artillery arc

Chapter 232 What does it mean to penetrate the defense?

Wang Zhong looked up at the sky and thought it wasn't snowing yet. Why is the princess here? No, why am I afraid of snow? I don't have two boats.

So he saluted the princess and banged his heels loudly: "Your Highness, the Crown Princess!"

Lyudmila also saluted, and all the soldiers on the platform saluted in one direction. A few skitarii who were slow to respond looked at them in confusion, and they hurriedly saluted when they saw the crown princess's crown.

When the princess saw them saluting, the smile on her face froze, but she immediately adjusted her expression and responded with royal etiquette: "No need to do this. You are all warriors fighting for the empire, you don't have to be like this."

After saying that, she got off the train and came to Wang Zhong. When she saw Wang Zhong put down his hand, she showed her original smile again and opened her mouth——

Wang Zhong spoke first: "You should notify us in advance when you come to inspect!"

Olga did not stumble this time, but caught his words smoothly: "If we notify you, there will be security problems. The situation in the capital is very complicated now. More than a hundred people have been shot today. It may start tomorrow. curfew to be enforced.”

Wang Zhong frowned slightly: "Is the situation so bad?"

"Yes, when you were holding on to Shostka, the capitulation faction died down. As soon as you retreated, they started. But I don't know what you said specifically. If I know, the inquisitors must also know, and they will be punished. Completely eliminated.”

Wang Zhong: "Then what do you mean when you say 'they just started'?"

Olga: "You will know it when you go to the capital and experience it. Anyway, I can feel it from their eyes and their attitude. I met the Patriarch before I came here, and his eyes also revealed a lot of problems. If it weren't for the general public now, The Rosen Army is only two hundred kilometers away from the capital, and he may have begun to systematically purge those surrendering factions. "

Olga paused, then shook his head and said, "I don't know. He might be waiting for these capitulationists to be exposed and our army to drive the enemies away from the capital before taking action."

The princess stopped, raised her hand and gently touched the star on the collar of Wang Zhong's coat: "The Patriarch trusts your judgment. Will the enemy be stopped?"

Wang Zhong: "The enemy will be stopped."

He originally wanted to take the princess's hand off as he spoke, but after looking at so many people around him, he stopped.

If a girl is pushed away in this situation, she probably won't be able to bear it.

But Olga retracted her hand and said with a smile: "That's good. I'm here for two purposes. The first one is to ask about what will be produced next.

"All 100 tanks specially produced by the royal family have been produced. Except for tanks left to be used for military parades, the rest have been distributed to the troops and have been widely praised.

"What should we make again?"

Wang Zhong: "Continue to produce the ceremony tanks. Of course they will continue to be produced after they are well received. It is best to replace all the production capacity of the Yebao United Machinery Factory with the ceremony tanks. It took more than two months to produce the 100 tanks before, which was too slow. . The production capacity is only 600 units a year, which is too little.

"The scale of the war we are currently engaged in is unprecedentedly huge. If you throw 600 tanks into it, there won't even be a splash.

“When the war started, we had more than 26 tanks. Although most of them were BT and T tanks, the enemy also had a large number of No. and No. tanks.

"But look at now, the enemy has eaten all 20,000 tanks without even vomiting a core."

Olga nodded: "Then continue to produce the viewing tank. By the way, General Turgenev quietly gave this tank a production number, called T34W."

Wang Zhong frowned, why is it W-shaped?
The Cyrillic alphabet also starts with ABCD, W is not in front!
Olga looked at Wang Zhong's expression and said with a smile: "This is to not occupy the letters for normal improvements. Shooting - Chief Engineer Valentin who designed T34 was very angry. The troops of T34W reported back, and he threw it directly Into the fireplace. He said his improvements would convince the troops."

Wang Zhong: "...Then I hope he adds a radio to the new tank."

Olga sighed: "Radio is not possible. I asked specifically. Now the production of radios cannot keep up with consumption. Aircraft all use radios and need to replace spare parts.

"If all tanks are equipped with radios, there will be a huge gap. General Sergey of the Ordnance Bureau suggested that the tanks for the ceremony should be gathered together and handed over to experienced tank teams to establish a specialized assault group army."

Wang Zhong smiled and said: "Didn't this make Valentin mad to death?"

"General Sergey is his father-in-law, so..." Olga shrugged, "I think General Sergey is quite nice. This time I want to come to the front line, and he even called specifically to ask me I’m asking if you have any special requirements that cannot be addressed with the existing equipment.”

Wang Zhong: "Yes! There is so much! First of all, I need a self-propelled artillery equipped with a 152mm howitzer, a radio, and the ability to move at high speed on the rotten ground of our country using crawler motors."

"This kind of artillery should have a matching ammunition truck, which can quickly move the artillery position, and have a certain resistance to the enemy's air force strafing, and it should also have an anti-aircraft machine gun!"

Wang Zhong said this based on the SU152. On Earth, the Su152 is used as a self-propelled howitzer in many cases.

After the war, the Soviet army even incorporated 122mm howitzers into company-level armored assault groups.

Wang Zhong continued: "Then I also need a quadruple-mounted anti-aircraft gun, which also uses a tank chassis. The gun uses our 25mm machine gun, and it needs a new ammunition belt system to supply ammunition.

"This is our army's accompanying air defense. In addition to accompanying our army's armored assault force, it can also lay flat to clear enemy infantry, so it must have a depression angle. Do you understand the depression angle?"

When he said this, Wang Zhong grabbed the princess's shoulders with both hands and shook her hard: "Yujiao, Yaojiao, do you understand!"

Princess: "Don't shake me! Speak carefully!"

At this time, Neli approached Lyudmila: "Why do I think the princess is very happy?" "They are talking about business, Neli." Lyudmila said softly, "I will interrupt after they talk about business."

Wang Zhong finally let go of the princess: "I'm sorry."

Olga sighed, then immediately smiled.

Wang Zhong looked at her smile and said, "Why, your brain has been shaken up, so you're having fun?"

Olga made a serious face: "No. I will repeat your request exactly to General Sergei."

Wang Zhong: "I'd better write a written report. I haven't written this before because I feel that in my position I can't interfere in the research and production of military equipment. Now that I can interfere, I will naturally interfere severely. I will make it tomorrow. Report……"

"No," Olga said seriously, "I will tell you! If you need anything, tell me! Do you understand that if you take the normal route, you will be stuck?"

Wang Zhong was shocked: "Will it?"

Olga said firmly: "Yes!"

Wang Zhong: "Okay. Then we also need a practical rifle with reduced ammunition. It can fire continuously and has a good hit rate at 200 to 400 meters. It also has extremely high reliability. Reliable Sex is very important!”

Olga asked seriously: "What is reduced charge ammunition?"

Wang Zhong: "Just reduce the charge of the rifle bullet and shorten the length. Today's rifle bullets need to be fully automatic, and the whole gun will be very heavy, because it is simply a machine gun. The enemy's general-purpose machine gun we captured is this big -"

Wang Zhong turned around and looked for a random guard: "You! Go to the battalion headquarters and tell Rokossov that he wants a captured enemy squad machine gun."

Before waiting for the machine gun to be brought over, Olga asked: "Wouldn't it be better to just use the machine gun?"

Wang Zhong: "No, the enemy's infantry squad is mainly organized around machine guns. In actual combat, such infantry squads all fight around machine guns, which is quite rigid.

“When we gather submachine gunners together and fight the enemy in places that are not suitable for machine guns, they will be helpless.

"In fact, our Tokarev semi-automatic rifle performs very well - the key is to choose the terrain and not let the enemy's machine gun play its role."

In fact, on Earth, the squad formed by Santoku around machine guns is not very useful when facing the Ami soldiers with all semi-autonomous BAR automatic rifles and Thomson submachine guns.

Of course, the suppression capability of the BAR automatic rifle is not as good as that of a machine gun, but it is flexible.

One machine gun requires three people to serve it, and it's so heavy.

The BAR can be held and fired, and one person can run around with it.

And where there was no machine gun firepower, the Aramco Garand semi-automatic crushed the 98K to death.

Most of Wang Zhong's troops are Tokarev semi-automatic. In fact, they also encountered this situation. As long as the Prossen's machine guns did not catch up, the Guards had an absolute firepower advantage.

There is no doubt that the grouping method of all semi-automatic personnel and a small number of automatic weapons is more reliable than Proson's current rifle squad formed around machine guns.

But if we want to go further, we can only get out the AK first.

At this time, the guard just brought three people over and brought the captured machine gun.

Wang Zhong pointed at the machine gun and said: "Look, this thing is so heavy and heavy. This is the disadvantage of firing rifle bullets. I suggest changing the Tokarev's full-power bullet, shortening it a bit, and changing it to a fully automatic one."

Olga nodded: "Okay! I remember it, go tell General Sergey. Is there anything else?"

Wang Zhong: "That's it for the time being. All the things I mentioned can be modified using existing equipment, and we can all form an army as soon as possible."

"Okay." Olga nodded, and then said, "Take me to visit the front line. After all, I am here to work for the army and I have to meet everyone."

Wang Zhong: "It's so boring to meet you. How about you sing for everyone? You should have studied music, right?"

"I have learned it." Olga looked at Wang Zhong with a puzzled look, "I also sang in front of you! In front of you and my brother."

Wang Zhong: "Oh, yes, that is indeed the case."

Good guy, princess, can sing, all she needs is pink hair.

If you think about it carefully, Olga did give away a lot of equipment, so tank No. 422 should actually be called "Free Demon"?
Wang Zhong: "Please come over here. Our troops are intensifying their training. If you can sing and encourage them, they will definitely be happy."

"it is good."

Olga naturally wanted to hold Wang Zhong's hand, but Wang Zhong said directly to Lyudmila: "You also accompany Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

Did you see, what does it mean to penetrate the defense?
(End of this chapter)