Arc of Gunfire

After Su Fang entered the warehouse, she smiled at Wang Zhong: "I was still wondering when you would come to see me."

Wang Zhong: "Don't make it sound like I want to meet you in private. How are the folklore researchers doing now?"

"The maids have finished their rest and are waiting for you to summon them." Su Fang stared at Wang Zhong, "Is the fog not working? Why haven't you used it for the second time in such a long time?"

Wang Zhong: "We needed a clearer field of vision before, after all, our long-range firepower is superior. In fact, the enemy has been using smoke bombs to limit the performance of our vortex tank destroyers, and summoning fog is just to make it easier for them."

In fact, Wang Zhong still has some doubts in his heart that this fog is naturally formed, but there is only a little fog in the morning these few days, and it quickly dissipates when the sun comes out, making the fog that was summoned before and lasted for more than an hour unscientific.

If it can be reproduced once, it will be a good opportunity to observe whether this fog is scientific or not.

Wang Zhong: "In short, now we are preparing to launch another assault mainly with infantry, and we need fog to block the enemy's long-range firepower, such as machine guns, the main gun of the No. 3 assault gun, and various mortars and infantry guns--"

Su Fang: "I know, then I will ask several researchers to start preparing for the ceremony."

Wang Zhong: "Is fog okay tomorrow morning?"

Su Fang smiled and gave a thumbs up, turned and walked towards the warehouse door.

Wang Zhong keenly caught that Su Fang looked behind her before turning around.

He turned around and saw that Nellie was looking in the direction Su Fang was looking at, with a stern face, staring at Su Fang's back with the expression she had when she found lice while washing clothes.

Wang Zhong coughed, attracting Nellie's attention, and then said seriously: "Although our communication ability is good now, Su Fang's ability can be used as a backup, maybe it will be used someday, so..."

Nellie: "I won't do anything to her, at most I will just sprinkle salt."

"That's good." Wang Zhong said, turning to Pavlov and said, "Order the infantry troops to be ready, the reconnaissance troops to immediately summarize the reconnaissance information, the staff to formulate a specific battle plan, gather the commanders of the battalions and companies of each unit tonight, and we will hold a small meeting."

Pavlov nodded, turned around and issued orders to the staff one by one. He was like a compiler. Wang Zhong's intentions would be split into countless specific commands that could be executed after passing through his brain.

Wang Zhong couldn't help but think of a book on the Napoleonic Wars that he had read before crossing over. It said that Napoleon's ability to command troops efficiently was related to his chief of staff Berthier.

Later, one of the reasons why Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo was that Berthier did not respond to his call.

Wang Zhong recalled his experience of fighting so far. Without Pavlov, he would never have been so successful.

Rokossov also has his own Berthier.

Just as Wang Zhong thought about this, he heard Popov say: "Tell the kitchen to prepare more tea and coffee. The staff will probably work hard today."

Wang Zhong suddenly felt that he should also give some orders that would be beneficial to tomorrow's battle, so he turned his head and said to Vasily: "Vasily you...you..."

After a long time of you, Wang Zhong waved his hand: "Forget it, don't worry about it."

After that, he walked towards the radio unit, intending to use the short moment of establishing radio communication to gain a view of the front line.

This is something only Wang Zhong can do. Maybe he can use this to discover clues of the enemy's actions.

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"We must prepare for the attack on the 24th." General Bock, commander of the 10th Army of the Plosson Army, looked at the commanders of several armored divisions and armored grenadier divisions gathered at the army headquarters, "If we don't attack, not only will I, the army commander, be dismissed by His Majesty the Emperor, but you will not feel good either!"

The commander of the 14th division frowned: "The first phase of Operation Blue has only been delayed for a few days, right? After all, our attack was so smooth at the beginning, but it was delayed by Rokossov for ten days here."

The Blue Plan learned from last year's experience and lessons. In order to avoid the disconnection between the armored division and the infantry, the advancement speed was slowed down, and redundant time was left for the armored forces to replenish and repair tanks.

So although it was delayed by Rokossov for ten days, the entire combat plan was not delayed too much.

General Bock shook his head: "Do you think tomorrow's attack can defeat Rokossov? He has so many troops now."

The division commander shut up.

Admiral Bock continued: "We will launch a swift offensive, defeat Rokosov, and try to capture Yeisk before the end of the month. In this way, the enemy's heavy troops in the Borsk area will be completely exposed, and then we will use exquisite encirclement like last year to completely eat up hundreds of thousands of Ants."

Schultz, the commander of the 16th Armored Grenadiers Division, said: "In the grassland terrain, there is no need to strictly encircle along the road. We can make a smaller flank attack on the enemy's flank in the Borsk direction and use a smaller encirclement-"

"What the emperor hopes for is a large encirclement like the Agsukov encirclement last year, which can be called an art." Bock interrupted the commander of the 16th Armored Grenadiers Division, "So we have to fight to the Sukhayaveli River, and then start encirclement, and use perfect turns to eat up the enemy's heavy troops."

Several division commanders looked at each other.

Schultz, the division commander who was still 16, said: "The military intelligence report of the high command said that the enemy in Borsk showed signs of retreat. If we still follow the blue plan to outflank, will it be too late? The high command will not be so stupid. At this time, we have to stick to the original plan, there should be a new plan, and it is even possible to dispatch the Imperial Marine Corps to launch a landing operation on the coast. "

As he spoke, Schulz came to the map, picked up a pencil and drew an advance line on the coastal part of the map, blocking the connection between Borsk and the pass of the Raoul Mountains.

Admiral Poker took a step forward, picked up the eraser and erased the lines on the map: "That is something for the high command to consider, not for us to worry about. We just need to continue to attack according to the plan."

Schultz could only nod: "Understood, we will launch an attack in coordination with the armored division."

Admiral Bok nodded, glanced at the others, and emphasized: "The attack must be launched on the 24th. Fortunately, Rokosov did not continue the attack. It must be because the grassland also affected his supplies."

No, in fact Rokossov is just lying in wait, waiting for your armored divisions to "send their lives away."

Who would have thought that the bombing of the cavalry and the air force had disrupted the supply plan of the Tenth Army to such an extent - of course this was also related to the fact that the Tenth Army had been rushing forward before encountering Rokossov and consumed a lot of ammunition and fuel.

"Everyone's supply is not going well, so let's see who can complete the supply first. Maybe we will encounter Rokossov's tank troops on the way to attack this time and have a tank battle with him!" Pork The admiral said hesitantly.

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At the same time, the headquarters of Ant Army and Bolsk Front.

Prince Myshkin gently covered his mouth with a handkerchief, but he was still choked by the smoke from the maps and documents burned by his staff and coughed repeatedly.

His adjutant said worriedly: "Your Excellency, you'd better leave first. It's enough for us to burn the documents."

Meishkin: "When I start moving, the retreat will gradually fall into chaos. Each unit will have to make its own decisions and solve the problems before it - until the headquarters arrives at a new location, restarts, and establishes radio contact with them.

"But at that time, some troops may be marching and the radio cannot be deployed. Do you understand?"

The adjutant nodded.

But the Duke still said the answer: "So I want to stay here as much as possible to deal with the problems encountered by the retreating troops."

As soon as Myshkin finished speaking, a messenger ran into the headquarters where confetti was everywhere, went straight to the Duke, and loudly reported: "Enemy troops were found near Diporozko."

Duke Myshkin was speechless: "The enemy noticed that we were about to run away, and planned to launch a small outflank. Order the 5th Guards Tank Brigade to attack. It is not necessary to defeat the enemy, just to delay the enemy."

Just as the messenger was about to turn around, Duke Myshkin called out to him: "Tell Commander Stolov of the 5th Tank Brigade that we must stop the enemy even if the entire brigade is sacrificed."

The messenger nodded.

Duke Myshkin let go of his hand and waved gently.

So the messenger ran away without looking back.

The Duke called the next messenger and continued the order: "Order the 331st Infantry Division to set up a blocking position south of Diporozco. I know it is difficult to block armored troops on the grassland, but they must block the enemy. They must block !”

After the messengers rushed out in response, Duke Myshkin coughed violently.

The adjutant came up quickly and patted his back.

The Duke waved his hand: "No, no, don't worry about me. The Proscenians must have found out that we are about to run away. We just wiped out our army in the coastal fortress encirclement in Episode 11 when we faced the enemy. They need to rest. Episode 12 fought us. After so many days, they should not have the strength to outflank us anymore.

"The enemy can only prevent us from escaping by investing new troops."

The adjutant said quickly: "It's a retreat."

"There is no difference. My troops will not care about such trivial word games. If the enemy wants to catch us, he must put in reserves. At this time, we can only expect General Gorky to make a big move in the direction of Suhayaveli. Attracted the reserve team."

The adjutant said: "There is 'that' Rokossov over there, they can definitely do it."

The Duke stared at the map and thought for a few seconds: "That Rokossov is good at defense. Last year's offensive was only launched after the enemy's supplies were exhausted. This does not mean that he has excellent offensive capabilities. If we want to relieve the siege, it will probably take more Let’s see how General Gorky attacks.”

After saying that, the Duke started coughing loudly again.

The adjutant quickly continued to pat his back.

When the coughing ended, the Duke felt something. He looked at the handkerchief and saw that there was indeed a large area of ​​bright red.

He said to his adjutant: "Send a report to the headquarters and ask them to send capable commanders to take over my command."

The adjutant was shocked: "Huh? At this time? Changing generals during retreat is more deadly than changing generals before attacking!"

"Execute my order." Duke Myshkin said seriously.