Siege of Warsaw in Poland

Although the highest level of the Polish army guessed that the Soviet Union might do it by itself before the Soviet Union invaded, the pressure on them from the Germans on the Western Front was too great, forcing them to deploy the troops originally deployed on the Eastern Front to guard against the Soviet Union. A large part was transferred to the Western Front.

As a result, the Polish army had fewer than 50,000 troops defending Poland on the eastern front. They faced the Belarusian front led by Mikhail Kovalev and the Ukrainian army led by Timoshenko. The front army, the total number of these two front forces exceeds 800,000!

Under such a huge disparity in strength, the Polish decision-makers did not foolishly let the eastern front troops defend, but directly ordered the eastern Polish troops to abandon all positions and withdraw to the neighboring country of Romania.

The Soviet Union's participation in the war made Poland completely lose the possibility of winning the war. The second day after the Soviet army launched the attack, Polish President Mosiczki appointed General Vladslaw Rachkievich as the general leader of Poland. After issuing the order, he announced his resignation as the Polish president to the outside world.

The first order of Vladslaw Rachkievich after he took over as the commander-in-chief of the Polish army was to let the Polish army "Modlin", "Poznan" and "Poznan" who were fighting fiercely with the German army on the western front. The five main armies of Lodz" and "Narev" and the two major armies of "Krakow" and "Carpathian Mountains", which were resisting the Czechoslovak expedition group on the southern front, withdrew to Romania together with the troops on the eastern front.

But the retreat is not so easy. The "Krakow" Army and the "Carpathian" Army on the southern line are okay to say that the Czechoslovak expeditionary group they faced and their entanglement were not fierce, but they resisted the German army on the western front. The five armies of the 1990s were not so easy to withdraw. They were almost completely entangled with the German troops, and even a German vanguard force had advanced to the front line of Prushkow.

And Prushkow is less than 25 kilometers away from Warsaw.

In order to allow most of the people on the western front to be safely withdrawn to Romania, Rachikievich had to order the five armies of the western front to leave 150,000 people to stick to Warsaw, so as to delay the German attack for the retreating troops.

After arranging the plan, the Polish army gave up all the western and southern positions on May 26. The whole army retreated in two directions under the cover of a small number of blocking troops. The men retreated to Warsaw while attracting German fire.

However, the German army did not rush to Warsaw, the capital of Poland, as the Polish commander thought, but tried to wipe out the Polish army.

After the Polish army began to retreat, the German High Command immediately ordered Army Group A to pursue the main force of the retreating Polish army, regardless of the Polish decoy troops that were still trying to attract firepower. main force of the army.

Army Group C moved to the two flanks of Warsaw, and on May 28, Army Group A seized the main force of the Polish army and completed the encirclement of Warsaw, bringing together 150,000 Polish decoy troops and more than 30,000 Warsaw garrison troops. More than 180,000 people were packed in this city with an area of ​​512 square kilometers.

After the siege of Warsaw, the German army ordered the Polish army to surrender within 12 hours, but how could the Polish army, which was responsible for holding the German army down, surrender easily? They sternly rejected the Germans' persuasion to surrender, and declared that they were ready to stand in Warsaw for ten years.

After unsuccessfully trying to persuade the Germans to surrender, they launched 900 sorties of medium-range and dive bombers on May 29 and launched a large-scale air attack on Huashua. After the air strikes, Army Group C of the Wehrmacht encircling Warsaw and one Panzer division, one Panzergrenadier division, and five Grenadier divisions of the German SS launched a ground attack on Warsaw.

Warsaw West Town.

A group of German soldiers was cautiously advancing from west to east along Volska Street.

Felix hid in the ruins of a shattered building, carefully sticking out his head to observe the surrounding situation.

After confirming that there was no one in front of him, he stretched out his right hand and gave a thumbs up, then made a backhand fist and shook it three times quickly from top to bottom.

The meaning of his sign language is: safety ahead, act fast.

After Felix made this set of sign language, 17 German soldiers sprang from a relatively complete building about 150 meters behind him, bending over and quickly moving to Felix's position past.

The distance of 150 meters is not far, and everyone quickly ran to the ruins where Felix was, and then found a place to hide.

A non-commissioned officer with the rank of sergeant on his shoulders climbed up to Felix, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Good job, Felix, how is it? Is there anything unusual ahead?"

Hearing the squad leader's praise, Felix smiled shyly, then pointed to a small church not far ahead, and said, "Squad leader, there is something wrong with the church in front of me. When I first got here, I saw someone in that church. Shadows are shaking."

Hearing the words, the monitor nodded, then carefully observed the surrounding terrain, frowned and said, "If there is someone in that church, then we will have a hard time."

"Why is it so difficult?" Felix asked. "We can just bypass them and head towards the city center without messing with the people in that church."

"We can't get around them." The squad leader Detrich shook his head and said, and then analyzed the terrain for Felix, "Look, there is a square in front of us, if we go directly through the square, we will definitely be caught The people in the church saw it. And to our left is a small river. At first glance, if we go down into the river, we can definitely avoid the people in the church. But if there are people on the other side of the river and find us , we will be completely wiped out in the creek, and as for our right side, as you can see, the church is there."

"Then we have to take down that church?" Felix asked.

"I'm afraid yes." Detrich nodded, "I'll let the big guy make preparations, you continue to look there."

After speaking, Detrich patted Felix on the shoulder, and then slowly climbed down

"Alas." Felix sighed, his eyes fixed on the direction of the church, and complained to himself, "Why don't these Polish bastards just surrender? Someone else will die here in vain later, It's not worth it!"

It didn't take long for him to complain, Detracy took another person and climbed back to Felix's side, signaling that everyone was ready.

The other person is the precision shooter in the class, who is responsible for covering everyone's offense here.

Felix patted the precise shooter on the shoulder, then turned and climbed back into the soldiers' queue, ready to attack the church.