The battlefield, just like the weather, is sometimes clear and unobstructed, sometimes stormy and difficult to distinguish between west and east, and sometimes foggy and confusing. To judge the enemy's movements, it is often necessary to collect intelligence from all sides and conduct a comprehensive analysis, but it is not absolute. In many cases, as long as we grasp the practical significance of "the road to simplicity" and study and judge the enemy's "starting point" and "destination", we will be able to see the truth through the clouds......

In a secret telegram to the top of the federal army, Weiss put forward his opinion: in the current situation, the Normans either withdrew Lorraine's fresh forces to the Norman Empire, and only used it to divert the attention of the federal army; Either use Lorraine as a springboard to launch a counterattack, cut off the rear route of the federal army that is fighting abroad, and achieve a turnaround on the strategic chessboard. The former is a prudent move, while the latter is an aggressive strategy. With the urine nature of the Normans, nine times out of ten they will adopt a radical strategy, intending to annihilate the main force of the Federation Army in Fries, and turn the tide of the war once and for all. According to this logic, no matter how clever the Normans were to camouflage, they would have sent more fighting troops to Lorraine, and they would be elite assault troops.

In the last war, the Normans adopted a "carrot and stick" policy against the people of Lorraine, coercion, inducement, division and disintegration, and this policy obviously did not work as expected. Since the Lorrainians are such a hard group, in this war, the Norman army has directly resorted to brutal repression since the occupation of Lorraine. The more brutal the occupation forces were, the stronger the resistance of the Lorrainees. Nowadays, wherever there is a gathering of people in Lorraine, there are basically resistance groups, and their communication channels and communication efficiency are much better than in the last war. It was almost impossible for the Normans to conduct a large-scale military operation in Lorraine, out of sight.

Even before Weiss sent this important telegram of advice, the eyeliner from near Mason had already provided important information: the Normans were sending additional men and supplies, although not on a small scale, but they could see that they were still providing troops and supplies to Lorraine far beyond the borders of the country in the face of an imminent attack by the Union army on their homeland, and it was already possible to see their overall strategic thinking.

Soon, a higher level of information from the Norman eyeliner indicated that two heavyweight commanders had come to Lorraine to personally mobilize and deploy the army, and one of these two high-ranking officers was a marshal-level existence.

Weiss guessed Sedrinz almost instantly, so this man was from the northern aristocracy of the Norman Empire, and it was the eastern Norman region that was now threatened by the Allied forces. In peacetime, although Sedlinz was stationed in the east, it was not his real sphere of influence. Even if the east is saved, it will not change the map of the power class.

Today's Lorraine is an enclave on the strategic map of the Norman Empire, and if an earth-shattering counterattack can be fought here, it will be an immortal feat for Sedrinz, and if this area is lost, it will only lose the last occupied area outside the mainland. With the overall war situation getting worse, the loss of Lorraine would not have caused much trouble for his military career. It is not difficult to make a choice.

In response to Weiss's long secret telegram, the federal military top brass quickly responded, asking the Lorraine guerrillas and resistance groups in various places to pay close attention to the enemy's movements and transmit the information back to the military in a timely manner. Today, Lorraine is the last isolated island in the federal capital, and the surrounding states of Neuchâtel, Clevaux, Anru, and Mabourden have been completely recovered. Despite the natural differences in the geographical topography of Lorraine from the surrounding federal states, the Normans were limited in force and could not have placed a complete cordon on the border with the outside world. Lorraine's guerrilla forces had already made contact with their own forces by land, and their strength and equipment had rapidly improved, and they had regained the strength to wrestle with the occupying forces.

During this time, Weiss met some old faces, but those he knew best did not show up in Lorraine. Octavier, for example, is said to have followed the first troops to the Norman front, and would once again set foot in Norman territory, using her research on the geography and history of the Norman Empire during the last war to facilitate the planning of the Union army. Another example is Nikolai, who did not have many opportunities to go to the front line to kill the enemy in this war, especially after the air force unit was multiplied, and played more of the role of flight instructor and combat staff officer, providing help to the commander of the air force unit within her ability, and encouraging young pilots to join the battlefield and fight bravely to kill the enemy. Under her influence and appeal, the Federal Air Force formed the first women's flying team. These heroines have now been transferred to the Friesian front with the main force, and have entered the airspace of Lorraine several times. They all fulfilled their promise to give the Normans a taste of perfidy.

Only in the temporarily forgotten land of Lorraine, Weiss and his companions are still resisting in the purest form.

In the night sky, the bright moonlight shone on the floating clouds, and the dark sky dome was like a clean flannel, setting off these clouds with strange colors. Above the snow-covered Monamolin Mountains, dark-painted flying ships drifted quietly like cigar-shaped clouds. If you don't get closer, you won't be able to hear the roar of the machinery they make.

These flying ships are neither as large as the capital ships of the last war, nor as stocky as the usual transport ships, but pursue extreme maneuverability with extraordinarily slender lines. These multi-purpose light flying ships were mass-produced flying ships made by the Normans by using the star stone resources and industrial equipment mined in large quantities after the alliance between Wessex and the Norman Empire in the north. They are highly maneuverable like previous cruisers and corvettes, but their armament is not as complex as in the past - there are usually only three types of guns, namely medium-caliber main guns, small-caliber rapid-fire guns, and close-in machine guns. What's even more amazing is that they can usually carry four to six special fighters.

These fighters are powered by artificial starstones and internal combustion engines, covered in sturdy armor, and have extremely powerful impact. They are very fast in a straight line and have a lot of endurance, they can stay on the battlefield for several hours and can easily return to the mothership or airfield, but they are not very maneuverable, and they are suitable for one-hit attacks.

In the early days of the war, especially during combat operations on the Eastern Front, these multi-purpose flying ships made a big splash, causing the Union army to suffer a lot. However, as the battle progressed, the Union forces found an effective response, which was to use attack aircraft with medium-sized aerial bombs and carry them into short-range dives or horizontal bombing. Although the hit rate of this type of attack is only a few percent, after the Federal Air Force has become more powerful, this attrition is not a problem.

Later in the war, the Norman air force became more and more overwhelmed by the overwhelming fleet of Federal Air Force. In many cases, they used their speed advantage to fight guerrilla warfare against the Federal Air Force during the day, and at night they were difficult to cope with because of their early warning time and weakened maneuverability.

The Norman ships quickly lost altitude after flying over the Monamolin Mountains, hiding their swarthy bodies in the mountains. Every night, the long-range reconnaissance planes of the Federation army always fly over Lorraine from time to time to patrol this territory that will return to the hands of the Federation sooner or later, but this night, the pilots who went deep into the hinterland of Lorraine to carry out night reconnaissance did not notice the abnormality, but Weiss, who was in a secret camp in the west of Lorraine, because he had a hunch that the Normans would carry out a large-scale assembly and movement in the near future, and went to the observation post every two or three hours to patrol it, and just caught the whereabouts of the enemy ships. It is also known that the Norman counterattack is in full swing preparations.

During the day, the Norman flying ships were hidden, with only regular anti-aircraft combat ships and combat aircraft operating around to cover their transports between the Norman mainland and Lorraine. After the tide of war was reversed, Federal Air Force attack planes and bombers often burst into the skies over Lorraine during the day, attacking lone or poorly protected Norman ships. Upon learning of the Normans' build-up in Lorraine, the Union unceremoniously mobilized its air forces to bomb Norman military targets in Lorraine.

Although this bombing was a surprise attack, it was more tactical than strategic. At this time, looking down from above, many parts of Lorraine were filled with wolf smoke, and at first glance it seemed that the Norman assembly had been crushed, but this was not the case. Judging from the feedback from the resistance groups everywhere, there are very few Norman ships that have actually been blown up on the ground, and in the air raids over the past period of time, only a dozen Norman ships in flight have been destroyed and damaged.

Extrapolating the scale of a major battle, the Normans would have had to assemble hundreds of ships and a large number of combat aircraft to be able to deal with the air power of the Union army. Therefore, Weiss instructed the resistance groups in various localities to continue to do a good job of surveillance, and sent experienced reconnaissance personnel from the guerrillas to various places to conduct reconnaissance. Both were the most conventional and had some success, but they were usually slow to produce enough intelligence to provide the Confederate army before the Normans could begin their operations. In this situation, Weiss's special vision is undoubtedly the best human radar. Considering that it is very easy to be shot down by enemy ground artillery fire by adopting the method of low-altitude reconnaissance, the method of adopting high-altitude reconnaissance requires the Federation troops in the rear to come to Lorraine for reconnaissance -- either Weiss returns to the rear and takes the planes or flying ships of the Federation Army to Lorraine for reconnaissance, or the aviation forces of the Federation Army directly go to the agreed place to pick up people and then directly carry out reconnaissance.

Weiss offered to ask the Federation Army, and as he expected, the Federation Army soon reported back that they would send a special flying ship to come. While working with Nikolai and Star Group technicians, Weiss learned that they were working with the military on an ultra-light military vessel that could be used for special missions. The tonnage of this flying ship is comparable to that of a heavy bomber, and the overpressure electric motor used to provide energy for the Star Source Stone and the supercharged engine to provide propulsion, with its small and agile body and high-speed maneuverability, it can play a role that conventional ships and military aircraft cannot play.

When the appointed time came, Weiss and his partisans waited at the appointed place, but the flying ship assigned to arrive did not arrive on time. It wasn't until the next day that they learned from a secret telegram from the Federation that the flying ship had been intercepted by the Normans shortly after its departure. The Normans may have done it by accident, but at worst, it is possible that they deciphered the Confederate codes—which is not surprising during the war.

Thankfully, Weiss had a wealth of experience in guerrilla warfare, and they left a pre-made contact map to the military, with numerical codes marking the different areas. Each time you agree on a place to operate, you only need to provide the corresponding code to the Union Army. Even if the Normans intercepted the telegram, they did not know the exact location of the code, and had to have both a coded telegram and a special map to gain insight into the truth.