Chapter 11: The secret skills

When fighting at the disadvantage of one against ten, the individual quality and weapons and equipment have no outstanding advantages. Lynn's Free Corps has been under tremendous pressure from the beginning, and this pressure has increased over time. In order to allow these five thousand troops to play the greatest combat effectiveness, Lynn and his staff team have made as exquisite tactical arrangements as possible, so that when the last reserve team also topped the table, their front line tightened to a critical point. Once the foothills of Padden, the shores of Lake Constance and any anti-aircraft battlefield suddenly deteriorated, they would have no choice but to make the painful decision to retreat.

Fortunately, with the outstanding combat skills of the Imperial Guards officers and soldiers, coupled with the tenacious will of the German Free Regiment and external volunteers, the defending front survived the most dangerous period. The nightfall of winter came early, and Lynn quickly recalled the night war soldiers who were scattered from the battle, allowing them to hurry up and have a rest, replenish their physical strength, and make final preparations for the next night counterattack.

Everything was deployed properly, Lynn left the command post and went down the mountain to the woodland east of Bregenz. This was the scheduled assembly point for the Night Warriors. The weapons and corresponding ammunition equipped with night vision instruments were stored here long before the start of the battle. After the purgatory level test at the end of the war, he also participated in many combat operations in three years after the war. The Night Warriors were among the elite among the elites in the Imperial Guards. They have always been the combat force that Lynn values ​​and trusts very much, so he was willing to send this unit to the front line for reinforcements until the afternoon. After a few hours of fierce battle, the officers and soldiers looked dirty, but they were all full of energy. Some of the slightly injured people were bandaged and returned to the battle queue.

"Sir! The Night Battle Commando has gathered 329 people and 84 sets of Night Battle Equipment. Please review it!"

Standing in front of Lynn, the person who was reporting was an old "vampire", Lieutenant Colonel Horst Booker, who entered the "Vampire" night battle commando training class two periods earlier than Lynn, and received the Knight Cross commendation very early. Later, he was recuperated for two months due to injury. When he returned to the team, the Berlin Battle was coming to an end. Finally, he followed the troops to the "Sanctuary" base in Northern Europe and gradually became the backbone of the Imperial Night Battle Force.

Faced with the Soviet army's repeated attacks, the intensity of the front-line battle was unquestionable. When the 371 people retreated during the attack, nearly 90% of the troops remained. Considering that some of the personnel failed to return in time, such losses were very light. Lin En glanced around and his past combat experience made him feel special intimate to every night warrior here. He knew very well that the elite soldiers of the Imperial Base Camp had created a very elite guard, and the training of the night warrior troops was stricter than that of the ordinary guards. Every warrior in front of him was the elite among the elite. They had the ability to change the situation of the battle, and the price was to risk their lives at all times. Like himself in the past, the eyes of these young night warriors were firm, and they could not see any fear and cowardice. This firm and absolute expression made Lin En both down-to-earth and emotion. With the secret assistance of the Allies, the Imperial Base Camp was heavy.

The pace of returning to the European continent is accelerating. More than 4,000 soldiers and a large number of intelligence personnel entered the German and Austrian region through France and Italy. Most of these combatants were under Lynn. Lynn did not concentrate these elite forces in the Upper Rhine Valley to fight the Soviets head-on. Instead, he widely used the complex terrain of the Alps to harass and restrain the Soviet forces. Taking advantage of the Soviet army's heavy troops to move south, Lynn dismantled more than one-third of the military forces into pieces and sneaked into Germany, cooperating with local intelligence personnel and various dispatched teams to lay a solid foundation for the follow-up of the large army. Back then, these defense forces and SS officers and soldiers left their hometowns without hesitation to go to the cold and remote Northern Europe, conducting monotonous and toil day after day; today, they are the sharpest assault weapons on the battlefield, laying the foundation for the rebirth of the empire with blood and life.

There were no bold words or longing for promises. Accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel Booker, Lynn shook hands with these warriors who were about to enter the enemy front one by one, and gave simple and sincere blessings to these soldiers. For three and a half years, the imperial forces hiding Nordics have been spared no effort to improve military equipment. However, due to the limitations of resources and industry, the Imperial Guards failed to fully replace the latest and best weapons. The equipment of the night war forces was similar to the end of World War II, so they saw the infrared night vision instruments, assault rifles, long-handled grenades and anti-tank rockets carried by the soldiers.

Lin Neng seemed to see himself at the beginning, and was so ambitious before going to fight. Fortunately, after winning the victory of World War II, the Soviets quickly became involved in the fierce collision between the Eastern and Western camps. The bombing of the Allied forces made them focus on improving and reforming air defense weapons, and made new aviation equipment represented by jet fighters. In addition to the I-3 heavy tanks included in the combat sequence and the sks semi-automatic rifle batch equipment, there was no big difference from the late World War II, which also made the Emperor* team not too difficult to fight against their old enemies.

It didn't take too long to shake hands with more than 300 soldiers, but Lynn just walked around symbolically and left more time for the night war soldiers to have dinner and rest. The snow began to fall again after stopping for most of the day. It was sparse like catkins flying in spring. The sky was dark and it was impossible to distinguish something a few meters away without the help of light. This was the ideal condition for night war as a model. With the German team, the United Kingdom and the Soviet army have also put a lot of effort into night war technology in recent years, and each developed and equipped infrared night vision equipment. Relying on its strong capital and technical strength, the United States has gone the fastest in this regard. However, judging from the situation of the Northern European war, the equipment level of the US team at this time has improved, and the mental state and combat skills of front-line officers and soldiers are still hard to be first-class, while the Soviets are just the opposite.

After dark, the influence of the Soviet aviation on the battlefield dropped sharply to zero, but the Soviet attack did not stop there. The artillery soldiers with absolute advantage were still bombarding the defending positions on the foothills of Padon. The troops crossing Lake Constance to reinforce the lakeside front continued to increase. After the second wave of airborne troops arrived in the southern part of the valley, the Soviet paratroopers captured two Austrian villages close to the river with large casualties, using them as the fulcrum to implement defense. If the battlefield situation continues to develop straight, the situation of the Lynn's troops will inevitably be more passive the next day. At 8 pm, Lynn's night battle troops set off from the base to advance towards the foothills of Padon. At around 11 o'clock, the night assault officially kicked off.

Unlike the frontal attacks of large troops, after more than 300 night warriors crossed the front line and entered the enemy area, there was no obvious sound and light change on the battlefield. This was like cooking a pot of thick soup. After sprinkling salt and spices, the color of the soup remained the same, but the taste changed over time. The longer the cooking, the thicker the soup, and when it was opened, it was a delicacy with all colors, fragrance and flavor.

That night, Lin En sat quietly under the tree, and the battle scenes he had experienced in the past were reflected in his mind. Even though he had been separated by more than ten kilometers and interrupted contact, he could still see his night warriors fighting behind the Soviet defense line. He saw these dark night hunters attacking the Soviet command center with ease, destroying the Soviet ammunition supplies and artillery positions, making the Soviet officers and soldiers who were physically and mentally exhausted after a day of fighting, making their subsequent attacks unable to be implemented according to the scheduled plan... Without nicotine and caffeine refreshing, Lin En sat until dawn, suddenly came back to his senses, and a drop of clear tears had already crossed his face.

Another arduous day of fighting has arrived. The Soviet army is still attacking at the foot of Padon and the shores of Lake Constance, but the artillery fire they used to support the battle has been significantly weakened, and there are fewer ships transporting troops on Lake Constance than the previous day. Only Soviet fighter jets and attack aircraft are intensively invested regardless of the weather, using machine guns and bombs to clean up the defending positions over and over again. The third stage of airborne troops also arrived as scheduled. The Soviet army troops arrived in the central and southern part of the valley through parachutes and aircraft landings, and there were more than 4,000 Soviet troops, except for hundreds who fell into Switzerland and were unable to participate in the war.

The remaining personnel faced less than 1,500 soldiers of the Free Army. They suffered huge casualties and were unable to seize the initiative. At noon, the Soviet armored troops, who had been put into heavy troops, made a bloody road from the west side of Padeng Mountain. More than 20 tanks and a battalion of infantry successfully joined the friendly forces that landed across the lake, but the battlefield situation did not change much. Linn dispatched mountain assault vehicles to repair defense and ordered the anti-tank troops to invest in the last batch of guided anti-tank rockets, steadily suppressing the Soviet troops in the limited lakeside area. Half afternoon

, the wind and snow increased, and the Soviet fighter jets had to suspend their attacks. Lin En transferred 700 soldiers from the rear and cooperated with the lakeside guards to launch a counterattack. The two counterattack troops advanced to less than 200 meters from the lakeshore, and used mortars and grenades to kill the Soviet landing troops defending the lakeshore. In this way, the soldiers of the Free Corps won more than one day with the losses of more than 500 people. When night came, the night war soldiers who infiltrated the Soviet rear came out of the forest where the daylight hid, and continued to "make a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace". This time, the Soviet ammunition depot

The explosion that occurred shook the ground within a radius of dozens of kilometers, and the dazzling light rising greatly encouraged the extremely tired defenders. Taking advantage of the availability of morale, Lin En decisively gathered forces to carry out a tactical counterattack on the enemy on the lakeside, and defeated the remnants of the Soviet army that landed across the lake in one fell swoop, resulting in a large number of Soviet officers and soldiers either drowned or were annihilated on the way to break through the foothills of Padeng. There were less than a thousand people who successfully broke through - roughly equivalent to those who surrendered. This not only severely damaged the confidence and morale of the Soviet officers and soldiers, but also ruined the deployment of the Soviet commanders.

Normally, the ammunition carried by the night warriors can only cope with a few medium-intensity raids. Even if the battlefield capture is very ideal, they can only fight behind enemy lines for several days. During Lynn's deployment, these night warriors will no longer return to the Upper Rhine Valley area in Austria, but will advance directly to the hinterland of Germany, thereby avoiding the blockade of the Soviet front and returning to the real home court to play their unrivaled night war advantages.


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