allied armies began to prepare for their artillery, their artillery positions would be greeted by 10 battleships and cruisers on the sea, and their artillery would be pressed back in minutes.

The poor Allied artillery was devastated at the outset, 50% of the artillery of the two attached artillery regiments was destroyed, and 75% of the ammunition was reimbursed. At that time, if it were not for the artillerymen, they desperately pulled the artillery out of the preset position. I'm afraid they'll all be destroyed.

To tell the truth, the artillery of the Entente could not figure out how their artillery positions were exposed, and in order to prevent aerial reconnaissance, they built positions at night and covered them with tight camouflage. It stands to reason that even their own people have been deceived, and there is no reason to hide it from the Russians!

It's a pity that there is a certain immortal like a bug on this battlefield, no matter what kind of disguise, don't try to hide it from the eyes of the immortal. This battlefield is simply one-way transparent for the Russians, and it makes no sense for the Entente to play any tricks.

Having lost their proud superiority in firepower, the Entente forces struggled. After one or two tentative attacks, they were smart enough to give up brute force. Instead, they chose to let the Germans help out. Speak from the heart. This hand of the Entente was despicable, it was for the Germans to go to the fire, and then they would sit back and enjoy it.

It's a pity that the Entente bloc didn't know that the Germans had secretly communicated with a certain immortal, so the Germans would not be stupid to be cannon fodder. Of course, the Germans did not refuse to attack, and if they refused, fools would find out that there was a cat.

The Germans obediently took over the task of attacking Szczecin, and also put on a full show, first bombarding with artillery, and then attacking with infantry 24 hours a day, as if they did not give up until their goal was achieved.

However, it is more interesting that the Germans stormed for five days without capturing an inch of Russian positions. Even under this onslaught, regardless of the cost, the casualties were surprisingly low. After five days of fighting, the Germans lost less than 100 people in total!

In other words, fewer than 20 Germans die every day. What is this level? The level of the playhouse! This year, eight divisions are lined up, not to mention that they really fought for five days and five nights, even if it is just a live-fire exercise, it is not uncommon for so many dozen or dozens to die.

The reason for the low number of casualties is that the Germans are fighting in such a way that before the attack, the Russians are informed through a special channel (Akimovich) that we are going to start the attack, and that the shelling will begin at what time and where, please take shelter first.

And the Russians said: "Okay, I see." Then please be careful, when you attack, we will return fire with empty cartridges. When you hear what our machine guns are saying, you withdraw, and when you have withdrawn, we will open fire again. ”

Obviously, the Germans just didn't work. However, the Entente could not accuse the Germans of grinding foreign workers, because the Russians on the other side shouted in the newspapers, not only publishing the "tragic situation" of Szczecin under German artillery fire, but also saying that although our army suffered heavy casualties, it also inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy.

The East Prussian People's Republic endorsed the Germans, affirmed the results of the German army, and at the same time said that the Germans were heavily wounded, and even the Jews said so, how could they accuse the Germans?

Of course, the Germans also know how to do the whole show, and they also know that the number of deaths is a little less, which is a bit unreasonable. But they have a way to fool them, they don't mention the number of dead soldiers, they mention the number of casualties instead.

It's much easier to cheat on the number of casualties, if you break your arm and blow up your leg, you're injured, and if you twist your waist, isn't it an injury? In fact, the Germans gave full play to their injured imagination, and their fingers and skins had to be counted in the casualty statistics, as well as colds, fevers, headaches, and brain fevers. Even some of the female nurses and aunts came, and they were all injured, who let them see blood?

All in all, the German casualty statistics were all water, and just looking at the figures they provided, the five German divisions had properly lost their combat effectiveness, and it was better to withdraw from the battlefield immediately to recuperate. In fact, these five divisions are idle.

The Germans released water, which put a lot of pressure on the Entente, and they listened to the Germans fighting "in full swing" and thought about cooperating with the feint, but they soon found out that the feint attack was much worse than the "frontal attack" of the Germans. The Russians were soft on the Germans, but they were ruthless enough to clean them up.

After coming and going, the one and a half divisions responsible for cooperating with the Germans also understood, hurry up and don't be stupid, people are cooperating with tacit understanding to play match-fixing, we don't have this tacit understanding, aren't we looking for abuse when we go up!

Anyway, the officers and soldiers of the Entente who were responsible for attacking Szczecin also learned well, and they also learned to grind foreign workers with the Germans, seeing what they meant, they didn't want to continue fighting.

Unfortunately, they didn't want to fight, it didn't mean that a certain immortal would appreciate it, and after relocating Szczecin's industry, a certain immortal issued an order to annihilate the Allied army...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you Comrade Juventus!