The German blitzkrieg completely disrupted their plans
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Before the Polish troops deployed on the border could react, the German troops had already invaded their rear and surrounded them. Faced with the passive situation of being attacked from both sides, the Polish army had to retreat steadily, something the world had never seen before.
The mechanized massacre begins.
The German army's lightning attack put the Polish army completely into a passive situation. This was the first time for the Poles and the world to experience the taste of "blitz warfare". The Polish army high command originally thought that the war would unfold as slowly as before, but the German army
They would first use light cavalry to carry out vanguard activities, and then use heavy cavalry to attack. They were unprepared for the German army's "blitzkrieg" that used a large number of tanks and aviation. The Polish army command was overconfident in its military power and counted on the assistance of Britain and France.
, so they deployed all their troops on the German-Polish border, thinking that they could win as long as they launched a resolute counterattack.
This kind of deployment with no flexibility for advance or retreat caused the Polish army to be either annihilated or divided and surrounded by the German army's high-speed and deep advance. It became a lone army behind the German army, and the resistance quickly collapsed.
The blitzkrieg against Poland was exactly the tactic developed by Guderian. It quickly penetrated the encirclement. The reconnaissance troops took the lead and rushed in front of the armored divisions.
Guderian successfully practiced his theory of armored forces and led the 19th Armored Corps to write the best combat example for the Blitzkrieg. The 19th Armored Corps is affiliated to the 4th Army of the North Road Army Group and has 1 armored division and 2
Motorized division and 1 infantry division. It is both the center of the 4th Army and the offensive forward of the Northern Army.
In the early morning of September 1, the troops he led crossed the Polish-German border from Pomerania, attacked in the direction of the Polish Corridor, penetrated the Polish "Pomeranian" Army Group, and under the command of Guderian, continued to advance.
The Polish army's position advanced into the depth of the Polish army, then made a large roundabout, blocking the large-scale Polish troops, and then advanced eastwards and continued the roundabout encirclement. During the battle, Guderian's troops advanced 400 miles in 28 days, setting a record
The longest record of mechanized force operations.
With only a few days left in Warsaw to become the last center of resistance against attacks by German army and air forces, Göring sent out his fleet of aircraft to force the city's resistance into submission.
At 10 a.m. that day, Hitler excitedly announced to Congress that the Imperial Army had invaded Poland and Germany had entered a state of war. He declared: "From now on, I am just a soldier of the German Empire. I put on this uniform again."
It is the most sacred and precious military uniform to me. Before the final victory, I will never take off this military uniform, or I will die for my country."
Hitler's speech sparked wild cheers from the parliamentarians.
When Poland was in crisis, the Polish government repeatedly requested Britain and France to fulfill their promises and provide immediate support. However, the 110 British and French divisions on both fronts stood still, facing a mere thirty German troops stationed on a three-hundred-mile defense line.
Among the divisions, only twelve of them had more combat effectiveness. General Gamelin, the commander-in-chief of the British and French allied forces, even issued an order that "we must wait for the enemy to attack." Britain and France adopted a formal declaration of war against Germany, but in fact did not give Poland any
support.
On September 2, a debate broke out in the British House of Commons, and members also asked the government to fulfill its obligations to the Warsaw Pact. On September 3, Chamberlain gave a speech in the House of Commons and said: "Today is the most painful day for all of us, but no one will
It hurts more than I do. During my life in public office, everything I believed in and everything I worked for has been destroyed. The only thing I can do now is: work hard and we must pay a heavy price.
I believe that I will live to see the day when Hitlerism is destroyed and Europe is liberated."
However, Chamberlain did not see this day in the end. On November 9, 1940, he died with regret and despair.
At 9 a.m. on September 3, Britain issued an ultimatum to Germany, requiring Germany to provide a guarantee of an armistice before 11 a.m., otherwise Britain would declare war on Germany. But at that time, Britain only had one army in Europe. Chamberlain's appeasement policy
Total bankruptcy.
At 11 a.m. on September 3, just after the deadline for the ultimatum issued to Germany, Britain declared war on Germany and declared that the country was in a state of war.
At noon, France also issued a similar ultimatum to Germany, with a deadline of 5 p.m. Germany ignored the ultimatums issued by Britain and France. As a result, Britain and France declared war on Germany one after another, and World War II
A full-scale outbreak.
That night, Hitler moved his office from the elegant marble hall of the Chancellery to the armored train America parked in the dusty Pomeranian railway station. Hitler took the car to inspect the front line and handled matters on the train.
The war on the Eastern and Western fronts!
Guderian's armored forces entered his birthplace - Cherno. The land here has long been soaked in the blood of the Germans;
After the German army broke through the Polish defense line, it galloped across Poland at a speed of 50-60 miles per day.
On September 3, the German army advanced to the line of the Vistula River and completed the encirclement of the Polish "Pomeriary" Group Army in the "Polish Corridor" area. During the battle to encircle and annihilate the Polish army, the surrounded Polish army obviously did not understand tanks.
Because of their performance, they thought that the tank's armor was just a camouflage made of tin plates, used to bluff people. So the Polish cavalry swarmed up and attacked the German tanks with their sabers and spears.
The German army was shocked when they saw this, but they soon woke up and fired at the Polish army mercilessly with tank guns and machine guns, and crushed the Polish army with their tracks. The battlefield duel imagined by the Polish knights turned into a massacre with great disparity in strength.
On September 5, the German 4th Army and the 3rd Army met in the Grudzionz area, cutting off the Polish Corridor. The 10th Army of German General Reichenau penetrated 60 miles into the Polish border and was only 60 miles away from Warsaw.
The 2nd and 3rd Armored Division broke into the outskirts of Radom, preparing to pass through the Vistula and encircle Warsaw from the southeast.
On the same day, Hitler came to inspect the 19th Armored Army. When talking to Hitler about the main experience of this battle, Guderian said: "The bravery and strength of the Poles cannot be underestimated, even surprising. But in this case
The reason why our losses were so small during the battle was entirely due to the high power of our tanks."
At the same time, Guderian reported that in the "Polish Corridor" battle, only 150 people were killed and 700 wounded in the four divisions under his command. Hitler was very surprised after hearing this, and then talked about Hitler's own participation in the last world war.
The regiment I belonged to suffered more than 2,000 casualties in the first battle.
Derrian's use of tank concentration left a deep impression on Hitler.
On September 6, Marshal Smigle Leeds, commander-in-chief of the Polish Army, ordered all troops to withdraw to the east of the Vistula River to form the Vistula-San River line. Colonel von Vollmann said to Hitler: "
All that's left is to shoot a rabbit, and from a military perspective the war is over."
On September 6, the Polish government moved to Lublin. On September 7, the Polish Army General Staff moved to Brest. By September 7, the German Army Group Northern severely damaged the "Pomera" and "Mode"
The two armies of "Lin" occupied Poland's industrial center Lodz and the second largest city Krakow. Among them, Hoppler's 16th Armored Army, the forward of the 10th Army, entered the southern suburbs of Warsaw on September 8, cutting off Poland from the south.
The "Poznań" Army Group retreated. Bock's North Army Group completely annihilated the Polish "Pomeriary" Army Group and severely damaged the Polish "Modelin" Army Group, occupied the "Polish Corridor", and then forcibly crossed the Vistula River.
, seizing the position covering the road to Warsaw from the north.
On September 8, Kuchler's 3rd Army and Kruger's 4th Army, which belonged to the North Route Army Group, launched an assault from the north and northwest toward the general direction of Warsaw. On September 11, Guderian's 19th Armored Corps
After crossing the Narew River, we began to advance rapidly towards the Bug River behind Warsaw and advanced to the Warsaw-Brest Railway, which is only 30 miles away from Warsaw.
On September 14, the 10th Army of Reichenau and the 8th Army of Blaskowitz, which belonged to Army Group South, encircled the Polish army retreating from Poznan and Lodz areas west of the Vistula River and occupied Poland.
The central region left Warsaw in a semi-encircled state.
By September 15, Guderian's 19th Armored Corps surrounded Brest, and its 3rd Armored Division and 2nd Motorized Division continued to advance southward in order to engage with List's 14th Armored Corps on the right wing of the South Road Army Group.
The group army completed the final deep encirclement. At the same time, Kleist's 22nd Armored Corps, the forward of the 14th Group Army, surrounded Kovov and continued to advance northward. On the 16th, it joined forces with the North Route Army Group in the Vvodawa area.
, encircling the Polish army that had retreated in the triangle area of the Bug, San and Vistula rivers, and forced it to be separated between the Vistula and Buchula rivers by part of the Fourth Army and the 10th Army of the South.
The Polish army surrounded by one part of the legion surrendered.
On September 17, after completing the encirclement of Warsaw, the German army ordered the Warsaw authorities to surrender within 12 hours. The Polish government and the Polish military command fled across the border to Romania on the 16th.
After the defeat of Poland, the Western Front suddenly became silent. The French army quietly defended the Maginot Line, the British and French allied forces defended along the Belgian border, and Germany was busy expanding its troops and adjusting its deployment. This situation of declaring a war but not fighting was called a "fake war" or "fake war" in history.
It's "Strange War"!
With the beginning of the Polish War, World War II broke out.
At this time, China also began to take action.
Just as their president predicted, a world war will break out sooner or later, and once a war breaks out, it will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for this country and this nation!