148 – Uk ranian Civil War (4)
Most of the troops put into the suppression of the army training center were from the enlisted National Military Police and Guards Division.
The problem is that most of them were infantry, armed only with rifles and pistols.
It is a place where the site of ‘Pavlovsk’, which was originally a fortress in the capital Kayev and a major defense fortress, was converted into a training center.
That meant that the walls of Pavlovsk, which boasted invincible defense at the time, were still standing.
“Damn it!!”
Col.
Tang, Taang!!
“Aagh!! Damage!! Everyone get out!!”
“Retreat, retreat!!”
At the slightest hint of approach to the walls, bullets rained down from the watchtowers erected on all sides.
That being said, it didn’t seem like he had any real intention to kill him.
If the troops, startled by the actual aiming shot, retreated to the rear, no further attack would follow.
At first, questions began to arise among the low-level soldiers and noncommissioned officers who were put into the operation without a word at the attitude that no one could see as the force that kidnapped the king.
‘If His Excellency is here, why are we attacking them? No, they won’t attack if you don’t approach them in the first place, right?’
‘Something is going wrong.’
The success of a coup d’état depends on how cleanly the information control is done.
Thus, excluding high-ranking officers, key personnel, and some units that were planned to be used from the beginning of the plan.
Most of the forces gathered by the coup d’état forces were in a state where they did not even know how the current situation was going.
“Colonel Yvosio Opry! I mean, come up with a solution quickly! Confusion is brewing within the division!!”
As a result, division commander Dmitry Zhukov, who was deeply involved in the coup, couldn’t help but feel nervous.
If it turns out that he really tried to harm the king, how many of his subordinates will follow his orders?
Obviously he thought seizing power was only a matter of time, but now it felt like it was only a matter of time before he got a bullet in his forehead.
But the same was true of Opry Dunn’s gendarmerie commander who had no countermeasures.
To attack the castle wall, you will inevitably need artillery or airships.
The Capital Guard Division, the Guards Military Police, and the Military Police Task Force were all mixed units composed of infantry and cavalry.
For them, artillery units did not exist. In the first place, why do you need an artillery unit if it is not a formal enlistment in the Capital Guards Division?
Because they never thought that the Prince and Enoch Levandel would enlist the head of the army training center and enter the sit-in.
The coup forces fell into a situation where they could neither do this nor that.
Of course, it wasn’t just the commanders on the scene that caught fire.
It was after the real leaders who actually materialized the coup d’état fell into chaos.
“Isn’t there an artillery battalion arriving for this birthday celebration parade?”
At the words of Lieutenant General Oleg Stukov, commander of the Eastern Corps, ‘Pyotr Kerensky’, head of the State Event Planning Department of the Prince’s Cabinet, who planned the military parade on this birthday, shook his head.
“This is the artillery unit under the Confederate Corps. In the first place, weren’t they selected as an artillery unit with low infantry deterrence so that they would not intervene in case of emergency?”
“Damn it…… !”
“They are in a state of emergency, if they are requested to mobilize by order of the General Staff…….”
“There is Enoch Levandel over there. You are only adding to the agitation of our soldiers!”
The commanders of the 1st Mountain Special Forces Brigade and the 9th Infantry Division under the Eastern Corps, who were supposed to attend the parade, did not have any strategies they could come up with in this situation.
“Sorcerer! Yes, there was a magician! Commander of the Central Corps! Why not mobilize the magic brigade!”
Then Olek exclaimed as if he had realized something.
The reason why even the Capital Guard Division was able to be subsumed in the first place was that the coup forces also included the commander of the Central Corps in charge of the Central Corps.
As for those who didn’t bring their artillery and magicians to prepare for any possible situation.
The magic brigade under the central corps, which currently has clear control, was the only hope to break through the defense of the training center.
But the answer that came back was the Central Corps commander who shook his head as well.
“Did you forget what happened to Brigadier General Hafenruuk Helheim?”
“Ah… ….”
Brigadier General Hafen Luke, who was the first target to be recruited right before the assassination, tried to reveal the truth directly after rejecting their offer.
For this reason, the main commanders of the Magic Brigade, including him, were imprisoned at the headquarters of the National Military Police.
I mean imprisoned.
It was practically torture.
By the strigoi, who use necromancy like no one else and fix people’s minds.
“Any additional information from those damn necromancers?”
“Anyway, since they are all high-ranking mages, they are having trouble controlling their minds…….”
“I tried to hold your hand, but there was nothing to do. What kind of lunatic did you ask to bring in strigoi?”
“Be careful with your words! You’re the leader of Lehman’s magic!”
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The scene is also confused.
The command is also confused.
Everything became opaque. Eventually, the impatient eastern corps commander slammed the desk and stood up.
“Anyway, the more time we drag, the more disadvantageous we are. I will contact the Eastern Corps and order all troops to march to the capital.”
“Are you serious?”
“A life already dead in one way or another. In that case, it would be better to push the capital out altogether.”
It was a disastrously radical opinion, but no one in the room could disagree.
It was just as Lieutenant General Olek Stukov, commander of the Eastern Corps, said.
At the point where they have not already secured the prince, they will only be subjugated as coup forces after time passes.
In that case, it would be best to secure the duke by forcibly pushing in the army and taking a ‘slight’ loss.
“Contact the entire artillery division of the division under the Eastern Corps and the artillery regiment directly under the command of the corps. The same goes for the Legion Air Corps!”
“We will contact the Northern Corps and the Western Corps.”
“Go fast, as fast as possible!”
From now on, it was a ‘real’ time fight.
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“The corps commander’s order to go out has been issued. Brave Uk ranian cavalrymen! Let’s head to the capital and wipe out those traitors who are trying to drive our country into the flames of war!!”
“Glory to the motherland!!!”
“Glory!!!”
The cavalry brigade under direct control of the Eastern Corps, which had been secretly stationed near the capital in case of any emergency, began advancing towards the capital faster than any other unit as soon as the command of the corps commander was issued.
In fact, it was a cavalry brigade that had the same character as the SS that the commander of the Eastern Corps had raised.
They had no doubt that their corps commander’s judgment was right for the future of Uk ran.
The coup has already begun.
The operation did not progress as expected.
In that case, shouldn’t they themselves, as relievers, step forward?
However, the horses galloping madly met a troop that completely blocked the road.
“What is that? There can’t be any troops stationed here?”
Small trenches were dug along the road that ran through a small village.
Trenches, I wonder if it was a defense line to defend the capital, but there was nothing marked on the strategy map they had except for the village.
Let the vanguard battalion running in the front line approach like that.
A loud voice came from the village.
“This road has been blocked! All troops return to their units! I say it again, all troops in the standoff, return to your units!”
The commander of the cavalry brigade asked with a puzzled look on the news from the vanguard soldier.
“Blocked? What bullsh*t! Send in a scouting party to assess the situation!”
They stopped advancing for the time being, fearing that it might be a unit under the Eastern Corps that received orders other than themselves.
What was handed down from the reconnaissance team that returned from checking the site was a ‘bill’ inviting the unit to return, with the corps mark of the northern corps drawn on it.
“Northern Legion?”
“Why are the Northerners here at the Great Hall!”
The cavalry brigade commander, who was close to the Eastern Corps commander Oleg Stukov, recalled the list of recruited forces that the lieutenant general had told him about one day.
Most of them were members of the Central and Eastern Corps, but a few also belonged to the Northern Corps.
“Why are they here?”
“Not allies! It must be an army belonging to the Gongwang faction! Even in the eastern corps, there’s no way the northern corps are blocking the road ahead of us, the first to receive orders!”
It was indeed so.
Besides, what is the reason for our Northern Corps to come down to the East?
“Assault! Give the order to attack!! They are the ones who are eating away at the country!”
At the brigade commander’s determination, a large cavalry unit lined up charged all at once against the backdrop of dusk.
In the first place, the unit only stopped for a while, and the distance from the village was only a few kilometers away.
For cavalry, it was enough distance to reach them in an instant and penetrate the enemy trench lines.
That moment.
There was a light shooting up over the village.
Red magic, flare.
As soon as the appearance of the cavalry, which was hidden in the darkness, was fully revealed, the ensuing gunfire resonated in the sky from beyond the village.
Boom!!! Quaang!!! Talk about it!!!
“What, what!??”
“Artillery? Enemy artillery is there!!”
“This is a flat land with no hills, so where are the artillery units!!”
A fierce bombardment that burns the night air with red flames. Not the village, but a shower of shells flying from behind it.
In an instant, the allies were being torn apart. Before reaching the trench line, the horses fall apart, and screams can be heard from everywhere.
“aaah!! Leg!! My legs!!”
Quaang!! Pop!!
“That, that…… !!”
The moment when the brigade commander finally identified the coiled steel snake on the other side.
An accurate shot burned his body to dust.
The spirit of glory and sacrifice for the country that he had been crying out for was not able to save him in the end.
“…… Crazy, I’m glad this is on our side.”
“I don’t think there was even a body left.”
After all that heavy bombardment.
The soldiers of the infantry battalion belonging to the northern corps, who were deployed in the village against the cavalry, shuddered as if they were afraid of the overwhelming firepower.
A local production model of the Moldoke armored train produced at the Pedro Industrial Complex.
It was a splendid debut match for ‘Vliskavka’.
Of course, no one, from planners to assemblers, thought their weapons would be turned against their own people.