artillery arc

Chapter 440 New Weapon Design Indicators (Update 181)

On August 8, Wang Zhong saw the Prosent Empire Daily sent by the intelligence department on the desk of the Equipment Committee.

The picture on the front page headline showed Admiral Irwin looking at a shallow-water heavy gunboat flying the Plossen flag and the naval ensign.

The accuracy of photos taken in this era was very low, and newspaper printing further reduced the accuracy, so it is not clear to see the extent of the damage to the shallow-water heavy gunboat.

Wang Zhong studied the picture for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so he shouted, "Vassily, come and translate it...oh..."

Vasily went to school.

So he changed his words and called to his chief secretary, the state lady Gabrielle: "Ulyanovna, find someone who knows Prosen!"

Soon, a female clerk who understood Proson language was called to Wang Zhong's office.

The clerk looked very nervous. After entering the room, he kept adjusting his clothes and hair.

Wang Zhong handed her the newspaper and said, "Translate the headline on the front page of the newspaper."

The clerk was shocked: "Huh?"

Wang Zhong: "Look at the front page headlines."

"Oh, oh, okay." The clerk lowered his head and began to translate.

Wang Zhong's chief secretary, Aunt Gabriel, was staring at the clerk with a stern look, obviously ready to reprimand her for her presumptuous behavior at any time.

Clerk: "The glorious Plossom Empire army, with courage and wisdom, destroyed the United Kingdom's invincible river fleet and severely damaged the fleet's accompanying ground forces.

"Imperial General Erwin Jonas Eugen Romer cleverly took advantage of the enemy's rigid thinking and pretended that the entire army was retreating - in fact, those were just motorcycles dragging tree branches.

"The main force of the African Corps ambushed the United Kingdom fleet in the floodplains along the river, destroyed the escort ships, and boarded the shallow-water heavy gunboats..."

Wang Zhong's eyebrows twisted into knots. Why does this tactic seem a bit like something I would use? Is this Erwin imitating me?

The clerk continued to translate, but Wang Zhong no longer cared about the content on the front page - after all, most of the rest was bragging. He went to the globe and found Mamluk.

If Alexandria was really captured by Plossom, the Royal Navy would lose its most important naval port and might have to retreat to the Malta Islands.

The support facilities on the island are not very good, and may not be able to support the entire fleet. And there are not many supplies stored on the Malta Island.

The worst case scenario is that the Royal Navy completely withdraws from the Aegean Sea and retreats directly to Hembrotar.

In this way, the canal will be completely controlled by Proson, and their ships can enter the Bahara Ocean through the canal.

Of course, the Royal Navy would not be so weak as to allow Plossen to ship supplies and troops to Barras by sea.

The United Kingdom would not die suddenly if its canal route was cut off. In fact, the United Kingdom now has a large number of industrial production in Conedian, and its domestic industry is gradually recovering as the intensity of the Plossen Air Force's air strikes has been sharply reduced.

Now the industrial chain of the United Kingdom is not actually very dependent on Bahara. The iron ore comes from Osria, and the coal is supplied by the United States. It is smelted into steel in Conedian and then turned into industrial products.

Bahara now mainly provides soldiers and tea.

Wang Zhong looked at the globe and thought for a while. He felt that even if the Mamluks were captured by Prosen, it would not cause a fundamental change in the entire war situation.

It’s just that the progress on the Allied side will be slower, so - maybe we can completely destroy Proshen before the Allied forces open up a second battlefield.

Wang Zhong didn't realize that his current plan was very similar to playing "Hearts of Iron 4" before he traveled through time, except that this time he really was a general who could decide the life and death of tens of thousands of people, and the people under him were no longer a series of 0s and 1s.

At this time, the clerk finally read the headlines on the front page. She looked up at Wang Zhong and said, "General, I'm done. Do you want me to read the next one?"

Wang Zhong shook his head: "No, that's not necessary, you can go back to work."

The clerk's expression was immediately filled with loneliness and disappointment.

Wang Zhong didn't notice it at all. He was looking at the globe and imagining how to deploy his troops.

This is still interesting.

Gabriel gestured for the clerk to leave quickly.

The girl had to leave the room.

Gabriel: "General, you haven't read any of today's documents yet."

Wang Zhong suddenly rolled out of his fantasy and returned to the cold reality.

"I saw that the committee was running very well when I went to war. Do I really need to approve these documents?" he asked.

Gabriel pushed up his reading glasses: "Of course."

Wang Zhong had no choice but to sit down at the table and start looking at the documents. It turned out that the first document was the demand for assault guns for urban siege warfare proposed by Wang Zhong after he came back.

The committee's clerks turned Wang Zhong's oral requirements into detailed design indicators.

Wang Zhong quickly glanced at the content and shook his head: "No, no, no, the mobility of this indicator is too good, but we don't need it to run very fast, nor do we need it to have long-distance mobility. The way I envision using this thing is to transport it to the front line by train.

"Its own power only needs to complete the section from the station to the front line. Do you understand? It sacrifices mobility and firing speed in exchange for amazing destructive power of a single shot and strong enough protection to run rampant in the city."

He looked up after he finished speaking and saw Gabriel with a stern face, unmoved.

Wang Zhong: "Did you hear what I just said?" "I will convey it to those who set the design indicators, or you can annotate these opinions on the document." said the State Lady.

Wang Zhong held his forehead with his hand - Gabrielle doesn't understand military affairs, what's the point of me talking to her?

So he picked up a pen, drew a line through the speed indicator, and wrote a comment next to it.

Damn, these comments were all written by Vasily before!
After finishing this document, Wang Zhong opened the next one and found that it was also a requirement he put forward after returning from the front line, the design requirement for a heavy breakthrough tank.

This is quite consistent with Wang Zhong's idea, and the data indicators proposed are very close to the IS3 heavy tank on Earth.

Although Wang Zhong recognized the IS3, he had no idea what it would actually look like. He could only wait for the designers to come up with a rough idea, and then he would go up and modify it according to his memory.

After signing his agreement on the second document, Wang Zhong opened the third document.

Design Specifications for a 30-ton Medium Tank Using an Oval Turret

This is it! With the current industrial level of Ant, it is unlikely that a real T54 can be produced. However, when the machine tools provided by the United States arrive next year and the skills of the factory workers are improved, there is still hope.

Of course, we can't put all our hopes on this. We need a more reliable plan, which is to increase the weight of the tank to 40 tons and build a new tank to compete with the Leopard.

Wang Zhong slightly adjusted the specifications of the egg-shaped turret tank and signed for its approval.

Then he stopped reviewing the documents and said to Gabriel, "Call the old principal up. I need to put forward a new demand."

Gabriel: "You should finish reviewing the documents first. I don't know how long you two will chat."

Wang Zhong thought about it and felt that it was indeed the case, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

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Outside Alexandria, Rokossov and his men discussed the design specifications of the new tank.

Admiral Erwin was standing on a hill, observing the naval port in front of him through a telescope.

The United Kingdom's fleet had already left its post and was bombarding Plossom's army. The fierce firepower of the ship's guns was indeed not something a shallow-water heavy gunboat could match.

This fierce firepower has made Irwin's African Corps unable to move for two days.

Today the Air Force promised to shock the United Kingdom fleet with a powerful attack, forcing them to abandon Alexandria.

But an hour had passed since the time agreed upon by the Air Force, and the United Kingdom's Royal Navy was still pouring fire on the opposite shore, with no intention of stopping.

Just when Erwin was about to give up, the artillery observation post next to him shouted: "Plane! Our plane!"

Erwin, who had just put down the telescope, immediately resumed his observation posture.

He saw neatly lined up Stukas flying from the north. Higher up were a large number of heavy bombers, but Erwin did not see the legendary planes carrying secret weapons.

The Stuka began to dive, and with a scream, huge columns of water began to rise around the United Kingdom warships on the sea.

The enemy's bombardment formation was in chaos, with every ship scrambling to avoid the attacks of dive bombers.

At the same time heavy bombers began attacking port facilities.

Erwin cursed, "Damn it! They blew up the supplies piled up at the port! We still rely on the supplies to survive! Damn it! They used secret weapons to drive away the Royal Navy! Why blow up my supplies?"

At this moment, Erwin suddenly noticed two medium-sized bombers entering the field behind the bomber formation.

He saw one of the planes drop a shiny thing. At first he thought it was a reflection, but then he found out that it was not. The thing seemed to have its own light, flashing in the air.

Erwin vaguely remembered that the Imperial Academy of Sciences seemed to have developed a remote-controlled bomb called Fritz X or something. Could that be it?

Erwin watched as the Fritz X flew straight toward the Royal Navy battleship.

He began to pray, praying that the bomb would hit!
In a flash, the big guy hit the middle of the battleship and immediately penetrated the building near the chimney, creating a terrifying big hole.

The next moment, nothing happened.

Erwin's brows were twisted into knots.

Is it a stinky egg? What kind of secret weapon is this? It's too rubbish, right?

In the blink of an eye, the deck in the middle of the battleship arched upwards!

The next moment, a huge explosion occurred. The orange-red flames broke through the deck and rose into the sky, forming a huge mushroom cloud.

The shock wave swept across the entire port before the sound wave, and all the glass in Alexandria was shattered.

Then, there was a deafening roar that nearly tore Erwin's ears apart!

The first victory of the remote-controlled bomb was achieved!
　"You know what? I was once the most powerful person in the world. Even the gods were helpless against me. As long as I can get my body back, I can be resurrected again."

　　"so what?"

　　"So... who hid my body!"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)