The vigorous Battle of Slane ended with the Federal Guerrilla Advance Team successfully priing open the gate and the flying troops rushing in to smash the enemy's mess. After that, Weiss took the more than 1,400 surviving officers and soldiers into the mountains and forests, and rested for two full weeks in a state of "not asking about the world."

The heavy price of a thousand dead and missing is still better than Weiss's worst-case scenario. After returning to the secret camp, the Federation Army dispatched high-speed transport ships to transport all the seriously wounded through the "night corridor" and transported a large number of medical supplies, so that the lightly wounded of the advance team could complete treatment and recuperation on the spot.

The success of the Battle of Slane emboldened General Punk to send more fighters to enemy-occupied territory. Weiss's guerrilla advance force was quickly replenished by the Forces nouvelles, with a combat strength of more than 3,000, which was already equivalent to a reinforced infantry regiment. In addition, the guerrilla warfare command also sent a lieutenant colonel staff officer who graduated from the Dalefig Higher Staff College to "play as an assistant" to Weiss. This alumnus graduated ten years earlier than Weiss and is a true senior. Weiss served as the commander of the guerrilla advance team with the rank of guerrilla colonel, and was nominally the senior's superior, but after all, the guerrilla colonel was a temporary military rank in wartime, and if he returned to his position, he was only an army captain and should be under the command of this senior.

When the senior first arrived, he did not show any suspicion of Weiss's command, nor did he intervene in Weiss's command under the instructions or instructions of the guerrilla warfare command, but studied and studied guerrilla warfare here like a serious beginner.

As the team grows, so does the tactical options. During the two weeks when the troops were concentrated and resting, Weiss made full use of Lorraine's intelligence resources and closely watched the Normans' troop movements, so as to judge the enemy's combat intentions, find the enemy's weaknesses, and have the opportunity to sabotage, but not the opportunity to look coldly. Compared with Weiss's calmness, the Normans had a hard time during this time. The Battle of Slane dealt a heavy blow to their military deployment in Lorraine, and the garrison of the Alert Fleet had to be transferred from Lorraine to Neuchâtel in the north. Instead of launching an all-out offensive immediately, the Union forces launched a strategic bombardment of enemy military forces in Lorraine with flying units. As long as the weather is nice, Union warplanes will fly to Lorraine in droves, attacking enemy fortifications, barracks, vehicles, ships, and even scattered soldiers, causing the Norman garrison here to panic all day long, and continue to weaken their morale and combat capabilities.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and as soon as the recuperation period was over, and before the guerrilla advance party could regain its strength and strike again, Weiss discovered from various sources that the Norman army was carrying out targeted movements, and judged that they had an attempt to settle south of Lorraine again and focus on encircling and suppressing the guerrilla advance force, and this arrangement seemed to be promoted by his brother who was related by blood. Slane's heavy defeat is said to have nothing to do directly with the military governor of Lorraine, after all, the military command of the garrison and the aviation base of Slien is in the hands of other Norman generals, but there is a very strong enemy ground force in the Lorraine area, and it is under the brand of "guerrilla", which is related to the military governor of Lorraine, who is responsible for maintaining law and order and countering guerrillas. Judging from the available information, the unborn genius of the Clumber-Haysen family still sits in that position, and one can guess for itself whether he has been punished in other ways, or whether he feels like a pins and needles.

Whether this matter has anything to do with him or not, let's not investigate it for the time being. Thinking from another perspective, if Weiss sits in the position of the enemy commander, in the case of losing the initiative in the frontal battlefield, he will also try to draw troops to solve this sharp little dagger against the back waist. So, before the Norman encirclement was formed, Weiss led his troops in a resolute and rapid strategic shift: all the camps set out, taking away what could be taken and burying what could not be taken, all over the mountains and mountains, as far away as possible from the enemy's fixed burning cards and patrol areas. Halfway through, they encountered heavy rain for several days, and if they had marched normally, they would have rested on the spot in such bad weather, but Weiss did the opposite, insisting on hurrying in the rain. Although the 3,000-strong team suffered some non-combat attrition and lost some equipment and baggage along the way, it arrived in the mountains northwest of Lorraine at the planned time.

The new camp of the guerrilla advance team was a secret camp converted by Lorraine guerrillas from abandoned mines, where Weiss led his troops in a fierce battle against the Norman army. After the last battle, although the Lorraine guerrilla fighters survived, they no longer fought with anger, and the camps that once carried the songs and sighs of the guerrilla fighters were gradually forgotten by the warring sides with time.

After the strategic shift was completed, in order to avoid the Normans from following the trace, the radio of the partisan advance party remained silent. Although the communication with the guerrilla warfare command of the Federal Army is transmitted by intelligence personnel through covert channels, although the efficiency is low, even if there is a problem in a certain link, it is not easy for the enemy to trace the source and dig out the location of the guerrilla advance team.

On the fifth day of arrival at the new camp, there was good news from intelligence sources that the Federation Army would be resupplying by air two nights later, at least once a week thereafter, with a frequency sufficient to meet the regular deployment and general intensity of combat needs of this team. However, on that day, Weiss and his soldiers waited all night without waiting for the high-speed transport ship of the Union Army, and after another three days, they learned a bad news from the intelligence officers: on the day of the appointment, the Federation Army did dispatch a high-speed transport ship to enter the north of Lorraine according to the pre-reconnaissance route, but on the way accidentally encountered a Norman warship, and then was pursued by the enemy's new aircraft, and finally returned to the area controlled by the Union Army with injuries. Although there is no evidence that the Normans intercepted intelligence in advance and consciously carried out night interceptions, in order to ensure the two-way security of high-speed transport ships and guerrilla advance units, this mode of night transport, which had been smooth until the strategic shift, could only be suspended for a while.

When the guerrilla advance detachment carried out the strategic transfer, almost all the equipment and supplies were carried on the shoulders of men, and excluding the consumption on the way, the food supply was only enough to last for half a month, and this had already passed for 10 days. However, Weiss was not overwhelmed by the bad news. Although Lorraine is an enemy-occupied area, the vast majority of Lorraine people have remained faithful to freedom for more than a year, and even if the rear cannot deliver supplies for a while, Weiss and his guerrilla advance team will not be helpless. After the first battle of Slyen, the guerrilla advance team became famous, and most of the resistance organizations in various places heard the news of the return of the former guerrilla heroes to Lorraine, and some decided to wait and see, and some expressed their willingness to cooperate and work together through intelligence organizations. After a trade-off, Weiss reconnected with several credible resistance groups and some of his old subordinates, and used them to raise the various supplies he needed now.

As a pioneer of the guerrilla movement in Lorraine, Weiss's appeal was not "devalued" by some people's doubts and concerns, and people from all walks of life responded one after another. The problem of ammunition was quickly solved: they took out hundreds of thousands of standard rifle rounds and thousands of spinach rounds from two secret warehouses that the Normans had not discovered, and with these they were enough to fight the Norman army hard. Lorraine, despite its vast territory, has a cold climate that is not suitable for large-scale crop cultivation, and livestock farming is barely self-sufficient. In order to suppress the resistance, the Normans had long implemented a quota in Lorraine, and most of the inhabitants had difficulty filling their stomachs, so how could they save food to support the guerrillas? It is for this reason that, after the last battle of the Lorraine guerrillas, the resistance forces that went underground were constrained by severe shortages of food and medicine, and many had to move to federate-controlled areas. Fortunately, several of Weiss's old subordinates inherited his "flexible and eclectic" guerrilla style, and shifted the target from the Norman soldiers to those traitors who worked for the Normans, exhorting, coercing, attacking, and kidnapping, and got a lot of good things from them, which added up a lot and helped some, and their practices gave Weiss new inspiration: those Lorraine who worked for the Normans were some for power, some for wealth, and some were purely coerced by the enemy. Among them, you can find some suitable people, whether in the form of transactions or in the form of information, in order to obtain more food supplies.

Weiss's idea was not only supported by his old subordinates, but also received a positive response from the intelligence services. A few days later, they brought back a special offer to trade: someone was willing to offer a batch of canned grain and meat at five times the market price, and only accept spot gold.

In the initial transaction plan proposed by the intelligence department, the other party said that it could be shipped at one time, but the corresponding gold spot, the emergency reserve of the intelligence department was only enough for a quarter, and the guerrilla advance team and the underground resistance organization could only make up this number combined, and it was still half short of the target. If there is enough time, it will certainly not be a problem to raise enough gold, but the current situation is exceptional, and if it drags on for another three or four days, the fighters of the guerrilla advance force will run out of food.

Weiss pondered for a long time, and suddenly remembered one thing: before the Normans occupied Somsonas, the Clumber-Heyssen family dispersed and transferred various materials such as machinery and equipment, raw materials for production, and stocks of ordnance and ammunition, and gold and cash needed to keep the factory running. In the early days of guerrilla warfare, they also traded with merchants and residents from time to time to buy various supplies needed by the guerrillas, but later the Normans focused on this clue, which led to the discovery and destruction of many secret camps of the Lorraine guerrilla fighters, and such transactions were no longer carried out.

In the past, Weiss only grasped the direction of capital reserves and material transactions, and did not personally participate in them, so the concept of gold was not so intuitive, in fact, in the past, every time he went to a secret camp, he would hide important information and items, and if he was too late to take them away when he was attacked by the enemy, he would let them hide in place and wait until he had the opportunity to return and then take them out. Following the direction of memory, Weiss led the soldiers to search in this camp, spent half a day's effort, and finally dug out the "treasure chest" from the crack at the bend of a mine road, opened a measure, although it was still not enough, but it was almost the same, the first transaction, it must mean a discount, right?