Chapter 72: The Adventure Plan Begins

Saying goodbye to Brooks, who was "in practice", Weiss did not go straight back to the secret camp, but made a detour to Tasser.

It's a town like no other, and even more than half of the people of Lorraine have never heard of it. During the year-long guerrilla war in Lorraine, Weiss had been here – but had not entered the town, but had scouted the enemy outside the town. At that time, the fortification process of Tashar was re-established under the control of the Normans, and unlike the Federalists' strategy of hiding their troops from the people, the Normans moved hundreds of native families from the area. Having lost its mass base, Weiss finally crossed it off the raid list in the face of a geographically advantaged and highly guarded Norman garrison.

Returning to Tasser, Weiss found that the town was not only Normans, but also a considerable number of unhostile and unarmed men, but it was not certain whether these were Lorraine, or if the Norman army had taken labor from elsewhere. From the outside, the town near the top of the hill has largely evolved into a military fortress, with fortresses and positions as far as the eye can see, except for a few houses. Not only that, but the Normans shoveled the tea fields outside the town and filled them up, apparently to build a 1,000-foot-long and 100-foot-wide airstrip.

Although it is shrouded in rain and fog for nearly half of the year, there will always be sunny weather, and the enemy battlefleet will only need to visit it once, or in a few hours, the fortress will be in ruins - you see, the once famous fortress city of Slien did not fall quickly under the fire of the Norman fleet.

This war has come to its third year in the course of ups and downs, from the frontal battlefield confrontation to the struggle in the occupied area, the technical and tactical patterns have undergone great changes, and the meaning of Tasser's existence as a fortress is also different from the past, which will not be repeated for the time being. What Brooks had pointed out earlier, and what Weiss had been thinking about lately, was the Normans hoarding ammunition and supplies in Tasser, and there was often a dense fog here that lasted for many days, wouldn't it be a good target for the guerrilla advance team?

The scheme is a good scheme, the scheme is a good scheme, everything is almost perfect, but the only problem is ...... How are they going to attack it?

Legend has it that more than 1,000 years ago, a group of refugees who could not bear the suffering of war moved here, and the road up the mountain is quite steep, and there is a rope bridge as a pass, easy to defend and difficult to attack. During the long era of cold weapons, Tashur was repeatedly spied on by foreigners and rogues, but was never captured. In the event of an invasion, residents cut rope bridges, block mountain roads, quench their thirst with mountain springs, and rely on livestock and tea fields to support themselves, even for months or even years. Now, the Normans have built fortifications in dangerous places, deployed firepower, dug trenches and fortifications in the town, and even dug shafts and installed turrets on the top of the mountain.

Despite the urgency of time, Weiss squatted for two days in the mountains and forests outside Tasser, observing, thinking, scrutinizing, pondering, and pondering through the details of this seemingly hopeless plan, and then began to deploy: he himself took two soldiers and rushed back to the secret camp of the guerrilla advance party as quickly as possible, and the rest were divided into two groups, one group continued to keep an eye here, reconnoitring and recording the enemy's movements, and one group went to Wallens, with the help of the underground resistance, to investigate the timing and operational details of the Normans' transportation of supplies.

Upon returning to the secret camp, Weiss spoke for hours with the senior staff officer sent by the guerrilla warfare command, his old senior, Lieutenant Colonel Perandus-Lear. At first glance, the two are actually discussing life, but they are actually studying and judging the bottom line of thinking. Weiss's idea was to carry out a surprise attack on an extremely easy and difficult enemy fortress without the help of intelligence services and the strength of the Federation Army's flying forces, and then seize the enemy's material reserves to help the guerrilla advance team tide over the number one difficulty at this stage. Extracting these two teeth, it will be much easier for the Federation to recover Lorraine!

Lieutenant Colonel Lear was neither in favor nor against Weiss's adventurous plan at first. Among the career officers of the Federal Army, he was a relatively knowledgeable student of guerrilla warfare, but when he came to Lorraine, he was sometimes surprised and sometimes surprised, and many new discoveries constantly subverted his understanding. The strategic transfer from the south to the north of Lorraine, the thousands of miles over the mountains and mountains, wearing the stars and the moon, rain or shine, this kind of unconventional march, except for the elite of the special forces, let any field unit of the federal army come is impossible to complete, and may even cause internal vicious incidents, but this guerrilla advance team has not only done it with half of the veterans with half of the recruits, but has always maintained an amazing morale...... From the day he arrived, Lieutenant Colonel Lear had been pondering how Weiss had raided the enemy's fortified area with only two or three thousand men and horses, and had won a miraculous victory in the balance of the power of the pebble against the stone.

It is precisely because of this deep admiration that although he felt that Weiss's new plan only had a success rate of one to two percent, he did not raise objections from the perspective that it was too difficult to implement and the probability of success was low, but at the same time, his existing understanding could not put forward more effective suggestions and supplements for Weiss's plan, so he could not promote it from a positive standpoint.

This is not the first time that Weiss has encountered such a neutral attitude. During the Lorraine guerrilla war, he planned and formulated most of the battle plans, and later the federal army sent staff officers and special service officers, which reduced his pressure to a certain extent, and made the combat plan more efficient in the implementation process, especially in the last few battles, the Lorraine resistance showed a higher technical and tactical level than the enemy's field troops, and the battle loss ratio at that time usually exceeded 1 to 3, sometimes reaching 1 to 5, The Normans actually suppressed the Lorraine partisan movement at a very heavy cost.

Although Weiss played an important role in this, General Punk and the guerrilla warfare command under his leadership "packaged" a lot of basic work, which was the most relaxed operational planning for him.

Two days later, the guerrilla advance detachment, which was running out of supplies, left the new secret camp. The brigade marched on Tarser under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Lear, and a small force led by Weiss rushed to Wallens.

Outside Wallens, Weiss stayed for only one day, and then led the combat detachment into the city. Knowing that the Union guerrilla advance team did not use Wallens as their main battlefield, but only used the Normans' air transit station here to make a fuss, the underground resistance group here agreed to give Weiss and his party maximum help. According to their suggestions, if Weiss and his entourage could wait here for three or five days, patiently layout and prepare, they could be more sure, but time was not waiting for anyone, and now they had to harden it......

At night, at the North of Wallens Air Transfer Yard, workers are still loading various supplies to the Norman transport ship - the most important difference between the well-equipped modern air port and this kind of air transfer yard adapted to local conditions is the loading and unloading efficiency. A medium-sized transport ship, which can carry 5000-8000TA cargo, in a modern airport, the loading process takes only two or three hours, while here it takes only four times as long. Since the Union Flying Forces had been able to reconnoiter and bomb deep into Lorraine during the day, the Normans had to adjust their shipments to night, and their transports usually arrived after nightfall and flew away before dawn, but not every day, but three to five times a week.

At two o'clock in the morning, on the way from the food factory's warehouse to the air transit site, Weiss and his fighters lay in ambush on the side of the road, while two middle-aged men from the underground resistance group stood on the side of the road, waiting for the trucks carrying goods to arrive. The temporary warehouse capacity of the air terminal is limited, and the open yard cannot store food in rain and snow, so after the arrival of the Norman transport, the food factory has to use trucks to deliver the latest products to the air terminal.

A short time later, a truck stopped at the position of the two middle-aged men, and the young man in the passenger seat poked his head out and talked to them. After negotiating the price, they drove the truck into an alley next to the road. The young man got out of the car, led them to the rear of the car, opened the compartment panel, skillfully pried open the outermost wooden boxes with a crowbar, pulled out a piece of brown paper from each box, and then slightly repositioned the outermost goods in the box to make the outermost position of the box appear less obvious.

Handed over the goods with one hand and collected the money with the other, the young man was about to reseal the wooden box, but saw that there were a few more people next to him like ghosts, and all of them had guns in their hands, he hurriedly raised his hands, looked at the two middle-aged men in horror, and asked with an expression: What are you doing?

The two middle-aged men did not explain more, but tied up the young man. There was also a driver in the cab, who was held at gunpoint and did not dare to move, and two middle-aged men immediately stepped forward to negotiate with him. At the same time, a dozen workers arranged by the underground resistance group were busy in the back of the car, they opened the canvas on the car, picked some wooden boxes near the cab and pried them open, emptied most of the food boxes inside, let Weiss and his fighters lie down in the boxes one by one, and drilled hidden ventilation holes in the cover to reseal them. In less than half an hour, they had completed the first step of the "stealing the day", and under the coercion and inducement of the resistance, the driver agreed to cooperate with them, and one of the middle-aged men replaced the young man who had been tied up and sat in the cab.

For Weiss and the other nine fighters, from the moment the lid of the wooden box was closed, they had to contend with all kinds of psychological fears, and in addition to that, they were always on guard against the unexpected. If the enemy detects it, how they respond will determine their ultimate fate - they can be captured, killed on the spot, or managed to fight their way out.