"The USSR is going to fall! It's over! ”

In a stone fort with a classical shape in the port of Tromsø, the communications officer belonging to the Northern Task Force of the Imperial Guard ascended the swirling stone staircase in a gloating manner to deliver the latest news to the commanders sitting on the large open terrace basking in the sun and drinking coffee: the American-British-French allies had finally crossed the border in Central Europe to launch a land attack on the Soviet Union, and the powerful American and British fleets had launched a massive landing operation from East Prussia, which was formerly part of Germany, with a large number of officers and men. That is, to cut off the retreat of the Soviet troops stationed in Central and Eastern Europe and then annihilate them.

The large terrace offers a panoramic view of the entire Lingen Strait, including the Tirpitz capsized on the island of Hakj. Looking through the battle records of the time, Lynn regretted to see that the sinking of this huge ship did not have a 90% human factor - the first person responsible was the leader of the Empire, Adolf. Hitler and the then Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Dönitz, "joined" to put the real backbone of the German Navy in a dispensable situation, and also misjudged the strategic focus. For the lone Queen of the North to play the role of a threat to the Allied Northern Route, maintenance personnel and equipment should at least be brought in as far as their ability to do so, and the air forces deployed in northern Norway should be ordered to provide close assistance and cover. It can be said that the fall of the empire is largely due to the intrigue and rivalry between the military branches, and it is a great sadness and irony that it has repeatedly missed opportunities that could have reversed the situation of the war, and now has to rely on this small group of people to seek revival by licking the blood from the knife edge!

Receiving a translation of the telegram from the communications officer, the Empire's appointed commander of the Tromsø occupation forces and commander of the Northern Task Force, Ottel. Steplenfen turned to look at Lynn, "Oh, yes, that's good, the collapse of the Soviet Union should be excellent news for us, right, General!" ”

When the eyes of the world were focused on the war conflict between the Eastern and Western camps, Lynn's operation to plan and occupy the port of Tromsø was completely successful in the short term, they first appointed themselves as the deputy mayor on the grounds that the mayor of Trogg was ill, and then controlled the county council to authorize the deputy mayor to act as the deputy mayor with full authority for administrative affairs, and formed a communications team composed of local German residents and Guards technicians, so that Tromsø resumed communication after two days of disconnection with the outside world, and a greater camouflage operation was still to come- The new occupiers used their skills to deal with those who came from outside the world for sightseeing, visiting relatives and friends, or on official business, except for those who had to be detained and declared to be temporarily ill. After more than half a month, Tromsø became the new base of the Empire above the surface, and Lynn was appointed Governor of Tromsø, the first overseas governor appointed by the Empire since May 1945. Although it was neither known to the world nor had any legal effect, but was merely an internal order of appointment and dismissal within the Empire, it still left a very important mark on Lynn's magical pioneering journey.

In order to prevent outsiders from accidentally peeping, since the day of the raid on the city, the occupation officers and soldiers have changed into Norwegian police uniforms or civilian attire. Enjoying the early morning sunshine here, Lynn only wore an unpretentious black suit, which is similar to a traditional tuxedo, but the details have been cut out of the complicated style, which looks clean and elegant. He took the telegram translation and glanced at it a few times: "The show has just begun!" It would be too anxious to say that the Soviets were inferior, and I had a hunch that the Soviets would soon make the American, British, and French [***] teams suffer, and even counterattack to advance to the Truman Line. ”

Colonel Steplenfen was surprised: "Are you serious? ”

"Personal hunch." Lynn said lightly.

Colonel Steplenfen, who was still young and middle-aged at this time, was not the kind of officer who was particularly verbose, he lit a cigarette and pondered Lynn's "hunch" as he smoked. If the Soviet army was really so vulnerable, how could the German [***] team in its heyday be planted in their hands?

Lynn sat quietly in a chair and looked out over the harbor, one of the few sheltered places in the Arctic Circle, which itself is located on an almost island peninsula, sheltered by a series of large islands such as Kwar and Lingvas, and connected only by two narrow and long fjords, which together surround a calm bay where the Lingen Strait and Hakyi Island are located. In the era of naval artillery, Tromsø was an easy and difficult seaport to defend, as long as a strong air defense system was built on the periphery, it still had the inherent conditions to become a good military port in modern times, but unfortunately it never had a matching strategic value except for the Arctic route close to the East and West Allied forces during World War II. No one will invest heavily in building this into a first-class military port, and no one will use strong force to try to occupy it, but everything will change because of the re-emergence of this black empire.

After a long time, a moving object appeared in the calm fjord, a white steamer that looked like an iceberg floating in the ice from a distance, and its low chimney was suddenly drifting up with gray smoke far less than polluting this clean world. However, in the past six months, the factories in the port of Tromsø have significantly increased their production capacity. On the one hand, the weather was the best of the year, and on the other hand, the occupation of the Imperial forces allowed these factories to put aside their old camouflage and go all out to produce weapons and equipment or products related to the military industry, and instead of preventing this from happening, the local Norwegians were forced to work in some basic jobs in exchange for security.

The white steamer from the open sea did not look unremarkable, but the passengers on it were not ordinary, they were all sent from the base of the "Vault", and shortly after entering the harbor, two escort submarines also surfaced from the water, and the three boats formed a strange picture with the natural landscape of the place. Under the dazzling sunlight, Lynn vaguely saw the Spanish flag on the ship's mast slowly lowered, and a bright red, white and black tricolor flag slowly raised.

Dinah, who was pregnant with Rokka, was on this ship, and the fresh sun, air, comfortable and spacious rooms and beds of Tromsø were more conducive to the recuperation of pregnant women than the base facilities, and a large hospital with a comprehensive surname was built here. If nothing else, most of the military and civilians at the "Vault" base will be relocated to Tromsø within three months, the port city's population will remain at less than 50,000, and most will be dispersed along the new factories to coastal or nearshore areas within a 100-mile radius.

When the white steamer had sailed to the middle of the bay, Lynn got up and said to Colonel Stephenfen, "I'm out of company for the time being!" ”

The Colonel got up after him, and said modestly, "If I can get this honor, I will also want to go to the dock to meet the General's wife." ”

Lynn didn't refuse, but smiled and patted the colonel's arm, and the two men who were not much different in age walked towards the staircase one after the other, as if they had forgotten about the latest developments in the war on the European continent. In this peaceful and tranquil environment, people do have reason to put aside the annoyance of the smoke of war and the bloody slaughter, but this does not mean that they will really stay out of the situation, the Reich's intelligence agencies in Europe and the Americas are still sparing no effort to add fuel to the war, more original or duplicate drawings of atomic bomb technology are appearing against the Soviet Union, and the anger of the military and civilians in the West is growing unabated by the unabated number of bombings, and the media coverage is pervasive and omniscient...... After two months of brewing, the Western Allied forces composed of the United States, Britain, and France have assembled a ground force with more than 20,000 combat aircraft, more than 30,000 tanks and combat vehicles, more than 50,000 artillery pieces, and a total strength of more than 2 million. Under the support of the air force and the fierce bombardment of a large number of tactical artillery, railroad heavy artillery, and naval guns, the main armored forces of the American and British armies soon opened a 30-mile-wide opening in the northern part of the Soviet defensive line. More than 100 military airfields in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and other places were all attacked by the Allied forces without exception, more than half of the more than 2,000 combat planes deployed in the east were lost in the air and on the ground, and there were even fewer tactical interception units deployed within 400 kilometers of the border line, and the Soviet Air Force suffered almost heavier losses than when the Soviet-German war broke out. Due to the rapid change of air supremacy in Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet tanks, self-propelled artillery and infantry could not assemble and maneuver during the day, they could not rush to the combat area in time, could not form a strong and effective tactical counterattack, and could only retreat to the depths of Belarus and Ukraine in accordance with the combat orders of their superiors, and this was only one of the double resistance endured by the German armored forces in those years!

The more advanced the times, the greater the decisive role of the Air Force in the course of the war, and it is true that the Allied "Mustang", "Spitfire", "Meteor" and Bell P-59 provided intensive air suppression for the ground forces, especially the latter two jet fighters, which had already passed the testing and training stage and entered the stage of mass equipment, although there were some technical detail flaws, they had a clear technical advantage against the Soviet piston fighters, and the first Soviet jet fighter was only now being built as a prototype. These Allied fighters not only effectively covered the attacks of traditional bombers on front-line targets, but in many cases directly attacked Soviet armored vehicles with airborne rockets and large-caliber machine guns, from Berlin to Warsaw, along this axis from west to east, along the way a large number of Soviet vehicles were abandoned due to air raid damage.

The situation of the Soviet defense line in Central and Eastern Europe deteriorated dramatically, and in the coastal areas of Latvia and Estonia, the news of the Allied landing made the local population even more agitated, who were already dissatisfied with the occupation of the Soviet army, and longed for the rescue of the Western army in their bones, and they knew better that the American and British troops were different from the German army in the past, and they could bring boil, freedom, and abundant material help. In order to stabilize the situation and to defend against a potential Allied attack, a large number of Soviet troops from the Russian hinterland moved in and fortified the fortifications there. At the same time, Soviet forces massed in Minsk and Kyiv grew, with large numbers of tanks and self-propelled guns moving into dense forested areas to evade detection and attacks by Allied aircraft, while in the northern regions of Belarus and Ukraine, on the edge of the combat radius of Allied fighter jets from Central Europe, many combat-ready airfields were fully operational and strengthened and expanded at night, and hundreds of warplanes were secretly stationed at these airfields. Although they were all regular piston fighters, most of them were the fastest and best of the Soviet Air Force aircraft in service, including the Lar-7 modification, the Yak-9, and the MiG-3, which was suitable for high-altitude combat, and a staggering number of Il-2 fighters were also assembled at field airfields in southern Russia. In order to add to the covert surname, the combat aircraft were all painted in a summer camouflage paint with yellow and green colors for a short period of time, so as to blend in with the woods and shrubs around the airport.

"Come, dear, be careful! ”

As a husband and future father, Lynn carefully boarded the boat and helped Dinah across the pedals. At this time, General Gargo's wife had a belly the size of a watermelon, her figure had obvious fat, and the edges and corners of her face had become more rounded, basically facing the sky. It seems that although it does not have the glamorous senses of the past, the woman's taste is closer to life and more real.

After more than half a month, Dinah, who saw her husband again, had a happy smile on her face, and after walking through the pedals, she stood on the stable pier and looked at the northern port city, and admired from her heart: "It's so beautiful here!" ”

"This is our northern Germania." Lynn proudly announced.

In this Norwegian port, which is currently under the control of the Empire, Wolfrum drove the car directly to the dock, he stood by the door in civilian clothes, and the commander of the occupation forces, Colonel Steplenfin, stepped forward with an admiring look: "Honorable general's wife, long admiration! I had the pleasure of seeing your show, it was amazing! ”

Lynn then introduced, "This is Colonel Steplenfin, the new guardian of Tromsø. ”

"Oh, Colonel Stephenfen, it's a pleasure to meet you! I heard Lynn mention you in a letter before, saying that you are a serious and dedicated and capable commander, and when I see him today, it seems that he still has a few omissions: handsome appearance and extraordinary bearing, you must have a lot of admirers with female surnames! ”

As soon as Dinah said this, Colonel Stephenfen was as happy and shy as a jerky big boy, and he was a little confused in reply, and the two seemed to be reversed in age—the younger Dinah was clearly the more mature and sociable.

Since returning to the base from his adventures in the Soviet Union, Lynn has also stayed at the base for more than two months, during which he has continued to contribute his strategic thinking, and has also focused a considerable part of his energy on communicating with the top echelons of the empire. And she got tangible benefits from it: her close relationship with Madame Rommel made little Lynn determine the status of a noble godfather and godmother before she was born, which invisibly made Lynn and Rommel more harmonious in cooperation; She was with Goebbels, especially Eva. Württeitsch maintained friendly relations, and even without the Führer's explicit instructions, the Deutsche Zeitung published a series of special issues extolling Lynn's emerging star. For a time, Lynn became a celebrity recognized by the Führer and recognized by all factions, which played an important role in his appointment as governor of Tromsø while retaining his original position.

Styrenfen, who was in a happy mood, walked beside Dinah like a little henchman, and when Lynn led Dinah to the car, Wolfrum said with a smile: "Salute to the beautiful and noble lady!" ”

After a series of battles and tribulations of life and death, Lynn treats Wolfrum like a sibling, and this intimate and harmonious relationship Dinah naturally does not turn a blind eye, and her ability to maintain friendly relations with everyone has always been admired by Lynn.

"Thanks, Gordon, you seem to have lost a little weight lately, because you miss Molis! She asked me to say hello to you on her behalf! ”

Molise is Dinah's friend in the dance troupe, and she is also a young and beautiful dancer with many suitors, and with the matchmaking of Dinah and Lynn, Wolfrum moves from unrequited love to the stage of hard pursuit. In view of the fact that Wolfrum's rivals were all officers of the Imperial Guard, and at the same time an acknowledgment of the veteran's contributions, Lynn carefully drafted a recommendation report in the form of a summary surname and submitted it to the department in charge of personnel in the base camp. In addition, as the Empire gradually returned to the stage of history from the depths of the shadows, the expansion of the Guards was on the agenda, and many soldiers loyal to the Empire would return to Europe according to their own wishes, including Handmark, Wolrich, and his old subordinate Tanze, who Lynn had brought to North America.

When Morris is mentioned, Wolfrum's usual reaction is to laugh and not answer, and this time was no exception. Waiting for Dinah to sit in the car, Lynn smiled and patted Wolfrum on the shoulder, the great cause of empire cannot be accomplished overnight, and feelings often take a long time to earn, like herself...... It is estimated that it will take luck to be hit by a meteor.

(To be continued)