"Marshal, Your Excellency, the Germans have attacked," shouted Marshal Rezmigvi's adjutant while slamming on the door of the marshal's bedroom, "this time it's true, they really attacked" With nearly 2 million troops on both sides facing off on the front lines, cross-border reconnaissance and skirmishes are happening almost all the time.
But what happened in the early hours of September 1 was markedly different.
Including Primorsky Army, Poznan Army, Lodz Army, Krakow, Carpathian Army, Modlin Army, Narev Group and Lithuanian Army, which consisted mainly of the defense forces of the Lithuanian Free State, all army headquarters deployed on the German border of the Polish-Polish Federation reported that they were under heavy German shelling "Oh, the whole line is being shelled" Marshal Rezhimigvi, who had just slept two hours earlier, opened the door in his pajamas and listened to the adjutant's report, showing no signs of panic.
"Go and call the President, the Prime Minister, the Secretary of the Navy, the Commander of the Air Force and the Chief of the General Staff to meet at 7 o'clock at the Belvedel Palace."
Then the Supreme Commander of the Polish army began to put on his uniform slowly and methodically under the service of his servants, and it was not that the Polish commander was too slow to be careful, but that this was what he knew about war.
It was 1 million heavily armed Germans attacking 1 million heavily armed Poles in fortifications.
Normally, artillery preparation takes days and nights before the infantry attacks.
So there is still time for breakfast.
And his subordinate, the commander of the Primorsky Army, Major General Emir Krukovishpzemirsky, had just crawled out of the warm bed and sat at the table with the chief of staff, Colonel Colonel Stanisław Grotzky, waiting for the chef to prepare breakfast Polish sausages, sliced scrambled eggs, and potato pancakes and coffee.
"The brothers below won't have much to lose," Major General Pzhetemirsky took a sip of the coffee he had just served.
"No," replied Colonel Grotsky, "most of the brothers at the front were in the fortifications, and the German shelling would not cause many casualties. ” Twenty years have passed since the First World War, and in those 20 years, all the army officers in Europe have been figuring out how to keep their soldiers alive under overwhelming fire.
Only by surviving first can you repel the enemy in the ensuing battle.
"And the Germans did not fire intensively," said Colonel Grotsky, "Colonel Velobay of the 9th Infantry Division, Major General Pzhyakovsky of the 15th Infantry Division, Major General Drapera of the 27th Infantry Division, and Major General Povatuze of the Eastern Tactical Group all called to report the situation, and the total number of German artillery was quite large, and there may be 2,000 to 3,000 of them being fired, but the use was relatively scattered. ” "General, Colonel, your breakfast."
This is a chef in white overalls and a tall hat who puts a carefully prepared breakfast in front of the two of them.
"Thank you," Major General Przetemirsky nodded politely, and then continued to speak to his chief of staff, "the scattered use of artillery is to confuse us and prevent us from the direction of the main attack.
But that's nothing."
"Boom" At that moment, a dull sound like thunder came from afar.
"This is" Major General Przetemirsky and Colonel Grotsky looked at each other, and of course they heard the sound of a bomb explosion "Bombing" An adjutant suddenly barged in and reported loudly, "The Germans' planes are coming, they are bombing the airfield" "Stay in formation, take care to cover each other, and may God bless us."
Werner Moldes was a devout Catholic, so he shouted "God forbid" when he spotted enemy aircraft.
Forty Zero fighters of the 1st Combat Aviation Regiment of the German Navy, covering more than a hundred HE111s, flew near the Polish capital Warsaw.
Their mission was to bomb the airfield of the Warsaw destroyer brigade.
Thus, each HE111E medium bomber has 8 sets of bomb-carrying boxes in the bomb-carrying engine room, which are filled with 50 kg of SC50 bombs, and 1 group of bomb-carrying box racks can be hung with 4 SC50 or 1 SC250250 kg.
Thus, each HE111E that flew to Warsaw carried 32 SC50s, with a total of 1600 kg of bombs.
The entire fleet of 102 HE111Es carried 3,264 SC50s, enough to blow up several airfields owned by the Warsaw Destroyer Brigade into a cratered "lunar surface".
However, in order to accurately drop these 3,264 bombs on the Polish airfields, these HE111E aircraft, which are not very strong and do not have much firepower for self-defense, must be reduced in altitude.
This made them vulnerable to the Polish Z11 and Z7, two Polish fighters with odd shapes, but good maneuverability at medium and low altitudes.
Z7 and Z11 are both products of the late 20s and early 30s, there is no closed cockpit and can retract the landing gear, and the horsepower of the engine is also very poor, but the "sea European wing" and relatively light fuselage still allow this aircraft to fight with Germany's most advanced BF109 at low altitudes, especially when BF109 shoulders the escort mission, because it has to undertake the escort mission, the BF109 can not "leave with one blow", and must fight with the opponent.
In the original history, BF109 suffered a lot of losses for this reason, and suffered certain losses in the early days of the Polish campaign.
But now these Z planes have encountered the Zero fighter with its agility and grappling performance, and it is also the Fokker Zero with the more powerful German BW300 series engines and a one-stage two-speed supercharge.
The air battle over Warsaw soon began, and since Warsaw was located in the heart of Poland, the airfields on the front line had already been bombed by the time the German aircraft group arrived here, so the Warsaw destroyer brigade was already on alert, and 36 Z-series 20 11 and 4 7 had already risen into the air to meet the enemy.
However, the Polish pilots soon discovered that they were in the midst of a nightmare, and the plane they encountered was, in a way, the ultimate version of the Z Series.
Faster, more agile, better at grappling, more firepower, and more numerous The slow Z can't catch up, can't escape, and can't compete with the opponent to spin the corner, and the only thing left is to be beaten and die At this time, Werner Moldes and another Fokker Zero formed a two-plane formation covering each other and bit the ass of a Z11.
"He can't run away," Molders muttered under his breath, his wingman had already fired, firing two strings of fire with the 792 machine gun in the nose and two 20 cannons on the Fokker Zero, but the ballistics of the cannon and the machine gun could not overlap, so only one type of fire could be fired from a certain distance.
Molders also fired randomly.
Four tongues of fire swept through the fuselage of the Z11 like lightning, and some unknown debris flew up, and then the plane seemed to be drunk, rolled in the air a few times and fell headlong.
"The pilot didn't parachute, he must have been killed," came the wingman pilot's excited shout through the headset.
Moldes, however, freed up one hand and made a cross on his chest.
"Oh my God, what kind of plane is this, this is not a BF109" At the time of the air battle, Marshal Rezhimigvi had just finished breakfast, and he was standing on the balcony of his house watching the battle in the sky with a telescope.
The Z aircraft, which Poland was proud of, was not at all a match for the "new fighters" of the Germans, and the air battle lasted only a short time, and there was no longer a shadow of Z in the sky.
Then more than 100 HE111s began to carry out horizontal bombardment at medium and low altitudes, and the only thing that could pose a threat to them was anti-aircraft fire, which seemed to be not dense.
"That's the end of the Warsaw Destroyer Brigade" Marshal Rezhimigvi said in disbelief, muttering to himself, "it seems that we need the help of our British and French friends, we need better aircraft" He turned around, still in an unhurried voice, and said to the adjutant, "Get the car ready, let's go out." ” "Push away the barricades" Panzer Meyer shouted a command, and several soldiers with rifles on their backs got out of the half-track and ran over, pushing away the obstacles blocking the road.
"Forward brethren, let's go fight the Poles," he said, picking up the intercom, giving the order to march. 17 heavy armored vehicles and another 11 half-tracks roared forward at the same time.
About 20 minutes after the end of the first round of shelling, Kurtmeier's company was the first to set foot on Polish soil.
This marked the official beginning of an unprecedented "blitzkrieg".
"Dada" Resistance from the Poles also took place at the same time, and as soon as the convoy rushed into Poland, a machine gun set up on the side of the road opened fire.
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The bullet hit the steel plate of an 8-wheeled heavy armored vehicle and had no effect.
But the Germans, who had been struck suddenly, stopped their advance.
The 18 machine guns of the 20 wheeled armored vehicles all adjusted the direction of the muzzles slightly, and then there was a fierce bombardment, and the machine guns in the woods quickly fell silent.
"Now move on, don't get entangled with the Poles in the woods, we have more important things," Panzer Meyer realized that the other side did not have anti-tank guns that could threaten the armored vehicles, they should be the Polish border garrisons who had survived the shelling just now, and their task was only to delay the enemy crossing the border with machine guns and mortars.
The convoy started again, rumbling over Polish soil and rushing towards the heart of Poland at an unprecedented rate of advance. t1706231537: