Chapter 226: These Are German Celebrities?
Hans. Feng. Major General Vermanred, who once resisted the 72-hour uninterrupted attack of a Polish army group with the strength of a division in the Battle of the Buzura River, and after the arrival of a large army, he led the remnants of less than 1,000 people to launch a joint counterattack, and annihilated a Polish army group with more than 200,000 troops.
In that battle, everyone believed that the 30th Division under Major General Hans would never be able to withstand the Polish offensive.
Even Chief of Staff Manstein, who had drawn up a plan for the siege and annihilation of the Buzula River, did not believe that the 30th Division would be able to hold out until the moment the counterattack began.
In his plan, the 30th Division only needed to contain and attract the main force of the Polish army in the first 24 hours to achieve its strategic goal.
After all, it was a contest between a division and a group army, and this division was nothing more than an ordinary infantry division, which was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of firepower.
Whoever expects such an infantry division to be able to contain an enemy at the level of an army group for a long time is a complete military idiot!
However, Major General Hans did it.
The main force was disabled, and the logistics battalion and the sanitary battalion continued to fill in. Before that, Hans took the command company of the headquarters and the cartographic platoon to the front line. In the end, even the remaining more than 100 cooks of the division picked up the guns in the trenches and took on combat missions.
Even with Hans's best efforts, the 30th Division's outer defense line was still forced to abandon on the third day in the face of the huge disparity in strength between the two sides.
But then, the 30th Division, which was less than 1,000 men, continued to confront the Polish army of more than 200,000 in street battles in Lodz, the second largest city in Poland, under the deployment of Hans.
Until Manstein and Rundstead completed the outflanking of the periphery and pocketed all the Polish counterattack troops, the 30th Division led by Hans also maintained a combat state, tenacious and tenacious!
Chief of Staff Manstein orchestrated a game in which local sacrifices were made in exchange for overall superiority, and Major General Hans made this partial sacrifice significant and far more than expected.
A fierce general like Hans naturally inevitably received awards and decorations after the war. The 30th Infantry Division was also promoted to a first-class combat unit and became a meritorious division by virtue of this battle, enjoying the priority of all first-class combat units, including all rights such as material replenishment, troop replenishment, and equipment allocation.
There is such a story in the German army: the SS, which frequently competed with various departments of the Wehrmacht on the battlefield for captured materials, not only did not compete with the 30th Division for captured materials after fighting with the 30th Division of the Wehrmacht, but instead used their own small transport vehicles to decorate the 30th Division with trophies, and left the logistics team to help the 30th Division clean up the battlefield and count the supplies.
The SS can send people to help count the supplies, and also send vehicles to pack and transport them free of charge. In the entire Wehrmacht, only the 30th Division has enjoyed this treatment.
"Or ........ You take it off too" The shirtless Reinhardt raised his eyebrows and put his arms around Major General Hans: "I saw you snickering just now." It's better to be happy alone than to be happy in all, so take it off like me and make everyone happy. ”
"Huh?!" Hans looked at Reinhardt incredulously.
Why did it hit yourself again! Hans, who had only been awarded the Iron Cross by the Knight of Silver Oak Leaves because of his great success in the Polish campaign, was now pulled into the list of streaking because of a casual expression.
"It's so grinding, I really doubt that you are still not the iron-blooded division commander who fought against the Polish army in Rhodes for 72 hours?" Reinhardt said with ill intentions: "Take out a little man's blood, don't be cowardly!" ”
What kind of logic is this, you become a coward if you don't take off your clothes?!
For a moment, Hans sincerely wished that he would be able to face an authoritarian, domineering, insanely stubborn Führer. Why did he, who has always been rigorous and serious, meet such a head of state with a strange brain circuit.
Historically, Hans has met a Führer of this character. Eventually, however, the Führer listened to Himmler's slander and threw him into prison.
Seeing that Hans, who was stunned, still did not say anything, Reinhardt continued to trap the innocent SS who were more likely to obey such nonsense orders: "Modell! You come and set a good example with the comrades of the SS! ”
Before Moder, who was already a lieutenant general in the SS, could respond, several SS commanders behind him began to unbutton them. A few seconds later, as the last motionless SS officer, Modell followed the flow and unbuttoned his collar.
"Manstein, you still don't listen to me."
"Guderian, let the armored commanders you brought take off."
"Rommel, what are you staring at?! Do you want to fight me again? Take it off! ”
"Rose, let your people take it off for me! The officers of the Gestapo are no exception. ”
"The people over there, do you want me to name them, take the initiative!"
“........”
Outside the Führer's Mansion, cameras have already been set up, and reporters from various countries are already waiting.
Everyone saw the convoys of the brigade driving into the compound of the Führer's mansion one by one, and among them, almost all the most famous generals in Germany today!
Except for the Chief of the SS General Staff, Steve and the Wehrmacht, General Bock, who were unable to rush back to Berlin because they had to be stationed on the Western Front to confront the Anglo-French forces.
And the other German celebrities have basically been gathered!
Steady in the use of soldiers, good at fighting hard battles, in the First World War with a steady and steady style won the "German Dinghaishen Needle" Walter. Feng. Brauchitsch.
Tactically astute and changeable, in the Spanish Civil War many times won more with less, and the "German Fox" known for daring to take risks and take the sword sideways - Erwin Rommel.
Heinz Wilhelm Guderian single-handedly formed the Wehrmacht armored forces, commanded armored groups in the Polish campaign, and realized the "rapid Heinz" of the armored assault theory of firepower, maneuver and protection.
Leading the Luftwaffe to completely destroy the "German Eagle", the main force of the Polish Air Force, in two days - Albert Catherine.
In the Polish campaign some time ago, he made a surprise breakthrough, calculated the entire Polish High Command, planned the largest siege and annihilation battle in history, and became the "strategic master" of countless German military idols - Manstein.
Then there's the veteran Rundstead, the new SS star Modell, and Hans. Feng. Major General Vermanred and many other legendary generals who played a major role in the Polish campaign........
Alessandro, a journalist from Italy, set up his camera and waited for the unknown news that would happen next.
Around him, SS soldiers and official journalists from all over the world were already overcrowded outside the Führer's residence, crowding the sidewalks on both sides of the street.
However, the moment a group of well-known contemporary German celebrities walked out in a neat line, the reporters who were still noisy just now on the whole street were like a huge duck egg stuffed in their mouths, and they couldn't make a sound when their mouths were rounded.......