Before the outbreak of the war, Weiss's intuitive impression of the Normans was limited to the elite cadets from the Royal Norman Army Academy, who had the grace of an eagle, the agility of a leopard, and the cunning of a fox. Had it not been for the final game of wargames, Weiss and his companions would have had no confidence in defeating the Norman army.

After the outbreak of the war, for more than a month, the federal soldiers and civilians chose to watch from the sidelines, they were surprised by the sharpness of the Norman army, surprised and incomprehensible by the defeat of the Wessex fleet, but when the federal top brass made the decision to participate in the war, they still rushed to the front without hesitation, and as a result, nearly two-thirds of the troops who went out of the battle were lost, and Weiss, who had experienced the border battle, saw the strength of the Normans, and also saw the rational cowardice behind their bravery.

People have weaknesses, and the Normans are no exception!

During his time as a handyman for the Norman army, Weiss, after a brief period of hesitation and confusion, decided to make the most of his current situation and become a special undercover agent. He slept in dirty tents with the miscellaneous servants, ate fishy miscellaneous pieces, worked for more than 14 hours a day, and quietly observed the routines and words and deeds of the Norman soldiers around him while working, and took advantage of the few opportunities to contact and learn the Norman language, which was half a month in a flash. He spent five days with the Miscellaneous Army in the initial barracks, and then eight days in the new camp on the north bank of the Sambara River, when he thought he would continue to move south with the Norman army's front, the Union Army gathered heavy forces and launched a counterattack from both the Alsa Federal State and the Pablombo Federal State. In this way, Weiss followed the Norman army north, and four days later came to the military base of Hoffentis, which was occupied by the Normans.

When the federal army evacuated the Hoventys military base, it hastily blew up many warehouses and training facilities. Due to its special geographical location, the Normans chose it as a military stronghold and transformed it into a fortress with their habitual thinking. After Weiss's team arrived here with the army, they were assigned the task of building trench fortifications before they could rest for a while, and the amount of work was so large and the time was so tight that the handymen worked until late at night before they were put back to sleep, and the next morning they were urged to go to work. Not only did hundreds of miscellaneous servants work day and night, but many Norman soldiers also threw themselves into civil engineering with their sleeves rolled, but their work area was separate from that of the miscellaneous servants. In addition, the Normans also used a lot of trucks and some construction machinery, and they built reinforced concrete fortifications all over the defensive line, covered with thick sediment, and then used concealed camouflage, which could not be detected by ordinary reconnaissance methods. In addition, the Normans laid multiple lines of light and dark barbed wire and minefields in front of their positions, and the strength of the defense of the Offantis military base increased significantly with each passing day. In the midst of this, Weiss couldn't help but worry about the fate of his colleagues in the Federation Army: if he chose to attack head-on, he didn't know how many casualties he would have to pay......

On the fourth day back in Hoffentis, Weiss once again witnessed the majesty of the Federation fleet from the perspective of an enemy camp. A federal battle fleet of 4 battleships, 4 cruisers, and 15 frigates launched a heavy artillery bombardment of the Norman-built fortress of Hofantis. Undisturbed by the Norman battleships, this intermittent shelling began in the morning and ended at dusk. During this period, the Federal Army repeatedly dispatched aircraft to conduct reconnaissance and bomb drops. Despite the limited area of activity, Weiss did his best to observe, deduce, and record the Norman garrison. That night, a large number of Norman soldiers withdrew into the fortress from three directions, south, east and west, greatly increasing the number of Norman troops stationed there.

The next morning, when the Federation fleet reappeared in the sky, the Norman battleship finally appeared. They dispatched 2 battleships, 2 armored ships, 1 cruiser, and 7 corvettes - a somewhat thin lineup compared to the Federation fleet on the other side of the battlefield. It seems that under the condition that the artificial star source stone cannot provide continuous and stable floating power for the flying warship, and the production of the star source stone in Wessex is still gradually recovering, the Norman fleet's battle damage replenishment rate is far less than that of the Federation fleet, which has strong industrial strength and the advantage of home turf.

The two fleets confronted each other in the air, and the federal side, which had an absolute superiority in numbers, unceremoniously "bullied the few with the more"; they monitored the whole field with four battleships with first-class performance, and sent cruisers and corvettes to form two artillery detachments to support the ground forces in the operation. During the intervals between the bombardment of the Union army, nearly 100 Union planes appeared on the battlefield at one time, and they swept through the Norman defense area like a swarm of locusts, bombing the corners that were difficult to be covered by artillery fire. Under the repeated suppression, the large-scale defense facilities built by the Norman army were like wooden houses in a hurricane, which was cleaned, and the Norman army not only lost its troops, but also continued to weaken the fighting spirit and determination of the officers and soldiers.

The very good artillery preparation of the federal army changed Weiss's pessimistic view of the fortress attack and defense battle, and also made a great difference in his ability to learn and adapt to the war of the federal army. In fact, throughout the last war, the Ulster-Wessex coalition was able to reverse and win, although the Wessex army made important contributions, but their role was like a wing player on the field, playing a main role of assist, and fundamentally relying on the federal army to destroy the city - in the later stage of the war, the federal army has mastered the tactics of artillery fire + deep penetration, so as to break through the Norman army's defense line is tried and tested......

Seeing the turning point of the war, Weiss decided to take advantage of the battle to return to the Union army. After the battle began, the miscellaneous men not only had to repair the fortifications together with the Norman soldiers, but also took on a variety of tasks such as transporting ammunition, transferring the wounded, fighting fires, etc., in addition to not having to participate directly in the battle, they plugged leaks everywhere, and their lives were in danger at any time. In such a situation, they are subjected to very different restraints and surveillance, and it is not difficult to find a chance to regain their freedom if they have the heart to do so.

After half a month of careful observation and careful study, Weiss has been able to understand some basic Norman commands. Thanks to this, when he heard that a Norman officer had assigned a soldier to take the miscellaneous men to deliver emergency medicine to a forward position and remove the seriously wounded on a stretcher, he wasted no time in squeezing into the crowd of the attendants. The Norman soldier who led the team gathered 12 miscellaneous servants and hurriedly left with them, and in the process, the foreman of Weiss's miscellaneous team did not even notice that he was missing such a special miscellaneous servant.

Receiving a full box of medical supplies from a military warehouse deep underground, the handymen followed the leading soldier with a look of trepidation, they first walked along the communication trench through an open area, but only halfway through, they were covered by artillery fire, the shells of the federal army fell one after another, and the violent explosion frightened these miscellaneous soldiers who did not have combat qualities at all, and no matter how the leading soldiers shouted and drove away, they did not move a single step.

Fortunately, it was only a rapid burst of scattered artillery fire, and some of the shells landed nearby, and the impact of the explosion shook people dizzy, and the diffuse smoke choked people's coughs, and the visual distance was temporarily affected. Weiss wasted no time in picking up the box and hurrying forward, decisively changing routes at the first fork, and quickly traveling some distance along the winding traffic trench, completely out of the sight of the leading soldier just now.

Taking the first step towards regaining his freedom, Weiss did not stop and could not stop. He deliberately pretended to be in a hurry, moving along the traffic trench in the direction where the gunfire was most intense. His plan was to "cooperate with the outside and the outside" when the Union army attacked the front-line position, help them remove the Norman army's firepower points, and strive to establish a bridgehead for the attack, if the battle situation was not ideal, and the Union army attacking the position was repulsed by the Norman army, then he would withdraw from the fortress area with the Federation army, and provide the federal commander with the enemy deployment situation that he had detected in the past few days.

The miscellaneous men who served the Norman army wore uniform suspenders, and with the dirty outfit and the medical kit on their shoulders, Weiss was able to navigate the trenches where the Norman soldiers came and went. At that time, the ground offensive of the Union army had already sounded the horn, and the Normans had to watch out for attacks from the air on the one hand, fend off the Union army on the other, treat the wounded, and dispatch troops, who had the spare time to care about a handyman who seemed to be transporting supplies to the position?

As he walked, Weiss came to the entrance of a bunker with four holes to cover the hemispherical shooting range directly ahead. He heard the Norman cannon roaring, but the absence of a machine gun did not mean that there was no machine gun deployed, probably because the target was still out of range.

Weiss was about to climb on the trench to take a look at the situation ahead, when he suddenly heard someone shout coldly in Norman: "Hey, who are you?" ”

The questioner was a Norman officer who was carrying a wounded companion. Seeing this, Weiss hurriedly replied, "Miscellaneous servants! Pharmaceuticals! ”

With that, he also pointed to the medical box he was carrying on his shoulder, which was marked with eye-catching medical symbols.

"Give it to me!"

The Norman officer gave instructions to Weiss in a commanding tone as he sat his wounded companion in the trench. Weiss obediently put down the medicine box and deliberately crouched there. The wounded guy was also an officer, his head was bandaged, his shoulders and chest were wet with blood, his eyes were half-open, and his eyes were somewhat hollow.

The Norman officer, who had told Weiss to put down the medical box, drew his short saber, pried open the wooden box in two or three strokes, took out the hemostatic cotton and bandages from it, quickly wrapped it around his companion's head a few times, tied it up, and then treated the wounds on his body. Weiss craned his neck and saw that the guy had a finger-sized piece of shrapnel embedded in his shoulder. According to the routine of the TV series, this Norman officer should help his companion pull out the shrapnel on the spot, the tools used, the short saber is enough, of course, he has to use fire to burn it before he starts, but the actual situation is that he leaned down and bit out the shrapnel directly with his teeth, and the blood of his companion suddenly splashed half of his face, but he had no scruples, and immediately pressed the wound with a hemostatic surface, and then tied up layers of bandages.

Weiss is squatting here, but he is not here for a field first aid course. The Norman officer was so engrossed in treating his companion's wounds that his short saber was dropped on the ground, his saber was exposed at Weiss's fingertips, and the buckle on the holster was loose......

If he does it now, Weiss is ninety percent sure that he will grab the gun and complete the double kill, but he is not Rambo, let alone the Terminator, and then he only has a one percent chance of clearing the Norman soldiers in the fortress, and a one in a thousand probability of staying up to the Union army to attack, so he chooses to continue to wait and see, waiting for a more appropriate time.

Hearing the crisp and coherent sound of machine guns outside the trenches, Weiss stood up, where the trenches were dug so deep that tiptoeing was not enough to see. Seeing that the Norman officer had no intention of stopping himself, Weiss climbed the wall of the trench and poked his head out to take a quick look.

The army is overwhelmed, like a tsunami coming, magnificent! Great!