Indeed, compared to the GRU, the Poles outside the encirclement are like wretched creatures who have been surrounded and suffered. While the GRU had enough wine and meat and ammunition to supply, the Poles outside the encirclement had to cut back on food and clothing.

The reason is very simple, Pilsudski was outnumbered, but his logistical supply system was completely unprepared to cover the combat expenses of seven divisions. It must also be noted that the previous siege of Vovomin by the 11th Division, the 12th Division and the 202nd Mixed Brigade consumed a considerable part of the resources.

At that time, Pilsudski naively thought that he could open the way with artillery shells and destroy the enemy in one go. But after a considerable amount of attrition, he realized that the enemy had not been destroyed, but that it was his arsenal that had been destroyed.

It seems that he has seven divisions, and he is extremely powerful, but in reality his troops are very tight. For example, ammunition, except for the 10th, 11th, and 12th half-descendant divisions that were originally garrisoned in Warsaw, they could basically get reliable ammunition replenishment, and the rest of the Qinwang troops from other places could only be replenished intermittently.

Therefore, the Polish offensive was always difficult to continue, and after fighting for a while, they had to "rest" for half a day, and it was easy to wait for the ammunition to be replenished before they could return to the offensive, and the offensive had just picked up a little, and the ammunition bottomed out again, and they had to stop and be a hand-out party again.

It is conceivable that such an offensive is difficult to bargain in front of the GRU, which has superior firepower, and with the support of Li Xiaofeng, the GRU can open fire and fire recklessly, and can use anti-aircraft guns to fight mosquitoes to clean up the Poles.

After two days and one night of the "onslaught", Pilsudski's seven divisions were still circling the outskirts of Vovomin. Not only did he fail to take Wovomin in one go, but his face was covered in blood in front of this roadblock.

"The 11th Division was forced to stop the offensive. Withdraw from positions to rest. They were killed and wounded by concentrated fire from enemy artillery. Heavy losses...... The situation with the 12th Division was not so good either. The main 121st regiment was counter-surrounded by the enemy and was in desperate need of rescue...... The 27th Division and the 202nd Mixed Brigade also failed to move forward, they complained......"

Pilsudski slapped the table and said angrily: "I don't want to listen to their complaints, I just need to destroy the enemy of Vovomin, three divisions and a brigade can't take less than 10,000 enemies, do they still have the face to complain?" ”

"Your Excellency, the shortage of ammunition is indeed a big problem. Without bullets and shells, we can't fight the enemy with our bare hands, right? ”

Listening to the words of the chief of staff, Pilsudski sighed, before he only thought about expanding the army, and did not pay much attention to the problem of logistics, he always felt that the problem of logistics should be a problem that the godfather of the Entente should consider. And now, he has to think about it.

Pilsudski's chosen response was to draw bread to satisfy his hunger: "Our allies have given assurances that aid will arrive soon. Soon there will be arms, bread and butter, and all we need to do is fight this battle hard. The more beautiful we play, the more aid we will have! Who played well. Who will be given priority to get replenishment! ”

It sounds, but it's actually. So the change that Pilsudski had hoped for did not happen, and after another night of fierce fighting, he found that the situation was exactly the same as it had been two days earlier, if not worse. Because in these two short days, Vovomin engulfed him like a monster with more than five thousand soldiers!

"Five thousand, how can you tell me how can you lose five thousand soldiers in two days? Are our soldiers stupidly ramming into the muzzles of the enemy's guns? ”

On the night of June 25, on the outskirts of Vovomin, Pilsudski summoned his division commanders for a military meeting, which was actually very reluctant, because Pilsudski was the only one who spoke from beginning to end...... Uh, swearing.

Pilsudski was very dissatisfied with the expressions of the division commanders and the soldiers, and he demanded that the troops immediately change the status quo and immediately take down the Vovomin in front of them!

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After the meeting, he said to his good friend, the commander of the 10th Division, Senas, who was about to go on the offensive according to Pilsudski: "My old fellow, remember my advice, forget every word that Pilsudski told you, and don't throw your troops into that bottomless pit, Wovomin is a meat grinder, no matter how many troops we invest, they will be crushed!" The best thing to do is to return to Warsaw immediately! ”

Unfortunately, Senas did not listen to his old friend's advice at that time, and he threw two regiments (the 10th Infantry Regiment and the 11th Infantry Regiment) into the battlefield in full compliance with Pilsudski's request.

And this also led to the beginning of a new round of bloodshed and sacrifice in the Polish Wehrmacht!

The commander of the 10th Infantry Regiment, Luksa, led his three battalions into battle first, and they were to first capture the Le?niczówka heights between Vovomin and Kobeuka. This highland is located exactly in the bee belt between Vovomin and Kobeuka. If the heights are captured, they will be able to overlook Vovomin and Kobeuka, and cut the enemy into two sections as the main force.

After the war, the regimental commander recalled in the prisoner-of-war camp: "The battle was started in the early hours of the morning, and the division commander and I thought that we could take the Jews by surprise. My regiment will be responsible for attacking the Le?niczówka heights from the front, and the 11th regiment will be responsible for flanking feins and covering us. ”

"According to pre-war reconnaissance intelligence, there was about only one reinforced company of Jews stationed on the heights of Le?niczówka. It seems to me that with two regiments, plus direct fire support from the divisional artillery, it is not a problem at all to take this hill pack! ”

According to the offensive deployment of Luxa, the 1st Battalion was responsible for the main attack, the 2nd Battalion was responsible for seizing the forward positions under the Le?niczówka Heights, and the 3rd Battalion was responsible for covering. However, as soon as his second battalion launched an attack, it suffered a small setback, and when the divisional artillery regiment turned the Le?niczówka heights into a sea of fire, the second battalion quickly jumped out of the trenches and rushed to the foot of the Le?niczówka highlands.

Even more spectacular, however, was the GRU's counter-fire, which began to fire the advancing 2nd Battalion almost as soon as the 10th Division began shelling the Le?niczówka heights.

The 1st battalion of separate rocket artillery was responsible for supporting the fighting in this direction. Only one company of launchers (6 rocket launchers) was used. Completely cover the enemy with 96 anti-personnel bombs in one go. Under the greeting of steel balls and shrapnel, nearly one-third of the men and horses of the second battalion, which had just broken out of the trenches, fell to the front of the position.

"It was a nightmare," Luksa recalled, "as soon as the 2nd Battalion broke out of the trench less than 100 meters before enemy shells fell...... No, this description is not very accurate, it is accurate to say that the enemy's shells exploded above the heads of our soldiers, and after each explosion, hundreds of steel balls were spilled...... In the open field. The 2nd Battalion could not find any shelter...... I could only watch the soldiers die! ”

After a burst of artillery fire, the commander of the second battalion, Pandev, stabilized his troops under extremely difficult circumstances and resumed the charge, and the brave battalion commander probably thought that if he retreated, the more than 100 brothers would die in vain.

"Forward, keep going!" Brandishing his pistol, Pandev instantly killed the two soldiers who took the lead in escaping, "Don't retreat, you won't be killed!" ”

After a commotion, several more deserted soldiers were killed. Pandev's resoluteness allowed the 2nd Battalion to survive. They began to move on, even if slowly. But at the time, it was very rare.

"Pandev's appearance is good, like a soldier!"

Luksa also praised it at the time, but he could never have imagined that Pandev and his second battalion had made a wrong choice, and it might have been more correct to choose to retreat at that time.

Pandev's 2nd Battalion approached the foot of the Lešniczówka Heights, his remnants as far as they could, and the shelling had terrified them. However, they were more pleased that the enemy's fierce fire coverage did not last, and it always took a considerable amount of time to recover after each rain of bullets.

Indeed, the biggest disadvantage of rocket artillery is that it is too slow to reload, it takes 10 to 15 minutes for a skilled hand to complete a reload, and if the situation on the battlefield is worse, it can take longer.

The Poles, taking advantage of the time for the 1st Battalion of Independent Rocket Artillery, leaped forward with their might until they reached the foot of the hill, and just as they were about to breathe a sigh of relief, a rain of bullets told them that the second wave of slaughter had begun!

Machine guns, assault rifles, and grenades beckoned, and the soldiers of the second battalion were thrown to the ground in pieces, and even if Pandev fired again, it could not prevent his troops from collapsing. In the midst of the chaos, a grenade fell next to the battalion commander, and with a loud bang, he fell.

Note that at this time Pandev is not dead, he is nothing more than a leg and a hand that have been blown off. He fainted and escaped, and was not sent directly to Hades like the other soldiers. But he couldn't be saved, the GRU wouldn't save him, and the Poles couldn't save him if they wanted to. For the next day and night, the tenacious battalion commander collapsed in that crater, witnessing his comrades being slaughtered again and again until the last drop of blood was shed......

"The Poles chose the direction of their main attack on the Le?niczówka heights. I have to say, they still have a bit of vision! ”

When Triandafilov received the news that the Le?niczówka heights were under heavy siege by enemy troops, he even exclaimed. I don't know, I think this person is heartless.

Why is Terry Andafilov so relaxed? The reason is simple, the Poles can see the importance of the Le?niczówka heights, and he naturally sees it too. So before the battle broke out, he personally supervised the construction of defensive positions on the Lešniczówka heights.

From his later recollections, Triandafinov was very pleased with Lemanikzówka's position: "The three layers of barbed wire, the dense cobweb-like trenches and communication trenches were completely devoid of dead ends...... Of course, these are nothing, and with the tireless efforts of the trenchers and the soldiers, any qualified officer can build the same fortifications! ”

"What really pleased me was that this small hill did not only have surface positions, but also had strong anti-artillery holes dug into the anti-slope of the hill, which was fully capable of withstanding the bombardment of howitzers of the lower 150 mm class...... As for the front of the hill, with the help of Comrade Andrei, a solid fire support point was also built using prefabricated panels and logs...... Let's put it this way. The Le?niczówka Heights are impregnable! ”

Triandafilov's assertion is not problematic at all. No matter how the enemy 10th Infantry Division attacked. The high ground remained in the hands of the GRU, and even though the small hill was completely cut off from the main forces, the Poles were unable to occupy it.

"Heavy losses, no matter how heavy losses!" Pilsudski reprimanded Senas over the field phone: "I don't want to listen to the casualty report, I just want the Le?niczówka heights!" After saying that, the president dropped the phone directly.

Only then did Senas remember the warning of his old friend Rodwick, and sure enough, he was right. The defensive positions of the "Jews" were impeccable. And the firepower is quite fierce. He had seen the frenzied group of Jewish artillerymen fire more than 30 shells in a row in order to kill a Polish soldier, until the last mortar shell landed accurately in the crater, blowing the unfortunate misfortune to pieces.

Anyway, this scene was quite shocking to him, this kind of reckless and reckless style of play is simply nonsense, and no normal commander or quartermaster would allow this practice. Anyway, if Senas's artillery dared to do this, he would immediately use his machine gun to surprise them.

However, the effect of this style of play was also quite good, because it greatly shocked the Polish soldiers. When the enemy in front of you is crazy enough, hysterical enough, you have to think about it. Will going on the offensive lead to good results? In order to kill a poor worm, they did not hesitate to fire 30 shells. In order to kill a platoon, a company, they will probably be happy to fire 300 or even 3,000 shells.

So, can there be a way to survive under this crazy shelling?

Anyway, most of the Polish soldiers came to the same conclusion - we were fighting a bunch of crazy people who were completely unreasonable and unruly, so if you wanted to save your life, then don't fight them.

As a result, the Polish soldiers, who had learned the "Jews" to play unreasonable and unreasonable at all costs, became timid, and they resisted the attack and even more resisted the charge, and when they heard the whistling of the falling shells, they fled faster than rabbits. Obviously, such a unit would not be able to fulfill the combat mission assigned by its superiors.

"We strongly demand to check the integrity of the encirclement!" The Polish division commanders, who had been abused by the superior firepower of the GRU for three days, finally could not bear it anymore.

At first, they all thought that this crazy style of play would not last, and that the "Jews" would soon run out of ammunition, and that they would just need to come forward and receive the fruits of victory. Two days passed, but the scene they had hoped for had not come, and their soldiers were about to collapse.

"There is definitely a gap in the encirclement! Otherwise, how can the enemy's ammunition be replenished? Senas was extremely angry and began to blame the 34th Division and the 202nd Mixed Brigade, accusing the two units responsible for locking the encirclement for not completing their tasks, and the situation of the battle was rotten.

"Nonsense!"

The 34th Division and the 202nd Mixed Brigade naturally don't want to carry this black cauldron, the conscience of heaven and earth, under their blockade, let alone people, even a dog doesn't want to run into the encirclement. So they take it for granted that this is the attacking force to slander them in order to shirk their responsibility.

"Since the beginning of the war, not a single soldier outside the encirclement has been able to enter! I think it's your offense that is unfavorable, and you want to shirk responsibility! The commander of the 34th Division, Zelmikas, sneered in a strange way.

"Then you tell me, where did the enemy's shells and bullets come from, and did they fly in?" Senaston was the case. If it weren't for Pilsudski's presence, he would have torn Zelmikas alive.

Seeing that the two division commanders were about to fight in real people, Pilsudski had to play a round, although he was very dissatisfied with the efficiency of the attacking troops, but he also knew that Senas was not lying, and the enemy's firepower was too strange and bewitching. In fact, he had been wondering, "Where did the Jews of Dog Day get so much ammunition?" ”

For this reason, he specifically asked his godfather for help and asked him to find a way to help him figure out this problem. It was at the time of the quarrel between Senas and Zelmicas that reconnaissance planes sent by the British Royal Air Force were constantly circling over Vovomin.

Charlie, an experienced British pilot, carefully examined the situation on the ground, and he had been flying in the area for more than two hours, but had not noticed anything unusual at all. As Zelmikas said, the encirclement was so tight that there was hardly a gap in sight.

"It cannot be ruled out that the 'Jews' are smuggling arms under the cover of night!" This is Charlie's final report.

"Tell me, how do we prevent the enemy from infiltrating our defenses at night to smuggle arms and supplies?" Pilsudski asked the question.

In fact, he himself felt that this question was a bit nonsense, it was not impossible to infiltrate through the encirclement at night, but the problem was that it was impossible to use it to transport arms and supplies on a large scale. His troops were not blind, how could they allow large forces of the enemy to come and go without reacting?

Pilsudski agreed with the conclusion given by the godfather pilot, first, in order to calm the internal quarrel, and it was cost-effective to temporarily ease the dispute with a conclusion acceptable to everyone, and second, this conclusion was made by the godfather, and he must maintain appropriate respect even if he disdains it.

However, what Pilsudski did not expect was that his division commanders unanimously agreed with this ridiculous conclusion and gave very similar countermeasures.

"I agree," said Senas, "the enemy must have crossed our line of defense at night, and I think it is necessary to strengthen the encirclement and blockade of Vovomin, to completely lock the encirclement and trap the enemy!" ”

Zelmikas said, "My troops did their duty, but there was nothing they could do about the night. Now that the results of the reconnaissance have established this, let's allocate forces to strengthen the blockade! (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to hzwangdd, the fish over the city and Comrade Juventus!