Rasputin of the East

49

In the North Sea, the German Navy flagship König.

Admiral Reinhard Scher clutched his chest.

“Okay…black! Cool cool!”

blood doesn’t stop Perhaps it was a symptom of excessive bleeding, and drowsiness poured out, and the body was full of energy.

The shells that hit the bridge directly destroyed the German fleet commander.

No, it was fortunate that the counter-defense itself was covered with 14-inch artillery shells that were meaningless. Like Ejinkot, I couldn’t leave and I wasn’t beaten down.

“Admiral! Admiral!”

“….. someone.”

“This is the so-called Eugen Muller!”

“Lieutenant Muller, I can’t see, but… what happened? Did we win?”

“Yes! The enemy flagship is sinking! We won!”

“… ok, yes, then… is the communication facility available now?”

“I’ll check!”

“If you don’t… write a signal, tell Admiral Hipper… you’ll hand over command.”

“Admiral! Calm down! You bled too much. medic! Medic!”

“Okay, buddy, I’m late.”

Blood came up from his throat. Injury is severe.

It is impossible to evacuate immediately, and even if evacuated, it is far from surviving.

“Would you mind sitting me down?”

“Admiral, you must leave. The maintenance team is unable to stop the flooding…”

“When I retire, how many more hours do I have to live? Hipper will be good at washing dishes, cool!”

Coughing doesn’t stop Behind the back of an officer named Lieutenant Muller, he seemed to see a black-clad reaper looking down at him.

“But… you gave those arrogant Royal Navy bastards a shot.”

“Yes! That’s right! If you die, you will definitely receive a medal…”

“Because I can’t go back. The man of the sea must die at the sea.”

On the flagship, after winning a complete victory against the strongest who no one dared to challenge, they share their fate with the sinking flagship.

Isn’t it pretty romantic?

“ensign.”

“Yes, Admiral.”

“Can I borrow you a cigarette?”

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Mast, but the second lieutenant could not refuse the dying admiral’s last request.

When the fire was lit, he lit a cigarette, and Admiral Cher watched his death.

“I’m glad it’s not that ugly, you should leave now.”

“Admiral.”

He saw Canada in his sight. They were also seen resisting by spitting out flames fiercely until the moment they sank.

HMS Canada fired its last remaining ammunition. A torpedo was fired from a 533mm torpedo tube below the waterline.

There was no battleship to match it, but König, who had already lost his mobility, could not avoid it.

Watching the torpedo approach, Admiral Cher untied his watch.

“Take it, and give it to my family. You are the commander.”

“……”

“A store.”

At the same time as the second lieutenant who gave the last salute jumped into the water, a torpedo struck König, who was barely buoyant, and at the same time, the flooding began to accelerate.

Not long after, the bridge began to fill with seawater. With his lower back immersed in the water, the Admiral saw the lifeboats full of men who had completed their evacuation.

Admiral Cher, who finally confirmed that his men were safe, closed his eyes.

The feeling of sinking into the abyss was the last sensation he felt in the world.

***

The Darflinger-class battlecruiser, the Darflinger. German Navy flagship.

“Admiral, Admiral Reinhard Scher has died, leaving a will to hand over command to this…”

Admiral Franz von Hipper bit his lip.

“Admiral?”

“Where is the amphibious fleet?”

Two division-level troops.

Passenger ships, merchant ships, transport ships, etc., are the power to be loaded with everything that can be loaded, but as you can see in Gallipoli, a reckless landing can only cause catastrophe.

But even Germany has yet to come up with a solution.

Of course, even in the original history, after experiencing all kinds of shoveling such as Dieppe, it was only around Operation Overlord that a system was established about what an amphibious operation was, and the concept of an amphibious operation had its meaning as a proper military operation.

No matter how talented Germany was, it wasn’t the kind of thing they could do during World War I.

Admiral Hipper was concerned about it.

In the first place, the goal of landing in London itself was chosen to give the UK the greatest possible psychological shock and make the UK crawl out of the negotiating table.

‘Before that…’

“How many battleships can you fight?”

“You mean a battleship, not a battlecruiser?”

“okay.”

“Once we have three maneuverable battleships, two have been destroyed enough to need towing. and….”

Ships sink rapidly. The battleships of the British Navy, which had been defeated in battle and unable to retreat, began to sink.

Even if he escaped anyway, he could not escape the German battlecruisers. A few ships were actually running away, but the German navy hunted them down and drove them to Poseidon’s side.

Realizing that there was no hope, the Royal Navy built up her last pride.

By choosing a needle rather than being captured.

“What about casualties?”

“Unverifiable,”

“Admiral, I am contacting you from the mainland, the boiler in Lucho is working normally. I will join Lucho with the amphibious fleet.”

“Report the status of the battlecruisers.”

“Von der Tan, evacuation proceedings underway, casualties being counted. Moltke, 39 casualties, normal operation possible, Zeititz, sunk. Darflinger, main turret 3 damaged, no problem in maneuvering. That is all.”

The second Moltke-class ship, Goeben, or Abuz Sultan Selim, fought to defend Constantinople in the Black Sea against the Boretz za Svobodu (Warrior for Freedom, formerly Potemkin) and Imperatricsa Mariya-class battleships, fighting to defend Constantinople, a former Dreadnought. Although he had a record of sinking the battleship Borec Za Svobodu, at the end of the Siege of Constantinople, on the afternoon of the lunar eclipse, he was attacked and sunk by two Imperatrica Maria-class battleships.

Lützo is still coming, and Hindenburg has not yet been commissioned, so the power available right now is 5 battleships and 2 ships that need towing.

‘Even so, is it possible to hit London with six battleships?’

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Most importantly, there was no French fleet here.

‘Currently, the ships of the French Navy that are likely to run are four Courbet-class battleships and four Friedrednot-class battleships, Dantong-class battleships. There are a few more old-fashioned battleships in the Mediterranean fleet, but the British main force will return sooner than they come.’

If you fight the Queen Elizabeth-class with this power, you will lose. No, even if you fight the French navy, it is difficult to guarantee victory with a fleet that has already been damaged.

The two ships being towed are just fixed targets, and the rest are not very normal.

“Has the French fleet been located?”

“Is it the French fleet…?”

“Yes, France!”

***

– Not allowed. Landing in London proceeds as scheduled.

The cipher text was crumpled in the Admiral’s hand.

“Did these f*cking bastards plan to bury the entire Ocean Fleet!”

Admiral Hipper had to doubt for a moment whether it was the attitude that the construction of the Hindenburg would be over and the Bavarian class would be commissioned in a short time, so it wouldn’t matter if the fleet was annihilated.

However, Kaiser’s orders were strict.

End the war somehow.

The situation on the Eastern Front was bad. The offensive on the southern front was virtually unsuccessful, and he was planning to resume the offensive on the northern front soon, but honestly, it was close to the last effort.

France will never allow Britain to strengthen itself alone.

In the end, we don’t know if we’ll have to fight the French navy within a few days, maybe even today, and we also have to fight the Mediterranean fleet, which is about to come running.

2 weeks.

It was the limit that Admiral Hipper judged.

If they don’t bring Britain to the negotiating table within two weeks, they will be annihilated.

And within two weeks with two divisions, the enemy will land on the enemy and bring the enemy to the negotiating table?

‘Even if the corps-level troops landed, two divisions, and even half of them might survive when the amphibious operation started, receive the British surrender.

Under the commander of that damned interior army commander, the Earl of Vostok, there were troops in the corps and there was a field army.

***

Saint Sophia Cathedral.

While the sacrament was in full swing, someone kept noticing me.

The back of the head stings, so I turned around and saw a familiar face.

‘Brusiloff?’

Why is this gentleman not here on the command line?

I’m not a person who can’t distinguish back and forth, so there must be a reason.

As soon as their eyes met, he gestured desperately. It seemed like he had something to talk about quietly.

In the end, I slowly looked away and slowly walked out of the room.

***

“Okay, why did you call me? What about the southern front offensive and why did you come all the way here?”

You’d have to go in before Holy Communion, but if you’re not present during Holy Communion, you’ll be in trouble.

Above all, there will be a place of congratulations as soon as this Mass is over…. How much better would the tea be if I was the main character?

“It is presumed that the offensive on the southern front is over. German movements are no longer observed.”

“I’m glad you did, but why did you call me?”

“Did you read the casualty statistics this time?”

“Yes.”

“It was a defensive battle, and even though it was a defensive battle, there were at least half a million to a million casualties! Germany must have suffered more damage than that, but it is hard to say that the German Empire’s capabilities were exhausted.”

Seeing you say that, it seems like hell was unfolding on the southern front.

In the Brusilov Offensive, which lasted three months in the original history, the Russian casualties ranged from 500,000 to 1 million, and the Austrian-Hungarian side suffered from 600,000 to 970,000 or more, and the German Empire took about 350,000.

“There is another problem. The actual German forces … are likely to do less damage than expected.”

“What do you mean?”

“It is a fact that was confirmed during the process of confirming the criminal record and counterattacking, but the main numerical focus of this offensive was not the German army. Obviously, a large number of German forces participated in the war, and it is true that the German army fought at the forefront of each major battle and major offensive axis, but most of the troops put into the battle was the Austro-Hungarian Army. Surprisingly, there is a possibility that there are still many troops left. Of course, depending on the size of the enemy annihilated, it will be difficult for Austria-Hungary to launch any further offensive, but it is difficult to see that the Germans will do the same.”

“It is meaningless to say that those troops remain if they are not sent to the front line. Maybe it’s because we left a minimum number of troops on the Western and Southern Fronts, isn’t it?”

That explains why the French army was smashed, the Italians… the Italians did.

“If you think logically yes, we have captured East Prussia, we have not yet obtained Köhnisberg, but at least they will try to reclaim East Prussia.”

“……”

That’s definitely true.

“Are you predicting a re-offensive in the North?”

“There is no basis at all, but, Count, it is not a good idea to stay long in Constantinople. It is best to return to Warsaw as soon as possible…”

“…….. All right. Let me read it. But if that’s the case, didn’t you come by yourself?”

“There are a lot of idiots who don’t like this kind of news, so they mistakenly think that this era is for them, because no one cares about it.”

“…Is that so?”

well It’s hard to agree with the saying that the times don’t care about anyone, but even if they do, it’s not for those idiots.