Chapter 179 The Ark of the Covenant Trap
As a child, reinforcements on the front side always came with passionate music, the sound of horse hooves or the loud shouts. When they grew up, they felt that this was just an artistic rendering. Until one day they stood on the battlefield, Lin En realized that the psychological encouragement effect of the reinforcements arrived was equivalent to the multiple amplification of a surging marche, especially in adversity. In the ice fields in Nordic, elite night battle troops attacked the Soviet camp for a long time, and their inner anxiety grew with the passage of time. Suddenly, a unit dominated by infantry and covered by tanks emerged from the west, and unstoppablely captured the rocky area guarded by Soviet infantry. Lin En wanted to shout "Okay".
In terms of individual soldiers' quality and combat effectiveness, the Imperial Guards Night Battle Battalion, formerly the "Vampire" commando, was obviously better, and actual combat has repeatedly proved that they were good at night cross-border raids, ambushing in the field, and urban street fighting. The German National Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS have the advantage of their investment in conventional combat. After years of war, they have a more professional understanding and grasp of offense, defense, detailed mobile warfare, defense warfare, annihilation warfare, and breakthrough combat of different scales, and are better at using main combat weapons such as armored vehicles and artillery. In this massive Jedi counterattack, the number of people invested by the land troops was greater, and their concerns about casualties were also less than that of the night battle troops - these were their advantages.
Standing up from behind Xueqiu, who had observed the battlefield before, Lin En watched the land soldiers and soldiers with an optimistic attitude, continuously destroying two temporary positions built by the Soviet military personnel on the periphery, and rushed towards the original location of the Soviet military camp. Seeing one of the officers passing by with his combatants not far ahead, he asked, "Hey, man, are you from the Third Battalion? Which company is from?"
The outer collar of the "Ice Pea" combat uniform was equipped with corresponding military rank logos, and the pattern was similar to the original SS. When the officer turned around, Lin Neng easily recognized his rank of lieutenant, and probably the other party also realized his position as a general at the same time.
The man stepped forward respectfully and replied, "We are from the Third Battalion, the First Company, the Second Company, the Chief! What instructions do you have?"
As the strategic staff officer of the base camp, Lin En only has the right to make decisions and suggestions but does not have the actual command. As the temporary commander of the Night War Unit, his authority is only valid in the three infantry companies of the Night War Battalion, an armored company and the battalion's direct artillery company. Under normal circumstances, it is not allowed to cross the boundary to command other troops. Therefore, there is no "instruction" here. He then asked: "Your company has a Second Lieutenant Shuze, right?"
The officer quickly replied: "Yes, sir, he, as an adjutant of the third platoon, stayed on the east coast of the fjord with the troops to prevent the Soviets from evacuating the fjord in reverse. Do you need to contact him?"
The night camp of the war was the middle commando. The first regiment of the land soldiers, who were in full force, made every effort to attack and take charge of the two wings. The third battalion was ordered to occupy the east coast of the fjord to complete the full encirclement of the left wing, which was also the battalion where Lieutenant Shuze was located. This roommate of Lin En when he first arrived at the base and entered the military academy to study, always mocked him at the beginning. Almost a year passed, and the ridiculed "reckless man" was still in the rank of lieutenant, but the "reckless man" who was ridiculed rose to the top. Despite this, Lin En had no irony or show-off at this time, just wanted to understand the situation of his old acquaintance. If possible, doing something to repay his kindness can be regarded as a kind of cultivation of his character.
"No, no, thank you! Lieutenant! You guys go busy, it's time for me to leave!"
After saying this and saluting each other, Lynn turned to Wolfrum and Franz and said, "We will work harder in the last ten kilometers and walk to the end in one breath!"
The battle was smooth and the two were full of confidence and could not help. When the pure mobile command center formed by these three people arrived at the coast, the main battle there had already ended first. With the direct support of the Third Battalion of the First Army Regiment and the artillery fire of the submarine troops, the main force of the Night Battle Battalion captured the camps and material storage and transportation sites near the shore, killing and capturing more than 100 Soviet officers and soldiers. In fact, they first witnessed the scene of the defeat of their own fleet, and then were attacked by the long-range firepower of the attacking party. They also learned that the main business had fallen and the troops collapsed. The Soviet personnel here had no intention of fighting at all, and the final resistance seemed a bit reluctant. Their active action was to destroy various combat materials such as weapons, ammunition, and food that arrived at the coast. In addition to ashes, they left only the other party's corpses, wounded soldiers and captives with no fighting spirit.
Looking at the battlefield full of smoke and the messy sea, Lin Neng's opponents were filled with emotion: "We won the first battle after the war. I hope this is a beautiful beginning and a fulcrum to leverage the historical trajectory." An hour later, the proofreaded watches of the Imperial Guards showed that the reading was 10:3. The third and the last Soviet long-range reconnaissance aircraft that night was shot down by the me262 jet fighter that took off and intercepted.
Almost at the same time, the Soviet landing forces established a camp in the landing area in northern Norway, whether they were persistent or abandoned, were all occupied by the Imperial Guards, which were devoted to the attack. The main battle was basically over, and only the last two hundred Soviet officers and soldiers were fighting for the breakthrough road to the northeast. However, the precious opportunity was exhausted due to the layers of blocking the opponent's airborne troops and fast skiing troops, and the enemies blocking them were getting more and more.
Many, those tanks equipped with advanced night vision equipment and armored vehicles formed their insurmountable steel barrier. In the absence of hope of collective breakthrough, the Soviet commander made a decision to delay the end of the battle back a lot: to break it into pieces and break through the border. The combat teams trying to pass through the front were annihilated within half an hour. Some of the detourers took the initiative and half passively entered the dangerous jungle area in the north.
Here they were not only sniping by the opponent's airborne squad, but also terrible hunting and natural environment of the enemy's night battle troops. Most of the people were lost during the battle and marching, but some people still used the severe cold and night conditions to hide. After midnight, the attacking side had to mobilize more than two companies of troops to carry out a dragnet-style search in that area. It was not until dawn that the final search operation was temporarily concluded.
At 6 a.m. the next day, just as the sky was dawn, three Soviet reconnaissance planes crossed the border and entered northern Norwegian airspace under the protection of a team of Lar-7 fighters. Coincidentally, a Norwegian military reconnaissance plane also entered this extremely cold and deserted land on the same morning. What appeared to the pilots was a very strange scene: the snow was full of complex marks, but obvious bullet craters, fragments and wreckage of personnel and vehicles were rarely seen, as if the noise of the night was just a violent hurricane. There were large pieces of oil stains and debris floating on the sea, so it was difficult to see the number and identity of the ships in the suffering, and survivors could not be found, and the corpses of those who fell into the water were rarely seen - only one or two could be found on the sea far from the shore.
Compared with the shock of the Soviets, the lonely and timid figure of Norwegian reconnaissance planes showed the country's political caution and fear in a great power. It hurriedly passed through this area, reported the situation of no trace of ground personnel and the cross-border activities of more than a dozen Soviet aircraft to the military command, and then the top military leaders reported to the head of the government and the king. Concerning the particularity of the situation, the top Norwegian leaders decided to adopt more stable diplomatic measures. On the one hand, they had a direct dialogue with the Soviet Union, asking them to explain this move and stop all acts of infringing on the independent right of the Norwegian Kingdom. On the other hand, the Norwegian government also secretly convened the US and British ambassadors to Oslo, hoping to resolve this inexplicable conflict with diplomatic mediation as the main and military pressure as the supplement. However, the development of the Soviet army sent a fleet into the Norwegian waters and then landed, this was the same as the previous development of the Soviet army.
The speed of the leak of the news exceeded the Norwegian official control. Before noon, Swedish Radio announced to the public that the Norwegian army had annihilated the Soviet landing troops overnight. The news that the Americans heard from the radio early in the morning was that the Soviet army had invaded Norway in a full-scale war-style counterattack in the ice field, resulting in heavy casualties in the landing troops. The Soviets were furious and used chemical weapons on a large scale, causing large-scale pollution and the situation worsening. In the UK, people were worried about the news that the second larger Soviet landing fleet had set sail from Murmansk, and another Soviet fleet sailing in the Baltic Sea was also accused of carrying a large number of combat troops and weapons and equipment. They would forcefully land at ports such as Oslo according to the German route of occupying Norway in 1940, thereby obtaining a crucial strategic pedal.
Unlike in the past, the Soviet government finally gave up its usual silence. Foreign Minister Molotov was commissioned by the Supreme Decision Group composed of Kaganovich, Malenkov and others to hurriedly convened the ambassadors of the United States, Britain and Norway to Moscow, unexpectedly acknowledged the fact that the Soviet Union sent troops to land in northern Norway, and claimed that this was a special action against the remnants of the Third Reich, and that it would never interfere in Norway's internal affairs and violate the kingdom's dominance. He also informed the ambassadors of the Three Kingdoms about the harsh situation that happened on the eve of 46 ships, 3 aircraft and 25
63 Soviet naval officers and soldiers lost their news overnight, and there was no news until now. Last night, radio communications in northern and northwest of the Soviet Union were seriously disturbed. The Soviet Union had every reason to judge that this was the war time led by the remnants of the Third Reich. The Soviet Union had decided to send more troops to Norway in order to completely eliminate the threats from the remnants of the Third Reich to the world - it was reasonable to believe that they were speeding up the development of the super weapon of the atomic bomb. To this end, the Soviet Union sincerely invited the United States, Britain and Norway to send military observers to act together and capture each other's personnel.
Seizing the other party's combat equipment and materials and discovering their hiding place will inevitably lead to the true meaning of blinding the world. The Soviet government's painstaking "confession" was originally a highly confidential diplomatic matter, but they obviously underestimated the deployment of the remnants of the Third Reich in Norway. Hidden in the Norwegian government should soon learn about this situation through the Norwegian ambassador to the Soviet Union and the country's contact channels, and together with the attitude of meeting the Chinese, US and British ambassadors, they reported it to the strategic decision makers of the "Sanctuary" base. At this time, the base was still immersed in the joy of completely annihilated the Soviet landing troops, and after
Statistics: 1,933 people were killed and 474 were captured. Just a simple number of calculations, 156 Soviet officers and soldiers should have disappeared or fled. However, considering that the submarine raid may cause many Soviet sailors to be swallowed up by wreckage before they could abandon the ship, it is acceptable to have more than 100 people under control. However, after dark, search troops should still be sent to the northern forest for subsequent cleaning, and patrol troops to the sinister ice fields in the northeast. In this battle, in addition to killing and capturing a large number of Soviet personnel, a large number of firearms and equipment were also seized. Although the Soviet mortars were not very useful, several damaged T-34s were
After the restoration, the tactical flexibility of subsequent battles was added, and the same was true of the uniforms worn by the captured Soviet military personnel. However, in Linn's opinion, these were small details and small calculations. At the strategic meeting where the head of state came, he proposed a suggestion that shocked most of the people present. Once implemented in accordance with the situation, this suggestion will bring a stronger impact on the world where the turbulent situation first appeared. For this reason, Linn named this plan "Ark of the Covenant." Its intention was self-evident.
On April 10, 1946, the head of state formally approved the "Ark of the Covenant Plan" and appointed Lynn as the commander-in-chief of the operation, authorizing his ability to mobilize the base's armed forces and various material reserves, which can be implemented first and then reported if necessary.
With the authorization of the head of state and the support of the commander-in-chief of the base, Lynn began to show his strength. In just one week, various resources needed for the "Ark of the Covenant" plan continued to gather. In order to cooperate with this critical plan, even the transport submarines temporarily avoided in South America were mobilized. They transported the latest batch of refined enriched uranium and tons of strong explosives from the secret base in South America as quickly as possible. In the base, service personnel moved them out of the armory and listed them as war.
The torpedoes were slightly reserved and pre-war maintenance and adjustments were carried out. Submarines that had previously participated in the naval battle were also undergoing maintenance and repairs in an effort to achieve an ideal combat state as soon as possible. On this day, the latest news from Norway showed that although the US and British governments did not trust the Soviets' explanation, they were willing to take a risk before using force to face each other and send military observers and ships to the northern Norwegian waters to participate in the second landing of the Soviet army.
In the next week, the port of Murmansk in the northern Soviet Union and Kaliningrad in the southern Baltic Sea became the two busiest ports. A large number of Soviet ships gathered here, and a large number of combat troops and combat equipment boarded and stood on standby. The Norwegian government also temporarily opened northern airspace to the Soviet Union and the United States and Britain. As long as the weather permitted, Soviet aircraft took off from the nearby airport every day to cruise in northern Norway, and conducted some tentative actions.
The aimless bombing, and the US-British aircraft that took off from Britain also frequently visited here for reconnaissance and photography. The preparation of military operations was carried out in an orderly manner, but the backyards of various countries were very lively. The confidentiality that was repeatedly emphasized at diplomatic conferences was simply impossible to achieve. The United States, which was the most rampant of public opinion offensives, even passed Congress to launch the radio control bill and ordered newspapers not to spread agitation and destructive news. This was still possible in the 1940s.
However, even if they can block the mouth of the American media, they cannot prevent high-power radio stations located in other countries from broadcasting explosive news. For example, the Nazis re-realize the Soviet Union for conspiracy, the Soviet Union's intention to increase troops to Norway in Western Europe, the US and British fleets are ready to go - The Third World War is about to come tomorrow, and the evil Soviet invasion and other reports criticizing the Soviet Union have had a great impact in the Western world, making people's fear of the Soviet Union become stronger, in England,
Different forms of roaming broke out on the east coast of the United States and even under the Allied occupation, protesting the Soviet Union's troops to Norway. Spanish media also wrote an article claiming that the remnants of the Third Reich fled after the war, and there was no so-called residual armed groups at all, and there was no such thing as the remnants of the Soviet army of two regiments in one go. Everything that happened in northern Norway was nothing more than a prank directed and performed by Moscow, aiming to reasonably annex Norwegian territory.
On April 24, 1946, a fleet of more than 60 ships sailed to the battlefield half a month ago in northern Norway. This fleet not only condensed the most powerful destroyer fleet of the Soviet Northern Fleet, but also accompanied by submarine hunting ships. Although the number of ships carrying combat personnel was not large, they were mostly ocean-going ships with large tonnage and faster speeds. On the sunny days specially selected, seaplanes and long-range patrol aircraft always hovered around the fleet, and crew members looked at the sea surface with vigilance. When approaching the target area, they encountered another fleet, two destroyers flying the St. George's Navy Flag and the Stars and Stripes, and within the range that the radar could detect,
There is also a large-scale US-British combined fleet waiting in the distance. Its lineup includes the flagship of the British local fleet "George V", the battleship "Duke of York" and the aircraft carrier "Glory" and the Victory". The US Navy selected the newly built and put into service Essex-class aircraft carrier "Wright", "Oriskani" and the Baltimore-class heavy cruiser "Pittsburgh" with powerful combat capabilities. This combined fleet also has multiple light cruisers and destroyers. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as clear combat instructions are obtained, this US-British combined fleet is sure to send the Soviet fleet opposite to the seabed within a few hours.
Half a day later, the second Soviet fleet sailed from the Baltic Sea and arrived northward into the Norwegian waters. Although the Soviet Baltic fleet had the legendary battleship "Gangut" battleship, the warship that could provide firepower support on the other side did not participate in the expedition. The flagship was a cruiser that was insignificant in front of the US and British fleets, and a large number of old destroyers and frigates, protecting the troop transport ship that had been bumping in the sea for many days.
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