"At 12 o'clock, 1000 meters! Are the Poles coming?"

The roar of No. 3 Captain Schwartz was heard from Meier's headphones. It was obvious that the farmer from the Black Forest was very scared.

"Be careful of all units, do not open fire. Keep your breath and put the Poles closer and follow my orders!" Armored Meyer ordered loudly.

With a few booms, the shells fired by several mortars landed on the open space in front of the village. They did not explode, but released a ball of red smoke.

"Damn it! The Poles are setting off smoke!" Schwartz complained loudly in his headphones, "I can't find the target!"

"Mortars open fire! Mortars open fire!" As soon as Meier's order was released, more of them fell from the sky. It was not the German mortars, but the Poles' heavy mortars opened fire. However, this time it was not the high-explosive bombs, and the entire village was immediately flooded by the smoke and fireballs that kept rising.

"General, there is smoke in front of him, and nothing can be seen." The chief of staff of the 15th Division of the Polish Army, a lieutenant colonel in his thirties, put down his telescope and said to Major General Puzakovsky.

"I don't have to watch it, and I know that the children play well, just as well as during training." Major General Puriyakovsky's face was a little gloomy when he spoke, "But the place where the fight was not good, and the time was not right!"

"General, do you also think that the army should be withdrawn across the Vistula River?" asked the Lieutenant Colonel.

"Get across the Vistula?" Major General Puzakovsky snorted coldly, "That was done by a coward!" He was silent for a moment, "I want to say that the battlefield should be in Germany, in the Ode River, in the Elbe River, not in Poland. We have been preparing for a long time, and the army has been preparing for it after the Soviet-Polish war. We have so many cavalry and tanks, and a powerful air force... We could have easily occupied Berlin and East Prussia before Germany resumed its armaments."

"This time is not too late, isn't it?" The chief of staff of the 15th Division had never participated in World War I, and he was not sure what Poland looked like before World War I. Like most young and strong Polish troops, he grew up after the Soviet-Polish war. He only knew that "Pingdu Zhenlu" was the Great Poland. He never regarded Poland as a country far weaker than Germany and the Soviet Union.

Major General Puzjakovsky did not answer because he did not know whether the current Polish army could defeat Germany.

...

"The tent..."

Several 20mm machine gun shells hit the fence on the right side of the 6-wheeled heavy armored vehicle that Mayer was riding, smashing the wooden fence into pieces and flying around. Some splashed wooden blocks also hit the armored vehicle, and it seemed to be fired by the machine.

"Damn it! It's a 20mm cannon!" Meier's forehead was covered with cold sweat. The mechanism could not penetrate the steel plate of the SD.kz.1 type 6-wheeled heavy armored reconnaissance vehicle. However, the 20mm cannon could easily penetrate it!

Among the information obtained before the war, the Polish Army's TKS tank had only mechanisms. Unexpectedly, now there are 20mm cannons, which are actually only a very small number of them with 20mm cannons.

"Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!" When the enemy's 20mm cannon was thought, Armored Meyer could not hold back his anger. Although he had received the most rigorous training and was a fanatic of the National Socialist Workers' Party, it was the first time he went to the battlefield.

"As for order!" Gustav Schwarzenegger, the gunner sitting in front of Val, had already pointed the muzzle at a TKS tank that had just rushed out of the smoke. He first pulled the trigger of the coaxial aircraft parallel to the 20mm gun (used to help the 20mm gun aim, and can also be used to strafuse infantry) and a string of tracer bullets hit the target, splashing a piece of sparks on the steel plate of the tKS. Gustav immediately quickly grasped the firing device of the 20mm machine gun, pressed his fingers lightly several times, the entire armored vehicle trembled a few times, and several 20mm hit the tKS tank.

The poor little tank was like a piece of paper mud. With just two "puffed" sounds, the thin frontal armor was easily penetrated, but the tank did not stop moving forward immediately, but turned a corner suddenly and fell into the ditch on the side of the road.

"I killed it? I killed it, right?" Gustav Schwarzenegger shouted excitedly, "The 20mm shell must have penetrated and killed the crew members!"

With Gustav Schwarzenegger's fire, all the German wheeled armored vehicles on the battlefield roared, and the Polish TKS tanks and soldiers who were charging seemed to have hit the rain of bullets, and there were heavy casualties!

"Damn it! The firepower of these German tanks is too strong." Seeing his soldiers retreating, Major General Pujiyakovsky cursed, and was about to instruct the mortar group to open fire to cover the infantry's retreat when he saw a fast horse flying in front of him.

On the horse was a blue-faced second lieutenant of the Po Army, a platoon leader of the 15th Division's reconnaissance cavalry company. His platoon was sent west of the village (circling through the woods) to be responsible for the warning road.

"Teacher, commander, they are here!" The second lieutenant shouted loudly without stopping.

"Who is here?"

"Tanks! German tanks! They are big and many, one after another, and they can't count them, and these tanks also have 75mm cannons!"

The main force of the Third Armored Division is here! The front is 36 tanks No. 4 with a 75mm cannon with a self-weight of up to 5 tons and a diameter of 43 times!

...

They are here!

The German steel monster is here, wearing solid steel armor and sharp artillery (Hessmann asked the No. 4 tank to be equipped with a large diameter 75mm anti-tank gun from the beginning), and countless!

By around 10 o'clock on September 1, 1939, not only did the Coastal Army on the Northern Line (between Pomerania and East Prussia in Germany) report that a large number of German tanks were tearing apart their defense lines, but even the Rhodes Army on the Southern Line and the Krakow Army on the Southern Line were delivered to the Polish General Command in Warsaw. The junction of the Krakow Army was broken by the German 16th Panzer Army, while the Krakow Army's defense line was broken by the German 15th Panzer Army and the 22nd Panzer Army.

When the ground defense line was broken by the German army, more than 1,800 German aircraft completed the second wave of large-scale air strikes!

However, unlike the pre-war propaganda, the Luftwaffe did not formulate a plan to bombard the big cities in Poland. In Hessmann's view, this is not only a waste, but also a self-inflicted trouble! If the Polish city is blown up, it will have to spend money to repair it in the future.

So at 9:45, some of the He111 bombers flying over Warsaw for the second time were carrying "paper bombs" (most of the aircraft were still taken to bomb arsenals, airports, barracks and transportation hubs). The "paper bomb" clearly stated Germany's requirements:

1. Abolish the Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Saint-Germain because these two treaties were unequal treaties signed by force by coercion of Germany;

2. Poland recognized the Polish-German Border Treaty in 1918 because it was the basis of the Polish federal state, Germany's help to Poland, and an equal treaty;

3. The Polish Federation should agree to Lithuania and Ukrainians to achieve national self-determination in accordance with the constitution;

4. Poland should compensate for the persecution encountered by German expatriates;

5. Poland should stop persecuting Jews in its country, and Germany promises to continue to support Zionism;

6. Germany recognized Poland's independence and freedom and was willing to protect Poland.

Moreover, the same "paper bombing" not only appeared in Warsaw, but also occurred over Krakow, Lublin and Lviv, the capital of the Ukrainian free state.

...

Almost at the same time as the second wave of large-scale air strikes launched by the German army, Adolf Hitler announced in the German Third Reich Congress that the war had broken out!

After talking to General Hessman, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, confirmed that the war was going well. The German leader and Prime Minister walked onto the parliamentary speech stage in military uniform, and he excitedly announced:

"The Emperor's team has attacked Poland and Germany has entered a state of war! From now on, I am just a soldier of the German Empire, and I wear this most sacred and precious military uniform for me. Before the final victory, I will never take off this military uniform, or I will sacrifice my life for my country..."

Hitler's speech aroused a burst of fanatical cheers from the parliamentarians. Then Congress unanimously passed a resolution to declare war on Poland!

After Congress passed the resolution, Hitler immediately went to the royal residence (right next to Congress) and submitted a "request" to declare war on Poland to the elderly and worried Emperor William. The war had broken out, but now it was just a formality.

"So are the six peace suggestions real? We really don't plan to destroy Poland?" Emperor William asked on the throne. After experiencing a defeat and losing the throne, he is now very afraid of losing again.
Chapter completed!