Arc of Gunfire

The Prosens were not ready to counterattack until September 11.

This was mainly because it took longer than expected to gather the defeated soldiers and restore the organization.

However, this also allowed the three divisions from the rear to arrive.

After all, the current location of the Prosens defense line is very close to the border before the invasion of Melania, and there is also a new railway that took a lot of time and effort to build.

General Hawke was full of confidence. With three divisions of fresh troops, he would definitely be able to beat back Rokossov, who was not yet firmly established.

Not only were there three divisions of reinforcements, but two newly formed armored brigades were also transferred from the rear.

Moreover, a fierce general who had just returned from injury, Colonel Schlieffen, who won the Knight's Cross of Swords, was also transferred from the rear.

On the morning of September 11, General Hawke accompanied Colonel Schlieffen to the 3rd Independent Armored Brigade.

The armored brigade was stationed in a requisitioned stable. After all the horses were driven out, dozens of sleeping bags were placed there. All the crews of the entire armored brigade slept here.

Before General Hawke came in, the tankers had already tidied up their housework and stood in a circle against the wall, so that the general could see the faces of all the tankers directly when he entered the room.

"Stand at attention!" the brigade chief of staff shouted.

General Hawke signaled to Colonel Schlieffen.

The colonel walked from behind the general to the front and looked at the faces of the tankers one by one.

When he saw the third one, he stopped and asked, "How old are you?"

"Sixteen, General!" The boy answered energetically.

Colonel Schlieffen frowned and walked to the next tanker: "What about you?"

"Fifteen, General!"

Colonel Schlieffen: "How long have you received armored training?"

"Three months, General! I drove a tank for 120 hours!"

General Hawke: "Much better than the 60 hours of the Ants."

Colonel Schlieffen: "These people are still children!"

General Hawke: "One battle will turn them into men."

Colonel Schlieffen: "In the past, when I arrived at a new unit, I would live with them for six months to understand what kind of people they are! Now these people have only been trained for six months! And I saw them for the first time today.

"All children!"

General Hawke: "They have never been defeated."

Colonel Schlieffen: "Do they know what is waiting for them? In Upper Pennier, I almost defeated Rokossov, and now he has become the nightmare of the entire Eastern Front, no, the entire Prosen Army. Are these children really ready to face that devil?"

"They are ready to die for you! "General Hawke said.

Colonel Schlieffen: "That kind of death is meaningless and will not change the situation at all!"

General Hawke: "There is the border behind us. You also participated in the offensive in the first two years. You know what we did in Ant. Imagine what the people of Ant would do if they entered our homeland!"

Colonel Schlieffen bit his lip and did not reply.

At this time, the child who just introduced himself as a sixteen-year-old boy sang the Plossen military song "Armored Song" loudly:

"Whether it is a storm or snow, or the sun smiles at us.

"Whether it is a hot day or a cold night.

"The dust is blowing in our faces, but we enjoy this fun, yes, this fun!

"Our tanks are rolling forward, rolling up waves of yellow sand!"

Other children also sang along, pacing their right feet while singing:

"With the thundering sound of the engine, we are as fast as lightning!

"Under the protection of the armor, we rush to the enemy!

"We march forward side by side with our comrades, we fight the enemy independently, yes, we fight the enemy independently!

"We march straight in and take the enemy's heart!"

General Hawke stared at the young children for a few seconds, then turned his gaze to the still silent Colonel Schlieffen: "Sing!"

Colonel Schlieffen obeyed the order, but he couldn't let go at all, and his voice was almost inaudible.

General Hawke: "Louder!"

Colonel Schlieffen could only open his voice, and his mature male voice overwhelmed the children's tender voices:

"If during the attack, the enemy tank suddenly appeared in front of us.

"I will step on the accelerator, and the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road.

"What is the value of our lives? Is it to fight for Plossen? Yes! Fight for Plossen!

"It is our supreme honor to die for Plossen!"

General Hawke raised his hand, wanting to indicate that he could sing until here.

But the young people didn't care so much, they were pushed by the passionate emotions brought by the song, and continued to sing:

"If we are abandoned by the goddess of fate!

"If we can never return home again!

"If the shells end our lives, if we are doomed, yes, doomed!

"At least the loyal tank will give us a steel grave!"

After the song ended, Colonel Schlieffen looked around the room again and said, "Well, gentlemen, prepare to attack. I will command you."

The young children smiled as if they were going to a school party and dance with the girls they liked.

They rushed out of the farmhouse and rushed to their tanks.

The armored brigade was organized to learn advanced experience from the Ants, but in fact, the essence was that Plossen could no longer organize a luxurious armored division like before.

In the second year after Barbarossa, many armored divisions in Plossen changed from a two-battalion system to a one-battalion system, and the entire armored division had only one armored battalion.

The result of further reduction is now the armored brigade.

The number of tanks in the entire armored brigade is less than 100. Theoretically, such a force would still have a high combat effectiveness as long as it is equipped with auxiliary forces, but many auxiliary forces of these temporary brigades only exist on paper.

The armored grenadiers assigned to the armored brigade are fully equipped, but many armored grenadiers do not have half-track vehicles (equivalent to the later infantry fighting vehicles) and can only ride Opel Lightning trucks to keep up with the tank troops.

Colonel Schlieffen stood at the door of the farmhouse, watching the children prepare for the attack with concern.

General Hawke took the walkie-talkie from his adjutant and said, "Artillery troops, you can start!"

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Wang Zhong stopped when he heard the sound of the artillery, pretending to listen, but actually switched to a bird's-eye view.

He silently counted the landing points of the shells. After a minute, he switched back to his own perspective and asked Vasily: "The enemy's firepower is very sparse. Their supplies should be better than ours. What's going on?"

Vasily: "Maybe the artillery production capacity can't keep up. The documents we seized show that the barrels of the barreled artillery produced by Melania's factory recently are all anti-aircraft gun barrels, which were sent to Plossen to make anti-aircraft guns."

Wang Zhong: "Do you still have time to study these?"

"That's right. I thought they would try to counterattack on the 9th, but it turned out to be calm. We still had a lot of preparations to do. I thought it was bad and we had to let the enemy into the city to fight street battles.

"But the enemy didn't move on the 9th. We had almost done all the preparations and the troop organization was restored a lot. On the 8th, our soldiers couldn't find officers, and the officers didn't know how many people were still alive in their troops. By the evening of the 9th, each officer had at least someone available.

"I thought there would be a fierce battle on the 10th, but the enemy didn't even conduct reconnaissance. I had nothing to do, so I could only read the enemy's documents with the intelligence analysts of the Tribunal."

Wang Zhong frowned: "Did the enemy conduct reconnaissance yesterday? Didn't they catch tongues?"

Vassily: "I organized a night patrol and didn't encounter the enemy's tongue-catching squad. However, there are many civilians and guerrillas in the city, and maybe some guerrillas were caught. It's normal that the guerrillas didn't think of reporting in such a chaotic situation."

Vassily suddenly showed a look of contempt: "Now the guerrillas give me the feeling that the brave and reliable patriots have all died under the enemy's butcher knife, and the rest are all a bunch of insects."

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Wang Zhong: "When the war is over, the well-tested Melania People's Army soldiers can be transformed into police and municipal civil servants on the spot, and they will treat their country well.

"No now, we have to end the damn war. ”

After that, he switched the topic back to the enemy patrol: "The enemy didn't catch our tongue, how did they know our defense situation? In this way, they don't even know where to focus their artillery preparations. "

Vasily shrugged: "I'm not an enemy, how can I know what happened? But isn't this a good thing for us? Maybe the enemy's artillery preparations didn't destroy our minefields at all, and they will have to dawdle in front of the minefields for a whole day today. "

Wang Zhong: "How is it possible? Proson's engineering troops are very professional."

Vasily: "But it is a fact that they have more and more new recruits now."

At this time, a shell hit the building where the headquarters was located, and a lot of dust fell from the ceiling.

Wang Zhong looked up at the ceiling: "The shell that hit the headquarters feels only 105 mm. Did the enemy's firepower drop so much?"

Vasily: "Considering that we have captured a lot of enemy 150 mm and 210 mm heavy artillery, this is possible. "

Vasily's words made the temporary staff in the headquarters look at each other in bewilderment.

Everyone felt that the Proson Empire was weakening. The Proson troops on the front line were still quite powerful, but the Proson troops outside the front line were hard to describe.

This empire is collapsing.

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Colonel Schlieffen led the troops forward. Because most of the battles were expected to be urban, his brigade was assigned to the 600th Infantry Division that had just arrived at the front line.

After seeing the 600th Infantry Division's misshapen appearance, Colonel Schlieffen was relieved about the "younger" nature of his troops.

At least these teenagers in his own troops still look like soldiers, while the 40- and 50-year-old old men in the 600th Division look like they were in the wrong movie location.

The Proson troops are generally well-groomed, but in fact, they are not very good at fighting. Keeping in good order is an important means for the army to maintain discipline.

Kicking off hair and beards can also reduce the trouble for medical personnel on the battlefield to confirm injuries.

Most of the uncles in the 600th Division have beards. If they get injured on the neck, it will be difficult for medical personnel to find out.

These beards directly reduce the work efficiency of the medical personnel in the Plossen Army.

Observing more carefully, these "infantrymen" don't even wear their uniforms neatly. Many uncles' trouser legs are short, and their boots are not standard military boots.

Colonel Schlieffen shook his head, and he couldn't help but think of the team of elite soldiers he led at the beginning of Barbarossa.

Those veterans who participated in the Melania and Carolingian campaigns were worth ten of these crooked ones.

Those veterans can highlight the superiority of the Plossen nation. Now these old men are just cannon fodder.

At this time, the vanguard's report came to Colonel Shriver's earphone: "We found a sign on the side of the road, which reads 'Minefield ahead, don't approach' in Proson language."

Colonel Shriver: "This is a trick! If there is a minefield, why would they put up a sign to inform us? Isn't this alerting the enemy? Push down the sign and keep moving forward."

Vanguard: "But, I have read the experience summary of the battle with Rokossov. When Rokossov's troops put up a sign saying there is a minefield ahead, there is a high probability that there is really a minefield ahead, and there may be various booby traps specifically targeting our mine clearance. Engineers. ”

Colonel Shriven: “Then why put up a sign to tell us? Is it an anti-logic? Is there such a ridiculous thing? This is a battlefield, not a brain teaser! Push down the sign and move forward. ”

“But…”

Colonel Shriven: “On the bright side, maybe this time it is an anti-logic of anti-logic. Rokossov rushed over like a pig, with no supplies or mines at all. He took advantage of our inherent impression and wanted to deceive us with a sign. ”

“Okay, push down the sign and move forward.” The commander of the vanguard finally agreed to Colonel Shriven’s order.

Colonel Shriven had very complicated feelings. In the past, the grassroots officers of Plossen always executed the orders of officers like him without thinking.

Many professors at the Military Academy thought that this was not good and was not conducive to the grassroots officers to exert their subjective initiative.

But now, Colonel Shriven felt that it was not good to have too much subjective initiative——

There was an explosion in front.

Colonel Shriven looked forward and saw the sand column blown up by the mines rising straight into the sky.

His mouth opened into an O shape. He had heard that the Ante mine was powerful, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful.

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Wang Zhong looked at the huge sand column with a telescope and asked, "How much explosives did you bury?"

"This is a special version. A total of six were prepared, each stuffed with 500 kilograms of TNT." Vasily laughed, "I know the Proson people too well. I have to make a big noise to scare them. Now they have to clear mines carefully."

Wang Zhong: "Did you put up signs again?"

"Yes, we prepared several real minefields on the periphery, and buried this kind of big treasure in places where the enemy is more likely to pass.

"Then we put up signs in other places and made a bunch of fake minefields."

Wang Zhong laughed: "You guy, I thought time had returned to the summer when the war just started. This is a familiar formula."

Vasily: "It's a pity that there are no canned pickles. I used the collected Proson cans. Some of the cans were connected to the fuse of the Proson grenade, and made a simple booby trap. "

Wang Zhong laughed: "Fortunately there are no canned pickles. I don't want to eat pickles for a few more days."