One Hundred and Ninety-Two Polish Counterattacks

A Polish soldier hurriedly pushed open the door of an office. As the commander of the Pomeranian Army, General Potnowski was now in a commandeered room, commanding his dozens of troops. Wan Da's army retreated. [Starting] The Germans were chasing after him, causing his legion to lose a lot of retreat every day, but he knew that he couldn't stop to rest and fight back, otherwise his legion would be divided and surrounded and annihilated one by one.

The Luftwaffe used a new type of weapon napalm on the permanent preparation fortification in northern Poland, and conquered the difficult Polish defense line in one fell swoop. 110,000 German Wehrmacht crossed the Polish defense line to the south, the Modlin Army was completely defeated, and 230,000 Polish defenders become a prisoner of Germany.

Further north, the Polish Narev Corps was driven all the way to the east of Warsaw by the Germans, further and further away from their capital. Moreover, due to the attack of the Soviet army, the Narev Corps has been dispatched to support the southeastern border, and there is no combat capability.

In addition, the Pomeranian Legion originally deployed in the Danzig Corridor, that is, the troops commanded by General Potnowski himself, retreated all the way to the rear of the Poznan Legion. He originally hoped to use the Poznan Legion. Help stabilize your defense line, but unfortunately this idea has now come to nothing.

Because just a short day ago, the German troops formed a pincer-shaped offensive in the middle, and encircled the Polish army on the central and northern borders in one breath. A full 500,000 people were captured.

In this way, in the northern part of Poland, there is no field army that can stop the advance of the German army, so Potnowski, as the front-line commander appointed by the Polish "government", proposed his plan to save Poland. vital plan.

Not all resistance is ineffective. The Poles are still stubbornly resisting the German team's attack in various areas. In the far north, Gdynia in the Danzig Corridor, the Polish army stubbornly holds on to their positions. Repulsed the German naval fleet with old coastal defense artillery and sank a German destroyer.

On September 22, a Polish sniper who was now learning and selling achieved the first important victory in Poland since the beginning of the war in the northern region: he shot and killed a man he saw 200 meters away. German * official. The officer he killed became the highest German officer killed since the war began.

Walter von Flitch was a senior army officer from the Junkers nobleman. He was promoted to major general at a rapid pace. Because he was very dissatisfied with Arkado because of the purge of the Junkers aristocracy, he was demoted again and again by the military. , was sent to the front-line artillery unit as commander.

The hapless Major General Flich refused to hide when he inspected the front lines because he was afraid of dusting the expensive custom-made military uniforms of the nobles. As a result, he died of a Polish sniper's bullet. His adjutant and several soldiers were messing around with each other. By the time the shot Fletcher was dragged back into the trenches, he had already died of blood loss.

These victories inspired the Polish resistance,

Even with heavy casualties, they were still desperately trying to prevent the German team from continuing to advance. Although the results were minimal, they did continue to persevere with tenacious will, and continued to look forward to the attack on Germany promised by their allies France and the United Kingdom in desperation.

The French did attack the German border on September 21, 1937. They dispatched seven divisions and fired more than fifty large-caliber shells on the edge of the Siegfried line, but they were then driven back to the border by the Germans. Such an attack on the German Western Front was not mobilized, let alone the redeployment of troops from Poland for this purpose.

The British disappointed the Poles even more, sending RAF bombers, distributing leaflets on Germany's border close to Belgium, dropping some 20 tons of aerial bombs and destroying a farmhouse. Afterwards, these planes were driven away by the Luftwaffe fw-190d fighter jets and fled in all directions. In order to speed up their escape, they even dropped the undropped bombs in Belgium.

"Sir! Your plan has been approved by Warsaw!" The soldier turned around and walked out of the office after he handed the telegram to General Potnowski. In the office, there are liaison officers of the Air Force and commanders of several corps, apparently holding a small meeting.

"Our main force must continue to go south." Potnowsky introduced his detailed plan: "In this way, the troops of the Rhodes Corps, a temporarily formed army, will go south to cut off the supply line of the southern German army."

He pointed to the map and said to his generals: "In this way, with the Qianshan Army that is still holding on, we can severely damage the troops deployed in southern Germany."

"The advantage is that once we achieve this goal of the campaign, the southern German army will stop attacking, and the Rhodes Army and the Qianshan Army will have the opportunity to withdraw to Warsaw and gain favorable conditions for continued fighting." He finally said.

"There are only about 140 fighter jets that we can concentrate on now. If all of them are put into this operation...will it be..." An air force raised his own question. The combat effectiveness of the Luftwaffe in recent days is This air force liaison officer was unheard of, and even in some areas, the Luftwaffe had a 20-0 record.

"Even if these fighter jets fly back to Warsaw, they won't play a big role!" Potnowski shook his head and said, "It's better to concentrate and use it to ensure local air supremacy in the southern offensive combat area!"

"In terms of tanks and cars, we have drawn almost all the equipment we can get." Another major general introduced: "We have 79 tanks, including the 110 tanks of the Rhodes Corps, which can immediately join the battle. The number of tanks is about 189. That's the biggest force we've put together."

"Find a way to round up a whole number and send it to the commander of the Rhodes Corps." Potnowsky thought for a while and said, "Add 5,000 cavalry and as many car troops as possible. The German troops are all cars and A mobile force of tanks, we can't beat them if we can't move as fast as them."

"But even if our army cut off the supply of armored troops from the German troops into the southern area, it would not be able to eat the surrounded German troops." An officer raised his own doubts. Obviously, this is indeed a terrible thing. The problem is that the 30,000 German armored troops that entered the encirclement, that is, the combat effectiveness of the first armored army commanded by Guderian should not be underestimated. Poland really has no good way to eat this huge army.

"When the time comes, we can only hope that the German reserve force cannot be rescued in time, and our army's Qianshan Army will storm the German army on the other side." Potnowsky pushed the hope of victory to the now self-careless Qianshan Army, and The main mechanized army that has not yet been established.

Even he himself did not quite believe that the Germans could be defeated so easily. In a real battle example in the northern region, when the retreating Polish troops blew up a bridge in a panic, it took only more than two hours for the German Wehrmacht engineers to set up a pontoon bridge on the river to allow tanks to pass.

In the North, Rommel's troops taught the world a lesson in blitzkrieg warfare. The tank army marched on without fear around the fortress with Polish soldiers; then swarms of Stuka bombers appeared in the sky, screaming and diving down from the height to bombard the Polish defenders; then followed. The infantry drove these poor defenders out of the rubble to annihilate - except for running out of fuel, the German team rarely even stopped.

Potnowski knew that all his efforts were in vain in the face of such a well-trained and well-equipped army, but as a Polish soldier, when the country was invaded, he still had to stand up for the sake of the army. Fight the aggressors with trivial efforts.

In fact, on the surface, the battle plan drawn up by Potnowski still has a certain feasibility. When the northern battlefield is irreversible, concentrating superior forces to fight decisively in the southern battlefield can be said to be a panacea to bring the Polish war situation back to life. major northern cities such as Warsaw.

However, there is no perfect battle plan in this world. Obviously, this plan also has various drawbacks. The two main problems are the guarding of Warsaw and the achievement of the goal of the southern campaign. Once Warsaw is captured by the German army first, the Polish army in the south will inevitably collapse; or if the Polish army fighting in the southern region cannot hit the German army hard, the Polish campaign can also be announced in advance.

So Potnowski knew very well that the decisive battle in the south that this plan finally set off could be said to be a fateful battle between Poland and Germany. The national fortunes of the two countries depend on the outcome of this battle.

The Polish troops who received the order did not rest. After collecting some ammunition, these troops began to go south in batches, hoping to join the Rhodes Army in central Poland, so the entire Pomeranian Army became even weaker.

Of course, the Rhodes Corps also took out the best they could. There are about 110 French tf-17 tanks (most of these tanks are imitation models produced in Poland, and after improvement, the "performance" is better than the original. The foreign models were slightly stronger) began to deploy south, ready to challenge the German 1st Panzer Corps commanded by Guderian.

And just as the Polish army was ready to give it a last chance, most of Poland's leaders were packing up and preparing to flee to England. The titular commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces, Marshal Liz Smigley, fled to Romania with banknotes without informing neither his "government" nor his army.

...