Arc of Gunfire

Wang Zhong put down the phone and immediately picked it up again: "Pick up Kubinka."

Soon the call was connected, and on the other side was Pavlov: "First Mobile Army, I am Chief of Staff Pavlov, please speak."

Wang Zhong: "Order the troops to mobilize and prepare for battle."

Pavlov was shocked: "Prosen came nearby again? So fast?"

Wang Zhong: "No, we are preparing to fight them. The Suhayaveli Front requested reinforcements. They were defeated by the enemy's new tanks. Some divisions have collapsed.

"Immediately form an advance team, with the newly arrived 16th Tank Destroyer Battalion as the main body, strengthen the support troops and elite infantry, as well as eight anti-aircraft guns and the Army's Shenjian Battalion, and... you look at the allocation, in short, guarantee We can all get on the train and head to the front in one day!”

Pavlov: "How many wagons can there be?"

Wang Zhong: "Let's see how many carriages you can bring with General Chekhov."

"Push it to me again?" Pavlov exclaimed.

Wang Zhong: "Be happy, now you can get a lot from my reputation and my relationship with General Chekhov."

"Then why don't you?"

Wang Zhong: "I have many things to do, so I have to focus on the military."

After saying that, he hung up the phone without waiting for Pavlov to protest.

As soon as he hung up the phone, Vasily said expectantly: "We're finally going to attack. Show those bastards in Yebao a good look, we are not free money!"

Wang Zhong smiled: "They must have been fooled by the camp's organization."

While talking, the time traveler who traveled through the year recalled the time on earth. There are many pseudo-military fans on earth, half-full of water, thinking inertia, thinking that battalions are smaller than regiments and brigades, and countless marketing accounts rely on this to eat up the traffic of pseudo-military fans.

The most common approach is to say that a certain armored battalion of Santoku destroyed two Soviet tank brigades, a total of six battalions.

So half a bucket of water shouted that San Dezi was invincible.

But true military fans will know something fishy at a glance.

The San Dezi Battalion is large. The No. 4 Battalion has 96 long-tube No. 4s. The Leopard Battalion has large and small formations. The smallest one has 77 Leopards, and the large one has 96 Leopards. Tiger Camp is the smallest, with 45 Tigers.

Maozi's battalion was small, and Maozi's tank brigade only had 68 tanks. The battalion and regiment were mostly organized at the same level, each with 21 tanks.

What's wrong with my 96 Changguan No. 4s or 96 Leopards eating up your more than 100 T34-76s? Is there anything strange?

If you break away from the establishment and only talk about things with numbers, it will basically be half a bucket of water. This is the case with the half buckets of water in Yebao now.

When they saw that Wang Zhong's division only had one tank battalion and one tank destroyer battalion, they took it for granted that this division had no armor strength.

Because Ant also uses a small battalion, just like the Maozi on Earth, there are 21 tanks per battalion.

But in fact, Wang Zhong’s tank battalion is the main battalion. In addition to 12 T34W tanks, each company of this battalion also has 4 M3 Grant Lee tanks. The reconnaissance platoon also has eight jeeps with M2 Laoganma heavy machine guns. Then there is an SU76.

There are also 53 Grant Lees in the company with eight stuffed in each, and eight jeeps with three in each. In fact, it can be increased to seven in each jeep, but this style of painting is too Indian, and Wang Zhong rejected it.

Three such companies formed a tank battalion.

Therefore, although Wang Zhong's tank battalion is called a battalion, it has 48 tanks, 24 jeeps, and 4 SU76s.

Of course, the artillery, infantry and scouts usually stay in their respective formations, but they only train together during training. When it comes to war, they will "suffer a lot of logistics" and combine them together.

As for the 31st Guards Regiment under the 1st Guards Infantry, the half-buckets of water in Yebao looked at the "regiment" in the number, taking it for granted that this regiment only had 3,000 people.

But in fact this is not the case at all. This regiment actually has nearly 6,000 combatants, and some of Ant's newly formed infantry divisions only have 8,000 combatants.

Why are there so many people in this group? Because Wang Zhong brought a brand new concept and packed a lot of support firepower into it.

Below this regiment, each company has four 82 mortars, eight M3 half-tracks, and four M6 wheeled destroyers.

Four 82 mortars already have battalion-level firepower in some infantry divisions with poor equipment. And the eight M3s are equipped with M2 Laoganma heavy machine guns, and one company has 8 heavy machine guns. Where can other divisions get such luxurious configurations.

Not to mention the on-board 37mm cannon on the M6 ​​wheeled destroyer.

Wang Zhong actually wants M8 Greyhound and M8 Teapot (these two are not the same chassis), but they are not available yet. He can only deal with the M6 ​​carrying 37 guns.

All these vehicles need to be operated by people, and the mortars also need to be serviced. The result is that each company is much larger than the average infantry company, completely strengthening the company.

At the battalion level, Wang Zhong became even more frantic.

According to reports from the front line, during actual combat, the Plosen people will also delegate the divisional artillery to the infantry regiments. At this time, the Plosin infantry battalion in the main attack direction will be supported by more than 12 infantry cannons and even howitzers.

Wang Zhong directly normalized this kind of decentralized support.

Of course, he is not crazy enough to equip the infantry battalion with howitzers. That would be too much and unnecessary.

The most important difference between an infantry cannon and a howitzer is the barrel. The barrel of an infantry cannon is very short and the outer wall is relatively thin. After all, most of the time it is used for close support and does not need to be fired too far. The shells do not require so much propellant, so naturally there is no Such high chamber pressure.

In order to obtain a range of more than 15 kilometers, the howitzer's barrel is long and thick. In order to balance such a heavy barrel, and also to prevent it from being blown to the ground by the strong muzzle blast when it is launched, howitzers generally have very heavy stations. hoe.

Therefore, even if the caliber is the same, infantry guns are much lighter than howitzers, are more maneuverable, and can keep up with infantry regiments. Ant's 76mm infantry gun actually has a mount similar to that of a 45mm anti-tank gun, and can be operated by two people when personnel are tight.

The artillery battery of the Ant Army was very small, usually with two platoons in a company, and two guns in each platoon. However, the artillery platoon created by Wang Zhong had four guns, and a battery of 12 guns, with a small number of 300 people.

He crammed such a company into an infantry battalion, and the logistics are probably going to be cursed.

But he still does it.

Mainly because when he first fought in Upper Penier, the artillery failed to keep up, and only the vehicle-mounted mortars could keep up, so he was able to fight. Later, the enemy's heavy artillery in Loktov gave him enough suffering. .

After such an experience, Wang Zhongcai became insane.

Why grind meat when you can blow up the enemy? The infantry is responsible for opening up the field of vision for the artillery!

These artillery pieces have to be manned, so the infantry battalion under Wang Zhong's command is terrifyingly large. Counting infantry and artillery personnel, the ratio is almost 2:1.

At the infantry regiment level, Wang Zhong assigned the regiment a battalion of M3 vehicle-mounted 75mm howitzers.

Not to mention the mess of armored vehicles, fuel support, and a regiment of about 6,000 combatants.

Such a regiment and a division are bound to not be able to contain too many troops, and the logistics will not be able to support it.

This is not a game of Iron Ambition. Without infantry, the organization of the troops will be low. In actual combat, the extent of infantry losses before retreating depends entirely on the will to fight.

Wang Zhong is confident that his infantry's fighting will is strong enough, and he also believes that the night school education that lasts for more than half a year has greatly improved the subjective initiative of the troops, and they can maintain their combat effectiveness even if they are broken up into small units.

Then the next choice is natural, add enough support units to the infantry, and then dilute the force evenly.

In the battle of Orachi, in the first two days, there were actually two infantry battalions in front of his position, and he managed to withstand the enemy's attack with the support of firepower. The remaining troops were reserves, prepared to be deployed in times of crisis, but in the end they were not used at all. The enemy was completely wiped out by supporting firepower.

Therefore, Wang Zhong came to the conclusion that as long as the supporting firepower is sufficient, it is not difficult for a battalion with a determined fighting spirit to defend a regiment's defense area.

And the benefit of equalizing the strength is obvious-the ability to resist artillery fire is greatly enhanced.

Of course, for Wang Zhong's idea to be realized, the front-line infantry must have enough walkie-talkies, and at least the radios must be distributed to the company.

Wang Zhong's regiment is equipped with many more walkie-talkies than a division, because the ordinary Ant Infantry Division does not have radios at its battalion headquarters and can only set up telephone lines.

A large part of the walkie-talkies supported by the United States were swallowed up by the First Mobile Army. As a result, other troops also thought that the walkie-talkies were a good thing and rushed to get them. Although I don't know why they are a good thing, Rokossov What the general wants must be something good.

Of course, other units do not have as much supporting firepower as the First Mobile Group Army, so having more walkie-talkies is not that significant.

As for the artillery regiment of the 1st Guards Motorized Infantry Division, that is even more incredible.

Generally, the artillery regiment of the Ant Infantry Division can hold up 12 152mm guns and 24 122mm guns, with a total of 36 guns and 2,000 men.

The artillery regiment of the Guards 1st Machine Infantry has 36 152 guns and 24 122 guns, a total of 60 heavy artillery pieces, and nearly 4,000 people serving them. ‘

This is actually a very scary number. Some people who have read too many street stall marketing accounts may think that such a small number of artillery is fooling someone. They may also say that Ami’s division artillery regiment has 50 heavy artillery! Or maybe Sandoku has 48 heavy artillery in one division!

But in fact, Ami’s divisional artillery consists of three 105th battalions and one 155th battalion. Although the 105th and 155th categories are both divisional heavy artillery, this classification is mainly because the long-barreled 105 is very heavy and requires a large tractor, so they are placed in It is convenient and safe inside the division.

There are only 12 real 155 heavy artillery pieces in the Dahong Division.

The same goes for Sandoko. There are 12 SHF18 150mm heavy howitzers in a division, and the rest are all 105. What's different about Santoku is that he has 150 heavy infantry cannons.

Comparing the firepower of the Guards with 36 152 guns and 24 122 guns, the firepower is already very insane.

In addition to 36 57mm anti-tank guns, the anti-tank gun battalion of the Guards 1-machine infantry also has about 30 ZIS3 self-propelled anti-tank guns, which is very different from the 12-gun anti-tank gun battalion of the general infantry division. Different places.

There are also anti-aircraft guns. Ant's anti-aircraft artillery battalion usually consists of 16 37-mm anti-aircraft guns. Wang Zhong's battalion has 36 37-mm anti-aircraft guns and has been reinforced with eight Crusader self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.

All in all, the Guards has an infantry regiment, an artillery regiment, and a vehicle regiment, and the others are various "battalions". In fact, it has more than 100 tanks, destroyers, and self-propelled artillery, which is equivalent to two tank brigades.

It has more than 70 medium tubes of 75 mm and 60 large tubes of over 122 mm.

It has a total of 66 57mm anti-tank guns (including vehicle-mounted and towed).

It has more than 100 heavy machine guns, more than 200 light machine guns, and a total of more than 1,100 half-track trucks and tractors.

The most excessive thing is the support capability of this division. It is equipped with two maintenance battalions and two rescue companies (split up and assigned to each tank company and tank destroyer company), and can complete moderate repairs of 12 tanks every day.

For comparison, the maintenance capability of Ant's First Assault Army is to complete moderate repairs on 20 tanks per day - yes, a group army is that bad.

With so many things crammed in, the Guards became a local tycoon division with a total strength of more than 20,000 in one move. Then the military blinds in Yebao pointed at the large number of "battalions" in the establishment and said what they must say. Eating free money.

Perhaps thinking of this, Vasily sighed: "There is really no way, it makes no sense to a layman. The key is that you tell these people that you can't just beep at the serial number. You have to count the number of vehicles and pipes. They are lying on the ground. You're cheating and yelling, 'If you don't listen, you're just getting paid.'"

Wang Zhong shrugged: "If I had known this, I would have changed the tank battalions and annihilation battalions into regiments. In this way, if you look at the infantry regiment, the tank regiment, and the annihilation regiment in the division, Yebao's half bucket of water will feel like a division. There are three groups, which is very reasonable.”

Vasily laughed.

Wang Zhong: "Of course, I myself feel from time to time that the number of infantry may be too small... But with such an exaggerated establishment now, logistics has become a curse."

After all, the support units are all logistics gluttons. Adding three infantry regiments to the army organization might be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Wang Zhong is still worried that his mobile army has so many 75, 122 and 152 tubes that it will not be enough to feed them, and it will run out of shells.

Vasily: "Hey, in Loktov, we artillery school students are still used as infantry, and we behave very well! Infantry is not a professional branch. Whoever picks up a rifle and lies on the ground to shoot, then That’s the infantry.”

Wang Zhong said: "You are right, the loaders in the artillery regiment are not all big-headed soldiers. Maybe because they are in the artillery unit, they have survived longer, and they are more reliable as infantry than the newly recruited recruits. "

At this time, the phone rang again in the room. Wang Zhong picked up the receiver: "I am Rokosov."

General Turgenev's voice came from the receiver: "Rokossov, you should have known that the Suhayaveli Front is in emergency, right? I have already informed the logistics department and vacated the carriage as soon as possible. Send your army group to Yarvik on the east bank of Suhayaveli, which is relatively safe at the moment.”

Wang Zhong: "I have ordered the formation of an advance team, which I will personally lead. They can board the train and set off today."

"Very good, this is very good." General Turgenev paused, "I am very much looking forward to the performance of your new army. After all, we have invested so many resources in your army group."

Wang Zhong nodded: "I will work hard."

"Well, good luck to you."

The phone was hung up over there. Wang Zhong put down the receiver and looked at Vasily: "I think it's better to put a pure infantry unit at the group army's military depot. It's just infantry and only provides food. It's next to the military depot and the supply route is short. That's right. There won’t be too much logistical pressure.”

Vasily: "I remember that Melania came with four more infantry battalions, with only basic weapons. How about turning them into an independent infantry brigade?"

Wang Zhong: "Okay, let Pavlov do the work. When we transport our regular army forward, we will complete the establishment of this brigade and finally send it over."

Vasily muttered sympathetically: "Poor Pavlov."