Rumble! Boom Boom!

Accompanied by bursts of fierce shelling, the shells exploded, and the bright fireworks directly illuminated the battlefield in the early morning.

For the Polish troops, hastily deployed on the border line, they have never experienced such a large-scale and horrific bombardment since their establishment.

This is actually quite normal. Nearly 20 years have passed since the First World War, and those who lived through the First World War have long since grown old, and it is almost impossible to remain in the army.

The few who can stay in the army are also the top echelons of the army, and they are either the commanders of the group armies or the top of the military of various countries, and it is impossible for them to appear on the battlefield on the front line.

Although some of these soldiers in Poland on the front line have experienced war, their enemies cannot afford to squander so many shells.

The lack of experience made the Polish army very slow to react, and the panic of the soldiers at the bottom affected the operation of the entire army, as well as the speed of the Polish army's counterattack.

By the time the Polish army remembered to strike back at the German army, more than ten minutes had passed since the front line was bombed.

Although the Polish army had stopped the chaos, the more than ten minutes of bombardment caused irreparable losses to the Polish army.

Not only did it include hundreds of casualties, but many weapons and equipment were also shattered in this bombing, at least they could not be used.

The loss of part of the armament also made the Polish army, whose artillery was already dwarfed, even more embarrassing.

They were confronted with a concentrated bombardment of thousands of guns, but the number of artillery pieces they took out to fight back was less than 100.

To make matters worse, because of the poor visibility at night, it was difficult for the Polish army to determine the exact location of the attacking Germans.

It was not easy to determine the direction and organize a counterattack, and after a while, it was suppressed back by the enemy's artillery.

Polish officers at the front were anxiously pleading for support from the Air Force. The ground forces are not well equipped with weapons, and it is difficult to repel the enemy's attack with ground fire.

The severe pressure on the ground forces can be relieved only through the effective killing of the enemy by the Air Force, as well as the elimination of several enemy artillery positions.

But alas, the nearby military airfield quickly replied that the Polish Air Force had already engaged the enemy and could not have any support in a short time.

Since there was no way to get support from the air, Poland had to resort to the most primitive method of helping the army at the front, which was to constantly transport new recruits to the front.

It is worth mentioning that although Poland has an army of up to 700,000, nearly 400,000 of them are deployed on the border with Germany.

The relations between Poland and Britain and France were generally friendly, which also led to the fact that when Britain and France opposed what is now Russia, Poland also made great efforts.

Needless to say, how the Lithuanian kingdom under Polish control came to be, this is why Poland kept most of its troops on the border with Russia, fearing that Russia would retaliate again after reunification.

Now, such a deployment of troops is not very friendly to Poland, where war suddenly broke out.

Because of the abrupt cession of the Polish Corridor, Poland's border deployment to Germany was not yet perfect, and only about 200,000 troops were stationed on the front line.

The 200,000 troops were scattered across the borders of the country, and were undoubtedly at a disadvantage in the face of the more equipped German army.

Since there was no way to help the front-line army in terms of air force, the Polish army decided to continuously transport soldiers to the front, at least in terms of numbers.

In order to ensure that there would be no problems on the eastern border and that the German-Russian union would not partition Poland, the Poles transported troops to the western border by transporting veterans and recruits together.

While this effectively increases the number of soldiers on the front lines of the transport network, it also reduces the combat capability of the frontline armies indefinitely.

Although it seems that the support of 200,000 troops to the front effectively strengthened the number of the front army, more than 100,000 of them were new recruits, who, even a few days before, were ordinary Polish peasants.

To what extent is it exaggerated?

Most of the Polish recruits, probably three days ago, were Polish peasants. Three days to throw down their hoes and get their rifles to the battlefield, for these Polish peasants, this change of role also took at least three days to adapt.

But alas, neither the Polish government nor the war at the front did not allow these recruits too long to adapt.

With a standard rifle produced by a Polish military factory, he followed the orders of the squad leader he had just met and probably didn't even know his name, and arrived at the battlefield.

"Towaf, do you think we'll make it back alive?" In a non-special carriage, a soldier wearing a Polish uniform and holding a spear was looking at his fellow countryman, a hot-blooded young Towaw, with a worried face.

"Of course, Prak." The young man named Towav nodded firmly, and said without question, "We will win this war, Prak." You and I, and all the guys involved in the war, will go back safely. ”

It is clear that Prak has not settled down to the words of his fellow countryman.

Looking at his compatriots around him, who were also at a loss, Prak began to involuntarily doubt the government, doubting whether they could win the war.

Airplanes~

Suddenly, there was a distinct buzzing sound in the sky, which immediately attracted the attention of the recruits.

In the face of this unusual noise, the recruits were visibly a little restless and began to talk a lot.

"Be quiet!" The veteran in the carriage spoke: "It's just our plane, there's nothing curious." When you go to the battlefield, you'll see more and bigger planes, and tanks with strange shapes, all made of iron. ”

Hearing the comfort of their squad leader, many recruits were also calm. But the occasional whispering also revealed that their hearts were not so calm.

Soon, the buzz grew louder and louder, as if the plane was approaching them.

At the same time, there was a whistle in the sky, as if something was cutting through the air and falling rapidly towards the ground.

"What's that?" One of the recruits said in sudden horror.

Through the glass of the train car, a veteran also saw the growing black dots in the sky. Larger, shaped, black dots struck the sky in a very orderly manner.

The smaller black dots appear round and grow larger and larger in the pupils of all the soldiers.

"Damn, it's an enemy plane! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Stop and take cover! Several veterans were obviously stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted and shouted loudly.

Soon, the veterans of the other carriages also reacted, trying to alert the conductor driving the train to stop the train.

But a train moving at full speed is not so easy to stop. Even though the wheels of the emergency stop rubbed against the track for bursts of sparks, the train continued to move at a steady pace.

Rumble!

As the first bomb fell on the perimeter of the train, the trees within a few meters were cut off, and the tiny branches were directly shattered, and then covered by a puff of gunsmoke.

"God forbid." Prak swore he had never seen such a battle in his life, and had never experienced such danger.

In the face of such danger, all Prak could do was pray to God sincerely and ask for God's blessing.

But it is clear that, as also believers in God, God today is clearly on the side of the Germans.

Rumble!

A bomb landed exactly on the railroad tracks, just a few meters away from the carriage where Prak was.

The explosion of the bomb instantly overturned the carriage and shattered the glass of the surrounding compartment.

The strong shock wave caused the recruits in the carriage to be dizzy and tinnitus, and the cries of helplessness and miserable cries echoed the sound of bomb explosions.

The good news is that Plak is fine other than dizziness and tinnitus.

In fact, except for a few unlucky guys, most of the recruits in the carriage did not have serious injuries.

Just when these lucky recruits thought they had escaped, the real disaster struck.

The bomber detachment glided around the sky, threw all the explosives it carried, turned around in the air, and launched a fierce attack on the stopped train using its machine guns.

Although the train carriage was wrapped in iron sheets, it could not withstand the fire of many machine guns.

The thin layer of iron could not stop the strafing of the machine guns at all, and the recruits near the edge of the carriage were quickly beaten into a nest by the machine guns.

Yes!

If the bombing just now only frightened these recruits, then the more brutal scene now has broken the mentality of these recruits who were originally just peasants.

With one shout after another, a large number of soldiers fell in pools of blood.

"Towaf!" Prak saw his fanatical and confident fellow being pierced by several bullets piercing through the iron sheet.

The bullet passing through the body does not only deal small piercing damage. Because of the high speed of the bullet's rotation, the bullet passes forward and backward, often causing a cone-like wound.

It may have been a small bullet hole in the front, but a bowl-sized wound had already formed on the back of the body.

That scene is really indescribable, the blood flows out of the body along with the internal organs, and the impact on ordinary people is incomparable to any shocking movie.

Prak survived, and he continued his spoken word, dodging the first round of bombing and the second round of machine-gun fire.

But he was also unlucky. As an ordinary farmer, Prak's heart simply could not withstand such a shocking shock.

In short, he collapsed. This psychological trauma has turned Plac, who was an ordinary person an hour ago, into a madman in the true sense of the word.

And in this bombing, there are many people like Towav, and there are also many people like Prak.

The wagons had a total of 12 carriages, each transporting more than 80 soldiers.

However, after this round of bombing, less than one-third of the nearly 1,000 soldiers remained, and even less than one-tenth of them still had combat effectiveness.

Those veterans who had already experienced the war could not even bear such a shocking scene. And most of the recruits, they can only endure two outcomes after this bombardment, a physical death and a psychological breakdown.

What did the war bring to people? For the Poles today, the war has brought only irreparable pain.

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