Arc of Gunfire

After that, the inquisitor escorted the prisoner away. As soon as he left, Pavlov's "sixth-level clerk" came in with a stack of documents.

When Pavlov saw the old man, he looked depressed: "Didn't I leave all the seals and everything in your care? This is in line with the rules! You can handle these things. I have many things to do, so I have to focus on them." On the military front.”

As a military fan, Wang Zhong is very sensitive to specific words. For example, when he hears "Bright Vigor" and all things competing, he will think of a specific scene and automatically add a map background behind the speaker.

And this "I want to focus on the military" is not as famous as the previous sentence, but it also reminded Wang Zhong inexplicably of a person with very little hair, and he began to worry about Pavlov's hair volume.

The old man frowned: "I'm here to report the casualties to you. Isn't this a military matter?"

Wang Zhong looked at the time. It was not yet the next day, and said, "The casualties have been counted so quickly? Come, let me take a look."

He reached for the document intended for Pavlov.

Above are today's detailed casualty figures, carefully divided according to the units they belong to.

Wang Zhong flipped through it and was shocked: "How come there are more casualties in the logistics than in the frontline troops?"

The old man immediately replied: "Because many people in the logistics department have not been trained to avoid artillery fire, they just lay down on the ground when the artillery bombardment came. As a result, many people were injured and died.

"Today, the division field hospital received many wounded people with ruptured organs and vomiting blood. It was reported that the hospital lacked the means to treat them and could only prepare for evacuation after emergency treatment."

Wang Zhong: "Isn't it already night? Let's take a train to evacuate."

Old man: "There are no trains coming into the train station yet. I guess it's because the railway line is broken."

After the old man finished speaking, Pavlov pointed to the phone: "The phone lines to the army group are all broken. It is estimated that the railway has also been destroyed by the enemy's infiltration troops."

After Wang Zhong asked about the logistics casualties, he continued to look through the casualties of each unit, and handed it to Popov: "Combat troops generally did not have many casualties, and the largest casualties actually came from the Brandenburg troops who sneaked into the position of the third battalion of the Beshensk Regiment. "

While looking through the casualty list, Popov replied: "The Brandenburg troops are an Einsatzgruppe after all. Their training level is better than that of the general Plosin army. It was a surprise attack. The third battalion performed well. That's it tonight." If so, you can apply for a medal for them.”

Wang Zhong: "The medal is useless. Inform logistics and provide extra meals to the third battalion tomorrow morning."

After speaking, he said to Popov: "This is useful. The morale is definitely high."

Vasily: "It would be better for you, General, to go to their camp in person and say a few words to them. If you don't want to write a speech, just come up with a tongue twister, 'Dust flies over the fields with the sound of horse hooves' or something like that."

The feeling of dust flying in the fields with the sound of horse hooves in Ant language is probably similar to the Mandarin saying "ash" will turn black due to the evaporation of chemical fertilizers.

Wang Zhong looked at Vasily: "Then if I really go and tell a tongue twister tomorrow, what will happen if their morale doesn't change?"

Vasily: "I'm just making an analogy. If you insist on being more serious, then I'll pick the shit."

Wang Zhong: "Very good. You are already a staff officer who can take responsibility for what you say."

Pavlov: "If your speech is not good, give it now. You won't be able to use it later when the situation becomes tense. Now let's add food. When the situation becomes more serious, give out vodka. Finally, the general's speech will be given."

At this time, Popov also finished looking through the casualty list and handed it over to Pavlov.

As soon as Pavlov opened it, he exclaimed: "So few frontal casualties today? Not even the troops stationed at the bridgehead suffered much losses! It seems that our soil work has achieved some success.

"We have many permanent fortresses on the border and in Agsukov. Why are they not functioning? Especially the fortresses in the middle of the front, and the Bug River as a barrier."

Wang Zhong: "Don't mention this kind of thing. When we get back to the border, we will have time to investigate how the enemy broke through the fortified area."

"That's right." After saying that, Pavlov let out a long yawn, "No, I have to go to sleep for a while. I suggest you, general, go to sleep too and let Popov, who has the most sleep among us, do it. On duty.”

Popov nodded: "I just drank a lot of tea in the afternoon and am in good spirits. I can't fall asleep even if I want to. You guys go and rest."

Wang Zhong took one last look at the pitch-black battlefield to make sure that no enemy was highlighted, and then said to Neli: "I want to sleep. The enemy may shell you at night, so I won't sleep in the dormitory. You can use the dormitory next door." The camp bed is ready."

Nellie: "Do you need to wipe your body?"

Wang Zhong shook his head: "No, I didn't sweat today."

Although the autumn rain has not even fallen yet, the temperature on the battlefield is already very low, and you need to cover yourself with a quilt when sleeping at night.

Wang Zhong is actually not used to this temperature. For people living south of the Yangtze River, this temperature is quite winter.

But for the Ant people, it's not even late autumn, which is scary to think about.

Nellie asked again: "Do I need to notify the lady to come back?"

This lady refers to Lyudmila.

Wang Zhong: "She has her position to stick to."

At this time, Wang Zhong suddenly heard the low sound of an engine in the sky.

He looked outside again - actually cutting the perspective - and saw a six-plane formation of biplanes flying over from the enemy side.

Brother Peter did not report it. He probably recognized the engine sound of this biplane and knew it was one of his own.

These biplanes were not carrying bombs and had obviously completed their bombing mission.

Wang Zhong asked Pavlov: "Where is our night bomber brigade stationed? Their range should not be too far from the front line, right? Being closer can carry less fuel, and the aircraft is lighter."

Pavlov frowned: "Don't planes always depart with full fuel tanks?"

Wang Zhong said "Oh", and then he remembered that reality is not a game. In reality, in order to deal with complex situations in the air, he usually starts with full fuel.

Unlike games, the aircraft only carries fuel for 10 minutes, and then hangs an auxiliary fuel tank of more than a thousand liters. I took off and rushed to the battlefield and threw the auxiliary fuel tank. I was the most agile dog in the mountains. Before the fuel burned out within ten minutes, either the enemy would die or I would die.

If you think about it carefully, the tank in the game only carries 20 rounds of artillery shells. In reality, the tank operator is eager to stuff them with shells, which is not enough when the battle situation becomes fierce.

After the sound of the engine passed, Wang Zhong said: "Then I will withdraw first."

Pavlov: "Okay, I'll withdraw too."

"Before that, you have to sign the casualty report." The sixth-level clerk suddenly said, "Also, the tea at the division headquarters is good, who made it?"

Nellie raised her little hand: "Me."

"Oh. She's the general's little maid. Can you make a pot for our clerk's side? It's in the bunker next to it."

The enemy has begun to attack, and the important division headquarters will naturally have to be moved to underground offices, otherwise the troops will fall into chaos if they are blown away by others.

Nellie: "It's fine if you just make tea."

Wang Zhong suddenly smiled and said: "Nellie had a lot of fun watching the battle in the division headquarters bunker today, but starting tomorrow, she will be responsible for the boring job of making tea."

Nellie: "I'm not happy to see it. I'm just curious about what the enemies are like.

"The previous breakout was at night, and I sat behind the tank again, hunching my neck all day long. I didn't see much of what the enemy looked like when they were alive, so I got curious."

During the breakout, Nieri sat on the engine cover of Wang Zhong's No. 422 tank, hiding behind the tank turret with her neck hunched the whole time.

Nellie should have been quite cute at that time, but it was a pity that during the breakout, Wang Zhong was only focused on using the machine gun on the top of the tank turret to attack the enemy, and did not pay attention to Nellie's appearance.

At this time, Pavlov finished signing, stuffed the document back to the old man, and said, "You should also take a rest."

The old man smiled and said: "You don't know, right? It's good for an old guy like me to sleep three or four hours a day. When you get old, you will miss the time when you can sleep for a long time."

As he said that, the old man picked up Nellie's teapot and left with the teapot in his hand.

Nelly: "My teapot was taken away. It was brought from the Rokosov Manor in Yeburg."

Wang Zhong: "It's okay, I'll just bring it back tomorrow."

After saying that, he let out a long yawn.

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The next day, in the early morning of September 21, Wang Zhong was awakened by the sound of gunfire early in the morning.

He rolled directly to the ground, lay down in a defensive position, and cursed: "So early?"

With the rigid energy of the Prossen people, it is estimated that the bombardment will come at this time every morning in the future.

Wang Zhong lay down for a while and then remembered that he slept in the lounge of the division headquarters bunker yesterday and was not so afraid of shelling.

In other words, if the shelling has reached the bunker lounge, then my posture probably won't help much in terms of survival. It's better to pray to the God of Concrete.

Wang Zhong got up and put on his clothes.

Yesterday, before going to bed, he slept in his pants so that he could get up quickly in case of emergency. Now he finished dressing in just three strokes, five divided by two.

Only then did Nellie open the door and come in.

Judging from Nellie's condition, she didn't react when she was first bombed and fell directly to the ground.

Wang Zhong: "Prepare refreshing tea. I will go directly to the division headquarters."

After saying that, he pushed Nellie away and went straight to the division headquarters bunker along the passage.

In the bunker, the night shift staff officer and Popov were looking out from the observation port.

Wang Zhong came to the observation port in three steps, picked up the telescope and asked at the same time: "How is it?"

"It was just shelling, no troops were seen gathering. Counter-battery?"

Wang Zhong raised his eyebrows: "Will the enemy still organize attack waves in the original place? They suffered a loss yesterday."

Popov: "There's no harm in countering this. The supply train arrived at two o'clock last night and replenished us with a lot of heavy artillery ammunition. The person who organized the train is an experienced person who knows what consumes the most on the first day of the defensive battle."

Wang Zhong couldn't help but think of Lieutenant General Chekhov's pan-like face. In the era before Wang Zhong traveled through time, pans were generally also non-stick.

This lieutenant general is really powerful. He never takes the blame and never fails to do things.

In the future, I must let Lieutenant General Chekhov publish his autobiography, and then make a movie based on the autobiography, called "Cannon, Seal and Non-stick Pan".

Since Lieutenant General Non-Stick Pan has sent artillery shells, it is natural to make the Prossenians happy.

Wang Zhong: "Tell the artillery regiment that yesterday we prepared the same set as the counter-artillery fire to shoot at Zhu Yuan and fire."