Arc of Gunfire

At 1800 in the afternoon, the battle group formed by Pavlov passed by the water tower where Wang Zhong was and headed towards the city.

Because the 51st Army is different from the three divisions trained by Wang Zhong himself, the armored units are not equipped with infantry fighting vehicles (referring to M3 Grant Lee tanks), and there are no half-tracks or jeeps, so the infantry are all sitting on tanks.

Wang Zhong looked at the army column from the water tower and had a sense of déjà vu as he watched the Indian army march.

Ant does not produce half-tracks of its own. All half-tracks are supplied by the United States. Only Wang Zhong's direct force, the First Mobile Group Army, can obtain so many M3 half-tracks.

When the First Mobile Army is fighting, the tank unit will only engage in "armored cavalry" like this when it strengthens other infantry units.

Other troops did not have half-tracks, and there were not enough trucks to transport supplies. The infantry did not sit on tanks and had to move on foot. They could not catch up with the tank troops advancing at full speed.

And the Ant Army now also knows that tanks are too fragile without infantry, which is almost like dying. There is no other choice but to do this.

This is actually very bad. Infantrymen are too easily injured by machine guns, and their reaction speed is slow when encountering enemy attacks.

So while Wang Zhong watched the troops move toward the city, he began to plan to get some serious infantry fighting vehicles.

But just thinking about it, the reason why Ant does not produce half-track vehicles now is because most of the factories that can produce crawler running gear are desperately supplying tank factories, and the remaining crawler production capacity is also given to tractors.

After Wang Zhong's reforms, the Ante Army began to attach importance to the production of tractors, and improved the status of tractors used to recover tanks in the newly formed tank troops. In addition, the artillery troops also needed tractors to tow heavy artillery. Now tractors have become incense cake.

The solution is of course to expand production and increase the output of crawler tracks and traveling mechanisms, but Ant currently lacks skilled workers.

Wang Zhong thought over and over again and felt that in order to equip the armored forces with infantry fighting vehicles, he could only gather more wool from the United States.

At least equip the 51st Tank Corps under his command with enough infantry fighting vehicles and half-track vehicles.

At this time, Popov also climbed up the water tower and said to Wang Zhong: "The soldiers are looking at you and cheering them up! You are just in a daze!"

Wang Zhong was pulled out of his thoughts and quickly raised his hands, intending to shout something, but the soldiers shouted first: "Ula!"

Popov: "With you mobilizing, it's that simple. You just need to raise your hand, and the soldiers will become more motivated."

Wang Zhong was a little embarrassed. He kept raising his hands and said to Popov, "I don't want to do this either."

Aromeyev said: "I heard from the army that you have personally slashed a tank with a knife?"

Wang Zhong: "Look where there is a knife on my body. This must be fake. My former adjutant must be spreading rumors in the tavern. He is a musician. You know, he was a bard in the Middle Ages. Bard poetry The adventure stories in it all have elements of exaggeration.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a motorcycle driving around the edge of the city and heading this way.

The two people on the motorcycle were wearing red hats. From this distance, it looked like two Marios were driving over on the motorcycle.

From an overhead perspective, Wang Zhong confirmed the identities of the two men: the messengers of the 1st Parachute Division task force.

The man on the motorcycle obviously didn't know where Wang Zhong was. He approached the troops heading towards the city and asked in Antese with a heavy accent: "Where is the commander?"

The infantrymen sitting on the tank pointed in the direction of the water tower.

So the paratroopers drove their motorcycles through the marching column and went straight to the water tower. After a minute, the two climbed to the top of the tower.

Wang Zhong: "Are there too many people on this tower?"

Aromeev: "Then I move forward..."

"Don't!" Wang Zhong shouted to him. Although as the commander of the 393rd Brigade, it was reasonable for the headquarters to move forward in this situation, but Wang Zhong would lose sight if he moved. "You stay here, Bobo. Husband, I feel you should play a role."

"You think I'm fat." The military bishop shook his head, "Then I'll go a little further."

So Popov took several priests down to the water tower, got into the Willys jeep they had just driven over, and blended into the advancing queue.

Wang Zhongze looked at the two red beret paratroopers: "What's the situation at the airport?"

The paratrooper took out a stack of documents from the leather bag he carried with him: "We met the established Prossen people at the airport. We used explosives to blow up the building they were guarding and killed them all. This was after a day of excavation. , collected Proson documents.”

Wang Zhong took it over and looked at it pretendingly - in fact, he couldn't understand - and then handed the stack of documents to Yakov.

Yakov immediately started flipping through the pages.

Wang Zhongze asked the two paratroopers: "Are there many casualties?"

"There were basically no casualties. The strategy you proposed to pretend to perform the mission was a great success. If we hadn't encountered the Prossens, we might have been able to capture the airport peacefully." One of the two paratroopers looked extremely regretful.

Wang Zhong asked again: "How is the defense situation at the airport?"

The airport has always been the most difficult area to defend because of its very open and extremely flat terrain.

Paratrooper: "Each of us dug foxholes and buried mines from the airport warehouse. We have been waiting for the enemy's counterattack all day, but we only heard a lively fight on your side. The enemy actually didn't think of taking it. Back to the airport!

"Let me tell you, General, just use us as ordinary infantry. We are here to hone our skills. What is this training for?"

Wang Zhong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: using elite paratroopers as ordinary infantry, isn't this a bit too extravagant?

He could only say: "Don't worry, we will need you to parachute later, and there will be no shortage of battles."

"Really?" The two paratroopers were overjoyed.

"Yes, you are just non-commissioned officers, so you don't know. In two days, you will take a glider to seize a bridge, which is the key to whether we can advance quickly!"

The two paratroopers looked at each other and asked: "Are you talking about the Finney Valley Bridge?"

Wang Zhong's expression became serious, thinking that there was a leak: "Yes, how did you know?"

The paratrooper smiled: "We also read maps and make battle plans. After all, paratroopers need to fight behind enemy lines, and it is not surprising to encounter any situation when parachuting. When we studied the map, we thought that this Finney Valley Bridge might be captured by Komanda."

Komanda!

Wang Zhong: "Is it the United Kingdom superman who destroyed the Proson people's supplies and shallow-water heavy gunboats in Alexandria?"

"They are just better trained." The paratrooper said, but his face was full of pride.

Wang Zhong: "Okay, I look forward to their performance. But if they don't show up, you will have to take the glider to seize the bridge."

"If we really have to attack, we guarantee to complete the mission." The red beret paratrooper said confidently. With such a reliable attitude, it is hard to believe that they are soldiers from the United Kingdom.

That's not right. Even on Earth, special forces and paratroopers from the United Kingdom are more human-like and reliable.

Wang Zhong nodded to the two of them: "Very good, are you going back now? Say hello to your commander for me and tell him that he did a good job."

"Yes."

Then the two paratroopers did not take the stairs, but flew down the water tower directly to the ground in parkour, rode away on a motorcycle.

Aromeyev was very dissatisfied with this: "Just get down the tower properly, why do you have to play tricks! Flashy!"

Wang Zhong looked at Aromeyev and thought that I would ask Komanda from the United Kingdom to teach you tricks in the future, so I'd better not tell you.

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When the sun sets, there is only one local temple left in the entire Moha city that is still controlled by the "Baras Royal Guards".

Wang Zhong personally came to the temple and looked at the dog-headed statue from a distance. He was very upset - damn, the Baras Plateau looks very much like the Egyptian Gobi Desert. Why is the god worshipped so Egyptian?

Is it because that part of Egypt has now become Mamluk?

Looking at this temple that is obviously misplaced from the earth, Wang Zhong muttered in his heart: Could it be that the planet he is fighting on now is a world formed after someone on Earth played a game of "Civilization 6"?

The place where Egyptian civilization started ran to the Baras Plateau, and then robbed the wonder Petra by the way?

The vortex destroyer of the 225th Division Tank Destroyer Battalion drove towards the temple, but suddenly there was fire and smoke inside the temple gate. An armor-piercing shell hit the front armor of the vortex, was bounced up, and hit the building behind the vortex.

This shot actually left a scratch on the front armor of the vortex giant.

Wang Zhongqie looked down and saw an 88mm cannon hidden in the gate.

So he shouted: "This trajectory, and this gun sound, it's an 88mm cannon! Send two more Vortexes, otherwise we may not be able to deal with it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the second round came and hit the gun shield of the Vortex, which directly knocked the entire gun shield crooked. The 100mm gun was tilted high and stuck at an elevation angle of 20 degrees.

The second Vortex drove out and fired at the gate.

For a time, the whole gate was covered with smoke and dust raised by the explosion of high-explosive bombs.

The two dog-headed statues at the door were also wrapped in the dust, and they looked like they were glowing red under the orange-red sunset.

Wang Zhong was shocked and hurriedly ordered: "Don't attack the statues! Avoid the statues! Later we have to convince the local tribes to help us! Hitting the statues can't explain it!"

At this time, the No. 3 Vortex opened fire, and the grenade was shot into the gate close to the statues.

Wang Zhong: "Don't hit the statues!"

The second grenade exploded, and then a chain explosion occurred.

The roof of the entire temple was blown up to the sky, and then the main body of the temple collapsed, spreading to the surroundings like dominoes.

The two statues at the door also fell and disintegrated.

Wang Zhong's mouth opened into an O shape.

At this time, he heard the voice of Colonel Benjamin of the United States from behind: "General, I brought the local tribal leader."

Wang Zhong turned around and looked at the kind-looking old man: "Uh, this...that..."

The old man made a gesture of the Eastern Saint Church to Wang Zhong, and said in very standard Ant language: "Our tribe has already believed in the secular sect, general, don't worry."

"Uh...that's easy." Wang Zhong relaxed and introduced himself, "I am the Rokossov, nice to meet you."