"Thud, tug, tug..." The directional machine guns of tanks No. 111 and No. 112 were engaged in a crazy cross design, mowing down row after row of soldiers from their horses like cutting wheat.
The bullets fired by the Polish soldiers hit the two German tanks, leaving a shallow bullet mark.
However, Wittmann, who was sitting inside the tank, didn't even feel worried at all. Because he understood that even if a small-caliber shell hit, the T3's pouring armor would be difficult to penetrate, let alone such "light" bullets.
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"They're finished!" Vic sighed over the intercom.
When he said this, Vic felt happy in his heart.
More than ten minutes ago, he was shocked by the appearance of a battalion of Polish cavalry in front of him, and he was worried that with his few colors, he was no match for an enemy force that was a hundred times his own.
But now, Vic saw with his own eyes the waves of Polish troops coming in one after another, and one batch after another being killed. Judging from the current speed, these hundreds of Polish cavalry will all be killed before they get close to the tanks.
Machine guns knocked him to the ground.
One man is in charge, no one can open it!
The Polish cavalry, this legendary force that once defeated the Swedish Iron Cavalry and the Russian Cossack Cavalry successively and is famous for its low casualty rate in the history of cavalry in the world, was ended by two German tanks today!
Two hundred years ago, hundreds of Polish cavalry attacked a Spanish artillery position that could not be defeated by an infantry division. Two hundred years later, two German tanks massacred hundreds of elite Polish cavalry. The glory and courage of the Polish cavalry are still remembered today.
The German army's excellent military equipment came to an end.
It's not that these Polish cavalry are not brave, but that their technical equipment is so poor that they can only blow up Wittmann and Vick's tanks at close range by carrying crude weapons like explosive bags.
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Due to the lack of understanding of the German armored forces, the 13th Cavalry Division brought back by Filipowicz was lucky and did not carry anti-tank artillery that was inconvenient to transport. This lucky mentality directly led to the fact that the current cavalry battalion actually
There is no reliable anti-tank weapon (of course, even if the Polish army brought back a small-caliber anti-tank gun from the Eastern Front, it would be difficult to penetrate the T3 medium tank with 45 mm sloped armor.)
Even so, this Polish cavalry unit is worthy of being composed of elite officers and soldiers of the 13th Division. It was not until their casualty rate exceeded 30%, that is, the loss of more than 200 cavalrymen, that the formation of this unit was completely completed.
collapse.
After all, units like the German 30th Division that can hold on to the last soldier are extremely rare. Most units should lose their offensive capabilities when their casualties reach 10%. This Polish cavalry battalion continued to fight until the end.
The casualty rate was as high as 30% before collapsing. They were fully worthy of their title as an elite unit.
In less than twenty minutes, a fully integrated cavalry battalion under Filipowicz lost 448 cavalrymen and more than 300 wounded. Since Wittmann and Vick only had two tanks, they could not
Capturing them allowed the Polish army to scatter in all directions.
But looking back at Wittmann and Vick, the two tanks only left a shallow bullet mark, lost some paint, and used a little ammunition. The members were not injured at all, and the tanks were intact.
A crushing victory.
In the end, although he knew that the Polish army's charge was to transport explosives to blow up the tanks, after receiving the battle reports submitted by Wittmann and Wieck, the commander of the 1st SS Armored Division could not believe this glory.
Victory, and even more unbelievable that the Polish army would launch a charge for such a stupid reason.
However, although this was unbelievable, it was an outstanding victory after all, demonstrating the strong military and technological strength of the German army in crushing Poland. As a special case, the 1st SS Armored Division reported this miraculous battle process to the Führer Rai.
Inhart.
Who would have thought that Reinhardt was even more exaggerated. After receiving the report, he insisted that this was not Polish cavalry transporting explosives, and slandered that this was stupid Polish cavalry trying to stab the tank with sabers and spears, and even made up a story in his own hand.
Article - "Shocked, there are countries in the world that try to use cavalry to ram tanks"
In the article, Reinhardt pointed out that the Poles believed that the German tanks were just a layer of tin-plated iron, and described the battle that Wittmann experienced as a group of Poles rushing towards two huge tanks.
, but their swords and spears were unable to cause any damage to the German army, and they finally fled in despair.
What's even more shameless is that Reinhardt even hired a few reporters to place several spears on a T3 tank in the rear, and then took photos as evidence of Polish cavalry stabbing the tank.
As soon as this article came out, it immediately shocked many people.
What is even more puzzling is that the governments of Germany and Poland actually acquiesced to the authenticity of the article! On this matter, the two hostile countries in the war actually reached a rare agreement - pretending to understand.
Pretending to be confused.
For the German government, the article showed their advancement and Poland's backwardness. It promoted the power of the Third Reich's "blitzkrieg" while mocking the weakness and ignorance of its opponents. The meaning behind the words was that such a country should exist in the world.
In the universe? Shouldn’t it be led by the great head of state to become rich and powerful?
For the Polish government, they believe that the article praises its own heroic spirit and creates a "Don Quixote-like" tragic image (doing something you know you can't do), which can win sympathy and help from the League of Nations.
However, judging from the final result, Germany is obviously the party that has gained the most. Because after the countries of the League of Nations read this report and compared the Polish government’s acquiescence attitude, they actually became dissatisfied under the influence of public opinion.
Those who believed less eventually abandoned "stupid" Poland.
"Führer, it's not good for us to make this up like this." As a journalist, the president of the German Social Workers newspaper always felt that the nonsense of "cavalry attacking tanks" was too much nonsense and was embarrassing.
"What? You think no one will believe it." Reinhard sneered and waved his hand: "I can tell you with certainty that even decades later, there will still be many people who believe this lie of mine.
Less (because he was also deceived into believing it for a while)."
The always strict newspaper president now wants to curse the willful head of state. Even if history is written by the victors, you can't scribble on it!
As if he had seen through the president's psychological activities, Reinhardt smiled and said: "There is nothing to worry about. The article has been published, can I take it back? If I say someone will believe it, someone will believe it, even if I lied to those politicians.
If they can’t be deceived, it’s more than enough to deceive their people. If they can guide public opinion through deception, that’s enough!”
"Besides," Reinhard said with a bad smile, "I just want to disgust Mussolini's grandson and make him regret not seizing the opportunity to bully the weak with us. This guy wants to show off at any time.
His muscles, which look very strong, would surely turn his intestines green if he saw that the Polish army, known as the fifth largest army in Europe, was so stupid and did not take the opportunity to show off the power of the 'New Roman Empire'! Hahahaha.
