Chapter 99: Dangerous Elements

I've been flying in the past two days, and I apologize to everyone!

Summer in Switzerland is a very different scenery than in the middle of winter. Sitting in the cabin of the plane, Lynn quietly watched the graceful pictures on the ground made of mountains, rivers, woods and meadows. Coming to this country with a unique charm again, he changed his identity, changed his look, and what remained unchanged was his ambition to turn his vision into reality.

Under the blazing sun, the silver-gray Junkers-52 landed at the international airport in the Swiss capital of Bernier. The outgoing German aviation minister travels on an old and outdated flight, which inevitably gives people a sense of sad decline, but when he walks down the ramp, Lynn's eyes are still full of confidence in the future.

A few days earlier, the talks with President Hof-Hersten and the two army commanders had appeared to have come to an end, but the government and the army's assertive attitude was undoubtedly a great connivance with the Free Regiment. As the initiator of this "dangerous campaign", Lynn knew that he could not get even a single mark or a shovel from the German government and army at this time, and that all the equipment and materials had to be raised by himself, and that all that could be raised in Germany was nothing more than the simplest engineering tools such as shovels and carts, as well as a small number of weapons, vehicles, and small boats. In order for the Freedom Regiment to become a "Freedom Regiment" in the true sense of the word, it is necessary to select elite personnel to form its own armed forces.

In Lynn's plan, this armed force was divided into two categories: militia and elite, the larger the militia, the better, and the elite force of the army, which was comparable in combat strength to about 20,000 to 30,000, and by this time, the total number of people who had signed up for the Freedom Regiment had exceeded 550,000, and it was still rapidly increasing, and it should be easy to select 100,000 young and middle-aged men from among them. With people, it is not complicated to organize and train in imitation of the army, and the key at the moment lies in weapons and equipment. If half a year ago, it was easy to obtain tens of thousands of rifles and a large amount of ammunition through the secret channels of the secret channel of the Empire, but with the outbreak of the war in Northern Europe, the Imperial army is expanding at an unprecedented speed, and the Allied forces are so powerful, it is no exaggeration to say that every weapon and ammunition is likely to be related to the survival of the Empire. As a result, Lynn's Freedom Regiment could only "search for guns" in other directions: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Austria - all the Western camps and countries closer to the West were doing their best to produce weapons and equipment for the Allied armies, and the German government could easily erect diplomatic obstacles in these countries to prevent the Freedom Regiment from purchasing arms; The Spanish-Franco regime's munitions production line was running at full speed to meet both Allied and Imperial arms orders, and the prices were staggeringly high because of the political contamination; The South American countries - pro-American and British were only open to the Allies, and the Empire-controlled were trying to send war resources to Northern Europe under the blockade of the Allies.

After some sober consideration, Lynn finally chose Switzerland as her first stop.

Switzerland is a beautiful and magical country, the Swiss people have built a world-famous industrial system in the mountains and snow, and the food processing, chemicals, metals, clocks and munitions have reached the world's first-class level. In the traditional military industry, the Swiss 1 rifle is known as the best bolt-action rifle, the Erikon cannon is a masterpiece recognized worldwide, and there are light machine guns and various types of artillery in their own right. For Lynn, there are Caesar Defense, Piffair, and more than a dozen partially controlled industrial enterprises that are directly produced by them or purchased through them to equip 20,000 or 30,000 people, and there are many ways to transport these arms across the German-Swiss border. This means that Lynn's trip will be rewarding, and the difference is whether the political effect will be large or small. On the day of Lynn's visit, the local German press and the Baath Party's propaganda channels revealed the news to the public, letting them know that the leaders of the German Baath Party and the Free Regiment were actively campaigning for this sacred national movement. Of course, this news will certainly make the military and political leaders in Berlin nervous, considering that the Freedom Regiment is now forming basic battalions of 400 men per battalion throughout the country, and these orderly basic battalions are already taking on the security of various places, auxiliary works, and the organization of evacuation. On the face of it, this is very helpful in maintaining stability at the local level. It was only after the chaos of the 1919 and early '20s, and the rise of the SA and the National Socialist Party, that the state and state government officials were mostly wary of the emergence of the Freedom Regiment, lest this large civil society would become difficult to restrain and the urgent reports had already flown to Berlin like snowflakes, but the Allies had taken soft confinement measures against the Wehrmacht units left behind in Germany, and the German government was unable to mobilize troops to suppress the police personnel who were not at all superior. As a matter of fact, the police department is the "hardest hit area" for Baath Party personnel to encircle and infiltrate, and it is not possible that as soon as the order for repression was issued, the Baath Party headquarters was already informed of the whole plan and took extremely dangerous countermeasures! …,

Within the Empire, in addition to the "honorary titles" such as Imperial Knight and Governor of Tromsø County, Lynn only retains the title of commander of the 7th Detachment, but despite this, the huge prestige accumulated in the past still makes him extraordinary. Upon learning of the legend's arrival, the Empire's intelligence chief in Switzerland personally greeted him at Bernier and gathered all the heads of the major businesses controlled by the Empire, which was exactly what Lynn wanted. After Lynn explained his intentions, these former colleagues who had worked together in the past confessed on the spot: within a month, they would definitely raise 60,000 rifles, 1 million rounds of ammunition, 40,000 grenades, 50 tons of high explosives, and 500 sets of detonators for the Free Corps in Germany.

With the bottom in mind, Lynn's plan will be implemented more easily. In the Swiss capital, he frequently appeared in high-level social occasions with an alarming frequency, and successively visited the Swiss military and political leaders, as well as the leaders of big industrialists and plutocracy. The Swiss were known for their shrewdness in Europe, and their impact was limited if they were to seek political support alone, but Lynn came with large sums of dollars and pounds to make high-profile purchases of para-military products and to find the most convenient way to get the goods back to Germany. In the eyes of most Europeans, the Soviet army was a terrible flood beast, not only looting people's property everywhere they went, but also invading people's minds and beliefs, even in a permanently neutral country like Switzerland, both official and non-governmental people had a subconscious resistance to the victory of the Soviet Union, as long as it was not the weapons and ammunition ordered by the Allies in advance, the Swiss side was very happy to supply them to the freedom fighters of neighboring countries.

With a bunch of intent agreements signed and hundreds of thousands of dollars in deposits, Lynn was in no hurry to urge these Swiss companies to step up deliveries. A week later, shovels, shovels, steel bars, steel pipes, cast steel and other industrial steel products began to be sent to Germany one by one, and it was at this time that the German government, through diplomatic personnel stationed in Switzerland, made representations to the Swiss government, asking them to interfere with the export of goods from Swiss companies to the German Free Mission on the grounds that the situation in Germany was stable, and at the same time to intercept the freight train at the German-Swiss border by seizure. In the current Allied system, Germany plays the role of "well-limbed and simple-minded", supporting the Allied front with abundant military human resources, but does not have the power to speak out loud politically and diplomatically, because Lynn has reached a series of deal terms in the previous tripartite negotiations with the Swiss government and business, and will only pay in full when the goods arrive at the destination, and the unwarranted interference of the German government directly affects the progress of these transactions. At the same time, the Swiss mainstream press pointed out that Germany was in a state of anarchic dictatorship, which was within the limits of national law, but the profound lessons of Hitler's rule that people should beware of a dictatorship under the guise of democracy.

From a "people's politician" to an "extremely dangerous element stepping on the red line of dictatorship", Hof-Hersten is afraid that he will cry out in his heart that he has been wronged, but the more advanced the consulting media technology, the stronger the power of public opinion. The incisive articles published in the Swiss newspapers were soon reprinted by local tabloids in Germany, and although the German president, by special decree, temporarily closed a number of restless newspapers, it was unable to stop the war of public opinion. Diplomatically, the German government had to back down on repeated complaints from the Swiss side, and freight trains from Switzerland were allowed to pass without wartime prohibited materials, and Baath and the Free Regiment celebrated a great victory at the freight destination.

Spurred on by lucrative prices and pay-as-you-go, Swiss companies took care of the more lucrative military assembly line and did everything they could to organize the production of orders from the German Free Regiment. Within thirty days, the finished steel was loaded and sent one after another, enough to build a 100-kilometer standard military defensive line, and at the beginning, the inspectors at the German border carried out almost strict inspections of each truckload of goods, and formed very regular steps and procedures. It is not difficult for those who are interested to find loopholes in this, and with the rigor of the Germans against the rigor of the Germans, the first rifles cross the border mixed in steel supplies, and then the first ammunition also passes under the noses of the inspectors.

Fortunately, the main generals of the Wehrmacht finally let the Allied leaders relax their restrictions on the German Wehrmacht, and each regiment was allowed to allocate a company to assist the local government in maintaining law and order, on the condition that an Allied company accompanied him at all times. Hof-Hersten, who could no longer care about the negative consequences of this ridiculous situation, did not hesitate to use this force to send troops to raid the headquarters of the German Free Regiment and its headquarters in the capital, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hesse, Saxony, etc., on the pretext of harboring dangerous elements.

But who are the real dangers?