Chapter 76: The Pass
Taking advantage of the shift off, Lynn drove to Oldenburg, the headquarters of the Baath Party. Stupf had already left for Berlin with his assistants. Pondering the wording of Stupf's personal letters, it is not difficult for Lynn to see that the leader of the local party has high aspirations and expectations for running in politics, which reminds him of the story of Yoshimoto Imagawa. During his forty-year career, the eastern prince of Japan's Warring States period fully demonstrated his outstanding ability to be brave and resourceful, both military and political, but he was accidentally killed on the way to Kyoto and conquer the world. It was not an old enemy of similar strength who killed him, but a deviant and weak prince like Oda Nobunaga. It can be said that the Battle of Barrel Sasama became the cornerstone of Oda Nobunaga's world's Buwu, and at the same time erased the outstanding achievements of Imagawa Yoshimoto for half of his life, which is a typical representative of capsizing in the gutter.
Stupf is certainly not Yoshimoto Imagawa, and Berlin is not a barrel, but too high expectations tend to paralyze people in small matters. Now Germany is once again involved in the war, but not for victory and conquest. The flames of war are still burning outside the borders, and the people's desire is to rebuild their homes and recuperate in a stable environment. The primary political task of the Interim Government of Papen during the transitional period. After decades of Hitler's rule, the National Socialist Party was the dominant party. Babben and Shakht organized the interim government with a summit mandate without party or faction, and with an eye to universal suffrage at the end of the year, they will inevitably develop and strengthen their forces, actively win over and unite various local factions, and strive to win a majority of seats in the elections. However, the Baath Party is not an ordinary local party, it is based on the ideological line of the National Socialist Party, and it is very expansive and aggressive in nature, and if the current authorities in power in Germany recognize this, it is not impossible to eradicate this dangerous cancer in advance.
The core elders of the Baath Party are the ten members of the Supreme Council, and they do not all stay at the headquarters in Oldenburg on weekdays to drink tea and read newspapers, but also go to the regions and regions as special inspectors to inspect and guide the activities of the party. This time, Lynn only met Heinz, who was in charge of finance. Gottez and Yubert, who coordinates the affairs of the headquarters. Rauch, both of them are over fifty years old, the former is not like the usual impression of Mr. Bookkeeper, burly body, vigorous posture more like a boxer, the latter looks more old, slower temperament, I think it is more stable.
No matter how detailed the narrative of a written report is, it is sometimes less detailed than an interview. Ceiling fans, wooden chairs, herbal tea, the three of them politely sat together and chatted, not to mention the rapid changes in understanding each other, it can be regarded as an intentional start. In the current situation, their conversation, in addition to partisan development and the political situation, is the cloud of nuclear war that no one can predict. The two party elders felt that if the Allies suffered another defeat in the Eastern European theater, the Soviets, who had no illusions of peace, would launch a counteroffensive at any cost, and if the war moved westward to Germany, this country with a limited land area and a relatively dense population would be at risk of a nuclear attack.
Nuclear war is terrible, but nothing is more terrible than the fear in people's hearts. After recovering from her deep apprehensions, Lynn pondered whether she could turn the bad situation into an opportunity to raise the party's profile in a positive way. After telling Gottez and Lawch about the idea, the two senators thought it was feasible, but they didn't know where to start for a while.
After a day in Oldenburg, Lynn, in the name of deputy leader of the party, roughly consulted the information on income and expenditure, personnel statistics, and affairs reports. It can be seen that when the number of party members was only 20,000 or 30,000, the Baath Party headquarters was already a small and well-organized organization, and the limited funds were used in the most critical places, but now the number of official party members exceeds 70,000, the number of candidates for joining the party has reached 190,000, and the scale of funds and staff has increased substantially. …,
Of course, a party modelled on the National Socialist Party was not limited to conformist elements, and the Baath Party also built its own armed force, the "Progressive League", modeled after the SS. It doesn't matter whether the name of the team is strong or not, don't look at the fact that there are only more than 100 people at present, but they have all been tempered by the bloody battlefield, including paratroopers, mountain soldiers, sailors, armored soldiers, artillery and even pilots. In addition, the secret arsenal of the Baath Party had enough men to equip an infantry regiment, and the reserves were quite sufficient - men between the ages of fifteen and sixty and who were basically healthy had participated in the military training of the national combat battalions, and these men, although armed were not comparable to the regular army, were more than enough to serve as political protection or striking force, and if they could be selected and rigorously trained, they could create a small SS!
At the end of his trip to Oldenburg, Lynn was going to return to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but a telegram from the Reich on an urgent communication channel forced him to turn around and leave for Bremen. Now his 7th Squadron Command and Evan Command. For some time, with the strategic funds provided by the Imperial base camp, the headquarters of the Formation Brigade acquired a number of trading enterprises to serve as shelters for officers and soldiers and the interface of material transfer with Northern Europe, and Kernin's propaganda team built a fairly large media network by acquiring more than 30 newspapers and radio stations. They operated silently in their respective duties, constantly extending their invisible tentacles into various fields, prudently searching for and contacting former comrades-in-arms, and laying the cornerstone for the next move of the large army.
Later that day, in the spacious and bright conference room of Task Force 7 Headquarters, the Free Forest Trading Company, Lynn confronted his colleagues in civilian attire, who had also lost their uniforms. Here, Lieutenant Colonel Enslen, who had been transferred from the special operations unit, served as the first deputy commander and was actually in charge of the operation of this command. Kernin also served as the Task Force's Communications and Communications Officer, while the rest of the personnel were the most resourceful elite of the Task Force and the Special Operations Team.
"Six hours ago, I received definite news from the Imperial base camp that the Guards had annihilated one company each of the Norwegian Army and the transport ships that transported them to the north for landing in Tromsø and Narvik the night before, although our combat casualties were negligible, but the sound of guns and artillery put an end to the good times in Tromsø, and the Norwegian army's operation had forced us to the point of no return, so the next development of events is very likely to deteriorate, and the base camp asks us to prepare accordingly!" Lynn spoke evenly to explain the situation to her subordinates.
"The Norwegian army is not to be feared, the key is the attitude of the Western allies led by the United States and Britain and the Soviet Union, if they realize that Tromsø is controlled by the troops of the Third Reich, will they quickly reach an understanding and cease the war and turn their heads to concentrate their forces on us?" Lieutenant Colonel Enslen spoke the minds of everyone present, and this was also a long-standing concern for Lynn.
Lynn responded: "The attitude of the Western Allies is now the most elusive, but it is the Soviet Union...... As far as I know, the Imperial Base Camp has reached a secret cooperation agreement with them in a special way, and once the Nordic countries declare independence from Norway, it is unlikely that the Soviets will be involved, after all, they have been enraged by the American atomic bomb from top to bottom, and now negotiating an armistice with the Western allies is simply a peace with the enemy who killed his family, and the hardness of the Slavic nation is unacceptable. ”
Lieutenant Colonel Enslen nodded in understanding, and then asked, "Even if only the Western Allies put in their forces, their naval and marine divisions are enough to capture Narvik and Tromsø, what can we do?" Assault on the Allied Command in Europe? ”…,
"Yes, to the point!" Lynn looked around at the crowd, "With our current strength, the only way to share the pressure on the base camp is the most effective - we must do our best to destroy the command structures of the Western allies in Europe, so that they lose their brain centers for a certain period of time, and buy time for the precipitation of the situation in Northern Europe." If the Soviet army took advantage of this opportunity to launch a counteroffensive, it would be more able to contain the forces of the Western allies. ”
Wolrich, who was mainly responsible for intelligence gathering and analysis and operational strategy planning at the headquarters, said in a cold tone: "Our enemy has learned the experience of the Battle of Nuremberg, their European Command has been on strict alert, and even set up false targets of two headquarters in the same city, and the real command is set up in the military barracks that are completely blocked around the perimeter, so the difficulty of this operation is far greater than that of the Nuremberg operation." ”
Lynn's eyes naturally turned to this old comrade-in-arms, and in order to cope with Goering's escort along the way, he and his task force encountered an unimaginable dilemma in the mountains and forests south of Württemberg, and the entire team lost more than half of its men, and the remnants of the officers and soldiers survived thanks to the rescue of local German residents. Judging from his tone and demeanor, the experience of nine deaths did not make him cowardly and fearful, but made him more resilient and rational.
"Yes, the attack on the Allied Command in Europe was a repeated attempt and failure by the Soviet side, and they should have tried all kinds of conventional and unconventional methods, so we must not only make full use of our unique advantages this time, but also think outside the conventional thinking." Lynn made a simple gesture, "The enemy's bullets hiding in the shell are out of reach, so let's lure them out and deal them a fatal blow in the process of movement!" ”
"But how can we lure the enemy out?" Lieutenant Colonel Enslen's expression seemed to say: The Allied generals are not wild ducks in the bushes, and they will fly out in the morning to target the hunters when they are harassed by the hounds.
Lynn snapped her fingers: "This is still the crux of the matter - fortunately, I happen to know that the senior commanders of the European European Forces will soon be visiting Germany and the Netherlands to inspect the formation of the army, and the United States and Britain have invested heavily in this regard." ”
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