Re: valos german adventure
the next battle was a meeting engagement between a cavalry recon troop commanded by me and a reeinforced polish infantry company.
My core will be a recon troop for this period of the war and so i added a Kavalleriezug with dismounts.
My mission was to secure a bridge before the poles could go there and destroy it.
For this i had another troop of dismounts,2xMGs 3xMortars 3 lmg squads 3 Panzerbuechsen and ammo supply.All with cavalry transports.The Luftwaffe provided Schlachtflieger and 2 me109s as support.
as the battle commenced i took my mgs and lmgs to ridges overwatching the river and my dismounted cavalry platoons took reverse slope postions covered by the mgs.
the poles tried to take the ridges on the eastern bank of the river an were surpised that my men already overwatched thoose positions.
Most of the battle consisted of polish infantry trying to go through mg fire and mortar bombardment. that didnt work for them.
the cavlry transports flanked this attack and took out the enemy aty at turn 20 or so. with the aty gone there was no chance at all for the poles to ever gain a foothold on thoose ridges or to take the bridge.
at the end of the battle 100 poles were causalities and 400 taken prisoner against only 12 wounded and 4 dead on my side.
i have asked hq for some armoured support to my recon group maybe an armoured car.But as Panzers are needed everywhere i dont know if i will get something.
My sniper covered the road leading to the bridge
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