Chapter 185: The Origin of Cavalry Cutting Tanks

The 111 and 112 tank ........ frantically crossed their machine guns, sweeping rows and rows of soldiers off their horses like wheat.

The bullets fired by the Polish soldiers hit the two German tanks in a single pong, leaving a shallow bullet mark.

Still, Wittmann, sitting inside the tank, didn't even feel the slightest bit worried. Because he understands that even if a small-caliber shell hits, the pouring armor of the T3 will be difficult to penetrate, let alone this "light" bullet.

"They're finished!" Vic sighed through the walkie-talkie.

When he said this, Vic's heart was happy.

More than ten minutes ago, he was shocked by the appearance of a battalion of Polish cavalry in front of him, and he was worried that his own few paintings were not at all a hundred times the color of his enemy opponent.

But now, Vic saw with his own eyes the Polish army coming in waves, and batch after batch of people being killed. At this rate, the hundreds of Polish cavalrymen would have been swept to the ground by machine guns before they could get close to the tank.

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The Polish cavalry, the legendary unit that defeated the Swedish Iron Cavalry and the Russian Cossack Cavalry, and was famous for its low casualty rate in the history of the world's cavalry, was ended today by two German tanks!

Two hundred years ago, several hundred Polish lancers attacked a Spanish artillery position that even an infantry division could not reach. Two hundred years later, two German tanks slaughtered several hundred elite Polish cavalry. The glory and courage of the Polish cavalry came to an end in the face of the excellent military equipment of the German army.

It wasn't that the Polish cavalry weren't brave, but that their technical equipment was so poor that they could only blow up Wittmann and Vik's tanks at close range with such a crude weapon as an explosive pack.

Due to ignorance of the German armored forces, the 13th Cavalry Division, which Felippowitz brought back, did not carry anti-tank artillery that was inconvenient to transport. And this kind of luck psychology directly led to the fact that there is not a single reliable anti-tank weapon in the cavalry battalion at the moment (of course, even if the Polish army brought back small-caliber anti-tank guns from the Eastern Front, it would be difficult to penetrate the T3 medium tank with 45 mm inclined armor. )

Even so, this Polish cavalry unit was worthy of being composed of elite officers and men of the 13th Division, and it was not until their casualty rate exceeded 30 percent, that is, the loss of more than 200 cavalry, that the formation of this army completely collapsed.

After all, a unit like the German 30th Division that can hold out to the last soldier is still extremely rare. Most troops should have lost their offensive capability by the time the casualties reached 10 percent, and this battalion of Polish cavalry fought until the casualty rate reached 30 percent, and was fully worthy of the title of elite force.

In less than 20 minutes, a fully formed cavalry battalion under Felippowitz lost 448 cavalrymen and more than 300 wounded.

On the other hand, on the other hand, Wittman and Vic, the two tanks were left with only a shallow bullet mark, some paint dropped, and a little more ammunition expended. The crew was unscathed, the tank was intact, and a crushing victory was struck.

In the end, although it was known that the Polish army was charging to bring explosives to bomb the tanks, after receiving the battle report submitted by Wittmann and Vik, the commander of the 1st SS Panzer Division could not believe this brilliant victory, let alone that the Polish army would charge for such a stupid reason.

However, although this is incredible, it is still an outstanding victory, demonstrating the strong military and technological strength of the German army to crush Poland. As an exception, the 1st SS Panzer Division reported this miraculous course of battle to Führer Reinhardt.

Who thinks Reinhardt is even more exaggerated, after getting the report, he didn't say that it was not the Polish cavalry transporting explosives packages, and slandered that this was the stupid cavalry of the Polish army trying to stab the tank with a saber and spear, and Yan Youse personally wrote an article - "Shock, there are countries in the world that try to hit tanks with cavalry"

In the article, Reinhardt made a false point of pointing out that the Poles thought that the German tanks were nothing more than a layer of tinned iron, and described the battle experienced by Wittmann as the Poles rushing at two huge tanks in droves, but their swords and spears could not inflict any damage on the Germans, and finally fled in despair and despair.

What's even more shameless is that Reinhardt even specially recruited a few reporters to put a few spears on top of a T3 tank in the rear, and then took photos as evidence of the Polish cavalry stabbing tanks.

In the end, as soon as this article came out, it immediately shocked many people.

What is even more puzzling is that the governments of Germany and Poland actually acquiesced to the authenticity of the article! In this matter, the two hostile countries in the war actually reached a rare agreement - pretending, pretending to be confused.

For the German government, the article showed their advanced and Poland's backwardness, and ridiculed the weakness and ignorance of their opponents while preaching the might of the Third Reich's "blitzkrieg". There is one meaning in the words, should such a country exist in the universe? Shouldn't it be up to the great Führer to carry it to prosperity?

For their part, the Polish government felt that the article glorified its heroism and created a "Donquix-esque" tragic image that would win the sympathy and help of the League of Nations.

In the end, however, it is clear that Germany is the one that has benefited the most. Because after reading this report and comparing the default attitude of the Polish government, the countries of the League of Nations actually appeared many people who believed in it, driven by public opinion, and finally abandoned the "stupid" Poland.

"Führer, it's not good for us to make it up like this." As a journalist, the director of the German social worker newspaper always felt that the nonsense of "cavalry cutting tanks" was really too big and embarrassing.

"What? You don't think anyone will believe it. Reinhardt sneered and waved his hand: "I can tell you with certainty that even in a few decades, there will be many people who believe my nonsense (because he was deceived into believing it for a while). ”

Mr. Newspaper, who has always been strict, now wants to scold this wayward Führer, even if history is written by the victors, but it is not to be scribbled!

As if seeing through the psychological activities of Mr. President, Reinhardt smiled: "There's nothing to worry about, the articles have been published, can you take it back?" I said that if someone will believe it, someone will believe it, although it is more than enough to deceive those politicians, and it is more than enough to deceive their people. It is enough to be able to guide public opinion by deceiving and deceiving the people! ”

"Also," Reinhardt sneered, "I just want to disgust Mussolini's grandson and make him regret that he didn't take the opportunity to bully the weak with us." This guy wants to show off his muscles, and if he sees the Polish army, which claims to be the fifth in Europe, so stupid, he didn't take the opportunity to show off the strength of the 'New Roman Empire', he must have lost his intestines! Aha........"