Chapter 569 His Majesty the Tsar Rewards You with a New Tank

On December 10, 1915, one day after the light troops began to pursue the Plosson Army, the armored forces and mechanized infantry of the Abavahan Front also began to pursue.

The Front Command was also ready to set off with the heavy troops.

When Wang Zhong walked out of the bunker, the entrance of the tunnel was crowded with Ants, and there were a large number of women and children among them.

Pavlov explained: "Yesterday I asked people who lived in the neighborhoods not occupied by the Prosens to go home, including a large number of women and children."

Wang Zhong looked at them and his expression softened: "There are still so many women and children alive. Old man, I feel the value of our struggle at this moment, the value!"

Pavlov patted Wang Zhong on the shoulder: "It is a sign of old age to like to talk nonsense. You are a young man under 30 years old, General Davarish."

Wang Zhong: "Ah? General?"

"The plane just landed this morning. It should be here soon."

As Wang Zhong was speaking, there was a horn in the tunnel behind him. He turned around and saw a Willys Jeep approaching with its headlights on, and turned off the lights when it was close to the exit.

Before the car stopped, a major with a sly expression got off.

Wang Zhong's eyes widened: "Vassily?"

"Yes, it's me." Vasily stood at attention and saluted, "Report to General Davarish, Major Vasily completed the six-month accelerated staff officer course ahead of schedule, and now formally applied to return to the team!"

Wang Zhong: "No, you should go to command a regiment."

Vassily: "No, General, I don't think I'm that material, you can just think that I'm afraid of death."

Wang Zhong was silent for a few seconds before pointing to the scarf around his neck and said: "This is a relic of my previous adjutant, you know?"

"I know." Vasily's expression was serious, "The story of you personally leading the charge is already well-known in Yebao, it's obviously The general, the commander of the front, charged forward like an infantry battalion commander. It was too chaotic. So let me be your adjutant, a high-risk job. "

Pavlov: "You said something wrong. Now it is expressly forbidden for officers above the battalion level, including the battalion commander, to charge forward personally. We can't afford to lose so many senior officers. You see, even the staff course has been compressed to half a year. "

Wang Zhong stared at Vasily for a few seconds and sighed: "If I have to lose my adjutant in the future, I'd better let you, who has a better life, do it."

Vassily slapped his thigh and smiled, but he immediately realized that this was not good and shut up immediately.

After all, Wang Zhong had just lost an adjutant, and the adjutant's relics were around his neck.

At this time, Pavlov poked Wang Zhong's waist, attracted his attention, and then nodded to the person behind Vasily.

Wang Zhong then noticed that Vasily was followed by a colonel and a major, and the major was holding a box respectfully in his hand.

The colonel met Wang Zhong's eyes and said, "General Alexey Konstantinovich Rokosov, in view of your outstanding performance in the just-concluded..."

"It's not over yet, Operation Kutuzov is not over yet. We plan to advance all the way until we encounter the tough people of Prosen." Wang Zhong interrupted the colonel.

Colonel: "Well, in view of your outstanding performance in the just-concluded Abavakhan defense battle and the encirclement and annihilation battle against Prosen's Sixth Army, the High Command has decided to award you the rank of general."

The major holding the box stepped forward and opened the box to reveal the general's collar badge inside: a total of five stars, four in the corners and one in the middle.

Pavlov: "Next time it will be a big star. To be fair, I think five stars look better."

Wang Zhong: "I think it's all right. Come on."

He raised his hand to remove his military rank, and Vasily immediately stepped forward: "How can you let the general remove his military rank? Let me help you."

Soon the old rank was taken off, and Vasily took the new rank and wore it on the collar of Wang Zhong's winter coat.

The colonel in charge of delivering the military ranks said, "We have also delivered the ranks for other uniforms, as well as this appointment letter, the documents that need to be handed over to your troops..."

"Give it to me." Pavlov stretched out his hand and took the document directly, "Our commander has a headache when he sees documents, and I handle most of the documents."

Wang Zhong: "Thank you for your help, Pavlov, thank you for your help."

After saying that, he turned around and found that everyone's eyes were focused on him, so he said, "I don't have any feelings to express. Now I only care about one thing: how long it will take to enter Proshen's capital, Proshennia. So, let's go."

After saying that, General Wang Zhong jumped into his jeep.

Vassily immediately climbed into the co-pilot's seat, and the driver who had already been in place released the handbrake and lightly stepped on the accelerator.

The crowd of onlookers automatically made way for a car to pass.

They seemed reluctant to be too far away from their general.

Wang Zhong suddenly remembered something, and he didn't see little Griff in the crowd.

I always feel that this child should come to say goodbye.

He switched to a bird's-eye view and looked for little Griff, only to find that this guy was squatting on the roof of a building on the street, holding a small red flag.

There was a large group of children around the little guy, and he was like the leader of the children.

"Forward, Davarish!" Little Griff shouted.

All the children shouted together: "Forward, Davarish!"

Like a pile of dead leaves ignited by sparks, the originally silent crowd suddenly shouted in a mess:

"Don't let them go!"

"Push all the way to the border!"

"I wish you a speedy return to your hometown, General!"

There seemed to be no end to the crowds of farewells on both sides of the road. They had already driven a kilometer away, and there were still people on the roadside.

The crowd threw various condolences onto the car and shouted to Wang Zhong:

"Avenge my father!"

"My husband is missing, please find where he is buried!"

"General, I want to go home! Go back to my own home!"

Wang Zhong wanted to find who shouted this sentence, but he was lost in the crowd.

So Wang Zhong thought to himself that it would be good if all the occupied areas were recovered, so that this stranger could go home.

Until the motorcade left the city, people were still crowded on both sides of the road.

Wang Zhong: "Don't give it away! There may be landmines outside! Don't give it away! Go back!"

Vasily: "Now we have to fight to Prosonia."

"Isn't this nonsense? Starting to talk nonsense is proof of getting old."

"Wait a minute, why do you feel like I just heard this sentence?" Vasily asked doubtfully.

Wang Zhong: "Your illusion."

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At the same time, at the test site of the General Administration of Ordnance Manufacturing in Saint-Ekaterinaburg, His Majesty the Tsar suddenly arrived and was looking at several brand-new prototypes: "Is this a new tank? It looks bigger than T34 and KV."

Designer Ke Jing: "Indeed, because Admiral Rokossov..."

"General." Olga corrected, "He is a general now."

Ke Jing quickly corrected his statement: "Well, in the heavy tank specification proposed by the General, the weight of the tank was increased. He wanted us to study a tank that is the same order of magnitude as the enemy's new heavy tank. So I designed this vehicle .

"The assault gun that was so popular among generals was also my work."

Olga: "Tell me about this car. The rest is not important."

"Okay." Ke Jing hurriedly took out the drawing, "The most important feature of this vehicle is its impenetrable defense. The general hopes to have a breakthrough tank that can be used to attack fortresses, so it must have considerable defense in all directions. In order to satisfy This requirement does not increase the weight of the vehicle excessively. You can see that we use sloped armor on the sides and back of the tank.”

Olga: "I saw it, do you have to design this thing like a turtle? And why is the back of the turret so round?"

Ke Jing: “After comparing all the plans, we believe that an approximately egg-shaped structure can better achieve the goal of omnidirectional defense.

"The round back of the head you mentioned actually has an equivalent thickness of at least 150 mm for horizontal projectiles fired from all angles, and some angles can reach an equivalent thickness of 220 mm.

"If a cast turret, which is common on tanks, is used to achieve this goal, the weight will be greatly increased. It will even be too heavy to be driven, Your Majesty."

Olga: "What about the car body?"

Ke Jing directly patted the front armor of the car body with his hand: "The car body is similar. The front upper armor of the car body with the best protection is 110 mm thick and has a large inclination of 61 degrees. The enemy's best 88 mm gun is basically impossible to use on the front. Penetrate the car body.

"Also, you may have noticed that the front of the car body is wedge-shaped. This is my new design, so that the shells hitting the car body are more likely to be bounced away.

"Your Majesty, please believe that this vehicle has unshakable frontal armor, and very reliable sides and rear. It is an indestructible war machine, and all the enemy's firepower can do nothing to it!"

Olga: "What about firepower?"

Ke Jing: "Because the firepower of the 100mm gun is enough, and the tank is almost overweight, we still use the same 100mm gun as the vortex. This is enough to deal with most Proson tanks."

Olga nodded repeatedly: "I can't fault it, so that's it. By the way, the engine uses the engine newly authorized by us to be produced by the United States, right?"

"Yes, because the production plant has just been renovated, the engine output is very low, but considering the current use of heavy tanks by our army, this output is acceptable."

Olga nodded again: "Okay. Have you tested the reliability?"

"It has been tested, but these prototypes use engines imported from the United States, so... it cannot represent the reliability of models using authorized production engines." Kejing looked a little embarrassed. After all, mass production models will be released in the future. Problems may cause unwarranted casualties to troops.

Olga: "Since the reliability has been tested, there is no need to test other things. Just put it on the battlefield and try it out. General Rokossov is organizing an attack. Since it is the indicator he proposed, let him test it himself. .

"Send all prototype vehicles to the Abavahan Front!"