Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 100 >

Trans-Siberian Railway. No special trains.

“The British took the bait.”

“If we ask, it doesn’t change what we do.”

“Who said what? In any case, secularists are needed to reshape the situation after suppressing the rebellion.”

“If you are a secularist force, do you mean Alash Orda?”

“They are them, but there are many others, such as the Zadid activists, and many of the Kazakh nomadic nobles.”

But there are lines of compromise.

“Independence is absolutely not allowed, self-government is not allowed, and we can promise to allocate seats to the Duma.”

“What about the land?”

“Oh, damn it.”

I touched my forehead.

This is the main cause of the uprising.

“Stop seizing land and return unallocated farmland, stop peasant migration, stop Islamic oppression, strengthen fairness in land distribution, reform the judicial system, stop discrimination on the use of water sources . . .”

Irina’s unofficial finding out about their demands? I’ve been having a sore throat.

There is a 100% chance that such a request came out of nowhere, because it became a big problem in reality.

“Strengthening fairness in land distribution, reorganizing the judicial system, and stopping discrimination against water sources are things that must be done of course…”

“The land is the problem.”

“Damn, do I really have to invade Manchuria and conquer it?”

This time, the Chinese government intends to extort reparations and Mongolian and Xinjiang Uyghurs. I heard that the Uyghur region is also a strategic military base, and it is rich in oil and natural gas, and Mongolia also has quite a lot of resources.

But Manchuria… Manchuria should collide with Japan, right?

Northern Manchuria is under our control, but the rest of the region has become an economic colony of Japan. And the Russian Empire is not yet ready for a large-scale war.

Farming in Xinjiang Uyghurs or Mongolia? Of course, it is true that there is a lot of cotton growing in Xinjiang, but it is still questionable whether that will be enough.

“If you accept it, the stolipin guy will be foaming at you.”

“And there are others. Administrative measures that classified Kazakhs as Kyrgyz should be normalized…”

“Of course you can.”

However, it is clear that administrative demands will increase significantly. You can almost see the stolipin biting the bubble, but there’s a rebellion, well… just do that.

“We can even stop the suppression of Islam, but the introduction of Sharia is non-negotiable, and all regions of the empire must follow the same laws. Sharia? A sound that doesn’t even sound like a word.”

As a refugee, I was not able to treat the demand for the introduction of sharia well as I had heard the news that all human beings had been demanding the introduction of sharia.

“All right.”

“And… what else?”

For a moment, the sound of a train rattling filled my ears.

“Anyway, Chechens set an example, and Central Asia writes oil paintings. This has not changed.”

The time for Chechens to negotiate verbally is over. Central Asia still has hope.

I, who decided their fate only by that difference, tried to ignore the bitterness in my mouth.

***

Kazakhstan, the Russian Empire, the internal military advance base of operation.

“What is it?”

“sorry. dismissal!”

The man in typical Cossack attire bowed his head as if he had committed a mortal sin.

Ungern, who stood in front of him, kicked the desk as if he could not contain his rising anger. All kinds of objects, including the operational map, were scattered all over the place, and the staff hurriedly retrieved it.

“How could the militia, the Cossack cavalry of the Great Russian Empire, suffer so much?”

“The proficiency of these guys seemed to be out of the ordinary. They weren’t many, but they must have been professionally trained in rapid fire!”

“snapshot?”

“Yes, it is clear! Allies deal a lot of damage in a short period of time…”

“Aren’t you holding a submachine gun? Did you receive rapid-fire training?”

“no! You were attacked outside the range of your submachine gun. This is for sure.”

Ungern’s face hardened.

“Hey, aren’t these prepared in a day or two?”

“You have to be careful.”

Kuropatkin intervened.

“Once there are such elite soldiers in Kazakh, it is highly likely that they received support from other countries… Ungern! What are you doing now…”

“You idiots! Will you be fooled by the vile deeds of the traitors and sit as stupid as a ten-tailed dog? Those who are going to sit, sit down there and look for your own mother! Those who will follow you quickly get on your horse!”

Ungern got on his horse without Kuropatkin stopping him, and he jumped out with a group of Cossacks.

“under.”

Kuropatkin, amazed, wrapped his forehead. He was outraged, and he was seriously worried that he would burn a whole village anywhere.

If you have to see blood, you can see it, and you can never meet a request that exceeds a certain line, but it must be the general’s intention to shed as little blood as possible while satisfying the request within a certain range.

Besides, even if you play chess, shouldn’t you do it after the troops have gathered a bit? I just arrived and haven’t even unloaded the cannons from the train yet, but a few Cossacks were killed and wounded, so they got feverish and the commander rode out on horseback.

A mutter escaped from between Kuropatkin’s lips, mad at the thought that he had to control that man for the duration of this operation.

“My father, my father, why have you forsaken me?” (Eli eli lema sabachthani).

***

He acted as if he had run out of excitement, but it wasn’t that Ungern ran out without a plan.

Kuropatkin will take care of the unloading work and other arrangements without him, so if the two of you are together, it may not be possible because of differences of opinion.

And if you have been trained as a firefighter, there must be a singularity, and it is said that the Cossack cavalry could not find such a singularity, but it is unreasonable to demand expertise from the Cossacks who lacked education in the first place.

‘High-speed fire with a rifle.’

The first thing that comes to mind is the British Army. The British Army’s Lee-Enfield rifle is famous for its ability to fire quickly. At least among bolt-action firearms, it is top-class.

Next is the light machine gun. Of course, if light machine guns were actually used by the enemies, the scouts would have been annihilated sooner.

But maybe there is a similar weapon. Ungern just remembered a gun he had even shot a while ago.

Fyodorov automatic rifle (Автомат Фёдорова), a weapon developed during the last great war.

It had a 25-round magazine, and although it was weaker than the ammunition used by the Interior Army or the ammunition of Moshin Nagant, it was a device that used the 6.5mm Arisaka bullet, a standard rifle bullet.

In the future, some people define it as the world’s first assault rifle, but it is difficult to manufacture and complicated, and it is virtually hand-made because press technology is not applied. .

The Ministry of Home Affairs also showed interest and frowned a little, and Ungern had an opportunity to fire live in the meantime, but Ungern remembered that and doubted that his opponent might have been armed with such a type of weapon.

‘However, no matter how ignorant those Cossacks are, there is no way they could have mistaken the gunshots of automatic machines and just high-speed fire.’

Well, once you bump into it, you’ll know. With that in mind, Ungern spurred the horse.

‘If at least one of the British dared to set foot on the holy empire’s territories, they would pay the price.’

how far did you run While running on horseback following the pursuit of the Cossacks, a settlement caught my eye.

It was a typical Russian settlement.

Seeing the smoke rising from the village, Ungern roared.

“charge! Show those bandits that justice is alive!”

“Long live Your Majesty!”

The Cossacks, who took out their cavalry, did not hesitate even for a second and started running towards the village.

“The enemy! Cavalry!”

“traitor!”

Yelling out, Ungern beheaded the enemy who was about to pick up the gun.

-bang! Tang Tang!

Gunshots rang out everywhere. Immediately, Ungern’s ears grasped the situation.

There is a clear difference between friendly gunfire and enemy gunshots. However, the interval between the enemy gunfire was shorter than expected.

Considering the fact that they are scattered like killifish when attacked by friendly forces, it is clear that the enemy is a mob that has not been properly trained. But what is this shooting speed?

Even Lee-Enfield, which is said to have the best rate of fire and convenience among bolt action rifles, often fails to fire properly because recruits who fall during a melee cannot pull the bolt properly. But how do you come to your senses and react properly when such a horde of mischievous bandits are suddenly surrounded and attacked by Cossack cavalry? Does that make sense?

‘After all, their shooting speed is strangely good. But looking at the way they go back and forth, no matter how much you look at them, they are not elite, how can you only have good quick-fire skills while not doing anything else?’

There were not one or two questions, but Ungern judged lightly.

If you kill them all, catch one or two alive, take your time and step by step, whatever happens will burn!

***

Kuropatkin, who was in the midst of supervising the unloading operation, faced Ungern, who had returned from a full day and a half with blood on his uniform black and dry from where he had been and what he had been doing.

“Did you say that the enemies have new weapons?”

“That’s right.”

Putting down a bloodstained rifle, Ungern raised one end of his lips. Of course, his eyes weren’t smiling at all.

“As far as I know, there are only two types of semi-automatic rifles that use standard rifle bullets, which are mass-deployed in a regular fashion.”

The military does not use semi-automatic rifles. There are those frivolous things, but they are nothing more than a modification kit that makes it possible to shoot pistol bullets by attaching a different bolt to the standard rifle P14 rifle, and does not use rifle bullets.

This is due to the fact that the reliability of the semi-automatic rifles of this period was close to being sold out.

One of the semi-automatic rifles used in mass production today is the Mondragon rifle, which was used by the Germans in World War I, and the Mondragon rifle, which still breathes fire to the Americans in Mexico, and the other…

“Ru rifle, or General Liu rifle, the official rifle of the Republic of China.”

Ungern, who served in the Great War, knows what a Mondragon rifle looks like. And I knew right away that this gun wasn’t a Mondragon.

It didn’t take long, then, to be convinced of the one remaining possibility.

“It seems that the Chinks have lost their cowardice, just as Your Marshal predicted. What do you think?”

Kuropatkin had a terrifying feeling.