Leon stared nervously at his watch and turned it every second, and the muscles on his face tensed to the extreme.

As a company commander in the Wehrmacht, he and his 7th Infantry Company were deployed on the German-Polish border. Prior to this, they had been connected to the order of building the "Eastern Barrier", responsible for the vigilance of such and such a section, and taking turns to train a class.

All the officers and men of the 7th Company were convinced that their task was only to defend and, by the way, to put pressure on the Polish government. And Lyon himself believed that Germany would not send troops to Poland.

It's not that Lyon is confident in how smart he is. The basis for his judgment is entirely based on the habitual thinking that has developed in recent years.

When did Germany really open fire when it invaded the Rhineland, annexed Austria, accepted Czechoslovakia, and received Hungary? It's not all about first mobilizing troops to press over, and then it is logical to achieve the goal.

What's more, this time the Yuan was only a small Danzig corridor, which was almost insignificant compared to the land area obtained when it merged Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

In the eyes of such a petty officer as Lyon, as long as the leaders of the Polish government had a little brains and a better attitude, and returned the Danzig Corridor to Germany, the matter could most likely be resolved peacefully.

After that, the Soviet Union's Polish fight made Lyon blossom. Poland is fighting with the Soviet Union, and it is impossible for Germany to dare to make trouble.

Leon is a small man, and he never thinks about anything big or big. He only knew to pay attention to the news in front of him, such as the war between Poland and the Soviet Union, which he saw as a good opportunity for Germany to sit back and watch the tiger fight. From the perspective of a small person, isn't it the coolest thing in the world for others to fight and watch the excitement themselves?

Unfortunately, the Führer issued an order today, demanding that the German troops on the Eastern Front cross the border after midnight according to the established plan and launch revenge against the Polish invaders who took the initiative to attack Germany.

Lyons did not know why the Poles would take the initiative to attack Germany at such a time, were they not afraid of fighting on two fronts?

However, photographs have appeared in the newspapers of a group of Polish soldiers who went to occupy a German radio station on the Polish-German border and were later killed. I heard that they also cursed the German government in Polish on the radio and announced the Polish invasion of Germany.

"These Polish idiots!" Leon cursed a few words in a very unclean mouth. Their resolute refusal to return the Danzig Corridor has been a matter of criticism at home for some time. Now he dares to shamelessly invade Germany! Are the leaders of Poland in the water in their heads?

At the same time, it was at war with the two great powers of the Soviet Union and Germany, and even a small person like Lyon could guess the result, and the Polish government would not know it!

No one questioned the reality of this inexplicable "Polish invasion", at least not yet in Germany. Reinhardt succeeded in using public opinion to stir up the emotions of the whole country, so that the angry people focused all their attention on how to retaliate. The social worker's newspaper sparked twice as many newspapers in a single day, full of righteous and righteous denunciations.

Germany has been oppressed for too long. Britain bullied, France bullied, and now even Poland, which is in the midst of the war, does not forget to invade Germany, and this is okay!

00:01

"Company commander, midnight has just passed, and it is impossible to take back the order. In other words, in 9 minutes, we are going to participate in a real war! "It was a platoon commander under Leon named Bruce who spoke. He, like Lyon, is a young generation of officers who graduated from a local military academy. Having never seen a real war, they were all in the same extreme tension at the moment.

Nodding, Leon took a deep breath and said, "More than ten years ago, when I was a child, I always envied the predecessors who defeated the French invaders in the Ruhr. Unexpectedly, now I also have the opportunity to go into battle and kill the enemy. ”

After saying that, Leon glanced at his watch again - at 00:05, Germany and Poland will go to war in 5 minutes!

The more nervous you are, the easier it is to remember something from the past. A few minutes before the attack, Leon's mind suddenly came to mind an experience he had had as a child.

It was the first day of the Franco-Belgian invasion of the Ruhr region of Germany. Because it was a weekend, Lyon, who was going to school, happened to be at home that day.

I remember that my father smoked vigorously that day, and after smoking one, he quickly ordered another. Soon, the smell of choking smoke filled the room.

It is for this reason that Leon hated cigarettes extremely from that day on, and thought that he would never smoke in his life.

But later, after the fledgling SS won the battle, the happy father began to smoke one cigarette after another. Leon, who was still young, wondered for a while about this, how sad his father was and smoked, and he was happy to smoke. It can't be a problem with brain extraction, right?

Later, Leon also learned to smoke. On his first day of enlistment, Bruce, who shared a dormitory with him, urged himself to smoke cigarettes. Originally, he didn't want to smoke, but I heard that now everyone in the army can get a free "Flying Fish" brand cigarette produced by the Rhein Company every month, and he does not smoke it for nothing. In line with the principle of not wasting, Lyon simply chose to sell his own "Flying Fish" cigarettes distributed every month.

Yes, contrary to the historical German government's disbelief in smoking by soldiers, Reinhardt not only did not object, but sold his own cigarettes. He imports good quality tobacco leaves from Turkey and then processes and produces his own "Flying Fish" cigarettes.

The leftovers of tobacco leaves from the production of Flying Fish cigarettes are used to add some fillers to produce "Qingyang brand" low-quality cigarettes, which are used as rewards for those prisoners of the Labor Construction Corps.

Regardless of the poor quality of these cigarettes, for those prisoners who can only receive food all year round, this cheap cigarette can actually mobilize their considerable enthusiasm for production. After all, under the premise of a fixed environment, the pursuit of human beings will become how to make their lives as good as possible at the moment. And this is especially true of shrewd Jews.

Of course, the popularization of cigarettes may be a rather black-hearted thing in peacetime. But during the war years, if it was like Hitler's historical Hitler's restriction of military smoking, it would be a brain-dead thing.

Imagine a time when the artillery was under fire, and the soldiers were in danger, and the living brothers today might be left with only corpses tomorrow. At this time, someone told them to be careful of lung cancer and take care of their health, isn't it a joke?

Besides, bullets flew everywhere on the battlefield, blood and mud mixed in the trenches, and the battle was fought day and night. For many soldiers, the only thing that can soothe their nerves and make people forget the reality of the tragic situation for a while is probably a cigarette in their hands.

If you don't leave even this little comfort to the soldiers, then you are truly irresponsible!

Leon in his memory took out another Flying Fish cigarette and prepared to light it. At the moment when he raised his hand to light a cigarette, the number on his watch was impressive - 00:09:30 seconds, half a minute to go, and the war began!