Fearing diplomatic pressure from the Soviet government based on its military might, the Swiss government reaffirmed that it would detain foreign fighters who entered the country without discrimination, so that Lynn and his battle-hardened troops abandoned the idea of passing through Switzerland and traveled under the covert cover of the Allies through the Italian hinterland by stuffy tank trains, from Modana into France, along the southeastern and eastern railway lines of France, and from Breissat across the border into the German state of Baden-Württemberg. *.*.*/* It was only 300 kilometers down the Rhine from Bregenz, and Lynn and his wife had to travel thousands of kilometers in this roundabout.

After a long journey, they had finally returned to their homeland, and Lynn's soldiers did not see the negative effects of exhaustion. After the attrition of the three battles of the Upper Rhine Valley, the original 5,000 Free Corps only had 2,000 men left, and after removing the wounded who stayed in northern Italy to recuperate and recuperate, there were only 726 officers and soldiers who followed Lynn here, and all the heavy weapons, including mountain assault vehicles, were left to the 1st Imperial Expeditionary Corps that took them over to defend the Upper Rhine Valley. Even so, Lynn was confident in the prospect of the trip, and with the support of local Baath Party personnel, they walked through the open river valley overnight into the famous Black Forest, Germany's largest forested mountain range, where countless pine and fir trees make the area look black. Due to the need for fuel for industrial development and agricultural development, the Black Forest was only one-tenth the size of the Roman era, but the complex terrain of mountains and lakes was still ideal for small-scale guerrilla warfare.

Coming to this fairytale forest, Lynn was in no hurry to launch an attack on the nearby Soviet targets, the fourth battle of the Upper Rhine Valley had just ended with the victory of the Imperial ** team, and the response of the strong Manstein Corps to the periphery was not urgently needed for the time being. So, Lynn led his staff to personally observe and survey the terrain of the Black Forest, plan tactics for future combat operations, and contact the surrounding Baath Free Regiment and some other resistance forces against the Soviet occupation. After half a month of preparation, all the conditions required for the operation were basically realized, and Lynn resolutely raised the torch to light the first fire of the prairie fire......

Freiburg is Germany's oldest, warmest and sunniest city, which was badly damaged during World War II. Thanks to the joint efforts of more than 100,000 citizens, beautiful buildings have been re-established from the ashes of the war, and the clean streets and pleasant surroundings have once again become the pride of Freiburgers. *.*.*/*After the signing of the armistice between the Allies and the Soviet Union, the Soviet army occupied the area with great dignity and built a military fortress overlooking the river valley to the east of the city. The agreed deadline for a complete withdrawal from Germany had long since passed, but two battalions of Soviet officers and soldiers were still firmly stationed there, and heavily armed patrols appeared on the streets of Freiburg every day. The guns that changed the situation rang out on March 7, 1949, when Lynn personally commanded a 35-man night assault team and nearly 100 support troops to attack the Soviet fortress, and the overall scale of the battle was later given the prefix "epic" - the three night soldiers fully demonstrated their vampire-like dexterity and sharpness on this night. After blasting open the gates with explosives, they stormed the fort, which was conservatively estimated to be more than 800 Soviet officers and soldiers. Despite the fact that it was late at night, there were still dozens of armed Soviet sentries in the fort, and the barracks for officers and soldiers were scattered throughout the fort, and no single point of fire could fully control them. In the environment of almost street fighting, the night soldiers were five for a combat team, using the technical and tactical advantages brought by infrared night vision devices to carry out a quick attack, the dense sound of assault rifles and submachine guns lasted from the beginning of the battle to the last moment, and due to the unfamiliarity with the internal structure of the fortress, the night soldiers used flamethrowers to replace the grenade offensive that was indispensable in the previous night battles.7 sets of Soviet-made fire-breathing equipment caused at least 300 casualties of Soviet officers and soldiers on this night, which can be called the worst barbecue activity. …,

In this battle, Lynn, who shouldered the heavy responsibility of command, did not rush to the front line with a barge double gun, he took his personal guards to wait at the south gate of the fortress, and easily cleaned up several groups of Soviet personnel who tried to break through with MG42 machine guns. Before the battle to clear the fortress was over, the Freiburg fighters had already occupied the city of Freiburg, freed the resisters, demonstrators and others held by the Soviet army in prison, and distributed the food supplies hoarded by the Soviet army to the local citizens.

Despite being mortally deterred by explosives and flamethrowers, the last Soviet infantry in the fort held out knowing that resistance was hopeless, forcing Lynn to order further destruction of the fort, which was still of military value. Fortunately, the violent explosion did not ignite the munitions and ammunition in the underground warehouse, and through this battle with minimal casualties, Lynn's troops captured more than 1,000 Soviet-made guns, 30 mortars and light guns, plus piles of guns and shells.

At dawn, a group of soldiers of the Free Legion held a solemn flag-raising ceremony in front of the municipal building in Freiburg, and on this sunless morning, the Red Flag of the Free Empire appeared publicly for the first time over the cities of mainland Germany. Except that the flag is identical to the flag of the Third Reich with the traditional iron cross symbol, the battle flag is a strong hint at a glance that the citizens of Freiburg who witnessed the flag-raising ceremony were silent, and the love-hate entanglement of ordinary people for the return of the empire can be seen in their eyes full of mixed emotions. The Third Reich had brought them hope and glory, but also fear and destruction, and they hoped and feared the repetition of that time after being notified of the occupation by the Allies and then the Soviet Union.

Lynn could understand the mood of ordinary Germans, and Freiburg's structure and terrain were not as defensible as Salzburg's, in addition to sending a guard detachment to stay behind the Soviet fortress, Lynn soon fled with the main force into the Black Forest Mountains, which were more than 100 kilometers long from north to south and 60 kilometers wide from east to west. Just a few hours after they had withdrawn, Soviet mobile units of tanks, armoured vehicles and troop carriers arrived in Freiburg, and after careful combat reconnaissance, they entered the city before dusk and reoccupied the town, forcing the people of Freiburg to accept two distinct red flags raised over their heads on the same day. Immediately afterward, the sound of heavy gunfire and explosions reverberated through the fort area to the east of the city, and the defenders, with full preparation, took advantage of the defense of the military fort until the second half of the night, and the Soviets would have had to pay a greater price to retake it had it not been for the destruction of its complete structure by previous blasting.

The battle of Freiburg lasted only 30 hours from Lynn's attack on the Soviet fortress to the evacuation of the last freedom fighters, but the news of the Reich's resurrection was like lightning piercing the night, and soon the whole of Germany learned of the shocking news. Three years and nine months, more than 1,300 days and nights, speculation and rumors again and again have one day become a reality within reach, and people are a little overwhelmed. The German puppet government supported by the Soviet Union immediately issued a statement and a proclamation announcing that a handful of remnants of the former Third Reich had launched a failed armed coup d'état in western Germany, and that the righteous men of Germany would not allow this situation to deteriorate against the tide of history, and that in accordance with the military mutual assistance agreement signed between the German government and the Soviet Union, the Soviet army would assist the German government to exterminate this gang of outlaws to a limited extent. In order to prove that the German people are on the stand of justice, the Berlin government also organized citizen demonstrations in many places, and the number of participants in the demonstrations was quite large, but the atmosphere was far less than the previous demonstrations against the delay in the withdrawal of Soviet troops, and the majority of the German people still chose to look at the government's call from behind the window. …,

Statements, proclamations, marches, oaths, and means to influence the position of the people have all been used, but the army controlled by the German puppet government is only pretending to assemble in the Black Forest, and those trembling leaders know very well the mental outlook of this German ** team, and it is inefficient to send them to exterminate ordinary resisters, and to deal with the rebel forces with the background of the Third Reich is simply to provide weapons and soldiers to the other side, and the real attack has to rely on the invincible Soviet army that fights all over Europe. Soon, a large number of Soviet troops rushed to the Black Forest region from strategic positions such as Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, and the destruction of bridges, railways and other transportation facilities by the resistance could no longer greatly delay their advance, and on the fourth day after the end of the Battle of Freiburg, the 180th Infantry Division and the 97th Infantry Division of the Soviet Army entered the Black Forest from Freiburg and Flenbach respectively. Several other Soviet units also operated in a distancing manner, intending to cut the Black Forest Mountains into discrete parts and thus compress the opponent's guerrilla space. In the first few days, the weather in Württemberg was dominated by cloudy and sunny weather, Lynn's troops completely disappeared into the dense forest, the Soviet army could not wait to announce that the encirclement and suppression operation had achieved a phased victory after completing the initial deployment, and the regular troops of a dozen divisions were useless to deal with the more than 1,000 remnants of the Reich, and the propaganda apparatus of the Berlin government was busy waving its flags and shouting.

During the same period, the Soviet government threatened military action to force the Italian government to announce the blockade of the northern border between Italy and Austria in order to cut off the smuggling channels of the "insurgents" in Austria from receiving personnel and equipment support from Italy.