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Chapter 3: Sisterhood and Infatuation [Act 3] Intricacies (3)

Unlike the special train that is calm and waveless on the surface, but in fact there is a turbulent undercurrent, the Polish battlefield thousands of miles away is already filled with gunsmoke and devastation!

The battle for the capture of the Polish corridor had come to an end since the Kruger Fourth Army and the Küller Third Army advanced rapidly from Pomerania and East Prussia and joined forces along the Lì routes. During this period, to the ridicule of all the German soldiers, the Polish government used the Pomerska Cavalry Brigade against the heavy tanks led by the commander of the 19th Panzer Corps, Heinz Wilhelm Guderian. So the Polish government and army learned for the first time the terrible taste of blitzkrieg.

In the air, the Stuka fighter-bombers gathered into a cloud and let out a terrible and piercing roar, scattering a large number of explosives and flames in all corners;

On the ground, the ant-like dense tanks and motorized heavy artillery advanced thirty to forty miles a day, mercilessly crushing the Polish heavy cavalry that tried to block the advance, as if they were in a no-man's land;

A vast army of 1.5 million people riding in mechanical vehicles, with the help of an intricate telecommunications network, unified command and coordinated action, just like a mowheat, coldly strangled the Polish army -- a mechanized massacre with a great disparity in strength, which was tragically reflected in everyone's field of vision.

Compared with the Polish army, which suffered numerous casualties, the German army was highly morale and invincible. By the afternoon of 8 September, the German 4th Panzer Division had reached the periphery of the Polish capital. Directly south of the city, the 10th Army under Lieutenant General August von Reichenau, which had traveled north from Silesia and Slovakia, captured Kielze, while the 14th Army of General Wilhelm Liszt captured Sandomich along the way. [hua.

The successive victories were so ecstatic at the top of the German army that four days earlier, Lieutenant General Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, Colonel-General Walter von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, and Colonel-General Fedor von Bowck, Commander of Army Group North, had proudly declared to the world: "The enemy has actually been defeated." 【86】

But even so, the Germans did not slacken. It was late at night, and the temporary headquarters of the German Corridor in Poland was still brightly lit, and the army officers of all ranks looked solemn and kept coming and going. How many telegraph planes continuously transmitted military signals of varying lengths, conveying the operational plans of the Wehrmacht High Command (OKW) to the ears of every soldier.

"Be sure to narrow the encirclement and destroy the enemy forces who are besieged and panicked and crushed; At the same time, another huge pincer offensive was recently completed a hundred miles east of Warsaw, and the Tenth and Fourteenth Armies in the south surrounded the remnants of the Polish army in Brest-Litovsk and the area west of the Bug River, forming the siege of Warsaw. ”

Eric quickly deciphered the encrypted telegram and presented it to the lieutenant general of the commander, Lieutenant General Walter Petzel, and smiled faintly at a man with a sharp eyebrow beside him, "Klaus, what do you think of this 'second phase'?" ”

The man known as 'Klaus' took a sip of his dark beer and raised his eyebrows, which flew diagonally into his sideburns: "The thirty-five divisions that Poland can mobilize are now either annihilated or besieged, so I think this plan will be realized soon." Let me not forget that soon after the war began, their commander-in-chief, Field Marshal Rez Smigre, abandoned his post and gave us the stupid cavalry regiment to slaughter like pigs, which is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. ”

Exegesis:

[86] "The enemy has actually been defeated." The above historical materials are excerpted from The History of the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Scheiler; Some of the text has been changed.

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