"General, the German army has cut off our retreat. What should we do?"
"Yes, General, think of a solution quickly, we still have more than 400,000 brothers who are blocked behind and can't get out!"
Guderianka was here in Sivi and divided the Polish army into two. The Polish army in the east was larger, about 700,000 people.
The Polish army in the west was smaller, but there were more than 400,000 people.
At this time, Piłsudski faced a difficult multiple-choice question. Should he care about the life and death of the more than 400,000 Polish troops?
If he wanted to rescue the more than 400,000 Polish troops, then he must They need to send troops to attack the German troops stationed in the Hivi area.
This German army has a lot of troops and a strong fighting capacity.
If they want to capture this place before their supplies are exhausted, the Polish army has only one option: dispatch the entire army!
, this choice is extremely risky.
If they fail to capture this place within three days, they will not only run out of supplies, but also miss the opportunity to break out.
The other option is to abandon this place! Regardless of the 400,000 people, they directly sent troops to capture the city of Posen in front. As long as they captured this place, they would be able to open up connections with the Warsaw area, and then they would be able to solve the problem of material supply. There is hope that we can rescue the more than 400,000 wave troops before they are eaten by the Germans!
This choice is not difficult, and Piłsudski naturally chose the second option, even if they failed to kill the 40 in the end! If they saved more than 700,000 people, they would at least retain the firepower of the more than 700,000 people around them!
In the face of such a huge crisis, being able to save half of the army is already a very good result!
Suski immediately ordered:"Don't worry about the Polish army in the Hivi area. Let's capture Posen first and open the passage to Warsaw. The capital now needs us to save it more. We must protect our capital!"
Under the guise of rescuing the capital, Piłsudski allowed the Polish army to continue heading east, and directly sold the 400,000 people behind him!
Although his decision was very decisive, there was almost no hesitation, and there was no hesitation. What a waste of time!
However, Mainz was still one step ahead of the Polish army!
When Piłsudski arrived in Posen with more than 700,000 troops, Mainz's main force had already taken over the city, and it was The black eagle flag symbolizing the glorious tradition of the German army was raised here!
Seeing this flag, the Polish army was stunned!
"Unexpectedly, the German general is actually in Posen. The situation is getting worse now!"
"When did the German army come here?"
"Why are there so many people in the German army? Don't they only have 00,000 people? Why do I feel like the world is full of German soldiers?"
The Polish generals around Piłsudski were very surprised. They did not expect that the German troops could mobilize so quickly, and there were so many troops!
At the moment, the number of German troops who had fought against them alone was There are more than 200,000 people!
The Polish people thought that their advantage was mainly based on their military strength!
But at this time, the German troops swarming from all directions told them that the Polish army really had no advantage at all! No, even if they were on top, they were all at a disadvantage!
Piłsudski's face was ashen, and he had vaguely guessed that he had been fooled from the beginning, and the person who let him fall into the trap was Zhen Bo! The German Commander-in-Chief!
"Mainz von Levins."
Piłsudski read Mainz's name over and over again, with a ferocious expression and a struggling tone, as if he was cursing the other party with ancient witchcraft!
However, after all, he was not Wizard, his curse has no effect on Mainz.
The difficult question before them is, can they break through the defense of the main German army in the Posen area within three days?
If not, then the Polish army will have to do so. The entire army was destroyed here! Because the supply of supplies had been interrupted, the Polish army had no time to waste. Even if they knew that the main force of the German army was here, the Polish army had to bite the bullet and launch an attack on the German army.
An attack in the face of a well-equipped German army is destined to get no benefits!
Mainz personally arrived at the front line and took charge of the German frontline headquarters to personally command the battle.
The German army built a strong line of defense in Posen. The defense line is equipped with a large number of rapid-fire cannons behind the defense line.
The calibers of these rapid-fire cannons are 75 mm and 100 mm. Their firepower may not be effective when facing fortresses and permanent fortifications, but they lack protection when dealing with them. When the infantry and cavalry were attacked, it was simply a pure firepower massacre!
Against the fierce German artillery fire, the Polish soldiers' attack was not without courage, but bravery is nothing compared to steel and guns.!
The German artillery crossed to form a death blockade in the area of 4000-2000 meters. Once approaching here, the Polish army would be attacked by a dense rain of artillery!
The caliber of the German rapid-fire artillery was not large, but the rate of fire was very fast. Even a 100mm howitzer can shoot at a rate of 15 rounds per minute!
As a result, a large number of artillery shells fell like raindrops, blasting them to pieces on the first day! After the attack, corpses were everywhere in front of the German position. More than 20,000 Polish soldiers were killed directly, and countless injured soldiers!
The blood of wounded and dead soldiers dyed the entire earth dark red, making the whole ground dark red. The entire earth looks like a black carpet, with the diffuse light red blood mist and the strong smell of blood in the air on the battlefield.���It lasts for a long time and makes people sick to hear it!
Such a heavy loss shocked the entire Polish army!
They have been fighting all their lives, but they have never encountered such a brutal battle!
In the past, when they fought against the Bear, they only occasionally failed due to the Bear's excellent tactics and tenacious fighting will.
But this time, facing the German army, a traditional powerful European army, the Bolan people saw what a truly powerful army is!
Whether it is the technical and tactical level, the performance of weapons and equipment, or the tactical literacy of ordinary soldiers, the German army can be said to be the best in Europe and even the world!
No country in this era dares to say that its army has an absolute chance of winning when facing the German army!
Although the Bolan people fought in chaos for four years and thought they had experienced hundreds of battles and were rich in experience, they had never encountered an army with such a high degree of organization, excellent tactical system, and reasonable weapon configuration as the German army.
This army represents the pinnacle of the army in this era, and there is undoubtedly a big gap between the Polish army and this pinnacle!
This gap gave Piłsudski a strong sense of humiliation!
It wasn't until today that he saw what a truly powerful army was like.
However, this powerful army is his enemy!
This is really disappointing!
After the failure of the first day's attack, the morale of the Polish army was severely dampened.
They desperately discovered that their one-day onslaught, which cost tens of thousands of casualties, did not pose the slightest threat to the German defense line. The German losses were very small, except for the excessive consumption of shells and bullets. There were almost no other losses, and the number of soldier casualties was less than one-twentieth of the Polish army!
If we continue to fight like this, unless all the German artillery shells are used up, even if all the Polish troops are consumed, they will not be able to break out from here!
After realizing this, Piłsudski wisely chose not to attack, but to place his hope on others!
"Three days, if the sun never sets and the Gauls cannot send troops to assist us within three days, we will probably have no choice but to surrender!"