More than half a month ago, when people thought that the fearless German Free Corps would come to Salzburg, Lynn left only an empty city for the Soviets, and took thousands of elite troops to travel more than 400 kilometers in the southern German area controlled by the Soviet army. He turned upside down under the eyes of the Soviets, and finally returned to Austria. This time, when almost everyone felt that the Free Corps would continue their elusive guerrilla warfare.

At that time, Lin En concentrated his troops in the Upper Rhine Valley and gave the Soviet army a hammer. """ () After nine days of fighting, the unprecedented tragic offensive and defensive battle came to an end with the Soviet army's decline. The Free Corps announced that it would kill 26,100 Soviet officers and soldiers, destroy 932 Soviet combat vehicles, shoot down 33 Soviet fighter jets, sink 97 Soviet ships, capture 2,906 Soviet combatants, and seize a large amount of equipment and supplies.

At about the same time, some major media in Western countries published photos taken after the Battle of Bischauthoffen Salzburg. The corpses and vehicles and equipment piled up in the valley made people marvel at the bloody war of the war, and on the other hand, they admired the results of the Free Corps. After all, the armistice between the Eastern and Western camps was based on the extremely unfavorable war between the Allied countries. Not only European countries such as Britain and France, but even Americans separated by an ocean were afraid of the strength of the Soviet army. The rulers were afraid that the Soviet military strength would be restored and further strengthened, and the terrible scene of red flags planting all over the world would appear. Against this background, the German Free Corps was no longer just a group of soldiers armed against the Soviet occupation, but they also broke the myth of the Soviet army's undefeated.

The creator of the miracle was an important force that continued to restrain and attack the Soviet army during the Armistice. Therefore, people selectively "forgot" the close ties between the Free Corps and the Third Reich and the Northern Scandinavian Free Empire, and began to support this armistice one-sidedly - due to the constraints of the Armistice Agreement, Western governments were not convenient to come forward directly. Various civil organizations also recruited aid in a semi-public manner. Compared with the inefficient international support during the Soviet invasion of Finland, the Western world's aid has improved significantly. Various materials were loaded at the port and shipped directly to Italy, and then transported by land to the Alps in northeastern Italy, and finally arrived in the hands of the Free Corps. The process was less than a month fast, and only five or six weeks slower.

A large number of resources were continuously transported to Austria, and the Imperial team from Nordic Europe also joined the battle sequence of the Free Corps in batches. Some of these soldiers followed the head of state to the shelter base in 1945. Some were later signs from South America and Western Europe and trained. The largest number was the German prisoners of war released by the Soviet Union by the short "honeymoon period" of the Empire and the Soviet Union. Their total number reached an astonishing 390,000, which was more than the total number of military and civilians before the Imperial control area. And they had a certain military quality. After obtaining this valuable human resources, the Imperial Base Camp followed the expansion model of the "100,000 National Defense Forces" and mixed the veterans of the Imperial Guards and these Germans who returned to the army, so that the expanded Imperial Team still maintained a high level of combat.

The number of people and guns under his command continued to increase, and Lynn's confidence in operating the "Up Rhine Valley Fortress" became more and more confident. After a week of rest, the Soviet army launched a second attack, which reduced large-scale airborne operations, but increased the investment of troops from the mountainous areas west of the valley. The overwhelming bombers were astonishing as the valley to wasteland. In this battle, Lynn used tens of thousands of soldiers to fight against more than 100,000 troops attacking the Soviet army on both sides, and fully exerted the essence of defense operations - stable position defense. Agile infiltration and harassment, and tactical fulcrum points to show the wonderful command art. On the fifth day of the Soviet army's fierce attack on the river valley, an armed uprising broke out in Bavaria, Wurtemberg, located in southern Germany. Resisters attacked the station and blew up the railway, causing the transportation and supply on the northern line of the Soviet battlefield to stagnate.

The Imperial troops and the Free Corps that were operating in the foothills of the Alps also made great efforts to harass the Soviet mountain troops in Austria. In this bloody struggle, the resistances with steel willpower ended their laughter. The Soviet army, which was fighting away, was once again defeated by opponents with the right time, place, and people. The loss of soldiers was as high as 30,000. The blow to the morale of the military and the passive international political situation made the power groups far away in Moscow furious. They not only appointed the outstanding meritorious general Huasilevsky to command, but also transferred several main forces with the honor of "guards" to participate in the war. The aviation troops even bombed the Rhine Valley area day and night. The protests raised by Switzerland due to the accidental bombing of territorial targets were directly ignored...

The Soviet senior officials had high hopes for the third attack, and Lynn was also gathering strength for this critical duel. He allowed the reinforcements from Italy to travel together, and the total combat force quickly exceeded 10,000. Technical weapons centered on air defense and anti-tank guided rockets are increasing every day, and the defense system in the valley is constantly strengthening. During this period, out of extreme indignation towards the Soviet government, the Swiss government's realistic attitude is neutral.

There was a change under the banner. They accepted the resistance troops withdrawn from southern Germany. In name, they detained these illegal militants, but secretly transported them to the Upper Rhine Valley. This combat force of nearly 20,000 people was a reinforcement for Linn, but in the eyes of the world, with less than 20,000 "semi-formal" resistance soldiers fighting against the tough offensive of the Soviet army's large corps, it was an impossible battle to win no matter how you look at it.

To turn the impossible into possibility, Lynn racked his brains and tried all his strength. Many methods that ordinary people could not imagine were also used by him. Before the war began, he took the initiative to order the dispatched team to attack the Soviet combat readiness airport of Innsbruck, located more than 100 kilometers away from the Upper Rhine Valley, hijacked two Il 4 twin-engine bombers, flew them to Liechtenstein to drop bombs, and deliberately caused one of them to crash in its territory. The plane left on the plane with Soviet pilots killed when attacking the airport and indiscriminately bombing the targets of the valley.

The combat command, this incident immediately caused an uproar internationally, and Western allies also pretended to take threatening postures, forcing the Soviet Union to strengthen the military strength of the two sides' borders; at the same time, the dispatched team lurking in Germany carried out a "decapitation operation" against the German legitimate government, which was claimed to be elected by the whole nation, and successively killed several puppet government heads, including the Deputy Prime Minister and three ministers, and created chaos within the German security forces, forcing the Soviet army to implement emergency martial law throughout Germany and send additional troops to garrison bridges and transportation hubs.

The various incidents followed not only distracted the Soviet high-level leaders, but also paniced the Soviet troops gathered to attack, and rumors that were not conducive to the war were quietly spreading. Even so, the third large-scale attack was still on schedule. The gunboats pieced together from multiple channels formed a spectacular scene of ants siege on the surface of Lake Constance. The continuous bombardment of large and small artillery made up for the restricted air force activities in the cold winter. Hundreds of tanks and tanks attacked the western foothill passage of the Padeng Mountain at any cost, and infantrymen who went to attack the defending positions one after another. This was simply the reenactment of the "Verdeng meat grinder" more than thirty years ago in an alternative way!

The war was ruthless, and Lin Neng's soldiers were not real steel. Under the first two days of crazy attack, the number of casualties of the troops rose rapidly. The reserve teams were sent in batches, and the wounded were transported in batches. The available mobile troops quickly came to an end. The fortifications built and reinforced by manpower could not withstand the consumption of heavy artillery attacks by the opponent. Gradually, the defenders withdrew from the frontline and second-tier positions on the shore of Lake Constance, and abandoned the frontline fortifications on the northern foot of the Padden Mountains, and the eastern mountainous areas.

The defensive forces retreated step by step, and the positions on the western foot of Padeng Mountain were captured by the Soviet army. The Soviet troops attacked from multiple routes took one tactical support point after another, achieving a meeting again and again. In addition, they also used a variety of tactics to achieve containment effects. The strong push tactics at the cost of huge casualties gradually compressed the front of the Free Corps. The Soviet tanks that broke into the western foot of Padeng Mountain began to test Bregenz's fortress defense...

The retreat has been reserved, but in the face of an extremely unfavorable battle situation, Lin Neng and his soldiers are still gritting their teeth and persevering. This persistence is exchanged for the arrival of more than a thousand reinforcements every day and the steadily consumption of the opponent's fighting spirit. In the most important tactical fulcrum of the river valley battlefield, nearly two thousand soldiers used their flesh and blood to block the Soviet army's offensive from the waves higher and higher, firmly protecting the flanks of the central defense line in Padeng Mountain, and the Soviet tanks destroyed in the lakeside area were piled up.

A shocking steel cemetery emerged; in the eastern barrier of the valley area - the 800-meter-high mountain Gotel and the 1,200-meter-high mountain Schauna, more than a thousand freedom soldiers ordered the Soviet troops to advance twenty times their own every day to only use a hundred meters to cross the beam; in the Mount Ratnosse in the southeast of the valley, three hundred imperial mountain soldiers fought against tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers with astonishing courage, and two night attacks, which made the opponent retreat without advancing for several days.

In this way, the seemingly irreversible situation survived day after day under the unity of the defenders and soldiers, and guarded to the moment when the turnaround appeared: the night battle commando, the imperial dispatched team and intelligence personnel who had sneaked into Germany in the early stage, found and successfully attacked the Soviet combat command. Although the occupation of this command lasted only forty minutes, the interference command issued by the seized radio station and password book made the Soviet front-line troops in chaos.

With the Soviet command system temporarily paralyzed, Lin Neng launched a counterattack with the newly reinforced Imperial ** team. This time, Lovin Bruns, an old partner who had been promoted to Lieutenant General of the Imperial Guards, led the entire battalion of night warriors to join. The night warriors that grew and grew in the battle with the Allies lived up to expectations and cooperated with their own defenders to expel the Soviet army from the valley. The front line was obviously the situation that the Soviets were most reluctant to see. (To be continued...)
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