Chapter 517 517 Eastern Line Meat Grinder

Except for the Ukrainian Front, which is in chaos because it has no experience in commanding a large-scale armored offensive battle, the progress of the other corps is quite on track.

However, Poland is in a state of chaos, Poland in this time and space was forcibly cut out by Britain and France taking advantage of Russia's weakness after the war, and it has not been trained against the newly born Red Russia like Poland in another time and space. Although many people in the Polish army participated in the First World War, the overall organizational ability of the Polish army command was much worse than that of the foreign powers.

The army system is very complex and cannot be supported by some experienced person who participated in the last war.

Taking the German High Command as an example, the entire High Command does not count the clerks who are responsible for basic affairs such as typing, there are 6,000 staff officers with the rank of officer alone, and the entire German High Command has 15,000 people working every day, it is divided into five large departments with different functions (the establishment of the German High Command in this time and space is different from that in another time and space), and occupies five fairly large office buildings in Berlin.

Just to make the High Command run efficiently, dozens of smart and capable managers are needed.

With such a huge machine, there is no perfect system accumulated over the years, and it is impossible to rely on the personal experience of some members to operate efficiently.

In the first few days of the war, the Polish high command revealed its huge shortcomings in control, and the dispatch of the Polish army in the entire battlefield was already unbalanced, and despite the free sharing of intelligence by the Luftwaffe, they were still unable to move troops smoothly. As a result, the various Polish army groups remained in a state of being in a state of isolation for the first few days of the war.

Fortunately, the grassroots units of the Polish army had a stronger desire to fight than Lin Youde expected, and bravely resisted the Russian troops who were far outnumbered by themselves, but the Russian army was still moving forward.

The Poles still had a whole army reserve in their hands, but their generals were debating in which direction to throw this reserve.

The most unhesitating and efficient thing that the Polish High Command did after the war was to constantly urge the German army to the front.

Unfortunately, the Germans were not under the command of the Polish High Command, and the first German units to arrive began to strengthen the defenses near Warsaw without saying a word, and then the Germans began to build a sniper line on the plain east of Warsaw in order to buy time for strengthening the city of Warsaw.

No matter how urged by the Poles, the Germans did not advance further to the east, let alone save the Polish troops facing the threat of being cut and surrounded by the Russians.

The commander-in-chief of the Polish army called Lin Youde's office directly, but Lin Youde only persuaded him to give orders to the front-line troops to fight to the death, so as to buy time for the Germans to set up a defensive line.

"Time is the key to keeping Warsaw," Lin Youde said to the anxious commander-in-chief of the Polish army on the phone, "even if your troops are exhausted, you must hold off the Russian army and buy us time." For each additional day gained, more German troops were deployed near Warsaw. ”

In fact, Lin Youde was also very helpless, the transportation efficiency of the Polish railway was too low, and most of the German troops and ordnance were stuck on the railway. In order not to affect the already terrible speed of troop projection, Lin Youde could only ask his wives to temporarily stop when they advanced to Poznan, give up the railway, and let the troops come forward first.

Fortunately, at this time, the Russian goddess was also in Minsk and Kiev, and it looked like she was not ready to launch an offensive war for the time being.

It seems that both sides are acquiescing in letting the conventional forces fight it out first.

Judging from the current situation, the situation in the Far East did distract Iron Ji, and instead of transferring Shenji and related auxiliary teams from the three eastern provinces and Korea, she also sent a Shenji to central Russia to prevent the Chinese Shenji who was guarding Xinjiang from turning to the revolutionary government and taking the opportunity to recover Ili and other places that Russia had taken advantage of the chaos in the previous Yingzhou War of Independence.

Judging by the present situation, as long as the revolution in China succeeds and China establishes a pan-humanist republic, then Russia must retain considerable forces in the Far East and Central Asia.

At that time, the newly established pan-humanist China would not need to actually attack the three eastern provinces, as long as the Shenji was placed on the border, Iron Ji would have to continue to keep his Shenji in the Far East, and even draw Shenji from Europe to strengthen these places.

After all, the U.S. imperialists themselves only have four gods -- one is still a surrendered general, and even if the United States guarantees the security of the three eastern provinces, it is impossible for the steel queen to transfer his own gods. Because it is impossible for the Americans to fight hard for the Ming Empire for the sake of Russia when the number of gods is inferior.

By March 10, 1939, the situation on the Polish battlefield was becoming clearer.

The Russian-Belorussian Front, departing from Belarus, completely encircled Bialystok and began to prepare fire on the units of the Polish Third Army inside the city, which looked like it would be attacked within a few days.

The Russian army from Ukraine was divided into two fronts, the first Ukrainian front and the second Ukrainian front, the first Ukrainian front directly took Lublin, and the second Ukrainian front advanced towards Krakow, apparently intending to take Bohemia directly in order to contain Germany and prevent Germany from transporting troops to Warsaw.

These two roads have been determined to be the main forces of the Russian army, while the Russian troops from Lithuania belong to the covering and flanking forces, and are currently slowly advancing along the shore of the lagoon next to the Bay of Gdansk.

On the Polish side, of the five army groups lined up along the border, the Second Army received little attack, and now they are located in the salient between the northern and central routes of the Russian army, seemingly ignored by the Russian army. The Second Army tried to attack Bialystok, but was blocked by the Russians. The Second Army itself was not strong, and it lacked the equipment needed for offensive operations, especially the small number of battle warriors, and it was not up to the task of rushing to help.

The 1st Army, the far north, had lost a lot of positions, but due to the limited strength of the Russian army in front of it, the army had recovered from the initial confusion and began to organize its defense.

The Polish Third Army, which was facing the Russian Belorussian Front, was in a state of collapse, and only a few divisions in the siege of Bialystok were still combat-ready.

The Polish Fourth Army was attacked by the Russian Ukrainian First Front, the front-line troops were exhausted, and the army reserves were trying to prevent the Russian army from approaching Lublin.

The Polish Fifth Army was in the far south, and the southern part of the army defense area reached the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, bordering the German mountain army defense area. The Russian army did not pay attention to the German defense area at all, after all, it was a mountainous area, which was difficult to pass, and the Germans also built strong fortifications and occupied a favorable position. Moreover, even if you cross the Carpathians, you will only face Hungary and other predominantly agricultural areas, and even if you want to attack the industrial areas of Upper and Lower Austria, you will have to cross a considerable distance, and you will have to bear the supply pressure brought by the mountains, and the gains outweigh the losses. It is better for the Russian army to advance directly from the plains to Bohemia, and it is impossible for Germany to give up the industrial capacity of Bohemia, which is enough to achieve the goal of containing the German army.

The Russian army used armored forces to quickly break through the defense line of the Polish Fifth Army, and they adopted a similar tactic to Lin Youde, and after the breakthrough, they did not first expand the breakthrough horizontally, but let the armored troops drive straight in, destroy the logistics supply lines of the Polish army's front-line troops, and outflank their rear roads.

The tactics of the Russian army seem to be quite effective, and in a few days it advanced to a place of nearly 100 kilometers in Poland, but then the Russian army's breakthrough slowed down, and I don't know what went wrong.

The Polish Fifth Army was regrouping its scattered forces in preparation for the formation of a new line of defense. At the same time, the troops of the German Bohemian Legion, which arrived from Bohemia, were already in front of the Russian army.

The German army in Poland had increased to thirty-five divisions by the 10th, but most of them were on the rails, and only three divisions of the Bohemian Corps in the south and eight combat engineer divisions of the Warsaw Line actually arrived on the battlefield and deployed. As of the 10th, there had been no contact between the German Army and the Russian army.

The Luftwaffe transition was also underway at the same time.

Unlike the Fourth Air Force, which is mainly fighter aircraft, the Fifth Air Force is mainly a dive bomber and a BF109 ground attack model equipped with a 37-mm cannon pod and reinforced armor.

The Sixth Air Force, which is mainly equipped with tactical bombers, is in transit, and the first bomber formation of 30 bombers has already arrived at the airfield outside Warsaw, and on the afternoon of 10 July, it took off to bomb several targets in Russia that are suspected to be logistics material transfer sites.

Lin Youde invested in the newly formed air force, and most of the pilots were the second and third batch of wartime flight training class students after the start of the war in 38, and the training flight time was only 500 to 800 hours, but he adopted the pilot rotation system of the US military in the last time and space, and the flight aces were replaced from the line of fire and sent as instructors to train new blood, so the people responsible for teaching these flight cadets are veterans who have accumulated a lot of experience on the battlefield.

At the same time, he also promoted a number of pilots who had performed well on the Western Front, and made them serve as squad leaders and squadron leaders in the new air force.

It is said that Lin Youde's move to the Eastern Front to throw a new air force shocked Winston Churchill, who originally thought that the Luftwaffe would turn to the Eastern Front, and the intensity of the mine-laying blockade and bombing of Britain would be reduced.

The Fourth Air Force achieved the result of shooting down more than 200 Russian fighters on the first day of the war, and then it used guò safari tactics to shoot down quite a number of Russian fighters and firmly control the air supremacy on the battlefield. As a result, the ground support of the Russian Air Force has hardly been effective, and the aerial reconnaissance of the Russian army has also been effectively restricted.

On the contrary, German reconnaissance planes could safely shuttle over the battlefield and bring back a large amount of intelligence.

As soon as the Fifth Air Force entered Poland, it also launched an operation to attack the attacking Russian troops. However, because a significant part of the Russian warriors were armed with multiple anti-aircraft machine guns, the Fifth Air Force lost more fighters than the Fourth Air Force in just two days of fighting, but the overall casualty rate was lower than when the British were attacked - presumably because the battlefield was wider and the pilots could find more opportunities to attack troops without the protection of the warriors.

Compared with the air force, the casualties on the ground are much heavier, and although both sides have no time to count the casualties, Lin Youde estimates that the total casualties on the ground on both sides could be as high as 200,000 in just a few days.

The meat grinder, known as the "Eastern Front Battlefield", has finally revealed its hideous face to the world.