Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 182 >

Stavka, the Russian Army General Headquarters.

“The goal of this offensive is not to cross the Elbe River, but to annihilate the remaining enemy occupied territories east of the Elbe River.”

I drew a line on the map.

“Hamburg, Lübeck and Kiel, finally Denmark.”

The pen left a dot on the map.

“While the Central Front is on the offensive, the Northern Front also counterattacks and presses Sweden from Norway and Finland to secure the entire Scandanavian offensive. In that sense, the code name for this operation is Tyr (the god of light in Norse mythology).”

While I was specifying the target of the offensive, the generals of the Central Front and Northern Front were tense.

“Keep in mind, the moment Denmark and Sweden are fully secured, any Royal Navy in the Baltic will have no choice but to commit suicide or surrender. And the Southern Front.”

“Yes.”

“The Southern Front, along with the Hungarian and Yugoslav forces, cut the pincers and bulges through the Kingdom of Austria and occupied Vienna. The Middle East Front Army should finish occupying the Arabian Peninsula and prepare for the Persian offensive.

“All right.”

“The Suez Front Force should only focus on protecting Suez, the Far East Military District does not need to conduct military operations. Just wait.”

When Denmark, Sweden, and Norway all fall into our hands, the Baltic Sea will literally become a Russian lake, and the Duke and British navy will either be trapped in it and either wither or die, desperately choosing to escape to the North Sea.

This means that the same could be done in the Baltic, just as Britain controlled the Mediterranean with Suez and Gibraltar.

‘It’s not long before we can unilaterally beat up the enemy, and there’s a high chance in many ways that Pantony Tigers will crawl out sooner or later.’

Of course, we will come out with a new heavy tank by that time, but it is highly unlikely that a situation where we can beat it unilaterally like this is unlikely.

So now, you need to make the most of your strategic advantage. This is the reason why we decided to launch a multi-faceted offensive, which is a significant burden from the military perspective.

Either close some campaigns altogether, as we did in Greece and Turkey, or take away major industrial or strategic locations.

If Germany had turned east and west, the Ruhr Industrial Zone would have been a waste of time, but unfortunately, it is on the other side of the country, so we cannot attack there right now.

After much deliberation, there was only one conclusion.

‘Germany is looking at it.’

After all, the only thing we could do against the British was an air raid, and even then, a large-scale bombing had never been done since the operation that the disgruntled man lived and died, and at most, it was an air strike against a military port and so on.

In the first place, we didn’t have an overwhelming air superiority against Britain, so the airstrike was a bummer, and the last airstrike was sent as propaganda as well as a beheading operation. In fact, it was a huge jackpot that many high-ranking people died or lived through.

Besides, sending an escort is a bit far away. Zveno-class air carrier? It’s only happened once or twice, and it’s very unstable. Not too long ago, one unit was completely damaged in an accident.

It completely crushes Germany, clears up Italy step by step, and waits for the United States to enter the war and change the Royal Navy.

If it is connected by land, you can occupy it or retake it, but the sea is a bit… Of course, when it comes to conquering Italy and conquering Gibraltar through Germany and France, the Mediterranean will eventually look like the Black Sea. It will take several years.

In a situation where all overseas territories are lost, oil is running out, and food is running out, the UK won’t be able to survive long, but if they do, we’ll just have to float a mushroom cloud in London.

Now that we have a solid master plan, all I have to do is wait for the generals to bring their triumph.

***

Suez, Asmailia. Suez Frontline High Command.

“What? Just keep it… Is that what you mean?”

“Yes, this is an order from Moscow.”

“What nonsense.”

Before Ungern could vomit all his emotions, there was a man who dared to sit cross-legged in the conference room, leaning against his back and snorting, and he called it George Smith Patton Jr.

“Look, General Ungern.”

A miracle unfolded in which the generals and staffs of both sides of the mirror were frozen at the level of voice that asked to talk without the insignia, but Patton was confident.

The person in front of him right now is clearly a ‘friend’.

In other words, it meant that they were comrades who could trust each other on their backs to kick the butts of those motherless German and British bastards.

And, of course, Ungern understood Patton’s gaze.

‘You just didn’t hear it and hit it? I have quite a few supplies anyway.’

Patton’s words are not at all nonsense. Right in front of Suez, where they sit with their buttocks crossed, for Egypt, it is not only about conquering Egypt, but also if the British army wants to invade, if they acquire the capital city, the city and port facilities that stretch from Kai to Alexandria, it is virtually the same as conquering Egypt. From the port, you will have to crawl through the desert in very long stretches of supply ships. If you don’t like it, make an enemy landing.

But Ungern shook his head.

Of course, as a boy born with two balls in the world, he wanted to kick the butts of German and British guys, but he was a soldier, but Ungern was a soldier.

And he was dedicating all his allegiance to the man now in full power.

It’s okay to be demoted to one or two ranks if you like it, so I want to get on a tank and run to the Ruhr at once as a front-line commander, but his loyalty erases the option of ignoring orders, even if it’s not the gaze of the GRU staff officer, who feels very bad. there was.

Then, Patton, who had been frozen for a few seconds, suddenly smiled.

“By the way, our ‘volunteers’ from the United States are cooperating with Russia in the command system, not in the command system of the Russian army, therefore.”

Patton said over and over again.

“Our ‘volunteers’ took the ‘recommendation’ of the Russian army seriously, but it would have been difficult to understand the situation at the site from far away Moscow, and, as the commander of the field, according to my judgment, we may start the offensive now. I came to the conclusion that it was the timing.”

“…………”

I talked for a little while that it was a diplomatic investigation into an ally, but Patton’s words were shortened to this.

‘You just want to keep it? f*ck it. You have no authority to give me orders.’

After thinking seriously for a moment, Ungern opened his mouth.

“Chief of Staff.”

“Yes, General.”

“What should we do if, at first glance, the orders of the superior, which seem contradictory to our military regulations, eventually conflict with each other due to various circumstances?”

“Preferably following orders issued later, but primarily at the discretion of the field commander.”

“Yeah… right?”

No matter how blindfolded volunteers are, if too much damage is taken, public opinion in the United States can change negatively. I did, but anyway, it was a command.

And he ordered not to go out, but the Americans rushed at will, and in order to prevent the collapse of the Americans, I had to fight.

If so, it basically means that you are free to choose which order to follow. Obviously, if the subsequent instructions contained the contents of canceling the previous instructions, it would not be.

“I’m not greedy, Alexandria, 100 kilometers west of Alexandria.”

In my mind, I wanted to run through Mersa Matru to Tobruk and Benghazi, but if I run like that without an order, I’m really afraid of the aftermath……

“If 100km west of Alexandria…”

“El Allamain, aim for that far, and supply… No, let’s wait for orders from above.”

In fact, considering fuel and ammunition, it is not easy to advance further. Under the premise that there is no additional supply.

And what if there is an additional supply? Then you should go as far as you can go.

Besides, I couldn’t get tired of it. Berlin is gone right now, but what about Africa? They lost control of the Baltic Sea and both Denmark and Prussia seemed to crumble, but isn’t it common sense to concentrate troops on Europe, where they live, rather than North Africa, where Suez is the only advantage?

It may be a different story for Britain, where its territory is not a battlefield, but from what I’ve encountered so far, the British didn’t seem to be particularly capable of any better than the Italians.

If you think about it in that way, can the Italian colonial army be properly supplied or properly supplied to the British colonial army and the German African expeditionary force? No, even if I send it, can I receive it? Even at this moment, the submarine squadron will grind torpedoes and the planes will rush in and give them bombs and torpedoes.

As long as the supply line is not cut, this campaign is unconditionally defeated.

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Maybe it was Patton, but Ungern understood my situation better than I thought.

‘Secondary wires.’

Compared to the millions of armies facing the European front, the African front should be said to be the most important of the secondary fronts. It’s higher than the Far East, so I have to say I’m lucky.

In the first place, the troops that Patton commanded were a small corps among the corps, and they were given the grand title of the Frontline Army, but if you look at Ungern’s units, they are at most a field army.

After mobilizing all of my contacts and sending dozens of heartfelt letters to the Kremlin, I received a bunch of T-32s for use in the containment of Suez and a few sets of heavy artillery operated under the direct control of the Command, but that’s it. too much

Unless Suez is lost, Moscow will never discuss Africa in depth.

No, even after losing Suez in the first place, the next best thing, the Persian attack, is still there.

Of course, I picked Suez, but… Anyway, my home country also ordered an attack on Persia.

No matter how long the oil supply line stretched as much as one continent, Britain, which had burned to the brim with its few oil suppliers after the US became hostile, shouted that the mainland would be swarming with replenishers who would gather on the mainland in the Atlantic, not Scandanavia and northern Germany. It was a tribute to make them cross the Indian Ocean and run to Persia, but it was not very pleasing.

And above all else, he had a great desire to tie Montgomery, who had given him a disgrace from the beginning of the war, to a cross and go around the city of Alexandria. The others were equally slow in their advance, but at least they were late advancing by natural phenomena, breaking through swamps and virtually rebuilding scarce transportation infrastructure, but he was caught by a human named Montgomery.

Cursing a natural phenomenon is useless and retaliation is impossible, but it can be done to humans.

Rommel? Ungern gritted his teeth, saying that he could yield enough of his hair to Patton, but at least Montgomery, who nests in Alexandria, would have to cut his throat with his own hands.