Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 295 >

In fact, a complete blockade was not as easy as the Russian Empire thought.

First, the naval power of the Imperial Russian Army was not very strong. Although the situation was better than the utterly shattered Britain in the last war, the Russian Empire’s naval power was mostly concentrated on submarines.

The fact that the submarines roamed the seabed and loaded with nuclear weapons was certainly a better factor than battleships for national security, but surface ships would have been more appropriate if they were only going to conduct containment and inspections, not to engage in unrestricted submarine operations.

France had no meaning to blockade in the first place, and the blockade of the Russian navy was limited to the British mainland, but if you want to break through it, you can break it.

In the Strait of Dover, the Russian army constantly deployed ships, and in addition, the Russian navy attacked major ports, but a complete blockade was unreasonable from the beginning. I couldn’t catch it all.

Russian aircraft flew over England like their own, chasing out these small ships, but there were too many of them.

However, no matter how much metallurgical food and essential materials came in, it was too short.

In addition, a photo of the Enterprise Squadron working together for humanitarian purposes, such as treating and evacuating the crew of a Russian Navy submarine who was hastily injured due to an emergency patient on board, hit the front pages of newspapers around the world. British smugglers had to pay attention to the US Navy’s carrier groups as well.

As U.S. naval aircraft appeared over Britain, the British and French realized that they could no longer count on any support.

And, eventually, the proposal for negotiations in London was received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire.

“I will accept nuclear inspections under the jurisdiction of the UN Security Council, and I will officially declare that it will not possess nuclear weapons permanently.”

Considering that the permanent renunciation of nuclear armament and nuclear weapons are the minimum conditions for discussing global hegemony, discussing world hegemony was nothing more than a declaration of giving up.

However, the Russian Empire answered.

– Make Algeria independent as a condition for lifting the blockade.

The word was the liberation of the African colonies, and it was almost as if they were going to destroy the British and French solidarity.

It’s cold and hungry right now in England, but it’s France that put a lot of effort into Algeria.

If the British were to give Algeria away because they were cold and hungry, what would the French think?

However, this demand provoked both the British and the French.

Paris, England.

“Long live the United Kingdom of Great Britain and France!”

“Russians get away!”

“We will never give in to you guys!”

The French were moved by pressure from the Russian Empire to choose between giving up Algeria or slowly starving Britain to death.

“We will never succumb to the schism of the Russian Empire! The French will not forsake our new family, the English! If you thought we would split up with the British because we were asked to give up Algeria, you are wrong!”

“Die standing up rather than living on your knees!”

“America back! Back to Russia! Long live France!”

“Don’t trust America and don’t be fooled by Russia! Liberate Algeria is a trick the Russians have come up with to tear us apart!”

“Glory to His Majesty George VI! God! Help His Majesty the King!”

At first, I was too open-minded.

Algeria is a territory that France will never give up, and if the British lose it because of the British, the request comes out of the judgment that the French will never approve.

However, this caused a backlash and united the peoples of the two countries.

***

Kremlin, Moscow.

“It’s surprising.”

“If it’s unexpected, it’s surprising, I didn’t know they would act like that.”

I buried myself deep in the chair.

“Admiral Kuznetsov.”

“Yeah, naval blockades aren’t perfect, but they’re doing a decent job…”

“only?”

“In the opinion of Naval Intelligence, it appears that they will re-touch the Savoy-class battleships.”

Savoy-class battleship.

The Italian Navy tried to build two ships in Daejeon last year, but one of the two ships could not be completed, and both ships were taken as loot by France when they were both 80% complete.

If they were in financial condition anyway, they would only be able to use scrap iron, and even if they change the design to a carrier now, the performance will not come out properly.

“It’s a Savoy class.”

I heard it was planned to be equipped with 16 inch 12 doors,

“It could mean rebuilding the navy.”

The battleship was outdated, but if it was converted into an aircraft carrier, it would have been a concern.

“We can answer that too, is Friedrich der Grosche still moored at Kiel’s port?”

“Since the process is up to 95% complete, I thought it would cost more to dismantle it than to complete it, so I left it alone.”

“Give it back to Germany. If those guys are going to make two 16-inch class ships, wouldn’t the German guys have to have at least one 19-inch class ship for balance?”

“All right.”

After all, anti-ship missiles with improved accuracy and reliability are being developed, and by the time the supercavity torpedoes are completed and deployed, battleships are just scrap metal.

If you have it, you only have to pay for maintenance, so it would be nice to just give it to you.

***

Several warships were aiming their guns at each other.

It was in contrast to the time before leaving, from the captain to the sailors, to bartering with the US Navy and smiling and giving each other cigars and bottles.

“Four armed merchant ships, with the flag of the British and French Empire hoisted at the forefront.”

“A warship is a single vessel. It’s too small for a blockade breakout line.”

“If you’re planning to lure our ships here and set up merchant ships somewhere else, it won’t be of much help.”

The commander of the Orvosey-class destroyer, the 17th Semipalatinsk, one of the few surviving ships from the ravages of World War II, gave the order to aim the guns.

“Still, those guys are bigger than us and have stronger firepower.”

Even if the Orvosey-class actually replaces the light cruiser, and it is a kind of destroyer hunter and an object that can threaten cruisers, it is difficult to do damage to such an openly cruiser-class object.

Since it was a fairly old design, it was also a ship that was slowly getting old.

“How about the enemy ships?”

“This is a new ship without silhouette data. A small number of aircraft are parked on the aircraft deck in the rear, and the size is cruiser-class and also equipped with guns, so it looks like an air cruiser.”

“It’s an air cruiser, isn’t there a similar one? to Sweden?”

“There was a Gotland class. They fought impressively and fairly well against the Germans, though they were sunk by the British Navy on the day the Swedish government fled.”

“Did you copy him? It would have been possible if I had felt his performance quite impressively.”

“The silhouette itself is quite similar, but with one more forward turret and a larger gun. He was 6 inches long, and that looks like a 194 mm gun.”

“194mm, the work of the French.”

“Our defenses can’t stop it.”

“I knew it from the beginning.”

Cannons aimed at each other.

However, the morale of the much smaller Russian destroyers was higher than that of the British and French cruisers.

I’m sure they can never shoot us first.

When they pull the trigger, they die. But it’s only a little, a little bit delayed, and they die as well.

It’s also very miserable.

“A glow signal from an unknown cruiser!”

“Interpret!”

“This is HMS Man (an island between England and Ireland), and you are invading the territorial waters of your home country. Are you demanding immediate departure from your home country?”

“Hey, you have a big gut.”

Of course, it is true that the Russian Navy is currently invading territorial waters/airspace, but isn’t it in a state of quasi-wartime?

Actually, it was really awkward. Under international law, the two countries are considered to have entered a state of war from the time when the military power of a foreign sovereign power is deployed without permission on the territory.

However, the legal interpretation of whether the ‘territorial’ is a concept that includes airspace and territorial waters was ambiguous.

In any case, the Russian navy is invading the territorial waters and airspace of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and France, but has not set foot on land.

Therefore, according to the legal interpretation of the UN Security Council, Russia did not enter a state of war with the Anglo-French Empire.

Of course, this did not mean that the British and French Empires were not in a state of war. Mobilization orders were issued, rations were reduced, and the industry was being reorganized for all-out war.

Only gunshots didn’t come and go.

However, it is difficult for the Russian military to respond, to put it plainly, that, in fact, they sent the navy in the name of confrontation with the US military, but openly invaded and blocked the territorial waters of England and France under the pretext of an air collision between Russia and the British and French Empire aircraft. it was a b*tch

It was the British and French Empire aircraft that crashed and disappeared in the first place, and the crash occurred on the high seas, but there was no reason to go to the territorial sea.

It was literally a thug with national power, and it was an obvious military provocation.

Its purpose is, simply put, to kneel.

The Russian army wanted the ultimate dissolution of the British and French coalition, and unofficially demanded that the London government give up Algeria. It was hoped that Britain and France would be torn apart by fighting among themselves.

However, the destroyer could not respond by saying, ‘If Algeria holds a referendum, we will withdraw.’ The captain’s conclusion was simple.

“Ignore it.”

“Yes.”

“When you try to move, your body blocks it. Don’t let them leave the territorial waters.”

At that moment, a gunshot rang out.

– Kwaang!

“what?”

“They shot them!”

“Get down!”

And plumes of water soared.

“Shoot!”

130mm guns fired in unison.

At close range, even cruisers suffered fatal blows, destroyers notorious for shattering, the 8 main guns of the Destroyer spit fire, and all firearms, including 3-inch anti-aircraft guns, torpedoes, and machine guns, poured at the enemy ships.

-bang!

“They shoot too!”

unarmed ship.

Normally he would be ridiculed, but when attacked by a cruiser, the situation in which one more shell flies away is also a pain in the ass.

-Tung, tung, tung,

A few torpedoes are thrown into the water, leaving a white wake and sprinting towards the enemy ship.

The captain of the enemy ship is also a fairly skilled person, turning around and avoiding it with ease.

“Aim for the bridge! Yanghyun I…”

– Kwaang!

With the sound of an explosion, the bridge was engulfed in fire and smoke.

The 194mm shells hit the bridge directly, and the commanders of the ships below the commander were completely destroyed.

“Stop the engine! shit!”

“Power plant hit! Turn to emergency power!”

“This is Semipalatinsk! Respond! You are being attacked by enemies! One small cruiser with flight decks and many armed merchant ships! Repeat! It’s under heavy attack by an enemy cruiser with a flight deck!”

“Pour out everything you have!”

The outcome of the battle between destroyers and cruisers is obvious. Initially, light cruisers were designed to catch destroyers, and heavy cruisers were designed to intercept those light cruisers.

Whether the Semipalatinsk is classified as a destroyer or a light cruiser, or as a Man as a class, it is clear that there is a natural enemy relationship.

Thus, Semipalatinsk was already dead.

Of course, being a man made no difference.