Arc of Gunfire

The city of Orachi is currently controlled by the Ant Army at 1030 hours.

You can hear rolling thunder in the distance, which is actually the enemy preparing artillery fire on the defensive positions outside the city.

Neri carried a basket and left the headquarters from the side door - General Rokossov's dormitory was together with the headquarters, so Nellie naturally lived here.

Precisely because she lived here, she was able to make full use of Mr. Boyer's kitchen and prepare meals for everyone in the headquarters.

Now she was going out to collect ingredients for dinner.

Of course, enough food has been prepared in the headquarters of the 151st Division. After all, this place is scheduled to be the defensive support point in the final stage of urban hand-to-hand combat, so sufficient food and water must be prepared.

But Nellie doesn't like military rations very much. As long as there is still supply, she plans to work hard to make some food other than military rations.

In addition to gathering ingredients, she is also preparing to give Miss Lyudmila the mixed salad she made last night.

This is the lady's favorite food.

Nellie passed the gate with a basket in her arms.

The guards all knew she was the general's orderly and let her go without even checking her ID.

As soon as she went out, Nelly was stunned, because the entire row of houses directly opposite the headquarters was enveloped in flames, and the residents of Orachi were working together to put out the fire.

Nelly watched for a few seconds, and finally decided to ignore the firefighting and continue working.

At this moment, the house on the edge of the fire collapsed with the explosion.

Nelly was startled by the explosion and took a step back.

The guard at the headquarters said: "Don't worry, we are blowing up the isolation zone. Blow up the buildings that are prone to fire first, so that the fire will not come over."

Nelly nodded, holding the basket tightly and walking forward.

She walked through a bomb crater and saw a child sitting on the edge of the crater blankly, not knowing what he was thinking.

People who died in the bombing were lined up next to the crater, and a priest was saying mass among the corpses.

Nellie quickened her pace, clattering through the war-shrouded city.

Soon he came to the building in the northwest corner of the city and nodded to the soldiers guarding the door.

The soldier opened the door and took a step aside.

The soldier guarding the machine gun smiled at Nellie and said, "You are still so punctual, Miss Maid."

"I'm the general's orderly," Nellie said.

"Then you at least have to wear the whole boat hat. How about wearing mine?" The machine gunner took off his boat hat.

Nelly showed an expression of disgust.

The machine gunner put his hat back angrily: "Okay, I understand. Come up quickly, don't let Miss Praying Hands starve."

Nellie entered the door and followed the stairs to the attic.

Of the two windows in the attic, one had its window frame removed to set up a divine arrow launcher, and Lyudmila was sitting on the windowsill of the other window.

There are two female soldiers in the attic, checking the spare arrows.

Lyudmila held a book and read in the sunlight that was gradually approaching noon.

Nelly: "Miss? The battle has begun."

Lyudmila put down the book and looked at Neli: "But it has nothing to do with us. Neli, come here, do you see the sound array on the roof over there? I heard the sound of the enemy reconnaissance plane over there. This call is It will ring."

Lyudmila pointed to the telephone on the chest of drawers next to the window. The phone cord was pulled in from the window and stuck on the edge of the window sill with a big brick.

Lyudmila: "Then my combat mission will begin. Until then, I can only look at them like this and can't do anything."

As she spoke, Lyudmila looked towards the fields to the north.

Lyudmila: "It's quite peaceful in the north today."

Nelly looked at the rising smoke flowers in the north and asked suspiciously: "Is it calm?"

"It's very peaceful. Although the enemy is fighting happily, Alyosha must have withdrawn his troops."

"Eh?" Nelly was shocked, "Aliao...young master?"

"Yes. The current Alyosha." Lyudmila smiled. "The current Alyosha will never let his troops be engulfed by the enemy's artillery fire. His troops must have withdrawn to a place with better anti-cannon fire. The third position.”

Nellie let out a "ha", and after a short silence she asked: "Miss, as expected..."

"Alyosha is Alyosha. Don't you like Alyosha now?"

Nelly nodded: "I quite like it, but I'm not used to it."

"Men will grow up."

Just as Nellie was about to reply, her attention was drawn to the situation on the west side of the city.

There seemed to be a battle breaking out to the west, with tracer bullets flying everywhere.

Nelly looked over there curiously.

"Neli," Lyudmila called softly, "here you are."

Neli lowered her head in surprise and found Lyudmila handing her a telescope.

Picking up the telescope, Nelly looked to the west. The Rokosov family is a military family - in fact, there are very few Ant nobles who are not from military families. After all, according to the empire's hierarchy, titles are basically tied to military ranks.

However, the Rokosov family is a "real" military family, so most of the servants have some military common sense.

Nellie knew how to operate a telescope and adjust the magnification.

So Neli clearly saw that on the road to the west of the city, the tanks of the Ant Army were fighting with the enemy's tanks.

She recognized that it was a small tank that had arrived in Orachi two days ago and joined Major General Rokossov's command. It was much smaller than the T34.

The opponents of these small tanks are also a group of small tanks.

These small tanks seem to be able to fire continuously, and most of the tracer bullets fired are green (the No. 1 tank only has a machine gun, and the No. 2 tank is equipped with a machine gun).

The Ant Army's small tanks could fire, so the enemy was quickly at a disadvantage.

Nellie held the telescope and said while looking: "It seems... we have the advantage? So are we going to win?"

Lyudmila smiled bitterly: "Alyosha said that it may take three to four years to fight and tens of millions of people will be killed."

Neli's shoulders trembled when she heard the number of casualties, and the telescope dropped directly from her hands, but she immediately reacted and grabbed the telescope.

"Oh!" Lyudmila clapped her hands, and several other female skitarii also clapped.

Lyudmila: "Is this the reaction speed you practice to avoid breaking bowls and plates?"

Nelly blushed a little.

She changed the subject and said, "Look, the enemy tanks are puffing out smoke!"

"That's smoke. Proson likes to use smoke. It is said that it is mainly used to defend against divine arrows. In Ronezh, the smoke did block our shooting range. At that time, we originally thought that we could use divine arrows to control an entire Street, as a result, there was a cloud of smoke, and it could only be controlled for 500 meters.

"Then Deputy Knight Yezemenko, who was not yet a deputy knight at the time, ordered us to move forward. As a result, we encountered the Prosen infantry on the way, and the Divine Arrow Company was suddenly killed, leaving only a few of us.

"Ah, don't tell Alyosha. In order to prevent him from worrying about me, I haven't told him this yet."

Lyudmila said and gently touched Neli's head.

Nellie: "It's so dangerous..."

"It's a battlefield. Neither I nor Alyosha may be gone at some point. Nellie, you have to be careful too. I think you should go back. I heard that Mr. Rokosov is at Raoul Mountain. Bian bought a new manor, if you go there..."

Nelly shook her head like a rattle: "No, I'm not going anywhere. I want to follow you!"

Lyudmila: "Then you need to get a boat-shaped hat, otherwise you won't look like an orderly."

As she spoke, she took off the hairband from Nelly's head and put her boat-shaped hat on the maid's head.

"Well, it looks pretty good." Lyudmila smiled.

Then the phone rang.

Lyudmila shouted "Combat Alert" and picked up the phone at the same time: "Arrow Company, Brother Peter? Which direction? OK!"

After putting down the phone, Lyudmila instructed the skitarii: "It's the one coming from the front. Let's fight them head on."

After saying that, she lay down at the attic window and shouted outside: "Ivan! Get ready to move!"

Nellie: "Transfer?"

"Yes, we need to move immediately after the fight. We were almost hit by the Proson people's remote-controlled bomb before - I don't know what the remote-controlled bomb Alyosha was talking about. Anyway, it was very powerful and almost killed our entire company of arrows. "

Nellie: "Then I'll help too!"

"Okay, take that one! Get down first!"

At this time one of the Skitarii shouted: "See the target!"

Lyudmila immediately looked out the window, and sure enough she saw a catamaran reconnaissance plane flying this way.

Then the next moment, a divine arrow rose from the woods and hit it.

Lyudmila was stunned: "Eh?"

Nelly: "What's wrong?"

Lyudmila stamped her feet angrily: "Damn Katyusha (Ekaterina's nickname), she stole my goal!"

One of the Skitarii said: "Just don't get robbed of your general. The target is fine."

Lyudmila looked at the Skitarii: "Check the divine arrows! Report the combat readiness status in ten minutes!"

"yes!"

Neli: "Ekaterina also likes the young master?"

Lyudmila: "Hey, he is so popular now, it would be strange to look down on him."

Nellie: "Miss, you are so proud."

"I'm very proud."

Nelly was speechless, and suddenly she remembered a piece of "military common sense": "Wait a minute, so miss, are you now dedicated to air defense? Wasn't the Divine Arrow invented to deal with tanks?"

"Alyosha likes to use magic arrows for air defense." Lyudmila spread her hands. "In terms of whimsical things, he is the same as before."

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At the same time, Wang Zhong sneezed several times.

At this time, the call from the 13th Armored Battalion came over the radio: "The lame wolf calls the white horse, the lame wolf calls the white horse!"

Wang Zhong: "This is the white horse, please speak."

"The Lame Wolf has killed No. 1 and No. 2 who cut off our army's supply line. Now he is preparing to enter the tank bunker and collide with No. 3 and No. 4."

Wang Zhong immediately switched to the perspective of the troops.

Although the friendly view does not light up, it is still no problem to see the battlefield situation.

As a result, he saw a large pile of wreckage of No. 2 and No. 1 near the highway.

Good guys, let you enter the bunker and confront the enemy's No. 3 and No. 4. You will first eat the No. 1 and No. 2 left for the anti-tank gun?

This fighting will is great!

Wang Zhong: "Lame Wolf, well done, Lame Wolf, well done! Keep fighting."

Wang Zhong originally wanted to say it three times, but in his excitement he said one less sentence.

"Baima, don't worry, leave it to us. Even if you run out of ammunition, we will knock the enemy out."

Wang Zhong: "No, I order you to win and come back alive. Repeat, I order you to win and come back alive!"

There was silence for a few seconds and then he replied: "I'll try my best. Lame Wolf, it's over!"