artillery arc

Chapter 288 Lieutenant General Rokossov is on the front line

Wang Zhong put down the microphone and looked at General Gorky: "That's all I can do right now. I'll ride to the front line for a walk later..."

"No, no," General Gorky waved his hand, "It will be tomorrow if you reach the front line. This place is far away from the front line."

Wang Zhong frowned slightly. At this moment, the staff officer posted the map back to its original position, and he ran over and found the location of the front army headquarters on the map.

"You are so far away from the front line!" he exclaimed, "How can you understand the situation on the front line?"

General Gorky said: "I want to excuse this. They command the troops in the entire campaign direction. The front line is so long, so it is understandable to be farther away from the front line.

"You have been commanding division-level units, and during the counterattack phase, you only commanded corps-level units. Naturally, you will dislike them for being too far away from the front line."

Wang Zhong: "Then how far is your headquarters at Fort St. Andrew from the front line?"

"That's different. Fort St. Andrew is surrounded, my front army headquarters is in the city, and I can't control the distance from the enemy." General Gorky spread his hands, "This is not the same thing."

Wang Zhong was speechless: "I want to organize a capable inspection team to go to the front line."

General Gorky: "I'm afraid I cannot agree. No one knows if any enemies have penetrated into the rear. After the front is stabilized, my front headquarters will move forward, and you can move forward with us."

Of course Wang Zhong is not afraid of infiltrating enemies. He can highlight them two kilometers away. But this reason cannot be given. It cannot be said that it is the protection of St. Andrew, right?

General Gorky continued: “And you see, the situation on the front line is as we predicted, and the enemy has no intention of a large-scale attack.

"They have launched a battle to regain their positions across the entire front, and they cannot organize a large-scale breakthrough now even if they want to.

"It's not that dangerous. The speech you just gave was enough to stabilize the morale of the troops."

At this time, the Chief of Staff of the Western Front reported: "Have we assigned new targets to the troops that were originally preparing to attack, and asked them to act according to the new orders?"

General Gorky: "Okay, let them go into battle."

The chief of staff began issuing orders.

General Gorky looked at Wang Zhong: "Look, there is nothing worth going to the front line in person. If the enemy really breaks through, I will definitely ask you to rush to the front line as soon as possible and command the army at the most critical position."

Wang Zhong nodded: "Okay, I will feel relieved with your guarantee."

"Come, sit down, we can continue to discuss the topic on the plane, how to fight next year's war. What I want to know is, will our army have any new weapons next year? My feeling in the Fort St. Andrew Front is that KV is reliable Yes, the premise is that long-distance maneuvers are not carried out, and the results achieved by troops equipped with T34 are often unsatisfactory. "

Wang Zhong pulled up a stool and sat down, taking off his hat and placing it on the table: "The design of T34 is flawed."

General Gorky also sat down, taking off his hat to reveal his shiny forehead.

When Wang Zhong saw the general's forehead, he began to murmur, are Ant men bound to become bald as they age?

Of course, General Gorky still has hair, but his hairline has receded very seriously, almost catching up with Pavlov.

Wang Zhong subconsciously touched his thick hair, but he was less than thirty years old, at least 20 years younger than General Gorky.

General Gorky: "Tell me, what are the flaws of the T34? As a cavalry officer, my understanding of tanks has always been about the same as the military horses under our crotches."

So Wang Zhong began to explain the problems and flaws of the T34 to General Gorky in detail, and continued for half an hour. During this process, good news continued to come from the front line, and some of the shaken front lines were stabilized again.

General Gorky was speechless: "It turns out that T34 has so many problems. I thought it would be a good thing to save one member so that more T34s can be deployed on the front line. It seems that I have also made a dogmatic mistake and cannot use cavalry dogma. Set up a modern army.”

After speaking, the general raised his eyebrows: "Hey, shouldn't the T34W, which has solved these problems, be mass-produced?"

Wang Zhong: "The T34W consumes too many man-hours, and the output cannot meet the needs of the troops. We are losing tanks on the front line too fast. If we can strengthen the battlefield recovery and maintenance of tanks and reduce the losses, the General Administration of Ordnance can free up tanks." More production capacity is available to produce the T34W model.”

General Gorky: "It is true that the losses in the past six months have been too great. The Prosins have beaten us to the point of running away. We can only solve the problem first and then consider other things. Having tanks is better than not having them."

Wang Zhong: "Yes."

At this time, the communications staff came in and reported: "We have recaptured highlands such as 451 and 279."

Wang Zhong turned to look at the map and confirmed the location of the two highlands: "Not bad. If we take back these two highlands, we can direct artillery fire to cover the enemy-controlled area. The enemy won't even dare to light the lights at night. That's good."

General Gorky: "Tell the troops that they have done a good job and must hold on. The enemy's counterattack should not last long."

"Yes!" The communications staff officer saluted and turned to leave.

General Gorky looked at Wang Zhong: "Look, it's just a small problem. The plane should take off. You stay here until tomorrow and then take the plane back."

At this time the phone rang suddenly.

The Chief of Staff of the Front Army answered the phone: "Western Front Army Headquarters. Who are you?"

Suddenly, the chief of staff stood at attention and tensed his body: "Your Majesty, salute you! General Rokossov? He is here, I will let him answer the phone right now."

As he spoke, the chief of staff came over with a telephone in one hand and the receiver in the other. He handed the receiver to Wang Zhong respectfully: "Your Excellency, General, this is your Majesty's phone number."

Wang Zhong picked up the receiver: "Your Majesty, I salute you."

Olga: "Alyosha, how is the front line?"

Wang Zhong: "It's nothing big. Just as we judged before setting off, the enemy's goal is not to break through, but some people were frightened and almost caused the entire army to collapse. General Gorky has stabilized the front, and I will return tomorrow "Yebao."

Olga: "You said it was General Tukhachev who was frightened?"

"Yes. Who else could it be?"

"I understand." Olga said in a cold tone, "I will personally observe his trial and ensure that he gets the punishment he deserves." Wang Zhong: "Your Majesty is wise."

Olga: "Then I'll wait for you to come back. See you tomorrow."

After that, he hung up the phone.

Wang Zhong frowned slightly, wasn't Olga's last sentence a bit ambiguous?
He handed the receiver back to the chief of staff and noticed that the entire command was looking at him.

Wang Zhong made a serious face: "At present, Ant's mother expects everyone to fulfill their duties!"

Everyone then returned to work.

Only General Gorky still looked at Wang Zhong with a meaningful look.

Wang Zhong: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." The general shrugged, "Continue to talk about the topic just now..."

At this time, the communications staff came in again: "We have recaptured the position northeast of Shostka, and we can overlook the city of Shostka again."

Wang Zhong: "Northeast...ah, that position, hasn't the airport next to it been recaptured?"

The communications staff officer shook his head: "Not yet. In fact, we have never been able to capture the airport. The terrain is too open, suitable for the Prosen Army to use its firepower."

Wang Zhong was speechless.

The firepower of the Ant Army Infantry Regiment is far inferior to that of the Plosen Infantry Regiment - no, maybe the firepower of Ant's infantry division is not as good as the Plosen Infantry Regiment.

The Prosen Infantry Regiment has a bunch of mortars, barrel artillery, and 15CM caliber heavy infantry guns. Ant's division-level firepower team only has 152, and the number is often very small.

The tycoon configuration of the Guards 36-machine rifle with 152 guns and guns is very rare in the entire Ant army.

General Gorky: "Don't rush at the airport. Just occupy a corner and ensure that the enemy cannot take off and land planes. We have a long way to go."

Wang Zhong: "When attacking Shostka, you can refer to the enemy's offensive method, constantly use soil work to get closer to the city, and strive to advance the offensive starting position to a place fifty meters in front of the enemy."

General Gorky: "I will send the engineering corps there. Are you sure that soil work can be done there?"

Wang Zhong: "Yes, I have personally inspected the terrain and soil around Shostka. The soil quality there can be approached through soil work. The enemy also did this, otherwise their casualties in Shostka would not have been so few. ”

General Gorky laughed loudly: "You are so greedy. It is not enough for Shostka to cause so many casualties to the enemy."

Wang Zhong: "Of course it's not enough! We want Proson to bleed cleanly!"

General Gorky: "Then before you return to Yebao tomorrow, I will try to let the Prosins shed more blood. Chief of Staff, is the ammunition originally used by the artillery to prepare firepower still there?"

Chief of Staff: "Of course I'm still there."

General Gorky: "Then open fire. The target is the enemy positions that are not in contention. Give them some strength and prevent them from mobilizing these troops to support the positions that are being contested!"

"Yes."

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The next day, Wang Zhong returned to St. Catherine's Castle.

As soon as he got off the plane, he went straight to the court to observe the trial of Tukhachev.

As a result, before they reached the street where the Tribunal Building is located, they ran into His Majesty the Tsar's motorcade.

Olga opened the car window with a click and shouted to Wang Zhong: "Alyosha, this way!"

Even if she yelled, she stretched out her hand and waved.

Wang Zhong hurriedly got out of the car, came to the side of the Tsar's car, and bent down close to the window: "Your Majesty, can I help you?"

"Come up here and tell me about the situation on the front line." Olga said, moving her butt to the other side and opening the car door.

Wang Zhong could only turn around and make a gesture to his motorcade, and then got into His Majesty the Tsar's car.

As soon as the door closed, Olga asked with a serious face: "Is there really no problem on the front line? I only trust your words, and I believe you will never lie to me."

Wang Zhong: "Don't worry, there is no problem at all on the front line. Before I got on the plane, we had completely stabilized our position and recaptured some key high ground. The artillery fire from the front army caused a lot of damage to the enemy."

Olga breathed a sigh of relief: "Great, I had a nightmare last night. I was lying about the good things on the front line. The enemy occupied Kalanskaya again and fired artillery from the Eternal Castle to hit the Summer Palace. , I was torn apart in the explosion."

Wang Zhong: "That kind of thing won't happen."

Olga looked at Wang Zhong pitifully: "If it were a brother, he would definitely hug me at this time."

Wang Zhong: "No, no, you are not such a fragile girl, you are just pretending."

After Wang Zhong finished speaking, he flicked Olga's forehead.

"Oops!" Olga shouted, "What's wrong with me pretending? There are no outsiders in the car, and the curtains are well drawn, why don't you just let me act coquettishly?"

"Not good." Wang Zhong said firmly.

(End of this chapter)