Glorious Mission 1937

Chen Feng's business is booming here, but the whole of Poland is full of gunshots.Poland itself is a political freak, reflected in its shapeless geography.It has no permanent appearance, no continuous polity or national purpose.It disappeared from the map of Europe several times, and was carved up into provinces of great powers.

The strategic position of Poland was extremely unfavorable at the beginning of this war. The entire country can be regarded as a weak salient point inserted into Germany. It borders East Prussia in the north and Czechoslovakia in the south. West rushed in.Behind it, to the east, stood firmly the Soviet Union, newly linked to Germany through the non-aggression pact engineered by Ribbentrop.

The Germans did not succumb to the British and the French. They had come out of the embarrassment of World War I. After Britain and France declared war on them, the Germans still pushed forward to the hinterland of Poland regardless.In fact, it only took the Germans about four days to break through the entire defense line of Poland. This speed far exceeded the expectations of Britain, France, and even the Polish Supreme Command.

The bigger disaster was yet to come. After the German army broke through the Polish defense line, it rushed to the hinterland of Poland at a speed of 50-60 kilometers per day.Rundstedt's Army Group South took Reichenau's 10th Army as the main force in the center, Liszt's 14th Army as the right flank, and under the cover of Blaskowitz's 8th Army on the left wing, from the west and southwest Facing the middle reaches of the Vistula River; Bock's Northern Army, with Kruger's 4th Army as the main force, went straight eastward into the "Polish Corridor", and Kooler's 3rd Army went south from East Prussia to Warsaw and Warsaw The Bug River in the rear.

This is an unprecedented large-scale march of mechanized troops in the history of human warfare.Guderian, the founder of the German armored forces, successfully practiced his armored forces theory and led the 19th Panzer Army to a brilliant victory.After the war started, Guderian led his troops to quickly break through the Polish border defense line, crossed the Brasch River on the evening of September 9, and advanced to the front line of the Vistula River on September 1, completing the "Polish attack on the Polish Corridor" area. Murray's encirclement.

至9月4日，波军“波莫瑞”军团的3个步兵师和1个骑兵旅全部被歼灭，而古德里安指挥的4个师一共只死亡150人，伤700人。

The tactical surprise was completely successful because the hypocritical Polish politicians knew the danger despite their knowledge.Just keep making false assurances to the people.Maybe it wasn't fake, maybe their allies lied to them.Almost a thousand planes of the Polish Air Force were destroyed on the ground, and the Luftwaffe flew freely in the sky, mastering absolute air supremacy.Poland's ground resistance is also weak against strong.The brave Polish cavalry on the battlefield charged towards the tank formation.Then they were harvested like leeks by the German armored forces with bullets and artillery.

Poland in 1939 was ruled by reactionary soldiers and politicians with crazy territorial ambitions.A backward and closed government, a government that was cruel to minorities and unjust and hypocritical to its own people; a government that swooped down on Czechoslovakia like a hyena during the Munich crisis.A Czech province was snatched at a dangerous moment; a government that clumsily played both sides of Germany and the Soviet Union for 20 years;

The lightning attack of the German army put the Polish army into a passive situation. This is the first time that the Poles and the world have experienced the taste of "blitzkrieg".The combat thinking of the Polish Army Command was still before World War I, and they didn’t know anything about the German mechanized troops. However, they were too confident in their military power, arrogantly and ignorantly counting on the assistance of Britain and France, so they deployed all the troops On the German-Polish border, it was thought that as long as a resolute counterattack was carried out, victory could be won.This kind of deployment with no flexibility in advance and retreat caused the Polish army to be either annihilated or divided and surrounded by the high-speed and deep advance of the German army. It became a lone army behind the German army, and the resistance quickly fell apart.

However, what puzzles Germany and other countries is that although Britain and France have millions of troops on the western front, they stand still and declare no war.Watching the German army approaching the Polish capital Warsaw step by step, these two allies really made the Poles extremely speechless!

The war situation in Europe affects the hearts of all major powers. They really want to know why Germany has the courage to challenge countries such as Britain, France and Poland, and even more want to know whether this courage can withstand the bombing of British, French aircraft and cannons.The Americans are watching, the Japanese are watching, the Soviets are watching, but the Chinese cannot.

Germany blitzed Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany, not only the Chinese were happy, but the Japanese were also happy.Japan has always been worried that Britain, France, and the United States will intervene in their invasion of China. Just like during the Sino-Japanese War, although they defeated the Qing government and occupied the Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan, they were stopped by Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries. The redemption fee of 3000 million taels of silver took back the Liaodong Peninsula.

Although Britain and France have not intervened in the war in Asia until now, it does not mean that they will remain silent forever.But now that Germany has ignited the powder kegs in Europe, countries such as Britain and France will not have the opportunity to intervene in Asian affairs in a short time. As for the United States, the world's largest economic power, Japan has never paid attention to it, with an army of less than [-] In Japan's view, only two infantry divisions are needed to completely defeat the United States.

At the same time, German tactics in Poland reminded the Japanese of the power of the Blitz that fascinated them. On September 9th, Neiji Okamura, the commander of the No.9 Army, concentrated the two third-rate divisions of the 11st and 101th, which had suffered repeated defeats. The military city of Nanchang launched an attack in an attempt to destroy the second largest aviation base of the Nationalist Government from the ground.

此役日军虽然调集的步兵不多，但是却调集了大量的炮兵和战车，单单一个野战重炮旅团就有“四年式”150毫米口径榴炮72门、“14年式” 100毫米口径加农16门、“四一式”75毫米口径12门、“**式”150毫米口径口径加农4门、“三八式”75毫米口径34门、“三八式”75毫米口径32门，除了以上的170多门重炮以外，每师团的4个步兵联队尚有山炮野炮56门，两个师团即达112门和配属的8个迫击炮中队，这还不算日军联队、中队、小队配备的92步兵炮等一线作战火炮。101师团和106师团用于攻南昌守军防线的重炮高达300多门，参战炮兵的总人数几乎和进攻的步兵相等了。

Such a powerful artillery camp is extremely rare on the Chinese battlefield. Even the Soviet Union, which has always advocated cannonism, rarely dispatched such a large-scale artillery unit. It must be known that the field artillery division, which was regarded as the main force of the Soviet army, was equipped with no more than There are 76 60mm field guns, 122 45mm howitzers, and 152 30mm howitzers. One division has only 1 artillery pieces. The Japanese army’s heavy artillery this time is equivalent to 135 Soviet artillery divisions. The Chinese garrison is really nothing.

What's more, the Japanese army concentrated more than 130 tanks and more than 200 aircraft on the front line of Nanchang. With no anti-aircraft weapons or anti-tank weapons, the Japanese army collapsed after only 7 days. Nanchang.

The capture of Nanchang by the Japanese army caused an uproar in the national government. It was nothing to lose a big city, but the 7 troops on the front line of Nanchang only persisted for [-] days. Morale on the frontlines has also plummeted.

When the news reached Saibei, Chen Feng was also shocked. He didn't expect that the old man Ningji Okamura would still use this trick. In history, Ningji Okamura should have occupied Nanchang in April this year. The tactics are still like this, and Okamura Neji's blitzkrieg was earlier than Germany's blitzkrieg, but the Japanese army had not moved during this time. Chen Feng thought that Okamura Neji had forgotten about it, but he never thought that Nanchang would be captured at this time.

Neji Okamura's victory over Nanchang was a great boost to the morale of the Japanese army. Not only the Japanese army on the front line in Wuhan seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, but even the Japanese army in North China was ready to move.Not long ago, Li Zong sent back news that three warships had just arrived at Tianjin Wharf. They were all equipped with armored vehicles and tanks. It seemed that there were five or six hundred of them. The Japanese army must have made a big move.

Moreover, during this period of time, the headquarters of the North China Front Army frequently convened meetings of senior officers at the division, regiment and brigade level, and the transfer of supplies was extremely frequent. Li Zong and others even saw the appearance of the Japanese special forces.

Sure enough, the intelligence department also collected a lot of information about the recent changes in the Japanese army, especially when they found out that the main force of the Japanese army was quietly going south.

Chen Feng judged that the Japanese army was probably preparing to launch an attack on the Kuomintang troops in Henan. It had been more than a year since the Japanese army had been blocked by the Nationalist government's first war zone on the front line of Lanfeng, and it was time to launch an attack.What's more, the Wuhan battle is in full swing, and the national government has transferred a large number of elites from the first war zone. At this time, it is the best opportunity to attack Henan.

陈锋的判断是正确的，9月18日，日军华北方面军在山东一线调集了第12军主力3个师团两个混成旅团在100多辆战车200多门大炮两百架战机的配合下向兰封一线的国民党军队发起了进攻。

At the same time, the Japanese army also concentrated a division, a mixed brigade, and a large number of technical and tactical arms in the southern Hebei area, and rushed into Henan from north to south, attacking the defenders in Henan from both sides. (To be continued..)