artillery arc

Chapter 766 "Immortal Magic"

Wang Zhong: "Like you lost your soul?"

Filippov: "Yes, they even drove the tanks to turn in front of the battle. The two tank destroyers we captured had a problem with their running gear when they were turning."

Wang Zhong squinted his eyes. He remembered that on Earth, Carius mentioned in his memoir "Tigers in the Mud" that he later commanded the Jagdtiger heavy destroyer battalion. As a result, the inexperienced recruits turned around in front of the enemy, which resulted in a waste of opportunities and being beaten to a pulp by the Allied forces.

The Tiger Hunting Battalion that was sent to the Western Front in the history of the Earth has been pulled to the Eastern Front?
However, both worlds cannot escape the fate of turning around in front of the enemy.

Wang Zhong: "Very good, it means that the armored troops that the enemy is so proud of are also finished. Continue to hold on and report the enemy's movements at any time.

"I will mobilize the air force to bomb the fuel, ammunition and maintenance units behind enemy lines."

After saying that, Wang Zhong returned the phone receiver to Vasily, and then asked excitedly: "Didn't you prepare the Rokossov II, which is specialized for psychological warfare? Come, explain it to me."

Vasily put the receiver on the landline and gave Wang Zhong a mysterious smile: "You will definitely be satisfied. I have created an immortality magic for you!"

Wang Zhong looked down at his body: "Immortal?"

Vasily made a "follow me" gesture and led Wang Zhong to the large stable behind the room.

Wang Zhong then discovered that the stable had been converted into a machine workshop. A Rokossov II was parked in the middle with a dummy erected on the turret.

Vasily jumped onto the tank, holding onto the turret, and introduced the dummy to Wang Zhong: "This is the doll we prepared. We call him Alyosha. Alyosha has two characteristics. First, bullets can easily penetrate it. If it is a hundred meters away, you can't see that it has been hit.

"But Alyosha also has a skeleton. In order to prevent the skeleton from being damaged, we arranged a simple circuit. If the skeleton is damaged, Alyosha will start the smoke gun installed on the base."

Vasily demonstrated it himself, and a large amount of smoke spewed out from the base of "Alyosha" and engulfed him.

"Then! Here comes the key point!" His voice came from the smoke. "While the smoke blocks the view, the members in the tank can climb out and replace Alyosha No. 2. Turn on the exhaust fan!"

The engineer turned on the exhaust fan, and soon all the smoke in the old stable was sucked out, and Vasily and "Alyosha" appeared in Wang Zhong's sight again.

"Look! Alyosha is intact!"

Vasily opened his arms like a magician.

"We wrapped three Alyoshas like this in canvas and hung them outside the tank, and stuffed two inside the tank.

"The Prosons on the battlefield will certainly not be able to watch so carefully. They will not notice that Alyosha has been replaced! For them, Rokossov has become a real immortal enemy!"

Wang Zhong was silent for several seconds before he said, "You...this trick is so childish...but I think it can work."

Vasily: "Of course it can be done. If it can't be done, there's no loss. We still have Alyosha II. It's in the stable next door."

Wang Zhong: "There's a fucking second type of this thing?"

"Of course, and the second type is simpler and more feasible than this one. Please!"

Vasily gestured for invitation respectfully, like a butler.

Wang Zhong followed his guidance doubtfully and went to the stable next to him.

As soon as he entered, he was stunned. There were dozens of white horses inside.

Wang Zhong: "I think I know what the second type you are talking about is!"

Vasily did not answer, but called over the cavalryman who was tidying his clothes nearby.

"Look at this outfit. It looks like an ordinary ante trooper now, right?" he explained. "But in fact, just pull it like this-"

The cavalry coat was turned over, and the marshal's star and a pile of medals appeared.

Wang Zhong: "This seems like a big flaw, right?"

Vasily: "Who can tell on the battlefield? Plus the red flag! They will definitely think this is you! If you get shot and fall off your horse, a second person will immediately 'transform'. Everyone is your substitute."

Wang Zhong: "That won't work. You are all white horses. The enemy might see through you."

"So we have gathered all the white horses in Ant. Even your guards must ride white horses."

Wang Zhong looked at the stuntman, then at Vasily: "Okay, you are really smart. If this works, it will be so funny. In the future, war historians will be impressed by the great humor at the end of this war."

Vasily smiled: "There are already so many sad things in this war, wouldn't it be nice to have some humor?"

Wang Zhong did not answer, but asked the stuntman: "Do you know that this is very dangerous? You could lose your life."

The young man smiled and said, "I have made it to Prothenia, and I got to play the role of you. It was worth it."

Wang Zhong looked at him carefully and asked, "How long have you been in the army?"

"I joined the army in the second year of the war and have been on the Western Front ever since."

Wang Zhong: "Western Front? It's not easy to survive from being minced meat. Otherwise, you should not participate in this operation..."

The Western Front suffered lower casualties than the St. Andrew Front which was surrounded in Fort St. Andrew.

Especially in several offensive battles, although they tied down a large number of Proson's manpower, allowing Wang Zhong to focus on winning battles, the losses were also really great.

The young man immediately frowned, "Marshal! How could you do this? Even if I don't act as your double, I might still be sacrificed in the siege.

“It is true that the war is about to end and the day of peace is coming, but if we all become scared to death because of this, who will liberate Prothenia?
“Who will end the war?”

Wang Zhong stared at the young man's face for a few seconds and said, "Well, I am not very conscious. I wish you - I wish you live to victory."

The young man raised his chin and saluted Wang Zhong: "Thank you."

Vasily: "Everyone is eager to be the first to rush into Prothenia and plant the flag on the palace of Prothenia. I heard that Emperor Prothenia has been in the palace?"

Wang Zhong: "That's exactly what the intelligence we obtained says."

Vasily: "Then there will probably be many people vying for the job of attacking the palace."

"That's for sure."

Silence fell in the stable. Vasily hesitated for a moment, but still asked, "Marshal Davarich, will you still charge in person? Towards the Plossen Palace?"

Wang Zhong: "If I charge in person again, Pavlov will definitely quit. We can't lose such a capable chief of staff at this time."

Vasily was shocked. "What a pity! The staff training I received only allows me to deal with the staff at the division level. Otherwise, I could have done it for you."

"You kid, go back to school and study hard after the war is over."

"Of course. My military skills only allow me to be a colonel. If I want to become a general officer, I have to continue my studies. I can't become a general officer by laying mines and shoveling manure, can I?"

Wang Zhong: "Why, you want to be a general?"

Vasily scratched his head. "It's better than going back to being a musician, right? Well, it's better than digging shit, too."

Wang Zhong patted Vasily on the shoulder and said, "I support you. But you must do the job at hand well first and scare the Proson devils to death!"

"Yes!"

Vasily stood at attention and saluted.

————As an exempt soldier, Andreas does not need to stand guard.

But he still asked to be on the first shift tonight, mainly because he was worried about the new recruits.

The Ants love night battles.

Although the Ants are still dozens of kilometers away from Andreas' position, some bad news came last night that Ants had crossed the Oder River.

Some even claimed that the Oder River defense line had collapsed and Rokossov's army was pouring towards Prothenya.

Andreas always felt that if he handed the sentry post to a rookie, he would be so worried that he couldn't sleep.

He stayed at the post for a while, and Koslake also came. The two of them stood in the flying snow, rubbing their hands and looking at the boundless night.

Suddenly, Andreas heard a noise, grabbed his rifle, and shouted, "Who is it?"

"Don't shoot!" came the reply in Proson language.

Two armored soldiers covered in snow crawled out of the snow and slid into the trench of the Asgard Knights.

Kosrek: "You are deserters! We are going to hand you over to the military police!"

The leader was a sergeant. He glanced at the battle badges and participation badges on Kosrek's chest and said, "You are a veteran like me. You know that the Ants have a weapon called the magic arrow, right?"

Koslake: “Yes.”

Sergeant Major: "I saw with my own eyes that more than 20 arrows flew out from the house in Luki Town occupied by Ante! More than a dozen tanks were destroyed in an instant!

"The new recruits driving the tanks don't know how to deal with the magic arrows because they have never learned it! Ant's magic arrows should only be used for air defense!

"But 20 divine arrows! 20 divine arrows with the light of heaven (actually, the missiles were deliberately made brighter to help operators see the position of the missiles), and wiped out an armored platoon in one fell swoop!"

Kosrek spat next to the old soldier's boots: "Shit! How can there be so many arrows? There weren't so many arrows fired at once when we attacked Ant just now!"

The sergeant shouted, "It's true! Everyone saw it! The tankmen were new recruits, but there were many veterans like me among the armored grenadiers who supported them. We all saw it!"

"Shit!" Koslake spat again, "You are a deserter. Trying to excuse yourself! Your unit must be planning an attack tomorrow, and you ran away!"

Sergeant Major: "This war is lost! I want to go home! Even if I can't go home, I can't let the Ants catch me. I want to go west and surrender to the Allies!

"The Ants won't leave anyone alive! They won't!"

After saying that, the sergeant rushed out of the trench and ran to the west.

Andreas raised his gun to shoot, but Kosrek stopped him: "No need, he will definitely run into the military police. This idiot, why don't you just take off your clothes and pretend to be an ordinary citizen?"

"that……"

Following the timid voice, the two men discovered that there was another armored grenadier deserter, a private first class.

Andreas: "You also saw the volley of divine arrows?"

Private: "I don't know what it was. I just saw a group of light spots flying out of the town and hitting our tanks as if they had life. Then the tanks stopped, some of them were on fire, and the tank crews jumped out of the tanks in panic."

Koslake: "How far were you from the city at the time?"

"I don't know. It's very far away. The houses are very small. The clock tower in the city is only this high!"

The private gestured.

Just as Andreas was about to speak, short bursts of machine gun fire were heard in the distance.

The sergeant who fled probably never saw the Allied soldiers again.

Koslake: "Take off your clothes."

"what?"

Koslake: "Take off your armored uniform. If the military police find us, they will recognize you as a deserter. Put on infantry uniform. You can use a rifle, right?"

The private nodded.

Koslake: "Okay, you are a member of our platoon, and you will be my secondary shooter. Come with me, I will find you some clothes."

The private was confused and stood there even when Koslake started to walk away.

Andreas: “Follow me!”

The private then trotted over to catch up with Koslake.

Andreas sighed, took out a cigarette and put it between his lips, then began to strike a match.

The first one kept striking until the match stick broke but it didn't light.

The second one did catch fire, but the fire was extinguished by the cold wind in an instant.

Andreas struck many more matchsticks, but none of them lit. He simply crushed the matchbox, threw it on the ground, and looked into the distance with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Damn it, I'm not even as good as the little match girl. At least she can see the roast goose fireplace and her grandmother when she strikes a match."

He muttered under his breath.

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“Divine arrows?” The emperor’s eyes widened. “More than 20 divine arrows fired at the same time? How is that possible! Even when we first started the war with Ant, there was no such density!”

"However, the two armored brigades and the 503rd Heavy Annihilation Battalion that participated in the attack had multiple reports, and they can confirm each other. It doesn't seem like a pre-arranged statement." Marshal Celtic said.

Emperor: "We have almost killed all of Ant's praying hands. Even Rokossov's wife had to take up air defense duty at key locations! Where did they get so many praying hands to guide the divine arrows?"

The generals looked at each other.

Someone said: "Maybe it was Rokossov who appeared to me?"

Emperor: "Is this scientific? No, I refuse to believe such nonsense! They must have used some magic! I see, this must be a missile! It's a remote-controlled rocket!"

At this time, the Imperial Propaganda Minister was embarrassed: "But our own remote-controlled rockets are not so efficient, and the Ants are actually sending them into battle in large numbers. How can people believe that they are an inferior race?"

The emperor was choked by this question and remained silent for a long time.

He suddenly realized that if he admitted that this was a manifestation of Rokossov's divine power, bringing with it a bunch of new praying hands, he would have to admit that the mysterious power had defeated science.

If this is a scientific achievement, then the Aryan racial advantage will no longer exist.

While the emperor was "stuck in the bug", Marshal Celtic reminded: "The armored forces have fallen into panic, and there are many deserters. If no measures are taken, the panic will spread.

"Now many veterans are saying that Rokossov has given his soldiers the light of heaven."

The Emperor: "Tell the military police to arrest all those who spread such rumors and mislead the people, and shoot them on the spot!"

(End of this chapter)