Section 13 will be back in Berlin after this battle

  A three-wheeled motorcycle came speeding over, the SS soldiers raised their guns and pointed at two people wearing German steel helmets and white sheepskin coats.

  The Kalmyks jumped out of the carts from afar and shouted loudly: "The enemy will attack tomorrow."

  The head of state was very calm, while the Kalmyk looked like an excitable middle school student, with corpses strewn all over in front of him.

  Li De asked: "Where is Rania?"

  The motorcycle driver removed the steel helmet from his head, shook off the waterfall-like red hair, took out a woolen hat from the bag and put it on, opened his mouth to gaze at the battlefield, then ran over, looked up and down at the yuan shou, saw that the yuan shou was intact all over, and let out a long sigh of relief.

  Rania glanced sideways at Adelheid, who was holding a gun upside down, and teased her in the manner of Columbus discovering the New World: "Oh my, even special service attendants are wielding guns now? You're not simple at all. With you guarding the Prime Minister, I think the Prime Minister's guards have become redundant."

  Miss Adelheid gazed at her warily, then cast a resentful glance at the leader. She knew that with Renia here, she had no chance of being the center of attention tonight.

  Li Dehuai was excited like a fighting rooster, loudly ordering Schmied to inform the regimental and division commanders to come here for a meeting, then rushing alone towards the SS battalion headquarters.

  Everyone was stunned for a full three minutes: one minute questioning the leader's mouth, one minute questioning their own ears, and one minute hesitating until the leader found himself alone and angrily beckoned to them.

  "How dare they! These Soviet bandits are simply courting death, to think of attacking us." Li De paced around the room, then stopped in front of the map and gave it a good scolding. He waved his fist and shouted: "We must counterattack and give these ignorant Soviet troops a taste of their own medicine!"

  The SS officers were silent, still reeling from the loss of their commander. The young junior officers were eager to please, but seeing their superiors' lack of enthusiasm, they didn't dare make a move. As a result, the Führer's passionate speech was met with deafening silence and puzzlement. Even Bormann, who usually followed closely, whispered to Schmundt: "We need to find a way to persuade the Führer to leave this place as soon as possible. If all else fails, you secretly call Goebbels and tell him... just make up some excuse for the Führer to return home."

  Li De slammed the red and blue pencil in his hand onto the map, his puzzlement turning into anger: "The war is imminent, what's wrong with you all, each one of you looks like an eggplant that has been frostbitten."

  The SS Obersturmführer who had taken over command stepped forward: "Report to the Führer, tactical command of combat units is my affair."

  Someone took the lead, and Bowman followed suit. He suggested that the leader return quickly. He winked at the deputy officers, who also strongly advised him to return home. They couldn't bear the responsibility if something went wrong, and the leader's presence here would only interfere with the command of his subordinates.

  Li De and others finished speaking, then slowly stood up, almost as if asking: "What you said makes sense, but with the great war imminent, as the leader of the Third German Empire, fleeing at the last moment doesn't feel right. Besides, I'll only be staying for two days, just two days."

  Schomberg, fueled by Dutch courage, said: "If you are here, then the command system at all levels of the division and regiment cannot function normally. Every time a decision is made, everyone has to ask for your instructions."

  Li De continued patiently explaining: "I'm not trying to disrupt the commander's resolve, I'm just acting as an onlooker, no, at least I'm giving encouragement to the soldiers..."

  Schmundt still insisted: "Although it's said that way, however..." The following words were interrupted by the Fuehrer, who stared at his eyes, word by word: "Schmundt, I think you've had too much to drink, go take a nap and you'll feel better."

  A deathly silence ensued for a while before Li De spoke up: "Bao Man, who are you going to call?

  Bormann had wanted to telephone Goebbels himself, but the Fuehrer caught sight of him and he was like a thief caught in the act, stuttering and stammering.

  Li De sneered: "I know you want to move the reinforcements. I can tell you clearly, those who are afraid of death and willing to go back can go back immediately, I'll stay."

  "I'm staying too." Little Ai Deleite shouted loudly, and everyone stared.

  Rania wasn't just staring, her face was full of ridicule: "Miss Adelheid, you can't even hold a gun properly, how are you going to protect the Prime Minister? With that gun you're holding upside down?"

  "I..." Miss Adelheid's eyes welled up with tears as she gazed helplessly at the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister was too busy to care about her trivial matters, and she rushed out. Renya smiled triumphantly.

  Things have come to this, Bowman couldn't say anything more. He was worried about being held responsible. The leader saw through his thoughts and said: "Don't worry, it's me who insisted on staying behind. No one will hold you accountable. In just two days' time, I won't encounter any unexpected events, right?"

  The silent Kalmuck for half a day spoke up: "Führer, our assault troops won't be returning either, we'll protect you with all our might these two days."

  The SS Second Assault Battalion commander took another step forward: "With us, the SS, still here, it's not yet the turn of foreigners. My Führer, I..."

  "That's enough. Why make such a simple thing so complicated? It's settled then. Schumacher, where did he go?"

  "Didn't you let him go to sleep?" Bao Man reminded.

  "The big battle is imminent, who let him sleep? Young people are sleepy, just drink less wine. " Li De turned to the deputy commander of the air force: "Bello, call the commanders of the Imperial Division and the 45th Infantry Division separately and ask them to come here for a meeting."

  Baurmann stared at the SS Obersturmführer: "Wasn't he supposed to stay out of command?"

  As the sun was setting, two superiors arrived: General der Infanterie von Schlieffen, who had been meeting with the Führer recently and looked very casual, while General Bittrich of the SS looked tense. Liddell first let him relax: "Bittrich, we are old friends, why so formal?"

  Sepp Dietrich was festooned with the following: Iron Cross 1st Class (1914), Iron Cross 2nd Class (1914), Silver Wound Badge (1918), Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918, Iron Cross 2nd Class, Iron Cross 1st Class. In addition to his medals, he wore the SS National Leader's Honour Sword at his side and an SS Death's Head ring on his finger.

  After sitting down in the blacksmith's shop, with his legs apart and his back straight, he listened quietly to the commander-in-chief's battle plan. As he faced the commander-in-chief, he also had to endure his spittle: "The enemy will start artillery preparations at 5 o'clock on December 12th, and the troops will move forward simultaneously. You two divisions must concentrate all your artillery for counter-preparation by 4:40. I mean all firepower, including the division's own 12 150mm heavy howitzers."

  The infantry division commander interjected: "There are also captured Soviet 302 cannons."

  The commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army still had some doubts: "Is the timing reliable? What if the enemy doesn't attack at that time?"

  Li De let him hit a nose grey: "Campaign reconnaissance is your business, how come back to ask me?"

  The imperial teacher's words echoed again, and he was restless in his seat.

  "Alright gentlemen, we've been busy for half a day and still have important things to attend to. Have you heard of the 'arsonist's orders'?"

  Seeing everyone nodding, Li De pointed at the Kalmyk and said: "Our shock troops launched a cleansing operation against Soviet agents who wore our military uniforms, disguised as us, and burned, killed, looted and raped their own people. Now please let Comrade Kraskei Ilyumzhinov speak."

  The infantry regiment commander looked around and later curiously said: "Aren't you called Kalmyk?"

  Bormann made a joke that was neither high-minded nor amusing: "You're German, is your name 'German'?"

  The commander of the Imperial Army was unimpressed: "So they're Russians, I thought they were the Brandenburg Stormtroopers."

  Kalmyk people said calmly: "Yes, I am a Brandenburg raider. My father is Kalmyk, my mother is German. We have traveled far and wide, but our countrymen still look down on us."

  Miss Adelheid, who was choosing vegetables with a female SS officer not far away, suddenly inserted a sentence: "I am an East Prussian, and among my neighbors, one is Polish, one is Czech, and another is - Jewish. We don't have that much ethnic prejudice."

  "Who gave you the right to interrupt?" The Imperial instructor stood up and shouted sternly, the SS female officer hastily waved her hand and shouted: "What are you doing, Commander? She is the Führer's special flight attendant."

  He let out a shout and his face was immediately filled with smile lines as he said apologetically, "Sorry miss, I thought you were the chef."

  Li De scolded her a few words, telling her not to interrupt casually in the future, and then explained to the Imperial Army commander: "People are as their names, don't look at her appearance, but her family is a Junker landlord in East Prussia, and she is a fellow villager of Kant."

  "Towards Konigsberg's maiden..." The Imperial Commander tried to ease the atmosphere, but saw Miss Adelheid throw down her cauliflower, glance at Liddell and Renya beside him, and storm out of the door - this was the second time she had stormed out today.

  Li De invited the embarrassed teacher to sit down: "She came for me, what did I say just now?"

  Rania smiled and replied: "You said the most hurtful thing to a woman: she's ugly."

  "But what I said later was good words?" Li De felt a bit wronged.

  The Kalmyk said: "Shall I report again?"

  Everyone woke up like a dream: "Report, report, it's all because of Lieutenant General Schlieper. Others were just about to report, why did you interrupt?"

  The infantry division commander was about to open his mouth when Li De pressed down on his shoulder.