Rasputin of the East

21

-bang! Tang Tang!

A 45-caliber bullet pierced the target at the shooting range.

The custom M1911 I ordered from Colt did not disappoint and pierced the center of the target accurately.

“It seems to be worth the money you put in.”

In particular, I thought about this feeling of grip in the 21st century – a previous life for convenience – but the M1911 was a gun that could be ranked in the best class with this grip alone.

The Glock was the most reassuring thing in battle due to the lack of ammunition, but my personal opinion is that the M1911 is the best for shooting practice or hobby.

‘I think this is more appropriate than paperwork.’

To be honest, paperwork was something I couldn’t like because I had it done in my past life or here.

Still, it was a good thing to think about using my past experiences to cover myself now.

‘I wish we could provide one pistol per person, but the budget is a bit tight.’

There is a saying for nothing that a pistol is the best in a trench warfare, and the person who wins a hand-to-hand battle is the one with bullets left in the gun.

Even if you have a submachine gun, it’s good to have a shotgun, and it’s good to have a pistol. The existing bayonet is too long to be useful, so the stick type used to beat criminals, etc., would be better.

‘The body armor is ambiguous, can it provide meaningful protection?’

I honestly think it would be difficult. Doesn’t it just make your body heavy?

Of course, based on the experience of the 21st century, it is true that body armor is a very useful piece of equipment, but in this age, there is no Kevlar or ceramics, everything is metal.

Even if this was the Soviet-level technology, titanium bulletproof plates would have been considered, but unfortunately, it is the Russian Empire.

Even so, the survival rate jumps up just by blocking the fragments of the shells, but it is a question of whether it is worth sacrificing activity.

While I was thinking about various things, I heard a voice as I went through the magazine.

“The Count.”

“Call me Chief, what’s going on here, Irina?”

“Britain has declared war, as the director said.”

“It’s obvious. What is the status of the military?”

“Currently, the weapons are 100% paid, but I am concerned about the lack of a large stockpile of supplies, but it will be resolved soon. But for the time being, there are no offensive plans, do you?”

The Tsar was passive, but above all, the Russian army was not yet ready.

Currently, there is only the Internal Affairs Force in all of Russia that can fully fill the organization and be put into battle at any moment.

“Because the French will run and roll on the floor demanding an offensive. Then there is a high possibility that the internal military will also be deployed.”

“Ohrana does not think so.”

“Isn’t it a secret, at least to me, that you’re Agent Ohrana?”

“Now it doesn’t make any sense. If you look for a few documents anyway, you will find them all.”

The tsar has entrusted me with full power over information affairs. Accordingly, I can share all the materials of Ohrana when necessary, and I have limited command over Ohrana.

It seemed too obvious, so I paid less attention to it, but Irina didn’t seem to have any intention of hiding the mission she had been assigned to.

Continuous monitoring and reporting of me, and assassination based on on-site judgment.

“Did you not think that I would get rid of you?”

“I would be lying if I said I didn’t, but does it make any sense to think about it? If you die, you die. If the director decides to bury me only when I resist, there is no way I can do it.”

“It doesn’t matter, because you didn’t poison my tea, because in business like this, there are times when you have to live with someone who has the ability and the motive to kill you.”

Besides, Irina is, frankly, the perfect secretary, if it weren’t for her office skills, she would not have died from an assassination, but from overwork.

Above all, she is now in a position where she cannot do any harm to me. Assassinations are nonsense, are you watching me? Who are you reporting to? If you report the information that has been monitoring me to me, that’s a comedy.

So now you can just say that he’s just an experienced secretary.

“Anyway, you will always be my secretary, honestly, it will not be easy to find a secretary like you now.”

Then, Irina’s lips rose slightly.

“thank you.”

“So, let’s finish what we talked about earlier, and if Ohrana decided that there was no possibility that the Ministry of Home Affairs would be deployed to the front, would there be a reason for that?”

“Ohrana is not authorized to conduct inspections of the military. As you may know.”

That was the way it was originally, but Ohrana lost her control over the military as the military bastards roared with foam.

In fact, I also have no official authority to inspect the military. My authority is to search for and annihilate anti-government forces, and work abroad. The military cannot be inspected without solid evidence that there are anti-government forces within the military.

Of course, if you put the tsar’s authority ahead of you, you’ll be fine.

“But there is no guarantee that the military will not be disloyal to the tsar, so we monitored the periphery of the aristocrats in charge of military affairs. It was an expedient because I did not have the authority to directly inspect the military.”

“therefore?”

“It is a rough idea, but within the military, we want to exclude the internal affairs army from military operations.”

“You don’t want to share your achievements?”

“Well… even if they fight after receiving information, the achievements of those who actually fought will stand out more, so let’s provide information from the rear and build achievements with that information… That’s roughly it. It goes beyond the level of not wanting to split the ball, and that they don’t want to give them a chance to set the ball. Considering the fact that the Internal Affairs Force was officially established as a reinforced version of the National Military Police and focused on dealing with domestic issues, it was advertised externally. As an added bonus, there are many people who genuinely doubt the combat power of the Interior Ministry.”

“Funny, did they pay each man a gun? How many times have I given them live ammunition training and how many times have they been on a mountain march?” “There were some of those people who wanted to disband the internal affairs army and ask for their troops and supplies. It looks like it’s been a mess without it.”

“I’ll turn, really.”

“Objectively, from my point of view, if we send it to the southern part of the Empire, we can clearly demonstrate the capabilities of the Internal Affairs Force. Even if they are sent in, the military will be sent in only when they come to their senses after they have been smashed in the first half.”

“The military will hold out, and the tsar will not be able to push against it if the military stubbornly opposes it.”

Originally, I knew that Nicholas II was such a person, so I wasn’t really angry.

“In other words, if the military loses once… then the early end of the war will be over.”

“No matter how good information you bring, if you can’t use it in the field, it’s futile. Besides, it is impossible to supply equipment to the troops that are put into operation in a timely manner under the offensive schedule I expect.”

“It would be much better if we removed those troops and put in the internal army.”

There are no thorns in the military. A number of armored trains are deployed by order of the Ministry of Home Affairs, and a small number of motorized units and tank units are also deployed.

Units that do not receive such payments are assigned bicycles or horses. In particular, it would be optimal to put infantry units in swamps, etc., since a factory was built to supply a huge amount of bicycles.

“More than anything else, the communication security of the Russian army is so poor… If I were the German army, I would eavesdrop on the order and use it.”

In fact, the great defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg happened that way.

Due to a lack of equipment, the 2nd Army struggled to advance properly in the marshes south of the lake, and the Germans intercepted the Russian command, which communicated in plain text rather than code, and defeated the 2nd Army while blocking the 1st Army with only one division. to collapse

It was a total disaster caused by a combination of discord among the commanders, lack of training, low morale, and a f*cked up sense of security.

It is a disaster that would be more than enough to prevent if the 2nd Army was deployed in the Interior Army. No, it is a disaster that can be prevented if you take and make it mandatory to use even a password generator that mimics the Enigma system that the German military will use 30 years after it is used. .

‘If we can’t deploy our troops to the 1st and 2nd Army, the Internal Affairs Army must move instead of the 10th Army, the Strategic Reserve, which has not yet moved when the 2nd Army is in crisis.’

The impact force of the tank battalions possessed by the Interior Ministry would be sufficient to rescue the 2nd Army. The capabilities of a WWI tank were enough to dismantle a German regiment-level force with a few FT-17 tanks.

In addition, all members of the Interior Forces were trained in assault squads. If only I could convince those assholes how much this meant at the beginning of the war…

“Because there is still time until the operation starts, I think I will be very thirsty, so please brew me some hot tea.”

“Do you need anything other than tea?”

“I should prepare a plan B.”

If the possibility of an early end of the war disappears and the battlefield becomes entrenched and it becomes clear that a revolution is unavoidable, the Interior Ministry will not enter the battlefield.

Instead, the Ministry of Home Affairs is mobilized in St. Petersburg. All political prisoners in Rubanka were also transferred to St. Petersburg…

“If it’s not going to work, then we’ll have to negotiate.”

“Is there someone I need to make an appointment with?”

“It is necessary to seek the cooperation of the Archduke Cyril, and in the worst case prepare to blockade St. Petersburg with the Baltic Fleet and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.”

“It could be considered a rebellion prayer.”

“It’s better than losing your hands when the people rise up like the French Revolution.”

“Would you like to relive Bloody Sunday?”

From Ohrana’s point of view, Blood Sunday is the worst black history, and it was natural that he didn’t want to repeat it.

“It’s not even Bloody Sunday, and, as I expected, St. Petersburg might fall into the hands of a mob in no time. You must be prepared to give up St. Petersburg at any time. You have to take everything you can and go to the Far East. The people you need to take care of are the main officials, their families, and the tsar, and the nobles… If you join in time, they will take you, but they will not wait or pick you up.”

“I have to take everything I need to take with me in St. Petersburg. If I leave it, it will be used as a military fund for the weightlifters.

“I think it’s best to take it out in advance and bury it in the Far East. You never know when things will turn around.”

“It’s up to the making of the cause, but it won’t be easy.”

It was something that could be turned upside down if I said it anywhere, but neither I nor Irina was greatly embarrassed because it was a conversation between people I knew enough to literally know.

Above all, Irina has become a body that can never betray me.

“And I wanted the director’s lieutenant, because I can’t even assist you on the battlefield.”

“……”

I think I’ll fight well even if I raise the gun,

I thought about it for a moment, but I was wise and didn’t say it.