Autumn 1948, German-Austrian border, Bavarian Alps.

Under the warm sun, the calm water reflects the blue sky and snow-white mountain peaks, and the lush vegetation forms a beautiful landscape. On the country road, a convoy of wheeled armored vehicles in the center, and troop transport light trucks in the center was moving smoothly from north to south. On these olive-green painted cars, officers and men wore the typical grass-brown uniforms of the Soviet army, and most of them wore medals on their chests that symbolized military exploits. Despite the beautiful scenery, these Soviet soldiers wearing steel helmets looked grim and kept their guns on their bodies. Seeing that there was a short bridge across the stream ahead, someone in the leading armored car raised a red flag, and seeing this flag, the follow-up vehicles slowed down and stopped in an orderly manner. Immediately afterwards, two soldiers with submachine guns jumped from the armored car parked more than ten meters in front of the short bridge, and they quickly ran to the slopes on both sides of the bridge to observe the bottom of the bridge from a position close to the water. After making sure that they were safe, the two men ran back to the armored car with a little ease, the red flag on the car turned into a green flag, and the convoy cautiously continued on its way.

The Soviet armored vehicle, with small-caliber machine guns as its main weapon, drove steadily across the short bridge, and the steel plate of the body was enough to resist the cold gun attack in the horizontal direction, but less than two meters away from the bridge, the armored car was instantly swallowed by the flames and smoke in a loud bang, and the fragments outside the main body of the vehicle were suddenly thrown into the air.

The first car was fatally attacked, and the trucks behind came to an abrupt halt one after another, but by this time the gunfire of fried beans had swept in, and the last troop transport truck was immediately covered with a dense rain of bullets, and most of the Soviet soldiers were killed before they could start a battle, and the Soviet officers and soldiers in the cabs of those six-wheeled trucks were also hunted with precision fire at the same time, and by the time the gunfire stopped for more than a minute, the convoy was covered with corpses and blood. At this time, a group of "tree men" appeared in the bushes twenty or thirty meters away from the roadside, and they were bound with a large number of fresh branches and leaves, and when they were in a latent state, the enemy had to observe carefully at close range to find out. The zero-casualty battle did not make these elite fighters relax their vigilance, and more than a dozen people covered each other, alternately advancing, and showed good tactical literacy. Approaching the convoy, they were very careful to sweep the vehicles one by one, so that the Soviet survivors on the six-wheeled trucks did not cause them much trouble, and the crackling gunfire rang out intermittently, and the noise ended happily.

More "treemen" appeared on the edge of the woods on the other side of the road, and their concealment was less than that of the tail sweep - pushing the completely destroyed armored vehicles out of the road with a large number of branches to camouflage, filling in the earth to cover the explosion craters, and getting the corpses of Soviet soldiers and badly damaged troop transport trucks to cover up at the edge of the woods, while the previous "treemen" continued south in their main six-wheeled trucks, and drove about two or three kilometers ahead of the road and turned onto the hidden trail on the side......

On the hill in the distance, Lynn quietly observed the whole battle, such an ambush battle was not of high intensity, and it was suitable for veterans to train with new recruits who lacked actual combat experience, and it was able to raise supplies for the Freedom Regiment troops who moved to the Alps. Soon after the trucks carrying military supplies withdrew along the pre-arranged route, two olive-green Soviet fighter planes flew at low altitude in a menacing manner -- the sound of explosions inevitably reached the Soviet military station in the far pass, and they could summon their own air forces in a short time with a phone call or a telegram. Soviet pilots may not be able to find the wreckage of the ambushed vehicle directly, but the Soviets also sent fighters from the nearest military station to search along the way, and it will not take long for them to find the place, and then, as usual, blockade and sweep the area within a radius of tens of kilometers. …,

Just a few months ago, when Lynn was a cabinet minister in Germany's first democratically elected post-war government, and he was full of longing for a vision of reich rejuvenation, he never imagined that he would one day "return to his old business", let alone that he would lead his troops to fight the Soviet army in the mountains, all of which had completely deviated from the original plan. The Soviet army occupied Germany in a grand and complete manner, controlled the country that was only nominally independent and sovereign in the Soviet way, and exterminated all opponents and resisters, and from the moment the formal armistice was signed and entered into force, the honeymoon period between the Soviet Union and the Free Empire was completely ended, and the Imperial troops who had returned to Germany via the Soviet Union were detained. The few officers and soldiers who managed to escape from the hands of the Soviets brought extremely unfortunate news: not only was the army disarmed, most of the officers were shot dead after a sumptuous interrogation by the Soviet troops, some of the ordinary soldiers were also killed, and the rest were sent to the Ukrainian regions to do heavy labor.

Former friends have become enemies, and although former enemies have not directly become friends, the position of the allies has also undergone a subtle change after the armistice agreement between the Eastern and Western camps has been reached -- Germany is no longer under their control, and the upside down will not hinder them from doing anything, and they are happy to see that they can contain the development of the Soviet Union's armaments.

As a result, the international situation has become confusing in the eyes of ordinary people. However, in essence, it had already torn its face with the Free Empire, but the Soviet government did not openly make difficulties, and even the earlier statement of support for the Free Empire was not withdrawn, and after the end of the war on the European continent, the allies could obviously concentrate on dealing with the Free Empire entrenched in Northern Europe, but they did not raise troops to the north on a large scale, but only launched some offensive with limited strength in the border areas of north-central Norway, on the contrary, the United States and Britain welcomed the return of troops almost every day, and the mainstream public opinion shouted Long live peace......

With a winter to go before the armistice deadline for withdrawal, millions of Soviet troops were being repressed and "purged" in Germany, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. After being forced to retreat into the Alps, Lynn gradually lost contact with the Baath Party and the Freedom Regiment in China, and in the consideration of guerrilla warfare, his initial 3,000 men and horses gradually dispersed into dozens of detachments. Two months later, the temperature was dropping day by day, and the strength and morale of the guerrillas were declining uncontrollably, and if this continued, sooner or later Lynn and his troops would suffer a glorious defeat in a hopeless battle.

At the beginning of the KO, the telegram from the Imperial headquarters brought new hope to the troubled Lynn: through a series of secret contacts and talks, the Free Empire of Northern Scandinia and the allies of the United States and Britain reached a non-public non-aggression pact, and the allies still maintained a military blockade and suppression of the Free Empire on the surface, and the battles on land would also be carried out in a pretend, but the ships of the Allies would allow ships to enter and leave the Free Empire, and even secretly provide troop carriers for the Free Empire to transport combat personnel and equipment to the German mainland, The conditions were that the Free Reich would not attack the Allied side in any way during the validity of the agreement, and that, after they had returned to German power, all the territories formerly belonging to Norway must be returned to the Kingdom of Norway, and Germany would pay a considerable compensation for the occupation

In order to weaken as much as possible the Soviet Union, an adversary that would be difficult to defeat through conventional warfare, the Allies quickly lifted a series of previous blockades and facilitated them in a closed manner. Soon, Lynn's troops captured a large number of supplies from the American forces in Italy at the southern foot of the Alps, including ammunition, food, and medicine that they needed most, and an advance force of several hundred men from the Free Empire also arrived in Italy by ship through the Norwegian Sea, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean, and then crossed the Alps to the guerrilla zone. After successfully testing the waters, the Imperial base camp regarded the Alps as a new pedal to return to the German mainland, and the whole battalion of mountain infantry arrived one after another, and the most confident thing for Lynn was that the imperial top brass highly recognized the military command ability he showed at this stage, and officially appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Combat Group, commanding the combat force composed of various formations, free regiment guerrillas and reinforcements.

Before the cold came, Lynn's situation showed a strong bottoming out, and his opponents, the Soviet troops stationed in southern Germany and western Austria, were unable to take advantage of the cold weather - the frozen Alps were definitely not as warm as the Soviet hinterland, but it was not the home of the Soviets after all, and the Soviet army at this time was tactically and mentally overly dependent on the strong impact of tank mechanized units, and fell into the same confusion as the German army in Operation Barbarossa. They were no longer comparable to the Soviet troops of the Great Patriotic War in many respects, which gave Lynn a golden opportunity. Calmly analyzing the situation, the master of turning the tables realized that the situation he was facing was similar to that of Rommel when he arrived in North Africa with the African Panzer Corps in 1941, so before more elite soldiers and combat supplies arrived, he decided to take advantage of the sharp reduction in the attack ability of the Soviet Air Force and the relaxation of the psychology of the garrison troops to teach this polar bear who "fought all over the world" a hard lesson, so that those who don't care about any treaty agreements understand: Come out and mix, sooner or later you will have to pay it back!