"Latitude 48 degrees 41 north, longitude 27 degrees 72 west, in this position...... Well, it was indeed our intended ambush area, but this British cruiser 'Newcastle' ......"

In the integrated operations command room of the Imperial base camp, a staff officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel held the intelligence telegram he had just obtained and asked the assistant staff officer to mark the location of the incident with a small red light on the huge transparent plate combat map. Since the submarine is unable to send radio signals to the outside world while submersible, the "Shelter" base has not yet received confirmation from its own U-boat, and the attack and sinking of the super mail ship "Europa" seems to be a sure fact.

During nap time, the Führer usually does not appear at the office, and Rommel, the commander-in-chief of the base, has maintained the habit of taking a nap at noon since he arrived at the base. At present, the only people who are stationed in this core operations command room are the staff officers of the base camp, the senior staff liaison personnel of the base headquarters and the strategic staff, and the highest position is the intelligence chief of Andri, who does not work in a fixed position.

"Although classified as a light cruiser, it has a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons, and it is an out-and-out attack warship." Andriy crossed his hands and muttered to himself, seeing that the staff officer had finished making adjustments on the operational map, he walked over to a staff officer's desk and picked up the phone, asking the operator to connect to the chief strategic staff officer of the base camp, Lynn. Gargo residence.

"Hi, the world-class General Gargo, it's me, I'm in the integrated operations command room...... Sorry to interrupt your lunch break, there's new news on the Europa...... It was sunk and, interestingly, there was also a British cruiser on site...... Uh-huh, come on! ”

On the other end of the phone line, Lynn had only taken a nap for less than half an hour, and was suddenly woken up a little drowsy, but when she hung up the phone, she was as if she had taken a heart booster. At this time, the woman on the soft bed turned over gently, and the pregnancy of more than three months has not been clearly reflected in the figure, and the lines lined by the futon are still so graceful and slender. Even though the temperature in the bed was just right, the side position of Yiren was suitable for hugging from behind, and the bedroom was filled with her soft and pleasant body fragrance, Lynn had to put on a coat. Before leaving, he tiptoed to the bed, bent down and left a soft kiss on the handsome cheek.

Ten minutes later, when Lynn walked into the well-equipped and well-appointed base camp integrated operations command room, Andriy appeared to be pondering the contents of another telegram. When he saw Lynn, he said in a gloating tone: "It seems that the third world war is just around the corner!" ”

As the atmosphere of confrontation between the East and the West grows stronger, the "Third World War" will inevitably become a long-lasting topic that has attracted much attention. Lynn saluted the standing staff officers as he walked, and when he reached Andri, he said calmly, "It's not that exaggerated!" ”

Andriy did not show the telegram directly to Lynn, but told him: "Radio communications intercepted from the British and French can confirm that the Europa was sunk, and they believe that the Soviets did it...... Once again, your plan has become a shock. Although their exact losses are unknown, even if most of the crew were lucky enough to escape, it would be enough to light a fire under the ass of the Western allies. Also, this is the code code that has just been transmitted from our intelligence station in northern Spain, and its literal translation reads: France protested against the Soviet Union, and the United States and Britain supported it. ”

Lynn turned around and saw a new sign on the battle map, the red dot in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was the location of the two U-boats ambushing their targets. A week earlier, the Führer had made a decision in two days to approve submarine sorties and to send additional submarines to fight, so that the final sortie of submarines in this operation reached six, and according to the order of departure and in response to the information from the North American side, Lynn divided them into three batches to ambush the central and eastern Atlantic waters to ensure that the "Europa" would be sunk during the voyage. If it is lucky enough to avoid the first two groups of submarines, it will be intercepted in the French territorial waters outside the port of Le Havre, and this will be the most powerful "poison".

"What level of protest?"

"It should be the strongest protest, and maybe it will soon turn into an ultimatum." Andrida.

Lynn was noncommittal on the surface, but she shook her head inwardly. Gathering intelligence, Andri's work can only be regarded as mediocre, and he has not shown a better eye for strategic thinking than his predecessor.

"If de Gaulle had been in power, France would have been a courageous boxer, but now all they can do is protest. The situation in the UK is much the same, and their current prime minister, Clement. Attlee, the 'socialist' who focused primarily on economic recovery and national stability, was more friendly to the Soviet Union than any previous British leader. What really matters is the attitude of the United States, which does not want to sit idly by and watch the Soviet Union continue to expand its strong influence in Europe, let alone see its former allies throw themselves into the camp of the other side, as they should know...... It's time to change the situation. Lynn narrates her analysis. However, as a typical consequentialist, Andriy did not take his advice seriously, but took a pen and quickly signed his name on the telegram and handed it to his deputy, instructing:

"Class A, send it to the Führer's office along with the previous piece of information."

After the deputy left, Andriy said to Lynn in a natural tone: "As long as they fight, it doesn't matter what kind of reason they have, it doesn't matter what kind of process they have, the key is to lose both, and we benefit from it." ”

Such a concept is tantamount to leaving fate to God to decide, not necessarily negative, but lacking the insight of those who have achieved great things. Although Lynn has helplessness and sadness in her heart, it is no longer as strong as it was at the beginning. With Goering's hubris, Himmler's ignorance and brutality, and Hess's ignorance, the Third Reich was destined to remain strong for a long time, even though it relied on its military glory to reach the top of Europe. The fact that the Führer is still alive, the strength of the Imperial Guard, and the gradual recovery and expansion of the intelligence network are crucial cornerstones for a re-enchantment of Europe, but the road to revival is fraught with internal and external troubles. The Führer is like an incomparably sharp nerve knife, which is wise and martial and omnipotent when it is normal, and when it is confused, it makes frequent moves and self-destroys the Great Wall; Goebbels's agitation and propaganda methods are mainly inducement and deception, which are sufficient for the time being, but will only be counterproductive in the long run. In Lynn's view, the only ones who are truly reliable are Rommel and Laurentz. Bach (referring only to the people Lynn came into contact with, not to belittle the good commanders of the Wehrmacht), but they also have their own limitations, not all-around and invincible. Before becoming a person in power, what you can do by yourself is to use your existing resources to be a "tailor" who cuts, splices, and threads needles.

Having wisely ended the discussion with Andriy, Lynn and the staff officers at the base camp deduced the evolution of the situation by studying the communication telegrams from the outside world, and prepared to report to the base commander Marshal Rommel in detail as soon as he arrived at the office. Before the lunch break was over, the staff officer in the corner of the operations command room received a call from another department, and before he seemed to have heard all the contents, he stood up very quickly and reported to Lynn and Andriy: "A group of Soviet warships has just arrived at Hamburg Point, and the observation post has found that they are sending men to land in small boats, at least a few hundred people!" ”

Lynn and Andriy looked at each other at each other, and Cape Hamburg was the name of a coast thirty kilometers away by the base command, a way that sent the officers and men to miss their homeland. Prior to this, Soviet planes and ships had been active in northern Norway, and land troops had crossed the border in the form of patrols. On this basis, Lynn wanted to use the "Europa" to form a counterattack and further intensify the contradictions between the Western allies and the Soviet Union. The landing site is so close to the "Vault" base, isn't there already a clue to the existence of the base?

"Oops!" Andriy suddenly realized, "During this time, we sent some instructions to the outside world, and it is likely that the Soviets used them to conduct radio direction finding and calculate the direction of the source of the radio waves. ”

Receiving Lynn's gaze, the staff officer in charge of communications analyzed: "This is technically possible!" ”

Lynn immediately ordered: "Report to the commander of the base immediately!" ”

After a while, Rommel hurried to the operations command room, and in the meantime, Lynn and the others had obtained some bits and pieces of information from the outpost. Due to the limitations of distance and visibility, it can only be judged that the size of the Soviet fleet is small, and there are no aircraft to assist the operation for the time being. The fact that the Reich had newly deployed spies in Murmansk, the largest port in the northern part of the Soviet Union, had not observed the entire fleet sailing recently, suggesting that the fleet had either secretly set sail from other northern ports, or had temporarily assembled in the open sea and remained radio silent all the way. If it is only such a fleet and the Soviet troops that have landed, it will not be difficult to destroy them with the current strength of the Imperial Guard, the key is that once the base is exposed, even if the Western Allies are skeptical, the Soviets alone will be able to destroy the place, and the evidence they have captured will clear all the previous charges.

"Even if they were to march entirely on foot, they would be in our inner circle by this time tomorrow." The staff officer of the base camp who was familiar with the operation hurriedly analyzed.

Even a commander as calm and generous as Rommel did not dare to slack off in the face of such a crisis situation, and he ordered with a cold expression: "Raise the battle alarm, and all the troops in the base are on alert!" ”

(To be continued)