The German siege of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, had reached the second day. During this period, the Poles in Warsaw suffered unprecedented hardships. The Polish government decided to defend Warsaw at all costs. They repelled the Germans' first few tentative attacks. However, the German team immediately launched a retaliation and began to treat the civilians in Warsaw like soldiers. This practice suddenly increased the death rate of civilians.

At the end of the street, a soldier was talking to his wife and a one-year-old child, because the line of defense the soldier wanted to defend was a few thousand meters north of the conversation site. The originally beautiful brick street has now been dug, and the road is lined with deep trenches dug out to deal with the German army.

Almost all soldiers were looking forward to meeting with their relatives and family members, and expressed concern about the safety of these people. Because so far, the casualties of citizens are greater than those of soldiers, there seems to be no big difference between whether the husband can go home alive from the battlefield and whether other members of the family can survive artillery fire and bombing.

A few minutes ago, a German bomber was destroyed. It crashed into a street in Warsaw with thick smoke, smashing the street into a huge pit. A temporary inspection team composed of citizens and reserve soldiers went to check the scene of the accident and found that all four German pilots on the plane had been killed.

The Poles around them cheered together when they saw the wreckage of the plane because they saw the flesh-and-blooded corpses of German pilots. If someone dies, they will make the people around them cheer excitedly. This is the impact of war on humanity.

The whole of Poland seemed to have been mobilized. Two Polish soldiers and several citizens who were temporarily recruited dug holes in the streets, then removed the railroad tracks on the side, buried the soil in the pit and became an anti-tank barricade. The entire main streets of Poland were protected by this barricade.

In the middle of another wider street, the Poles threw a destroyed and overturned bus there, with stones on both sides forming a natural line of defense. Relying on this simple line of defense, the Poles repelled a German tentative attack, but in the afternoon the German fire of revenge became even more intense.

Dead horses were a very common phenomenon in besieged cities, at least in 1937. These dead horses provided food for hungry Poles and allowed people to survive the most difficult days. Even if the bodies of these dead horses had begun to decay, people would still cut large pieces of meat and eat them to fill their hunger.

A 9-year-old boy named Paevaski hit the scene reflects the civilian experience that made them homeless. Now he sat sadly next to a twisted bed frame, behind him was the ruins of the bombed house. His brother was under the ruins, but this was only the beginning of his suffering. That afternoon, his father was killed on the battlefield, and his mother left him because of eating the rotten meat of a dead horse.

A hospital in the south of Warsaw was hit by one of the five bombs dropped by the German army on the afternoon of that day by a 500-pound aviation bomb. The bomb left a huge bomb crater with a diameter of more than ten meters, at least two meters deep on the side of the house. The hospital was completely scrapped due to the bombing, and more than a dozen patients and a doctor died, and more people were injured.

Another bomb was thrown near a Catholic church not far away, which directly turned the wooden church into pieces and ruins. The wooden boards were tilted to witness the huge power of the explosion. However, because the people here were evacuated in time, the people in the church fled to a safe place before the air strike came.

An American journalist witnessed the scene of Warsaw being besieged by German soldiers. Refugees sat in horse-drawn carriages filled with all their property, searching for a shelter on the road that was relatively safe for them. About 10,000 Polish civilians died in Warsaw siege, most of whom died at home and no one cared for.

The American journalist claimed in the report sent back to the country: "No one knows where to hide. Often, one person runs to a place that he thinks is safe, but finds that it is a place that was abandoned by the previous person who felt unsafe. People with bags and babies are everywhere. They are seriously frightened and desperately seeking a place where shelter can be provided."

The American journalist then died in an air raid. A shrapnel as big as a palm pierced through his lungs and stopped breathing before he was taken to the hospital. A little luckier than him was the baby in the hospital: a shell hit the baby's delivery room, but it miraculously did not explode. Only broken glass and wood chips injured several babies' arms, which made the almost crazy mothers cry excitedly.

Because of hunger, many Poles went to the suburbs to dig potatoes. It was a large farm opened before the war, so many people took the risk to find food, but the danger was that the German troops had already focused on it.

Because people frequently went to this open space, the fighter units that could not find the target began to fly low near the open space. They shot crowds on the ground and wiped out the targets they thought they should be eliminated.

Soon these fighters achieved their results. A FW-190d fighter seized the opportunity and hit more than a dozen Polish civilians in one go. After the plane left, a little boy sat silently next to his mother's body with his bag, desperate and without a single tear. And just a few steps away from the little boy, a little girl was squatting next to his sister's body and crying loudly.

Her sister was another victim of this attack. The 13mm caliber machine gun directly penetrated the shoulder blades and left her body with half of her shoulder. The living little girl squatted down and touched the blood-faced sister with her hands. As soon as she touched the face of the deceased, she was so scared that she shrank back. Then she began to cry out loud and screamed hysterically: "My sister! What did they do to you? God!"

War makes people cold, which refers to the time when treating enemies. Whenever a relative leaves, we will find that the heart that was originally thought to be extremely hard is actually so soft that it is vulnerable.

Just as these people left this world, German head of state Acardo Rudolph was in a trench west of Warsaw, listening to his generals explaining the specific steps of attacking Warsaw. In order to better cooperate with the publicity, Acardo wore a red armband on his arm today with a ten thousand symbol on it - it happened to be a national flag tied to his arm.

"My Head of State," Liszt pointed to the map and said, "We used 203mm caliber cannons seized from Poland and 150mm caliber cannons to attack here, here, here... to drive the Polish defenders to the south of the city."

"Then our sniper team can enter the north of the city, where they cannibalize the counterattacking Polish defenders, and soon they will suffer huge casualties." Another general continued: "Thereafter tanks and armored vehicles will help the infantry consolidate these occupied areas, repeating these tactics until they drive the Poles out of Warsaw."

The Air Force Liaison Officer following Akado also pointed to the map and added: "My Head of State Air Force will dispatch 40 Stuka dive bombers to participate in the attack. We will bomb all areas where there is a threat."

Listening to these offensive plans, Akado had no idea about this tragic scene. He put his face on the scissors periscope placed on the side of the trench, carefully looking at the burning buildings in Warsaw not far away, and did not ask his own questions for a long time.

Even Akado had to admit that war was much crueler than he thought. Those fantasies when he was young, those wishing to command thousands of troops to win, now seem too naive: war does not only bring glory and achievements, it also brings death and destruction.

"I heard that the civil affairs department has a Polish resettlement plan, and most of the Poles will be sent to specific resettlement areas to do specific jobs, right?" After looking for a while, Acardo suddenly asked.

"That's right, head of state." An official in a suit stood behind Akado and replied: "Because according to the "Presiding Personnel Act" and the "Supplementary Regulations of Local Enterprises", these Poles must be moved to Germany in batches to engage in production labor, and can only be transferred to employment after three years."

"Then keep shooting." Akado straightened his body in front of the scissors and looked at General Liszt: "Anyway, this area will be rebuilt in the future. Since I have already taken out a weapon fee, I don't plan to get another demolition fee."

With Akado's instructions, 70 150mm caliber howitzers fired 450 rounds of shells in half an hour. The Polish defenders were forced to give up a whole block before gradually stabilizing their positions. Thousands of civilians were killed in this shelling.

For Akado, when it was almost evening that afternoon, another good news came to his temporary command. The 3rd Armored Division of the SS arrived in Bornico, which was the dividing line that finally agreed with the Soviet Union to divide Poland. Many troops had reached their ultimate goal of moving eastward.
Chapter completed!