Chapter 203

The German siege of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, has come to the second day. During this period, the poles in Warsaw have suffered unprecedented hardships. The Polish government decided to defend Warsaw at all costs. They beat back the previous German attacks. However, the German team immediately retaliated, and they began to treat Warsaw civilians as soldiers. This has led to a sharp rise in civilian mortality.

At the end of the street, a soldier was talking to his wife and a one-year-old child, because the soldier's defense line was thousands of meters north of the conversation site. The beautiful brick streets have now been dug, with deep trenches dug on both sides to fight the German army.

Almost all the soldiers are looking forward to meeting with their relatives and family members and are worried about their safety. So far, the casualties of the citizens are greater than those of the soldiers. It seems that there is no big difference between the question of whether the husband can come home alive from the battlefield and the question of whether other members of the family can survive the artillery fire and bombing.

A few minutes ago, a German bomber was destroyed. It crashed into a street in Warsaw with thick smoke, throwing a huge hole in the street. A group of temporary inspection teams composed of citizens and reservists went to the scene of the accident and found that four German pilots on the plane had been killed.

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

It seems that the whole Poland has been mobilized. Two Polish soldiers and a few citizens who have been temporarily recruited dig holes in the streets. Then they tear down the tram tracks on one side, erect them in the pit and bury the soil to form an anti tank roadblock. The main streets of Poland are protected by this kind of roadblock.

In the middle of another wider street, poles left a destroyed and overturned bus lying across the street, with stones piled on both sides, forming a natural defense line. Relying on this crude defense line, the poles beat back a German exploratory attack, but in the afternoon, the German retaliation fire became more fierce.

Dead horses were a common phenomenon in Besieged cities, at least in 1937. The dead horses provided food for the hungry poles and helped them through the most difficult days. Even though the bodies of these dead horses have begun to rot, people still cut off large pieces of meat and eat them to satisfy their hunger.

A 9-year-old boy named payawaski was hit, which reflected the experience of civilians in the war that made them homeless. Now he's sitting sadly next to a twisted bedstead, behind the ruins of the bombed house. His brother was under the ruins, but this was just the beginning of his suffering. That afternoon, his father died in the battlefield, and his mother left him for eating dead horse carrion.

A hospital in the south of Warsaw was hit by one of the five bombs dropped by the German army in the afternoon of this day. The 500 pound air bomb left a huge crater with a diameter of more than 10 meters, at least two meters deep, on the side of the house. The hospital was completely scrapped because of the bombing. More than a dozen patients, one doctor and more people were injured.

And another bomb was dropped near a Catholic church not far away, directly making the wooden structure of the church into a fragmented ruins, the wooden board staggering witnessed the great power of the explosion. But because the people here evacuated in time, the people in the church fled to a safe place before the air raid.

An American reporter witnessed Warsaw besieged by German soldiers. The refugees were sitting in carriages, which were full of all their property, looking for a safe place for them on the road. About 10000 Polish civilians died in the siege of Warsaw, mostly at home.

"No one knows where to hide," the American reporter said in his report back home. "Often a person runs to a place he thinks is safe, only to find that it is a place he gave up because the previous person thinks it is unsafe. There are people everywhere with bags and babies, who are seriously frightened and desperately looking for a place to provide refuge. "

The U.S. journalist later died in the air raid. A piece of shrapnel the size of a palm pierced his lung. He had stopped breathing before he was sent to the hospital. A little luckier than him was the baby in the hospital: a shell hit the delivery room, but miraculously it didn't explode. Only broken glass and sawdust hurt several babies' arms, which made the nearly crazy mothers cry.

Because of starvation, many poles went to dig potatoes in the suburbs of the city, which was a big farm opened up before the war, so many people ventured to look for food, but the danger was that the German troops had been watching there.

Because of frequent people's activities in this open space, the fighter units of the German Air Force who could not find targets began to fly at low altitude near the open space. They strafed the crowd on the ground and wiped out the targets they thought should be eliminated.

Soon these fighters won their victory. A fw-190d fighter seized the opportunity and hit more than a dozen Polish civilians in one go. After the plane left, a little boy, holding his own baggage, sat silently beside his mother's body in despair without a drop of tears. And just a few steps away from the little boy, a little girl was squatting beside her sister's body and crying loudly.

Her sister was another victim of the attack, with a 13 mm machine gun that went straight through the shoulder blades and left the body with half a shoulder. The living little girl squatted down and touched her bloody sister with her hand. As soon as she touched the face of the dead, she drew her hand back. Immediately after that, she began to cry, hysterically shouting: "my sister! What on earth have they done to you? God War makes people indifferent. That's when it comes to dealing with the enemy. Every time a relative leaves, we will find that the heart that we thought was hard and incomparable is soft enough to be vulnerable. And just as these people left the world, the German head of state, akkado? Rudolph is in a trench west of Warsaw, listening to his generals explain the specific steps of attacking Warsaw. In order to better cooperate with the propaganda, akado today wore a red armband on his arm, which has a ten thousand character symbol - just a national flag tied on his arm“ My head of state. " Liszt pointed to the map and said, "we used the 203 mm guns captured from Poland, and the 150 mm guns to attack here, here, and here... To drive the Polish garrison to the south of the city."“ Then our sniper team can go to the north of the city and nibble at the Polish defenders in the counterattack. Soon they will pay huge casualties "Then tanks and armored vehicles will help the infantry consolidate these occupied areas and repeat these tactics until the poles are driven out of Warsaw," another general added The air force liaison officer behind akado also pointed to the map and added, "my head of state. The air force will send 40 Stuka dive bombers to take part in the attack, and we will bomb all areas with threat. " After listening to the attack plans, akado had no idea of this tragic scene. He put his face on the scissor periscope on one side of the trench and carefully looked at the burning buildings around Warsaw not far away. For a long time, he did not ask any questions. Even akado had to admit that the war was more cruel than he thought. Those childhood fantasies, those who hope to command thousands of troops to win, now seem too naive: war brings not only glory and achievement, but also death and destruction“ It's said that the Civil Affairs Department has a resettlement plan for poles. Most poles will be sent to specific resettlement areas for specific jobs, right After a while, akado suddenly asked“ It's like this, Fuehrer. " An official in a suit stood behind akado and replied, "because according to the wartime disposal of captured persons act and the supplementary regulations on personnel of local enterprises, these poles have to be moved to Germany in batches to engage in production and labor, and they can only be employed after three years."“ Then continue shelling. " Akado straightened up in front of the scissor periscope and looked at general Liszt: "anyway, this area will be rebuilt in the future. Now that I have put out a sum of weapon cost, I don't plan to take another sum of demolition cost." With akado's instructions, 70 150 mm howitzers fired 450 shells in half an hour. The Polish garrison was forced to give up a whole block to gradually stabilize its position. Thousands of civilians were killed in this shelling. For akado, as the afternoon approached the evening, another piece of good news reached his temporary headquarters. The third SS Panzer Division arrived at polnico, the final demarcation line with the Soviet Union to divide Poland. Many troops have reached their ultimate goal of heading east. But the next day, they got the order of the head of state, and then pushed eastward for a full 10 kilometers before they stopped attacking. At this moment, western Poland, except Warsaw, is still resisting, and all areas have fallen into the hands of the German army. Akado ordered in the temporary headquarters that more than half of the troops should be transferred to eliminate the scattered troops of Polish troops and maintain local public security.