artillery arc

Chapter 370 The General Arrives at the Front (2000 monthly tickets plus more)
In fact, the process of occupying Yeysk was not as simple as Pavlov imagined.

Wang Zhongdu drove to a place where he could see Yeisk, but he still heard the sound of Prosen machine guns firing in the city.

"This Pavlov swore that the resistance would end if we moved over here." 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 commanding in Trinka. Wang Zhongxian came here with the communications and clerical staff. The clerks were responsible for communicating with the locals to arrange housing, and the communications department was responsible for pulling telephone lines.

Wang Zhong changed the view angle and found that it only covered the edge of the city. He didn't know what was going on inside, so he turned around and asked Vasily: "What's with the gunshots?"

Vasily pointed to the front and said: "The commander of the front line is coming, why don't you just ask him?"

Wang Zhong turned his head and saw a Willys Jeep coming towards him with a cloud of dust.

Before the car came to a complete stop, Yegorov stood up and saluted Wang Zhong: "General!"

Wang Zhong responded: "What's with the gunshots?"

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

Wang Zhong: "Then bring up the 203rd from the artillery regiment. I'll give the order and send the messenger to pass it on."

He was about to reach for a pen and a notepad when he suddenly remembered that he also had an adjutant, so he turned to Vasily and said, "Write the order and send a messenger to deliver it!"

Vasily immediately took out a pad and pencil, quickly wrote down the order, turned around and shouted, "Messenger!"

Someone immediately came up in a jeep from behind.

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

The messenger saluted and drove away in the jeep.

Yegorov was amazed: "The messengers are using jeeps. We have really upgraded our rifles to cannons."

Wang Zhong: "What are the losses of your troops?"

Yegorov pointed at the city and said, "I don't know what's inside. We haven't counted it yet. We probably won't get a preliminary infantry casualty report until tonight. It's been confirmed outside that there are 34 abandoned T7 vehicles, of which are on fire. It can be confirmed that they are completely lost. The others need to be inspected by the maintenance battalion.

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

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

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

It is obvious that the performance of the T34W has fallen behind, and using these tanks to fight against the enemy's long-barreled Panzer IV is not a wise choice.

Yegorov nodded: "The enemy's Type 34 tanks equipped with long-barreled guns are very threatening. They can penetrate the armor of the T head-on, and if they are hit, they will basically lose their combat effectiveness. If we had not widely equipped ourselves with smoke bombs, the situation would have been even worse."

Wang Zhong got out of the car and walked two steps toward 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, so they all became the achievements of the 225th Division. We destroyed about 23 long-barreled Type 49 tanks and Type tanks. In addition, we also ate six new heavy tanks of the enemy!"

Wang Zhong nodded: "Good, very good! If we only count the long-tube No. 4, your exchange ratio is also advantageous! No. 3 is a gift! It's worth celebrating!"

Yegorov smiled and said, "The main reason is that we won the battle and controlled the battlefield, so the enemy couldn't repair the damaged tanks. If we win, the exchange ratio will be better."

Wang Zhong nodded: "Yes."

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

Wang Zhong: "Sure, let's go and take a look. Anyway, the heavy artillery won't arrive for a while, and there are still gunshots in the city. If I go into the city, Pavlov will start to complain again."

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

Wang Zhong blinked and urged, "Look at the tanks, look at the tanks!"

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On the way to the front line, Wang Zhong encountered several groups of his own troops in succession.

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

For a moment, Wang Zhong thought he had become Napoleon, but unfortunately he did not come on horseback this time. Buciferas was still in the stable in Trinca. This time it was far away from the front line, and the stable would not be destroyed by artillery shells again, so Buciferas could not escape.

After passing several troops, Wang Zhong approached the burning wreckage of a tank on the field. From a distance, he saw the remaining tank troops parked on the edge of the battlefield. The tank soldiers used tanks to crush the grass on the grassland, clearing a clearing, and then sat on the clearing, using the crushed grass as a mat.

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

"Yes."

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

Wang Zhong stood up and returned the greeting, then asked, "How many crews don't have a car?"

Immediately, the commander of the 10st Guards Tank Battalion replied: "We have gathered crews without vehicles, and we can continue fighting once the tanks are repaired."

The tank soldiers of the First Mobile Army were required to master all the skills required for all combat positions at the same time, so that they could more easily form a complete crew after casualties occurred 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 guns are incredibly powerful. Seven vehicles were hit and immediately caught fire. Two crews only had one person escape. It's only been a year, and our tanks' armor is no longer enough."

Wang Zhong: "Yes, I'm working on vortexes, but some people still laugh at me, saying that I overestimate the Prosoms and that the T34 is enough. These people have no idea how fast modern military technology improves in war! These pedantic old antiques will kill us!"

"Thank goodness we have you!" the battalion commander said sincerely.

Wang Zhong was originally just criticizing the old antique and had no intention of bragging about himself, so he was embarrassed by this sudden remark - he couldn't just say "It's all my fault", right?

Then a familiar-looking tank driver said, "We'll soon be driving new tanks, right?"

Wang Zhong: "It's almost done. The factory relocation is almost complete. I was planning to start the research and development of new tanks, but the Proson people didn't give us time. Before the new tanks are put into use next year, we have to use T34 to deal with the enemy for a while. "But we have vortex, so we shouldn't suffer too much loss."

Battalion Commander: "The enemy's smoke is too restrictive for the vortex. In order to avoid the entire sniper position being obscured by smoke bombs, we should disperse the vortex."

Immediately, several tankmen echoed: "Yes!"

"We should disperse the vortex. This time we concentrated it and ended up being targeted by the enemy's smoke bombs."

"The dispersed firepower density is low. We can't destroy the enemy tanks in one go and inflict heavy damage on the enemy, but at least we have a chance to open fire!"

Wang Zhong nodded, then pointed at the battalion commander and said, "Write the summary report, write all of this in, and summarize the lessons you learned this time."

The battalion commander was embarrassed.

Wang Zhong sat down in the jeep and said to the driver, "Go find that relatively intact new heavy tank."

Yegorov: "I'll show you the way. Go ahead. When you see the two boxes stuck together, one of them is still burning. Go over there."

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

Wang Zhong got out of the car and carefully observed the shattered 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 wheels."

I had even seen it before I traveled through time, and I had actually disassembled and assembled this road wheel in the game, so I had an extremely deep understanding of the severity of the problems with this walking mechanism.

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

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

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

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

This is the taste of the battlefield.

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

"I ordered the infantry to go into the brush for close combat. They approached the vehicle and were then machine-gunned, probably by other vehicles that were providing cover."

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

"Yes, there was a man in the car who was probably a mechanic. His body was blown to pieces, and there were shrapnel all over his front. It looked like he was lying on a grenade. The driver was checking the road wheels, and he was killed by the infantry. But the bodies of the others 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 firing range."

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

He turned his head and looked at the well-preserved half-track vehicle next to him: "What's wrong with this vehicle?"

"The wheels were tangled in the grass. That's why we took a detour just now. If we had walked on this higher grass, our wheels would have been tangled as well," said Yegorov.

Wang Zhong was shocked: "There is no such tall grass on my map. I should also mark these tall grasses that can entangle wheels on the map in the future."

After saying this he glanced at Vasily.

Vasily: "Okay, I'll make a note of this."

Wang Zhong: "You are getting better and better!"

At this time, he saw a jeep coming from a distance.

The Jeep obviously didn't expect the tall grass to entangle its wheels and drove straight into the grass.

Then the Jeep broke down.

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

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

"I came here immediately after I saw the red flag."

Wang Zhong: "Did your teacher suffer a great loss?"

"Not much. The enemy's artillery suddenly became very bad. Only two heavy tanks could hit accurately! We covered the heavy tanks with smoke and had a good meal!"

The battalion commander said happily.

Yegorov said yin and yang: "That's right, we fought a tough battle!"

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

Then he saluted Yegorov.

Yegorov pursed his lips and lost his temper.

Wang Zhong patted him on the shoulder and said, "Pay attention to unity. Competition among brother troops is a good thing, but it should not hurt the harmony."

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

He returned the greeting.

(End of this chapter)