Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 224 >

“Monty.”

“Rommel.”

Upon entering Rommel’s headquarters, Montgomery picked up a chair and sat down as if she had entered her own room.

Rommel didn’t mind either, and ordered the watchman to serve coffee and tea.

“Thanks to you, I was able to get out of those idiots, thank you.”

“It’s not like we are comrades who have gone through hell together. I’ve heard rumors that council idiots persecuted you. If you could fight that well, they’d go and fight.

“I also heard that you were trying to dispel my stigma in Germany, there are only incompetent people sitting up and down, what the hell am I supposed to do?”

Rommel, who had seriously listened to Montgomery’s blame for others, brought up the subject.

“I’ve heard that the Italians are going to betray me.”

“Hey, that’s what they do.”

“The Prime Minister has left me to deal with it, so Monty, what should we do?”

“I want to hear your plans first.”

“First, we should start by taking the command of the German forces in Italy from the incompetent Kesselling, who seems to have been bought by Italy.

“What’s next?”

“First of all, we have to stop the enemies from moving south. We have to defend ourselves with an advantageous terrain, then we have to regroup the troops scattered throughout Italy, behead the traitors in Rome, and then take control of all of Italy, but… both are easy. It’s not a job, the Germans are unlikely to listen to you, so you’ll take care of the defense of the North. We will reinforce the troops as soon as we recover them.”

Of course, there was a downside.

The opponent, George Patton, who had not been able to compete properly in the previous battle and had to retreat according to the supply cut and the order of his home country.

The desire to face each other with all their might and fight against each other was like a chimney, but he had no choice but to concede the glory to his comrades.

However, if you deal with it as soon as possible and return, you may arrive before the full-scale battle begins.

this is italy It’s not that they couldn’t take control, but it’s not North Africa where they had to be defeated because they couldn’t supply it.

The supply is sufficient, reliable comrades, not satisfactory, but there are combat units, and they have received full powers.

‘Patton.’

I will surely crush him and swear by North Africa.

***

Venice, Italy.

A man who said he would be a good fit for a cavalry commander in the Cold Weapons era just by looking at his temperament.

Two ivory-grip pistols, a cigarette stick, and a U.S. military uniform.

Entering Venice, the queen of the city that once conquered the Mediterranean, General George Smith Patton Jr. stood proudly in the center of Piazza San Marco and gazed at the surroundings.

Patton, who crossed over to the island, blew up a bridge, and ground the resisting Italian army with airstrikes and bombardment, looked at the swampy city of Venice, threw a cigarette into the canal, and called the lieutenant.

“Abrams!”

“Yes, General.”

“The U.S. military headquarters is set up here, in Venice.”

“All right.”

“Do you know what the problem is now? aide?”

“……”

Abrams began to open his eyes as to why he was taunting him, but Patton kicked a shard rolling in the square.

“The Russians regard us as auxiliary units at all!”

‘Isn’t that wrong?’

At most, there is only one corps, but field and group forces are in a head-to-head confrontation in Germany.

Of course, the formation of the field army was scheduled, but Patton had another reason to be upset.

“You’re stuck in DC and you’re waiting for the discharge or the filth you’ve been waiting for as your superior, is this a fart? How much does that little Stilwell know about war!”

In fact, I barely got this.

The field army formation Patton originally wanted was cut by General McNair with a single knife.

-It is difficult to send supplies and troops to General Marshall right now, it will be difficult just to unify the supply system, send equipment, and switch production facilities. send it? Isn’t the control of the naval control system perfect? Don’t you know gunshots still ring in the Azores?

-Then give me a few more divisions!

– Try to convince Eisenhower, General Bradley, or General Marshall yourself.

– There must be a new division! New Division!!! case history! ammunition! weapon! supply! Give me everything you have!

– From the moment the new divisions were founded, their destinations were all set, no.

However, General Wedmeier, who was assigned as chief of staff, negotiated with McNair instead of Patton, and managed to obtain an additional formation of one corps, including two airborne divisions, and the formation of a new field force composed of these two corps.

The new division was a volunteer with no pellets as key soldiers, and the equipment was not faithful, so it was a shame to have to complain to Russia, but Patton was happy about the increase in the number of troops.

Until I hear the next command.

Patton, of course, knew he was going to be appointed field commander. However, McNair made the decision to retain Patton and make General Joseph Stilwell the new commander of the field forces on the mainland.

Of course, it was a decision with political considerations.

First of all, Patton is, frankly, a typical appendix that is hard to expect to show any political ability.

It was not a problem when corps-sized volunteers were dispatched to simply build proficiency, but when formally organized and deployed as a European Expeditionary Force, if the Field Force Commander is Patton, it becomes the best choice for the US troops stationed in Europe.

You can never take that risk. Do you go crazy and let it go, knowing what kind of diplomatic trouble it will cause?

In addition, the fact that the war situation is extremely favorable for Russia and there is no need to take great risks also played a part in this decision.

Eisenhower and General Bradley were involved in the annihilation of the Mexican front and the Canadian resistance, respectively, so it was difficult to get them out.

Of course, Patton didn’t even think about that in the first place. If you think about it up to that point, it’s not a patten on this earth, but a patten of some parallel universe Earth-627.

However, as if Patton’s brilliance had even reached the sky, a rope came down from the other direction.

***

“A single American offensive?”

“Yes.”

As I was finally reviewing the plan to bomb the British mainland, I sighed heavily.

“Are they strong enough? Although they gave permission to use the Trans-Siberian Railway, they said that one or two regular aircraft carriers were sunk while fighting the Japanese navy not long ago. Even in the Azores, we won, but we blew up several ships. It is said that the whole of Canada is slowly coming to an end, but if it were me, I would divert the troops to South America. At the very least, they turn to the Pacific and attack Australia.”

In addition, the US military now lacks destroyers to be laid in the Atlantic Ocean, so small ships or training ships, even fishing and merchant ships, etc. are equipped with anti-submarine equipment to renovate them, or to float airships on a large scale and operate them as anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Sending a large-scale transport ship to such a country while wary of the Japanese army by sea? Even now, the Japanese Empire tolerates the Russian Empire transporting military supplies on its own ships, but it is questionable whether it will tolerate even sending troops.

Disguised as Russian Army? That’s nonsense. This is impossible unless the Imperial Japanese Navy puts knotholes in place of the eye sockets.

Then, the only option they could choose was to leave the North Atlantic, go down to the South Atlantic, go through the Cape of Good Hope, into Suez, and then get off in the Balkans, Anatolia, or Arabia at all. Of course it is, but it is very far away.

“Are you going to do it?”

“Originally, I was planning to advance only to the port and leave Italy alone… If only Genoa could be obtained with certainty, and if the US military had the ability to do so, it would not be a bad idea to entrust the Italian front.”

Above all, it seems a bit deceptive to say that the landless supply will be greatly increased, but it is appealing.

Currently, Japan is completely acquiescing under the premise of moving the Landless to our ships. There’s no good reason… We haven’t stopped exporting grain to Japan yet.

In fact, the Russian military does not necessarily need land lease, but the reason for wanting to receive as much land lease material as possible is to increase the supply capacity of the allies with trucks and transport planes, receive technical support, and strengthen the national industrial capacity, as well as various materials in the rear. I was able to block the public opinion by spraying it.

In addition to providing clothing, medicines, radars, walkie-talkies, etc., they sent some equipment, including the new light tank M3 Stewart. did not

Not so long ago, he offered to send the Russian Empire’s control equipment to the United States, and I agreed only to the extent of personal firearms and artillery.

In any case, it was also clear that the war would be resolved more easily with Landless.

“I can’t leave you with a front line that isn’t very important, but this is the story of when the US military showed its capabilities, and now the reinforcements haven’t even left the US mainland yet?”

“It is.”

“So if the US military is capable of carrying out a single offensive, I can agree to it, but the US government doesn’t seriously believe that a single corps can conquer Italy.”

“Okay, and then……”

At that moment, Irina, who had not even noticed when she had entered, suddenly opened her mouth.

“There has been a coup in Italy.”

“What?”

“Protests have taken place all over Rome, but it is not a normal situation even if you pretend. The Italians are not suppressing them, but rather the fact that the Italian military is behind them. And within two hours of the start of the demonstration, it was announced in the name of the Italian foreign minister that the king accepted the demands of the protesters, lifted Mussolini from all positions and requested a ceasefire.”

“Germany’s reaction?”

“There is no official move yet.”

***

Gunshots rang out from all sides. One of the Italian national police officers who was shot was shot and fell, pulled the trigger of the rifle, and scattered Carcano rounds in the air in full automatic.

Otto Skorzeny, the person who shot the soldier to death, threw a grenade.

“grenade! It’s a grenade!”

– Kwaang!

“Subdue the enemy machine gun seat! in action! no time……”

– Tatata Tang!

The four-barreled fire narrowly deflected Skorzeny. If the bullet had flew to the right, it would have pierced the skull.

In return, Italian soldiers who had been hiding and sharpening their guns were shot in fury by the Freedental units.

When the enemy soldiers who became beehives sprayed blood and fell, one of the bodyguards rushed to report.

“The longer-than-expected engagements are causing the crew to run out of ammunition.”

“Rescue it somehow, if you can’t find it, you should write something like this.”

Skorzeny picked up an Italian semi-automatic rifle that was rolling on the floor and checked the bullet. Surprisingly, those pasta bastards also had two rounds of standard rifles. Standard rifles were also mixed here and there, and semi-automatic rifles and bolt action rifles were mixed here and there.

“Tsuk, it’s not common, anyway, our top priority is to rescue Duche.”

“Isn’t it a problem that we have to hold out even after being rescued?”

“We should hope General Rommel arrives before we run out of ammunition.”

The escape of the King and other traitors must also be prevented as much as possible. Because that’s the command.

It’s nice to receive a lot of support, but isn’t the burden too great for a human being?

Of course, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was half addicted beyond devoting his life to special operations, but the story of his subordinates is a little different.

Skorzeny, with his tongue stuck, glanced at my hands stained with the blood of an unknown soldier.

There was no excitement, all I could feel was stickiness.