After dawn, tens of thousands of Allied troops arrived at Nuremberg, and the whole city was placed under martial law.

With a radius of several tens of kilometers of railway bridges and railroad tracks damaged by blasting, the US and British troops stationed in Bamberg, Bayreuth, Würzburg, Ingolstadt, and other places gathered in just a few hours by road, and the first-class mobilization efficiency was not only a reflection of the degree of mechanization of the army. Without a thorough plan, more than 20 troops and thousands of military vehicles would likely have blocked several major transportation routes around Nuremberg.

Refusing to submit to inspections, possessing weapons, and even deliberately disrupting order were punished, and the unprecedentedly draconian measures were broadcast to the inhabitants of Nuremberg through loudspeakers on telephone poles and mobile loudspeakers on the roofs of Allied vehicles, and the occasional gunfire was an unequivocal warning to the Germans who were not at ease.

The wind and snow continued to abate, the Allied tanks and armored vehicles were firmly in control of the communication arteries around Nuremberg and the tactical control points in the city, and the fierce infantry searched street by street and house by house under the cover of machine guns, and even the small cellars where potatoes were stored, and countless suspicious boxes, cabinets, and partition compartments were forcibly pried open, and the Allied officers and soldiers had the momentum to turn the entire city upside down.

Outside the Nuremberg train station, German residents watched as Allied soldiers carried out the bodies of their comrades, rumored to have been spared by dozens of U.S. officers and soldiers stationed there last night, and the attackers were portrayed as killers from hell. The Allied personnel were still trying to find the truth, and many German residents had already come into contact with the truth directly or indirectly - they did not necessarily know the main inside story, and they did not necessarily support the resurgence of the Third Reich, but no one exposed it in advance, no one obstructed it, and no one reported it afterwards, which shows the special mentality of the German people.

A large number of American and British troops were still busy around Nuremberg, and the slowest task forces that had evacuated the prison by midnight were twenty kilometers away from the city of Nuremberg. Seemingly stealthy on foot, the speed was not fast enough to outwit the reacting allies. In fact, each task force used transport in a way that was tailored to local conditions, and even covering a limited portion of the distance by car or sled had a positive effect on the speed of evacuation. At 0:00 a.m., the second team under the command of Wiesenfeld had already arrived in the small town of Eichstedt, northwest of Munich, which meant that they had trekked 60 kilometers in less than 11 hours, and most of the distance was covered with deep snow and easy to get lost.

On a hillside overlooking the town, Wiesenfeld ordered a rest, and three sleds, all pulled by two horses, came to an end. The athletic night fighter jumped off the sleigh with ease, and the task force in white camouflage suits quickly dispersed the vigilance. The mountains and forests were filled with the sound of whistling winds, the hot air exhaled by people and horses formed a white mist and quickly dissipated, the horses gasped heavily, and every now and then made a loud nose, and the passengers with special status on the sleigh huddled together to keep each other warm. The cold of Bavaria is far less than that of the Russian hinterland, but it is still enough to spend the night in the field in the middle of winter, but fortunately, these pampered military and political officials have already tasted the cold life in the Allied prisons, and they still have a certain resistance to such harsh conditions. Realizing that the sleigh had stopped, Jodel, who was a soldier, looked up and took a slight look at the environment, Keitel barely opened his eyes, and realized that there was no danger around him, so he closed his eyes again, and the rest of the people were sleeping with the fat Imperial Marshal Herman. Goering was still snoring skillfully.

A few hundred meters ahead of the sleigh stop, there is a wooden cabin in the woods, Wiesenfeld waves his left arm, and the three task forces leave the group, moving cautiously and lightly like foraging snow leopards. In just ten minutes, they quietly crossed the woodland behind the snow to the outside of the wooden house, one took out a handkerchief and went to the main entrance, one leaned against a tree with a gun to provide close fire support at any time, and the other went around to the back of the house to prepare to answer.

Hundreds of meters away, Wiesenfeld narrowed his eyes and stared intently in the direction of the cabin. Outsiders only thought that the operation had been smooth sailing, but they did not know that this task force with a secret mission had taken every step of the way since it arrived at the mainland from the sea, and it was only then that it was able to reach Nuremberg without concealing the Allied garrisons and eyelines that were densely packed with Germany. Now that he has rescued the big man, every step on the way back is even more cautious and walking on thin ice. …,

Following the agreed signal, the people in the cabin opened the door and walked out of the house, and the task force who touched the door also made a "everything is normal" gesture after quickly checking the situation in the house, and Wiesenfeld finally breathed a sigh of relief and directed the task force to protect the three horse-drawn sleds to the cabin.

Stopping and moving, Herman sat on the first sleigh. Goering finally woke up, wiped the corners of his mouth, stood up as if nothing happened, the velvet blanket shook, the cold air made the fat man shiver, and quickly tightened the blanket and asked the leader Wiesenfeld: "Hey, lieutenant, where is this?" Which of your previous mysteries can now be revealed, right? ”

Wiesenfeld pretended not to hear, but the always arrogant Imperial Marshal, seeing that these were not like the underground resistance but should be orthodox soldiers, he repeated it without fear, not at all fearing that his loud voice would be heard by the dissidents in the town below the mountain.

No matter how bad Goering's current situation is, he was once the second man in the Third Reich, so Wiesenfeld had to stop, turned to face the sleigh, and said: "Sir, it is not very safe to talk here, the wooden house in front of us is a temporary resting place that we have arranged in advance, please go there and rest for a while!" We will check the situation outside and try to take the most reliable route to protect everyone to a truly safe place. ”

Although the words were perfunctory, Goering looked up and saw the wooden house in front of him, his eyes suddenly brightened, and he no longer tried to ask, and happily patted to the side: "Oh! Finally went to the place to warm up and drink water and eat! ”

If there is no one next to the Marshal of the Reich, it is Ernst who is unlucky. Kaltenbruner, the leader of the Austrian Nazi Party, suddenly woke up from his sleep, thinking that he had been arrested by the Allies, and almost rolled off the sleigh. Saukel was also tossed awake, and the head of the labor of the Third Reich muttered something very dissatisfied, and before the people from a distance could hear it, Goering burst out laughing, and stretched out his other fleshy hand to pat Saukel's buttocks, and this funny act finally drew laughter - before reaching the door of the hut, the small group of three sleds was lively. The big guys didn't look like they had been in the same prison for more than half a year, they were like old colleagues who hadn't seen each other for many days, greeting each other politely, teasing, and feeling that they had returned to the world of freedom from the hell of suffering overnight, and they couldn't wait to enjoy every second of their lives. Wiesenfeld and his soldiers had been very vigilant and on guard, and when the big mouths shouted, well, anyone who fell asleep within a radius of several kilometers would be woken up. Reprimand? Wiesenfeld didn't have the courage to do so, so he prayed and urged everyone to speed up, and finally drove the group of Imperial dignitaries wrapped in blankets into the wooden house, and the night soldier lieutenant still did not dare to take it lightly, and he sent a full twelve soldiers to deploy a wide range of guard. The soldiers who participated in the attack on the prison also had a bumpy night, and at this time they had to drag their tired bodies to stand guard for the big leaders who had more than enough to accomplish and more than to lose.

Looking out over the small German town shrouded in wind and snow from afar, there is no sign of vehicle activity on the naked eye in such bad weather. At present, Germany mainland is under the occupation and control of the Western Allied forces, and although the state governments retain the old structure, they mainly cooperate with the Allied forces to maintain local order, control the German population, and arrest those who escape. Similar to the German occupations of Poland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway, the Allied forces did not have troops in every German town—they controlled major cities, transportation hubs, and industrial facilities in various regions of Germany with limited troops, and the towns were often staffed only by overseers. The vast majority of these supervisors were Allied personnel with military rank and rank, some of whom were assigned to squad- and platoon-sized units to enforce law and order, while others served on their own, monitoring the movements of the local population and reporting regularly to their superiors by telephone. In a small city like Eichstedt, with a population of several thousand, the Allied garrison was in a vulnerable state, and they were probably having a headache with the broken lines of communication - one of the cover measures of the Nuremberg operation was to mobilize the German people to sabotage the Allied telephone lines, and unlike the underground resistance in the German-occupied areas during World War II, they did not trap the Allied line repairers, but repeatedly sabotaged them during this specific period, using the home field to distract the Allied forces. …,

Seeing that the town was calm and sound, Wiesenfeld exhaled heavily, and his hanging heart could finally relax a little. It's just that at first, he was ordered to escort as many as six imperial dignitaries, especially a super-heavyweight like Goering, and he was so proud and excited, which is a great irony to think about it at this time. At this time, the wood was already in the boat, and he had no choice but to push the door and enter the wooden house.

The fireplace had already been lit by the personnel in charge of the reception, and the six "great gods" of Goering, Keitel, Jodl, Kaltenbruner, Saukel, and Frank were all wrapped in blankets and sitting around the fireplace with hot coffee, and the fattest Imperial Marshal occupied the best position, and the other five could only sit around without complaint.

"Sir!" Wiesenfeld said with a different heart, "I have been very short of time and have not taken care of me all the way, and I hope you can understand. For the record, I am Lieutenant Wiesenfeld of the Night Battalion of the Imperial Guard, and I am now the commando leader of Task Force 2 of Operation Nuremberg, and I am now fully responsible for your personal safety until you are completely out of danger. ”

"Oh, Imperial Guard, what's that?"

Wiesenfeld could guess the identity of the speaker with his toes when the voice sounded from the fireplace, a tone of arrogance and contempt.

"The new units, which were formed by the merger of the Wehrmacht and the SS, which had been evacuated from the mainland to secret bases before the end of the war, basically inherited the organizational structure and military doctrine of the Wehrmacht and the SS, and were established as the ...... of the Army, the Navy and the Air Corps."

Before Wiesenfeld could finish speaking, the voice unceremoniously interrupted him: "Who is the supreme commander of your Imperial Guard?" How many are there now? ”

"The question you asked was originally classified as top military secret, so you can't disclose it while you're in prison, and now it's ・・・・・・" Wiesenfeld looked at the several task forces present, who understood and temporarily led the intelligence response out of the door.

After a slight pause, the six "great gods" all turned their eyes to the night soldier lieutenant.

"The supreme commander is the great Reich Führer Hitler, and the total number of troops should be around 40,000 at present." Wiesenfeld replied quickly.

"What? The Führer ......" Goering looked incredulous, and the expressions of the other five were the same. It is no wonder that the "Aryan Ark Project" was arranged by the Führer, the "deceased" Marshal Rommel was responsible for the overall construction of the base, and the "Vampire" night commando headquarters was responsible for the secret transfer of retired personnel and materials. Goering, Himmler, Keitel and others would have been able to get a ticket if they had stayed with the Führer at the most critical moment in Berlin, but only Goebbels and his family showed absolute loyalty at the moment of life and death.

In order to prevent these former dignitaries who had been out of the core of the empire for nearly a year and a half from continuing to ask some difficult questions, Wiesenfeld simply gaged them in a preemptive voice: "With my level, there is only so much I can reveal to you, please understand!" ”

Having been whetted alive, Goering and the others were immediately in great pain because their curiosity could not be satisfied, and they glared and talked quietly and passionately, and Wiesenfeld took advantage of the situation to go to the door, opened the door and let the task force and the intelligence service personnel return to the house, and pulled the scumbag-faced, about forty years of age, to ask the west about the surroundings and the retreat route. According to Lynn's plan, the evacuees could rest for a few hours at a safe pick-up point on the outskirts of Eichstedt, and choose to operate in bad weather, as the physical exertion of men and horses was greater than usual, and the weather was bound to affect the Allies' alert and manhunt operations on the periphery. After a short break, they continued their journey in the direction of Munich in a horse-drawn sleigh, but did not end up in Munich, but went to the Wittesbach family's holiday estate on the eastern shore of Lake Steinberg, the headquarters of the Nuremberg operation.

At the same time, another squad also stopped to replenish their strength. Compared with Goering and others sitting in front of the fireplace, the two "little gods" protected by this group of task forces, Albert . Speer and Baldu. Feng. Schirach can only replenish his calories with warm chocolate. The rugged mountain road they took eventually led to the complex Bohemian Mountains, which are located in the Czech Republic to the east and Germany in the west, and are not as famous as the Alps, but also have spectacular landscapes and towering mountains. …,

With the help of his companions, he unfolded the map to confirm his location and correct his bearings, and walked up to the two men, who were not the most dazzling figures in the old structure of the Third Reich. Their expertise, experience, reputation and personality do not belong to the same type, but their ages are relatively close, and they are in the prime of life and full of physical fitness, so this section of more than ten kilometers of driving and more than ten kilometers of mountain roads down, the physical condition of the two is also quite passable.

"Can I take a break and continue walking?" With Lynn's advice in front, Handmark took extra care of them.

Speer and von. Schirach looked at each other, and the former replied, "No problem, Lieutenant Colonel." Can you tell us what kind of situation we are in? You see, we have been in the prisons of the allies for a long time, and all we have heard and seen is information that the allies have allowed us to access, and we do not have a comprehensive understanding of the real situation in the outside world. ”

Handmark replied: "The purpose of this operation is to rescue the imprisoned important figures of the Empire from the hands of the Allies, and the order of action is signed by the Führer himself. General Gargo was in command, and as you can see, we breached the prison and freed you, and then dispersed and evacuated as planned, ending up at a secret base outside Germany. As for the rest, everything will be revealed when you get there safely. ”

"You are talking about the Führer・・・・・・" von. Schirach was already stunned, and when Handmark nodded his guess, the guy was even more dumbfounded. Speer's reaction was much calmer, by contrast, and with his close friendship with Hitler, it was not at all like the surprise of a normal person to hear that an old friend was still alive - the reason is not complicated, either the person had changed his "heart" or knew it beforehand.

The soldiers have the physique of soldiers, but they are not iron-clad, carrying weapons and equipment on their backs for hours on mountain roads, Handmark's task force members are also seizing the time to rest, the lieutenant colonel who has opened his eyes in North America calmly sat down next to Speer, took out a chocolate block from his pocket that was heated by body temperature, and chewed it in small bites.

"Can you tell us how we plan the rest of our journey?" Since the topic of "Führer", Speer's tone has changed slightly when he speaks again.

Some topics need to be avoided, others are not, and Handmark said, "It should be a difficult journey!" The Bohemian Mountains, the Erzgeirge, arrive at the Elbe River and go down the river, and finally board the submarine in Hamburg. ”

Speer did not seem to have an opinion on such an answer, and then he asked: "What is the general situation outside?" ”

Hundermark also knew all about this: "The Western Allies and the Soviet Union have been at war for several months, the fighting is unprecedented, the Allies have the advantage in the air and sea, the Soviet army has repeatedly launched strong counterattacks and annihilation wars on land, and it is reported that both sides have released a large number of German prisoners of war for auxiliary or secondary military operations." ”

Having received these extraordinary messages for a short time, Speer did not ask questions, but looked meaningfully in the direction of Berlin in the distance. Clear