Arc of Gunfire

Chapter 303 “Vortex” (Update 33/33)

The New Year's Eve carnival lasted until three o'clock in the night, and then everyone rolled back to the barracks under the roar of the priests accompanying the army.

Wang Zhong stayed in Kubinka with Lyudmila that night.

The next morning, Wang Zhong got up early and prepared to go to the Ordnance Bureau's test site to watch the test of the 100mm artillery carrier.

After all, this is the highlight, and it is the most reliable way to move the 100mm gun to the armored vehicle before a turret ring larger than the T34W can be found.

Of course Wang Zhong would like to have a turret if possible. Although weapons like assault guns have the name of "assault", they are actually weapons that are not suitable for offense.

The original design was to be attached to an infantry division to build fixed bunkers during the attack, but later its actual use was to build tanks during defense.

The demolition of bunkers is usually left to Stukas or larger caliber heavy artillery.

There is a 15CM infantry gun over there in Sandoko, which is very powerful, but it is not convenient to maneuver on the front line.

Then they installed the infantry cannon on the chassis of the No. 1 tank and turned it into a Bison self-propelled infantry cannon. The effect of bombing bunkers was much stronger than the No. 3 assault gun.

Wang Zhong finished his breakfast while thinking about this.

As soon as he stood up, Lyudmila stood up too.

Wang Zhong: "What are you doing? Going to the Ordnance Bureau test site to see our 100mm artillery carrier? Let me tell you, I think that thing will work!"

Lyudmila sighed: "I'm going home! After all, as a praying hand, I don't need to master other skills. I would really like to participate in sniper training to learn how to kill enemies with a rifle, but they think it is best not to use praying hands. Learn these.”

Wang Zhong: "You can learn it if you want. It's always good to be able to defend yourself."

Lyudmila: "They asked me to retreat as soon as the arrows were shot. All praying hands were asked to do so."

Wang Zhong: "That's it."

Praying hands are a non-renewable resource. Even if you took out all the children in the seminary, there wouldn’t be much.

In fact, all people who can use divine power are non-renewable resources. If one dies, they can only wait for natural birth. This is still a card drawing behavior with no guarantee.

Therefore, in the past, the Eastern Saint Sect of the Chongsheng Sect was all conservative in the use of divine power, and would rather not use it to ensure their survival. Because the existence of divine power symbolizes the existence of God.

Because the secularists firmly believe that divine power is a scientific phenomenon, on the one hand they are constantly studying divine power, and on the other hand they are more inclined to use divine power as a conventional force.

The purpose of dismantling the Shenjian Company and deploying it to grassroots units was to make such a gesture.

But even secularists would not put prayer hands into a vehicle like an airplane that is likely to never return if it is shot down.

Wang Zhong looked at his fiancée lovingly. At this time, she said: "You let us take on the air defense mission, which has greatly improved our survival rate. On behalf of all the praying hands, I thank you."

"Yes." Wang Zhong nodded, "Let's go, Vasily, prepare the car!"

Vasily: "General, the car is ready."

"Walk."

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After sending Lyudmila back to the manor, Wang Zhong's motorcade arrived at the weapons testing site of the Ordnance Bureau. This test site and Kubinka are just at the two ends of Yebao. The two locations are connected just past the Catherine II Monument in the center of Yebao, and the three points are connected in a line.

As soon as he entered the test site, he heard the sound of cannons. Wang Zhong asked Vasily: "What kind of cannon is this?"

Vasily turned over the documents in his hand: "It should be that the self-propelled artillery using the T70 chassis is being tested. There may be test projects that were not tested yesterday. If you are not here, the project you promoted will not be tested."

Wang Zhong: "Yeah."

At this time, the convoy followed the guidance of the test field and drove to the shooting test field. Then I discovered that there were several Proson tanks parked inside.

Wang Zhong recognized at a glance that these tanks had strengthened armor compared with the ones Wang Zhong faced.

He turned to look at the firing position, cut the bird's eye view, and found that the shortest distance between the gun emplacement of the firing position and the target was 500 meters, and the farthest distance was 800 meters.

He was shocked and shouted: "Why is the maximum test distance only 800 meters?"

At this time, a large group of officers and technicians ran out of the observation post next to the test site and headed straight for Wang Zhong's motorcade.

Before these people could approach, Wang Zhong repeated the question: "Why is the maximum testing distance only 800 meters?"

The leading officer shrugged: "It is said that the standard tank engagement distance is only so far, and this is also written in the training manual."

Wang Zhong checked the perspective and confirmed that the officer's name was Zinov Grigorievich and he was a brigadier general.

He thought for a while and decided not to show that he knew the name yet, so he said: "Who are you? Introduce yourself. You are all."

"Zinov Grigorievich, brigadier general. On the order of General Gorky, I sent over the captured tanks that were not recorded in our military directory."

Wang Zhong checked the plug-in perspective again and confirmed that this person did not belong to the army.

Wang Zhong: “Where are your troops, Brigadier General?”

Zinov Grigorievich sighed: "They were all wiped out in the enemy's ambush. My command vehicle was also destroyed, and I was the only one who escaped with a narrow escape. Lieutenant General, please try me in a military court." Come on! I underestimated the enemy and destroyed more than a hundred tanks in my brigade!"

Wang Zhong: "Are you from the Quick Victory Sect?"

"I am." Zinov Grigorievich nodded without hesitation.

Wang Zhong: "Then why did Gorky not hand you over to the military court, but asked you to send the captured tanks back?"

"I don't know." Zinov replied.

Wang Zhong: "I have no right to judge you. You might as well ask the judge over there."

At this time, Wang Zhong's personal security officer, Bishop Bulgakov of the Inquisition, said: "I also want to ask why you were not arrested above. But as the Inquisition, I would like to ask, are you a capitulator?"

"No," Zinov said resolutely, "I can't wait to eat all my enemies alive to make up for my mistakes."

Wang Zhong: "Okay, I'll discuss your question later. Have you arranged a place to stay?"

"No, I'm like an abandoned baby, everyone has forgotten about me."

Wang Zhong: "Vasily, arrange a place for him."

Vasily: "Okay, I think there should be a lot of empty barracks in Kubinka, where an army group can be stationed, so that the troops can conduct exercises, or in other words, war games of the nobles."

Wang Zhong: "Where are the others?"

A second lieutenant took a step forward: "I am Anatoly Ivanovich. I am in the same unit as the brigade commander. I am a survivor of that ambush. I hope that the brigade commander will not be tried alone, but also me!"

Wang Zhong looked at this man carefully and found that although he had a strong back, his temperament seemed to have been well educated, so he asked: "Are you a high school student?"

Vasily chuckled, because General Rokossov has almost become a high school student recently, looking for high school students everywhere to serve as technical soldiers in the army.

Anatoly: "I am a college graduate, majoring in mathematics."

Wang Zhong: "Why are you driving a tank?"

Anatoly: "Because I can drive a car! Let me be a tank driver. I survived because the driver kept the hatch open and looked at the road, so it was easy to escape."

Wang Zhong: "It is too wasteful for a mathematics university graduate to become a tank driver."

Anatoly said loudly: "I want to fight against Prosin. I think the forefront of modern military technology is the tank."

Wang Zhong: "Really? How many battles have you participated in?"

"I have gone through four and a half months of tank training, and the December offensive was my first battle."

Wang Zhong: "In other words, you know nothing about war. But I still reluctantly ask you, with your clever mind as a college student, do you think tanks play a decisive role?"

Anatoly immediately replied: "No, I observed the composition of the Prosin people when I escaped. A single tank probably won't have much effect."

Wang Zhong turned to Bishop Bulgakov and said: "This does not need to be tried. I need him to join my army."

Vasily muttered: "Good boy, I found a college student again."

In fact, what Wang Zhong really wanted the mathematics students to do was to decipher the Enigma machine, but a college student couldn't do this, so Wang Zhong pinned his hopes on the church.

The secular church promotes that science can interpret theology, so it has a very good relationship with scientists. If you are a scientist, you are a secular church, so it is more appropriate to leave this matter to the church.

Wang Zhong: "Where are the others? Keep introducing yourself."

So the officers introduced themselves one by one, but unfortunately none of the remaining people made a deep impression on Wang Zhong - or in other words, the behavior of these people without exception reminded Wang Zhong of star-chasers, except that they were chasing Wang Zhong. Be loyal to the star of victory.

After learning the names of these people, Wang Zhong asked the original question again: "Why is the target at a distance of 500 to 800?"

Brigadier General Zinov: "Because the designed engagement distance is this far. If it is further away, it will be inaccurate. In fact, judging from the situation on our battlefield, this is still far. Most of the time, the T34 fires at 300 meters and hits the enemy tank. ”

Wang Zhong: "Yes, so we will pay a huge price in the future, Brigadier General Zinov!"

Brigadier General Zinov: "I know that my brigade has paid the price. I told these people that the enemy should be annihilated at a longer distance, so I asked them to change the distance to 1000 meters, 1200 meters and 1500 meters, but they did not Ken!

"And now they are about to conclude that our anti-tank firepower can destroy these enemy tanks modified on the battlefield!"

Wang Zhong: "Record the location of the impact point, and then add the results of 1000 meters and 1200 meters."

Brigadier General Zinov: "What about 1,500 meters?"

Wang Zhong: "Our gunners should miss, especially with such poor sights."

The enemy can hit the target with the first shot from 1500 meters. This is the result of elite tank crews and advanced sighting equipment.

Ant's side generally lacks training no matter what kind of troops it is.

After Wang Zhong gave the order, he found that the staff at the Ordnance Bureau's test site were indifferent, so he shouted: "I said to pull it to a distance of 1,000 meters and 1,200 meters and try again."

Tester: "The enemy tank has been destroyed. Even if you zoom out, it is difficult to observe the effect of the hit. It is impossible to judge..."

Wang Zhong: "Test whether it can be penetrated first, you idiot! Go and do it!"

The staff ran away in a hurry.

At this time, Wang Zhong heard the sound of an engine behind him.

As soon as he turned around, he saw two prototypes of 100mm gun carriers approaching.

I don’t know if it’s because the overall weight has become lighter, but the carrier vehicle equipped with a long-barreled 100mm gun actually drives faster than the T34.

At this time, Wang Zhong heard Brigadier General Zinov next to him gasp: "What is this? I have never seen it before! It looks powerful!"

Wang Zhong: "This is the prototype vehicle I ordered to produce...Wait a minute, let them stop moving those tanks, and withdraw the research institute."

At this time, two prototype cars without model numbers or engineering codes drove up to Wang Zhong.

Designer Ke Jing jumped off the back of the carrier truck and came to Wang Zhong: "Because we didn't give the projects code names, we gave them nicknames. The No. 1 car is called Roe Deer, and the No. 2 car is called Sika Deer. All vehicles are inspected Finished, full of fuel and ammunition.”

Wang Zhong: "Have you seen those tanks? Let them drive 1,000 meters away from these tanks and aim at them and fire."

Ke Jing immediately turned back to convey Wang Zhong's opinion to the crew, so the two transport vehicles turned around and drove to a place 1,100 meters in front of the captured Prosen tanks.

After all, the driver didn't have Wang Zhong's plug-in, so it was impossible for him to get stuck accurately for 1,000 meters.

Because Wang Zhong shouted to the technician: "Radio!"

Immediately, the technician handed over a radio aided by the United States - it looked like a much magnified Big Brother.

Wang Zhong held this thing and was speechless: The United States really has everything.

He picked it up and shouted: "The Roe Deer Car——"

What a fucking name!

Wang Zhong: "The roe deer vehicle, aim at the enemy tank on the far right. Freely measure the range, customize the scale, and fire when you are ready!"

"yes!"

Then Wang Zhong put down the hand holding the walkie-talkie and waited.

Suddenly, the carrier nicknamed Roe Deer opened fire. The muzzle flash of the 100mm gun was quite spectacular, and the muzzle blast directly caused all the dust on the carrier to fly up.

The next moment, everyone knew that the Proson tank on the far right was finished.

Because the moment he was hit, thick smoke spewed out from all the holes in the tank, and then the fire burst into flames.

Wang Zhong was speechless, at least the cannon was powerful enough.

Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and decided to name this kind of carrier "Vortex".