While Bruno was moving his forces within the Iron Brigade, as well as the supporting elements of the Imperial Russian Army into position near the city of Tsaritsyn. International interests began to converge. Not in support of the Red Army, but rather in opposition to the German Reich.
To all who observed what had happened in Saint Petersburg, there were two things that stood out. One, the use of machine guns as employed by the Iron Brigade had universally changed the world's understanding of warfare and how it was fought.
Or at the very least, this was the case for the world's major powers. In addition to this, the use of steel helmets on the battlefield was an irregularity which the Iron Brigade had utilized. Some thought that this was perhaps simply a ceremonial decoration in reference to the word iron, which was in their unit's name.
