"At 12 o'clock, the 1000-meter Poles came up" The hoarse roar of Captain No. 3 Schwartz could be heard in Meier's headphones, and it was clear that the farmer from the Black Forest was terrified.
"Attention units, do not open fire, calm down, put the Poles close to fight, listen to my orders," Panzer Meyer ordered loudly.
With a few bangs, several mortar shells landed in the open space in front of the village, and instead of exploding, they released a cloud of red smoke.
"the Poles are smoking," Schwartz whined loudly in his headphones, "I can't find my target" "Mortar fire, mortar fire" As soon as Mayr's order was spoken, more mortar shells fell from the sky, not German mortars, but Polish heavy mortars.
This time, however, it was not a smoke bomb that fell, but a high-explosive bomb, and the entire village was immediately overwhelmed by the rising smoke and fireballs.
"General, it's all smoke in front of you, and you can't see anything."
The chief of staff of the 15th division of the Polish army, a lieutenant colonel in his thirties, put down his binoculars and said to Major General Pzhyakovsky.
"I don't have to look to know that the kids are playing well, just as well as they did in training."
Major General Pzhyakovsky's face was a little gloomy when he spoke, "But the place where the fight started was not good, and the time was not right" "General, you also think that the army should be withdrawn across the Vistula" asked the lieutenant colonel.
"Withdraw across the Vistula," Major General Pzhyakovsky snorted coldly, "that's the work of cowards," he was silent for a moment, "and if you want me to say, the battlefield should be on the territory of Germany, on the Oder River, on the Elbe, not on Poland."
We have been preparing for a long time, and the army has been preparing since the Soviet-Polish war.
We had so many cavalry and tanks, and a strong air force, that we could have easily captured Berlin and East Prussia before Germany could have re-armed. ” "It's not too late this time, is it" The chief of staff of the 15th Division did not participate in the First World War, and it is not clear what Poland was like before the First World War.
Poland has never been seen as a country far weaker than Germany and the Soviet Union.
Major General Pzhyakovsky did not answer, because he did not know whether the current Polish army could defeat Germany.
"Canopy canopy" Several 20-gun shells hit the fence on the right side of the 6-wheeled heavy armored vehicle in which Meyer was riding, breaking the wooden fence into pieces and flying in all directions, and some of the flying wooden blocks smashed on the armored vehicle, clanging as if they had been strafed by machine guns.
"Damn it, it's 20 guns" Meyer's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and the machine gun could not penetrate the steel plate of the SDKFZ231 6-wheeled heavy armored reconnaissance vehicle.
The machine gun can easily penetrate it In the information obtained before the war, the small TKS tanks of the Polish army only had machine guns, but I didn't expect that there were 20 guns now, but in fact, only a very small number had 20 guns.
"Fire, fire" at the thought of the enemy's 20 guns, Panzer Meyer himself could not hold his breath, although he had the most rigorous training and was a fanatic of the National Socialist Workers' Party, but after all, it was the first time to go to the battlefield.
Gustav Schwarzenegger, the gunner who was seated in front of the Vaal "as ordered", had already aimed his guns at a TKS tank that had just burst out of smoke.
The gun was aimed, and the trigger that could also be used to strafe the infantry, and a string of tracer bullets hit the target, splashing a spark on the steel plate of the TKS.
The firing device of the machine gun, the finger was lightly pressed a few times, the whole armored car trembled a few times, and several 20 armor-piercing shells went straight to that TKS tank.
The poor little tank was like a piece of paper mud, and the thin frontal armor was easily pierced by only two "puffs" sounds, but the tank did not immediately stop advancing, but made a sharp turn, and fell into the ditch on the side of the road.
"I'm going to kill it, I'm going to kill it, isn't it" gunner Gustav Schwarzenegger shouted excitedly, "20 shells must have gotten in and killed the crew members" As Gustav Schwarzenegger opened fire, the artillery and machine guns of all the German wheeled armored vehicles on the battlefield roared, and the Polish TKS tanks and soldiers who were charging seemed to have hit a rain of bullets, and they were immediately killed and wounded "Damn, the firepower of these German tanks is too strong."
Seeing his soldiers retreating, Major General Pzhyakovsky cursed, and just as he was about to order the mortar group to open fire to cover the retreat of the infantry, he saw a fast horse flying in front of him.
On horseback was a blue-faced Polish lieutenant, a platoon commander of the 15th Division's reconnaissance cavalry company, whose platoon was sent west of the village to bypass the woods to guard the road.
"Division, divisional commander, here they are," the second lieutenant cried loudly without stopping his horse.
"Who's coming" "Tanks The tanks of the Germans they were big, and there were a lot of them, one after the other, and they were too many to count, and these tanks also had 75 guns" The main force of the 3rd Panzer Division came, and at the forefront were 36 No. 4 tanks with a weight of up to 235 tons and a 75 cannon with a diameter of 43 times Here they are The steel monster of the Germans came, wearing strong steel armor and having sharp artillery, Hesman asked for a large-diameter 75 anti-tank gun for the No. 4 tank at the beginning, but this large-caliber tank gun tank gun had high requirements for weight and volume, and it was not easy to produce, and it was not until 39 years that the Krupp company barely produced dozens of guns, all of which were installed on the No. 4.
But the quality was not reliable, so only some of the No. 4 75 guns with long barrels, called the No. 4 Type F, and some installed 24 guns with 75 times the diameter, called the No. 4 Type E.
However, the number four assigned to the 3rd Panzer Division were all F-shaped.
By 10 o'clock on September 1, 1939.
Not only was the Primorsky Army Group on the Northern Front, located between Pomerania and East Prussia in Germany, reports of discovering a large number of German tanks tearing through their lines, but even the Army Group Lodz and Army Group Krakow on the Southern Front of the Army Group in Warsaw were broken through by the German 16th Panzer Army, while the defense line of the Army Group Krakow was broken through by the German 15th Panzer Army and the 22nd Panzer Army of the German Army.
And when the defense line on the ground was broken by the Germans, more than 1,800 German aircraft completed a second wave of large-scale air raids However, unlike the pre-war propaganda, the Luftwaffe did not formulate a plan to bomb Poland's big cities indiscriminately, and in Hersmann's view, this was not only a waste of bombs, but also a self-inflicted trouble to blow up Polish cities, and they had to spend money to repair them later.
Therefore, at 9:45 a.m., some of the HE111 bombers that flew over Warsaw for the second time carried "paper bombs", and most of the planes still carried bombs to bomb arsenals, airports, barracks, and transportation hubs, and the "paper bombs" clearly stated Germany's requirements: 1.
Abolish the Treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain, since they were unequal treaties signed by coercion on Germany by force; 2.
Poland recognizes the Polish-German Border Treaty of 1918 because it is the basis of the Polish Confederation, the help of Germany to Poland, and an equal treaty; 3.
The Polish Commonwealth should agree to the self-determination of the Lithuanians and Ukrainians in accordance with the Constitution; 4.
Poland shall make reparations for the persecution suffered by German nationals; 5.
Poland should stop persecuting Jews in its country, and Germany promises to continue to support Zionism; 6.
Germany recognizes Poland's freedom of independence and is willing to protect it.
Moreover, the same "paper bombardment" took place not only in Warsaw, but also in the skies over Krakow, Lublin and Lviv, the capital of the Free State of Ukraine.
Almost at the same time as the second wave of air raids launched by the Germans was underway, Adolf Hitler declared in the Reichstag of the German Third Reich that war had broken out After talking on the phone with the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, General Hersman, to confirm that the battle was going well.
Germany's leader and Reich Chancellor, who walked to the reichstag rosatory in his military uniform, excitedly announced: "The Reich army has invaded Poland, Germany has entered a state of war, and from now on I am only a soldier of the German Reich, and I have put on this most sacred and precious military uniform to me.
I will not take off this uniform until the final victory, or I will die for my country."
Hitler's speech provoked a wave of enthusiastic cheers from the parliamentarians.
Subsequently, Congress unanimously passed a resolution declaring war on Poland Immediately after the Reichstag passed the resolution, Hitler went to the royal residence, next door to the Reichstag, and presented a "request" to the elderly and worried Kaiser Wilhelm to declare war on Poland.
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"So are the 6 peace proposals true, we really don't intend to destroy Poland," Kaiser Wilhelm asked from his throne.
Having experienced a defeat and the loss of the throne, he is now very afraid of being defeated again.
"Your Majesty," said Hitler, "the six peace proposals are true and will be fulfilled in any case."
First, we will reclaim all the land that the German Empire ceded to Poland after November 1918, and second, we will hold referendums in Lithuania and Eastern Galicia, Austrian Ukraine, and Western Ukraine, where they can choose to join Germany, join the Soviet Union, or remain independent.
If they had chosen independence, then the armies of the German Empire would have left immediately and would not have provided Lithuania and Eastern Galicia with any protection from the situation.
Even if the Soviet Red Army invaded in reality, such a referendum would only give Lithuanians and Ukrainians a choice between becoming Germans or becoming Soviets.
And all Lithuanians and Ukrainians who voted for joining the USSR were sent to the USSR after Lithuania and Eastern Galicia joined Germany. ” t1706231537: