Chapter 1713: Sled Patrol
The capital of Greenland, the Governor's Palace.
Governor Ask-Buren, 36, was quietly listening to the analysis of a U.S. intelligence officer.
At that time, Denmark, which was rich and weak, under the attack of the Germans, surrendered on the same day.
Under the windows of the Amalienburg Palace, the soldiers of the Royal Danish Janissaries exchanged fire with the Germans several times with their rifles, and were almost the only resistance. Greenland is a Danish territory.
Just after the fall of Denmark, Greenland was faced with its own choice.
After the surrender of Denmark, the British quickly occupied Iceland and the Faroe Islands, avoiding being taken advantage of by the Germans, however, Greenland was different.
Greenland, the largest island in the world, is now home to 22,000 local residents with only limited self-defense forces, and for the first time Greenland was almost undefended.
Later, when Germany swept across the continent, even Britain itself faced a serious threat of invasion. After consultation with the lieutenant governor, Buren decided to turn to American protection.
Thus, at the call of the Danish Minister to the United States, Henrik Kaufmann, the U.S. government declared that the principles of the Monroe Doctrine applied to Greenland. The United States decided to open a consulate in Gotthob, the capital of Greenland, and in this way, Greenland was under the protection of the United States.
The war is still going on, and the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for the United States, and the United States has deployed a certain amount of military forces in Greenland, especially air forces, to use Greenland as a springboard to attack Europe.
It is a pity that these actions did not contain the deterioration of the situation, and now Greenland has reached the most dangerous time, and everyone knows that the next military action of the Germans is to invade Greenland.
"We were in the north of Greenland and found suspicious radio signals." U.S. intelligence officer Hertz said: "We suspect that the Germans have sent part of the meteorological personnel into the northern part of Greenland. ”
Most of Greenland is covered with ice, which is not suitable for human activity at all, the temperature is low, the wind is strong, and there are radio signals in the middle of nowhere, which is certainly not a large build-up of the opposing side, but only the movement of meteorological personnel.
"The Germans are starting to collect our meteorological information, which means that this war is just around the corner." U.S. Consul in Greenland, Penfield, said: "Now, we can't hesitate any longer, we have to mobilize the men of Greenland to fight for Greenland." ”
Will it be like Iceland and be ruled by Germany, or will it continue to raise the banner of freedom and fight for a free world? The inhabitants of Greenland will definitely make the right choice.
After discovering the radio signal, the US side attached great importance to it and frequently dispatched reconnaissance planes to carry out reconnaissance flights over the northern region, but due to the special meteorological conditions in the polar regions, it was quite difficult to observe the ground in the air, and they were unable to quickly find the target.
We also have to rely on the help of the natives who lived and grew up here.
"What are we going to do?" Governor Brun asked.
"We want to mobilize all adult men across Greenland. Sled patrols were formed and patrolled throughout Greenland, searching for the German meteorological units. Panfield said.
It's not easy to find in the air, so you have to rely on the ground, and although the environmental conditions here are quite harsh, the natives can adapt to it, and if they are well prepared, they will have no problem searching thousands of kilometers on the ice sheet of Greenland.
Use the Sled Patrol to search the ice sheet area, find the target, and clear the target.
The Germans were cautious, and if they did not have a perfect grasp of the meteorological conditions in Greenland, it would not have been possible to launch an attack on Greenland, and the United States would have gained more buffer time.
Governor Brun did not hesitate: "Okay, then I will immediately issue a notice to the adult men of the entire island in my capacity as the governor, hoping that they will consciously stand up." ”
On the entire island, there are only nine thousand adult men, but they are definitely not ambiguous.
(East China seems to have discovered a pattern, all men in these cold regions are alcoholic, aggressive, and don't know if it's right.) )
Northeast Greenland, settlement of the Skolsby Strait.
"On our islands, the Germans appeared, and now, we need to pull them out!" In the settlement, Nils, the person in charge, shouted at the top of his voice.
He didn't need to use a horn or do any other work, and there were only 27 people in the small settlement, 26 of whom were hunters, plus a woman who cooked for them.
Nils snorted, and suddenly, from the wooden houses of the settlement, hunters came out with their harpoons on their shoulders: "The Germans came up? ”
They are of different ages, the old ones are in their fifties, the younger ones are less than twenty years old, and the exposure of the polar sun makes their skin a little dark, although it is very cold, they are all bare on their faces, and they are not afraid of frostbite.
They are one of the oldest ethnic groups here, the Inuit, whose settlement is thousands of miles away from Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, and is a veritable end of the earth, where they live a life of hunting and hunting marine mammals. In the summer, he hunts narwhals in kayaks and harpoons, and in the winter, he travels in dog sleds.
Kong Wu's strong arms, holding the harpoon, their faces were full of anger: "Those guys, how dare you come over?" Let's go find them out! ”
"Come, sign up here, we are divided into three groups and search according to different areas." "We also need a couple of people to do the weather forecasting, and there will be Americans coming over as radio reporters," Nils said. ”
One by one, the huskies ran out with their tails wagging excitedly, and the hunters got on their sleds and soon disappeared into the white fields.
This is their home, they know every inch of the land here, and on their sleighs, they pull the fresh seal meat they just hunted the other day, and even if they run out of it halfway, they can hunt on the spot and get a polar bear to taste.
Although their weapons are harpoons, no one dares to underestimate their prowess, and in this bitter cold region, the cold can turn the strongest enemies into sheep. In cold weather, all kinds of modern weapons will malfunction, the bolt will freeze, and only the Harpoon will be the most effective.
Find the meteorological detachment of the Germans, pull them out and bring them back!
Such a scene is playing out everywhere in Greenland, at this time, Greenland did not have the pace of urbanization like later generations, and there was no difficulty in the life of hunters because of the melting of glaciers, and almost all the men in Greenland were hunters.