Chapter 4 Cliff Castle
"General! General! Wake up, we're here."
Xu Jun opened his eyes in a daze.
"Oh, it's here, what's here?"
"We're at the "Cliff Castle."
Xu Jun woke up with a sudden inspiration.
"Ah! Will it arrive so soon?"
Early this morning, Xu Jun took the special train specially prepared for him by the base camp. At first, Xu Jun was very excited. The train was so beautiful. The brand new gray painted in the sun shone with the huge black embroidery eagle on the carriage and the bright red Nazi party flag were all showing off the noble identity of the train. The red velvet curtains in the carriage, the dark red embroidered wool carpet, the exquisite oak table, and the elegant and luxurious French seats also made Xu Jun feel the luxury brought by power.
When the train left the city of Cologne, Xu Jun asked the servant to bring him a pot of coffee, and then sat leisurely in the seat by the window while drinking the coffee and enjoying the beautiful German pastoral scenery outside the car window.
But less than an hour after the train left, Xu Jun began to feel tired. After all, he was busy all night, and the excitement after the plan was completed was suddenly defeated by the sleepiness caused by not sleeping all night. Even the fragrant coffee could not make him feel energetic. After a while, Xu Jun fell asleep without any grace in the gorgeous Louis XIV-style gold-inlaid seat.
Hans knew that Xu Jun worked all night last night, so he didn't wake him up.
When the train arrived at Munster Station, it was already lunch time. Hans woke up Xu Jun, who was sleeping tightly, and then dragged the deputy head of state who couldn't open his eyes to the station restaurant for dinner. Xu Jun didn't remember what he had eaten at that time, it seemed like meat sausage and kimchi or something. I remember that Hans didn't seem to have seriously moved his own dishes. He was paying attention to himself, and he really didn't know why he was staring at him like this. As a result, after eating this confused lunch, our deputy head of state was dragged into a base exclusive car and drove towards Munster Aifle, the temporary base camp of the Third Reich Command, which is the "Cliff Castle".
As a result, Xu Jun fell asleep in the car again.
Hans looked at the deputy head of state who was drooling in front of him and was amused and crying. He had never had enough rest on the front line. He had to stay up late when he came back. He really couldn't do anything about him. He kept staring at Xu Jun in the restaurant, because Xu Jun's condition was really worrying. Hans was very afraid that the deputy head of state would drown himself in the next second.
The car finally arrived at its destination after driving for an hour. The car stopped directly in the open space in front of the base camp. A soldier from the head of state Jingwei Banner immediately ran up and opened the car door for them. Hans woke Xu Jun up at this time.
Xu Jun slowly climbed out of the car, feeling his head a little drowsy. He bent over the open space first, kicked his legs, and loosened his sore muscles. Then he rubbed his hands on his face a few times, awakening his mind. Then he began to look around and look here.
It is true that this is a "cliff castle", but this "cliff" is not very high, and the "club" is actually a huge permanent fortress position. When the Germans called it the code, they had no imagination. This is part of Germany's "West Wall Defense Line". It was originally built to be the second German defense line if the western border was broken by the enemy country. Because the living facilities here are complete and the infrastructure is installed in advance for the many communication equipment that need to be equipped in the future, Hitler's military adjutant chose this place as the temporary base camp for the Western Front Campaign.
Xu Jun turned around and looked down at the foot of the mountain. The foot of the mountain was originally an ancient town. But now the townsmen have been moved away, and it has become an affiliated camp for the base camp. The ancient gravel streets in the town were filled with various military vehicles. Soldiers and subordinate officers were running around in the town. In the square in the center of the village, four 105mm heavy anti-aircraft guns can be seen pointing straight to the sky, and on their side, anti-aircraft artillery soldiers
They set up several tents with disguised nets, which seemed to be the command post of anti-aircraft artillery. There was a three-story house beside the square, which seemed to be regarded as a warehouse. There were neatly parked in front of the house. Dozens of German soldiers were moving the goods from the trucks into the building. On the road far outside the town, dozens of trucks were driving towards the town. The whole town was full of busy scenes.
At this time, a row of simple bungalows at the foot of the mountain next to the town attracted Xu Jun's attention. Xu Jun found that senior officers ran in and out from time to time, which seemed to be an important department. Xu Jun quickly searched Jack's memory for all the situations of the entire base camp. Jack participated in the construction of the entire base camp and knew everything here well.
When Xu Jun found the memories of the bungalows, he couldn't believe it was true. The one stationed in the row of board rooms with ugly green paint turned out to be the famous German Army General Command.
It turned out that in order to keep the army close by, Hitler was afraid that the army staff officers would take their own initiative when he left Berlin, so he came up with this method and moved the Army Command from Berlin. He also claimed that because the responsibilities shouldered by the Army were very important and the situation of the war might change quickly, he must set up the Army General Command near the headquarters base camp and accept orders directly from the headquarters.
As a result, Hitler personally set up the headquarters of the Army Command, which was originally a row of pig houses. I really don't know what Hitler thought. But the members of the Army Command had no objection to this. One reason was that this was the headquarters personally set up by the head of state, they dared not object. In addition, it was said that because their chief of staff, Halder, believed that the headquarters was so close to the base camp, he might have the opportunity to influence the combat plan of the National Defense Forces Command, so the glorious German Army Command was moved into the pigpen, and of course it was reorganized and renovated. Otherwise, if the Army Commander-in-Chief Marshal Von Brauchci was moved into the office, it would be easier to let him commit suicide directly.
Thinking of this, Xu Jun shook his head, turned around and walked towards the fortress gate with Hans and two SS adjutants.
There were already two army officers waiting there in front of the fort's solid steel explosion-proof door. Both of them were young majors. Xu Jun found their information in Jack's memory. They were military adjutants of the head of state military adjutant, Wink and Ruhr.
Seeing Xu Jun coming, the two of them stood at a glance. After both sides saluted the military salute, Wen Ke said to Xu Jun with a smile: "Welcome to you back, Deputy Head of State, on the days when we lost contact with you, we are all worried about your safety. We are extremely happy to hear that you are safe and led the troops to win a great victory. Especially the Head of State, he made an exception for this and drank a glass of red wine to celebrate you at dinner yesterday."
Ruer next to him continued: "The Head of State specifically asked us to come to the door to greet you at lunch. He asked you to send someone to notify him immediately as soon as you arrive. Now the Head of State is waiting to see you in his office. Please come with us." Xu Jun walked into the fortress under the leadership of two officers.
Since this place is a military facility, no decorative work is done. The gray reinforced concrete aisle, thick curved bunkers, rough cement walls, heavy explosion-proof steel doors, and a fully armed head guard soldier stood every ten meters in the aisle, showing how indestructible this fortification was everywhere. Xu Jun continued to follow the two officers to the depths of the fortress.
After they passed the sixth level of the strongly guarded iron gate, they entered the core area of the fortress.
The aisle here began to become wider, and after a while, Xu Jun and his party came to a hall. This hall was as big as a basketball court, and there were small offices symmetrically distributed on all sides of the hall.
There are dozens of desks in the hall, and countless Germans are working busy there.
There was also a huge combat sand table in the middle of the hall, with small flags representing a unit densely inserted on it. More than a dozen German civilian officers stood around the sand table wearing headphones. They kept moving the small flags while listening to the prompts in the headphones.
The low-level officers and civilians hurriedly walked between the offices and desks with various documents and materials. The phone ringing and phone calls, quarrels and scoldings came from all corners, a tense and lively scene.
Xu Jun found that although this place looked very chaotic at first glance, judging from the serious expressions on the faces of all the staff, the work here is actually proceeding in an orderly manner, just in its own way of operating.
It is the office area of the command bureau of the National Defense Army Command.
When the low-level officers and civilians saw Xu Jun walking in, they all stopped moving and immediately stood attentively to pay tribute. Xu Jun found that everyone looked at him with admiration and respect as the guards in the aisle.
Xu Jun smiled and said, "Please continue your work." The talents began to move around again and continued to be busy. However, a few beautiful female secretary still turned around from time to time to look at Xu Jun secretly. When they found that Xu Jun was also looking at them, they quickly accelerated their pace and fled into their office with red faces.
Hans and Randolph smiled treacherously behind Xu Jun's back. It was not until Xu Jun and Daogen glared at them fiercely that they returned to their serious expressions, but when they saw Xu Jun's back again, there was still a smile in their eyes.
Walking further inside is the most important office and living area for senior staff. The thickest and heaviest explosion-proof door that Xu Jun has seen so far blocked the noisy outside the door. Compared with the hustle and bustle outside, it is as quiet as another world.
There is an extra layer of wooden floor on the ground than those outside, and a long beige felt carpet in the middle of the aisle. The rough cement wall is painted with a layer of lime paint. The explosion-proof light on the top has been replaced with a darker yellow light bulb. The entire environment looks mysterious and quiet against the dim light.
The passage here is as well-connected as a maze. Perhaps the designer wanted to do this so that the enemies rushing into the fortress would get lost.
Ruer brought Xu Jun to an inconspicuous small door.
"Your Excellency Deputy Head of State, the Head of State is waiting for you in there."
Chapter completed!