No one is perfect, and no matter how strong a fortress is, it has weaknesses. The brutal grind of war forced Weiss to learn to use jerky philosophical thinking to look at and analyze difficult problems, and then find a way to solve them. Today's Slyen, with its defenses and security system, feels more like it used to be, but instead of turning it into an airtight barracks, the Normans have retained thousands of inhabitants. This is because tens of thousands of Norman soldiers have lived here for a long time, and a large number of handymen are needed to maintain relatively comfortable living conditions. With the presence of inhabitants in the city, all kinds of news can be transmitted whether it is true or false, false or true, light or heavy, and the regular supply of vegetables, meat, cloth and wood and other daily necessities also gives the resistance groups and even intelligence agents the opportunity to blend in......

After arriving in the small town of Ola, Weiss scattered his team in various hidden areas to rest and stand by, and asked Lieutenant Colonel Lear and a group of officers to concentrate on sorting out and analyzing various enemy information provided by the resistance group and intelligence departments, calculating various tactical data, and making an accurate battlefield sand table to analyze the corresponding tactical routes. Disguised as a woodcutter, he spent two days with the local resistance and intelligence services, scouting Slane from the perimeter.

Last time, the guerrilla advance team carried out a large-scale raid through infiltration and raid, destroying and destroying two important defensive fulcrums and many air defense positions of the enemy, guiding the Federal Army's flying units to carry out fierce bombardment, and pried open the enemy's "big tortoise shell" built in Slane by means of ground-air coordination, forcing them to move the forward base of the combat patrol ships to other places, which correspondingly reduced the pressure on the Federal Army on the front line in Lorraine. After that, the Normans did not abandon Slyen, but gradually repaired the defense and vigilance system here, and in some respects strengthened it. According to the conventional logic of wargame deduction, even if the guerrilla advance team succeeds in another raid, it can only carry out limited destruction, and more importantly, without the cover of foggy weather and the timely support of the federal army's flying troops, it is too difficult for the raiding force to retreat in its entirety!

After two days of preparation, Weiss and his team had some clues, but they never had a good idea of how to end the combat operation. At this time, the "two-faced man" in the underground resistance organization, whom he had told the intelligence department to keep an eye on when he first came, actually took the initiative to meet him. Outside the door of his residence, Weiss squinted and saw that this middle-aged man with a plain appearance was neither overtly hostile, nor did he carry a weapon, and his combat effectiveness was mediocre, so he let him in and spoke alone.

"You didn't go back to your brother's funeral." As soon as this man opened his mouth, he went straight to the "topic".

Weiss glanced at him and asked unhurriedly, "So what?" ”

"So, I'm here with you, and I'm a 'microphone' that I can only use once."

Weiss pondered for a moment what this meant by "you can only use it once", and then turned his attention back to the topic: "They asked you to bring me a message?" ”

The middle-aged man, who was not at all conspicuous in the crowd, said quietly like a robot without any emotion, "When the clouds fall in the storm, that will be your only chance to make a name for yourself...... Maybe within a week, this bizarre scene will appear. ”

"In Slane?" Weiss asked subconsciously. However, the person opposite is still a "machine face". This attitude shows that he is only responsible for conveying the sentence just now, and does not accompany the rest.

Weiss thought for a moment, "What else is there to say?" ”

The man shook his head at first, and before he did, as if curiosity had overtaken reason, he asked in a low voice, "How do you know that I have a problem?" ”

"How did you know I knew I had a problem with you?" Weiss asked rhetorically.

The man opened his mouth, gave up the explanation, gave up the question, got up and left.

Weiss watched him leave in silence. When did the enemy know that he had arrived with his troops? If it's the past two days, then their communication efficiency with the hidden line is also very high. If it had been a few days earlier, it would have meant that the enemy had anticipated the whereabouts of the guerrilla advance troops. Whichever of the two possibilities was Weiss, Weiss couldn't help but be afraid: Prince Ballas was now trying to get rid of his rivals for him, and if it weren't for that, wouldn't it be easy to send troops to encircle and annihilate this isolated guerrilla army?

What's the problem?

Weiss thought about it for a long time and sorted out a few logical possibilities, but it would be difficult to verify them for a while. After about an hour, the intelligence officer, Second Lieutenant Odlow, and another officer hurried in to report that the suspicious person they had been keeping an eye on was missing. If they had slipped away to report to the enemy, it would not only be unsafe for the guerrilla advance party to remain here, but would also result in the entire town being subjected to retaliatory punishment by the Normans.

After thinking for a moment, Weiss told them that this man had come to him before to clear up some misunderstandings, and that the reason why he left was to perform a special mission, and that he might not return here in the future, and that the matter would not be discussed for the time being. In view of the stalemate on the front line, the Federation Army desperately wanted the guerrilla advance team to respond behind the enemy's back, and the surprise attack on Slane was undoubtedly the most effective way at the moment. Therefore, he asked the resistance groups and intelligence services to verify as soon as possible the enemy's deployment and garrison in Slien, as well as the enemy's supply and transportation to and from Slien, so as to facilitate the Guerrilla Advance Force to finalize the battle plan.

As a result, at noon the next day, someone came out from Slane with the latest news, saying that the Norman garrison had not only strengthened its vigilance in the past few days, but also cleaned up and renovated various forts and positions, and asked the residents to clean the streets and hang the flags of the Norman Empire and the so-called Lorraine Autonomous Region outside the windows. Judging by all indications, there will indeed be a big man visiting this place in the near future, and the target that Prince Barras wants to get rid of with the help of the enemy must be among them. While this expedient collaboration could be of great benefit to both parties, Weiss had no intention of using the other as a gunman from the start. If he had a choice, he would rather have the end of the contact after the exchange of prisoners of war, and then meet again as an honest opponent on the battlefield.

The Federation army attacked on all fronts, Weiss led the guerrilla advance team out of the mountains, and then came to Slane, which was obviously beyond the control of the Normans, but first left the town in the mountains and forests, and then at this foothold near Slien, they all encountered the "two-faced men" who spoke for the Normans...... It was as if there was a big hand in the shadows that pushed things along the established course, and finally came to the point where the Prince of Barras wanted to see—perhaps even predicted.

Now that Slane is a close target, it would be great to be able to kill two birds with one stone, disrupting the enemy's field supply system and causing chaos in the enemy's command. Attack Slane and kill the big guys. Taking into account the strength, formation, equipment and other factors of the raiders and defenders, in order to achieve "the first rank of the enemy's general among all the troops", only two or three thousand lightly armed personnel in the guerrilla advance team is tantamount to moths to the fire, and Weiss racked his brains and finally came up with two feasible paths:

The first was to launch a low-altitude raid on Slane with Union fighters. If the fighter departs from the field airfield of the Federal Army, on the one hand, it needs to pass through the enemy's battle line, and it is difficult to be unaware, and it is even very likely to be intercepted by the enemy, thus losing the most precious suddenness, on the other hand, the medium- and long-distance flight is greatly affected by the weather, and the difficulty of grasping the timing is correspondingly increased. Based on the combat experience of the Lorraine guerrilla fighters, if the federal army dispatches a group of fighters and pilots to lurk in the enemy-occupied area of Lorraine in advance, take off on the flat grass, and complete the combat mission and directly return to the area under their own control, the technique and tactics are completely feasible, and compared with a simple ground operation, the probability of success can be greatly increased, and the potential losses will be much reduced. The problem with this strategy at hand is that time is too short to prepare for thoroughly, and the Federalist top brass may not be convinced of the reasons they put forward to devote valuable air combat forces to an unverifiable decapitation.

The second was to divide the guerrilla advance force into two groups, one for response and one for infiltration, with the main force responding to support outside, and Wei Si himself leading an elite death squad to infiltrate Slane and try by all means to seize a fortress equipped with heavy artillery, and turn the muzzle of the guns to bombard the airport. Although this kind of elite raid is said to be a life-threatening one, it is familiar to them, not to mention that there are two favorable conditions this time - the first is that Weiss's own "human radar" function will return to normal, as long as the weather and environmental factors are well used, the chance of success is not small; The second is that the intelligence department contacted and rebelled against a Norman soldier stationed in Slane some time ago in the enemy camp, this person's father is a Lorraine, and his mother is a Norman. When his body fully met the recruitment standards of the Norman army, he was not able to join the Norman army until two years after the outbreak of the war, when there was a shortage of soldiers on the front line, and in the army, he was still a heretic in the eyes of his peers, ostracized and even bullied, which made him deeply disgusted with the mechanism and atmosphere of the Norman Empire, and full of yearning for a federation founded in the spirit of freedom...... It was the first time that there was an internal response on the side of the Normans, and if this person was sincere, it would undoubtedly increase the chances of success of the operation a lot.

Of course, the overall difficulty of ground penetration is there, and it is necessary to grasp the timing well, from a tactical point of view, a low-altitude surprise attack with a number of fighters is still the first choice, but from a realistic point of view, ground penetration is likely to become the only choice in the end. Therefore, on the one hand, Weiss contacted the guerrilla operations command and asked General Punk to coordinate with the top level and send a group of fighters and pilots to the guerrilla advance team. On the other hand, he carefully planned a ground infiltration operation plan on the premise that the main force of the guerrilla advance force would be able to retreat in its entirety.