Arc of Gunfire

Jules 914, early morning on July 5th.

Wang Zhong is already in place at his "wartime command post": it is actually the office building of the fertilizer plant. This reinforced concrete building is quite solid and is suitable as a frontline command post and can also serve as a defensive support point.

More importantly, the fertilizer plant already has a telephone, which greatly reduces the workload of the communication company.

The brigade headquarters was headed by Pavlov, and the radio station was also with the brigade commander.

Pavlov strongly opposed Wang Zhong's approach of going there in person, but was ignored.

Yegorov liked this very much: "This was originally my wartime command post. If you are willing to use it and give it to you, I will leave the army!"

Wang Zhong: "You can go, but you must stay where I can contact you by phone."

Yegorov sighed: "Then I won't go anywhere."

This frontline command post is already at the forefront of where the telephone can reach. The communication company sent from the depot headquarters cannot pull it over at all. It will take at least another day to ensure that the telephone line reaches the battalion command post below.

Wang Zhong ignored the sighing Yegorov and went to the window to raise the telescope.

In fact, when he raised the telescope, he changed the angle of view. The telescope had a bird's-eye view and he could see clearly.

The wilderness in the southwest was quiet, and there was no trace of the Prosen Army at all.

After looking around, Wang Zhongqie came back and saw Dimitri and another third company soldier coming in carrying the artillery mirror.

The front finger has the best view, so it is natural that the artillery observation post should be built here, so that it can share the telephone line with the command post.

Dimitri was the best-achieving artillery trainee among the artillery trainees who joined the 31st Guards Regiment, so he was naturally transferred to the artillery observation post.

The walkie-talkie is now guarded by Vasily, who also understands Prosin.

Dimitri set up the artillery lens, unfolded the two lens tubes into a V shape, then placed his eyes on the eyepiece and adjusted the knob towards the distant target.

The subject matter is the fake minefield wooden sign that Vasily and his men planted yesterday.

Wang Zhong watched Dimitri's operation and found that he didn't understand it at all.

After all, the military training he received was only at the level of university military training.

But he suddenly found that he had something to "point out" to Dimitri, a professional artillery trainee: if the artillery mirror is left like this, enemies in the distance may see the mirror reflection!

So Wang Zhong said: "Dimitri, enemies like you may notice your position through reflection. I suggest you use gauze with a relatively large mesh to cover the mirror."

Before Dimitri could answer, Vasily spoke: "Then you can't see anything?"

Wang Zhong: "Are you stupid? The gauze is so close to the objective lens, and the imaging position is far in front of the eyepiece. The cloth cannot be seen through the eyepiece, but it will affect the amount of light entering."

"What?" Vasily looked confused, "What are you talking about? Dimitri, do you understand?"

Dimitri: "The general is right, it will not have much impact on the observation!

"The artillery mirror is different from the telescope. The telescope can only be raised when looking. The artillery mirror will always be placed here after Zhu Yuan has adjusted it. It is indeed possible that the enemy will notice the position due to reflection.

"Why didn't I think of this...the teachers in school didn't teach it either!"

Wang Zhong: "Now I will teach you."

Dimitri glanced at Wang Zhong and hesitated to speak.

But Vasily had no worries and asked directly: "Brigadier general, how did you come last in the exam? You have such a high military quality!"

Wang Zhong is a little embarrassed, and now he can no longer say that he learned this knowledge from "Operation Red Sea".

Dimitri turned to the student who was moving the artillery mirror with him and said: "Mishka, go to the hygienist and get some gauze, the kind of gauze with the largest holes that is used for fixing."

Mishka nodded, turned and ran away.

At this time, the phone rang, and Yegorov, who was closest to the phone, picked up the phone: "Hello, Qianzhi, please speak. What? You should inform the Arrow Company first, Brother Peter! Notified? Okay, we understand. ”

Yegorov hung up the phone and looked at Wang Zhong: "Brother Peter used that simple sound array to hear that a reconnaissance plane was flying towards us, and the Divine Arrow Company is ready."

Wang Zhong: "Order to deploy three soldiers who can drive, equipped with a jeep and a Deshka. When the reconnaissance plane is shot down, they will immediately rush to the crash site to ensure that the enemy cannot obtain reconnaissance information."

Vasily: "I'll go!"

"Sit down!" Wang Zhong glared at this guy, "Have you heard any valuable news?"

Vasily shook his head: "No, the enemy is very careful. They don't say where they are at all. They only say 'the progress is going well' and 'the first target has been reached'. This notebook only has the call signs of each unit and the code names of a few locations, but not the target numbers." .

"In addition, some of the dialogue is in dialect with a strong accent and is basically incomprehensible."

Wang Zhong was speechless: "Dialect..."

It reminds me of the movie "Windtalkers". The Americans used Indians as radio operators and used Indian language as a "secret language", which the Japanese could not understand.

So Indians had more to America than just their scalps.

Vasily continued to complain: "What's the use of listening to this thing... Let me go to the front line..."

Wang Zhong put his index finger on his lips and hissed: "Listen!"

The engine sound is different from that of a bomber.

Wang Zhong went to the window and lowered his body, looking towards the sky.

After switching to a bird's eye view, he finally saw the aircraft. It was a Focke Wolf 189 reconnaissance aircraft.

This is a professional reconnaissance aircraft that can be equipped with a camera gun. The cockpit itself has an excellent field of view. The pilot can clearly see the ground in front of the aircraft, thus ensuring that it can accurately pass over the reconnaissance target.

Moreover, because of its good survivability and low-altitude performance, this thing often conducts low-altitude reconnaissance and can also carry a few small bombs.

In short, this is a special reconnaissance aircraft with a very high threat.

However, because it has a light body and a twin engine, it is easier to be heard by Brother Peter's sound array.

Wang Zhong stared at the plane, watching it pass over the minefield and fly into the sky over the city-

The magic arrow was launched!

The pilot of Proson immediately circled to the left to avoid it, but was caught up by the magic arrow. After the flash of the explosion, the right engine of the enemy plane emitted a flame and dragged a long black smoke.

It just fell to the ground at an angle.

Wang Zhong: "Well done! Yegorov, the plane is falling towards the police station, send out a search team quickly, there are three people on the plane, there may be weapons, be careful!"

"Yes!" Yegorov picked up the phone, "Search team is on the way, the enemy plane may have crashed near the police station."

Wang Zhong added: "The film must be destroyed!"

Vassily smiled and said: "If we can block the reconnaissance all the time, maybe our bulky tractor guns can survive until the end of the battle!"

Dmitri glanced at him: "Don't be such a pessimist!"

Yegorov repeated what he said on the phone and hung up.

As soon as he put down the receiver, the phone next to him rang again, so he picked it up: "Forward Command, please speak. What? OK, I got it." After hanging up the phone, Yegorov said to Wang Zhong: "Brother Peter heard a lot of tactical bombers and Stukas! There may be more than 20." Wang Zhong: "Everyone enter the bunker!" While Yegorov gave the order, Dimitri asked worriedly: "Are we going in?" Wang Zhong patted Dimitri on the shoulder: "This building is reinforced concrete, and the outer wall is very thick, don't worry." While speaking, Wang Zhong had already seen the enemy planes. He counted them and found that there were 15 Stukas and 12 Dao 215s, as well as several escorting Messerschmitt 109s. When the fleet approached the city, the anti-aircraft guns in the city opened fire, creating a fire net in front of the fleet. The Dao 215 fleet plunged into the fire net and headed straight for the train station to drop bombs, while the Stuka cut into the dive with its signature "turnover" action. The piercing "death scream" pierced everyone's eardrums.

This scream made people want to lower their heads and lie on the ground involuntarily.

But Wang Zhong saw very clearly that all the enemy planes were facing the bunkers of the garrison regiment.

At this time, he realized that his bird's-eye view only had the vision of the 31st Guards Regiment. The Guards Regiment was dark, and only a military unit symbol floated on the real map.

This situation was very similar to when Wang Zhong just got the command of the 31st Guards Regiment in Roniezh - then called the 3rd Rear Amur Regiment.

Could it be that if you call the garrison regiment, you can get a shared vision? Just like at that time?

The enemy planes completed the bombing, and the bombs all fell on the garrison regiment's position, but Wang Zhong could not see the specific damage effect clearly, and could only see the smoke and dust flowers created by the explosion.

Wang Zhong: "Yegorov, call the garrison regiment!"

"Yes! Hello, pick up the garrison regiment!"

After a few seconds of waiting, Yegorov said, "It's connected!"

As he said this, the garrison regiment's area "lit up" and Wang Zhong gained the garrison regiment's vision.

As expected.

The troops I [personally] [directly] command will have vision and belong to me, but for the troops commanded by their own commanders, I can only see the position of the troops. Only after the call is connected and direct command is established can I gain the troops' vision.

At this time, Yegorov came to Wang Zhong and handed him the receiver.

Wang Zhong took the receiver: "How are your losses? I saw the Stuka heading towards you."

The commander of the garrison regiment, Alexander Alexandrovich, said: "The two bunkers were completely blown up, and all the work these days was in vain. However, we did not enter the position, so we only lost the machine guns and other equipment in the bunkers."

Wang Zhong: "Only the bunkers?"

"There were seven or eight more bombs that fell on our position, blowing up all the fake anti-tank guns we made of wood."

At this time, a cry of "the enemy plane is back" came from the phone. Wang Zhong looked down and saw that the Stuka, which had finished the bombing, circled back and began to fire.

But most of the garrison regiment was still hiding in the artillery shelter, so it did not suffer too many casualties.

Wang Zhong: "Wait for the enemy plane to leave and restore the position immediately. The enemy's vanguard may arrive today."

"Understood."

Wang Zhong returned the receiver to Yegorov. The moment Yegorov hung up the phone, the garrison regiment's vision disappeared again.

So that's how it is. Only when I talk on the phone can I get the vision of the troops that I don't directly command. It seems that I have to call the front-line units frequently in the future.

Wang Zhong thought so.

At this time, the phone rang again.

Yegorov answered a few words and hung up again, reporting: "Brother Peter heard that the enemy's mechanized troops should have a considerable number of light tanks."

Wang Zhong nodded.

This Brother Peter and his sound array are more useful than I thought. It feels like the ground-hearing car in "Gundam 08 MS Team", which can hear everything.

Vasily took off his headphones and asked excitedly: "Are you ready to use B4 to blast the enemy?"

Wang Zhong: "Listen to your walkie-talkie! If you miss key information, I will shoot you!"

After hearing that the punishment was to be shot instead of digging out feces, Vasily shrank his neck and put on the headphones again.

Wang Zhong looked outside again, waiting for the arrival of the Prosons.

At this time, Mishka, who had gone to get the gauze, came back and brought the rope for fixing. The two worked together to cover the artillery mirror with a layer of cloth and tied it with the rope.

Dimitri put his eyes against the eyepiece and tried it, and said happily: "It's very clear!"

At this moment, Wang Zhong saw the enemy from a bird's eye view.

A Panzer II tank appeared on the road to the southwest.

It seems that the Prosen Army in this time and space also handed over the No. 2 tank whose performance had lagged behind to the reconnaissance force.

Behind the No. 2 tank was a wheeled reconnaissance vehicle, and behind it was a half-track vehicle full of soldiers.

It's obviously just a reconnaissance force, but they came up in such a mighty manner...

Suddenly, Wang Zhong noticed that this group of people didn't seem to have a good rest. Their expressions were very tired, and their clothes were full of wrinkles and grass leaves, as if they had slept in the wild overnight.

Could it be that...the booby trap took effect?

At this time, the second and third No. 2 vehicles came into view. This advance team was a bit strong.

Seeing so many people, Wang Zhong decided to give them a surprise and shock the enemy.

He said to Yegorov: "We need artillery position A."

After deciding to divide B4 into two positions yesterday, we took action overnight and assigned the four guns to other places. The original position code was changed to Artillery Position A.

Of course this A is a Cyrillic letter.

Yegorov picked up the receiver and complained: "I'm in charge of the phone!"

Vasily: "Then I'll take care of it!"

"Listen to your walkie-talkie, otherwise the brigadier general will be angry again. Take over Artillery Position A."

Dimitri quickly began to calculate the coordinates of the enemy.

Yegorov: "Connected. Here!"

Wang Zhong took the receiver and immediately started reporting the coordinates.

Dimitri, who had just finished half of the calculation, was shocked and looked at Wang Zhong with wide eyes.

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Captain Hank poked his head out of the turret and observed the city with his binoculars.

The air force's bombing seemed to be effective, and it could be clearly seen that the positions outside the city were severely damaged.

The Anters are repairing the destroyed fortifications. Maybe they can take this opportunity to attack quickly?

Captain Hank yawned loudly when he thought this.

The reconnaissance battalion did not dare to camp at Kalinovka last night because they could not deal with the booby traps before the engineers arrived.

Camping in the wild did not allow Captain Hank to sleep well.

He had not slept well for many days. He had expected to take a bath and have a good sleep on a clean big bed yesterday, but everything was in vain!

Damn General White Horse! So cunning, so bad!

Just as I was thinking about it, a sharp hiss suddenly came from the sky. This was the sound of artillery shells piercing the air!

The moment the roar sounded, the reconnaissance battalion that had not been deployed around the tank all dispersed and fell down.

People who were still on the half-track vehicle also scrambled to jump out of the vehicle, rushed off the road shoulder and lay down in the field.

Captain Hank immediately retreated into the turret and closed the hatch - this became muscle memory.

After doing all this, he realized that the sound of cracking the air was obviously a heavy artillery, at least 122 mm.

With the armor of the No. 2 tank, it is still difficult to resist such heavy artillery——

At this moment, the shell hit the ground.

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Wang Zhong called for a volley of four rounds in total.

The first shot landed at the front of the enemy's array, about four or five meters away from No. 2, who was at the head. As a result, the storm directly overturned No. 2's small body on the road.

When the tank overturned, Wang Zhong clearly saw two infantrymen lying on the ground being pinned underneath.

The explosion's dust cloud immediately engulfed the surrounding enemies lying on the ground.

The second shot landed in the field, a little far away from the enemy column, but the clods of soil it kicked up flew dozens of meters and hit the road, knocking the enemy's helmets loudly.

The third shot flew over the head and landed at the end of the formation, overturning the half-track vehicle that was leading the formation.

The fourth shot hit the center of the queue, and people were densely packed around it.

Wang Zhong clearly saw a Proson soldier being sent up to an altitude of tens of meters with his equipment, literally taking a plane.

A conservative estimate is that half of the enemy's advance team was wiped out by these four rounds of 203!

No wonder cannon is said to be the god of war!

Is it so strong?

For no reason, Wang Zhong recalled the scene when he was greeted by a 381mm heavy artillery in Ronezh on the day he crossed over. Now that he thought about it, it was a miracle that he didn't die.

There must have been about a hundred people in the room at that time, and only two were left alive. It was unbelievable that he was one of the lucky ones.

At this time, cheers came from outside.

The soldiers did not have telescopes, and their field of vision was not as good as Wang Zhong's. However, the dust cloud created by the four shells was more than ten meters high and could be seen clearly without a telescope.

"Ula!"

Dimitri did not cheer, but calmly read: "Fire correction, high and low angle correction to..."

The artillery trainee nicknamed Mishka took a writing pad nearby and quickly took notes.

Wang Zhong: "No, there's no need to shoot again."

Dimitri: "Don't you need to shoot? A more accurate attack can hit you hard..."

"That's enough. The key is to tell the enemy that we have this kind of weapon, so that they will never dare to take it lightly again."

Wang Zhong said in the tone of elders educating younger ones.

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Captain Hank climbed out of the tank through the hatch at the bottom of the tank - now this is not the bottom hatch, it should be called the top hatch.

He looked around.

Five vehicles were burning, and at least 80 Ploson soldiers lay motionless on the ground.

They took the correct position to avoid the artillery and lay down, but they still could not withstand the local overpressure created by the heavy artillery.

More people were lying on the ground wailing, and the cries of "Mom" kept coming and going.

Captain Hank wanted to calm the troops. He decided to stand up on the overturned tank. As soon as he dragged his legs out of the hatch, he found that his legs had been bent at an impossible angle.

The moment he realized his leg was broken, the pain blocked by adrenaline finally hit him.

Captain Hank shouted at the top of his lungs: "Sani Tower (medic)!"