Chapter 217: Aerial Hunt (I)
The 7th Light Panzer Division was assigned to Group A to attack Army Group Lodz in front of it, and after 30 minutes of artillery fire was ready, the assault of the 7th Light Panzer Division began. Li Mo was already in an armored command car, and Li Mo originally wanted to go to the front line, but Li Mo's brothers didn't agree to anything, and only let Li Mo stay in the command car that was slightly safer behind.
Bismarck as the commander of the tank regiment, of course, he was in command of the first line, when the artillery fire stopped, Bismarck took his tank to attack forward, the Polish defense line is still about 20 kilometers away from the border line, so the tank regiment led by Bismarck still needs about an hour to be able to fight with the Polish army, but at this time the German air force will not be idle, they immediately began the second wave of ground support operations after the first wave attacked most of the Polish airfields and bridges.
Supporting the 10th Army was the German Third Air Force, with a total of more than 1,200 aircraft of various kinds, and the commander, Admiral Catherine, this time in order to cooperate with the breakthrough of the 7th Light Armored Division, Catherine specially transferred the 14th Air Division to support Li Mo. This flight division consisted of a bomber regiment, with horizontal bombers and JU87 dive bombers split half.
The air force is the largest front-line combat unit, under the jurisdiction of several aviation corps, aviation divisions, aviation regiments, brigades and ** units. It is mainly responsible for air operations and support to the army throughout the region. Initially there were 4 air groups, and later, with the advance of the German ground forces, 3 new air groups were formed, numbered in Arabic numerals.
The Air Force consists of several aviation divisions, as well as airborne divisions. There are about 300-700 combat aircraft, numbered in Roman numerals. The aviation regiment is also called a wing, the largest tactical establishment, generally under the regiment headquarters and 3-4 brigades, the 4th brigade is usually a training brigade, and since 1941, the 4th brigade of the aviation regiment is also a regular combat unit. The regimental headquarters has about 4 combat aircraft, and each brigade has about 40 combat aircraft. The regiment had about 112 combat aircraft at the beginning of the war, about 164 in the middle of the war, and about 276 at the end of the war. (This is just a theoretical situation)
Aviation Division Command:
"Gerd?"
"Hey! Hitler, I'm Gerd, isn't it time for us to be a general. ”
"Yes, my heroic division commander Gerd, I order you to divide the aviation division into three groups, each group must have fighters, horizontal bombers, dive bombers, clear all obstacles for our tank troops, and at the same time provide complete air cover for our tanks, tell you, division commander Gerd, I don't want to hear reports that even one of our tanks was destroyed by enemy aerial aircraft, can the mission be completed?"
"Hey! Hitler, guaranteed to complete the task, my general. ”
"Well, my valiant Commander Geld, I'm giving you another order."
"General, what order, let's talk about it together."
Gerd began to smile on the phone, but Catherine's order instantly made the youngest German division commander scream.
"Mr. Gerd, I know that you are a brave and fearless man, so you don't have to go back to the battlefield to prove your honor, I order you to stay in the command and not to fly the enemy yourself."
"Ah!! General, spare me, so that I will die of humiliation, my general, you are so great, so holy, so selfless, so benevolent......"
"Boy, that's enough, it's useless for me to pat on the back, where to stay cool, if it's really okay, you can squat in the corner and count the ants."
"General, I don't have any ants here, I've trampled them to death......"
"Then you take off your pants and hang your hair a few times!!"
"Doodoo ......"
Gerd only heard the busy tone of the phone, and Gerd didn't dare to call to intercede now, you must know that at this time in Catherine's command room, the ticking of the telegram, and the sound of the phone have converged into one, and Catherine is also busy, after all, those operational staff officers of Catherine's command have not experienced actual combat, and it is normal to be a little hurried between them, and the group of staff officers trained by Catherine in Spain were all intercepted by other air force units shamelessly, and none of them were transferred to Catherine, and Catherine only gritted her teeth.
Gerd wants to cry without tears, for a person who lives by flying airplanes, this is undoubtedly cruel, but Catherine has no choice, you must know that now Catherine has only a few characters who can be in charge alone, Catherine is not a single one who doesn't want them to die, all of them are alive and for Catherine's use.
If a marshal's subordinates do not remember a famous general who can fight, then the marshal is afraid that his life will not be long. Of course, Gerd won't go to the corner to count the ants, it's a child's game, and the whole aeronaut is still waiting for him to command! The combat grouping Gerd had already made several sets of plans, and there was no need to temporarily organize them at all, otherwise the groups would have to adapt to each other.
"The whole division was ordered to organize according to the No. 1 plan, with 80 fighters in two groups in each group, 24 horizontal bombers, and 60 in two groups of dive bombers, and each group stayed in the air for two hours. Now the first group began to carry out escort and attack missions. ”
Gerd's aviation division is now the same as that of the Wehrmacht Air Force, consisting of 492 aircraft, three regular flight regiments, each with four flying groups, for a total of 12 flying groups, including 6 groups of BF109 fighters, 2 groups of horizontal bombers (only 2 tons of bombs), and 4 groups of dive bombers, each with 40 aircraft. The division headquarters also has a training and supplementary flight regiment with more than 100 planes of various types, and they are responsible for replenishing and guarding the airfield.
A group of convoys that received the order immediately rose into the air and roared straight to the Polish position, and the German radar on the Polish border was constantly scanning the sky within a hundred kilometers of Poland, and the German aviation divisions were of course not going to fight for air supremacy, that was the task of the Luftwaffe, and their task was to bomb the obstacles in front of the tanks,
The first group of the German aviation division roared through the Polish border, and went straight to the group of fortifications built by the Polish army on the border, you must know that Poland is a large plain, and the reinforced concrete fortifications built by Poland are either completely exposed to the ground or semi-crypt-type, and it is too difficult to hide these fortifications in such a terrain, at this time 164 German planes flew over the heads of the Polish defenders.
Poland's tanks are not good, it does not mean that Poland's other weapons are broken copper, Poland's other weapons are still very advanced, not much worse than Germany, Poland suffers from tanks and planes, Poland sees a large group of German planes flying across its own borders, straight to its own position, regardless of 3721, aviation fire of various calibers is a fierce attack on the air.
"Buzz...... Buzzing...... Woowoo...... Woowoo woo ......"
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