At 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 4637, the German Führer Adolf Hitler gave the order to launch an attack on Poland, and the German* army, which had already been prepared, divided into two directions, launched a surprise attack on Poland. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Germans made careful preparations for this attack. In Pomerania and East Prussia, Army Group "North" was assembled with 21 divisions, under the command of the 3rd Army (Commander General Quchler) and the 4th Army (Commander Kruger, under Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps), under the command of General von Bock. Army Group "South" consisting of 33 divisions was assembled in German Silesia and Czechoslovakia, under the command of the 14th Army (Commander General Liszt), the 10th Army (Commander General Reichenau) and the 8th Army (Commander General Blaskovitz), with General Rundstedt under the commander-in-chief. The two clusters are supported by the 1st Air Force (commanded by General Kesselring) and the 4th Air Force (commanded by General Lehr), respectively. The Germans invested a total of 54 divisions, including 7 panzer divisions, 4 light armored divisions, 4 motorized infantry divisions, 1,939 aircraft, 2,800 tanks, a total of 886,000 men, and 62 divisions and 1.6 million men if you count the reserves. This already accounted for more than half of the total strength of the German* army at this time. At this time, the total strength of the German army was 2.6 million men.

After Poland formed an alliance with Britain and France, under the threat of German attack, the Polish High Command also formulated a war plan against Germany codenamed "Western Plan". Greatly inferior to the German army in terms of numbers and equipment, Poland was able to dispatch only 39 infantry divisions, 11 cavalry brigades, 3 mountain infantry brigades, 2 armored motorized brigades, and nearly 80 civil defense battalions to resist the invasion. There are 220 light tanks, 650 ultralight tanks, 4,300 artillery pieces and mortars, and 407 aircraft. The Polish Navy has 16 combat ships and auxiliary vessels with a total strength of about 1 million men, and the Supreme Commander is Field Marshal Smigway-Lodz.

Before the start of the campaign, the mobilization and deployment of the Polish armed forces was not completed. The Polish command deployed only 24 infantry divisions, 8 cavalry brigades, 1 armored motorized brigade, 3 mountain infantry brigades and 56 civil defense battalions in the intended defensive area. In the early years of the war, the deployment of the Polish army continued. The General Command of the Polish Army planned to implement a strategic defense, deter the enemy, buy time for the actions of the Anglo-French forces and take further actions depending on the situation. The main forces of the Polish army spread along the German-Polish border, and the northern defense line was occupied by the "Modlin" army group (2 infantry divisions, 2 cavalry brigades under the commander of General Puschedezimirsky-Krukovich), the "Vyśikov" campaign group (3 infantry divisions) and the "Narev" campaign group (2 infantry divisions, 2 cavalry brigades). In the "Polish corridor" there was Army Group "Pomerania" (5 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry brigade, the commander was General Bortenovsky), in the western part of the Poznan Province - Army Group "Poznan" (4 infantry divisions, 2 cavalry divisions, commander General Kutsheba), Army Group "Lodz" (4 infantry divisions, 2 cavalry divisions, commander General Rummel) served as cover in the direction of Lodz and Warsaw. In the area of Częstochowa, Katowice and Krakow was assembled the army group "Krakow" (7 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry brigade, 1 motorized mechanized brigade, 1 mountain infantry brigade, the commander General Shilinger). The task of defending the southern borders was carried out by the Carpathian Army Group (2 infantry divisions, 2 mountain infantry brigades, 1 motorized mechanized brigade, commander General Fabrich). Army Group "Prussia" (8 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry brigade, commander General Dombu-Bernatsky) was the 2nd echelon, deployed in the Kielce, Tomaszov-Mazovetsky, Radom regions.

In the face of a sudden attack by the Germans, the Polish army was defenseless. Their air force was under the air raids of the Luftwaffe and had no resistance at all. A large number of planes were blown up on the airfield before they even took off. Even those fighters that took off were no match for the Luftwaffe's ME109 fighters. How can an old biplane compete with the most powerful fighter in the world?

Under the cover of a large number of ME109 fighters, the Luftwaffe's Stuka dive bombers and medium bombers blew up all the front-line airfields of the Polish Air Force, causing heavy losses to the Polish Air Force. At the beginning of the war, Polish airspace fell under the control of the Luftwaffe.

Subsequently, under the cover of the Air Force, the German Army attacked. A large number of tanks and armored units, tearing at the defense line of the Polish Army. The tactical thinking of the Polish Army was backward and almost stuck in the last world war. Their positions, too, were built according to the standards of the last world war. It's a pity that with the development of science and technology, weapons and equipment have been updated, and this tactic of the Polish Army has long been backward.

The German Army's armored forces easily tore through the Polish Army's defenses and drove straight in, dividing and encircling the Polish Army's troops deployed on the border. A large number of defensive lines were broken through, strategic materiel fell into the hands of the Germans, and the Polish army was routed on all fronts.

On the first day of the offensive, the German Army won a brilliant victory. The Polish army suffered heavy losses, a large number of defensive lines were broken through. Such a victory, even the German Army could not believe that the combination of new weapons and tactics could be so powerful. This also made the generals of the German Army suddenly full of confidence in this war.

When Germany was cooperating with China, the armies of the two countries had studied the tactics of blitzkrieg. The German Army is officially practicing this tactic. There is no doubt that now this tactic has been a brilliant success.

However, when cooperating with the Germans, the Chinese Empire also kept a hand. They only shared the blitzkrieg and the Germans. The other tactic proposed by Emperor Wu Haoxuan, that is, the tactic of defense in great depth, did not reveal anything to the Germans. For blitzkrieg, the tactics of large-depth defense are tactics of special restraint. Relying on the vast depth, it directly consumes the enemy's armored forces used to launch a blitzkrieg, thus making the enemy lose their attack power. Of course, the seizure of air supremacy is also very important.

Germany launched an attack on Poland, which caused an uproar throughout the world. Although, as countries have already guessed, war is about to break out. However, no one seemed to have expected that the war would come so quickly and so suddenly.

Britain and France had signed a treaty with Poland and were responsible for Poland's security. Thus, after the German blitzkrieg on Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany one after another. Germany then declared war on Britain and France. It's just that on the Western Front, the Germans were taking gestures. After deducting the troops that launched the attack on Poland, the Germans deployed only one million troops on the Western Front. Moreover, these armies are poorly equipped. Because the main armored forces have already been put into the Polish theater.

If Britain and France launched an attack on Germany on the Western Front, it was very likely that the German defense line would be broken through, and the flames of war would burn into Germany. However, although Britain and France declared war, they uncharacteristically did not send troops to attack, as if ignoring the German attack on Poland. The reason for this was that Britain and France also wanted to implement a policy of appeasement, wanting to satisfy Germany's needs for expansion at the expense of Poland. In order to launch an attack on Soviet Russia after Germany's needs for expansion were satisfied.

However, history has proved in the end that this approach of Britain and France is nothing more than self-defeating. After the Germans settled Poland, they turned around and launched an attack on Britain and France. The British and French, who were caught off guard, were defeated by the blows of the new German blitzkrieg, and soon suffered heavy losses.

Of course, that's all for later.

Italian leader Benito Mussolini couldn't help but curse when he learned that Germany had blitzed Poland. Because, the current Italy has not completed the preparation for war at all. Wouldn't the war at this time put Italy in a difficult situation? What if you start a war and don't succeed? So what should I do? As a result, Italy did not fulfill the Covenant at the first time and declared war on Britain, France and Poland.

However, on the part of the Chinese Empire, after learning that Germany had declared war on Poland and had launched an attack. The Emperor then ordered the fulfillment of the Covenant and declared war on Poland. Moreover, not only the Chinese Empire declared war on Poland, but also many vassal states of the Chinese Empire also declared war on Poland. For a time, Poland was declared war by more than a dozen countries in Asia.

When Britain and France declared war on Germany, the Chinese Empire and its vassal states also declared war on Britain and France. Britain and France also declared war on the Chinese Empire and its vassals.

For a time, the scale of the world war suddenly expanded. Italy saw that the Chinese Empire had already joined the war, and if they didn't say anything else, it would be shameless. After all, Italy is one of the three giants of the Axis powers!

Thus, on the afternoon of September 1, Italy also declared war on Britain and France, and sent its navy to attack Britain and France in the Mediterranean. Britain and France immediately declared war on Italy, so that the world war had broken out.

However, the other two major powers in the world, Soviet Russia and the United States, remained silent. After signing the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact with Germany, Soviet Russia had already set its sights on Poland. At the time of the German invasion of Poland, they were also ready to get a piece of the pie.

And the U.S. government has also begun to actively prepare for war. After all, the war has already broken out, and although the United States did not join the warband, who knows when the war will befall them? (To be continued.) )