Re: Blood and Iron
Karl Wagner is a disgruntled middle-aged instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. He finds himself concerned about the direction which the German nation is headed in—just as he is killed by a terrorist attack. Only to awaken and find himself reborn as an infant, Bruno von Zehntner, the youngest son of a noble family renowned for its part in the German war industry a few years after the founding of the German Empire. Bruno, as he is now known, desires to rewrite history and ensure the German Empire emerges victorious in the coming century. And in doing so, finds himself entrenched in a world filled with Blood and Iron!
The Invention of the Tachanka
The Siege of Saint Petersburg had come to a sudden and violent conclusion. One that onlookers from abroad were not expecting in the slightest. First and foremost, it was assumed that the city would fall, and with it all of Ingria soon after.
If this had occurred, the Bolsheviks would have stolen a vital port from the Russians and would have been able to receive military aid from foreign interest groups which supported them. But in a rather shocking display of firepower. The 6,000 man strong Iron Brigade almost single-handedly obliterated the enemy with an absurd degree of machine guns.
It was still an era where machine guns were not adopted by any military other than the major powers. And even then, they were almost always deployed incorrectly, as if they were another artillery piece.