Battle of Poland Airborne

After listening to Model's words, Leon was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

"I, did I say something wrong?" Model saw Leon laughing and thought he was wrong, so he asked carefully.

"No no no." Leon stopped laughing, waved his hand and said, "I'm just happy that the relationship between our senior officers is so harmonious. As for Manstein, I didn't say that I would bury him."

"That..."

"I transferred Manstein from Army Group B because I had more important things to entrust to him." Lyon said, "Okay, go to Army Group B to replace Manstein, and I will hand over the defense of the Western Front to him. is you!"

"Yes! My head of state!" Model heaved a sigh of relief when he heard Leon's explanation. He saluted and left Leon's office.

On the other side, Chamberlain and Le Brun waited all night in Le Brun's office, eager to hear the news of the German withdrawal from the war.

Unfortunately, they failed to do so, and even gained control of several cities in Poland from Germany.

To be honest, although the two of them promised to give Poland protection, they were more reluctant to confront Germany than anyone else.

There are three main reasons. First, if there is a fight with Germany on the western front, the battlefield will be the German-French border, which will definitely bring disaster to the French mainland.

Second, because of the fighting power shown by Germany in Poland, the British and French coalition forces may not be able to win completely. If Britain and France aggressively declare war on Germany and attack the German mainland, they will be beaten all the way back to the Maginot line by Germany, and that face will be lost. sent.

The third and most important point is that if Britain and France are in a war with Germany, then neither Britain, France, nor Germany will be able to eat well, and the only people who will benefit will be the huge red Soviet Union to the east and the United States with a favorable geographical location.

This is something that Britain and France absolutely do not want to see.

Originally, they planned to use this "ultimatum" to make Germany recognize the reality, and return to the negotiating table to cooperate with Britain and France to counter the Soviet Union and the United States. The big deal was to give up part of Poland to Germany. As a result, the Germans ignored Britain and France, and only stayed in Poland. Continue to "rampage", which is really embarrassing for both countries.

"Well, can't we avoid declaring war on Germany after all?" Chamberlain said in frustration, "I have worked hard for so many years, but the result is still unavoidable."

"No way, the Germans really don't know how to praise." Lebrun said, "Now we must declare war, otherwise the credibility of our two countries will be completely collapsed!"

"But..." After he finished speaking, he changed his words and said, "Who said that once war was declared, Germany must be attacked?"

"What do you mean?" Chamberlain asked with a frown.

"Due to misfortune!" Lebrun sneered, "Let the Germans occupy Poland, then Germany and the Red Soviet Union will be neighbors, and the relationship between the two countries is not good, they will never be 'harmonious neighbors'. When Germany and the Soviet Union fight, we can take advantage of the fisherman!"

Hearing this, Chamberlain's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed: "It's a good idea! In this way, we not only solved the trouble of Germany, but also hit the red Soviet Union, killing two birds with one stone!"

"Then our two countries will declare war on Germany first. If you send the expeditionary force assembled by your country, you still have to put some pressure on Germany." Le Brun said.

"Okay, I'll go back to China immediately." Chamberlain shouted to his secretary, "Secretary! Prepare the car for the airport!"

Chamberlain's secretary responded, and accompanied by several French officials, went out of the gate to prepare the car.

Soon, the secretary returned to Chamberlain, indicating that the car was ready.

Chamberlain stood up and walked towards the door, while Lebron also got up and gave Chamberlain a ride.

A second before getting into the car, Chamberlain remembered something, turned around and said to Lebrun: "By the way, I forgot to tell you one thing, and I will no longer be responsible for communicating with your country in the future. The work will be done by special personnel."

"Who?" Lebrun asked suspiciously.

"His name is Winston." Chamberlain replied, "Winston Churchill, he served as Lord of the Navy. Although our cooperation is very harmonious, I have to say that he is more talented than me in terms of war!"

On the early morning of May 4, 1939, France and the United Kingdom successively condemned Germany's shameless aggression and declared war on Germany, and the Second World War broke out.

Poland, on the east bank of the Prosna River, in the city of Kalisz.

Two Polish light infantry regiments were here at this time while taking in the front line and establishing defense lines on the three bridges of the Kalisz section of the Prosna River.

On top of that, dozens of Polish engineers were busy putting explosives on three bridges to ensure they wouldn't fall into German hands if the Polish army couldn't hold them.

"Hey! Guys, you move quickly!" The commander of the engineer unit frowned and urged the engineers, "When will you be able to finish the work? If the Germans call at this time, we will be Poland. sinner!"

A rout passing by them heard the engineer commander and interjected: "Hey, sir, you can rest assured as to when the Germans will get here, they won't be here in a while, you guys. There's plenty of time to place the explosives."

The officer glanced at him strangely and asked, "Why do you say that?"

The soldier shrugged his shoulders and said, "I just pulled down from the front line. When I was retreating, I saw the Germans stopped there. Maybe their tanks were out of fuel."

The officer was overjoyed and said, "It seems that we have enough time to arrange..."

Before he could finish speaking, he heard the roar of an aircraft engine coming from the sky not far away.

The officer was stunned, and hurriedly shouted to his soldiers: "Hide! German air strikes!"

As soon as the officer finished speaking, the bridge became a mess, and everyone scrambled to cross the bridge to find a place to avoid the air attack.

The intervening soldier ran with the engineer commander. As he ran, he muttered, "I think it would be safer on the bridge if the bomber came."

"Why?" the officer asked.

"Hehe, it's not that simple?" the soldier laughed. "The Germans wouldn't be stupid enough to blow up the bridge. After all, they still have to cross the river by the bridge."

"That's true." The officer nodded.

Having said that, the two went to an air-raid shelter and crowded into the air-raid shelter with the others.

It didn't take long for the German aircraft group to fly over the city of Kalisz, and then sprinkled dense black spots.

The people in the bomb shelter didn't hear the explosion for a long time, they felt very strange.

The soldiers and officers were located relatively close to the exit of the air-raid shelter. The two of them looked at each other, then squeezed past the crowd, boldly walked out of the air-raid shelter, and looked up at the sky.

"Isn't it a bomb?" The two of them murmured strangely as they watched the dense black dots turn into white umbrella flowers.

"Everyone leave the air-raid shelter!" Just when everyone was wondering, an order came from the radio in the air-raid shelter, "Prepare for battle! The German airborne troops are coming!"