The vast dark night, the wind and snow are all over the road, and the smooth road has become a dangerous road. On the road from Erlangen to Nuremberg, a convoy of more than 20 jeeps and trucks slowly moved like a snail in the direction of Nuremberg, and the dazzling headlights became unprecedentedly dim under the cover of goose feathers and snow. On the side of the curve that the convoy had already driven over, a jeep overturned in a field in a very stylish manner, only a dozen meters apart, and another truck also unfortunately slid off the road and fell into a mud puddle.

Amid the sound of crawler rubbing, a group of "three-eyed" steel monsters appeared on this stretch of road less than ten kilometers from Nuremberg. Looking through the snowflakes swept by the strong wind, these guys have a boxy turret and a rather tall shape, and if you are not familiar with British tanks, you may mistake them for the invincible Tiger tanks of the Germans. Soon, these "Cromwell" cruiser tanks, which weighed about the same weight as the German No. 4 tank, drove smoothly and quickly past the broken down American vehicles, and the British tankers leaning into the turret hatches looked at these usually pampered American soldiers with sympathetic eyes, and no one left the team to help them without receiving a clear order. After all, it was located between the city of Nuremberg and the Allied barracks, and rescue vehicles may have already departed from the barracks, and this fast tank column was on a more important mission.

After a while, the tank column began to overtake the slow-moving US convoy, and the US officers and men sitting in the car could only hold their sleepy eyes and hold their guns, and watched the "British Iron Horsemen" handsomely disappear with complicated eyes. They inherited the characteristics of British cruiser tanks with high speed, small guns, and thin skin, and the three "Cromwells" and one "Firefly" were also considered a fairly classic tactical combination on the European pig battlefield, but their ability to fight independently was not complimentary. Not to mention the Tiger and Leopard tanks, even against the German No. 4 tank is at a disadvantage, and when it encounters the Soviet steel torrent with the T34 and IS series as the main force, it is only a slip number, so that it is badly rated as "Britain's soft egg" by Western Allied soldiers. In today's front-line battlefield, the British armored units mainly rely on the "Comet" and "Churchill" to fight, and the "Cromwell", which was not destroyed by the muzzle of the Soviet tank, is reduced to reconnaissance and infantry support, and some are simply included in the second-line troops to carry out guard and patrol duties in the rear.

These cruiser tanks, which have only been designed and built for three years, have performed poorly on the battlefield, but they are still some of the most distinctive tanks of the British Army, with an excellent power system, reliable and durable Meteor engines, and flexible maneuverability for rapid combat in all kinds of environments. Their flat turrets and bodies were covered with snow, but they didn't slow down because of the bad weather. Judging by their long barrels and typical muzzle brakes, these were later models of the Cromwell, with welded frontal armor of K2 mm and two 792mm machine guns (standard equipment for British tanks), more than enough to deal with a whimsical "Nazi remnant" - at least according to the British tankmen who learned of the attack on Nuremberg.

When they arrived at their destination, they could see what they would see and what they could imagine on the way, but few of them probably expected that the ability of tracked vehicles to withstand harsh conditions would not guarantee that they would reach Nuremberg without any problems, and before they had gone 5 kilometers after overtaking the American convoy, the roar of thunder instantly woke up the dreamers!

The fire from the explosion could not reflect the heavy snowy night, and when you looked at it from the back and forward, it seemed that it was just a cannon fired by the leading tank, and there was no red flame and smoke from the shelling, and there were no high-flying and heavily falling fragments, and the rumbling sound quickly spread in the boundless wilderness, and the sight returned to its original state in an instant, and the vast snow filled most of the visible space, and the twin lights on the front of the tank body made this tank column look like a shining centipede, The additional headlights on the left side of the turret reflect a very limited area as the muzzle is pointing.

If there was no unusual sound in the ears after the lonely explosion, the British tankers might prefer to believe that it was their own delusion, but at a speed of more than 40 kilometers per hour, the first tank with a mine had a hard friction with the road surface due to the broken track and sudden stall, and in order to avoid colliding with the car in front, the second, third and subsequent tanks also braked, and the sharp sound pierced the howling of the cold wind and made people feel .........palpitations.

Looking at the faint cloud of smoke rising in front of them, the crew members of the rear tank also roughly guessed the situation, and under the command of the tank, each car quickly slowed down and turned off the headlights and turret hanging lights one after another, and the long centipede, which was still crawling quickly on the road just now, quickly disappeared into the vast snowy night. The loss of illumination shortened the visibility distance and kept these less defensive cruisers from being exposed for long periods of time. In the earlier wars with the Germans and now with the Soviets, many Allied tankers have been ambushed by the enemy, and are impressed by the well-coordinated and powerful anti-tank tactics, and their inertial thinking makes them hold their breath and prepare for the ambusher's follow-up attack, whether it is the precision bombardment of large-caliber anti-tank guns, the overwhelming ferocious artillery fire, or the heavy tank slowly coming out of a hidden position, either way, with the performance of the "Cromwell" is difficult to deal with.

Time passed by a second, and the situation that worried and even frightened the British tankers never appeared, and many people were relieved that this was not the Eastern European pampering line, but the rear of the battle line, southeast Germany, at this time, more than a load had passed since the destruction of the Third Reich and its formal forces, and although there may be fish that slipped through the net under the meticulous cleaning of the Allied occupation forces, the appearance of heavy artillery and tanks is absolutely impossible.

As for the Soviet surprise soldiers, they will not fall from the sky over the depth of the front of hundreds of kilometers

After a long pause, the command tank, which had removed its artillery and installed a high-power radio, gave a new command to leave the road and search for advance. The appearance of the enemy is an indisputable fact, but there is no detailed information on the progress of the battle on the Nuremberg side, and if such a tank column, whose combat effectiveness is far greater than that of ordinary infantry, is blocked by a few mines and is only a few kilometers away, it will definitely be regarded as a coward and ridiculed in the end.

Taking advantage of the gap between the British tanks, the American troops behind also caught up, and their trucks did not rush to the "battlefield", and a group of officers and soldiers arrived first in jeeps, among them were the mine detection engineers that the British tankers were eager to miss -- post-war Germany, most of the residents silently accepted the reality of defeat, but there were also many thorns that jumped out to cause trouble for the Allies, and the teenage and half-grown men and the bad old men in their sixties and seventies were especially dangerous, and they were not necessarily proficient in weapons. However, the most common use of explosives such as grenades and mines was the ability to make "loud" from various "small equipment" left over from the end of the war, and the engineers of the Allied forces had been plagued by these tactical weapons since the Normandy landings.

The American sappers here rushed to the front of the British tank column with their guys, and the "Cromwell" was also busy, and the second car in the row stubbornly pushed away the companion in the front with broken tracks and crooked wheels with its steel body, and the piercing friction sound suddenly came again. The road was empty, but the second "Cromwell" did not blindly move forward, and waited until the next few cars left the road in turn and entered the fields on both sides, and then it reversed and drove down the roadbed. In a short time, six tanks on the left and five tanks on the right were advancing slowly on both sides of the road, while the remaining few remained on the road to cover the sappers who were supporting the demining. This arrangement seemed to be safe, but before the British tanks marching in the field had gone fifty meters, they heard a loud bang, and the explosion, which was several times more violent than before, actually made the ground in the distance feel a clear tremor. When people looked closely, the tank was still a tank, the huge body was actually broken, and the turret was tilted away from the body, and as for the crew inside, it was very unlikely that they would survive this way!

There is no doubt that this earth-shattering thunder shook the audience in an instant. The British tankers spontaneously stopped on the spot, and the tragic situation of their companions made them all afraid of the explosives planted by the other side, and the American sappers who had just begun to clear the road also looked in horror, and the American officers and men on the road behind them also felt the gravity of the situation for the first time -- if they continued to advance, they would probably end up with no bones left.

The loud noise caused by the fifty kilograms of high explosives penetrated the wind and snow and reached Nuremberg, a few kilometers away, and by this time the battle around the Nuremberg prison had ended, and the American, British, and French garrisons had suffered heavy losses and were almost expelled from the garrison, so when the attackers scattered and retreated, they were unable to organize an effective pursuit, and a group of British soldiers hurried into the prison with only a few doors and windows damaged, and they were soon shocked by the corpses of the guards all over the ground, And when they found that there were still several important war criminals in the high-level detention area located underground, there were still several important war criminals in the room with the iron door open, and the second shock was even more indescribable. …,

Finally, a British major confronted Dönitz in jerky German, "Who is the attacker?" What are they here for? Why didn't you go? Where did they flee? ”

The last Führer of the Third Reich raised his head and looked at each other coldly, and replied in an uncharacteristically extremely arrogant tone: "I don't know who they are, that's why I didn't leave, I don't know where they fled, and the purpose of their coming here is obvious." ”

The British Major was speechless, and he walked to the other rooms in anger but unable to vent, trying to get more valuable information from the mouths of those who remained here, but the answers of the men were much the same.

At this moment, on the hill that needs to be reached by walking 62 kilometers to leave Nuremberg Prison, the signal soldier who followed Wiesenfeld into the prison straightened his chest and saluted Lynn: "General, the rescue operation is going well, except for the seven people including Field Marshal Dönitz, who is unwilling to leave, the rest have retreated in the direction of Nuremberg according to your plan." ”

On this inconspicuous hill, Lynn saw through the telescope that the group of men had withdrawn from the prison under the cover of their companions and headed for the city, which, although in ruins, was the best place to hide their tracks, and the complex environment and the cooperation of the inhabitants could contain the Allied forces for at least half a day, and the people who had been evacuated from the prison would march through the city to Nuremberg without stopping—a hundred kilometers to the east could cross the border into the Czech Republic, to the south could go to Munich, or cross the border to Austria or Switzerland, and to the west, Even if you walk four or five hundred kilometers to the north, you can't leave Germany, where only rolling hills and woods can provide cover for the whereabouts of the brigade.

#阝尼茨居然不愿离开, Lynn was a little surprised, he was not a gifted military genius after all, not only could he anticipate the enemy's movements, but also could judge their trade-offs by analyzing the individual's personality and thoughts.

"Besides the Admiral, who are the other six?"

The communications soldier gasped: "Marshal Raeder, von. Prefect Ribbentrop, Prefect Schacht, von Fernandes. Ambassador Papen, Chief Fritzcher, and Chief Hess! ”

Anyone who was dismissed or abandoned by the Führer before the end of the war was called "Chief" as a suffix, and none of these men actually knew or met Lynn -- but the historical record and posterity's evaluation were enough to give him a general idea of the key figures. To be sure, in the list of high-ranking war criminals detained at Nuremberg, Lynn only admires Dönitz, Raeder, and Speer, all of whom were of great talent, who made great achievements in their own way before and after the war, and who were loyal supporters of the Führer, and more importantly, they were fundamentally different from Himmler and Heydrich, who slaughtered Jews, imprisoned speech, and ruled brutally. At the Nuremberg trials, they were severely punished with 0 years (Dönitz), 20 years (Speer) and life imprisonment (Raeder), but they were "forgivable" compared to the one of the most heinous people sentenced to death by hanging.

Respecting personal wishes was a principle that Lynn had set with the consent of the Führer, and there was no chance of turning back at this time, but Speer was willing to leave with the task force. Lynn thought quickly in his head and instructed the signal soldier: "Tell Colonel Bruns, and then act according to Plan B, and the key people will be covered by Lieutenant Colonel Handmark." ”

For such an operation, which was extremely complex in terms of objectives, itinerary, and environment, Lynn configured a total of three branch plans, A, B, and C, on the basis of the general plan, and the entire content was in the hands of several important officers, including the deputy commander of operations and the night battalion commander, Colonel Laubrens. The three plans each adopt different retreat routes for different situations, and they dare not say that they are earth-shattering, but they also pour a lot of effort into Lynn and also draw on the charm of the Eastern tactics.

Without hesitation, the communications corps sent the order, leaving Lynn and his accompanying adjutant Marcos in vain. Tanze was on this cold and windy hill, and it wouldn't be long before they should leave in reverse. Because they did not directly participate in the operation, and they had the identity of Red Cross personnel as a cover, these two "acting schools" who had been trained in North America did not need to worry too much about the pursuit and interrogation of the Allies. Just when the figure of the communication soldier was once again submerged in the wind and snow, there was a flash of light and flames in the north again, and after more than ten seconds, the earth-shattering and rolling thunder arrived as scheduled. Lynn knew that it was the task force in charge of intercepting on the northern front that was using the "Little Goliath Giant" to cause trouble for the Allied tanks. This secret weapon of the Second World War era is the embodiment of the wisdom of German industry, can be called the ancestor of remote sensing weapons, it is mainly a miniature tank hull without turret, about 15 meters long, weighing between 370 and 430 kilograms, wire-controlled and radio-controlled, driven by electric motors or motorcycle engines, loaded with 50 or 76 kilograms of explosives to approach and attack enemy armored targets or strong fortifications, effective control distance of up to 650 meters, properly operated than any anti-tank rocket launcher. …,

However, by 1946, these "little giants" were no longer the secret weapons of the German army, the United States and Britain allied forces at the end of World War II captured samples and shipped them back to China for dismantling and research, and imitations were also used in the war with the Soviet army, but the high cost and complexity of operation greatly limited their large-scale popularization. In order to cooperate with the Nuremberg operation, the task force brought three "Goliath Little Giants" from the "Vault" base, and the original plan was to use two to knock down the high wall of the Nuremberg Prison, and one to block the perimeter, but after further observation and analysis, the demolition experts believed that the destructive power of this equipment was too strong, and the explosion of the outer wall of the prison could cause damage to the detainees whose specific location was unknown, so they finally adopted a relatively small directional blasting technology.

Two rolling thunders, three remote-controlled anti-tank equipment has gone, Lynn has no fear, as long as the manpower and material resources continue to recover, no matter how expensive the equipment can be produced, even the "disc" that still confuses the allies has the prospect of mass production. In the cold wind, he tightened his collar and looked up to the northeast, where Handmark would personally protect Speer, the "key gentleman", and sail north along the Bohemian and Erzberg mountains to the Elbe, and then down to Hamburg. It is said that 100,000 German prisoners of war released by the Western Allies have arrived on the battlefield as volunteers, and the number of German prisoners of war sent to the front line on the Soviet side is not yet known, but judging from the current situation, they may not be less than these 100,000. The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, and there may be a black scene of German soldiers attacking German soldiers one day, and Lynn's most thought is not how to prevent the tragedy of cannibalism in the former robes, but how the number of German prisoners of war of more than 4 million at the end of the war can have the most positive momentum for the revival of the empire - although the cruel prisoner of war camp has killed many precious lives, fortunately, a year and a half is not too long, and it is optimistically estimated that more than 3 million former third emperors who have received military training are still alive in the world. As long as it is nutritionally conditioned and psychologically counseled, careful organization is still a heroic division worthy of a big battle. Clear