"It's a little too late to try your best now!"
Facing the Polish army's desperate counterattack, Guderian acted calmly.
He did not plan to hold on to the city in Posen. Instead, he casually moved his troops out and prepared for a decisive battle with the Polish army in the wild!
The Polish army They did not expect that the opponent would adopt such tactics, but this choice of the German army was a good thing for them. After all, fighting in the wild is much easier than fighting in the city! On
January 6, the Polish army followed up. A fierce battle broke out between the German troops at a station next to the railway that ran through Posen and Bolin. The
Polish army had too many people and a large amount of weapons, equipment and supplies. If they did not seize control of the railway, these troops would be destroyed. There was no way to break out of the German encirclement quickly, so the first target of their attack was a small town called Booker next to the railway.
The German army had already anticipated the Polish army's intentions, so they deployed a large number of spy lines along the railway line. , closely monitoring every move of the Polish army.
The Battle of Booker was an encounter between the two sides. After the Polish people discovered that there was a German garrison at Booker Station, they immediately launched an attack on Booker. The number of German troops in Crooked was very small, so it was easy to capture it. However, to their surprise, the main force of the German army was behind Booker.
So, Guderian received a distress telegram from the front. After that, they immediately rushed over with their troops.
This time, the main force of the Bolan people finally saw the big guys who had made their rearguards suffer so much before!
"This, what is this?"
"Looks like…a tractor?"
The Bolan soldiers looked confused. The big guys that appeared in front of them, roaring and moving fast like bulldozers, didn't look like tanks at all. Instead, they looked very much like crawler tractors used in agriculture.!
The Bolan people guessed correctly, this mysterious equipment of the German army is really a tractor!
Because of the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, the German army cannot develop tanks, and armored vehicles are also subject to certain restrictions, that is, they cannot have turrets and cannot be mounted on them. The deployment of weapons with a caliber exceeding 20 mm!
Under this restriction, the development of the German armored forces was greatly affected.
At that time, Mainz once submitted this design drawing to the Krupp factory. The design drawings were once considered to be the design drawings of tanks by the Allied Arms Control Committee. They once led troops to inspect the Krupp factory, and even blew up most of the Krupp factory.
However, the result of the inspection was! , Krupp, the arms tycoon, did not produce tanks, but instead produced an agricultural crawler tractor!
Naturally, the Allies, especially the Gauls, could not accept this result. They firmly believed that Hans must be sneaking around. Develop tanks, but no matter how they investigate, they can't find any evidence!
In fact, the German army does have a plan to develop tanks, but that plan is still in the design stage and has not been put into action. Plan, these crawler tractors actually have the potential to be converted into tanks! Although the Allied Powers discovered these tractors, they carefully studied the performance of these tractors. The biggest difference between these tractors and ordinary agricultural tractors.
This kind of tractor is specially reinforced.
They use more steel plates than other tractors, and the power system is also a high-power diesel engine.
This makes these tractors very fast, generally reaching 20-30 miles per hour.
In those days, those bulky tanks were much faster!
Moreover, although these tractors did not have turrets, they had a lot of space to install large-caliber machine guns to increase their firepower.
In addition, when they were first designed and manufactured, these tractors had a lot of space.
The armor is relatively thick, which makes them have strong defensive power.
In summary, although these tractors are not real tanks, they are basically equivalent to defensive tanks with thickened armor, enhanced power, and removed turrets.!
This kind of tank is perfect for positional warfare to cover infantry attacks!
"Da da da!"
While the Bolan soldiers were in a daze looking at these strange iron lumps, the German soldiers on the tractor also discovered them, so they unceremoniously pulled the trigger of the machine gun!
Puff puff!
Bullets from the 12.mm heavy machine gun It's very unreasonable. As long as this kind of bullet hits a person's torso, it can interrupt the person in one fell swoop. It's very overbearing! When the Bolan soldiers saw that these things were tractors, they couldn't help but despise them. They took it too seriously.
After all, what kind of threat could this thing have? The German tractor tank quickly told them that it was not a decoration!
Attack, and because of their speed, they easily went around the rear of the Pineapple army, cut off their retreat, and then, with the cooperation of the infantry, quickly exposed this wave in the open area. The Polish army was annihilated!
The Polish army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Buk. A full division of troops was annihilated under the eyes of the main Polish army. This made Piłsudski extremely angry. He cursed the frontline commander. It's so bloody. In his opinion, even if a pig is put in charge, it can't be worse than this guy.
However, since the main force of the German army has appeared in the Booker area, then rush up and bite them! Then create opportunities for the following troops to circle around their flanks to surround them!
This may be an opportunity to change the situation of the battle!
Piłsudski's idea is good, but his idea is based entirely on his understanding of the traditional army. , and the army he was facing now was not a traditional army! On
January 7, the main Polish army surrounded the small town of Booker. In order to prevent the Germans from breaking through, they built several layers of encirclement outside. They wanted to eat the main force of the German army in one bite!
However, after they had gone to great lengths to do all this, they were shocked to find that the German army in the encirclement was already gone!
"Where have the German troops gone?"
There was only one question in Piłsudski's mind. He obviously fought here yesterday and killed one of his divisions, so why did he disappear today?
Could it be that the Germans could fly if they had wings?
Of course the Germans didn't. Wings, but the army led by Guderian is the world's first mechanized infantry!
They have thousands of trucks, hundreds of armored vehicles and tractors and tanks, and the entire army does not have to worry about walking on their own legs. On foot, all their marches were done by trucks!
On January 8, when Poland was looking for the main force of the German army, Guderian's troops detoured from the south, penetrated into the rear of the Polish army again, and captured the Polish army. The material center is Sivi City!
Sivi City is the center of the area currently controlled by the Polish Army, and it is also a hub area for railways and highways. According to common sense, this should be the safest place, so the Polish Army currently has very few supplies left. , almost all of them were stored here for rapid transportation to various places by railway. As a result, the Polish army never expected that the German army unexpectedly appeared behind them and destroyed their logistics base!
At this time, the Polish army's million-strong army was once again divided into two parts by the German army. One part was divided into the area east of the city of Hivi and the west of the city of Posen.
The other part was divided into the area from Frankfurt to Hivi.!
And this is not the most deadly thing. The most deadly thing is that the supplies on hand for the Polish army can only last for three days at most!
In three days, they will run out of food! A blow, it can be said to be a poke into the main artery of the Spinland people!