By the time Modell's report arrived at the German High Command in Berlin, Nazi decision-makers were busy setting up the so-called People's Tribunal in Berlin, with Freisler as the presiding judge, to try those involved in Hitler's assassination or supporters, and sentence everyone to death without exception.

Hitler was stunned at first when he heard the news of the uprising in Warsaw, and then roared in his spacious office. He pounded desperately against the table top of the long conference table with his fists, and said angrily, "...... They must pay for this, and I order, after our troops have suppressed the riot and regained control of Warsaw, to blow up all the buildings in the city, to dig the banks of the Vistula, to flood the city, and to turn it into a deserted swamp......"

Hitler's orders were soon transmitted over the radio to the headquarters of Army Group Center. After reading the telegram, Moder was silent for a long time before he spoke: "This order of the Führer will put us in a situation from which we will never recover. ”

After reading the telegram, Krebs said with some embarrassment: "Your Excellency, Marshal, but this is an order issued by the Führer, and we can only carry it out unconditionally. ”

"When our troops regain control of the city of Warsaw," said Moder cautiously, "we may, by order of the Führer, blow up all the buildings in the city and send to the concentration camps all the inhabitants we can capture." But we can't do anything that bursts the levee and floods the city. An ancient historical city like Warsaw must not be destroyed in our hands. Do you understand? ”

Krebs hesitated for a long time about Modell's decision, and finally nodded and said, "Understood, Your Excellency Marshal, I will convey your orders to our troops. ”

"Wait a minute, Chief of Staff." Just as Krebs was about to leave, Moder stopped him: "What to do with Warsaw will wait until we quell the riots in Warsaw." You personally call Stägel and ask him to do everything he can to quell the riots in Warsaw. ”

After receiving a call from Krebs, Stargar first asked, "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, I wonder when the headquarters will be able to send us reinforcements." The Polish attack was more fierce than we had imagined, and if reinforcements were not sent soon, I feared that many important administrative institutions would be lost. ”

"Don't worry," Krebs said comforting Stagger, "we will send you reinforcements, and Your Excellency Marshal has asked me to tell you to find a way to ease the situation in the city first, so as to buy precious time for the arrival of our reinforcements." ”

When Stargar had finished his call with Krebs, he called his lieutenant in and asked, "Lieutenant Colonel, what can we do to ease the situation in the city, at least so that the Poles will not be able to seize our important administrative institutions or military strongholds in a short time?" ”

The adjutant thought for a moment and suggested to Stagger: "Your Excellency, it has been five years since we occupied Warsaw, and the Polish elite has been largely wiped out by us, and what remains is a group of ordinary people who only know how to obey, and if we make a statement to him through the radio, we may be able to quell the riots in the city." ”

The adjutant's words woke up the dreamer, and Stagger nodded and said: "Lieutenant Colonel, you have a point, I will call the radio station and ask them to relay my speech at once, and order the Poles to stop this absurd riot at once, and obediently return to their homes to await our disposal." ”

After speaking, he asked the adjutant to bring the recording equipment and recorded his statement in German and Polish: "Citizens of Warsaw, I, the commander of the Warsaw garrison, Lieutenant General Stagel, declare: From now on, the whole city of Warsaw will be under martial law. Civilians are not allowed to take to the streets, otherwise there will be no reparation. Those who dared to shoot at the building where German citizens were located would be immediately wiped off the face of the earth. ”

After the recording, he instructed his lieutenant: "Send my statement to the radio station at once, and let them broadcast it to all the citizens of Warsaw through the city's loudspeaker system." ”

A few minutes later, the adjutant, with the recorded statement, got into an armored car parked in the courtyard of the headquarters. As soon as he sat down, he immediately instructed the driver: "Drive, go to the radio station." ”

The driver looked at the street where there was an exchange of fire outside, and said with some nervousness: "Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, the Poles are outside only for us, and if we go out at this time, I am afraid that there will be danger." ”

"What's the danger?" Although the adjutant was also very frightened, in front of the driver, he pretended to be calm and said: "The Poles don't have any heavy weapons, you see they have been fighting outside for several hours, and they have not been able to rush to within two hundred meters of the building. Let's drive, there will be no danger. ”

The driver heard what the adjutant said, and then looked at the Poles who attacked the headquarters, all of whom were suppressed by fire in the complex two or three hundred meters away, and he also had confidence in his heart, so he started the armored car and drove towards the outside of the courtyard. The soldiers at the gate hurriedly opened the gate, and when the armored car drove out, they closed the gate again.

The rebels besieging the headquarters outside only killed some of the sentries standing outside the gate during the initial raid. Due to their lack of heavy weapons, all attacks on the headquarters were invariably repelled by heavy German fire. At this moment, they saw a German armored car rushing out of the headquarters compound, and immediately several machine guns aimed at the armored vehicle to shoot, but the bullet hit the armor plate, only splashing a series of sparks, but could not penetrate the armor, they could only watch the armored car break through their own defenses and drive along the street towards the distance.

After the armored car drove away, one of the captains of the Krajov army finally came to his senses, and he shouted at the soldiers and civilians around him: "What are you still doing in a daze? It's not too quick to find something to set up barricades on the road, and we can't let the Germans' vehicles pass us anymore. ”

Hearing the captain's shouts, the soldiers and civilians immediately went into action, throwing everything they could find into the middle of the street to prevent another armored vehicle from escaping from the German headquarters.

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The sound of gunfire and explosions in Warsaw made the scouts sent by Varkin and Galitsky realize: the uprising has begun! So they immediately reported the incident to the two division commanders through the radio.

After receiving the news that the Warsaw Uprising had broken out, Vargin and Galitsky, after a brief consultation, decided to secretly enter the city with Captain Dunayev leading an advance battalion, and quietly occupy the Vilanov Palace and Moreshin Park while the attention of the Germans was attracted by the rebels. To be on the safe side, behind the battalion was the second battalion led by Tsitovsky.

After the troops departed, Vargin made another phone call to Chuikov and reported to him truthfully that two battalions of troops had been sent to occupy the Vilanov Palace and Moreshin Park in the south of Warsaw.

After listening to the other party's report, Chuikov said into the microphone: "I know, Comrade Vakin. Although the number of German troops in Warsaw was small, we should not take it lightly, and the main forces of the two divisions should also enter the city as soon as possible, so that we can have a better chance of victory. ”

Before putting down the phone, Chuikov remembered another key matter, and hurriedly told Vagin: "By the way, comrade division commander, there is another important matter, you must seize a bridge over the Vistula River from the hands of the Germans anyway, so that our army's heavy weapons can quickly cross the Vistula River." ”

"Understood, Comrade Commander." When Vargin heard this, he immediately assured Chuikov, "As soon as we occupy the Vlanov Palace and the Moreshin Park, I will immediately send other troops to seize the bridge over the Vistula River, cut off the enemy on both banks, and find a place where our heavy weapons can cross the river." ”

As soon as Chuikov put down the phone, his chief of staff, Belyawsky, reminded him: "Comrade commander, the main forces of our army group are south of Warsaw, and even if General Vargin and them seize the bridge over the Vistula, we will not be able to use it at all, after all, it is too far apart." ”

"That's right," Belyavsky reminded Chuikov in his words: "The forces that can attack from the east of Warsaw at the moment are the 48th and 65th armies. That is to say, after Varjin and them seize the bridge over the Vistula, the only troops who can transport heavy weapons through the bridge are them, and then there will be a problem of coordination and operation. It seems that I need to make a phone call to Comrade Marshal and report to him about the situation here. ”

But before Chuikov could call, Rokossovsky's phone came first. He knew the specific time of the Warsaw Uprising in history, so he estimated that the time was almost up, so he specially called Chuikov to verify: "Comrade Chuikov, how is your situation there?" Also, is there any movement over there in Warsaw? ”

"Yes, Comrade Marshal," replied Chuikov hurriedly, "I was about to call you to report that, according to the report of the scouts we sent to the city, the uprising had broken out at three o'clock this afternoon. The rebels were attacking administrative institutions and a number of military positions occupied by the Germans. ”

Hearing that the uprising had finally taken place as scheduled, Rokossovsky breathed a sigh of relief and asked: "Have you taken any measures?" ”

"Yes, our troops, which are hidden near the city of Warsaw, have quietly moved to the designated area." Chuikov reported to Rokossovsky: "I told General Vajin that as soon as the troops had occupied the Vlanov Palace and the Moresin Park, they would immediately move north along the Vistula River to seize the bridges controlled by the Germans, so that our troops could cross the bridges over the river and transport heavy weapons to the right bank of the Vistula River." ”

Rokossovsky glanced at the map in front of him, and suddenly said like a mirror in his heart: "General Chuikov, I understand what you mean. The forces attacking the east bank of Warsaw today are the 48th and 65th armies, and once you have captured the bridge, only the troops and technical equipment of the two armies will be able to pass through the bridges under your control and travel from the east bank to the west bank. Am I right? ”

Seeing that Rokossovsky guessed what was on his mind, Chuikov smiled a little embarrassedly, and then replied honestly: "Yes, Comrade Marshal, that's how I thought about it. ”

"Don't worry, Comrade Chuikov." Rokossovsky knew what Chuikov was worried about, so he smiled and comforted him: "Regardless of which army group crosses the river with heavy weapons, I will order them to cooperate with the 79th Guards Division and launch an attack on the German strongholds in the city." ”

"Great, that's great." After receiving Rokossovsky's promise, Chuikov felt much more at ease, because in this way, he would not have to use the heavy weapons needed for the Magnushev landing field to support the Warsaw side. In this way, he will be able to concentrate his forces and expand the Magnushev landing field with all his might.

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After Stagel's recording was sent to the radio station by his adjutant, it was soon scheduled to be broadcast. Stägger's voice was heard everywhere in the city through loudspeakers placed throughout the city: "Citizens of Warsaw, I, Lieutenant General Stägger, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison, declare that from now on the whole city of Warsaw will be under martial law. Civilians are not allowed to take to the streets, otherwise there will be no reparation. Those who dared to shoot at the building where German citizens were located would be immediately wiped off the face of the earth. ”

In the early days of the uprising, the fighters and civilians who participated in the uprising thought that they could easily seize important buildings occupied by the Germans. But after several hours of fighting, they sadly found that it was not as simple as they imagined to destroy the Germans, and that many of the offensive sites, except for the unsuspecting German soldiers killed during the attack, did not achieve any results at all, on the contrary, the rebel troops were still attacking, because of the German machine gun fire and suffered heavy casualties. Hearing Stagel's statement coming out of the loudspeaker, many people were shaken, although they were still in the offensive position, but they were thinking about the way back.

Unfortunately, as the commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Insurgents, Komorowski did not realize this at all, and he thought that if his troops launched a few more attacks, they would be able to wipe out the Germans entrenched in government institutions and military strongholds cleanly. Through this uprising, he wanted to show the world that even without the support of the Soviet army, the Poles were capable of freeing their homeland from the clutches of German fascism.

It was precisely because of his misjudgment of the situation and his serious thinking of underestimating the enemy that he inevitably made a series of mistakes when directing operations. Faced with a well-defended German stronghold, he simply blindly ordered the rebels to attack, striving to rely on the personal courage of the rebel soldiers to defeat the Germans. But the cruel truth is that the corpses of the rebel soldiers were strewn all over the field in front of the dense fire network of the German army, and a large number of soldiers with rich combat experience were meaninglessly wiped out in the wrong onslaught.