"Report, there are a large number of German troops on the northern flank, and our troops in the north can no longer resist withdrawing!"

"Report, the Germans have launched an artillery bombardment to the south! They have at least a thousand cannons! By now, the 2 garrison divisions in the south have now lost contact with the command! ”

"German armored units appear in the east! God, our retreat is cut off! ”

“........”

When he heard the news that the Germans were on all sides, Beranger knew that the Polish army was finished!

From the moment the encirclement of the German army took shape, Rundstead, as the commander of Army Group South, immediately ordered a general offensive. It doesn't matter if you don't fight, you won't be able to find the north of the entire 250,000 Polish troops in one fight.

The Luftwaffe, which had not appeared before, suddenly seemed to go crazy, and one after another took turns bombing the artillery positions and troop assembly areas that had been exposed by the Polish army. Countless explosives poured down on the Polish army like a torrential rain in the roar of the planes, leaving behind a field of wounded soldiers and corpses everywhere.

The black-pressed Wehrmacht soldiers, like a rolling torrent, emerged from every direction, attacking the Polish positions and their fragile psychological defenses.

One tank after another, rolling up a cloud of dust, stretched from what should have been the retreat of the Polish army, until it blocked the avenues behind the Polish army.

The swaying artillery quickly deployed by the Germans covered the Polish positions with artillery fire as if they were not paying for money, blowing up layers of black mushroom clouds. Even from a distance, you can smell the strong smell of gunpowder.

The Polish counteroffensive group made three stubborn breakouts first to the south, then to the southeast, and finally to the east, but they were all driven back by the German encircling forces, which had been waiting for a long time. In the end, the chaotic Polish counteroffensive cluster could not even organize a new breakout. The Polish army, which had no intention of fighting, could only be encircled by the German army layer by layer, and at the same time, it was also moving towards extinction step by step.

How did this battle come to this?

Sitting in the corner of the conference room of the Polish High Command, Belant reclined against the back of a wooden chair, as if all his strength had been drained.

In the brain, there is already a blank space. Memory, too, seems to have a disconnect. All the speculations that had been made, the images that had been confidently pointed out in front of the Poles, were now as unreal as if they had been a dream.

How could he have fallen into the trap of the Germans so easily?

Because of his conceit, he, the savior who had high hopes from the Polish High Command, led the Allies step by step into a trap, a trap that did not exist in the first place, improvised by the hateful German commander!

Now he is no longer the savior in the eyes of the Polish high command, he is the sinner who led to the defeat of Poland!

Ever since he arrived in Poland to lead the French officer corps, he had always thought that he would be able to take this opportunity to take this group of stupid Poles to a slightly more beautiful fight with his own wit. In that way, he could become an important figure in the writing of history!

Although he was ranked as a major general, he had no chance to come to the fore in the star-studded country, and only here could he gain trust with the signboard of the French First Army in Europe behind him, so as to influence the strategy of the Polish army and add a meritorious service of sufficient weight to himself.

Therefore, when he learned that he had the opportunity to join the officer corps and go to Poland for military guidance, Berlunte immediately found his old superior, Marshal Petain, and entrusted him to join the officer corps and become the leader.

Unfortunately, although he became a part of the process of writing history, he was not on the winning side........

Launching an assault on Rhodes was originally the only feasible plan for him at the moment.

It's not that this tactic is powerful, but that it is very standard and conforms to every military theory I have studied.

A large-scale counter-assault was used to force the Germans to halt their offensive and have to turn back and start a decisive battle with the legion that was now on its back. But anyone who has been to a military school understands that this is in line with the most basic mode of warfare. Whether it is the German army or the Polish army, it is common sense that they should choose to start a decisive battle with the enemy army behind them.

It was a conspiracy that Belante had no hope of fighting all the way through a counter-assault from the beginning. This counterattack was clearly aimed at binding the pace of the German attack, leaving the Germans to fight an offensive and defensive battle with the counterattack corps first.

And once an offensive and defensive battle of this scale starts, it can be won for more than a week. By that time, the time for the Polish army to build a new line of defense on the outskirts of Warsaw was squeezed out.

Therefore, from the perspective of the most effective way to buy time, the only solution at the beginning of the fight was to press on this counterattack operation.

For Berente, his aim was not to lead the Polish army to defeat the Germans. As long as he can hold back the German army for as long as possible and consume as much German army as possible, he will naturally be treated as a hero after returning home. This is also the only way for him to prove himself and win enough merit for himself.

But Belante did not expect that the opponent he encountered was a commander that even the later French Republic could not defeat, a general staff of the German Army Group South named Fritz Erich von Manstein.

This showdown with Manstein, of course, is provided that if it can be considered a duel, Birrent did not take advantage of it from the beginning. In the face of the situation that the Polish army on the border was about to collapse at the touch of a button, he was also powerless.

The counterattack he had finally come up with was the answer he had carefully prepared to challenge Manstein.

But by the time he finally saw Manstein's response tactics, the 250,000 Polish troops had all been surrounded by Manstein's Army Group South. And now they have no hope of breaking through, and they are beginning to show signs of collapse.

So far, the Battle of the Buzula River, which was initiated by the Polish army and lasted a total of three days, ended in a hurry.

This battle can be called a classic case in the military circles!

This first large-scale counterattack launched by the Polish High Command at the suggestion of Belunte became the opportunity for a huge siege battle under Manstein's homeopathic forces.

He Birent, who will be described in later history books as having high hopes from the Polish High Command, eventually became the key to the loss of the last main force of the Polish army. And the German commander who went off the rails and did not play his cards according to common sense, and calculated the entire 250,000 Polish troops, will become the idol of countless soldiers!

Maybe I shouldn't have been here in the first place........

Looking at the anxious eyes of the Polish commander, Field Marshal Smigre, Belante was eager to find a crack in the ground now. They trusted themselves so much that they could have advised the Polish army to resist and withdraw their troops to the defense......... However, a misplaced judgment and excessive self-confidence allowed him to blindly put forward this beautiful counterattack plan, which dragged the Polish army directly into irretrievable hell from the state of survival!

His plan helped the German army to encircle the last blood of the 250,000 Polish army, which not only harmed Poland, but also caused huge indirect losses to France, which was counting on the Polish army to consume the German army!

From this day on, Beronte, will be the sinner of the whole of Poland!