Arc of Gunfire

At 1400 on November 10, the headquarters of the 1st Guards "Red Flag" Mechanized Infantry Division.

Two brigadier generals were led into the divisional fortress by the staff.

Wang Zhong was quite calm when he saw the two people, because he had seen two brigades coming from his bird's-eye view.

But he had to act, so he widened his eyes: "Why are there two brigadier generals? Isn't there only one artillery brigade?"

"The artillery brigade is mine." The brigadier general who entered the door first stood at attention and saluted, "The commander of the 33rd Artillery Brigade, Donikov! Waiting for the general's dispatch!"

Wang Zhong returned the salute and looked at the remaining one: "Then what brigade commander are you?"

Another brigadier general saluted: "Hello, General Rokosov! I am Ivanov, the commander of the 1st Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade. We are ordered to give you two volleys."

Wang Zhong was ready to ask "Why only once", but was stunned when he heard it was twice.

Did they give it twice?

Seeing Wang Zhong stunned, Pavlov thought he was surprised by such a small number of shots, so he asked on his behalf: "Why only twice?"

Ivanov looked embarrassed: "We only brought ammunition that can be loaded once. It takes a long time to load between two shots, so we need to pay attention when allocating firepower. This is the manual for our rocket artillery..."

Wang Zhong took the manual and said directly without even looking at it: "My plan is this. The artillery brigade and my division artillery will conduct fire preparation together, and fight for two hours, making sure to smash all the enemy's pots and pans.

"Then when the artillery switches to the slow-moving barrage, our troops will start to advance, and the rocket artillery will fire again when our troops are within one thousand meters of the enemy. Wait for my signal. "

Ivanov was shocked: "Will you attack in person?"

Wang Zhong: "My father died in Agsukov, and the soldiers who escaped said that he was walking in the front. My father was a general, and he was still walking in the front, but I am only a major general. "

Ivanov's eyes were moist. The soldier who had seen life and death understood everything when he saw Wang Zhong's expression.

Although Wang Zhong rushed to the first place in order to use the plug-in to see the situation, in fact, this was living towards death.

And Wang Zhong was not afraid at all now. At worst, he would go to Quantai to recruit old subordinates and kill the King of Hell with a flag of 100,000. Would the King of Hell dare to accept it?

This is the courage tempered by the war - no, fearlessness.

Ivanov saluted: "Salute to you! It is a blessing for the soldiers to have a general like you. But there is a problem. Our brigade does not have a radio. "

Wang Zhong: "What?"

Ivanov: "Our brigade does not have a radio. Our army does not have a practice of equipping artillery with radios. "

Wang Zhong remembered that in Orachi, the artillery also did not have a radio, so a BT tank or a T26 was placed in the artillery position, and then radio contact was established.

Wang Zhong: "Vasily!"

"Here!" Vasily stood up and carried the radio on his back, "I have charged it, Proson battery, reliable. I will go with the Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade."

Wang Zhong nodded: "Go ahead."

Ivanov and Vasily left together.

Donikov: "Where can I find your artillery commander?"

"I will ask the staff to take you there. We originally had four fake artillery positions, all wooden artillery. We have moved the wooden artillery to new fake positions, and you will enter these positions. Here, here, and here."

"I see. By the way, do these fake positions have air defense?" Donikov asked.

Wang Zhong: "Yes, we use trucks to load the arrow launchers, and the prayer hands ride motorcycles. They are all guerrillas around here. In addition, the positions of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion are deployed here and here, which can just cover the four positions."

Donikov nodded: "I understand, let the staff lead the way."

Pavlov immediately called a staff officer and asked him to lead the way.

After the two brigade commanders left, Pavlov: "You can charge ahead without worry, I will take care of the rest. And if you really need support, we also have a radio here, which was also captured from the enemy, but it is relatively large. "

After saying that, the two looked at the radio in the corner together. It was removed from the Proson tank by a naval technician.

It's very useful.

That is to say, Proson's tanks are not good now. If they have a No. 4 F2 with a long tube, Wang Zhong will command that one.

After all, in War Thunder, his best car is the No. 4 F2, but that was before the weight change, and it is estimated that it can't be played now.

Wang Zhong: "That's it, radio contact. Your call sign is the Valdai River, and my call sign is..."

Wang Zhong touched the lunch box on his waist. He had an illusion that the hometown in the lunch box was heating up.

"My call sign is the Tiber River," he looked at Pavlov, "As long as you call the Tiber River, I will respond, I will definitely respond!"

Pavlov cursed: "Suka, I am also a Khazarian, and I also want the Tiber River as my call sign. ”

Wang Zhong: “Then you…you’re called…”

“Okay, I’m just complaining.” Pavlov waved his hand, as if to drive someone away, “Go, go, drive your little tank.”

Wang Zhong smiled and left the division headquarters.

It happened that the rocket artillery vehicles of the rocket artillery brigade were driving from the station to the artillery position.

Belyakov, the driver of No. 422, asked: “What kind of weapons are these trucks? They look like the Shenjian of the Shenjian Company, but the launchers are put together.”

Gunner Alexander Yefimovich said: “When they stopped there just now, I went over to see that there was a K on the car, but no model number. ”

Wang Zhong: "That's called Katyusha, and it will make the enemy feel the warmth of spring."

Belyakov whistled: "Is it the kind of warmth I thought?"

"It's the kind of warmth you want."

At this time, a staff officer ran over and reported to Wang Zhong: "General, helmets have been issued to the assault battalion, and all of them have the Z logo written on them."

Wang Zhong: "Very good, that way everyone can see how they fight. As long as they prove themselves, they can join other troops as supplementary soldiers."

As he said that, he climbed onto the tank and patted the gunner: "Get out of the way and take my seat."

Alexander smiled: "It's the same as before."

Wang Zhong: "Yes."

Sitting in the small tank, Wang Zhong put on his headphones and microphone, then pressed the microphone on his throat and shouted: "Test the radio now. Everyone reports the vehicle number. People who are not in the tank unit should shut up first."

When the car number was announced on the radio, the enemy suddenly began to bombard the front position of the Guards 1st Infantry, seemingly preparing to attack again.

However, the enemy obviously lacked ammunition and only bombarded the frontal positions.

Wang Zhong turned around and waved, and Pavlov came over: "What's wrong?"

Wang Zhong: "Start preparing for artillery fire and smash all the enemy's bottles and cans!"

Pavlov gave a thumbs up and turned back to the bunker.

Wang Zhong saw his thumbs up action and suddenly thought of a joke, saying that if the atomic bomb falls, give a thumbs up to the mushroom cloud. If the mushroom cloud is smaller than your thumb, then hide quickly.

If an atomic bomb is bigger than a mushroom cloud, then just accept your fate, there is no point in running.

Wang Zhong gave a thumbs up and gestured towards the blue sky.

Probably... only the residents of a certain island can use this knowledge.

At this time, the artillery on our side began to prepare firepower.

This sound was much more powerful than the enemy's bombardment.

Wang Zhong thought.

He had two hours to get into attack formation, and Pavlov would take care of that.

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General Moltke was looking at the map in the map room of the marching tent at the Second Armored Group Headquarters of the Prossen Army. A communications staff officer rushed into the tent: "Report! The 22nd and 35th armored positions were fiercely bombarded by the enemy. ”

Mao Qi waved his hand: "Did they just make fire preparations?"

"Yes."

General Moltke sneered: "This is counter-fire preparation. Rokossov likes to do this kind of thing. When we defend in the future - I mean, if we defend, we can also consider this."

Communications Staff Officer: "However, Unit 22 not only sent a telegram, but also made a radio call. The artillery fire was very fierce, and they suspected that the enemy was about to attack."

General Mao Qi raised his eyebrows: "Attack?"

He thought for a while and said, "I'm going to listen to some violent methods."

He turned around, strode out of the tent, and headed straight for the radio car parked nearby.

After entering the radio car, he shouted loudly: "Call the 22nd Equipment Division!"

"No response, General." The signal soldier responded.

"Keep calling! By the way, call 35 detonators, no, call all units reporting being shelled."

Immediately there was a call in the communication car.

General Moltke wanted to walk, but found that there was not enough space in the communication vehicle to walk, so he could only get out of the communication vehicle, open the door of the communication vehicle, and pace back and forth on the ground.

However, time passed by without any response from the bombarded units.

The 22nd Armored Division, the 35th Panzergrenadier Division and the logistics depots all seemed to have disappeared.

At this time, the adjutant came to General Moltke with a coat. While putting the coat on him, he said: "None of these troops have built anti-gun bunkers. After all, they have no time for soil work and have been attacking..."

General Moltke: "But they have an anti-aircraft artillery battalion with 88-guns. According to the experience gained after the Carolingian Campaign, when a unit stays in one place for more than a day, it should build bunkers for the 88-guns and be ready to fire. .

"If the Ants really attack, then we have to count on the troops to actually abide by this order."

General Moltke raised his head: "Rokossov attacked? No way?"

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Wang Zhong is now less than three kilometers away from the enemy's position.

His troops were fully deployed, with 36 T34Ws deployed in a horizontal formation. Originally, he wanted to imitate the Proscenians and make a wild goose formation, but he charged personally just so that he could see the situation immediately. If he commanded the car behind like the Prossens, it would be in vain.

So he set up an arrow array, and he was the first one.

Each tank carries a squad of infantry - this is the unique fighting method of the Ant people.

Of course, Wang Zhong's idea was to let the infantry go down and spread out the skirmisher line when they reached the position.

The real skirmisher line was behind Wang Zhong's tank and had been dropped for seven to eight hundred meters.

Wang Zhong always pays attention to the front.

His lighting range is a little more than two kilometers. If the enemy has any monsters, he should be able to detect them before the enemy can effectively kill him.

Suddenly, he saw an 88mm anti-aircraft gun.

The gunners were moving into position, but the shells had not yet been brought up.

Wang Zhong immediately pressed the microphone on his throat: "Ivanov, where is your fucking rocket launcher? Give it to me!"