stonecrandall Chapter 487
Chapter 487
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, the capital Berlin.
After the war began, Mainz moved the German headquarters back to Berlin, and he himself entered the headquarters of the Supreme Command to listen to the reports from the front at any time.
Mainz knew better than anyone what this war meant!
Therefore, even if the opponent was weak, he did not take it lightly.
Mainz walked into the headquarters, and dozens of senior generals and combat staff in the headquarters stopped their work and saluted Mainz in unison!
“Hello General!”
“Hello, General!”
“”Hello, President!”
Various titles came out from different people’s mouths, but everyone’s tone was full of respect and admiration!
The man in front of him was the godfather of this invincible army. Without him, the German army would not have risen so quickly, nor would it have reached the top of the world.
Therefore, every soldier admires his general from the bottom of his heart. If anyone dares to do something bad to their general, these people will definitely rush up and fight those guys to the death without hesitation!
Mainz felt the admiration in the eyes of these young generals. He smiled and nodded to everyone, returned a military salute, and said with a smile:”How is it, what’s the situation on the front line?”
“Report to the general, according to the intelligence we have received so far, the Third Army has captured Euko, annihilated three Polish divisions, and defeated two divisions. It is currently marching towards Bialystok.
The Fourth Army has captured Katowice, annihilated the 60,000 Polish troops there, and is currently marching towards Lublin. The
Sixth Army has just entered Danze, recaptured Danze, and forced the Polish army into the Pomeranian Forest area. Except for the First Army, which has no news yet, the other four armies have reported good news!”
Manstein saw Mainz coming in and immediately came over to report the latest military situation on the front line.
As the Chief of the General Staff, this war was led by him and commanded by him personally. The young Manstein had never experienced such a thing, so he seemed a little nervous!
“The purpose of the First Army was to attack Warsaw as quickly as possible, and they had to maintain radio silence, so it was normal for the telegram to be transmitted a little slowly!”
Mainz took a look at the map. The German army was unstoppable on the front battlefield. At this time, they had already invaded Poland from three directions and wiped out more than 200,000 of their troops.
The main force of the Polish army was divided and surrounded by the First Army, the Sixth Army and the Fourth Army in the southwest and northwest. One part was trapped in the Pomeranian Forest, and the other part was trapped in the Czestochowa area. The strength of these two Polish armies was about 300,000 and 200,000 respectively.
Compared with history, the number of German encirclement troops was much smaller. This was mainly because their main forces were not on the Western Front at this time, but were fighting the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. Hans actually got a bargain. After the Soviet Union started the war first and attracted the attention of the Polish army, he launched an attack from behind them.
Therefore, compared with the blitzkrieg in history, the resistance faced by the German army from the beginning of this battle was much smaller.
In history, Guderian made a detour and surrounded most of Poland in a C shape. In the end, it took only 17 days to end the battle, wipe out the defenders of Poland, and destroy Poland!
In this time and space, the strength of the German army is much stronger than in history, while the strength of Poland is much weaker. Mainz thinks that this time they may not need 17 days to destroy Poland, but only about ten days.
Destroying a country in ten days, I’m afraid no one would believe it, right?
After all, five years ago, when the German army defeated Poland in just one and a half months, the whole of Europe and even the whole world were stunned!
They had never seen a war end so quickly, so they were all shocked by the powerful fighting power of the German army!
This time, if they knew that Hans ended the war and destroyed Poland in just ten days, what would their expressions be?
Mainz knew that compared with the war in 1923, the current German army was much stronger!
In 1923, the German army had only 200,000 regular troops, and the rest were soldiers who joined the army urgently after the general mobilization. Although some of them were veterans of World War I, they had been out of battle for a long time and had no systematic training. Their combat effectiveness was actually far less than that of the regular army!
This time, the German army had more than 2 million regular troops, and their equipment had also been upgraded. They were equipped with more advanced tanks, more powerful artillery, fighters and bombers, and the infantry weapons had also been comprehensively upgraded. The new rifles, submachine guns, automatic rifles and general-purpose machine guns and other equipment made the combat effectiveness of the German infantry also improved. It has been greatly improved!
It can be said that the current German army is the ceiling of the world’s land combat force. No army can defeat them on the front battlefield! It is not surprising that the German army won a big victory over Mainz. If they lost, Mainz would be surprised! However
, even so, he was still curious about the performance of this army that he built by himself in their first battle.
If destroying Boland within fifteen days is the passing line in Mainz’s mind, then if they can shorten this time to ten days, the performance of this army can be called perfect!
“Well, I think so too. I am not very worried about the front battlefield. The Polish army has basically been divided and surrounded at this time, and it can’t make any big waves. But I am a little worried about the situation of the Third Army.”
Manstein expressed his concerns. It was different from history. In history, it was the German army that launched the attack first, and then the Russians joined the war later. So after the German army was in place early, the Russians came late. Both sides were very restrained and no conflict broke out.
But this time, the Russians took the initiative. They started the war first, and Hans joined the war. So it stands to reason that the Russians should have occupied most of Poland’s territory.
But the facts are the opposite. The German army’s advancement speed is much faster than the Soviet army. As a result, the Soviet army declared war first, but occupied much less territory than the German army.
In this case, whether the Russians will accept this situation is hard to say!
“If Marshal Tukhachevsky is on the Western Front, then I think we really have to be wary of the Russian bear’s movements. Even if this guy knows that our two countries have signed a non-aggression pact, he will definitely find an opportunity to fight us!”
“This guy will definitely find ways to test our true combat effectiveness and prepare for the future war, but Budyonny doesn’t have the courage to do so, and Starlin will never allow him to arbitrarily destroy the peaceful relations between the two countries and provoke a war!”
“We don’t want to fight with the Russian bear, so why would the Russian bear want to provoke us? In our eyes, the Russian bear is at best a sick bear. Although it has a huge body and terrible power, it can’t exert its full strength at this time. It just looks terrible, but in fact it is vulnerable!
But in the eyes of the Russian bear, we must be a tiger, a hungry and ferocious tiger. If they dare to provoke us, we dare to bite them. At worst, we can let the British Empire move its capital, give up the western strategy first, and take the lead in the eastern offensive to destroy the Russian bear. We can afford it!”
Mainz patted Manstein on the shoulder and comforted him,”However, we should despise the enemy strategically and pay attention to the enemy tactically. Tell Rommel not to provoke trouble and not to be afraid of trouble. If the Russian bear does not offend us, then don’t provoke them, but if the Russian bear wants to fight, then fight with them to the end. Those who offend Hans will be punished even if they are far away!”_