Arc of Gunfire

Chapter 500 Guerrillas in Action

Gonif suddenly turned around and looked at the supply depot behind the team where the fire had been put out but black smoke was still rising.

"Hey, Cassino, stop! Why do I feel like someone is calling us?"

Cassino had already walked far away, and he stopped helplessly and looked back: "Let me remind you that we are in enemy-occupied territory and may encounter Prosen's patrol team at any time, or simply regular troops on the march. We have to hurry up Join the team and head to the evacuation point.”

Goniff stared at the black smoke in the distance for a few seconds, sighed, and turned to follow Cassino.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly said: "Do you still remember the mission of Navarone? We were chased by the Prosens and fled into a village, and happened to encounter a wedding being held in the village."

Cassino sighed: "How could I forget."

“The locals helped us,” Koniv continued to recall. “They changed our clothes and let us sit among the guests. The bride even danced with me.”

Cassino's hurried pace gradually slowed down, and he recalled with Gonev: "At that time, the bride's sister pulled me to dance together. Although I don't know their traditional dance, I am a Castilian. ”

"Yes, Officer Prossen and their Ministry of Internal Affairs agents led people around the wedding, and in the end they didn't find a few of us dancing in the most conspicuous place in front of them. These Prossen people are just too rigid. , can't cope with this situation," Gonif recalled and laughed at the same time.

But his smile quickly faded.

"Later," he said, "after we escaped, we were walking in the mountains and saw a convoy of Prossen soldiers entering the village. The sound of submachine gun fire could not be heard. The house where the wedding was being held was on fire. The thick smoke could be seen from miles away. Gotta see.”

Cassino's pace quickened again, as if he was trying to escape from this memory.

Gonev: "The local guerrillas who cooperated with our actions sang a very cheerful song, which seemed to go like this: One morning, I woke up from my dream and the invaders broke into my hometown... Goodbye, my friend, my friend Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, guerrillas, take me away quickly..."

Casino was carrying unused explosives and two MP40s, and was whistling to the rhythm of Gonev as he walked.

Ahead are the ruins of a farm, which looks like it has been destroyed for a long time. New vines have appeared on the charred walls, and small flowers have even bloomed.

The two walked toward the ruins. As soon as they got within a hundred meters, someone asked in broken Antese: "Uncle Ivan?"

"No, it's Aunt Ivanka." Cassino replied in Antese with the same heavy accent.

Then the ivy vines fell down, revealing the Komanda sniper hiding behind: "Damn it, you two are just walking in the field without any cover, and the Prossens can see you three thousand meters away!"

Gonif shrugged: "The Prosen people are in chaos."

At this time, Jonard, the leader of the team, emerged from the rubble: "It's just you two. If you don't show up in ten minutes, we will retreat."

"We show up, let's go," Casino said.

Jonard nodded: "Let's go, the tunnel is in this ruins, this is Semyon Zakayev of the guerrillas."

Guerrilla member Semyon: "The enemy now suspects that our guerrillas led the bombing and are searching everywhere, so you can only cross the line of fire by yourself. In addition, we have a better way. You can go directly by water. As long as you cross the middle The axis, which is the patrol area of ​​the Antene River Fleet, is safe."

Jonard: "The general has notified the troops to meet us. It is faster to go forward. The enemy has just arrived. There should be gaps in the front line."

The guerrillas nodded: "Yes, we can even obtain ammunition from the regular army. Now it is very simple to cross the front line. As long as the enemy does not attack, it is very easy."

Gonif was delighted: "Now that the enemy's supplies have been given to us, what are they going to use to attack? It will be at least a week before they recover."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of cannons was heard in the distance.

Jonard, the only person who has ever been on a frontal battlefield, frowned: "The enemy is preparing artillery fire! Are they going to attack?"

Gao Nifu's smile froze on his face: "Can't you?"

Cassino pushed him: "Call you Crow Mouth!"

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"Speak louder!" Pavlov shouted into the receiver, "Didn't you eat? Louder!"

Wang Zhong looked at the furious Pavlov and couldn't help but patted him on the shoulder before turning to look at the others.

The entire headquarters was filled with shouts of "please speak louder". Wang Zhong had seen this scene many times and knew that the enemy must be attacking. The person who called over was rumbling with artillery fire, even if he raised his voice. The effect is limited to the maximum.

Popov stood next to Wang Zhong with his hands on his hips: "It looks like the Prosins have attacked forcefully."

Wang Zhong: "Yes, looking at the scope of this shelling, it is estimated that the shells will not last for a few days. They want to penetrate us before we can organize a defense."

Popov: "How do they know that we now have only eight divisions with 64,000 new combatants?"

"Maybe people don't know. They just think that if we work so hard on logistics, the frontline troops will definitely not be able to do it."

As soon as Wang Zhong finished speaking, Pavlov hung up the phone: "The front line was severely bombarded, and the provisional infantry division, which lacked training, was unable to withstand it."

"Well," Wang Zhong stood up and came to the map. The staff were constantly pasting signs of shelling on the signs of the front-line troops. "The enemy's response to our actions was to attack. They actually bet on it. correct."

At present, the Abavahan front is mainly composed of the Balas Expeditionary Force who returned home and the eight newly added divisions.

The divisions of the expeditionary force had combat experience, but they only had combat experience with the Barras puppet army. They had just returned from such a far away place and had only rested for less than a week, so they were quite exhausted.

The eight additional divisions at the grassroots level do not even have many experienced non-commissioned officers, and their morale is not particularly high. Maybe they were very ambitious when they first joined the army, but high morale is not easy to obtain. Only those who have been tempered on the front line through hundreds of battles. Only the Steel Division that came out had truly high morale.

The earth is such a mess. Even during the Kurdish War in 1943, a large number of troops lost morale and ran away when faced with the Sandoku tanks.

No, these eight divisions had just faced the enemy's artillery fire, and they began to be unable to withstand it.

Pavlov: "Get ready to fill in the troops. It just so happened that an infantryman from the 56th Army with combat experience got off the bus today. Let them fill in first."

Wang Zhong: "The 56th Infantry Army? Was it reorganized after being broken up, or has it been fighting all the way from last year to now? Generally speaking, the troops that have been defeated since last year should be guarded, right?"

Ant's losses in the war that started in June last year were too heavy. A less mobile unit such as the infantry corps would most likely have the title of Guards as long as it was not wiped out.

That's why Wang Zhong had this question.

Pavlov: "It was reorganized in February this year, and then participated in General Gorky's spring offensive. When we retreated from the ferry, we lost more than half of them, and went to the rear to rest and recuperate. Several regiments under the 56th Army have the title of Guards, but the Army No."

Wang Zhong: "Immediately arrange for them to go to the front line, and keep the division with the most Guards titles as the front army reserve."

"Yes." Pavlov immediately began to arrange.

Popov suggested: "We still have a reserve force in our hands. We have a division of naval infantry in our hands. There are three brigades in total. They are masters."

Naval infantry divisions are larger than ordinary infantry divisions. A naval infantry brigade generally has more than 5,000 combatants. Three brigades in a division have 15,000 combatants, which is about the same size as the divisions under Wang Zhong's First Mobile Army.

Popov continued: "In addition to the 393rd Brigade, which originally belongs to us, the naval infantry of these four brigades can join the defense of the fortified area when necessary..."

Wang Zhong: "No, the naval infantry will do what the naval infantry does. I will take off today to scout the banks of the Valdaichu River and find a place where the enemy's defense is weak to launch a landing operation!"

Pavlov, who was assigning tasks, was shocked. He raised his head and asked, "You want to fly? When the enemy is attacking?"

Wang Zhong: "Of course. I am useless at the headquarters. You can just keep pushing the troops to the front line. I can't push them faster when I am here. But I have found the enemy's defense weaknesses through reconnaissance, and I can use the naval infantry to launch a landing operation." , After setting up the pontoon bridge, send the 51st Tank Corps in from here and flank the enemy's waist. "

Pavlov came to the map: "Instead of putting the 51st Army into the city, why not attack from the side? But if the enemy's tank troops counterattack, it will turn into a tank battle between the two sides, and we cannot defeat it."

Wang Zhong: "Being able to hold back the enemy's tank troops is a victory. Moreover, the Pulosans are very rigid in the use of troops. While they invest tank troops in counterattack, they will mobilize infantry to defend.

"There are more infantry outside the city, and fewer infantry entering the city. It's a simple mathematical problem, isn't it?"

Pavlov: "Indeed. But the tank troops will pay a heavy price. Those are the original T34, with two-man turrets, facing the Prosen tank troops..."

Wang Zhong: "I know the casualties will be huge, but now we have to save Abawahan. Start preparing according to this immediately. I will go to the airport to take a flight now."

"Report!" shouted a fresh-looking tank major.

Wang Zhong glanced at him, but before he spoke, he introduced himself: "I am Romanov, the commander of the 21st Heavy Breakthrough Tank Regiment! We have 21 KV tanks ready to fight! Our tanks are strengthened for urban combat. After armored defense, let’s go to the front line, Commander Davarisi!”

Wang Zhong came to the major who was much older than him and squeezed his shoulder hard: "You guys arrived just in time, the enemy just launched a full-scale attack. I will send a support team to each of your tank platoons to ensure that you can reach front!"

Major Romanov smiled: "That's great, General. We're just worried that we won't be able to reach the front line!"

Wang Zhong: "This is my chief of staff. He will introduce you to the situation on the front line. Once you understand it clearly, let's go!"

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