But it was all too late. As the second rocket flew into the crowd, the third rocket and the fourth rocket exploded one after another, hitting cars and tanks, bringing up a piece of steel, wind and rain. Poles were in a mess, and violent explosions were everywhere on both sides of their roads and nearby hills.
No one knows how many guns were fired by the Germans. Polish soldiers survived in a sea of fire. When they got up from the sea of corpses, they were just full of 5,000 people and dozens of tanks. Now the special task force of the Polish Rhodes Army is almost gone.
This rocket attack is over. We should continue to fight tanks. The Poles have invested in the southern region. They can find all tanks and launched an attack on the third SS armored division.
A total of 273 tanks were moved by both sides (73 German tanks with 31 No.3 tanks and 44 Leopard tanks), and 157 were destroyed (74 Polish tanks were destroyed by German armored forces, and the remaining 3 were abandoned or destroyed by rockets).
The next day, when the 9th German motorized infantry armored grenadiers passed by in armored vehicles, they were stunned by their own sight. The ground was full of flies with minced meat like the German army, and German soldiers kept vomiting next to the poles and swearing at the troops rumbling past Frederick rocket launchers.
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"How many tanks did you destroy that day?" Marcus Ryan held his chest high beside him. He didn’t look at Ryan with his head tilted, but kept looking straight ahead and asked, "Did you hear? Frederick rocket thing … "
Ryan didn’t answer a word, as if he had fallen asleep with his eyes open, but everyone knew that he didn’t sleep, but he was thinking about something seriously. It took a long time before he said slowly, "I heard about a powerful weapon."
"This ….. this is over? ….. "Marcus is a little unwilling. He finally found a topic and really didn’t want Ryan to destroy it easily.
"Of course, what else do you think I should say?" Ryan snorted and replied, "Our tanks are also very good. Is this something that others say?"
"You’re right." Marcus thought about it and agreed with Ryan.
Suddenly there were soldiers singing and "General Mo Deer, commander of the D regiment, arrived! The commander guderian arrived! " There was a small chat in the room, and when the singing was over, the whole room became very quiet.
"Congratulations, everyone!" Guderian walked into the room with a smile. He looked darker than when Ryan first saw him at the bridgehead of the self bridge.
He walked up to Ryan and took a look at Ryan, then smiled and continued, "I have been ordered to award these medals to you artillery medals for war and the second-class iron cross medals for several captains of tank units."
The German Iron Cross was revised by arcado, the head of state, and distributed to soldiers who made great contributions. Soldiers can distribute the second-class Iron Cross as appropriate, and then upgrade to the iron cross 1st class Medal, Knight Iron Cross, Oak Leaf Knight Iron Cross and Sword Oak Leaf Knight Iron Cross in turn.
However, Ryan and others have won the second-class Iron Cross at a young age, which is considered to be a very excellent performance. Many young German soldiers have been looking forward to the white hair and have not had the opportunity to win such an exquisite Iron Cross.
"I should have presided over the ceremony of awarding the Second-class Iron Cross". guderian smiled and pointed to General Mo Deer, the commander-in-chief of the D regiment. "But our company wants to give you greater encouragement and decide to preside over the first medal awarding ceremony of the regiment. Please applaud."
All the soldiers applauded. Although the number of people was small, it seemed that the applause was not neat, but after all, everyone was excited and applauded very warmly.
Waiting for the palm to stop, General Mo Deer said, "General guderian is a brilliant young general! I am proud to have such an outstanding department! Most of you are his hands, good soldier. I sincerely hope that one day you will be as good as General guderian! "
He pressed the palm of his hand to signal that he still had something to say, and then he said again, "So I came here mainly to let you know that I know all your achievements!" I hope that you can continue to maintain this dedication to the motherland and become the pillar of your respective troops! "
He first gave several artillery soldiers medals to reward these artillery units for their heroic fighting against the enemy, and then shook hands with everyone who won the medals until he came to Ryan.
"I heard that your name is Ryan?" Mo Deer asked curiously as he hung the Iron Cross II on Ryan’s chest.
"Long live the head of state! Report, general! I am Ryan! " Ryan stood at attention and answered.
"Very reassuring guy!" Guderian said with a smile, "He is now the number one ace in tank warfare in our army."
"Yes!" Mo Deer ha ha laughs "World War I destroyed 11 Polish tanks, which is really a remarkable achievement! Was that a hard battle? "
Remembering the hard battle, Ryan raised his mouth. "I swore that the Fuehrer would shed blood."
"What a good soldier!" Mo Deer nodded in praise.
"Thank you, General!" Ryan saluted a German ceremony and said
On September 2, 1937, the front line of arcado’s birthday party sent a great news report, which was very accurate: "Long live the Fuhrer! The third SS armored division repelled the Poles’ crazy counterattack and killed 97 people and captured 11 people. "
Arcado announced this victory at the banquet without saying anything. The nobles and celebrities didn’t cheer. For a while, long live Germany and long live the head of state shouted one after another.
"This Ryan is very interesting." arcado stared at the file in his hand and said to Mercedes with a smile. "His parents died when he was a child, and he became a little beggar in Berlin. Reinhardt sent him to the Wolf Knight Class 1 of the Armored Forces Command College."
"I think you should call your secret Sindra and ask her to help you sort out your work schedule as soon as possible. You should go to Poland as soon as possible to meet you. The generals should also meet the grassroots soldiers. They should really want to meet them. The heads of state should also leave some photos with their soldiers."
"You’re right!" Arcado nodded and said, "I should go to the Polish front and let the generals not forget me! Is … "
"But I can’t come to Poland. I will fly to Munich to attend the completion ceremony of a new synthetic oil processing plant." Mercedes smiled and looked embarrassed. "Of course, you have to take Fanny with you to go to the front … of course, you have to take Anna to protect you!"
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War can sometimes give birth to more brilliant literary wisdom, so that people can learn from the past and avoid making the same mistakes in future wars.
In order to win the war, human beings often transport the most advanced science and technology to war weapons for the first time to create some weapons of an incredible era.
When science and technology revolutionize weapons, new tactics will be born in the battlefield, and brilliant victories will be won around this tactic. It can be said that the history of human civilization can be traced back thousands of years, and it is a war that runs through the memory.
When there was a breakthrough in metallurgical technology, the Han language achieved the strategy of suppressing the infantry phalanx by force against the nomadic people and cooperating with the light cavalry against the grassland cavalry, so the Han nationality won a great victory in the war of foreign expansion
Later, due to the stirrups, the cavalry attacked the infantry phalanx, making it possible for the heavy cavalry to climb the historical stage. It was more and more difficult for the infantry to defend the cavalry, and it was more and more difficult for the agricultural literature to lose its advantage over the nomadic people until the metallurgical technology was developed again in the Tang Dynasty, and the elite infantry cooperated with the elite infantry again to become a nightmare that grassland people could not wake up.
The rise of Mongolia marks the peak of cavalry tactics, which combines advanced metallurgical technology, light cavalry, rangers, heavy cavalry and other cavalry tactics from all over the world. Mongolian cavalry has finally evolved into an invincible war king in the cold weapon era. They destroyed several articles, but they were finally drowned in the dust of history because of the departure of the times.
They have indeed been submerged. Only a short period of one hundred years has passed, and mankind has entered the era of hot weapons one after another. Fireware, artillery, equipment and troops, skilled craftsmen have pushed the wheel of history, and mankind has to kill itself more efficiently. It has been proved that cavalry is no longer the only choice for victory except the declining great dynasty.
Flintstones, rifled rifles, fixed-charge ammunition, and post-loaded artillery have changed beyond recognition in just a few decades, which has lasted for thousands of years. The ancient model has entered the beautiful fairy tale of queuing for shooting and drumming, and individual heroism has become critical. The war competition has become the courage of the whole nation.
Later, barbed wire and trenches made the word war become synonymous with mud and cold, and machine guns and heavy artillery made infantry attacks inefficient. Both sides waited for each other to die behind a long line of defense, and waited for each other to drain the last drop of blood in consumption. The war has never been so cruel. Millions of people decided the outcome because of a war that changed their destiny. It was no longer fighting for troops in front, but hoarding materials and steel production in the rear.
Having said that, you may think that this is a well-known history, but some people may not have thought that those who used to be the best teachers in all languages on the other hand, who would have thought that when Ji Liao cut corners on the front line and left war experience for Manchu Banner for more than 200 years, the Western Empress Dowager was awarded land compensation?
I don’t want to say these things, but I want to say one thing, that is, all European powers have learned their own truth in a war, and these countries’ superstitious truth has become the key to success in a war.
For example, France, which won a war, firmly believes that its war theory is the most advanced, at least it can win a war, and it still spent a lot of money to build a long border defense line when its economic situation was the worst.
This line of defense can ensure that when a war comes, France can once again drag Germany into the endless trench warfare, and then facilitate the blockade of the British navy to drag Germany down and win the war. To support this long Mano line of defense, the focus of French weapons research and development naturally chose large-caliber railway guns
Poland, a new country born after the First World War, was faced with the attack of two powerful countries from the east and the west from the first day of its establishment. All capitalist countries hope that Poland will fight against the first line of defense of the Red Soviet Union in the east and prevent it from infiltrating westward. At the same time, France hopes that Poland can be an ally to contain Germany, a powerful country in the west, from being too strong.
As it happens, Poland is a new country and a powerful country which is not rich and powerful. There is no way to deploy a large number of troops on both fronts and to build a large number of fortifications in both directions. Therefore, Poland is very interested in a weapon that can quickly rush to the direction of war, act as a defensive position and be equipped with large-caliber artillery. This weapon is an armored train.
Armored train can be said to be a real king of land war before the tank matures. It can be equipped with several large-caliber guns and take hundreds of auxiliary armed soldiers to the war zone as quickly as possible. The train is armored and can stop wherever it goes and become a fixed steel fortress.
Now this kind of weapon appears in front of the German infantry, like a steel behemoth crossing the road of the German troops, and several cannons take turns to fire, so that the Germans can’t move forward for half an hour.
Infantry 75 mm caliber anti-tank guns can’t handle this steel behemoth at all. The thick armor of the main carriage can offset the long-range attack of 75 mm shells, but at close range it will be attacked by train artillery. A Krupp factory produced 75 mm artillery, which was destroyed.
A No.3 tank tried to get close to this behemoth, but it was hit by two 75mm cannons with rotatable turrets of an armored train. The hit German tank emitted thick smoke and there were dozens of bodies of German soldiers lying around. The failure of this attack made the following No.3 assault guns completely give up their plan to storm.
Later, German engineers tried to get close to the poor Polish monster and tried to destroy the invulnerable big guy with explosives, but the plan also failed because there were a large number of Polish infantry behind the train.
"Call the army," the German commander said to his adjutant with a telescope in a hidden observation post on the hill not far away. "General Rommel is not far behind. If he comes, he will complain that our attack speed is too slow."
"Sir, our attack speed is already the fastest in human history, and 90% of the marching speed is not as fast as ours." The adjutant complained while grabbing the field telephone.
"There is no fastest is faster! Since we have created history, why not raise the record to the point where others can surpass it? " A very magnetic voice outside the observation post said
With the voice, a young general came in, followed by a large crowd of staff officers and adjutant guards.
This general has a handsome military attache’s years. His face does not make him look old, but leaves him with a mature charm. He has a smile on his mouth and charms those unrestrained Germanic girls. If he looks alone, he is more handsome than the young Fuhrer.
There is a brand-new iron cross 1st class medal hanging on the chest of a dusty gray-green military uniform. Not long ago, the Fuehrer personally praised the outstanding performance of the Seventh Army in the first stage of attack. There is one in the south and one in the south. Apart from this medal, the most attractive thing is that the general has two things on his neck, a miniature camera and binoculars.
The general didn’t wear a helmet as required, but went his own way, wearing the German logo, with an imperial eagle holding the swastika hat badge and a beautiful pilot’s goggles stuck on it.
The general who came in was the commander of the Seventh Panzer Corps, who liked to fly. Erwin Rommel, the twin of the German Panzer Corps.
"Let infantry and tanks feint a limit distance to make smoke bombs interfere with the enemy’s vision! See that hill ahead? Set up a millimeter cannon and bombard the target directly! Do you want me to teach you how to do it? " Rommel is deployed after a few eyes.
"yes! General, in half an hour, I will attack and take this Polish defensive position. "The former field commander in charge here immediately saluted and replied.
"Met this kind of thing first consider millimeter anti-aircraft guns … this is the experience learned from Spain." Rommel took the chest telescope and looked at the Polish defenders there. "If not, immediately call for military support! Look at how many hours you have delayed. I also sent so many good soldier lives for nothing! "
"I’m very sorry! General "The commander was transferred from the police force to the army force through the expansion of the army. After several intensive courses of command training, his level of function was average. He immediately stood at attention and saluted" I understand "after hearing Rommel’s words.
Soon, four mm caliber cannons were prepared, which were covered by smoke bombs. These cannons destroyed the Polish armored train in the horizontal position with the super-high firing rate and the speed of rumbi shells. The Polish army finally gave up the train full of bullet holes and retreated to the east on foot. More than a dozen German tanks chased it with infantry, and the battle here soon ended.
Soon a group of German infantry surrounded the Polish armored train, which made them unable to move. Rommel climbed the train and visited this strange weapon. Rommel also touched this outdated one. special weapon picked up the camera and helped the officers and men of the 1 ST regiment, 1 ST battalion and 1 ST company of the infantry division to take a picture of a Zhang Jiafu in front of the Polish armored train
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