Arc of Gunfire

Captain John thought for a few seconds and shook his head: "The enemy should be fighting in close combat and using Molotov cocktails to solve the problem. Another strange thing is, why didn't we receive their radio?"

The battle group chief of staff looked at the communications staff officer.

The communications staff officer immediately replied: "If our radio receiving antenna is still deployed, we may be able to receive it. But this morning it was said that an enemy heavy bomber was coming to bomb, so we took away the deployed antenna in accordance with air defense doctrine."

“The battle group is nearly ten kilometers away from the vanguard led by Captain Hans, and without an antenna it is very likely that they will not be able to receive their vehicle-mounted radio.

"Of course, it is also possible that their tanks have insufficient power generation, resulting in insufficient radio output. Or it simply malfunctions. Yesterday they reported encountering heavy bombing by enemy planes, and they may have encountered it this morning as well."

A round of explanations from the communications staff.

Captain John nodded.

Proson attaches great importance to radio. There will be an electrical engineer and a communications engineer in the maintenance class attached to the armored company. They will work together to ensure the normal operation of the armored company's radio.

But these maintenance troops will not charge on the front line. When the armored company performs combat missions, these troops will usually stay with the troops supplying oil, and will not come up with the oil trucks until the armored company stops.

Radios are easily damaged by air strikes and shelling, especially the antennas outside the tank.

Captain John nodded: "The possibility of being bombed with all malfunctions does exist. Colonel Busey, we should take the initiative. No matter whether the four new heavy tanks are destroyed or malfunction or break down, we should recover them. In this way, the empire can collect them according to the wreckage. Modify the design plan.”

Colonel Busse stared at the map and said: "Let's turn around the motorized reconnaissance force that is currently running towards Yeisk and see what the enemy is that has been chasing behind them."

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On Wang Zhong's side, he watched the technicians remove the tracks of the captured tanks, sandwich them one behind the other with tractors, and take them away.

At this time, the soldier carrying the radio shouted: "General! Khwarezm is calling."

Wang Zhong took the walkie-talkie: "I am Luo Genghis Khan, please speak."

"The enemy reconnaissance team that had been retreating suddenly turned around."

When Wang Zhong heard this, he immediately changed his perspective and quickly located the "Khorezm" team and found that they were being chased everywhere by two No. 2 tanks and a group of half-tracks.

However, it has been four months since the reconnaissance team received the Willys Jeep, and they are quite experienced in driving this kind of jeep. They led the Proscenians around on the grassland, but there was no reduction in personnel at all.

Wang Zhong had read the memoirs of Earth's Santoku Mountain Chasseur Machine Gunner. The memoir mentioned that the American-made small Jeep (referring to the Willys Jeep) driven by Maozi was very difficult to hit, and it often took hundreds of ammunition to eliminate it. A Jeep.

The barrel of the MG42 must be replaced after 400 rounds.

So experienced machine gunners would ignore these little jeeps and focus their firepower on trucks and half-tracks.

The current scene seemed to verify the words of the experienced mountain hunter machine gunner.

The jeep was dragging a broom behind it, and the smoke it created was bigger than a tank. In this case, even the elite Prossen gunners couldn't hit the speeding jeep.

Wang Zhong: "Khwarizm, grandma will like it. Repeat, grandma will like it."

This code word means to let them lead the enemy to the front of the ambush position.

"Khwarizm understands, Genghis Khan, look at us! Khwarazm is over."

Although the communication ended, the field of vision was still maintained for about thirty seconds. Wang Zhong kept watching them deal with Prosen's machine guns and machine guns.

The Maozi driver even turned at an angle to allow the vehicle's machine gun to shoot at the enemy.

Finally, the vision faded, and a mist covered all these images.

Wang Zhong switched the perspective back and called another reconnaissance team with a walkie-talkie.

After the call was connected, Wang Zhong took a look at their location. Good guys, they were almost on the outskirts of Yeisk.

Wang Zhong hurriedly ordered: "Termi, stop quickly, you are about to leave the radio range! Don't approach the city, repeat, don't approach the city."

"Termi received it." At the same time as he responded, Wang Zhong saw the convoy speeding on the grassland turn around.

Only then did Wang Zhong feel relieved.

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Prosen Army.

"What we were chasing just now were some light vehicles. They may have dragged a plow or something, creating a huge plume of smoke." The voice of the reconnaissance platoon leader came over the radio.

Colonel Busey scolded: "Earlier you reported that it was an enemy tank force!"

Platoon Commander: "The information we provided was incorrect, Colonel."

In fact, they were also led astray by friendly forces' intelligence, but the platoon leader did not make up for his mistakes.

Colonel Busey's expression softened: "Very good, you bravely took the responsibility and did not excuse yourself. You are a qualified soldier. Regarding this false alarm, write it down in a report when you come back, and I will tell my superiors The situation is clear.”

Explaining the situation means that he will help shift the blame to the first person who spread the false information that "100 tanks are outflanking us".

Superiors like Colonel Busey generally have a good reputation among the soldiers.

The colonel looked up at John: "It seems that we have been completely deceived. The enemy must be weak in strength, so he deceived us. I think we should attack, seize this fighter plane, snatch back the new tanks, and annihilate this daring enemy." "

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Wang Zhong: “The intelligence we captured and the aerial photos sent by the Air Force yesterday show that the enemy in Yeisk has only one battle group, consisting of an armored battalion, a grenadier battalion and accompanying troops, with less than a hundred tanks. .

"We can consider annihilating them. In order to make the enemy take the bait, we can pretend to retreat before destroying the enemy's reconnaissance platoon. For example, let some vehicles create smoke and dust behind the ambush position, and then let some vehicles retreat in front of the enemy. "

Vasily: "Then the destroyer troops would have to deliberately leave a half-track or a tank with an antenna."

Wang Zhong: "Just do it, you give the order."

Vasily was shocked: "I gave the order myself?"

Wang Zhong: "Let's practice. Think about how Pavlov split my combat intentions into specific instructions."

Vasily thought about it for a moment, and began to imitate the chief of staff's approach, breaking down Wang Zhong's combat intentions into different orders and issuing them to each unit.

After Vasily finished, Wang Zhong praised: "You are already like an experienced staff officer! If you practice more, you will be promoted to a school officer."

Vasily looked sad: "Then use my head like Pavlov?"

Wang Zhong glanced at Vasily's thick hair: "Isn't it still early!"

At this time, a call came from the radio: "Talihutai is calling Genghis Khan, we are engaging the enemy."

Wang Zhong immediately adjusted his vision and saw the vortex of the sniper team shooting, the half-track transporting the accompanying infantry was driving back loaded with soldiers and trophies, and there was a lone Willys Jeep behind the position creating smoke and dust.

Further away, the vortexes of the Tiger Fighting Team were coming to merge, creating a large amount of smoke and dust.

This makes it look more like a long line of people escaping.

The vortex quickly wiped out Prosen's reconnaissance platoon, leaving only a half-track with a long antenna. The shells kept hitting them around them, but they just barely missed.

Wang Zhong felt that the gunners of the sniper team were showing off their skills. It stands to reason that with such a density of firepower, Meng was blinded by hitting this vehicle. As a result, all the shells passed over the enemy's head.

Suddenly, the vortexes gradually stopped shooting, and Wang Zhong immediately realized that the troops were pretending to have finished firing the shells.

It can only be said that Wang Zhong's somewhat cheap tactical style has been passed on to his troops.

After the ceasefire, a report from the sniper team came over the radio: "Genghis Khan, we have run out of ammunition, and an enemy vehicle has escaped."

Wang Zhong: "I understand, retreat. Genghis Khan is over."

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"The enemy is going to run away." Colonel Busey stood up decisively after hearing the report, "We can't let them run away, let alone bring the new tanks back, and attack according to the original march plan!"

Colonel Busey turned to Captain John: "Can we get support from heavy tanks?"

"The wheels haven't been installed yet." Captain John said seriously, "I can only wish you a happy hunting."

He stood up and saluted Colonel Busey.

The colonel returned the favor.

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Wang Zhong's jeep unit first discovered the Plosen army coming out of Yeisk.

When he received the report, he immediately switched perspectives and directly witnessed a drag racing meeting on the grassland.

The Plosans sent a team of motorcycles and jeeps to race, trying to drive these guys running like hares away from the main march.

But it’s not that easy! The Willys Jeep might be lighter than the Prossen three-wheeled motorcycle, and it has pretty good horsepower, so it wouldn't be very useful on this kind of grassland without mud.

The Prossen motorcycle team was like swatting away flies, driving away one and then turning around and another one approaching from the side.

The whole scene is very much like the drag racing battle in Mad Max, replacing the grassland with the Gobi Desert, it's exactly the same!

Seeing that the jeep could not be driven away, the Prosoners started shooting with the MG34 on the motorcycle. However, in this bumpy state, the target was still the running Willys Jeep. How could it be possible to hit it!

Willis Jeep's counterattack is basically "stroke", with full dodge on both sides.

Wang Zhong thought that it would be useless to fight like this. The most effective weapon in drag racing is a pumpkin! Throw the pumpkin!

As for the enemy's main force, a large number of Panzer III tanks were lining up in a single column, advancing on the road at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.

The length of the marching column directly exceeded Wang Zhong's field of vision, which meant that it was more than two and a half kilometers long.

Seeing such a long marching queue, Wang Zhong couldn't help but mutter: "Is this an armored battalion or a grenadier battalion?"

At this time, he suddenly saw the ambush position of the vortex ahead.

Most of the Vortex was parked on a hillside, and very shallow pits were dug, reducing its already low height. The main body of the destroyer was blocked by tall wheat fields, with only the periscope sight and the commander's observation tower. Higher than wheat.

Wang Zhong suddenly discovered something. The enemy convoy was coming towards the ambush position.

If this is a sea battleship bombardment, this is the legendary T-shaped formation, which is most suitable for exerting firepower and can concentrate fire to sink the enemy's leading battleships one by one.

But this land battle does not require concentrated fire. As long as the 100 guns penetrate No. 3, there will be no survivors left.

In other words, it is impossible to quickly annihilate the enemy in this situation, and it will inevitably develop into a shooting from both sides in the future!

But now that the enemy is almost within sight of the ambush troops, it is too late to adjust, and the vulnerable sides of the vortex may be exposed to the enemy.

We can only make do with it.

Wang Zhong blames himself very much because he got high watching "Crazy Max".

However, the commander of the Whirlpool Battalion is also not very good at academics. I have clearly taught him that when ambushing, he must form a formation on the side of the enemy's marching column! I obviously taught you this!

This battalion commander is back, I want to put him in solitary confinement and let him think about it!