Chapter 20: The Fire of the Uprising

Every fighter has his or her own routine, and so does the battlefield commander. Lynn is adept at stunning his opponents with lightning-fast attacks, retreating quickly after defeat, and never getting overly entangled in the pursuit of results. In the raid west of Stuttgart, the Free Corps, which was dominated by Imperial soldiers and members of the Free Regiment, continued to carry out this line of thought, and after defeating the Soviet paratroopers, they quickly left the battle and withdrew into the nearby mountains and forests - west of Stuttgart, more than ten kilometers away from the city, these mountains and forests covered a total area of only a few hundred hectares, although it lacked the space of the Black Forest, but at least it could save the heroic and tenacious Imperial elite from the slaughter of Soviet fighters and the direct impact of Soviet tanks in broad daylight. The resistance around Stuttgart, on the other hand, was basically "part-timers" who could be mobilized to fight, and when they were disbanded, they could be reinstated as civilians, and it was easy to hide light weapons and the few munitions they had. So after dawn, when the surrounding Soviet troops arrived in a fierce manner, they found that the opponent who had made a lot of noise at night had disappeared!

Three airfields were attacked and damaged overnight, and the airborne troops assembled on standby also lost hundreds of combat strength in the defense and counterattack of the airfields. Dozens of fighter planes roared in and carried out a carpet search of the area around the battlefield in a low-altitude manner, and the heavily assembled ground troops counterattacked Stuttgart city on the one hand, and at the same time set up a posture around the attacked airfield to prepare for a tight dragnet sweep. In the Upper Rhine Valley, the Soviet offensive was still vigorous, and apart from the forced postponement of the airborne operation, the other aspects were largely unaffected by this small fire in the backyard.

By noon, a number of Soviet divisions had gathered around Stuttgart and surrounded the wooded area where Lynn's department was hiding; Soviet troops poured into the city of Stuttgart, seized the badly damaged Stuttgart railway station and launched a manhunt throughout the city. Lynn and the leaders of the underground resistance in Stuttgart had been mentally prepared for such a situation. Their warriors are not invincible Iron King Kong, nor are they super equipped with one to ten. You can only use your strengths and avoid weaknesses and win by outwitting. Before the sun goes down. Lynn and his elite troops had been retreating from the Soviets in the mountains and forests, and if the sunset of the day was delayed by two or three hours, they would have been in a desperate situation with nowhere to avoid, and once night fell. They had a firm goal and broke through to the south -- the night vision equipment had little power left, and their bodies were very tired from running around all day. The Soviet troops facing them were very strong, and the more than 200 soldiers once again burst out of their ultimate potential. The resistance in the Stuttgart area also showed admirable courage under the pressure of the Soviets, and they regrouped to meet Lynn's headquarters in the southern part of the mountain forest according to the plan. Under the attack from both sides. They successfully tore a breakthrough from the south of the Soviet encirclement. Then it was decisively broken into pieces, and with more than a dozen detachments that were mobile and easy to conceal, they advanced to seemingly different destinations.

The situation of the alarm everywhere made the Soviet command not sure what the other side's intentions were, and they came out of the most normal and banal reaction: dividing their forces to pursue and intercept everywhere.

Germany's territory is small, but now every inch of it has been the traditional territory of this people for hundreds of years, and the German soldiers are at ease in this familiar land, and the resistance personnel cooperate with the Free Corps to attack Soviet patrols and sentry posts all the way. With more courage than the Soviets expected, they re-attacked Yarrow and Manbello airfields, this time damaging and destroying very few Soviet planes. But psychologically it dealt a big blow to the Soviets. Around midnight, it was easy for Soviet commanders to discern from the reports of the battles that most of the enemy was advancing rapidly towards Lake Constance, and in that direction the dense woods and rolling hills on both sides of the Rhine would provide new hiding places for these loach-like raiders to survive the perilous long days and fight again at night. As a result, the order for an urgent transfer reached the Soviet garrison in the south of Württemberg, and even some of the mobile units reserved for the battle of the Upper Rhine Valley turned their heads to intercept these attackers of unknown number but very strong attack, but they did not wait for the opponent on the improvised cordon, and at dawn, all the fighting was invariably stopped, and the Soviet pilots who set off early could only see their own pursuing troops in a busy group, and the enemy was like a group of ghosts that could not see the sun, In the early morning it disappeared without a trace.........

For Lynn, battle-tested warriors are undoubtedly more valuable than any weapon, and their improvisation preserves vitality while allowing a plan that combines generalization and clarity to evolve the way it was envisioned. Of course, such an adventurous battle plan was so dangerous that he had to split his mini-headquarters into three to ensure that even two-thirds of them could not be properly dispatched, the troops could still achieve this great reversal.

On this sunny spring day, Lynn and his soldiers couldn't walk freely in the daylight, but that didn't mean they hibernated in some damp and dark cellar. With the help of the underground resisters, Lynn led more than forty soldiers to board a river cargo ship heading back from Lake Constance to Stuttgart, which had been requisitioned by the Soviets as a transport ship and had just been transporting a shipment of military supplies to the front line on Lake Constance. The crew described the non-stop sound of artillery from the other side of the lake, which shows the intensity of the fighting. There was a rare period of rest, the soldiers of the Freedom Corps were resting, Lynn also slept for a few hours, and the rest of the time was thinking about the changes in the battlefield and the corresponding adjustment of his next move. The concern for the war in the Upper Rhine Valley was not purely selfless, as the value of the Upper Rhine Valley had long since gone beyond the military itself, and its political significance was not a matter of importance to both the Soviet Union and the Empire, but to the fate of their respective countries. The Soviets did not hesitate to bring in the best commanders and the most elite troops, and the supply of supplies to maintain a large number of troops participating in the war was astronomical in itself, and the Reich also sent what they considered to be the best military commanders and the first regular army units to return to the European continent, which could be exchanged for continuous assistance from the Western Allies, and the imperial base camp must have given up on the corresponding strategy.

In Lynn's opinion, Manstein and the 1st Imperial Expeditionary Corps could be trusted. Manshuai's talent is not only due to his extraordinary strategy, but as an independent commander, he has also left many classic battles to the world. In terms of blitzkrieg, he did not have Guderian's prestige; Defensively, he doesn't have the same performance opportunities as Modell; In terms of fraud, he may not be as cunning as Rommel, but he is undoubtedly a very comprehensive commander, and his judgment of the battlefield is his magic weapon to turn the tide - because of this, Lynn willingly transferred the responsibility of the defense of the Upper Rhine Valley, and returned to Germany with a small elite force, in addition to harassing and containing, but also shouldering the mission of igniting the fire of German revenge!

Within two days, nearly half of Lynn's soldiers were able to return to Stuttgart using German river boats requisitioned by the Soviets, while the rest continued to feint towards Lake Constance. In accordance with the plan previously agreed with the leaders of the resistance groups in Stuttgart, they each sent liaison personnel to summon the imperial forces and underground resistance forces in the Baden-Württemberg area, and overcame the obstacles of the Soviet blockade, more than 4,000 fighters quickly gathered around Stuttgart, and Lynn's once weakened elite forces were replenished and increased in a timely manner.

Another dark night has arrived, which is destined to go down in history. As soon as midnight passed, the Stuttgart uprising was launched as scheduled. Taking advantage of the fact that the Soviet army focused its main attention on suppressing the raiders on the outskirts of the field, the underground resistance organization in Stuttgart used the Soviet army's martial law and large-scale raids to incite the people's feelings of resistance, and the Soviet occupation forces were notoriously ruthless in their suppression methods, and everyone who joined the resistance team angrily needed a lot of courage in addition to patriotic enthusiasm, except for the old and weak women and children who were completely incapable of fighting, and it was quite amazing that one-tenth of the remaining residents could stand up. As a result, when the sound of gunfire and cries of revenge filled the streets of Stuttgart, more than 50,000 people joined the resistance. …,

On the Soviet side, although they invested heavily in the pursuit of the attackers, only two days after the occupation of the Stuttgart railway station, they still deployed a large number of garrisons in the city of Stuttgart, and the martial law and curfew also restricted the communication and cooperation of the underground resistance forces to a certain extent. If the battle between the regular corps is open and defensive, then the performance of Lynn's unit in the urban battle is the technical flow of delicate skills on the small space front, each set of recharged infrared night vision devices has become a combat fulcrum of the area, with MP44 assault rifles, night soldiers snipe enemy personnel, hunt tanks and vehicles like grass mustard, and in the battle to seize the commanding heights and transportation hubs in the city, the resistance fighters from the local people also showed the courage to move forward and go forward. The resistance forces assembled outside the city attacked the Soviet alert forces and used bridges and buildings along the road to set up defensive positions. The fighting soon spread from several towns to the entire city, and then from the city to the surrounding areas, and more importantly, the insurgents immediately used the radio to spread the news of the great uprising in Stuttgart, and with their fearless courage and generous sacrifice, they called on every German city and every German to join in the fight against the Soviet occupation and the pursuit of freedom and power......