Lyon's infantry company belongs to the 8th Division of the 8th Army of the 14th Army Group South of the German Army. As an infantry division, the 8th Division's own mission is to clear out some small villages around the armored forces' marching route. Their mission is to protect
The logistics route of the mobile unit was safe, so it did not rush forward at full speed from the beginning.
An hour ago, Lyon's 7th company had just collaborated with several sentries originally deployed on the border to break down the fence on the German-Polish border. A well-dressed reporter took photos of them and rushed back immediately to prepare for publication.
A major landmark news - Germany and Poland have officially started war!
Then, what awaited Lyon and his company was an uneasy and tense march. As Lyon's old partner, platoon leader Bruce bravely led an elite platoon of officers and soldiers to the front of the team.
In the 7th company, the equipment level of the entire platoon is the best. This is not because the platoon leader Bruce is Lyon's good friend, but because the results of the platoon's training subjects have always been the best.
Now in the platoon responsible for clearing the way for the whole company, all the soldiers have several Type 39 handle grenades inserted in their belts, ready to be thrown in a dangerous direction at any time.
At 2 o'clock in the morning, darkness still shrouded the path forward for Lyon and others, and everything was pitch black. Although the soldiers of the 7th Company had not fired a single shot so far, the sound of artillery fire coming from the distance from time to time reminded them of the war.
have arrived around them.
"Bruce!" Leon shouted at a high decibel level, causing Bruce, who was leading the team at the front, to immediately make a stop gesture alertly. Then, within one to two seconds, all the soldiers in the front row of the team were one and the same.
As soon as they took a step forward, they all raised their guns and crouched down.
For a time, the first platoon showed quite excellent combat qualities. It only took a few seconds from Bruce making a gesture to the first platoon lowering their bodies and starting to alert the surroundings. It was possible to react quickly in such a short period of time.
, which is closely related to their daily rigorous training.
However, when Bruce discovered that there was no enemy in front, he immediately turned to Leon and shouted: "Leon, what the hell are you yelling for? I thought there was a situation, so I was ready to shoot."
"It won't happen anymore!" Leon didn't show any weakness, and shouted from Bruce in the front with a long voice: "Keep your people on alert! Come here, I have something to tell you."
After hearing this, Bruce waved his hand in confusion. Following this gesture, a row of soldiers spread out to the left and right, expanding the warning range by more than a kilometer.
After the soldiers had dispersed their alert, Bruce was relieved and walked back and forth. He didn't understand why Leon was so sure that nothing unusual would happen. Did he discover something that he hadn't noticed?
"Hey, your people look really good, they look a bit super elite." Leon joked with Bruce with a smile.
"Stop talking nonsense and get down to business!" the impatient Bruce said impatiently: "Why did you stop the team? Don't you know we are in a war now? Our mission is to clear out the remaining Polish resistance forces as soon as possible and ensure the safety of the logistics lines.
, but there’s no time to waste here.”
Faced with Bruce's question, Leon thought for a while and said: "Don't you think it's strange? Why didn't we see even the slightest shadow of the Polish army along the way? Do you think that the vanguard of the troops we rushed over really left no one behind?
Destroyed all the Polish troops along the way?"
"What do you mean?" Bruce was attracted by the words thrown by Leon.
Looking at his watch, Leon raised his head and analyzed: "It is already 2:15, and it has been more than 2 hours since the large forces launched the attack. As for our company, we were delayed by about half a day because we were cooperating in taking photos at the border.
When I was young, I was always left behind in the big army.”
After a pause, Leon continued: "Listen, are the gunfire in front getting farther and farther away from us? What do you think this means?"
Bruce was not in the mood to beat around the bush with Leon, and immediately asked eagerly: "Don't give me a pass, just tell me!"
Leon laughed loudly and said: "Doesn't this mean that the frontline troops are advancing faster than our marching speed? For every kilometer we walk, the frontline may have advanced 2 kilometers. Such a fast advancement speed means that the vanguard troops
The fight went very smoothly. Then, we can probably analyze that it was not that the vanguard stopped to destroy all the Polish troops along the way, but that the Polish troops along the way fled or retreated under our powerful offensive."
After hearing this, Bruce finally came to his senses, nodded and said, "In this case, we don't actually need to be so cautious at all. We can speed up our march to catch up."
"That's right, we can speed up the march." Leon patted Bruce on the shoulder and smiled: "That is, our company was dropped by the military because we were arranged to cooperate with people from the Propaganda Department to take photos. I guess other companies must have long been
I rushed to the front position as ordered."
"Just to take a photo, Commander Busch forgot about us. I think there are too many troops on the front line and we can't be used." Bruce, who wanted to make a difference in this war, said angrily.
Having known Bruce for so long, Leon certainly knows how eager his good brother is to achieve meritorious deeds. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have given his soldiers more weight and extra time every training. Isn’t this just for the sake of it?
You can make more meritorious deeds after going to the battlefield.
"Okay, I think Commander Busch must not have time to take care of our troops at this level. He is probably going crazy now. Let me tell you, let's stop and ask the division headquarters for the marching direction first. Let's see.
See where we are needed. This is definitely better than wandering around like headless flies." Leon comforted Bruce while thinking about the next march plan.
Bruce nodded, "That's it, just ask for directions. Don't let the division forget about us. We won't remember our company until after the battle."
In fact, Bruce's worries are completely unnecessary. Not to mention their company, the entire 8th Division is still in a state of forced march, and there is basically no exchange of fire with the Polish army. It's not that the division headquarters has forgotten the 7th Company, but that
No matter which direction the 7th Company comes from now, it is unlikely that they will be able to join the battle in time.
Under the command of General Busch, the 5th Armored Division under the Eighth Army easily broke through the Polish fortress group in East and West Slicia that the Southern Army Group headquarters originally thought was extremely difficult to conquer.
Polish troops at the border formally surrendered.
The remaining small number of retreating Polish troops were either overtaken by German armored units on their way to surrender and surrendered, or were annihilated.