Arc of Gunfire

In fact, the process of occupying Yeisk was not as simple as Pavlov imagined.

Wang Zhong drove to a place where he could see Yeisk, but he still heard the sound of Proson machine guns shooting in the city.

"This Pavlov swore that the resistance would end if we moved over." Wang Zhong shook his head, "We should really catch him and let him see the situation."

There were a lot of troubles in moving the army headquarters, so Pavlov was still in command in Trinka. Wang Zhong first brought the communications and clerks who were in charge of the advance. The clerks were responsible for communicating with the locals to arrange houses, and the communications department was responsible for pulling telephone lines.

Wang Zhong cut the view and found that it only covered the edge of the city. He didn't know what was going on inside, so he turned his head and asked Vasily: "What's the gunshot?"

Vasily pointed to the front: "The front-line commander is coming, why don't you ask him."

Wang Zhong turned his head and saw a Willys Jeep coming with billowing smoke and dust.

Before the car stopped, Yegorov stood up in the car and saluted Wang Zhong: "General!"

Wang Zhong saluted back: "What's the gunshot?"

Yegorov: "There is a very strong reinforced concrete building. It's not the kind that only has steel bars in the supporting structure and the rest are brick walls, but it's really all reinforced concrete. M3's 75 guns and vortex's 100 guns can't deal with them."

Wang Zhong: "Then pull up the 203 of the artillery regiment. I'll give the order and send the messenger to pass the order."

He was about to touch the pen and notepad, and suddenly remembered that he also had an adjutant, so he turned his head and said to Vasily: "Write the order and send the messenger to convey it!"

Vasily immediately took out the notepad and pencil, quickly wrote the order, turned his head and shouted: "Messenger!"

Someone drove up in a jeep behind him.

Vasily tore off the note and handed it to the driver: "Send the 204 Heavy Artillery Regiment."

The messenger saluted and drove away in the jeep.

Yegorov was shocked: "The messengers are using jeeps. We are really upgrading our weapons."

Wang Zhong: "How much did your troops lose?"

Yegorov pointed to the city: "I don't know about the inside. We haven't counted it yet. I guess we can get the preliminary infantry casualty report tonight. It has been confirmed outside that 20 T34 abandoned vehicles, 7 of which were on fire, can be confirmed as total losses, and the others need to be inspected by the maintenance battalion.

"Two of the accompanying M3 Grant Lees were lost, both of which were directly on fire.

"Six tracks of the Vortex were broken, and one was hit from the side and exploded. The anti-tank gun completely lost two gun crews, and other gun crews also suffered certain casualties, all of which were hit by the enemy's high-explosive shells."

Wang Zhong was shocked: "The loss is greater than expected."

It is obvious that the performance of the T34W has lagged behind. It is not a wise choice to use these tanks to fight against the enemy's long-barreled Type 4.

Yegorov nodded: "The enemy's Type 4 tanks equipped with long-barreled guns are very threatening. They can penetrate the armor of the T34 head-on, and they basically lose their combat effectiveness if they are hit. If we had not widely equipped with smoke bombs, the situation would be worse."

Wang Zhong got out of the car and walked two steps towards the tank battlefield outside the city. While looking at the battlefield, he asked: "How many enemies have we eliminated?"

Yegorov: "The heavy artillery paralyzed half of the enemy's tanks on the spot, so they all became the results of the 225th Division. We destroyed about 23 long-barreled Type 4s and 49 Type 3s. In addition, we ate six new heavy tanks of the enemy!"

Wang Zhong nodded: "Good, very good! If you only count the long-barreled Type 4s, your exchange ratio is also superior! The Type 3s are all free! It's worth celebrating!"

Yegorov smiled and said, "It's mainly because we won the battle and controlled the battlefield, so the enemy couldn't repair the damaged tanks. The exchange ratio will be better if we win."

Wang Zhong nodded, "Yes."

"By the way, there is a new tank that is well preserved. Do you want to go and have a look?"

Wang Zhong: "Sure, let's go and have a look. Anyway, the heavy artillery won't come for a while, and there are still gunshots in the city. If I go into the city, Pavlov will be nagging again."

Yegorov teased, "Are you worried about Pavlov? No, you just want to wait for the heavy artillery to come, and then command the heavy artillery yourself."

Wang Zhong blinked and urged, "Go and see the tanks, go and see the tanks!"

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During the journey to the front line, Wang Zhong encountered several groups of his own troops in a row.

When these people saw the red flag coming, they shouted "Ura".

For a moment, Wang Zhong thought he had become Napoleon, but unfortunately he didn't ride over this time. Bucephala was still in Trinca's stable. This time, it was far from the front line, and the stable would not be blown up by shells again, and Bucephala could not run out.

After passing several troops, Wang Zhong approached the burning tank wreckage on the field, and saw from a distance that the remaining tank troops were parked on the edge of the battlefield. The tank soldiers used tanks to crush the grass on the grassland, opened up an open space, and then sat on the open space, using the crushed grass as a mat.

Wang Zhong instructed the driver of the jeep: "Stop next to the tank in front."

"Yes."

When the jeep stopped, the tankers all stood up and saluted the red flag.

Wang Zhong stood up to return the salute, and then asked: "How many crews don't have a car?"

The commander of the first battalion of the Guards Tank Battalion immediately replied: "We have gathered 10 crews without cars, and we can continue to fight after the tanks are repaired."

The tank crews of the First Mobile Group Army are required to master the skills required for all battle positions at the same time, so that they can be more easily assembled into a complete vehicle crew after casualties occur on the battlefield.

This is also learned from the Prosen people.

Wang Zhong: "There are only ten crews."

Battalion Commander: "The enemy's long-barreled artillery was incredibly powerful. Seven vehicles immediately burst into flames after being hit, and only one man ran out of two vehicle crews. It has only been a year, and the armor of our tanks is not enough."

Wang Zhong: "Yes, I worked on the vortex, and some people laughed at me, saying that I overestimated the Proscenians, and that T34 was enough. These people have no idea how quickly modern military technology improves in war! These pedantic old antiques will kill us!"

"Thankfully we have you!" the battalion commander said sincerely.

Wang Zhong was originally just criticizing Lao Guqian and didn't want to brag about himself, but he was embarrassed by this sudden attack - he couldn't say "it's all right, it's all on me", right?

Then a familiar tank driver said: "We will soon be able to drive new tanks, right?"

Wang Zhong: "It's almost time. The relocation of the factory is almost completed. I was planning to start the research and development of new tanks, but the Prossen people didn't give us time. Before the new tanks are put into use next year, we still have to use the T34 Deal with the enemy for a while.

"But we have a vortex, so we shouldn't suffer too much."

Battalion Commander: "The enemy's smoke restricts the use of the vortex too much. In order to prevent the entire sniper position from being obscured by smoke bombs, we should spread out the vortex."

Several tankers immediately echoed: "Yes!"

"The vortex should be dispersed. This time the concentrated deployment was targeted by the enemy's smoke bomb."

"The firepower density of the dispersed configuration is low. It is impossible to destroy the enemy tanks at once and severely damage the enemy, but at least there is a chance to fire!"

Wang Zhong nodded, then pointed at the battalion commander: "You come and write a summary report. Write all these in, and then summarize the lessons you learned this time."

The battalion commander was embarrassed.

Wang Zhong sat down on the jeep and said to the driver: "Look for that relatively complete new heavy tank."

Yegorov: "I'll show you the way. Go ahead and see the two square boxes stuck together. One of them is still burning. Drive over."

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Soon the jeep stopped next to two heavy tanks next to each other.

Wang Zhong got out of the car and carefully observed the smashed road wheel.

Yegorov misunderstood his expression and said, "I didn't expect this road wheel to be so complicated!"

Wang Zhong: "Don't forget, I captured a complete vehicle of this thing. I have seen this kind of road wheel before."

I had even seen it before traveling through time, and had actually disassembled and assembled the road wheels in the game, so I had an extremely in-depth understanding of the malfunctions of this set of walking mechanisms.

After checking the road wheels, Wang Zhong turned to observe the nearby green grass.

"It's obvious that the road wheel of this vehicle was broken first and then slipped." He pointed to the crushed grass on the ground and said, "I guess this sudden change caused all the artillery shells originally aimed at it to miss the target. Then this vehicle with a tactical number The 203 heavy tank rushed up and blocked the damaged car with its body. "

Wang Zhong turned to look at car No. 203. The car was still burning, and the air was filled with the smell of burning metal and the smell of burnt meat.

As a general who had personally fought on the battlefield, Wang Zhong was already familiar with this smell.

This is the smell of the battlefield.

Wang Zhong asked again: "Why are there corpses of our infantry nearby?"

"I ordered the infantry to go into the grass and close in, and they got close to the vehicle and were machine-gunned, possibly by other vehicles covering it."

"Is there no body inside this car No. 201?"

"Yes, there was a man in the car who should be an electromechanical man. His body had been blown to pieces, and the front was full of fragments. It looked like he was lying on a grenade. The man who was the driver was checking the road wheels when he was killed by the infantry. The necks were wiped. But the other bodies were not found.”

Yegorov paused, then remembered something, and added:

"The 1st Guards Tank Battalion reported that it had fired at the 1st Battalion, which then immediately used smoke to obscure its range of fire."

Wang Zhong: "The commander still had the desire to fight, but the firing range was blocked by smoke and the infantry surrounded him, so he abandoned the vehicle."

He turned to look at the well-preserved half-track next to him: "What's going on with this car?"

"The wheels got tangled in the grass. That's why we just took a detour. If we walked on this relatively high grassland, our wheels would also get tangled," Yegorov said.

Wang Zhong was speechless: "This piece of tall grass is not on my map. In the future, these tall grass that can get entangled in wheels should also be marked on the map."

After speaking, he glanced at Vasily.

Vasily: "Okay, I'll write this down."

Wang Zhong: "You are becoming more and more enlightened!"

At this time, he saw a jeep approaching in the distance.

The Jeep obviously didn't expect the tall grass to get tangled in the wheels and veered straight into the grass.

Then the Jeep broke down.

The people in the car got out of the car cursing, separated their bodies from the tall grass, and ran over cursing: "Salute to you, General!"

He is the battalion commander of the 225th Division Tank Battalion.

“I saw the red flags and came right over.”

Wang Zhong: "Did our division suffer heavy losses?"

"It's not big. The enemy's gunnery suddenly became very bad. Only two heavy tanks can shoot accurately! We covered the heavy tanks with smoke and had a good meal!"

The battalion commander said happily.

Yegorov said sarcastically: "That's right, we fought a tough battle!"

The battalion commander of the 225th Division said seriously: "We thank Big Brother!"

Then he saluted Yegorov.

Yegorov pursed his lips and lost his temper.

Wang Zhong patted him: "Pay attention to unity. It is a good thing for brother troops to compete, but it should not hurt the harmony."

Yegorov then reluctantly replied: "Congratulations on your success! Salute to you."

He returned the salute.