artillery arc

Chapter 461 Farewell to the Statue

At 1800: in the afternoon, Pavlov's battle group passed by the water tower where Wang Zhong was located and headed towards the city.

Because the 51st Army was different from the three divisions personally organized by Wang Zhong, the armored forces were not equipped with infantry fighting vehicles (referring to the M3 Grant Lee tanks), nor were there any half-track vehicles or jeeps, so the infantry all sat on tanks.

Wang Zhong was watching the marching troops from the water tower, and he felt as if he was watching the Indian army marching.

Ant does not produce half-track vehicles itself. All of its half-track vehicles are supplied by the United States. Only Wang Zhong's direct troops, the First Mobile Army, can get so many M3 half-track vehicles.

When the First Mobile Army was in combat, the tank units would only do this as "armored cavalry" when they reinforced other infantry units.

Other troops did not have half-track vehicles, and trucks were not enough, so they had to be used to transport supplies. If the infantry did not advance on tanks, they could only move on foot, and could not catch up with the tank troops advancing at full speed.

The Ant Army now knows that tanks are too fragile without infantry accompanying them, which is almost like committing suicide. There is no other choice but to do this.

This is actually very bad, as infantry are too easily killed by machine guns and have a slow reaction time when faced with enemy attacks.

So while Wang Zhong watched the troops heading towards the city, he began to plan to get some proper infantry fighting vehicles.

But it's just a calculation. The reason why Ante doesn't produce half-track vehicles now is because most of the factories that can produce tracked walking mechanisms are desperately supplying tank factories, and the remaining track production capacity is also given to tractors.

After Wang Zhong's reform, the Ante Army began to pay attention to the production of tractors. In the newly formed tank units, the status of tractors used to recover tanks was improved. In addition, the artillery units also needed tractors to tow heavy artillery. Now tractors have become a hot commodity.

The solution is of course to expand production and increase the output of tracks and walking mechanisms, but now Ante lacks skilled workers.

After much consideration, Wang Zhong decided that if he wanted to equip the armored forces with infantry fighting vehicles, he could only fleece the United States a little more.

At least equip the 51st Tank Army under his command with enough infantry fighting vehicles and half-track vehicles.

At this time, Popov also climbed up the water tower and said to Wang Zhong: "The soldiers are all looking at you, give them some encouragement! You are just staring blankly!"

Wang Zhong was pulled out of his thoughts and quickly raised his hand, intending to shout something, but the soldiers shouted first: "Ura!"

Popov: "With you mobilizing, it's that easy. You just raise your hand and the soldiers will be motivated."

Wang Zhong was a little embarrassed. He kept his hand raised and said to Popov, "I don't want this to happen either."

Alomeev asked, "I heard from the army that you once blew up a tank with your knife?"

Wang Zhong: "Look at me, there is no knife on me. This must be fake. It must be my former lieutenant who spread rumors in the tavern. He is a musician, you know, a bard in the Middle Ages. The adventure stories in the bard's poems all have exaggerated elements."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a motorcycle going around the edge of the city and heading towards this side.

The two people on the motorcycle are wearing red hats. From this distance, it looks like two Marios are driving over on a motorcycle.

From a bird's-eye view, Wang Zhong confirmed the identities of the two men: messengers of the 1st Parachute Division Task Force.

The man on the motorcycle obviously didn't know where Wang Zhong was. He approached the troops heading towards the city and asked in a heavily accented Ante language: "Where is the commander?"

The infantrymen sitting on the tanks pointed together in the direction of the water tower.

So the paratroopers drove their motorcycles through the marching column and headed straight for the water tower. A minute later, two of them climbed to the top of the tower.

Wang Zhong: "Are there too many people on this tower?"

Aromeev: "Then I'll move forward..."

“Don’t!” Wang Zhong stopped him. Although as the commander of the 393rd Brigade, it was reasonable for the headquarters to move forward in this situation, if he moved, Wang Zhong would lose sight. “You stay here, Popov, I think you should play a role.”

"You just think I'm fat." The military bishop shook his head, "Then I'll move forward a little."

So Popov and several priests got down from the water tower, got into the Willys jeep that they had just driven over, and mixed into the advancing column.

Wang Zhongze looked at the two paratroopers in red berets and asked, "What's going on at the airport?"

The paratrooper took out a stack of documents from his leather bag. "We encountered a large group of Proson people at the airport. We used explosives to blow down the building they were occupying and killed them all. These are the Proson documents and information we collected after a day of excavation."

Wang Zhong took it and pretended to look at it - in fact, he couldn't understand it - then he handed the stack of documents to Yakov.

Yakov immediately began to read it.

Wang Zhongze asked the two paratroopers: "Are there many casualties?"

"There are basically no casualties. Your strategy of pretending to carry out a mission was a great success. If we hadn't encountered the Prosen people, we might have been able to take over the airport peacefully." One of the two paratroopers looked extremely regretful.

Wang Zhong asked again: "How is the airport's defense situation?"

Airports have always been the most difficult areas to defend because of their very open and extremely flat terrain.

Paratrooper: "Every one of us dug a foxhole and buried mines from the airport warehouse. We have been waiting for the enemy's counterattack all day, but we only heard the fierce fighting on your side. The enemy didn't even think about taking back the airport!
"If you ask me, General, you might as well just use us as ordinary infantry. We are here to hone our skills. What are we honing for?"

Wang Zhong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: using elite paratroopers as ordinary infantry, isn't this a bit too extravagant? He could only say: "Don't worry, we will need you to parachute later, and there will be no shortage of battles."

"Really?" The two paratroopers were overjoyed.

"Yes, you are just non-commissioned officers, so you don't know. In two days, you will take a glider to seize a bridge. That is the key to whether we can advance quickly!"

The two paratroopers looked at each other and asked, "Are you talking about the Finney Valley Bridge?"

Wang Zhong's expression became serious, thinking that the secret had been leaked somewhere: "Yes, how did you know?"

The paratrooper smiled and said, "We also read maps and make battle plans. After all, paratroopers need to fight behind enemy lines, so it's not surprising to encounter any situation when parachuting. When we studied the map, we thought that the Finney Valley Bridge might be captured by Komanda."

Komanda!
Wang Zhong: "Is it the United Kingdom superman who destroyed the Plossom people's supplies and shallow-water heavy gunboats in Alexandria Harbor?"

"They are just better trained," said the paratrooper, but his face was full of pride.

Wang Zhong: "Okay, I look forward to their performance. But if they don't show up, you will have to take the glider and seize the bridge."

"If we are really asked to take action, we guarantee to complete the mission." The red beret paratrooper said confidently. With such a reliable attitude, it is hard to believe that they are soldiers of the United Kingdom.

That's not true. Even on Earth, British special forces and paratroopers are more human-like and reliable.

Wang Zhong nodded to the two men and said, "Very good, are you going back now? Say hello to your commander for me and tell him that he did a good job."

"Yes."

Then the two paratroopers did not take the stairs, but parkoured directly down from the water tower to the ground, rode away on a motorcycle.

Aromeev was very dissatisfied with this: "Why don't you just go down the tower properly? You have to do something fancy! It's flashy and useless!"

Wang Zhong looked at Alomeev and thought to himself, "I'd better not tell anyone about the fact that I'm going to ask Komanda from the United Kingdom to teach you how to do flower tricks in the future."

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By the time the sun set, there was only one local temple left in the entire city of Moha that was still controlled by the "Baras Royal Guards".

Wang Zhong came to the temple in person and looked at the dog-headed statue from afar. He felt terrible - damn, the Balas Plateau looks so much like the Egyptian Gobi Desert, why is the god they believe in so Egyptian?

Is it because that part of Egypt has now become Mamluk?

Looking at this temple that was obviously misaligned with the Earth, Wang Zhong muttered to himself: Could it be that the planet I am fighting on now is a world that was formed after someone on Earth started a game of "Civilization 6"?
The Egyptian civilization started at the Balas Plateau, and then stole the wonder of Petra?
The Vortex tank destroyer vehicle of the 225th Division's Tank Destroyer Battalion drove towards the temple, but suddenly fire and smoke appeared inside the temple gate. An armor-piercing bullet hit the front armor of the Vortex vehicle, was bounced up and hit the building behind the Vortex vehicle.

This shot actually left a scratch on the front armor of the Vortex Giant.

Wang Zhongqie looked down and saw an 88mm cannon hidden in the gate.

So he shouted: "This trajectory, and this gun sound, it's an 88mm gun! Send two more Vortex tanks, otherwise we may not be able to deal with it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the second shot came and hit the Vortex's gun shield, directly knocking the entire gun shield crooked. The 100mm gun tilted high and got stuck at an elevation angle of 20 degrees.

The second Vortex drove out and opened fire into the gate.

For a moment, the entire gate was covered in smoke and dust raised by the explosion of high-explosive bombs.

The two dog-headed statues at the door were also covered in the dust, and they looked like they were glowing red under the orange-red sunset.

Wang Zhong was shocked and quickly ordered: "Don't attack the statue! Stay away from it! We need to convince the local tribes to help us later! We can't explain it if we attack the statue!"

At this time, the No. 3 Vortex opened fire, and the grenade flew into the gate along the statue.

Wang Zhong: "Don't hit the statue!"

The second grenade exploded, triggering a chain explosion.

The roof of the entire temple was blown up into the sky, and then the main body of the temple collapsed, spreading to the surrounding areas like a domino effect.

The two statues at the door also fell down and disintegrated.

Wang Zhong opened his mouth into an O shape.

At this time, he heard the voice of Colonel Benjamin of the United States from behind: "General, I have brought the local tribal leader here."

Wang Zhong turned around and looked at the kind-looking old man: "Uh, this...that..."

The old man made a Dongshengjiao gesture to Wang Zhong and said in standard Ant language: "Our tribe has already believed in the secular sect, so the general does not need to worry."

"Well... that's easy." Wang Zhong relaxed and introduced himself, "I'm Rokossov, nice to meet you."

(End of this chapter)