As a child, I had the impression that the arrival of reinforcements on the front side was always accompanied by the sound of impassioned music, the sound of hurried horses' hooves, or the roar of the roar, and when I grew up, I thought it was just an artistic rendering, until one day standing on the battlefield, Lynn realized that the psychological inspiration of the arrival of reinforcements was equivalent to the multiplicity of a surging march, especially in adversity. In the ice fields of Northern Europe, the elite night troops have been attacking the Soviet camp for a long time, and the inner anxiety breeds with the passage of time, and suddenly a force mainly infantry and covered by tanks is killed from the west, and the overwhelming capture of the mountain and rock area defended by the Soviet infantry is dangerous, Lynn can't wait to shout "good".

In terms of individual quality and combat effectiveness, the night battalions of the Reich Guard, formerly known as the "Vampire" commandos, were clearly superior, and they have repeatedly proven to be good at night cross-border raids, field ambushes, and urban street battles, while the strength of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS lies in their commitment to conventional warfare. After years of war, they have a more professional understanding and grasp of offensive and defensive battles of different scales, as well as detailed movement warfare, defensive warfare, annihilation warfare, and breakthrough battles, and are better at using armored vehicles, artillery and other main battle weapons. In this massive Jedi counterattack, the Marines were more involved in the number of troops and correspondingly less worried about casualties and losses than the night troops—these were their advantages.

Standing up from behind the snow mounds where he had observed the battlefield, Lynn watched with optimism as the soldiers of the Army destroyed the temporary positions built by two groups of Soviet personnel on the periphery in succession, and rushed towards the original location of the Soviet camp, and saw one of the officers passing by with his combatants not far ahead, and he asked, "Hey, man, you are from the third battalion, right?" Which one is it? ”

The collar of the Ice Pea was marked with a military rank and pattern similar to that of the former Waffen-SS, and when the officer turned around, Lynn easily recognized his rank as a lieutenant in the Army, presumably at the same time as the other party was aware of his position as a general.

The man respectfully stepped forward and replied, "We are three battalions and one company, one company and two platoons, sir!" What are the instructions? ”

As the strategic staff officer of the base camp, Lynn only has the right to make decisions and suggestions but not the actual command, and as the temporary commander of the night combat unit, his authority is only valid for three infantry companies, one armored company, and the artillery company directly under the battalion of the night combat battalion, and under normal circumstances, he is not allowed to cross the line to command other troops, so there is no "instruction" here, and he then asked: "You have a second lieutenant Shu Ze in your company, right?" ”

The officer hurriedly replied: "Yes, sir, he stayed on the east bank of the fjord with the troops as the adjutant of the third platoon to prevent the Soviets from evacuating across the fjord. Need help contacting him? ”

The night battalion of this combat operation served as the middle assault team, the 1st Marine Regiment in full strength was responsible for the two flanks, and the 3rd Battalion was ordered to occupy the east bank of the fjord to complete the complete outflanking of the left flank, which was also the battalion of Second Lieutenant Shuze. Lynn's roommate when he first arrived at the base to study at the military academy was always sneering at him at first, and almost a year later, the ridiculer was still a second lieutenant, and the ridiculed "reckless man" stepped into the ranks of the high-level. Despite this, Lynn has no irony or ostentatious psychology at this time, just wants to understand the situation of the old acquaintance, and if possible, doing something to repay grievances with virtue can also be regarded as a kind of cultivation of his own character.

"No, no, thank you! Lieutenant! Go ahead, I should go too! ”

After saying this and saluting each other, Lynn turned to Wolfrum and Franz and said, "The last ten kilometers, let's work harder and go to the end in one go!" ”

The battle was close to each other, and the two men were confident and unstoppable, and by the time the purely mobile command of the three of them arrived at the coast, the main battle there had already been over. With the direct support of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment and the artillery response of the submarine unit, the main force of the night battalion captured the Soviet camping camp and material storage and transportation place near the shore in one fell swoop, killing and capturing more than 100 Soviet officers and men. In fact, witnessing the crushing defeat of their own fleet, then being attacked by the attacker's long-range firepower, and learning that the main camp had fallen and the troops had collapsed, the Soviet personnel here had no intention of fighting at all, and the final resistance was somewhat reluctant, and their positive action was to destroy all kinds of war materials such as weapons, ammunition, and food that had arrived on the coast, leaving only corpses, wounded soldiers, and prisoners with no fighting spirit on the other side.

Looking at the battlefield full of gunpowder and the messy sea, Lynn sighed to his subordinates: "We won the first battle after the war, and I hope this is a good beginning, a fulcrum that will move the trajectory of history." ”

An hour later, the proofread watches of the Imperial Guards showed a reading of 10:30, and the third and last Soviet long-range reconnaissance plane of the night was shot down by the ME262 jet fighter that took off to intercept it. Almost at the same time, the 14 camps set up by the Soviet landing force in the landing area in northern Norway, whether held or abandoned, were all occupied by the Imperial Guards who threw themselves into the attack, and the main battle was basically over, only the last 200 or so Soviet officers and soldiers were fighting for the breakthrough road to the northeast, but the precious opportunity was exhausted by the layers of resistance built by the opponent's airborne troops and fast skiing units, and more and more enemies were blocked in front of them, those tanks equipped with advanced night vision equipment, Armored vehicles formed an impenetrable steel barrier. With no hope of a collective breakout, the Soviet commander made a decision that delayed the end of the battle a lot: break it up and disperse the breakout. The combat detachments that tried to pass through the front were all annihilated within half an hour, and some of the detours entered the dangerous mountain jungle area in the north, half actively, half passively. Here they were not only sniped by the opposing airborne detachment, but also by the terrible hunting of the enemy's night troops and the test of the natural environment, more than half of them were lost in the battle and march, but there were still people who took advantage of the cold and night conditions to hide. As a result, after midnight, the attacking side had to mobilize more than two companies of troops to carry out a dragnet search in the area, and the final search operation was not suspended until near dawn.

At 6 o'clock in the morning of the next day, just after dawn, three Soviet reconnaissance planes crossed the border into the airspace of northern Norway under the protection of a whole group of Lahr-7 fighters; coincidentally, a reconnaissance plane of the Norwegian military also entered this extremely cold and barren land on the same morning, and what appeared to the pilots was an extremely strange scene: the snow was full of intricate marks, but there were few obvious craters, debris, and wreckage of personnel and vehicles, as if the noise of the night was only the work of a violent hurricane. The large oil stains and debris floating on the surface of the sea make it difficult to tell the number and identity of the shipwrecked, no survivors can be found, and the remains of those who have fallen into the water are rarely seen - only occasionally one or two can be found on the surface of the sea at a greater distance from shore.

Compared with the shock of the Soviets, the lonely and timid figure of the Norwegian reconnaissance plane showed the country's great power political caution and fear, and it hurriedly swept over the area, reporting the lack of a trace of people on the ground and the cross-border activities of more than a dozen Soviet planes to the army command, which then presented the political axe leader and the king from the top of the army. Considering the special nature of the situation, the Norwegian top brass decided to adopt a more prudent diplomatic approach, on the one hand, to open a direct dialogue with the Soviet Union, demanding that they explain this move and stop all acts that infringe on the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Norway, and on the other hand, the Norwegian political axe also secretly summoned the ambassadors of the United States and Britain to Oslo, hoping to resolve this inexplicable contradiction and conflict by diplomatic mediation and military pressure. Before noon, the Swedish radio station announced the "exciting" news that the Norwegian army had annihilated the Soviet landing force overnight, and the Americans heard the news from the radio early in the morning that the Soviet army had invaded Norway in an all-out way, and as a result, it was attacked by a sharp counterattack in the ice field by the Soviet-Finnish war, resulting in heavy casualties among the landing troops. In a fit of rage, the Soviets used chemical weapons on a large scale, causing widespread pollution and worsening the situation. In Britain, there was concern that a second, larger Soviet landing fleet had set sail from Murmansk, while another Soviet fleet sailing in the Baltic Sea was also alleged to be carrying a large number of combat troops and weaponry, and that they would forcibly land at ports such as Oslo, following the route of the German occupation of Norway in 1940, thus gaining a vital strategic pedal.

Foreign Minister Molotov, commissioned by the top decision-making team composed of Kaganovich, Malenkov and others, hastily summoned the ambassadors of the United States, Great Britain and Norway to Moscow, unexpectedly acknowledged the fact that the Soviet Union had sent troops to land in northern Norway, and declared that this was a special operation against the remnants of the Third Reich and that there was absolutely no hostility to interfere in Norway's internal affairs and infringe on the sovereignty of the kingdom. The Ambassadors of the three countries were informed of the terrible situation that had taken place the night before, when 46 ships, 3 aircraft, and 2,563 officers and men of the Soviet Navy had been lost overnight, and that there had been no news until this time, and that radio communications in the north and northwest of the Soviet Union had been seriously disrupted the previous night. The Soviet Union had every reason to judge that this was the time of war dominated by the remnants of the Third Reich, and the Soviet Union had decided to send more troops to Norway in order to completely eliminate the threat posed to the world by the remnants of the Third Reich - and it was reasonable to assume that they were hurrying to develop the atomic bomb as a superweapon. For this reason, the Soviet Union cordially invited the United States, Britain, and Norway to send military observers to accompany the operation, and by capturing each other's personnel, seizing the opponent's combat equipment and materials, and discovering their hiding places, the truth that would eventually blind the world would inevitably come to light.

The painstaking "confession" of the Soviet political axes was originally a highly classified diplomatic event, but they apparently underestimated the deployment of the remnants of the Third Reich in Norway, and the Norwegian political axes should soon learn of this through the Norwegian ambassador's communication channel with their own country, and report it to the strategic decision-makers of the "refuge" base together with the attitude of the Chinese and American ambassadors at the meeting. At this time, the base was still immersed in the joy of the total annihilation of the Soviet landing force, after statistics, the Soviet army lost 1,933 people, 474 people were captured, and 156 Soviet officers and soldiers should be missing or escaped in terms of simple numbers, but considering that the submarine raid may cause many Soviet seamen to be swallowed up by the wreckage before they have time to abandon the ship, it is acceptable that more than 100 people are out of control, but after dark, a search force should still be sent to the northern mountains and forests for follow-up cleanup, and patrol troops should be sent to the treacherous ice fields in the northeast. In addition to killing and capturing a large number of Soviet personnel, a large number of firearms and equipment were also captured, and although Soviet-made mortars were of little use, several damaged T-34/85s were repaired to increase the tactical flexibility of subsequent battles, as were the uniforms worn by those captured Soviet personnel. In Lynn's eyes, these were small details, small calculations, and at the strategic meeting attended by the Führer, he put forward a proposal that shocked most of those present, and this proposal, once implemented, would have a stronger impact on the world where turmoil was beginning to emerge. For this reason, Lynn named the plan the "Ark of the Covenant", and its purpose is self-explanatory.

On April 10, 1946, the Reich Führer formally approved the "Ark of the Covenant Plan" and appointed Lynn as the commander-in-chief of the operation, authorizing him to mobilize the armed forces of the base and various material reserves, which could be implemented first and reported later if necessary.

With the Führer's mandate and the support of the base's commander-in-chief, Lynn began to make a big move. In just one week, the various material resources needed for the "Ark of the Covenant" project were continuously gathered, and in order to cooperate with this key plan, even transport submarines that were temporarily sheltered in South America were mobilized, and they brought the latest batch of refined enriched uranium and tons of explosives from secret bases in South America as quickly as possible. At the base, service personnel removed torpedoes from the armory and carried out pre-war maintenance and adjustments, and submarines that had previously participated in naval battles were also in full swing for maintenance and repair, in order to obtain an ideal combat condition as soon as possible. On the same day, the latest news from Norway showed that although the United States and Britain did not trust the Soviets' explanations, they were willing to take a risk and send military observers and ships to the waters north of Norway to participate in the second landing operation of the Soviet troops before they came forward by force.

Over the next week, the port of Murmansk in the north of the Soviet Union and Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the southern Baltic Sea became the busiest ports, where a large number of Soviet ships were assembled, a large number of combat troops and combat equipment were on standby, and the Norwegian political axe temporarily opened its northern airspace to the Soviet Union and the United States and Britain. American and British planes that took off from Britain also frequently visited this place to conduct reconnaissance and take pictures. The preparation of military operations was carried out in an orderly manner, but the backyards of various countries were full of activity, and the secrecy repeatedly emphasized at diplomatic conferences could not be realized at all, and the United States, where public opinion was most widely offensive, even adopted the Radio Control Act through Congress and ordered all newspapers and periodicals not to wantonly disseminate news with the surname of agitation and sabotage, which was still feasible in the 40s of the 20 th century, but even if they could silence the American media, they could not prevent the high-power radio stations located in other countries from broadcasting news with the effect of exploding surnames. Reports criticizing the Soviet Union, such as the Nazi re-reality conspiracy against the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union's intention to increase troops in Norway, the United States and the United Kingdom's fleet ready to go, the Third World War is just around the corner, and the evil Soviet Union's large-scale invasion have had a great impact on the Western world, making people's Soviet-phobia more and more intense, in England, on the east coast of the United States, and even in West Germany under Allied occupation, different forms of demonstrations have broken out in various places to protest against the Soviet Union's invasion of Norway, and the Spanish media have also written articles claiming that the remnants of the Third Reich will flee after the end of the war. There is no such thing as a remnant of armed groups, let alone two regiments of Soviet troops in one fell swoop, and what is happening in northern Norway is nothing more than a self-directed prank by Moscow aimed at the rational annexation of Norwegian territory.

On April 24, 1946, in the waters north of Norway, a fleet of more than 60 ships sailed mightily to the battlefield more than half a month ago, this fleet not only gathered the most powerful destroyer fleet of the Soviet Northern Fleet, but also a number of submarine hunters, submarines and minesweepers. On a deliberately chosen sunny day, seaplanes and long-range patrol planes were circling around the perimeter of the fleet, with the crew members watching the sea with a wary expression, and as they approached the target area, they encountered another fleet, two destroyers flying the St. George Navy and the Star-Spangled Banner, respectively, and a large combined U.S.-British fleet waiting in the distance within the radar range, including the flagship of the British Home Fleet "George V", the battleship "Duke of York", and the aircraft carrier "Tejlis". The US Navy selected the newly built and commissioned Essex-class aircraft carriers "Wright" and "Oriskany" and the Baltimore-class heavy cruiser "Pittsburgh" with strong combat capability from the fleet stationed in European waters, and this combined fleet also has a number of light cruisers and destroyers.

Half a day later, the second Soviet fleet from the Baltic Sea sailed north to Norwegian waters, although the Soviet Baltic Fleet had the legendary battleship "Gangut", but this battleship, which could provide fire support on the other side, did not participate in the expedition, and the flagship was a cruiser that was insignificant in front of the American and British fleets, and a large number of old destroyers and frigates protected the troop carriers that had been bumping in the sea for many days and were ready to be put into the next landing operation.

(To be continued)