The Rise of Australia

Chapter 848 Air Raid

Boom! Boom boom boom!

Accompanied by waves of fierce artillery bombardment, the brilliant fireworks of the artillery shells directly illuminated the battlefield in the early morning.

For the Polish army hastily deployed on the border, they have never experienced such a large-scale and terrifying bombing since their establishment.

This is actually very normal. It has been nearly 20 years since the First World War. Those who experienced the First World War have long been old, and it is almost impossible to continue to stay in the army.

The few who can stay in the army are also high-level in the army. They are either the commanders of the army group or the top of the military of various countries. It is impossible for them to appear on the battlefield on the front line.

Although some of these Polish soldiers on the front line have experienced war, their enemies can't afford so many artillery shells to squander.

The lack of experience made the Polish army react very slowly. The panic of the lower-level soldiers affected the combat of the entire army and also affected the speed of the Polish army's counterattack.

By the time the Polish army remembered to counterattack the German army, more than ten minutes had passed since the front line was bombed.

Although the Polish army has stopped the chaos, the bombing of more than ten minutes has caused irreparable losses to the Polish army.

Not only did hundreds of casualties, but many weapons and equipment were also blown to pieces in this bombing, or at least unusable.

The loss of some weapons and equipment made the Polish army, whose artillery was already inferior, even more embarrassed.

They were facing a concentrated bombing of thousands of artillery pieces, but the number of artillery pieces they used to fight back was less than a hundred.

What was even more terrible was that because of the poor night vision, it was difficult for the Polish army to determine where the attacking Germans were.

After finally determining the direction and organizing a counterattack, it was suppressed by the enemy's artillery after a while.

The Polish officers on the front line were anxiously requesting support from the Air Force. The ground forces were not well-equipped, and it was difficult to repel the enemy's attack with ground firepower.

Only by effectively killing the enemy through the Air Force and taking the opportunity to destroy several enemy artillery positions could the serious pressure faced by the ground forces be relieved.

But unfortunately, the nearby military airport quickly responded that the Polish Air Force had already been fighting with the enemy and there would be no support in a short time.

Since there is no way to get support from the air, Poland can only take the most primitive method to help the front-line troops, that is, to continuously transport new soldiers to the front battlefield.

It is worth mentioning that although Poland has an army of up to 700,000, nearly 400,000 of them are deployed on the border with Germany.

Poland and Britain and France generally have friendly relations, which also led to Poland's efforts when Britain and France opposed the current Russia.

Needless to say, how the Kingdom of Lithuania controlled by Poland came about, which is also the reason why Poland put most of its troops on the border with Russia. They are afraid that Russia will retaliate again after unification.

Now, such a military deployment is not very friendly to Poland, which suddenly broke out in the war.

Because of the sudden cession of the Polish Corridor, Poland's border deployment with Germany has not been perfected, and there are only about 200,000 troops stationed on the front line.

These 200,000 troops were scattered along the long border, and faced with the more powerful German army, they were undoubtedly at a disadvantage.

Since there was no way to help the front-line troops in the air force, the Polish army decided to continuously transport soldiers to the front line, at least to maintain an advantage in terms of quantity.

In order to ensure that there were no problems on the eastern border and to prevent the German-Russian joint division of Poland, the Poles transported troops to the western border by transporting veterans and new soldiers together.

Although this effectively increased the number of soldiers on the front line of the transportation network, it also infinitely reduced the combat capability of the front-line troops.

Although it seems that the support of 200,000 troops to the front line effectively increased the number of front-line troops, more than 100,000 of them were new soldiers, and these new soldiers were ordinary Polish farmers even a few days ago.

How exaggerated is it?

Most of the Polish new soldiers may have been serious Polish farmers three days ago. For these Polish farmers, it takes at least 100 times three days to adapt to this role change, which throws away the hoe and picks up the rifle to go to the battlefield in three days.

But unfortunately, neither the Polish government nor the war on the front line allows these new soldiers to have too long to adapt.

Holding the standard rifle produced by the Polish military factory, he obeyed the order of the squad leader who he just met and may not even know his name, and arrived at the battlefield.

"Towaw, do you think we can survive and return?" In a not-so-special carriage, a soldier wearing a Polish uniform and holding a rifle was looking at his fellow countryman, the passionate young man Toowaw, with a worried look on his face.

"Of course, Prak." The young man named Toowaw nodded firmly and said without a doubt: "We will win this war, Prak. You and I, and all the guys who participated in the war, will return safely."

Obviously, Prak was not calmed by the words of his fellow countryman.

Looking at his compatriots who were also confused around him, Prak began to doubt the government and whether they could win this war.

Buzz~

Suddenly, a more obvious buzzing sound came from the sky, which immediately attracted the attention of these recruits.

Faced with this unusual noise, the recruits were obviously a little restless and began to talk among themselves.

"Be quiet!" the veteran in the carriage said: "This is just our plane, there is nothing to be curious about. When you go to the battlefield, you will see more and bigger planes, as well as those with strange shapes, All parts of the tank are made of iron.”

After hearing the comfort from their squad leader, many recruits calmed down. But the occasional whispering also revealed that their hearts were not so peaceful. Soon, the buzzing became louder and louder, as if a plane was approaching them.

At the same time, there was a whistle in the sky, as if something cut through the air and was falling quickly towards the ground.

"What is that?" a recruit suddenly said in horror.

Through the glass of the train carriage, a veteran also saw growing black spots in the sky. Larger, shaped black spots were in groups, streaking across the sky in an orderly manner.

Smaller black dots took on the shape of a circle, growing larger in the pupils of all the soldiers.

"Damn it, it's an enemy plane! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Stop the car and find cover!" Several veterans were obviously stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and shouted loudly.

Soon, the veterans in other carriages also reacted and tried to remind the conductor driving the train to stop the train.

But a train traveling at full speed doesn't stop so easily. Even though the wheels of the emergency stop rubbed sparks on the track, the train still moved forward at a steady speed.

boom!

As the first bomb fell around the train, the trees within a few meters were cut directly in half, and the small branches were directly blown to pieces, and then covered by a burst of gunpowder smoke.

"God bless." Pulak swore that he had never seen such a battle in his life, and had never experienced such danger.

Faced with such danger, all Pulak could do was to pray devoutly to God for His blessing.

But it is obvious that as a believer in God, God is clearly on the side of the Germans today.

boom!

A bomb landed accurately on the railway track, only a few meters away from the carriage where Plak was sitting.

The explosion of the bomb instantly overturned the carriage and shattered the glass of surrounding carriages.

The strong shock wave made the recruits in the carriage feel dizzy and tinnitus. They heard helpless shouts and miserable cries one after another, echoing the explosion of the bomb.

The good news is that apart from dizziness and ringing in the ears, Plak is fine.

In fact, except for a few unlucky ones, most of the recruits in the carriage did not have serious injuries.

Just when these lucky recruits thought they had escaped disaster, the real disaster came quietly.

The bomber detachment slid around in the sky, threw away all the explosives they carried, and then turned back in the air. Using the machine guns they carried, they launched a fierce attack on the stopped train.

Although the train carriage was wrapped in iron sheets, it could not withstand the desperate fire of multiple machine guns.

A thin layer of iron sheet could not stop the machine gun fire at all, and the recruits near the edge of the carriage were quickly beaten into a nest of ants by the machine gun.

ah!

If the bombing just now only made these recruits afraid, then the more cruel scenes now made these recruits, who were just farmers, collapse in mentality.

Accompanied by bursts of shouting, a large number of soldiers fell into a pool of blood.

"Tovav!" Plak saw with his own eyes that his fanatical and confident fellow man was penetrated by several bullets that penetrated the iron plate.

A bullet passing through the body does more than just cause small penetrating damage. Because of the high-speed rotation of the bullet, the bullet passes from front to back, often causing a cone-like wound.

There may only be a small bullet hole in the front, but a bowl-sized wound has already formed on the back of the body.

The scene was really indescribable. The blood flowed out of the body along with the internal organs. The impact on ordinary people was unmatched by any shocking movie.

Plak survived by chance. He continued his spoken language and escaped the first round of bombing and the second round of machine gun fire.

But he was also unlucky. As an ordinary farmer, Plak's heart simply could not bear such a shocking impact.

Simply put, he was broken. This kind of psychological trauma turned Plak, who was an ordinary person an hour ago, into a madman in the true sense.

In this bombing, there were many people like Tovaf, and there were also many people like Plak.

This freight train has a total of 12 carriages, each carriage transporting more than 80 soldiers.

But after this round of bombing, less than one-third of the nearly 1,000 soldiers remained, and even less than one-tenth still had combat effectiveness.

Those veterans who had experienced the war could not even bear such a shocking scene. As for most recruits, they can only endure two results after this bombing, one is physical death, and the other is psychological collapse.

What did the war bring to people? For the current Poles, the war has brought only irreparable pain.

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