Chapter 705 Where the Star of Victory Rises

Three days later, Yegorov and Eugene's troops completely occupied Bogdanovka.

And Wang Zhong finally saw the captured Panzer IV tank destroyer at the headquarters.

"The Prosons have adopted a new type of armor-piercing shell." The engineer in charge of the analysis took Proson's "new type of armor-piercing shell" and explained to Wang Zhong, "Some of us have also proposed a similar concept. Without changing the caliber and length of the shell, it can effectively improve the armor-piercing ability and is less likely to be bounced off by the arc of the armor."

Wang Zhong continued: "But the aftereffect is significantly reduced after penetration, right?"

In fact, Wang Zhong has used this kind of shell in War Thunder, and the killing effect is obviously not as good as the standard armor-piercing shell.

Engineer: "That's right. After all, the charge is much less, and the killing mainly depends on the fragments produced after penetration. Before analyzing the captured tank destroyers, we first analyzed the 110 T34Ws destroyed at the ambush site and found that only 15% of them caught fire and burned, and a considerable number of tanks could be repaired."

As soon as the engineer finished speaking, Vasily said: "No, no, our precious maintenance forces are all repairing Rokossov I and T54, and there is really no manpower to repair T34W."

For other countries, it may be more cost-effective to repair tanks damaged on the battlefield, but for Ant, which lacks maintenance forces, it can only give up the maintenance of T34W.

It will definitely take more man-hours and resources to build a new T34W than to repair it, and there is no way to do it now.

In fact, if there are enough battlefield repair vehicles and related repair equipment, some factory workers can indeed be trained into field maintenance troops.

The problem is that Ant does not have so many battlefield repair vehicles.

Now Ant's field maintenance troops are all using equipment from the United States.

Wang Zhong took the "new armor-piercing shell" from the engineer: "The Prosons probably saw that we lacked the ability to repair and would not repair the T34W that was not on fire, so they made this kind of shell that pursues penetration efficiency."

"It's possible." The engineer agreed.

Wang Zhong handed the shell to Vasily.

"Oh," Vasily weighed it, "this shell is lighter than the Proson armor-piercing shell I saw before."

Wang Zhong: "Yes, the loader will load faster and less likely to get tired. Although they are enemies, we have to admire them for making a practical weapon."

As he said this, he reached out and touched the 70-caliber long gun of the Panzer IV tank destroyer: "Compared to other things they tinkered with, this thing is much more reliable. Fortunately, the Prosons did not invest their main productivity in this practical product."

As soon as the voice fell, Pavlov came out of the headquarters, squinting his eyes and looking at the captured destroyer. Tank: "Is this what destroyed our 110 T34s?"

Wang Zhong: "You are out of date. According to the interrogation of the prisoners by the Inquisitor, they may have destroyed nearly 250 of our T34Ws."

Pavlov: "If the Prosens start mass production of this thing, the consequences will be disastrous."

Wang Zhong: "Don't worry, the Prosens will put all the production on their new double-row roadwheel tanks. They have always been like this. Wait, how did you get out? Is the headquarters going to start moving?"

Wang Zhong's chief of staff didn't seem to care about the new stuff he had just captured.

Pavlov: "I came out to inform you that if you want to go to Loktov, you can leave now."

"Really?"

Pavlov: "Yes, and Yegorov has left an acquaintance of Vasily there to meet you."

Vassily: "It must be Filippov. There are only a few of my acquaintances who can be related to Loktov."

Wang Zhong: "Let's go!"

"Don't worry!" Pavlov shouted, "Wait a minute! Didn't you say you wanted to make a film? Your other old acquaintance, reporter Mike, and his partner are here with a camera. Of course, there is also the propaganda officer of the Propaganda Court. You are not here to visit the old place alone, you have a mission!"

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When the jeep drove into Loktov, Wang Zhong suddenly shouted: "Stop!"

Grigory braked and the car stopped sharply.

Wang Zhong got out of the car and came to the two-person turret T34 between the ruins.

Mike's partner, photographer Robert Capa, walked around Wang Zhong with a camera, saying, "Say something! At least you have something to say, so we can edit what you said later."

Wang Zhong: "I remember, the Proson people launched an elite infantry attack, used smoke to cover our firing range, and fought close combat with us. I saw that the situation was not good and ordered the tank battalion to retreat."

Wang Zhong put his hand on the front armor of the two-person turret T34.

The driver's hatch was gone, probably because it was removed to protect the nearby residents from wind and rain. The driver's seat that had been burned inside the car body could be clearly seen.

Wang Zhong continued to recall: "At that time, because only the platoon leader's car had a radio in these two-person turrets, many crews did not receive the retreat order and continued to resist in the outer defense positions-strangely, I remember that only a few cars ran away in the end, organizing defense in the central square, where are the other cars?"    "Dragged away by the Proson people." Someone next to him said.

Wang Zhong looked over and found that it was an old lady.

"Who are you? Have you fought here before?" the old lady asked.

Wang Zhong stepped forward and held her hand: "I am Alexey Konstantinovich Rokosov. I led my battle group here to resist the Proshen army."

The old lady squinted her eyes: "Really? Is it Rokossov? How come you--oh, I remember, you had one star then, and you still have one star now, how come you haven't been promoted after two years of fighting?"

Wang Zhong was stunned, and then remembered that when he was commanding the battle group here, he was a brigadier general with one star in his rank, and now he is a marshal, and his rank is still one star--a big star.

The old lady probably had poor eyesight and couldn't tell the difference.

Vasily stepped forward: "He was promoted! Now he is a marshal! At that time, his star was that of a brigadier general!"

The old lady: "Why are they all one star? How can we tell them apart?"

"The marshal's star is bigger." Wang Zhong explained in person, "Old man, are all the survivors okay?"

"Everyone who survived at that time joined the guerrillas. I don't know whether they are okay or not, after all, I am still alive." The old lady said, "Marshal, don't you want to go and see that tank?"

"Yes." Wang Zhong didn't ask "which one", because he had never forgotten that tank over the years, and had never forgotten the moment when the militia of the Guardian Army dragged him out from under the tank.

"Let's walk." Wang Zhong said, taking a confident step and walking towards the place in his memory.

At this time, more residents appeared.

"It's Rokossov!"

"Really, it's Marshal Rokossov!"

Robert Capa turned the camera to the crowd very professionally, capturing people's expressions.

Reporter Mike followed the camera, constantly writing something in his notebook.

Soon, Wang Zhong came to the front of the BT7.

The scene at that time suddenly unfolded in front of him.

Because the BT7 turret could not fit many people, he could only stand behind the tank turret and operate the anti-aircraft machine gun. At that time, if there was a bullet that didn't have eyes, his story would end here.

Now, Pavlov would definitely not agree to let him go to the front line.

But at that time, even Pavlov didn't care so much.

Wang Zhong climbed onto the tank and touched the remaining gun mount of the anti-aircraft machine gun - the machine gun had long been dismantled by the Proson people.

He pointed to the distance and said: "At that time, I was operating the machine gun and found that a Proson soldier was aiming at the tank with a captured anti-tank gun. I turned the muzzle, but - I remember it was jammed, or something, anyway, I didn't have time to stop the Proson people.

"The anti-tank gun penetrated the weak armor of the BT7 at once, it should be-"

He went around the front of the tank and found the bullet hole.

"Here. All the members of the tank were killed. I rolled into the tank in a hurry, then climbed out of the bottom hatch and lay under the tank with only a small pistol in my hand.

"My own memory is a little embellished. In fact, that was the most embarrassing moment in my entire war career. The Prosen people surrounded me and I was about to be caught by them.

"Just then-"

Wang Zhong stood on the tank and looked around. He was suddenly moved to stop because he saw countless people coming out of the streets and alleys and surrounding the tank.

Of course, there was no familiar face among these people.

But Wang Zhong knew that "they" were here.

So he took a deep breath, stood at attention on the wreckage of the tank, saluted the elders and villagers of Loktov, and announced loudly: "The brigadier general you rescued that year is back!

"He drove the Prosen devils away!

"Next, he will cross the border and fight on the land of the Prosen devils! He wants blood debts to be paid with blood!

"In the past two years, he has never dared to forget your kindness!"