[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 592: Fortune in War (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Spurred on by the war, the price of penicillin drugs soon nearly doubled from the ex-factory price. www.biquge.info But even so, the order volume of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and other countries has not decreased or decreased, but has increased geometrically. Take the craziest German Third Reich as an example, a few months ago, the Third Reich's order was only 20 million US dollars, but three months later it directly increased to 70 million US dollars, and even put forward a request of 500 million US dollars to buy a patent for the production of penicillin, but Li Lanqing rejected it.

In addition to Germany, Britain and France and other countries did not dare to lag behind, the number of orders changed almost three times a day, increasing more than one time, and even the United States and the Soviet Union, the two big companies, once again asked Ma Zheng to increase the amount of penicillin drugs.

Li Lanqing did not refuse to come, as long as you have money, we will have medicine, anyway, the production plant in the northern suburbs of San Francisco is under construction all the time, and new production lines are erected every day. From $50 million a month ago to $180 million a month now, aside from the increase in penicillin prices, penicillin production capacity alone has more than tripled.

In just over 10 days, Li Lanqing received an order of $300 million, and all countries have discussed with Li Lanqing that they will maintain such a supply volume in the future.

According to Li Lanqing's estimate, if the eighth production line is put into production by the end of this year, Huaxia Company will be able to produce 150 tons of penicillin per year, and one ton of penicillin will be able to produce about 20 tons of liquid and solid capsules and other drugs, worth as much as 20 million US dollars, and 150 tons will be worth 30 billion yuan.

This data is shocking, you must know that even the United States, the number one economic power at this time, has a fiscal revenue of only 120 billion US dollars a year, so Ma Zheng is really not worried about his insufficient production, he is only worried that the warring sides have no money to buy.

Ma Zheng's business is booming, but the whole territory of Poland is full of cannons. Poland itself is a political freak, which is also reflected in its shapeless geography. It has no permanent appearance, no continuum of polity or national purpose. It disappeared from the map of Europe several times and was divided into provinces that became powerful powers.

Poland is bordered by the Soviet Union to the east, Germany to the west, Czechoslovakia to the south, and the Baltic Sea to the north. Therefore, this country naturally became the "fat meat" coveted by Hitler, and he wanted to occupy it as soon as possible.

But at the outset of the war Poland was strategically unfavorable, and its whole territory could be seen as a weak convex corner inserted into Germany, bordering East Prussia to the north and Czechoslovakia to the south, and the whole terrain was flat enough to allow Germany to rush in from the west. And behind it, to the east, stood the Soviet Union, which had recently been linked to Germany through the non-aggression pact orchestrated by Ribbentrop.

The Germans did not give in to the British, the French, they had come out of the embarrassment of the First World War, and after the Anglo-French declared war on them, the Germans continued to advance into the heart of Poland.

In fact, it took the Germans only about four days to break through the entire Polish defense, which far exceeded the expectations of the British and French and even the Polish high command, and in their opinion it would take at least three months for the Germans to reach Warsaw, after all, Poland's military strength was not weak, with a population of 30 million and an army of 100,000, especially Poland and the most powerful cavalry in the whole of Europe.

But the Poles, and even the vast majority of the military in Europe, did not know that cavalry, a type of military that was no longer suitable for the era of hot weapons, should have been thrown into the dustbin of history long ago.

Although Poland was not a military power at that time, it was not comparable to the small countries of Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Ludenburg. However, Poland was still very weak compared to the powerful Germany. Of course, this only refers to the years when World War II was about to break out, and as for why Hitler didn't clean up other countries, he had to look at Poland, and finally built so many concentration camps in Poland and slaughtered so many Polish Jews.

In addition to the factors of Poland's geographical location, there is also a point that after Germany's defeat in World War I, Poland hoped that Germany would collapse from then on, so it tried every means to weaken Germany, and in Germany's unbearable more than ten years, Poland did not "take care" of Germany, so it had the root of the previous planting.

At that time, the backward and conservative Polish army was almost unaware of the great changes in the outside military, let alone the great power of the tanks used by the German army, but remained in the era of cavalry omnipotence. The Polish cavalry had to be said to be brave, they used spears and sabers to face German tanks and armored vehicles, they defended their dignity as a soldier with their lives, but they still did not return the security and freedom of the country.

On the battlefield, Poland thought that the armor of German tanks was nothing more than camouflage made of tinplates. So the Polish cavalry swarmed up and launched a fierce attack on the German tanks with their sabers and spears. The Polish cavalry was very brave, and they swept in like a storm, and the sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing was resounded.

However, the guns of the German tank units were much more powerful than the cavalry. The cavalrymen fell in rows and columns, barely able to get close to the tanks. The Poles were indeed heroic, the front fell, the back made up, and the Germans in the tank felt that this was no longer a battlefield, but a shooting range or even a slaughterhouse. Seeing that the Poles had no intention of surrendering, or even retreating, the Germans happily went to kill one by one, row after row.

An even greater catastrophe was yet to come, as the Germans, having broken through the Polish lines, advanced into the heart of Poland at a speed of 50-60 kilometers per day. Rundstedt's Army Group South, with Reichenau's 10th Army Corps as the main force in the center, Liszt's 14th Army Corps as the right flank, and under the cover of the 8th Army Corps of Blaskovice on the left flank, advanced from the west and southwest towards the middle reaches of the Vistula; Bock's Army Group North, with Kruger's 4th Army Corps as the main force, plunged eastward into the "Polish Corridor", while Küller's 3rd Army Corps moved south from East Prussia to Warsaw and the Bug River behind Warsaw.

This is the great march of mechanized troops on a scale unprecedented in the history of human warfare, and in this great march. Guderian, the founder of the German Panzer Corps, successfully practiced his theory of Panzer Corps and led the 19th Panzer Corps to a brilliant victory. After the start of the war, Guderian led his troops to quickly break through the Polish border defense line, crossed the Brachy River, and then immediately advanced to the line of the Vistula River, completing the encirclement of the Polish army "Pomerania" in the "Polish Corridor" area.

By 22 September, all three infantry divisions and one cavalry brigade of the Polish "Pomerania" corps had been annihilated, while the four divisions commanded by Guderian had only 150 dead and 700 wounded.

The tactical surprise attack was completely successful because the hypocritical Polish politicians, despite knowing the danger of the situation. Just constantly giving false assurances to the people. Maybe it's not fake, maybe their allies lied to them. Almost all of the Polish Air Force, totaling a thousand aircraft, were destroyed on the ground, and the Luftwaffe flew freely in the skies, mastering absolute air supremacy.

Polish ground resistance was also weak against strong, and the brave Polish cavalry on the battlefield charged the tank formation. And then like leeks were harvested by the German armored forces with bullets and artillery.

The German lightning attack put the Polish army completely in a situation of passive beating, which was the first time that the Poles and the world experienced the taste of "blitzkrieg".

The combat thinking of the Polish army command was still before the First World War, and they did not know anything about the German mechanized troops, but they were overconfident in their military strength, arrogant and ignorantly counting on the assistance of Britain and France, so they deployed all their troops on the German-Polish border, thinking that as long as they carried out a resolute counterattack, they could achieve victory. This kind of deployment, which had no flexibility in advance or retreat, caused the Polish army to be either annihilated or divided and surrounded under the advance of the German army at high speed and depth, and became a lone army left behind the German army, and the resistance quickly collapsed.

However, to the great confusion of Germany and other countries, although Britain and France deployed millions of troops on the Western Front, they did not move and declared no war. Watching the Germans push towards Warsaw, the capital of Poland, step by step, these two allies really embarrassed and speechless the Poles!

Under a powerful German attack, the Polish army was quickly routed. Twenty-eight days after the start of the war, 120,000 defenders of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, surrendered. A country with a population of 34 million and an army of more than 1 million has been shattered in just over a month. (To be continued.) )