Chapter 490 The New Situation in Europe
On October 2, seven days after Germany's full-scale invasion of Poland, the German army killed the Polish army everywhere. Almost all of the forty-five divisions of the Polish army were surrounded and annihilated by the German army. Twenty-six reserve divisions carried out strategic assembly east of Warsaw. The Poles were ready to resist step by step and persisted until the British and French expeditionary forces arrived, but they had a premonition that they seemed to be betrayed by the shameless British and French?
The German army's actions were more rapid than in history. The attack on the Polish army was like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, almost completely wiped out the main force of the Polish army. The Polish Air Force was wiped out in the first 72 hours of the war.
Sure enough, on the evening of October 2, the Soviet army was ready to move. It took seventeen days to intervene in the war in history. The Soviets hurriedly joined the war after seven days of preparation. Because the strength of the Germans' military strength exceeded the Soviet army's expectations. The war took only seven days from three months to half a year. Under the three-dimensional offensive in the air and ground, the last elite of the Polish Army in Warsaw launched a desperate counterattack. The Polish Army invested all the total forces that could be dispatched. The total force that could be dispatched was about 39 infantry divisions, eleven cavalry brigades, three mountain infantry brigades, two armored motorcycle brigades and eighty civil defense battalions, a total of about 800,000 people, 870 light or ultra-light tanks, 4,300 artillery and mortars, more than 400 combat aircraft, and two battle clusters formed. Most of the troops of the seven armies were surrounded or annihilated by the German army.
At the beginning of the German invasion of Poland, the Soviet government watched the development of the situation closely. According to Stalin's original intention, the German army must not be pushed to the Soviet border. A buffer zone must be established between the Soviet territory and the German front. The German army made rapid progress, forcing Stalin to order the Soviet army to enter eastern Poland in advance, on the grounds that the Polish air force invaded Soviet airspace and protected the Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnic minorities in Poland.
Three days later, the Soviet army and the German army met in Brest on the Bug River. None of them advanced, and the military dividing line was drawn. The division of Poland became the main evidence that the "secret clause" attached to the "Soviet and Germany Non-aggression Treaty" was attached. Regardless of whether the "secret clause" exists, the fait accompli is that Poland disappeared again after twenty years of restoration of the country. The German army occupied its west and the Soviet army occupied its east. The blood sacrifice of mountains and rivers of the Anti-Japanese War 490
Before this showdown, international politicians who usually speak loudly on their own have their own interpretations of the strength of their respective countries. After the end of World War I, Britain and France were still the same army as twenty years ago, with air force, tanks and artillery strengthened, but there was no change in nature.
In the eyes of Britain and France, the combat effectiveness of the army still depends on the number of infantry divisions and the number of artillery. Barbed wire and trenches are still very important defense methods. Therefore, after comparing the military strength of their own countries with Germany, they still have a good feeling for the 52 German divisions. They just think that the German bombers are indeed a great threat, but there is no war in the world that is won by bombers.
In fact, there are many more conservative people in Germany who feel that they cannot see the future, and they also have similar views with their British and French counterparts. Therefore, Hitler finally wanted to seek a separation of Poland with the Soviet Union instead of enjoying the results alone. This is very correct in international strategy and is also in line with the basic theory in the Chinese Sun Tzu's Art of War.
However, this also reflects the Germans' lack of confidence. At this point, before Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the attitude of the British and French governments was unprecedentedly tough, claiming that once an invasion would mean war, the European land would flow into a river, etc. However, after Hitler took real action, Britain and France's performance was not very good, which was far from what he said before.
On October 2, Britain declared war on Germany, but at this time Britain had no military force on the European continent and had no military contact with the German army on the ground. One day later, France declared war on Germany. France had a powerful European army. When the main force of the Nazi army rushed to Poland in the east, the powerful French army did not take this opportunity to hit Germany's weak western wall as stated in advance. Instead, they hid behind the steel and concrete fortifications and sat quietly, watching a small Don Quixote-like country being destroyed by the Germans.
After the Polish war, the British Expeditionary Force entered France. They sat behind the fortifications with the French army. In front of them were the German troops who were building fortifications. However, the British and French coalition forces had not fired a shot for a long time and just sat down. The powerful attack power displayed by the Germans in Poland made Britain and France tremble. It seemed that the hairless eagle of the Second Empire soared again in the blue sky, just as Churchill sarcastically sarcastically: "Paris and London thought that sitting could hide the debt."
Through Germany's blitzkrieg, Gao Fei also understood that what China was excited about was that the war had expanded. Now China wanted the whole world to form a group to solve the current dilemma of loneliness and resistance. The Germans summarized a lot from the invasion of Poland, but Britain and France were like wooden bells, not ringing. Although Poland was not as powerful as the four countries of Britain, France, the Soviet Union and Germany before the war, it was still a major military power in Europe and was also considered an Eastern European power in terms of military power.
Faced with the attacks of the German army, the Polish armed forces collapsed in just one week, which attracted much attention from outside countries. The main reasons for the Polish army were many, which can be divided into four aspects: the sinister strategic situation, the lack of equipment modernization and the lack of power, the huge gap in strength, and the error in diplomatic judgment.
What shocked Gao Fei was that it took only a week for the German army to come to the city of Warsaw. The so-called surroundings in later generations included three weeks of Warsaw's offensive and defensive war. The huge deterrence power of the mechanized troops was invisible to Britain, France and the United States?
Now Britain, the United States and France are all playing in public opinion. The unjust acts of cursing the bearded devil and the bearded devil in comics are very powerful to slap Germany and the Soviet Union. This just shows that Britain and France lack confidence, the Germans who dare to act ill and die, and the British and France who have repeatedly condemned them have lost their strategic initiative.
As Stein once said, the national territorial sovereignty cannot be discussed, and the price paid by any war will be small. History has learned from it, Gao Fei slowly closed his diary.
Chapter completed!