There is a theory that during the encirclement and annihilation of the Polish army, the encircled Polish army apparently did not understand the performance of the tank, and thought that the armor of the tank was nothing more than a camouflage made of tin plates, which was used to scare people. So the Polish cavalry swarmed up and attacked the German tanks with their sabers and spears. The Germans were taken aback at this, but soon came to their senses and mercilessly fired at the Polish troops with tank guns and machine guns, crushing them with their tracks. The battlefield duel imaginary by the Poles turned into a massacre of disparity. However, it has been verified that the cavalry versus the tanks is just a deceptive propaganda of the German army.

The seventh armored cluster was almost an iron hedgehog, and the speed of their movement was not comparable to that of the cavalry. The Hound Tank can run 50 veins per hour on the road, and the off-road vehicle can travel almost 65 veins in the field, and the cavalry is no match for mechanized troops on the road. A squad of cavalry encountered two or three transport trucks and off-road vehicles, and before the cavalry could draw their sabers and start charging, the bullets from the 12.7mm Fire Snake machine gun were already drawn like whips. Even if they rushed to the vicinity of the vehicle in the rain of bullets, the soldiers in the carriage with plumbers and submachine guns could knock down three or four cavalrymen with a long shot, while the shooting of the crossbow rifle ping pong was close to the natural enemy of the cavalry, and twenty bullets, and when the magazine was emptied, it only took five or six seconds for the Polish cavalry to fall, and it was most suitable to check and fill in the gaps in the machine guns. When the last cavalryman fell under the fire of four plumbers' submachine guns, the bravery of the Polish cavalry became a pitiful performance art performance.

The Polish cavalry, though brave, was not a brute. In the face of the ferocious firepower of the Seventh Cluster, they were wasting their lives whether they were scattering infiltrations or charging in clusters. Therefore, the Polish cavalry basically fled from the wind, avoiding this group of moving steel monsters as far as possible, but in the face of the mobile patrol composed of fast-cruising tricycles and off-road vehicles, the Polish cavalry was tragic, unable to fight, unable to run, and many cavalry were captured by the mobile patrol.

"Report." With a crisp report, a female officer with an Asian face in a German second lieutenant uniform knocked on the door and entered, and a report and a package of photos were handed to an officer behind his desk who was checking Wen Jiàn.

"Second Lieutenant Lisa, is this the same piece of information that was sent by the Mission yesterday?". The soft young officer, whose face was somewhat feminine, looked up and asked gently.

"Yes, Major Wu Taiqian, these were delivered yesterday afternoon and have been translated. The information you want about the Southern Seventh Cluster is at the top, so please check it. Do you have any other commands? ”。 The second lieutenant smiled a shy little girl, this major was so young and so handsome.

"Oh, that's good, thank you Miss Lisa. I would appreciate it if you could continue to sort the intelligence sent by theater of operations. ”

"A tricolor ice cream from Oldenheim." Miss Lisa smiled charmingly and turned away, "As a token of your gratitude, I will feel your sincerity." ”

"Oh, yes, of course." The major smiled wryly, apparently it wasn't the first time he had been molested by young girls. I really don't know why my father asked him to be an intelligence major while studying at Shandong University, and what happened when he was sent to the German theater of operations? Obviously, he wants to inherit his father's throne, and his younger brother is the little warmonger who loves to dance with knives and guns at home. A month ago, I was preparing for the defense of my master's thesis, but a month later, I put on the uniform of the Wehrmacht and came to Germany to conduct intelligence analysis and summary work, which is not at all the same as my macroeconomic research.

"In the face of the frontal charge of the armored forces of the imperial system, the cavalry casualty rate in the first round reaches 45%, and it will basically collapse. In the pursuit battle, Manstein gave full play to the advantages of high-mobility vehicles, and the dozens of mobile patrols formed became a nightmare for the Polish army, and the cavalry encountered high-mobility vehicles It was a tragedy, and the casualty rate of the pursuit battle was as high as 76%. Therefore, in the future army building, our army must appropriately strengthen the building of the army's mobile capability, otherwise the dilemma of not being able to defeat and not being able to escape will fall on the head of the emperor's ** team" Recorded in the notebook, Wu Taiqian's brushstrokes stopped, and his eyes fell on the pile of photos.

Young faces lay in the mud, eyes lost their brilliance, once proud of the king of the battlefield, in the face of sturdier and swifter chariots, emotionless and tireless machinery, slaughtering with far greater efficiency than the sabers in the hands of cavalry. The Polish army was not heroic, but its backward armament, rigid system, outdated training and small strategic space made the bravery of the Polish army worthless.

Although the German air force was not strong enough, it was still acting according to a more effective plan under the advice of the air force staff officers in the Chinese observation mission. The first was to seize air supremacy and annihilate the more than 400 fighters of the Polish army on the ground. Then there are point-and-point attacks on the chain of command, transportation hubs, ammunition logistics supply points, and army assembly areas. Although the German strategic air force was lacking, Germany's numerous airfields and a large number of tactical bombers made up for this deficiency in the face of Poland's limited depth. In the Air Force's operations, although Göring was in charge of the Air Force, in the face of this kind of air combat command, which was completely different from the First World War, he still humbly obeyed the advice of the staff of the Royal Chinese Air Force.

Although Germany was the first country in Europe to form an armoured division, most of the senior officers, including those of the High Command, were amateurs in the use of armoured troops*. They all generally believe that although new arms have emerged in modern warfare, they are still basically the same as in the same war, and infantry combat is still the mainstay, and armored troops are only one branch of the army that supports infantry and can only be subordinate to infantry. This can be seen from the fact that the German army only established panzer divisions and subordinated pantry divisions to infantry corps instead of separate panzer corps, which was quite unfavorable to giving full play to the might of panzer corps and speeding up the course of the campaign. What's more, most of the tanks equipped by the German army at this time were light tanks, and even a considerable number of Type I tanks for training, which were very weak in armor and firepower, which greatly increased the danger of the German army in this campaign. The Germans lost 217 tanks in the entire campaign, while Poland announced that the Germans had lost more than 900 tanks and armored vehicles, and the large number of losses had something to do with this.

Although Guderian's Second Panzer Division can be regarded as a furious advance, the fragile No. 2 Tank often has little resistance in the face of the Polish army's small-caliber artillery, and even anti-infantry mines can threaten the survival of the No. 2 Tank. Therefore, the 2nd Panzer Division, which had good results but also suffered heavy losses, basically lost the ability to continue fighting after arriving on the outskirts of Warsaw.

Manstein's 7th Panzer Group, which was fully equipped with Chinese equipment, suffered very small losses, and successively annihilated three infantry divisions and two cavalry divisions of the Polish Poznan Group, and also defeated an infantry division by the way. While taking out the Poznan Army, a regimental combat team of the 7th Panzer Group penetrated directly into the flank of the Rhodes Army, messing up the logistics line of the Rhodes Army and solving a big problem for the 14th Army on the left flank. In such a high-intensity continuous battle, the 7th Cluster, which was heavily armed, continued northward, and was the first to reach the outskirts of Warsaw. Manstein became the first German general to open fire on Warsaw, while Guderian was still entangled in the Dervincha region and the Polish battle of "Vichków".

Regarding this war, which was basically without suspense, later historians have named it a successful example of "blitzkrieg". The Germans successfully used this tactic, making air-ground coordination appear on the battlefield for the first time in the form of a powerful assault force, providing a textbook example for a series of subsequent military changes. However, historical accounts of the German occupation of Poland tend to favor the success of the Germans, and we cannot ignore here that the Polish army put up a heroic resistance. The reason for this was that their tactical thinking was far behind that of the Germans, and the stubborn resistance of the soldiers could not change the rigidity of the thinking of the top of the army down to the rank and file officers, which was also reflected in the subsequent French campaign, but the great results achieved by the Germans shocked the world, and the people at that time had no time to pursue the deeper causes. Or rather, a massive rout masked a local stubborn resistance. The German team quickly defeated the so-called "military power" in Europe with advanced tactical concepts. The history of mankind was thus rewritten, and the annihilation of the four cavalry divisions of the Poznan Army and the Lodz Army Group became the last lament of the Polish cuirassiers, who had been glorious several times in history.