The Third Reich in Desperation

Body 2 Chapter [-] The [-]th Panzergrenadier Division of the SS

Compared with one or two generals who jumped out to question Reinhardt's Wehrmacht every three to five times, the Waffen SS established by him is much more worry-free.

Precisely because the generals of the Waffen SS are more comfortable and practical to use, this legion of direct descendants has always been regarded as a treasure by Reinhardt.

Unlike ordinary SS members who only require loyalty and immediateness, the selection of Waffen SS soldiers purely for combat is quite strict, and the training level is also on par with the most elite troops of the Wehrmacht.

In addition, in order to prevent the lack of command ability of the commanders in history, so that the troops would only attack, so that the casualties were as many as the results of the battle, Reinhardt specially approved a large number of armed SS officers. Go to the Military Academy of the Wehrmacht.

To some extent, this can also be regarded as a means of going through the back door.To use an analogy, sending SS officers to study in the military academy of the Wehrmacht is similar to sending a person who has never studied in a university to study in a prestigious university.

The military quality of the commander has become better, and the fanatical faith of the soldiers makes them brave. All these changes are making this black-uniformed team a fierce black storm on the battlefield!

For example, General Bock, who led the Northern Army Group to attack northern Poland, especially liked the assignment of a Waffen SS infantry division.

Not for anything else, just because this army can fight and resist, not only has high combat effectiveness, but also strong resilience!

No general would mind having too many elite troops in his hands.Although Bock had criticized Reinhardt for retaining an "SS" independent of the Wehrmacht before, but when it came to fighting, he used the SS most diligently and reassuringly.

In the Army Group South, the [-]st Armored Division of the SS was even boldly thrown out by Rundstede, and went deep into eastern Poland for hundreds of miles alone.On the contrary, he himself led the Wehrmacht Corps to besiege Warsaw wholeheartedly, without any restraint on the performance of the SS.

As for the rhetoric that the Führer originally said that the SS was "equipped with second-rate equipment and used as an aid to the Wehrmacht", it has long since exploded with the war.

After all, the most urgent thing is to fight. If there is no supplement from the SS, regardless of the Eastern Front, the Wehrmacht troops in the Siegfried Line on the Western Front will definitely be inseparable from Steve's hand of nearly 20 Waffen-SS help!

Moreover, the surviving head of state did not intervene in the command of the Wehrmacht to the Waffen SS. At least on the Eastern Front, all the Waffen SS were incorporated into the command sequence of the Wehrmacht.

In addition, the head of state seems to have no intention of continuing to expand the size of the SS for the time being, so the generals and marshals have selectively acquiesced temporarily.Although there will definitely be disputes over the "independence" of the SS in the future, at least for now, the generals of the Wehrmacht are not in a hurry to make this matter a big deal.

However, the reason why the SS divisions are so popular is not only because of their outstanding combat effectiveness.Another important factor is that the SS always has a lot of reliable new toys on its hands.

When the Wehrmacht was complacent about getting the initial model of the Iron Fist anti-tank rocket launcher, the SS had already installed the improved Fist II, and added some copper powder shields in a certain proportion to double the armor-piercing ability. Tekken Three.

From a layman's point of view, Tekken Type [-] and Type [-] have almost the same appearance except for the different material of the medicine cover, only a circle of white paint is painted on the warhead to distinguish them.If no one tells these twists and turns, how can the National Defense Forces know.

If it's just on the surface, they might think that the SS is really using a "second-rate version of the iron fist".

What's more, when the Wehrmacht, which was closely monitored by the League of Nations, was still using cars and planks to simulate tanks to simulate armored warfare, the first experimental armored division that the SS secretly trained had already been established.

When Reinhard presided over the internal formation ceremony, he plausibly told a group of veterans of the National Defense Forces that we are exploring a bright road for the National Defense Forces on how to use armored forces, and all future achievements are prepared for the National Defense Forces.

But the consultants of the SS are all Guderian who was snatched from the Wehrmacht. Who did you deceive by saying that? !

Of course, it was obvious that the Wehrmacht was jealous of the one who said it was over.After all, it was Guderian who heard that the SS had tanks and ran over by himself.

Fortunately, he still has a bit of professional ethics, and he still chose to return to the Wehrmacht after being persuaded by the head of state in every possible way.Of course, he is also commanding the armored forces of the Wehrmacht for the head of state.

Putting aside these old things, let’s just say that in the troops under the Polish city, most of the Wehrmacht soldiers are still holding the Mauser 98k, while the SS division, a squad of ten and six riflemen, has three people equipped with the Mauser 43k. The newly developed G[-] semi-automatic rifle is here!

The reason why it is called the G43 semi-automatic rifle, the explanation given by the SS is that it is said that the head of state insisted on naming it this way, and the designer was too lazy to fight for a name with the head of state.

Of course, in the final analysis, this is still Reinhardt's feelings and psychology.

In Reinhardt's original words: "Whoever doesn't like this name, don't use it! Leave the G43 named by me for the troops who like this name."

After all, the G43 has just been mass-produced, and the SS is not equipped enough, let alone the Wehrmacht.Reinhardt had no choice but to fool the army generals of the Wehrmacht, saying that the current G43 semi-automatic rifle still has various shortcomings, "Its long-range accuracy is not as good as that of the Mauser 98k", and when it is improved, the perfect version will be handed over to the Wehrmacht hand.

As for the heavy equipment brought by the SS today...

Let’s not talk about the Grizzly assault gun, let’s talk about the 170 heavy assault gun. An assault gun made from the chassis of an outdated heavy self-propelled mortar.

Even everyone who has seen this thing understands that this decision is an excellent weapon against the Bastion.But this thing is not active equipment. If the National Defense Force wants it, it will take a lot of time to fight with the arms companies controlled by Reinhardt, let alone other necessary processes.

But the SS is different. With a big wave of the head of state, the chassis just walked out of the factory of the Henschel subsidiary, and before it had time to install the fighting room and artillery at the Krupp Group, it had already been included in the SS just established. weapons testing group.

After installing the artillery and testing its power on the shooting range, it was hurriedly sent to the Polish front.

Those munitions companies and the procurement officers of the National Defense Forces slapped their beards and stared at the table, and they can still say that they love it and don't need to roll.After all, they have to wait to use them, and the generals and marshals have nothing to do with them.

Come and try with the head of state?One is to offend the head of state of a country, and the other is that their actual highest superior is also Reinhardt, how could such a thing be allowed to happen?

Even the chassis support team for the Rhino assault gun was brought directly from the Henschel Company. This should be placed in the National Defense Forces. Who would have such a big face to be served so carefully.

Admiral Rundstede originally had a headache on how to take Warsaw City as quickly as possible with a low casualty rate.

But when he heard that the SS's weapons testing regiment had cooperated with the Wehrmacht to attack Modlin Fortress, and captured this strong fortress that would have persisted until the day after Warsaw's surrender before giving up resistance, and had arrived in Warsaw After leaving the city, he finally didn't have to worry.

As a result, as soon as the SS's weapons experiment group arrived on the outskirts of Warsaw, the order from Rundstede came back.

The weapons testing group was ordered to participate in the siege the next day, in order to achieve the strategic goal of capturing the Polish capital as quickly as possible as required by the High Command.

Early the next morning, after a night of rest in an unknown village outside the city, the convoy of the Weapons Experimental Regiment arrived at the offensive position of the [-]th Panzergrenadier Division of the SS, which was incorporated into the Southern Army Group.

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Speaking of the formation order of the 15000th Panzergrenadier Division of the SS, Reinhardt ordered in advance to recruit [-] order police in order to alleviate the Wehrmacht's concerns about the shortage of troops, and to supplement a group of SS troops after studying in the military academy. Commander, expanded to command of division-level units.

Its division commander is the SS Lieutenant General Keland Yichaleer who has just finished studying at the Munich Military Academy.Before that, Colander was still just a police lieutenant general.

Just in time for the elite Fourth Infantry Division of the SS to be split into three secret new infantry divisions as the skeleton, the designation of the fourth division was handed over to the new police division.

The division was basically formed at the end of August, and Reinhardt deliberately delayed the start of the Polish campaign in order to wait for the Soviet army to attack Poland first.This made the 8th Panzergrenadier Division of the SS catch up with the full-scale Polish campaign that broke out on September 9, and was lucky to participate in this war.

At the same time, most of the elite troops of the SS were still cleaning their guns or patrolling in the Siegfried Line in the west, and they were also conducting boring training all day long. !

Since more than [-]% of the soldiers of the [-]th Panzergrenadier Division of the SS are the original order police, the overall quality and training level are different from those of regular troops.In addition, the division's equipment is mainly taken from captured weapons in Czechoslovakia, and its combat effectiveness is not optimistic.

Prior to this, the division had always been kept in the hands of Rundstede as a reserve team. In the only battle of the Bzura River where the Southern Army Group might dispatch the reserve team, it was also because the 30th Infantry Division The tenacious fighting and lost the need to dispatch.

The current Fourth Division of the SS, because the equipment used as a grenadier is basically not in place, it is almost an infantry division, and the equipment is average.So most of the time they are embarrassed to call themselves the Grenadier Division, but prefer to call them the Police Division.

The lack of vehicles does not mean that they cannot drive. Because most of the soldiers in the division are members of the police, nearly 9% of the division has a driver's license, a feature that the police have learned.

But now, considering the division's high morale, complete establishment, and the superior combat effectiveness shown by other SS units of the same type, Rundstede decided to put this reserve team into the Battle of Warsaw and use it as an offensive Spearhead!

Considering that both the SS Weapons Experimental Regiment and the Police Division belonged to the SS, it would be better to cooperate together, so Rundstede arranged for the two black-uniformed troops to merge.

With the help of the comrades-in-arms of these police divisions with the badge of the Wolf's Hook, the weapons experiment group quickly obtained various supplies such as black tea, coffee, cigarettes, candies, etc.

The members of the test team who were running all the way quickly recovered their physical strength by swallowing a few candies that can quickly replenish energy with the refreshment of Qingyang brand cigarettes.

The mechanics of the experimental team also took advantage of the gap to conduct the final pre-war inspection on the engine and transmission system.

"The SS Special Weapons Experimental Regiment has been ordered to report to Lieutenant General Koland Ishalel!"

They were all SS soldiers. The weapons experiment team, led by the team leader Colonel Knuckles, skillfully raised their hands in salute to the two staff officers in black uniforms who came to greet them.

For a few days, the friendly forces around them were officers and soldiers of the National Defense Forces.Every time they raised their hands to the officers and soldiers of the National Defense Forces, and the other side responded with a raised hand, there would be a strange sense of disobedience.