Chapter 168: Internal and External Troubles
"North latitude 48 degrees 41, longitude 27 degrees 72, at this location............ Well, it is indeed the ambush area we booked, but this British cruiser "Newcastle, the USS..."
In the comprehensive combat command room of the Imperial Base Camp, a lieutenant colonel's military-level staff officer took the intelligence telegram he had just obtained and asked the staff officer who served as the assistant to mark the location of the incident with a small red light on the large transparent plate combat map. Because the submarine was unable to send a radio signal to the outside world under submarine status, the "Sanctuary" base has not yet been confirmed by its own U-boat, and it seems that the super Nabo ship "Europa" was attacked and sunk.
During the afternoon break, the head of state usually does not appear in the office. Rommel, the commander-in-chief of the base, has maintained the habit of taking a nap at noon since he entered the base. At present, only the base camp staff officers, senior staff liaison personnel of the base headquarters and the strategic staff. The highest position is the intelligence officer in Andri, who is not fixed at work.
"Although it is placed in the light cruiser level, its displacement is nearly 10,000 tons, and it is an absolute attack warship." Andri said to himself with his hands in his arms. Seeing that the staff officer had completed the adjustment on the combat map, he walked to the desk of a staff officer to pick up the phone, and asked the operator to connect with the residence of the chief strategic staff officer of the base camp, Lyn Galgo.
"Hi, General Galgo, it's me, I'm in the Comprehensive Operations Command Room... I'm sorry to disturb your lunch break. "Europa, there's new news... it's sunk. Interestingly, there's a British cruiser on the scene... Well, come on!"
At the other end of the phone line, Lin En took a nap for less than half an hour. Suddenly, she was awakened by a quarrel. She hung up the phone but became energetic. At this time, the woman on the soft couch turned over gently. Her pregnancy after more than three months was not clearly reflected in her figure. The lines on the bedding line were still so graceful and slender. Although the temperature in the quilt was just right, Yiren's side lying position was suitable for hugging from behind, and her gentle and pleasant body fragrance was also filled with the bedroom. Lin En had to put on her coat. Before leaving, he tiptoed to walk beside the couch and bent down to leave a light on his beautiful and handsome cheeks.
Ten minutes later, when Lynn walked into the comprehensive combat command room of the fully equipped and exquisitely arranged base camp, Andri seemed to be thinking about the content of another telegram. When he saw Lynn, he said in a gloating tone: "It seems that World War III is already in front of him!"
As the atmosphere of opposition between the East and the West became increasingly intense, the "World War III" would inevitably become a long-lasting and attracting attention. Lynn saluted the standing staff officers while walking. When he arrived in front of Andri, he said calmly: "It's not that exaggerated!"
Andri did not show the newspaper directly to Lynn, but told him: "The radio communication intercepted from the United Kingdom and France can confirm that "the Europa was sunk. They believe that this was done by the Soviets... Your plan... has once again become a shocking move. Although their specific losses are unknown, even if most of the crew escaped fortunately, it is enough to light a fire under the butt of the Western allies. Also, this is the code code that we just sent from the intelligence station in northern Spain. Its direct interpretation is: France protested against the Soviet Union, and the United States and Britain supported it."
Lynn turned around and saw the new sign on the combat map. The red dot located in the middle of the Atlantic was the location of the two U-boats ambushing targets. A week ago, the head of state made a decision to approve submarine attacks and send additional submarines to combat in two days, thus enabling the final attack submarines to be moved. According to the order of departure and the intelligence from North America, Lynn divided them into three batches to carry out ambushing in the central and eastern waters of the Atlantic to ensure that the "Europa" was sunk during this voyage. If it was lucky enough to avoid the two groups of submarines in the front, it would be intercepted in the French territorial waters outside the port of Le Affor, and this would be the most powerful dose of "poison".
“What level of protest?”
"It should be the strongest protest, and maybe it will soon turn into an ultimatum." Andri reached.
Lynn was unquestionable on the surface, but he was shaking his head in his heart. Collecting intelligence, Andri's work results can only be considered to be fair and orderly. In terms of strategic thinking, he did not show any more sensibility than his ex.
"If Charles de Gaulle was in power, France would be a brave boxer, but now all they can do is protest. The situation in Britain is roughly the same. Their current Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the "socialist who focuses on economic recovery and national stability. The friendship to the Soviet Union is beyond any British leader in the past. The real key is the attitude of the United States. They are unwilling to sit idly by and watch the Soviet Union continue to expand its strong influence in Europe, and they do not want to see their former allies invest in the camp of responsibility. They should know... it is time to make a heavy move to change the situation." Lynn told his analysis, but as a typical consequentialist, Andri disagreed with his point of reference. Instead, he picked up a pen and signed his name quickly on the telegraph and handed it to his deputy, and ordered: "A-level urgent matter, together with the previous information, sent it to the head of state's office."
When the deputy left, Andri said to Lin Neng as a matter of course: "As long as they fight, it doesn't matter what reason they make or what process does. The key is that both sides suffer and we will benefit from it."
Such an idea is to throw fate to heaven to decide. It may not be negative, but lacks the insight of those who achieve great things. Although Lin En felt helpless and sad, it was no longer as strong as it was before. There was Goring's arrogance, Himmler's ignorance and cruelty, and Hess's ignorance and effect on the so-called "up" and "down" effect. Even though the Third Reich relied on the glory of military affairs, its internal structure was destined to be unable to maintain long-term strength. In order to sweep Europe again, the fact that the head of state was alive, the retained strength of the imperial guards and the gradual recovery, the expanded intelligence network was a crucial cornerstone, but the road to revival was full of internal and external troubles.
The head of state is like an extremely sharp nerve knife. When it is normal, it is wise and powerful, and goes all out. When it is confused, it frequently makes a fool of itself and destroys the Great Wall: Goebbels's agitation and propaganda methods are mainly for you and deception. It is a temporary urgent task, and it will only have a counter-effect. In Lynn's view, only Rommel, Laurenz, and Bach (referring to the crowd that Lynn contacts, unintentionally belittles the excellent commanders of the National Defense Forces), but they also have their own limitations, rather than omnipotent and invincible. Before becoming the ruler, what they can do is to use existing resources as a "tailor" who cuts and splices and threads.
After wisely ending the discussion with Andri, the staff officers of the Collaborative Base Camp studied the communications and telegrams from outside to infer the evolution of the situation, and were ready to report to him in detail immediately when the base commander Marshal Rommel arrived at the office. Before the lunch break was over, the staff officer in a corner of the combat command room received a call from other departments. It seemed that before he could hear the content, he stood up quickly and reported to Lynn and Andri: "A team of Soviet warships had just arrived at Hamburg Point, and the observation post found that they were sending personnel to land in a small boat, with at least a few hundred people!"
Lynn and Andri immediately looked at each other. Hamburg Point was marked by the base headquarters for a coast 30 kilometers away. This way conferred the longing for the officers and soldiers for their homeland. Before this, Soviet aircraft and ships had many activities in northern Norway, and land troops also crossed the border in the form of patrols. The base used Western media to criticize and punished the Soviet army through public opinion pressure.
On this basis, Lynn wanted to use the "Europa" to form a counterattack to further swell the conflict between Western allies and the Soviet Union. The weather conditions in the north have been relatively bad recently, and the signs of Soviet activities have weakened. Unexpectedly, they actually made a sharp counterattack at this time.
The landing location is so close to the "sanctuary" base, has it been found that the clues of the existence of the base have been found?
"Oh no!" Andri suddenly realized "During this period, we sent some instructions to the outside world. The Soviets probably used this to perform radio direction finding and calculate the location of the radio bo source."
After getting Lynn's eyes, the staff officer in charge of communication analyzed: "This is technically possible!"
Lin En immediately ordered: "Report to the commander-in-chief of the base immediately!"
After a while, Rommel hurried to the combat command room, and during this period, Lynn and his team obtained some sporadic information from the outpost. Due to the limitations of distance and visibility, it is only possible to judge that the size of the Soviet fleet is not large and there is no aircraft assisting operation for the time being. The Empire has deployed new spies in Murmansk, the largest port in the northern part of the Soviet Union. They have not observed the departure of the entire fleet recently, which shows that the Soviet fleet is either from other north.
The port set sail secretly either temporarily assembled on the sea and kept radio silent all the way. If only such a fleet and the Soviet troops that landed on the shore, it would not be difficult to destroy them with the current strength of the Imperial Guards. The key is that once the base is violent, even if the Western allies are skeptical about this, the Soviet Union alone can strike here, and the evidence they seized will clear away all previous charges.
"Even if they rely entirely on hiking, they will arrive at our inner circle defense line at this time tomorrow." The staff officer of the base camp, who is familiar with the battle, analyzed worriedly and hurriedly.
Even if the commander as calm and generous as Rommel did not dare to slack off in the face of such a crisis, he ordered with a cold expression: "Issue a battle alarm, and all the staff at the base are on guard!"!
Chapter completed!