Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 105 >

Another smoke rises.

The Cossack cavalry under Ungern’s command was inexhaustible.

As Kuropatkin stamped Ungern into the ranks, he came into contact with secularists and moderate reformists, established a safe zone and created a survival zone, but the outside was stained with a sea of blood.

Of course, it was not without an attempt to stop Ungern.

As demonstrated in the last world war, trenches, barbed wire, and machine guns are cavalry counters. Volunteers from the Republic of China who knew this and other elite soldiers who received special training attempted to defend the base.

And to some extent it worked. Until Jeon Seo-gu flew, and VX and Lewisite were dropped from aircraft equipped with chemical bombs.

If you concentrate your troops on one point, you can bypass it and suppress it with gas. There are not enough elite troops and weapons to attempt linear defense.

Even if you try to defend, it’s enough if you inject gas and break through.

Even if they negotiate, they clearly show the power of the empire, then beat them with a whip until they die and give them carrots.

If you stick out the carrot first, it tends to look easy. Ungern had no doubts about his actions, as long as the policy of giving out carrots in the name of mercy after being beaten to death was adopted.

“Baron, I…”

“Ttt, those damn humans hit the player over there too.”

The watchtower was set up, and Ungern gasped as he saw the internal affairs forces stand guard at the entrance to the village.

The fact that even a small number of the Interior Army is deployed means that it is a safe zone occupied by Kazakh nobles who hastily pledged their allegiance, or secularist forces or reformist imams.

In other words, Ungern could not get permission to enter the village even if it was a request for supply and rest.

“Damn, I’m going to get a glass of water and go.”

Shaking his head, Ungern had to hold the reins loosely.

“Caucasus would have been better than running around here, they say it’s really hot there.”

“Great.”

It was a logic difficult to comprehend if you had common sense how not to care about civilians could be synonymous with hotness, but Ungern grunted with sincerity.

Of course, Ungern didn’t just wander around destroying things. Destruction was just a secondary mission, and the real goal was different.

Destroying rebel supply routes in Turgay.

The rebels have even formed their own administrative organization and are running rampant, but Lenin is definitely in the Caucasus.

The arrival of air support to Ungern was also part of it. In any case, the instructions were given to all units to cooperate in the process of carrying out the current mission of Ungern.

The generals’ nerves were all focused on Turgai. Turkestan and Orenburg and other regions succeeded in initial response and established defense lines, but in Turgay, the scale of the rebel forces organized under a single command system was large enough to be estimated at about 100,000.

And Ungern’s mission was to figure out the supply routes between China and Central Asia that supported them, and then destroy them at any cost.

***

At the same time, the Caucasus, Chechnya.

“Long live Your Majesty!”

“Wow! Whoa!”

Screaming and the soldiers rushed in.

Of course, it was the Wild Army and Cossack troops, mostly Chechens who swore allegiance to the imperial family, who rushed in blindly.

In the city of Grozny, fire raged without even a break, and gas bombs exploded.

The suppression force equipped with protective clothing did not care if it was suppressed by spraying gas, but the rebels, who were not properly equipped with gas masks and lacked weapons, almost died unilaterally in the course of the fighting.

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Moreover, each soldier had higher morale than the rebels. had to be high.

The duke’s promise to wipe out the rebels and distribute their lands to those who proved their loyalty to the tsar was brimming with motivation.

“Long live Your Majesty! Long live the Russian Empire!”

“You traitors of your kind!”

Lieutenant Paysula, a member of the 1st Wild Army Regiment, shoved a bayonet into the ship of the rebels who attacked with evil. The bullet in the magazine ran out a little while ago and there was no time to reload.

At that moment, an enemy soldier following right behind pointed a pistol at him.

I didn’t have time to think long. The lieutenant almost let go of the gun, sticking to the dying enemy with his bayonet piercing his lungs.

A moment later, gunfire rang out, and blood spattered from the back of the enemy soldier. Holding the gun as it was, the lieutenant turned around as if dancing, pulling out the bayonet lodged in the chest of the corpse, and at the same time smashing the face of the enemy in front of him with the butt.

The lieutenant, who was holding the gun barrel and holding the gun upside down, slammed the buttstock into the face of the enemy soldier with the nose bone down as it was. There was a high probability that the sensitive automatic rifle would break, but it was not the time to worry about that.

The lieutenant, who slapped him several times until his skull was submerged and blood gushed out, gasping and wiping away his sweat.

“More is coming!”

The lieutenant who hid himself with a squeaking sound was only then able to load the gun.

The magazine is detached, but there are no extra magazines anyway. It took quite a bit of time to push the five clips one by one. Fortunately, there were no malfunctions, and the Fyodorov automatic rifle lived up to his expectations brilliantly.

“Cut it out! Even if we all die, we must break through!”

There must be an enemy leader in this area, as I heard at the briefing.

The rebels still maintained a considerable size and organization, with gunshots and gunfire resounding in the city of Grozny just after the battle had begun, and Chechen cavalry attempted several times to surprise the rear units of the Interior Ministry and the Cossacks launched a sweeping battle. and systematically resisted the internal forces.

In other words, their mission was to clear the enemy’s leadership, reduce the damage of the friendly forces and collapse the enemy’s systematic resistance.

The fact that not only Spetsnaz, but also local Chechen troops were put into the operation that could even be called sacred, was a consideration for the post-war period, but that was not important.

You have to somehow reach the target bunker.

Even if only one enlisted soldier throws himself out with huge rewards and loyalty. The officers who could see the world with a slightly wider field of view had a different idea.

When the decision is made, the Chechen treason must be put to an end at the hands of the Chechens, so that the central government will have something to say later.

Of course, it’s not just the Chechens’ hands, but it wasn’t the same over there.

No matter how much the government promised them land and rewards, it would not be good for them if the whole Chechnya was branded as a land of traitors.

“Never… you must not fail!”

***

“The beheading operation failed. The enemies set a focal point and resisted so fiercely… One of the Spetsnaz companies was annihilated and the wild army suffered a lot of damage.”

“It can’t be helped, as long as you’re sure they didn’t escape, that’s enough.”

“The escape was prevented, but the enemy has now established a systematic defense line. Perhaps the early end of the suppression operation is……”

“It crossed the water.”

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Mannerheim slurped his taste buds with disappointment.

“Go back to the previous operation. Change it little by little.”

“All right.”

As soon as the subordinate left, Mannerheim’s expression wrinkled.

No air strikes or bombardments are possible. Civilian casualties were not the problem.

The problem was that the clock itself was extremely poor due to the damn weather. It would be understandable if not only air raids, but also bombardment support was difficult because it was difficult to obtain coordinates.

The wild army was bleeding because of the constant fog.

Naturally, the military does not regard the wild army as a mere consumable item either. For the wild army, he provided a large number of automatic weapons such as submachine guns and automatic rifles, as well as a small number of personal firearms necessary for urban warfare, such as a large number of shotguns and grenades.

Victory is certain. Only blood is flowing more than expected.

Normally, poison gas and incendiary bombs would have been generously poured, but now, even the direction of the wind did not even cooperate.

The most effective means of attack was sealed as the fire and gas were highly likely to spread in the direction of allies if they set fire or sprayed gas. .

Fortification of indoor spaces, such as air defense shelters, and gas bombs were used to resist enemies. There was no need to consider the wind direction indoors anyway.

The ammunition consumption was so great that most of the gas bombs, including VX and Lewisite, were depleted, and there were many rebels who fought by trenching on the collapsed wreckage, but most of them were somehow neutralized.

The problem was that the armed forces of the enemies were more faithful than expected, but it was impossible in the first place to achieve victory over the Interior Army.

“It’s important to kick the dwarfs, but… catching him, Lenin is our top priority.”

Lenin, Trotsky, and Zhugashvili were black-ranked wanted within the Ministry of the Interior.

In the meantime, they have been tracking them all the time, but now the order has been issued to arrest or kill them with all their might, and Ohrana even put a huge bounty on their necks.

Not only the Wild Army and the Cossacks, but also the soldiers of the Interior Army, whose salaries were not small, the ransom for these factors was more than enough to fix several times.

If we were lucky enough to attack the fleeing enemy’s leadership, we could live happily even if we shared money with our colleagues.

Besides, the preparations for the sheep hunting are already over.

“If the situation continues to deteriorate, will the enemy leadership quietly accept death or run away?”

“I will run away.”

“Yeah, almost everyone in this area is friendly to the rebels anyway. Unless they are at the level of the Wild Army and their families, they should all be considered rebel allies.”

The encirclement is thick, but loose in one place.

It is a path leading towards the Caucasus Mountains. Of course, if they hide in the mountain range, it becomes quite troublesome for the internal affairs army.

And the enemies must have thought so too.

The passage had already become a minefield, and Spetsnaz, heavy weapons, and tanks were also deployed nearby to prepare for an ambush. It is an exhaustive trap proposed by Vasilebsky, designed by Mannerheim, and field command by Ivan Konev.

It was the supreme policy to take this opportunity to completely uproot and annihilate the Chechen nationalists and communists from the very bottom to the top so that they could never recover again. The Russian army was fulfilling this mission faithfully and happily.