Arc of Gunfire

Wang Zhong stared at the captain on the white horse. His head was too dizzy to remember his name, so he asked: "You...what did you just say your name was?"

"Lubkov."

Wang Zhong: "I am Count Rokosov, and I order..."

Only then did he remember that he had to send a signal flare to notify the troops to come, so he touched the holster on his waist.

At this time, two more soldiers came over from the tank. Seeing this scene, they immediately raised their guns and shouted: "Danger, Captain!"

Captain: "Calm down! This is Lord Count! He is our commander now! Send someone back to tell the tank that friendly forces who have captured Prosen's truck are coming next, so don't run away!"

Immediately, a first-class private turned around and ran towards the top of the mountain. Another sergeant was still looking at Wang Zhong with suspicion.

Wang Zhong couldn't care less. He took out the flare gun, loaded the flare tremblingly, raised his hand with all his strength, and pulled the trigger.

A red signal flare slowly rose, illuminating the sky that was not yet fully lit up at this time.

Wang Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, threw away the flare gun, and asked in a weak voice: "Is there a stretcher? I don't think I can walk to the tank by myself."

The captain said: "You can ride a horse. Come, we will help you get on the horse."

Wang Zhong: "My driver jumped out of the car. I will drag him here regardless of life or death."

The captain said to the two soldiers: "Sergeant, did you hear that? Why don't you look along the road?"

The sergeant, who had always been suspicious of Wang Zhong, started jogging along the road. When Wang Zhong was helped onto his horse by the captain, he happened to see him pull Captain Sergei up from the ground.

The guy broke his head, but judging from his standing position, his condition should be much better than Wang Zhong's.

"Suka is not included." Wang Zhong cursed.

At this time, a Prosen Army truck drove over at full speed in the distance. The wheel may have hit a stone, and the whole vehicle was jolting so hard that it seemed like it would fall apart in the next second.

Arriving in front of the white horse, the car swerved and barely came to a stop before hitting the wreckage.

The passenger door opened and Lyudmila jumped out of the car: "Alyosha!"

Wang Zhong reluctantly raised his hand.

At this time, Sergeant Major Gregory jumped out of the carriage with the veterans of the reconnaissance team, holding a submachine gun: "Your Majesty the Earl!"

Wang Zhong: "I'm fine. It's a good thing that the tank troops are alert. I asked them to withdraw into the town, and I set up observation posts on the top of the mountain. When daybreak, the Prosen army may attack."

Grigory looked at the captain holding the horse and said in a general tone of reporting military information: "We passed through Kurasovka in the west at about three o'clock this morning. We saw about one regiment of infantry and at least 20 three-wheeler vehicles. Tank."

Wang Zhong raised his eyebrows discreetly. This time and space Prossen also named the tank after its number.

Captain Lubokov's voice was trembling: "Twenty vehicles! Oh my God, we almost exchanged fire with them on the open top of the mountain."

Wang Zhong: "I have ordered you to retreat to the village. Execute it quickly. Just leave Grigory's observation post on the top of the mountain."

Sergeant Major Gregory asked: "Are you retreating to the village of Haute Penier?"

Wang Zhong didn't know what kind of village it was. From a bird's-eye view, he only saw a village behind it, so he could only answer: "The village behind the mountain."

"It's the village of Upper Peniye. We can send you there in a truck first, you and Miss Melekhovna."

Wang Zhong: "Lyudmila, you should be with the Arrow team."

Lyudmila pouted: "I know, then I will wait here for Brother Ye Tsemenko and the others."

Wang Zhong nodded and allowed Gregory and another investigator to lift him into the passenger seat of the truck.

The car started and moved forward along the road, bypassing the hills to the east, and saw the village of Upper Penier.

Lubokov's tank platoon came down from the mountain, smashed through the stone wall in the field, drove onto the road from the slant, and followed Wang Zhong's car.

Wang Zhong switched to a bird's-eye view and found that he had an extra soldier card: the 2nd Battalion of the 31st Tank Regiment of the 4th Tank Army, commanded by Captain Lubokov.

How can a tank battalion with only four tanks left, all of which are thin-skinned and bulky T28 multi-turret tanks, fight...

Wang Zhong looked at Upper Penier Village, and it took him a few seconds to realize that there were many small two-story buildings in this village, and they seemed to have electricity.

If you look carefully, there is a quite large factory building on the east side of the village. The signboard says "Tractor Station".

Wang Zhong asked the sergeant who was driving: "What is the tractor station?"

The sergeant was surprised: "According to the new agricultural law, local lords have to pledge their property for loans to open tractor stations and seed stations. Are there all villages where lords live in the past ten years?"

Wang Zhong was shocked.

However, the village of Upper Penier was more modern than expected, which gave Wang Zhong the idea of ​​defeating the enemy.

This two-story building and this street reminded Wang Zhong of the "anti-tank gymnastics" of his fellow villagers before traveling through time.

The tanks of this era are not like Merkava. They can drink a Molotov cocktail without even needing "anti-tank gymnastics". Just throw the cocktail on the second floor.

As for where to find ingredients to make cocktails - just kidding, he is in the Ant Empire, but he is a close relative of Mao Zi. Wang Zhong doesn't believe that he can't find high-strength alcohol in the village.

Wang Zhong laughed when he thought of this.

The sergeant driving the car looked at Wang Zhong's profile suspiciously, as if he wanted to ask but didn't dare.

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As soon as he entered the village, Wang Zhong saw an old woman standing at the door of the house with her grandson looking around.

Wang Zhong: "Stop!"

The car came to a sudden stop. Wang Zhong opened the window and shouted to the old woman: "Run! Don't stay here! The Pulosans will massacre you!"

Old woman: "Sir, you don't look good. Come in and take a rest?"

Wang Zhong: "Go quickly! Take your family and leave quickly!"

Old woman: "Sir, you told us to leave, but where can we go? Everyone in the village who has relatives in other places has left. But we have been in this village for generations, and we have no relatives to seek refuge with."

Wang Zhong: "They will massacre you!"

The old woman showed a sad smile: "Then let them kill us. At least we died on the land of our hometown. Now we are running away and wandering around. Maybe we will die in the end, and we will have to die in a foreign land."

With Wang Zhong's current poor thinking ability, he could not think of any words to refute. He could not persuade the old woman to leave with her grandson.

Thinking that in the near future they might be killed by the Prosens in their own latrine, a sense of sadness rose in his heart and accumulated in Wang Zhong's chest.

At this time, Captain Lubokov jumped off the tank at the back and ran to Wang Zhong's car door and saluted: "We received an order from the Fourth Tank Army to hold on to Upper Penier at least until tomorrow night. Retreat to Bogdanovka."

Wang Zhong: "Tomorrow night?"

He looked at his watch. Assuming it got dark at eight o'clock in the evening, Lubokov's four tanks would have to hold on here for thirty-eight hours.

Lubokov looked distressed: "We may have to explain here."

Wang Zhong: "Don't worry, as long as I'm here, we'll teach the Germans a lesson here!"

Lubokov asked doubtfully: "Germans?"

Wang Zhongshuo was so confused that he didn't even think of correcting this statement.

He pointed to the big house on the roadside: "I want to set up the headquarters here!"

In fact, he was pointing randomly.

Lubokov: "This... after the war starts, this house will be the target of the enemy's first wave of artillery fire! It's better to choose a house inside the village!"

Wang Zhong raised his voice: "Let Yegorov come to me!"