Rasputin of the East

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-bang!

Screams were heard in the room along with the explosion of grenades.

-bang! bang!

Lev, who shot a 5.45mm shot into the heads of the dying enemies after being hit by a grenade, sharpened the magazine.

“Left room complete.”

“No more than the room on the right.”

If the Russians did not get hit by the ballistic missiles, the Russian army fired a large number of anti-aircraft positions incapacitated as a result, and the airfields were also severely damaged.

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Many of the external armored artillery batteries were damaged by the onslaught of the Russian army, which mobilized all siege guns produced in the Czech Republic, and almost all of the fortress melee weapons and a significant number of auxiliary guns were inoperative.

However, the cannons that could be called the fortress main guns still blew fire at the Russians.

One artillery regiment-class 194mm French artillery, and two Gustav train guns deployed in the largest shell, one 540mm mortar battery, one 430mm flat gun and so on.

In addition, a command post that integrated command of them, a supply depot with ammunition and food, and a network of tunnels connecting them with railroads were still in existence.

Although the bunkerster, which maximized penetration by attaching a super-large bomb and propulsion rocket, aimed at the bunkers of the main fortress and destroyed some, there was no problem in overall operation.

The Spetsnaz who attacked with gliders successfully infiltrated with a track record of breaking up some anti-aircraft batteries that were just opening the lid and firing at the gliders with timed artillery. .

In the case of Lev’s team, they were tasked with destroying an ammunition depot that supplied ammunition to the main gun fortifications consisting of an 800 mm gun and two Gustav train guns.

– Tata tata tata!

The newly provided kidney ratio, the AKM assault rifle, continuously vomited 5.45mm rounds.

In Spetsnaz, snipers don’t prevent melee combat. Spetsnaz members have multiple positions and usually perform two or three tasks at the same time.

In the case of Lev, he was a medic and sniper.

“This is the last magazine!”

“Ryusha! here!”

At that moment, a huge shock resounded all the way down to the basement.

“Ugh, what is it?”

“It looks like one of the batteries has exploded again?”

Just because the Spetsnaz crew had infiltrated did not stop the airstrikes.

In the first place, if it is a point that can be hit by an airstrike, the Spetsnaz members are not even deployed.

In addition, if the air strike stops just because Spetsnaz is deployed, the enemies will naturally strengthen their vigilance, and there is a higher probability of failure of the infiltration than the probability of being killed by an ally bomb.

Therefore, the Russians dropped seismic bombs on the battery with one 540mm old gun, destroying the gun and detonating the bunker and the ammunition depot below, and the impact was transmitted to their location at a distance of several kilometers.

“Damn it, it’s pouring hot.”

“Our mission has not changed. You have to pop it out and get out. Wouldn’t it be comfortable to think that there was one more escape route?”

“You want to get out of that smashed hole? I’d rather be shot dead.”

Of course, the exit route had already been decided, and it was the route to the underground bunker that the Russians had destroyed by bombing.

The direction had already been taken over by Russian ground forces, and gunfights between Russian and German troops armed with submachine guns, hand grenades, shotguns and flamethrowers followed along an unbroken labyrinth of passageways.

Of course, it was very dangerous. No one knows when the corridor, which has accumulated shock from the Russian air strike, will collapse. As an added bonus, we couldn’t bury landmines because there was no soil, but we also installed booby traps.

But the booby trap disbandment is their organ.

They had already planned to escape in that direction from the time they first penetrated.

-Tatattattattattattatta!

“Damn, they built a machine gun camp in the hallway!”

“Give me a cover shot! I will destroy you!”

“Cover!”

– Tata Tata!

In the midst of a rain of 5.45mm rounds, one of the soldiers pulled out something that looked like a flare launcher and aimed it.

– Tung! bang!

Then the sandbags shattered and the two machine gunners jumped like frogs.

“I got it!”

“run! I don’t have much time!”

***

The turret of the Moseley tank detached and floated into the sky.

Even thick armor could not accurately block the enemy’s shells digging into the flanks.

A Crusader tank fired a two-pounder cannon, but the two-pounder could not penetrate the Russian armor, even with a caliber reduction round. The Russian medium tank deflected the shells again, turning the turret lightly and turning the Crusaders into a ball of fire.

The head-on clash of the armored forces led by Rokosovsky and Manstein went back and forth.

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Manstein had mobilized all the tactical abilities he had accumulated so far, and was doing quite well against Rokosovsky’s combat units, who could not bring a new heavy tank, which was expensive to transport because they were crossing the sea.

However, Manstein was not able to operate freely, even though he was bound by Hitler’s orders and had command of a significant number of armored units in the rear. Hitler required that the cavalry must be prepared to counterattack from that position.

If he had been a model, he would have disregarded Hitler’s orders and mobilized all the armored units in the rear to wipe out the enemy’s bridgehead, but now the model is in charge of the position of commander of the defense of the Maginot Line, where he cannot utilize his special skills at all.

There was no room for the use of armored units, and the defensive forces deployed in battle in the fortress that had already been built on the Maginot Line had to move. was doing

The situation would have been different if, at the very least, the cavalry that Manstein now holds had been handed over to Model. Of course, the two men only had the difference whether they were willing to reject Hitler’s orders or not, but at the same time, it was a crucial difference.

And it allowed Rokosovsky to get past the most dangerous moment right after landing.

If Hitler had sent a model instead of Manstein, the amphibious operation would have ended in disastrous failure. However, the German armored forces stationed in Toulon, near the landing site, were unable to move to the landing site due to Hitler’s orders.

As a result, the Russians built and fortified beachheads and were able to land artillery and tanks large enough to engage Manstein.

“According to the information given to us by the French Resistance, the enemies are also preparing for an offensive in order to engage in a major battle.

Rokosovsky said coldly.

“There is absolutely no need for us to take the lead. Just before the enemies stand at the starting line of attack and start the offensive, they attack the enemy with a massive bombardment and airstrike, so that the entire army immediately prepares the tank and anti-tank positions.”

The size of the enemy is unknown. If he is correct in his prediction that what he has been ignoring so far has been lurking tanks from Alsace-Lorraine and the lowlands, the Russian army is highly likely to be overwhelmed in numbers.

If the numbers are similar, it would be nice to have a face-to-face match, but in a situation where you are overwhelmed, you cannot be confident that you will win because of the superiority of Jill. Quantity only has quality.

In fact, there is a story that if you have a certain level of performance or higher, then it will be a battle of sheep. Let’s say the enemy builds a tank with three times the performance of your friendly tank. In that case, assuming that the allies have three times the enemy’s number, the allies will send out one against one enemy tank. In addition, the other two can block or encircle the enemy’s supply routes by ravaging areas not guarded by enemy tanks.

Then the enemy must self-destruct or abandon the tank with triple performance and retreat.

And that’s true for allies as well. It’s not good if the enemy tank 4, not necessarily a tee or a panther, comes rushing in in numbers that will overwhelm them.

There is no place to retreat. The sea is behind them, and the Russian military does not have the capacity to escape them in a short time.

So I’m just fighting to death.

***

Who am I and where am I?

It was obviously a plan to return on foot after the bombing, but somehow I got on here and had to grind a machine gun on the German train in front of me.

-Tatattattattattattatta!

The machine guns of the captured troop transport vehicles fired at the enemy locomotives. The troop transport car shared by the Spetsnaz members was running rampant along the rails, exchanging fire with the Germans on the train.

Now, if we ask why the Spetsnaz crews, who should have originally completed their missions, are shooting here, of course, they are in the ‘cargo’ or ‘high-value target’ that the train is carrying.

A form of armor that is somewhat bulletproof and two locomotives for transporting cargo are attached to the front and rear of the truck.

And the ‘cargo’ loaded by those locomotives was… a large and powerful heavy artillery.

A single 17-inch, 430 mm gun was held firmly above the train. It was a fortress and train gun that gave the Russian army a headache.

The Spetsnaz, who discovered the train guns that were operating in a way that were quickly moved and deployed using the track in the direction in which the Russian army was attacking, decided to destroy only that and withdraw.

However, the armored train fled, and they grabbed a nearby vehicle and pursued it.

Lev, who ran out of bullets, put down his rifle and pulled out a PPK pistol captured from the commander’s office that had been blown up earlier.

The words of giving up and withdrawing hit his throat, but he couldn’t bear to say it.

These are fortress guns that were soaked in the blood of the Russians approaching so far.

If we don’t blow up at this opportunity, a few more of our comrades may die from that gun.

“You have to defeat them before they get to the next platform!”

“I know! I know!”

“Lyudmila! Shoot the engineer!”

“You do it! Damn it, let’s drive some tea! Tan keeps bouncing in the wrong place!”

Even for a good sniper, it is not easy to shoot someone standing on top of another vehicle on a fast-moving vehicle.

-bang!

Instantly, blood splashed from the driver’s head in the vehicle behind him.

The white reaper who killed the enemy with a single shot pointed his gun again.

-bang!

It was short hair again.

“Good job! Seniors!”

“Vasily! go faster! You have to get ahead of that car!”

“I can’t! Not enough space and this is top speed!”

“Damn, if we hit a wall while going in that state, there’s a 100% chance that we’ll be the same!”

“Take the car closer! I think I can build it!”

Lev took out a stick grenade from the car and opened the lid attached to the warhead rather than the handle like a regular stick grenade.

Lev, who had a safety pin that looked like an egg-shaped grenade rather than a string, was exposed, but was not pulled out, and was holding a PPK grenade in one hand and a stick-type grenade in the other, and flew and stuck to the side of the locomotive.

-bang! bang!

Lev, who killed two Germans in that position, pulled out the safety pin and threw a grenade into the vehicle in front of him immediately after putting himself on the train.

– Kwaang!

The grenade that went through the crack in the window exploded immediately. Lev, who shot and killed the occupants of the vehicle behind, jumped over the gap between the trains and entered the engine room.

There were no survivors in the blood-stained engine room. Red blood was splattered on the control panel, but it wasn’t to the level that made it work.

“This is… right!”

As soon as the brake was applied, the speed of the train began to slow down steadily.

– Dumpling!

After a while, the train gun came to a slow stop.

“Vasily.”

“why.”

“Doesn’t it seem like we are having a hard time buying something?”

“Did you know that now?”