March to Berlin!

As soon as the rousing slogans were shouted, banner-bearing marches appeared in Bavaria, Württemberg, Hesse, Thuringia, and the states closest to Berlin. In the vacuum of power in the country, the connivance of the Soviet side made the German Baath Party and the Free Regiment quickly embolden themselves from the initial caution, they occupied the railways, used all the vehicles and vehicles that could work, and carried armed and unarmed supporters towards the coveted state power, and the Baath leader Stupf, who had disappeared for many days, also swaggered into the Thuringia and Brandenburg regions, and addressed the German people in the cities along the route with astonishing efficiency. His provocative language quickly increased the number of people vying for power from thousands to nearly 100,000. Although the procession did not have the material support of the Kiel parade and often required meals and lodgings on the way, the people still maintained more enthusiasm than they did in those days.

In such a hidden internal power struggle, Lynn showed his charm when he commanded the sharpest Freedom Regiment to quickly enter Bavaria, taking the most politically important metropolis in southern Germany and occupying a number of untouched military targets in Bavaria. After enlisting the support of some of the former Defence Force commanders, Lynn's team collected more than 20,000 former Defence Force troops in the south, and dispersed these combat-capable regular soldiers into the Defence Force's combat units. In order to overcome the disadvantage of geographical distance, Lynn even took a bold airborne operation, he used the strength of the Southern Industrial Union to get two Junkers-52 and a Fiat G12 transport plane, selected the abandoned airport in the northern suburbs of Berlin as the airborne location, selected a group of volunteers from the Southern Baath Party and the Free Regiment, brought flags, banners, loudspeakers, and uniforms to Berlin. In order to avoid the attack of Soviet anti-aircraft guns at night, they chose to fly in the daytime with a good line of sight, and the sides of the fuselage were painted with striking red, white, black and Russian "We are not attackers". Out of his usual adventurous and political intentions, Lynn almost boarded the plane with the first batch of "Airborne", but fortunately this time the 7th Task Force and his colleagues from the Imperial Intelligence Department were by his side, and their persuasion discouraged Lynn from risking his life in order to get ahead. Still, Lynn was determined that he would not delay for a moment as long as the first parachutes were carried out smoothly - as long as he arrived in Berlin before Stuppf, the competition for power at the top would be relatively favorable.

The condition of the three improvised planes was not very good, but fortunately, the two Junkers-52s had on-board radio equipment, and the three planes flew together in formation, and Lynn and his staff closely watched their real-time situation. The straight-line distance from Munich to Berlin is 500 kilometers, and the plane needs to avoid Soviet airfields and important military targets as much as possible along the way, and the entire flight is estimated to take three hours. Under the piloting of three groups of veteran civil aviation pilots, the first hour of the flight of the three planes went unusually smoothly, and the time to arrive at the predetermined city was no more than five minutes short of the scheduled plan, and from the beginning of the hour and the tenth hour, with the appearance of Soviet fighters, the atmosphere on board and on the ground command suddenly became tense. Lynn was not sure about the true mentality and psychological bottom line of the Soviets, and his staff and partners were also uncertain. It stands to common sense that even if they have no intention of occupying a country in ruins and difficult to manage for a long time after the armistice, they will be very inclined to establish a pro-Soviet regime with the same ideology. Of course, since the Russian Revolution in 1917, most European and American countries, including Germany, regard the Bolsheviks as a flood beast, and after the "Reichstag arson", the German ** forces have completely no soil for survival during the reign of the Hitler regime. …,

As the minutes ticked by, Lynn's adventure continued. From the intermittent radio communications, one can roughly imagine the scene at the scene: a group of Soviet fighters with strong firepower was so aggressive that there was no direct verbal communication between the two sides, and once the Soviet fighters fired, all three German planes without any self-defense weapons would be shot down in less than a minute, and the pilot and more than 60 crew members on board would be killed.

"They swooped over...... They didn't fire, they didn't fire, and the captain said that the two sides could see each other's faces and even the faces of their eyes clearly...... Well, they're sticking here again, flying right next to us, Jacques or Lavockin? They had rockets hanging under their wings, and I think the Soviet pilots must have seen the slogan on our fuselage...... What do they mean by that...... They seem to be asking us to turn around and not move on......"

Listening to the "live broadcast" coming out of the radio communication equipment, Lynn's heart couldn't help but hang. These three planes were all he could muster at the moment, and he would play a huge role on the road to the pinnacle of power, and if he failed, he would have to return to the traditional route and watch Stupf enter Berlin in full force, or hope that his subordinates who would be bound for Berlin by train and car would arrive as quickly as possible.

When it was time for the ground commander to make a decision, Lynn calmly analyzed the situation, since the Soviet fighter did not fire rashly at the beginning, it should also be fired before the real move, so he ordered: "Keep going, if the Soviet fighter fires a warning...... Return! ”

Lest the crew communicators miss such an important command, the communications staff in the command repeated loudly over and over the radio until a relatively calm reply came from there: "Roger, continue to move forward unless the opponent fires a warning." ”

Next, the flight formation constantly reported the position of the Soviet fighters at very short intervals, and they did not forcibly intercept them after all, but maintained a close accompanying flight state, presumably waiting for the orders of their own command. Half an hour later, another group of Soviet fighters appeared and took their place, and the navigator determined that the group was flying near Leipzig, which meant that they were still one hundred and fifty kilometers from Berlin.

"No news from Berlin yet?"

Lynn asked Legrant, the liaison officer in the Baath Party, and received the answer: "There has been no news since yesterday afternoon when the telegram was sent from the Berlin telegraph office, and the telephone lines are still unavailable, probably because the Soviet occupation forces have temporarily interrupted normal telegraph operations for some reason." ”

More than a month ago, the German Wehrmacht carried out President Hof-Hersten's order to clean up, and the institutions of the Baath Party and the Free Regiment were severely damaged in many areas, especially in the capital, except for those well-trained professional intelligence officers, the rest of the staff were arrested and imprisoned.

Sauls, the technical supervisor in charge of the repair and inspection of the three planes, was relieved: "Aunt Juncker's take-off and landing capabilities are very good, as long as there are no big potholes on the runway, even if there are no responders, they can land smoothly." ”

Although the Junkers-52 is very slow, the sturdy airframe structure, especially the strong landing gear configuration, can adapt to all kinds of harsh environments, Lynn knows this very well, and their normal fuel is enough to cope with the subsequent no-load return, but if the liaison personnel can not go to meet as planned, this group of "airborne" can only go to the city on foot, maybe they will be blocked by the Soviet army before they have crossed the Spree River, in that case they may only pull their throats across the river to make a momentum, the effect is like scratching the boots, It did little to the more than two million Germans who remained in Berlin. …,

The hands of the clock continued to turn, and the Soviet fighters continued to fly in close proximity to the three German planes without taking strong interdiction measures—a situation that Lynn and his subordinates had hoped for, but the attitude of the Soviets aroused the suspicion behind Lynn's curiosity: Was their unusual behavior the result of fulfilling the Empire's secret pact, or was there something else in mind?

Although time passed slowly, the crucial moment arrived as scheduled, and the outline of Berlin appeared in front of the three-plane formation. Now that he had come to this point, Lynn made up his mind to test the bottom line of the Soviets' patience, and by the way, he resolutely ordered the crews to change the planned route from the western suburbs and fly directly over the city in a low-to-medium altitude manner. Next, the Soviet fighter planes that accompanied the flight were like cats that had been stepped on by the tail, and reacted quickly and strongly to prevent the three planes from flying through the city of Berlin, but because they were very close to the city at this time, the Soviets did not use machine guns and rockets, but tried to make the three planes change direction in a trap way, and the pilot of the Fiat G12 gave in, but the two Junkers-52 broke through the block with the skill of the pilot. When the victory cheers of the crew members were heard on the radio, Lynn's airborne operations command was also boiling, the small tactical victory had extraordinary strategic and psychological significance, and people were as excited as if they had found a weakness in their fierce opponents, and Lynn was the only one on the scene who had a deeper thought: the people who could climb to the top of the power of the Soviet Union were not simple horns, and the agreements written in black and white did not have any coercive binding force in their eyes, and they cared about practical interests. Today, the Soviet Union has used the atomic bomb but did not actually possess it, the empire has the full set of technology to develop the atomic bomb, and has the number of atomic bombs that the outside world cannot accurately grasp, the United States has accumulated a considerable number of atomic bombs, but the complex chain of democracies that must be cautious due to the retaliation and geopolitics of their opponents seems to form a delicate balance circle......

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