"It's mad that the Dutch government should accuse us of the League of Nations!"

Winston. Churchill heard news at a British cabinet meeting on September 16 that he could not believe.

Actually accusing the British Empire, do you still want to collectively sanction Britain?

"They also want Germany, France and us to confirm the neutrality of the Netherlands." Viscount Halifax continued.

"This ......," Churchill looked at the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Admiral Ironside. Are the French still planning to attack Germany from the Netherlands? ”

"Well, there is this plan," said Admiral Ironside, frowning, "and Admiral Gammelin planned to attack German territory in 1941-1942 through the Netherlands and Belgium. ”

"In 1942?" Churchill rolled his eyelids, "What nonsense!" He looked at Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, "First of all, I don't think the French are going to attack at all." ”

That's for sure! It took Germany 12 days to defeat the "world's second army power", how can France, the "world's first army power", not be afraid? How strong is Poland, others don't know, France doesn't know yet? France is Poland's "teacher".

"Well, then, we might as well confirm the neutrality of the Netherlands." Churchill advised, "The Dutch accusations are not a big deal, just let the League of Nations form an investigation team to investigate slowly." ”

"In addition, Mussolini was very enthusiastic about the 'confirmation of neutrality'." The Viscount of Halifax added, "He said that Italy could guarantee the neutrality of the Netherlands, and that it could join forces with other neutral countries to sign a treaty of mutual protection between European neutral countries." If any of the belligerents dared to invade these neutral countries, they would be subject to collective sanctions by all neutral countries. ”

"Meaningless!" Churchill smiled indifferently, "The British Empire and the French Empire are still afraid of their sanctions?" ”

The British Empire and the French Empire are not the British and French of later generations, they are two world empires! The British Empire has more than 33 million square kilometers of land and a population of 458 million, while the French Empire has 12,898,000 square kilometers and a population of 110 million. They are all superpowers, they are not afraid of any sanctions at all, and the British Empire is the hegemon of the sea, whoever dares to sanction Britain and France should not think about any overseas trade!

"Mussolini wanted to play the arbiter of Europe," Chamberlain thought for a moment and said with a smile, "we can get him to vouch for it, and we don't intend to undermine the neutrality of the Netherlands anyway." No, we are not going to undermine the neutrality of any country right now. If Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Portugal and other countries also want us to confirm neutrality, they can all agree. ”

If the French were going to attack again in 1942, the British would naturally not consider attacking alone before 1942 -- as far as the British army was concerned, it would be in vain to go. Since it is not intended to transit through the Netherlands, it is time for the Netherlands and other countries to remain neutral.

"Our strategy now is blockade!" "So we can guarantee that the night of September 6 will not happen again." Nevertheless, we will continue to persuade Belgium to join our alliance. ”

Belgium was the key to defending against Germany's breakthrough from the north of the Maginot Line! Moreover, the grudge between Germany and Belgium is very deep - in history, Wilhelm II had planned to enlist Belgium to attack France together, but the Belgian king turned around and told France about Wilhelm II's plan! After the war, Belgium invaded the Rhine along with France, and also blackmailed Germany for many reparations and dismantled many German machines.

At this time, a secretary at No. 10 Downing Street pushed the door and walked in, "Mr. Prime Minister, the Polish Embassy just called, and in the early hours of this morning, the Soviet Red Army began to attack Poland!" ”

"Well, now the Poles can only rely on Germany wholeheartedly!" Winston. Churchill said in a rather gloating tone, "Perhaps the two robbers, the Soviet Union and Germany, will fight because of the uneven distribution of the spoils...... The Germans seem to have taken some more territory, right? ”

"Yes," said Admiral Ironside, "their occupation zone includes the entire provinces of Volyn and Rivne. ”

The vast majority of these two provinces were not part of Austrian Galicia, and the Germans had violated the Treaty of Brest by taking them, for which the Soviets protested.

However, the current "occupation" is not the final "demarcation", and the Germans may have occupied it only to gain more leverage in the final demarcation negotiations. In addition, the "occupation" may have been only a guarantee - since the Soviets could have crossed the Bug River in the event of an attack on Poland...... The Brest Fortress, the largest stronghold of the Polish army on the east bank of the Bug River, was located on the river, and if the Soviet troops did not cross the Bug River, there would be no way to encircle the fortress. In order to ensure the withdrawal of Soviet troops after the capture of the fortress, Germany always had something in their hands.

"This can be expected," Chamberlain said, "but it is not very likely, after all, the Soviet Union and Germany have been allies for 20 years, and they have not turned around so quickly." ”

He was silent for a moment, then said to Viscount Halifax, "I think we should consider helping the Poles to establish a government in exile." ”

Viscount Halifax was stunned, "Polish government-in-exile? But Poland is not dead. ”

Chamberlain shrugged his shoulders and said: "If Poland is refuge in Germany, we can no longer regard it as an independent and legitimate government!" ”

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"Marshal, the troops remaining in Pinsk are ready to withdraw to the territory of the German-occupied territories of Western Ukraine at any time. And all the bridges on the railway line from Baranovichi to Brest were blown up, and the railway was damaged as much as possible. ”

It is likely that it was Yuliuush, a distant relative of Rommel. Lieutenant General Rommel, now Deputy Chief of Staff of the Polish Army, and at the same time Chief of Staff of Field Marshal Rez-Himigvi at the headquarters in Brest.

This Marshal Rez-Himigvi did not return to Warsaw, but "drove his own expedition" to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front of the Polish army. Personally commanded more than 200,000 Polish troops to resist the Soviet Red Army in Western Belarus!

However, the deployment of this Marshal Rez-Shimigvi is also interesting, as he did not deploy troops along the border line and did not go to defend several important cities in Western Belarus. Instead, the vast majority of the elite troops were reduced to the vicinity of the Brest Fortress, which was backed by the Bug River, and even if the fortress was held, 99% of Western Belarus would still be seized by the Soviets.

From a military point of view, his deployment seems meaningless, but as a confidant of the marshal, Yuliush. Lieutenant General Rommel, however, understood Rez-Shimigvi's strategy very well - it was to maintain a "state of resistance".

Most of the lands of Western Belarus and Right-Bank Ukraine can be lost, but in fact they cannot be defended. But the Polish leadership must not follow the advice of the British and sign the treaty on the cession of Western Belarus and Right-Bank Ukraine.

This is not 30,000 square kilometers ceded to Germany, but almost 400,000 square kilometers!

Whoever wants to sign the treaty on the cession of Western Belarus and Right-Bank Ukraine is the biggest traitor Poland has ever seen, waiting to be scorched by the nationalist rage in Poland!

And by restoring the "Polish-German border of 1918", Poland's survival was already guaranteed. As long as the Soviet Union did not want to go to war with Germany, it would not have crossed the Bug River and marched into Warsaw. Therefore, the Polish government does not even have the need to "sell the country for glory", and whoever wants to sign must have a bad brain.

But Polish politicians did not dare to really fight with the Soviet Union, they knew that they did not have the capital to fight hard with the Soviet Union. Before the 12-day Polish-German war, they might have the idea of going head-to-head with the Soviet Union. But now the marshals and generals of Poland have been frustrated in confidence and do not dare to fight hard.

Therefore, Rez-Shimigvi thought of a way to "maintain the state of resistance" - just on the banks of the Bug River, Poland's largest fortress was set up on the battlefield, relying on the fortress and defending it to the death. In this way, even if the Polish army was resisting the Soviet Red Army, the territory east of the Bug River was not lost.

At the same time, the Ukrainian nationalists will be subsidized with weapons and money to fight guerrillas, so that the Ukrainians and the Russians will lose both......

"Just destroy the railway!" Rez-Shimigwe nodded, "So the towns and villages along the main road have been burned?" ”

Not only to blow up the railway, but also to play scorched earth! This set was used by the Russians against Napoleon back then. Rez-Shimigwe did as much as he could—in fact, the corresponding plan had already been in place, and Rez-Shimigwe was just the next order.

Uliuush. Lieutenant General Rommel replied: "Marshal, we sent cavalry and burned many Belarusian villages and towns along the railway and the main highways. It is now difficult for the Soviets to use the rail line to transport supplies, and it is unlikely that they will be able to collect many supplies along the way. They can only drag a few hundred kilometers of logistics lines to Brest! ”

Rez Himigwe nodded and said, "Maybe they won't come at all......"

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"Comrade General Secretary, I have some good news for you," as soon as Stalin picked up the phone, he heard Voroshilov's tone of voice, which was about to burst into laughter, "and the Ukrainian and Belarusian fronts have made a major breakthrough.

Less than 12 hours after the start of the war, the 5th, 6th and 12th armies of the Ukrainian Front broke through the Dnieper defense line by force in three directions: Chenobi, Cherkasy, and Kremanchu.

In the Belarusian direction, the Brest Rapid Cluster and the Pinksk Rapid Cluster also achieved a rapid breakthrough. Among them, the Brest rapid cluster advanced 28 km, and the Pinsk fast cluster advanced 22 km. This speed has already exceeded the speed of the German blitzkrieg on September 1! ”

"Good, good!" Stalin nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, the start was very smooth, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army fought very well, I hope to make persistent efforts to liberate the whole of Right-Bank Ukraine and Western Belarus as soon as possible!" (To be continued.) )