The Third Reich in Desperation

When the two army generals finished speaking, Catherine immediately introduced when Reinhardt turned his attention to herself: "The main force of the air force has been organized into two air teams to implement the "White Plan". The Third Air Force formed by Czechoslovakia, Hungary and other countries that incorporated fighters with relatively backward performance remained on the Western Front. Although the fighters on the Western Front were inferior in performance, they were still competent for fixed-point defense. For the aviation formation on the eastern front, I guarantee that we can definitely seize the air supremacy, so that our army's sky will always be roaring with our fighter planes."

"So, the generals of the Third Reich!" Reinhardt made a wink to his confidant Catherine, which translates to "nice job".Then he returned to a serious tone, straightened up and said: "Since the Polish government is unwilling to let the Third Reich complete the unification of the situation, then we will take back our territory by ourselves. I believe that we will wait until the day when the war begins." , the Poles will not even have time to regret. The Third Reich will usher in a swift and grand victory!"

"Yes! Long live the head of state!" All the generals raised their right arms in salute.

Main text Chapter 142 The Major General who came back

Warsaw, Belvedere Palace.

On the street, a well-dressed cavalry squad with exquisite boots roared past.

For a country like Poland, where nearly a quarter of the entire army is cavalry.The cavalry with tall horses is their favorite.

Even some senior generals with private cars are proud to enter the city on horseback.They drive their cars only for the rare occasions when they are with their families.

"We have arrived."

After being questioned and inspected by the guards of Belvedere Palace, a cavalry colonel took off his military cap and smiled at the leading major general.

And it was Maj. Gen. Felipowitz, commander of the 13th Cavalry Division, one of the three main Polish cavalry divisions who led this small group of cavalry to the Belvedere Palace.

Because of the uselessness of the armored force proposed by the French adviser after the Battle of Ruhr, Polish Marshal Piłsudski dismantled the only Polish armored brigade that could fight against the German army in the future.

And Filipowitz, the major general who was supposed to become the commander of Poland's most elite armored brigade, was later "lucky" transferred from the reserve to the newly formed 13th Cavalry Division as the division commander.

Under the training of Filipovitz, in the past 10 years alone, the 13th Cavalry Division has become one of the three main cavalry divisions recognized by the Poles.And the reason they have achieved such a reputation is Filipovitz's high-intensity training.

For training results, Filipovitz also has his own unique set of rewards and punishments.

In the regular proficiency test, each regiment and battalion in the division determines the military salary based on the test results.The troops with the best performance doubled their salaries, and the division headquarters rewarded their achievements with rewards.The team with the worst data has almost no military salary and can only live on free army meals.

After ten years of tempering, although the 13th Cavalry Division has never had a single combat experience.However, it has been listed as one of the main forces by the Polish High Command, and it is treated on the same plane as those teams with glorious traditions.

Originally, when the Polish High Command declared war on Czechoslovakia a year ago, the 13th Cavalry Division was one of the three leading cavalry divisions invested in the early stage.

As a result, the rapid merger of Czechoslovakia and Germany eliminated the size of the Polish High Command.The officers and soldiers of the 13th Cavalry Division, who were ready to make contributions, were reined in one second before departure!

This is nearly a year.

Today, Germany and Poland are furious because of the Danzig issue, and their swords are on the verge of breaking out.

The Polish army implements a rotation system, requiring that at any time, including all holidays, more than two-thirds of the army's staff must be on duty.To put it in a simple way, the holidays of every Polish soldier are reduced to one-third of the original.

Similarly, the build-up of the German army is no longer a secret.

"We can't wait like this any longer!" Filipovicz took two accompanying colonels and strode into the meeting room of the current commander-in-chief of the Polish Army, Marshal Smigray.

Marshal Smigle, who was in a meeting, saw Filipovitz push open the door of the meeting room without courtesy, instead of being angry, he smiled and gestured to Filipovitz to stand up.

"If Major General Filipovitz has any suggestions, you can just put them forward now. I am here to discuss the next action plan." Marshal Smi Gray said with a smile.

Filipovitz looked at Marshal Smegley, who single-handedly promoted him, and gave a standard military salute before making his suggestion.

Since being assigned to the reserve by Piłsudski, Filipovitz has actually stayed away from his favorite military circle, staying with a group of generals who were equally neglected every day, away from the military center.

If Marshal Smegley hadn't reactivated himself later and sent him to train a new army, he might never have had the chance to live up to his ambitions.

Therefore, for Marshal Smi Gray, who has been kind to him for rebuilding, Filipovitz has never talked about the so-called hypocrisy, but only used actions to prove himself and prove that the other party did not choose the wrong person.

He was not good at words, and it was because of this that he was once ignored.

His strength lies in military theory.Filipovitz knew what Field Marshal Smigray wanted, and he knew what he had to do.

After Smi Gray waved his hand, Filipovitz immediately began to report the plan he brought today without a word of nonsense.

"The intentions of the Germans are already very obvious. They are going to start a war! If we are still waiting here, the Polish army will be greeted by a catastrophe." Filipovitz said loudly.

"We have just discussed these. Now, what I want to know most is, what do you think we should do?" Smeagle signaled to continue.

Perhaps prior to this, considering Filipovitz's position as a major general, it was really redundant for him to consider these issues.But now, after the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army, Marshal Smigray, ordered Filipowitz to temporarily act as the commander of the new 10th Army and concurrently serve as the division commander of the 13th Cavalry Division, Filipowitz also had enough reason to be the commander of the [-]th Cavalry Division. Gray was relieved.

In the previous one and a half months, the Polish army urgently expanded four border defense regiments, and at the same time reorganized 4 homeland defense battalions.This move added a total of 32 new divisions to the Polish High Command. Although the combat effectiveness was unstable, it did further strengthen the overall strength of the Polish army.

Among them, 2 divisions expanded from the original border defense regiment were merged into Filipovitz's command, and together with the 13th Cavalry Division formed the new 10th Army.Everyone understood that perhaps only a small battle was needed before Field Marshal Smegley would have a chance to promote Filipovitz to lieutenant general.And when the day of victory comes, Filipovitz may be the newly promoted general who Marshal Smigray personally accepts his fate.

Of course, although Filipowitz has become a well-known Polish military trainer through the training of the 13th Cavalry Division.However, it is impossible for the two divisions temporarily stuffed to him to form much combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

As the infantry, which is the main body of the future battlefield defense force, the expanded divisions of these two frontier defense regiments are equipped with a small amount of artillery and many mules as transportation forces.In future operations, it still has a certain amount of firepower and mobility.

However, the situation is not so optimistic for those new divisions reorganized by the Homeland Defense Battalion.Not only were they severely underequipped, but their personnel were also poorly trained.Although there are still many civilians joining this low-level division one after another, no matter how many "troops" they achieve in this way, it is impossible to have much practical significance.

Although there are still many people in the high command who are looking forward to this new division, but in Filipovitz's view, the facts are not as good as the high command thought.According to his analysis, these "militia divisions" who have not received systematic training and only have a small amount of equipment cannot form a reliable combat effectiveness.The troops formed in this way are almost like a large-scale reserve training camp.

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Filipovitz made a special trip back to Warsaw, certainly not to express pessimism.

Among other things, just rely on the 13th Cavalry Division under his command, which is second only to the [-]nd Cavalry Division under the command of Major General Suwaji in China in terms of training subjects.He has the confidence to fight most of the so-called strong troops.

Charge, assault, horseback shooting... All training data show that the 13th Cavalry Division is an elite unit!

After everyone turned their attention to him, Filipovitz smiled slightly, picked up the telescopic pole and stood directly next to the combat schematic diagram on the wall to explain his "conspiracy".

"According to our intelligence, although the German army is constantly mobilizing troops to the German-Polish border, the army they deployed in East Prussia has not been supplemented by a single soldier. For now, the Germans have only retained two troops in East Prussia. The fortress division with a small number of personnel and the only infantry brigade capable of attacking." Then Filipovitz changed the subject, moved the telescopic pole on his hand to the location of East Prussia on the map: "So, this is our breakthrough point !"

As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar.

"...Based on the above judgments, my idea is to concentrate the superior cavalry forces to wipe out the main force of the German army in East Prussia in a short period of time, completely pull out the nail nailed on our heads, and relieve us It is necessary to shorten the defensive area and free up troops for the defense line built against the entire East Prussian region. Otherwise, we will not have enough troops to defend along the existing front.”

Filipovitz's combat idea is already very clear. First, take the initiative to attack and eliminate the East Prussian German army embedded in Poland, so as to prevent the backyard from burning.Then concentrate its forces and use it to fight a conventional trench warfare with the Germans in the west.

In fact, the reason why Germany will launch a war in the future is precisely because of East Prussia, an area that Filipovitz attaches great importance to.After the Polish government rejected Germany's request to connect the "enclave" East Prussia, it actually left this nail in Poland in disguise.Now, this nail that the Polish government directly left in the body has finally begun to play a role, putting Poland's military operations at a disadvantage.

Just because they were aware of East Prussia's role in restraining the Polish defense line, many division commanders nodded secretly after hearing Filipovitz's plan.After all, such a plan is already the most effective and safe way at present.

Although some people have previously proposed the idea of ​​taking Posen and using the powerful Polish cavalry to go straight to Berlin along the shortest path along the Oder River-Frankfurt.But after Germany merged with Hungary and added 10 troops to the south of the Eastern Front, this dream actually came to naught.

At the moment, after the Germans have made up for the gap in strength between the German and Polish armies by taking over the Hungarian Army, offsetting the original strength advantage of the Polish army.The best remaining solution seemed to be to hold the line and wait for the French to attack from behind Germany to support Poland.

The prerequisite for the Polish army to ensure a stable line of defense is to unplug the threat forces deployed by the German army in East Prussia, so that the Polish army can focus on frontal defense.

Looking at the expressions of these generals present, several officers sitting on the right side of Marshal Smigle and wearing distinctive blue military uniforms frowned slightly, euphemistically expressing their deep understanding of the military level of these senior Polish generals. feel disdainful.

Filipovitz, who was explaining the analysis, was so keen. He had discovered these outstanding foreign military officers as early as the moment he entered the door, but he just didn't bother to take care of them.But now the attitude of these officers is indeed a bit annoying.

Seeing his confidant Filipowitz showing dissatisfaction, Marshal Smigry, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army, quickly followed his gaze to find the reason and saw the officers beside him.

"By the way, I haven't introduced it to Major General Filipovitz yet. The officers next to me are the French officer corps sent by the French government to guide the French and Polish armies. The leader is the chief representative of the officer corps. Major General Bertrand." Noticing something, Smeigl gave a brief introduction with a smile.