Cannon Fire Arc - Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Chapter 8 Out of the Blue

On Wang Zhong’s aspect, he might solely hear the shouting of “Ura” however couldn’t see something, leaving him panicking.

After some time, he realized, “I simply needed to cowl the advance of the Divine Arrow squad and defend Ludmila. The aim has been achieved when the smoke was deployed.”

He instantly shifted his consideration to Yeca Neiko’s squad the place Ludmila was, noticing that the squad had stopped advancing.

A muscular man was leaning towards the wall, making an attempt in useless to look at the state of affairs by binoculars.

Wang Zhong guessed that this man should be Monk Yeca Neiko.

Ludmila was leaning towards the wall, nonetheless holding that rifle.

At that second, Captain Sergey beside Wang Zhong stated, “Contact with the third rear Amur Group has been restored.”

Wang Zhong had no thought which group the rear Amur Group was, so he requested, “Is it the group that launched a counterattack within the smoke?”

“What?” Captain Sergey’s voice was laced with confusion.

Wang Zhong: “Didn’t you hear the ‘Ura’ shouts?”

He had thought that the battle cries had reached the placement of his bodily physique.

Sergey: “What ‘Ura’ shouts?”

So, it turned out that he might hear sounds — considerably loud ones — from his chook’s-eye view.

No surprise the sound of weapons and cannons was so clear when overlooking; Wang Zhong had beforehand thought it was one thing he was listening to in particular person. He had by no means been on a battlefield and couldn’t inform how shut or far the sounds of gunfire had been.

Wang Zhong: “By no means thoughts, hand me the cellphone.”

He switched again to his regular perspective and took the receiver from Sergey’s hand, “That is Wang… Rely Rokossovsky talking, go forward.”

“Rely Rokossovsky? The place’s the Duke?” The particular person on the cellphone had a loud voice that harm Wang Zhong’s ears.

“The Duke is useless, the enemy’s naval artillery destroyed the headquarters simply now, and many of the employees are useless too. Now, I’m the supreme commander,” Wang Zhong stated, making an attempt to sound extra authoritative, pondering it could assist to claim management over his subordinates.

The particular person on the opposite finish requested, “Who ordered the Smoke Bombs?”

Wang Zhong: “I did, why?”

“Good job! We launched a counterattack, routed the enemy going through us, and took out at the very least one among their tanks and two armored autos! That was a superb command, Your Excellency the Rely! No, my lord!”

Wang Zhong glanced at Sergey, who couldn’t make out the phrases from the opposite aspect with out the receiver and solely returned a confused look to Wang Zhong.

The particular person on the cellphone continued to put on thick reward, “My employees officer says he’s by no means heard of such a factor on the Suvorov Navy Academy! Rely, let’s have one other spherical of smoke, and we are able to preserve holding!”

Wang Zhong frowned, “No extra smoke left, the enemy is almost at our artillery positions; that was their final spherical of supportive firing. Any further, we are able to solely depend on ourselves.”

On the opposite finish of the cellphone, the loudmouth who had simply been giving lavish reward all of the sudden fell silent.

A second later the voice requested, “The artillery has been compromised, does that not imply we are going to quickly be surrounded?”

Wang Zhong’s coronary heart skipped a beat.

He hadn’t considered this in any respect simply now, because the state of affairs was too sudden, and he was too desperate to cowl Ludmila.

One other voice got here by the cellphone, “However that’s the very one who simply led us to an excellent counterattack, how might he haven’t considered this?”

Sorry, I actually hadn’t considered that.

Wang Zhong might solely preserve a straight face, making an attempt arduous to not let Captain Sergey see any flaws.

Being surrounded was not a joke; a military that’s cornered can solely die slowly even when it continues to withstand.

Though Wang Zhong thought surrendering was not an issue, contemplating the temper and present state of affairs, it was already too late to even point out give up.

He might solely faux to withstand, battle valiantly, after which take into account different choices.

Wang Zhong switched to the overhead mode after which seen a further army badge; he targeted on the badge and will see its description:

The third rear Amur Group, principally made up of latest recruits, however the primary non-commissioned officers had participated within the Civil Conflict and the Winter Conflict.

Inside battle? Winter warfare?

Wang Zhong actually needed his Golden Finger to elucidate these two phrases, however sadly, the Golden Finger ignored him.

Along with gaining a soldier’s token, Wang Zhong additionally obtained the imaginative and prescient of the Third Amur Group, which vastly expanded the seen vary.

That’s not proper, contemplating the dimensions of a gaggle, isn’t this vary a bit small?

Wang Zhong: “Has your group…suffered many casualties?”

“Sure,” the loud voice from the opposite finish fell quiet, “Most of our group is made up of latest recruits, a lot of whom haven’t gone by full coaching. These sorts of recruits normally don’t survive the primary hour on the battlefield. The excellent news is, they’re all seasoned troopers now.”

This counts as excellent news?

Wang Zhong used “everybody’s” eyes to look at the battlefield, and at this second, he seen one thing.

After the enemy going through the Amur Group retreated, there gave the impression to be no troops behind them.

May the routed enemy have led the next echelons away as properly?

Wang Zhong checked once more, extra rigorously this time.

Within the meantime, the Amur Group’s commander on the cellphone was saying, “Right here’s what we’ll do: we’ll pull again to our beginning positions and let the engineers depart landmines and journey wires within the areas we’ve taken…”

“No!” Wang Zhong interrupted him, “You’ve simply encountered a spot in your entrance, and I require you to desert your present defensive position and proceed to assault. Command will meet up with you, and if contact with different teams could be established, they are going to observe as properly.”

There was full silence on the opposite finish of the road for an excellent second: “Advance in the direction of the enemy? That’s daring! However I like altering plans!”

Whereas the loud voice was speaking, Wang Zhong additionally heard somebody mumbling, “This defies logic! At a time like this, we needs to be pulling again, reorganizing the protection line! Blind assaults are a one-way ticket to demise!”

Wang Zhong thought: It’s not a blind assault, I can see very clearly with the assistance of an exterior benefit; there are solely sporadic troopers in entrance of you, and no organized enemy forces.

Strike arduous in a single go, after which discover a solution to return to our strains.

Upon additional deliberation, because the attackers, the enemy’s subsequent echelons in all probability didn’t count on to be attacked.

Wang Zhong wasn’t versed in army issues, however he knew in mercenary warfare, the aspect of shock, catching the enemy off guard, generally proved decisive. Perhaps this could possibly be definitely worth the gamble.

Reasonably than being surrounded, it’s higher to interrupt out after which work out a plan.

As soon as Wang Zhong was certain that there actually had been no organized enemy forces in entrance, he commanded in a agency tone: “I, Rely Aleksei Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, order the Third Amur Group to advance—not simply ahead, however in the direction of due west. Do you perceive?”

“Understood.” Simply from the response on the cellphone, Wang Zhong might image a sturdy Russian man readying himself for motion.

Then, virtually as if possessed, he stated, “Now repeat my order again to me!”

What the hell, why make somebody repeat it? The aftereffects of watching too many epic battles?

However there was no hesitation on the opposite finish; they instantly repeated Wang Zhong’s orders phrase for phrase.

Wang Zhong: “Good, start now. We should act swiftly, and we should act quick!”

After hanging up the cellphone, Wang Zhong was stunned to search out that he had misplaced the imaginative and prescient of the Third Amur Group.

So, it’s solely once I can straight converse with them that I can see their imaginative and prescient?

However the soldier’s token on the interface was nonetheless there, implying that so long as the troops accepted my command, they would seem on the token.

As Wang Zhong was inspecting the Golden Finger, Captain Sergey by his aspect stated, “There’s an issue. That’s, there are various critically wounded within the subject hospital; they positively gained’t have the ability to sustain with us, this…”

With significantly wounded in tow, to not point out breaking out, shifting in any respect can be a problem.

Wang Zhong contemplated for a second, then stated: “Give me paper and a pen; I wish to write a letter to the enemy commander who will take over.”

Sergey: “You… plan to depart them behind?”

Wang Zhong: “Taking them with us, we positively gained’t have the ability to get out. Recruit volunteers from among the many nurses to remain behind and look after the wounded, and let these evenly injured who can transfer be part of us within the breakout.

“Don’t argue anymore, the enemy isn’t a beast.”

That’s what Wang Zhong stated.