Polish Army Commander Rez-Śmivig arrived at the High Command in the Polish Ministry of Defense at 10:40, six hours after the outbreak of the war. For the previous six hours, he had breakfast and meetings, especially in the Belverdel Palace, which had been diverted by the German bombing.

There were also many issues discussed, including not only the further mobilization of forces for a decisive battle with Germany, but also the possibility of co-opting the Soviet Union against Germany - conditions including the division of the lands of right-bank Ukraine and Western Belarus, and the agreement of the Soviet Union to annex the German states of Poland. In return, the Soviet Union had to support Poland's annexation of East Prussia, Poracenia, and all of Silesia.

Germany was thinking about how to disintegrate Poland, and the Polish high command certainly had to think about using the same means to deal with Germany. Reitz-Śmiwig then spent more than an hour at a meeting attended by the British and French ambassadors explaining the benefits of partitioning and dismembering Germany - his concrete idea was that Poland would be given to the Soviet Union, East Prussia, Poland and all of Silesia, independence would be restored to Austria and Czechoslovakia, Belgium and France would be divided up among the Rhine industrial regions, and what was left of Germany would be completely "deindustrialized".

Very good wishful thinking, which was immediately approved by the French ambassador. Rez-Shimivig expects Britain and the Soviet Union to be tempted in a few weeks. Poland would then be able to unite all of Europe against Germany, and victory would only be a matter of time.

But when he returned to his headquarters with confidence, he immediately heard some very bad news.

"Your Excellency, Army Group Rhodes reports that the 28th Infantry Regiment of the 15th Infantry Division at the southern end of their line of defense was routed by the German tank group (16th Panzer Army), and at the moment the German tanks are advancing in the direction of the Warta River.

Army Group Krakow reported that the first line of defense of their 23rd Infantry Division and the 55th Reserve Infantry Division had been broken through by German tank units (15th Panzer and 22nd Panzer Corps), and that these two divisions were currently holding the defensive line in reserve. The Krakow Army Group hoped to receive immediate reinforcements from the Prussian Army Group in order to create a new line of defense.

Primorsky Army Group reported that the Germans had formed a breakthrough on the front line of the Tuhora Forest, and the 15th Division was bogged down in bitter battles. In addition, the 9th Division on the southern flank of the Primorsky Army was also stormed, and the situation was very critical. Major General Krukowiš Přetemirsky is organizing a retreat in the hope of creating a defensive line on the eastern bank of the Brashi River.

Army Group Modlin also reported that they were under onslaught from the German forces in East Prussia and that their defensive lines were precarious, although they had not yet been breached.

In addition, the Lithuanian Army Group reported that a large number of German troops had already poured across the border......"

"The Germans are quite aggressive," Rez-Himiwig smiled indifferently, "but our men can handle it, and their breakthrough won't last long." By the way, have the Air Force losses been counted? ”

"It has been counted that the Warsaw destroyer brigade lost 69 aircraft, of which 37 were shot down in air battles, and the rest were blown up on airfields. The planes that were blown up at the airfield were mostly old reserve aircraft. The 2nd regiment in Krakow lost 20 front-line aircraft and 25 reserve aircraft. The 3rd regiment of Poznan lost 19 front-line aircraft and 30 reserve aircraft. The 4th regiment of Toruń lost 22 first-line aircraft and 18 reserve aircraft ......"

The Polish commander-in-chief was somewhat upset by the barrage of losses, and now within a few hours of the start of the war, the Polish Air Force had lost hundreds of aircraft. Although compared to the 1900 aircraft on the books of the Polish Air Force, the losses seem to be bearable. But the 1900 aircraft of the Polish army are nothing more than bluff figures, and most of them simply cannot have a fight. The available fighters were no more than a few models, such as the PZL.7 and PZL.11, with a total of only about 200 aircraft.

It's almost all lost now! In less than half a day, the best aircraft of the Polish Air Force were depleted!

"What about the Navy?" Rez-Shimivig's heart actually didn't know what to do, so many tanks were used to break through, so many planes dropped bombs in the sky The war was completely unknown to him, so he could only change the topic, "How is the Navy's 'Beijing operation' executed?" ”

"It didn't work out, but the fleet was still intact, and the Germans were just blocking the harbor and not attacking."

"Operation Beijing" was a battle plan of the Polish Navy, not the Chinese Navy, which was actually to let three Polish destroyers escape and go to Britain.

It was supposed to be carried out on August 30, but at that time the Danzig Bay was full of large warships of the German Baltic Fleet. As soon as the Polish destroyer went out, it was blocked and followed by German cruisers. Fearing a sudden outbreak of war, 3 Polish destroyers turned back to the port of Danzig.

And the port of Danzig was not attacked by the Baltic Fleet, because the defense of Danzig was very strong - the Poles had been illegally defending this city that was not part of Poland for 20 years (even according to the Treaty of Versailles, Poland was only responsible for the foreign relations of Danzig, and did not have the power to turn Danzig into a Polish naval fortress), and part of this "free city" had actually become a naval fortress of Poland.

Therefore, it was very difficult to capture it from the sea, so the task of capturing the city of Danzig (the fortified area could be solved after the surrender of Poland) was entrusted to the 4th Army, which was attacking by land.

And now, the 3rd Panzer Division, the vanguard of this army group, is now overpowering the positions of the 59th Infantry Regiment of the 15th Infantry Division of the Polish Army, and is rumbling towards the Brashi River to the east.

As soon as the division breaks through the Brachy, the Polish Primorsky Army Group will be cut in two!

Guderian was sitting in his armored car, listening to the commander of the 3rd Panzer Division, Major General Schwebenburg, report on the losses of the entire division.

Of course, the losses were very minor, because the anti-tank firepower of the Polish army was too weak, and an infantry regiment had only 9 37mm anti-tank guns, and a division was 27 37mm guns, scattered along the long line of defense, so it was basically useless.

As for other anti-tank weapons, the WZ35 anti-tank gun, which was more useful in the hands of the Polish army, but the Polish infantry did not use this weapon very often, and it did not play a role, but the soldiers of the 3rd Panzer Division picked up a lot.

In addition, the 20mm cannon version of the TKS small tank of the Poles could also be used against tanks. However, there seemed to be very few TKS tanks of this model, and Guderian saw only one damaged TKS with a 20mm gun on it when passing through the Tuhora forest, and the rest of the dozen TKSs pushed to the side of the road had only machine guns.

“…… If we only count the total damage, we only lost 2 armored vehicles and 1 tank No. 2 and 1 38t tank in 5 hours of the battle, all of which were destroyed by 37mm guns. However, there were as many as 32 tanks and armored vehicles that could not be moved due to mechanical problems. ”

Pointing to a broken down tank on the side of the road, Major General Schwebenburg said: "This may have something to do with the rush to advance, and our division has already advanced at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour. In wartime, this speed is too impressive. Not only is it a big test of equipment, but it can also disconnect us from the large forces in the rear. ”

"It doesn't matter," said Guderian with a nonchalant wave of his hand, "just continue to break through, as long as we can cross the Brachy River, the Polish Primorsky Army will be finished." The divisions they had in the face of Pomerania would have been divided, and the forces they had in the face of East Prussia would have been attacked from behind. I hope to break through the Brachy tonight and advance to the Vistula tomorrow! ”

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"Get out of the way, get out of the way, we don't have time to capture you!"

Gustav. Schwarzenegger said something in blunt Polish that he couldn't believe - there's no time to take you prisoner! And this "you" refers to thousands of Polish routers who blocked the roads.

Most of these Polish routs belonged to the 59th and 62nd regiments of the Polish army, but some were directly subordinate units of the 15th Polish division. Their line was broken through by German tanks between 9 o'clock and 9:30 a.m.

The process of breakthrough was very simple, the Germans did not even prepare artillery fire, and directly let tanks and motorized infantry rush into the Polish defense line with Major General Pzhyakovsky, the commander of the 15th Polish Division, and hundreds of remnants of the defeated army, and then continued to pursue them non-stop.

Major General Pzhyakovsky, who continued to retreat, sent some troops behind the palace to delay the German offensive. But the forces he was able to gather had neither decent anti-tank weapons nor the determination to fend off the steel monsters, so they were all on the verge of collapse.

It didn't take long for the retreating group to be wiped out by the rapid advance of the German armored forces. Every Pole now only thinks of fleeing quickly, fleeing immediately, for they simply cannot defeat the torrent of German tanks.

In the end, these routs, who had run frantically for more than ten or twenty kilometers, had exhausted their physical strength, and sat on the road in despair, waiting desperately to be captured, and they had become an obstacle to the advance of the German vanguard.

"Get out of the way! If you don't get out of the way, I'm going to crush you all to death! Gustas spoke in a menacing tone. Sure enough, the Poles got up and poured into the ripe wheat fields on both sides of the road, leaving only a field of guns on the road.

"Leave the guns alone, press through! Our goal is the Brachy River Bridge! Panzer Meyer, who commanded a heavily armored reconnaissance company reinforced with several No. 4 tanks, yelled at the communicator, "Full speed ahead, take the Brachy River bridge, and we'll win!" (To be continued.) )