Manstein's speculation about the Polish campaign soon came true, and the German invasion of Poland, which began on April 5, 1934, was indeed carried out with great ease. Arrows and pins on military maps stretched simultaneously into Poland from three directions: the German mainland, Czechoslovakia, and the Baltic Sea, and day by day approached the Warsaw and Soviet-Polish borders.

Millions of German soldiers, wearing steel helmets and covered in dust, marched in columns across Poland in columns of their Stalker tank destroyers and Tank III (which, unlike the historical No. 3, was developed on the basis of the Stalker's territory), marched in continuous columns for several kilometers. This qiē proceeded slowly, drearily, and methodically, and was expected by the German High Command, except that it did not meet the planned stubborn resistance.

Of course, resistance does not mean that there is no zài, in fact the resistance of the Poles is quite stubborn. On every front, the Polish Red Army was trying its best to block the German offensive, and the situation was clear, this time the Germans were by no means trying to liberate Poland from the enslavement of the GCD, they were destroying the country! If the Poles do not rise up and resist, their homeland will disappear forever and there will be no more! If they resisted, the outcome would not have changed much, because their Soviet masters had already withdrawn from Poland ahead of schedule, and had taken with them almost all the equipment, gold and silver treasures, talents, and grain from the granaries of the collective farms. Unless the Germans were willing to share their food reserves with the Poles, the Poles would have to choose between dying in battle and starving. Obviously. The Germans did not have such a good conscience, so there was one way out in front of the Poles, and that was to fight to the death!

For the Germans, though. The desperate resistance of the Poles was not a problem at all, perhaps it was what they expected, which gave the Germans a reason to massacre Polish strongmen in large numbers! At the same time, it was also an opportunity to test the German armored assault combat capability. The German Army, which was once the target of imitation by the armies of all countries in the world, became "obscure" after the First World War, especially after the rise of the Soviet Red Army, the light that once belonged to the German Army was completely achieved by the Soviet Red Army. Although the Soviets did not have the most advanced weapons in the world, they had the most advanced tactics, the best officers, and the best training. They can fight classic battles again and again with less advanced weapons, although they have also lost some battles in the past year or so. But on the whole, the Soviet Red Army still seized a very large territory from its superior opponents. In the end, the mighty German Army became a student of the Soviet Red Army, learned the tactics of a large-depth assault, and now it is time to use the Poles to train their hands.

But the great depth assault of the Germans still did not hit the momentum of their Soviet teachers. Perhaps because their opponents have seen too many tank cluster assaults. He also knows the essentials of large-depth assault operations. Therefore, although it was defeated, there was no imaginary collapse, let alone the historical scene of using cavalry to attack tank clusters. The Poles defended in depth against the Germans, and with Warsaw at the core, they turned the whole country into a whole system of defense, and all men who could fight took up rudimentary weapons and put up a desperate resistance in every village and town.

In this Great Patriotic War in Poland, the Soviet anti-tank grenade launcher of the 1932 type shone brightly. It became the most troublesome weapon for the German armored forces. This weapon was not very useful in regular positional warfare or tank battles, but it caused considerable losses to the German armored forces in the defense of cities and small-scale ambush battles. According to the later declassified dossier of the German Ministry of Defense. During the entire Polish campaign, more than 1,100 Chaper-Tank destroyers and No. 3 tanks were damaged, of which more than two-thirds of the losses were caused by anti-tank grenade launchers. Of course, this situation is also related to the cheap and easy production and maintenance of the Stalker series of tanks, and the German industry, which has now switched to wartime mode, can produce more than 1,500 Stalker series tanks and strong guns every month, which can completely withstand consumption, so the commanders on the front line will use this cheap tank for urban fortifications in order to reduce the casualties of ordinary soldiers. As a result, the pursuers suffered some unnecessary losses due to weak flank armor and too small artillery firing angles.

But the tenacity of the Polish army, the brilliance of the anti-tank grenade launchers, and the mistakes of one kind or another made by the Germans themselves, combined with this, did not save Poland and even make the German advance slower than the plans of the German high command.

By 12 April, the eighth day after the start of the Polish campaign, the German armored forces reached the city of Warsaw, and on the 14th, the German infantry that arrived later completed the siege of the Polish capital, and after another 24 hours, the German armored units in the north joined the German infantry in the south after landing at Danzig Bay, completing the encirclement of eastern and central Poland. On the same day, the German Army invaded East Prussia, which had been under the control of the German GCD and the Soviet Union for eleven years. Thälmann fled to Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, and a week later established a Red German government-in-exile.

At this point, the first phase of the White Plan was completed, and the next task was to capture several large Polish cities surrounded by regiments, although it would take some time, but there was no suspense about the outcome of the battle. And the reaction of the Soviet Red Army, once again, was beyond the expectations of most people, the mighty Soviet Red Army seemed to evaporate into the air, did not interfere with the actions of the German army in Poland from beginning to end, and watched a Soviet state being torn apart by Germany, without any reaction.

At the same time, the counteroffensive of the German army and the Anglo-German forces in the Balkans and Northern Europe was also in full swing, but the situation in the two theaters was very different. In less than two weeks, the rest of Romania had fallen under the control of Germany and the Kingdom of Romania, except for the region of Bessarabia in northeastern Romania, which was still under Soviet control. Part of the Romanian Red Army followed the Romanian GCD into exile in the Soviet Union, and most of the rest were scattered. However, the Anglo-German attack on Finland was not ideal, as the Swedish army refused to take part in the attack on Finland. The Anglo-German forces were numerically outnumbered, and the terrain in northern Finland was not conducive to the German mechanized forces, so the war quickly ended in a stalemate.

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The news of the joint attack of China, Britain and Germany against the Soviet Union soon spread all over the world, and the Franco-German contradictions and the Spanish incident, which had been hyped up to the brim, suddenly lost their attractiveness, and now that the victory or defeat of the world war seems to be about to be divided, who will have the heart to care about the internal conflict in Spain? As for the Franco-German contradictions. With the Sino-German-Soviet war in full swing, is there still a possibility of intensification?

"The military attache of our embassy in Germany, Colonel Henry, has sent observers to the Polish battlefield, according to what is currently available. The Germans committed between 2.5 million and 3 million troops in this direction, which is about forty percent of the total number of field forces of the German army at present. In addition, a large number of troops were transferred from the Franco-German border to the Eastern Front, and they were likely to participate in the next phase of the offensive on the Soviet mainland. ”

In the Oval Office of the White House, MacArthur stands in front of a map that has been hung up temporarily. Briefing President Roosevelt and key members of his cabinet on the Polish campaign.

Roosevelt, however, was not interested. Gently rubbing his temples, his eyes were solemn, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Instead, it was Secretary of State Hull, Chief of Naval Operations William Brown, and the Secretary of Naval Operations. Leahy, Secretary of the Army Harry. Woodlin and the others all showed expressions of interest. When they learned that the Germans were transferring troops from the Western Front to the Eastern Front, they were surprised: "Douglas, so China and Germany are ready to defeat the Soviet Union in one fell swoop?" If Germany had used their forces on the Western Front to the East, they would have been able to commit more than 6 million troops, and the Chinese would have invested no less than that number in Siberia and Central Asia. God, that's 12 million people, how can Moscow resist it? ”

"In fact, Moscow has far more than 12 million troops. Therefore, in the mere competition of numbers, Trotsky was not at a disadvantage. Although the Soviet army was inferior to its opponents in armament, they also had their own advantages. MacArthur shook his hand and tapped the vast territory of the Soviet Union on the map with his whip: "Trotsky now rules the largest country in the world, more than twice the size of the United States, with complex terrain, harsh climatic conditions, very backward infrastructure, and a people who have the courage to fight and die." All this was very unfavorable to China and Germany, which invaded the Soviet Union. And Trotsky had another advantage that China and Germany did not have, and that was that the Soviet GCD had a strong control over the whole country!

The GCD regime in the Soviet Union was undoubtedly very evil, but it has to be denied that the policies and institutions implemented by this regime were more suitable for war than the democratic systems of China and Germany. According to the report of Colonel Donovan, military attache of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union, the current Soviet Union is a high-speed warplane. The GCD regime has turned the entire country into barracks and arsenals, and the whole of social life revolves around war. Since the beginning of this year, the Soviet government has shouted the slogan of "qiē for the front", which in fact is carried out in this way. All production and activities unrelated to the war had ceased, and every man had to devote himself to the war effort, either fighting to the death on the front lines to become a Red Army, or working in the factories and fields in the rear, working seven days a week, without rest or additional wages, and with a minimum ration of the necessities of life. ”

"It seems that the Russians are living in hell!" U.S. Secretary of the Navy William. Raisi looked surprised, as if he had just learned that the Soviet Union was hell. "But why didn't the Russians overthrow this evil regime?"

"Because they were kidnapped by GCD." Secretary of State Hull explained, smoking a cigar, "In the United States patriotism and the Democratic Party are two different things, in the Soviet Union to love the country is to love the GCD, the will of the leader of the GCD, Trotsky, is the will of the state, and any attempt to overthrow the Soviet GCD and Trotsky is an act against the Soviet state." And...... The Germans and Chinese also do not seem to want to distinguish between the Soviet GCD and the Russian state. The arrangement for the post-war Soviet Union given in the Berlin Agreement was, in fact, a partition and annihilation! Therefore, the Soviet people could only stand with the GCD and Trotsky and resist to the end. ”

"So speaking of which, the Germans and Chinese will definitely get into an unprecedented bitter war on the territory of the USSR?" Several members of the U.S. cabinet smiled gloatingly, as if they had seen the corpses of Germans and Chinese spread across the battlefield.

"And there is a France behind the Germans!" Secretary of State Hull said: "Once the Germans are in a bitter war in the Soviet Union, France will stab them in the back again, haha......"

"But what are the French going to do?" Roosevelt abruptly interjected that Poland was now almost entirely in German hands, but France was vague about it. "Where is Hopkins now?"

"According to the plan, he will fly from Paris to Rome in the afternoon." Hull replied. At the same time as the Soviet-German war resumed, the situation in Spain quickly spiraled out of control. Neither the Spanish Falangist Party, based in Madrid, nor the Spanish Popular Front, based in Barcelona, had any sincerity in resolving the conflict through negotiations. Italy's interference in Spain's internal affairs added a new danger to an already imminent situation, and the French government became more assertive after the resumption of the Soviet-German war, not only providing large quantities of weapons and ammunition to the Spanish Popular Front, but also warning Italy not to allow them to directly send troops to interfere in Spain's internal affairs.

Hopkins, on the other hand, was a characteristic of the U.S. government, who went to Spain to be a peacemaker on both sides of the civil strife in Spain and in France and Italy. Roosevelt obviously did not want to see too much of France's energy being drawn up by Spain, and he was already keenly aware that the Spanish civil strife was most likely caused by Germany behind the scenes, in order to attract France's attention and contain France's forces to ensure the security of Germany's rear.

"Will there be a war between France and Italy over Spain?" Roosevelt asked softly, then turned his gaze to MacArthur.

"No, Your Excellency, I think the chances of a Franco-Italian war are extremely low." The Chief of the General Staff of the Army replied. Because Italy's military strength was simply not enough to defeat the French, and although Mussolini claimed that Italy had 8 million bayonets, no military expert who knew the current state of the Italian army would think that they had the strength to defeat France.

"But behind Italy there is Germany!" Roosevelt reminded.

"Germany must fight the Soviet Union with all its might, and if France and Italy go to war, Germany will certainly not intervene, at least not until the Soviet Union is defeated." MacArthur analyzed. "As far as I know, the German General Staff remembers the dilemma of fighting on two fronts in the last world war with a particularly deep memory."

"It seems that I am overly worried," Roosevelt nodded lightly, and said with a smile, "but I still have to tell Sù Hopkins that Mussolini must try to dispel the idea of sending troops to Spain, and if the Italian dictator is willing to agree, the United States can provide Italy with a loan of 500 million US dollars." ”

"Okay, Mr. President, I'm going to send electricity to Hopkins." Secretary of State Hull took Roosevelt's order and was about to leave his office when he was stopped by the President of the United States. "Kodel, wait a minute, where is the White Russian government-in-exile and the Polish government-in-exile now?"

Hearing this, Hull was slightly stunned, and then replied: "They are all in Switzerland at the moment. ”

"Sue Hopkins, when he finishes his trip to Italy, he will go to Switzerland and invite both government-in-exiles to the United States."

"Mr. President, what do you mean ......"

"We have to make a lot of preparations." Roosevelt smiled faintly and said, "Maybe China and Germany can really eliminate the Soviet Union soon?" ”