artillery arc

Chapter 690 Preparations for Attack
As soon as Wang Zhong got off the plane, he saw reporter Mike and his partner leading two other white strangers.

"Mike, I've been wondering why you were not present at the Balas Conference, a conference that is destined to go down in history." Wang Zhong teased to Mike who came towards him.

Mike gave a bitter smile: "Of course it's because the real big reporter wants the credit, so I can only give way obediently."

Wang Zhong: "I thought you were the trump card of your newspaper."

"In terms of the ability to catch news, I am. But I don't have a governor as my father-in-law, so I have to give it to the one who interviewed you. I read his report, and it's not to the point and not inflammatory. This kind of thing can even affect the sale of war bonds if it's published on the headlines. But he has a governor as his father-in-law, so he can do whatever he wants."

Wang Zhong: "Is the United States like this now?"

Reporter Mike shrugged, "It's always been like this. So do an interview? Can you make an appointment before you go back to the front?"

Wang Zhong: "I thought you came here just for the interview."

"Unfortunately not. I'm here to introduce these two people. They are reporters from our rivals. You may not know what this means. We have two main people in the United States-"

Wang Zhong: “I understand.”

As for the battle between the donkey and the elephant, Wang Zhong has been watching the US election with the mentality of watching a variety show since Wang Dong started running for the election. He still has some basic common sense.

Mike: "You may be wondering why I would recommend a reporter from my rival. The thing is, I owed him a favor before, and now I'm paying him back, so I won't participate in your car interviews in the future."

A car interview refers to an interview conducted in a car while the car is moving, a bit like the meeting with the fat middleman in the car at the beginning of "Cyberpunk 2077".

Lyudmila heard this and whispered in Wang Zhong's ear: "I'm going to take a car with Olga."

"Ah."

Wang Zhonggang nodded, and Mike introduced him "enthusiastically": "This is our correspondent Wallace."

"Oh, you are Wallace. You are really tall." Wang Zhong shook the other person's hand.

Wallace: "I have always wanted to do an exclusive interview with you. Our readers are very interested in how you achieved such brilliant results."

Wang Zhong: "I'm afraid the art of war cannot be explained in one interview. Why don't you pay attention to what kind of person I am?"

"This is Mike's area of ​​expertise." Wallace glanced at Mike, "The whole of New York knows that you are the childhood friend of the former crown prince, and knows how you and he played games."

Wang Zhong looked at Mike and wondered what the hell he had written.

Mike: "As I said before, I am very good at extracting the parts of the news that readers care about. Don't worry, readers like the cowboy macho Rokossov that I created."

Cowboy hunk?

Reporter Wallace: "If it weren't for his 'brilliant writing', you probably wouldn't have to wait until now to appear on the cover of Time magazine for the second time."

Wang Zhong was very surprised: "I'm on it again? Can the same person be on it twice?"

Reporter Mike: "Normally no, but there can be exceptions, like President Roosevelt, who has been re-elected for a third term. If the war doesn't end soon, he will be re-elected for a fourth term next year."

Wang Zhong: "Okay, when can I get that issue of Time magazine?"

Wallace took out the magazine from his bag and showed it to Wang Zhong. Wang Zhong used his English level, which was barely enough to pass the CET-4, to identify the words on the cover. It seemed to be "Plossen Gravedigger".

feel good.

He took the magazine, stared at the cover for a few seconds, handed it to Vasily beside him, and said to Wallace reporter, "We'll talk about the rest in the car."

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After getting in the car, reporter Wallace asked the first question before the car started: "Your Excellency Marshal, I want to know if you have ever considered the possibility of defeat."

Wang Zhong: "No, because according to my analysis, there is almost no possibility of us losing the battle."

Wallace: "What if - I mean what if - Ant was defeated and the former Tsar surrendered to Plossen - we know that this is a possibility, and he almost did it two winters ago.

“Let’s assume this becomes a reality, what would you do?”

Wang Zhong: "I will retreat to Siberia and continue the resistance there."

Wallace: "At that time, the United States may not support you through the Lend-Lease Act. Will you continue even if it does?"

"Of course. Even if I am the only one left in the end," Wang Zhong looked at Wallace and said word by word, "even if my hand is full of bullets and I can't pick up the gun anymore, I will still use the stick to throw at those damn Plossom devils."

Wallace's eyes widened: "With a stick?"

"It can also be bricks, or anything that can be used as a weapon. Ant will not become a colony of Proson, and we refuse to be second-class citizens! I can predict that in your hypothesis, the entire Ant will be a beacon of resistance." Wang Zhong looked at reporter Wallace firmly.

"From the Tiber to the Baltic, all the land will be liberated."

Wallace: "But this also includes the mainland of the Prosom Empire. The Ante army's entry into the mainland of Prosom should be called invasion rather than liberation, right?"

Wang Zhong laughed: "What a joke! The rulers of Proshen let the young people of Proshen be buried in a distant foreign land just to satisfy their desires! Countless Proshen mothers lost their sons because of this.

"Rescuing the people of Prosom from such an unjust ruler is certainly liberation!" "We will liberate the entire Eastern Europa. If the Allies do not open up a second battlefield, we will also liberate Western Europa and plant the flag of the secularists on the shores of the Atlantic!"

Wallace looked so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.

Wang Zhong: “Anything else you want to ask?”

Wallace: "Of course, what do you think was the most difficult moment of the entire war?"

Wang Zhong: "Of course it was in Haut-Peigne. At that time we only had a half-crippled infantry regiment, some T28 tanks, and the tank crews who drove them were all untrained and lacked everything except courage. Some tank crew members didn't even have courage.

"There I was, fighting the first defensive battle in my life where I was outnumbered."

Wallace: "Upper Peniye Village."

"Yes, my troops will retake that village during this winter offensive."

Wang Zhong is still acting. In fact, after crossing the Dibo River in the autumn, the places where he had fought will be recovered one by one.

First Loktov, then Bogdanovka, then Verkhne-Penie and Roniezh, and finally the offensive would stop near the border.

But Wang Zhong insisted that all this happened this winter.

Wallace: "Is it really okay to just talk about your future plans like this?"

"No, some military matters are all overt conspiracies, just like Proson's failure. The general direction is doomed, and the key lies in the details!" Wang Zhong laughed, "So there is no risk in revealing the general direction here, because the enemy headquarters also knows it."

Wallace: “Yes…that’s it.”

Wang Zhong: "The enemy headquarters also knew that we had just finished a long-distance advance and had to stop to resupply and rest. During the advance, many troops fell behind and many were separated from their original troops. They needed time.

"Many soldiers have broken their feet and exhausted their physical strength during the raid, and they also need rest to recover.

"As for armored vehicles like tanks, they must have many problems after traveling such a long distance. They need time to repair and also need time to replace the scrapped vehicles. We definitely cannot launch a large-scale offensive in September this year. We know this and the Prosen people know it too!"

Wallace: "But you always like to go against military common sense, don't you? If someone says that Plosson's generals can predict something, you will definitely find a way to break it."

Wang Zhong: "I can't violate objective laws, my dear reporter. You still have something to learn about war."

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On the east bank of the Tiber River, behind the positions of the First Front of Khazaria, the hidden departure point.

The Ante soldiers unloaded the dinghy from the Dragon trailer onto the ground.

"Hurry up!" the chaplain shouted. "We must unload all the boats today!"

One soldier shouted: "We're not going to attack next month, why are we in such a hurry?"

"This is an order from the front commander. This is the Marshal's intention. When has the Marshal ever asked us to do useless work? Anyway, just do it!"

Just as he finished speaking, the sound of artillery firing was heard from the east, and shells whizzed past everyone's heads.

Someone looked up at the sky and said, "Okay, let's kill more Proson devils!"

Priest: "You shouting here won't bring more bad luck to the Prosons. The landing point of the shells has been determined! But if you work hard, you may be able to eliminate the Prosons yourself soon!"

"Oh!" everyone responded together.

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At the same time, at Agorsukov Railway Station.

Ivan, a 50-year-old railway worker, looked at the tanks on the train entering the station and couldn't help muttering: "This tank is really strange, why is it round?"

The young soldier standing guard nearby laughed and said, "You don't know, this round head has great protection capabilities. Proson's armor-piercing bullets were all bounced off it!"

Old Ivan: “Really?”

"Yes, you see, our helmets are also round, and they use the same principle to deflect bullets!

"I heard from the tank soldiers that this new tank can fight the enemy's 70-ton heavy tank on equal terms! Ours is a medium tank, weighing only over 30 tons!"

Old man: "Ah? Then let's build a 70-ton one, wouldn't it be invincible?"

The little soldier said: "What you said is right. A 70-ton tank can't move at all. It will sink! You know the conditions of the land in Kosalia. In the Spring and Autumn Period, even cows would sink from time to time!"

Old man: "That's right. Hey, our equipment has become better. If we had such equipment two years ago, there wouldn't be so many deaths, right?"

The young soldier comforted him, "Don't worry, sir. I will never retreat again. Next summer, I will enter the mainland of Proshen!"

"Okay! Okay!" the old man said repeatedly, his eyes fixed on the train that was still entering the station.

(End of this chapter)