Imperial Hunter - Chapter 559

#53. Sword of Allah (22)

The CIA estimated that the maximum number of troops currently being operated by Russia in Kazakhstan is approximately 1.6 million. This was the sum of all volunteers and mercenaries from foreign countries.

In response, the democratic government of Kazakhstan also deployed close to 700,000 troops into the battlefield.

Despite Russia being far superior in terms of the size of its troops, there were three main reasons why the war was in Kazakhstan’s favor.

The first is the overwhelming comparative advantage in mobile power represented by the awakened war horse cavalry.

These cavalry units, which can gallop 2,000 kilometers a day in the rear where there is no or slight threat, are even capable of maintaining their own supply lines thanks to their excellent mobility regardless of the presence or absence of roads or terrain.

They even helped with supplies to other units. The comparative advantage in mobile power is leading to the comparative advantage in supply. There was no situation where the flow of materials pouring in from the outside world in the name of support was stagnated due to difficulties in promotion.

Second, there is a difference in the capabilities of the command staff.

The incompetence shown by the Russian military command during the invasion of Kazakhstan was truly appalling. It could be said to be a representative example of a military that has completely lost the soundness of its organizational culture.

On the other hand, the Kazakh National Army’s command tried to understand the battlefield and make decisions at least within the scope of common sense. The professionalism that was initially lacking was greatly improved over time through battlefield experience and support from the outside world.

Third is the difference in discipline and morale of frontline troops.

The fighting spirit of the Kazakh National Army was sky-high, and discipline was also maintained fairly strictly. The Russians did exactly the opposite.

In terms of tangible and intangible support provided by the outside world, the Kazakh National Army was once far superior. But now, the gap has narrowed significantly.

It is said that the Chinese President gave this order in a resolute and firm tone at a Central Military Commission meeting with my false godsons present as observers.

“All comrades, take note. “That the forces of Muslim terrorists (terrorists) must be exhausted as much as possible outside of Chinese territory!”

“We must make homeland defense preparations the highest priority in the distribution of military capabilities, but we must never neglect supporting Russia! “Provide them with abundant equipment and war materials, and send as many second- and third-level talents as possible to fill their ranks!”

China once again brought up the title of People’s Volunteer Army, which was used during the Korean War. The equipment and organization were all the same as the regular army, and even the command staff were active generals of the People’s Liberation Army, but in any case, it was not a regular army.

Besides China, there was one more country eager to support Russia.

It was North Korea.

These days, on North Korean broadcasts, Cho Rouho’s song, created during the Kim Jong-il era, is played repeatedly several times a day. It was a song sung with only Kim Jong-il’s name changed to Kim ○-eun.

“Even though Pyongyang and Moscow are far away, they remain close in each other’s hearts. “Kim ○ is holding hands tightly in a friendly reunion. Kim ○ is holding hands. Kim ○ is holding hands. Kim ○ is holding hands.”

The news that featured a female anchor wearing a hanbok and speaking with a provocative accent continued to report content emphasizing North Korea-Russia friendship every day.

“Respected Supreme Commander Comrade Kim ○ Eun pointed out that this year, the 22nd anniversary of the adoption of the North Korea-North Korea Joint Declaration, will be a historic turning point in the development of friendly relations between the North Korea and North Korea.”

“His Excellency Uladimir Uladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation, recently expressed his resolute opposition to the US and Japanese imperialist aggressors’ arbitrarily boastful talk of nuclear and rocket threats to our Republic, and expressed his strong opposition to relations with our Republic. He said that he would use this as a foundation to promote unwavering development and ensure world peace and security.”

“Respected Supreme Commander Kim ○ Eun, comrade and friend. Wow. His Excellency Putin (В. В. Путин) shared the view that the external threats facing both countries should be resolutely and forcefully eliminated by strengthening mutual assistance between the two countries.

There was a good reason for North Korea to enthusiastically support Russia. First of all, if Russia holds out, North Korea’s security environment will be stable, and it will also receive food, resources, and cutting-edge weapons manufacturing technology from Russia, which is in crisis.

The fact that Japan, one of the major virtual enemies, has acquired the status of a permanent member of the Council, and that military and economic cooperation between Japan and South Korea is strengthening, has made the North Korean regime very nervous.

Against this background, the troops being pushed into Russia by China and North Korea increased day by day, and the CIA’s estimates also had a very large margin of error.

If I had not provided strength, the Kazakh National Army would have seen the front line become increasingly entrenched.

‘We wouldn’t have allowed the enemy’s offensive, but it would have been difficult to penetrate from this side. The minefields were getting thicker every day, and the firepower density of the trench lines would also be increasing.’

The combination of World War I-style deep trench lines and reinforced positions, powerful artillery firepower created during the Cold War, and modernized air defense and aerial interception forces was truly outstanding in terms of stopping power.

‘But you can’t attack mainland Russia.’

Russia has secured a buffer zone in northern and eastern Kazakhstan, but not in the western part. Kazakhstan’s proud cavalry could advance toward Moscow at any time if it wanted to.

However, Russia is a nuclear power.

Supporting countries in the Western world strongly opposed the Kazakh cavalry’s crossing of pre-war borders. This is why the prevailing view was that Russia, which was cornered, would indeed use nuclear weapons. There were many concerns about this even within the Kazakh National Army.

The President of Kazakhstan has continued to calm public opinion against attacking mainland Russia.

“Dear citizens. And comrades, patriotic revolutionary fighters in the war to defend the fatherland. Even a 1% chance of our entire territory turning into radioactive ruins is too great. The mutually assured destruction capabilities of our cavalry, which we are proud of, should only be utilized as a means of deterring the use of nuclear weapons. “Our democratic revolution is not just for ourselves, and we have a responsibility to pass on the future to our children.”

In the end, if there had not been my intervention through the Crusades and the Careadek Treaty Organization, this war would have lasted for a long time and would likely have ended with economically exhausted Kazakhstan coming to terms with reality.

The size of the crusading jihadists I deployed to Kazakhstan was approximately 120,000 at this point.

Compared to the scale of the battlefield, the number cannot be said to be large. Even if they wanted to deploy more troops to the front lines, the foundation for doing so was not in place.

However, quality is a different story.

While the volunteers with awakened abilities sent by China and North Korea are comprised only of second- and third-line capables, the 120,000 jihadists were high-quality troops drawn through primary selection from within the Crusade Army, where all of the awakened abilities were.

The difference in quality also widened significantly in the mental aspect.

The Chinese People’s Volunteer Army and North Korean mercenaries suffered from serious military disorganization.

In particular, the disciplining of North Korean mercenaries was beyond imagination, to the point where even Russian soldiers, whose discipline was not at all good, expressed contempt for them.

How can an army that commits looting and crime even against its own citizens during peacetime maintain discipline in a foreign country? It is impossible to compare it with the army of fanatics who are possessed by the idol of Alim Shahidi and intoxicated with a sense of religious mission.

In addition, most of the 120,000 crusaders had first-class equipment. Although this is limited to the equipment carried by individuals, high-quality awakened people armed with proper equipment are powerful enough even without any other support.

Therefore, the impact power of 120,000 crusaders was enough to change the situation in Kazakhstan with just a simple show of force.

In addition, I even opened a breakthrough on the front of Kokshetau, a key strategic point, so it was natural that the entire front faced upheaval in a short period of time.

Astrakhanka, where the assassination of ‘Sayyid’ Shamseden Ekhmet Abdumizit was carried out, was a village that had to be reached by driving 1 hour and 40 minutes north from Kokshetau. The Kazakh cavalry reached the village only three hours after the initial breakthrough.

Gyeongtae said.

“The dam has burst and water is pouring in. This is a situation where mobile power with low supply requirements exerts maximum power. In order to use your time as efficiently as possible, I think it would be better for you as an archmage to handle matters other than further intervention on the battlefield first.”

This means that it is not too late to intervene in a new battlefield after new sticking points have been formed on the battlefield.

Kazakhstan’s cavalry units were moving like the tank corps commanded by Patton during World War II. This means that they are maneuvering with the goal of bypassing fixed defense points and penetrating as deeply as possible into the enemy’s depths.

Therefore, it is a little too early to choose a spot to project the power of the Archmage.

So, I looked for something else that only I could do, or that would have the greatest effect or greatly accelerate the time if I put my own effort into it.

For example, searching for Russian military massacre burial sites for propaganda purposes.

「Kkeun- grunt-」

Chun-sik, with his tail down, twitches his nose and groans. It was a dog that didn’t notice anything when it smelled the battlefield, but at the site of the large-scale massacre, there was a different smell from the battlefield.

Gyeong-tae, who had placed a sound-absorbing curtain on one side, severely reprimanded Chun-sik.

“Stand upright, Kim Chun-sik! A disciple of the great Heavenly Demon Church should not be intimidated by something like this!”

“Okay… … .」

I was in a village called Bolshoi Izium (Большо́й Изюм), located northeast of Kokshetau. Because it was an area with many Russian residents, the village name was written in both Russian and Kazakh forms, but after the establishment of the puppet state, the Kazakh name was erased from signs.

There is a much larger mass grave near Kokshetau than here, but it was a bit difficult to excavate right away because the area was currently under siege ahead of an attack on the city.

I peered beneath the dirt of the burial ground with golden eyes.

‘It looks like there are roughly 300 bodies. We killed a lot in this small town. ‘I can’t believe you give me such good propaganda.’

The massacre of the villagers by the Russian army was, in fact, inevitable.

Although the proportion of Russian residents in the North is more than half, this means that the proportion of non-Russian residents is close to half.

Even if we exclude supporters of dictator Nazarbayev, the 20 to 30 percent population is bound to be a potential source of instability.

Moreover, there are even religious differences between Russian residents and other residents. The vast majority of Russian residents are Orthodox Christians, while the majority of the remaining residents are Muslims.

In the end, in order to quickly stabilize the occupied territory, the residents must be segregated, housed, or killed outright.

The easiest and surest way is, of course, to kill them.

Turning collaborators into accomplices in the process of carrying out massacres can be a great help to regional stability.

The Kazakh soldiers and multinational volunteer soldiers on the Kazakh side who were carrying out the excavation work under my guidance were astonished by the endless number of corpses pouring out. The war reporters who accompanied them filmed the horrors of the massacre, enduring the smell of rotting corpses and the stench of leachate.

“Oh my god… … . Dear viewers. Can you see it? Here at the Bolshoi Ezium… … The corpses… … Ugh… … So many corpses are being discovered… … . Everyone’s hands and feet are tied… … There are clear signs of being tortured and raped during life… … Even kids… … Damn it, I can’t do this!”

The volunteer army guarded the village and the train station and brought prisoners who had been taken prisoner to the excavation site. The terrified prisoners desperately denied the charges against them in the face of violent interrogation.

Or, even during this time, they emphasize the legitimacy of what they did.

I saw a Russian prisoner being beaten while crying desperately.

“They were Nazis! They were Nazis! We have punished clear evil! … … “Wow!”

Russia has been carrying out propaganda, both internally and externally, that it is fighting against the Nazis.

This propaganda did not actually start with the war. This is because Russia had defined Kazakhstan’s anti-Russian movements as Nazism long before the war began.

Western media highlighted these facts in the process of refuting Russia’s claims.

“Russia also attacked Askat Aimagambetov, who previously served as Minister of Education in Kazakhstan, as a Nazi.”

“Former Minister Aimagambetov argued that the use of the Kazakh language should be encouraged more than the use of Russian for the sake of national integration in Kazakhstan. This was called Nazism.”

“I don’t know what kind of logic this is. Are Russians crazy?”

Where is the logic? Just as far-right Jews define the core of Nazism as anti-Semitism, Russia simply defines the core of Nazism as anti-Russianism.

According to this, Russian neo-Nazis, who are the center of Russia’s pro-government mercenary forces, are not Nazis. Even if you use Nazi symbols to express your organizational identity and have Nazi tattoos on your body, you are not a Nazi as long as you are loyal to Russia.

There really are a lot of Hitlers in this world who hate Hitler.

The Nazi-mongering practiced by Russia is propaganda that was born 20 years ago with the emergence of Russian-style Eurasianism. The world became aware of this only after the war broke out.

Notifying the scope of the excavation work itself did not take long. The same was true of finding places where torture and other crimes were committed.

However, because the golden eyes were useful in selecting subjects for interrogation and shortening the interrogation process, the stay at the Bolshoi Ezium lasted only about an hour.

This type of revelation is effective when it causes as much shock as possible in a short period of time.

Among the prisoners captured at the station were several Chinese volunteer soldiers. The leader, Chinese, who led them, shouted in Russian with a blood vessel standing on his neck.

“I am Chinese! I’m Chinese! “I have my passport in my back pocket, check it!”

The sound was quite loud as the person with awakening ability used evil force with all his might.

The Kazakh soldiers checked the passports as the Chinese wanted, but that was all. The captain, Chinese, protested against the continued rough treatment.

“You can’t believe they treat the Chinese like this! Aren’t you afraid of what’s going on?! I am Chinese! “I and my men deserve better!”

Due to the Chinese Communist Party’s continuous brainwashing to instill patriotism and pride, many Chinese people have fallen into the illusion that the whole world is in awe of China’s power and influence.

Although China’s reputation has plummeted due to Shahidi’s activities, Shahidi is Shahidi and other countries are other countries. Other countries are in no position to ignore China’s power and economic power… … This was the core of the cognitive dissonance suffered by many Chinese people.

There was once an illusion that the Chinese people were respected by the world, but I shattered that illusion with my own hands. Now, the Chinese Communist Party is seeking national unity by emphasizing that China is being left out.

As I was finishing the task of putting reality into the minds of these idiots and extracting statements, I received an unexpected report from Soo-yeon, who had connected with me to discuss another matter.

“You found a radio wave believed to have been sent by Medcrux?”

“yes. It was a communication that only listed numbers with unknown meaning in Morse code.”

My subordinates, who have been in charge of searching for Medcrux, have also been making efforts to capture communications between London and Medcrux. According to common sense, it was normal for there to be at least regular communication between Medcrux and the Round Table in London.

Nevertheless, until now, radio waves emitted by the Alpha Crusis Arc have not been found.

This meant that Medcrux was maintaining a strange level of radio silence. There is no way to hide the radio waves themselves while communicating in a distant satellite orbit.

Regardless of their ability to decipher the content, radio waves traveling in and out of satellite orbit are also exposed to amateur researchers.

There was a good reason why Grace doubted the existence of the Alpha Crusis Arc.

‘But has that radio silence been broken now?’

It was a strange thing.

It occurred to me that he might have already taken Grace’s rehearsal of creating a geomagnetic storm as a danger signal.

As she said herself, Grace had planned to cause small-scale geomagnetic disturbances intermittently as a rehearsal and as a warning to neighboring countries, and this morning she had finally caused the first geomagnetic disturbance.

“Would you like me to call you the number string?”

“okay. Let’s listen first.”

“8. 50. 4. Blank. 41. 3. 38. Blank. 12. 26. 49. 37. 17. 35. 23. Blank. 40. 6. 7. Blank. 43. 44. Blank. 17. Blank. 72. 24. Blank. 1. 51. 33. 55… … 」

When I wrote down the number sequence Sooyeon called me in my notebook and looked at it carefully, I noticed that the largest number was 72 and the smallest number was 1.

’72 characters?’

It’s been a long time since I remembered the 72 letters of Kabbalah (Magnum Nomen Domini Semenphoras Lyctherum LXXII), which indirectly express the name of God.

Suddenly, I remembered the numerological commentary on Kabbalah. It was as if old memories were seeping out like leachate from the remains of my teacher.

“The name of God is written with four holy letters (Tetragrammaton IHVH), with four being a sacred number. This sacred number also represents the four letters (ADNI) which are the symbols and keys of my Lord (Adonai). The former and the latter combine to form the eight letters of IAHDVNHI.”

“If you multiply these eight numbers by the number of the Trinity, you get twenty-four, which symbolizes the twenty-four thrones on which the elders of the Apocalypse will sit.”

“The elders wear a golden crown made up of three rays, each ray containing the absolute dominion of the great name Tetragrammaton. Twenty-four multiplied by three rays is seventy-two, which is another name for our God, seventy-two letters.”

“The cherubim in the four letters of God praise God’s glory, and the twenty-four elders of the Apocalypse throw their crowns in front of the seventy-two letters… … 」

Devil worshipers write these 72 letters in reverse order outside the circle containing the inverted star, but the Round Table writes them in the correct order outside the symbol for the “sun”.

When the numbers called by Sooyeon were replaced with the 72 letters in the order written by the round table, what was completed was not a message from Medcrux to London.

“Are you looking for me?”

The recipient of the message was me.

“I am here, Lord Crowhurst.”