Arc of Gunfire

Wang Zhong scanned all the students and found that no one dared to raise their hands.

So he encouraged the students: "We must dare to admit the enemy's advantages, and we must learn from the enemy and turn their advantages into our own. In this kind of matter, we must implement the doctrine of borrowing, discarding the dross and taking the essence!"

"Come on, talk about the advantages of the enemy's tanks in detail! If you don't say it, I will. But you will lose the opportunity to impress me!"

Maslow Boyev immediately raised his hand: "I'll do it!"

Wang Zhong: "Come here!"

Maslow: "The enemy has a separate commander's tower. Although the observation window of the commander's tower is small, the view is much better than our side observation windows, and the commander has a 360-degree view, and ours The blind area of ​​the observation window is very large.”

Wang Zhong nodded: "What else?"

Maslow: "The sight is advanced. As long as you know the size of the target, you can quickly estimate the distance. In addition, the magnification is satisfactory."

Wang Zhong: "What else?"

Maslow: "There are radios! But that's not reflected in this exercise. We all have radios too."

Wang Zhong: "Yes, radio gives the enemy a huge advantage. Is there anything else?"

Maslow was dumbfounded: "What else? Uh..."

Wang Zhong: "The combat room is spacious and the ergonomics are good. Proson tank crews do not need to wear anti-collision tank caps. They all wear boat-shaped caps and large caps to drive tanks. In addition, the relatively large internal space also allows enemies to penetrate The survival rate of members after tanks has improved a lot.”

Of course, No. 3 was actually quite narrow, and No. 4 was really spacious, so No. 4 later came out with a series of modifications and was used until Leopard was mass-produced. There is also a factory producing No. 4.

The students looked at each other in confusion because Ant's previous tank designs had never taken ergonomics and comfort into consideration.

Wang Zhong said loudly: "Don't underestimate the improvement in survivability brought by the spacious interior.

"Our design ideas are still the same as those of the shooting army, treating soldiers as gray animals. We want to change this.

"Tankers, like pilots, are technical arms. Good tankers are very precious. We must try our best to ensure the survival rate of excellent tankers. At the same time, we must make every tanker familiar with all combat positions, so that in wartime We can quickly fill up the missing tank crews."

Wang Zhong glanced at the trainees and said loudly: "To abandon more than 10,000 tanks all at once like the first three weeks of the war is to commit a crime against the people of Ante! More than 10,000 tanks, how many tank crews have been lost in vain? Got it!

"This situation must be prevented. All commanders should learn to use tanks as precious power instead of wasting them casually!"

Wang Zhong stopped and glanced at the faces of the trainees one by one: "You are the future tank commanders. I want to make a request for you here. That is, in the future, your exchange ratio with enemy tanks must be one on the front line. One, that is to say, for every loss of a vehicle crew, at least one enemy vehicle crew must be taken to bear the burden!”

Someone shouted: "Wouldn't it be great if every tank found an enemy tank to hit?"

Many students started laughing, but a large number of students, including Maslow, did not laugh.

Wang Zhong: "Maslow, tell the students why this doesn't work."

Maslow glanced at the group of people who had just booed, and said: "Because if the enemy is really equipped with artillery that can penetrate the T34, you will be destroyed on the way over, and not many can get into the impact distance."

Someone immediately said disapprovingly: "How can the enemy equip artillery that can penetrate T34 so quickly?"

Wang Zhong: "Maybe it will be available now. Never look down on your enemy. It is you who will pay the price."

If it weren't for Wang Zhong himself, he would have been the biggest contributor to defeating Prosen. His speech just now would have been enough to send him to prison dozens of times.

Wang Zhong saw that the students who retorted had nothing else to say, so he looked at Maslow: "Next, let's discuss how to achieve a 1:1 exchange ratio under the current equipment conditions."

Maslow: "Isn't it enough to refer to your battle examples? The Orachi tank ambush battle is all over the newspapers now. Wherever you go, you can see newspaper reporters reading your battle results to illiterate old people. Yebao Even an old woman who doesn’t know anything about military affairs can still say a few words!”

Wang Zhong: "The military academy is under closed management. What else do you know about the situation in Yebao?"

Maslow Boyev was embarrassed: "This..."

Wang Zhong: "Priest of Life! What should I do if I sneak out of school?"

Vasily said quickly: "Go to the toilet and dig out the feces!"

It felt like he was so happy when he said this.

The Life Priest replied: "It is true that you can be punished by collecting feces. Maslow Boyev, if you honestly confess that you ran away from school, you only need to collect feces for a week. If you do not confess honestly, or deliberately conceal the details, it will be increased to three week."

Maslow Boyev's whole face wrinkled.

Wang Zhong was as happy as Vasily, but he immediately put on a serious face: "Continue to talk about tanks. Yes, ambush is a method, and so are tank bunkers. There are also methods like what Boyev just took in the confrontation. , each tank separately guards an area, which is a feasible approach.

"But these methods are not suitable for offense. If we want to conduct offensive operations and the enemy is the defender, how can we achieve a 1:1 exchange ratio with the enemy's tanks?

"Most of your tank crews only received six months of training, of which they spent 60 hours driving tanks. Most of the enemy's trained for a year and spent more than 600 hours in tanks."

As soon as Wang Zhong finished speaking, someone in Maslow Boyev's small group said: "Isn't training for six months unrealistic? There is such a huge shortage of tank crews now!"

...Even the students in the military academy know how bad the situation is now.

Wang Zhong: "Just calculate it as six months. Don't care whether you rely on T35 or T26 for the 60 hours of driving. Answer me, how can you maintain a 1:1 exchange ratio in this case?"

Everyone looked at each other.

Wang Zhong climbed onto the No. 3 G type—this tank was captured by his troops. Of course, he had climbed on it first and was very familiar with it.

He patted the No. 3G turret: "And the enemy has also replaced it with a better tank. This tank has the same sloped armor as the T34, and the tonnage is even heavier than the T34, which means that it has better armor than the T34.

"At the same time, it also has an 88mm anti-tank gun, which can accurately hit your tank at a distance of 1,500 meters."

Boyev shouted: "This premise is too much! Can't we fight?"

Wang Zhong: "It can be fought, because the battlefield is not about solving problems. When encountering such a situation on the battlefield, the best response is not to attack and leave it to the artillery. The target of the artillery attack is not the enemy's tank group, but the infantry accompanying the tank. , as well as various logistics units that provide support for tanks, maintenance workshops, field tow trucks, fuel trucks and ammunition trucks...

"By blocking the infantry, the infantry can use smoke bombs and incendiary bombs to destroy the tanks. By destroying the maintenance factory, the enemy's tanks cannot be repaired. Look at how many broken tanks there are on the exercise field. Tanks, It’s easy to break!”

After Wang Zhong said this, the students all turned to look at the broken No. 3 and T34 on the training ground.

Boyev: "But didn't you say you wanted to achieve a 1:1 tank versus tank ratio?"

Wang Zhong: "Yes, I used tanks to bully the infantry who had no anti-tank firepower, and eliminated the logistics, so that the enemy had to abandon the malfunctioning tanks and run away in confusion. Why is it not 1 to 1?"

“And even if it’s an offensive, if we bypass the enemy armor and capture key points that they have to recapture, like the high ground that controls the highway.

"We quickly dug out tank bunkers on the high ground and distributed firepower. Will it be the enemy's tank unit's turn to attack?"

The students immediately started whispering.

Boyev looked at Wang Zhong with admiration.

Wang Zhong continued: "Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. The art of war is the art of change. Those who can only stand firm and fight in vain are only second-rate soldiers."

Boyev praised: "You are worthy of being a magician on the battlefield!"

Wang Zhong: “I don’t dare to take it seriously.”

I really don't dare to take it, because the so-called battlefield magician in "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" did not end well.

Seeing that Wang Zhong has talked about it so far, he might as well talk to someone who is professional in tank command about how to build his own tank bunker.

"There is still time, let me tell you how to set up a strong tank defense position and how to dig a perfect tank bunker——"

…

Next, Wang Zhong started the class directly on the training ground. These days, he was basically busy competing with the United States and did not come to the military academy for class at all.

Now that I heard that he was giving a lecture, the officers who had returned from the battlefield and were studying advanced theoretical knowledge in the theory building rushed to the training ground as soon as the get out of class was over.

Students from various majors who were conducting normal teaching also came over after class.

Originally, Wang Zhong only planned to open a small stove for the students majoring in tank command, but it suddenly turned into a big pot for the whole school.

The entire training ground was densely packed with people. Professor Valery even brought a microphone and connected it to the line, asking Wang Zhong to speak to the whole school with the microphone.

Therefore, Wang Zhong had no choice but to share his experience in commanding the Imperial Guards without reservation - and compared to August, his understanding of war has been further improved, so this time he will speak more clearly than before. The sharing in August will be more detailed.

He kept talking like this until dark.

Wang Zhong: "Okay, it's getting late. I will compile these contents into a volume and print it out to you, no, to the whole army! So, that's it for today! Disband!"

Boyev, who has evolved into Wang Zhong's number one fanatic fan, shouted: "get out of class is not over yet, general! You have to shout get out of class is over before we can leave!"

Wang Zhong glanced at Boyev and then at Vasily, thinking that there were more people picking up shit!

He sighed, picked up the microphone, and said to the whole school: "get out of class is over! Dismissed!"

Everyone applauded from the bottom of their hearts, and the applause was like rolling spring thunder.

At this time, there were less than twelve hours before the Western Front launched its attack.