Cannon Fire Arc - Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Chapter 6: Evil Spirits within the Smoke

To verify this, Wang Zhong, who was mendacity beside him, requested Captain Sergey, “Is Divine Arrow a sort of rocket?”

“Sure.”

Wang Zhong continued to verify, “Guided by prayers?”

“The prayer givers pray to God, after which God guides it.”

Sergey gave the impression to be making an effort to make his voice sound extra religious, however he failed.

By now, Wang Zhong had already decided that Divine Arrow was a sort of radio or wired guided weapon. It was simply that the world may need developed once more after the destruction of civilization, and trendy individuals had been unable to decipher the traditional know-how used to make Divine Arrows.

As an skilled participant of “Warfare Recreation: Pink Dragon,” he instantly realized how necessary this type of anti-tank missile was underneath the present circumstances.

Wang Zhong, “Sergey, ship somebody to get in contact with the Divine Arrow staff. That must be Monk Yeca Neiko’s Divine Arrow staff.”

Ludmila had joined Monk Yeca Neiko’s Divine Arrow staff, and Wang Zhong remembered clearly that Monk Yeca Neiko’s staff had misplaced their prayer giver, which is why Ludmila had been urgently added to the group.

Captain Sergey, “Understood.”

Wang Zhong continued to watch the entrance line.

After shedding their tanks, the enemy didn’t cease their assault.

The Prussians used mortars to launch a smoke display, blocking the Divine Arrow staff’s view, after which a second tank, pushing the still-burning wreckage, charged ahead.

Wang Zhong was impressed, “The enemy may be very skilled.”

Captain Sergey, “Didn’t you discover? There may be an iris flower image on the enemy’s sleeve, which is proof they took half within the Carolingian marketing campaign.”

Wang Zhong had no thought what the Carolingian marketing campaign was, and he didn’t dare to ask in case it was widespread data on this world.

However Carolingian – there was a Carolingian dynasty within the historical past of the Earth’s Franks. May it’s that on this timeline, France was additionally steamrolled by the Germans, no, by the Prussians?

And now these attacking Prussian troops, had been they veterans who had participated in steamrolling via Carolingian?

Whereas Wang Zhong was pondering this, he noticed the group that had simply launched Divine Arrows depart their unique place, apparently planning to maneuver ahead, to get previous the smokescreen.

“What the hell?” Wang Zhong muttered underneath his breath, “Advancing ahead can certainly bypass the smoke’s barrier, however by doing that, you’ll be simply two to a few hundred meters from the tanks. The tanks may even hit you with their machine weapons!”

“Huh?” Captain Sergey made a puzzled sound, “I didn’t suppose to maneuver ahead?”

Wang Zhong, “Not you! Monk Yeca Neiko’s staff is transferring ahead, it’s too harmful! Cease them!”

Captain Sergey regarded puzzled and glanced within the distance the place he may solely see a bunch of buildings, fully unable to see Monk Yeca Neiko’s staff.

In actual fact, with out an overhead view, it was unattainable to get such detailed front-line intelligence from the rooftop as a result of a lot of the view was blocked by buildings.

Captain Sergey, “I don’t even know the place they’re. How did you see them?”

Wang Zhong shut his mouth. It will be relatively troublesome to clarify the usage of an exterior helper, and he’d must watch out sooner or later to solely situation instructions with out telling others why he was giving these orders.

At this second, Wang Zhong had already confirmed via the overhead view that Ludmila was certainly there—her determine was too good to overlook, and with that silver hair, she could possibly be simply acknowledged even from an overhead perspective.

The present precedence was to cease the Divine Arrow staff from making a lethal mistake, however there was no solution to contact them now.

Simply as Wang Zhong was worrying, Sergey mentioned, “I’ve contacted the artillery group within the rear; the artillery commander desires to talk with you.”

Wang Zhong switched his view again and took the handset—solely then did he discover that in some unspecified time in the future, the signalman had run the phone line as much as the rooftop.

“That is Rely Rocossov talking, go forward.”

He nearly blurted out “That is Wang Zhong”!

“Rely Rocossov? Why are you in command?” The voice on the opposite finish was very stunned, “It’s over…”

Wang Zhong was very astonished; from the knowledge the duke had revealed earlier than, the Rely Rocossov he was portraying was a good friend of the Crown Prince, but these individuals expressed their opinion of Rely Rocossov so bluntly…

“Duke Vladimir is lifeless, killed by the Prussian Battleship’s bombardment. We’ve suffered heavy losses. In the event you’re calling to make gentle of our predicament, you would possibly as nicely cling up now.”

“No, wait a second. I’m calling to let you know that the Prussians are about to achieve our artillery place, and I can nonetheless offer you one spherical of help. After that, you’ll must struggle with out artillery help.”

Wang Zhong instantly zoomed his view to the farthest distance, which from such a peak made it really feel like satellite tv for pc photographs on Google Earth.

Then one thing surprising occurred; there have been troop icons on this “satellite tv for pc map.”

At Wang Zhong’s location, there was an emblem with a rectangle and an X, representing infantry, whereas on the east aspect of town, there was a marker for artillery.

The marker was now inexperienced, and Wang Zhong felt like he had their imaginative and prescient.

He zoomed in for a better look and, certainly, he had the artillery’s subject of view.

Was it as a result of he was on the telephone proper now?

As Wang Zhong was finding out his personal exploit, the individual on the telephone mentioned, “Give me the coordinates, and I’ll shoot the shells so far as I can. Then you definately guys simply must fend for yourselves!”

At that second, Wang Zhong out of the blue observed that there have been nonetheless fairly a number of smoke bombs on the artillery place.

A plan out of the blue struck him.

Wang Zhong, “Do you have got smoke bombs?”

There was silence for a second on the telephone, after which the reply got here, “Sure. What about it?”

Wang Zhong, “I’ll offer you coordinates, shoot all of the smoke bombs over there.”

For the reason that Prussians used smoke to obscure the imaginative and prescient of the Divine Arrow staff, permitting their tanks to interact at a distance they excelled in, we may do the identical.

Utilizing smoke to fully strip away imaginative and prescient, then let the infantry cost and interact the enemy in melee fight.

Throughout melee fight, the direct firepower of tanks can be ineffective.

In fact, this may additionally forestall the machine weapons from being efficient, however the machine weapons can be focused and brought out by the enemy tanks anyway.

The one query was whether or not the front-line commanders may comprehend the that means of this spherical of smoke and seize the chance to counterattack.

Nonetheless, Wang Zhong didn’t care about that a lot; his precise objective was to avoid wasting Ludmila—if the enemy tanks’ imaginative and prescient was fully stripped by the smoke, they naturally wouldn’t be capable of hearth on the Divine Arrow staff which Ludmila was a part of.

Wang Zhong adjusted his subject of view; his overhead perspective got here with coordinates, which he then reported.

Unbeknownst to him, Captain Sergey beside him was staring with vast eyes, his mouth agape.

After Wang Zhong gave the coordinates, the opposite aspect repeated them after which reconfirmed the order, “Hearth all of the smoke bombs at these coordinates, proper?”

Wang Zhong, “Proper, hearth all of them. Don’t use reside rounds; this coordinate is true on the tense spot between the enemy and us, a number of the shells will fall on our personal males.”

Smoke bombs aren’t very deadly; so long as you’re not unfortunate sufficient to be hit immediately, they received’t trigger damage.

“Understood. After firing these smoke bombs, we’ll must retreat. The enemy’s machine weapons have surpassing hearth that’s already reaching us, you get that?”

“Acquired it! Hearth!”

From the opposite finish of the telephone got here the roar, “Hearth!”

Then the decision was hung up.

Wang Zhong used his overhead view to attempt to see the impact when he heard Sergey ask in shock, “You simply referred to as out the coordinates like that? Utilizing only a telescope?”

“Sure,” Wang Zhong replied nonchalantly.

“However… all of them say that you just scored zero in each navy topic!” Captain Sergey mentioned.

Wang Zhong thought to himself, what a coincidence? That fits me simply tremendous; I’m an individual with no navy data anyway, so I received’t have to fret about giving myself away sooner or later.

As he thought this, the smoke bombs got here down.

Straight away, your complete block, each enemy and ally, was engulfed in white smoke.

Even Wang Zhong’s overhead view was coated so tightly that he may see nothing.

What occurred subsequent relied on whether or not the front-line infantry command was cowardly or not.

Wang Zhong had simply this thought when he heard via the dense smoke a deafening struggle cry, “Ura!”