The taxi driver's introduction was very unexpected by Ron. Truth be told, Ron didn't know it was a ghost castle. In fact, look at this majestic castle that glistens in the midday sun, and who would associate it with something like a ghost? Ron looked at Nadya, and he noticed that instead of showing fear, Nadya looked a little eager to try.

"Are you telling the truth?" Nadya asked, "What kind of ghosts are there?" Are there any vampires besides ghosts? Do you have any stories about those ghosts? ”

"I haven't encountered any ghosts in the castle," the driver told me the truth, "but many claim to have encountered them." As for the vampires, we're not Romania, we don't have Dracula. In the old legends of Scotland, there are few vampires. As for the ghosts, according to legend, they are princesses who were killed in a failed political struggle, or unlucky people who contracted the Black Death and died in a dungeon. Miss, you Americans have not experienced the Black Death pandemic, and most of you don't know it. But the Black Death killed almost half of Edinburgh's people. It is said that at that time, those who were infected among the nobles were sent to the dungeons of the castle. Where to wait slowly for death. ”

"And what about the civilians of Edinburgh?" Nadya asked curiously.

"Oh, the civilian sick will be driven to Mary?? Go in the Golden Alley. The whole neighborhood was sealed, and when they went in, they couldn't get out, and in it he couldn't get any water to read, and in a few days, they would all die there. That's why that place is very noisy. ”

"Oh my God. This, this is terrible! Nadya whispered.

"So, miss, do you need me to pull you back again?" The taxi driver asked.

"Nadya?" Ron also looked at Nadya, who now didn't need to rely on things like taking his girlfriend to a horror movie and expecting her to throw herself into his arms out of fear. So he really didn't want to freak out the little swan.

"Nope! I haven't seen a ghost castle look like it. Nadya shook her head firmly, "Although, there have always been many castles and ghosts in ballets. But in fact, I haven't even been in a normal castle. ”

"Aren't you afraid, Nadya?" Ron was a little worried.

"I'm afraid." Nadya smiled, "But I'm curious, and I'd love to see it...... Ron, you're going to protect me, right? ”

"Of course, my princess, I am your knight."

……

After more than an hour, Ron and Nadya walked out of the castle.

"There's nothing in the castle except that it's a little darker and a little more pervasive. There were no ghosts floating around, no blood stains, and cries in the darkness. Nadya complained that she had probably prepared to be taken aback, but she didn't meet anything, which made her a little disappointed.

"You can be regarded as having been educated in the atheism of the Saturn community in the Soviet Union since childhood." Ron shook his head, "Don't you know that ghosts or something are all made up to deceive people?" ”

"Hmph, isn't it all your fault for not seeing the ghost?" Nadya shrugged her nose, "People say that ghosts are afraid of the wicked, and with a big bad guy like you present, of course the ghost doesn't dare to come out...... But, Ron, did you notice the man we met when we came out of the castle just now? ”

"What's wrong?" Ron asked.

"I just think that person is a little eerie, like a ghost."

"I don't think so. Oh, I've heard that the most ghostly places in Edinburgh aren't actually here......"

……

In the blink of an eye, it was already the beginning of the lights, and Ron pulled Nadya out of a closed alley. Nadya's face was pale, and her chest rose and fell sharply.

"How? This time it's exciting, right? ”

"It's kind of scary! ......" Nadya gasped, "I really heard the cry just now, Ron, did you hear that?" ”

"No, all I heard was the wind."

"There's really a cry in the middle of that wind." Nadya said, "It was like the voice of a little girl of five or six years old, and the cry was far away, close, in front, and in the back. Also, I felt her hand touching my skirt and pinching my calf. ”

"The little girl's cry?" Ron remembered about this article called Mary?? A legend of the laneways of Golden Alley. It is said that there was a little girl named Anne who was abandoned in this alleyway by her ruthless parents because she was suspected of contracting the disease. The little girl walked up and down the alleyway, looking for her parents everywhere until she died inside. Legend has it that she became a ghost after her death, and she liked to pull people's skirts with her hands. Thinking of this, Ron was a little nervous.

"Are you alright?" Ron asked anxiously.

"My leg hurts, it's getting more and more painful." Nadya raised her eyebrows and curled up her right leg.

"I'll see!" Ron didn't care about any etiquette, so he picked up Nadya and placed her on a bench by the street lamp a few steps away, and then looked at Nadya's calf through the street lamp.

"There's no trace of it." Ron said, "Why don't I take you to the hospital?" ”

Nadya suddenly laughed, and the tears were about to come out.

"Fool, lie to you! Mary?? The story of Anne in Golden Alley, I've seen it in books before. ”

"You! You guy! Ron said viciously, "I'm going to teach you a good lesson!" ”

"And what are you going to do with me?" Nadya's smile has a black swan-like charm.

……

"The presence of the US First Army Group puts a lot of pressure on us. I believe that the U.S. forces, with more than 100,000 troops, may first launch a diversionary feint somewhere outside of Calais, France, in my personal opinion, Normandy, in order to distract us and draw our main forces, especially our armored forces. Then the main forces of the First Army would go straight to Calais. Once the enemy has landed successfully, it will go straight to the port of Calais in order to seize the port. The loss of Port Calais was inevitable due to insufficient troops. We will, of course, carry out the destruction of the port of Calais. However, the enemy's engineering skills were quite good, and they were soon able to restore the throughput of Calais. Then, more than a million troops of the U.S. First Army Group would come aboard ships from Dover and quickly disembark at Calais. And then along the ** highway, cut our army apart. In that case, Führer, we could suffer a big defeat on the Western Front. In order to avoid such a terrible scenario, we had to leave these two SS Panzer Divisions a little further back. In this way, if the enemy does launch such an attack, we have in our hands a strategic reserve that can give them a head-on blow.

As for the question of the use of the troops of Army Group I in the direction of Normandy because we are prepared in Calais, I consider it this way. There is a lack of deep-water ports near the Normandy beachhead. Heavy equipment, especially armored units, will have a hard time landing quickly. If the enemy throws a large force into it, their landing efficiency will be very low. We can allow a part of the enemy to mount first, and when his scale is too large to be a feint, and when the heavy weapons have not been fully mounted, seize this window of time, and use the armored forces of the strategic reserve deployed in the second line to destroy the light infantry that has already boarded with a swift attack. In this plan, the biggest problem is the combat capability of our armored forces under enemy air strikes. I asked Reichmarshal Goering about this, and he assured me that the Luftwaffe's decisive attack would be able to support us at the crucial time. In addition, the movement of armored forces can be carried out mainly at night, so as to avoid the enemy's air superiority. I believe that once we inflict such a blow on the United States and Britain, we will not need to worry about the problems of the Western Front for quite a long time. ”

The document in Hitler's hand was a telegram from Field Marshal Rundstedt, commander-in-chief of the German Western Front. And on his desk there is a document with the exact opposite view. Needless to say, the author of that document was Marshal Rommel.

But as far as Hitler himself is concerned, he was more inclined to believe in Field Marshal Rommel. Rommel is different from those aristocratic officers, he will not deceive himself indiscriminately, he will not shout "Führer wise" to his face, but turn his back and say that he is a military blind and will only make trouble. But what Rundstedt said was not entirely unreasonable.

"What did Raeder say about the Fort in Calais? Can an Allied hard attack break through the fort's defenses? Hitler asked. Ever since the last time he cracked the case of an espionage attempt to sabotage the battery, Hitler had paid special attention to the battery in Calais.

"The Führer, Field Marshal Raeder believes that the Allies can break through the Calais battery at any cost." An attendant replied.

"Bring me a map!" Hitler said. Since the Battle of Moscow. Hitler became more and more fond of looking at maps on his own.

The attendant spread out a large-scale map on Hitler's large desk. Hitler put on his glasses and looked at them carefully.

"Where is this US Army First Army Group stationed?" Hitler asked.

"Führer, according to the information we have now, they are deployed in this way......" replied the attendant officer hastenedly.

"The material power of the enemy is indeed strong, and we can only win by relying on greater spiritual strength, and this is precisely the strength of the Germanic people. Kindness...... It is also necessary to strengthen the intelligence work of the US Army's First Army Group. I remember that in order to prepare for the Sea Lion Project, we planted a lot of spies in England. Inform Himmler of a plan to awaken them and allow them to concentrate on intelligence related to Army Group One. Well, this plan is called 'Ghost'. ”