Rasputin of the East

32

Chariots run on the hardened ground.

With his head sticking out of the hatch, he charges in the cool breeze.

“Before me are Austrian chicken heads! In front of the troops!”

As if they had not predicted it at all, the Austrian army rushed to and fro. I immediately kicked the catcher in the back.

“Take down the light guns and machine gun seats! The enemy is everywhere, so even if you close your eyes and shoot, you are a special shooter! Harvest the head without leaving any leftovers! shooting!”

As I waved the signal frantically, the shells started flying all at once.

37mm cannons spit fire and machine guns tore apart the backs of the Austro-Hungarians. The gunners who were terribly educated that the most important thing to watch out for was direct firing of light guns, they were smashing Krupp artillery first, even if they didn’t.

The turret rotates faster before reloading and aiming. In an instant, most of the enemy batteries were turned into smoky chunks of scrap metal.

Only two batteries succeeded in firing, one of them missed and one hit the tank at the end.

– Kwak!

The flames erupted violently like an explosion. It was the first tank break in history. damn it

After a while, as if in revenge of his comrades, fierce shelling ripped the artillery to pieces and crushed the gunners. Next came the machine gun positions and the infantry.

There was even a fort that was smashed into barbed wire fences and trenches with caterpillars running at all. There was also a battery that was silent as the soldiers all fled in panic.

Debris flies everywhere, and the caterpillar rolls violently, coated with blood and mud.

“The enemies are retreating!”

It was. Enemies were running away in disorder. Officers and enlisted men must have panicked at the new weapon that machine guns did not work with.

“Don’t rest, move! They just retreated to the 2nd line! Attack now!”

He quickly releases the Jeonseogu and blows it away. At first, the attack preparation fire was weak for a surprise effect, but in the second line, they plan to use firepower properly and then enter.

How far they had moved beyond the trench line, when the two enemy lines came into view, a large-scale bombardment of poison gas, high explosives, and shrapnel bombs struck the two enemy lines.

Before the concentrated, brief but intense bombardment ceased and the enemies could re-arm their guns, tanks and light infantry who had crossed the barbed wire arrived, followed by a one-sided slaughter.

In my head, the composition and placement of the enemies was already being simulated.

I’m a little sorry for Irina, who suddenly took on the heavy responsibility behind me, but all she has to do is organize traffic, distribute supplies and set up supply routes, and figure out whether each division’s tactical actions do not lead to strategic failure. It’s just something I do, but since I came out to the front to do the latter, the most important thing, I only changed my job title. It’s my usual job as a logistics manager. Take care, Irina.

In this age when information exchange has slowed down, it is possible to flexibly change the tactical target within an usable range, spread it to other units, and respond flexibly according to the enemy’s actions only when I am maneuvering on the front line with a hammer. In an era where there are no drones capable of real-time reconnaissance, I have to do something like this to save my organs.

Those soldiers are not Austro-Hungarians. The German Imperial Army wearing a helmet with pointed decorations, Pickelhauwe.

The 47th Division of the German Empire, the few German soldiers on the Northern Front. If you break through them, you can break the enemy’s left wing.

Well, they didn’t go back and forth because they were assholes.

The tank is a weapon that would have been difficult for any general in Germany to know about, and it is even the first time it has been put into combat.

The Little Willy, the world’s first tank, is at the time when the development instructions haven’t been given yet, so there won’t be any similar tanks on the Western Front.

We are realizing joint conservation tactics in real life through exhaustive training, but if there is an officer who can devise anti-tank tactics on the spot on the spot, that would be an undisputed master.

And the results were obvious.

The Germans also began to march in a line not much different from the Austrians.

***

“Put it back! Intense shot! It’s a real shot!”

The troops, who had all their machine guns removed, are slowly retreating from the German bombardment.

I don’t know how many days I’ve been repeating this repetition. Retreat to the rear trench line, where the enemy’s artillery range is out of reach, and fire a lightning bolt when the enemy jumps into an ally’s trench, and while on the way, the fire falls on the head of the Germans who were hit by a machine gun, caught on a barbed wire, and stepped on a land mine. Ditch it, mount the machine gun and prepare for the next attack.

With hammers and anvils, the work of the anvil was nothing more than being beaten silently and not being pierced.

And in this day and age, when the attacker’s firepower could not surpass that of the defender, it was relatively easy, and the cavalry, armed with the unheard of new equipment called tanks, and then the cavalry faithfully acted as hammers, smashing enemies one after another. was crushing

Of course, every single soldier was to die for, and so was Captain Tuhatchensky.

The battalion commander was killed, and he had to lead the unit as a senior company commander and provisional battalion commander, but his face was already half-faced.

– Kwak! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Artillery pours into the front-line trenches, and the soldiers who move to the front-line trenches in response to the signal fire submachine guns at the enemy soldiers who stumble in the shell shock, or they can’t even control themselves. The gnomes gave them rest in the trenches by hitting them in the back with useful clubs.

As long as they did not raise their hands as soon as they appeared, both German and Austrian-Hungarian soldiers were killed.

About there, I saw a soldier pouring a flamethrower into the wrecked trench.

Tukhachevsky shook his head. As you go further, the German offensive becomes weaker. It is a struggle to break through the anvil before the hammer hits the anvil, but it also means that the hammer is getting closer as you go.

His rank had no way of knowing exactly when he would come, but he only hoped that he would come as soon as possible.

***

The German High Command had become a portrait book in just a few days.

“General, make a decision…”

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Marshal Mackenzen buried his face in his hands.

In order to make a decision, I should have done it sooner or later. at least a week ago.

However, the Austro-Hungarian Empire ran on the road saying it would make sense to stop the offensive when Hungary was on the verge of collapse even if it was only taken out after the retreat, and because of that damn political problem, it was supported by additional troops and continued the offensive.

13 pieces.

Within a few days of the offensive, 13 divisions were militarily in a state of ‘annihilation’. Many of them were destroyed by precision strikes such as the introduction of new weapons called tanks by the enemy and surgical operations.

Spetsnaz, that cursed name comes out of your lips. Communication lines are destroyed, railroads are smashed, bridges are collapsing, messengers are missing, and artillerymen in the rear are killed.

The mean Spetsnaz bastards didn’t even care about violating international law to put booby traps on corpses. There was a battalion who was struck by lightning when the maneuver route was transformed into a minefield, which turned hundreds of infantrymen on the march into casualties.

When the two regiments, which should be assigned to the front line as a reserve unit by changing the sign, wander on the wrong path, encounter an enemy tank unit and get destroyed, the spirit of anger disappears.

The initial force was 19 divisions, but 13 divisions had already lost their combat capabilities. There were several divisions in which literally all of their troops were converted into dead, wounded, or prisoners, and the rest were either stuck, surrounded, or had too many casualties, so the damage had to be reorganized after disbanding the troops.

“I should have studied the lightweight automatic machine sooner!”

The difference in infantry firepower is too much. This is also unexpected. Why do alternative police organizations have so many automated machines?

The basic definition of a submachine gun is still present in this era. In the Kingdom of Italy, the Villar-Perocha submachine gun went into prototyping in 1915, and in the German Empire, the ROC for the development of a new firearm for the Spandau Firearms Testing Committee, which later developed into the MP18, was just being formulated.

But when they researched, developed, and produced prototypes, they deployed thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of mass-produced products.

How long will it take for the Empire to catch up? How many more years will it take to expand anti-tank forces and develop submachine guns?

At least, this offensive was certain to fail. It took an excessively long time for the screams of the frontline to come up as a report to the upper level, and more time was wasted meaninglessly for the military and politicians to grab it.

And although the grabbing wasn’t over yet, Mackenzen, who was in charge of the offensive, concluded.

“Stop the offensive and rearrange the front lines. We underestimated the Russian army. The goal is to get as many soldiers alive as possible before returning home.”

“What about the lost units?”

“Give up. If you try to save them, you may not know how many more Satans will be annihilated. I can only hope that they will hold onto the ankles of their enemies for a few days.”

“What would you say to the Austro-Hungarian Empire…?”

“All responsibility lies with me, we failed the offensive, and the damage was so great that we couldn’t keep the front line. Krakow is under threat and the chances of it being saved are slim.”

Fortunately, after passing Krakow, there are mountain ranges to the west and south. The only consolation was that it was highly likely that they would reach the end of the offensive after capturing Krakow, as it was an optimal environment to restrict the maneuvers of enemy cavalry.

“This defeat is the full responsibility of the main building, and I will bear all of them, so you must be careful not to suffer such a loss again.”

“dismissal!”

Actually, it wasn’t anyone’s fault for this.

When it comes to responsibility, does it mean that the police under the command of the doctor were vigilant?

They did their best. Rolling and firing shells of metal that machine guns couldn’t work, delayed battles against enemies who mobilized tens of thousands of newly-conceived equipment in Berlin, and attempted counterattacks several times.

They tried to counter enemy tanks with direct fire by deploying small artillery pieces forward, and improvising primitive anti-tank guns with locally-made guns. As a result, it did not do much damage to the enemy’s organic response, but it was clearly successful in slowing the enemy’s advance even a little.

It’s just that the world has changed so much faster than they knew.

The old man smiled bitterly and stood up from his seat.

“I’m going to go sue the Kaiser now. Since there is nothing to follow, let’s make a plan for retreat.”

“General!”

However, Roh Won-soo, who volunteered to take on all the responsibilities of the law that requires responsibility in a defeat, looked back at his childlike staff for the last time and left the headquarters.

It was a brutal late spring.