Cannon Fire Arc
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Chapter 368: Chapter 51: The Butterfly that Stirs Its Wings (Silver Alliance additional release 2/10)
February's situation remained calm.
Wang Zhong remembered that on Earth, starting from January of the second year, the Soviet Army launched the first battle of Zhelefov, and then encountered a bloody setback in the fortified zones of the Sturmtigers.
It was already February here, and the Ante Army had not yet launched any large-scale offensives.
Wang Zhong speculated that there were two reasons; the first was that the advocates for a quick victory had mostly fallen out of favor, and the dominant position was now held by the cautious faction represented by Wang Zhong.
The reason why they were called the cautious faction was that Wang Zhong, before crossing over, had read quite a few of 'Survival in the Wild' web novels and thought the term “cautious faction” was quite fitting, so he adopted it.
The second reason was that this time, the Prosen had retreated quite thoroughly.
After the failure of the Sturmtiger's Operation on Earth, they didn't suffer such a thorough defeat; they still held a salient that could threaten the capital of the Russians at any time.
Therefore, the Russians subsequently desperately tried to “flatten” this salient.
So, despite their own troops and commanders being far inferior to the Sturmtigers, the Russians launched a large-scale offensive, sacrificing a great deal in vain.
On this side, the Prosen Army retreated all the way back to the offensive line they started from in October. There was still a threat to Ye Fort, but it was not as significant as the Zhelefov salient on Earth.
Although the Zhelefov salient was named after this city, the place was actually just the northernmost point of the salient, which also had an easternmost point, only a little over a hundred kilometers from the Russians' capital.
Zhelefov itself was only about two hundred kilometers from the capital.
Thus, this enormous salient was like a sharp knife thrust into the battle line, at any moment capable of causing the Russians to bleed profusely.
However, observing the central frontline of the Ante Empire, there was no such salient.
Ignoring the curvature of the ground and looking purely at the map, the entire frontline was a diagonal line, starting from the northernmost point of Saint Andrew Fort, slicing towards the southern Coastal Fortress-Bolsk.
If one were to consider the European part of the Ante as a handgun drumstick, then the battle line would be a cut at the bend of the leg.
Chapter end
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