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Chapter 14: Just To Poke The Hornets' Nest

Slien, Warrens, Somsonas... For three consecutive nights, the "Lorraine Guerrilla Warriors" launched air strikes on the Norman army's three main towns in the Lorraine Mountains. Although only one or two aircraft were dispatched at a time, the killing and damage caused was very limited, the sudden appearance of this surprise successfully distracted the Norman army. Norman ships appeared more and more frequently in the Lorraine Mountains. Not only did the 1st Marine Warrior Division not only did not leave, but instead sent battalion-level units to conduct an organized sweep of the mountains between towns and villages.

Under the stimulation of the war, the Norman military machines had already been fully powered. Without the 1st Marine Division, it would not affect the overall strategic deployment. However, without this vanguard, the moves and strength of attacking and defense will definitely be affected.

Adhering to the tactical principle of "the enemy advances and we retreat", after the Norman army increased its vigilance and strengthened patrol, Weiss decisively adopted a hidden strategy. The plane did not move, and the reconnaissance activities also turned into a "silent mode". Even the production of secret camps was reduced accordingly to prevent smoke or sound from attracting the enemy's exploration. Using this rest period, he personally led the technical forces of the resistance organization to step up the problem. With ready-made technical drawings and technicians, the aircraft manufacturing work was undoubtedly twice the result with half the effort. It was not easy to produce standards-compliant aircraft parts using the production equipment of the Klumber-Hesen factory and the Lawrence Automobile Manufacturing Factory. They needed to transform machine tools, make molds, and figure out the process... What's more troublesome is that due to the particularity of the external environment, they could not conduct tests as they please, and had to improve the reliability of production parts through repeated ground inspections and verifications.

The hidden tactic lasted for a week, and the Normans' defense measures were relaxed. Both the dispatched scouts and secret eyeliners found that the 1st Marine Division's troops were planning to gather to various strongholds, as if they were planning to pack up and go to the front line. After repeated discussions with Captain Paddy, Weiss decided to use the air ambush tactic he had imagined for a long time, so that the Normans could still see that there was still a strong resistance in the Lorraine Mountains. In this way, even if the 1st Marine Division of the Norman Empire could not be kept, they would still restrain the Normans as many air and marine forces as possible to reduce the pressure on the federal army on the front battlefield - this seemed a glorious and proud thing, but the Lorraine's guerrilla warfare will enter the most cruel and difficult stage from now on. There will be many sacrifices, and there will be many tragedies and tragedies. Perhaps only the person with the strongest will can persevere until the end...

This excellent aerial ambush battle, led by an E-type bomber attack on the mountain city of Slien, luring Norman's patrol ships to pursue. For the federal single-air night attack, the Norman army seemed to have made sufficient preparations. Not only did Slien's ground troops organize air defense firepower in time, but also three patrol ships launched a siege from different directions to block the enemy. These Norman patrol ships searchlights were open, like octopus swaying tentacles, tightly facing weak prey

Reluctantly, the shells they fired continued to bloom like fireworks. When these Norman warships chased near Somsonas, nine E-type bombers suddenly dived from high altitude. This time, they were not carrying light aviation bombs that won by number, but 550-pound aviation bombs made by Klumber Heisen's secret factory. Their power was close to large caliber naval guns, and they could severely damage or even sink the Norman light ships in just one shot.

The nine E-type bombers, except for Weiss and three others, have practical experience, the other bomb droppers are all newcomers. Day-to-day training is not enough to replace battlefield training and training. They are far from professional old birds in terms of aiming and grasping the timing. Fortunately, all the pilots on the plane are good players who have undergone rigorous training and practical training, and most of them participated in the Jedi counterattack in the Battle of Franson, with steel-like beliefs and strong self-confidence. Under their control, the nine bombers were like a group of ferocious nighthawks, covering each other and tacitly cooperated. They first concentrated their firepower on the leading enemy ships, dropped bombs one after another, and hit them one after another. The Norman battleship was swallowed by a violent explosion in an instant.

This is the first flying warship they lost in Lorraine since the Norman army occupied the federal state of Lorraine!

Seeing that the friendly ship was sunk, the Normans on the other two patrol ships did not retreat decisively, nor would they raise white flags. In the night sky, they couldn't figure out how many federal fighter jets were attacking themselves, and they felt that enemy planes kept whistling by, and the naval guns fired randomly, and they never shot down even one. So they adopted a conventional strategy, that is, to descend to the effective range of the ground troops, and through the air and ground, they organized a dense air defense fire network to allow the enemy to fight.

The aircraft was difficult to attack calmly. On the front battlefield, this was a proven effective method, but at night, in the absence of sufficient communication in the early stage, it backfired. Seeing that our warships were approaching, the Norman troops on the ground clearly had guns and cannons loaded, but they did not dare to shoot easily. Finally, they watched another warship on their side besieged by enemy planes. It was shot one after another. The weak armor could not withstand the impact of high-intensity explosions and was split before the emergency landing...

After all the aircraft dropped bombs, Weiss did not want to fight and used a signal gun to shoot a green signal flare that returned. Including the planes serving as bait, 10 war eagles quickly withdrew from the battle that lasted only ten minutes before and after, and went to five pre-arranged hidden places. After they landed, the resistance organization would dismantle them on the spot and hide them in forest cellars, abandoned mines and other safer hidden places in the form of a broken piece.

In the Somsonas air battle, two of the Norman army's three patrol ships were killed, and they were rubbed by several federal fighters. Both the battle process and the result were unacceptable to Norman's senior management. Since the traces of federal fighter jets were not found in the occupied area east of Lorraine that night, and no enemy planes were found crossing the border in the combat area with full vigilance, the Normans could finally be sure that these ghostly air attackers were hidden in the occupied area. This was like stabbing a hornet's nest. The Norman army launched an unprecedented dragnet sweep in Lorraine and surrounding areas. In the sky, there were many warships like a crossing the river, and transport ships continued to place murderous land and infantry troops into the mountains and forests, and mechanized troops and cavalry troops were also coming and going on various roads, dust rolling and very busy.

Under such a strict sweep, many secret camps hidden deep in the mountains were "digged" by the Normans, and various waste mines and natural caves became the targets of the Normans' focus on inventory, and a large number of equipment and materials were seized by the Normans. Although the material losses were great, thanks to Weiss' full and thorough preparation, the personnel losses were minimal. The members of the resistance armed forces and the people who supported the resistance movement were placed in the secret tunnels in the forest in advance. These tunnels, located ten feet below the ground, formed a huge artificial nest that stretched for dozens of miles. Although narrow and wet, it was not conducive to long-term residence, it was an ideal place to avoid the crazy sweep of the Normans.

In order to fight this occupied area sweep battle without blind spots, the Norman army invested dozens of flying ships and tens of thousands of Norman army. The daily supply consumed was a considerable number. Moreover, the Wessex army counterattacked in the north and the Ulster Free Federation army held on the east this year. While controlling the vast occupied area, the Normans tried their best to defeat the remaining enemies as soon as possible. It was impossible to send such a huge force in the barren Lorraine Mountains for a long time, but they were unwilling to "cut the grass without eradicating the roots, and the spring breeze was blowing again". So they used both soft and hard work, and tried to use external high pressure and internal temptation to dissolve the resistance organization.

On the 10th day of the Norman army's massive sweep, Weiss sat on the top of a big tree deep in the forest, looking at the Normans' reward orders and advices with interest. In this reward order written in Ulster, any resident can receive a reward of 100 gold kroners by providing the whereabouts of the Resistance Organization. Helping the Norman army seize the backbone of the Resistance Organization or the pilot of the Federal Army can get an astonishing 2,000 gold kroners, and as for the leader of the Resistance Organization, it is worth 6,000 gold kroners.

Due to the devastating of the economy by war, ordinary kroner banknotes have become waste paper in the occupied areas and have depreciated sharply in the federal military-controlled areas, making the gold kroner, which had originally withdrawn from the circulation field, "prone". In terms of purchasing power, a gold kroner is equivalent to the 200-500 kroner banknotes before the war. For ordinary families, 6,000 gold kroner is an absolute huge sum of money, and its huge temptation is self-evident.

"Hey Captain, look, the Normans offer me 6,000 gold crowns!" Weiss said to Captain Paddy under the tree.

"How many?" the captain asked with his head raised.

There was no enemy situation around, Weiss said loudly: "6000, Jin Kron!"

"Ha!" Captain Paddy smiled, "It seems that the successful guerrilla warfare during this period has made you worth a hundred times more!"

"Don't want to make a fortune?" Weiss quipped.

"Come on!" Paddy replied, "If you become a slave to a devastated country, what's the point of no amount of wealth?"

The great principles of life are actually so simple, but not everyone can truly understand them.

Weiss kneaded the reward order into a ball, and then carefully looked at the Normans' advice. The previous paragraph was nothing more than beautifying the Norman Empire's military occupation operations in terms of words and rhetoric, and it also stated that after the armistice treaty was concluded, the Norman army would gradually withdraw from the occupied area and hand over the governance power here to the local people. Next, there are rewards for the surrender of resisters of different identities: ordinary members of the Resistance Organization can receive 500 gold kroners, hold public offices in local government departments or obtain commercial tax exemption; middle-level backbone of the Resistance Organization can obtain 2,000 gold kroners, hold senior positions in local government departments, and obtain citizenship of the Norman Empire; the leader of the Resistance Organization leads his troops to surrender not only to allow subordinates to enjoy the above treatment, but also to obtain the title of the Norman Empire, and hold military positions in the local security forces in the preparations.
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