Arc of Gunfire

At eight o'clock in the morning on October 9, Giles's convoy was stopped on the Prosen Army side.

Feliz got out of the car and asked, "What's wrong? The person in the car is Lieutenant General Giles!"

The major who stopped the car saluted the car, and then said loudly: "The chief of staff of the army asked me to stop you."

Giles frowned: "What's wrong?"

"When Major General Kruse, the commander of the Ampla Division, inspected the artillery observation post you were going to in advance, he was bombarded. The top beam of the observation post bunker was collapsed by the shell. Major General Kruse injured his shoulder and has been sent to the division field hospital for rescue. . The Army Chief of Staff believes that you should not go to the front line again under these circumstances," the major who blocked the road said loudly.

Feliz turned to look at Giles: "Did the enemy get the information that this wave of cannons is preparing to blow you up?"

Giles was silent for a few seconds and said: "There is no one in command of the Amphula Division now. I will go directly to the headquarters of the Amphula Division. I want to see if this white horse general can still find me and bombard me." !”

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On Wang Zhong's side, he watched helplessly as the division commander was carried away.

After all, there is a bunker. With the accuracy of the howitzer's indirect fire, it is very difficult to kill the enemies in the bunker.

This time it was just the shells that landed near the bunker, causing it to collapse. The division commander was more unlucky and was hit on the shoulder by the landslide, but the others in the bunker were unscathed.

This was still the case when Wang Zhong had measured the distance in advance and calculated how to shoot Zhu Yuan.

It seems that to ensure the killing, it is still necessary to use heavy artillery to shoot directly.

If one shot of 203 hits the bunker, do you still worry about not being able to kill anyone?

At this moment, the enemy began to smoke.

Wang Zhong: "Get ready to fight!"

Wang Zhong set up several layers of defense on the east coast.

All the officers and men of the 1st Guards Division knew that the enemy liked to smoke, so the East Coast also fully considered this situation.

Wang Zhong set up a firepower point on the second floor of the building along the river.

It's a bit like the design idea of ​​the bastion during World War I.

The breakwater itself is very steep and difficult to climb, so even if the enemy can swim across the river and land on the beach, they still have to take the stairs.

The machine guns on the second floor, firing diagonally downwards, covered these stairs perfectly.

Yes, this is the first hell gate that Wang Zhong sets for the enemy. Even if the enemy crosses the river under the cover of smoke, they will still have to face the blind firepower of machine guns - the smoke will not affect this firepower, but will make it worse. The enemy in the smoke cannot clearly see the position of the machine gun and fight back.

Even if the enemy breaks through this hell gate, Wang Zhong has set up a second line of defense.

Wang Zhong sealed most of the windows on the first floor of the building along the street, and then vacated all the rooms facing the river bank. There was no defender inside.

All the defenders were outside the room door.

In this way, the enemy cannot clearly see the situation in the room. If they use explosives to blow open the bricks and sandbags sealing the windows and rush in blindly, they will encounter the firepower of submachine guns guarding the door.

In addition, Wang Zhong also placed landmines in the room facing the river bank.

Mines placed outside will be detonated by overpressure, but what about the mines placed in the room? And the windows in this room were sealed with bricks and sandbags.

This design will minimize the risk of overpressure detonation.

Of course, the first floor of buildings along the river has also been converted into an anti-tank gun emplacement. For this kind of building, Wang Zhong adopted another defensive logic.

The walls of these buildings facing away from the river bank were demolished, leaving only the load-bearing columns, and then machine gun fire points were set up in the second row of buildings.

Once the anti-tank gunners evacuated, the first floors of these buildings would become pure fire zones.

Moreover, the wall on the first floor facing away from the river bank was demolished to facilitate the transfer of anti-tank guns. Gun carriages like the ZIS30 can directly enter and exit the first floor.

If the enemy breaks through this layer of defense, it will be difficult to attack the second floor.

Because Wang Zhong demolished all the stairs to the second floor of the building along the river, and usually uses wooden ladders to go up and down. During the war, the wooden ladders are put away.

Unless the Plosans learn the double jump, they just can't get up.

Even if they go up, there are soldiers from the 1st Guards Division waiting with submachine guns.

If all of these are useless and the enemy completely captures the buildings along the street, the enemy will also find that it is impossible to enter the bunker beneath the building along the street.

The entrances to all bunkers are on the second floor of the house, connected through tunnels.

If the enemy wants to attack the second-story house, they will need to face the fire from the bunker from behind.

When this set of designs came out, Pavlov and the others were shocked, because Ant's military academy had never taught them how to design defensive positions.

Wang Zhong didn't tell them that this was actually not his own creation, but came from tunnel warfare.

He himself never thought that one of his favorite movies as a child would come in handy after traveling through time!

Now Wang Zhong is waiting for the enemy to come over to see if what he learned from the military education film is useful.

The enemy's smoke deployment was completed, and whistles could be vaguely heard on the other side of the river.

Vasily said nervously: "Whistle, the enemy is about to attack."

Wang Zhong: "Close all bunker doors."

Pavlov immediately gave the order.

For the convenience of entry and exit, the division headquarters still left a door to the ground. Now after closing this door, you have to walk through a long tunnel to get out of the division headquarters bunker.

Because there was no air circulation inside, the white smoke from outside did not drift into the bunker at all.

Wang Zhong used the plug-in to see through the smoke and watch the enemy's movements.

The enemy on the other side of the ferry obviously planned to build a pontoon bridge, so those who came out of the trenches were mainly pontoon bridge troops.

Wang Zhong: "Order heavy mortars to fire, fire plan three."

Option three is to cover the opposite ferry.

After all, it is difficult to deal with the pontoon bridge being built by the enemy. The enemies will keep coming in a steady stream. With only one division, it is better to try to prevent the enemy's attack from being so smooth.

At the same time as the explosion of mortars came, the enemy's armed swimming troops entered the water.

The Plosans also took out steel boats and put them in the river to transport heavy weapons, pushed by armed swimming soldiers.

At this time, the enemy's machine guns and armored vehicles on the shore began to randomly shoot at the second floors of the buildings on the east bank through the smoke.

It's a pity that Wang Zhong and the others hid their firepower points very well, and the enemy never discovered where the real firepower points were.

At this time the phone rang, and Pavlov was overjoyed: "The line is connected! Not bad."

He picked up the phone: "Division Headquarters, yes, the enemy is crossing the river, there is no need to move the reserve team yet, just wait."

After putting down the phone, Pavlov turned back: "Lieutenant Colonel Eugene is a little anxious."

Vasily: "I'm in a hurry too, why don't we open fire? It's too quiet."

Wang Zhong: "Isn't there the sound of heavy mortar bombardment?"

"That's too far. It's uncomfortable." Vasily looked out the window, "How about we open fire?"

Wang Zhong: "Don't worry, it's only been a few minutes since we heard the enemy's attack whistle."

Popov: "You should be as calm as a general."

Wang Zhongxin thought that I was calm because I fired the smoke, and I knew where the enemy had swam.

Pavlov looked at the time and asked: "How about letting the artillery regiment fire? It will probably hit some of the enemy's reserve troops."

Wang Zhong: "You can't keep calm. This first wave of enemy attacks will definitely fail, so relax."

After he finished speaking, the entire division bunker fell silent.

Wang Zhong was focused on paying attention to the enemy from a bird's-eye view, when he suddenly felt someone tugging on his clothes.

He cut back and saw that it was Nellie, the little maid: "I'm very nervous too, what should I do?"

Wang Zhong: "Why, you don't believe that my arrangement can severely defeat the enemy?"

"That's not true."

Wang Zhong stretched out his hand and touched Nellie's head: "Peace of mind."

Just at this time, Wang Zhong saw the first wave of enemies landing. They first tried to climb the breakwater, but when they found that they couldn't climb, they rushed to the stairs.

Wang Zhong: "Fire!"

Pavlov said to the sound tube: "Fire!"

The machine guns on the second floor opened fire immediately, and the firepower network directly blocked all the stairs.

The enemy was shrouded in smoke and was defeated by the storm of fire before he could see clearly what was going on.

Some Prossen veterans relied on experience and intuition to duck and escape the hail of bullets.

But the Prossen man also held back his energy and crawled along the stairs, not stopping until a blind bullet hit him.

Wang Zhong: "Mortar!"

Heavy mortars were assigned to each regiment. Following Wang Zhong's order, the mortars assigned to the 5th Beshensk Regiment opened fire.

Shells kept falling on the beach.

Although the mortar's accuracy is not good, it cannot withstand the enemy being so densely packed.

At this time, Wang Zhong saw an officer from Prosen firing a signal flare at the firepower point on the second floor.

The red light of the flare can roughly indicate the direction even through the smoke.

The only problem is that the officer fired roughly according to the line of fire, and the flare did not actually fall on the machine gun fire point.

However, the infantry guns on the other side of the river opened fire.

These runs were stuck just outside the range that Wang Zhong could light.

After all, Proson's infantry cannon has a good range.

The shells landed continuously on the second floor, and the density of firepower actually silenced a machine gun!

Wang Zhong: "Call the artillery regiment. The enemy infantry artillery is outside my field of vision. It should not be far away!"

Just as Pavlov was about to pick up the phone, he heard the sound of heavy artillery: "Wait a minute, the artillery regiment is firing?"

Vasily: "Maybe the artillery observation post saw the location of the enemy's infantry artillery."

Wang Zhong set up an artillery observation post on the roof of the building, but he thought that the artillery officer on the roof died while preparing the firepower.

It seems not now.

The enemy artillery, which was blasting at the location of the flare, ceased fire.

Machine gun fire immediately resumed.

But during this gap, many Proson soldiers had already passed through the first gate of hell.

The Plosans were obviously prepared for the second obstacle and directly used explosive packs to blow open the sealed windows.

However, they didn't know there was a mine behind the window.

The first Prosin to climb through the window was blown out of the window.

Wang Zhong saw clearly and laughed.

Everyone else in the map room looked puzzled, not knowing what Wang Zhong was laughing at.