Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 68 >

– Lord, give us patience.

This year has been stormy and gloomy days.

The oppression from the crowd, the torture of those who will execute us.

Ruler of the world, God of the universe.

Bless us with your prayers.

Rest our poor souls.

It’s an unbearable and scary time.

On the threshold of the grave, breathe into the lips of your slaves a breath of superhuman power.

so that we can pray for our enemies.

I sighed as I folded the memo paper into four and put it in my pocket.

I feel like a cigarette would be fine, but I don’t smoke.

I’m not the type to drink alcohol to get drunk. But it just became that way because I was hanging out with Russians.

But now I’m really craving cigarettes.

One of the powers the tsar granted me is the right to sign a treaty without a report to the tsar.

And the tsar said he would leave it entirely to my judgment.

I’m glad that you believe me, but it feels like a lot of pressure.

‘But compared to the past, it is a major development.’

At least you can trust me.

‘But history is already too twisted for me to do anything on my own.’

Ohrana’s report included several new battlecruisers and battleships that were planned by the German Imperial Navy after being commissioned as the Bavarian-class.

Two battleships and three battlecruisers. First, the battleship is a large ship with a 16.5-inch gun and is trying to implement a concentrated defense type, with a speed of 26 knots, project name L 20 a. The other was a battleship equipped with four 18-inch triples and 24 secondary guns of 135 mm. By anyone looking at it, it was aimed at the Kansas class.

First, let’s start with the simple design of a battlecruiser with six 15-inch-class guns at high speed, but a heavy cruiser-class armor design, a battlecruiser equipped with eight 35-cm guns, and an enlarged design with a 15-inch gun. The one who increased the displacement instead of strengthening the defense, etc.

If we look at the meaning that can be understood here, first, Germany is also trying to convert its naval power to focus on battlecruisers.

There was no naval battle of Jutland as we know it. Even if it is a similar type of naval battle, it was a naval battle in the Mediterranean, but even that was a battle in which the dreadnought-class battleships and the armored cruisers were unilaterally broken, so there is nothing special about battles.

In other words, battlecruisers will dominate the navy for the time being.

And the next thing is that Germany does not have a rout in mind.

Although most of the ships were lost, Germany continued to sortie cruisers, etc. to carry out trade-destroying warfare, and design new ships with all-out efforts in commissioning the Bavarian class.

I don’t think I’m thinking of victory now, but I think I’m going to make up for the ships lost throughout the war…. Then, I’m not thinking about limiting armaments, I’m just estimating the loss of territory and compensation.

The Bavarian-class is still a first-class force comparable to the Queen Elizabeth-class, so Britain and France will be greedy for compensation, so there must have been a need to start planning for a new battleship in advance. indemnify? How are you going to get a ship that still has blueprints as compensation?

The French launched the Nivel Offensive, and the German Navy sent out another trade-destroying squadron, putting the British Navy in a state of emergency.

‘For now, the most appropriate way is to minimize the debt owed to Britain and France so far in the bond negotiations, and then add the compensation we will take to that debt to extract the compensation from Germany.’

First of all, the German Junkers will support it, the civil class will argue that it is better to give the land away, and what will Wilhelm II think?

First of all, with the pre-modern mindset, you might think that receiving compensation is more generous than the land, but now it is modern.

It would be nice if there was a clear answer to something. Everything was as dark as a fog.

Even now, negotiations haven’t gone well, so I’m off to take a break. Even if the British had lost their enemies to Jerusalem – of course, since the Suez Canal is dangerous – it stretched out holding on to Jerusalem’s part.

At first, they came out with a return to the Ottoman Empire, but now they have changed the course to joint management and building an independent state, and have been negotiating in various ways.

Of course, the Tsar was also in the position of not exchanging Jerusalem with London, and I made it clear that I would also reject the renunciation, transfer or return of Jerusalem under any conditions.

In the first place, I am the tsar’s obedience, so even if I can insert something at my own will, it is natural that if the will of the tsar is so strong that it is impossible to persuade, it is impossible to change or ignore it.

In the end, Britain raised its hand and recognized Russia’s sovereignty, but turned to negotiations to establish a demilitarized zone.

The other side must make concessions, cancel debt, or give something up.

“Sir, I am contacting you from the Empire.”

“what?”

“It is a request and a report. The request… The Northern Front Army has requested the dispatch of an air corps.”

“Aviation?”

“It looks like they are trying to retake Poland on their own.”

“…… Send the air battalion troops, but if it seems difficult, tell them to leave on their own.”

“Okay, and I have a report… but.”

“What?”

“A gunfight broke out between the Bulgarian and Romanian forces.”

“What?”

“According to reports, Bulgarian forces arbitrarily moved and expelled Austro-Hungarian forces from the Banat area without the permission of the Southern Front. Shortly thereafter, Romanian forces entered Banat, and gunfights broke out on both sides.”

“… these bastards.”

“The Serbian side will withdraw the armed forces of both countries that caused the problem from Banat, and that they will take charge of stabilizing the region…”

They’re really, really, really useless bastards.

“Who shot first?”

“Once the Romanian army claimed that the Bulgarian army fired machine guns in the middle of the march toward Banat. I fired.”

“What did the Romanian army say about Suha?”

“It is said that they have never been asked to deliver.”

“You are doing well, you are doing very well.”

Allies can happen anywhere on the battlefield, but I’ll believe them even if they shot them on purpose.

“Besides, both sides are raising the issue politically… Now, General Brusilov, the commander of the Southern Front, is asking what to do with these three guys.”

“What should I do in London, the deal is finalized and the ultimatum is made, whether I go back or not. How do I control the Balkans in the middle of London?”

No, even if I go, would I be able to control those crazy things? I’m honestly skeptical.

“And there was a coup in Greece.”

“Coup d’etat?”

“Venizelos coup d’état dethroned King Constantine I.”

“It happened in the end.”

the expected sea.

“Did you declare war on Germany?”

“Yes that’s right. Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania are all terrifying…”

***

Poland’s southern and eastern front.

“Hans, aren’t you a f*cking coffee drinker?”

“f*ck, can anyone enjoy this damn chicory coffee?”

“If anyone other than you rides it, it’s more edible than I thought.”

“By the way, the Austro-Hungarians have been defeated by the Reds?”

“That’s why a few divisions got out, but they say the Raimis are attacking from the west and their allies are collapsing, damn it, this war is already lost. If it wasn’t for that bastard’s internal army.”

“there! Defeatist remarks are subject to military trials!”

“Do you have a cup of coffee too, sir? If it’s okay for Hans’ filthy, tasteless coffee.”

“It’s not that I can’t drink coffee!”

“Give me a drink, um, it’s terribly tasteless.”

The sergeant who participated in the tease of Private Hans seriously talked about what he had heard.

“I heard from a friend at the division headquarters, it is almost certain that the main body of the Interior Ministry is not deployed here, but some troops are constantly being observed. There is, but I don’t think it is. It is said that it is normal to have at least a second-level commander or an acting commander.”

“Yes.”

“And when did our intelligence department ever ask for the right information? Did you know that just last year, the commander reported that the internal affairs army was only a doctor to a chaotic reserve made up of police?”

“If you don’t know, you’re a Ruth Spy.”

“Anyway, they may have been stationed here.”

“Ah, really… If it’s at this point, the upper-heads will be negotiating.”

“If the commander of the Interior Forces moved directly, he must have plans to end the war sooner or later, too.”

“You said you were a doctor?”

“The doctor is correct, but he was also a great sergeant, and I heard that he was a nobleman in the East?”

“Did I hear you as an imperial family?”

“I overheard it while talking to the company commander, and it was said that the commander of the internal affairs army was originally a descendant of the oriental imperial family. The surname Kim was originally the surname of the royal family.”

“Then why are you in Russia?”

“I don’t know, I was like a half-breed illegitimate child, so I wasn’t recognized as a member of the family and flowed to Russia somehow… I just thought about it, isn’t it plausible?”

At that moment, a shout was heard from far away.

“It’s an air raid! Great shot! Great strike!”

“Everyone with a rifle! When an enemy aircraft approaches, it will fire a salvo!”

And a bandit appeared in the sky.

There were four bombers flying over their heads one after another, with wings on their wings bearing the emblem of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so famous that there was no doubt about it.

I wondered if it was possible to catch that with a rifle, but the command is command, die. As I pulled the trigger, something fell from the air.

A clear murderous intent that fell from the air hit them around.

– Kwak!

Immediately after the explosion, an unknown comrade’s shout was heard.

“gas! gas! gas!”

Along with the screams, the soldiers urgently put on gas masks, but screams erupted from everywhere.

“aah! Aww!”

“Why, why are you doing this! I put on a gas mask… ahhh!”

The soldiers panicked when they saw their comrades screaming painfully when the poison gas came into contact with their skin.

Of course, there is mustard gas that is effective just by touching the skin, but it was different from mustard gas.

It was the first practical application of a new poison gas, Venomous agent X, commonly known as VX, developed and put into practice for the first time in the world at the Siberia-56 Chemical Research Complex owned by the Interior Ministry.