400 boxes of canned cured meat, 6,000 bags of ruby flour, when intelligence agents and the Resistance sent the first shipment back to the guerrilla advance team's secret camp north of Lorraine, and after sampling the food, it was found to be of no quality or poisoning, Weiss's heart finally fell to the ground.

The reason why half of it is still hanging in the air is because the wounds left by the last battle of the Lorraine guerrillas are still faintly painful - the enemy is so cunning that he will be indifferent to the disappearance of such a large amount of supplies? Thinking about this near-perfect deal from a cautious point of view, Weiss always felt that it might be a "shadow" deliberately planted by the enemy, in order to gradually grasp the whereabouts of the guerrilla advance force through such a deal. However, people are iron and steel, and without food supplies, no matter how powerful a soldier is, he can't fight, and he can only take one step at a time.

"Before I came, Chief Clumber Haysen, Colonel Brooks asked me to convey my respect to you on his behalf." The Union intelligence officer, a subordinate of Brooks, who was escorting the cargo, brought him a message.

"Did you see him before you came?" Weiss asked casually.

The other party replied without hesitation: "Yes, sir, the colonel personally checked this transaction and tried to ensure that there were no problems in every link." ”

Weiss smiled and did not comment.

The intelligence officer added: "The colonel said that the materials obtained from this transaction are only enough for our troops to last for two weeks, and he has already contacted his superiors and hopes that the aviation unit will re-establish the air transport line within two weeks anyway. If, within two weeks, the situation does not improve, we may want to consider trading again. ”

Although Weiss still had gold hidden in two former secret camps in Weiss's memory, there were not many of them, and he was not sure if they were still there, so he tentatively said, "But we will have a hard time raising more gold." Can you use intelligence channels, bring it from the rear, or raise it in some other way? ”

"We're trying to figure out how to solve this problem in time." At this point, the intelligence officer paused slightly, then consciously lowered his voice: "There is a Paglieur Abbey on the southern outskirts of Wallens, and Colonel Brooks will stay there for a while. He said that if you are going to be in the area in the near future, you can meet him there. ”

What a strange invitation, Weiss thought to himself. He didn't say good or bad, just replied that he knew about it.

Seeing off Brooks' intelligence officer, Weiss thought alone for a long time. The food from this trade could last the 3,000 men of the guerrilla advance force for three weeks if the minimum ration was to be controlled, but the minimum ration meant that normal training activities were difficult to carry out, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was gradually eroded. During the period of guerrilla warfare in Lorraine, due to the large number of fighters and auxiliary personnel, Weiss often faced the dilemma of food shortages, and on several occasions, in order to survive the difficulties, he had to adopt the minimum rationing strategy in the camp. Today, the war situation is different from what it used to be, and there is no need for the guerrilla advance units to sit back and wait.

The new secret camp is located in the middle of the mountains and forests northwest of Lorraine, hundreds of miles from any town. On all odds, Wallens, the first industrial town north of Lorraine, was the most likely place for the guerrilla advance forces to find a way out. Brooks was sitting in the monastery just outside Wallens, and seemed to be planning something, or rather, calculating something?

A week later, Weiss arrived outside Wallens, with a disguised team. He was no stranger to the town. At a time when the guerrilla movement in Lorraine was in its infancy, the Resistance had planned a raid on Wallens in order to prevent the Norman army from continuing to use the industrial facilities. To this end, Weiss sent people to reconnoiter the enemy situation in detail, and personally analyzed and calculated various feasible plans, and the important landmarks inside and outside the city, which he still has a deep impression on. Later, they chose the mountain city of Slane to do a big job, and became famous in a fight. The plan to raid Wallens was sealed in the years for various subjective and objective reasons.

Today, Wallens is still the most important industrial center in the Lorraine region, with thermal power generation, metal smelting, chemical manufacturing, and food processing as the main industries. Whether Wallen's industry can operate normally is directly related to whether the supply of munitions to the Norman garrison can be maintained, and once it fails, the Normans will have to transfer all kinds of war materials from the rear, and it will be a terrible burden for the Normans in terms of production capacity and volume. As a result, the Norman army stationed a large number of troops in Wallens, and built an air defense system that was not inferior to that of Slien, and guarded against all forms of attack by the federal army. However, due to certain considerations, the Union Flying Force had never launched a large-scale air raid on Wallens, and at this time, Wallens, who appeared in Weiss's vision, was full of chimneys and orderly, unlike Slane and Somsonas, who had already been plowed several times by the ruthless flames of war, and there were broken walls everywhere, and his popularity had also declined sharply.

"According to what we know, the power plant here is firmly controlled by the Norman army, and even the main managers are all brought in by the Norman army from the country, and they are all old workers, so they don't want to put an eye on it. There were five metallurgical factories, two large and three small, which were originally in the hands of different business owners, and now, except for the largest one, which is still Grumman's industry, the other four have been transferred to the Normans at very low prices, and the workers are still the old workers, basically unchanged. There were six chemical factories, all but the largest one controlled by Grumman, and the other five were controlled by the Normans and their agents. Eventually, there were nearly twenty food processing factories of various kinds, most of which were still owned by the original owners, but the production management of these factories was strictly controlled by the Normans. ”

After patiently listening to the introduction of an old subordinate, Weiss expressed his biggest doubt: why could Grumman's estate still be preserved in enemy-occupied territory?

When the Lorraine guerrillas were first formed, their members were mainly reservists recruited by the Union Army in Somsonas, and after making a name for themselves, various resistance groups came to join them, and by the time of the final battle, the personnel had covered most of Lorraine. The old subordinate with whom Weiss spoke was from northern Lorraine, and although he was not born and raised in Wallens, he had worked as an apprentice in the factory there and had a relatively good understanding of the city's environment. If you want to get rid of the dependence on the intelligence department and "walk on two legs", Weiss can trust and rely on these old subordinates.

The fighter, who had returned to the ranks of guerrilla warfare, shrugged his shoulders: "Anyway, it's the people of the Grumman group, it's not very clear. ”

Weiss frowned. A considerable part of the weapons and equipment of the guerrilla advance team came from the "special supply" of the Grumman group, and even if the bigwigs did not know the overall plan of the advance team, they could find out when the advance team would set off and when it would be replenished through contacts in the field of arms supply. If the Grumman group still cooperated with the Normans, then it is likely that the details and even the movements of the guerrilla advance force have been firmly grasped by the Normans.

On this card, play with the opponent, what are the chances of winning? It's a lost one!

Seeing that Weiss was very concerned about this, his old subordinate said with some hesitation: "Speaking of which, I have a friend who was employed by Grumman before the war, and when we received trade supplies outside Wallens' last week, I saw him in the ranks of the other party, but he probably didn't see me. Because of this, I think Grumman does still control part of the factory. ”

In this way, the food is indeed related to the Grumman Group. Thinking of this, Weiss secretly said that it was not good. Those anti-bone boys, shouldn't they take the Normans to attack the secret base! If that were the case, the game would have reached a dead end in one fell swoop.

Weiss was eager to return to the secret base immediately, but he quickly calmed down. Based on the information in front of him, it is not enough to make the judgment that the Grumman Group secretly collaborated with the enemy, after all, before the war, Grumman had hundreds of factories and tens of thousands of employees, and there were many factions within the Grumman family that controlled the upper resources, each with its own interests. Perhaps, Grumman, who stayed in Lorraine, and Grumman, who moved to the rear of the Federation, are already two groups of people who have no connection with each other and are opposed to each other...... If this speculation is true, then it can also be explained by what happened before: the request for gold spot trading is probably the Grumman group planning a way out after the defeat of the Norman army!

In the woods on the outskirts of Wallens, Weiss led his squad for two days to get a closer look at how the town was running and how the Norman army was moving. Some of the raw materials needed by the factories such as coal, ore, and food were transported from the surrounding mines by freight rails, and some were transported by road by trucks, but the vast majority of the vehicles out of the city were empty, and the metallurgical products, chemical products, and food produced from the factories were transported by Norman transport ships that flew regularly, and the air cargo yard was located on the shore of the lake in the north of the city, and the thermal power plants and metallurgical factories were also distributed around the lake.

Dispersed imports and concentrated exports meant that it was difficult for guerrilla advance teams to find opportunities to ambush transport vehicles outside the city and capture supplies – this was just the usual logic. From the observation of the field, the Norman transport ships basically operated alone, which meant that the Union Flying Force could intercept the enemy transport ships with relative ease as long as they penetrated deep into enemy territory. As for whether the guerrilla advance force can successfully seize the supplies on board, it depends on the cooperation of the open space and the time of the Norman warship.

As long as there is such an opportunity, a variety of feasible combat strategies can be derived, and the strategy to break the game has been initially formed in Weiss's mind, and before the final decision, he decides to deal with old acquaintances he has not met for a long time. For the sake of prudence, the accompanying reconnaissance detachment of more than 20 people and horses all dispersed to reconnoiter and guard the surroundings of the monastery in advance, and in addition, before stepping into the monastery, Weiss found a high point with a wide field of vision, conducted a comprehensive technical reconnaissance, and determined that there were no hostile personnel inside and outside the monastery, so he took advantage of the dark night and high wind to stride in.