Rasputin of the East

29

Russian Empire, Moscow, Kremlin.

“As everyone knows, we leave tomorrow.”

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My voice made the staff sweat.

I glanced at the staff. Each one was the best that could be picked out in the Russian Empire at this time.

“The issue of establishing a cooperative system with the 2nd Cossack Division must be clearly resolved so that we can review everything.”

“Yes, sir.”

Chief of Staff Insu Kim and Colonel Kim Insu took notes of my instructions.

In order to make this Inseon, I had to be determined and persuade the Tsar and Empress. It was the princesses who played a big role there.

On the day Olga and Tatiana said they would go to the front to do medical service, the Kremlin was turned upside down once.

Eventually, around the time the emperor and the empress gave up on breaking the stubbornness of the princesses, I intervened, and agreed to join the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which would soon be deployed to the Austro-Hungarian front, and join the medical corps directly under the command.

Perhaps the emperor thought that the Austria-Hungarian front, where we were winning, was lower than the relatively dangerous German front, and the emperor readily agreed, and he said that safety is guaranteed as long as the front is not a front, but a medical team directly under the command, unless the front undergoes a total collapse. Having persuaded Empress E, I was able to scrape Russian talent in the name of eliminating the possibility of the collapse of the front line. There, the Guards unit also took over some officers and non-commissioned officers.

Of course, it was quite a while since before that, he had been seduced by the cowardice of Russian junior officers and transferred several of them, and not long ago, he even swept away good treatment and rapid promotion at the military school graduation ceremony as bait.

“The original plan was to have Brig. Gen. Pyotr Wrangel take over when the 2nd Cossack Division comes under his control, but it seems difficult due to coordination problems with the military. I am sorry.”

Pyotor Wrangel, who was assigned the luxurious post of brigadier general in the rank of brigadier general, was the person who had not even thought of finding him, but the tsar, who was worried about his daughter, ordered the exclusive service to the Interior Army.

Thanks to you, I was originally active in East Prussia, but suddenly came to the Southern Front, but you gave me a star instead…

And, to say that he was the commander-in-chief, it only meant that he was in charge of the cavalry force of the Interior Ministry. In addition, the cavalry force of the Internal Affairs Force was reinforced by being transferred to the entire Cossack unit and the 5th Dragon Cavalry Regiment. was given

“Your mission is heavy, especially cooperation with the tank squad directly under the command is important. Are you confident?”

“of course. Count. In the last maneuver training, we learned about the characteristics of the tank.”

“After all, this is the level of a general who has been promoted from captain to colonel in one year. I will believe you.”

The black baron of the original history, the last hope of the white army.

A master who was named in the lyrics of a song of the Soviet Union of a distant future, ＜The Red Army is the Most Powerful>.

The fact that he was in charge of the cavalry of the Interior Army seemed to be able to let go of the time.

Of course, the cavalry itself is a small unit, but by the standards of this era, it is armed with the latest equipment.

Existing cavalry guns, cavalry spears, and cavalry swords were provided in sufficient quantities, and 75mm-class artillery was also assigned directly to them.

Fire Dragon Points are cheap tanks produced on a trial basis with Tachanka. It is different from the tanks used by the cavalry, but first of all, it is important that it is much cheaper. The only difference from Tachanka is that it rolls on orbit and has an engine and armor attached to it, though.

However, it would have been able to play a significant role in mobile warfare on the Eastern Front, where trench warfare rarely occurs.

Above all, there is no need for anti-tank guns or anti-tank guns as the age of tanks is not yet rolling. Anti-aircraft artillery is unpredictable, but it is the age of biplanes. A machine gun would be enough to counter it.

“There will be a massive German and Austro-Hungarian offensive soon, and only we can defend our flank. You must have already seen the level of other units.”

In an instant, bitter laughter spread between the staff and each senior commander.

They would have laughed at ease if they were enemies, but unfortunately they were allies.

“After being transferred to this place, the unit we have been in has made me think of something.

“If we didn’t get supplies first, we wouldn’t have even dreamed of a motorcycle messenger. Supply is the most important thing for our unit, and our first mission is to protect our supply lines. A soldier who fails in an operation can be forgiven, but a soldier who fails to guard cannot be forgiven, and even if an officer who fails to guard is forgiven, my theory is that an officer who fails to supply is not forgiven.”

“It was a statement that made me feel like I had to win. General.”

“General, I have something to report to you, but we have supplied gas masks to the entire army for war horses, but the number of protective clothing introduced this time is too small, so it seems impossible to supply the entire army.”

“How long will it be?”

“Thirty percent is the maximum. There are no protective clothing for warhorses at all.”

“I brought it for countermeasures against mustard gas, so only wear it on personnel who are likely to come into contact with poison gas.”

The Treaty of The Hague has already been broken. In August 1914, the French used tear gas, and on 22 April 1915, the Germans first used lethal poison gas in combat at Ypres.

There is no guarantee that the Eastern Front will be safe. Starting with me, I mobilized all the chemical plants to bring in all kinds of gas bombs that had been scraped off.

“Remember, our plan is to defend against enemy attacks, but that doesn’t necessarily mean sticking to defense. Of course, it is common knowledge that defense is a much more advantageous situation than attack, but if it is judged that an attack is possible and a large-scale expansion or reversal of the situation is possible, you can switch to an attack independently.”

The active judgment and wide discretion of the lower-ranking commanders, and the strength of our country, which has been separated from the Russian military, are our unique strengths.

In other words, it is called a mission-type command system. Of course, this is a concept unfamiliar to the members of the Guard, the Cossacks, and the 5th Cavalry Regiment. At least until the war, the officers who were serving in the Interior Army were already accustomed to this mission-type command system.

Of course, it also contributed greatly to the establishment of a mission-type command system that, with a little physical experience, it was possible to understand that it is very inefficient to wait for permission from superiors and act due to the nature of the Interior Forces, which had to perform missions throughout Russia.

Compared to the existing Russian army formation, it was a combat system that could not be called a deformity, but at the same time it was the most effective tactical system in my opinion.

“I will not interfere in vain because you will know the capabilities of your unit, and since you have worked with other units in the last training as well. I will only intervene when it is determined that the actions of each unit will make it difficult to achieve the strategic purpose, and all that remains is up to you to judge and act on your own. That is all.”

Preparation is over.

Now it was time to dye the earth with blood.

***

German Imperial General Staff.

“The best offensive point would be here.”

“Occupying the Tarnuf-Gorlice axis, it will be possible to shake the supply lines of the Russian forces advancing deep into Austria-Hungary, and furthermore, to destroy the siege. If their commander has an idea, they will retreat immediately.”

“Most importantly, the Russian Interior Forces are stationed in this area. It appears that the previously deployed Russian troops withdrew and were assigned to the 8th Army to strengthen the offensive.”

“If it’s the Interior Army, is it like France’s national military police?”

“That’s right. The armament is said to be slightly more heavily armed, but it is essentially a police organization. The supreme commander is Mikhail Kim, Earl of Vostok.”

“The Count of Vostok? Wasn’t that person a doctor?”

“you’re right. He is the same person who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology last time by patenting a treatment for cholera and typhoid and submitting a thesis.”

“Why is he on the front line? If you came here with a sense of duty (醫務監, Surgeon General, not a medical officer!), do you want to become a combat class commander?”

I was just shocked. If I had to compare it, it’s similar to the sound of a military doctor commanding a unit, leaving all the officers of the same class alone.

“As far as we know, before he became a doctor, he was a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Home Affairs on a mission to search out anti-state forces. Still, the element that has something to do with the military is…”

It would be understandable if I was a military policeman, but when I said that I was a bureaucrat, it was less convincing. In the end, there was only one conclusion the generals of the German Empire could draw.

“It looks like a parachute, didn’t the tsar trust him like that?”

The German General Staff laughed at the outdated and rigid system of the Russian army. But they couldn’t laugh out loud either. As soon as an idiot-like allied force emerged that had to work together on this front and provided a cause for fundamentally launching this offensive, I realized that it was not someone else’s story.

“Austria-Hungarian bastards can’t even subdue the Serbian Kingdom by themselves, so where did their confidence come from…”

In the first place, this offensive would not have even been planned if it had not received an ultimatum from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to enter into an independent negotiation without support.

Of course, some generals, such as Erich von Rubendroff, who emerged as a national hero after winning the Battle of Tannenberg last year, insisted on priority on the Eastern Front, but most generals insisted on priority on the Western Front.

Anyway, one thought was running through their minds.

‘A doctor who is not even 30 years old and has no blood is the supreme commander?’

‘Even though it is a national military police force, did the police receive proper training?’

‘Isn’t this too easy?’

Of course, I know that disrespecting the opponent is a big problem, but the German Empire had already won a great victory at Tannenberg at the beginning of the war.

Their foolish alliance has been shattered, because they can’t even subdue the Kingdom of Serbia by themselves, and they are fools enough to take the Kingdom of Serbia only after receiving military support from the German army.

Besides, they’re not regular soldiers, they’re police. Have the police ever fired a machine gun? How many times have you fired artillery?

Just a little, even a little bit, there was no way it would be a big problem.