Arc of Gunfire

On June 30, near the military demarcation line between the 1st Khazalia Front and Army Group Plossen South, 0100 hours.

Proson's night reconnaissance team quietly touched the boundary between the areas controlled by the two armies.

This kind of night reconnaissance has become normalized recently. The purpose is the same as the daytime reconnaissance, to confirm the location and details of the Ant Army's defense line.

However, the Ants also sent out their own night patrols. During the battle of wits and courage, the two sides often captured the other party's prisoners. Therefore, this kind of night reconnaissance also has the nickname "prisoner exchange" among the Prosin soldiers, but it's just that It is not about exchanging one's own people from the enemy's side, but exchanging one's own people for the enemy's side.

Tonight's reconnaissance team was led by Lieutenant Hank. The lieutenant was a veteran in reconnaissance and had just received the Second Class Iron Cross for capturing prisoners.

For this Iron Cross, Lieutenant Hank lost 11 soldiers. It is not sure whether they died somewhere in the tall grass during the battle or were captured by the enemy.

Now, Lieutenant Hank gradually regarded night reconnaissance as a kind of competition. In his fantasy, there must be a commander similar to himself on the opposite side, and he was looking forward to a new round of duel every day.

There must be such a person.

While I was thinking this, a grasshopper screamed from ahead.

That was the secret code agreed upon with the vanguard. He had discovered the Ant patrol!

At this moment, Bobosha's shooting sounded!

Lieutenant Hank: "Asshole! We are ambushed, get out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the people around the lieutenant turned around and ran in a straight line towards their own position.

The next moment, he stepped on a landmine and flew up.

The lieutenant himself was pushed aside by the excess power of the Ant mine, his head hit a stone in the grass, and he fainted.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly a basin of ice water was poured on the lieutenant's face, and he woke up from the cold.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Judge Ant holding a bucket in front of him.

After meeting their eyes, the judge immediately saluted the person next to him and reported something loudly.

Lieutenant Hank felt that he might have been concussed by the damn Ant mine, and his whole brain was in a state of shutdown. He turned his head with difficulty and saw a senior Ant general.

He should be a high-ranking general. There are many stars in the military rank, at least he is a general.

Lieutenant Hank couldn't understand what the senior general said at all - he had obviously learned the rapid-fire Ant language in order to interrogate injured enemies on the battlefield!

Fortunately, the translator spoke up: "General, I want to ask you when you got the Ankh."

Lieutenant Hank: "Less than a week ago, because I captured 15 of you prisoners, a total of 15!"

After speaking, Lieutenant Hank laughed and looked provocatively at the star-studded senior general Ant.

The general said something else, and the translator sneered and translated: "The general said that the few prisoners you captured are not as many as the number of General Prossen he killed. In addition, he also captured your Marshal Frederick." Dozens of generals included.”

Lieutenant Hank: "Hahahaha, how is it possible! The only one who can do this is your General Rokossov!"

Suddenly, the lieutenant was startled, and his heart skipped a beat: Could this be Rokosov in front of him?

Because his whole mind was awake, many details that had been ignored by him became clear. The five-star general in front of him was indeed the General Rokossov in the identification manual issued by the command!

Lieutenant Hank subconsciously wanted to stand up, but the guard triggered an overreaction. Before he could react, he was pinned down on the table, and the flesh of his cheeks was embedded in the gaps on the table.

General Rokossov said something before Lieutenant Hank was let go. He immediately stood up and said to Rokossov: "One of our goals is to capture you alive!"

Rokosov smiled and asked in Ant language.

Translation: "The general asked you, when do you plan to come? Or, are you coming at all?"

Lieutenant Hank: "Of course we will come! We have encountered a small difficulty now. When the headquarters overcomes this small difficulty, we will come to capture you alive!"

Rokosov laughed.

Translation: "The general said you might not be able to solve that little problem and the attack would never come."

Lieutenant Hank: "Of course we will attack! We have concentrated a lot of new equipment, and you will fall apart in the face of technological power! Just like two years ago!"

Rokossov suddenly stopped laughing, looked at Lieutenant Hank with a straight face, and his tone became serious.

Translation: "The general said that even if you have new equipment, you will only be defeated by the new equipment of the Ant Army. Proson's technology is not as powerful as you brag about, and your scientific researchers are just ordinary people." , the Aryan nation is a created collective illusion.”

Lieutenant Hank took a step forward, and the sturdy sergeant major next to him immediately stepped between him and the general.

The lieutenant kept this posture and said loudly: "Our new medium tank weighs forty-six tons! Our new heavy tank exceeds seventy tons! And it is also equipped with a main gun of astonishing caliber! There is no way you can match it. tank!"

Rokossov smiled contemptuously.

Translation: "With such heavy equipment, I'm afraid it won't be able to drive very far without getting stuck in the black earth. We are ready to receive these luxury toys. In September, we will drive a new Proson tank in Yebao All representatives of the Allied Forces in Fort Ye are invited to visit the exhibition.”

Lieutenant Hank: "Huh, if you can do it, come and give it a try! If you have the ability, then attack our troops who are waiting for us!"

After hearing what the translator said, Rokosov turned to look at the clock on the wall.

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Wang Zhong: "Vasily, tell him we are about to attack."

Vasily immediately spoke in Prosin with great joy.

Pavlov came over and said: "It seems that the Plosans didn't realize that we were about to attack. This person should just be on routine night patrol."

Wang Zhong: "Indeed, the enemy probably has a habit of thinking and thinks that we will only defend and counterattack in the summer. But General Gorky has already taken the initiative to attack them twice."

At this time, Vasily finished translating, and the Prosin man became even more excited and wanted to step forward, but was firmly resisted by Sergeant Major Grigory.

The Prosin had no choice but to turn his anger into action and chattered a lot.

Wang Zhong looked at Vasily.

Vasily: "He said that you - then we must have lost our minds. We can only bring humiliation to ourselves by engaging in tank battles with the Prosin armored forces on the Great Plains."

Wang Zhong: "Tell him to thank him for his... uh, suggestion. Okay, take it down and hand it over to the judge."

Hearing Wang Zhong's words, the judge next to him who had been gearing up for a long time showed a meaningful smile.

The two inquisitors grabbed the captured lieutenant from one side to the other and dragged him away.

Gregory watched the Prossenians leave before returning to the door and continuing to smoke.

Pavlov: "Damn, he has a point! We really shouldn't engage in tank battles with the enemy."

Wang Zhong: "There is always a tank duel, just to test the performance of the Rokosov I heavy tank."

In fact, Wang Zhong was really unsure about the tank battle with the Prosens.

In real history, even at the Battle of the Oder River, Santoku's armored forces were still able to mount a pretty good counterattack and increase the exchange ratio.

Wang Zhong seriously suspected that it was Sandoku's counterattack on the Oder River that inspired Liu, so he wrote about West Germany's last Panther tank battalion's counterattack against the steel torrent in the published version of "Full Channel Blocking Jamming". An exchange ratio of one to one point five was achieved.

Pavlov: "Yeah, it's a pity that our new medium tank can't keep up."

The production of the new medium tank has been slightly delayed. After all, the egg-shaped turret requires a new production process, but some of the new machine tools and equipment shipped from the United States are not in place, and some are still training workers.

The Ordnance Bureau told Wang Zhong that two brigades, with a total of 82 vehicles, could be deployed during the winter offensive.

Summer is just beginning now.

At this time, Major General Andro, commander of the artillery of the front, came in and saluted Wang Zhong: "General, the artillery of the front is fully prepared."

"Very good." Wang Zhong nodded.

However, the artillery power of the Saliya Front has been greatly improved compared to the Abawahan Front that launched the offensive last winter. The artillery of the Front has been expanded to the size of the artillery corps. Wang Zhong deployed two heavy breakthrough artillery in both breakthrough directions. division.

For such a large-scale artillery unit, the ammunition consumption is extremely alarming, and a large number of maintenance units are needed to repair damaged artillery vehicles. For the convenience of support, Wang Zhong established a separate artillery headquarters in the front army and promoted an artillery unit. General.

At this time, Popov suddenly said: "Today's military intelligence report said that the enemy seems to have deployed a heavy rocket launcher called a Land Stuka. Let us be careful when attacking."

Wang Zhong frowned. Of course he knew about land Stukas. He had used them in many World War II-themed strategy games.

If the enemy really equips this thing in batches, it will be quite troublesome to directly cover our offensive troops.

If the attack time is tomorrow, then Wang Zhong will personally take off to find the location of these land Stukas, and then guide the Air Force bombers to blow them up.

But now the arrow is on the string and it has to be fired.

Wang Zhong looked at Pavlov, who immediately said: "No matter what new equipment the enemy has, we cannot delay the attack. The good news is that even if the enemy's new equipment is very effective, it can only delay us locally."

Indeed, in this pincer offensive, the two breaches chosen by Wang Zhong are both twenty kilometers wide - at least twenty kilometers wide. Once a breakthrough is made, a large number of troops will be invested to tear the breach open, and the width of the breach will not be There's a limit.

This is not Prosen's petty pincer offensive, this is Ant's big pincer.

Wang Zhong looked at the clock on the wall again and cursed: "Why does time go so slowly!"

Popov: "Don't act like you are a novice attacking the enemy for the first time."

Vasily: "The general is just anxious to get home."

Everyone in the room laughed, and the air was filled with joy.

At this time Nellie came in pushing the dining cart: "Would you like a midnight snack, everyone?"

The staff immediately shouted: "Yes!"

They knew the commander would never be angry at this point.