artillery arc

Chapter 477 Siege Plan
The royal city of Baras is simply called the City of Baras. It is a mountain city that guards the canyon leading to Bahara.

Therefore, Ant and the United Kingdom's battle plan is to advance from the north and south.

However, the United Kingdom's army is still a hundred kilometers away from the city of Barras.

Wang Zhong stood on the high ground outside the city and looked at the ancient city wall of Balas.

"My goodness," he put down the telescope and turned to ask Pavlov, "How thick is this wall?"

Emilia: "Didn't you read the information we gave you? The thickest part is five meters."

Wang Zhong breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, it's not thick. We can destroy it with enough explosives."

Pavlov shook his head: "If the enemy sets up dense firepower, it may not be possible to get close enough to place explosives."

Wang Zhong: "Why not use tanks to cover the city? The tanks will cover the engineers and rush to the city wall. The explosion will destroy the city wall, and then the army will rush in... But if the defenders are the Prosen Army with a new skin, it will be terrible."

If the defenders are a re-skinned Prosen army, then the siege plan must be cautious.

At this time, Mayer Abdullah and Mistafa from the First Brigade of Barras came over together, and immediately performed the great salute when they saw Wang Zhong.

Wang Zhong: "You don't have to do this every time you see me. We are all ordinary human beings. We are equal."

Meyer Abdullah nodded immediately. "Okay. We didn't think enough. I noticed that you get along well with the soldiers. Using such a grand gift is actually a slander against you."

No, it’s not to that extent…

Wang Zhong could only smile awkwardly.

Meier said seriously, "We are here today for one thing. In order to rebel against the king, we have seized the underground passage of the capital. It seems to have been dug during the Old Kingdom and is now used as a sewer."

Wang Zhong immediately became excited. An ancient sewer, what a classic CRPG setting. It felt like there would be a lich or something living in it, and then a guild like the Thieves Guild hidden inside, and that would be it.

Then he thought of the supernatural forces in this world, and maybe those things really existed, so he asked Meier: "Are there any skeletons, ghouls, or goblins in this sewer?"

"What's the skeleton? And the other two I've never heard of." Meier looked confused.

At this time, the United Kingdom's liaison officer, Colonel Benjamin, said in Baras: "These are two kinds of monsters that appear in legends. The United Kingdom also has similar things, but they are not in your Baras legends, so there is no corresponding translation. In short, they are things that appear in dark places such as sewers and attack humans."

Meier shook his head: "No. The biggest beast in the sewer is the rat."

Wang Zhong: "Is that rat the height of an eight-year-old child, holding a weapon that emits green light?"

Meier continued to shake his head: "No, the largest rat weighed only 1.5 kilograms, about this size."

He gestured with his hands and it did look like a big rat, but not to the point of being scary.

Wang Zhong felt relieved. Ever since he was attacked by the falconer, he had become a little sensitive to mysterious powers. He suddenly remembered that the information provided by the United Kingdom before the attack began said that Barras had spells that could summon armies from other worlds and control the dead, but it seemed that he had not seen any of them during the attack.

So he asked Meier, "Where are the other famous spells of your Baras? How come we didn't see them all the way here?"

Meier smiled honestly: "Because I persuaded them to go to the south to deal with the United Kingdom's army. Maybe it's because they are slow to stop the United Kingdom's army from advancing."

"No," Colonel Benjamin shook his head. "No, our army is just that slow. Or rather, considering the smooth progress of the Ant Army, the United Kingdom Army is only this slow... Tsk, I don't think your witchcraft has any effect."

Wang Zhong looked at Colonel Benjamin and thought to himself, are you people from the United Kingdom so good at making fun of yourselves?

But he immediately remembered that it was Dai Ying himself who made the most incisive TV series satirizing Dai Ying on Earth, and suddenly he felt that this made sense.

Well, it turns out that almost killing me, Wang Zhong, is already the most powerful resistance that the mysterious power can offer. No wonder Proson doesn't take these mysterious powers seriously.

In the era of cold weapons, this mysterious power was probably very influential, but now in the face of modern science and industry, it is no longer mysterious enough.

In other words, when the power of science and technology and industry exceeds a certain threshold, mystery no longer matters.

Wang Zhong felt that he was gradually understanding the world.

"General," Meier interrupted Wang Zhong's thoughts, "If we take the sewers and bypass the city defenses, our casualties will be greatly reduced. The commandos can directly attack the city gate garrisons and quickly capture the city's north gate."

Wang Zhong: "Are the troops stationed in the city Barras or Prosen?"

"It's the Barras. After all, the city is bustling with people and has United Kingdom diplomats stationed there. It's unlikely that they would be replaced by the Prosents without attracting attention."

As soon as Meier finished speaking, Mistafa took over the conversation: "But these Baras people are different from us. In order to save the country, we strictly forbid soldiers to eat moon candy. This is a kind of candy made from local plants. It has a strong stimulant effect. People who eat it will dance with joy, be extremely excited, and feel no pain."

Wang Zhong narrowed his eyes and looked at Colonel Benjamin. Colonel: "Yes, this is also one of the sources of the necromancy that Baras said drove the corpse. We believe that the wizard used a more powerful version of moon sugar, or added other rare herbal ingredients to enhance the excitement ability."

Wang Zhong sighed: "When the veil of mystery is torn off, what lies underneath is so ordinary that it makes people indignant."

Pavlov: "Let's see if these drugged Emperor's dogs can beat the thread cutters."

Wang Zhong: “Do we have a thread cutting machine?”

"We just shipped a batch of them over from China. The 393rd Marine Infantry Brigade happened to be resting, so we distributed them to them." Pavlov said, "It just so happens that the elite Marine Infantry have been resting for a few days, and it's time for them to go into battle."

Wang Zhong turned his head and asked Colonel Benjamin: "Can the 1st Paratrooper Division Task Force be deployed? And Komanda. I want to deploy the elite infantry of the United Kingdom and our elite infantry to carry out this mission together, attacking different targets respectively, and then see who fails to complete the mission.

"This will also solve the problem of the United Kingdom not having enough time to join the siege."

Colonel Benjamin stared at Wang Zhong for a few seconds and said, "Considering your friendship with Ms. Emilia, I don't doubt that this is sarcastic."

Wang Zhong: "Of course not. Even you know that the United Kingdom Army is too weak to catch up with the North-South joint attack, so I want to send the excellent First Paratrooper Division Task Force and Komanda Commando in advance, just as a backup for the current situation."

Emilia: "You can be annoying sometimes, but yes, this is a backup plan made with no confidence in the Army's capabilities. The 1st Parachute Division Task Force and the Komanda Commando are ready.

"By the way, I have received a notice from home that the 1st Parachute Division will receive a royal title after this battle, so I hope you can arrange for them to attack more important targets."

Wang Zhong turned around and asked Meier: "How is the defense of the palace?"

Meier: "We were supposed to deliver the palace defense map last night, but the palace's secret police suddenly conducted a city-wide search last night, so the map could not be delivered."

Mistafa: "I heard that there is a blond foreigner directing the palace secret service to search for him."

Wang Zhong: "Don't you have a tunnel?"

"Part of the underground palace was destroyed. We suspect there was a rebellion," said Meyer Abdullah indignantly, "and the traitor was of a high rank."

Emilia: "So now we know the distribution of the garrison outside the palace..."

Wang Zhong interrupted her: "No, they might be reassigned."

"When our liaison came out, the defense had not been redeployed yet," said Meyer.

Wang Zhong: "The Prosons are very methodical. They will adjust their defenses. But the key points of the city defense will not change. It's just that the defenders will change from the Barras to the Prosons. To be honest, I feel more at ease facing the Prosons than the crazy people on drugs."

Sergeant Gregory, who never interrupted, said, "Yeah, I'm tired of killing the Plossans. They all even have the same tone when they call for their mothers when they die. Every inflection is the same."

Everyone laughed.

Wang Zhong: "Then our plan is this: first send out elite troops through the tunnel to attack the enemy's key points, and then the main force will set out after occupying the key points.

"Considering the elite troops' higher fighting will and subjective initiative, I suggest carrying out a night attack."

Troops with stronger will and initiative in night fighting have higher combat effectiveness.

Pavlov: "Yes, if it's the naval infantry, a night attack is no problem."

Colonel Benjamin agreed: "The best time for paratroopers to land is at night, so they are also good at night raids. As for the Komanda, huh, they are ghosts at night, and they will kill all the enemies like ghosts."

Wang Zhong: "That's good. We will launch a night attack tonight. Tomorrow morning we will launch a concentrated artillery attack on the city wall as a backup plan in case the night raid fails. How many 203 heavy artillery do we have?"

Pavlov: "There is a heavy breakthrough artillery regiment, a total of 24 203 guns."

Wang Zhong: "Gather everyone together and choose a location during the day. Let Barasdavarish, who is familiar with the situation in the city, take the artillery commander to choose a location."

"it is good."

Wang Zhong picked up the telescope again and looked at the ancient city.

This is the end of this expedition. After taking down the ancient city, we should consider how to stop the Prosen people along the Valdai River. The First Mobile Army has only rested for a month, and I don't know how it has recovered.

However, the additional troops assigned to the 1st Mobile Group during the Battle of Yeisk are probably not fully recovered.

Mainly these troops, such as the 401st Temporary Division, suffered heavy losses.

At this time, Wang Zhong didn't know that he would have to go to the United States afterwards.

(End of this chapter)