Shortly after Lynn's return to Tromsø, Oslo's written reply came down that the Norwegian Army's newly formed "Narvik Mountain Battalion" would be deployed with two companies to Tromsø and the northern region once it was formed, and until then, the security patrols in Tromsø County would remain under the responsibility of the Northern Border Guards. As for the proposal for the establishment of a militia security force in the county of Tromsø, the Norwegian Government is unable to provide financial resources and equipment, and the Tromsø local government and parliament have to negotiate on their own.

The reply from Oslo is still an official argument lacking substance, the mountain battalion with Narvik as its garrison has only just begun its recruitment process, and progress is very slow, and it is not expected that two fully equipped companies will go north to Tromsø to defend against potential attacks by Soviet troops and special operators, and the border guards in northern Norway have less than a thousand men combined, and they must guard thousands of kilometers of coast and land borders, and their own defense is still too busy. How can there be effort to help the local government solve the problem of security patrols. Lynn had anticipated this, and the overly hasty official reply from the Norwegian central government had fallen into his "trap". On this legal basis, the "Tromsø Security Battalion" was soon proclaimed, nominally composed of unpaid volunteers from among the local residents, with no fixed number of people, but divided into five subordinate security companies according to the area of responsibility, which were responsible for the security of the port of Tromsø and in the four directions of the southeast, north, south, and north, and this situation was reported to Oslo by the Tromsø government and the county council, and was also published in the newspapers with pictures and texts - people saw only a group of civilians with muskets and spears, tall, short, fat and thin, As everyone knows, these people are basically the Third Emperor ** people who have combat experience. In the Norwegian capital, where many simply dismissed it as a boring farce of northern hill life, a few businessmen then organized a public fundraiser to raise money for the weapons and equipment of the brave Tromsø security forces, but they raised enough money to buy 200 rifles. Under the persuasion of well-intentioned people, the Norwegian government allocated 300 Mauser 98k and a batch of ammunition in good condition from the ordnance materials surrendered by the German army at the time of surrender to this group of fundraisers, and the weapons and ammunition were immediately loaded onto the port of Tromsø and transported to the port of Tromsø by newspapers, and the civilians in different clothes still did not see the shadow of the regular army when they picked up German rifles......

Three weeks later, the port of Tromsø.

"All stand upright! Salute! ”

On the pier, a loud voice shouted out the military command in Norwegian, and hundreds of "security volunteers" lined up in two rows duly shouldered their rifles and solemnly greeted the Norwegian War Chief of Staff and member of the royal family. General Conrad. It is difficult for outsiders to see that the fundraising in Oslo is just a cover-up performance, in order to make the soldiers of the "Tromsø Security Camp" use German equipment reasonably, and all the fundraisers are originally arranged intelligence officers, but there is never a shortage of people in this world to join in the fun, and General Conrad is such a person.

As the nephew of the current King Haakon VII, he is the sixth in line to the throne of Norway, and it is indeed embarrassing to be in such a position. During World War II, he went into exile with most members of the Norwegian royal family, and later attended the prestigious Royal Military Academy, where he served briefly in the British Army at the end of the war, where he participated in Allied operations on German soil. He alone donated NOK 4,000 to the security forces in Tromsø, and it is widely believed that the Norwegian military's generous donation of German equipment in stockpiles was crucial.

Cloaked in the garb of a Swiss entrepreneur and investor, Lynn stood in the welcoming crowd at this time, coldly observing General Conrad's every move. In his eyes, the Norwegian Army Chief of Staff, despite being over forty years old, has well-maintained skin, looks like a young man in his early thirties, and has an affable smile, but he is said to be a moody man in private, often angry with his subordinates. With the current situation of the Kingdom of Norway, if there is no accident, the young crown prince will successfully ascend the throne in a few years, and there will be basically no Conrad on the throne, and as a prominent prince and nobleman and high-ranking general, there should be no shortage of social status and material life, but only they know whether they are content with the status quo. …,

Conrad's eyes were satisfied with the plainly dressed and energetic vigilantes – Lynn noticed this, and could guess that the Norwegian Army Chief of Staff appreciated this "free" mode of arming. On the surface, apart from firearms and food supplies during their time on the job, these able-bodied security volunteers cost little money, and once they get used to military discipline and participate in some military operations, it doesn't take much effort to train them as regular soldiers if necessary. Although Norway is a large country, its population and economy are in the ranks of small countries, and it has been devastated by the war, it is still in the recovery stage, the government is still struggling to operate, and to a certain extent, it still depends on the assistance provided by Western countries, so the Norwegian army is the smallest and weakest among the three Nordic countries, so that the political and diplomatic lack of confidence, and the United States and Britain do not dare to offend the Soviet Union.

Let the elite Imperial Guard soldiers pretend to be "security volunteers", and the pictures provided to the newspaper deliberately put on an old-fashioned posture, and the demeanor displayed at the scene is obviously several notches higher, and even gives people a sense of being able to fight when called. However, not everyone understands the simple truth that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and Lynn can see in Conrad's expression his subconscious ambition and greed, which is not necessarily a good thing for the Kingdom of Norway, but the opposite for an empire that intends to re-emerge.

Due to the fact that the "Tromsø Security Battalion" was still in its existence, except for the parade ceremony at the docks, there were no drills and exercises to show General Conrad, and the Chief of Staff of the Norwegian Army obviously regretted this. However, he came to Tromsø for more than this purpose, before he arrived in Tromsø, he expressed his willingness to inspect and visit the surrounding factories through the officials in charge of coordination and liaison, and in the last half a year, foreign and local investors have invested in new factories in Tromsø and Narvik far more than the rest of Norway, although these companies intend to keep a low profile, but the official registration information is there, and the rise of North Industries has attracted the attention of many Norwegian officials. Despite the long distance, some people came to visit and inspect with great curiosity and with their own purposes. The demands of the Norwegian officials were legitimate and legitimate, and Lynn, the Reich-appointed governor, could not find a proper way to keep them all out, so he simply treated the bad things as good things, organized special people to guide them to the factory, and walked around to satisfy the interests of these people, but also hid the truth behind the industrial boom, and developed relations with the Norwegian government by resorting to different means, bribing them, or inviting them to participate in the factory.

Judging by Conrad's donation, Lynn knew that he was not short of money, but just "small money". He arranged for local officials and business representatives in Tromsø to take Conrad and his entourage around the factory area around the port, and also took them to the power plant built from a group of boiler turbines on the Tirpitz, which would be put into operation to provide electricity for the residents of the port area of Tromsø and a part of the plant's energy. Conrad was full of praise for Tromsø's development, and he was most interested in the factories closely related to the military industry, including the precision casting factory set up here by Swiss investors. In this case, Lynn appeared in sheep's clothing, and although he could converse with Conrad in English and speak jerky Norwegian, he insisted on using German, one of the official languages of Switzerland, and having a translator translate it into Norwegian on the spot, to which Conrad showed no resistance. At the beginning of the conversation, he first politely expressed his welcome and gratitude to his Swiss friends for coming to Norway to build a factory, and then asked Lynn about the follow-up development plan and investment prospects of the factory. Lynn guessed the intention of his question, and deliberately did not talk about the prospect of the precision casting factory switching to ordnance parts, but on the one hand said that the factory had plans to expand its scale and was ready to seek foreign investors, and on the other hand, he euphemistically told that the development of the factory needed the support and help of the Norwegian government, which laid the first opportunity for cooperation between the two sides.

That night, the entrepreneurs of Tromsø held a dinner for the Norwegian Army Chief of Staff and his entourage instead of the shy government and parliament, and the sumptuous dishes and a variety of wines showed the economic strength of these entrepreneurs, and he has repeatedly pledged that he will use the relationship between the royal family and the top of the army to facilitate all aspects of the business. …,

The power of power is unquestionable, and when Conrad returned to his locally arranged lodgings in Tromsø drunkenly, he found a mountain of gifts from the entrepreneurs piled up in the room, each with its own character and value, and basically catering to Conrad's usual preferences. In addition, several companies have sent cooperation agreements, and with a large stroke of the pen and a symbolic contribution of money, Conrad can obtain a valuable stake in their business, a good thing that no one except the king and the crown prince will be indifferent to. When General Conrad appeared in front of the people the next day, his eyes were full of smiles, and his praise for Tromsø was even numb to the point of goosebumps, and Stengas, who was waiting in front of the saddle as deputy mayor, was also highly praised by the chief of staff of the Norwegian army, and he did not think to visit the long-awaited mayor of Stagg until he left.

General Conrad left contentedly with the gifts carefully prepared by the Germans, and soon after, the Norwegian Army allocated an additional batch of equipment to the "Tromsø Security Battalion", including submachine guns and light machine guns handed over by the Germans, which were enough to allow the "mountain people" of Tromsø to form a strong fighting force. Not only that, but the Norwegian Army sent four career officers to assist them in training their personnel, and while they shouted slogans in Tromsø day after day, the Norwegian military-sanctioned "Tromsø Security Battalion" had begun to carry out official patrols in the vast lands of Tromsø. Ironically, these so-called security volunteers, in addition to not wearing German helmets and German uniforms, have achieved complete Germanization in their equipment.

In the scorching heat of August, the war on the European continent also entered an unprecedented phase of white heat. In western Ukraine and northern Romania, the Allied forces surrounded by the Soviet army finally chose to force a breakthrough, and they opened the first breakthrough from Krosno, near the southeastern border of Poland, with the help of external friendly forces, and in Krosno, Ukraine, the Allied forces also tore through the encirclement with heavy casualties, about 400,000 Allied officers and soldiers rushed out of these two places, but the heavy rain that lasted for three days made the situation on the battlefield abruptly changed, and the Soviet army blocked the gap with its powerful armored forces, making more than 500,000 Allied troops- It was mainly the French army and the Polish and Romanian armies that participated in the war that fell victim to this battle.

Under the continued pressure of the Soviet Ukrainian Front, the Polish army was the first to give up resistance, followed by the French and British troops with heavy casualties, and when the Romanian army finally surrendered, this thrilling counterattack finally ended with a great victory for the Soviet army, and it is ironic that until the day the Romanian army announced its surrender, the US Air Force also dropped hundreds of tons of war materials on friendly positions.

In Northern Belarus, the rout of the Allied Airborne Forces caused the worst defeat of the Northern Route Combat Group since the outbreak of the war, more than 30,000 American and British paratroopers only had more than 10,000 people to join their ground forces, and the rest were either killed or reduced to Soviet prisoners of war, and the Allied Cluster that carried out a diversionary attack from Latvia to Estonia was also ambushed by the Soviet Army in the central region of Estonia. In the following weeks, the Soviets gradually regained southwestern Belarus and southeastern Latvia, and during this time, the morale of the Allies was greatly damaged, that is, the new heavy aircraft carrier "Midway" of the United States Navy was attacked by Soviet submarines in the Baltic Sea and sunk. This is the first aircraft carrier lost by the U.S. Navy since the end of World War II, and it is also the largest tonnage of the U.S. ever sunken ship, and it is said that the Soviet submarine that sank it was formerly the German XXI class, and its excellent silence broke through the perimeter of the Allied fleet, and then quietly withdrew under the siege of Allied escort ships.

The sinking of the "Midway" not only disappointed the Allied officers and soldiers, but also almost triggered the United States to launch a nuclear retaliation program, at that time, a number of ready-to-use atomic bombs have arrived at the US military air base in the United Kingdom, once the White House gives the order B29 heavy bombers can carry these atomic bombs to directly attack Soviet targets in Belarus and Ukraine, or transfer to attack Leningrad and Moscow at bases in southern Norway, the advent of the era of nuclear war is blocked by an unknown Spanish diplomat, González, then Spanish ambassador to Washington, brought with him a shocking news when he met with the US Secretary of State -- the Soviet government, through neutral Spain, warned the US government that a number of Soviet submarines had already arrived on the east coast of the United States with atomic bombs, and that as long as the Allies used atomic bombs on the European theater, these Soviet submarines would detonate atomic bombs in New York, Boston, and other densely populated port cities. …,

On the one hand, they suspended the action of attacking the Soviet Union with atomic bombs, and on the other hand, they strengthened their vigilance on the east coast and set up anti-submarine cordons around several ports, and tried to detect the reality of their opponents along the line of warning issued by the Soviet Union through Gonzalez -- they intercepted the communications between the Spanish Government and the Spanish Embassy in the United States. Surveillance of Gonzalez and other Spanish diplomats in the United States, but without other means confirming to the Spanish government the existence of the so-called "Soviet warning", is not an omission, which has led them to believe the Soviet warnings for a long time. The Allies were slow to use nuclear weapons, but the Soviets were also concerned about a full-scale counteroffensive, and after expelling the Allies from most of Ukraine and Belarus, they only maintained a counterattack posture in Latvia and Lithuania, rather than taking advantage of the victory to attack Poland from the west. At the same time, they brought hundreds of thousands of Allied prisoners of war back to the rear, marched them through a massive parade as they had done for German prisoners of war, and sent them to Siberia and the Far East for hard labor. Out of political considerations, they publicly announced that they would release German prisoners in prisoner-of-war camps over the next two years, provided that the Germans did not directly participate in the war between the Allies and the Soviets, but in fact, the Allies adjusted their strategy of rearming the German ** army after the crushing defeat on the Southern Front. According to their vision, dozens of German infantry regiments would be under Allied command and operational in the coming months, and a large number of German pilots and sailors would be hired to return to the battlefield to make up for Allied losses on the battlefield and replenish the combat strength of the Soviet army. Clear