69novels Chapter 489
Chapter 489
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: 0.090s Scan: 0.034sAfter several days of discussion between the British Empire and the Gauls, they decided to carry out the strategy of diverting the trouble to the east. Then the two countries jointly announced that they would officially declare war on the Russian bear!
This news made the people in various countries in the world feel a little confused. Isn’t your guarantee of independence for Poland aimed at Hans?
Why did Hans invade Poland together with the Russian bear, but you only declared war on the Russian bear, but not on Hans?
“Humph, in the final analysis, it’s nothing more than bullying the weak and fearing the strong!”
The Mao Bear people were very angry when they heard the news. They were also invaders, but not only were they not declared war on Hans, but the Gauls even said they would withdraw part of their troops from the front line to show goodwill.
Wouldn’t this be just watching Hans throw more troops into the Polish battlefield?
When the Polish people first heard that the British Empire and Gaul had declared war on Mao Bear, the whole country was jubilant from top to bottom!
The reason they dared to jump like that before was because they relied on the protection of the two powerful countries, the British Empire and Gaul, behind them, so they didn’t take anyone seriously. They provoked Mao Bear today and provoked Hans tomorrow, and they didn’t even know how to write the word death!
After Mao Bear and Hans declared war on them one after another, the people of the Polish people were very angry. They panicked for a moment, and then placed all their hopes on their allies. They felt that the British Empire and Gaul would never sit idly by, and they would definitely come out to uphold justice and protect them. After all, their strategic position was so important, how could they abandon themselves so easily?
The idea of the Borland people was both right and wrong.
Their strategic position was indeed very important. It was simply the gateway to Europe. It was an important barrier that blocked the Russian bear from advancing westward. It was also a buffer zone that prevented Hans from advancing eastward, so as to prevent them from getting too close to the Russian bear or even joining forces!
So for Gaul and Gaul, they definitely did not want Borland to be destroyed, and they would do their best to protect Borland. Lan!
This idea is a bit naive, because the British Empire and the Gauls are not fools. They will definitely weigh the interests before making a decision. If it is profitable to do so, then they will definitely take action. However, if it is not profitable or even makes themselves fall into the quagmire of war, wasting their national strength for no reason. They are definitely not willing to do such a thing!
The naivety of the Polish people lies in that they think that with the independence of Gaul, and Gaul and the British Empire are traditional allies, it means that they have the protection of both Gaul and the British Empire at the same time, so they can do whatever they want!
This idea is too stupid. They are completely handing their fate to others and letting others cover for them.!
However, the problem is, if their fate is in the hands of others, then once others abandon them, they will have no way to save themselves!
Just like this time, the Polish people were overjoyed and cried for joy after seeing the British Empire and Gaul declare war on the Russian Bear, thinking that their savior had finally come to save them!
However, when they were eagerly looking forward to the British Empire and Gaul taking further measures and declaring war on another invader, Hans, they were disappointed!
Until the complete destruction of Poland, the British Empire and Gaul did not declare war on Hans!
Moreover, after these two countries declared war on the Russian Bear, they did not send a single soldier. It was completely a blank check. It sounded good, but it was actually useless!
On October 26, the Battle of Warsaw began, and the German army launched a fierce attack on Warsaw from both the east and west directions.
This battle entered a white-hot stage from the beginning!
As the fog that had been lingering over Poland gradually dissipated, when the battle started, the Polish people saw for the first time the power of the air force of this era!
100B-29 bombers flew over Warsaw in a neat team, and carried out intensive carpet bombing on the city outside the range of the defenders’ anti-aircraft guns!
In order to conceal their strength, the German army used ordinary bombs, and did not use white phosphorus bombs and napalm bombs. If the latter two were used, the destructive power of these special bombs would be even greater under the same tonnage, especially white phosphorus bombs. This weapon was banned in later generations. It was extremely lethal to living things, and people who came into contact with it died miserably!
However, even ordinary bombs, the Polish people could not bear it at all!
After the air raid that covered the sky and the sun, most of Warsaw was reduced to ruins. The soldiers and civilians in the city suffered heavy casualties, and corpses were everywhere!
Just when they were terrified and uneasy by the air raid!
The German armored forces have begun to attack!
This is the first time that the armored forces have launched an attack on a large city, so Guderian and the German high-level officials are closely watching this battle.
No one pays attention to the gains and losses of Warsaw City. What everyone is more concerned about is how the armored forces, which are weapons that kill all directions and are unstoppable in night battles, perform in street fighting?
Soon, the First Army used a perfect answer sheet to tell the world: The armored forces are also a true god-level existence in street fighting! The
Polish people have never seen such a strong, powerful, and fast tank!
In the first German-Polish war, they encountered Hans’s No. 1 tank and tractor tank.
Both tanks lack artillery, and there are only some machine guns on them that can pose a threat to the Polish soldiers, so the Polish people have a stereotype in their minds. They think that the German tanks have no main guns, so their power is limited.
However, the appearance of the No. 4 tank made them confused!
Unless they are blind, they can’t see the 75mm smoothbore gun on the No. 4 tank!
Therefore, the various tactics that the Polish people had carefully designed to deal with German tanks immediately failed in front of the No. 4 tank!
The first thing they thought of was to use the anti-tank guns used against the No. 1 tank to attack the No. 4 tank!
However, the thickness of the armor on the front of the No. 4 tank exceeded 90 mm. Not to mention anti-tank guns, anti-tank guns with a caliber of less than 57 mm could not penetrate their armor. The anti-tank guns did not hurt when they hit their bodies, just like a mosquito bite!
After seeing that the anti-tank guns were ineffective, the Polish people immediately changed their thinking and began to use the small team method, preparing to bring explosive packs, approach Hans’ tanks, and then use explosive packs to destroy them!
If this idea can be implemented and the explosive packs are successfully placed in key positions, then the Type 4 tank really can’t stand it!
Before the reactive armor came out, no tank could withstand such a blow, especially the attack on the fragile tracks and bottom armor, which was even more difficult to defend!
However, it is extremely difficult to do this!
The Polish soldiers must first approach the tanks under the attack of the tank guns, and at least half of them will be shot down in the process!
Then if the remaining half of the soldiers do not collapse, they will rush to the vicinity of the tanks under the strafing of the machine guns on the tanks, throw the explosive packs over or rush over directly with them!
In this process, they will be strafed by two machine guns on the tanks, the coaxial machine gun on the main gun, and the machine gun in the firing port below the main gun.
Moreover, once they were within 200 meters of the tanks, the infantry accompanying the tanks would become another obstacle for them. The submachine guns, assault rifles and sniper rifles in the hands of these infantry would become their nightmares, and the German soldiers holding sniper rifles and machine guns occupying the commanding heights on both sides of the road to provide fire cover for their own troops would be even more of a nightmare for them!
In street fighting, the most feared thing for any soldier is probably the enemy’s sniper!
The city is full of tall buildings, and the snipers have a very wide field of vision and a lot of hiding places, which allows them to launch attacks from all places. Their accurate shooting skills, almost one shot per person, are cold and efficient killing machines! The
Polish soldiers cannot be said to be not brave.
Many combat teams rushed up with explosive packs, but such desperate tactics did not work at all.
Under the precise division of labor and cooperation of the German army, every soldier knew his own job very well.
Facing the attack of the Polish people, they were not panicked at all, just like in normal training, and they cooperated perfectly.
Before the Polish soldiers rushed to the vicinity of the tanks and threatened the tanks, they had already killed all the enemy troops!
Both methods of the Polish people failed, so they had to use the third method, honestly using anti-tank guns to attack the German tanks!
However, this made them even more desperate!
Because the thickness of the armor of the Panzer IV was far beyond the ability of anti-tank guns of this era to penetrate, their attack did not pose any threat to the German army at all. Instead, they themselves exposed their positions during the bombardment and were hit hard by the German army!
The Battle of Warsaw lasted for two days. During this period, the German army dispatched a total of 120 tanks, and no tank was destroyed by the enemy in the battle, creating a terrible record of 0 casualties!