Imperial Elite

Chapter 158 Poland on the Verge of Collapse
Faced with this situation, Joe had a lot to say, and it was full of praise for London.

But in the end, all Old Joe could do was raise his glass and say, "To the fact that it's 9:12 p.m.! Cheers!"

As it turns out, although Old Joe was a seasoned alcohol connoisseur, drinking with the Lucias was indeed a matter of luck, requiring no skill whatsoever.

Fortunately, although most Lusians treat alcohol like their father, those who have risen to the rank of commander of the Guards Armored Regiment are not so fond of drinking.

The party ended after everyone was three-quarters drunk.

The next day, Joe led the allied forces north, while the Lucia armored regiment began to advance east.

With the two sides meeting at the Vistula River, one-third of Poland's mobile forces were now surrounded in the area east of Krakow. NATO and SUPP forces are now further dividing, encircling, and preparing to annihilate these forces.

However, Old Joe had no intention of getting involved in this boring annihilation war.

Just as the Western Front, which was the main force of the People's Revolutionary Union, did not begin to encircle and annihilate the surrounded Polish-German troops like the other fronts.

At this time, the Western Front troops, like those of George, were advancing towards Warsaw, the capital of Poland.

As a transportation hub in the East, controlling Warsaw would allow Bohemia to maintain land transportation links with other NATO countries and improve Bohemia's precarious situation of being an isolated island.

At the same time, this large city can also serve as the core and hub of the defense line, which is the target that Qiao and the People's Revolutionary Alliance must capture in order to build this defense line.

So when Joe was advancing north along the Vistula River, preparing to march on Warsaw and join forces with the Western Front of the People's Revolutionary Union.

The Teutons have gone mad too.

The battle lines changed too quickly, and Poland collapsed faster than Teutonic had anticipated in its worst-case scenario.

So although the Teutonic High Command has not yet made a tactical decision for the next phase, now is no longer the time to make decisions slowly!

The armored forces must help Poland, otherwise the People's Revolutionary Union might even storm its homeland.

Or to put it another way, the People's Revolutionary League had in fact already stormed into the Teutonic territory.

Having lost Upper Silesia, the Teutons now dream of taking it back, and then Danzig.

Therefore, when the Teutons were moving their troops to the eastern front, they formed the Northern Army Group.

In the Teutonic plan, the Northern Army Group would concentrate the Teutonic troops most skilled in urban warfare and breaking through defenses.

While other army groups were racing along the eastern front, this unit was tasked with capturing Upper Silesia and then breaking through NATO's defenses.

No one knows how difficult Upper Silesia is to beat, but everyone knows how tough Joe is to deal with.

Even if Joe himself was still in Bohemia, the defenses he personally designed and oversaw were no joke.

Therefore, it is necessary to select troops that are particularly capable of fighting tough battles to go north and have a showdown with Old Joe.

Before these troops even saw NATO's defensive lines or the buildings in Upper Silesia, the troops of the People's Revolutionary Union's Upper Silesia Army Group directly captured Danzig. Then, the unprepared Northern Army Group, under the orders of the Germania, launched a counter-offensive to retake Danzig, this bridgehead.

Then, the Teutonic Army Group North discovered that the troops of this People's Revolutionary League were somewhat different from the troops they had dealt with in the past.

Simply put, these people's morale was a bit too high, and their equipment was a bit too good.

As the industrial core of the People's Revolutionary Alliance and its bridgehead deep in the Old World.

The People's Revolutionary Alliance has spared no effort in developing Upper Silesia. Whether in economic or military development, Upper Silesia is the most prominent star in the entire alliance.

Even when the Teutons across from Danzig were in economic crisis, these Eastern Teutons in Upper Silesia were able to have a fish or a chicken on their table every day.

For example, meat consumption only includes regular meats like beef, mutton, and pork; poultry and rabbits are completely excluded from the statistics.

Meanwhile, as the industrial heart of the entire league, Upper Silesia has an unemployment rate of almost zero. As long as you have hands and feet and are willing to work, the league not only provides jobs but also housing.

As a benchmark for the entire league, Upper Silesia workers also have a month of paid vacation each year, which allows them to go on holiday to any city in the league.

This kind of treatment was not only unique in the People's Revolutionary League, but even after the National Socialist Party came to power and began to reorganize the economy, many places in Saitoton could not match this treatment.

During the two past economic crises, many Teutonics and some Caucasians came to Upper Silesia, only to find that they were too late!
Such favorable treatment has made Upper Silesia one of the most enthusiastic regions to join the league.

During low-intensity warfare rotation training, troops from Upper Silesia are well-equipped, and almost all of the Alliance's new equipment is mass-produced in Upper Silesia before being distributed to factories in other parts of the Alliance.

Therefore, these troops are usually assigned to the most dangerous areas and to carry out the most dangerous missions.

This allowed the troops in Upper Silesia to accumulate a lot of experience and become the military region with the most Guardian-titled troops and Alliance Heroes among all the military regions of the Human Revolutionary Alliance.

Unprepared, Army Group Teutonic North ran headlong into the Upper Silesia Front of the People's Revolutionary Union after the brief standoff ended, and they quickly realized they had run into a brick wall.

Just like the unfortunate situation they encountered during the Gallic Wars, their large number of Panzer IV tanks were still slightly inferior to the armored forces of the People's Revolutionary Union.

The Upper Silesia Front, apart from having slightly better tanks than the Teutonic tanks, also had slightly better troop quality.

Basically, these Teutons who originally intended to challenge Old Joe, after dealing with these East Teutons, all said that although the East Teutons did not have the same variety of tactics as NATO forces, they were almost as difficult to deal with as NATO forces due to their armored forces.

Even after the two sides clashed, the vanguard of the Upper Silesia Front once pushed the front line all the way to the Teutonic homeland.

Of course, after the Gallic Wars, the Teutons captured a number of heavy Gallic tanks.

Due to the poor mobility of these heavy tanks, they were almost a disaster for armored forces in the field, but their thick armor and powerful guns were perfect for urban warfare and breaking through defenses.

Therefore, the Teutons incorporated all the captured Gallic heavy tanks into Army Group North, intending to use these very tanks that had caused them so much suffering on the Western Front to give the Revolutionary Union and Old Joe a taste of their own medicine.

While these tanks did not destroy Upper Silesia or NATO cities as expected, they successfully stabilized the front line at the border. With the sudden outbreak of the Eastern Front campaign, the Teutonic Air Force, which had just begun the Battle of Buntania, had to suspend fighting and then move eastward.

Although the air force of the People's Revolutionary League lacked strategic bombing capabilities, its tactical bombing capabilities, honed in low-intensity warfare, gave the Teutonic forces a severe beating.

The dive bombers, originally intended by the Red Knights to suppress the Human Reform Alliance's armored forces, will now be attacked by both low-altitude fighters and ground-based anti-aircraft fire during ground strikes.

In short, after the initial engagement, both the National Defense Force and the Armed Guard were desperately calling for air support.

Under these circumstances, the air campaign to destroy the Bonitania Air Force was clearly no longer feasible.

The Teutonic Air Force began a large-scale transfer to the eastern front.

While the Teutonic Air Force began a large-scale transfer to the Eastern Front, in order to support the Polish-German war effort.

The Teutons and their brethren also launched the Second Sudetenland Campaign, attacking the Sudetenland region.

With the Teutons and their brethren launching their attack, and encouraged by the fact that the northern roads had been opened and they were no longer fighting alone, the Bohemian defenders became even more determined in their defense.

Even in the Morawa Gorge, the weakest point of the entire defensive line, the Bohemian defenders displayed formidable fighting power.

Then these Bohemian garrison soldiers discovered something small: the fighting strength of their Teutonic brothers was slightly weaker than that of the Teutons.

If it weren't for the fact that the battle lines were too long and the troops were completely insufficient, many front-line commanders in Bohemia would have even wanted to simply cross the defenses and bring the war to those bastards' homeland.

Meanwhile, with the complete collapse of the Polish-German forces, the Teutons could only try to rebuild their front while hoping that the Lucia military government would also cause some trouble in the east, thus drawing the attention of the People's Revolutionary Union.

Because the speed of Poland's collapse far exceeded Old Joe's wildest imagination, in the second week after the operation began, with the support of the People's Revolutionary Union's air force, Old Joe had already arrived at the gates of Warsaw.

Although they had arrived at the gates of Warsaw, the city was not so easy to enter.

While Old Joe charged forward, the Teutons also mobilized their troops to begin reorganizing their battle lines.

Like Old Joe and the Teutonics, the Teutons also believed that Warsaw, as the transportation hub and largest city on the eastern front, was something they had to defend.

Thus, the Teutons not only gathered a considerable number of defeated Polish-German troops around Warsaw, but they also amassed a large force there, preparing for a defense of Warsaw.

Although they had charged all the way to the outskirts of Warsaw, Old Joe and the People's Revolutionary Army were not in good condition.

After all, the troops inevitably suffered some losses during the previous charge.

Meanwhile, as the Teutonic Air Force was redeployed to the Eastern Front, the Teutons gradually began to gain air superiority on the Eastern Front.

Old Joe, Constantine, and even Charles, who was traveling south from the north and exchanging views with the main Polish-German forces, all knew that they only had this one chance to capture Warsaw. If they failed this time, they didn't know when they would be able to advance to Warsaw again.

Meanwhile, Erich was also looking at the map and scratching his head.

Faced with the situation before him, Erich felt that it was very familiar.

However, the last time he encountered this situation, he was on the offensive, but now he has to find a way to defend Warsaw.

If they can hold Warsaw, then by readjusting their lines, they still have a chance to flatten the two huge salients of Upper Silesia and Bohemia.

Then, they can proceed with the original plan to deal with the People's Revolutionary Alliance in conjunction with the Lucia military government.

If we can't hold on, then things will get really bad.

This would turn what was originally planned as a quick war into a protracted stalemate, a war that every Teutonic soldier has a bad memory of.

So even without the president's emphasis, Erich knew he had to win this battle.

In order to win this battle, the president has brought out all his resources.

In addition to the armored forces already deployed to the Dark Continent and the Caucasus region, elite units from both the Wehrmacht and the Armored Guard have been moved toward Warsaw, while the Air Force has also concentrated its ace and elite air squadrons nearby.

In this battle, they not only had to defend Warsaw, but also launch a counter-offensive to completely crush the NATO and NATO forces' offensive.

Just as tensions were rising on the eastern front and a major battle was about to break out.

In Paris, André also stirred up some trouble.

The incident wasn't too serious; it was just a surprise attack launched by the resistance during a meeting of the Paris Guard, resulting in the annihilation of the Paris Guard's high command.

Then, when the garrison arrived to provide support, they took the opportunity to ambush the garrison and wiped out a Teutonic mechanized infantry company.

The loss of a mechanized infantry company was not a big deal on the Eastern Front. In fact, before the Teutonic surrender, both sides were losing more than a company of troops every day on the front lines.

The problem is that Andrei, that scoundrel, dressed his troops in black robes he had gotten from the opera house when he launched the attack.

Then André, who had seen "Gates of Hell: Paris", decided that since he had nothing better to do, he might as well scare these Teutons.

The guerrillas and resistance groups that launched the attack decorated themselves slightly with the bones that could be found everywhere on the streets, such as making skull masks or hanging a few skulls and bones on their robes.

At night, a group of men dressed in black robes, with skull faces under their hoods and adorned with bone decorations, marched through the streets of Paris and launched an attack on the Teutons.

This left the guards and garrison members who were attacked in a state of mental turmoil after the attack ended.

After all, as a group of young people, they had also seen "Hell's Gate: Paris".

(End of this chapter)