Fighting at a numerical disadvantage of 10 to 10, with no outstanding superiority in individual quality and weaponry, Lynn's Free Corps was under tremendous pressure from the beginning, and this pressure continued unabated over time. In order to get the most out of these 5,000 troops, Lynn and his staff had made as clever tactical deployment as possible, so that when the last reserve was also on top, their battle line was tensed to a critical point, and in the event of a sudden deterioration in the foothills of Paden Mountain, on the shores of Lake Constance, and in any part of the anti-airborne battlefield, they would have no choice but to make the painful decision to retreat.

Fortunately, with the outstanding combat skills of the officers and men of the Imperial Guard, coupled with the tenacious will of the Free Regiment and outside volunteers, the defending front survived the most dangerous period, and the winter night came early, and Lynn quickly recalled the scattered night soldiers from the battle, so that they could seize the time to eat, rest, replenish their physical strength, and make final preparations for the following night counterattack.

With everything in order, Lynn left the command post and descended the mountain to the woodland east of Bregenz. It was a predetermined assembly point for night fighters, and weapons equipped with night vision devices and corresponding ammunition were stored here long before the battle began. After the purgatory-level test at the end of the war, and participated in many combat operations in the three years after the war, the night soldiers were the elite of the elite in the Imperial Guard troops, and had always been Lynn's very important and trusted combat force, so he was reluctant to send this unit to the front line for reinforcements until the afternoon. After several hours of fierce fighting, the officers and men looked discouraged, but they were all in good spirits, and some of those who had been lightly wounded were bandaged and returned to the battle queue.

"Sir! The Night Combat Commando has now assembled 329 people and 84 sets of Night Combat Equipment, please review it! ”

Standing in front of Lynn was an old "vampire", Horst. Lieutenant Colonel Booker, who entered the "Vampire" night combat commando training class two years earlier than Lynn, received the Knight's Cross award very early, and later recuperated for two months due to injuries, and when he returned to the army, the Battle of Berlin was nearing the end, and finally followed the troops to the "Sanctuary" base in Northern Europe, and gradually became the backbone of the Imperial Night War Army.

In the face of the onslaught of the Soviet army, the intensity of the front-line battle was undoubted, and nearly ninety percent of the 371 men at the time of the sortie were withdrawn, considering that some of them had not been able to return in time, such losses were very light. Lynn glanced around, his past combat experiences had given him a special affinity for every night soldier here. He knew very well that the elite route of the Imperial Base Camp had created a very elite Guard, and the training of the night combat troops was more rigorous than that of ordinary Guards, and every soldier in front of him could be called the elite of the elite, and they had the ability to change the tide of battle, at the cost of risking their lives at all times. Like their previous selves, the eyes of these young night soldiers were firm, and they could not see the slightest fear and cowardice, and this determined and absolute demeanor made Lynn both down-to-earth and emotional. With the covert assistance of the Allies, the pace of the return of the imperial base camp to the European continent was accelerating, and more than 4,000 soldiers and a large number of intelligence officers entered the German Austrian region through France and Italy, most of which were under the command of Lynn, who did not concentrate these elite forces in the Upper Rhine Valley to fight the Soviets head-on, but made extensive use of the difficult terrain of the Alpine region to harass and contain the Soviet forces. Taking advantage of the Soviet army's heavy southward movement, Lynn reduced more than one-third of his military strength to zero and infiltrated the German mainland, cooperating with local intelligence officers and various combat units to lay a solid foundation for the follow-up operations of the large force. At that time, these Wehrmacht and SS officers and men left their homeland for the cold and remote northern Europe, where they carried out monotonous and toiling training day after day; Today, they are the sharpest assault weapons on the battlefield, laying the foundation for the rebirth of empires with blood and lives. …,

Without rhetoric or promises, Lynn, accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel Booker, shook hands with the warriors who were about to penetrate the enemy line, and bestowed simple but sincere blessings on them. For three and a half years, the Imperial powers in Northern Europe have been sparing no effort to improve military equipment, but due to resource and industrial constraints, the Imperial Guard has not been able to fully replace the latest and greatest weapons, and the equipment of the night combat troops is similar to that at the end of World War II, so seeing the infrared night vision devices, assault rifles, long-handled grenades and anti-tank rocket launchers carried by the soldiers, Lynn seems to see himself at the beginning, and he was so full of ambition before the battle. Fortunately, the Soviets were soon involved in the fierce collision between the Eastern and Western camps after winning World War II, and the Allied bombing made them focus on the improvement and innovation of air defense weapons, and made cutting-edge aviation equipment represented by jet fighters.

It didn't take long to shake hands with more than 300 soldiers one by one, but Lynn only walked around symbolically, leaving more time for the night soldiers to eat and rest. The snow began to fall again after a long pause, sparsely falling like catkins flying in spring, and it was completely dark, and it was impossible to distinguish anything from a few meters away without the help of lights, which was the ideal condition for a night assault. As a model, the allies of the United States and Britain and the Soviet Union have also made a lot of efforts in night combat technology in recent years, and have developed and installed infrared night vision equipment. Relying on abundant financial and technical strength, the United States has gone the fastest in this regard, but judging from the situation of the war in Northern Europe, the equipment level of the US ** team at this time has risen, and the mental state and combat skills of the front-line officers and soldiers are hardly first-class, while the Soviets are just the opposite.

After dark, the impact of the Soviet air force on the battlefield was sharply reduced to zero, but the Soviet offensive did not stop there, their overwhelmingly superior artillery was still bombarding the defenders' positions on the front line of the foothills of Paden Mountain, and the troops crossing Lake Constance to reinforce the lakeside battle line continued to increase, and after the second wave of airborne troops arrived in the southern part of the river valley, the Soviet paratroopers captured two Austrian villages near the river with heavy casualties, and used them as a fulcrum to defend, the battlefield situation continued to develop, and the situation of Lynn's troops was bound to be more passive the next day. At 8 p.m., Lynn's night troops set out from the garrison and advanced to the foothills of Mount Paden, and at about 11 o'clock, the night assault officially began.

Unlike the frontal attack of a large force, after more than 300 night soldiers crossed the battle line and entered the enemy area, there was no obvious change in sound and light on the battlefield, which was like cooking a pot of thick soup, sprinkled with salt and spices, the color of the soup was still the same, but the taste changed over time.

That night, Lynn sat quietly under the tree, and the images of the battles she had experienced in the past were reflected in her mind. Even if they were more than ten kilometers away and contact was cut off, he could still see the scenes of his night fighters fighting behind the Soviet defense lines, and saw these night hunters attacking the Soviet headquarters with ease, destroying the Soviet army's ammunition supply and artillery positions, so that the Soviet officers and soldiers who were physically and mentally exhausted after a day of fighting were exhausted, so that their follow-up attack could not be carried out according to the scheduled plan...... Without nicotine and caffeine to refresh herself, Lynn sat down until dawn, and suddenly came back to her senses, a tear running across her face.

Another day of hard fighting has arrived, the Soviets are still engaged in the offensive at the foot of Paden Mountain and on the shores of Lake Constance, but their artillery fire to support the battle has been significantly weakened, and there are many fewer ships transporting troops on Lake Constance than the day before, only the Soviet fighters and attack planes have been intensively engaged regardless of the weather, clearing the defenders' positions with machine guns and bombs over and over again, and the third echelon of airborne troops has also arrived as scheduled, and the Soviet troops who have reached the central and southern part of the valley by parachute and plane landing have exceeded 4,000 people, Except for the hundreds who fell into Swiss territory and were unable to participate in the battle, the rest of the men faced less than 1,500 soldiers of the Free Corps, and they were unable to seize the initiative while paying heavy casualties. At noon, the Soviet armored units with heavy troops fought their way out of the west side of Paden Mountain, and more than 20 tanks and a battalion of infantry successfully joined up with the friendly forces that landed across the lake, but the battlefield situation did not change much because of this. In the middle of the afternoon, the wind and snow increased, and the Soviet fighters had to suspend their attacks, and Lynn transferred back 700 soldiers from the rear to cooperate with the lakeside guards to counterattack, and the two counterattacking forces advanced to less than 200 meters from the lakeshore, and used mortars and grenades to kill a large number of Soviet landing troops holding the lakeshore. In this way, the soldiers of the Free Corps won an extra day with the loss of more than 500 men, and when night came, those night fighters who had infiltrated the rear of the Soviet army came out of the mountains and forests and cellars where they hid during the day and continued to "make trouble in the heavenly palace". This time, the explosion at the Soviet ammunition depot shook the ground in a radius of tens of kilometers, and the dazzling lights that rose up greatly encouraged the extremely tired officers and men of the defenders. Taking advantage of the availability of morale, Lynn resolutely gathered his forces to carry out a tactical counterattack against the enemy on the lakeside, and in one fell swoop crushed the remnants of the Soviet troops who landed across the lake, causing a large number of Soviet officers and men to drown or be annihilated on the way to the foothills of Paden Mountain, and the number of successful breakthroughs was less than 1,000 - roughly the same as those who surrendered. This not only dealt a heavy blow to the confidence and morale of the Soviet officers and men, but also caused a mess of the deployment of the Soviet commanders.

Normally, the ammunition carried by night soldiers can only withstand a few medium-intensity raids, and even if the battlefield capture is very good, they can only hold out behind enemy lines for a few days. In Lynn's deployment, these night fighters will not return to the Upper Rhine Valley in Austria, but will advance directly into the heart of Germany, thus avoiding the Soviet blockade and returning to their real home to play their unrivaled night advantage.