When the night sky suddenly flickered, Lynn was sitting in front of the north-facing window. At that time, the dark clouds completely obscured the light of the stars and moon, and the explosion scene in the distance could be seen with the naked eye. In an instant, countless burning debris scattered in a beautiful arc like a salute flower, and from the direction, it should be over IJsselmeer, formed by the Dutch reclamation of the sea. Immediately afterward, Lynn caught a second surface-to-air missile in the night sky - because the "Rhein's daughter" was radio-controlled, in order to facilitate the operator to confirm its actual position in operation, a light-emitting device similar to a tracer bullet was installed at the wingtip, so it could be observed from a long distance. Although its flickering light is only a little brighter than the faintest star, the technological energy contained in it is enormous and epoch-making.

The attacker's operation is far from being proficient, but the attacker's state of mind is even more dazed. As a result, two low-altitude missiles hit the plane flying in the air in succession. In the light of the explosion, Lynn also saw several planes flying nearby, and although he couldn't tell if the missile had killed the real target, he already had a strange feeling in his heart: it was a night when the stars were falling.

The greatest misfortune will be George. Marshall, the number one military strategist of the U.S. Army, a key figure in the Western Allied Forces, or the highly decorated British Field Marshal Brooke who returned at a critical moment and replaced Montgomery and Alexander as the chief commander of the British forces in the war, or the French general who was not too famous internationally, and which country should be sobbing tonight, intuition did not provide Lynn with the answer, but the mystery did not last long. Mixed in the diplomatic ranks, Lynn's "sight" and "hearing" have improved by leaps and bounds compared to before, and he received reliable inside information that night: British Field Marshal Brooke was seriously wounded and died on the spot when the convoy was attacked, Marshall was in the same car with members of the Dutch royal family, although he was only affected by the impact and suffered some innocuous skin wounds, but after returning to the Alkmaar airport the same way, he actually insisted on returning to the headquarters in Poland overnight, and although the special plane was covered by a squadron of fighters, And a theoretically safe route was chosen, but shortly after the plane took off, it was shot down by ground fire that people did not expect at all, and none of the crew on the special plane were spared, and another escort fighter was shot down, and the possibility of the pilot being killed on the spot was very high.

In addition to the first and second leaders of the Allied Command in Europe, the arrival of the United States Army for military visits also included a number of senior officers of the US Army, Army Aviation and Navy, as many as six above the rank of lieutenant general, as well as four British generals, three French generals, and three Polish generals, who accompanied the Dutch royal family and government officials from Alkmaar to Amsterdam by car. As he prepares for the welcome party at the palace that night, he is hit by a roadside bomb and heavy fire, and Marshall is lucky to be able to get out of the way, but the rest of the people are not so lucky. More than half of them were either killed in the car or were seriously injured and in critical condition, and many of the rest followed Marshall as air ghosts. During the whole process, only two lucky people suffered minor injuries, one was a lieutenant general of the French Army and the other was a major general of the Polish Air Force.

The "Hyams Incident", named after the place where the incident occurred, had an extraordinary shocking effect on the Allied camp, so at the beginning, the Allied side tried to block the news, and the situation was only known to the Allied high-level and some personnel in the Amsterdam area, but as always, the details of this incident were quickly disclosed to the outside world through international radio stations in neutral countries such as Switzerland, Spain, and Mexico. The bombshell immediately sparked a frenzy of public opinion. In the face of widespread doubts and criticism from the outside world, US President Truman had no choice but to make a tearful speech again, but from Pearl Harbor and New York to the current Hyams, the effect of mourning is declining again and again. In the United States, questions have been raised about the ability of Roosevelt's successor to govern the country, and the military is blaming the military decisions made at the top. A similar play was still being played out in the United Kingdom, and the people were increasingly nostalgic for the iron-fisted, arbitrary, brutal but "great" wartime Prime Minister Churchill, and the call for a new cabinet was raised, and the Attlee cabinet was once again involved in .........a dangerous whirlpool.

After the "Hyams Incident", the Dutch army and the Allied task force immediately launched a large-scale search and arrest operation in the Netherlands, and for a time from Amsterdam to the obscure country villages everywhere was full of chickens and dogs, and people were panicked, hundreds of suspects were arrested and interrogated, airports, ports, and railways were strictly controlled, locals and foreigners were only allowed to enter the Netherlands and were not allowed to leave without authorization, and people's high vigilance of unfamiliar faces also made the government and enterprises basically stop their outreach activities. Even the production and operation of the Mohr Machinery Company was greatly affected, but both Lynn, the real mastermind behind the scenes, and the officers and men of the 7th Detachment Squadron, which carried out the attack mission, successfully "got away with it" -- Lynn was still able to move freely in the Netherlands under the cover of being a diplomat, and the operatives who shot down the Allied planes with surface-to-air missiles took a small boat to return to the Mohr Company that night, and the fighters who planted roadside bombs and carried out a supplementary attack with ferocious fire also used the cover of night to retreat westward to the coast, There, they boarded a pre-arranged speedboat and fled to Belgium, from where they returned to Germany by land.

There was a fire in the backyard of the Allied forces, and the Soviets, who had a very bad time all summer, could not easily let go of the opportunity, and it happened that the weather was beautiful, and the Eastern European region ushered in continuous rainy weather, and the efficiency of the Allied air forces that had the advantage was sharply reduced, and the Soviet army, which was strategically suppressed, soon made a big move: they stopped retreating in northern Lithuania and turned to meet the Allied attacking forces, interspersed with small and medium-sized tactical counterattacks, And took advantage of the opportunity of the night battle to carry out a strong assault on the Allied supply points established in Lithuanian ports, while launching a pincer counteroffensive in western Belarus with a large number of infantry and mechanized corps, and the tank army and mechanized army, which had not appeared for a long time, appeared on the key battlefield. Surrounded and annihilated by the Soviet army's local counterattacks twice in a row, the Allied officers and soldiers have fallen into a psychological shadow, and when they encounter this situation, they are afraid that they will be dumpled by the other side for the third time, and the combat troops of the northern and central fronts have retreated, and the allied forces that intend to "liberate" Ukraine have advanced to the Zhytomyr region, which is less than two hundred kilometers away from Kiev, due to the great strides of the friendly forces on the northern front and the central front, they can only give up the low-hanging fruit victory and quickly retreat to Poland, The Soviets did not make much effort to regain the large area of land they had lost before, and they also chased and fought fiercely with the Allied troops with high morale, and achieved a shocking reversal in the strategic situation in a short period of time!

The "Hyams Affair" had just broken the nerves of the people of the allied countries, and the "Kiel Affair" had followed one after another. In Lynn's eyes, this is the key decision to pursue the victory, but from the standpoint of the allies, it is a disaster, and the German people have no time to rejoice that their military generals have not suffered such heavy losses as the United States and Britain, and the explosive news that "Kiel is about to suffer a nuclear strike" took them seriously. Since the establishment of the German navy, Kiel has been the starting point of the German nation's blue-water dream, which has witnessed the desire and efforts of the two military empires for sea power for more than half a century, and has also witnessed the achievements of the German nation in warship construction technology - the De Fllinger class, the King class, the Bavarian class, the Scharnhorst class, and the Bismarck class, all of which have the Kiel as the home port of the navy. The two empires that tried to change the world pattern through war ended up in failure, and the Germanic fire of hegemony and space was gradually extinguished, and Kiel became synonymous with lost dreams, but if the Soviets used destructive weapons because Kiel had stationed an Allied fleet, it would be an unbearable blow to Germany's remaining self-esteem. The media deliberately reminded us of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia, in which countless quaint and historic buildings disappeared, and tens of thousands of inhabitants (although only a small number of them were Germans) who were caught up in the war and did not flee in time (although only a small number of them were Germans) were killed or left with incurable wounds, and that was when the blast site was still several nautical miles away from the port. If Kiel were to be caught in the same purgatory, not only would the 100,000 people and the famous shipyards and large slipways be unsafe, but also most of Schleswig-Holstein would be affected, which would be a precursor to the safety of nearly a million people and the survival of the nation. Between silent endurance and justified protests, the Baath Party, which was influential in North Germany, issued its first cry: the Allied navy leaves Kiel!

Hundreds of thousands of leaflets, hundreds of mobile lecture points on the streets, radio broadcasts on various radio channels, large and small rallies in towns and villages, followed by demonstrations in Schleswig, Lenzburg, Marent, and even Hamburg, followed by the Baath Party's efforts to secure supplies, marches from all walks of life, from their respective cities, villages, and towns, to Kiel, the largest popular movement since Germany's surrender in World War II, The struggle for national dignity and the interests of the survival broke the inferiority complex caused by the defeat, and the spontaneous arrival of people along the way was constantly joined, and when the marchers gathered in the city of Kiel, everyone was surprised and proud of the size of the procession.

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