Two Hundred and Three Capital Battlefield

The German siege of the Polish capital Warsaw has entered its second day, during which time Poles in Warsaw have suffered an unprecedented ordeal. (Starting) The Polish "government" decided to hold on to Warsaw at all costs, and they repelled the first few German tentative attacks. However, the Germans immediately retaliated, and they began to treat the civilians of Warsaw like soldiers. This practice led to a sudden increase in the death rate of civilians.

At the end of the street, a soldier was talking to his wife and one-year-old child, as the line the soldier was defending was just a few kilometers north of where the conversation took place. The beautiful brick streets have now been dug up, and the roads are lined with deep trenches dug to deal with the Germans.

Almost all the soldiers looked forward to meeting their relatives and families and expressed concern for their safety. Since civilians have so far suffered more casualties than soldiers, there doesn't seem to be a big difference between the question of whether the husband can come home alive from the battle, and whether the rest of the family can survive the fire and bombardment. .

A few minutes earlier, a German bomber had been shot down, crashing into a street in Warsaw with thick smoke, smashing the street into a huge sinkhole. A temporary inspection team made up of citizens and reservists visited the scene of the accident and found that all four German pilots on the plane were dead.

The surrounding Poles cheered when they saw the wreckage of the plane, because they saw the bloody corpses of German pilots. When someone died, the people around them cheered excitedly. This is the impact of war on human beings.

The whole of Poland seems to be mobilized. Two Polish soldiers and a few citizens who were temporarily recruited dug a hole in the street, and then removed the tram track on the side, erected it in the hole and buried the soil. It became an anti-tank barricade, which was used to protect the main streets of Poland.

In the middle of another wider street, the Poles left a busted and overturned bus sideways there, piled with stones on both sides, which became a natural line of defense. Relying on this rudimentary line of defense, the Poles repelled a German tentative attack, but in the afternoon, the German retaliatory artillery fire was more violent.

Dead horses were a very common phenomenon in besieged cities, at least in 1937. These dead horses provided food for starving Poles and kept people through the toughest days. Even though the carcasses of these dead horses have begun to rot, people will still cut up large pieces of meat and eat them to feed their hunger.

A 9-year-old boy named Payevaski was struck by what happened to civilians in the war that left them homeless. Now he sits sadly beside a twisted bed frame, the wreckage of a bombed-out house behind him. His brother was under the ruins, but this was only the beginning of his suffering. That afternoon, his father was killed in action, and his mother left him because of eating the carrion of a dead horse.

A hospital south of Warsaw was hit by one of the five bombs dropped by the Germans, a 500-pound aerial bomb, that afternoon.

The bomb left a huge crater more than ten meters in diameter on the side of the house, at least two meters deep. The hospital was completely scrapped due to the bombing, more than a dozen patients and a doctor were killed, and many more were injured.

Another bomb was dropped near a Catholic church not far away, directly turning the wooden church into fragmented ruins, and the wooden boards were crooked to witness the great power of the explosion. But because people here were evacuated in time, people in the church fled to safety before the air strikes.

An American journalist witnessed the siege of Warsaw by German soldiers. Refugees sat in carriages filled with all their belongings, and searched for a relatively safe shelter on the road. About 10,000 Polish civilians died in the siege of Warsaw, mostly in their homes unattended.

In the report sent back to China, the American reporter claimed: "No one knows where to hide, and often a person runs to a place that he thinks is safe, only to find that the previous person felt unsafe and gave up. Places. There were people everywhere with bags and babies, severely frightened and desperately trying to find a place where they could provide refuge."

The American journalist died in the airstrike after a slap-sized piece of shrapnel pierced his lung and stopped breathing before being taken to the hospital. Slightly luckier than him are the babies in this hospital: a shell hit the baby's delivery room, but miraculously it didn't explode, only broken glass and sawdust wounded several babies' arms, which made him almost crazy The mothers wept bitterly.

Because of starvation, many Poles went to dig potatoes in the field on the outskirts of the city. It was a large farm opened before the war, so many people ventured to find food, but the danger was that the German troops had already pegged there.

Because of the frequent movement of people to this open space, the Luftwaffe fighter units that could not find a target began to fly at low altitudes near this open space, and they "shooted" the crowd on the ground, obliterating the targets they thought should be eliminated.

Soon the fighters were getting their results, and one fw-190d took the chance and hit a dozen Polish civilians in one go. After the plane left, a little boy hugged his baggage and sat silently beside his mother's body, desperate without shedding a single tear. And just a few steps away from the little boy, a little girl was crying loudly beside her sister's body.

Her sister was another victim of the attack, the 13mm machine gun piercing the shoulder blade and leaving the body with half of the shoulder. The little girl who was alive squatted down and 'touched' the older sister whose face was covered in blood with her hands. As soon as she touched the face of the deceased, she was so frightened that she retracted her hands again. Immediately after her, she began to burst into tears, shouting hysterically, "My sister! What did they do to you? God!"

War makes people indifferent, that's when it comes to dealing with the enemy. Whenever a loved one leaves, we will find that the heart that we thought was extremely hard is actually too soft to be attacked.

And just when these people left this world, the German head of state Arkado Rudolph was in a trench west of Warsaw, listening to his generals explain the specific steps of attacking Warsaw. In order to better cooperate with the publicity, Akado wore a red "color" armband on his arm today, with a swastika symbol on it - it happened to be a national flag tied to his arm.

"My head of state." Liszt pointed to the map and said: "We used the 203mm cannons captured from Poland, and the 150mm cannons to attack here, here, and here... to drive the Polish defenders to the south of the city. ."

"Then our sniper squads can enter the northern part of the city, where they cannibalize the counterattacking Polish defenders, and soon they will pay huge casualties." Another general continued: "Then tanks and armored vehicles will help the infantry to consolidate these Occupy the area and repeat these tactics until the Poles are driven out of Warsaw."

The Air Force liaison officer behind Arcador also pointed to the map and added: "My head of state. The Air Force will send 40 Stuka dive bombers to participate in the attack, and we will bomb all areas where there is a threat."

Listening to these offensive plans, Arkado had no concept of such a tragic scene. He put his face on the scissor periscope placed on the side of the trench, and carefully watched the surrounding buildings of Warsaw that were still burning not far away. , did not raise his own question for a long time.

Even Arcardo had to admit that the war was more cruel than he thought. Those childhood fantasies, those desires to command thousands of troops to victory, now seem too naive: war brings not only glory and achievement, but also death and destruction.

"I heard that the civil affairs department has a resettlement plan for Poles. Most Poles will be sent to specific resettlement areas to do specific jobs, right?" After watching for a while, Akado asked suddenly.

"That's right, Führer." An official in a suit replied, standing behind Accardo: "Because according to the Wartime Disposal of Captured Persons Act, and the Supplementary Regulations on Personnel of Local Enterprises, these Poles want to They are moved to Germany in batches to engage in productive labor, and can be converted to employment after three years.”

"Then continue the shelling." Arkado straightened up in front of the scissor periscope and looked at General Liszt: "Anyway, this area will be rebuilt in the future, so since I have already taken out a weapon fee, I don't plan to Take another demolition fee."

With Accardo's instructions, 70 150mm howitzers fired 450 shells in half an hour, and the Polish defenders were forced to give up an entire block to gradually stabilize their positions. Killed by shelling.

For Arcardo, as the afternoon approached evening, there was another good news that reached his temporary headquarters. The 3rd SS Panzer Division reached Pornico, the dividing line that was finally agreed with the Soviet Union to divide Poland. Many troops have reached their ultimate goal of moving east.

However, the next day they received the order of the head of state, and they continued to advance eastward for a full 10 kilometers before stopping the attack. At this moment, in western Poland, except for Warsaw, which is still resisting, all areas have fallen into the hands of the German army. Arkado ordered in the temporary headquarters, and more than half of the troops were transferred to the spot to clear the Polish troops for skirmish operations to maintain local law and order.

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