Chapter 164: The Polish Campaign: Declaration of War

Ludwig didn't talk nonsense with Frantiszek anymore, he directly pulled out the pistol on his waist and shot Frantiszek's head into a rotten watermelon.

"Run, die, choose yourself." Ludwig put away his pistol and said lightly to the rest of the people. With that, he turned around and walked towards the car he was riding.

More than a dozen people looked at each other, and then rushed towards the wilderness in unison, after all, standing is absolutely dead, and if you run, there is still a glimmer of life.

However, there was really only a "thin line" of life, and hundreds of SS soldiers began to open fire freely the moment more than a dozen people began to run, and after a burst of gunfire, more than a dozen people all fell to the ground.

Ludwig in the car sneered when he saw this, and then instructed the adjutant beside him: "Tell the Führer that the 'canned goods' operation is complete and the 'white plan' can be implemented!" ”

Berlin, Germany, the wartime general headquarters of the German army.

An officer in charge of the transmission of information took a telegram, hurried to Leon's side, handed it to Leon, saluted and said: "My Führer! General Ludwig sent back news from Grewitz that Operation 'Canned Goods' had been successfully completed and that the 'White Plan' could be carried out! ”

"Good!" Leon took the telegram and glanced at it, then put it aside, and asked a staff officer in charge of army intelligence in the combat headquarters: "How are the preparations of the Third Army and Army Group C?" ”

"Report to the Führer, the Third Army and Army Group C are already ready!" The staff officer replied loudly.

"What about the Air Force and the Navy?"

"The participating units of the 1st and 4th Air Forces of the Air Force are ready!"

"The 1st Aircraft Carrier Detachment, the Battleship Detachment, the 1st Heavy Cruiser Detachment, the 7th Destroyer Detachment, and the 1st Marine Division of the High Seas Fleet have all arrived outside the Danzig Corridor, ready to liberate the city of Danzig at any moment!"

"Good!" Leon laughed, "Let Ribbentrop declare war on Poland!" Order, all troops, according to the predetermined plan of the 'white scheme', to launch an offensive against Poland! ”

Listening to Leon's words, all the officers in the combat headquarters stood up, raised their right hands and shouted: "Long live Germany!" Long live the Führer! ”

At the same time, the front-line troops, having received the order to attack, under the leadership of officers, began to move from the attacking positions and cross the German-Polish border on all fronts.

They chanted "For Germany!" For the Führer! On the one hand, under the leadership of the armored forces, they advanced at high speed towards the Polish hinterland.

Half an hour after Germany declared war, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Finland and other Axis powers declared war on Poland.

Returning to the German-Polish front, the German Third Army stood in front of the defensive line consisting of the "Poznan" Army and the "Lodz" Army.

The defense of the Polish corridor (Danzig corridor) was carried out by Army Group Pomerania, which was fought on three sides by the German Army Group C and the 1st Marine Division (East Prussia, Baltic, Pomerania).

Deployed to the south to defend Czechoslovakia were Army Group "Krakow" and Army Group "Carpathians".

Poland, on the north bank of the Varta River.

Hoffman sat in the "Wolf" infantry fighting vehicle, holding his G41SG, and carefully searched the surroundings through the hull firing hole with the 4x optical sight on the G41SG.

"Hoffman, do you see anything?" Hans, who was sitting next to him, asked casually, holding his MG42.

"The fog is too big for me to see." Hoffman replied as he continued to search.

It was four o'clock in the morning on May 1, 1939, and only four hours after the German declaration of war on Poland in the early morning of May 1, the SS17, as the vanguard of the SS troops, advanced to the west bank of the Warta River, 60 kilometers from the German-Polish border, and in just four hours, they advanced a full 75 kilometers into the heart of Poland.

"It's boring." Hans grumbled as he pulled a compressed biscuit out of his pocket and nibbled on it, "I suspect now that all the civilians we met for the first four hours couldn't even put pressure on us. ”

"That's the brother of the Air Force." Squad leader Gro rolled his eyes, "Do you think we had a serious fight with them?" On which occasion was it not in front of the Polish positions to call for air support? ”

Hans pursed his lips when he heard this, and shouted to Anek on the side, "Hey! Newcomer! The water bottle lends me a saliva, and I run out of water! ”

Hearing this, Anek tore off the water bottle from the back of his backpack and threw it to Hans, saying, "Here you go!" Also, don't call me a newcomer! I'm a 3-year veteran! ”

Hans pursed his lips, unscrewed the water bottle and took a sip, saying, "I don't care if I'm later than me, that's the newcomer." With that, he screwed the cap on the bottle and threw it back to Anek.

Anek reluctantly took the water bottle and didn't speak again.

In fact, Anek understood that the reason why Hans insisted on calling himself "the newcomer" was because the battle in the village of Berg had caused him so much trauma that he had never forgotten what happened at that time.

It's no wonder, after all, in the battle of Berg Village, there were more than 200 people in their company, and more than 30 of them died, and only three of the 13 people in their class died, including Fogel, his best friend in the class, all died, and it was normal for Hans to have some psychological problems.

So Anek doesn't care anymore that he keeps calling himself a newcomer in front of 10 real newcomers.

"Stop moving! We'll fix it here, and four hours later, at eight o'clock in the morning, we'll march to the banks of the Varta River and take control of a railroad bridge there. So guys, take advantage of these four hours and get some rest! The voice of company commander Gaither was heard on the car radio.

The old company commander was seriously wounded in the first battle of Berg Village, although he was sent to the hospital in time to get his life back, but at the same time, because he was too seriously injured to join the army, the SS arranged an idle post in the rear, and the acting company commander Gaitser, who did a good job, naturally replaced the old company commander and became the new company commander of the first company.

Originally, Groh could become a platoon leader, and Hoffman and Hans could serve as squad leaders respectively, but because they were reluctant to be their comrades-in-arms, they made a special application after the company was rebuilt, and continued to be a squad comrade-in-arms with Anek, the only survivor among the newcomers.

"As always, I, Anek, Hans, and Hoffman are on duty for an hour, and the others are resting." After receiving the order to trim, Gro said, "I'm the first, you guys go to sleep first." ”

"Okay." Hans nodded, "I'll go to the toilet first, the water is a little too much." ”

With that, Hans dropped his MG42 and jumped out of the car and walked towards the outside of the company camp.

After a sound of water, Hans sighed comfortably, then put on his pants to return to the camp.

However, just as he turned around, he suddenly noticed that a bush not far away was a little wrong in color.

As he looked strangely closely, "Grass" suddenly stood up and aimed a shot at him.

It was a rifle.