artillery arc

Chapter 735 "May God Bless Us"

Heilmann had already passed through three houses when the explosion occurred, but the shock wave still knocked him to the ground.

After the earthquake, Hermann pushed away the chest of drawers that had fallen on him and struggled to stand up.

The other guerrilla fighters were still somewhat frightened.

So Hermann shouted, "Keep calm! The enemy must have used a high-yield explosive pack or something. Is anyone injured?"

"I think I sprained my ankle."

Herman: "Luke, go and hold him! Whatever the enemy used to blow up the small building we just came from, the infantry will be here soon, let's go quickly! This is our city, we come and go without a trace!"

Luke picked up the injured guerrilla and ran towards the hole leading to the next house.

Hermann turned around and set a booby trap under the chest of drawers so that it would be detonated when the Plosson soldiers gave chase.

Of course, there is a possibility that Melania civilians might trigger the booby trap, but Hellmann can't care less about such things.

After setting the booby trap, Hermann, armed with his weapon, caught up with the team that had retreated to the next house.

The group soon arrived at the sewer entrance and turned into the sewer.

On the way, they encountered guerrillas from other divisions. When the captain saw Hermann, he shouted: "We have captured the radio station and are broadcasting to the whole world. Anyone with a shortwave radio can hear it and know that Melania is fighting."

"That's a good thing," Hermann replied.

The captain smiled and said, "This way we will get reinforcements!"

Hermann's expression darkened. "I hope so. Our messenger should have reached Marshal Rokossov long ago, but the radio station has not received any news from them yet."

Captain: "Even if the Ants sit idly by, the Allies will help us!"

Hermann just held his gun and strode forward.

Twenty minutes later, they returned to the rebel headquarters.

As soon as he entered the room, Hermann asked the telegraph operator who came forward: "Did you receive the telegram?"

"No, we have been monitoring for a whole day, but Ante still hasn't sent us any message."

Hermann sighed deeply, turned off the safety of the submachine gun, hung it on the wall, and sat down with a serious expression.

"The good news," the operator said, "is that there will be an airdrop for us tonight, and it will land in the same place as before."

The others were overjoyed when they heard this.

"Will there be any Komandas to support us?"

The radio operator shook his head: "No, only weapons, ammunition and supplies."

Hermann: "The Ants have launched a large-scale attack, and the Allies must be preparing for a landing operation. They will not send precious Komanda to help us at this time.

"These Komandas may have to undertake difficult tasks such as capturing bridges."

Silence fell.

At this moment the phone suddenly rang.

Hermann immediately picked up his weapon: "Why is the phone ringing? The Plossons can't possibly know the headquarters' phone number!"

While he was talking, the phone was picked up, and a moment later someone came running to report: "The telephone office has been taken down, and now the telephone system is under our control!"

Telegraph operator: "Great! Now we have control over all the key municipal facilities, including power stations, water plants, radio stations and telephone exchanges! We have liberated most of the city!"

Herman: “But the Prosens still control their barracks and the neighborhoods around them, and Prosen reinforcements continue to pour in.

"How strange! Does the occupying army have so many armored forces?"

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"We found a lot of numbers we have never seen before." Pavlov put the latest report in front of Wang Zhong, "It seems that these are troops drawn from the Western Front and other places."

Wang Zhong: "All of them are infantry divisions."

"Yes, infantry divisions are more suitable for defense. Now the enemy has completely abandoned the previous tactics of using armored counterattacks to seal the breakthroughs. Instead, they are learning from us during the Abavahan period and using infantry divisions to fight us in large settlements."

Wang Zhong flipped through the report and sighed, "Things change."

"what?"

"As Seris says, don't take it seriously."

Popov: "If it was simply a battle of minced meat, we would have the advantage due to our greater military strength, but after the enemy transferred fresh troops from the Western Front, the situation became complicated."

Pavlov: "The advance is slower than we expected, and the things that troubled the Prosens in the first year of the war are beginning to trouble us. First, the troops are advancing too fast, and units with poor mobility such as artillery cannot keep up."

Wang Zhong smiled bitterly and said, "Back then in Upper Peniye, we took advantage of the enemy's heavy artillery being unable to keep up, and we were able to hold off the enemy for the first day. Now it's the enemy's turn to take advantage of our heavy artillery being unable to keep up."

Vasily: "Don't we have many self-propelled artillery brigades? We shouldn't be completely unable to keep up, right?"

Wang Zhong: "There are so many troops on the front line, and not every unit is lucky enough to be reinforced by self-propelled artillery."

Pavlov: "And the maintenance problem has become more difficult. The road from the headquarters to the north is full of abandoned self-propelled artillery and T34 due to mechanical failures, and occasionally there are T54 and Rokossov I with mechanical failures."

Units equipped with T54 and Rokosov I generally have better maintenance support units, so the failure rate is lower than that of units equipped with T34 and various self-propelled artillery.

Pavlov: "Given the current situation, I still insist on resting for at least a month after completing the northward outflanking. If possible, I suggest resting until this winter."

Wang Zhong: "No, one month is the limit. We must complete the encirclement operation to the north by mid-August, annihilate the enemy's Central Army Group and Northern Army Group, rest until mid-September, and then begin to advance towards the Vistula River."

Popov: "The question is, can Melania and her people hold out for that long?"

Wang Zhong: "If they can't hold out until then, they will implement Pavlov's plan, rest until winter and then start the offensive, reach the Oder River before Christmas and look at Prothenia from afar."

Vasily: "How about bombarding the central square of Prothenya with heavy artillery on Christmas Day?"

Pavlov: "It's impossible. It's still dozens of kilometers from the Oder River to the Central Square."

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The First Khazaria Front Headquarters, Allied Liaison Center.

The moment Emilia pushed the door open, she saw the liaison officer Richard sending a telegram himself.

"What's the situation that requires the liaison officer to send a telegram personally?" she asked puzzledly.

"The Butsalia Front just interrogated the prisoners and obtained a series of numbers. I guess these should be the Plosson troops originally on the Western Front. In order to save time in decoding, it would be faster for me to send a telegram directly." Richard raised his head and glanced at Emilia. "I have a code book in my mind, so I can encrypt it directly and send it."

Emilia: "What if you're wrong?"

Richard: "It doesn't matter if we make one or two mistakes. It's enough to let the Prime Minister know that the Plossons are transferring a large number of troops from the Western Front to the Eastern Front. I believe that the best opportunity to open a second front is now."

Emilia frowned: "Isn't this just picking peaches? The Ants are fighting with the new Proson troops, why are we taking the opportunity to land? Why not land earlier and not let these troops be transferred to the Eastern Front?" Richard glanced at Emilia: "You can't abandon the national interest just because you fell in love with that marshal!"

“I didn’t!” Emilia raised her voice.

Richard stopped sending the message and stared at Emilia's face: "Really? But you did just say that you wanted to let hundreds of your country's young men die on the beach in order to delay the Plosson army and prevent them from coming to the Eastern Front to fight with the Ants!

"You know that landing operations are the most difficult battles in the world, thousands of times more difficult than Marshal Rokossov's breakthrough of the Prosen people's defense line!
"You describe our reasonable actions to reduce casualties as picking peaches! You think we are stealing the fruits of victory! No, we are just avoiding heavy casualties!"

Emilia hesitated to speak.

Richard continued to send the message, saying as he did so: "Besides, things have already come to this. On the bright side, Plossen can no longer mobilize troops from the Western Front to support the Eastern Front. He may even have to continuously send the troops that will be formed later to the Western Front.

"Marshal Rokossov's subsequent offensive will be much smoother! He may still be able to enter Prothenia first!"

Emilia: "I'm going to tell him about this, right now."

After saying that, she turned and left the contact center, only to run into Yegorov.

Yegorov: "Emilia! Damn! Why haven't you opened up a second front? The enemies we are facing are all wearing camouflage uniforms of the Plosson Army on the Western Front! The camouflage on the Eastern Front is not this color!
"They stand out so well in these camouflages on the Eastern Front. Our machine gunners can spot them at a distance of 500 meters!"

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Yegorov took the camouflage uniform from his adjutant and handed it to Emilia: "Look at this uniform! These are the troops from the Western Front Command who have been transferred here!
"These guys on the Western Front are not as skilled as the veterans on the Eastern Front, but the proportion of veterans in the enemy's Eastern Front troops is already very low. The guys on the Western Front are much better than the rookies!"

Emilia looked at the camouflage uniforms: "I don't recognize the camouflage on the Western Front--"

"The camouflage on the Western Front is more green, while the camouflage on the Eastern Front is more gray and brown. I don't know why it is like this, after all, I have never fought on the Western Front. This is not important. What is important is that you land quickly!" Yegorov poked Emilia's forehead with his finger, "Don't be right! Are you waiting for us to kill all the capable veterans of Proson before taking advantage of us?"

At this time, Pavlov came out of the map room and said, "Egorov, your voice is heard in the map room! Rokossov asked me to ask you, the troops are still fighting, why are you running to the headquarters?"

"How can I not come? The enemies keep coming one after another, all with new numbers! We can't defeat them all! Some units have suffered 50% casualties! And most of the new numbers are in front of me, there are none on Eugene's side!" Yegorov's veins popped out, "Captain, don't you feel bad that more than half of your old troops have been lost?"

Marshal Rokossov, who was younger than everyone else, pushed open the door and came out: "What are you yelling about?"

Yegorov immediately shut up, like a student who had made a mistake.

Rokossov: "Think about why the new numbers all appear in front of you. You were put there to fight these troops. I have warned you long ago to be prepared to deal with the enemy's troops transferred from other directions."

Yegorov turned his head and said, "You did say it, but you didn't say so much!"

Marshal Rokossov: "Just tell me straight, can you complete the encirclement by August 15? If not, you can get out of here. I will personally serve as the army group commander."

Yegorov squatted on the ground and said, "Yes. But you have to send me reinforcements! The losses on the front line are too great. If this continues, the foundation of the army will be destroyed!"

Marshal Rokossov: "You are still negotiating with me! Where is Yegorov who was determined to complete the task back then?"

"Back then I knew you had no soldiers, but now I know you must have a reserve force!" Yegorov glanced at the marshal and turned his head away, "I won't leave without reinforcements!"

Pavlov: "In fact, according to the plan, we should indeed deploy the reserve troops at this time. The enemy reinforcements are more than we expected, so we can deploy more reserve troops than planned."

"You heard what the chief of staff said," Marshal Rokossov said coldly, "If you don't get up I'm going to kick your ass!"

Yegorov stood up angrily and grinned at the marshal: "Hey, it's easy with the reserve troops! I'll go back now. So which troops are the reserve troops?"

Pavlov: "Huh, you. I gave you the order, but you still have to go to the headquarters of these armies in person to urge them to do it?"

"No, no, no, the military situation at the front is urgent. Of course I will go straight back to the headquarters!"

After saying this, Yegorov left in a hurry.

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Wang Zhong sighed and looked at Emilia: "What's your matter, Miss Witch?"

"Liaison Officer Richard has just sent a message to Downing Street (the official residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) about the discovery of a large number of troops on the Western Front."

Wang Zhong: "It seems we can look forward to the opening of the second battlefield."

Emilia: "Aren't you angry? Because they just sat there and watched the fight, and now your troops are fighting the new forces!"

Wang Zhong: "I am angry that the landing will start in June?"

"But in this case, the Allies might enter Prothenia first!" said Emilia.

Wang Zhong: "First, it's not that easy. We haven't found the number of the armored division yet, which means that the armored divisions on the western front have not moved. Plossen's elite are armored divisions.

“Secondly, in addition to the West Wall, the Prosens also have the Siegfried Line. In addition, the defense line of the Xugen Forest is not so easy to break through.

"Third, West Plossen is a developed industrial area, a dense forest of reinforced concrete, and the enemy's resistance there will be unprecedentedly tenacious. The reason why we are advancing slowly now is because the infantry units in Plossen have adopted a new tactic, and they are fighting us house by house.

"So, Miss Emilia, I don't think the Allied landings now will end the war before Christmas, and I don't think they can enter Prothenia ahead of time."

Emilia looked at Wang Zhong: "You are still so confident."

"I've always been like this." Wang Zhong shrugged.

Vasily: "Ahem! Ah, Nellie! You're here!"

Nellie rolled her eyes at Vasily and came over with her cart: "I heard that Yegorov was coming, so I prepared some food."

"He got the reinforcements and returned to his headquarters contentedly," said Wang Zhong.

Nellie: “I see.”

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July 7, Allied Headquarters, United Kingdom capital.

"This is the latest intelligence from Ant." Admiral Ike looked at the Allied generals present. "Although I feel a little ashamed, Ant has once again reduced the pressure we face. Now is the best time to land."

Admiral Dowding, commander of the Royal Air Force, said, "However, the weather conditions in the Strait do not allow us to launch a landing operation. The sea conditions will be very bad in the next two weeks."

After saying that, he glanced at the window and said, "Just look at the heavy rain outside and you'll understand."

Admiral Ike: "But bad weather also means the enemy is relaxed. All it takes is one or two brief sunny days to launch an offensive - the largest amphibious landing in human history.

"Gentlemen, you don't want our descendants to only see the name Ante when they learn about this war in textbooks, right?"

Admiral King, commander of the Allied Atlantic Fleet, laughed and said, "No, of course not. They will also learn from Chester, William the Younger, and Spruance (all generals of the United States Pacific Fleet)."

Everyone laughed.

In particular, the generals of the United States laughed particularly happily, while the generals of the United Kingdom were a little embarrassed.

Ike raised his hands to stifle his laughter.

"Well, no one wants the situation to turn out like that. So I ordered all the troops participating in the landing to board the ships and wait for the attack order at sea. I know they boarded the ships in May and June but didn't wait for the attack order, but this time - this time it's real."

Ike paused and glanced around the conference room: "God bless us."

(End of this chapter)