Three Superpowers

[Sonic]

Chapter 6: Intelligence and Counter-intelligence

I am really sorry I didn’t wrote a chapter for so long, this was because I had not good connection and once I lost chapter after I written whole (I clicked submit and “cannot be displayed” message shown)

*New characters in this chapter
*Joris Banevicius - Lithuanian minister of intelligence
*General Domantas Gaudliauskas – Lithuanian commander of land army
*Antanas Ruda – Lithuanian minister of safety

Immidietly after stopping talk with US president, Aukstaitis started calling to Joris Banevicius - Lithuanian minister of intelligence. Joris answered in quite scaried voice, because Aukstaitis previously threated to fire him if counter-intelligence will work bad:
"Hello, president. I improved our training for agents..."
"So you will then have a possibility to show that. I want that your agents follow one of my people..."
"I am listening, our agents obviously could do that" Joris wasn't so scared anymore
"But please send only agents you truly know are not some kind of double-agents, OK?"
"Obviously, I have some men I can trust"
"OK. So I want you to follow Jonaitis, our minister of defense"
"Minister of defense? But why?"
"This is none of your bussines but I have a bad feeling that he has something to do with British itelligence structures"
"OK, we will send man to follow him..."
"Yes. Then please report where he goes directly to me. Remember, ones who knows about the operation are only you, me and agents you will appoint to do it. Don't tell anyone what I ordered you, OK?"
"OK"
Aukstaitis stopped talking and sit down. If Jonaitis really was a British spy, he now should be caught. It was really important to remove spies out of top positions in government.
Then Aukstaitis turned on TV. News on bombardings were already being shown. It seemed bombardings were succesful and made great damage – 3 bridges were destroyed and Warwick became unreachable from other cities by land. Later also protests in London were shown, in which people requests queen to destroy Lithuania. And at the end of news it was claimed that British navy in the Western Sea was seriously damaged by Lithuanian second fleet. After news ended, president looked through window. Klaipeda, unlike Warwick, was undamaged and this showed that most of worlds people were wrong about thinking that Britain is the strongest power in the world. Yes, British had huge navy and a big army. But they had no air force and their ships were of the same style as Lithuanians and Americans used 100 years ago. What British did not understood is that time passes. They thought because they conquered the most 100 years ago that this means that technic of that time is also the best. They thought that the size of army was the most important. And this was the major reason why British were loosing the war. Lithuanian military was much different than British. It was small in size, but very modern. Air force was based on jet fighters. Stealth technologies were already on project. Army itself was based on tanks and mororised infrantry, not riflemans or cavalry like British one. For years British had a supremacy in sea, but this also wasn’t going to last forever. Although Americans didn’t needed to be a maritime power, because they had no islands and their coastlines length was relatively short, Lithuanians had wishes and possibility to once overpower Brits in seas. This plan, called “New poseidon” was put into action only when Zemaitis became president. This plan had several goals, first – to build a “second fleet”, a fleet made of modern battleships, already was acomplished. Second goal was to renew the first fleet and add new type of ship – carrier – to it. Carriers would drag the possibilities of Lithuanian Air Force even more. Now the major reason queen argued why air force is bad was lack of range. In reality, the only place in Britain LAF could have attacked was Warwick, and this only from Palanga. If the plan to build carrier would be acomplished, every part of Britain would have to fear LAF presence. The third and the last goal of Lithuanian navy renewing was very secret. People didn’t knew when is it going to be acomplished. The only thing they knew was that this plan was about third fleet, made of submarine ships.
However, all these plans were created before the war against Britain and now might be changed. But, yet again, no one of people in government except president himself could guess did Aukstaitis planned to declare war or did he thought to declare it fastly? If he planned, then since when? Maybe he already planned to declare that war half a year ago. Or maybe two years ago. If so, all presidential ammendments to navy expanding programs were done knowing about the possibility of war in future. If it was really so, Lithuanian forces had an advantage against British ones. Because nobody in Britain (and anywhere in the world) was able to imagine upcoming war.
President started calling to Domantas Gaudliauskas, commander of land army. Domantas answered:
“Good evening, president. Do you have any new orders for me?” Gaudliauskas seemed to be expecting president to call (probably because of war).
“Yes. Tomorrow morning you will have to get half of troops sationed here in Klaipeda to transport ships…” Aukstaitis talked fastly “…and then sail to English coast. Unload near Warwick. You will have to attempt to take city at the evening”
“OK… Will there be any info on troops stationed in Warwick area?”
“Contact Banevicius about exact numbers, but I will say that because air force bombed railways today British troops shouldn’t reach city tomorrow. If you will be on time, you’ll just have to take an empty city”
“OK, I will talk with Banevicius…”
“By the way” Aukstaitis talked fast before Gaudliauskas hanged telephone “don’t tell about the operation to our minister of defense, OK?”
“To mister Jonaitis? But why?”
“This is not your bussines. Goodbye for now”
“Goodbye”
Aukstaitis stopped talking. He sit down on his chair. His face didn’t shown any sign of emotions and was as cold as always. Donas sat on that chair looking through the window for about an hour until Banevicius called. President answered:
“Hello. Did your agents found out anything about Jonaitis?”
“Oh yes!” Banevicius voice was quite shocked “You won’t believe what they found out…”
“So, he was a British spy after all… Well, I expected that. He asked me too many questions nowadays…”
“No, he wasn’t British spy” Banevicius still seemed shocked
“So who he was then?”
“He was an American spy! We also have info that he was not only used to investigate troop bases, but also steal technologies!”
Aukstaitis waited a bit and then answered:
“I really didn’t expected this from Lincoln”
“So didn’t I. But the major question is, what should we do now?”
“Please follow him even more. Also tell Ruda about that. He will start listening his telephone. When we will have enough evidence, Ruda will send secret police on him and he will be arrested. I at the same time will call Lincoln and tell him the evidence”
“We already have some evidence. We could arrest him now”
“No… I want more evidence. Also, I want to tell Lincoln that we found out his spy later, when we will take the upper hand in war against Britain. So you’ll have to tell the agents who collects info on Jonaitis don’t tell anyone about what they are doing…”
“Obviously they won’t tell. We have very good agents”
“OK then. We’ll talk tomorrow maybe. Goodbye”

*to be continued*

[civman2000]

don't give up, this is good!

[Sonic]

Chapter 7: Bad news

I won’t give up this civman… I’ll just have to post chapters not so frequently – you know, school is starting, etc.

*No new characters in this chapter

Next morning Aukstaitis awakened about seven o’clock. He wanted to view to transport ships leaving Klaipeda and sailing to coasts of Britain. However, he was too late – transports were already beyond horizon. That was good – the sooner transports reaches Tronade, the sooner troops will invade Warwick. After the invasion Lithuania should gain source of oil again. This means it will no longer depend on USA. And that would let to deal with spy problem. However, that problem itself was quite strange. When British ship sailed into Lithuanian waters, Jonaitis himself said to Aukstaitis “I wouldn’t tolerate this”… Was this really Jonaitis’s opinion as human? Or was he ordered by US intelligence structures to pure hot oil into Lithuanian/British relations? If so, then why? Why USA would need a war between Lithuania and Britain? In all cases such a war is bad for USA. If Lithuania would win it would get source of oil and that means USA wouldn’t be able to sell oil anymore. If Britain would win it most likely would get a land boundary with USA. This wouldn’t be good for USA – currently Britain, self-proclaimed “most powerful state in the world”, can only threat USA with it’s navy. And, the most importantly, whatever would be the end of war, the winning side would become much bigger. This means current balance between three superpowers would be broken. USA is even now the smallest country and if some country, no matter Great Britain or Lithuania, would take all other world, USA wouldn’t be able to resist if that country would also decide to attack it’s positions. The only possible ending of war profitable for the USA would be if Lithuania would only take some obscure cities, for example Southern Archipelago ar some cities in Tronadia island and then have a peace with Britain. This would be good for USA because Lithuania still would have to buy oil and balance between sizes of three superpowers would get more equal – Britain would no longer be much bigger than USA and Lithuania. However, such ending of the war was highly unlikely. Lithuanian prime target was Warwick and Jonaitis should have already told that to Lincoln.
Aukstaitis came to board and moved pins representing sixth and seventh brigades of troops and second batallion of artillery from hole of Klaipeda to hole near Warwick. He then looked to a clock. It was half past seven and that means only half an hour remaining to a start of Warwick city bombarding if commander of air force general Petras Kairys will follow orders, which president given in the envelope. In that bombarding all means to defend the city will be completely destroyed – bombers will attack police stations and barracks, also naval port and other buildings which could cause some trouble for the invasion.
President also knew today most of world newspapers and broadcasting stations will want to interview him, call to various shows, etc. This didn’t happened yesterday because yesterday was day of shock. Nobody expected what happened and everyone was plain shocked. Press and broadcasting stations also didn’t prepared to that and didn’t had any plan, which are ussually prepared for every critical situation, like major earthquakes, riots, terror acts, etc. Today it was quite different – shock was ended and now most of people wanted to know explaination. And who could give a better explaination if not one who was “responsible” for the situation. However, Alisa Toraite still did not called – maybe she thought that president is still sleeping.
Aukstaitis turned on radio – morning news should had started soon. Reporter on radio speaked:
”Hello people, October 13th’s news. People in London made a huge protest demonstration against Lithuania. They required queen immidietly attack Lithuanian coasts with British fleet. Queen did not commented the protes at a time – it seems she doesn’t feels quite well after yesterday events. However later she released the following statement” reporter stopped talking and recorded queen’s voice was played – voice wasn’t as strong as it ussually was before “I, as queen of Great Britain officially condemn the actions of president Aukstaitis. I want to say to every British that strenght and god are with us. We will defeat Lithuania. Barbaric bombardments of railroads, in which at least 3 people were killed, won’t be tolerated. They wants war, they will get a war” the recording ended. It seemed queen, unlike ussually, didn’t created these words on her own – she just said what advisors told her to say. Reporter continued to report news “Bombardments on railroads and roads to Warwick ended and they made city completely isolated. Currently all bombers are in Palanga, as Lithuanian offical who didn’t wanted his name to be publically said confirmed. British ministry of navy also confirmed British lost three vessels in Western Sea, near Lithuanian coast. More news on the war after an hour, thank you for listening…”
Aukstaitis turned off radio and started calling admiral Vanauskas to ask about recent wins. Vanauskas answered:
“Hello, president” Vanauskas seemed to be happy
“Good morning, admiral Vanauskas.Please give me some report on battles at sea…”
“News are all-good – we sunken most of their men of war in the location. I contacted Banevicius, if his calculations are correct, that should be about quarter of their whole navy”
“A quarter? Well, this must broke the morale of British even more… What is damage on our side?”
“Almost no – several vessels damaged, but only a bit. And about morale you are very right, mister president. Remember, they thought navy is their strongest side…”
“Maybe it is… But as we shown now, our navy is stronger”
“Yes, but remember this time colonel Paulauskas helped for us with bombers based at Boston. I seriously don’t know who will win such battle if it would be near British coasts”
“I think we would win such war also. Well, I wish you luck, goodbye for now”
“Goodbye”
Immidietly after Aukstaitis stopped talking, telephone rang again. This time it was minister of defense Jonaitis. He said:
“Good morning, president, I am afraid I have some bad news here…”
Aukstaitis didn’t wanted to let Jonaitis to know that his work for American intelligence is known. So he politely said:
“OK. What happened?”
“Part of British navy started attacking our infrastructure in southern Cordabe, near Moscow and a bit norther. Possibly some roads are already destroyed, I am trying to get in touch with the governor of region”
“I understand. Please call me later when you will have more info”
Aukstaitis didn’t liked to talk with traitors. This time wasn’t an exeption.
Now situation changed a bit – it seems Lithuanian intelligence didn’t got info about British fleet based near Lithuanian coasts near Moscow fastly enough. Now all the southern Lithuania, that means all the Lithuania in the south of gulf of Taurage, was threatened. Because almost no resources were available in southern Lithuania (except near Taurage), infrastructure was never rebuilt there after war against Russia. Currently only several roads are available in those places. They shouldn’t be let to get destroyed, because then all the southern Lithuania would become completely undefendable. Currently almost no troops are based there – most of brigades are guarding key cities like Klaipeda, Boston, Vilnius or Kaunas. However now situation was quite bad and the weakest spot of Lithuania was hit – Lithuania had only one useble fleet in these times (first fleet was being repaired in Klaipeda). And that fleet had to guard coasts near Boston. But the situation required immidiete solution. Aukstaitis started to walk around the room and thinking what decition to do.

*to be continued*

[civman2000]

[Gangerolf]

cool

[Sonic]

Chapter 8: Operation 'Awaken Giant'

Thank you for your comments . I will continue this obviously and will end this story. Though this is now already getting very long and the end is still far.

*New characters in this chapter
*Jacob Walker – US ambassador to Lithuania

Aukstaitis taken his cellphone into hands and started calling commander of army general Domantas Gaudliauskas. He was supposed to be somewhere near isle of Palanga if everything was going all right. General answered:
“Good afternoon, mister president”
“Good afternoon, general. Everything is all right?”
“Yes. We are now already near straights. We will be able to start after about… 3 hours” it was obvious Gaudliauskas tried not to say anything which would be useful for British intelligence “Since then we will have to spend an hour to prepare for operation and would be able to execute after four hours”
“OK. I understood. Because of changing of landowner of land you are in you will have not to contact me anymore. I will say all useful information now. The operation you are doing from now on will be reffered as operation ‘Awaken Giant’”
“Understood”
“Yes. Please note that vessels are attacking the southwestern coast” president no longer said everything secretly because this was what British knew themselves “Contact artilery batallions stationed in Moscow and other former Russian cities and order them to shot to the vessels. We won’t sink all of them this way but at least this will keep them busy until we will decide what to do”
“OK, I will contact”
“Mhm… but please do it before the change of landowner”
“Understood”
President stopped talking and set the alarm in his cellphone to beep exacly after 4 hours. Then he sat on coach and started looking TV. It seems it was special news show for the war on program. Burning city was showed and reporter said:
“Today about an hour ago Lithuanian bombers dropped bombs on the city of Warwick. This was first bombing of the city itself. Number of casualties is still unknown and this footage you are seeing now is the only news we’ve got from Warwick. It was taped by some fishermen from ship near the coast. As it seems from this footage, historical city center was heavily bombed and bombs created a firestorm there possibly damaging many buildings. Also, in this footage we don’t see Warwick cathedral, so there is a probability that this historical building built hundreds of years ago was destyroyed, but it could also be unseeable beyond the smoke. What happened to other great historcial landmarks such as Leonardo’s workshop is also unknown. We still weren’t able to contact general Petras Kairys, commander of Lithuanian Air Force to confirm that Warwick was being bombarded. However, this tape speaks for itself” reported stopped talking and more of the tape was shown. Tape was hard to understand because it was filmed far from the coast. It however showed much smoke over the city and some fires, also bombers flying to and from city just over cameraman’s head. Sounds of explotions were also heard. Reporter later continued the comments “we will report more after half an hour in the next special news show dedicated for this war. We will also try to interview Lithuanian president Donas Aukstaitis and queen of Britain Elisabeth about the current attacks on Warwick. Thank you for watching International News Television”
Aukstaitis turned TV off and soon enough, just as he expected, Alisa Toraite called him. He answered:
“Hello, mis Toraite”
“Hello president. Some International News Television reporter wants to talk with you. It seems they didn’t heard what you said a month ago that you won’t give interviews to foreign TV or radio stations and newspapers. Should I say you don’t have time for an interview?”
“No, I am ready for that interview – a time have came to enlight the international community about the war”
“OK. So I am now connecting your phone with that reporter”
“Yes, I do agree”
For about thirty seconds it was silent in the phone, but later some man started asking questions:
“Good afternoon”
“Good afternoon” Aukstaitis, although nobody actually seen him, tried to be as serious as possible during the interview.
“We would like to ask you a few questions about the current war…”
“I know. Ask them”
“First would be… How would you comment recent bombardings on Warwick, which most likely killed many people and destroyed many historic buildings?”
“This was not my order to do so. Firestorm was incidentally created very possibly because of high amount of AA turrets fire. Bombers had to bombard those turrets, which most likely were placed in the downtown” Aukstaitis in fact didn’t knew the reasons of firestorm, cause he only ordered to bombard few military buildings not the center in envelope he gave to general Kairys. But he, as politician, also wasn’t able to admit he was not right.
“Second question is maybe the major – why at all Great Britain was attacked? You tried to explain this but you never did that…”
“I would like to remind you that I explained most of the reasons in my declaration of war message, which I said live to Lithuanian Television. More than that I don’t have what to comment”
“OK. We could talk forever but maybe we will do that latyer in studio, not on phoneline. So this is the last question: what ending of the war do you predict and how do you think the war will change the world?”
“It is very hard to say… It is obvious that we will win, but about the consequesnes… I believe there wouldn’t be many, except that Lithuania will gain source for oil and Britain will lose size”
“Thank you for the interview”
Aukstaitis stopped talking and started watching through the window. It didn’t seemed Klaipeda was at least a bit changed because of war. People were riding in cars, flying in planes. It couldn’t be even compared with Warwick, at least with what was shown on TV about Warwick. Soon enough president’s cellphone beeped. That means four hours had passed since his chat with commander of army general Gaudliauskas. And that also meant invasion force was prepared and soon would start attacking Warwick. So president started callin minister of intelligence Joris Banevicius. He answered:
“Good afternoon, mister president”
“Good afternoon. Did you agents collected more info on Jonaitis affairs?”
“Yes, yes. We’ve got much of valuable info. We recorded his phone chat with US ambassador to Lithuania Jacob Walker. It seems Jonaitis told Walker almost everything you told him about the war. I think it is also a good risk that USA cooperates with Great Britain and is sharing intelligence”
“OK. Please tell Antanas Ruda to issue order to arrest Jonaitis. I will also soon officially ask his resignation”
“But what about Lincoln?”
“I will talk to him immidietly telling this info. We will also play that recorded tape on TV so we will give yet another reason for our people to hate the foreigners”

*to be continued*

[Civ3King]

Hmmm....very good....watch those Americans though, they have been a bit quiet lately

[Kampus majore]

Great story! I can hardly wait till next chapter....

[Kampus majore]

Hm, too bad, still not another chapter....

[Sonic]

Chapter 9: Invasion starts

Thanks for your comments... This is a new chapter Kampus majore . Also civ3king, as you can see now Americans really are pain in the butt .

*No new characters in this chapter

After live transmitting to Lithuanian television, in which Aukstaitis told Jonaitis immidietly resign and also played the recorded tape in which Jonaitis gives info about the war to Jacob Walker (some places of tape with most secret info were obviously cutted), president taken the phone with “Washington” written on it. Now it was the time to tell Lincoln about everything – army already invaded Warwick, so oil won’t be a problem, even if Lincoln would stop trading. Lincoln possibly still didn’t knew about the arrest of Jonaitis, so he politely answered:
“United States of America”
“Good evening. I want to just tell you that your spy is no longer in our government…”
“Our spy? What spy?” Lincoln either still didn’t understood either tried to pretend that he still didn’t understood.
“Don’t pretend as you wouldn’t know. Mister Jonaitis is no longer our minister of defense. Now he is in jail”
For several seconds there was silence. Maybe Lincoln didn’t knew what to say and do. Later he said:
“He wasn’t our spy…”
“Oh yes. We have an audiotape, in which his phonetalk with Jacob Walker is recorded. In that call he said almost everything I let him knew. I want to say now very clear – we won’t tolerate this”
“OK. It is after all your decition. I am now ordering to return our trains, so you won’t get any oil from us anymore”
“We will take Warwick tonight, so we won’t even need your oil anymore”
Lincoln seemed to be already stopped talking. Aukstaitis also put down the phone. Now he was to decide who to appoint as the new minister of defense. This position was extremely important, especially at the times of war. Also it was extremely important not to appoint other spy to that position. And there weren’t many people, which were almost surely not spies. Maybe only four people – commander of navy admiral Povilas Vanauskas, commander of air force general Petras Kairys, commander of land army general Domantas Gaudliauskas and vice-commander of air force Kristupas Paulauskas. Admiral Vanauskas had to control the navy, later also defent southwestern coast – artillery won’t destroy whole fleet of men-of-war and navy still will be needed for that purpose. General Petras Kairys was in palanga and had a job of bombing Warwick to help land army to take the city. General Domantas Gaudliauskas was busy with the invasion. So, colonel Paulauskas was maybe the only one choice. Aukstaitis started calling him. He answered:
“Hello, president”
“I would like to ask you what is the situation in the sea battles near Boston? What did your pilots reported after last fly-over?” Aukstaitis tried to understand werether Paulauskas is busy or not.
“It seems situation is quite good. As far as I know most of British ships sunk, several are still remaining on water but have taken a great damage and probably will sink soon. I’ve talked with admiral Vanauskas an hour ago, he told he and his fleet is ready to board enemy ships and take their sailors, possibly captains knows some info which could be useful to us… Maybe they would say us that ino if we will tortue them enough…” Paulauskas said nothing for a bit and then fastly told “But this is job of Jonaitis, not me”
“It is no longer job of Jonaitis”
Paulauskas didn’t understood what president meant and just asked:
“Why?”
“Because he is no longer minister of defense. He was a spy in fact”
“Oh…” Paulauskas seemed to be quite shocked with that, because he always taken Jonaitis as his ideal.
“So I would like to appoint you as the new minister of defense…”
“Really?” Paulauskas still didn’t believed what Jonaitis said.
“Yes. Tomorrow morning fly with your squadron to Klaipeda. This is your first mission. Also tell admiral Vanauskas to sail with the second fleet to the south, near Moscow. This is where British fleet of men-of-war is attacking our coastline”
“Shouldn’t I fly to Moscow and help admiral Vanauskas to sink that fleet also?”
“No, you shouldn’t. That fleet is quite small if comparing to the one we sunk near Boston. Also, we need to conserve oil, there is a slight problem with it, however we’ll soon regain source. Anyway, fly tomorrow morning to Klaipeda, I will tell you everything you need to know as minister of defense and officially give you that position”
“OK president. And… Thank you…”
Aukstaitis didn’t answered and just stopped talking. Later he turned on TV again to get more news on what is happening in Warwick. News showed much rubble, destroyed building which were still burning at some places. Reporter commented:
“What you see is what left of Warwick after bloody air raid several hours ago by Lithuanian air force. Our newsteam along with several doctors and aid packages already got to the city with helicopter, but it seems much more doctors and aid is needed. The tape which you are seeing now was taped in Warwick about an hour ago, currently we lost contact with our group in the city, but we hope technical dificulties will be eliminated soon and we’ll show you more. As we can see from the tape you are now watching, most of the city, including cathedral, university, historic temple and Leonardo’s workshop was destroyed. This is obviously great damage to world culture” TV showed what was remaining out of once the biggest cathedral in the world, Warwick cathedral – only one tower stood and it was still burning. Instead of three others there were only piles of ruble “although casualties are still unknown, it is obviously they will be huge. As our reporter who is in the city currently claimed, he himself already seen over hundred dead bodies. Most of bodies however are under rubble. There is a possibility that some people under the rubble survived the bombing, but they will also die if aid won’t arive soon. However, city still remains unreachable because of yesterday’s bombings of roads and reailways leading to Warwick. British air force, consisting of only few helicopters, said it is impossible for them to transport adequeite ammount of aid to Warwick in time. Queen refused to comment that. As unconfirmed sources says, she is now in Washington, probably talking with president Lincoln about lending some transport planes and helicopters from American air force to deliver aid to Warwick” reported stopped talking and leveled Warwick was still being shown. Streets were full of rubbles. Buildings were destroyed. All landmarsks were levelled. Some people were getting out from shelters after the bombing and looking around, probably not understanding where to go. Also a women with bloody face was shown, crying near burned corpse. Probably it was her husband or son.
Soonly telephone rang. Aukstaitis silenced TV and answered:
“Good evening”
Joris Banevicus was the men who called. He seemed a bit nervous and fastly said:
“I have some bad news… Our intelligence always listens what is going on at the oval cabinet in White house. This time it seems Lincoln met Elisabeth there…”
“I know that”
“Please let me end… I know you maybe heard on INT that they probably talks about humanitarian aid to Warwick. I also listened that program. However, the truth is different. They signed a mutual protection pact, effective from tomorrow 6 AM. This means USA will declare a war on us if we will do any agression against Britain after that”
President didn’t expected this. He was silent for maybe ten seconds. Then just said:
“OK. Continue to do your job. Goodnight”
After he stopped talking, he again started thinking and looking through the windows. There were several possibilities why USA signed the pact. First would be that they signed it just to scare Lithuania from further attacks. USA obviously wanted to save it’s influence to Lithuanian market by being the sole source of oil at all costs. If this possibility was true, then USA wouldn’t dare to declare a war even if Lithuania would attack Great Britain. However, it could be so that USA is more serious and they would declare war. And waging a war in two fronts is always very hard, especially because big part of Lithuanian army was transported to Tronade. The best for Lithuania however was that Americans and British still didn’t knew about the invasion to Warwick. And because the pact was to be effective only since 6 o’clock, Warwick should be already taken by then. And that means Lithuania would get source of oil. And that also means Americans would have much less reasons to enter the war.
Later Aukstaitis moved piece, representing 4th squadron from boston to Klaipeda in the board and peace, representing second fleet, from waters near Boston to waters near Moscow and went to bed. Tomorrow was probably going to be a day when the most important decition of this war was to be made.

*to be continued*

[Kampus majore]

Yes! Another chapter!

Great story Sonic.

[campmajor!]

Hey Kampus majore! Long time no see!

It is indeed a nice story sonic!

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Great stuff Sonic keep going.

[Gangerolf]

come on! you can't quit now!

[Sonic]

Chapter 10: The decition

I know I can't quit and I am not going to . Well, this is a new chapter:

*New characters in this chapter
*General Ted Williams – British general

Next morning Aukstaitis risen from bed quite early. He eagered to know the news on the invasion, also US and British reaction to that. Also, he wanted to have more time to think on a major dection – to keep the war after Warwick will be taken or to seek peace. Although war would lose it’s primary objective (to get oil) when Warwick will be taken (and big part of British fleet sunk), but still keeping the war going would raise people morale and also gain more lands. These more lands would help Lithuania to surpass Britain by size and also maybe USA by technology. On the other hand, most of newly taken cities would need massive reconstruction after bombings and that would cost loads of money. And not using air force would be to risky – although Lithuanian modern tanks and motorised infrantry would maybe still overpower British riflemen, many more Lithuanian troops would die in the war against undamaged army than in the war against almost destroyed by air raids army. Loosing many troops would hit severly war and president popularity. Also, American reaction was still unknown. Although it wasn’t likely USA would enter the war after Lithuania will get oil source, that still could have happened. And fighting modern and effective US army wasn’t the same as fighting against huge but outdated British army, which weven didn’t had air force. Britain also was in another continent while USA had a land boundary with Lithuania.
Decition on what to do had to be done fastly, because if it was be decided to continue the war, president would have to tell general Gaudliauskas to order all citizens of Warwick to immidietly start construction of a landing side, where Lithuanian air force bombers would land. Many people would be killed in that construction, but it would be completed quickly. And after the completion, general Kairys would fly there to continue bombardings on British lands. Because of lack of the range, bombers from Palanga can only reach Warwick and surrounding areas. From Warwick they would be able to reach York and capital London.
Aukstaitis decided to first watch news on INT before taking decition. He turned on TV. News were already started and reported talked (burning and damaged ships were shown on screen):
“…British minister of navy claimed that seven fleets of men-of-war were lost in the battles near Boston and about half as much returned damaged to ports in Tronadia and eastern Tronade. British lost about one fourth of their fleet. Several thousands of sailors are dissapeared after these battles, some are killed and some are probably imprisoned. Lithuanian minister of justice Antanas Ruda refused to comment how much of sailors were captured. Damage on Lithuanian side was much smaller – none ships sunk and only a few were damaged. As unconfirmed sources claims, currently second fleet of Lithuania is probably sailing to the south, where several British men-of-war attacks coasts. In these attacks several railways and roads became unusable, also two mines near Moscow were destroyed. Currently artillery batallion tries to shoot back to ships, but no British ship sunked because of these attacks. As sea battle near Boston showed, Lithuanian mix of modern artillery, battleships and air force does a much better job than huge British navy. Queen refused to comment the terrible losses, unconfirmed sources says she is still at Washington currently. This severly damaged her popularity in Britain, as one member of British government, who didn’t wanted his name to be publically said, claimed, “Queen runs away from the nation when it needs her the most” a musical theme, which meant that news from somewhere else will be told, was played and TV started showing view of totally destroyed city from helicopter. At the bottom of screen message “Breaking news: Lithuania invaded Warwick” started flashing. Reporter commented more “As officials of British government currently reported, Warwick was invaded last evening by Lithuanian forces. It isn’t known why Britain didn’t said that info to public before. Currently some minor battles are still being fought, but the winner is almost already known – it’s Great Britain, which crushed almost all invading forces. Not much details are known, but it seems British general Williams did some fly-overs with helicopter lended from Americans over Warwick yesterday, in which he told people to revenge for the bombing of their homes and killing their loved ones. Many people agreed to do a revenge. Then several more helicopers came and started dropping rifles, later general Williams himself paradropped to the city and started ordering people what to do. Lithuanian troops were already entered the city when they were ambushed by Warwick citizens. Most didn’t expected that and were killed. General Domantas Gaudliauskas, commander of Lithuanian land army, is also very possibly killed in action. The only luck for Lithuania was that an invasion started before 6 AM, when mutual protection pact we told you about before was sheduled to begin”
Aukstaitis turned off TV. His face was quite frustated. What was he supposed to do now? Ending the war would simply crash Lithuanian morale and also wouldn’t be profitable. Although many British ships were destroyed, but this doesn’t even comes in line with loses – American sanctions and still not oil source gained, many troops lost at invasion to Warwick and also the loss of general Gaudliauskas, who was one of the major members of the ruling junta. So, the only good decition was probably to continue the war – but how to do it efficiently without oil? Also, what if Americans would join the war, which was quite possible? Fighting on two fronts without the oil was really hard.
Later automatic system told president that the new minister of defense, colonel Kristupas Paulauskas, wants to come in. Aukstaitis clicked a button to open the door. Paulauskas came into the office. He also seemed to be nervous, but also didn’t wanted to show that to president. He said:
“Good morning, mister president”
“Good morning. I don’t have time so let’s go to the situation immidietly”
“OK. What am I supposed to tell general Kairys and the others? Also who to appoint as new commander of land army?”
“This place could be listened by British or American intelligence. I know however a place which is surely not being listened. Follow me”
Aukstaitis came near the elevator. Number on small screen showed that elevator cabin was on a floor below. So president inserted a master keycard, which allowed him to open door to the elevator shaft and lock elevator cabin from moving. Then he stepped on the top of cabin and when Paulauskas also done that started talking:
“OK. So there is what you need to know and do. Please tell general Kairys that he needs to continue bombardings on Warwick. Also tell him to bomb not only the city itself, but also irrigation systems and mines near it. This will damage the possibility of producing something in Warwick even more and also will start povetry there.”
“But… The Americans claimed they will declare war on us if Britain will be attacked again” – Paulauskas was quite scaried but also tried not to show that to the president.
“So let’s order some of remaining troops in Klaipeda and Panevezys to march near the border with USA. And of course, tell them not to do anything until I will say otherwise”
“Understand. Are there any more invasions to Warwick planned?”
“This is none of your bussines. I now decided not to let anyone except me to know military secrets until the time comes. Anymore questions?”
“Yes sir. Who should I appoint as a new commander of the land army?”
“No one. We still don’t have any confirmation of death of general Gaudliauskas. Also, even if we would, I doubt we would find anyone who would be surely non-related with enemy intelligence structures. Wartime isn’t the best time for testing people. So, until we’ll receive anymore news on Gaudliauskas, you will take the position of commander of land army. Also, you’ll have to give the control of batallions to smaller military leaders. However, don’t tell them everything at a time. Act with them like I do act with you”
“Understood”
“OK, goodbye for now”
Paulauskas went down and Aukstaitis immidietly went back into his office. He started to calling the director of Klaipeda’s docks. Director answered:
“Hello”
“Good morning”
“Oh, president…”
“Yes. When will the first fleet be repaired and the 3rd fleet put down to water?”
“As for the first fleet, it should be soon – only some cosmetic repairs are needed, carriers are already completed. However you’ll have to wait until you’ll be able to use the third fleet”
“I do understand. I need first fleet tomorrow. Call every dockworker to job and order them to do those “cosmetic repairs”
“We’ll need to pay them huge increases…”
“Money is not a factor to us. Do as I said”

*to be continued*