artillery arc

Chapter 620 Rokossov embarks on his journey home

June 6, near the military demarcation line between the First Khazaria Front and the Plossen Southern Army Group, 30 hours.

The Proson night reconnaissance team quietly crossed the boundary line between the two army control areas.

Such night reconnaissance has become normalized recently. The purpose is the same as that of daytime reconnaissance, to confirm the location and details of the Ant Army's defense line.

However, the Ants also sent out their own night patrols, and the two sides often captured each other's prisoners in the process of fighting wits and courage. Therefore, this kind of night reconnaissance also has a nickname "prisoner exchange" among the Plosson soldiers, but it is not to exchange their own people from the enemy, but to exchange their own people for the enemy.

Tonight's reconnaissance team is led by Lieutenant Hank, a veteran in reconnaissance who just received the Second Class Iron Cross for capturing prisoners.

For this Iron Cross, Lieutenant Hank lost 11 soldiers. It is unclear whether they died somewhere in the tall grass during the battle or were captured by the enemy.

Now, Lieutenant Hank gradually regarded night reconnaissance as a kind of competition. In his fantasy, there must be a commander on the other side who is similar to himself, and he looks forward to a new round of confrontation every day.

There must be such a person.

While I was thinking this, I heard the chirping of katydids coming from the front.

That was the secret signal agreed upon with the scout. He had discovered the Ant patrol!
At this moment, the sound of PPSh's shooting rang out!
Lieutenant Hank: "Damn it! We're ambushed, retreat!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the people around the lieutenant turned around and ran straight towards their own position.

The next moment, he stepped on a landmine and was sent flying.

The lieutenant himself was pushed aside by the excessive power of the ant mine, and his head hit a stone in the grass, and he fainted.

I don’t know how long it was, but the lieutenant suddenly had a basin of ice water poured on his face and woke up instantly.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Judge Ant holding a bucket in front of him.

After their eyes met, the judge immediately saluted the person next to him and reported something loudly.

Lieutenant Hank felt that he might have been given a concussion by the damn ANT mine. His entire brain was in a state of shutdown. He turned his head with difficulty and saw a senior ANT general.

He should be a senior general. There are many stars on his military rank, at least a general.

Lieutenant Hank had no idea what the senior general was saying - he had clearly learned crash course in Ant language in order to conduct battlefield interrogations of wounded enemies!

Fortunately, the translator spoke up: "The general asked you, when did you get the cross?"

Lieutenant Hank: "Less than a week ago, because I took 15 of you prisoners. All 15!"

After saying that, Lieutenant Hank laughed and looked provocatively at the senior general Ant with many stars on his face.

The general said something else, and the translator sneered and translated: "The general said that the number of prisoners you captured is not as many as the General Plosson he killed. In addition, he also captured dozens of generals including your Marshal Frederick."

Lieutenant Hank: "Hahahaha, how is that possible! The only one who can do this is your General Rokossov!"

Suddenly, the lieutenant shuddered and his heart skipped a beat: Could the person in front of him be Rokossov?
Because his mind was clear, many details that he had overlooked became clear. The five-star general in front of him was indeed the General Rokossov in the identification manual issued by the Supreme Command!

Lieutenant Hank subconsciously tried to stand up, which triggered an overreaction from the guard. Before he could react, he was pressed down on the table, with the flesh on his cheeks embedded in the crack of the table.

Lieutenant Hank was released only after General Rokossov said something. He immediately stood up and said to Rokossov: "One of our goals is to capture you alive!"

Rokossov smiled and asked in Ant language.

Translation: "The general asks you, when do you plan to come? Or, are you coming or not?"

Lieutenant Hank: "Of course we will come! We are facing a little difficulty now. Once the command overcomes this little difficulty, we will come and capture you alive!"

Rokossov laughed.

Translation: "The general said that you might not be able to solve that little problem, and the attack will never come."

Lieutenant Hank: "Of course we will attack! We have concentrated a large number of new equipment, and you will collapse in front of the technological force! Just like two years ago!"

Rokossov suddenly stopped laughing, looked at Lieutenant Hank with a stern face, and his tone became serious.

Translation: "The general said that even if you have new equipment, it will only be beaten to a pulp by the new equipment of the Ante Army. Proson's technology is not as powerful as you boast. Your scientific researchers are just ordinary people. The Aryan nation is a fabricated collective illusion."

Lieutenant Hank took a step forward, and the burly sergeant next to him immediately stepped in between him and the general.

The lieutenant maintained this posture and shouted: "Our new medium tank weighs 46 tons! Our new heavy tank weighs more than 70 tons! And it is equipped with a main gun of amazing caliber! You don't have a tank that can match it!"

Rokossov smiled contemptuously.

Translation: "Such heavy equipment will probably get stuck in the black soil before it can go far. We are ready to receive these luxurious toys. In September, we will hold an exhibition of the new Proson tanks in Yeburg and invite all representatives of the Allied Forces stationed in Yeburg to visit."

Lieutenant Hank: "Well, if you can do it, then give it a try! If you have the guts, just attack our troops who are ready for battle!"

After listening to the translation, Rokossov turned his head and looked at the clock on the wall.

————Wang Zhong: "Vasily, tell him we are about to attack."

Vasily immediately began to speak Prosen with great excitement.

Pavlov leaned over and said, "It seems that the Prosen people didn't realize we were going to attack. This man should just be on a routine night patrol."

Wang Zhong: "Indeed, the enemy probably has a mindset that we will only defend and counterattack in the summer. But General Gorky has already taken the initiative to attack them twice."

At this time, Vasily finished translating, and the Proson man became even more excited and wanted to move forward, but was firmly held back by Sergeant Gregory.

The Prosen people had no choice but to turn their anger into action and said a lot of gibberish.

Wang Zhong looked at Vasily.

Vasily: "He said that you - then we must be crazy. Fighting a tank battle with the Plosson Armored Forces on the Great Plains will only bring humiliation to ourselves."

Wang Zhong: "Tell him that he is grateful for his... uh, advice. All right, take him away and hand him over to the Inquisitor."

Hearing Wang Zhong's words, the judge who had been rubbing his hands for a long time smiled meaningfully.

The two inquisitors grabbed the captured lieutenant on the left and right and dragged him away.

Gregory watched the Proson people leave before returning to the door to continue smoking.

Pavlov: "Damn it, he has a point! We really shouldn't fight a tank battle with the enemy."

Wang Zhong: "We have to have a tank showdown, and this is a good opportunity to test the performance of the Rokossov I heavy tank."

In fact, Wang Zhong was a little unsure about engaging in a tank battle with the Prosen people.

In real history, even during the Battle of the Oder, Sandzi's armored forces were still able to launch a good counterattack and increase the exchange ratio.

Wang Zhong seriously suspected that it was Sandezi's counterattack on the Oder River that inspired Liu Cixin, so in the publicly published version of "Full Channel Blocking Interference", he wrote about the counterattack of West Germany's last Leopard tank battalion against the steel torrent, achieving an exchange ratio of 1 to 1.5.

Pavlov: "Yes, but unfortunately our new medium tanks can't catch up."

The production of the new medium tank was slightly delayed. After all, the oval turret required a new production process, but some of the new machine tools and equipment shipped from the United States had not yet arrived, and some were still in the process of training workers.

The Ordnance Bureau told Wang Zhong that two brigades, with a total of 82 vehicles, could be deployed during the winter offensive.

Summer has just begun.

At this time, the artillery commander of the front army, Major General Andro, came in and saluted Wang Zhong: "General, the artillery unit of the front army is fully prepared."

"Very good." Wang Zhong nodded.

The artillery strength of the Khasalia Front has been greatly improved compared to the Abavakhan Front in last year's winter offensive. The front's artillery has expanded to the scale of an artillery army. Wang Zhong has deployed two heavy breakthrough artillery divisions in both breakthrough directions.

For such a large-scale artillery unit, the ammunition consumption is extremely alarming, and a large number of maintenance units are also needed to repair damaged artillery vehicles and the like. In order to facilitate support, Wang Zhong set up a separate artillery headquarters in the front and promoted an artillery general.

At this time, Popov suddenly said: "Today's military intelligence report said that the enemy seems to have deployed a heavy rocket launcher called Stuka on land, so we should be careful when attacking."

Wang Zhong frowned. Of course he knew the land Stuka. He had used it in many strategic games on the World War II theme.

If the enemy really equips this thing in large quantities, it will be quite troublesome for them to directly cover our offensive forces.

If the attack time is tomorrow, Wang Zhong will have to take off personally to find the location of these land Stukas, and then guide the air force bombers to bomb them.

But now the arrow is on the string and has to be shot.

Wang Zhong looked at Pavlov, who immediately said, "No matter what new equipment the enemy has, we cannot postpone the attack. The good news is that even if the enemy's new equipment is very effective, it can only delay us locally."

Indeed, for this pincer attack, the two breakthrough points chosen by Wang Zhong are both twenty kilometers wide - at least twenty kilometers wide. Once the breakthrough is made, a large number of troops will be deployed to tear open the breakthrough point, so there will be no upper limit to the width of the breakthrough point.

This is not the petty pincer attack of Proson, but the big pincer attack of Ant.

Wang Zhong looked at the clock on the wall again and cursed, "Why is time going so slowly?"

Popov: "Don't act like you're a novice attacking the enemy for the first time."

Vasily: "The general is just anxious to get home."

Everyone in the room laughed and the air was filled with joy.

At this time, Nellie came in with a food cart: "Want a midnight snack, everyone?"

The staff officers immediately shouted: "Yes!"

They knew that the commander would never be angry at this time.

(End of this chapter)