In the evening, under the icy sea.

Evgeny was sitting in his room, staring at the I-PEN screen in his hand.

It is said to be a "room", but it is actually a small space of a few square meters, and the conditions are similar to that of a single room in a prison; Of course, in a submarine, it's nice to have a single room like this.

"Is it the fifty-fourth elephant......" Yevghny muttered something as he looked at the screen in front of him.

Previously, after he deciphered that piece of information, he immediately knew that the dozen or so words came from the "push back map", but he couldn't remember the more specific situation, and then he checked the information to determine that this was the "fifty-fourth image" of the push back map.

"The first half of the sentence 'Lei Lei falls, a game of chess'...... If it refers to the rise and fall of our federation in the past hundred years, then the implication is ...... The Federation's gas is about to run out, and this country has reached the 'endgame'. Yevgeny muttered to himself, and touched his chin with his index finger, a small gesture he often does when he was deep in thought, "And the second half of the sentence means that our federal government has long been unrecognizable, and now the filthy officials are in charge, whitewashing the peace, so the people can only 'peck at Gou'an, laugh and cry'......"

Although the position of the Tea Banquet is to maintain the rule of the Federation, the members of the Tea Banquet are not unclear about those issues of the Federation.

But it is clear that it does not mean that they have the ability to solve it, and if they have the ability to solve it, it does not mean that they can really solve it.

Zhu Yuanzhang once thought that he could eliminate corruption, and he had the ability and determination to do so, and he even used the anti-corruption strategy that ordinary people most often talk about - "kill one if you catch one", and the method is still very cruel.

But did he succeed?

When a system of low or non-existent self-restraint is tied up for too long with the people who formulate and run it, one or more classes at the top of society are formed, which become more and more unbreakable from generation to generation, who enjoy the priority distribution of social resources within the inherent system, and maintain a balance and stability, and any change that harms the interests of any member of these classes is extremely difficult to achieve.

In the past hundred years, the tea banquet has not tried to change the Federation, but it has been difficult and slow; Sometimes, when they manage to implement the right policy, those in power whose interests are hurt immediately open a new opening in another place......

In addition, the tea banquet also has to spend a lot of energy to deal with the external threat of the resistance group, and over time, they will become numb and lost...... Just to maintain the existence of the "federation" has gone all out, and the matter of "internal supervision and correction" has basically been forgotten in this era.

"The fifty-fourth elephant ode says...... Regardless of cattle and rats and cattle and sheep, it is still strong to remove the hair, and there is a real dragon in the world, and the water of the Yellow River is not yellow...... "Yevgeni's thinking continues," meaning that the name is gone, and it also means that the long-term must be divided...... This means that although the rebels seem to be finished now, they are hundred-legged insects that are dead but not stiff...... Perhaps not only will they not die, but they will also be reborn and reorganized through the failure of this 'Iron Curtain Flame'...... Become a force powerful enough to dismantle the Federation. ”

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this message was chilling, because the riddle-like hint was more of a "prophecy" than a threat.

If it is really a prophecy, then it can be interpreted in two ways: first, it is to foreshadow the failure of their "shoveling of paint"; Second, it is foreshadowing the failure of the entire Federation...... This will be the starting point. ”

Yevgeny didn't know the full picture of the reverse cross layout, in fact, he hadn't even seen the tip of the iceberg, but a strong uneasiness had already planted in his heart, and he quickly made a decision to call for reinforcements.

Regardless of whether there is a need to call for this batch of reinforcements, or whether it can come in handy or not, in short, call them first; Anyway, now that the war in Eastern Europe has been calmed down, the Federation's troops are quite abundant, so call over and be prepared.

Thinking of this, Yevgni used the communicator he carried with him, which was only used by the members of the "tea party", to contact the organization directly, and through the connections at the top, a group of "special forces" from Crystal County were transferred.

Yevgeny handled this matter privately, and did not report it to the person in charge of the operation, Bowman, Jr., and he did not even talk about deciphering the information; Because even if the scrap material knew this, it wouldn't be able to help anything, so when Yevgeny reported to little Bowman, he simply followed the other party's previous judgment and said, "The information received is indeed just some useless noise."

At this point, Yevghny had made up his mind, and if necessary, he would take over the command of this operation himself, even if it would offend little Bowman, anyway, old Bowman and old Bowman would definitely understand him afterwards.

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The sky is getting dark, and the time for "landing" is coming.

In this "Operation Shovel Paint", the Federation dispatched a total of nine submarines, in addition to the "command ship" where Colonel Matthew Bowman and Yevgeny were located, there were also eight frigates, each of which was fully loaded with more than 50 people, that is, the submarine team had a total strength of about one battalion.

According to the original plan (the plan was drawn up by Bowman Jr.), the submarine team would start the operation at nightfall, when the whole team would emerge from the sea together, leaving only four soldiers on duty on each ship, and the others would all wear combat equipment and go ashore to carry out a major search for the town of Narvik; As soon as the soldiers found suspicious elements, they immediately arrested them, and if they resisted, they were killed.

Perhaps the plan seemed imposing and vigorous to Bowman Jr., but in Evgny's view...... It's a stupid solution.

Three of the most obvious and significant errors are:

First, it was Bowman Jr. who personally chose the submarine as the vehicle for this operation, but he completely abandoned the submarine from the very beginning of the operation to have the advantage of underwater concealment and weapons - if you want to fight a landing war with great fanfare, why not come by warship or simply drop it?

Second, from the very beginning of the operation, all the troops were concentrated in one place and made a high-profile appearance - this kind of practice can be ignored now, if you catch up with the period when the rebel army is still strong and the intelligence system is still operating, as soon as your nine submarines surface, more than half of them will be bombarded in an instant by a round of shelling that has been waiting for a long time.

Three, leave less than 10% of your troops on duty during the operation - in the worst-case scenario, the enemy can send an elite assault team of less than 20 men to snatch all nine of your submarines while your large forces are searching the city.

In short, Bowman Jr.'s plan ...... It was all tears, and Yevgeny couldn't criticize him too harshly, because that might cause the second ancestor to be angry.

There was no way, Yevgeny could only pretend to be "suggesting" to knock on the side, and finally persuaded Little Bowman - leaving three ships to lie dormant in the sea, and the remaining six ships were divided into two teams, A and B, and landed at two different coastal locations one kilometer apart, and then the two teams of soldiers surrounded and advanced towards the city in a cornering manner, and at the same time, each ship left about ten people to garrison, just in case.

That's it...... At seven o'clock in the evening, the "shovel paint operation" officially began.

In the darkness of the night, six federal submarines appeared in the Litvica district and the Vasavika bay north of Narvik.

This quiet town is not as brightly lit and bustling with traffic as the metropolis at night, and when the iron monsters in the water float, there are no pedestrians or vehicles in the nearby streets, and the faint light of the street lamps does not illuminate the strange appearance of the sea.

At 7:02 a.m., Team B, the three submarines in Vasavica Bay on the east side, completed the docking operation earlier; By the time the first submarine opened the hatch on top, dozens of heavily armed soldiers were lined up under the hatch, ready to land and assault the city.

Unexpectedly......

Bang –

The first person to poke his head out of the submarine caused such a gunshot.

He was still a living person before the probe, but after the probe he became a corpse with a headshot.

A second later, the warm corpse slid down the ladder back into the separate compartment under the submarine hatch, his blood staining the ground red, his helmet apparently meaningless under the penetrating sniper shells...... The soldiers behind him suddenly panicked and became angry, and for a while the sound of expletives came and went.

"Damn! There are snipers! Fast! Use the periscope! "A captain quickly gave an order over a communicator to try to deal with the situation.

Bang –

Five seconds later, the raised periscope was also blown out with a single shot.

Bang - bang - bang - bang -

Immediately afterward, four more of the same gunfire pierced the night sky, and it seemed that the other two submarines had received similar treatment.

The group of commandos who were ready to attack soon found themselves in an extremely awkward situation before they had even landed......

The nine submarines on this expedition are all mass-produced conventional combat weapons of the Federation, and this kind of submarine has only two entrances and exits, one is on the top of the cabin, which needs to climb up and out, and only one person can go out at a time; The other is directly in front of the submarine and needs to be docked in a waterless environment (generally a special submarine tunnel for a military base) to open, which is now impossible to open (if you soak in the sea and force it open, the submarine will sink).

The current situation is that if the soldiers go out through the exit above, it is basically equivalent to "lining up to shoot"; Of course...... Everyone knows that if the people of the three submarines rush out together, the other side will inevitably not be able to kill everyone because of the limitation of the rate of fire of the guns, and besides, the other side will always have to change the bullets......

However, firearms in this era are very developed, and the devil knows what model of gun the other side has? What rate of fire? And how much is the bullet capacity? Besides...... Who wants to be one of the first few people who trade their lives for bullets?

Taking a step back, even if a few soldiers managed to break out and get to shore, would they be able to find and kill the enemy snipers? If so, how long will it take? How many people will die during this period?

At this point, the soldiers felt more and more stupid to fly a submarine to carry out this mission...... Flying a warship or parachuting is not like that.

The vast majority of the Federal Army's mass-produced submarine reconnaissance systems are not adept at land detection, and although these submarines can also launch short-range missiles against land, there are only two ways to lock onto targets: one relies on radar, and the other relies on soldiers to launch electronic beacons to locate them.

However, the situation in front of them is that the soldiers are blocked in these large iron cans by an unknown number of snipers, none of them can get out, and the radar cannot accurately locate people; Periscopes have a chance to find enemies in the dark, because periscopes of this era can see at night, look far away, and even induce heat...... But the problem is that now the periscope has also been blown up.

So they really can't help it? Of course there is.

After reporting the situation to the command ship, Yevgeny immediately thought of a solution - close the hatch, dive back into the sea, put on diving suits, disembark from the ship, and then disperse, swim and land.

This is also a way to do it, more than 100 people, just because they are in a submarine, they can't be forced to come alive by a few snipers, right?

But what they don't know at this point is ...... In fact, there are no "snipers" on the shore, but they think there are several.

There is only one person who suppresses the B team of the Federation, and that is K; He alone and with a gun would be enough to do that.

To cut a long story short, a few minutes later, the three submarines of Team B, who had been instructed, closed their hatches and dived back into the sea; The soldiers had to go back and take off some of their equipment (they had to wear diving equipment, the rest had to be streamlined) before they could change into diving and landing suits.

Leaving the ship in the water is different from leaving the ship on the water, the former, you can only go out a limited number of people at a time, because you have to wait for the last group of people to swim out, close the hatch, and then empty the water in the cabin under the hatch, and the next group of people can come in and prepare.

This twist and turn will undoubtedly waste a lot of time, that is...... The landing time of Team B is bound to be quite disconnected from Team A.

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At the same time, the three submarines of Team A on the west side had successfully completed the floating and landing operations.

It took more than eight minutes for some 130 soldiers to reach the shore, unhindered and without seeing a single pedestrian, a passing vehicle, or a shop with lights on.

It was as if the town in front of them had already become a ghost town......

The dark night, the biting cold, even a group of heavily armed old men, facing the quiet and strange land in front of them, will inevitably have a trace of fear in their hearts.

But, the task is the task, so many people, with guns and night vision goggles, there is no reason to be afraid of anything.

"It's just the remnants of a group of rebels, and it is estimated that they don't even have decent heavy weapons at hand, which is more of a punishment than a battle." These are the original words of little Bowman when he stood on the tarmac of a military base and gave a speech to the soldiers before he left.

This happened today, and they have not forgotten it.

Strictly speaking, Bowman Jr. was right, without the support of the Cross, Nackville's resistance was indeed vulnerable, but ...... Now the situation has long been different.

After Che Wuchen and his men took command of the rebel base, and before Bowman Jr. and his troops arrived, a hundred members of the "Killer Alliance" had already entered the city by land.

By dusk, the northwest side of the town had been evacuated; A hundred professional killers have laid an ambush in this dark town and laid a large number of deadly traps just waiting for their target to take the bait......