Re: Blood and Iron

Bruno's recovery was rather swift. And why wouldn't it be? The bullet had barely lodged itself in his flesh. The projectile was extracted, a stitch or two was applied, followed by some bandages. Which were tenderly replaced in a timely manner by Bruno's wife.

Sure, he had damn near died, and would have done so if he wasn't an alcoholic, but the wound itself which had been inflicted on him was minor. The near death incident came from the fact that had he not been wearing a thick and heavy wool greatcoat, with a steel flask in his breast pocket. Then the bullet most definitely would have pierced his heart and killed him.

Because of how Heidi reacted in an overly protective and almost motherly way. Bruno was quite literally forced to rest in bed by the woman, and to be tended to by her as if he were a sick child. While this had some appeal in its own right. Bruno honestly believed his beloved wife was overreacting.

If there was one upside to the attempt on his life, at least from the perspective of those who had initiated the failed attack. Then it was the fact that the Winter Offensive, which Bruno had planned in the Volga Region in a maneuver to root out and destroy the Red Army and their supporters in the region had been effectively postponed until spring.

This gave the red army time to properly prepare for the Tsarist Forces and their assault. Frankly, Bruno had wanted to prevent this from happening, even if it meant marching on Tsaritsyn in the Winter. A mistake the German Army had made during the Second World War of his past life that had in many ways cost them the entire war.

After all, the Soviet Union had renamed many historical Russian cities after the leaders of the Socialist Revolution. For example, Saint Petersburg became Leningrad, while Tsaritsyn became Stalingrad. Hence why Bruno was overly cautious with the preparations of his supply lines in order to sustain his assault on the city and the Bolsheviks within it.

Bruno was, after all, not the type of man to make the same mistakes as others before him. In fact, he had a tendency to learn from said mistakes, and avoid them altogether. It was a rare quality in a man. After all, most people tended to repeat the same mistakes as their forbearers, even if they were warned in advance not to do so.

Perhaps it was the intrinsic arrogance of mankind, but such was the way of life for many human beings. However, Bruno was not cut from the same cloth as these lesser men, and because of this he had made ample preparations for the Winter Offensive to ensure his soldiers had the clothing, rations, medical supplies, weapons, and munitions needed to capture not only Tsaritsyn, but the entire Volga region.

Of course, with the attempt on his life, and the injury sustained during this. These plans had utterly gone to waste. Because of this, Bruno had much time in the day to make other preparations for a far more distant future.

Currently, he was lying in his bed thinking about the natural consequences that would result from the deployment of the Iron Brigade in Russia. And what he had given to the Tsar to deal with the Red Army more efficiently.

The Tachanka was a valuable weapon in an era lacking in armored warfare. But Bruno already had a sufficient answer to deal with them. The power train used on his modified E-10 tank was largely modeled after the one used on the Panzer V Panther Medium Tank in his past life. It was capable of producing 690 HP or 515 KWs.

But the Panther Tank weighed 44.8 tonnes, while the E-10 Series tanks weighed a maximum of 25 tonnes. Or as Bruno called it in this life the Panzer I. With his specific model weighing roughly 20 tonnes in total. Which was less than half that of the Panther Medium Tank.