Boom! Boom boom boom!
With a series of fierce artillery barrages, the exploding shells' brilliant fireworks lit up the pre-dawn battlefield.
For the Polish Army hastily deployed along the border, they had never experienced such large-scale, terrifying bombings since their establishment.
This was actually quite normal. Almost 20 years had passed since World War I, and those who had experienced it had already aged, with almost no chance of remaining in the forces.
The few who could stay were part of the military's upper echelons—either commanding an army group or at the top of the country's military—and it was impossible for them to appear on the front lines.
These soldiers at the front lines in Poland, though some had experienced war, did not have an enemy that could waste so many shells on them.
Lack of experience made the Polish military slow to respond, and the lower ranks' panic affected the entire army's combat operations as well as their speed in counterattacking.
