＜ Episode 171 >
“You’re late.”
The crowd was silent at my words.
“Sir, now…”
“Who is the enemy?”
“The name is General Jurgen, but…”
“That’s the first I’ve heard of it.”
“It is said that he came from a Russian exile as a member of the Nazi Guard.”
“……. is it.”
I don’t know who it is, but it’s pretty annoying.
“The enemy is located in the highlands and is controlling all movement of the allies, and the reverse flow of the reservoir creates an artificial wetland, limiting the movement of the tank. Because of this…..”
“Excuse me, General Konev, now that the Czech Front is launching an all-out offensive against Saxony, the original task of the Czech Front was to cooperate with the Polish Front to destroy the enemy forces stationed in Saxony and secure the South. However, if the advance is delayed so far, I will consider giving the Polish Front a tribute and having the Czech Front take the lead in the attack on Berlin.”
“……!”
“Of course, this will depend on which front starts attacking Berlin first and how much less damage it takes. So, I hope you get excited.”
A front that did less damage and arrived sooner would be the main force in the fall of Berlin. It was a natural thing to say, but at the same time it was a subtle pressure.
If the advance continued to be delayed in this way, it was obvious that he would hand over the main character, and of course he would be pushed out of his position in the future.
Of course, Mannerheim, the commander of the Czech Front Army, is an old man who may be retiring at the end of this war, perhaps even during this war. .
“And there is something you all need to know. It is said that the United States of America is going to dispatch a voluntary force. The name is a voluntary force, but in reality, it is nothing like preparations for the US Army to participate in the war. It is a troop drawn from the US Army, and transportation will be carried out through US Navy ships.”
“The British Navy…”
“They can’t stop them, and above all, the British army is trying to avoid the US participation in the war, but if they try to stop the US naval ships, the volunteers will become the first line of the regular army.”
“How big is it?”
“About 30,000 people, the commander…”
It was a name I knew.
“George Smith Patton Jr.”
“Is that the one who operated as an armored personnel carrier during that US-Mexico war?”
“okay. They will be deployed to Suez. The US side was also notified. General Ungern will have to keep pace with them.”
Although Ungern’s rank is higher than Patton’s, they also have their own operative powers, and when I combine Patton’s personality and Ungern’s personality I know…
“And again in the Middle East, the German commander was replaced, and there was some support from the troops. It’s mostly Italian.”
“Who is it?”
“I’m Erwin Rommel, a man who made a big splash in France.”
“Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel? The conqueror of Paris?”
“Yeah, he said he came.”
“Shouldn’t we be increasing our troops? General Ungern alone…”
“That’s why we’re sending all the American volunteers there, and the French government in exile has also been relocated there, and if we take Berlin and advance to the Elbe River, we can send some troops there. If it’s really difficult, you can order General Malinovsky to turn to the offensive.”
Of course, we have not ordered an attack on Persia yet, considering that it would be much easier to occupy Suez, but if you want to be precise in Suez, you should go to Persia.
“And according to reports by Ungern just before the start of the meeting, the leading forces were close to the east coast of Suez for a straight line of 16 km.”
It’s a little short at the Poe crossroads, but if you tell him that Patton is going, Ungern will jump. It would be impossible for him to lose the honor of occupying Suez by a foreign army, not his own.
In fact, under this circumstance alone, Suez is no more than a blockade. The maximum range of the 203mm towed gun owned by the Russian Army is 18 km, and it has entered the Suez Canal to a distance that can hit the howitzer.
Of course, Ungern’s troops didn’t bring the 203mm gun, but that’s enough.
“The British resistance is fierce, but sooner or later the Suez Canal will fall into our hands, General Tolbuchin, do you have anything to say?”
“Tibet is under attack.”
“Are they warlords?”
“Yes, besides Tibet, many warlords affiliated with the Far East Command in China were attacked by pro-German and pro-Japanese warlords. Under various circumstances, it is presumed that the Axis powers were responsible.”
“Okay, I’ll try to disperse our troops… It’s a shallow feat.”
I smiled and answered.
“The Tibetan military is familiar with the area. Giving air support and turning some Spetsnaz forces there, that should be enough to block the enemy in the mountains. Germany has no way in the first place, and Japan will not mobilize its own forces to attack Tibet unless it intends to engage in an all-out war, so the Japanese army will not be moving now, right?”
“Yes that’s right. There is no unusual trend in the Japanese military.”
“I ask Chuikov to reorganize the defense posture of the Far Eastern Military District, and let the Central Asian Military District take charge of supporting Tibet. Are there any other specials?”
“There is not.”
“Then let’s disband, I hope at the next regular meeting we can get news that we’ve entered Suez, Berlin and Saxony, since we don’t want complete occupation.”
***
Tibet, somewhere in the mountains.
“Captain, do you know that? The river down there is the Yellow River.”
“Yellow River? Oh, that big river?”
“Isn’t that the Yangtze River?”
“The Yangtze River is to the south of the Yellow River, and the Yellow River is to the north of the Yangtze River, isn’t it?”
“And the Yellow River is very dirty. Chinese people say that if you dissolve 10L of water, you get 6L of mud.”
“It’s crazy, does it flow?”
“Not really that much, though. That’s about it down there, but not that much because it’s a lot upstream here.”
The four snipers on a scout-and-observation mission spoke among themselves, unable to bear their boredom.
The four of them originally worked in pairs, but observing an empty hillside for the tenth day is a law that allows for a little deviation.
“But how did the captain enlist?”
“Well… you know I’m from Finland, right? I used to be a farmer and hunter, but I won some prizes in that sniper contest.”
“However, I wanted to win the prize money and spread it out, so I wanted to be discharged… I never dreamed that I would be called up as Spetsnaz.”
Jo was quite fond of the two junior snipers who were his nephews.
Spetsnaz has unwritten rules.
It doesn’t matter what unit, where, or what rank you belonged to in the past. Age doesn’t matter.
As soon as they enter Spetsnaz, they do not call each other by rank. They remain in the documents and promotions are normal, but they have no meaning within the unit.
It only looks at whether you have the skills that are appropriate for the position. So, even if the personnel who transferred to Spetsnaz knew each other’s past, they did not evaluate it.
Even if he was assigned to the penal unit or the Gulag, the past is erased as long as he came to Spetsnaz. Spetsnaz’s motto is that it doesn’t matter if it’s aristocrats or commoners.
After inspecting the semi-automatic rifle, the captain opened his mouth.
“Since the talk has come out, you guys also need to say something, starting with you.”
“Well… I used to live in Villacherkhva, and that… treason was there, around that time, my father was given a residence in Moscow. in the lottery.”
“Aha.”
The captain, who roughly understood what he was talking about, chuckled.
“So the whole family went to Moscow to live, but somehow I got into college again, but… I didn’t have enough money. So I tried to get a scholarship, but I didn’t get the scholarship again…. So I turned on the light and searched for it and found the military scholarship system. But it wasn’t for nothing that the seniors I went with said that I shouldn’t be doing too well in the military.”
As soon as I made that huh, the other two started to devour.
Spetsnaz is a support system, but it is also called out. From each unit, people with outstanding abilities are gathered, and they go through all the procedures, starting with mental evaluation.
“Is there another standard for getting hired here? In the case of a woman, it is said that if you are married, you cannot get a loan.”
“Where else did you hear that? Well… I came to Moscow when I was young, and I shouldn’t have had time to date men. But is it real?”
“Ah… Mado? Because I heard it too.”
The youngest, Lev, laughed awkwardly.
“Well, let’s skip it, Vasily, it’s your turn.”
“I was living in the Ural Mountains, in a very rural area, and I had no way to make a living, so I enlisted in the military. I learned how to shoot while hunting… I am a volunteer. Then I got him as my junior.”
Lev glanced at Lev and he smiled in trouble.
“I am also a candidate. I graduated from sniper school. My father didn’t want me to join the military, but… well, I’m going.”
“why? Were you poor?”
“No, I didn’t really have anything… I didn’t want anything.”
Although he lived as an imperial family, not a shortage, only a few people within Spetsnaz knew that he was an imperial family.
The captain, who was guarding the cliff alone with a semi-automatic sniper rifle, slowly turned his head.
“There were a lot of families. It was a big family. I was third.”
“What was your father doing?”
“Oh, you used to be a soldier, and now you’re in business.”
It’s not a lie, as I still have a private business and was officially discharged from the Russian military. lie is.
“Are you a bourgeoisie? But why did Spetsnaz apply? I could have gone somewhere convenient.”
“My eldest brother went to aviation school and served as a pilot, and my younger brother is now serving as a tanker. I can’t be the only one left, right? And it would be illegal to solicit a position.”
“That’s what you mean, man. Have you ever hunted?”
“I graduated from a sniper school.”
“okay? Then you should do well, because if you don’t do it right, you’ll use it as a bait.”
When a female sniper pretended to be eating and pranked him, the middle-aged captain slapped him in the back of the head.
“There’s nothing he can’t do, do you have a scope?”
“yes.”
Lev held up a semi-automatic rifle equipped with a scope. But the captain shook his head.
“It’s good to take it off, because if you take it off now, the zero point will be disturbed, so don’t do it, just change it to a gun without a scope.”
“…….Yes?”
“Don’t tell me why it’s not good for a sniper to use a scope first, the lens will emit a reflected light to let you know you’re here in the neighborhood, and besides, if you use the scope in the snow, you’ll get frost and eyes, and definitely stick your head out and open your eyes. And if you are a sniper with an idea, you will definitely aim for it.”
“That man is talking nonsense again.”
The senior who was in the same group as Lev shook his head.
“No, but the only person who can take off the scope and sniper is the captain. And it’s amazing to get it right again.”
“What’s the price of acting alone every day and leaving Jo Won behind… Those yangban enemies crawling right in front of their noses and shooting at them? I can’t even imitate it.”
“If you want to shoot in a place like this, practice biting your eyes and mouth, because you can’t breathe.”
The captain diligently preached his sniper theory, while the other two refute it eagerly, and the youngest listened, the chatter stopped as soon as the captain stood up with a gun in his sharp eyes.
“for a moment.”
“What?”
“Can’t you hear me? from afar.”
“……?”
As for the sensitive sense, if there is a human that even Spetsnaz recognizes, there is it.
“It’s like going up a river. I will go alone.”
“No, Captain!”
The female sniper protested, but the captain quickly slipped down the descent.
“Oh, I’m getting old because of that gentleman, I’m getting old. Senior, can I borrow the youngest? I need an assistant.”
“Uh… don’t use it as bait, I’ll cover the captain.”
“Hey, my opinion…”
After Lev’s words were ignored, the remaining three also grabbed their weapons and started moving while checking their way out.