Arc of Gunfire

However, when Wang Zhong waited until 1630, the enemy's attack did not come.

He stood next to the bunker of his No. 422 vehicle, constantly using the phone to call observation posts in various places, and while the phone was connected, he confirmed the enemy situation within the observation posts.

Although his own vision would not highlight the enemies, even if the large plains around Orachi were not forcibly lit, most enemies could be found from an overhead perspective.

After waiting, Wang Zhong got hungry and started looking for food, but then he found that he could only eat the Ant Empire's military rations with others.

That was really unpalatable.

It tasted so bad that Wang Zhong wanted to shoot all the people in charge of food in the Imperial Munitions Department.

But now their ambush position is a little far away from Aolachi, and it is indeed difficult to bring the girls from the field cooking team to the front line.

Especially on the front lines where enemies may come forward at any time.

While Wang Zhong was eating the unpalatable military rations, he was thinking about whether to put a sausage in his personal belongings box in addition to grenades and submachine guns.

The sausages produced by the Church Meat Factory are thicker than an adult man's arm, and the ingredients are strictly 25% beef, 70% pork, and the last 5% egg milk, highlighting an affordable and large-volume filling.

Just when Wang Zhong began to imagine that the texture of sausage would add flavor to the wood-like bread in his hand, the cannonball fell.

Wang Zhong subconsciously wanted to lie down, but then realized that it was not his place that was being bombed.

He and others looked towards ambush position No. 1, looking at the fire and smoke caused by the heavy artillery.

After switching to a bird's-eye view, Wang Zhong discovered that compared to the unreliable bombing of the Air Force, the Army's own artillery attack was much more accurate.

It's perfect except that the position below is already empty.

At this time, other people on the battlefield were also looking in the direction of Position No. 1, and everyone looked beaming.

Maybe everyone realizes that the more ammunition the enemy wastes on uninhabited positions, the less ammunition will fall on their heads in the future.

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Major General William Dietrich was giving tasks to all tank officers above the platoon in his command vehicle: "The enemy is concentrating on this forest. Our plan is to take advantage of the artillery to suppress the forest and spread the formation as much as possible. When shooting against the enemy in the open ground, the enemy's tank shooting accuracy is not as good as ours.

"If you don't take advantage during the shooting, release smoke, show weakness and run away. Lure the enemy into the range of the 88mm gun and PAK38 anti-tank gun.

"According to the information provided by the Southern Front, General Rokossov likes to rush out to fight tank battles, and he has indeed achieved outstanding results by taking the initiative several times.

"We just need to use a small amount of acceptable losses to lure him out. This is a combat strategy based on his character!"

As he spoke, Dietrich turned to the platoon leader of the division's guard tank platoon: "In addition, we have another bait. I will use my command vehicle and the spare radio vehicle as bait to lure Rokossov to the bait. .

"Of course, based on previous battle reports, Rokossov may choose to bombard the fake headquarters. If that is the case, everyone in the guard tank platoon must evacuate the bombardment area as soon as possible."

Wilhelm Dietrich stopped and looked at his plan drawn on the map with satisfaction: "In short, the focus of the mission is to lure Major General Rokossov to attack.

"He is currently one of the most outstanding generals of the Ant Army. I mean, one of the most outstanding generals who has not been killed or captured by us. So killing him or capturing him is of great significance!"

As soon as William Dietrich finished speaking, a second lieutenant platoon leader said: "Another tactic of pretending to fail to lure the enemy deeper!"

"Because the enemy may use a T34 tank that we can't do anything about! Brother troops shared their experience and said that it can jam the seat ring or break the tracks. It's not that there is a problem with this experience, but the 88 gun is more cost-effective."

Another platoon leader asked: "What if the enemy doesn't come out?"

"Then summon Stukas. If the enemy shoots at us, his position will be exposed. After previous communication, the Air Force promised that when we attack, a team of Stukas will launch with ammunition. We will use Panzer IV tanks to shoot. Dye smoke bombs to indicate the Stuka's target."

The 50mm gun of the Panzer III tank does not have smoke grenades. There is only a single-shot smoke tube on the vehicle that can fire smoke grenades.

The short 75mm howitzer of the Panzer IV tank can fire smoke grenades hundreds or thousands of meters away.

When the No. 4 tank encounters a solid building that cannot be destroyed by its own high-explosive bombs, it always fires a smoke grenade to mark the target and waits for the Stuka to come.

Major General William Dietrich: "Okay, everyone understands the combat mission. When we return to the unit, we must let everyone know our mission, and then let's set off. The artillery preparation should be completed in an hour and a half."

The platoon commanders all stood up and filed out of the armored command vehicle.

"Wait a minute!" Wilhelm Dietrich called to the last platoon leader, "Are you the commander of the 5th company of the 3rd battalion in the reserve? I want to change with you. I have to go to the front line and see this white horse with my own eyes. How did the general set up his formation?"

The chief of staff was shocked: "Don't be like this! This White Horse General likes to use artillery to hit headquarters and other key targets. If you get to the front line and enter the surveillance range of his artillery observation post, you will definitely attract artillery fire!"

Wilhelm Dietrich looked at the Chief of Staff: "That's why I have to disguise myself. General White Horse will not use precious artillery shells to hit a tank platoon as a reserve! Especially a tank platoon in a loose formation!"

Tanks are really afraid of howitzers. If a howitzer falls within a very close range, the whole vehicle will be wiped out.

But as long as the distance between the shell's landing position and the tank's position increases slightly beyond a threshold, the tank can survive heavy artillery fire.

Therefore, it is actually very wasteful to use heavy artillery to bombard tanks in a loose formation.

This would only be done unless there are really no good targets to hit and you don't care about wasting shells.

The chief of staff was convinced: "Well, I can only wish you success."

Wilhelm Dietrich nodded and began to change clothes with the tank platoon leader he had chosen.

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On Wang Zhong's side, he knew exactly how to deploy the enemy's formation.

Firstly, he was not prepared for artillery fire, and secondly, the most important function of his plug-in was to ensure vision—most of the time it was the only function.

He just watched as the enemy's armored troops formed a formation on the open ground.

Not to mention, with so many tanks spread out so widely, it is impossible to defeat all 30 tanks on your own.

It would be even more difficult to handle if the enemy rushed forward with infantry to carry out armored meat grinding.

Wang Zhong was a little uneasy. After all, he had no way to know that the enemy's plan was to shoot at him from a distance and then lure the enemy deeper.

He thought the enemy was coming to grind the meat.

In addition to 30 T34s, Wang Zhong's ambush position only had four anti-tank guns and a small number of anti-tank mines set on both sides of the position.

The enemy had deployed almost two hundred tanks. If they were to attack from all directions, Wang Zhong would definitely regret not placing all the infantry in front of the ambush position - well, that wouldn't actually be possible, and he would become the enemy. Heavy artillery experience points.

Wang Zhong looked down at the enemy's tank array with a wry smile, thinking that if there was a KV1 in my army now, the situation would still be fighting.

Unfortunately not.

He continued to browse the enemy tank array.

When highlighting enemy units, Wang Zhong's plug-in generally does not give each enemy's name.

But there are some exceptions. For example, if the division commander of the army enters Wang Zhong's field of vision, he will be highlighted.

Sometimes there is a name, sometimes there is not, and I don’t know why. But it is certain that the teacher will be specially marked, which is probably equivalent to the red arrow in the Kasaya fellow vlog.

Now Wang Zhong saw a red arrow.

On the outermost side of the enemy tank array, there were several Panzer IV tanks scattered widely, which looked like reserves for the entire offensive.

A red arrow floated just above the head of the commander who was looking out.

Huh? This is the enemy's division commander... He went to the front line to conduct reconnaissance?

Then he was afraid that I would rush in and behead him again, so he disguised himself as an ordinary commander?

Oh my, my, you can't justify it with just one shot.

Wang Zhong turned around and picked up the phone receiver, nodded to the soldier in charge of the phone, and then the soldier began to turn the handle of the portable generator frantically to charge the phone.

After hearing the operator's voice, Wang Zhong said: "Receive the artillery group."

The call was connected immediately.

Wang Zhongqe looked down from the perspective, reported the coordinates of the No. 4 tank on which the guy with the mark on his head was riding, and then said: "Three rapid fires, no calibration. Just hit them. Guaranteed to kill people."

The artillery regiment was stunned for a moment: "Who to blow up?"

"Don't worry, call me right away!"

"Resetting firing Morogen. Fire in about five minutes."

"ASAP!"

After hanging up the phone, Wang Zhong continued to overlook the enemy, like an eagle overlooking a rabbit running on the grassland.

It actually only took two minutes to reset the shooter.

Wang Zhong can already hear the sound of breaking through the air!

The targeted enemy sensed something was wrong and retracted directly into the tank and closed the hatch.

Soon enough, the first wave of shells fell!

There are 24 rounds of 152mm heavy artillery shells. Although there is no calibrated shooting, the circular probability error is a bit large, but as long as the firepower density is sufficient, the high error can be overcome!

Wang Zhong watched with satisfaction as the smoke rising from the ground engulfed the No. 4 car.

This was still the first round. When the second round landed, the smoke from the explosion in front had not dissipated, so from a bird's eye view, the entire picture looked like the same wall had been painted repeatedly by two masters.

Only then did Wang Zhong realize that his 203 heavy artillery was not under the control of the artillery regiment. It was an independent unit. He did not call 203 for this wave of firepower!

Forget it, he thought, let's see if he can be killed first. If he can kill him, he would save some shells.

The third wave fell, and Wang Zhong estimated that the No. 4 was almost in parts.

The smoke gradually dissipated, and Wang Zhong saw the charred and twisted wreckage of No. 4.

Tank crews from other tanks rushed out and rushed towards the tank that was being cared for.

Soon, a dying body was rescued from the tank.

Wang Zhong is convinced. He didn't get killed by the explosion. How can he reason with this?

He picked up the receiver and wanted to call for the 203 heavy artillery and the second wave of 152 heavy artillery to strike, but he saw a three-wheeled motorcycle coming out of his field of vision, loading the division commander and running out of Wang Zhong's field of vision.

Yes, it is a good thing to let the enemy change his generals before the battle. Let the person who takes over show his offensive skills.

I don't know if they were handing over command, but the enemy's deployed armored column just stopped on the grassland, motionless.