"Attention to all personnel, at nine o'clock there is a large number of Polish cavalry units rushing in, a distance of ten kilometers, all tanks in a fan, advancing at a constant speed of thirty kilometers, armored vehicles attacking in a roundabout."

In 1939, the commander-in-chief of the Rotz Army, Rumeer, after receiving a telegram from the Polish Fifth Infantry Division for help, urgently sent his two cavalry brigades to support the first line, which was the only mobile force in Rumeer's hands, and now the whole of Poland, several directions were fiercely attacked by the German army, the Polish army was passive everywhere on defense, and everywhere was asking for reinforcements, Rummel decided to use two cavalry brigades to reinforce the Fifth Infantry Division after weighing the pros and cons.

What Rummel did not expect was that the 5th Infantry Division was facing the most advanced SS panzer units, with a separate aviation division, and the SS Panzer unit of more than 300 tanks was ready for the enemy, and Wittmann (then a German SS colonel) was dining like the other soldiers. The armourers were resting, some were having breakfast, some were freshening up, but most were ready for a new battle......

The terrible battle alarm caused everyone to rush to the ground, leaving countless things on the ground, food, mirrors, razors, all of which were discarded by the SS who rushed to the combat post, and soon the real SS tank assault group was finished and roared out, and the dust raised by the entire tank group obscured the sky.

"Look to the east," one of the soldiers shouted, and the eyes of the armored soldiers converged to the east. Wittmann vaguely saw a large group of men moving in the dusty place to the east. He quickly used his binoculars to see a large group of cavalry rushing towards him in the distance, and judging by their clothing, it was the Polish royal cavalry......

The panzer division was ready, the battle began, and the rumbling tanks lined up in a straight line and immediately rushed to the front. Wittmann rushed to the forefront in a "Copycat 99" tank.

On the Polish plains, 300 "Shanzhai 99" main battle tanks were mainly engaged in frontal combat, with armored vehicles protruding from the flanks and fighting long distances. The Germans tried to bury the Poles here.

In an instant, shells poured into the ranks of the Poles, and many Polish cavalrymen were blown up, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere. Subsequently, the armored division quickly cut into the enemy position and launched a new offensive. The Polish cavalry, which had no anti-tank weapons at all, stabbed the tank's steel plates with sabers and spears, or fired at it with rifles, while the German armorers hiding inside easily swept the Polish cavalry off their horses by firing them through the holes of their guns.

Wittmann drove the tank to the forefront, turning the joystick to run the Polish cavalry in a serpentine manner, and when the Polish cavalry in front of him were buried under the tracks of his tank, Wittmann and his men and horses were crushed into pulp. The other tankers were also enthusiastic about the game, and they stopped firing from the machine guns and turned to this crazy action. The battle turned into a massacre, and the Poles were stunned by this barbaric style of play, and many Polish cavalry tried to flee in horror as their comrades were devoured by these steel monsters. However, this nimble and mobile steel beast ran no worse than their horses, and many Polish cavalry disappeared into the wilderness with the rumble of tanks.

In the wilderness of the Polish plains, the fierce Polish cavalry was helpless against the German tank corps, and their galloping horseshoe prints were quickly swallowed up by the criss-crossed tracks of the German iron wolves, leaving only large patches of blood and minced meat......

Wittmann tried to advance farther away, but the tank tracks were squeezed by dead human flesh and could not move. He lit another cigarette, then opened the hatch and jumped out at a rapid speed, he picked up his machine gun and aimed at the surrounding Poles, "click......", the Polish cavalry fell to the bottom, and then the bones were crushed by the German tanks that rushed up. The Polish cavalry, which had escaped by chance, was surrounded by outflanked armored vehicles and annihilated.

The battle lasted for nearly an hour, and 15,000 Polish royal cavalry evaporated from the earth. The only proof of their existence is the minced meat that has been crushed deep into the dirt in the wilderness.

The fall of the Polish Royal Cavalry opened the door to Warsaw for the main force of the German Panzer Division and also opened the prelude to the defense of Warsaw. This is a dark page in the history of modern warfare, but it also proves the maturity of the theory of tank warfare.

In the current German-Polish War, the Polish cavalry and the German tank duel happened really, and there were heavy casualties, more than 10,000 Polish cavalry survived less than 1,000 people, which was still left after Weitmann stopped attacking after those Polish cavalry raised the white flag, and the rest were all buried on this side of the land.

There is also a lot of controversy in real history about the Polish cavalry versus the German tanks, and there is a saying that is like this.

This is a later report, and it is impossible to verify his authenticity:

"Of the anecdotes about the European theater of the early years of World War II, the desperate charge of the heroic Polish cavalry with their spears against German tanks is one of the most talked about war scenes. It is generally said that when a cavalry brigade of the Polish army broke through, because they did not understand the performance of the tanks, they launched a quixotic attack on the German tanks with their spears. The Germans were taken aback at this, but soon came to their senses and mercilessly fired at the Polish troops with tank guns and machine guns, crushing them with heavy tracks. The battlefield duel imagined by the Polish knights turned into a massacre of disparity, and Don Quixote's joke was foolishly recreated. The legend of the "spear battle tank" has been widely recognized, including by both sides of the war, and has been used in some serious historical documentaries. The 1959 Polish film "Retcna", starring Roman Polanski, about the life of cavalry, played an important role in promoting the spread of this story.

So what does the truth of history really look like? Did the Polish cavalry really think that the armor of the tank was nothing more than a camouflage made of tin plates, so there was a collision between the flesh and blood of the war horse and the steel body of the tank? We might as well turn the page of history once again and enter that war-torn era.

The story of the "spear battle tank" comes from the battle of Krojanty on September 19, 1939, when the Polish 18th Cavalry Regiment launched an attack on the junction of the 2nd and 20th motorized divisions of the German 19th Panzer Corps led by Guderian in the process of covering the general retreat of the Polish army in the "Danzig Corridor". Crush the German infantry that caught them off guard. In the course of the pursuit, the German armored units stationed around heard the news and rushed to attack the unprepared Polish cavalry on the plain, the fierce strafing of machine guns caused great damage to the Polish cavalry without cover, the regimental commander Colonel Materaza and the regimental chief of staff were killed on the spot, the Polish cavalry lost more than 100 people, and the Polish cavalry that suffered losses quickly retreated.

The next day, the Italian war correspondent Giorgio Parada, who came to interview him, saw the corpses and broken spears of Polish cavalry and war horses lying on the battlefield, and the German tanks patrolling around the battlefield, and based on interviews with German soldiers who participated in the battle, he published a famous newsletter, saying that the Polish elite cavalry did not understand the performance of tanks, and thought that the tank armor was a camouflage made of tin plates, and attacked the German tanks again and again with spears, and suffered devastating blows, and this report caused a sensational effect. In this way, the myth of "the Polish cavalry charging German tanks with spears" spread.

Obviously, the Italian journalist's report was exaggerated, and some of the details did not correspond to the reality of the time. First of all, it is a bit unrealistic to say that the Polish cavalry did not know what tanks were, and thought that they were camouflages made of tinplates. Tanks were born in the First World War, and Germany's blitzkrieg on Poland was in 1939, nearly two decades in between, and tanks could not still be a secret weapon. The Polish army was also equipped with tanks, including 220 light tanks and 650 ultra-light tanks at its disposal to resist the invasion. From this, it can be seen that it is an exaggeration to say that the Polish army does not know what tanks are. Secondly, it is also somewhat inconsistent to say that the Polish cavalry units charged with spears. The pre-World War II Polish cavalry was no longer the fat cavalry of Vienna in 1683, and the spear had disappeared from the standard equipment of the Polish cavalry in 1934.

Why, then, did Poland and Germany, which participated in the war, not come out to clarify the truth of the battle for a long time? This is probably due to a tacit understanding between the two sides: the Poles need to use this story to praise their fearless heroism against the invaders, and the Germans need to use it to exaggerate the Iron Stream of the Third Reich and the power of the "blitzkrieg". And as time passed, the truth was gradually obliterated. ”

Whatever the truth of the matter, at this time Weitmann basically opened the road to Warsaw, and if the Polish "Prussian Army Group" had also set up a defensive line in front of the 1st SS Panzer Division, the same merciless crushing awaited him there.

According to intelligence, the "Prussian" army group (8 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry brigade, commander General Dombu-Bernatsky) was the 2nd echelon, deployed in the Kielce, Tomaszov-Mazovetsky, Radom regions.

Zhang Jun was in the army headquarters, and he also did not dare to relax at all, this was the first battle of his own troops, and the first stop must be prestigious, famous, and morale, if the first battle is a defeat, then this unit will not be easy to bring in the future.

"Report to the commander, report to the front."

"Read."

"The Viking Division of the 1st SS Panzer Corps, reporting to the command post of the army, our armored group set off at 4 o'clock on September 1, 1939, crossed the Polish border, and arrived at the defense line of the Polish army group an hour later, and then deployed 300 tanks and corresponding armored vehicles to carry out a lightning assault on the Polish position, with the strong assistance of the air force, our army broke through the Polish defense line in only one hour, annihilated a large number of defenders, and the rest of the Polish army was scattered.

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