Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 213 >

“The leader of Army Group has reached Bonn. The Guard Corps has established a headquarters at this university.”

“At this university, it means that they have already crossed the Rhine.”

“Yes that’s right.”

“Are there any signs of an enemy counterattack? Ammunition and fuel stockpiles?”

“We are still at the right level. If there’s one thing I’m worried about, it’s the fatigue of the soldiers…”

weird.

Something is strange.

Personally, I thought they had to take all the Tigers and Panthers out, resist the Ruhr, and shoot some kind of Battle of Stalingrad against them. So, the power that was put into Kursk was mobilized with a size that would be cheap.

Yes, the Guards fiercely resisted, and Tigers and Panthers crawl out from here and there and engage in tank battles.

However, the number was far less than we expected.

“Isn’t Norway in short supply of iron ore because it was cut off?”

“There may have been a shortage of rare metals.”

“It is difficult to rule out the possibility that the equipment could not even be started due to lack of fuel.”

“It is not. They still have some oil, and besides, not only the synthetic oil in Germany, but when the navy is wiped out, they can turn their oil to the army, so the oil shortage wouldn’t be an issue.”

“Rare metals would have been able to be replenished to some extent by sea transport. We have access to Southeast Asia, etc., and the supply chain in Africa seems to be maintained to some extent.”

“Iron ore could have been supplemented somehow even by requisition. Besides, it could be sourced from the UK, etc.”

I just touched a spot.

“Maybe they’re still lurking behind them.”

“It’s absurd. If a large armored group is still organized, why didn’t it come out when attacking the Ruhr?”

“…the only victory they experienced was when we reached the end of the offensive, what if we were waiting for a second one?”

“Even so, it makes no sense. At least we can afford to occupy all of Germany.”

“…… Things like that happen, too.”

I murmured.

“It may not be in their eyes.”

***

Smoke was still rising in Bonn.

“The outskirts of such an industrial city are just rural areas.”

“Isn’t that obvious?”

“I just thought it might not be.”

With a company of tanks leading the way into the farm, accompanied by infantry, Colonel Nikita poured the liquid from the hip flask into his mouth.

“What is the situation?”

“Do you really need to be at the forefront?”

“The commander should be in a position with the best view of the battlefield. What’s more, if I fall behind, what if the kids are scammed?”

“Isn’t that a story that goes with every battalion commander?”

“Sometimes it can be safer in a tank than in the rear command post. Especially if you are confident in your skills. Even if I want to do it, I can’t.”

Of course, there’s a very good chance you’ll take off your clothes before the stars come out.

“But where are you?”

“Remel Soven…? Remelshoven? Kazanrovich? Becky?”

The catcher sighed, grunting at the words written on the map, not knowing how to pronounce them.

“Anyway, it’s a weird neighborhood.”

“Well, it’s not a major city, but what would you do with the name of a rural village outside the city?”

In fact, if it wasn’t for an important base for defending the train station, I wouldn’t have come this far as a regimental commander.

Then I saw a fat, old man in a monocle walking towards them.

“what?”

Nikita looked at him, but he wasn’t even in a military uniform, he was empty-handed. I thought about suicide, but what?

No, I was carrying something.

“white flag?”

The man wielding a white flag made of clumsily tied a handkerchief shouted something in German.

“What?”

“Wait… Are you the mayor? slip? market? Do you want this haircut to fit? Anyway, here’s the captain.”

Nikita opened the hatch and opened her mouth.

“Why did you come?”

What to say, the subordinates asked as if chasing.

“What? What is it?”

“The Germans are going to surrender?”

“What is this civilian surrender.”

“No, he came to intervene, and there are German soldiers.”

“How old is it?”

Nikita, who wrote evil for a while, received an answer.

“The Armed Guard, 200 people…”

-bang! Tang Tang!

“what? Who shot…”

“The enemy!”

A single bullet barely passed, and the sound of roasting beans on the armor plate of the tank was heard. Nikita slid into the hatch.

“Start shooting! Wipe it all away!”

I looked through my periscope and saw that the man who had just come out had been shot dead.

“Cowardly bastards, are you sniping after you say you’re going to surrender?”

Nikita grinded her teeth. There is no such thing as accepting surrender in this town anymore. kill them all really.

***

The engagement lasted about 30 minutes and was one-sided. When the German army, which had few Panzerfausts and resisted only with rifles and machine guns, was reinforced by a few additional light infantry battalions to one armored regiment of the Guards Corps, which is said to be the strongest in Russia, it was the Germans who were being hunted.

After driving the enemies all the way to the town square, Nikita saw a man in SS uniform walking out with a humble expression.

“surrender! I will surrender! The previous shooting was not our intention! A few crazy guys started shooting… It’s a different unit from us!”

As the man with his bald forehead and narrow lower crown crouched down, Nikita didn’t open the hatch and looked through the commander’s periscope.

“What would you like to do?”

“Did you hear what I said earlier? There is no second chance.”

Nikita was sentenced to death.

“Crush it.”

At the same time, the driver advanced the tank. It wasn’t a gun shot to death, it was to crush the opponent into a caterpillar orbit.

As a signal, machine gun bullets were poured on the remaining 40 enemy soldiers.

Soldiers with submachine guns on those still in motion pulled out the corpses and kicked them in the crotch. When it was confirmed that he was alive, a bullet went straight into the head.

After the process was completed, a search operation was carried out. It was a search for any surviving German troops, but none of them survived. Again, there were so many looting that the military police had their eyes closed.

Nikita also looted, but all he had to do was loot papers.

“If there is anything written on the paper, bring it all!”

“All right.”

“Seeing that there is an eagle in Hakenkreuz here, it seems like an important document. Would you like to read it?”

“It’s a report.”

“Yes?”

“I think the person in charge here wrote the report, that’s good.”

Nikita flipped through the files, spitting on his fingers.

“Let’s see… 36th Division, SS 36th Division, written by division commander Oscar von Dirlée Defense… Huh? Are you the guy who was crushed earlier? Damn it, I’m going to get you alive!”

“There is no body left, so what should I do? But why was the division commander here?”

“Looking at it, it’s a defeat report, right? The contents are all excuses, wait, was the unit here at this time the 132nd Engineer Regiment? Then the division is defeated only by the Engineer Regiment? This is no sickness…”

He nodded his head as he was arguing back and forth with the war situation he knew before.

“Riff… I don’t know what you mean by this, it sounds like a proper name.”

“Hey, don’t you know it alone, can’t you just read it?”

“Ah, yes, you should write the report instead and upload the payment.”

“Yeah?”

Nikita, who calmly handed over the paperwork to the staff as if he had spoken well, sat down on a chair and began to read the report.

“As we retreated, our troops were reduced to less than 200 men. After being exposed to continuous aerial bombardment and artillery fire, the organization had completely collapsed and reached the train station on the outskirts of Bonn, waiting for an evacuation order, while Einsatzgruppen der Sieheheitzpolichai und des Esde, the security police and the SD special operations force? special operations force? special operations group? Encounter with Special Operations Group forces, they are in charge of evacuation of the Reef… What is the safe zone of the project? suasion? recommended.”

He tapped and continued reading.

“The special operations group had how many armored trains, and they were called Levensborn? fountain of life? The project.. I can’t even guess what it was, but he said that the final result of this project must be protected anyway, and 4 containers were transported by vehicle, but 2 trucks were damaged in a timely air strike, and a human-sized object inside the container was destroyed. It was wrapped in batteries and transported and loaded onto the train, but immediately after that, an airstrike hit the station, and all cargo and armored trains were destroyed. You cannot retreat.”

“Still, the fact that the bombing itself was true, as there were still traces of the bombing left at the station. But where are those special operations groups?”

“From here, the special operations group looks like a brigade, isn’t it the enemy infantry brigade that our division annihilated at the station? There are no prisoners, so I can’t interrogate them.”

“Are you that idiot? It was a bunch of militia, and if they were a special operations group, wouldn’t the German army be unfair? If it’s a special operations group, it shouldn’t be Spetsnaz, but it should be our light infantry.”

Russian light infantry, supported by air or artillery over the terrain, was one of the most troublesome enemies of cavalry in training situations. Compared to the light infantry who blew up tanks or secretly attacked in hiding, the enemy soldiers guarding the station were literally conscripting people from somewhere, wearing military uniforms, and holding their guns.

“Is that right? By the way, the ministers couldn’t even escape and got lost here, Reef.

After all, I should have caught the rapist who looked like the rapist earlier. When I saw him, I was strangely angry and thought it would be a military officer at best.

“Aren’t you researching something like a new weapon that would change the game of war?”

“I have to send the kids to look for the wreckage of the armored train. Once the train that was loaded was harpooned by our plane along with the minister, the Germans couldn’t have taken it and bounced it off. It’s certain that those special operations groups couldn’t get out of this area either dead or alive. But when was this report written?”

“I couldn’t find that part. A few pages are missing.”

“Make sure you keep a close eye on the kids, they might be hiding somewhere and throwing bombs. Just in case, these guys may have been the bait… Tell them all to stay on board, never take their guns off their bodies, and move in groups.”

“There were about 200 bodies. According to the report, there were about 200 survivors who came so far, so it can be said that the remaining forces of the 36th Division were shut down here.”

“And there may be some special operations groups hiding somewhere. Or they are running away with the result of the project, or neither of them are happy.”

It was disappointing that if I had come a little earlier, the minister could have been caught alive and the project could also be obtained, but they did their best and ran non-stop, so there is nothing we can do about it.

“Once we deliver this document to the division commander, they tell us that we need to take off the plane and block it by enemy retreat, and send the Spetsnaz to find something they are hiding.”

“What will the regimental commander do?”

“I told you to send the kids back to the station, turn off the lights and search for rubble. I don’t know if our scientists can figure out anything, but I’d love to have an experimental outline of what it’s doing.”

Wouldn’t the war be easier if what they were making were as powerful and unimaginable weapons as he had envisioned, and if they fell into the hands of their motherland? Come to think of it, I overheard a conversation between my father and someone else—probably one of my mothers.

What substance could blow up a city with just one bomb?

read at https://readwn.com

Maybe they were already making such a weapon?

Nikita’s imagination continued to leapfrog. What if you plan to bury the bomb in the city because you don’t think they can take it and detonate it the moment your team enters Bonn? I mentioned that there were four trucks earlier, so wouldn’t it be possible if at least one of the four or four was not damaged in the bombing?

I got goosebumps at the thought. What if the city in the back disappeared with just one explosion?

“find!”

“Yes?”

“right now! Send troops back and find the wreckage! And report immediately to your superiors that the Germans may have dug a ship! The entire Bonn area must be searched immediately, and the main force said it would be safe to bypass Bonn, so a prototype of a new German weapon was transported here, along with a brigade of a German task force escorting it, near a train station where no train had departed. If you report that it has evaporated, they will understand roughly.”

“All right.”