In mid-July 1939, the reorganized Russian army launched another large-scale offensive.

In this offensive, they finally pulled out almost all the "nails" around Warsaw and completed the encirclement of Warsaw on three sides. Originally, the Russian army wanted to try to complete the real encirclement, but it turned out that the part of the "back" of Warsaw was built into a vast fortified area by a mobilized million Polish laborers, and it was very difficult for the Russian army, which was not very armored to occupy.

It is simply trivial for the Soviet army in another time and space to deal with this kind of fortified area, after all, the Soviet army in that time and space has "justice given by Lenin" - 152 thick pipes, specializing in permanent and semi-permanent fortifications.

Of course, the other seven-six, eight-five pipes can also be quickly pulled out of the fortifications. In the final analysis, the Soviet army is fundamentally different from the Tsarist army in this time and space, and the Tsarist Russian army in this time and space is only a World War I army that has been strengthened in equipment.

Because of this, it is clear that the German army has been retreating, and the Russian army has been attacking, but the casualties of the Russian army far exceeded the German army, and as a result, the ratio of the number of troops lost on both sides was about the same as that of the Soviet-German war in another time and space, and the German casualties were slightly higher.

This strange phenomenon made Lin Youde sigh that Iron Ji was indeed a time-space isotope of Comrade Steel, and he was exactly the same in terms of tactics.

But on the other hand, Iron Ji has no other "strategy" to use to face the current situation, and when her industry develops, she will have at least two five-year plans, not to mention what Lin Youde's science and technology tree can climb to, just Lin Youde's daughters grow up This can be said to be a burden that Russia cannot bear.

She can only trade casualties for the results of the battle.

Now Russia can really afford it. After the end of the war, the survivors who felt the cruelty of the war and the preciousness of their lives would give birth to children with their lives, so every time a large-scale war ended, the society tended to stabilize, and a wave of baby booms appeared in normal countries. Russia is exactly like this, although it has experienced some turmoil after the war, but the turmoil in Tsarist Russia in this time and space is not as great as that of the Soviet Union, although the economy and industry are a mess, the people are quite confident that they can have a stable life in the future, so the baby boom that lasted for nearly five years came.

And now, it is the day when the children reach the age of joining the army, and Tsarist Russia has much larger human resources than Germany - Germany also has a baby boom, but the population base is not as good as that of Tsarist Russia, and it is not as crazy as the Russians, after all, Germany is so big, and it can produce so much grain, unlike Russia can export a large amount of grain after feeding so many people. Therefore, the common people in Germany are more cautious in their lives.

At present, there are 91 million Germanic people in Germany, including the Slavs and other ethnic minorities, but Lin Youde has no intention of using the armies of the various union republics in order to ensure the stability of the south. The only troops he was able to mobilize were these 91 million pure Germans.

In fact, at this time, Russia has mobilized 9 million troops, but Poland cannot deploy so many troops in the front, and Russia's logistical capabilities cannot allow them to project all their more than 9 million troops to the front line.

But the Russian army is fully capable of fighting with the German army, wheel warfare.

At the end of July, the German-Polish forces lost fifty percent of their positions on the outskirts of Warsaw, and the Russians began shelling the city of Warsaw. The Polish government, which had always been relatively popular in this time and space, finally relented, fled from Warsaw, and moved to Poznan.

Lin Youde finally persuaded the Polish government to start arming the Polish people indiscriminately, and a large number of militiamen entered the Warsaw city defense positions, and almost all the young and middle-aged people in the entire Warsaw city took up arms and prepared to fight to the death against the invaders, while their wives and parents joined the volunteer labor camp and began to help the engineering troops repair the fortifications.

Unlike the intense preparations on the front line, Lin Youde was relieved at this time, and he knew very well what it meant to attack a big city like Warsaw. The forest of reinforced concrete will become a terrible meat grinder, and fierce street battles will continue forever, holding the warring sides firmly in place like a quagmire.

Lin Youde believes that the Russian army has lost the best chance to quickly resolve the battle.

Since Mussolini's downfall, Lin Youde's greatest concern for the south was also alleviated by a certain amount of Cheng at the end of July: Xia Li agreed to transfer the two goddesses to the south of France and put them on guard near the Franco-Italian border to contain the pope goddess. The German Foreign Office's diplomatic efforts towards Greece have also begun to bear fruit, and the Greek government has publicly declared that it has no intention of intervening in the disputes on the Italian peninsula and does not want to be an enemy of the Alliance for Human Renewal.

After a steady dìng, Lin Youde was finally able to concentrate on dealing with the Russians.

On 5 August, the Luftwaffe again dropped a large number of cloudburst bombs on the Russian-occupied part of Warsaw, against which the Russians had little defense, allowing the Germans to return to mid-July.

After that, the fierce street fighting lasted for half a month, and the German army, which generally used automatic weapons and occupied a geographical advantage, killed and injured a large number of Russian troops entering the city, but as the battle continued, the Russian army used more and more German-made weapons to pick up, and in many places there were scenes of both sides using the same weapons to fight.

The brutal meat grinding battle continued until the end of August, with the result that both sides could not fight, the Polish-German forces were unable to drive the invading Russian troops out of the city, and the Russian army could no longer advance forward. Thus the front entered a period of calm on both sides, and although each day the two sides greeted each other with artillery, in the last week of August there was no further military action on either side.

Of course, sporadic firefights still occur from time to time, and gunfire can be heard every hour in Warsaw, but judging by the casualty figures, the month-long bloody battle did come to an end for the time being.

Of course, Iron Ji was not satisfied with this result, and she continued to move heavy artillery to the front line, and there was even intelligence that Iron Ji might use poison gas on the front line.

On Lin Youde's side, the Air Force is still continuing to reserve cloudburst bombs, and there is still a certain gap between the effectiveness of Lin Youde's cloudburst bombs and those used by the U.S. military in the Vietnam War, another time and space, and a large number of them must be dropped to achieve sufficient results.

However, Lin Youde's generals are planning a new offensive that does not require the use of cloudburst shells.

The German high command had the same view as Lin Youde, believing that it was impossible to win the defense of Warsaw by street fighting alone, so it was necessary to launch an armored offensive battle, launch an attack from the plains outside the city, tear open the flank of the Russian army besieging Warsaw with armored forces, advance to the rear, cut the Russian troops into disconnected pieces, and completely destroy the logistics system of the Russian army.

Modern warfare is so dependent on supplies that when the Russian army in the city runs out of ammunition, they have no choice but to surrender.

In addition, while Manstein and Heinz on the front were not interested in the Warsaw encirclement of the High Command, they asked Lin Youde to reinforce the newly formed armored forces to Army Group B, and then it was up to them to launch an offensive towards Ukraine, with the goal of annihilating the Second Ukrainian Front scattered between Lublin and Rzeszow. Manstein believed that the destruction of the Second Front would expose the Russian flanks to danger, which would force the Russian army to abandon the siege of Warsaw.

Theoretically speaking, the German High Command is the supreme leading organ of the war, and the opinions of the High Command should be the mainstay. But both Manstein and Heinz were officers whom Lin Youde was particularly optimistic about, and they were determined to take advantage of Lin Youde's favor to promote their own ideas.

The tearing between the two sides became the most annoying thing for Lin Youde in August 1939.

(The summit ended on the 9th, and the third watch resumed on the 10th)