Ranke and Skorzny returned overnight to a secret base outside Berlin, where the latter took the time to brief him on the composition and characteristics of the team.

Considering the importance of the mission, Ranke had thought as much about the size of the team as he could, but he underestimated the Führer's determination: the size of the strike party was far larger than he had imagined, with 50 men, all of whom could speak English and were skilled in their skills. Since the operation was expected to take place at night, it was now in full swing on the training ground, close to the actual combat training, and he could see in a few minutes that it was very powerful: they were the best drivers when driving, all kinds of vehicles, armored vehicles and even tanks, and the camp was full of British right-hand drive cars, and they drove with wind and water without hindrance; They are the best soldiers in action, and they can handle all kinds of British weapons, whether they are Stern submachine guns, Enfield rifles or Brent light machine guns, they can handle them skillfully, and they can almost miss a bullet within 200 meters, and their level of hand-to-hand combat is even more successful. He dared to say that he had never seen such a soldier, and the Italian paratrooper brigade of 100,000 men in the African Army could be regarded as an elite infantry, but there was probably no one with this kind of skill.

They were now dressed in full British uniforms, and they would be half scared to death if they had unwittingly intruded - and a British commando of this magnitude would have turned Berlin upside down. Now he finally understood why the Führer had let the commandos go in submarines, since it was simply impossible for so many people to quietly enter the British Isles by airdrop.

"Sir...... What you see now is not all of them, but only 48 people. The other 2 people will be airdropped in advance tonight to conduct an early reconnaissance of the enemy's situation, and as soon as they gain a foothold, they will immediately send us a telegram. To be honest, you're late, if you join the party earlier. It's best and safest for you to airdrop the past. 'Skorzny is very humble and his attitude is much better now than he was when he first met.

"It's a pity I only found out about it today." Ranke smiled sheepishly, "And I can't parachute, and I don't know how to parachute, and I don't have so many military skills that you can't sneak first." I hope that the operation will not cause you any trouble, and I will do my duty as best as you ask. ”

"Don't think so, you have skills that none of us have. The success of the action depends mainly on your performance. "Skorzner had gone through all of Ranke's files and resume on the way, and he didn't look down on him in the slightest because he was the last to join and wasn't from a military background. On the contrary, Ranke has all the abilities he could only dream of: the quintessential civilian officer. It doesn't look like there's any murderous spirit, so it's convenient to play a noble officer. Having lived in the UK for many years, his personality and habits are closer to the standards of an Englishman, and he can also know all the details of British customs. The standard Oxford accent alone is something that no member of the commando team possesses. What's more, Ranke had already had an experience playing the role of a British officer. With this kind of bearing and experience, it will be more seamless to play again.

Skorzny was now grateful to the Führer for his discernment, and he had wanted to just mess with the British bastard named Chapman, but it was a big deal to keep an eye on it. But every time the Führer told him not to be anxious, someone better would come. He always thought that this was a comforting word, but he did not expect that what the Führer said was completely true, and the person who came was even better and more suitable than he imagined.

"We've been training for more than a month, and everyone except me is from the Brandenburg Army. In order to create a reasonable environment in the UK as soon as possible. We did our best to play the role of British soldiers - from the props to the queues, from the actions to the words. Skorzny gestured to the British-style displays in his headquarters. There was also a map of the defense of the British Isles pasted on the back, and he proudly said, "This looks like a typical British regimental headquarters, and we have even copied the British habit of afternoon tea as it is." In order to quickly improve everyone's English, the commandos set a rule: daily communication must be spoken in English, anyone who dares to leak a word of German will pay a fine of 1 mark, and everyone will check each other, no one is allowed to make exceptions. ”

"This immersive effect must be good." Ranke complimented, "Who came up with this?" Excellent! ”

"Do you know what it's like to be forced to speak entirely in English? I hadn't spoken English for a long time after graduating from college, and it was so uncomfortable to pick it up at first, my mouth was slurred like a curl, but I was still the captain, and I had to tell them to do this and that, and they just had to say 'yes, sir' or 'no, sir'...... But it works really well. "The first week I received a fine of 384 marks, the second week I received a fine of 121 marks, the third week it was only 17 marks, you know what happened last week? 1 Mark didn't either, our team was fully integrated. If they were in town now, they would probably be arrested by the gendarmes as British spies. ”

"Really?" Ranke quipped, "That's going to be fun." ”

"Of course." Skorzny suddenly laughed, "There's something even more fun about that. ”

"What is it?"

"We usually train at night and fall asleep at 5 a.m., and our biological clock is completely disrupted, and sometimes we have some problems with sleep. Last week I went to check the room and found three people talking in their dreams: one said that there was movement, and the captain was blowing the trumpet to gather; The other said, "Pull it down, it's early in the morning, and I hear a wild cat in heat; The third said, "You both are, so it's clearly a wild dog fighting, okay?" None of this is the point, the point is that these words are all said in English. ”

"Hahaha." Both of them laughed heartily.

Skorzny handed Ranke a stack of photographs: "This is the location of the target, the Air Force had taken aerial photographs of this place in the past during the British air raids, but they didn't realize what was underneath at the time, they mistakenly thought it was just an ordinary aristocratic manor and ignored it, and only archived it as general information, and it took me a lot of effort to dig them out of the pile of old papers, and almost no one in the country knows about the situation there." Moreover, I did not dare to send reconnaissance planes there, and I did not dare to say whether I would be able to break through the air defense network during the day, because it would be troublesome if the enemy was alarmed and aroused their alarm. ”

Ranke nodded, and began to look at the pictures carefully.

"My plan was to go in three steps: the first step was for us to play the role of the British gendarmes and seize control there; The second step is to use Air Force bombers to carry out precise bombing of the place at night, destroy facilities and eliminate most of the personnel through bombing; In the third step, after the bombing began, we pretended to be the British military police to come to the rescue and took the opportunity to eliminate the fish that had slipped through the net. ”

"Precision bombing?" Ranke raised his eyebrows, "What do we have to do this?" ”

"Yes! However, it needs to be set up in advance. Skorzny tricked up a suitcase from under the bed, revealing the equipment inside, and introduced, "This is the positioning system that Imperial scientists have recently successfully developed. He has 4 dry batteries and corresponding signaling equipment, which can continuously emit two electromagnetic waves of a fixed frequency, which are different from the normal communication wavelength but can be detected by machines. Our aircraft are equipped with special receiving equipment, which calculates the bearing according to the differential method and displays the approximate distance, after which precise guidance can be carried out. When the aircraft is closer to this device, the signal in the receiver will be stronger, when the distance is only 20 kilometers, the oscilloscope will display the bright spot and the aircraft position point, the center of the two coincides when it is in the best state of bomb dropping, each set of devices will form a bright spot, if the target range is relatively large or more accurate positioning is required, multiple systems can be used at the same time. We've tried it a lot and we're sure it works, and the more there are, the more accurate it is – this time I'm going to take eight with me. ”

Ranke nodded in understanding.

"If it's just bombing, I just need to put the equipment where it is, and I don't even need to send so many people. But the Führer emphasized that there is only one chance to shoot in this mission, and there may be no chance next time if this fails, plus the focus of the mission must be accompanied by the destruction of the enemy, and it is best not to miss one, so we must have someone to stay on the scene to replenish the gun, and the number cannot be too small. Skorzny had apparently thought about the course of action in detail, "You must know that the Air Force lacks 4 bombers, and it is also very difficult for other bombers to fly to the UK to bomb, and at the same time, the British radar is very powerful, and the concentration of large groups will immediately remind them of air defense, and we can only use 2-3 bombers to carry out secret flight bombing in small formations." No matter how precise their bombs are, the ammunition and lethality of these planes are always limited, and they must be manually cooperated. ”

"The only convenient condition for the operation is that, after our preliminary investigation of the British spies, the British authorities, in order to keep this secrecy so as not to be spied on by us, the vigilance force in the place is not very strong, most of them are police, only a small group of gendarmes, showing a pattern of tight on the outside and loose on the inside, and there is a regiment of troops stationed about 15 kilometers away in this place, which can quickly provide support; The disadvantage is also this, because there are not many troops and the environment is relatively closed, our rash appearance may arouse their suspicion, and the risk of exposure is very high. ”

"We may need to redesign the whole course of action." After reading the detailed plan and hand-drawn map, Ranke said slowly, "You have considered many details, but the response is not right, and there are problems with the description of the place, our difficulty is not in the specific action, the British of this 50-man commando team are not two battalions that can't be gnawed at all, but the risk of exposure is very great." ”

Hearing this, Skorzny nervous: "You speak carefully. ”

"I've been to that place twice......" Ranke slowly entered the memories of the past, a dusty memory that had been in the dust for a long time. (To be continued.) )