Arc of Gunfire

Major Schlieffen was still standing on his command tank, observing the village of Upper Penier.

Standing next to the tank was an officer with half gray hair. This officer did not wear the flamboyant red decorative badge like Schlieffen, so he seemed to have a lower military rank.

But in fact, he is the commander of the 351st Panzer Grenadier Regiment, Major Franz of the Prossen Wehrmacht, and he should be on the same level as Schlieffen.

"It seems that the enemy did not notice our maneuver to retreat," Major Franz put down the telescope, "I can congratulate Major Schlieffen in advance."

Major Shrifen looked serious: "No, the enemy's commander is a ruthless character. I will never celebrate in advance before I break through the enemy's defense.

"Prepare infantry attack, mortar fire smoke!"

The Prosen Empire's smoke tactics were originally developed specifically to deal with divine arrows. Divine Arrows can often hit Prosen's tanks at a distance of two kilometers or even three kilometers, and the tank's artillery has impressive accuracy at this distance.

Therefore, Heinz Wilhelm von Moltke, Director of the Plossen Armored Forces, decided to equip the armored forces with vehicle-mounted mortars to accompany the attack and a large number of smoke grenades.

Using mortars to set up a smoke miasma before an armored assault became a regular method of warfare in the Prosen Empire.

Soon the Prosen infantry troops also discovered that this tactic could effectively limit the enemy's firepower during the attack, so they also began to distribute smoke grenades in large quantities.

The replenished mortar platoon did not even correct its firing, but began to fire rapidly, quickly creating a wall of smoke to the west of the village.

Major Schlieffen looked at his watch: "It will be dark in two hours. If everything goes well, we can spend the night in the village. Start the attack."

Following the whistle, the tanks accompanying the attack took the lead and began to advance forward in conjunction with the speed of the infantry.

At the same time, the infantry of the 351st Regiment followed the tanks step by step.

The Panzer III is not an infantry tank, and the power of the tank gun is limited, but it is still qualified as a mobile bunker for infantry.

Moreover, the machine gun on the tank can also suppress the enemy's firepower.

Major Schlieffen was commanding the tank, watching all this, and whispered softly: "It's your turn to take action, don't let me down, arrogant Ante Anonymous."

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Wang Zhong was racing in the village at this time.

For a moment, he thought, what if he was unlucky and was hit by a cannonball falling from the sky while running?

He found that he had never considered this possibility and only thought about defeating the enemy.

Wang Zhong was about to think carefully when the tank drove out of the village entrance to the east.

Under the setting sun, the field was coated with a layer of golden color, and the soldiers in black uniforms were as clearly visible as black bugs in a rice vat.

Wang Zhong: "Stop!"

The moment the order was given, the tank braked suddenly.

Su Fang jumped forward, pushing the machine gun sideways.

Wang Zhong held on to the hatch cover and loudly ordered: "Load high-explosive bombs, target the half-track vehicle on the road directly in front!"

"Loading complete!"

Wang Zhong: "Let go!"

The blast from the muzzle pushed away the surrounding wheat.

A column of smoke rose in front of the target, hitting it low.

The machine gun on the half-track opened fire immediately, whipping the tracer bullets at the tank and setting off a series of sparks on the armor.

Su Fang wasn't afraid at all, she turned the machine gun and fired back.

The machine guns on the two turrets at the front of the tank also began to fire back, but the target was the skirmisher line in the field.

Wang Zhong: "Quickly reload!"

"Loading complete!"

Wang Zhong: "I'm going to hit it right this time! Let it go!"

As the gunner stepped on the pedal, flames erupted from the muzzle again.

An orange-red fireball shot up from the left side of the target's vehicle body, and the entire vehicle body was overturned to the ground by the impact of the explosion.

From a bird's-eye view, Wang Zhong clearly saw the corpse of an enemy being thrown high.

Wang Zhong: "Okay! Reload, next car!"

After saying that, he cut back and patted Su Fang on the shoulder: "Don't focus on the cars, just sweep away the infantry!"

Su Fang turned the muzzle of her gun and swept the death whip towards the skirmisher line.

At this moment, the driver shouted: "Smoke! The enemy is releasing smoke!"

Wang Zhong hurriedly looked forward, and sure enough he saw white smoke rising from the fields.

Cut to an overhead perspective and you can see enemy infantry throwing smoke grenades.

It can be seen that the enemy is well-trained and uses this set of tactics very skillfully. One smoke grenade can often cover most of his teammates and half-tracks.

At this time the loader shouted: "Load it!"

The gunner shouted: "The target can't be seen! What should I do?"

At this time, the enemy was still more than a thousand meters away from the village entrance, which was the area where the tank's firepower was superior.

But if the enemy approaches within a hundred meters, the situation becomes full of variables.

If nothing else, Wang Zhong couldn't stand it if the enemy shot him with a bolt-action rifle, so he had to get into the tank. Su Fang, who was standing on the tank's radiator grille, had no place to hide and could only rely on the turret as a cover.

When the enemy gets closer to fifty meters, the threat of anti-tank grenades greatly increases.

Wang Zhong observed the enemy's movements from a bird's-eye view and immediately ordered: "We can't stay where we are. The driver will turn 30 degrees to the right. Let's get off the road and start running!"

The order was carried out immediately.

The tank rolled down the road and sped toward the southeast.

Wang Zhong: "Turn the turret to the left!"

"How much?" the gunner asked loudly.

Wang Zhong switched back to the naked eye view, reached out and grabbed Su Fang's hand holding the machine gun, and forcibly turned the machine gun in a different direction.

"Pull the trigger!"

Su Fang immediately pulled the trigger, and the tracer bullet swept into the smoke.

Wang Zhong: "Turn to the direction of the tracer bullet!"

"Okay!"

As the turret turned, the tank finally bypassed the enemy's first wave of smoke and gained vision of the half-track!

It was just near the direction of the gun barrel!

Wang Zhong: "Stop!"

The driver braked suddenly.

When the tank stopped, the gun barrel shook violently up and down.

At the moment the shaking ended, the gunner stepped on the pedal and fired.

As a result, this shot flew again and fell into the scattered soldiers behind the half-track, blowing up a poor guy.

Wang Zhong suddenly realized that the gunner might not be very skilled in distance measurement, and he remembered that the early tank distance measurement devices of the Soviet Union in another time and space were very simple, unlike the German army, which had a mature and convenient distance measurement system.

So the early Soviet tanks suffered a lot when firing at long distances.

This time and space might be the same.

And Wang Zhong could see the specific coordinates from the bird's-eye view, and he could roughly calculate the distance by mental calculation based on the coordinates.

So he immediately switched to a bird's-eye view, estimated the distance and ordered: "Distance 980 meters! Gunner! 980 meters!"

Gunner: "How do you know?"

"Estimate, don't worry, shoot according to this!"

"Loading complete!"

"Fire!"

The gunner stepped on the pedal, and the half-track truck, which was still moving slowly, exploded, and the car quickly stopped.

The machine gunner, who was on fire, jumped out of the car and rolled on the grass.

At this time, the enemy's infantry released smoke again, just blocking the tank's sight.

Wang Zhong: "Start, start! Keep bypassing the enemy! There are still six half-tracks and more than a hundred infantry! We will destroy them in the wilderness!"

Tank No. 422 moved again, and the tracks brought up a lot of dark mud.

This time it didn't go too far, and another half-track vehicle came into view.

Wang Zhong: "Emergency stop! Distance 910 meters! Don't choose the wrong scale!"

As soon as the tank stopped, the gunner stepped on the pedal and fired.

This time the target exploded into a fireball, sliding for a while in the wilderness before stopping.

Su Fang started firing, and Wang Zhong looked at the scale on the machine gun and found that the girl also adjusted the distance according to his instructions, so the long whip of tracer bullets accurately swept through the enemy's ranks.

The well-trained enemy immediately lay down.

This reminded Wang Zhong of the famous Vietnam War meme: the enemy who ran away was the enemy, and the enemy who lay down was the well-trained enemy.

However, the enemy here was really well-trained. Before Su Fang finished firing a magazine, the enemy released smoke again.

Wang Zhong: "Continue to circle with the enemy!"