artillery arc

Chapter 246 391 Highlands (1112)

After Wang Zhong occupied Highland 391, he waited until dark - which actually didn't take long, because it was too early to get dark - before Lieutenant Colonel Eugene finally came up with his miner's pickaxe.

Eugene jumped out of the truck and came to No. 422, which was the core of the defense. He complained: "The weather is getting colder and colder. I am wearing a coat and the wind blows me into a fool in the car."

Wang Zhong: "Okay, okay, look at the floor. Can it be dug? We found that the heavy artillery bombs only have holes of that size."

He pointed to the side, and then realized that the size of the pit could not be seen at all due to the black cloth.

Eugene took off the miner's pick from his shoulder: "That's why I brought this old guy here."

Wang Zhong took a step back to make room for him to dig.

As soon as the lieutenant colonel brought down the pickaxe, his brows immediately furrowed.

Wang Zhong also frowned and stared at the lieutenant colonel's expression.

Eugene changed his position, and another guy came. Then he shook his head repeatedly: "It can still be dug now, but it will be very laborious. I suggest using explosives to blow it up first, and then find a way to flatten it and trim it."

Wang Zhong: "It's already frozen like this. No wonder the Prosens didn't dig many trenches to protect their 88mm anti-aircraft guns. It turns out they can't dig them."

Eugene tried a few more times and quickly dug out a hole that could be used to plant saplings. When Wang Zhong was a child, he planted trees on Arbor Day, and the hole he dug was about this big.

Then Eugene stood up and shook his head: "I can't keep up with the physical exertion of digging trenches. I'll look for a softer place. I guess I can only use explosives to blast out foxholes on the top of the slope, and then pile some sandbags."

Wang Zhong: "That's no need. There are a lot of craters. Now it's troublesome. The enemy's heavy artillery will cover it and nothing will be left."

Gunner Alexander was also the instructor of the tank training team. At this time, he suggested: "Drive up the KV and rely on the KV for defense."

Wang Zhong: "This is the only way. I'll use the radio to call KV up. Eugene, find a place where we can dig trenches! It's all up to you."

Eugene waved his hand: "Leave it to me! If I can't find it, then I really can't find it."

As he spoke, he walked into the darkness carrying the miner's pickaxe.

Alexander: "Even though he was wearing a military uniform, he looked like a miner."

Wang Zhong: "Don't I look like a dandy?"

"It looks very much like General," Alexander said.

Wang Zhong climbed onto the tank, but when his hand touched the tank, he felt a stickiness. He quickly pulled his hand off, but fortunately, a layer of skin was not torn off.

"I'll go," he looked at his hands, "It's not even below zero yet, has it already started to be like this?"

Alexander: "You'd better get used to wearing gloves. If you touch the iron shell of the tank directly like this when it's minus 40 degrees, we will hand you over to the health workers."

Wang Zhong cursed, climbed onto the tank, and took out the radio.

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At eight o'clock in the evening, Wang Zhong heard the sound of the KV's engine and quickly looked around, and sure enough he saw two KVs approaching Highland 391.

Wang Zhong immediately asked via radio: "Why are there only two?"

"Reporting to the Tiber River, another car broke down. The crew went back to Suhayaveli to find someone to repair it."

Wang Zhong cursed Suka - he was also used to using Suka instead of shit.

The KV car is very heavy and the engine power is insufficient, which directly leads to a high failure rate no matter how much improvements are made to the car.

When a small horse pulls a large cart, even if everything is fine, the horse may be paralyzed by fatigue.

While Wang Zhong was scolding, Lieutenant Colonel Eugene came over happily: "General! General! I found a layer of soil piled up with rotten leaves. It was in the forest at the foot of the mountain - it should be said that it was originally a forest. Most of the trees were destroyed by Puluo. The forest people cut down the firewood and tents, and the rest were destroyed by your artillery fire."

Wang Zhong was overjoyed: "How deep can you dig?"

"You can't dig too deep and there's still hard soil underneath, but you can put the soil into sacks and use them as sandbags, and the location is very good. I haven't studied military science, but I probably know that you can avoid artillery fire on the back slope. Then on the back slope slope!"

After speaking, Eugene looked around and suddenly realized that this highland was actually not too high, and the slope was very gentle.

"Uh... I'm not sure if this high ground can avoid artillery fire." Eugene supplemented with some embarrassment.

Wang Zhong: "Don't worry, the enemy only had a short time to prepare for the artillery fire on us. The enemy's supply is insufficient and the artillery shells cannot be loaded. We will use the enemy's wreckage to create some false targets. Later, when the artillery is in place, we will use their tractors to Take it and drag the enemy's remains to the front line and cover them with grass."

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene laughed loudly: "General, that's how you fight in wars. It's very pleasant - I mean, it's very pleasant to be a friendly force."

Wang Zhong also smiled.

Just kidding, I prefer being a cunt when playing any confrontational game, okay?
It feels good to be old, and it feels good to be old all the time.

Wang Zhong stood up on the tank and looked to the west.

The entire land was dark, with only the flames caused by the previous extended shelling still burning.

It seems that a tree is burning, which reminds Wang Zhong of the lyrics of "Song of the Lonely Mountain", "The trees like torches blazed with light (The ancient trees are like torches burning alone in the darkness)". Wang Zhong was not interested in the English song because of language problems. Most of the lyrics are emotionless, with only a few exceptions, and this is one of them.

Wang Zhong looked at the lonely burning tree, its presence making the surrounding darkness even richer.

Wang Zhong actually thought about pushing the defense line here.

But the road conditions from the station to here were so bad at that time that nothing could be supplied.

Mud is a double-edged sword.

If it were fortified here, it would be impossible to build fortifications as good as those set up by Suhayaveli.

And even now, Wang Zhong can choose to trust the neighboring troops and only guard his own one-third of an acre.

No, it should be said that when he just retreated to Suhayaveli, Wang Zhong never thought that the Prosen people could "climb" so far in the mud.

Maybe it's because Proson is much stronger than Sandoko. Wang Zhong looked at the burning lone tree quietly, surrounded by the busy construction site.

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At dawn the next day, Wang Zhong retreated to about one kilometer behind Highland 391.

He hid his tanks in the bushes, which had been plowed yesterday by artillery fire.

Wait for the soldiers of the Beshensk Regiment in front to mince meat with the enemy and consume the enemy to a certain extent, and then put in the tanks for counterattack.

This is Wang Zhong's plan.

The sound of artillery not far behind can be heard. This is the forward-moving artillery regiment covering the path leading to Kalanskaya.

At this time, the communications soldier came over dragging the telephone line: "General, the chief of staff asked us to pull up the telephone line."

Wang Zhong: "Why not use a radio?"

"Afraid of leaking secrets, the phone line is more reliable. That's what he said." After saying that, the communications soldier took out the pliers, cut the phone line, and then skillfully cut off a section of rubber in front of the cut surface to expose the metal wire inside, and then connected it to your portable phone.

After doing this, he put the phone on the ground, shook it a few times to generate electricity, and then picked up the receiver: "Division Headquarters, Division Headquarters! The call has been connected, this is for you, General."

Wang Zhong took the handset that was handed to him: "What's wrong, Pavlov?"

"The First Guards Army thanked us for coming forward to block the road, but they can hold off the enemy. They have four Guards divisions and carefully constructed fortifications."

Wang Zhong: "Yes, but since we are here, we can share some of their pressure. In this way, the enemy will definitely use a lot of troops to attack us today."

Pavlov: "I support your decision. It is better to keep the outcome of the war in your own hands."

Wang Zhong: "Then I'll ask you to deal with them. I'll leave the phone number."

As soon as he finished speaking, an artillery shell fell on Highland 391, one kilometer away.

Wang Zhong: "The enemy's artillery fire preparations have begun. I hung up."

Before Pavlov could answer, Wang Zhong hung up the phone.

The enemy's artillery fire was relatively intensive, but it only lasted for half an hour like yesterday.

Moreover, these artillery fires were basically attracted by the fake tanks launched by Wang Zhong and did not hit the positions behind the hillside.

According to the results of yesterday's exploration in Eugene, all the defensive firepower deployed by Wang Zhong was behind the hillside, and the anti-tank guns were even hidden in the woods.

As long as the enemy tanks cross the hill, they will encounter a head-on attack.

However, Wang Zhong did not think that the enemy could cross the mountain.

He split the rocket artillery brigade into three battalions. Wang Zhong felt that it was a waste when the firepower of one brigade covered the same area.

So we split them into three battalions and launched them one by one.

Wang Zhong is hiding here. Even without plug-ins, as long as the enemy tank crosses the hill and enters the naked eye's field of vision, he can let the rocket launcher fire, and a wave of firepower can cripple the enemy.

Wang Zhong waited for the enemy tanks to cross the high ground.

He could already hear the engine.

But it came from behind!
Wang Zhong quickly changed his vision and saw the laggard KV limping over.

I say it's limping because there seems to be something wrong with the suspension of the left road wheel on this KV and it's a bit wobbly.

The KV commander stuck his head out and waved when he saw Wang Zhong: "General! We've caught up!"

Wang Zhong: "Get into your position! Do you see Lieutenant Colonel Eugene's simple bunker? The one covered with tree trunks! Just park next to it and that's it. Be careful not to dig a ditch!"

The commander set up a pergola and looked over there: "Okay! Don't worry!"

Then the KV drove forward staggeringly, and before it had even reached the speed, it suddenly fell over. The left track in question broke directly, and the car suddenly stopped and was rotated about 30 degrees.

When Wang Zhong saw KV's posture, he thought it was awesome, so he immediately stopped the ricochet posture.

At this moment, the enemy tanks crossed the hill.

Wang Zhong: "Grizzly bear! Fire! Grizzly bear fire!"

This is the communication call sign assigned to the three battalions. It has not been used before this order is issued. It will not be used again after it is issued. The orderer will bring a new communication call sign.

The meteor shower I saw yesterday flew over Wang Zhong's head again.

However, the target this time was out of Wang Zhong's field of vision. He could only see it from an overhead perspective, so the impact felt much smaller.

What he saw with his naked eyes yesterday was the overwhelming momentum that impressed Wang Zhong deeply.

At the same time as the rocket launcher fired, the ZIS30 hidden in the tree line also opened fire.

Wang Zhong did not bring the 57mm towed artillery group over, because the thing moved too slowly, and it would be troublesome to cover the position if someone marked it.

The ZIS30 runs so fast, just change places after playing.

Although the rate of fire of the ZIS30 is not as fast as the towed gun group.

After a wave of shooting, all the tanks that climbed over the cliff stopped.

The tanker jumped out of the tank and backed away.

Wang Zhong laughed. It seemed that there was no need for armored counterattack until all the rocket launcher battalions had finished firing their ammunition.

(End of this chapter)