/s Japanese pt>Polish tanks...and cavalry!?

"Let's fire!...Let's fire!" Before Armored Meyer could react, he heard a voice shouting, and it sounded like the commander of the No. 3 car, who was walking in the front with No. 2.

"Damn it! We are in the armored reconnaissance company. If we don't find out the situation, we will fight without fear of exposing the target..." Meier pushed open the hatch door above his head, then stood up from his seat, poked out half of his body, and hurriedly raised his telescope to see what was going on.

But as soon as he showed his head, there was a loud "boom" in his ears! It was the sound of shells exploding, and it was not far from him. If Meier hadn't been wearing headphones, he might have even had his eardrums broken.

The Poles were firing! Armored Meyer thought, it might be that the heavy mortars assigned to the Polish infantry regiment were firing.

"Boom boom boom..." A few more loud noises came, and several fireballs rose not far away.

"Damn!" Armored Meyer cursed, quickly retracted into the turret, closed the cabin door, then picked up the communicator and shouted: "Car No. 2, Car No. 3, report your location, is there any forest?"

"No, no!"

"not yet."

"Then let go of smoke and retreat, and the whole car is backing back 30 yards first, then turn around! Don't get bombed here..." Meier ordered, "We should keep... as long as we guard the forest exit is enough!"

He estimated in his mind that at least one of the reinforced tank companies and cavalry companies at the exit of this forest was reinforced. A Polish infantry division had a reconnaissance unit composed of TKS tanks of a company and two or three squadrons of light cavalry. It seemed that this reconnaissance unit was now strengthened to the infantry regiment blocking the way...

A Polish infantry regiment has nearly 2,000 men and 9 37mm anti-tank guns, plus a company of small tanks and an unknown number of cavalry, which is not something that its heavy armored vehicle company can deal with.

When he thought of this, Armored Meyer felt his armored vehicle shake a huge vibration, and at the same time, there was a thunderous roar. He was shocked because he was thinking about things and didn't grab the handle. His head touched the steel plate a few times, and it hurt to death.

"Damn!" He covered his head, thinking in his heart that a shell must have exploded very close to the armored vehicle, so he shouted to the driver, "Retreat, retreat quickly, don't be too slow!

The car drove for a while and didn't know where it was, but there seemed to be no sound of shells exploding outside.

"Please note of each unit," Armored Meyer picked up the phone again, "Stop moving forward now and report the loss."

...

"Long live! Long live Poland!"

The Polish cheers sounded, Major General Szsław Puzjakovsky, commander of the 15th Division of the Polish Army, held up a telescope and looked at the smoke in front of him and a German "tank" that had somehow overturned in the mud beside the road, and felt relieved.

The three hours since the war started, it was probably the most depressing three hours since Major General Pujiyakovsky joined the army. First, his division headquarters, division artillery positions and a logistics vehicle and material were blown up by the German air force! Then he heard the news that German tanks had made a big breakthrough from the Tuhola Forest, and the strongholds he deployed in the Tuhola Forest also lost contact one after another, and it was obviously already affected!

Major General Pujiyakovsky, who knew that something was wrong, responded in time and immediately mobilized all "motorized forces", including cavalry and tanks, and followed an important highway (the road where Armored Meyer marched) to reinforce the 47th Infantry Regiment under his command. On the road, several German aircraft were fired with cannons several times, destroyed 5 small TKS tanks, and injured dozens of people. He also saw a PZL.11 fighter flying from somewhere that was shot down by the German aircraft!

But finally, the troops arrived in time and repelled the first wave of offensives of the German tank troops.

"Generate power to the Army Command, we repelled the German tank troops in the Tukhora Forest!" Major General Puzjakovsky said proudly, "It is now certain that a decisive battle will take place in the Tukhora Forest area! I suggest that the Army Command adopt the reserve team to the Tukhora Forest battlefield."

Major General Puzjakovsky's judgment was correct, and his suggestions were also recognized by Major General Pugheimirsky, the commander of the army. However, this Polish major general who could be called brave never expected that this decisive battle of Tuhola Forest would be decided in a very short time!

...

"The situation is indeed a bit serious, the enemy is prepared (Is Poland unprepared?), and it is well-equipped and has a strong air force..."

At 8:30 am on September 1, 1939, Marshal Rez-Shimivig, who was meeting in the Belvedel Palace, still seemed very calm, in fact, he had no idea how bad the situation had been. Because in this war, the situation deteriorated faster than everyone's perception.

It took less than 4 hours to fight. How could the war be decided? Even if Poland cannot defeat Germany, it will not be defeated so quickly, right?

"But the war has just begun," Marshal Rez-Shimivig nodded gracefully at the British and French ambassadors who came to attend the meeting, "and the Germans have made a fatal mistake!"

"Fatal mistake?" The French ambassador was somewhat suspicious. He was a veteran who fought World War I and knew that German soldiers were not easy to deal with.

"Yes, they exposed their intentions too early," said Marshal Rez-Shimivig. "Based on the current battlefield situation, we can already determine that the main attack direction of the Germans is the north and south directions. Or rather, the areas defended by the Coastal Army and the Krakow Army."

"What? Is it determined so quickly?" The French ambassador was very surprised. He knew what it meant to determine the enemy's main attack direction on the first day of the war. This meant that the Poles could calmly mobilize reserves for reinforcements and build fortifications in front of the Germans' route of march.

"Yes," said Marshal Rez-Shimivig, "because they have begun to launch an attack that can be regarded as a general offensive, and they have dispatched a large number of armored troops."

In fact, what the Polish soldiers on the front line now see is only a small number of German tanks and armored vehicles. In this Polish battle in time and space, the German army dispatched more than 3,000 tanks and self-propelled artillery alone. If various wheeled armored vehicles are included, this number is as high as more than 5,000, but their judgment on the direction of the German army's main attack is correct.

"What?" The French were shocked again, and they were just starting to fight now! Why did they attack? Did the Germans forget how to fight after 20 years of peace?

Rez-Shimivig shrugged and said in an extremely confident tone: "It is obvious that the German command is making a mistake, which determines that they will lose another world war! I have decided to send two reinforcements from the army to the coastal and Krakow areas, where we will fight the invading Germans and defeat them!"

He paused, then looked at the British and French ambassadors and said, "In order to enable us to win the war as soon as possible, I hope that Britain and France can immediately fulfill their obligation to fight against Germany, and at the same time, we will give us some fighter squadrons with new aircraft... Because the German air force is stronger than us, this is indeed a big problem!"

...

As if to prove that Rez-Shimivig's prophecy was correct, on the Tukhora Forest Front, Major General Puzjakovsky, the commander of the Poles, ordered his troops to launch an attack!

This is a behavior that is difficult for soldiers from other countries to understand. No matter from any aspect, the 15th Division of the Polish Army is on the weak side. They should not even consider developing defense on the spot now, but should first retreat across the Brahi River and then launch defense along the river. If it were a French general who believed in the omnipotence of defense, he would almost certainly do this.

But the thinking of Polish soldiers is not like this, they like to attack! This has been like this for 20 years. Attack is their first reaction, even when facing the dominant enemy!

Of course, when Guderian's more than 700 tanks really rushed out of the Tukhora Forest, the Poles would not be stupid enough to attack with cavalry. But now, there are only a small number of German armored vehicles in front of Major General Puzjakovsky.

"Prepare for the battle! Be sure to avenge your dead comrades!" Armored Meyer saw the Polish TKS tanks covering the infantry along the road from the telescope, and quickly picked up the phone and yelled.

The encounter just now caused Meier's company to lose an 8-wheel heavy armored vehicle, which was Car No. 2. None of the four people in the car appeared. It seemed that they were either sacrificed or caught. Another one exploded beside a half-tracked vehicle, killing two and injuring two.

In just a few hours, his company lost 6 people, which made him a little angry. However, he did not recklessly return to fight for the Poles, and continued to retreat about 1 kilometer, arrived at a village he had previously occupied, and then began to set up defenses.

17 wheeled armored vehicles were driven into the village and defended them by the broken buildings that had been bombarded by cannons for several rounds. The soldiers who were riding in half-track vehicles were also allowed to get off the vehicle, and a mortar position and several sniper positions were set up.

They wanted to stand here until the Armored Instruction Battalion, which belonged to the Third Armored Division, arrived.
Chapter completed!