Chapter 43: The Polish Navy
"Polish Navy"?
It is indeed inconceivable that Poland actually has a navy, and that the re-established Poland actually has a navy.
The "First Polish Republic" was a new Poland that was re-established more than 100 years after the fall of the country. For the newly formed navy, Novotini was ready to order 1 cruiser, 4 destroyers and several torpedo boats from Britain, but they were all ordered by the then British Prime Minister Lloyd. George vetoed.
In 1921, Poland acquired six old German destroyers, and soon purchased six torpedo boats, four minesweepers, and several other small ships from Finland and Denmark. However, as the flagship of the Polish Navy, it was an old cruiser from France.
Of course, we can't expect these weapons to have any big effect on this war, but it does not represent a Polish offensive against the Soviet Red Army, there is no way at all. In this battle, the Poles used a new weapon that had just been acquired from the Chinese Federation.
Due to the problems of Polish military spending, they were not able to have a large number of ships. Therefore, they turned to the boss of the arms market, the Chinese Federation. Among the world's largest arms exporters, the "Zoomlion International Arms Corporation" of the Chinese Federation has everything from the latest attack aircraft carriers to the M1 short assault rifle. Not only is there a complete range of items, but the price of many second-hand equipment is also extremely cheap.
This is because the Federal Republic of China has been constantly updating its armed equipment for the Federal Defense Forces since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and at the same time, the war materials captured in foreign wars will naturally never return to the hands of the other side. These are all the goods of "Zoomlion International". In addition, after combining the abundant energy of the Chinese Federation with German technology, it is constantly producing the latest weapons and equipment.
As for war, it is naturally the best means of propaganda for the country's weapons. The war waged by the Chinese Federation against the "European Joint Forces" in the Middle East has long pushed the weapons of the Chinese Federation, especially air weapons, to the top of the arms market.
The Polish Navy's procurement group, because of its shyness, did not dare to ask about large surface ships. In desperation, he had to upgrade the soft equipment of the navy - sea and air power. In the absence of ability, they set their sights on a new piece of equipment.
These are the "H" airships that the Chinese Federation has been sparing no effort to produce, and the equipment on the airships includes some aircraft such as the "Apple gyroplane". After seeing the airship and these gyroplanes, the head of the Polish naval procurement group quickly turned. Soon after, they submitted the following procurement list to the Chinese Federation.
"We're going to have 15 H-boats, each of which needs to be able to carry some kind of 'Mac' planes, but they need to be redesigned!"
In this way, 15 "air carriers" were soon incorporated into the operational sequence of the Polish Navy.
These "H-type" airships, after more improvements, can carry 15 attack gyroplanes named "Tadpoles" designed and manufactured by the "Iron Wing Company" under the name of the Chinese Renaissance Party.
These rotorcraft with attack as their main mission have a narrow fuselage, and it is believed that the pilot will definitely not be comfortable sitting in the cockpit. When the airship leaves the airport for its mission, they have to sit in such a small cabin the whole time. Two 12.7 mm machine guns and eight rocket launchers are their main assault weapons. On the airship as a platform, there is no place for repairs, except for weapons and ammunition.
It was these "air carriers" who, at the beginning of this "Polish-Soviet war", provided noteworthy help to the Polish Army, which was suppressed by Soviet tank clusters, and could not breathe. In particular, when the cavalry attack on the transport lines of the Soviet Red Army failed miserably, the Polish naval fleet went into battle.
Fifteen "air carriers" carrying 225 "tadpoles" appeared near the battlefield. Underneath them, the Polish infantry hastily built up a defensive line that looked like it would be a disaster to withstand the torrent of armor of the Soviet Red Army.
Opposite them was the cavalry corps of the Soviet Red Army, which consisted of a heavy tank division (equipped with tracked tanks), a light tank division (armed with wheeled tanks) and two armored infantry divisions. As we said earlier, the construction of Soviet armored forces was mostly carried out on the basis of observations of the Bundeswehr.
Although they don't have any "tank nannies", armored vehicles with 12.7mm machine guns can be replaced.
At the time of the launch of this great campaign, the Soviet side did not have any psychological burden on the military. It turns out that the era of infantry and cavalry glory has passed, and tanks will become the new "king of land warfare".
At the time of the offensive, Soviet artillery fire covered the Polish army's battlefields. At the same time, the attack of air power also rained down a large number of shells on the poor positions of the Polish infantry after the shelling.
Flames rose over the positions of the Polish army, and a large number of wooden horses had been erected to hold back the tanks, which by this time had become waste in the shelling and bombardment. They were devastated by shells and bombs, twisting into strange shapes. The flames burned so that the infantry position felt like a burning hell.
The Soviet tanks began their operations while they were shelling and bombing.
Groups of tanks and armored vehicles were lined up in attack formation, followed by Soviet infantry like a sea of people. Probably, after the baptism of the "Soviet-Polish War", the armored forces of the USSR were rapidly forming their own fighting style. In infantry combat, they did not imitate the squad-level style of fighting like the Bundeswehr. After all, the difference between the Soviet Red Army and the Bundeswehr in terms of training and communications equipment is not in the same quantitative class.
The Polish infantry, and the overwhelming attack of the Soviet Red Army, had completely no means of defense. The trenches had been bombarded into wide depressions by heavy artillery fire and bombs, and the barbed wire fence had long since disappeared. As for the main force used for defense, more lying guns, at this time, under the sound of bombardment and artillery, they were almost all clumps of scrap metal.
In the trenches, some of the surviving Polish infantrymen, clutching their weapons in their hands. In the other hand, they carried some Molotov cocktails full of gasoline, and in their nervous, almost chest-beating hearts, they had almost concluded that today was their last day in this world.
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————————————————————————————————————— the billowing smoke and dust of the battlefield, tracked tanks and heavy armored vehicles are the pioneers. As the commissar of the light tank division, Paul. Kochagin was not worried. In this battle, the task of their division was to quickly launch a follow-up attack after breaking through the enemy's position.
Therefore, the only thing to attack now is the use of the Soviet modified "Gray Wolf tank" and the "Mark" tank, which was converted by the Soviets into armored personnel vehicles. The latter, a British tank originally built as a tank, was transformed into infantry equipment, and its good armor protection and four machine guns in the front, rear, left and right sides won the applause of the infantry.
"This should be an extremely easy battle, the Polish army will not be able to deal with our armored forces!"
It's not just Paul. Kochagin's idea, and at the same time the idea of most of the Soviet Red Army. The soldiers of the light tank and armored infantry divisions who followed the assault sat in their vehicles or in the surrounding areas, and some even sat there leisurely and played the accordion.
In the artillery team mirror, tracked tanks and armored vehicles are getting farther and farther away from the starting point. Despite the relatively high magnification, they still resemble tiny matchboxes. Here, on the positions of the Polish troops opposite, there was still no effective artillery fire fired to stop the advance of the armored units of the Soviet Red Army.
"Hey, what are these things, are they airships? Hit tanks with airships, hehe, it seems that the Poles have completely lost their minds! ”
Paul. Kochagin took his eyes off the artillery mirror, sat down and began to roll up a cigarette. Now, his fingers can be as flexible as an insect's antennae, and he can roll a thick and flavorful cigarette roll in a few clicks.
"Buzz ......"
"Damn, are there mosquitoes this season too?"
In Paul. Before Kochakin's doubts could completely dissipate in his mind, the situation on the battlefield reversed almost instantly.
Swarms of strange-looking flying machines flew over the battlefield at a fairly low altitude. As they flew by, rockets dragging white flames were fired from under the fuselage. Hit tanks and armored vehicles burst into flames with a roar.
The surviving tankmen and infantrymen jumped out of their iron coffins with flames all over their bodies. Running on the battlefield like crazy, like some bright flames.
"Damn, what are these things!"
These things are in the process of being bought, and they are quite fast. In the blink of an eye, he had already swept across the battlefield to Paul. Kochagin's face. Then, the sky rang out with the sound of machine gun fire.
As the group of aircraft passed by in the sky, the first attack of the heavy tank division of the cavalry corps of the Soviet Red Army was defeated by this dense attack from the sky.