When the warm spring arrived, Europe had spent the harshest climatic conditions of the year under the cold winter, the Eastern European front was in an unusually dull state for four consecutive months, the Allies were unable to attack, and the Soviet army, which was relatively better at winter warfare, seemed to be recuperating and recuperating, but behind this calm was a turbulent undercurrent -- the Allies supported the establishment of the new German regime and the Wehrmacht, driving millions of German troops to their own use, and the Soviets were not worried about letting the German volunteers who had been converted prisoners of war continue to fight in Eastern Europe, But he didn't let this huge number of young people sit idle. A winter has passed, the transportation facilities and town factories that were bombed by the Allies have been repaired with astonishing efficiency, and as a clause for the implementation of the secret treaty, more than 100,000 people have been sent to Northern Scandinavia through the sea and land routes.

The northern freeze was first lifted, and the focus of the outside world was whether the new round of offensive operations of the Allies could achieve a breakthrough, but to the surprise of most people, the powerful Free Empire actually launched an attack on the southern front. In just four days, the elite Mountain Panzer Division overwhelmed two Allied fronts and quickly recaptured two municipalities in southern Norrland, leaving 100,000 Norwegian, American, British, and French officers and soldiers to lose their armor and flee all the way. At the same time, the Reich used naval bombers carrying radio-controlled bombs to raid the Allied ships sailing in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea, and on 17 April sank the US heavy cruiser "Guam," which had the size of a near-battleship and cost as much as $74 million.

Just one day before the sinking of the Guam, German President Hof-Hersten used a special decree to dissolve the Cabinet and hold new elections, citing the inability of the Cabinet to cope with the situation. Judging by the reaction of the German population, only a very small number of people opposed the decision of the "people's politicians", and there were no protests or unrest in the states. At a time when there was speculation that the president and the military hierarchy would carry out an iron-fisted purge of the Ba'ath Party and its coalition forces, the Presidential Office issued an important announcement just 18 hours after the issuance of the special decree: it was found that some of the volunteers recruited by the Ba'ath Party to go to Northern Europe had indeed joined the Free Emperor** team, and therefore all public activities of the German Ba'ath Party were suspended, and the main members of the regional and higher levels were to be subjected to further investigation, and during the investigation they were not allowed to leave the country without permission and were to be summoned at any time by the Special Investigation Committee.

In the eyes of many ordinary people, this circular is an extremely heavy blow to the German Ba'ath Party, and may even cause the party that has previously developed well to be wiped out, but those experts with a keen political sense and a small number of people who know it know that this notice has actually saved the Ba'ath Party from a precarious fate, and if it is delayed for a day or two, the army will use force to arrest and control the Baath Party organizations and key personnel throughout the country. The President will also forcibly dissolve the party with the powers conferred by special decree.

By betting on success at a life-or-death stake, Baath leaders had confidence that Lynn's strategy would be carried out. The heads of state had a spectrum in mind, and the Regions and Regions obediently accepted the presence of commissioners of the Commission of Inquiry and the carrying out of the investigation, and successively handed over to the Commission of Inquiry a total of more than two million marks in "volunteer commissions". At the request of the President, the German Wehrmacht sent military monitors to participate in the entire investigation, and the Wehrmacht units stationed in various locations were deployed accordingly to be ready for possible "contingencies" on the Baath side. As the days passed, the investigators collected a large amount of physical evidence, and even if there were no witnesses, they already had sufficient probative power, and the Baathistists did not act in any excesses, so that they looked like a group of prodigal sons who had gone astray but had decided to change their minds and turn to the light. …,

In Northern Europe, the free empire's counterattack was no bluff. To the south, the superior mountain armoured forces penetrated deep into the Norwegian county of North Trøndrag, and the black banner of the Free Empire was raised in one municipality after another, and the Allied forces, which were superior in size, continued to retreat; To the east, the emperor invaded Sweden, which was nominally neutral but had opened up military access to the allies, along the railway line without declaring war, and their purpose was very clear, that is, Lapland, which was rich in iron ore, and spies and armed men lurking in Sweden responded in all directions, effectively thwarting the Swedish army's attempts to destroy the railways and mineral facilities on its own; To the west, the Empire's elite combat detachments inflicted beatings and misery on the Allied forces landing on the islands of Sivogue and Osterfa. Even the allied strategic bombing was still difficult to achieve in the past because of the powerful interdiction of saucer aircraft, jet interceptors, air-to-air and surface-to-air guided weapons, and clever ground camouflage inducements, and the seemingly one-sided Nordic war situation is entering a very delicate stage.

In order to strategically reverse the situation in which the Allies invested heavily in attacking northern Europe, the Free Empire offered a killer weapon, and after World War II, Field Marshal von Von Brown, who was imprisoned by the Soviet Union. Kleist announced his appointment as Minister of Defense of the "Free Empire of Northern Scandinavia", and successively sent telegrams in his name as Minister of Defense and in his personal capacity, calling on the occupied and oppressed people all over the world to rise up against the military allies led by the United States and Britain, and calling on those who pursue freedom and defend their faith to join the ranks of those who defend the Free Empire. Although these energies literally did not explicitly point to the German people, as a talented armored commander and an upright professional soldier, Feng . Kleist has a high status in the hearts of the German people, and his comeback is a strong hint in itself. As a result, the public opinion situation in Germany is like a storm, and people's private arguments are enough to make the military and political leaders and even the heads of the allies feel uneasy. Soon, the command of the German Wehrmacht carried out a series of personnel transfers within the army. Kleist's generals and staff officers who had exceeded a certain period of time or made inappropriate remarks were transferred back to Berlin to nominally be in charge of the training of the Wehrmacht reserves, but in fact they were isolated from the outside world and kept under strict supervision. As a result, the more this happened, the more various rumors gained a foothold in the grass-roots troops, and some rumors about the imminent mutiny of such and such a unit and the escape of such and such an officer and his soldiers to northern Europe without permission were also quietly spreading, and this forced the command of the German Defense Forces to organize a special investigation team and frequently issue announcements within the army to refute the rumors.

Winds blow dark clouds, and thunder and lightning summon torrential rain. Lynn, who had been silent for many days, could not focus on dealing with the investigation of the Special Investigation Committee, and the decisions of the upper echelons of the empire coincided with his vision. Soon after Kleist was electrified, a mob of unknown people landed on the island of Hiddensee in northern Germany, occupied the fishing village, controlled the fishing boats, set up a radio station, and announced that the island had left the jurisdiction of the German government and joined the Free Empire, and that any military action against the island would be regarded as a war against the Free Empire. The news spread throughout Germany through a media relay before the German government imposed a blockade, and the Bavarian village of Kim, near the Austrian border, soon after announced that it would secede from the German government and join the Free Reich. Although dozens of military police officers rushed from Rosenheim to quell the Kim rebellion that night with lightning speed, the development of events on Hidensee Island left the president and the Defence Force generals anxious. Due to the fortifications and mortars along the coast of the insurgents, the Army personnel on ordinary boats were driven back before they could land on the island, and when the Navy brought in a minesweeper from Rostock, the officers and men on board actually rebelled on the spot when they arrived on Hidensay Island, and the staggering situation continued until the United States and Britain sent warships to intervene, and when hundreds of Marines landed on this small island in the Baltic Sea adjacent to Rügen, the mob claiming independence had been in turmoil for nearly 70 hours. More than 200 codes were sent to the outside world by radio, and received a positive response from the Free Empire. Before being arrested by the Allied marines, these "mobs" quoted Frederick the Great's famous words and sent out a final telegram: Even in the face of a raging storm and the danger of dying at any moment, we must think, live, and die like a Germanic - this is us, immortal German! …,

The island of Hidensay was quiet, and in exchange for the national boiling of Germany. Under the inspiration of the brave man and the guidance of public opinion, a large number of German people who do not know what is going on feel that it is the weak strategy of the president and the military top brass that has caused the Germans to survive in a state of national dignity and independence at this stage, and they strongly demand that the German government take back the Germans captured by the Allies in the Hidensee Island incident, and even if the trial is conducted, it must be conducted in public by the German courts.

In the case of the dissolution of the cabinet and the Reichstag, President Hof-Hersten sent a personal envoy to negotiate with the Allied side in an attempt to get the Allied forces to hand over the detained innocent islanders and rioters to Germany for handling. With the support of the army, Hof-Hersten was able to control the situation in the country and prevent a large-scale riot, but the army could not turn public opinion, and the people's hearts slipped through their fingers like time, and what is worse is that time will not return, and the people's hearts will fall to more sensible competitors who can grasp the timing and manipulate public opinion. It was the fate of the times that the Baathistists would soon discover that the stated goal of running for Congress could have been set even higher......

#c