Arc of Gunfire

East of Aolaqi City, forest position.

Gregory loudly encouraged morale: "It's just that the artillerymen are gone! Take your Molotov cocktails! There's nothing scary about tanks, just throw them on the back cover!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the enemy tanks began to fire machine guns.

In fact, at this time, there was still a distance of more than 500 meters between the tank attack formation and the woods, so the machine guns could basically only hit randomly.

The directional machine gun of the special tank has no way to accurately aim, and can only rely on tracer bullets to correct the trajectory.

But as long as the machine gun bullets are crackling and tearing apart the bark of the birch trees, and as long as the falling wood chips are still greeting the soldiers' faces and falling into their collars, then this machine gun shooting will be a huge blow to morale.

The Fifth Beshensk is another unit converted from the Skitarii through shortcuts.

Frightened soldiers began to run out of the trenches and run backwards.

Gregory opened the safety of his submachine gun and knocked down two deserters with a short burst of fire.

"The Tsar's order! Deserting and surrendering to the enemy are all considered treason!" he roared angrily. "According to the order, all your family members should be killed together, but I am kind-hearted and will only kill the traitor himself! Leave me where I am!"

At this time, the enemy's No. 4 fired a cannon. The shell hit the thickest birch tree in the forest, directly breaking the trunk and causing half of the tree to fall to the ground.

Grigori ducked under a tree trunk, but while he was hiding two more deserters rushed out of the trench.

Gregory fired at their backs, and while shooting, he shouted: "Think clearly! If you resist to the end, you may live, but if you run away, you will definitely die!"

At this moment, cheers came from the other end of the position, even overwhelming the roar of the enemy tanks.

Gregory looked over in confusion and saw the tank with tactical number 422 bypassing the fire and smoke on the artillery position.

The tank opened fire, and the armor-piercing shells roared through the woods and accurately hit a No. 4.

More T34s appeared following Car No. 422, firing on the enemy as they advanced.

The enemy, who was still aggressive just now, suddenly stopped and then began to reverse.

Perhaps these Prossen tankers had learned from the experience shared by other units that they should keep their distance when facing the T34 - most T34s hit extremely poorly at long range.

The retreat of the tank troops caused the skirmisher line following the tanks to also begin to retreat.

Upon seeing this, the T34 brigade crossed the woods and began to pursue the enemy tanks.

At this time, a recruit from the 5th Beshensk Regiment asked: "Why is there a person standing behind each tank?"

Without waiting for Gregory to answer, the leading car, No. 422, stopped, and then the people on the engine radiator covers of other cars opened the hatch of the tank and shouted something inside.

Eventually all the tanks stopped just above the tree line and fired at the retreating enemy.

The Prussian tank crew who wanted to shoot with the T34 just after that finally released smoke and chose to retreat.

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Aorachi City, temporary 151st Division headquarters.

"Okay, I got it, you did a good job." Pavlov put down the receiver, "The east side is also blocked. Two T34s are stuck in the turret. The enemy's shooting accuracy is very high! In addition, just past Stu The card was damaged, and we only have 6 intact T34s left.”

Wang Zhong: "All six stations have radios?"

Pavlov shook his head: "No, the enemy tanks seem to be staring at the ones with radio antennas. They must have known that our ordinary tanks do not have radios."

Wang Zhong shook his head and no longer wanted to comment on T34's weaknesses.

I have to get a Sherman next year. Even if I don't have one, it would be nice to get some M3 Grant Lee. That thing is pretty good as a tank destroyer.

At least every car has a radio.

Pavlov: "The good news is that the attack has come to an end, and today is half over."

Wang Zhong looked at his watch and realized that it was already one o'clock in the afternoon.

Just then, the phone rang again.

Pavlov complained: "The enemy is attacking again, right?"

He picked up the receiver: "Division Headquarters, please speak. Got it."

After hanging up the phone, Pavlov looked at Wang Zhong with a bitter look on his face: "The most worrying thing is here. The enemy crossed the highway from our southwest and surrounded us. It seems that they are preparing to launch an offensive on the pasture."

Wang Zhong also frowned: "We originally thought very well. We dug a tank bunker there so that when the enemy attacks, we can drive the T34 in to resist. But now there are only six intact T34s left."

"The good news is that the master workers are repairing the broken T34 on the side of Highland 153."

The master worker at the tractor factory saved my dog's life - Wang Zhong thought sincerely.

Pavlov: "But now the only thing stopping the enemy from rushing into the city is the mine array. The good news is that the mine array we have laid is quite thick. If the enemy has to use artillery fire to clear the road, it will probably take an hour or two to explode. That said, we didn't have to worry about the direction of the pasture until at least three in the afternoon.

“But if the enemy sends out engineers and uses explosive cords to clear mines, there will soon be problems in the direction of the pasture.

"Generally, minefields need to be covered by machine guns and anti-tank guns to prevent enemy engineers from quickly clearing the minefields. But..."

Wang Zhong shook his head and interrupted the chief of staff: "The enemy knows how to smoke, you forgot."

Pavlov looked at the ceiling: "Yes, he can smoke. The Prossens like to smoke. It would be great if we could come up with something that can see through their smoke."

It's thermal imaging, but considering Ant's technical level, it's probably not that simple.

As for Prosen, they had the Fritz X radio bomb right after the war started. Maybe their technology will develop faster than the real World War II.

Damn, it won’t be like that German game "Panzer Corps 2", where the Me 262 and H-229 were flying everywhere in 1943... That would be really difficult, and we can only hope that the heavenly soldiers (US military) would save us.

Pavlov didn’t know what Wang Zhong was thinking. He followed his previous thoughts and said: "No matter what, there will be defensive pressure in the direction of the ranch in two hours at the latest. And we have no troops anymore."

At this time, the phone rang again. Pavlov said "Don’t say it’s bad news" and picked up the receiver: "Division headquarters, talk."

The next moment, he handed the receiver to Wang Zhong: "Popov."

Wang Zhong answered the phone: "This is Rokosov, what's the matter?"

"There are two church protection battalions here. Where are they going to be sent?"

Wang Zhong glanced at Pavlov and answered decisively: "Let them go to the ranch."

Popov was shocked: "Ranch? When surveying the terrain over there, Didn't you say it's not suitable for defense?"

"Abandon the ranch and defend the houses and streets around the ranch."

Popov: "Are you planning to let the Crusaders fight street battles? They will be bullied by the enemy!"

Wang Zhong: "Do you think I want to? The enemy has already deployed over there, and there is only a minefield blocking the enemy. If we don't send people to defend this block, they will go straight to Huanglong! After being cut off by the enemy's center, all defenses will become empty talk!"

Popov was silent for a second and replied: "Okay, I will let them go to the ranch."

"In addition, the labor camp strongly requires us to give them weapons. They want to defend their hometown in person."

Wang Zhong: "Will they use Molotov?"

"Of course, we have been teaching this these days."

Wang Zhong asked again: "Then what extra weapons do we have?"

"A considerable number of Mosin-Nagants, and some shotguns."

When Popov was talking, Wang Zhong heard someone shouting on the other end of the phone: "Just give us something that can kill people!"

Wang Zhong: "Give them guns. If there are still people who want to get weapons after they are distributed, let them throw Molotovs. "

Popov was silent for a few seconds, and then replied, "I admit that I deliberately pushed this decision to you, but I didn't expect you to do it so straightforwardly."

"Because I have seen hell." Wang Zhong replied, "I know how to prevent hell from coming."

"You are right. I will arm the ordinary people now. By the way, I heard that the artillery fire outside has stopped. What's the situation?"

"We have temporarily repelled the enemy's attack, but the situation is worse than in the morning. We are surrounded and imprisoned."

Wang Zhong said this very calmly, as if he was stating something that was very common.

Popov noticed this and smiled, "I have only been in your unit for less than a month - a month?"

"Just arrived."

"Yes, just arrived. Then I already felt that it was normal for us to be imprisoned and face enemies that far outnumber us. And you will stick to it as before until the mission is completed. "

Wang Zhong was about to answer and brag, but he changed his mind at the last minute.

It seems that the Southwestern Front will not be able to escape this time. The enemy's Second Armored Group will definitely bypass Orachi and start a desperate run.

The most suitable retreat route for the Southwestern Front will be cut off, and he can only watch it happen.

The brother, father, and good brothers in this body will be surrounded in Agsukov.

In this case, Wang Zhongshi can no longer show off his ability.

Popov seemed to understand everything: "You have done everything you can and bravely resisted here for two days-this is the third day! I believe no one can do better than you."

Wang Zhong: "Thank you. Please arm the people and prepare for the worst."

"I will. Over." Popov hung up the phone.

Wang Zhong just put down the receiver, and the phone rang again, so Wang Zhong picked up the receiver: "I am Rokosov, what's the matter?"

Frak Peter on the other end of the phone said anxiously: "Dao 217! It was the same sound as the plane that Loktov dropped the radio-guided bomb on last time, and there were two of them! Two! Two bombers carrying that big bomb were coming towards us from high altitude! "

Wang Zhong: "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. I set the sound array to narrow wave mode, sacrificing coverage to improve performance, so I can hear it very clearly. It was Dao 217! It was exactly the same as the one that almost killed your fiancée last time! Exactly the same!"

Wang Zhong came to the window and switched to the bird's-eye view mode, but he couldn't see the enemy plane - Brother Peter switched the sound array working mode so that he could be alert to enemy planes farther away.

Finally, Wang Zhong saw the two Dao 217s and the radio-guided bombs hanging on their racks.

Fritz X!