He was being surrounded by all kinds of bad news, and this old-fashioned old man was losing his temper. "Damn it, what is Teresvko doing? Przemysl was captured by the Romanians so quickly.
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After scolding Teresvko, Modoksky was so angry that his beard stood up. But the bad news did not stop coming just because he was angry. He saw a staff officer holding a
A telegram came in, and after seeing his expression, I didn't dare to step forward at all.
At this time, General Martin Cos, the chief of staff, happened to appear and solved the staff's problem.
"give it to me."
Feeling relieved, the staff hurriedly slipped out. The general was in a bad situation now, so he hid aside for now.
"Mox, we need to calm down now. If we are at a loss what to do, others will be even more panicked, which is very detrimental to the current war."
Modokski also knew very well what he said as his chief of staff. He was also a soldier who had been in the war for a long time, so he naturally knew how to deal with it. It was just that he knew what he knew, but when the real thing came, he still couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.
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There was no way this battle was too ugly. Several important points were defeated in a few hours. You must know that he was expected to hold on for half a month. Although there was an element of surprise attack from Romania, it should not be defeated like this.
Captured. However, he had to show respect to his chief of staff, so Teresvko looked better than before.
Martinkos saw that his partner's anger had subsided a lot, and he picked up the telegram he had received from his staff officer and read it. It didn't matter, and he almost carried him away in anger.
"What, a large-scale enemy armored force appeared outside the city of Zamosc."
Martinkos's words immediately attracted the attention of Tersevko, who snatched the telegram from his chief of staff and read it carefully.
Above is a telegram from the defenders of Zamosc, stating that a Romanian armored force has arrived outside the city. Judging from the size, it should be a division, and the defenders hope to receive reinforcements.
As the commander of the Transkarpak Thousand Army Group defending Romania, Teresvko certainly knew the importance of Zamosc. It can be said that as long as he captures this place, his left wing troops will be surrounded. As long as the enemy continues to attack the rear,
If Lublin attacks, the entire right-wing force will be completely destroyed. They will not even have a chance to retreat and can only be divided and destroyed by the enemy.
As a commander, he naturally would not tolerate such a thing happening. After some weighing, Tersvko issued his order. "Ask the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and 7th Cavalry Brigade to reinforce Zamosc."
Yes, Teresvko planned to use cavalry to deal with the Romanian armored forces. Of course, he did not mean to let the cavalry use sabers to chop tanks as some later literary works said.
As a qualified general, even though Teresvko was a bit conservative, he would never think that cavalry could deal with tanks.
He also had his own reasons for doing this, which was to use the mobility of the cavalry to quickly reinforce Zamosc and improve his defensive capabilities. Moreover, the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and the 7th Cavalry Brigade were the closest to Zamosc and were the most threatening reinforcements.
It's also a trump card he doesn't have many.
The Polish military has a total of 13 cavalry brigades. Due to the influence of Romania, although Poland still stubbornly insists on retaining cavalry units, many armored units are mixed with them.
Its cavalry brigade has three to four regiments under it. Its cavalry regiment is actually equivalent to a battalion-level unit. According to different units, there are three-regiment type and four-regiment type.
The general cavalry regiment has jurisdiction; there are 4 cavalry companies, each with 3 platoons. One machine gun company, one bicycle platoon, one anti-tank gun platoon (4 guns), then engineer platoon, communications platoon, etc.
Each brigade has an armored battalion with two armored companies (one equipped with 12 7TP light tanks and one equipped with 9 TPL medium tanks), an armored reconnaissance company (equipped with armored vehicles) and a motorized support company.
There is also an infantry battalion consistent with the battalion in a regular infantry division, three infantry companies plus a machine gun company, each infantry company has a heavy armored platoon equipped with three 46mm mortars.
A cavalry artillery battalion has 12 75mm field guns and a motorized anti-aircraft battery (2 40mm anti-aircraft guns).
This difference from history mainly comes from the enhancement of armor strength. The TPL medium tank is the Polish improved version of the Jackal tank. After Poland improved the armor (the frontal armor increased from 45 mm to 45 mm) and improved the artillery (the caliber of the artillery
Increased from 37 to 47 mm.), the domestic version after optimizing the power.
However, Poland produced only 139 units of this tank in total, and only equipped 13 cavalry brigades (three brigades required one more company).
In order to deal with Romania's Transkarpak Thousand Army, Teresvko had 4 such elite cavalry brigades on hand, and using two cavalry brigades at once was not a big deal.
Regarding Teresvko's decision, Chief of Staff Martinkos had no objection at all. Regarding the danger that the left wing might encounter, it was appropriate to send two cavalry brigades for reinforcements. As for the Romanian armored forces, they still remembered that
It showed its heroism in the Soviet-Polish War, and also showed its power in the local war between Russia and Soviet Union.
Following Teresvko's order, the 3rd and 7th Cavalry Brigades began to advance towards Zamosc.
Poland has responded, but what about Romania?
A quarrel was taking place inside the headquarters of the 3rd Armored Division outside Zamosc.
"What, let's continue our assault on Lublin?"
Major General Bordas watched the Chief of Staff Liebin Cole say the latest order, and couldn't help but said loudly. "My Chief of Staff, have you reported our situation to the general? If you want to continue the assault on Lublin, at most
We can only organize the strength of an armored reinforcement regiment. With just this strength, we are likely to be besieged by the enemy's superior strength."
The general in the mouth of Major General Bordas will only be Lieutenant General Hoffman, which is a consistent title given by former armored division generals.
As for the difficulties he mentioned, it was true. Although the 3rd Armored Division later adopted a detour approach to defend strongholds, the long-distance advance led to a sharp increase in the failure rate of tanks and vehicles. Along the way, the 3rd Armored Division had
51 tanks, 29 armored vehicles broke down, and hundreds of other vehicles broke down.
These equipment and troops were sparsely dumped on the 80-kilometer road from the border to Zamości, and these equipment and troops were being repaired or waiting for the rear troops to follow up and contain them.
At present, the 3rd Armored Division has been reduced from a state of full strength to the point where it has lost nearly three layers. Only after encountering this order for the 3rd Armored Division to continue its advance, Bordas will argue.
As for what Bordas said, how could Libinkel not understand it? It's just that he had already dealt with the losses suffered by the third division before, but the order was still sent, so the superiors had their own considerations.
I saw him trying to persuade me. "Commander, the superiors are well aware of our situation. They still issued such an order. They must have their own considerations. We only have the responsibility to execute it and there is no possibility of questioning it."
Bordas himself was very clear about the truth behind Liebin Cole's words. Soldiers had no right to question orders from their superiors. They were just complaining casually.
Moreover, the superiors were not unreasonable and also proposed to organize a mixed aviation brigade to provide air cover for them.
So he thought for a while and said. "In that case, let's do this. Add the tanks of the mechanized infantry regiment to the armored regiment to restore its strength. Then I will take the armored regiment, the motorized infantry regiment, and the self-propelled artillery.
and anti-aircraft guns, form an armored battle group and march towards Lublin. Chief of Staff, you organize the remaining troops to stabilize the defense and wait until the follow-up troops arrive."
Faced with such a division of labor, Li Binkel had no objection. They were not afraid of the defenders suddenly rushing out and attacking the divided positions of the Third Division. You must know that there are at least two thousand remaining troops and they are fully equipped.
What's more important is that the 87th Motorized Infantry Division behind them is less than 30 kilometers away from them and can arrive at any time.
With the division of the 3rd Armored Division, Bordas led the newly formed armored battle group, bypassing Zamosc and advancing towards Lublin.
And he didn't know that the 3rd Cavalry Brigade had just set off from Krasny (a key town between Zamosc and Lublin). Now the two troops were rushing towards each other, and more importantly,
