Rasputin of the East

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Kingdom of Bulgaria, Sofia.

“I understand what the ambassador is saying, but…”

“Your Majesty, the Russian Empire will surely win. Even Napoleon eventually fell, but do you think Wilhelm II of Germany is a hero comparable to Napoleon? Besides, there is the Second Coming of Bagration in our Russian Empire.”

King Ferdinand was quite offended by the subtle threat. Especially since he was one of the representative pro-German figures of the Bulgarian Kingdom.

“Mikhail, Count of Vostok, will come with an army. Even when he led a corps, he inflicted an indelible disgrace on Germany. Will Bulgaria be able to defeat him who leads a single field army? There the tsar gave him permission to do anything for the sake of Constantinople, so if you ask him, you can support him with any number of troops.”

For a moment, Ferdinand’s eyes fluttered.

Even if it was a bluff to say that the reinforcements that might reach several field troops were bluffing, it was highly probable that it was true that a single field army was organized in the same way.

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Moreover, it was worth the name of the Count of Vostok, who led the ‘Demons of Krakow’ to be ignored.

‘If the captain of the demons is the Demon King? Satan?’

In any case, it was not an easy opponent, because the news that Wilhelm II had been devastated by an enemy led by a yellow general was rumored to have bubbled up about whether his lifelong philosophy of sulfurism had been triggered.

Even if he hadn’t bitten the bubble, if such a rumor had been circulating, he wouldn’t have been luminous.

“Isn’t Bulgaria an old friend of our empire? Shouldn’t we take this opportunity to destroy the Ottomans?”

“Our conditions for participation in the war have not changed in the past and now.”

From the beginning of the war, both the negotiating power and the allies tried to subsume Bulgaria at the same time, and Bulgaria had only one answer at the time.

Either side will fight against the side that promises to return the territory of Macedonia, their rightful territory held by Serbia and Greece.

“Even if we get our territory back, if we lose the war, we will have to vomit again, so is that meaningful?”

It was an arrogant attitude, confident that they would win.

“And even if Serbia is difficult, if Greece participates in the war, we are willing to consider Bulgaria’s loss in the Balkan Wars. Of course, even if Bulgaria does not participate in the war, there will be some compensation if it guarantees the passage of troops, although it will be less than actually participating in the war.”

Greece has now maintained its ambiguous attitude. This was due to the division of national opinion.

Constantine I was pro-German enough to send his eldest son to a German military academy to study, and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos insisted on joining the negotiating power.

Thanks to this, Greece, whose national opinion was divided, did nothing and remained neutral.

However, Russia regarded this as a potential hostilities. Considering that Greece was just not in a position to take either side, it was close to confirmation bias.

Thanks to this, although it could not promise the territory of its ally Serbia, the Russian side promised Bulgaria the territory of Greece in case of emergency.

The king, Ferdinand I, had no choice but to weigh the pressure of the Russian ambassador.

The mind is drawn to Germany, and the promised reward is far more generous in the allies. All of North Macedonia, half of Serbia, and all the territories taken by Greece and Romania during the Second Balkan War, the Loan.

But it bothered me that our allies were losing back-to-back in the Balkans.

“Give me some time to think, since it’s not an easy decision…”

“I can’t give you a long time.”

The king bit his lip after hearing the Russian Ambassador’s special and plenipotentiary words.

***

Berlin, German Empire.

“We need reinforcements right now! The Russians even temporarily established a bridgehead across the Danube!”

The Cossacks crossed the Danube. Although the title of the military song came true, no one could laugh.

A small number of cavalry units of the Russian Southern Front crossed the Danube River to form a bridgehead and moved to encircle Budapest, but were defeated by the Austrian-Hungarian counterattack and crossed the Doro River.

They were repulsed, but Budapest was attacked. No, I’m getting it.

If Russian shells are falling on Budapest right now, unless it’s under attack, something.

“When the Danube River crosses, where do we go next? bean? Should the gardens of Shenbrunn Palace be the front line? His Majesty, Franz Josef, asked me to tell you that if Germany abandons the alliance in this way, the country itself will have no choice but to take extraordinary measures!”

It was obvious what the special measures were. In fact, I did just that.

Half of Hungary fell to the Southern Front. Slovakia formed a large overhang between the northern and southern front forces because the Russian army was reluctant to charge directly into the mountainous areas.

From anyone’s point of view, the situation on the Eastern Front was not friendly to the allies.

It wouldn’t be strange to try to find a way to live.

However, the German Empire was not at all speechless. The German Imperial Army was not only planning a large-scale offensive against Warsaw, but also had to send troops to the Battle of Isoncho and prepare for an attack on the Western Front.

With a single offensive, Ludendorff, who had even taken a significant portion of the German Imperial Army from the Western Front, made an ambitious plan to destroy the entire Russian Northern Front from Poznan to Krakow, and to advance as far as Warsaw and Danzig.

Opposition was not strong, but there was a justification that Ludendorff pushed forward with this operation.

‘We must catch it before the military is further strengthened!’

At present, the Tsar has allowed unlimited reinforcements and arms production for the Interior Army. This was possible because the Russian military’s voice was dramatically reduced.

Of course, in terms of formality, the Interior Ministry is under the command of the War Department, and recruitment of new recruits is operated in a way that the military is selected appropriately at the training camp, rather than receiving it. there was no

What if the Interior Army completely replaced the Russian Army?

What would happen if the Internal Affairs Force, which gave them defeat, launched an offensive across the Eastern Front, under the command of the Count of Vostok, with the quantity of the Russian army.

Of course, if you know how the political battles of the Russian Empire work, you know it’s nonsense, but the German General Staff, which lacked information because the GRU caught German spies so well, said that the Count of Vostok, a passionate believer in the new monarchy, was strengthened by the Tsar. He came to the conclusion that it is quite far from the reality of being the head of the new military unit to suppress the military with the Internal Affairs Force and, if necessary, a coup d’etat for the protection of the guard, he was raised for the purpose of the hound – and the nickname is not the Tsar’s Shepherd.

It is said that the hiring of foreign personnel with little base in Korea is part of that.

In other words, the German General Staff decided that if time was given to the Interior Army and the Tsar, the incompetent Russian army would be completely replaced by the current Interior Army and disappear into history. It was decided that he had to do everything he could to get Russia to the negotiating table.

The Northern Front’s offensive plan was also part of it. First of all, he thought that cutting off the buds of the military would be the best thing to do. Even if it failed, they decided to take over major cities in Poland and break Russia’s will for war, and for this purpose, they decided to send the Kaiser Marine to the Baltic Sea to support them.

However, the problem is that the plan to go to Constantinople is not one or two things that need to be coordinated politically for this purpose, and the leak was unavoidable as it was also sent as an official document to the British government.

Of course, there was no mention of which route to go to Constantinople, but here the German army fell into considerable confusion.

First of all, it is true that there is a high possibility that the internal service forces will be deployed to Constantinople. Then, when the northern front is empty, is it right to attack and destroy the northern front, or is it right to turn the troops to the southern front and block the Austria-Hungarian entrance and protect the Balkans?

Some even claim that this is counterintelligence for the offensive on the northern front, and the German army was in a situation where it could not be resolved.

And in the end, the German army confirmed its policy the day after the Austria-Hungarian ambassador special and plenipotentiary in front of Wilhelm II.

***

Odessa, Russian Empire.

“Romania has given me the assurance that it will participate in the war, and Bulgaria is worried. Brusilov is in charge of the Southern Front, so at least there won’t be much to make them grab our backs.”

“It is fortunate.”

“The Northern Front… I can’t help but hope that the newly deployed unit will do well.”

What I can do is fortify the vacant positions as much as possible and hand them over to the follow-up units. He was leaving guns and ammunition behind.

Anyway, the current internal military was in the process of changing weapons. Instead of the Mosin Nagant rifle, the P14, which had torn off the entire production line in England and purchased all the stock, was being paid as the next main rifle.

Of course the shot is different. Since it was started with the purpose of pushing out the 7.62x54mmR ammunition used by Mosin Nagant, is it natural?

In the first place, we did not create a separate Mosin Nagant production facility. The ammunition factory for Mosin Nagant is of course.

The main weapon of the armed forces is the submachine gun. Since it was much cheaper than the price of a rifle, I could shoot it cheaply and quickly and listen to it, so only the personnel who needed the rifle due to the nature of the mission were provided with rifles, and some units gave submachine guns. Of course, after this was replaced with PPT-12, the original steel pipes were left on the northern front for subsequent units to use.

Paradoxically, the reason I chose a different ammunition type for my main rifle weapon while putting aside ammunition compatibility is because of ammunition compatibility.

If there is one thing I realized while developing light machine guns, etc., it is that rimed ammunition is something that cannot be used for automatic machines. What the hell is Kalishinoff doing with that machine gun that can still be used in the 21st century?

However, if the rifle and light machine gun bullets are not compatible, that is also a headache. There is no need to add one more to the list of ammunition produced.

In the end, I came to the conclusion that rimless ammunition should be used for automatic weapons, and I made rimless ammunition for machine guns, but the ammunition was changed so that those bullets could be used on the P14.

Thanks to this, the Russian army’s ammunition compatibility with Mosin Nagant disappeared forever, and it was impossible to have guns using two types of ammunition in one unit roll around, so all ammunition and Mosin Nagant were handed over to the subsequent units… I’d be happy if I could stop it.

It has been a long time since I became the de facto military commander, but the rifles, submachine guns, and machine guns we gave you will be of great help as the chronic shortage of weapons in the Russian Empire is not easily resolved. Even if the artillery guns are fine for various reasons among the captured by the Germans, we have left behind all the things that are difficult for us to use, so we will use them on our own.

‘No, rather than that, where in the world is there an army that makes the military commander-in-chief to do two jobs? Whether it’s just the military commander or only the field commander, one of the two!’

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