More than half a month ago, when people thought that the fearless German Free Corps would come to Salzburg to be "impregnable", Lynn only left the Soviets an empty city, and took thousands of elites to travel more than 400 kilometers in southern Germany controlled by the Soviet army, making a fuss under the noses of the Soviets, and finally returned to Austria; This time, when almost everyone felt that the Freedom Corps would continue their elusive guerrilla warfare, Lynn concentrated his forces in the Upper Rhine Valley to give the Soviets a hammer. After nine days of fighting, the unprecedentedly tragic offensive and defensive battles came to an end with the Soviet army's banner and drum, and the Free Corps announced that it had killed 26,100 Soviet officers and men, destroyed 932 Soviet combat vehicles, shot down 33 Soviet warplanes, sank 97 Soviet warships, captured 2,906 Soviet combatants, and seized a large amount of equipment and materials.

Around the same time, some of the major Western media published photographs taken after the Battle of Bischofshofen-Salzburg Pass, and the piles of corpses and vehicles and equipment in the valley made people marvel at the bloodshed of the war and admire the results of the Free Corps on the other. After all, the armistice between the Eastern and Western camps was built on the basis of the extremely unfavorable war of the allies, and not only Britain and France, these European countries, but even the Americans, who were separated by a large ocean, were afraid of the strength of the Soviet army, and those in power feared that after the Soviet Union's military strength was restored and further strengthened, there would be a terrible scene of red flags planting all over the world. In this context, the Freikers are no longer just a group of fighters who are armed to resist the Soviet occupation, they are also miracle workers who break the myth of the invincibility of the Soviet army, and they are an important force that will continue to contain and attack the Soviet army during the armistice. As a result, the close ties of the Free Corps to the Third Reich and the Free Empire of Northern Scandinavia were selectively "forgotten" and began to support the armed forces one-sidedly - because of the armistice agreements, it was not convenient for Western governments to intervene directly. Various civil society organizations also solicit assistance in a semi-public manner. Compared with the inefficient international support provided by the Soviet Union during the invasion of Finland, the Western world's aid has changed dramatically. The various supplies are loaded at the port and shipped directly to Italy. It was then transported by land to the Alps in northeastern Italy, and finally to the Free Corps, a process that took less than a month and five or six weeks as slow.

A large number of material resources were constantly being brought into Austria. The Imperial ** team from Northern Europe also joined the battle sequence of the Free Corps in batches. Some of these fighters followed the Führer to the refuge base in 1945, while others later came from South America and Western Europe to sign and train. The largest number was the number of German prisoners of war released by the Soviet Union during the brief "honeymoon period" between the Reich and the Soviet Union, and their total number reached a staggering 390,000, more than the total number of military and civilian forces in the Reich-controlled areas before. And there are already certain military qualities. After getting this valuable human resource. The Imperial Base Camp follows the expansion model of the "100,000 Wehrmacht", and mixes the veterans of the Imperial Guard with these German ** people who have returned to the army, so that the expanded Imperial ** team still maintains a high combat level.

The number of men and guns under his command continued to increase, and Lynn's confidence in running the "fortress of the Upper Rhine Valley" became more and more sufficient. After a week's truce, the Soviets launched a second offensive, with less large-scale airborne operations. However, it increased the investment of troops from the mountains to the west of the river valley, and the overwhelming bombers had the posture of razing the river valley to wasteland. This battle. With 10,000 soldiers against more than 100,000 troops attacking the Soviet army on both sides, Lynn vividly brought into full play the essence of defensive operations -- a solid positional defense, dexterous infiltration and interference, and the choice of tactical fulcrums, all of which showed a wonderful command art. On the fifth day of the Soviet storming of the river valley, an armed uprising broke out in the Bavaria and Württemberg areas in southern Germany, and the resistance attacked the station and blew up the railway, which brought the transportation and supply of the northern line of the Soviet battlefield to a standstill. In this bloody wrestling, the resisters with iron willpower had the last laugh, and the Soviet army fighting away from home was once again defeated by an opponent who had the right time and place, with a loss of more than 30,000 soldiers, and the blow to the morale of the army and the passivity of the international political situation made the ruling group in Moscow furious, they not only appointed the talented and meritorious general Vasilevsky to command, but also transferred a number of main forces with the honor of "Guards" to participate in the battle. The air forces bombed the Upper Rhine Valley area day and night, and the piles of protests from Switzerland over the accidental bombing of territorial targets were directly .........ignored.

The Soviet leadership had high hopes for a third offensive, and Lynn was also gathering forces for this crucial duel, and he ordered reinforcements from Italy to quickly exceed 10,000 troops, and the technical weapons with anti-aircraft and anti-tank guided rockets as the core were increasing every day, and the defense system in the valley was constantly being strengthened. During this period, out of extreme indignation against the Soviet government, the Swiss government's realistic attitude changed under the banner of neutrality, and they accepted the resistance troops withdrawn from southern Germany, nominally detaining these militants who had entered the country illegally, but secretly transporting them to the Upper Rhine Valley behind the scenes, this combat force of nearly 2,000 men was a reinforcement in the line of fire for Lynn, but in the eyes of the world, with less than 20,000 "semi-regular" resistance fighters to resist the tough offensive of the Soviet army. No matter how you look at it, it's an impossible battle to win.

To make the impossible possible, Lynn racked his brains and used all his might, and many methods that ordinary people dare not imagine have also been used by him. Before the war began, he took the initiative to make a move, ordered a detachment to attack the Soviet combat airfield in Innsbruck, which was located more than 100 kilometers away from the Upper Rhine Valley, hijacked two Il-4 twin-engine bombers, flew them to Liechtenstein to drop bombs, and deliberately caused one of them to crash in its territory, leaving on board the Soviet pilots killed during the attack on the airfield and the operational order to carry out indiscriminate bombing of targets in the valley. As a result, the Soviet top brass had to strengthen the military forces on the border between the two sides; At the same time, the contingent lurking in Germany carried out a "decapitation operation" against the so-called legitimate German government elected by the people, killing a number of puppet government heads one after another, including the vice chancellor and three ministers, and creating chaos within the German security forces, forcing the Soviet army to impose emergency martial law throughout Germany and sending additional troops to garrison bridges and transportation hubs.

The ensuing events not only distracted the Soviet high-brass, but also the Soviet troops that were gathering to attack were also panicking, and rumors that were not conducive to the war were quietly spreading. Even so, the third large-scale offensive was launched as scheduled, with gunboats patched together from various channels forming a spectacular scene of ant swarming on Lake Constance, the continuous bombardment of large and small artillery made up for the limited movement of the air force in the cold winter, hundreds of tanks and combat vehicles stormed the passage at the western foot of Paden Mountain at any cost, and the infantry who went forward to attack the defenders' positions, which was simply a repetition of the "Verdun meat grinder" more than 30 years ago in an alternative way!

The war was relentless, Lynn's soldiers were not really steel and iron, under the first two days of the Soviet army's frantic attack, the number of casualties of the troops rose rapidly, the reserves were sent up in batches, the wounded were transported in batches, the available mobile troops quickly bottomed out, and the manpower to build and strengthen the fortifications could not withstand the consumption of the opponent's heavy artillery attack. Gradually, the defenders withdrew from the first-line and second-line positions on the shores of Lake Constance, abandoned the forward fortifications at the northern foot of Mount Paden, the defensive troops in the eastern mountains retreated step by step, and the positions at the western foot of Mount Paden were conquered by the Soviet army. Soviet tanks breaking through from the western foothills of Mount Paden began to test the fortified defenses of Bregenz......

The back road has long been reserved, and in the face of an extremely unfavorable battle situation, Lynn and his soldiers are still gritting their teeth and persevering, which is exchanged for the arrival of more than 1,000 reinforcements every day and the continuous consumption of the opponent's fighting spirit. At Bregenz, the most important tactical fulcrum of the valley battlefield, nearly 2,000 soldiers used their flesh and blood to block the Soviet army's wave after wave of offensives, firmly protecting the flank of the central defense line of Paden Hill, and the Soviet tanks destroyed in the lakeside area piled up a shocking steel cemetery; On the eastern barrier of the valley area - Mount Gotl at an altitude of 800 meters and Mount Schauna at an altitude of 1,200 meters, more than 1,000 freedom fighters made the advance of Soviet troops twenty times their own per day only 100 meters a day; In the southeast of the valley, on the Ratnoser Mountains, 300 Imperial mountain soldiers fought with astonishing courage against tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers, and succeeded in two night attacks, which kept the opponent from advancing and retreating for several days. In this way, the seemingly irretrievable situation survived day after day with the united efforts of the defending officers and men, and the moment of turning point appeared: the night commandos who had infiltrated the German territory in the early stage, as well as the Imperial detachment and intelligence officers, found and successfully attacked the Soviet combat headquarters, and although the occupation of this headquarters lasted only forty minutes, the jamming instructions issued by the captured radio and code book caused confusion among the Soviet front-line troops. Taking advantage of the temporary paralysis of the Soviet command system, Lynn counterattacked with the newly reinforced Imperial ** team, and this time, his old partner Loewen, who had been promoted to lieutenant general of the Imperial Guard. Bruns led an entire battalion of night soldiers to join, and the night troops, which had grown strong in the battle against the Allies, lived up to expectations and worked with their own defenders to drive the Soviets out of the valley, and the battle line was clearly the last thing the Soviets wanted to see.