Arc of Gunfire

Highland 153, the headquarters command post of the 5th Beshensk Regiment.

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene held a telescope in one hand and clenched his fist in the other: "Okay! Good fight! Kill them!"

He was cheering up the T34 that appeared on the side of the highland.

Captain Andre couldn't help but said: "Lieutenant Colonel, you have become a cheerleader from the beginning."

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene: "I don't know how to do anything else. I just order you to come, right?"

"Then you should inspect the position." Captain Andre replied, "The enemy tanks are approaching. The new recruits in the army must be very scared now. You have to encourage them."

"Me? Are you sure? A miner encouraging the soldiers?"

Captain Andre looked at Lieutenant Colonel Eugene: "Just hold on tight and assume the posture of reprimanding the miners in the mine. At this time, the appearance of a stern father-type commander will be of great benefit to morale. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene took a deep breath: "Okay, I'll go out for a patrol."

Captain Andre: "I really didn't know what to say, so I just patted the soldiers on the shoulders and said that the general is watching us. After all, the general's tank is on the side, and everyone can see the red flag."

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene nodded, got out of the bunker, and ran along the trench with his waist bent, patting the shoulders of every soldier he met: "Hold on!"

"do not be afraid!"

"The General is watching us!"

When he took pictures of who knows how many people, someone shouted: "Look, the general and the others are covered by smoke!"

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene stopped and, like the others, stuck his head out of the trench and looked toward the woods.

Pink smoke covered the T34 tanks in the woods, and the general's flag was no longer visible.

The enemy tanks were still firing, and more pink smoke completely covered the tree line. The T34's side fire then misfired.

What was even scarier was that there was a sharp, terrifying whistling sound in the sky.

When Lieutenant Colonel Eugene heard this voice for the first time, goosebumps immediately appeared on the back of his head. He heard from veterans that this was the sound made by an enemy bomber called a Stuka.

At this time, some recruits shouted in horror: "It's a dragon! The Prosans sent a dragon to attack us!"

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene didn't understand war, but he knew how to deal with his subordinates who talked nonsense.

Especially when a mining disaster occurs, Lieutenant Colonel Eugene may be more harsh than the judge in dealing with those fools who spread rumors.

He rushed over and slapped the new recruit: "That's the enemy's dive bomber! It must have bombed the general!"

"Look!" someone shouted.

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene turned his head and saw three fire dragons rising from the ground.

The Divine Arrow Company actually moved to the vicinity of Highland 153 overnight!

There was an explosion in the air.

The second wave of divine arrows took off.

At this time, someone shouted again: "Enemy plane! The enemy plane is... coming down!"

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene cursed: "That's called a dive!"

In addition to the swooping aircraft group, there were three enemy aircraft on fire that were falling, gradually overtaking the group of aircraft that had their speed brakes turned on.

The second wave of three divine arrows hit the target. The enemy planes disintegrated in the bright light of fire, and the burning fragments fell simultaneously with the fleet.

The third wave of divine arrows took off.

The morale of the enemy planes seemed to have finally collapsed. They dropped their bombs at an altitude of two thousand meters and then fled in all directions.

In fact, when a dive bomber dives at a large angle, the bomb will not deflect too much even if there is wind at low altitude. The main reason for lowering the bombing height is to see the target clearly.

From a distance of two thousand meters, even a target such as a tank or a bunker is just a small dot when viewed from the air. It is also mixed with the complex ground scenery, making it very difficult to see.

In order to aim accurately, veterans of the Prosen Air Force will consciously control the dive speed and only release bombs after seeing the target clearly at a distance of 1,200 meters or even 800 meters.

However, faced with the high-efficiency killing of the Divine Arrow, the pilots chose to drop bombs at two thousand meters to save their lives-after all, the operation manual said that bombs could be dropped at 2,000 meters.

Two of the third wave of divine arrows flew into the sky because they lost their targets, but the third one, as if it had eyes, caught up with the bomber that rushed into the blind spot and blew it into a ball of fire.

At this time, the planes shot down by the first two waves of divine arrows also landed, along with bombs.

The aerial bombs fell around the pink smoke - the Ploson Air Force was indeed well-trained, and they had such a hit rate when dropping bombs from such a high place.

The gray-brown "wall" created by the bomb obscured the view.

Everyone on the battlefield was paying attention to this direction. Even Lieutenant Colonel Eugene, who came out to encourage others, was lying on the edge of the trench, stretching his neck and looking over there.

In fact, the enemy's situation may be similar, because the charging enemy tanks did not fire during this period.

Soon enough, a big-headed T34 rushed out of the gray-brown "wall", with the red flag on the antenna fluttering in the wind.

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene and the soldiers cheered together!

The T34 stopped and blew up a No. 4 with one shot.

The remaining Four began to release smoke and retreated backwards.

The enemy's infantry also threw smoke bombs, and the enemy who had just rushed up aggressively retreated!

On the 153rd Regiment’s position, the sound of urrahs was deafening.

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In the woods, the first detachment of the Divine Arrow Company was in position.

"Did you see that? I have one more fight than you!" Yekaterina jumped for joy.

"Quickly retreat!" Yezemenko picked her up from the ammunition box and threw her into the jeep. "Quickly retreat! We fired so many rounds, the enemy must have discovered our position! The heavy artillery is coming!"

Ekaterina: "How can it be so fast? You are crazy!"

"It's not crazy!" Yezemenko said while throwing the other girls with praying hands into the car. "In Loktov, as soon as we left the launch position, the Prosen bomb fell! If it hadn't been for Liu Demila Vasilyevna reacted quickly and we all died!”

He got in the car, stepped on the accelerator and drove the jeep wildly. As he drove, he continued: "At that time, our launch location was in an Anatolian bathhouse. The bomb lifted up the entire bathhouse, and our car drove out of the old building." Even if they are far away, they will be affected! The Prosin people have gone to great lengths to kill us!”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a roar in the sky.

Heavy artillery fell where they had just left.

"Look! Did you see it, girls! Dad, I saved your life!" Deputy Knight Yetsemenko laughed after saying this, "Plosen people think they are the best at fighting in the world! We are not bad either. !”

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Wang Zhong switched back to the indoor perspective.

"This wave of enemy air strikes is over. I don't know how many T34s are still intact."

Pavlov looked at the window of the map room in confusion: "From where can you see the end of the enemy's air raid? How did you see it?"

Wang Zhong: "Mirage."

As long as I don't change my face, the lies will come true!

Vasily: "Where?"

Wang Zhong slapped Vasily on the head with a knife: "Monitoring! We especially need information now!"

Then Wang Zhong changed the topic without changing his expression. He came to the map table and said:

"There are hundreds of tanks around us. We can currently confirm that there is one battalion here, one to two battalions here..."

As he spoke, he drew on the map with a pencil.

"It seems like a lot, but an armored battalion requires a front of more than one kilometer to deploy. If we consider this as a benchmark..."

Wang Zhong used a pencil to draw a circle in the air around Aolaqi on the map: "This is already the enemy's limit. If the enemy wants to further increase the number of troops invested in a single attack, it must be on the side of the large ranch - that is The southeast side of the city unfolds.”

Pavlov: "Well, there was no artillery fire preparation over there, and it was all in the open. The mines we set are still there."

Large-scale demining on the battlefield generally does not involve engineers removing them one by one, but using explosives to create overpressure and detonate the mines under pressure.

The blast of explosives can blow off the tripwire of the tripwire mine.

The blasting cord used by engineers for demining uses this principle. Once a rocket carries a long blasting cord, it falls into the minefield and detonates. Overpressure and storms will clear the long strip around the blasting cord.

The heavy artillery fire preparation also involves overpressure and storms. The advancing barrage of the heavy artillery will not only raise the minefields on the path, but also clear away things such as barbed wire.

After several days of repeated bombardment, the forest in the north of Orachi and the 153 Highlands in the southwest have long been depleted of landmines. The remaining scattered mines can only kill a few unlucky people.

If it was the Cold War era, rocket mine-laying vehicles could also be used to temporarily cover a minefield before the enemy attacks. Now we have such a thing.

But the southeast has not yet been plowed by artillery fire, and the mines are still there.

Wang Zhong pressed his hands on the map table and looked down at Aolaqi: "The enemy's current offensive forces are not at the point where we cannot resist."

"The question is how many troops we need to lose every time we block the enemy." Pavlov paused and glanced at Wang Zhong, "and how long our will to fight can be maintained."

Wang Zhong: “The main thing is the will to fight.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the phone rang.

Pavlov picked up the receiver: "Division Headquarters, speak. Um, um. Okay, very good."

After hanging up the phone, he looked at Wang Zhong: "We were beaten back in the direction of the forest. We don't know how much the enemy lost. Twelve of our people were killed and 17 were injured."

Wang Zhong: "So many?"

Pavlov: "Much better than Loktov."

"Indeed. After all, we have dug so many bunkers and fortifications. I think it is not enough. After all, we will be attacked all day today."

Just as Pavlov was about to speak, the phone rang again.

He answered the call and said "Hmm" twice, then hung up and reported: "The enemies on Highland 153 have retreated. With the enemy's attack organization speed in the past two days, I don't think we need to worry about the high ground in one and a half to two hours."

Wang Zhong: "Then mobilize all the T34s to the east! Now, immediately. Let them stop at the gate of the middle school on the way to the east to replenish ammunition and fuel."

Pavlov immediately picked up the receiver and then responded: "There should be a radio."

Wang Zhong: "Vasily, call!"

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After the enemy retreated, Car No. 422 started up, drove past Highland 153, and headed towards Orachi.

Apparently there's a battle waiting for the general somewhere else.

At this time, other T34s drove out from the pink smoke that had not yet dissipated, and merged with car No. 422.

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene and everyone in the 5th Beshensk Regiment shouted to the leaving T34: "Ula!"

"Ula!"

The morning sun shone on them.