Chapter 706： Warsaw on the 7th (2)

Dust billowed on Route 17 from Lublin to Warsaw, and a large number of vehicles were heading for Warsaw along this road.

That's right, this is the assault armor group of Commander Hoffman, but now even if it is all wheels, it still can't run fast. Because a large number of vehicles are stuck on the road, how can this run fast?

"Look at my gesture, go here."

At a crossroads, several military policemen in military uniforms and white helmets were directing traffic. Under their command, trucks passed the intersection smoothly and drove into Lublin.

When a command car cleared this intersection, it suddenly pulled over to give up the road and stopped. A general with the rank of lieutenant general on his shoulders walked out of the car. That's right, this is Hoffman. He saw that the troops were moving a little slow, and he planned to stop to find out the situation.

So when he saw him, the military police officer who was on duty immediately stepped forward to report. "Report, Lieutenant General Hoffman, the Thirteenth Unit of the Gendarmerie is on duty here."

"Hello, Ensign."

Hoffman asked after responding. "How many vehicles can you command to pass through in an hour?"

The second lieutenant of the military police replied after a little thought. "General, we didn't pay attention to the number, probably between five hundred and six hundred."

The hourly traffic volume of five or six hundred vehicles, Hoffman listened to his ears, silently calculating in his heart, it would take more than ten hours to ensure that all vehicles passed.

When I saw the road underneath that was not even paved with asphalt, I was ashamed to say that it was the main road connecting Warsaw to Lviv, and it didn't even have the capacity for two cars to pass side by side.

Hoffman was unable to complain about Poland's infrastructure road, but this has indeed become an obstacle to the advancement of Romanian troops. At present, the two armored divisions and two motorized infantry divisions under his leadership total more than 6,000 vehicles, which is not considered as a tank with off-road capability and an armored vehicle with a certain off-road capability. If these vehicles are added, the entire army's vehicles will exceed 7,000.

With so many vehicles rushing to Warsaw on this route 17, naturally, they won't have too fast speeds. But no matter how slow the speed is, it is much faster than the infantry division, because the vehicle can run uninterrupted for 24 hours, but the soldiers can't do it.

And not to mention that although the speed is slow, the speed is not lower than 15 kilometers per hour, but it can't be as fast as a small group of troops.

After learning about the traffic situation, Hoffman returned to the command vehicle and couldn't help but complain. "This speed is not conducive to rushing to Warsaw quickly, we need to find a way."

As he said, he stood on the military map and began to study the way to get in and out of Warsaw. He checked the road that separated from Warsaw, ran his finger across the map, and kept calculating the distance and the capacity of each road in his mind.

When he slid his finger to Radom, a yellow line representing the highway appeared in front of him. This is the road from Warsaw to Krakow via Radom. This road is a supplementary line from Warsaw to Katowice, the border town of Depok through Lodz. And since this road is used as a military supplementary line, the road capacity must not be worse than the current No. 17 Highway under my feet.

And is there a road connection between Radom and himself?

Yes, there is a road connecting Radom in Purna, this small town is located on the Vistula River with a bridge across the two banks. The mother river of Poland originated in the Holy Cross Province and passed through Warsaw all the way north, and finally into the Baltic Sea at Danzig.

It seemed that Purner was his target, and he immediately called the communications staff when he thought of this.

I saw him speak. "Communications staff, how far are we from Purna?"

The communications staff who was stopped by Hoffman replied immediately. "Report to the general that our forward is only 8 kilometers away from Purna and will be there in half an hour."

"Tell the vanguard that it is necessary to secure the bridge over the Vistula to capture Pulna. Then send a telegram to the First Armored Division to change the marching route and turn to Highway 12 from Pulna to capture Radom. Then order them Attack on Warsaw with Radom as the main point."

There is no way, the traffic capacity of Highway 17 is too poor, so we can only find another way. Moreover, Radom's Polish army is not very strong, only a strength around the reinforcement regiment. For the first armored division trained by himself, this is not a problem at all.

Moreover, there is another advantage to capturing Radom, that is, it can strongly support the operations of the Chief of Staff.

The communications staff immediately sent the report after recording the order, and Hoffman immediately called another staff member. "Bring all the roads near us with a bearing capacity of more than 15 tons. I need to check it."

"Yes, General."

Following Hoffman's orders, the First Armored Division began to prepare for a diversion.

While continuing to check the information, Lieutenant General Hoffman also found that there was still a road between Purner and Radom. This is a township road, but in peacetime, there are a lot of freight vehicles running on this road, and it can withstand the capacity of many vehicles. More importantly, this road from Zvolen can be driven all the way to Warsaw along the Vistula River.

Since this road is so valuable, why didn't Hoffman use it. So afterwards, a new order was issued from him, and the 65th Motorized Infantry Division would use this road to advance to Warsaw.

With Hoffman's order, the congestion was relieved after Pulner. Here, the rushing group soldiers are divided into three groups, with the Vistula River and the Vistula River as the boundary, which are divided into two unconnected parts.

And this situation should be a taboo in the military, but it was still used by Lieutenant General Hoffman regardless. Could it be that he was dazzled by the victory, or the temptation of Warsaw was too great to make him forget the danger.

In fact, these are not and the reports from the German side made him dare to divide the troops into two parts.

At present, Germany has already broken through the defense lines of the Polish forces on all fronts. In the Polish corridor, the German 4th Army had defeated the Polish Army of Pomorie, encircling the enemy in the forested area north of Siviz and west of Graudenz. All three infantry divisions and one cavalry brigade of the Polish "Pomeranian" group army were annihilated.

The target is the German 3rd Army in Poznan, which has also repelled the Polish Army in Poznan, and it is now retreating to the rear. However, the German armored forces did not intend to let them go, encircling them from Kovo to Kutwo.

As for the southern German army, because of the lack of armored units, the action was slower. The German Eighth Army defeated Poland's Łódź Army and is pursuing it across the Warta River. The 10th Army also just defeated the Krakow Army. Its troops were divided into two groups, advancing all the way to Krakow and attacking all the way to Kielce.

Now Poland faces such a full-line defeat, there is no good way at all. It can only draw some inland troops to try to plug these gaps, but there are so many gaps that the Poles can plug.

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