Since the arrival of the partisan advance party in the small town of Ola, the Norman troops stationed in Slien have been "cowering" within that heavily fortified system, and the area beyond the range of their artillery seems to have been left entirely to the Lorrainians to exercise their right of self-government, with only occasional air patrols and light ships.

For Weiss's warriors, it was a great pleasure to have no worries about food and clothing, but in everyone's heart, the temporary recuperation was to accumulate more strength, and at the right time it erupted like a volcano, engulfing the enemy with blazing magma! In contrast, the officers were busy every day, knowing that an important and difficult battle was ahead, and that the better they were prepared, the better the hope of victory, and the fewer casualties their troops would suffer.

In the preparation and waiting day after day, the underground intelligence channels continued to send news from Slane: the royal family guard officers arrived in Slane and conducted a detailed inspection, and the Norman troops corrected all kinds of defects and loopholes that did not meet the requirements overnight; Commando regiments from the 1st Marine Division arrived at Slane, and they were scattered in companies to various artillery forts under the name "Assault Preparation"; Actual combat drills were carried out in various artillery forts and air defense positions, and in addition to conventional artillery shells, many empty shells were also prepared on the gun emplacements. According to the intelligence officers, judging from the current indications, it is likely that the people who visited Slane this time were the number one in the Norman Empire, the number of people below the Emperor Hohenstaufen IV, namely: Crown Prince Joseph, Prince Louis, Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Armed Forces, and Prince Charles, Commander of the Imperial Fleet......

Weiss knew very little about the high-level structure and distribution of power in the Norman Empire, and he didn't expect the unpopular Captain João to teach them a good lesson this time. The Norman Empire was a typical absolute monarchy, with the emperor as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, firmly controlling the military and political power of the country, and the royal family and the great aristocratic families occupied the top of the power pyramid. For hundreds of years, there were only two marshals of commoner origin, and the rest were hereditary nobles. Now this Norman army, the real decision-making power is in the hands of the General Headquarters of the Imperial Armed Forces led by Emperor Hohenstaufen IV, the adjustment of the defense area, the change of the establishment and the important personnel appointments and dismissals are all ordered by this command, and the General Staff of the Imperial Armed Forces is only responsible for formulating operational strategies and issuing operational orders to the troops within the framework of the established combat plan, that is to say, Prince Louis, the younger brother of Hohenstaufen IV and Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Armed Forces, seems to be the second person in the army, In fact, he did not have real military power, and his control over the army was far less than that of the commander of the Home Army, the commander of the Northern Front, the commander of the Southern Front, and the commander of the fleet, all of which were currently held by members of the imperial family. However, the emperor was obviously not worried that the princes and princes would lead a unit for a long time, and these important posts were often transferred from one place to another, but the corps commander and below, especially the division and regimental commanders, could stay in one position for ten years or more before being promoted or transferred to the reserve.

The Norman soldier who was rebelled against was stationed in Fort. 9, where there were two twin turret heavy guns, which were rotated in all directions during training, and their firepower could theoretically cover most of the area of Slane, which was an ideal target for surprise + artillery attacks. Therefore, in view of the facilities and defense of the No. 9 artillery fort, the officers of the guerrilla advance unit drew up a detailed road map for the attack and organized the troops to conduct two offensive and defensive drills. During the exercise, elite death squads carefully selected from among the volunteers played in their true colors, and the rest of the troops pretended to be Norman troops. Although the two offensive and defensive drills ended with the death squads all killed, through these two drills, which were as close to actual combat as possible, the planners and participants of the operation had a better understanding of the various challenges they might encounter.

The time in the small town of Ola passed quietly in a tense and orderly atmosphere, and at the front, the officers and men of the two armies fought fiercely, but still did not see superiority, and the headquarters of the 3rd Army Corps of the Federal Army constantly urged the guerrilla advance team to carry out attacks and sabotage operations behind enemy lines. In order to avoid leaking the news by expanding his knowledge, Weiss reported in a vague manner to the guerrilla operations command and the command of the 3rd Army Corps on the planning of the combat operation, but the commanders of these two command organs showed little interest in the "big operation" planned by the guerrilla advance force, let alone coordinate the flight unit to "temporarily station" the fighters and pilots in enemy-occupied areas. Because he did not have the conditions to present the key points to the two commanders, Weiss had to take the ground route with one mind. However, with the occurrence of an unexpected incident, the air route that was almost broken suddenly took a turn for the better: the Federal Army Flying Forces launched several rounds of heavy bombing of military targets in Lorraine, many planes were shot down by Norman fighters and ground anti-aircraft fire, and some of the escaped pilots were rescued by the Resistance and saved from being captured by the enemy. They also offered to stay and help the partisan advance team beat the Normans.

There are people who fly planes, and the next thing is the problem of airplanes. During his time as a guerrilla fighter in Lorraine, Weiss led his team to survey a number of "guerrilla airfields", digging secret warehouses, stockpiling fuel and spare parts, and dismantling some combat aircraft to disperse and hide when the situation was unfavorable. Of course, it is not realistic to assemble a fighter plane with parts and a half at this time, this time it is mainly from the enemy: with the deepening of the war, the rapid development of aviation technology, the Normans love the domineering and mighty of flying warships, but also have to face up to the value and role of combat aircraft, they not only developed a special fighter using artificial star source stones, but also developed and equipped with an ordinary fighter similar to the federal army, purely using the principle of aerodynamics. If you can raid the enemy's field airfield and capture a few combat aircraft, even if it is not so handy, you have a chance to play the role of a dagger through the chest.

So, Weiss led everyone to plan overnight, readjusting the battle plan to "walking on two legs", and the day after the new plan was finalized, a news came from Slien that made their hearts beat faster: this visit to Slien was likely to be the future Norman Emperor, Crown Prince Joseph, and the arrival time would be in the next two days. Everyone then analyzed that if they could take the opportunity of the raid on Slane to kill this person and plunge the Norman Empire into a civil strife of power struggle, it would undoubtedly make the final chapter of the war come earlier, and even if this could not be done, it would make the enemy army leaders irrational under the wrath, and the confidence of the officers and soldiers at the bottom would be shaken, and their defeat would be accelerated.

The most difficult part of this raid on Slane was to get the timing right. In order to kill two birds with one stone, it is necessary to seize the time when the target is about to arrive in Slien or has just arrived, and the battle process must be short, so as not to attract the enemy's detection too early, so as not to quickly shift the target. Under normal circumstances, it would be unrealistic to pin hopes on an ordinary, newly surrendered enemy soldier, and the officers were deeply suspicious of this, and although Weiss was not 100% sure, it was likely that this was a secret move by Ballas to "help" the guerrilla advance party to accomplish what both sides wanted to achieve.

Weiss watched out for his opponent as he drew his bow and wound it. The real big man is coming, and the Slane garrison has raised the alert level to the highest level, causing the inside line to be unable to get the news out in time. The guerrilla advance team stationed in the small town of Aura began to move, all the way to the northeast with the stars and the moon, the target was an enemy field airfield in the middle of Lorraine, all the way to Slane, scattered the woods and abandoned houses lurking outside the enemy cordon, quietly built positions, and prepared to meet the actions of the death squads, while Weiss personally led the 100-man death squads to the "Shengmen" of the enemy defense system, waiting for the time to come.

The long-awaited moment finally arrived in the early morning of this day. A "gray and white" Norman fleet appeared over Lorraine, and from a distance it looked as if the north wind had brought a flock of clouds. In Weiss's special vision, the combat effectiveness of these ships is nothing special, the strongest is a quasi-capital ship, which is faster and more firepowerful but less protective than the assault ship of Baras, which seems to be more suitable for the role of "royal carriage".

The time it took for the fleet to fly to Slane was about half an hour. During this special period of time, although Slane's garrison troops were on full alert, the officers and soldiers were looking forward to the arrival of the big man, and their attention was actually seriously distracted. Seizing this, Weiss led the death squad into action: they took several elite soldiers as the lead, climbed through the enemy's ditches and barbed wire, rehearsed many times to capture the outposts in the blind spot of other Norman troops, stunned the sentries with anesthetics, pulled out their uniforms and changed them, pretended to be changing guards, and took down the two outposts in the depth in turn in a soft raid, opening the passage to the No. 9 gun fort.

It took no more than a quarter of an hour.

Later, Weiss, disguised as an enemy officer, swaggered with three soldiers to the cordon of Fort. 9 to find the Norman soldier who had been rebelled. The Norman soldiers on duty here did not cooperate as expected, but inquired about Weiss's identity and intentions, and then returned to the sentry to call their superiors for instructions - if they carefully investigated, this would naturally be that there was no such person and no such thing. Fortunately, the big man's fleet had already arrived at Slane, and the officers had no intention of verifying such a trivial matter, so they directly asked the soldier to come out and talk to the visitor.

After a while, the Norman soldier came to the guard post of the cordon empty-handed, and with this look and a pair of eyes, he knew the identity and intention of the other party, and Weiss also had a thorough judgment of the true identity of this person: the red frame means that he is not sincerely throwing himself into the Federation, but a pawn of the Barras gang! In addition, this man's combat stats are quite high, even surpassing those of ordinary Special Forces soldiers, indicating that he has undergone rigorous training and is by no means such an ordinary character as he seems on the surface!

The Norman "Lead-in-the-Road" who dressed as a pig and ate a tiger, who looked to be in his early twenties, chatted with Weiss out of tune, and then went to the sentry to greet the soldier on duty, saying that he was going to leave for a while. The soldier on duty was an older veteran, and he did not agree, but said that he would ask his superiors for instructions. Taking advantage of the fact that the other party turned to the phone, the "leading party" twisted the opponent's neck with agility and precision, and dragged another soldier outside the sentry post in with his backhand to stun him, and the problem was solved in three or two clicks, and there was no abnormal sound. Although another obstacle was cleared, Weiss was terrified: the pit dug by Barras still jumped in after going around and around, and he and the 100-man death squad were cut off here, in exchange for the infighting of the Norman Empire's power class, the fundamentals were not lost, but don't take the more than 2,000 good men and horses of the guerrilla advance team!