Chapter 847: Disparity in Strength

No matter what the attitude of Britain and France is, at this time on the border between Germany and Poland, a large group of well-prepared German troops shouted the slogan "Long live Germany" and crossed the border in a mighty manner.

As for the Polish troops stationed on the border, they were eliminated by the vanguard a few hours ago.

The current border was hastily divided, and the Polish garrisons on the border were not even properly deployed.

Without the protection of solid defense facilities, a small Polish army is obviously no match for hundreds of thousands of German troops.

In the early morning of October 17, 1935, the third day of the outbreak of the war between Germany and Poland.

In a secret military airport in East Prussia, the lights were bright at this time, and a large number of soldiers and personnel were busy with something.

The perspective zoomed in, and on the runway auxiliary road made of concrete not far away, one brand-new plane after another was moving slowly.

A closer look shows that these planes look varied. There are Fiat CR.32 Arrow fighters from Italy, which are dark green and very Italian.

There are also many aircraft that are obviously made in Germany, with a layer of black printed on the surface that makes people look very depressed, and there are more obvious German national emblems and party logos on the tail of the aircraft.

All the aircraft that can appear here are fighters and bombers that have been tested by Germany and Italy in the Spanish Civil War.

These aircraft gathered here and have only one mission, which is to launch a large-scale bombing on the Polish border in the south.

Dinglingling!

With the sound of the phone in the airport duty room, the general manager of this military airport gave an order with excitement: "All aircraft take off immediately, target mission, all enemies and facilities within the entire border!"

The sky was dark at this time, which gave the two dark-colored aircraft more hiding space.

All pilots quickly boarded their aircraft and drove towards the runway in an orderly manner.

These aircraft are all the latest fighters and bombers produced in recent times, representing the most advanced level of aircraft in Germany and Italy.

With a series of buzzing sounds, all the planes quickly rushed into the dark sky, and each formed a formation and flew towards different targets.

Although the German army has entered the Polish border, it does not mean that the road ahead is unobstructed.

On the contrary, because it is close to the Polish capital Warsaw, the further east the German army goes, the more resistance it encounters.

It has been two days since the outbreak of the war, and the main forces of both sides have not yet met.

However, the various fortresses and stationed troops set up by Poland within the border have indeed caused considerable trouble for the German army's attack.

This large-scale air force operation is to pull out these fortresses and destroy the enemy's air force as much as possible.

Only by mastering the advantage in the sky can Germany have the initiative in the next attack.

Having said that, the size of the army and the number of equipment owned by the Poles are enough to bluff.

From the data alone, the number of Polish aircraft has even exceeded that of France, Italy and other powerful countries, second only to Britain and Australasia, which have thousands of aircraft.

And these data are true, which means that the Poles do have so many aircraft to mobilize.

But the problem is that there are also big differences between aircraft.

With the development of aircraft, aircraft of various types and functions have emerged in an endless stream, and military aircraft have long been more than just reconnaissance, combat and bombing.

Among the more than 1,000 aircraft of the Poles, nearly 550 are specially used for training, which is what is later known as trainer aircraft.

This type of aircraft does not have combat effectiveness, and its main function is to enable pilots to adapt to new aircraft. To put it bluntly, the biggest function of trainer aircraft is to be used for training, and it basically has no combat effectiveness.

In addition to these nearly half of the training aircraft, more than 300 of the remaining more than 500 aircraft of the Polish Air Force are outdated products.

Because Poland has been independent since World War I, many of these more than 300 aircraft were handed over to Poland as compensation after the defeat of Germany at that time.

It has been nearly 20 years since World War I, and the combat effectiveness of these aircraft has long been unguaranteed. If the Poles had not always cared about these outdated aircraft and carried out relatively complete preservation and maintenance, it would be a problem whether these aircraft could fly.

In addition to the majority of training aircraft and outdated aircraft, the remaining more than 200 aircraft are the new aircraft that the Poles truly have combat effectiveness.

It is still the same problem. Because Poland was established not long ago, their research and development in aircraft is actually not as good as those of the more powerful powers.

In order to strengthen its air force, Poland once purchased a large number of aircraft from France and Britain. Among these more than 200 aircraft, more than half are products of Britain and France.

Only the remaining dozens of aircraft that look obviously different in style are truly domestically produced aircraft by the Polish.

Of course, since the 1930s, this situation has been improved a lot.

The Poles spent a lot of money to develop the PLZ P.11 fighter, which not only changed the current situation that Poland did not have excellent domestic fighters, but also allowed Poland to have excellent fighters that could compete with other powers in the aircraft market.

Unlike the biplane fighters that many countries still use, the Poles decided that the new fighters would be single-wing structures when they were developing fighters.

Obviously, judging from the achievements made by the Poles, their research and development in fighters was relatively successful. The PLZ P.11 fighter is an excellent aircraft that can definitely compete with the mainstream fighters of other powers.

So the question is, since Poland's fighters are already first-class in Europe, why are there so few domestically produced fighters in their country?

This has to mention France, which has close relations with Poland.

As one of the powers, France also attaches great importance to fighters. When expanding its air force, the French let domestic aviation companies compete with foreign companies, and finally the Poles won and won the favor of the French.

In order to export the PLZ P.11 fighter, Poland specially developed the P.24 version of the fighter.

After replacing the new metal three-blade propeller and improving the aircraft's fairing, cooling system and fuel tank, the P.24 fighter received an order from the French Air Force, which made the Poles excited at the time.

Because the P.24 fighter almost reached a terrifying speed of 400 kilometers per hour in level flight, this fighter was even proudly called the fastest fighter in the world by the Polish media.

The export orders of fighters have made the Poles taste a lot of sweetness. They have suspended the plan to build domestic aircraft and focused on exporting aircraft.

There is no way. The profit brought to Poland by exporting two aircraft is enough for the Poles to build another aircraft.

As long as the P.24 fighter can be exported in large quantities, the Poles can even equip a group of powerful air forces without spending their own money.

Moreover, the Poles are confident that with their 700,000-strong army and a large number of tanks and artillery equipment, they are not inferior to any country at all, and they don’t need to worry about invasion from any country.

This has led to the fact that in the past few years since the birth of the PLZ P.11 fighter, the Poles have only built less than 50 fighters for themselves, and the rest are all used for export, which has indeed earned them a lot of income.

But it is obvious that when facing war, the shortcomings of the new aircraft are fully revealed.

If the Poles had more than 700 PLZ P.11 fighters, they could wreak havoc in the skies of Germany and Italy.

But unfortunately, let alone 700, they couldn't even get 70.

Although the aircraft sold to Poland by Britain and France were also new aircraft, they were definitely not the most advanced aircraft in Britain and France.

Although these aircraft have certain combat capabilities, it is absolutely difficult to rely on them to defeat the most advanced aircraft in Germany and Italy.

You know, the PLZ P.11 fighter, which the Poles are proud of and even tout as the fastest aircraft in the world, has the same flying speed as the Italian Fiat CR.32 Arrow fighter in terms of prototype.

The Germans used more than 400 aircraft in this operation, of which more than 250 were Italian Fiat CR.32 aircraft.

This crushing of the number of new aircraft has already determined how exaggerated the record of the German Air Force was when facing the Polish Air Force.

When the Air Force is in action, the Army will naturally not wait quietly.

Under the planning of the German General Staff, the German army was divided into two routes and launched a fierce attack on Poland.

All the 300,000 troops attacking Poland were divided into the First Army and the Second Army.

The First Army was stationed in East Prussia. Their mission was to go south to cut Poland and divide the existing Poland into two.

The Second Army was stationed on the German-Polish border. Their mission was to gradually push the front line and achieve the strategic goal of encircling the First Army from inside and outside.

Because the two armies had completely different tasks, there were also significant differences in the specific military composition.

The main task of the First Army was to cut Poland, which tested the mobility of the First Army. With the help of Italy, the First Army was equipped with a large number of military trucks and tanks, and had reached an excellent level in terms of mobility.

The mission of the Second Army was to advance the front line, which also meant that they had to face the main Polish army.

In order to strengthen the firepower of the Second Army, Germany and Italy jointly put together more than 5,000 artillery pieces, with the goal of suppressing the enemy with overwhelming firepower, directly destroying the Polish army that they were proud of, and achieving the goal of quickly defeating Poland.

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