At the end of August 1939, the Wehrmacht did not have an eight-hour working day, and military discipline was very strict, even the son of the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Wehrmacht was not allowed to violate the Juncker officer corps to pay attention to the generations of military service, and the army was full of generals' sons and marshals' grandsons, but they were all equal before military discipline.
After receiving a phone call from his superior, Major Werner Morders, commander of the 1st Combat Aviation Regiment of the Navy, Rudolf von Heinsberg Hersmann immediately said goodbye to his father and mother without saying a word, and rode his bicycle to report to the airfield where the 1st Combat Aviation Regiment was stationed.
He will be there as a midshipman officer, a graduate of the Cadet Military Academy and the Air Force Non-commissioned Officer School, and after completing the supplementary training, he will receive the rank of second lieutenant and a supplementary pilot, and he will also be ready to fly the Zero fighter into the air to meet the enemy at any time, and if the battle on the front line does not go well and the combat aviation regiment suffers heavy losses, he will go to battle.
"Honey, I'm going too," Hersman said to his wife beside him, looking at his son's back as he rode away, until he disappeared at the end of the horizon.
"There's an important meeting in the evening, maybe an all-nighter, and I'm not coming back."
He could not return home for the time being, because he was the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, and all the armies that invaded Poland were under his command.
He will not return to Tsosen until the end of the Polish campaign.
However, the invasion of Poland was a military secret and could not be told to Chloe.
"You're going too" Chloe bit her lip lightly, she already understood, "I know dear, you can rest assured, I'll take care of the house, no matter what happens" Hersmann watched his wife's history of world wars being defeated, men either dying in battle or going to prisoner of war camps, and the burden of German revival falling on women like Chloe.
"This time we're going to win," Hersman says with great certainty.
At least it won't be defeated, because the phenomenon of nuclear fission has not yet been announced, and Hitler has signed an order to allocate up to 10 billion marks for uranium projects, which is a top-secret project and will not be discussed in the Reichstag "We will win," Chloe nodded, "dear, I await your good news. ” Half an hour later, Senior General Hersman reappeared in the General Staff.
Field Marshal Schleicher, Minister of Defense, and Senior General Hameststein, Chief of the General Staff, had arrived, and they were waiting for Hersmann in War Room No. 1, standing in front of a huge sand table showing the overall situation.
Hersman's deputy, General Infantry General Halder, the 1st Operations Officer, was also there, and he would take over as Deputy Chief of the General Staff after Hersman became commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front.
"Your Excellency the Marshal, Your Excellency the General," Hesman saluted the two of them, "General Hesman awaits your orders" "All right," Marshal Schleicher glanced at Hamstein, "come on." ” Hamestein nodded, and pulled out the order he and Schleicher had signed together.
"General Hersmann, in view of the current situation on the Eastern Front and the aggressive intentions of the Polish Federation, the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff have decided to establish a wartime Eastern Front General Command, and you will be the commander-in-chief of the wartime Eastern Front."
All the armies participating in the Eastern Front's operations against Poland, including Army Group South, Army Group North, Army Group Baltic, the Air Force Command of the Eastern Front, and the Baltic Fleet of the Navy, were under the control of the General Command of the Eastern Front led by Hersman.
"Thank you for your trust, I won't let you down."
Hersman took the order and saluted again.
The General Command of the Eastern Front was secretly established in Stettin-on-Oder as early as the beginning of August, and is currently headed by the Chief of Staff of the Eastern Front, Lieutenant General Manstein, and the Chief of Operations, Colonel Moder.
Communication with army groups, army groups, the Eastern Front Air Force Command and the Baltic Fleet has been established.
Just wait for Hersman to take over all the command of the Eastern Front All the 50 active divisions deployed on the Eastern Front have been deployed in the Eastern Front because of the addition of the Baltic Army Group, so the number of troops invested has also increased by 8 divisions, including 30 infantry divisions, 3 mountain divisions, 7 armored divisions, 4 light armored divisions, 6 motorized infantry divisions, and 1 semi-mechanized cavalry brigade, all of which have been mobilized in the name of military exercises.
In addition, there were a large number of reserve troops, including 16 newly mobilized divisions and 2 Waffen-SS divisions, which were also ready to be deployed.
At the same time, the headquarters of the Western Front, commanded by Field Marshal Blomburg, was established in Cologne.
Commanding 26 active infantry divisions and more than a dozen fortress garrisons, the Siegfried Line waited for the French army to come to their deaths, unless the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg were willing to break their neutrality immediately after the outbreak of war, or if France and Britain were prepared to invade them, the Western Front was very safe.
Because a large section of the Franco-German border is bordered by the Rhine River, and the German side is the famous "Black Forest region", it is not suitable for large armies to enter and exit.
What was really convenient for the French attack, that is, the German army needed to be heavily defended, was the section from the Luxembourg border to Karlsluser on the Rhine, which was less than 150 kilometers.
And it was the strongest stretch of the entire Siegfried Line.
If the French really want to attack, I am afraid that the number of casualties will be too many to bear Therefore, a sit-down battle on the Western Front is almost inevitable.
"Comrade Captain, do you know how to command a tank brigade to fight" In a huge barracks near Minsk, the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Republic, Pavlov, who was about to take on the heavy task in a few days, commanded 8 tank brigades and 3 cavalry divisions to form a flag mechanized cavalry group to raid white Poland, looked at a young captain in front of him, and asked with some worry.
This captain was the commander of the 8th separate tank brigade, Mikhail Yefimovich Popov A lieutenant actually became the commander of an independent tank brigade that should have been a colonel, and this kind of thing probably only happened in the Soviet Red Army, and the commanders of the armored brigades on the German side were all in their forties, and they had been in the army for twenty or thirty years, including major generals in junior military schools But in the Soviet Union, there were many people like this "little child" captain with a baby face who looked like he was 24 or 5 years old at most 24 or 5 years old, and he was a brigade commander and a regiment commander.
Because most of the officers above the rank of major in the Soviet Red Army have either been shot or are undergoing labor reform.
In many divisions and brigades, the highest officer in the military academy is a captain.
Of the 8 brigade commanders and 3 division commanders under Pavlov, 5 were lieutenants, 5 were majors, and only one was a colonel.
"Report to Comrade Commander, I will definitely earnestly study how to be a brigade commander."
Captain Popov replied loudly.
A graduate of the Frunze Military Academy, he was a lieutenant and deputy commander of a tank company in June 1937, before the Great Purge swept through the Red Army.
Serving in the First Mechanized Army, which was established in 1932, the official movement can only be said to be ordinary.
After all, he was just an ordinary officer with no background.
His father was an illiterate fitter and his mother was a housewife, both living in the Lenin Revolution.
Although it was the cradle of the revolution, Popov's father and mother were honest people, and they did not dare to lead strikes or join revolutionary organizations.
In a place like the Frunze Military Academy, where the successors of the revolution gathered, Popov could only be regarded as the most inconspicuous character.
And his personality is a bit wooden, his academic performance is not very good, he always gives people a stupid feeling, and his interest in participating in political activities is not very high.
This is such a person, mixed up to lieutenant company and deputy, and also joined the Bolshevik Party, the size is a cadre, in fact, he is already satisfied.
But what stunned him began in the second half of 1937, when the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was full of enemies, and there were followers of Her Majesty Empress Olga everywhere Marshal Tukhachevsky was the empress's man, the commander of the Belarusian Special Military District, General Belov, was also the empress's man, and then the commander of the 1st Mechanized Army, where Popov belonged, was a hero who made great achievements in the civil war, and the idol of the entire mechanized army was actually a loyal servant of His Majesty Olga Nikolaevna Then a counter-revolutionary group plotting to restore Tsarist Russia was unearthed, and the brigade commanders, regiment commanders, battalion commanders, and chiefs of staff of the 1st Mechanized Army were all found to be the Empress's men.
During that time, when they were taken away from the army station by the "blue hat" internal affairs personnel, people were really panicked, and even Comrade Popov, a small deputy company commander, was worried all day long, for fear that he was also a member of Her Majesty the Empress.
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Fortunately, the terrible days finally came to an end at the end of 1938.
Then the 1st Mechanized Corps was disbanded.
Captain Popov, who was promoted to the first rank in 1938, and several other lieutenants suddenly discovered that they were the highest-ranking officers in the entire tank brigade So the captains who never died in the catastrophe ushered in their own blessings one by one.
Captain Popov became a tank brigade commander who worried Pavlov very much Pavlov sighed softly, he could only be used by a major or a lieutenant now.
He said: "Comrade Popov, your willingness to learn is very good, it is very good, but now you are likely to study in the war, just like we did back then."
As he spoke, he took out a red envelope, handed it to Captain Popov, and said: "Open it on time at 12 noon on September 2, this is an order, not in advance" Needless to say, inside the envelope, naturally, the commanders of the 8 tank brigades and 3 cavalry divisions to which the Red Banner mechanized cavalry group belonged, the order to attack, would have received the same envelope from Pavlov today. t1706231537: