"On the other side, most of the people in command are Caspar. ”

Standing on the edge of the cave overlooking the flames of the town, Roland, who assumed the alias "The Man in the High Castle", said in a voice that had lost his heaviness:

"Chasing the prey, driving the prey to death, biting the throat with the last breath - this is actually the hunting method that ancient humans learned from wolves. ”

Because he has half of the blood of the wolf clan in his body, once he encounters a chase or a tough battle that needs to drive the target out of cover, the first thing that comes to mind is to use continuous wave attacks to force the opponent to continue bleeding until he dies of exhaustion, or he can't bear the pressure and collapses. This is typical of Caspar style.

"In terms of candidates, he is also the most suitable to command this kind of operation. The wolf, which keeps an eye on its prey and never lets go without killing its target, is too suitable for smoking out the foxes hiding in the mountains. ”

There is no need to guess, the one who will make this personnel arrangement must be Li Lin, who has been promoted to the emperor of the empire.

The only one who had the power to directly bypass the General Staff and parachute a major of the Guards to command the campaign.

Not to mention the mindset that someone has always liked to pursue high efficiency, is keen to target other people's weaknesses, and incidentally likes to accept new products on the battlefield.

"It's still the same as before, full of bad thoughts. ”

Sighing and complaining, Roland turned and walked deeper into the cavern.

The intelligence system of the Wehrmacht did not mistake Roland's location, he was indeed in the town of Bonavo, and even in the beginning, he lived in a specially organized house in the town. However, after learning that there were occasional imperial reconnaissance planes in the nearby airspace, he never stayed in the house less than 20 meters away from the cemetery, but moved to a natural cave on the cliff cliff with the main personnel of the headquarters to live and work, and lived a "cave dwelling" life.

Tucked away in a dense wooded area with a 15-metre drop from the town's ground, the cave is connected to the ground by a narrow stone staircase, with a small entrance to the cave and an open enough space for nearly 20 people to live and work. The cave itself has the effect of being warm in winter and cool in summer, and what is even more rare is that there is a puddle of spring water in the depths of the cave, which eliminates the pain of carrying water and storing water in the cave every day. The entrance to the cave was guarded by five guards, and the rest were scattered about a company of troops throughout the town and the periphery.

With such a small number of men and equipment, it is impossible to defend against the "legions" that are constantly descending and increasing their combat strength. The 7 artillery types of the "Raider" echelon alone are enough to wipe out the entire town, and when the follow-up echelons arrive, the combat effectiveness is not to mention.

Outside the town there was a battalion of 350 men and women, divided into three infantry companies and a salvo artillery company, and in addition to the "Freikorps" officer school, about three kilometers southeast of the town of Bonavo, where 150 cadets were trained, including the above, there were nearly 800 partisan fighters in the town of Bonavo and the surrounding area.

Before the start of Operation Vaulting, Roland remained in the cave during the day, and in the evening he attended Christmas Eve Mass with the townspeople with his headquarters and attended a party. The next day was Christmas, and everyone was ready for the ceremony, and he was supposed to stay in the town of Bonavo. But fate made another arrangement, and soon after arriving at the town's homestay, a military intelligence message came, and in order to deal with the military situation and reply to the message, Roland temporarily decided to stay in the cave for the night.

It was this decision that caused the "Legion" to fall from the sky on Christmas Eve, and he happened to hide in a place unknown to the enemy, but it was also because of his reply telegram that the Wehrmacht concluded that the town of Bonavo was the location of the "Freikorps" headquarters.

When the echelon of the "Black Panther" airborne to the cemetery, in addition to Roland, who was hiding in the cave, there were five main members of the headquarters and two secretaries, a total of 12 men and 8 women. Seeing that the "legion" fell under their noses, two staff officers, Olga and Raphael, quickly organized dozens of fighters, and on the other hand, they sent a messenger to the military academy three kilometers away on foot to ask for help, while the others began to contact the troops by radio to grasp the situation.

As old adversaries, they know too well the style of the Defence Forces. Such a large-scale airborne assault will never just focus on Bonavo's defense, and the periphery may also be in a combat state at the same time as the airborne landing begins. In other words, the airborne landing is only a part, and it is a full-scale clearance operation.

The results of the liaison did not disappoint them, and all fronts were attacked with great onslaught at the same time, and in some areas there were even air-ground assaults by armored forces and air forces, and some important bridges and passes were raided by paratrooper units. At the moment all the troops are on the defensive or in the shift, and there is no hope at all for a short time.

"First assault the central and critical departments, and then all the peripheral troops launch a centripetal assault at the same time, so that's it, that's what they're really about. It was indeed an unexpected blow like a 'vaulting horse'. ”

Clenching the boat-shaped hat in his hand, the spider said hatefully.

The Freikorps were by no means ignorant of the "vaulting" operation, and their infiltration into the administrative apparatus was informed that the Wehrmacht was about to carry out an operation code-named "Vaulting", which would include transport and glider units, and would probably be a large-scale airborne operation. However, in view of the secrecy level of the "vaulting" operation, the insider could only obtain some fragmentary information, and could not restore the accurate appearance of the "vaulting" operation. In order to protect this precious inner line, the "Freikorps" did not risk continuing the in-depth investigation, knowing that the risk of inserting an inner line under Stasi's supervision is not just described by the word "difficult", and sometimes even ten partisans have to be sacrificed in order to plant an inner line. No one would easily waste such a huge cost to break into the inner line of the empire.

To sum up, the "Freikorps" did smell the imminent danger, and in order to meet the impending storm, they dispersed their troops in advance to pieces. They believe that the defense forces will certainly mobilize a large army to carry out a "ironclad encirclement" type of dragnet sweep, and it is extremely foolish to take advantage of the disparity in equipment and quality between the enemy and us to confront each other head-on. We should give full consideration to the contradictions and conflicts between the enemy's strength gap and the vast scope of the blockade, take advantage of our familiarity with the geographical environment, take the initiative to look for gaps and loopholes in the blockade line, jump out of the encirclement, and move to the enemy's weak rear to carry out the struggle, so that the enemy will not be able to take care of both the end and will be forced to end the encirclement and sweep as soon as possible. Back and forth, the war is directed towards the protracted battle that the enemy least wants to see.

The strategic and tactical guiding ideology of the "Freikorps" is obviously correct, and under the current conditions, this is indeed a feasible strategy. If it can be implemented, it is believed that it will deal a heavy blow to the Empire's domination in the border area, and may even become a ulcer for the Empire's security.

However, the lack of sufficient understanding of technological trends and the lack of moral boundaries of the Empire's researchers, and the underestimation of the Empire's determination in this operation, led to the fact that the "Freikorps" were still at a loss in the face of the Empire's all-out blow, and that the situation that had finally improved was about to be forced to the point of "checkmate" by an unexpected "vaulting horse".