In order to reshape its interests in the southern Balkans, the Red Navy, supplemented by three large ships, soon developed a plan to support the Black Sea Fleet. The three battleships of the "October Revolution" class (Gangut), inherited from the old empire, are becoming obsolete and old, and the Baltic Sea, the front-line position against imperialist invasion, is increasingly devoid of their arena; If they are placed in the Black Sea in the second-line theater, they will be able to significantly exert their residual heat. Today, the Bosphorus-Dardanelles treaty banning the passage of warships has long since lapsed, and Russia has every reason to carry out this transfer of forces between fleets.

And in order to compensate for the resulting lack of strength in the Baltic Fleet, the continued construction of new battleships became the common will of the Soviet Russian Navy and the dictator Stalin. At present, the first five-year plan of Soviet Russia is halfway through, and its rapid growth rate of national product has made it possible for the red government, which does not need to spend much energy to satisfy the people's material enjoyment, to fully allocate enough money to satisfy its own reckless military force. Despite the considerable opposition within the center, Stalin, who had by this time established a sufficiently large prestige of terror and a cult of personality, used his influence to force the passage of a new budget for naval expansion: the Russian Navy would build two battleships and four heavy cruisers over the next three years, two of which would be built in Sevastopol in the Black Sea. Destroyers and submarines were also planned for a dozen each, which were used to form a complete combat group.

This time, the Alliance Shipyard, which was headed by Fang Yan's brother Freya, did not have the absolute monopoly it had last time. With the help of the Great Depression in the Western world, Soviet Russia at this time has attracted a large number of personnel and funds from the United States and Britain to settle in Eastern Europe, and the soft and hard power of its shipyards has been significantly improved compared with a few years ago. The Russian Navy asked the Union shipyards to provide technical support to help their state-owned shipyards achieve a breakthrough in building their own heavy cruisers; Even for the battleships that tested the overall technical and industrial level the most, the Union shipyards should hand over a full set of drawings. In order to allow their people to study and research. It is clear that Soviet Russia will not forever endure such a situation in which the weight of the state depends on others; In the past, it was a last resort to entrust carte blanche, and as long as the situation permitted, any major country would completely control the manufacturing capacity of core weapons in its own hands.

Knowing that this trend was not subject to his own will, Freya did not dwell too much on this issue. After making the other party pay a sum of blood, he happily agreed to the request of the Soviet Russian Navy. Specialists were sent to the two shipyards in the north and south of the heavy cruiser, where construction was about to begin, to provide technical support during the construction process. The Heavy Cruiser was an improved version of the Sverdlov class, with the main armor belt increased from 80 mm to 100 mm and the standard displacement increased to 15,000 tons, but its horizontal deck was still only 30 mm thick, and a single bullseye-piercing bomb could turn it into a dead fish with its belly turned into a dead belly.

On the battleship, Freya also inherited Fang Yan's tricks against Soviet Russia, trying his best to turn it into a pure vase with empty external skin but no strong strength. In the final design of the Russian Navy, the new ship still maintains the same offensive and defensive parameters as the Frunze. The speed was increased to 27 knots; Although the double-layer horizontal protection of 40+60 mm is not bad at present, it will be ten years from now, and the 500kg armor-piercing bombs dropped by dive bombers will be enough to wipe out this class of ships with a standard displacement of 35,000 tons in the explosion of the ammunition depot. The purchase price of a single ship is as high as $60 million, and this is the result of the fact that its weapon system is produced by the Soviet Russian military factories themselves. This ship alone is almost equal to the total price of equipment for 1 group army of Soviet Russia; The struggling Russian army could only defend the old rifles and artillery used during World War I, and watched the navy embark on the road of decaying Oti, which was built with krypton and the harem flourished.

After three months of ocean-going combat training, Fang Yan's fleet was also after the exercise expired. Embarked on the journey home. Since he had been at sea for nine consecutive months when he was a military cadet in the past, Fang Yan did not feel that this exercise was long and difficult. Rather, I felt extremely fulfilled and satisfied. By this time, he had fully assumed the position of second officer of the cruiser and was trying to push his professional abilities into deeper areas. For the actual combat in the future, Fang Yan is more confident than before, even if he does not have the age and qualifications of those naval veterans, but he can still lead the German Navy to victory!

When Fang Yan returned to the port of Kiel with the ship. It was the end of January 1931, four months before the voyage. Although the top brass of the Navy promised all the personnel participating in the exercise that they would make up for the normal repair holidays, including Christmas, because the warships could not be left without one for a day, the leave could only be taken in batches. Fang Yan was unfortunately assigned to the third group of last leave, which meant that he would have to stay in the barracks for more than five weeks. Faced with this situation. Fang Yan could only suppress his thoughts about Sylvia first, and continue to improve himself through serious service; Occasionally, when he had a little free time, he would borrow a violin and go to Heydrich to learn how to play it. In the past few years, Fang Yan had been in contact with the blonde demon, and his music theory level was no longer the same as before.

But soon, Fang Yan found out that Heydrich's fate was in trouble.

This movie-like event began in the late summer of August 1930. Since the officers had more free time during the sabbatical period, Heydrich decided to go boating with his friends in the sea to enjoy the shallow scenery after the low tide; Just as they were immersed in the joy of the tour, a woman's cry for help was suddenly heard on the sea - a small sampan in the distance overturned for some reason, and two women fell into the sea. Heydrich, a swimming decathlon, rowed desperately with his friends to the scene of the incident, and rescued the two women without danger. One of them, young and pretty, was Lena, the daughter of a village teacher on the island of Fairmas; Heydrich quickly fell in love with her and became engaged as "God's marriage for them."

However, Heydrich at this time was not a blank slate without any markings. Prior to this, another woman had already lived with him for a while, and when Heydrich returned home from the exercise, the woman approached him and asked to marry him. When he refused, the woman's father, a big arms dealer, couldn't swallow his breath for his daughter and went straight to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Raeder, to report the matter to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, and Heydrich was taken seriously.

As the most typical traditional soldier, Raeder's character is definitely solemn and upright; He was very dissatisfied with the fact that his officers had problems with their character, and demanded that Heydrich sever ties with Lena. However, the young and vigorous Heydrich did not realize the seriousness of the situation, and not only did he not give in to the top, but expressed his strong dissatisfaction with the woman's father's oppressive force. Heydrich's obsequious attitude angered the top brass of the Navy. Eventually, a tribunal of three officers found him to be seriously flawed and unfit to remain in the navy, and Heydrich was immediately stripped of his rank and expelled from the army.

The blow was undoubtedly painful for Heydrich. Putting aside his prospect of being promoted to lieutenant at the age of 24 and soon becoming a captain, the waste of nine years in the Navy alone was enough to make him feel that the world was so dark that he almost wanted to commit suicide. Although Fang Yan thought in his heart that this kind of punishment was too heavy, so severe that it was almost unkind; But as an outsider and a humble position, he couldn't do anything about it. What's more, Fang Yan's own heart is also cold: his current relationship with Linna is no longer an ordinary friend, if this matter is also revealed, how will he deal with this double upheaval from career and family?

In view of this, Fang Yan instinctively kept silent on this matter, and did not abuse the relationship between him and Raeder to excuse Heydrich. On the day Heydrich left, Fang Yan talked to his father on the phone. Fang Yan said that his friend was unfortunately dismissed, and hoped that Rudolph could find him a job as a spy in the United Kingdom in the police headquarters. Rudolph did not raise any objections to Fang Yan's request for many conditions, in his heart, this was a manifestation of his young son's comradeship-in-arms and the best place to go to the former robe.

Under Rudolph's use of personal connections, the police department quickly gave a positive reply. Although the other party is an officer who has been expelled from the door wall by the Navy because of personal morality problems, the police are not so particular; What's more, if you are working abroad, as long as you are loyal to your country, have relevant professional skills, and speak English, then there is no problem. Fang Yan immediately found Heydrich in a small hotel in Bremen and told him that there was such an opportunity for an interview. Of course, Fang Yan hid part of the truth from Heydrich: he only said that he used his relationship to create this opportunity for Heydrich, and as for going to Britain to be a spy, it was the result of the police department's own arrangement, and whether he was willing to accept it was up to Heydrich himself.

As Fang Yan expected, Heydrich immediately nodded gratefully after obtaining his wife's consent. The current economic situation in Germany is in a depression, and the number of unemployed people is as high as a staggering 30%; At this time, Heydrich could only deign to work as an instructor in a rowing club, and his monthly income was pitiful. Now, with such a decent job opportunity in front of him, which can realize the value of his life, how can he not seize it? Heydrich had taught himself English, French, and Russian during his military service, and was fully adapted to a long life in England. As for the professionalism of intelligence and espionage, the naval school also taught some, which made him have no reason to refuse Fang Yan's help. (To be continued.) )

PS: After the collection dropped sharply after it was put on the shelves yesterday, the author's heart was cold, please give the author some comfort