The more wartime the Allied occupation forces were on guard in Germany itself, the more they did not dare to give rise to the pro-Soviet parties among the German people, especially in the context of the defeat of the war and the fall of the Third Reich. To this end, the Allies developed some strategies of "using Germany to control Germany", that is, to encourage German residents to denounce suspicious people around them by offering large bounties. For example, an incognito SS member can be rewarded with dollars, and the higher the rank, the higher the rank, the higher the reward, and if an SS general or a senior Gestapo official is offered, the reward will be enough for the whistleblower to immigrate to the United States and live a life without food and clothing.

Although the German people were never very enthusiastic about responding to the bounty, the "remnants of the Empire" like Lynn, who had no reputation or mass base in the south, dared to take it lightly and stayed for two days in a small hotel called "Oliver's House", and then moved to a town on the eastern outskirts of Munich for three days, which was a secret stronghold of the Reich intelligence services, and the few inhabitants of the town were also reliable people who hated the invaders. After this, Drenthe. Feng. The new generation of leaders of Ike Burks Bearings found them a highly desirable new home, a holiday estate for the Wittesbach family on the eastern shore of Lake Steinberg. This family occupies a very prominent place in the recent history of Bavaria and even Germany, and although their rule was overthrown in the revolution of 1918, the old aristocracy still enjoyed high local prestige and prestige in both the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, and still had close and distant blood ties with the royal families of European monarchies.

Given that these old German aristocrats were excluded from the power of the Third Reich and were not involved in the murder of Jews or aggression against other countries during World War II, the Allied occupation forces rarely harassed these people and their properties, and some Allied commanders from Britain and Western European countries such as the Netherlands and Belgium maintained personal contacts and dealings with them. Feng. Ike used his family connections to borrow this small and somewhat old resort manor, and wanted to set up a secret test site here for the key technicians who used to work for the Schweinfurt bearing company, so as to lay the foundation for the recovery and expansion of ball bearing production in advance. Entrepreneurs have found a more convenient and reliable way to share resources and information: the secret wartime factory of the Bavarian Maschinenbau in Penzberg has ceased to operate, and the hidden facilities there can be used for technical research by various companies, and the technical research in the fields of metals, bearings, power, chemical and other related fields can be combined to support each other. As a result, the resort manor, which can be admired by the beauty of Bavaria's lakes and mountains, has become a temporary base for Lynn and the family, and will soon become the liaison and command center of the Imperial Intelligence Service in Bavaria.

"Ladies and gentlemen, before we use these photographs to analyze the enemy's disposition in detail, I solemnly propose...... A moment of silence for the Imperial warriors who died in reconnaissance operations! ”

In the large room with the window facing the lake, Lynn stood up and bowed her head in silence, while Handmark, Therot, and the other two Imperial personnel present did so without saying a word. Originally a study, the bookcase and desk are still in the distance, and two simple square wooden tables are temporarily placed in front of the window, which are put together with white tablecloths and a few wooden chairs with straight backrests next to them. On the tablecloth lay a stack of photographs that had just been developed out of the darkroom, and most of them were taken from a distance, some showing the ruins of the city, some of them the winding roads of the mountains and forests in the middle of winter, the open wilderness, the winding streams, the steep mountains, and all kinds of houses, but none more than the castle-like building that attracted a lot of attention, the Nuremberg Prison!

The silence ended, and people took their seats. Although the proposal was made by Lynn, the soldiers who gave their lives for the cause of the empire were under the command of Selot, the gloomy intelligence officer spread out the photographs in turn, and said with great dedication: "According to the detailed investigation we have made in the early stage, it is now almost certain that the Allied forces have deployed up to 4,000 soldiers in Nuremberg, more than the earlier estimate, and they are stationed around the four main areas of Nuremberg railway station, prison, Caesar's castle, and airport. There are 67 garrison posts at perimeter traffic junctions and along railway lines, and mobile patrols using jeeps and lightly armoured vehicles as carriers. In addition, in the last week, we have observed a company-sized unit of Cromwell cruiser tanks stationed in the Allied barracks northeast of Nuremberg, and the fastest time to reach the prison is 40 minutes by road speed from the station. ”…,

Everyone looked at the photos silently, no one was in a hurry to speak, and there were only two magnifying glasses that could be used, and they had to take turns using them. This scene reminds some people of the intelligence work of the Third Reich in its heyday, which far surpassed the level of rigor, precision, and professionalism of most countries at that time, and the enlarged aerial photographs were suitable for accurate calculations and judgments, and also made a very important contribution to the German army's sweep of Poland and the defeat of France.

After a slight pause, Selot picked out three photos from below: "With a professional intelligence eye, I think the Allied garrison of Nuremberg Airport is the most tight, and we have tried many methods, but we have only once obtained a suitable optical reconnaissance position in such a long time, and this is one of the few photos that can reflect the main situation of the airport." ”

Lynn took advantage of the situation, the first photo of the overview of the airport, its scale is relatively large in a military airport, there are three main runways and a number of auxiliary runways, there are dozens of various types of aircraft placed next to the runway and on the apron, and the whole row of Mustang fighters seems to be the most stylish. In the second photo, hangars are clustered around a tall flying tower with antler-like crossed antennas, and air defense positions using camouflage nets can be faintly identified at the far end. You must know that Nuremberg is located in the southeast of Germany, close to Poland and Austria, and nearly 1,000 kilometers away from the current battle line, and with the comparison of the air forces of the two sides, the possibility of being attacked by the Soviet army is very small, and it is estimated that the rapid development of airborne technology in the past ten years is the main reason for the heavy deployment of air forces by the Allied forces in Nuremberg. In Lynn's view, the third shot also captures the key point, which is a land-based radar station with a grid antenna on its head, which does not look as smart and convenient as the pot radar, and they are often equipped with high-power equipment that can detect and warn of long-range air targets.

Seeing that both Lynn and Handmark were trying to read important information from the airport photos, Therol paused to introduce him, and silently walked to the window and lit himself a cigarette. From the opening sentence, his whole person and the atmosphere in the room were controlled by a gloomy atmosphere.

"If we had raided this airfield before attacking the prison・・・・・・ "Identified the intelligence officer involved in the operation, Hans Brown. When Samut whispered his speculation, Handmark did not hesitate to say that "the prison will immediately impose the highest level of martial law", and then stared at the second photo and shook his head:

"It seems that we can only move at the same time or a little later, and we will definitely not be able to use the transport planes here, what a pity!"

In the lower corner of this photo happens to be a U.S. C47 transport plane, whose range can fly from Nuremberg to Norway, but the tight military deployment of the Allies in Central Europe is enough to intercept any kind of aircraft except the "Disc", and the interference effect of the "Disc" cannot be used as a reliable escort.

Lynn silently picked up another photograph of a U.S. military road post, wooden outpost, tripod barbed wire, sandbags, machine guns, jeeps, wooden houses, and telephone lines set up in mid-air, all of which matched people's minds of the sentry post.

After a while, seeing Lynn looking at this seemingly ordinary photograph in a daze, Handmark whispered, "If you are acting at night, one or two soldiers will be enough to control this checkpoint!" ”

Lynn blinked continuously, and his thoughts returned to his eyes.

According to the performance of the vampire night combat commandos on the battlefield in the past, a soldier using infrared night vision devices and assault rifles only needs to make full use of the terrain and the suddenness of the attack, and there is basically no suspense in killing a few Allied soldiers in this kind of outpost, but what just led him to ponder is the possibility of extending from these sentry posts - how to leave no trace so that those stupid people who are useless to the empire and may even destroy the revival plan will never return to the base camp.

Cellol's mood was obviously relieved after smoking a cigarette, and the empire was currently in a predicament of being overstretched in all fields, and intelligence work especially lacked excellent and reliable informants. The Nuremberg operation was imminent, and many details required someone who could thread the needle for the troops, and his frustration was understandable.

"Let's focus on the situation in Nuremberg's prison!" Cellore walked up to Lynn's side and said, "The total area of the prison is nearly 20 square kilometers, and it can accommodate up to one prisoner, and the current number of prisoners is as many as 30 people as we know, but the prison guards are as many as 600 people, which is probably the largest prison in the world between guards and detainees, and the firepower of these guards is very good, 127 mm caliber heavy machine guns abound, they can use thick wall stacks as cover to tear external intruders to pieces, And light artillery has almost no effect on the walls here. Theoretically, there was only one frontal passage for personnel and vehicles, but the engineering blasting allowed us to expand our options to four walls, especially to the north - this wall was only 600 meters from the woods, and the terrain was potholes suitable for cover and advance, and if the enemy fired at it, we could find shelter on the spot. Of course, this is just my personal understanding. ”…,

"These lookouts look a lot like turrets, and the Allies should be more than just heavy machine guns!" Handmark pointed to the photograph and said that the stone structure of the arrow tower is located at the four corners of the prison and the apex of the inner floor, and because the photo was taken on a distant hillside, the angle limits people's curiosity about the inside of the arrow tower.

"From a military defense point of view, they are a good point of fire, and large-caliber mortars may be the most desirable option, but the Allied commanders clearly have no idea of transforming it into a fortress, and there are only searchlights, sentries and anti-aircraft machine guns - because of the angle, the anti-aircraft machine guns here cannot attack ground targets beyond the high walls." ”

In the specific division of labor of this operation, Lynn appointed Handmark to be responsible for the formulation of the attack and retreat route, not because he wanted to be a "hands-off shopkeeper", but because there were many strategic matters that he needed to concentrate on and consider carefully.

After a pause, Selot continued: "From the entry and exit of the guards, there are no more than a hundred guards inside the prison, and they work in shifts once a day, and the people on shift enter the castle through the front passage, and after half an hour the guards leave through the same passage, and the barracks are set up on the south side of the prison, and there are posts in the other three directions. There's also Caesar's Castle, which is a short line away from the prison but can't be too fast on the ring road, so the shortest drive from there to the prison is 5 minutes, and it is currently the headquarters of the Allied occupation forces, with hundreds of staff and at least a company of guards. The castle mainly relies on natural defenses, and the vigilance is relatively weak, but even if you take it, you won't be able to catch any valuable people, at most a few low-ranking generals and colonels of the allied countries, this is also my personal understanding, just for your reference.

Lynn's way of thinking is obviously very different from that of this intelligence officer, the generals in the occupation command are not "little people" at the strategic level, but after all, this command controls the defense of Nuremberg's perimeter, and controlling it is more valuable than forcibly occupying the airport, and even as a high-ranking member of the empire, Lynn still does not hesitate to show his special "acting skills" on the right stage, and thinks of the successful, bizarre and even ironic disguise operations in the past. There is also a strange itching feeling in my heart.

"As for the specific location and physical and mental condition of the detainees, since most of the daily food and medical care inside and outside the prison are handled by the Allied team, we cannot obtain any valuable information from the residents of Nuremberg, nor can we mix in to listen to information, but can only analyze it through some hearsay information...... It is said that before they were imprisoned, the Allies transferred hundreds of German prisoners of war from the camps to clean, repair and reinforce, and then all of them were put back in the camps, and it is well known that in the last two months, hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war have been released and transferred to the Wehrmacht or volunteer units under Allied command, and they have revealed to their companions that the Allies are particularly strict about the cleaning of the underground detention areas. ”

Thero's use of the word "hearsay" is a reminder to his colleagues who gather this information for decision-making purposes that the reliability of this information is in question. Hearing this, Handmark quickly marked his notebook, which was already full of words and symbols—Lynn had read his little notebook, and this guy was clever enough to use all kinds of code names, and even if outsiders chose it, they would not know the goal, content, and route of this action.

Explaining the contents of the photo, Selot said in strongly suggestive language: "According to the weather, the next month will be the coldest in Nuremberg, with snow almost half the time, and even on sunny days, the fog lasts for a long time, and after mid-January, the weather begins to gradually warm, and it often rains, making it difficult to walk." ”

Now that the preparatory and intelligence-gathering work for the Nuremberg operation has been going on for a long time, it is not easy to endure it with the Führer's patience, and Lynn should be glad that he is now in Germany, otherwise the inquiries and urgings from the base camp are likely to follow one after another. By the time of these reconnaissance photos, Lynn had a comprehensive and intuitive understanding of the entire environment of the operation, but these preparations were far from the level of everything in his eyes - it was impossible to be "perfect" in the current situation, and what Lynn was really waiting for was the best opportunity for action. …,

Two days later, news came from Nuremberg that the Western Allies had decided to officially resume the trial as soon as the New Year passed, and the judges and trial staff from the United States, Britain, and France had recently arrived in Nuremberg to begin preparations for the evidence collection and document drafting work that had been interrupted by the outbreak of war. The famous Soviet commander Rokossovsky continued to serve as the commander of the campaign, and in the face of the British commander Alexander, he did not show mercy, and in just 60 hours, he inflicted heavy losses on the 1st Panzer Corps, the most elite British army unit, and dealt a devastating blow to the 50th Cavalry Division of the US Army and the 11th Infantry Division of the French Army, and tore a big hole in the joint defense line of the Allied troops on the southern and central routes in one fell swoop. A fist force composed of thousands of tanks and combat vehicles and a large number of mechanized infantry poured in from the breach of the defensive line, breaking through the depth of the Allied forces at a speed of 50 kilometers a day, and soon formed a flank outflank of Marshal Alexander's main force, and the Soviet Guards Navy also recaptured Ossad, which had been occupied by the Allies for less than two weeks, with a swift landing operation, thus knocking down a "dementor nail" on Alexander's right flank. In this way, Alexander is faced with the problem of either abandoning the defensive line and withdrawing the troops behind the palace quickly, or waiting for friendly reinforcements in the encirclement, if all the troops retreat, the bad weather is likely to cause more than a dozen infantry divisions to fall into the encirclement of the Soviet army, if the ring defense line is built on the spot to wait for reinforcements, it may repeat the mistakes of the previous Allied troops on the southern route, you must know that this time the Western Allies have invested the strongest forces on the southern route, if these hundreds of thousands of elite troops are annihilated again, their initiative in land operations will be completely lost, The Soviet Union was then to be defeated by the economic blockade and strategic bombing of the Allies, whose vast territory had greatly diluted the damage of the Allied bombing. Clear