artillery arc

Chapter 48 The Eagle over Upper Penier

Wang Zhong came out of the church and happened to see the No. 67 tank driving along the village road.

He gave the tank crew a thumbs up and watched them pass.

Lyudmila stood behind Wang Zhong and muttered: "It's just such a tank...can it stop the enemy?"

Wang Zhong: "Don't underestimate this tank. This is a heavy tank, with a total combat weight of about fifty tons. The enemy's No. 3 only weighs more than a dozen tons. It will make the enemy look good!"

Lyudmila looked at Wang Zhong's profile, hesitated for a moment and then asked: "Are you... very familiar with this tank?"

Wang Zhong: "Of course!"

Lyudmila blinked: "When did you become familiar with it?"

Only then did Wang Zhong realize that he had let it slip. Alexei in this time and space was a sensual playboy with zero military skills!
He could only bite the bullet and said: "I just got familiar with it! Commander Seryozha introduced me to the performance of the tank!"

"Seryozha," Lyudmila repeated, "are you familiar enough to call each other by nicknames?"

Damn it, I forgot about Maozi’s complicated rules of address. In situations like this where a superior treats a subordinate, the safer and more polite way is to call the other person by his or her patronymic name, which is a string like Vicky.

Only someone who knows Seryosha very well can call him that.

The problem was that Wang Zhong didn't know the other party's father's name, and the other party didn't introduce himself. He called him "Second Lieutenant" the whole time, and just now he said "Seryozha" out of frustration. This was from the No. 67 train crew. I heard it from the driver.

The situation on the battlefield was too urgent, so I didn't even think of asking for his name.

Suddenly, Wang Zhong thought of the gunner of car No. 422 again.

——You should ask for the name, so that they sacrifice me and at least know who the eulogy should be written to.

Although I don’t think the enemy has weapons that can penetrate the front and sides of KV, I’d still ask just in case.

Wang Zhong blew the horse whistle directly - this was also one of the muscle memories inherited from the original Alexei - and Busifaras ran towards him and stopped suddenly in front of him.

He got on his horse and galloped down the road.

Lyudmila, who was left on the spot, ate a mouthful of dust.

Su Fang looked at her profile carefully: "Are you okay?"

Lyudmila murmured: "If it was like that before, he would definitely take advantage of me, but now he seems to care more about the tank."

Su Fang: "Maybe he's tired of it."

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Wang Zhong ran all the way to the entrance of the village, and after asking for the names of the crew of No. 67, he supervised the infantrymen putting on the camouflage cover of No. 67.

When everything was done, I saw that it was still half an hour before dawn.

He decided to go back and squint for a while.

After all, he still had a fever yesterday and his body has not recovered yet. He may have to fight fiercely for a day today, and he, as a commander, cannot let his guard down.

As a result, he woke up on his own after less than an hour of sleep, and he was in very good spirits, unlike someone who had been seriously ill yesterday.

He stood up and found that Lyudmila and Su Fang were sleeping not far from him.

Lyudmila lay on the table sleeping with her face turned sideways, drooling all over the table.

Su Fang sat on the bench, leaning against the armrest of the bench and fell asleep.

I took the time to sleep for a long time yesterday, but these two girls had been attending mass without sleeping a wink.

He picked up the towel and quilt he was covering and covered Lyudmila.

Then he switched to a bird's-eye view to confirm the enemy's situation, as if covering himself with this towel had exhausted all the warmth.

Damn it, I can’t see much about the enemy through the friendly field of view, so I still have to climb the tower myself to see.

Wang Zhong put on his leather shoes as quickly as possible and strode out of the room.

The guard at the door was the same as yesterday. When he saw him coming out, he saluted in high spirits.

The sound of the guard touching his heels made Su Fang open her eyes. The girl rubbed her eyes and asked, "Your Majesty the Earl?"

Lyudmila also got up: "Alyosha?"

Then they both found that there was no one in the room and could only look at each other.

"Ah," Lyudmila suddenly said, "Towel quilt!"

She sniffed: "Well, it's the one from Alyosha."

Su Fang stood up and looked out the window: "Why did he climb the water tower when he came out?"

As she said that, the girl grabbed her hat, straightened the clothes that were messed up because she was wearing them for bed, and trotted out.

Lyudmila stood up in a hurry, but was severely scratched on the chest by the edge of the table, and sat down again in pain.

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Wang Zhong climbed up the water tower and looked far into the distance.

At this time, the sun showed a little edge in the east, and the morning fog that had not completely dissipated was still shrouded in the field of vision. A flock of pigeons came from nowhere and flew across the sky, leaving behind a buzzing pigeon whistle.

If it weren't for the war, facing this scene, Wang Zhong would definitely think of the classic scene in "Castle in the Sky" in which Bass plays the trumpet to welcome the sunrise.

It's a pity that the war ruined everything.

The wreckage of enemy armored vehicles lay in the field of vision like boils on the skin.

Wang Zhong thought of a song: One day/The smoke from the kitchen will return to the village/It is vaguely the rice tuberose...One day

Angel's peaceful dreamland
Rocking gently in mother's arms...

There is no time to be sentimental, it is important to confirm the enemy's situation.

Wang Zhong switched to a bird's-eye view, looking behind the hillside in front of him.

The enemy was camped in the field, with hundreds of tents set up, tanks arranged neatly, and maintenance vehicles under maintenance.

The armored command vehicle with the eagle flag was parked near the top of the mountain, parked together with the command tank with the eagle emblem. There was a table next to the tank, and the one-eyed man was sitting across the table from an officer he had never seen before, drinking coffee.

Drinking coffee!
Wang Zhong was suddenly very angry. If he had a cannon, he would have fired a cannon at the enemy and overturned their table and the snacks on it!
Call you elegant!

You are so elegant! What qualifications do invaders have to be elegant? The invaders should lie in the mud like a dog eating shit!

Although he was furious, Wang Zhong still carefully confirmed whether there were any new heavy weapons in the enemy camp, such as 88mm anti-aircraft guns.

Fortunately, although it had been a night, the enemy did not seem to have been strengthened much. The artillery seen was still the 75 infantry guns yesterday, and not even the 47mm anti-tank guns were seen.

Today it seems that I can give the one-eyed dragon on the opposite side a little shock.

Wang Zhong couldn't help but smile ferociously when he thought of this.

It would be even better to kill this one-eyed dragon with one shot.

It's a pity that the opponent will only watch the battle at the top of the hill, which is two kilometers away from the village. Even if the No. 67 car goes out of the smoke, it is still more than 76 kilometers away from the top of the hill. According to Seryosha, this distance is very poor for the accuracy of their -gun. , it’s almost impossible to get it right.

Unfortunately, there are too many enemy infantry. If you rush forward rashly, the enemy infantry may use anti-tank grenades to exploit the loopholes. In addition, the heavy tanks have poor maneuverability and poor mechanical reliability. Wang Zhong can only give up and let Seryozha and the others race. plan.

If this were replaced by a T34, the one-eyed dragon would have to do the whole job.

Wang Zhong was observing when he heard footsteps behind him, so he switched back to the naked eye and looked back, just in time to see Su Fang ascending the water tower.

"You go and rest, we won't need you during the day," he said.

Su Fang clenched her fist: "I can shoot a machine gun!"

Wang Zhong: "There will be no machine gun fire today."

Su Fang: "Then...I..."

Her eyes moved around, as if she was looking for something she could do.

At this time, Lyudmila came up, covering her chest: "Alyosha, you..."

Wang Zhong: "I remember that Brother Ye Tsemenko also had a magic arrow, right?"

"Uh, it's... the last shot."

Wang Zhong: "Then you should return to your post and take the time to rest."

"Eh?" Lyudmila was stunned, covering her chest.

Wang Zhong glanced at Su Fang again: "In this case, if you have to find something to do, go to the hospital. There should be many injured today."

In fact, if KV1 uses Wushuang, there probably won't be too many wounded. But...what if?
And Wang Zhong mainly wanted the two girls to take a break.

"Come on, hurry up!" he urged, "If something goes wrong, I still expect you to contact the higher authorities!"

"Oh." Su Fang shrank her neck, turned around and glanced at Lyudmila, "Let's go, Captain Vasilyevna."

Lyudmila glanced at Wang Zhong, hesitated to speak, and finally turned around——

At this moment, the roar of the engine came from the sky.

Someone below shouted: "Air strike!"

The two girls looked at each other and rushed towards Wang Zhong together, throwing him to the ground one on the left and the other on the right.

Wang Zhong was badly beaten and was about to protest when he saw a camouflage-painted plane flying from the east.

When he saw the appearance of the plane, Wang Zhong laughed out loud because he recognized that it was an Il-2 attack plane, and it was also a two-seater!

The plane flew over the village of Haute-Penier and rushed toward the Plossen Army to the west like a cheetah spotting its prey.

The Prosen Army did not expect to be attacked by an air attack at all, and were completely unprepared.

A rocket fired from the plane hit a truck. The Prossen people were stunned when they saw the rising fireball. They only woke up and fled when the plane started strafing.

Il-2 poured all the remaining rockets on the heads of the Prosens, causing the enemy's camp to burst into flames.

Then the plane circled back again and began to shoot the ground with its 23mm cannon and machine gun.

In just three minutes, there were dozens more corpses in the enemy camp, seven or eight trucks were burning, and injured people were wailing everywhere.

Wang Zhong could clearly see from the bird's eye view that even the one-eyed dragon drinking coffee was lying on the ground holding his head.

Hahaha, isn’t that elegant?

After completing the attack, Il-2 once again passed by the village of Haupenier.

Wang Zhong pushed the two girls away from him and stood up, cheering at the plane: "Ula!"

Although the people on the ground did not have a bird's-eye view, they could see the black smoke rising from the enemy's side, and they shouted together: "Ula!"

The Ant Air Force has not been eliminated!
This fact alone is enough to boost morale!
Wang Zhong and the soldiers turned their joy into continuous cheers: "Ula!"

(End of this chapter)