artillery arc

Chapter 701 Only the living can throw stones at the Plossom prisoners

As soon as Wang Zhong entered the headquarters early in the morning, he heard the phone ringing.

"Let me go. It must be Yegorov." He raised his hand to stop Pavlov from answering the phone, walked quickly to the phone, and picked up the receiver. "This is Rokossov, go ahead."

As expected, Yegorov's voice came from the receiver: "Division Commander! We have crushed the organized resistance of the Prosen people. Under the guidance of the local church, we are clearing out the hidden Prosen stragglers and clearing the booby traps they have laid.

"You will be able to revisit the city the day after tomorrow."

Wang Zhong looked at his watch and said, "22 hours, not bad! The time you have to clear the booby traps and stragglers won't be counted. You've passed. Continue to advance towards Bogdanovka and defeat all enemy resistance."

"Yes!"

Wang Zhong put down the phone and looked at Pavlov.

The chief of staff shouted, "Don't go now! The army headquarters' moving route has been determined. Once the vanguard team has determined the location, we will move together."

"I haven't spoken yet." Wang Zhong said somewhat aggrievedly.

Popov laughed: "Everyone in this headquarters can guess what you are going to say."

Wang Zhong: "Then when can I visit the old place again?"

Pavlov: "If you want to go to the front line for reconnaissance or something, I will let you go if you have a reasonable reason. You want to leave the headquarters just to satisfy your own feelings, I cannot agree."

Wang Zhong had an idea in his mind: "If there is a reasonable reason, yes. It is for publicity! Back then, I was almost captured alive by the Proson people here. I hid under a BT7 tank, and it was the people of Loktov who rescued me. I talked about this in an interview.

"And I've told reporters from the United States and the United Kingdom! This matter has been on the front pages of newspapers in all the Allied countries! Now I call the reporters here and write another report. Is it reasonable?"

Pavlov was dumbfounded. "You... at least wait until this wave of attacks is over before going? The muddy season is only a month away, then you can go and meet the 'propaganda needs'!"

Popov: "Indeed, now the whole world knows that we are counterattacking. The news of the counterattack must be all over the front pages."

Wang Zhong: "Then let's do a series of reports, one from Loktov, one from Shangpeiye, and finally from Roniezh. By then, we will have almost reached the border."

Pavlov and Wang Zhong looked at each other for a second, sighed, and turned their gaze to Popov: "Go ahead, Bishop, the propaganda is your area of ​​responsibility."

Popov stroked his chin and said, "I think... after the reporters are ready, it will be no problem to revisit the old place. By then, the enemy's armored forces should have been exhausted, and there will basically be nothing for you to decide."

Just as Wang Zhong was about to speak, the communications officer came in: "Report! The 34th Guards Tank Army reported heavy casualties, with the loss of 110 TWs."

"What?" Wang Zhong was shocked. "110 tanks? Do the Prosens have armored units that can cause such heavy casualties?"

Pavlov looked at the map. "There shouldn't be any enemy armored divisions on the front of the 6th Guards Tank Army. Could it be that the intelligence provided by the underground parish is wrong, and there are unreported Proson armored units?"

Wang Zhong: "Impossible. I flew over this area and I would have seen the armored forces if they were there."

See it with a plug-in.

Communications Staff: "The Guards Six reported that they were ambushed by an enemy tank destroyer. It was a tank destroyer that looked like a Panzer IV, with a main gun that looked like a fishing rod."

Wang Zhong: "It seems that troops equipped with T34 have reported this type of tank destroyer before."

Popov: "The Inquisitor also confirmed from the prisoners that the enemy may have a new type of tank destroyer modified from the Panzer IV tank."

Wang Zhong: "When were they ambushed?"

"This morning," the communications officer replied.

Wang Zhong: "The enemy can't get far. I will take off immediately to find this Proson tank destroyer unit that destroyed 110 of our tanks."

(In fact, there were nearly 200 vehicles, but when they were on the beach, the Panzer IVs were all in the bunkers, so the front-line troops of Ante could not see them clearly)
Pavlov sighed.

Wang Zhong: "This time it's a legitimate reason! We can't leave this kind of troops alone! The casualties are too great!"

"I know. Go ahead," Pavlov said. "Also, don't land outside Loktov."

"Of course not, I have to bring back important information! Am I the kind of person who can't distinguish between priorities?" Wang Zhong said with a hint of complaint in his tone.

Pavlov: “Mine, too.”

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After taking off, Emilia in the front seat asked: "What happened? Why are you so anxious to take off? If you were a little later, I would have boarded the fighter and fought with the pilot of Proson." Wang Zhong: "The enemy deployed a new type of tank destroyer, which caused heavy casualties to us."

"Heavy casualties? Does Proson have the firepower to threaten your new tanks?"

Wang Zhong: "They have always had it. The new anti-tank guns modified from 105mm anti-aircraft guns can threaten us at a relatively long distance. But this time the main victims are the troops still using T34W."

"When will the shortage of new tanks be resolved?"

"Well, it took more than a year for the T34W to completely replace the two-man turret T34. There's no rush for this kind of thing. The good news is that Proson's infantry don't have many weapons that can deal with the T34W. This old guy is currently quite useful for bullying Proson's infantry after the fifth wave."

Then they will be defeated when they encounter Proson's "fire brigade", which is very similar to the history of the Earth.

Emilia: "So can't we modify the T34W a little bit? Like lengthen the barrel or something. I heard from Major Charlie who was just transferred from the United Kingdom that the Army is preparing to crash the 17-pounder into the Sherman's head, and they named this tank Firefly."

Wang Zhong: "The United States also has a similar emergency plan, putting a 90mm gun on the Sherman chassis to make a convertible sports car."

Because Wang Zhong brought out new tanks, Proshen was forced to make thicker armor and better firepower, which in turn forced the Allied forces on the Western Front to bring out the Firefly and Jackson tank destroyers in advance. It seems that Pershing will soon go to the Western Front to join the war.

Wang Zhong also sent the T54 prototype and the wreckage of the new Plossen tank to the United States and the United Kingdom in exchange for engine production licenses and new machine tools. I wonder if this will give rise to the M48 Patton ahead of time.

By the way, that Bull General is still alive. I wonder after whom the M48 will be named.

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While Wang Zhong was fantasizing, on the other side of the earth.

President Luo looked at the blueprint in front of him and asked, "What is this?"

Ike: "Our contingency plan, Mr. President."

President Luo stared at the design: "The hull is Sherman, I can see that, but... where is the turret?"

"If the traversing mechanism is installed, the improved 90mm gun will be too heavy, the traversing speed will be very slow, and the whole gun will be overweight. So the Ordnance Bureau directly removed the turret basket and traversing mechanism and only installed the gun and shield."

President: “So this cannon can’t turn?”

"Yes, it can be turned in a small range. The gun carriage is modified from the gun carriage of our anti-tank gun. The frontal firing range is 20 degrees."

President: "The enemy can kill our gunners and tank commanders with machine guns."

"The same goes for the Hellcat self-propelled anti-tank gun. Your Excellency, the Hellcat has to maneuver around the side of the enemy tank to penetrate it, but this thing can penetrate the King Tiger head-on."

The president looked at the weird thing on the design and said: "I don't like it. It feels like a person whose skin and flesh have been removed and only the skull is left."

"But this thing can be produced very quickly. It is all mature technology and can be put into production immediately. The prototype has been built and it has performed very well at the Aberdeen test track and is very reliable."

The president was still staring at the design of the "shit" in deep thought, and Ike added, "It took less man-hours to make this thing than the Sherman."

"Ah?" Lao Luo looked up, "So little?"

"Yes, after all, it has no turret and no rotating mechanism. As an emergency product, there is no better product than this! In addition, when we are fully committed to the production of Pershing, the Sherman production line does not have to be completely shut down to produce this thing."

Lao Luo took off his glasses and said, "Okay, we'll send them to the frontline first, but my boys need to use the Pershing as soon as possible! Also, the research work on the new medium tank must be fast!"

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Wang Zhong: "Circling right! I see something! I mean, I feel something!"

Emilia immediately circled to the right.

"The chassis of the Type 34 tank, and the barrel that looks like a fishing rod! We found it!" Wang Zhong said, pretending to check the map in his hand, and then directly read out the information he saw from the bird's-eye view, "The enemy is retreating to Bogdanovka. Damn it, they stole so many Ts from us and they want to run away?"

Emilia: "Should we call in an air strike? The daylight will last about two hours today, and the attack aircraft that took off urgently from the field airport can rush here."

Wang Zhong: "No, I'm going to summon troops to surround them. Yegorov's mechanized infantry is nearby, they should be able to come up soon. We'll wipe out this small group of pests tomorrow!"

Emilia: "Why don't you tell the T34 troops not to provoke them?"

Wang Zhong: "Of course I will notify you, leave it to me."

(End of this chapter)