Chapter 213 215 The Days of Brauchitsch

In the large and bright hall, the military orchestra played the most heroic repertoire, and the whole hall was renovated, because today was a day worth celebrating for the entire German army. Because the Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, Colonel-General Brauchitsch, will today be promoted to Reichmarshal by Führer Accardo.

This promotion made all the soldiers excited, after all, in nearly twenty years, Germany has not been promoted to a single marshal. The humiliation of 1919 was so depressing that every German officer was tormented by the fact that they were not defeated but were treated as slaves. Everyone held their breath of evil and hoped that they would fulfill their responsibilities as a soldier the next time they needed to shed their blood for the motherland. Yes, responsibility! Even if you die on the battlefield, you will never accept the shame of 1919 again!

However, the gloom gradually dissipated after 1925, and the secret expansion of the Wehrmacht led to the promotion of many young generals. The most exciting thing is that a young man has officially stepped into the foreground: Accardo Rudolph. He made the entire Wehrmacht take off the hat of being bullied, and he led everyone step by step to regain the dignity that belonged to the German soldiers.

The armed entry into the Rhineland was the first time that Germany regained its territory after the war, which was not a wonderful but real first step, and then the German armed forces annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia without bloodshed, and obtained these two vital regions, both industrially and economically, compensated for the devastation of the German economy. Subsequently, in Hungary, Germany swept away the haze of defeat and started an international game with Britain and France.

The Führer seemed to be a gift from God to help the confused German army draw up the direction of development, the army based on mechanized infantry and tanks, and established a blitzkrieg combat plan; the navy abandoned the battleship in order to achieve the strategic goal of surpassing Britain, and developed aircraft carrier tactics in an all-round way; and the air force made a leap from scratch to a world-class one at a time.

In the Spanish Civil War, the German air force achieved remarkable results, relying on advanced weapons and equipment to defeat the Soviet air force supporting the Republican Army in one fell swoop. Although not many people know these achievements, they are a real shot in the arm for the developing German army.

Of course, the most wonderful thing is the appearance of the German army in the battle of Poland. Although the front is full of eyebrows, it is just a small fight hidden under the diplomatic victory. If you want to talk about the battle of the Wehrmacht after the war, it is the just-concluded Polish campaign.

After careful planning and efforts by the Führer, Germany launched a surprise attack on Poland, the largest power in Eastern Europe, on September 13, 1937. With everyone optimistic about Poland, he used his results to explain to the world what it means to kill chickens with knives.

In the sky, it took only three days for German pilots to completely destroy the Polish Air Force and seize air supremacy on the battlefield. On the twentieth day of the war, the Polish Air Force was in an embarrassing situation of having no combat aircraft. Stuka and Do-217 bombers flew over Poland like no one, destroying Polish ground targets with impunity, and even dropping their new weapon, napalm, in the north.

Under the cover of the air force, the German panzers broke through the Polish defenders' lines on the first day and attacked 50 kilometers in one go, and then the commanders of the panzer corps, who had lost their restraints, completed their fantastic attack with racing speed. Because of the rapid advance, Guderian was almost killed by his own artillery shells on the road, and Rommel loaded Polish skirmishers when he was looking for his own troops.

Despite all the accidents and jokes, the fledgling Wehrmacht won the attention of the whole world, and it took them 20 days to crush Poland and encircle and occupy the Polish capital, Warsaw. The cost of the destruction of Poland, an Eastern European power, was less than 10,000 casualties – considering that a 100-metre advance in World War I would have cost tens of thousands.

This is nothing more than that! This achievement can be regarded as an account of the whole German people after 1919. The Wehrmacht was still the army that was strong enough to protect the German nation, and it was still the one who made the whole world tremble. Although the Wehrmacht still has a clear account for France, which has just provoked the German border, at least now the Wehrmacht has reinvigorated.

This promotion is proof that the Marshal of the Empire is the pinnacle of the rank that a soldier can climb. Just for these tear-jerking victories, just for these dazzling honors! Even for the sake of the Führer's death on the battlefield, it is worth it!

I don't know what others think, but when Brauchitsch walked into the hall of the ceremony, surrounded by lights and applause, he thought so in his heart. He walked up to Accardo, straightened his waist, raised his right hand, and expressed his respect for the Führer with a standard German salute: "Long live the great Führer Accardo, Rudolf!"

"Long live Big Germany! Congratulations to you today! Imperial General and Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht-in-Chief Walter von Brauchitsch. Accardo smiled and returned the salute: "After the deliberation of the Imperial Parliament, I will officially promote you to become the first marshal of the Third Reich!"

The magnesium light camera kept taking pictures, and the lights kept flashing. Brauchitsch thought it was a good day, the scenery around him was so charming – and of course the Führer's shirt fit very well today. The applause was a little noisy, so noisy that it was in tune with the music, like the sound of soldiers marching forward in a phalanx, so beautiful that people couldn't stop crying after listening to it.

Amid the cheers of the people, amid incessant applause, Accardo handed Brauchitsch a beautiful Imperial Marshal's scepter, a symbol of honor and power, into Brauchitsch's hand: "Congratulations! Marshal Brauchitsch! I hope you can lead my army to continue to win the war and to victory!"

"Rest assured, Führer, I will do everything in my power to lead your army to victory! I will lead your army to destroy and occupy every place you need!" replied Brauchitsch with a loud voice with the marshal's scepter.

Sumptuous dinners, staggered wine glasses, bright red wine, soft music. Countless people stepped forward to celebrate, and countless people stepped forward to stammer, the intoxicating temperature and intoxicating smell are really easy to make people happy singing. Tonight is undoubtedly a day to remember for Brauchitsch.

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Poland, Eastern Front.

In the trenches, a wounded Polish soldier was struggling desperately, and just now, a bullet passed through his fragile neck. Around him, his former comrades-in-arms were still fighting back fiercely with rifles, and beside him, the corpse of a soldier was already cold, and several flies had fallen on his bloody face.

The medics helped him press the wound to stop the blood from flowing like a spring, but the bright red liquid still slipped away from his neck with body temperature, without a trace of pity.

"Oh God, who's going to help me!, I'm out of anesthetic!" shouted the medic as he tossed aside a blood-stained bandage and pulled out a new one to open it.

No one paid any attention to him, a bullet landed not far from him, and another Polish soldier's steel helmet was pierced, and he fell to the side of the medic with a bloody face, although there was no sound, but his toes were still twitching.

"The medicine has run out! The wounded soldiers cannot be withdrawn! The ammunition is almost gone!" A Polish officer complained to his commander from his command post not far away: "The reinforcements should have replaced us a few days ago! If we continue to fight like this! We will be wiped out here!"

"There will be no reinforcements, we are now alone. Warsaw had been occupied by Germany a few days earlier, and now the land under our feet was the little Polish territory left. His commander said helplessly.

"Then what can we do?" asked the junior Polish officer, with tears in his eyes.

"I'm going to hold out until the last minute, but kid...... You can leave with someone! I've heard that the Germans were kind to Polish prisoners, at least better than the Soviets. He smiled reluctantly and said: "My leg is wounded, and you are also a burden with me, just let me and the wounded stay, if you can hinder the Soviet army for a while, it will be a while." The order given by the division headquarters seems to be moving backwards. ”

"Boom!" a shell exploded in a trench not far away, killing several Polish soldiers, and after holding out for a month, the permanent fortification built in eastern Poland finally came to an end.

"No wounded soldiers! follow me! We retreat!" the young officer said goodbye to his commander and left this section of the trench with a dozen soldiers, about a few kilometers behind them was a field hospital, and behind them was the headquarters of their entire division, where about half a regiment of soldiers had been gathered.

"We were defeated by Germany, but let these Soviet bastards pick up ready-made!" One soldier said dissatisfiedly: "We must fight back in the future! Let these Soviets know that we are powerful!"

The Polish defenders, who lacked foreign aid, were forced to begin a general retreat, and the Soviet Red Army began to drive straight in, in the deserted villages, in the vast steppes, everywhere there were sporadic gunshots, and the Polish soldiers, who were unwilling to be enslaved by the Soviet Union, caused problems for the huge Soviet invading forces in their own way.

The remnants of the Soviet and Polish forces fought for another 15 days, and it was not until 21 October that they advanced to the line of de facto German control. But this day should indeed go down in history, Poland, founded after the First World War, died on this day.