Chapter 701： Battle of Poland (4)

He is being surrounded by all kinds of bad news, and this old-fashioned old man is losing his temper. "Damn it, what is Tersvko ​​doing? Przemysl was taken by the Romanians so quickly."

After scolding this Tersvko, Modoksky's beard was even more angry. It's just that the bad news won't stop coming because of his anger. I saw a staff officer come in with a telegram. After seeing his expression, he didn't dare to step forward.

And the Chief of Staff, General Martin Coss, who happened to appear at this time, resolved the staff's problem.

"give it to me."

As a relieved staff, the staff hurriedly slipped out. Now the general's momentum is very bad, so he hides aside first.

"Mox, we have to be calm now. If even we are at a loss, then others will be more panicked, which is very detrimental to the current war."

The words of his own chief of staff, Modocksky also knew very well that he was also an old soldier, so he naturally knew how to deal with it. He just knows that Gui knows, but when the truth comes, he still can't suppress the anger in his heart.

There is no way that this battle was too ugly. Several points were defeated in a few hours. You know, he is expected to stick to it for half a month. Although there are factors in Romania's surprise attack, it shouldn't be attacked just like that. However, the face of his chief of staff must be given, so Tersvko's expression is better than before.

Martin Kos watched his partner lose a lot of anger, and picked up the telegram he had received from the staff before and looked at it. It didn’t matter if he saw it, he almost backed him angrily.

"What, a large-scale enemy armored force appeared outside Zamosc."

Martin Kos's words immediately drew the attention of Tersvko, and saw that he snatched the telegram from his chief of staff and looked at it carefully.

Above is a telegram from the defender from Zamosc, stating that a Romanian armored unit has arrived outside the city. It should be a division depending on the size, and the defender hopes to be reinforced.

As the commander of the Wakarpaqian Army defending Romania, Tersvko ​​certainly knew the importance of Zamosc. It can be said that as long as they seize this place, their left-wing forces will be encircled. As long as the enemy continues to attack Lublin in the rear, the entire right-wing forces will be gone. They don't even have a chance to retreat, they can only be divided and eliminated by the enemy.

As a commander, he naturally would not tolerate such a thing. After some weighing, Tersvko ​​issued his own order. "Let the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and the 7th Cavalry Brigade reinforce Zamosc."

Yes, Tersvko ​​intends to use cavalry against Romanian armored forces. Of course, it is not, as some literature works of later generations say, to let the cavalry use a saber to chop the tank.

As a qualified general, although Tervko is somewhat conservative, he never thinks that cavalry can deal with tanks.

He also did this for his own reasons, that is, to use the mobility of the cavalry to quickly reinforce Zamohic and improve his defensive ability. Moreover, the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and the 7th Cavalry Brigade are also the closest to Zamosc, and they are also the most threatening reinforcements, and they are also his few trump cards.

The Polish military has a total of 13 cavalry brigades. Due to Romania’s influence, although Poland still stubbornly insists on retaining the cavalry units, many of them are mixed with armored units.

Its cavalry brigade has three to four regiments. Its cavalry regiment is actually equivalent to a battalion-level unit. According to different units, there are three regiments and four regiments.

General cavalry regiment governed; 4 cavalry companies, 3 platoons each. One machine gun company, one bicycle platoon, one anti-tank gun platoon (4 guns), and then the engineer platoon, communication 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 the regular infantry division, three infantry companies plus one machine gun company, and each infantry company has a heavy platoon equipped with three 46mm mortars.

A cavalry battalion has 12 75mm field guns and a motorized air defense company (2 40mm antiaircraft guns).

This is different from the history mainly due to the enhancement of the armored force, among which the TPL medium tank is the Polish improved version of the Jackal tank. Poland improved the armor (the frontal armor increased from 45 mm to 45 mm), improved the artillery (the gun caliber increased from 37 to 47 mm.), optimized the power of the domestic version.

However, only 139 of the tanks were produced in Poland, with only 13 cavalry brigades (three brigades would require one more company).

As a response to Romania’s Wakarpaqian Army, Tersvko ​​had 4 such elite cavalry brigades in his hands, and using two cavalry brigades at once was not a big deal.

As for Tersvko’s decision, Chief of Staff Martin Kos has no objection at all. Regarding the danger that the left wing may encounter, sending two cavalry brigade reinforcements is also due. Regarding the Romanian armored forces, they still remember that they showed their heroism in the Soviet-Polish war, and the local war in Rossu also showed their power.

Following Tervko's orders, the 3rd and 7th Cavalry Brigade began to advance towards Zamosc.

Poland responded, what about Romania?

A quarrel is taking place in the headquarters of the 3rd Armored Division outside Zamosc.

"What, let us continue the assault to Lublin?"

Major General Bordas watched the Chief of Staff Li Binkel utter the latest order and couldn't help speaking out loud. "My chief of staff, have you reported our situation to the general? If you want to continue the assault on Lublin, you can only organize one armored reinforcement regiment at most. With this strength alone, it is very likely that you will encounter the enemy's superior force. Siege."

The general in the mouth of Major General Bordas would only be Lieutenant General Hoffman, which is the usual name for the generals from the original Armored Division.

As for the difficulties in his mouth, what he said is the truth. Although the 3rd Armored Division later adopted the approach of bypassing defensive positions, the long-distance advance led to a sharp increase in the failure rate of tanks and vehicles. Along the way, the 3rd Armored Division has broken down 51 tanks, 29 armored vehicles, and hundreds of other vehicles have broken down.

These equipment and troops were sparsely thrown on the 80-kilometer road from the border to Zamosc, and these equipment and troops are being repaired or waiting for the rear troops to follow up and contain them.

At present, the Third Armored Division has been reduced from a fully loaded state to the point where it lost nearly three floors. Only after encountering this order for the Third Armored Division to continue to advance, Boldas would argue.

As for Bordas, how could Li Binkor not understand. It's just that I have already sent the loss suffered by the third division before, but the order is still sent ~ www.novelhall.com~ then the superiors have their own considerations.

only saw him persuade. "Teacher, the superior knows our situation well. If we still issue such an order, we must have our own consideration. We only have the responsibility to implement it, and there is no possibility of questioning it."

The truth in Li Binkel's words, Boldas himself is also very clear, where the soldiers have the right to question the orders of superiors, it is just casual complaints.

And the superiors are not unreasonable. At the same time, they also proposed to organize a mixed aviation brigade to provide air cover for them.

So he said after thinking about it. "If this is the case, then let's add the tanks of the mechanized infantry regiment to the armored regiment to restore its strength. Then I took the armored regiment and the motorized infantry regiment, plus self-propelled artillery and anti-aircraft guns, to form an armored battle. Group, march towards Lublin. And 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 has no objection. They were not afraid of the defenders suddenly rushing out and attacking the position of the third division after the division. We must know that the remaining troops have at least more than two thousand people, and they are fully equipped. What's more important is the 87th Motorized Infantry Division behind them, which is only less than 30 kilometers away from them and can be there at any time.

With the division of the 3rd Armored Division, Boldas took 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 forces are rushing towards each other, and more importantly, neither side knows it.