Imperial Firmament

In the Reich's "refuge" base, open fire control regulations prevented officers and soldiers from using stove bonfires inside under any circumstances, and it was almost impossible to cook under the sī, but after the siege of the Soviet landing force, the opening of the territory of Tromsø, and the focus of the outside world on the European continent, the atmosphere in the base gradually changed. The successive relocation of factories and the strategy of sending soldiers and civilians to Tromsø to consolidate the occupation position have reduced the number of permanent residents here by more than half, and the number of people has also been greatly reduced, military training day after day, and the level of food in the canteen of officers and soldiers has not been reduced, but people always feel that something is missing. Taking advantage of their leisure on weekdays, the officers and men of the night battalion built some "entertainment facilities" in this remote cave, including a low-power oven made by using the engine of an abandoned vehicle, and when they catch up with the anniversary or a few officers and soldiers celebrate their birthdays, they will use it to bake a cake or something, and if they have the opportunity to go out on patrol at night, catch a few fish and get some game, and it is also interesting to have a small piece of game for each person. In this way, Lynn was able to eat grilled fish and barbecue meat "lucky" in the base, but it was difficult to enjoy the quantity. By the time Tromsø, the Governor's territory, such restraints ceased to exist.

On the northern shore of the fjord, southeast of the port of Tromsø, a military camp nominally belonging to the "Tromsø security camp" has been established, and the night camp has been able to become the first real occupants.

Due to the transfer of half of the troops to North America, at this time the night battalion in addition to the 3 companies are fully equipped, the 2 companies and the armored company are incomplete, in the case of the defense of the base must be taken into account, Lynn from the 2 company, the armored company each transferred a whole platoon, plus the three platoons of the 3 companies and the reserve company, a total of 380 night battle commandos were assembled, and the remaining 120 people were not drawn, Lynn made full use of these places to draw elites from the engineering, artillery, submarine, flight, and radio of the Imperial Guard, Most of the people who know each other or are recommended by friends have become part of the operation force. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Handmark, an "all-round officer" who was transferred back from North America not long ago, his classmate and roommate of the officer class, Wolrich, and his old subordinate Tanze were also brought under his command. According to the wartime organization, 500 men is close to the size of an infantry battalion, and Lynn's carefully selected special operations force is far more than an ordinary battalion in every way.

Following the official orders of the Imperial Headquarters, the operational unit was named Task Force 7, and Lynn, who also served as the Chief Strategic Staff Officer of the Headquarters and the Governor of Tromsø, was given a third new position, a full-fledged "real position". Perhaps it was Lynn's consistent performance that earned the trust of the higher-ups, or perhaps the complexity of the operation that made it difficult for them to intervene directly, but Lynn was given absolute command of the task force, and he was able to group the troops and make personnel appointments as he wished. The task force consisted of four combat detachments and two support detachments, and the brothers who came out of the Vampire Night Commando were naturally entrusted with the important task, and they occupied the position of commander of three combat detachments and one support detachment, Handmark, who had extensive experience in staff command and had received nearly a year of experience with Bach, was appointed by Lynn as commander of the fourth combat detachment, and Lieutenant Colonel Kharnick, a radio specialist, became the commander of the second support detachment.

Instilled his own planning intentions and operational ideas into the minds of the detachment commanders, and the designated personnel were all transported from the base to Tromsø - 6 small submarines and 4 medium submarines were transported in turn, and it took six days to complete the transportation of more than 100 nautical miles, and Lynn calculated in turn that if the 500 men and a large amount of combat equipment were to be transported from northern Norway to Hamburg, even if two-thirds of the submarines remaining in the base were put into transportation, the whole process would take a month and a half. A range of 1,300 nautical miles also means a lot of fuel consumption and incalculable equipment losses, and the overall probability of mechanical failure is quite staggering. It seems that the higher-ups did not fully consider this aspect of the difficulties when they agreed to the proposal, and given that the intelligence chief Andriy played a crucial role in facilitating it, it is not difficult for Lynn to understand why this oversight could exist in plain sight.

Having the approval of the Führer and Field Marshal Rommel, Lynn decided from the very beginning to carry out the operation in his own way. The local intelligence group of the intelligence department quickly moved from the base to Tromsø as a whole according to his request, and Lynn vacated plenty of space for them in the castle, where all the necessary communication equipment for intelligence work was available, and it also had an incomparable advantage of the base, that is, the "small Trojan" buried in the British army's integrated communications base station. The infrastructure of the base station was built at the request of the British side by the "local laborers of Tromsø", and the workers also helped the British a lot in the process of equipment transportation and installation. …,

In the era of computers, the analysis and projection of action plans were carried out entirely by human resources. In order to better control the situation, Lynn integrated the home intelligence group with the human resources of the 7th Task Force Command and the Tromsø Occupation Army Staff to form a temporary organization similar to the campaign headquarters, and commissioned the Occupation Army Staff to produce large light control maps and miniature sand tables. The integration of the three departments inevitably led to the run-in of new machines at the beginning of operation, and the local intelligence group under the intelligence department always resisted intentionally or unintentionally. Lynn was not reckless, but rather from the head of the intelligence unit, Klaus Brown, who held a mid-level position in the former German secret police's domestic intelligence service. Lieutenant Colonel Siegel starts. This veteran of the "Gestapo" is said to be a ruthless fellow who carries a blood debt on the blood of the Jews, and if this notorious person is arrested by the Allies, he is afraid that he will be executed without trial. In Lynn's philosophy, the revival of the empire should be rebuilt and away from racial slaughter, and people like Siegel can be reused if they can change their minds, but in the process of contact, he realizes that this guy has no idea of repentance at all, but feels that the methods used back then are not thorough enough. Hundreds of thousands of Jews are living in Palestine, and calls for a Jewish state are growing, and Siegel, as the head of local intelligence, is very interested in this situation. Lynn felt that if he gave this guy an atomic bomb, he would probably take it to the Palestinian area and detonate it without thinking, and the result was unimaginable!

Although Lynn is very disgusted with Siegel's ideas, he is after all a key figure in the current local intelligence agency, and many of the intelligence agents and intelligence points lurking in the homeland are only operated through his liaison and deployment, and the Führer has also praised him several times, and it is difficult to replace this guy with a more reliable person, at least in the short term. Through constant contact with public occasions, Lynn found that Siegel was not taken seriously because he was older than Andriy and had higher qualifications than the other party, but he did not dare to go against Andri's will because of Andri's sophisticated skills and deep background. Not only did he give Siegel warm praise verbally, but he also managed to win a commendation for Siegel after the operation was signed, and he was promoted to colonel and awarded the Führer's Gold Imperial Medal for his intelligence work. Long before that, Andriy had been promoted to major general for his contribution to the assassination of Stalin, and Siegel's promotion only maintained the original gap, and the age, status, and social skills of the two sides were destined to be irreversibly driven. As a result, the more Lynn praised and praised him, the more the imbalance in Siegel's heart became more and more profound, and this is when the benefits of relocating the local intelligence group to Tromsø became apparent. Unable to be comforted by Andriy in person, Siegel began to demonstrate a change in his stance with his actions—the Native Intelligence Group gradually became a fitting link in the operational command structure, and even actively provided impetus for its operation......

In an operation to go deep into the "enemy's territory" to rescue one's own personnel, the details of the intelligence work in the early stage have a direct bearing on the success or failure of the operation, and there is no room for any sloppiness in the execution of the operation troops. Although the officers and men of Task Force 7 had actual combat experience during the war, and many of them also participated in the annihilation of the Soviet landing force, there was only one actual battle in more than a year, and the rustiness of combat skills was inevitable. After assembling in the barracks southeast of Tromsø, they actively carried out basic training, conducting combat drills at least twice a week, and the scope and content of the drills gradually approached actual combat. There are two secret towns southeast of Tromsø and on the north shore of the Velta Gorge, both of which are used to imprison the indigenous Norwegians in and around Tromsø, who have been graciously placed under house arrest and worked as light labourers in factories that produce non-military supplies. The "Tromsø Security Battalion," whose total strength has been expanded to more than 3,000 people, specially dispatched a large number of troops to come, and they transformed the appearance of these two secret towns separated by more than 20 kilometers, so that the southern town was close to the surrounding environment of Nuremberg Prison in terms of layout, and the northern town became the Allied Battalion on the outskirts of Nuremberg, and the officers and men of the security battalion wore cloth strips to play the role of Allied guards.

During the first full training session, 500 contingent members set out from the camp in two routes, marching more than 50 kilometres, evading the security camp's guard posts, lookout posts and patrols to the outskirts of the town. Under the cover of night, the main force of the night battle entered the southern town with a lightning offensive, blasted the outer wall of the "prison", seized the defenders' firepower, and firmly controlled the traffic points around the prison, while covering the troops to ambush the enemy reinforcements by the road leading to the outside world in the northern town. This was the most preliminary and simple plan of the Nuremberg operation, and the close to actual combat drill was to verify the feasibility of this tactic, and Lynn took the main personnel of the intelligence group and the staff to the scene to watch the battle. Within half an hour, the night troops took control of the prison, and the covering troops equipped with machine guns, anti-tank rocket launchers, and pre-planted mines also resisted the enemy's reinforcements within the specified time limit, and the casualties calculated in the exercise mode were also at a relatively satisfactory level, and the only accident on the scene came from the Norwegian residents who were detained here, who heard the sound of gunfire and thought that their own troops had come to the rescueDozens of them took advantage of the defensive loopholes they found on weekdays and the passages they actively dug to dig out the place of detention, but when they went to the streets to find that everyone around them was in German uniform, the only difference was that a group of people had white cloth strips tied to their arms and a group of people did not, and the look on their faces left a deep impression on Lynn. So the drill was suspended for an hour and a half, and both the attacker and the defender were engaged in the operation of arresting the Norwegians, fortunately there were not many Norwegians who escaped, and those who tried to hide in the shadows to avoid the search were quickly carried out by the German commandos who used infrared night vision devices, and there was no armed resistance and no serious casualties, after the situation was satisfactorily resolved, the attacking and defending sides continued the exercise according to their previous positions, and the "Allied troops" who came to support from the northern towns also stayed outside the city for an hour and a half. …,

A successful offensive did not mean a smooth operation, and the Nuremberg prison could not hold back the elite units of the German army, and the evacuation was much more complicated. Because the operation was launched on a snowy night, the Allies could not use their aircraft, but the well-established transportation facilities in Germany allowed their tanks and vehicles to move smoothly, and even if they destroyed the surrounding bridges at any cost, they could only have a very limited delay effect. From Nuremberg, the nearest border is between Germany and the Czech Republic, where the inhabitants hate the invaders of the past, only a few German residents may be able to help the contingent, and the journey to Austria or Switzerland requires a long journey, but the railways and roads are completely unusable, and the task force can only rely on pre-arranged routes through forests, mountains, and swamps to evacuate in the first place, otherwise they can only find a safe place to temporarily avoid the Allied search. Lynn's plan for an evacuation route was different from that of most officers, and he preferred to use the strategy of overt plank roads and dark warehouses, with some of the task forces evacuated in all directions to distract the Allied forces, while the main personnel and targets of the rescue hid in the Bavarian countryside and then traveled by rail line to northern Germany two to three weeks later, from where they boarded ships or submarines and departed.

Three weeks passed in a flash, and as the due date approached, Lynn's mind temporarily shifted from the Nuremberg operation back to Dinah. Because it was the first child, Dinah also seemed quite nervous, several abdominal pain made the delivery of the medical staff come to check overnight, fortunately the "wolf" did not affect the birth of the war, after a heavy snowfall, Lynn gorgeous drops upgraded to become a father, Dinah gave birth to a beautiful little princess for him, named "Mia" according to the family tradition and their common wishes.

Mia's birth and Dinah's safety made Lynn very happy, and after enjoying the warmth and happiness of her family, she was also full of enthusiasm to return to work. It is estimated that the Soviet army suffered more than 600,000 casualties in the autumn offensive, and the distance of the front can only be measured in kilometers, and the results of the Allied forces in defense are obvious to all. The German units on both sides were fighting for the first time, and they mainly played auxiliary roles on their respective fronts, and the top generals of the Eastern and Western camps also deliberately avoided direct clashes on the battlefield. It is worth noting that for the first time they put several types of surface-to-surface missiles on the battlefield, ranging from 200 to 1,000 kilometers, the power and accuracy have been significantly improved compared with the V-type rockets of the Third Reich. Feng. Braun. In fact, rather than rescuing Speer, Lynn would rather organize a risky raid to recapture the rocket experts who had been captured by the Allies, after all, rocket technology is the number one cornerstone of weapons development in the coming decades.

In North America, Lorentz. Bach's plan to enrich uranium was no less difficult than the Nuremberg operation, and when the night troops arrived, the operation entered an intensive implementation phase, and the operatives began to infiltrate the United States in batches. However, during this period, rumors that the Soviet army would destroy the atomic bomb production and assembly facilities of the allies suddenly appeared, which made the US military greatly strengthen the vigilance of the nuclear material production base, and the previous rail transportation mode was also adjusted, turning to the waterway to land transportation, using the lake water system in the northeastern United States as the main mode of transportation, thus avoiding the previously selected railway line of the imperial robbery plan, and the operation had to be adjusted, and the preliminary estimate will be delayed for at least two months. The difficult birth of the North American operation caused a change in the mentality of the supreme commander of the base camp, and although the Führer rarely called directly, Rommel conveyed the same effect - the demand became more urgent each time. Due to some details of the action plan, Lynn has traveled back and forth between the base and the port of Tromsø three times, in order to save time, but also under the guise of the Norwegian Army's opening of the original German army Narvik Airport, he was able to take a seaplane when the weather was better, thus saving a lot of time, but the British army's radar base station in Tromsø was miserable, the winter environment was already very harsh, and inexplicable mechanical failures often led to power outages, and they had to ask for help from home, It wasn't until the Navy ships brought in two backup generators that the situation improved, but the cooler temperatures had severely affected their radars, and the normal cruising of Allied ships in the Norwegian Sea had been significantly reduced by bad weather. RO！。