The British fleet finally left the port, and the British radar crews were sent to the deserted and isolated island of Hackui to see the seascape, and life in the port of Tromsø quickly returned to its previous order. Behind this seemingly tranquil façade is a thriving Nordic industrial base unknown to outsiders. In addition to foundry, machinery, power generation and light industry in Tromsø, Narvik, which is connected by sea and road, is also an important part of this industrial project. There, engine, shipbuilding and energy companies invested by "Western European funders" have been officially approved by Norway to recruit local Norwegians and workers from other European countries to work in production, and to use their financial advantages to acquire small local factories in the same industry, and a steel company with a total investment of more than 10 million pounds is also in the pipeline. Once it is up and running, the high-quality coal mines from the Spitzbergen Islands and the high-quality iron ore from Swedish Lapland will be perfectly integrated in Narvik, and at full production, this large plant will have an annual steel output of more than 400,000 tons, and a large bearing and ball manufacturing plant will be built on the basis of metallurgy, which will be indispensable war resources!

In just over three months, Lynn will usher in a small life that closely connects him to the world, and his father's sense of responsibility makes him work hard with unprecedented motivation. After getting rid of the British, he returned to the "shelter" by submarine to debrief and attend high-level decision-making meetings. With the relocation of civilians and ordinary factories around Tromsø, the "Vault" is now somewhat unworthy of its name. It is also the command center of the Hidden Empire, where the most sophisticated scientific personnel and facilities are concentrated, but with the gradual consolidation and stabilization of the Nordic industrial base, this part will also be transferred to Tromsø in the autumn, when the "sanctuary" will be retained mainly for nuclear research and uranium enrichment facilities.

Since the Führer's return to power, the Imperial High Levels have been convened at least once a month, with the heads of the interior, propaganda, and strategy departments in attendance. This time, Lynn attended the meeting in both the capacity of Chief Strategic Staff Officer of the Base Camp and Governor of Tromsø, and the position was arranged to the left of the Commander-in-Chief of the base. Judging purely by the ranking of the meeting, he was only ranked after Rommel and Goebbels, and even better than the chief of staff of the base, General Bernbeck. At the beginning of the meeting, Dr. Hoffmann, the head of the Reich's atomic bomb project, reported to the senior officials on the latest progress of the work: with the further expansion of the enrichment uranium refining unit using gas diffusion technology, the rate of enriched uranium refining in the base has increased to 0.5 kilograms per month, plus one kilogram every four months in the secret factory in South America, it will take nearly 7 years to make an atomic bomb like the "little boy" that uses uranium-235 as fissile material!

The seven-year period did not exceed the maximum time limit of the original imperial revival plan, but the ideal strategic situation should emerge in the short term when the Eastern and Western camps were already fighting. If this time is missed, there is no guarantee that there will be a similar opportunity in a few years, when even if a real atomic bomb is possessed, it may not be enough to provide a protective shield for the rise of the empire. However, these 7 years are just a simple numerical calculation after all, and the continuous investment of funds and material resources from the imperial side has expanded the refining facilities for enriched uranium every month, and so on, and it is optimistically estimated that 64 kilograms of uranium can be obtained in about 4 years, and more importantly, the research data of the United States has shown that the critical mass of the fission reaction is far lower than this number, that is, after improving the explosion method, people only need half or even less uranium-235 to make an atomic bomb.

For the first time in a formal meeting, sitting so close to the Führer, Lynn quietly observed the leader's every move. Later generations tend to think that Adolf. Hitler was an evil war maniac, he was extreme, stubborn, arrogant, impulsive, unreasonable, refused to accept the correct opinions of others, arbitrarily interfered with the front-line deployment, and so on. While these accounts reflect some of the realities of the middle and late wars, Lynn's contacts before and after the end of the war are generally different from these historical accounts. In terms of living habits, he seems to be a devout Christian, an absolute vegetarian, hates cigarettes and alcohol, and has a very regular schedule. Of course, due to his illness, he now spends three hours a night in the infirmary before he can go for a walk in the garden and, when he is in the mood, look outside the base to see the sea. In military and political affairs, he always quietly listened to the reports of his subordinates before drawing conclusions, rarely interjected in the middle of the process, and asked questions that were very specific to his surname. Many times Lynn thought that if the head of the empire had maintained this mentality for two or three years before the end of the war, the war might drag on for a few more years, and maybe there would be an alternative ending.

After listening to Dr. Hoffmann's report, Hitler did not give a ruthless death order to the atomic bomb project department to increase production, but demanded that the industrial sector, which is now under the control of Goebbels' German Reconstruction Committee, expand the scale of enriched uranium refining facilities in South America as soon as possible, and at the same time, the intelligence services should step up the economic annexation of the local uranium mines in Norway. Immediately afterwards, Lynn publicly reported on the recent situation in Tromsø County, and gave a detailed statement about the situation of the British army's establishment of an integrated radar base station and his own analysis and opinions, and the tavern brawl incident that attracted everyone at the garrison headquarters did not receive any applause and praise here, and the high-ranking generals and officials listened to Lynn's speech quietly, and no one raised questions or objections, which was like watching a niche movie, and the well-designed bridge encountered the cold scene of the public.

At the end of Lynn's speech, the Führer politely praised the capture of the port of Tromsø for laying the foundation for the revival of the Empire, and judged in his eyes that the British had no intention of committing more to northern Norway - as long as the Soviet Union could be defeated and dismembered in this war, the threat to Britain itself would be lifted, and it was entirely foreseeable that the British Empire's former international position was being peacefully replaced by the United States, and that the drive to occupy any strategic position could not be changed.

After this, General Bernbeck got up and walked to the front of the conference room, and two scenes of the battlefield that were supposed to have been taken by the Western Allies were projected on the curtain against the wall, the first showing the huge Allied ground forces rolling forward on the East European Plain, and the second was aerial bombing, and the large number of bombs that had fallen on the heads of the Germans was now overwhelmingly smashing into Soviet factories and cities. After the video was shown, the screen was replaced by a marked map projection of Europe, and General Bernbeck took a long indicator stick to introduce the current situation in Europe: after the continuous bombardment in the early stage, the Soviet army's defensive deployment and army morale were obviously greatly affected, and they were unable to stop the Allied land and sea attack in East Prussia, which the Soviet Union called Kaliningrad Oblast, where 100,000 Soviet officers and soldiers were said to have become Allied prisoners of war, Moreover, the Soviet army did not use the defensive line to stubbornly resist in Belarus and in the border areas of Ukraine. Now, the Northern Route Operational Group, composed of American and British troops, has occupied the western coastal areas of Lithuania, and its vanguard has advanced to the south of Latvia, while the Lithuanian and Latvian populations are clearly warmly welcoming the arrival of the Western Allied forces, and partisans and scattered armed men in the areas of these two countries still under Soviet occupation have appeared with the aim of destroying Soviet installations and spying on the deployment of Soviet troops. The southern route of the U.S. Army, British, French and Polish troops invaded Belarus and Ukraine, and their vanguard was only more than 100 kilometers from Minsk, the capital of Belarus, and about 300 kilometers from Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. But the policies pursued by Soviet leaders in the union republics and in the outer territories of occupation did not appear to be very savvy, and in places where the Soviet party movement was stronger, such as Czechoslovakia, where Soviet troops withdrew a few months after the war, the population of Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, and other countries was more or less resistant to Moscow. As a result, the Western Allies easily obtained permission to station troops and establish aviation bases in Hungary and Romania, and the Turks also provided the United States and Britain with air bases for reconnaissance as the main purpose under the banner of neutrality.

At sea, the overwhelmingly dominant Western Allied camp firmly controlled the western end of the Baltic Sea, and the powerful combat fleet sailed into the Baltic Sea with great dignity, using the ports of Denmark, Germany, and Poland as supply bases to support the ground offensive, and they followed the footsteps of the northern combat cluster in the waters of Lithuania and Latvia, and easily blockaded the rest of the Baltic Sea except the Gulf of Finland. As usual, the Soviets laid mines in the coastal waters of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, as well as in the Gulf of Finland, but this obviously did not completely stop the Allied fleet's advance. Looking at the battle situation map in front of him, combined with his own understanding of the modern military strategy of the United States and Britain, Lynn felt that the attack of the Western camp was completely different from the original blitzkrieg of Germany. The Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which were forced to join the Soviet Union at the end of the thirties, welcomed the "liberation" of the German army when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, and this time they welcomed the Western Allies with a similar attitude, while the Ukrainian peasants seemed to have a grudge against Moscow's policies, and only Belarus was less willing to read, so the southern part of the Soviet Union was bound to face a situation of disintegration. When the Allies consolidated their occupation in Eastern Europe with strong economic and industrial support, the supply line problems that Napoleon's French and Hitler's German forces had been troubled by were no longer a problem, and it was explained that the United States and Britain did not even need to send ground troops to attack, and that the Soviet Union, which had lost Stalin, could collapse and collapse with sustained and fierce strategic bombardment.

General Bernbeck spoke, the Führer just looked at the map of the battle situation on the wall without saying a word, the geography of Eastern Europe may have carved an extremely clear imprint in his brain, and during the countless nights during the war, he and the marshals of the Wehrmacht and the senior staff discussed the battle plan over and over again on the map of Eastern Europe, and they experienced the blitzkrieg of 1941, the anxiety, the reciprocation and the final depression that followed, and the industry that had not been achieved in those years caused a deep regret, Now watching the third and most powerful army in history attack Russia from the west, he should be the one with the most mixed feelings.

At the end of this session, which was simply introduced without any discussion or arrangement, the intelligence chief of the newly promoted Imperial Guards Major General, Hans . Andriy replaced General Bernbeck, and the projected picture became a picture of the Kremlin.

"Based on the intelligence of our personnel from within the Soviet Union, combined with the reports and reactions of Western countries, we believe that since Stalin's death, there has been a series of struggles for supreme power in the Soviet leadership, and the change of power groups has been overwhelmingly fast. At present, the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR and the Supreme High Command of the Armed Forces of the USSR are in charge of the overall situation of the war, and the names of these two institutions are exactly the same as in the previous war, but there has been a great change in the Kumi, and we have carefully collected and analyzed this, and it is he who really has the right to speak...... Timoshenko, the oldest field marshal in the Soviet Union, a former commander-in-chief of the Soviet Armed Forces, and a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union, was once sidelined by Stalin but took advantage of this opportunity to return to the stage of supreme power. And him...... Marshal Zhukov, who we are very familiar with, is the best of the generals of the Mesozoic Era, the winner of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union three times, has great prestige in the army, and is also trusted and supported by the Politburo of the CPSU."

With Andri's explanations, photographs of Timoshenko and Zhukov appeared on the curtain. Lynn listened and thought, it seems that in the past two months, Andri's silence has turned to focus on his profession, what he introduced is not only what the dignitaries of the empire present are eager to know, but also the information that determines the empire's strategy to a certain extent, small deviations can be tolerated, once there is a mistake in the general direction, the consequences can be very serious.

"As far as we know, the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR currently includes him, Marshal Konev, the commander of the Soviet army who is the most adept at offensive warfare, the political commissar, and is called the 'troika' along with Zhukov and Rokossovsky; Marshal Victorious', who commanded a series of battles during the war and won most of them, Bulganin, Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, a field marshal who had never been a front-line commander, and who had also been the president of the National Bank of the USSR, and Admiral Kuznetsov, People's Commissar and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of the Soviet Union, the equivalent of Raeder of the Soviet Union. Together, the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR who had just been mentioned constituted the People's Commissariat of Defense exercised military power in wartime, and we believe that with the exception of Timoshenko and Bulganin, the rest of them served as commanders at the level of the Front, preparing the army in the heart of the Soviet Union for a counterattack on an unprecedented scale. ”

Intelligence is of vital importance in warfare, and during Andri's speech, everyone present listened with great seriousness, and could feel that the generals of the Reich were in awe of these former fierce enemies, and that only one Rokossovsky organized and commanded the Battle of Smolensk, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Curron, the Battle of Belarus, the Battle of East Prussia, the Battle of East Pomerania, and the Battle of Berlin. The scars on the hearts of the people involved are hard to hide. At this moment, Lynn felt that his colleagues around him were happy to see the Western Allies teach the Soviets a painful lesson, but these imperial generals who had suffered so much from the Soviets in the war probably sensed that the Soviets' step-by-step retreat was most likely to be brewing a counterattack on an unprecedented scale, as Andry said at the end. If nothing else, the Western allies led by the United States and Britain will soon suffer, and the course and outcome of this war are full of imagination.

When General Bernbeck and Andriy presented the war situation and the Soviet political situation respectively, the Führer, who was silent and had his own ideas, admitted with some abruptness that the strategic preparations of the Reich were behind time, but that the revival of the Reich must not be delayed. Given that the nuclear explosion in the Norwegian Sea has led to the widespread belief that there is a second country on the planet that has mastered the technology of the atomic bomb (only some Soviets believe that this is a self-directed and self-staged conspiracy by the United States), when the flag of the Reich is raised in northern Scandinavia at the right time, it is necessary to declare that the Reich has mastered "more than four atomic bombs", even if the enriched uranium obtained is not enough to assemble an atomic bomb, Displaying disc aircraft to the outside world and claiming that they can carry atomic bombs to attack any target in the world, these two powerful weapons are used as a strategic deterrent to "keep the enemy out of the country." If someone who does not know whether they are alive or dead forcibly attack, then they will use another nuclear explosion in the Norwegian Sea to intimidate. With the Juche very clear, the Führer set the exact timing for this great revival: January 1948. It was the 15th anniversary of his accession to the German chancellorship and the 15th anniversary of the birth of the Third Reich.

Hearing the Führer's personal announcement of this clear directive at a high-level official meeting in the Imperial base camp made many generals, including Rommel, feel unprecedented pressure, because they only have 17 months to build an Imperial Guard, which is less than an army in size, into a defense force capable of resisting a strong enemy - the lack of personnel is not the most fatal thing, the key is that the old military-industrial system has been crushed into powder by the strategic bombardment of the Allies, and it is only in Northern Europe that can be preserved and continued at the end of the war. Military factories in Spain and South America currently produce enough to supply the Guards. If the troops are expanded from now on, the recruits will not even have enough equipment to form a standard infantry division!

(To be continued)