Turning South

Moscow, Kremlin.

Brezhnev shared this news happily with the other members of the Supreme High Command.

"Comrades, I got news from Orgarkov, just one hour ago, the flag of our glad motherland was raised in the middle of Plainspire, and our army has already occupied the entire city."

"Ura!"

Everyone in the room cheers after hearing the news.

"Comrade Secretary, shall we share this news with our people now too?" Andropov asked.

"Sure, let us share this news with our people, let them be proud of our army, and also fire our cannon like how we did during World War II. Once again comrade, glory to the USSR, glory to the Red Army, glory to the Socialism! Ura!"

Soon, TV and radio that were playing other shows, immediately been cut off and replaced by the broadcasting of Central Television of the USSR.

"To all citizens of the USSR, this is the latest news..."

When this news was announced to the citizens, the whole country went into a frenzy. This was the first decisive victory after the war began.

The sound of URA surrounds the whole of Moscow.

Outside the city, canons are fired to salute and celebrate the victory.

Meanwhile, outside of the Soviet Union, Octa the orc's nation and Karak, both of the country have fallen into a horrible silence, even normal citizens walking in the street can feel there is something wrong, and the atmosphere of the country has changed. Especially to the orcs, who are still enemies of the USSR.

Inside the palace of it, an argument is going on.

"My royal majesty, there is no way that we can defeat the Red Army, if we can't do it before, then we can't do it now. No matter how difficult is it, peace must be needed for us." One of the generals said.

"Objection. My royal majesty, we all know what have we done in the USSR, do you think the Soviets who hold such strong military power and have all the advantages compared to us will accept our peace, there is no chance for peace, it is either we kill all their army who step into our country, or we die." The other said.

Skolm, the king of octa, who sat in front of all the generals, watched the two factions arguing below, and his head started to hurt again. One of the factions thinks there is no chance to win the war now and should have peace until the orcs have stronger military power than the USSR, and the other side believes that the USSR will not give them a chance or time to grow stronger than them, and will destroy the orcs before it happens.

Skolm is hesitant about it, as both sides have reason, without any reason, he can only ask about the opinion of Aba Aba.

"Marshal, you are the only one that fought with the Soviets before, may I know your opinion?"

He just closed his eyes, shook his head, and replied with a bitter smile, " It does not matter, my Majesty, it's all the same."

Skolm understood why he said it, looking at all the ruins caused by the Soviet's nuclear outside the palace, by this time he already knew that it was a total mistake to start the war with the USSR.

The orcs are not as strong as the undead, they cannot protect a whole area from the Soviet's missile and nuclear strike. The result of this is there is not many orcs can be found in the capital now, most are dead or have escaped.

Besides, the orcs don't expect there will be such mass destruction weapons that can destroy a whole city, even if there are, in tradition, as there are many human slaves inside the city, their main enemies, humans will not use. But they ignore this, it is either they don't care or don't know. In Skolm's opinion, it is most likely to be that they don't care.

"Marshal, when the Soviets have come, how many forces do we have, or maybe I should ask how long can we resist them?"

"Everybody is a soldier, my majesty. However, they are weak, with poor training and equipment, even without all these problems we still can't stop the Soviets from entering our country. The only advantages I can think of are they are hiding in the forest, the swamp, and the marshes, which they can work as partisans when the Soviets enter, but it will be a question of how many of them will be alive by the time the Soviets come."

Everyone in the hall now remains silent and waits for Skolm to make his final decision. Skolm lowered his head and thought for a few minutes, then suddenly stood up, drew out his big knife, and shouted to everyone, "I have decided! We will fight to the last one we have, we will never surrender! For the Octa! "

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"How is everything going on, Ghasnov?" After a few weeks of high intense commanding, Orgarkov finally had his first good rest last night, everything after taking down Plainspire was passed to Ghasnov and Govorov.

"Comrade Orgarkov, we have received the latest order from Moscow, they want you to return to the Supreme High Command next week, and I will take over your position. Before that they also want us to do some preparation for the next phases of attack." Ghasnov answered his question and then passed a file to Orgarkov.

[Wait for resupply, construct a railway to Plainspire. Divide the troops into two, one continues to advance to the west and occupy the rest of the Land of Plain. The other one will go to the south, and launch an attack against the orcs together with troops in Belarus and Ukraine.]

"Here is the plan we did last night, you might have a check." Ghasnov passed another file, but Orgarkov just put it aside.

"I believe in you Comrade Ghasnov, we have been working for a few months, and I know your ability. Compared to this, I am more interested in the tower in Plainspire, have we found out anything about it now?"

"Our first patch of engineer troops has entered it for some investigation, surprisingly, they found that it is more like a signal amplifier, and is very powerful, emitting strong emp against our troops. But the investigation has been stopped, GRU special force from KGB has locked down the tower, and waiting for the scientist to do some more deep research."

Orgarkov had a minute of thinking after listening to Ghasnov's explanation and said, "Can I say that it is similar to our Duga system?"

The Duga system was used as part of the Soviet Union's early-warning radar network for missile defense. It operated since July 1976. Two operational Duga radars were deployed, with one near Chornobyl and Chernihiv in Ukraine and the other in eastern Siberia.

It was an extremely powerful transmitter, reaching over 10 MW, and operated in the shortwave radio bands. Shortwave listeners nicknamed it the "Russian Woodpecker" because of its emissions, which randomly appeared, and sounded like sharp, repetitive tapping noises at a frequency of 10 Hz.

These random frequency hops often disrupted legitimate broadcasts, amateur radio operations, oceanic communications, commercial and aviation communications, and utility transmissions, leading to thousands of complaints from many countries worldwide.

"Yes Marshal, but it is much stronger than our Duga system. Some conspiracy theories from the West are saying that the Duga system brainwashing and weather modification experiment, we all know is not true, but I am afraid that tower does have the ability to do these."

Orgarkov now remembered that a few times during their assault on Plainspire there were reports complaining that the weather was weird, sometimes becoming very cold to a temperature of -40 degrees, or sometimes very hot to 50 degrees.

Horrible weapon.