artillery arc

Chapter 569: His Majesty the Tsar Rewards You with a New Tank
On December 915, 12, one day after the light troops began pursuing Plossen's army, the armored forces and mechanized infantry of the Abavakhan Front also began pursuing.

The front headquarters was also preparing to set off with the heavy armored troops.

When Wang Zhong walked out of the bunker, the tunnel entrance was crowded with Ant people, including a large number of women and children.

Pavlov explained: "Yesterday I sent back everyone who lived in the neighborhoods not occupied by the Prosens, including a large number of women and children."

Wang Zhong looked at them, his expression softened: "There are still so many women and children alive. Old man, at this moment I feel the value of our struggle, the value!"

Pavlov patted Wang Zhong on the shoulder and said, "Talking nonsense is a sign of old age. You are a young man under 30 years old, General Davarishi."

Wang Zhong: "Ah? General?"

"I took a flight early this morning and just landed. I think it should be here soon."

As Wang Zhong was speaking, a horn sounded in the tunnel behind him. He turned around and saw a Willys Jeep approaching with its headlights on. It turned off the lights when it was close to the exit.

Before the car stopped, a major with a sly expression got out.

Wang Zhong's eyes widened: "Vassily?"

"Yes, it's me." Vasily stood at attention and saluted. "Reporting to General Davarishi, Major Vasily completed the six-month accelerated staff officer course ahead of schedule and now formally applies to return to the team!"

Wang Zhong: "No, you should command a regiment."

Vasily: "No, General, I don't think I'm that kind of person. Just think of it as me being afraid of death."

Wang Zhong was silent for a few seconds before pointing to the scarf around his neck and saying, "This is a relic of my previous adjutant, you know that, right?"

"I know." Vasily's expression was serious. "The story of you personally leading the charge is well known in Yeburg. You are a general and the commander of the front, but you charged in person like an infantry battalion commander. It's too absurd. So let me take on this high-risk job as your adjutant."

Pavlov: "You said something wrong. Now it is expressly forbidden for officers above the battalion level, including the battalion commander, to charge personally. We cannot afford to lose so many senior officers. Even the staff courses have been compressed into half a year."

Wang Zhong stared at Vasily for a few seconds and sighed: "If I have to have a dead adjutant in the future, then I'd better let you, who has a better life, do it."

Vasily slapped his thigh and smiled happily, but he immediately realized that this was not a good idea and shut up immediately.

After all, Wang Zhong had just lost an adjutant, and the adjutant's belongings were around his neck.

At this time, Pavlov poked Wang Zhong's waist, attracted his attention, and then nodded to the person behind Vasily.

Only then did Wang Zhong notice that Vasily was followed by a colonel and a major, with the major holding a box respectfully in his hands.

The colonel met Wang Zhong's gaze and said, "Admiral Alexey Konstantinovich Rokosov, in view of the fact that you have just concluded..."

"It's not over yet. Operation Kutuzov is not over yet. We plan to advance all the way until we encounter the tough opponents of the Prosen people." Wang Zhong interrupted the colonel.

Colonel: "Well, in view of your outstanding performance in the just concluded Abavahan defense battle and the encirclement and annihilation battle against Plossen's Sixth Army, the High Command has decided to award you the rank of General."

The major holding the box stepped forward, opened the box and revealed the general's collar insignia inside: five stars in total, four in the corners and one in the middle.

Pavlov: "Next time it will become a big star. To be fair, I think five stars is better."

Wang Zhong: "I think both are fine. Come on."

He raised his hand to remove his rank, and Vasily immediately stepped forward: "How can you let the general remove his rank? Let me help you."

Soon the old rank was taken away, and Vasily took over the new rank and wore it on the collar of Wang Zhong's winter coat.

The colonel in charge of delivering the military ranks said: "We have also delivered the military ranks for other uniforms, as well as this letter of appointment, which needs to be handed over to your unit..."

"Give it to me." Pavlov stretched out his hand and took the document directly. "Our commander has a headache when he looks at documents. I handle most of the documents."

Wang Zhong: "Thank you very much, Pavlov, thank you very much."

After saying this, he turned around and found that everyone's eyes were on him, so he said: "I don't have any feelings to express. Now I only care about one thing: how long it will take to enter Prothenia, the capital of Prothen. So, let's go."

After saying that, General Wang Zhong jumped into his jeep.

Vasily immediately climbed into the passenger seat, and the driver who was already in position released the handbrake and lightly stepped on the accelerator.

The crowd of onlookers automatically made way for a path just big enough for one car to pass through.

They seemed reluctant to be too far away from their general.

Wang Zhong suddenly remembered something: he didn't see little Griff in the crowd.

I always feel that this child should come to see me off.

He switched to a bird's-eye view, looking for Little Griff, and found that the guy was squatting on the roof of a building on the street, holding a small red flag.

There is a large group of children around the little guy, and he is like the leader among them.

"Forward, Davarishi!" shouted Little Griff.

All the children shouted together: "Forward, Davarish!" Like a pile of dead leaves ignited by sparks, the silent crowd suddenly shouted in a mixed voice:
"Don't let them go!"

"Push all the way to the border!"

"I wish you a speedy return home, General!"

The crowds of people waiting to see him off on both sides of the road seemed to have no end. Even after driving a kilometer, the roadside was still full of people.

The crowd threw various gifts of comfort onto the car and shouted to Wang Zhong:

"Revenge for my father!"

"My husband is missing, please find where he is buried!"

"General, I want to go home! Back to my own home!"

Wang Zhong wanted to find out who shouted this, but he was drowned in the crowd.

So Wang Zhong thought, if only all the occupied areas could be recovered, this stranger could go home.

Even after the convoy left the city, both sides of the road were still crowded with people.

Wang Zhong: "Don't send them off! There may be landmines outside! Don't send them off! Go back!"

Vasily: "Now we have to fight to Prothenya."

"Isn't this nonsense? Starting to talk nonsense is proof of getting old."

"Wait a minute, why do I feel like I've just heard this before?" Vasily asked confusedly.

Wang Zhong: “Your illusion.”

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At the same time, at the test site of the General Administration of Armaments in Saint Ekaterinburg, the Tsar, who had suddenly visited, was looking at several brand new prototypes: "Is this the new tank? It looks bigger than the T34 and KV."

Designer Ke Jing: "Indeed, because Admiral Rokossov..."

"General," Olga corrected. "He is a general now."

Ke Jing hastily corrected his statement: "Well, the heavy tank index proposed by the general increased the weight of the tank. He hoped that we could develop a tank of the same order of magnitude as the enemy's new heavy tank. So I designed this car.

"The assault gun that was so popular with the general was also my work."

Olga: "Please introduce this car. The rest is not important."

"Okay." Ke Jing quickly took out the blueprint. "The most important feature of this vehicle is its indestructible defense. The general wants a breakthrough tank that can be used for attacking strongholds, so it must have considerable defense in all directions. In order to meet this requirement without increasing the weight of the vehicle too much, you can see that we have used sloped armor on the sides and back of the tank."

Olga: "I see. Did you have to design this thing like a turtle? And why is the back of the turret so round?"

Ke Jing: "After comparing all the options, we believe that an egg-shaped structure can better achieve the goal of omnidirectional defense.

“The round back of the head you mentioned actually has an equivalent thickness of at least 150 mm for horizontal projectiles fired at from all angles, and at some angles the equivalent thickness can reach 220 mm.

"If we use a cast turret, which is common on tanks, to achieve this goal, the weight will increase greatly. It may even be too heavy to drive, Your Majesty."

Olga: "What about the body?"

Ke Jing patted the front armor of the vehicle with his hand: "The vehicle body is similar. The upper front armor of the vehicle body with the best protection is 110 mm thick and has a large inclination angle of 61 degrees. The enemy's best 88 mm gun is basically impossible to penetrate the vehicle body from the front.

“Also, you may have noticed that the front of the hull is wedge-shaped. This is my new design, so that shells hitting the hull are more likely to be bounced off.

"Your Majesty, please believe me, this vehicle has an impenetrable front armor, and very reliable sides and rear. It is an indestructible war machine, and all the enemy's firepower cannot do anything to it!"

Olga: "What about firepower?"

Ke Jing: "Because the firepower of the 100mm gun is sufficient, and this tank is almost overweight, we still use the same 100mm gun as the Vortex. This is enough to deal with most of the Plossen tanks."

Olga nodded repeatedly: "I can't find any fault with it, so that's it. By the way, the engine we use is the engine newly authorized by the United States to produce, right?"

"Yes, because the production plant has just been renovated, the output of the engine is very low, but considering the current use of heavy tanks by our army, this output is acceptable."

Olga nodded again: "Okay. Have you tested the reliability?"

"We have tested it, but these prototypes all use engines imported from the United States, so... they cannot represent the reliability of models that use licensed production engines." Ke Jing looked a little embarrassed. After all, if there are problems with mass-produced models in the future, it might cause unnecessary casualties among the troops.

Olga: "Since the reliability has been tested, there is no need to test other things. Let's take it to the battlefield and give it a try. General Rokossov is organizing the attack. Since he proposed the indicators, let him test it himself.

"Send all prototypes to the Abavakhan Front!"

(End of this chapter)