Battle of Poland · Counterattack

Two days after the end of Operation Tragedy, Major General Segden, the interim commander of Army Group Pomorie who had resolved the internal troubles, conveyed to the international community the intention of surrendering Army Group Pomorie and hoped that the German army would send officers to come Negotiate specific matters.

The Germans quickly responded and sent a corps of officers led by Lieutenant General Reichenu, Chief of Staff of Army Group C, to Valloube. They would negotiate and accept the surrender of Army Group Pomorie on behalf of Lyon.

Talks began immediately after the German officer corps arrived in Vallube.

Since all the senior officers of the "Death War faction" in the "Pomeranian" army were killed, the negotiations between the two sides progressed extremely quickly. After half a day, they reached a consensus and signed a surrender letter.

On May 21, more than 133,000 Polish soldiers in the Polish corridor handed over their weapons and military flags to the nearby German troops, waiting for the next step of the German army.

After the surrender of the "Pomeranian" Army Group, the German Army Group C quickly occupied the entire Polish corridor and went straight to the Masovia province where Warsaw, the Polish capital, is located.

The "Modlin" army stationed in this time was originally supported by the attack of the first army of the German army group A. After the surrender of the "Pomeranian" army, which attracted the entire army group C, they were already in danger. The line of defense has ushered in the pressure given by the entire C army group.

17 hours after Army Group C launched an attack on Masovia Province, the northern front of Masovia Province was declared lost, and the armored units of German Army Group C rushed through Masovia Province, targeting Poland's capital Warsaw.

"Bastards! A group of traitors!" In the Presidential Office of the Presidential Bunker in Warsaw, Moschicki was frantically throwing everything that could be thrown at his hand, venting his anger and fear, "Segdon! Chamberlain! Lebrun ! They are all traitors, they don't believe what they say!"

"Mr. President, calm down first." The secretary on the side urged fearfully, for fear that Moschicki would be unhappy and throw himself on the front line.

"How do I calm down? You tell me!" Mosicicki yelled, "Since half a month ago, the damn bomber of the German started to appear above our heads from time to time, forcing me to hide in this damn bunker!"

"I thought that as long as we could withstand it, our 'allies' would send troops to support us. In that case, it wouldn't matter if I hid in the bunker! But now? Our 'allies' have millions of soldiers on the German-French border. But just don't launch that damned attack! Even our own people betrayed me, betrayed the motherland, thrown into the arms of Germany, and let the damn Germans hit me all the way! My secretary, our capital Warsaw It's almost over! Tell me, how can I calm down?!"

Just when Mosichicki was furious, the door of the office was pushed open, and an officer walked in and said respectfully, "Mr. President, the car has been arranged, please leave Warsaw as soon as possible."

"Leave Warsaw... Warsaw..." Hearing the officer's words, the angry look retreated from Mosicicki's face, replaced by a dull and pale, "No, no, I will not leave it! The whole world betrays but I can't betray my motherland, I want to live and die with Warsaw!"

"This..." The officer was stunned, coexisting with Warsaw? With the current situation, is there still "survival"?

"I'm going to launch a counterattack, I'm going to drive the Germans out of Poland!" Mosicicki was a little crazy. He pushed aside the officers and secretaries who were blocking the way, and rushed out of the presidential office to the war command room not far away. .

At this moment, the combat command room was busy, and all the officers were busy burning documents and destroying equipment that could not be taken away. They planned to leave Warsaw with Mosicicki and go to the safe rear to continue commanding the Polish army.

"Bang!" Just as everyone was busy arranging, the door of the battle command room was pushed open by Moschicki.

"I've decided not to leave Warsaw!" Moschicki announced to the crowd, "I'm going to launch a counterattack in Masovia! I'm going to drive the Germans back to their homeland!"

The officers in the combat command room were stunned. They stopped what they were doing and stared blankly at Moschicki.

After a long silence at the scene, a colonel weakly asked a question everyone wanted to ask: "Mr. President, what can we do to fight back?"

"Cavalry!" Mosichicki replied with a flushed face, "Our winged cavalry once brought us great glory, and I believe that at this most critical juncture, they can still bring back victory for us and for the motherland. !"

Everyone heard the words and looked at each other in dismay. They had cavalry troops on hand, and there were many more (horse riding was faster than walking), but the facts have long proved that cavalry is an army that should have been eliminated long ago, and it is impossible to beat Germany. of steel torrents.

"Hmph, of course, those who want to leave can still leave Warsaw." Mosicicki looked at the despair on everyone's face and snorted disdainfully, "The motherland and Warsaw need real warriors, not cowards!"

Most people were relieved to hear that Moschicki allowed himself to go, and they didn't care that Moschicki ridiculed himself as a "coward".

After all, it's better to be a "coward" than to stay here and accompany a lunatic to death.

However, although everyone thought that staying was courting death, there were still some officers who were extremely loyal to Mosicicki and were unwilling to easily hand over the capital to others. They chose to stay and accompany Mosicicki and Warsaw to the end. a ride.

In the evening, senior military officers and government officials who decided to evacuate Warsaw left Warsaw by car.

The remaining Moschicki and other officers began to carry out their counterattack plan, moving the four complete cavalry divisions in their hands away from their original defense line, plus three rare now fully loaded The infantry divisions of the soldiers formed the "Polish Strategic Counterattack Force" and were deployed in the northern region of Masovia.

According to Moschicki's plan, the heartbeat is divided into three stages.

In the first stage, the four cavalry divisions and three infantry divisions would charge the advancing German Army Group C in the northern part of Masovia, and the German Army Group C would never have imagined that Poland would suddenly launch a counterattack. The "Polish Strategic Counterattack Force" was defeated.

After defeating the German Army Group C, it entered the second stage. The second stage is that the "Polish Strategic Counterattack Force" will not stop to clean up the "German army in retreat", but will advance to the Polish corridor at high speed. Recapture this estuary, again severing the connection between mainland Germany and East Prussia.

After cutting off East Prussia from the German mainland, the Polish army will execute the third stage of the counterattack plan - to attack East Prussia.