Chapter 86: Dance on the Tightrope
After beating the arrogant and mean-faced old man with a sharp face who was the deputy foreign minister of the German provisional government, ended his visitation in a rage, Lynn's life in prison began to deteriorate: the daily meals were either few and hard, or simply moldy and spoiled, the weekly visits were always delayed or even canceled for one reason or another in the prison, the release time was adjusted to the night, and the sun did not shine, and he was the only lonely figure in the huge courtyard. Despite this, Lynn still waited calmly and calmly, her will never wavered, and the power of her faith became stronger and stronger.
As soon as late autumn passed, a deep chill condensed in the air, and there were still only wooden beds and thin blankets in the solitary cell, and in the absence of sufficient food, Lynn had to sit in meditation to survive, and if she continued like this, she could not become a saint, and her body would collapse sooner or later, but fortunately, the gloomy days were broken on that Monday in mid-November, and Lynn was allowed to receive visits, and the news about the situation was more positive than the coats and bedding sent by her subordinates - in the past month, there have been mass demonstrations and strike movements all over Germany, Some of them were organized by Baath Party organizations, and many of them were initiated by local parties or spontaneously organized by the people. For the first time since taking office, the Papen Provisional Government was faced with such a fierce and huge wave of opposition, the political situation was precarious, and the external pressure exerted by the allies had to send additional troops and supplies to the front line in Eastern Europe.
It was not only the German Provisional Government that was caught in a passive situation, but the situation of the Allies on the Eastern European front was also quite unoptimistic since the turn of autumn and winter. Fearing that the Soviet army was still strong in land warfare, they temporarily abandoned the offensive and turned to the defensive, and arrived at the eastern border of Poland to create a wide no-man's land, intending to prevent the Soviet army from breaking through Poland again with aviation, tactical nuclear weapons and tens of thousands of mines, but this could not effectively stop the Soviet iron cavalry, but caused the Soviet army to move its forces as soon as the Allied side was extremely nervous and embarrassed, and the battlefield initiative changed hands at a glance.
At a time when the major powers were being constrained by the European battlefield, the Asian national independence movement was also surging as in history, and after Indonesia and the Philippines, India, Pakistan, and Myanmar also gained independence, but their impact on the world pattern was not as great as the sudden change in Northern Europe - November 4, 1qM, the three counties of Finnmark, Tromsø and Norrland in northern Norway declared their independence from the Kingdom of Norway, and the newly formed state was officially named the "Free Empire of Northern Scandinavia". This mysterious free empire occupies 100,000 square kilometers of land, and at the end of World War II, there were less than 100,000 inhabitants living on this land, and the economy was based on fishing and limited mining, metallurgy, and trade, and its comprehensive strength was not as good as some small European countries with only 30,000 or 40,000 square kilometers.
Before the countries made a clear statement, the Kingdom of Norway, unwilling to be divided into traditional territories, refused to recognize the legitimacy of the "free empire", and quickly sent troops north to try to recover the territory, but in just half a month, tens of thousands of Norwegian troops suffered a complete defeat by land, sea and air. The world was shocked by the news, and rumors about the true face of the Free Empire were rife and speculations about the Third Reich had risen and fallen several times, and this time the two were fairly unanimous in their connection.
However, the official authorities of the Free Empire of Northern Scandinavia have repeatedly declared that this is an ideal country formed by free people who oppose war, oppression and violent rule, and decided to secede from Norway through a referendum, so the Norwegian government's armed intervention is truly reactionary and illegal. …,
The Norwegian army is not strong, but the Norwegian government has been politically on the side of the allies since the end of World War II, and is now one of the official members of the Western allies, the United States and Britain and other countries will certainly not sit idly by for this situation, the powerful American and British fleets soon converged from the British and European ports to northern Norway, and the war-clouded North Sea could not help but remind people of the scene in the spring of 1940, when the German army landed in Norway first to seize the strategic advantage, this time the role of the knife was played by the Soviet Union. With the defeat of political rivals such as Kaganovich (Jewish) and Molotov (whose wife is Jewish) by the "anti-Jewish cabal", and the "atomic counterattack" incident to regain the de facto leadership of the country from the military generals, Khrushchev and his political allies succeeded in taking power, and quickly prompted the Soviet government to declare its recognition of the "Free Empire of Northern Scandinavia" and concluded a series of important military mutual assistance agreements with them, As a result, the originally isolated Free Empire received security and military support from the eastern border.
When the cold weather hit the continent for the first time, Northern Europe adjacent to the Polar Circle was already frozen for thousands of miles, and the local residents were still able to adapt to the harsh weather and the British Allied forces were not so happy. Influenced by the clear position of the Soviet government, the US and British forces went north after a full week's delay before the battle plan was determined. After the offensive curtain opened, as long as it was not a violent snowstorm, the Allied strategic air force with both size and quality would set off from bases in Britain and south-central Norway to pounce on the main port cities and industrial areas of the "Free Empire", but the weather in Northern Europe this season was really bad, most bombers could not drop bombs in the right place, and the huge swarms were always strongly blocked by enemy fighters, and those unpredictable saucer aircraft always created great psychological pressure on the Allied pilots.
Strategic bombing, which had been tried and tested in the past, was difficult to achieve results in a short period of time, and the Allies pinned their hopes on a powerful surface fleet and experienced marines. In order to seize the strategic fulcrum in the cold and remote northern Norway, they used the heavy guns of warships to provide cover, sent more than 4,000 marines and Norwegian naval fighters to launch a landing operation near Port Bodø, the capital of Norrland County, and sent a detachment to blockade the waters around Narvik and Tromsø, waiting for an opportunity to break into the fjord and carry out artillery bombardment.
At Norlan, when the Allied soldiers stepped across the icy waters of the cold wind to shore in a nervous and nervous mood, without a dense and ferocious bullet penetrating their chests, the landing force then proceeded to capture Port Bode with great success, but this seemingly good start was destined to be only a trap to trigger the trap. The nights in northern Europe in winter were long and the days were short, and after dark, the nightmare of the Allied landing force began. In the Port Bode area, Allied personnel exposed to buildings were quickly brought down by bullets fired from the shadows, as were Allied officers and soldiers who occupied and entrenched buildings. In the case of a complete power outage, the fighters of the Free Empire relied on their skillful use of night vision equipment, using submachine guns, grenades and rocket launchers to defeat the Allied troops, and even the elite units of the American army equipped with infrared night vision devices were completely defeated.
In the vicinity of Port Bode and at the beachhead landing ground, the Allied officers and men were also teased by the elusive enemy, and not only were the temporary defensive line full of holes, but the headquarters and material accumulation points located on the beachhead were also attacked by the enemy's artillery fire, and even the support fleet, which had absolute superiority in strength, suffered losses from the enemy's submarines at night, and damaged many transport ships and escort ships. As a result, the Allied armies, which had been invincible in naval battles and amphibious landing operations, continued to increase their forces but remained passive, and in less than a week, heavy casualties forced them to withdraw from the Bode area, and the detachment fleet was completely blocked in the complex fjord, and the Allies had to turn to Mosk in the northern part of the Westfjord. An outpost was established on the island of Ness, and an island-by-island campaign was used to advance from the west towards Narvik, while armoured units were sent to work slowly along the rough road of the Norwegian Army from south to north. …,
Before he was released from prison, Lynn's knowledge of the Nordic war was extremely limited, and in the dead of night, he would involuntarily recall the thrilling and heart-wrenching combat experience, and enjoy the magnificent and wonderful scenes in the depths of his mind. At the critical moment of the revival of the Empire, what a pity it is to not be able to fight side by side with his comrades, Lynn knows that the elites of the Empire are venting their pent-up feelings for more than two years, and they are once again realizing their self-worth in the way they are best at, showing the perfect blend of iron will and fighting skills・・・・・・
A week before Christmas, after two months of lengthy investigations and trials, the Hamburg Special Court finally ruled on the Kiel demonstration, convicted the German Renewal Party and its key members of several "insignificant" crimes, such as disturbing public order, destroying public property and harming the interests of the state, fined the Baath Party 850,000 marks and banned it from holding large gatherings of more than 500 people for one year, and the organization must be supervised by the local government of Schleswig-Holstein. The main members of the Kiel march were sentenced to 40 days' imprisonment and were released on the spot because they had been detained for longer than that time.
Standing in the warm sunshine with their own freedom, Lynn and Stupfer, as well as the core members of the Ba'ath Party, completed a rare journey of rebirth, and the fate of the Baath Party, which had been banned and even disbanded, was reversed with the arrival of this moment. The apparent concession of the Hamburg Special Court gave the German Baath Party and its supporters a victory over freedom, and it also raised the awareness that von Brown. The weakness and incompetence of the Provisional Government of Papen, while the "Free Empire", which was emerging from the fog, quietly aroused the endless reverie of ordinary Germans.
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