After the first three days of special martial law, the indigenous people of Tromsø have gradually regained some freedom, but as the cars drive through the narrow streets, Lynn still sees a clear tangled resentment on the faces of the Norwegians who rushed to give way.

"Isn't our new house by the sea?" Dinah asked, holding Lynn's arm.

Knowing that she had a deep attachment to the sea, Lynn made careful and thoughtful arrangements, and he blinked, "You'll know in a moment." ”

After almost 3 kilometres of travel through the old town of Tromsø, the Beetle slows down a widened mountain road and stops on a south-facing hillside, where the towering ridges shield the buildings from the cold north wind, and the location allows every south- and west-facing window to look out onto the sea.

After getting out of the car, Dinah really exclaimed at the whole bay: "It's so beautiful here!" ”

Lynn stood beside her, calmly gazing out at the far north, which had not yet been embroiled in the war, and the natural scenery here was softer and more welcoming than the rugged beauty of the area around the Vault base. Of course, as the chief of staff of the base camp and the mastermind of the new strategy of the empire, Lynn did not expect the calm here to last for a long time, although the Soviets were afraid of the naval and air power of the Western Allies, and changed their strategy due to the change of decision-making groups, they did not completely forget the heavy price paid by the Soviet army in Northern Europe, and whether it was the remnants of the Third Reich or the sinister trap of the Western Allies, the answer, at least the clue to find the answer, must be found in the place where it fell. Therefore, in the past month or so, the perimeter guard units of the "refuge" base have been quite busy, and they have captured or sniped many groups of Soviet reconnaissance personnel who entered Norway by land or parachuted, and although the US and British allies are inclined to believe that the Soviets have created a series of vicious incidents such as the silence of the "Europa" and the nuclear explosion in the Norwegian Sea, they have not completely abandoned their conjectures and arguments in other directions. The Norwegian political axe was ostensibly neutral, but in essence leaned towards the Western camp and provided it with a southern port and air base. With the support of the Norwegian government, the United States and Britain have also continuously sent ships, planes, and small detachments into northern Norway. All this posed a constant threat to the presence of imperial power in Northern Europe.

"If it goes well, we'll be making it home for years to come." Lynn led Dinah behind her and pointed to a single-story spire house with a finished main body and said, "This is our new home!" ”

The house is simple and beautiful on the outside, with a floor and attic above the surface, all the facilities inside, and it has a spacious basement and a secret tunnel that leads to a war shelter deep in the depths—all twenty-six houses on the hillside are of roughly the same construction, ensuring that the occupants can be moved to safety in a matter of minutes in case of danger. In addition to this high-level area, residences for officers and their families are also being built, and soldiers' barracks are distributed according to local conditions. In a sense, the county of Tromsø in northern Norway has become a state within a state where the imperial power lives.

"Hmm...... I love it here! Dinah said to Lynn with joy in her eyes. Maybe it's because of pregnancy, or maybe it's because of the meaning of life, and the problems that she struggled with in Denmark and Sweden now seem to have been thrown to the island of Java.

Because of the extraordinary architecture, the labor used in the construction here were all Germans, including the engineering troops of the Guards and the German civilians who had emigrated, and now the climate is mild, the construction progress is basically the same as expected, and the meticulous attitude of the Germans in engineering and machinery continues to be fully developed.

"These buildings will be completed in about half a month, and until then, we will temporarily live in Headquarters, an ancient castle-like building. Here! That hill to the east! Lynn pointed to the occupation headquarters, which also overlooked the bay, except for the deep, crude stone buildings of some years, and some outdated breech guns behind the battlements.

Dinah didn't comment on the temporary residence, she subconsciously touched her stomach and quickly turned her gaze back to the beautiful bay. It is indeed the best time of the year in Tromsø, and the good times usually last only four or five months, and the rest of the days are a constant cold, and people's lives will be filled with the smell of firewood in the fireplace.

In the first two days of his arrival in Tromsø, Lynn, the governor, was very leisurely, accompanying Dinah through the streets of the Norwegian city, tasting all kinds of seafood that the locals were good at cooking, but this state of not war but war could pose tasks for the military personnel at any time. This time, it was a telegram from Oslo that made Lynn frown, and the content of the telegram was actually very simple to understand, which was to ask the Tromsø magistrate to assist in the arrival of the British communications reconnaissance force - they were to establish an integrated communications station on the island of Kvar, north of the port of Tromsø, with dozens of soldiers stationed there, and military ships would often enter the harbor with their surnames.

From the perspective of a bystander, the British [***] team, which was already in a state of frontal combat with the Soviet Union, made perfect sense, and although the Soviet Union's northern route had been completely cut off and the Baltic Sea was basically blocked, the submarines and surface rapid surveillance of the Soviet Northern Fleet could still depart from Murmansk and other ports and enter the North Sea or flow into the Atlantic Ocean through the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea, to carry out tasks that the Germans used to do and did very well, such as hunting merchant ships and smuggling supplies. In fact, the Royal Navy has a well-equipped weather station and communication station in the Spittsbergen Islands in the Polar Circle, which played an important role during the Second World War and can also sensitively catch the movement of ships emitting radio signals in Norwegian waters. As for radar, even the ground-based radar, which has the largest detection radius at present, cannot detect one-third of the sea lanes in the Norwegian Sea when it is deployed in the Spittsbergen Islands and northern Norway -- it is so vast that it would have to be supplemented by dozens of ships and long-range aircraft to build a complete cordon, and the British could not bother to do such a thing that may not be fruitful. The proximity to Norwegian waters caused unnecessary political panic in this friendly country.

"Let them come!" After thinking for a long time, Lynn slapped the table and got up and said, "Can we find a reason for refusal?" ”

"If it's just a few dozen British, we don't have to worry too much, it will take two days to move all the Norwegian residents to the northern industrial area, and if the Norwegian military also sends personnel to accompany them, but they have acquaintances here, then the situation is a little complicated!" The "Norwegian Expert" of the Nordic intelligence network during the Third Reich period put forward his opinion, and Brunn, who spent nine years in Norway and was very familiar with the history, culture, and language of this nation. Stengas, who also has a very Norwegian name, is also officially registered as a legal citizen of Norway "Sols. Narvuc". Thanks to these statuses, Stenvas became deputy mayor of Tromsø after only seven months in the city. However, the deputy mayor did not have to deal with too much administrative matters, the whole of Tromsø was currently under military control, the German population was under the general service of the command of the imperial occupation forces, and the local Norwegian residents were dismissive of the so-called deputy mayor, who only reluctantly obeyed the command of the butt of the gun and the leather boots. Statgas's greatest role was to represent the seriously ill Mayor Stagg in the reception of foreign affairs, and he was clearly at ease in this regard, as long as he waited until the next parliamentary elections, he would naturally replace Stagg as the second mayor of Tromsø after the war.

"Definitely! The total population of Norway is only so much, it is difficult to guarantee that a few Norwegian officers will not have old acquaintances here, and if they are also stationed here for a long time, it will not be easy to deal with them in the old way. The old way Lynn says is to use a dense alcohol offensive against visiting guests, so that they don't have time to get down to business during their scheduled schedules, and if they don't, take their acquaintances directly to a closely monitored place and let them meet in a hurry. In the past two arrangements, Norwegian residents whose families had been coerced did not risk revealing the disguise, and even if they did so, it would only push the visitors into the abyss of "death due to accidents".

After thinking for a while, Lynn said, "So be it! If there are only a few Norwegian officials with us, then we will continue to do it in the old way, and if there is a new situation, it will not be too late to temporarily move out the Norwegian residents and the people who have moved in with us. What do you think? ”

Steplenfen had earlier been an SS officer known for his ruthlessness and tenacity, and was far more interested in fighting the war than in playing these seemingly ridiculous tricks. Regardless of the eventual situation, he and his soldiers had to carefully maintain civilian attire whenever outsiders entered, keeping an eye out on the already scattered Norwegian population from the shadows, which seemed to be the last thing the GIs wanted to do.

Stenwass voted in full favor, as did the other officers in charge of industry, catering, and sea guarding, and Lynn reported the situation and plan to the Imperial authorities who remained at the Vault base.

Two weeks later.

Standing on the large terrace of the castle, Lynn squinted at the four ships that had sailed into the bay from the open sea, except for the pilot barge sent by the port of Tromsø, the other three masts were all flying the St. George's Cross flag on a white background, all the guns had taken off their gun suits, the sailors were moving on the ship in a relaxed but not sluggish state, and showed great interest in the wreck of the "Tirpitz" lying on the shore of Hacky Island. As a former SS "vampire", Lynn was very sensitive to Soviet tanks and soldiers, and the same mentality must have been vividly reflected in the officers and men of the former German Navy, who had to pretend to be Norwegian fishermen and barge boatmen, and watched with pure curiosity as the two British destroyers and a cargo ship sailed to their "northern Germania". Coincidentally, the weather on this day was not sunny either, and a thick layer of clouds was pressed overhead, as if a rainstorm was coming, but no raindrops fell.

"Let's hope our lads will calm down, or we'll not get any advantage by getting into a fight on the docks, or at least we'll trick all the Brits into the bathhouse, and then ......," said Steplenfen, wiping his neck.

Lynn smiled contemptuously, "That will be a pleasure for a while, but we'll soon have to abandon this port and retreat back to base." ”

Stephenfen was not the kind of person who could read words, and he went on to say: "I had a dream last night that the British came to a battleship, and we drunk the sailors, and then we took their boats, and drove them straight to the mouth of the Thames and bombarded the British palace. ”

Lynn turned her head: "Are you drooling?" ”

"Huh?" Stephen was puzzled.

"When you wake up from a dream, do you find yourself drooling with excitement?" Lynn turned around and teased the other party's whimsy.

Stephenfen replied without hesitation: "No, but Sophie said in the morning that I laughed weirdly last night, hehe!" ”

Lynn thought it was funny, but he wasn't in the mood to laugh, and his attention was still focused on the British ships that were gradually approaching the dock. It was evident that the freighter was equipped with equipment to establish an integrated communications station, which was an excellent opportunity to learn about the development of British radio facilities after the war, and also a good opportunity to spy on the British army's communication codes, and Rommel was obviously more far-reaching than Lynn in this regard. Radio experts had arrived from the base two days early, and in order to increase the chances of contact, Lynn had arranged for Norwegian-speaking Imperial soldiers to act as porters, and had also mobilized a fleet of non-German-made cars and trucks.

In order to prevent the lust of the British sailors who had been adrift at sea for many years, the "inhabitants of Norway" who pretended to greet the British fleet on the docks were mainly men and elderly women, and this arrangement seemed to be overly worried. After the three British ships docked, most of the sailors and technicians who had been ordered to set up an integrated communications station here remained on board, and only a few British [***] officers and the only official Norwegian official entourage landed on board, and they met with Stengas, the deputy mayor acting for administration, and the local parliamentarians, and then the group boarded the car and went to the hotel where they had been arranged. There, they will discuss the details of what has been agreed upon by the two countries, so as to set up the integrated communications station and maintain its good operation in the shortest possible time. The British demand had already reached Tromsø through the Norwegian Central Axe in Oslo, so Lynn was not in the least interested in the contents of the meeting at the hotel. He silently watched the three ships moored next to the dock, although the two destroyers could not make out the specific type, but at least their tonnage exceeded that of any of the combat ships currently owned by the Imperial Marines, and they were all equipped with radar antennas on their masts, and he did not know when and what month the Empire would be able to re-establish a real surface fleet...... More than half an hour later, the request of the British [***] side was delivered to Lynn in its complete form, and he took a cursory glance: 19 staff members, 33 soldiers, a total of 52 people, who needed to ensure a safe and adequate diet and heating, including sugar, coffee, and tea; Eighty boxes of equipment, weighing a total of 31 tons, were to be sent to the designated location, and 40 young and able-bodied laborers were dispatched to assist in the construction of the integrated radar station and auxiliary facilities, and to provide stone, steel, concrete, and generators - in the case of the generators, the British demanded that the generator taken from the "Tirpitz" be assigned to the radar station, and that the British side be responsible for the fuel and maintenance parts to ensure its operation, which was supposed to be the compensation promised to the Tromsø region by the Swiss side.

"These Englishmen ......," said Lynn, who was only halfway through his words, handed Steplenfen the paper with the request for money, and said with a wicked smile:

"Hmph, the lives of these 52 people are completely in our hands, and if you don't like it one day, you can kill it directly! The radar equipment, communication equipment, and code books are all owned by us! ”

Lynn didn't get involved in the bloodthirsty guy's gibberish. Given the geographical location of Tromsø, the number of combatants really did not matter much, if the Soviet side intended to pull out this nail, it was completely possible to transport several companies or even more combat units by means of air strikes or parachute commandos, and the Western Allied troops stationed in Britain mainland and southern Norway would be far away from quenching their thirst, which is probably why Britain decided to establish the Tromsø integrated radar station until recently. Once this radar station is established, it will be possible to carry out technical detection of the sea and air over the southern part of Norway on the one hand, and on the other hand, it will be able to use it as a bait to test whether this cold land is really hiding the remnants of the Third Reich, and the price of killing two birds with one stone will be completely worth the price of a few dozen soldiers.

Thinking of this, Lynn became more and more determined to reject Stirrenfen's bloodthirsty thoughts, and he instructed Stenvasse to fully accede to the British [***] demand, with an additional addition: Tromsø County would send police and militia to strengthen the security of Kvar Island, and never let anyone else approach the British radar base station.

As soon as the agreement was reached, the British officers returned to their warships, and one of the two destroyers immediately left the dock, and it did not go far, but carried out reconnaissance and alert in the nearby waters, and the one that remained in the harbor did not turn off its fire and lowered anchor, and the sailors remained on wartime alert, and the technicians and the soldiers who were about to be stationed at the radar station watched coldly as the "Norwegian workers" used the lifting facilities of the docks to unload the heavy loads of the cargo ships onto the docks - since there were no dock facilities on the island of Kvar, The crates could only be transported overland to the island via the bridge, where the radar base station and attached living facilities could be erected before the weather cooled down.

(To be continued)