September 1, 1939, 2:15 p.m.
Nine and a half hours after the start of World War II, the car of the commander of the German 19th Panzer Corps, General Goodry, drove over the bridge over the Brachy River, which had been under full German control half an hour earlier.
This was the second major breakthrough of the 19th Panzer Corps in eight and a half hours, first in the Tuhora Forest and now in the Brashi River Such a breakthrough was not thought of in the last world war, and Guderian looked around with excitement.
Tanks, self-propelled guns and armored vehicles lined up and drove eastward.
The speed of the convoy is not very fast, stop-and-go, and the average is five to six kilometers per hour.
However, this speed can walk for more than ten hours a day, which is still very impressive.
From a military point of view, it is a veritable "blitzkrieg".
There were a lot of Polish prisoners walking west, all of them looking terrified, and some of them were looking at the German tanks and armored vehicles with sophisticated eyes.
In the wheat fields on both sides of the road, Guderian also saw many horses.
Some fell to the ground and crushed a large patch of wheat, looking as if they were wounded.
Some were led by German soldiers in the direction of the road, and they now belonged to the Wehrmacht, and although Guderian's armored troops did not need horses, the infantry divisions behind still needed horses.
"Long live the Emperor of Germany" There were also people cheering on the side of the road, all of them ordinary people, mostly women and children, who were supposed to be Germans in the area.
This was originally the land of the Second German Reich, and although many people left after 1918, there were still some who remained, and they suffered a lot during this time, being expelled, slaughtered, and women were slaughtered, and now they are looking forward to the "Liberation Army".
"Admiral, I have just received a report that some Germans in this area of the village were bloodied by the Polish army, and that adult men were killed" Guderian's adjutant had a stack of reports in his hand and frowned as he spoke.
The Poles were also not fuel-efficient lamps, and from 1919 onwards they exhausted all sorts of "anti-moral" means, such as concentration camps and gas chambers.
And after the tension between Poland and Germany, the "anti-German" activities became even more arrogant.
"These reports are sent to the security police, and they will deal with them."
Guderian commanded.
His forces were not responsible for the control of the occupied territories, as was the case with the security police unit attached to the General Directorate of Central Security and a section of the Waffen-SS.
Behind the 19th Panzer Corps was followed by the Security Police Division and the Waffen-SS Cavalry Brigade At this time, a motorcycle drove in the direction of the convoy, and the motorcycle was a soldier of the motorized communication platoon of the Third Armored Division, and when he saw the two generals on the armored car that Guderian was riding, the German generals knew that it was Guderian, so he parked the motorcycle next to Guderian's military car.
"Your Excellency, Major-General Schwebenburg's briefing."
Guderian took a file bag, opened it and took out the bulletin, looked at it and laughed.
"Admiral, what are you laughing at?"
the adjutant on the side asked.
"A Polish artillery regiment was captured, and it crashed into the armored training battalion on the way south from the north," Guderian laughed, "and they were an artillery regiment of the Polish 27th Infantry Division, ready to be transferred to the southern front.
It seems that the Polish Primorsky Army is going to prepare to break through and go south" At this, Guderian smiled even more proudly.
How can you break through and escape, except for the southernmost division, the 9th Division, which may be able to run away partly, the remaining 2 Polish divisions and about 2 divisions of the Polish Army on the Eastern Front facing East Prussia, just waiting to be surrounded and annihilated "They can't escape," said the adjutant in a compliment to Guderian, "Your Excellency will definitely destroy them all, and this battle to encircle and annihilate the Polish Primorsky Army is almost comparable to the Battle of Tannenberg." ” "In the Battle of Tannenberg we suffered 15,000 casualties, 90,000 prisoners, and 60,000 or 70,000 Russians."
Guderian smiled and said, "And this time, how much we have to lose" The adjutant took out a stack of documents and looked at them, and then said in a surprised tone: "So far, the statistics are 42 killed, 223 wounded, and 17 missing, which is amazing."
Guderian laughed, "I think the losses of the 15th, 16th, and 22nd Panzer Corps on the Southern Front must be similar to ours.
This is the power of mechanized warfare, and the traditional army is in front of us, simply vulnerable" At the same moment, Captain Adolf Garland, the captain of the 4th Brigade of the 1st Combat Aviation Regiment of the Navy, to which Rudolph's eldest son, was piloting a Zero and three other plus zeros in a four-finger formation, circling the sky east of the Walta River southwest of Lodz, looking for Polish planes that dared to take off.
This is his third mission today, and in the first two sorties, he has achieved a result, and the OnePlus Z11 fighter is too easy in his opinion.
The Z11 is an aircraft that relies on the flexibility of medium and low altitudes, and if it meets the BF109, it may be able to maneuver around.
But when encountering Fokker Zero, which is more flexible than it and is quite fast, it really can't run away, can't dodge, and can only wait for death.
So he was hoping to meet another Z11 or some other type of Polish aircraft in this sortie.
"Captain, look below" The headset heard the voice of wingman Cole. below Garland immediately squinted his eyes and looked under the wing, but did not find the enemy plane.
"Where are the enemy planes" "No, it's not enemy planes," Cole's voice was very excited, "look at the ground on the ground and there are a lot of our tanks, a lot" "What are our tanks here, this is the rear of the enemy line, this is the east bank of the Varta River" Adolf Garand was also taken aback, and hurriedly searched carefully, and sure enough, he saw a huge tank convoy, and he couldn't see the edge at a glance.
Many of these tanks and vehicles were decorated with eye-catching national flags on their tops, apparently to prevent the Air Force from accidentally bombing them.
"Oh my God, they broke through on the first day" Garland was not a rookie who had never fought before, he had fought in the Spanish War and knew what it was like to break through enemy lines.
"It's thirty or forty kilometers from the border, and our tanks actually rushed here, but now it's a big victory, the Poles don't even have time to retreat, and the Polish army near Krakow is about to be wiped out."
"Really, it's the first day."
Garland laughed, "It seems that this war will not last long, brothers, let's go to the east and search again to see if we can get any victory." ” Adolf Garland: What they saw was the 16th Panzer Corps under the command of Colonel-General Erich Hoppner.
This army was one of the 3 armored corps under Army Group South and was subordinate to the 10th Army.
Like Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps, the 16th Panzer Corps was the first German main force to suddenly become Polish territory.
The 16th Panzer Corps consisted of the powerful 1st and 4th Panzer Divisions, as well as the 14th and 31st Infantry Divisions.
The route of attack of the army was the southern flank of the Polish Army Group Lodz and the junction of Army Group Krakow.
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After breaking through the Polish defenses, the commander of the 16th Panzer Corps, Erich Hoppner, immediately decided to leave one infantry division to consolidate its position and wait for the follow-up of the 14th Motorized Army, while he personally led two Panzer Divisions to the northeast.
According to the plan, the main forces of the 16th Panzer Army would later split the tributary of the Pylica River Vistula in two.
One crossed the river west to attack Radom's Prussian Army, and together with the 15th Panzer Army, which was also part of the 10th Army, encircled and annihilated the army.
The other would be led by Hornapp himself to attack the Polish capital of Warsaw, and if all went well, the 16th Panzer Corps would be the first of all German troops to advance under Warsaw.
Although it was impossible to capture Warsaw, a surprise attack on the outskirts of Warsaw was enough to throw the entire Polish army into disarray.
If all goes well, the 16th Panzer Corps will strike near Warsaw around 8 September, eight days after the start of the war Perhaps the panicked Poles would declare Warsaw an "undefended city" so that the 16th Panzer Corps could capture Warsaw on September 9 or September 10, and in a Volkswagen military car, Erich Hoppner and Guderian could not hide their excitement.
"Your Excellency," Hopner's adjutant was now opening a telegram he had just received, "an order from the headquarters of Army Group. ” "Army Group Command" Admiral Hopner asked, "What content" "The command of Army Group ordered us to make a bend southwest of Warsaw and attack north to the east or south bank of the Buchula River, waiting for the vanguard of the 8th Army to arrive."
"Here's why" "Admiral, the telegram said that the main force of the Poznan Army and the remnants of the Primorsky Army and the Rhodes Army in order to encircle and annihilate the Polish army estimate that the main force of the Polish army will make a final effort to rescue Warsaw."
"Oh," Admiral Hopner said, pulling out his reading glasses and putting them on, "telegraph me." ” The content of what the telegram said was similar to what the adjutant said, that it was a bluff to abandon Warsaw and not to "fight" it, to concentrate forces on the tributaries of the Buchula River and the Vistula River to the west of Warsaw, and to cooperate with the tactical clusters drawn from the 8th Army and a Northern Army Group to encircle and annihilate the main forces of the Polish army.
It seems that the General Command of the Eastern Front has put the annihilation of the Polish army before the occupation of Warsaw t1706231537: