Chapter 106: Red Ambition

"Missionary 2 landed safely, Missionary 2 landed safely......"

When the signal of peace came from the radio, the command at Munich's Kaisen Airport was jubilant, and it seemed to ordinary people that the most difficult flight had been completed and they were one step closer to a great victory as the three transport planes arrived at their destination one after another. [Cyun Kun] [Cyun Kun] [][Say][Net][\\]

However, the celebration did not last long, as the radio communication, which had been relatively smooth, first showed strong noise interference, and then completely lost signal, and the two Junkers-52 stations were in the same situation, and there was no response when they switched to the backup channel. The others were only surprised and anxious, but the professional radio communication technicians who had experienced the baptism of war were able to guess the general situation on the other side, so their expressions were strangely grim. Although Lynn was a layman in radio, when he saw the technicians' reaction, he immediately guessed in his heart - the Soviets had captured the communication signal and enabled technical jamming, and since they deliberately cut off the communication between the front and rear of the airborne operation, their army was probably already on their way to the airport in the northern suburbs of Berlin!

Theoretically, the communication interruption could also be affected by some unexpected factors, and Lynn decisively gave up this fluke. It was not the time to lament how wise it was to not follow the first "airborneers" to Berlin, and the change in attitude of the Soviets confirmed his previous fears. After a quick consultation with his henchmen, he decided to give up competition with Stuppfo and let the elite Liberty Regiment troops who had been heading north by rail and road retreat, slowing down the advance of the Liberty Regiment and the populace. Just a few hours after Lynn gave these orders, news came from Luxembourg that the Allies and the Soviet Union had signed a formal armistice treaty, and the specific terms of the project were not announced at the first time, but it was certain that the war between the Eastern and Western camps, which lasted for more than two years, spread halfway around the world, and caused millions of military and civilian casualties on both sides, ended with the bitter peace of the Allies, and the Soviet Union's victory was too disastrous, and most of its domestic basic industrial facilities were destroyed in the Allied bombing, The Soviets won the strategic initiative almost with the last resources in the country, thus forcing the allies with a much stronger war potential to accept the current situation.

After the exhaustion of World War II and the lack of real recovery for the next three years, the industrial hardware of Germany, Poland and the countries of Southeast Europe was very unsatisfactory, and it was difficult for the Soviet Union to loot a large amount of machinery and equipment from the occupied areas and send them back to the country for reconstruction, as they did in 1945, not the allies who are destined to choose to stand by the cold, but the organized, conscious nationalists such as the Baath Party and the Freedom League.

After thinking about this, Lynn finally had a logical guess about the true state of mind of the Soviets, and he also felt bad about his own actual situation. Therefore, he hurriedly contacted the leaders of the direct departments, as well as the Baath Party and the Freedom Regiment in other directions, so that they could be alert to possible violent actions by the Soviet army and prepare in advance to preserve their strength. As for whether the people from all walks of life could pay enough attention to their warnings and respond correctly after the contact information was transmitted, Lynn couldn't care about it, and he stared at the more than 3,000 combat troops of the Freedom Regiment who were relatively well armed and had good personnel quality to personally deploy them, so that they could avoid the "dead land" and seize the time to move to an area where there was room for advance and retreat.

The armistice signed between the Soviet Union and the Allies came into effect in the early morning of the next day, and the "airborne" who went to Berlin disappeared for more than ten hours and were still not heard from. During the night, the officers on duty at Lynn's command found that the public telephone lines leading to the various locations were cut off, so that the various batches of northward movements failed to report the situation on a regular basis, that many of the established channels used for radio communications were seriously interfered with, and that the Freedom Regiment troops, which relied on their own lines of communication and were still in use by a small number of radios, reported before midnight that they had observed a large-scale movement of Soviet troops. In the early hours of the morning, the Soviets did their part, and in southern Germany, they raided the towns and abandoned military facilities occupied by the Baath Party, the Freedom Regiment and other armed men, and did not hesitate to suppress the resistance by force, and arrested the armed men who gave up resistance and the adult males present, and many of the Freedom Regiment troops retreated to woods, mountains and other areas with difficult terrain in an organized manner according to Lynn's previous instructions. …,

That night, the northbound route to Berlin was completely silent, and only after dawn did the news arrive: in Praun, a hundred kilometers from Dresden, more than 2,000 Baathistists, Freedom Regiments and supporters were surrounded by a large number of Soviet troops along the railway line, deterred by tanks, machine guns and bayonets. In this way, the other teams in the north also fell into the same predicament, coupled with the Soviet army's sweeping operations in the south, Lynn's command lost nearly 100,000 supporters in a single night, and the preliminary estimate was that the Soviet army captured as many as 4,000 guns and weapons. Fortunately, the most elite Freedom Regiment suffered only minor losses due to Lynn's advance arrangement, and most of the troops retreated smoothly to areas outside the area under the direct control of the Soviets to await orders from Lynn.

That night, Lynn's command was also attacked by Soviet troops, and there was a whole group of tanks in the attacker's ranks, so it seems that the Soviet command department had already grasped the situation of the Baath Party and the Freedom Regiment, and if it was an ordinary inexperienced grassroots team, it would be difficult to survive in the face of this lightning extermination operation, but Lynn and his staff team based on the 7th Task Force and local intelligence personnel had rich combat experience, and their "inherent bias" against the Soviets played a huge role at a critical moment. The main personnel of Lynn's command, as well as important plan texts, communication codes, and member information, had been evacuated or destroyed before the arrival of the Soviets, leaving behind only some unknown staff and ordinary communication equipment.

In the secret headquarters on the outskirts of Munich, Lynn silently watched as his staff assistants marked on the map the lost strongholds and the new locations of the retreating troops. According to the speculative figures in the reports of the various ministries, in the southern Bavaria and Württemberg-the main control area of Lynn's troops, the Soviet army invested 200,000 troops, and the German troops who returned home after Poland's defection did not participate in the operation at all, but judging from the battlefield experience, people's speculation about the size of the enemy at night is often more watery, so Lynn estimates that in the southern region, the Soviet army only used 50,000 to 60,000 men, after all, in the non-fortified area, 100 well-trained, Regular soldiers supported by combat vehicles were enough to control hundreds or thousands of unarmed and mentally ill-prepared irregular fighters by surprise attacks, while surplus Soviet troops were used to guard important strategic targets such as transportation hubs and to spy on German forces that were not reliable enough.

By the morning, the news from various sources gradually made people's understanding of the situation clearer: Soviet troops had marched into Munich and other cities in large numbers, the railway lines were completely controlled by the Soviet troops, and those old military installations that had been ignored by the Soviet troops were also controlled or blasted, and what was even more surprising was that there was evidence that the Soviet troops had completely disarmed the German troops in the territory that night!

Before the armistice, the Soviet Union had more than four million troops stationed in Germany, and most of the front-line confrontations with the Allies were still enough to support a sweeping sweep across Germany. Since the night before, there has been no news from Stuppf's command and his subordinate teams, and it seems that their situation is very unoptimistic. At noon, the radio system of the Soviets in Germany issued an announcement by the occupying forces: in response to the conspiracy attempt of a part of the armed men to illegally seize power in Germany, the Soviet troops launched a swift and successful counterattack to ensure that Germany would not fall into division because of the political problem, the arresters would be investigated, only the leaders and cadres who organized the conspiracy would be tried, and the induced people would be released after the investigation; According to the armistice treaty signed between the Soviet Union and the Allies, the Soviet army was to maintain order in Germany until a new German government was elected by the end of 1948 through a fair popular vote, at which time the Soviet troops would be gradually withdrawn from Germany in accordance with the armistice.

After listening to the full text of the announcement of the occupation forces, Lynn smiled dumbly, the Soviet leader made a good move this time. Half a year is enough time for them to scrape the German turf, brainwash the people, find and cultivate suitable puppet personnel, completely disarm the German army, and collect and destroy the weapons in Germany, so that Germany quickly becomes a country that is very dependent on the Soviet Union for political, military and even material supplies. The Allies, in addition to maintaining influence in some countries in Western and Southern Europe, have already ceded the rest of Europe to the Soviets, and the formation of a Cold War confrontation pattern is almost inevitable, and the only variable is the "Northern Scandinian Free Empire" that has risen militarily and has nuclear weapons technology - it has fallen back into the gap between the two camps, and whether it will be annihilated together or complete an unprecedented nirvana, it will soon be revealed.

(End of full volume)

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