Regardless of the attitude of Britain and France, at this time on the border between Germany and Poland, a large group of carefully prepared German troops shouted the slogan "Long live Germany" and crossed the border in a mighty way.

As for the Polish troops stationed along the border, they were wiped out by the vanguard a few hours earlier.

The current border was hastily demarcated, and the Polish garrisons on the border were not even properly deployed.

In the absence of a strong defense, a small Polish army, apparently was no match for hundreds of thousands of German troops.

In the early hours of October 17, 1935, the third day of the outbreak of the war between Germany and Poland.

In a secret military airfield in East Prussia, the lights are bright, and a large number of soldiers and personnel are busy with something.

Zooming in, on the concrete runway not far away, one brand new plane after another is moving slowly.

If you look closely, you can see that these planes come in a variety of ways. There is a Fiat CR.32 arrow fighter from Italy, which is dark green and has Italian characteristics.

There are also many planes that are clearly made in Germany, with a layer of depressing black printed on the surface, and the German coat of arms and party logos are more obvious on the tail of the planes.

The planes that can appear here are all German and Italian fighter and bomber sequences that were tested in the Spanish Civil War.

The planes also gathered here for one mission, and that was to carry out a massive bombing of the Polish border in the south.

Jingle bells!

With the sound of the telephone in the airport duty room, the general person in charge of this military airport gave an order with an excited face: "All planes take off at once, target tasks, all enemies and facilities within the entire border!" ”

At this time, the sky was pitch black, just giving the two dark-colored planes more room to hide.

All the pilots quickly boarded their planes and drove towards the runway in an orderly manner.

These aircraft are all the latest fighters and bombers produced in recent times, representing the most advanced level of German and Italian aircraft production.

With one buzz after another, all the planes quickly rushed into the dark sky, and each formed a formation, heading towards different targets.

Although the German army had entered the Polish border, this did not mean that the front was unimpeded.

On the contrary, the German army, as it was already close to the Polish capital Warsaw, the further east it went, the more resistance it encountered.

Two full days have passed since the outbreak of the war, and the main armies of the two sides have not yet met.

But the various forts and troops stationed in Poland within the border line did cause a lot of trouble for the German attack.

This large-scale operation of the air force is to pull out these fortresses and at the same time destroy the enemy's air force as much as possible.

Only by mastering the superiority in the sky could Germany have the initiative in the next offensive.

Then again, the size of the army and the amount of equipment that the Poles possessed were enough to bluff.

In terms of data alone, the Poles have even surpassed the great powers of France and Italy, after Britain and Australasia, which have thousands of aircraft.

And these data are true, which means that the Poles really have such a number of aircraft that can be mobilized.

But the problem is that there is also a big difference between airplanes and airplanes.

With the development of aircraft, various types and roles of aircraft emerge one after another, and military aircraft have long been more than three major types: reconnaissance, combat and bombing.

Of the more than 1,000 Poles' aircraft, nearly 550 were specially designed for training, or training planes as they were later called.

This aircraft is not combat-ready, and its main role is to allow pilots to adapt to new aircraft. To put it bluntly, the biggest role of the training aircraft is to use it for training, and it basically does not have combat effectiveness.

In addition to these nearly half of the training aircraft, more than 300 of the more than 500 remaining aircraft of the Polish Air Force are obsolete products.

Because Poland became independent after World War I, many of these more than 300 aircraft were handed over to Poland as compensation after the defeat of Germany at that time.

Nearly 20 years have passed since the First World War, and the combat effectiveness of these aircraft has long been unguaranteed. If it weren't for the fact that the Poles had always cared about these old planes and had done a relatively good job of preserving and maintaining them, I am afraid that it would be a question of whether these planes could fly.

In addition to most of these training planes and outdated planes, the remaining 200 or so planes are the new planes that the Poles really have combat effectiveness.

Again, because Poland had not been a country long ago, and their development of aircraft was actually not comparable to that of the more powerful powers.

In order to strengthen its air force, Poland had purchased a large number of aircraft from France and Britain, and more than half of these more than 200 aircraft were British and French products.

Only the remaining dozens of planes, which look obviously different in style, are the ones that really belong to the Poles.

Of course, since the beginning of the 30s, this situation has been much improved.

The Poles spent a lot of money to develop the PLZ P.11 fighter, which not only changed the status quo that Poland did not have excellent domestic fighters, but also allowed Poland to have excellent fighters that could compete with other powers in the market in terms of aircraft.

Unlike the biplane fighter that is still in use in many countries, the Poles decided that the new fighter will be a monoplane structure when they were developing the fighter.

It is clear that, judging by the results achieved by the Poles, their research and development in fighter aircraft is relatively successful. The P.11 fighter is an excellent aircraft that definitely rivals the mainstream fighters of other powers.

So the question arises, since Poland's fighters are already the first in Europe, why is the number of domestic fighters in their country still so small?

This brings us to France, which has close ties with Poland.

As one of the great powers, France also attaches great importance to fighter jets. In expanding their air force, the French put domestic aviation companies against foreign companies, and in the end the Poles won and won the favor of the French.

Poland deliberately developed a P.11 version of the fighter in order to export the PLZ P.24 fighter.

After replacing the new metal three-bladed propellers and perfecting the fairing, cooling system and fuel tanks of the aircraft, the P.24 fighter received an order from the French Air Force, much to the excitement of the Poles at that time.

Because the P.24 fighter reached a terrifying speed of almost 400 kilometers per hour in level flight, this fighter was even proudly called the fastest fighter in the world by the Polish media.

The Poles have tasted a lot of sweetness from the export of fighters, and they have already put on hold plans to build domestic aircraft, focusing on exports.

There is no way, for every two aircraft exported, the profit brought to Poland will be enough for the Poles to build one more plane.

As long as they can export P.24 fighters in large quantities, the Poles can even be able to arm a powerful air force without paying for it themselves.

Moreover, the Poles are confident that with their army of up to 700,000 men and a large number of tanks and artillery equipment, they are not at all inferior to any country and do not need to worry about aggression from any country.

This led to the fact that in the years when the PLZ P.11 fighter was born, the Poles built less than 50 fighters for themselves, and all the rest were exported, and they did earn a lot of income for themselves.

But it is clear that in the face of war, the shortcomings of the new aircraft are fully demonstrated.

If the Poles had more than 700 PLZ P.11 fighters, they could wreak havoc in the skies of Germany and Italy.

But alas, not to mention 700, they can't even get 70.

The planes sold to Poland by Britain and France, although also new, were by no means the most advanced aircraft of Britain and France.

Although these aircraft have a certain combat effectiveness, it is absolutely very difficult to rely on them to defeat the most advanced aircraft of Germany and Italy.

You know, the PLZ P.11 fighter, which the Poles are proud of, even boasting that it is the fastest aircraft in the world, flies at the same level as the Italian Fiat CR.32 Arrow in terms of prototype speed.

The Germans used more than 400 aircraft, more than 250 of which were Italian Fiat CR.32 aircraft.

This crushing of the number of new aircraft has already doomed the Luftwaffe to how exaggerated its record is in the face of the Polish Air Force.

When the Air Force acts, the Army naturally does not wait quietly.

Under the planning of the German staff, the German soldiers divided into two routes and launched a fierce attack on Poland.

All the 300,000 troops attacking Poland were divided into the First Army and the Second Army.

The First Army was stationed in East Prussia, and its mission was to move south to cut Poland and divide the existing Poland in two.

The Second Army was stationed on the German-Polish border, and their task was to gradually advance the front and achieve the strategic goal of encircling the First Army inside and outside.

Because the tasks of the two group armies are completely different, there are also considerable differences in the specific composition of the armed forces.

The main task of the First Army was to cut Poland, which was a test of the mobility of the First Army. With the help of Italy, the First Army, armed with a large number of military trucks and tanks, had reached an excellent level in terms of motorization.

The task of the Second Army was to advance the front, which meant that it was the main army of the Poles that they had to face.

In order to strengthen the firepower of the Second Army, Germany and Italy jointly put together more than 5,000 artillery pieces, the purpose of which was to suppress the fire that covered the sky and the sun, and directly destroy the proud army of the Poles in the front, so as to achieve the goal of quickly defeating Poland.

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