At eight o’clock in the evening, after the enemy’s shelling hadpletely ceased, a jeep carrying Hamov and a pilot arrived at the headquarters of the Guards Mechanized Infantry Division.


    Having been informed in advance, Wang Zhong led all the staff of the division headquarters to meet them at the entrance.


    Seeing two people getting off the jeep, Wang Zhong asked, “Did we lose two people?”


    “No,” Hamov shook his head, “Another had a rudder failure, and thest message from his radio was that he flew over the river, but we don’t know where hended. If he makes contact with our forces, he will return by car.”


    Since pilots are so precious, any unit that finds one will send them back to the airfield by car.


    “Do you know the family address of Captain Semyon? I want to personally write him a letter of thanks,” Wang Zhong added.


    As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a guard from the sentry unit click his tongue in awe, “A General personally writing a letter of thanks, wouldn’t that be something to have.”


    Popov looked like someone who had just been enlightened, turned his head, and looked Wang Zhong up and down.


    Wang Zhong forcefully pretended not to notice the expression on his face.Hamov said, “Through official channels, you could do this through the church at the airfield. If you want to send it yourself, I know the address, after all, he’s an old soldier from the first squadron, and I’m quite familiar with him. Should I give the address to your maid?”


    Wang Zhong nodded and gestured for them to enter, “Pleasee in. Let’s not stand out here, lest the Prussians learn from us and start shelling unexpectedly.”


    The group entered the bunker like so.


    Upon entering, Hamov’s first words were, “General Rokossovsky, during the enemy aircraft attack, no one was paying attention to your radiomunication, but thinking back now, you seem to have a good grasp of airbat tactics. You also knew that enemy fighters have trouble rolling during a dive.”


    Wang Zhong quickly said, “That’s justmon knowledge, most aircraft will see decreased maneuverability when diving beyond a certain speed.”


    This was true, so during a dive, it was necessary to control the speed well, often throttling back to prevent the aircraft from going too fast.


    A Yak-1 bing unresponsive when diving too fast is also a risk of wing failure, given that the wings of the Yak-1 were made of wood.


    However, the Yak-1 rarely executed dive attacks. When Wang Zhong yed War Thunder, he would dogfight with a Yak-1 at low speed and low altitude.


    Hamov stared at Wang Zhong, “Common knowledge, I see. So among the nobility, this kind of knowledge, typically held by seasoned veterans, has bemon knowledge?”


    Wang Zhong firmly said, “Yes. It all started when a buddy of mine took a girl up for a flight, and afterwards, she was totally devoted to him. So flying became popr. It’s all for wooing girls, and I’m the second yboy of Ye Fort, understand!”


    Hamov nodded, “I don’t understand much about nobility, but it’s true that pilots are very popr with the girls. More than once, we’ve asked hospitals not to be set up near airfields because the more nurses that are close by, the more socializing happens, and after socializing, many nurses get pregnant.”


    Wang Zhong’s sympathy for Hamov’s squadron suddenly halved.


    Vasily asked, “And what about you, Colonel? I remember your wife is a high school teacher, do you also get cozy with the nurses at the dance?”


    Hamov replied, “Of course not. Roughly six years ago, when a fighter group I was with stationed near an airfield that had a high school next to it, my wife—to be—had just started teaching there. We had a mixer between the pilots and the teachers, and then I got married.”


    Vasily remarked, “It’s good that I didn’t join the Air Force.”


    Wang Zhong eximed, “You like men?”


    “No, I just don’t want to get married yet.”


    Popov interjected, “He hasn’t had enough fun yet, I can tell just by his expression. When I was still a Priest at the church, over half the youngds who came to confess were just like him.”


    At this point, Pavlov joined the conversation, “Let’s get back to serious matters, Colonel Hamov.”


    The Colonel nodded, “Right, back to business. We came here to report what we observed while flying at low altitude.”


    Wang Zhong asked, “The enemy didn’t hide?”


    The Colonel shook his head, “No, they have no air raid awareness whatsoever. Their tanks and tents had no camouge, not even a covering. Moreover, when they saw the nes, they didn’t scatter or duck, they all stood in ce waving at us.”


    Wang Zhong wasn’t surprised by this, as those who hadn’t experienced airstrikes tended to bex. On Earth, when Ameidulite air-raided Tokyo by flying along the coast, fishing vigers seeing the nes at first mistook them for their own, waving and cheering.


    Popov snorted, “They’ll quickly learn their lesson from the war.”


    Wang Zhong continued, “You flew behind enemy lines, did you find out why they stopped? After this morning’s wave of attacks, the enemy just shelled us withoutunching any further attacks. We specte that the enemy may have suffered unexpected losses or had a death that caused low morale.”


    Hamov replied, “No, the soldiers we saw from our low-flying sortie didn’t seem like they had been defeated. They were spirited and seemed jubnt, not bothering to take cover. They gathered in the canteen; a single heavy shell could have killed a hundred people.


    “I actually feel like the enemy thinks victory is within reach.”


    After Hamov finished, his wingman added, “Another thing, all the enemy stayed in tents, and we noticed many nice houses that werepletely unupied.”


    Wang Zhong spected, “They are probably scared by our nightly shelling.”


    Pavlov asked, “Knowing that the enemy isn’t upying the houses, do we still bomb tonight?”


    “We can stop tonight, even for a couple of days, wait until the enemy starts taking shelter in the houses, then strike.”


    Pavlov nodded, “Okay, then tonight, the artillery can rest.”


    Having said this, he turned to see to this matter while Wang Zhong kept questioning Hamov, “Any other intelligence? It’s unlikely that the enemy won’t attack, but we’ve been on guard all day with no activity.”


    Hamov shook his head, “I’m just a pilot; I can only tell you that the enemy’s air defense awareness is very poor.”


    Wang Zhong stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.


    At this time, Hamov swallowed hard, as if he had made up his mind to ask, “General, how did you manage to get the shells within our line of sight? If you hadn’t sent the first one over, today’s tactics would have been impossible.”


    Vasily also looked at Wang Zhong.


    He had personally witnessed Wang Zhong drawing crosses on the map with his fingernail today.


    Wang Zhong had actually thought it through already and concluded that he couldn’t hide it, he could only say that it was really cool.


    Luckily, this world had Divine Power.


    So he said, “I prayed to God, and He told me the location.”


    What’s the deal, girls are allowed to pray to guide Divine Arrows, but I, a good-looking young man, can’t pray to guide a cannon? Besides, the praying hands were equally split between men and women; it just so happened that all the praying hands in my troops were females.


    Popov’s expression immediately became very subtle.


    For the first time, Wang Zhong actually noticed! After all, one must pay attention to the bishop subordinate’s response, right?


    So, he added, based on his understanding of the secr faction’s doctrine, “I think there must be scientific principles behind this, maybe due to ckbody radiation inducing quantum entanglement.”


    Actually, Wang Zhong waspletely bluffing at this point; he didn’t understand quantum mechanics at all. He had just watched a video titled “The Ultimate Battle at the Summit of Quantum” and remembered a few terms because they sounded cool.


    It was like those pseudo-intellectual youths on some tforms who watched “Five-Minute Speed Read of XX Masterpieces” on TikTok and, after remembering a few keywords, started to show off and act pretentious.


    What he hadn’t anticipated was that these few words were as long as names in Ante’snguage.


    After a string of gibberish, everyone was confused.


    Popov: “What the heck is that?”


    Wang Zhong: “I mean, based on the nck constant and de Broglie resonance, I knew the location of Hamov and the others.”


    Vasily: “I’m pretty sure what you just said is different from what you said before.”


    Wang Zhong: “I just piled up a few of the most cutting-edge scientific terms; eventually, they will be exinable. Science that’s advanced enough looks just like magic.”


    Popov: “Don’t worry, the Sanctified faction has been wiped out, and moreover, the Grand Patriarch has given special instructions that the Judge will turn a blind eye to what you say.”


    Wang Zhong: “That’s really scientific!”


    Hamov chimed in, “So, does that mean we will be able to guide artillery by keeping in radio contact with you in the future?”n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    Wang Zhong: “First, you’ll need to get a better radio. Actually, contacting you today was a fluke; the weather is going to get worse soon, and the increasing clouds might further affect radiomunication.”


    Hamov: “Right. And after all, we are fighter pilots; it’s not suitable for us. I think we could request to dispatch Ye-2 bombers. The Ye-2 bombers have dedicated navigators, and they know their own positions. I’ve always thought we should make heavy bombers into reconnaissance nes like the enemy does.”


    Wang Zhong: “Maybe we could get some B17 support from the Federation.”


    After he finished speaking, the room fell silent.


    Popov coughed, “Did you just leak some secrets?”


    Wang Zhong: “Ah? Oh, you mean Mike, the reporter from the Federation? He told me a lot about what’s going on in their country. It’s not a leak; they are already discussing in Congress whether to help us or not. It’s not leaking secrets, their newspapers are reporting it every day!”


    The others exchanged nces and collectively decided to ept that exnation.


    Hamov sighed, “Well, I do hope they send more fighters. I’m sick of these wooden nes.”


    Wang Zhong thought, just wait, you’ll get to fly a Yak-3. That thing is all metal and known as the perpetual motion machine at low altitude; it can make a fool out of any ne that dares to battle it at low altitudes.


    Pavlov had finished arranging the artillerymen’s rest and came back, asking, “So, why exactly did the enemy stop attacking?”


    Everyone looked at each other, clueless.


    ———-


    “Tomorrow morning, I will personally fly to exin to His Majesty.”


    In the headquarters of the First Army of the Asgard Knights, Giles said so.


    His adjutant looked at the telegram in his hands with worry, “This telegram is so strongly worded; aren’t we taking a risk by going to His Majesty now? Won’t we be asking for trouble?”


    Giles: “But it’s a fact that our elite armored units were useless in the attack on Shostka. Even if we move them to the northern line, it would be more useful than wasting them here. I will make His Majesty understand this.”


    The other officers nced at each other.


    Giles added, “Or do you think His Majesty doesn’t have the magnanimity to understand such things?”


    The other officers immediately shook their heads.


    Giles: “That’s settled then. I will leave the front line tomorrow, and you will continue with the engineering work.”