Arc of Gunfire

After Wang Zhong finished speaking, General Gorky immediately said: "During the summer offensive, our defense against Army Group Center was not effective. The enemy invested a large number of armored troops to counterattack us. It was difficult for our armored troops to cross the river, and The troops crossing the river lacked effective anti-tank means."

Kirinenko immediately replied: "In the summer, the production of rocket launchers was still too small. My cavalry group army only received 1,000 rocket launchers. It looked like a lot, but these rocket launchers were consumables and were thrown away after they were fired. .

"These one thousand rocket launchers were used up in less than three days. The troops reported a lot of results and requested to equip more rocket launchers.

"So what is the official model name of this rocket launcher? It's called 'New Rocket Launcher' in the documents. Some soldiers call it Molotov Sausage, and some call it Mom's Feather Duster, but this thing must have an official name." model?"

Molotov sausage is probably derived from the "Molotov cocktail". Both are individual anti-tank weapons. Mom's feather duster - I didn't expect that Maozi's cubs would be beaten with a feather duster by their mother when they were young.

When Wang Zhong was a child, there was no feather duster at home, so his mother used a broom with similar functions. When the broom was removed, there were red marks all over his buttocks.

Wang Zhong: "The official production model, I'm going to call it the Divine Arrow."

In fact, at first Wang Zhong planned to call the new rocket launcher Iron Fist, playing a historical joke that only he knew in the world, but one night, Lyudmila's joke inspired him.

After two and a half years of war, Ant no longer has many divine arrows guided by God. Even the prayer hands are in huge shortage. Prayer hands like Lyudmila are in demand wherever they go, and they are all used to carry out important missions. air defense.

Therefore, the new divine arrows came down from the altar and were distributed to every soldier, then blasted the enemy's arrogant tanks into scrap metal.

The symbolism is so great.

After Wang Zhong revealed his plan, all the generals looked at each other. General Gorky smiled and said: "Yes, yes, the newly-confessed saint will distribute the divine arrows to every soldier. I like this development.

"My front army has begun to distribute magic arrows. If we launch another attack in autumn and winter, the infantry troops will not be helpless in the face of the enemy's armored forces. Moreover, the enemy's armored forces were consumed a lot in the summer campaign, and we may not be able to attack in the autumn. A breakthrough can be achieved.”

Wang Zhong: "Regardless of whether a breakthrough can be achieved, the Western Front should firmly attract the enemy's Central Army Group."

General Gorky: "I will be responsible for containment, and you will attack, just like in the past."

Wang Zhong couldn't help but take another look at General Gorky. What he said was very level. If there really is a "Rokossov faction", then his position as the number two figure has been firmly established.

However, the fact that Wang Zhong has been able to play so smoothly in the past two years is indeed related to the great pressure that General Gorky put on Proson from the front. No one can say anything about him competing for the second position.

The only problem is that the pressure exerted by General Gorky is really filled with military force.

Wang Zhong's army had more and more veterans. The Abavahan Front fought so hard that units such as the 51st Tank Army and the 16th Infantry Army were literally wiped out, but they were finally adapted into the first front of Khazalia. When he was in the army, he was promoted to a large number of Guards troops.

Now that the summer offensive is over, the proportion of Guards troops under the name of the Kesalia Front has exceeded 50%.

In the history of the earth, after the Soviet victory, the Guards accounted for only one-third of the entire army.

You know, in the second half of the war, Mao Zi went smoothly, and San Dezi on the opposite side changed, so many troops achieved a lot of results.

Wang Zhong's army has always implemented very strict promotion standards for the Guards. Every unit with the title of Guards has rushed out of the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood and still retains the core veterans.

On the other hand, General Gorky's Western Front really implemented a strategy of using troops like mud, and each attack cost huge casualties.

Of course, General Gorky also had something to say: What troops did I lead, and what troops did Wang Zhong lead? Your Wang Zhong's army has enough new equipment, and the tubes have begun to be distributed to the cavalry. My infantry has never seen the tubes, and they only started to equip them after the summer campaign.

And that new tank, I have never seen it before. Your armored forces can destroy the enemy's armored forces all because of the turtle shell and 100 guns of the new tank. My boy can only drive a T34 and become a Prossen. With his record, Chang Guan No. 3 and No. 4 can't beat him, and he has to face Hu Pao next, and there's no way he can beat him.

You need to understand the equipment gap first. I can still put so much pressure on the enemy with inferior equipment. Not bad!

The above are all Wang Zhong's own imagination, but they are indeed facts, so he never accused General Gorky of heavy military losses.

Wang Zhong: "The current production capacity of new medium tanks can only arm one brigade a month, but the Rokosov I heavy tank can already arm three regiments a month. My front army's heavy tanks are already saturated. If we add more The security capability cannot keep up.

"The newly formed breakthrough heavy tank regiment will supplement all front armies, especially the Western Front Army, which is responsible for the main containment task."

General Gorky beamed: "That's great. Rumors about the Luxov heavy tank have spread throughout the Western Front. It is said that its armor protection is so powerful that one tank can wipe out the Prossens." A tank division!"

(Plosen called it an armored division, but General Gorky still said it according to Ant's habit. In fact, Ant no longer has a tank division. The army is a brigade)

Wang Zhong: "This is a misunderstanding. The actual situation is that a Rokossov I tank was besieged by the enemy and attracted all the firepower. It had a mechanical failure and the turret speed was extremely slow, so it could not effectively fight back.

"But the friendly forces that attacked with this tank destroyed the enemy. We also suffered losses in this battle, and it was not so easy. "

General Gorky: "There is no such thing as an easy battle. We all understand!"

General Kashuk: "I think the investment in the new arrow is more practical than the new tank. The infantry needs these anti-tank firepower.

"In our army's current equipment sequence, anti-tank guns can only hit armored vehicles, and 45mm anti-tank guns are really weak in the face of the thickened armor of enemy tanks. The 76 anti-tank guns are too heavy and inconvenient to maneuver, and our anti-tank gun units are not fully motorized like Proson.

"Our fronts cannot be fully motorized, and the situation of other fronts is estimated to be worse."

Kashukh has always commanded troops under Wang Zhong like Kirinenko, but he mainly specializes in infantry units and commands the most core infantry armies of the Khazaria Front.

These infantry are the most traditional infantry, with a low degree of motorization, and they have to rely on their feet to keep up with the advancing tank army and mechanized infantry division.

General Gorky: "Don't worry, General Kashukh, tanks cannot be built too much due to the limitations of industrial production capacity, and the magic arrow is a light weapon! The production capacity should soon become the same as that of PPSh, right? "

He looked at Marshal Rokosov, Chairman of the Equipment Innovation Committee.

Wang Zhong: "It is still a bit difficult to reach the production of PPSh. The key lies in the shaped charge warhead. There are not many factories that can produce it now. On the plane when I came back, the relevant person in charge of the Equipment Department reported to me that the production capacity can reach 3,000 per day by the end of the year."

General Gorky pursed his lips: "Considering that this is a one-time consumable, this output is not high."

Kirienko: "Yes, my cavalry army finished a thousand in a few days. You know, when we attacked, Prosen didn't have much armored force."

Wang Zhong: "I will go to Balas to attend the Allied Conference this time, and I will try to get the United States to support more production equipment and raw materials."

General Gorky: "Now that we are progressing so fast, they may reduce their assistance to us."

Wang Zhong: "Then we can only let the engineers and workers in the production department think of a solution. ”

General Ivan Stepanovich: "The Allies are not making good progress in the Kingdom of Sardinia. They should need us to share our experience and intelligence. We can use these to exchange them when the time comes."

General Gorky: "This is all about diplomats. Of course, considering Rokossov's influence in the United States, maybe he can convince the lame president of the United States."

Wang Zhong: "I will do my best."

The generals nodded together.

General Gorky continued with the topic of the United States: "What does Marshal Rokossov think about the war situation in the Kingdom of Sardinia?"

Wang Zhong: "Considering the terrain of the Kingdom of Sardinia, I think the front line may enter a stalemate, and it will be very difficult for the Allies to enter Rome."

General Gorky: "Maybe we can land in North Sardinia?"

Wang Zhong: "We have to take Corsica first-even if we take it, there is still a long flight from Corsica to North Sardinia, and the whole journey is within the combat range of the Plossen Air Force.

"The Allies are not ready for such a long-distance, large-scale landing."

One of the main reasons why the Overlord Operation was launched on Earth in 1944 was that the Allies were really not ready. In 1943, Ame had just completed industrial transformation, and the troops were not fully trained, so it was difficult to support large-scale landing operations.

In fact, the several landings of the Allies on Earth in 1943 were the largest-scale landings they could launch at that time.

Wang Zhong "predicted" in front of the generals about the history of the Earth: "I think the Allies may land outside Rome--"

At this time, Vasily entered the room, quickly came to Wang Zhong, and whispered in his ear: "Reporter Mike asked someone to bring a note, the Allies were driven into the sea by Prosen."

Wang Zhong: "What?"

Vasily raised his voice: "The Allied forces that landed on the mainland of the Kingdom of Sardinia were driven into the sea by the Sardinian Army Group commanded by Marshal Prosen Erwin Jonas Eugen Romer."

Wang Zhong's brows were twisted into a knot.

--I knew that if I messed with history like this, history would be derailed!