After a while, the communication officer came running again. "The general artillery commander asked us if we needed to shell the Russian army outside Warsaw. He said that the Russian army was withdrawing from the front position!"
"Why not? Even if you send the Russian army away! " Mackensen replied with a serious face, sometimes he doubted his value, but Chen Tian always said to him, "General, you are a person who can stand alone. I think you will win a big cross yourself one day!"
"The Grand Cross!" Mackensen muttered with a little self-mockery, "I can’t even get a blue Max medal for my meritorious military service now!"
Chen Tian won’t forget the history and won the highest military honor of the Second Reich-the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross. There are five mackensen, one of whom is the Eastern Front. He will take part in all the battles on the Eastern Front and command the German-Austrian Coalition forces to sweep Serbia and occupy Poland and Romania.
But now this strange man is still staying outside Warsaw.
The rumbling cannon sounded and exploded, and the fire and smoke covered the Russian positions outside the city. Several isolated forts were also attacked, and the figures running towards the city were faintly shaking in the smoke. Soon the Russian soldiers there were gone.
Mackensen put a telescope to attract communication officer ordered "let the school stop shelling! Order the first division to prepare for the city! "
After the general watched more than 10 thousand German infantry skirmishers marching towards Warsaw, the smoke in the positions outside the city had gradually dispersed, and the huge city was in front of them, with houses and streets as far as the eye could see.
The pointed helmets moved slowly forward, and the Russian positions in the northeast of Warsaw were littered with smoke craters and abandoned equipment, some cannons, some flags with footprints, damaged carriages and military caps, and almost no Russian bodies were seen in the wide positions, which proved that the Russians here were ready to escape.
The gray skirmisher line gradually crossed the field and came to the edge of the city. Houses were silently paved with stones on both sides of the street. There was no mud, but it gave people a feeling of mess. That feeling came from the scattered Russian army’s discarded objects, no cookers, open-mouthed boxes, brown hair and feces of war horses, and bloody bandages. All the things that the Russian army did not want to take away were thrown into the street at will.
The city has long since lost its former hustle and bustle. After the German shelling stopped, all the streets became even quieter, as if the city had been abandoned by people.
The soldiers put their footsteps lightly, trying to cough, trying to talk, trying to be convenient … Find a secluded place alone to solve the problem that everyone can’t bear to disturb the peace here. The soldiers carefully marched along the street in the direction of the city center. They pointed their guns at the windows on both sides of the house as if an enemy would pop out from there in a second. Near the corner, the soldiers moved slowly close to the corner for fear that the street beyond the corner was full of Russian soldiers; The machine gunners crept up to the heights and set up machine guns. When they pulled the bolt, everyone covered their ears and worried that they would wake the enemy who was sleeping in a corner. However, nothing happened, and the city remained calm.
When the buzz came, all the German soldiers almost got a fright.
"Turns out to be our plane! I am still a Russian car! " The soldiers comforted each other and then waved their fists at the plane painted with white iron cross. "Scaring people will scare people to death!"
"General, the reconnaissance plane has come to report that the Russian military guards have withdrawn from Warsaw, and our soldiers can safely occupy that city!" Mackensen still looked calm when the communication officer brought the newspaper.
"Know to the legion headquarters! In addition, the 2 nd Division was ordered to enter the city as soon as possible to control the city. People who did not get the order were not allowed to enter Polish houses, and they were not allowed to report the abnormal situation immediately! "
On September 29, 1914, at 5: 00 p.m., the German army officially announced its occupation of Warsaw. General mackensen and his second army were also commended for occupying the city without bloodshed.
Chapter 39 Comma on the Eastern Line
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Chapter 39 Comma on the Eastern Line
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Chapter 39 Comma on the Eastern Line
There are several antennas in the carriage, and the special armored vehicle, which is about the size of an ordinary truck but covered with thick steel plates, slowly turns the road. It stops in a small place, and several other tanks and armored vehicles have stopped around it, which soon forms an annular protection circle. Soldiers in gray uniforms have jumped out of the car and set up temporary tents next to the armored vehicle. Many instruments have also been moved to armored vehicles. This area has soon become a temporary headquarters. Tanks and armored vehicles are manipulating various weapons and looking around warily. Many soldiers carrying rifles have also set up a cordon nearby.
The road is marching eastward, and the soldiers wearing dark blue or gray army will look here with curiosity. When they are an officer wearing a Prussian round military cap with a blue-gray background in Phnom Penh and a red embroidered gold collar, the soldiers wearing gray army suddenly boil when they walk in an armored vehicle.
"that’s the prince. I saw the prince’s palace with my own eyes!" The soldiers suddenly felt more glorious.
The young officer walked slowly into the open tent and sat down in a wide chair. He took off the military hat with the gold logo and gently smoothed the soft gold, then waved to the marching soldiers with a comfortable face.
The staff officers quickly packed the tent into a temporary meeting room. After a few minutes, several armored vehicles slowly came to guard around the tent. The soldiers added some more Olger’s thin face and soon appeared in front of Chentian. The two men chatted a little for a while. A group of cavalry riding black horses appeared in their sight with a cloud of dust.
The foremost cavalry made a passage for Archduke Bai Hu Friedrich to ride to the front of the tent with several generals beaming. Archduke jumped on his horse very nimbly, followed by his chief of staff Conrad & # 226; Feng & # 226; Marshal Hertzendorf, a little old man who looks a little fragile, is followed by several other major Austrian generals with square faces, burly general Dankel’s wicker face and very fine eyes. General Auffenberg and General Woyrsch, the commander of the German reserve army, have been fighting side by side with this Austrian army.
Chen Tian was greeted with a smile "Dagong good news! Russian troops retreated from Warsaw! "
"oh! Is it? I knew those timid Russians would run away! That’s great! I’ll order the troops to advance and occupy Warsaw! " Friedrich was about to turn around when he was stopped by Chen Tian.
"Dagong don’t try so hard! Warsaw will not fly away! Our army’s Mackenzie Corps is gradually taking control of Warsaw. When we arrive there, we need to hold a grand ceremony to enter the city. I have something more important to talk to you about here! " Chen Tian asked the archduke and several of his generals to sit down at the table. "I’m sorry it’s a little humble here. I hope you don’t mind!" "
Friedrich’s spirit is good when he is happy. Naturally, he won’t mind "Is it to discuss the plan to March into Moscow?" Don’t worry about this, I have asked my staff to plan! "
As in Chen, I felt very uncomfortable, but my face still kept a pleasant smile. "Our army is going to return to China after the occupation of Warsaw! In addition to leaving some troops stationed in East Prussia, the main force went to the French front! "
"Is … is it? I have never heard of this plan. Isn’t your regiment going to cooperate with our army? " Dagong asked some doubtfully.
The emperor’s order is to help you defeat the Polish Russian army. Now that we have finished the good thing of dividing up Russian Poland, we will naturally take part in the adventure into Russia. Sorry, I’m really not interested!