Chapter 1590

On the way to the church, while the commander of the Polish army was away, I asked lokosovsky curiously, "Comrade marshal, what happened? The Polish army has already pushed out of Warsaw. How could it be easily defeated by the German army? "

Rokosovsky sighed and said, "Rita, you don't know. When the Polish army was advancing to the outskirts of Poland, it was suddenly ambushed by the superior German army. Countless German officers and soldiers rushed out of their hiding places and attacked the Polish army only equipped with light weapons under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles. In just ten minutes of fighting, the commanders and fighters of the two battalions were either dead or wounded, and the rest of them had to hide in the ravines on the roadside to resist. "

"What about the rebels in Huasha city? Where are they?" When I heard this, I raised my voice and asked, "didn't they say they were going out of the city to welcome the Polish Army going north and liberate Warsaw together?"

"Rita, we don't know why the rebel army in the city didn't come out to meet us so far." Rokosovsky did not want to entangle on this issue. Instead, he asked, "what measures have you and trakov taken to rescue the troubled Polish army?"

"The equipment for crossing the river was handed over to the Polish army. We couldn't cross the river to support them, so I had to ask general trakov to deploy artillery and tanks on the river. When the friendly army retreated, we would use artillery fire to cover their retreat." With these words, we have come to the outside of the church. Among the soldiers standing guard at the door, there are both our army and Polish army. So I quickly stopped the conversation and said to rokosovsky, "Comrade commander, we are here. Let's go up."

When we got to the clock tower and looked across the river with a telescope, I found that the situation was worse than we thought. The Polish soldiers on the other side had basically lost their organizational system and ran all over the mountains, while the German tanks stopped at the edge of the forest in the distance, harvesting the lives of these soldiers with tank guns and airborne machine guns. Perhaps in order to prevent our army from crossing the river for reinforcement, the German long-range artillery bombarded the river all the time, stirring up one water column after another.

"Comrade marshal, you are here." Seeing the appearance of rokosovsky, belinger was like catching a straw. He put his hands together and asked respectfully, "please, save the soldiers of the Polish army. If this continues, they may be destroyed."

Without waiting for rokosovsky to speak, trakov rushed to say: "marshal, there is nothing we can do now. All the river crossing equipment was handed over to the comrades of the Polish army. Our troops could not cross the visva river. Although there are artillery deployed near the river, the troops on the other side have lost their organizational structure. They are all over the mountains and fields. If we fire, we will hurt our own people by mistake. "

"General belinger," rokosovsky immediately comforted belinger after trakov finished saying, "we will never watch the soldiers of the Polish army be destroyed by the Germans. But now the situation on the other side is so chaotic that we can't fire, otherwise the shells will fall on our own people. "

Belinger could not help sighing and his face was full of deep regret when he heard what rokosovsky said. He might have thought that if a few hours ago he had agreed to rokosovsky's proposal that our army should send an army to cross the river, the pressure on the Polish Army on the other side would be much less.

The real Polish army, who had been staying by the river, was terrified to see that the troops marching towards Huasha had been defeated by the German army. They abandoned their positions one after another and ran towards the river in an attempt to use the boats here to return to the east bank.

As soon as many soldiers jumped on the wooden boat, they immediately grabbed the oars and paddled desperately to make the boat leave the shore and head for the east bank. However, less than half of their row, they were found by the German army in the distance, and immediately concentrated the artillery fire on this section, and implemented fire blockade on the river.

All of a sudden, the cannonball burst the water on the surface of the river. One by one, the water burst into the sky, and the ship shook violently. Then the shrill sound became more and more intensive, and more and more shells fell from the sky. How can wooden boats resist the steel shells? With the fierce explosion of shells hitting the ships, wooden boats carrying soldiers were smoking and burning one after another. The soldiers on them either dived to escape or were burned to death by the fire.

The shell came suddenly and went quickly. When the German army saw that the ships on the river had disappeared, they immediately stopped the intensive shelling and only used sporadic shelling to stop the cross river battle that our army might launch on the east bank. The dozens of wooden boats that had previously returned from the West Bank were blown to pieces, and the burning debris was still floating on the water, emitting black smoke, and the overturned boats were sinking rapidly. Looking around, the river, which was dyed red with blood, was full of ship fragments and soldiers' bodies. In the cold river, the soldiers diving to escape are struggling, just like dumplings boiled in a pot. Although not many boats survived on the river, the soldiers on board did not rush to escape. Instead, they slowed down to rescue the soldiers floating on the nearby water.

"My God," belinger said with tears in his eyes, "fifty or sixty wooden boats and hundreds of lives were destroyed in just a few minutes by the German artillery fire."

"Comrade trakovsky," rokosovsky saw here. He could not bear it. He quickly turned around and ordered trakov: "immediately order the artillery to fire on the other side!"

"But, comrade marshal." Hearing the order from rokosovsky, trakov said with some embarrassment, "if we fire now, we may hurt our own people by mistake..."

"All right, general trakov." Without waiting for him to finish, rokosovsky interrupted him sternly: "seeing our comrades' constant sacrifice on the other side, we can't do nothing. I now order you to suppress the German offensive with artillery fire and cover the Polish soldiers to return to the east coast! "

"Yes Seeing that rokosovsky was angry, trakov was no longer stubborn. He raised his hand and saluted. He turned and went down the bell tower to call the artillery.

A few minutes later, our early artillery units on the east coast opened fire. Intensive artillery fire, will gather in the forest area of the German troops howling. At the same time, more than a dozen of our bombers flew over our heads in a four plane formation to bomb the German artillery positions.

Looking at the bombers flying farther and farther, I feel very curious. Besides rokosovsky, the chief of staff of the headquarters of the front army, general malining, can mobilize the air force. But on the way to this church with rokosovsky, I didn't see him call anyone. How could our army's bombers appear so timely?

When rokosovsky turned to talk to belinger, he saw my thoughtful expression and asked curiously, "Rita, what are you doing here alone?"

"Marshal," I pointed to the looming bomber in the air and asked curiously, "is it arranged for our air force to bomb German artillery positions long ago, or who called the air force commander and sent them out?"

"We're here together from trekov's headquarters. When did you see me call?" Rokosovsky explained to me with great interest: "yesterday, I considered that the Polish army might need us to provide air support for them in the battle of attacking Warsaw, so I arranged the air force to attack at this time, to bomb the German artillery positions, so as to reduce the pressure on the friendly forces during the attack."

With the suppression of the German army by our air force and artillery, the enemy's strength to rush to the Polish defense area weakened, giving the soldiers the opportunity to use the remaining ships and orderly withdraw to the east coast.

Seeing his troops on the east coast one after another, belinger wanted to meet the soldiers who had survived, but he was stopped by rokosovsky. He kindly reminded: "general Bellinger, the river is still the German artillery strike area, so their artillery was bombed by our air force, but for the sake of safety, you'd better not go. If you want to meet your troops, you can send them to trekov's headquarters

Belinger thought about rokosovsky's proposal and finally nodded his head. As the top commander of the Polish army, he really has no right to take risks.

Almost two hours later, the commander of the third Polish division, Colonel vareshak, arrived at the headquarters of trakov. The colonel looked embarrassed, his face blackened by the smoke, his clothes dirty and torn, and his bandaged left arm hanging on his chest.

"Captain, can you explain to me what's going on?" Bellinger asked his subordinates sternly that in order for us to understand their conversation, he intentionally used Russian.

"Comrade commander, it's not our fault." The Colonel raised his head and said with a defiant face: "we are going very well. We broke through the three German lines in succession and killed at least 300 German soldiers..."

When I heard this, I could not help but shrug my lips and say that it took five or six thousand of you a division more than ten hours to kill and injure more than three hundred of the enemy. It's also a good idea to tell us the result.

"We got close to the appointed place, but we didn't see the rebels who came to meet us. We only saw the German troops who had been ambushing here for a long time Our troops have no heavy weapons. In the face of the coming German tanks and armored vehicles, we can do nothing... "The colonel said with a sad face,"... The casualties of the troops are too great. I can only order everyone to fight and withdraw, and try to return to the East Bank of the visva River... "

Rokosovsky patiently waited for the colonel to finish, then he interrupted and asked, "Comrade Colonel, can you tell me why the rebel army that you had made an appointment with didn't appear outside the city in time to join you?"

The Colonel did not directly answer the reason, but looked at rokosovsky and said, "marshal, I met a soldier of ryudov's guards who escaped from the city. I think he can answer your question."

"Where is he, Colonel?" Rokosovsky heard the Colonel say so, quickly asked.

Vareshak went to the door and called out, "come in!"

With vareshak's cry, a middle-aged man in plain clothes and a cap came in timidly“ Comrade crook, "Colonel vareshak raised his right hand, put it on the middle-aged man's shoulder, took him in front of us, and said to him with a kind face," please tell the commanders what happened in the city again. "

Crook nodded and opened his mouth to polish that we didn't understand. Vareshak immediately reminded him: "Comrade kruck, don't you speak Russian? Speak Russian, or the commanders won't understand. "

Rokosovsky realized that the middle-aged man named crook in front of him must know the recent situation in the city. He quickly stepped forward and asked with a serious expression: "Comrade crook, tell me quickly, what happened in the city?"“ What else can I do? Kill people Looking at rokosovsky, crook said with a bitter expression: "people are killing everywhere. Not only the Germans are killing our people, but also our own people are killing each other."“ People in the city are killing each other? " As soon as crook's words were finished, everyone, including me, was stunned except vareshak, who knew the inside story“ Comrade crook, what's going on? " Bellinger asked anxiously, "tell us quickly, why do we have to kill each other?"