Chapter 72 The adventure plan starts
After saying goodbye to Brooks who was "in practicing", Weiss did not go straight to the secret camp, but instead took a detour to Taser.
This is a paradise-like town, and even more than half of the Lorraines had never heard of its name. During the Lorraine guerrilla war that lasted for a year, Weiss came here - but did not enter the town, but instead reconnaissed the enemy situation outside the town. At that time, Tasser's fortification process was re-emerged under the control of the Normans, and unlike the federal army's strategy of hiding troops from the people, the Norman army moved hundreds of indigenous people away from this place. Losing the mass base, facing the Norman garrison who had a geographical advantage and was highly vigilant, Weiss finally crossed it out of the raid list.
When he came to Taser again, Weiss found that there were not only Normans in the town, but also a considerable number of non-hostile and non-armed personnel. It was just that it was impossible to determine whether these were Lorraines or the labor force captured by the Norman army from other places. From the appearance, this small town near the top of the mountain had basically evolved into a military fortress. Except for a small number of houses, all the forts and positions were seen. Not only that, the Normans shoveled the tea fields outside the town, and it seemed that they were going to build a thousand-foot-long and hundred-foot-wide flight track.
With the thinking of giant ships and cannons in the early days of the war, it was not worth the cost to build such a mountain fortress. Although it was covered by rain and fog for nearly half a year, there would always be clear weather, and only once the enemy battle fleet would be patrolled, the fortress would become ruins in just a few hours. Don’t you see, the former famous fortress city of Slien was soon caught under the artillery fire of the Norman Fleet.
This war has come to its third year in the ups and downs. From frontal battlefield confrontations to occupied areas, the technical and tactical models have undergone great changes. The significance of Taser as a fortress is different from the past, so I will not elaborate on these for now. What Brooks pointed out before was also what Weiss has been thinking about recently. The Normans hoarded ammunition and medicine supplies in Taser, and there is often thick fog here that lasts for many days. Isn’t it a good target given by heaven for the guerrilla advance team?
The plan is a good plan, the plan is a good plan, everything is almost perfect, but the only question is... how should they attack?
According to legend, more than a thousand years ago, a group of refugees who could not bear the suffering of war moved here. The road to the mountain was quite steep, and there were cable bridges as a barrier, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. In the long era of cold weapons, Taser was repeatedly looked at by foreign tribes and bandits, but never captured. Once attacked, residents would cut off the cable bridge and block the mountain roads. When the outside world was blocked, they would use mountain springs to quench their thirst and rely on livestock and tea fields to support themselves even if it took months or even years. Now, the Normans were building fortifications at the critical point, deploying firepower, digging trenches in the town, and even taking out a shaft and turrets from the top of the mountain. They were just guerrilla advance teams to break this place. It was difficult!
Despite the tight time, Weiss squatted in the mountains and forests outside Taser for two days, observing, thinking, pondering, and thinking, and following the seemingly road-less plan from the details, and then deployed: he took two soldiers and rushed back to the secret camp of the guerrilla advance team as quickly as possible. The rest were divided into two groups, one group continued to follow here, reconnaissance and record the enemy's activity rules, and the other group went to Wallens, and with the help of the underground resistance organization, the time arrangement and operation details of the Normans' transport of materials were explored.
After returning to the secret camp, Weiss chatted with his senior staff officer sent by the Guerrilla Operations Command for several hours. At first glance, the two were actually exploring life, but in fact they were analyzing the bottom line of thinking. Weiss' idea was to launch a surprise attack on an enemy fortress that was extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack without the help of the intelligence department and the Federal Flight Forces, and then seize the enemy's material reserves and help the guerrilla advance team overcome the current number one difficulty. Such a plan is difficult, dangerous, and has a low chance of success, but the potential benefits are great and the contribution to the entire battle situation is also great. Slien and Bosser, two fortresses in the south and north, are important arrangements for the Norman army to defend Lorraine, which is equivalent to the two fangs of a wild beast. Pulling these two teeth will make it much easier for the Federal Army to restore Lorraine!
Lieutenant Colonel Lear neither agreed nor opposed Weiss's adventure plan at first. Among the professional officers of the Federal Army, he was quite knowledgeable about guerrilla warfare, but after coming to Lorraine, he was sometimes surprised and sometimes surprised, and many new discoveries continued to subvert his understanding. The strategic shift from the southern to the north of Lorraine, crossing mountains and ridges for thousands of miles, traveling across the sky and the moon, without any obstacles. This extraordinary march, except for the elite of the special service, made it impossible for any field force of the Federal Army to complete, and may even cause internal vicious events.
, but this guerrilla advance team not only did it with half of the veterans and half of the recruits, but also maintained surprising morale... Since the day when Lieutenant Colonel Lear came, he has been wondering how Weiss raided the enemy's basement area with only two or three thousand men, and won a miraculous victory in the comparison of the power of hitting stones with eggs. After this difficult strategic shift, he suddenly realized: From a military perspective, the Battle of Slien is the victory of the adventurers, the spiritual victory of the commander and all the soldiers participating in the war, and a victory that cannot be copied from a technical and tactical perspective.
Because of this deep admiration, although he felt that Weiss' new plan had only one to two percent winning rate, he did not object from the perspective of difficulty in execution and low probability of success, at the same time, his existing perception could not provide more effective suggestions and supplements to Weiss' plan, and therefore could not advance it from a positive standpoint.
This was not the first time that Lieutenant Colonel Lear had encountered Lieutenant-Neutral attitude. During the Lorraine guerrilla war, most of the combat plans were planned and formulated by him. Later, the Federal Army sent staff officers and special service personnel to reduce his pressure to a certain extent and make the combat plans more efficient in the implementation process. Especially in the last few battles, the Lorraine resistance armed forces had a higher technical and tactical level than the enemy field troops. At that time, the combat losses ratio usually exceeded 1 to 3, and sometimes reached 1 to 5. The Normans actually suppressed the Lorraine guerrilla movement at a very heavy price.
Before the guerrilla advance team set out from the rear, the plan to raid Srien was framed. Although Weiss played an important role in this, General Punk and his guerrilla combat command under his leadership "taken in charge" a lot of basic work, which was the most relaxing combat planning he felt. As for the correction based on information from all parties before the actual operation was initiated, and the decision to make the final decision in the actual implementation process, it was all easy and hand-to-hand operations.
Two days later, the guerrilla advance team, which was about to be exhausted, set off from the new secret camp. The large group of troops advanced towards Taser under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Lear, and a small group of troops led by Weiss, rushed to Wallens on a starry night.
Outside the city of Warrens, Weiss only stayed for one day and immediately led the combat team to sneak into the city. When he learned that the Federal guerrilla advance team did not use Warrens as the main battlefield, but only used the Normans' aviation transit station here to make a fuss, the underground resistance organization here agreed to give Weiss and his group the maximum help. According to their suggestions, if Weiss and his group could wait for three or five days here and patiently make arrangements and preparations, they could be more confident, but time did not wait for anyone, so they had to force themselves now...
At night, at the North Air Transfer Farm in Warrens City, workers are still transporting various materials to the Norman transport ship - a fully equipped modern air port. The biggest difference from this air transport Farm that is adapted to local conditions is the loading and unloading efficiency. A medium-sized transport ship can carry 5,000-8,000 taels of cargo. In the modern air port, the ships are only two or three hours, and only four times the time is here. Since the Federal Flight Forces have the ability to go deep into Lorraine during the day for reconnaissance and bombing, the Normans had to adjust the shipping time to night. Their transport ships usually arrive after nightfall and fly away before dawn, but not every day, but Wednesday to five times a week.
At two o'clock in the morning, on the way to the air transfer site from the food factory warehouse, Weiss and the combatants were ambushed by the roadside, while two middle-aged men from the underground resistance organization stood by the roadside, waiting for the truck carrying cargo to arrive. The temporary warehouse at the air transfer site was limited in capacity, and food could not be piled up in rain and snow in the open-air yard, so after the arrival of the Norman transport ship, the food factory had to use trucks to deliver the latest produced products to the air transfer site.
Soon, a truck stopped at the two middle-aged men's positions. The young man in the passenger seat poked his head out and talked with them while talking. After discussing the price, they drove the truck into an alley next to the road. The young man got out of the car, took them to the rear of the car, opened the car board, skillfully pried open several large wooden boxes outside with a crowbar, pulled out a piece of kraft-packed goods from each box, and then slightly adjusted the outermost cargo in the box, so that the out-of-stock position was not so obvious.
He handed over the goods and collected the money with the other hand. The young man was about to seal the wooden box again, but he saw a few more people next to him, and each of them had guns in his hands. He quickly raised his hands and looked at the two middle-aged men in horror, and asked with his expression: What are you doing?
The two middle-aged men did not explain much, but tied the young man up. There was a driver in the cab, who was shot by a gun and did not dare to move around. The two middle-aged men immediately stepped forward to negotiate with him. At the same time, more than a dozen workers arranged by the underground resistance organization were busy behind the car. They opened the canvas on the car, picked some wooden boxes near the cab, and pried out most of the food boxes inside, allowing Weiss and his combatants to lie in the box one by one, and drilled hidden breathing holes in the cover plate to reseal them. In less than half an hour, they completed the first step of "stealing the day and changing the day". Under the coercion and inducement of the resistance organization, the driver agreed to cooperate with them. One of the middle-aged men replaced the tied young man and sat in the cab.
Chapter completed!