The Germans began to smuggle the gold out the night they arrived, and it was not easy to do it from under the noses of the British, but the Germans had their own secret weapon.

At this time, the German Navy's submarine Ub-4 was picked up outside the harbor, and since the Ub-0 was put into service, the submarine research team of the Royal Ship Technical Shipyard led by Holland has been conducting comprehensive tests and analyses of the Ub-0 and building a new test boat on this basis.

This time, the product is more advanced, after Holland came into contact with the latest submarine technical information collected by Jochen at the Royal Ship Technical Shipyard, he chose to absorb the French designer Maxim? In 1896, Lobof proposed a new design of the double-shell structure, changing the main ballast water tank from a closed chamber design in a single-shell structure to a two-story shell.

This improves the submarine's performance at sea, while the circular cross-section of the internal pressure-resistant shell can better withstand external pressure.

And built a submarine, named Ub-1, and the power system of Ub-1 was also installed with the diesel engine that Jochen had always hoped for, although Diesel Diesel Engine wanted to surpass the gasoline engine on land vehicles is still far away, but as a ship power, Diesel who can let go of his hands and feet in terms of volume and weight still came up with a 400-horsepower 4-cylinder marine diesel engine.

With a powerful power system, the Ub-1 can drive a hull with a surface displacement of 238 tons to 10.8 knots, a diving depth of 30 meters, an underwater displacement of 283 tons, a speed of 8.7 knots, and a cruising range of 1,500 nautical miles at a surface speed of 10 knots. It is equipped with two 450 mm torpedo tubes, and carries two spare torpedoes in addition to the two torpedoes in the torpedo tubes.

In Jochen's eyes, this thing could barely be regarded as Germany's first practical offshore submarine, but the double-hull structure was naturally much more expensive than the single-hull structure. The cost of a single boat is 1.5 million marks, which is about 60 times that of a surface ship of the same tonnage!

But soon there were people willing to come to the door and deliver the money. Krupp changed its name to Friedrich? Krupp? Germania Shipyard.

After getting abundant funds, the Germania shipyard has made great progress, hoping to break a new world in the field of shipbuilding, they also have a considerable interest in submarines, and the Germania shipyard, which was originally going to design and build its own test submarines, came to the door, hoping to conduct submarine research together.

It would be nice to have someone willing to share the R&D costs. So Jochen gladly agreed. So the submarine designers of the Germania shipyard and Holland further improved the design, and the Germania shipyard built the improved Ub-2 submarine.

In this case, two submarines attracted the attention of the German Navy, and Tirpitz decided to start a submarine project for the German Navy. The German Navy took the lead in coordinating the design and forming a small-scale practical submarine force.

As a continued enlarged version of the Ub-2, the surface displacement of the new submarine was increased to 421 tons, with an underwater displacement of 510 tons and a surface speed of 12 knots. The underwater speed is 9.4 knots, the diving depth is 30 meters, and it is equipped with 4 450 mm torpedo tubes, including the spare torpedo, a total of 8 torpedoes.

As the first type of submarine actually equipped by the German Navy, this type of submarine was called Class I according to the newly formulated submarine class standard, and four ships were built, with the port numbers Ub-3, Ub-4, Ub-5, and Ub-6, and were deployed in the North Sea.

All four submarines were completed and commissioned in 1901. Attached to the Ocean Fleet, it was attached to the newly formed 1st Submarine Detachment. The home port of Wilhelmshaven began to be used for testing, operation, training and tactical exploration, and provided a reference for the German Navy to have a clearer understanding and requirements for the purpose and basic performance of submarines.

In contrast, the British, who were supposed to develop submarines earlier than the Germans in history, were much behind. Because Holland was brought to Germany without producing the Holland 6, which made him famous, at this time, except for the submarines of the French, who could barely see them, the submarines of other countries in the world were basically miserable.

Although in 1900, the British, under pressure from public opinion, believed that France had a large number of submarines. Britain also needs to have the argument that the Royal Navy, which has always been dismissive of submarines as a "weapon of the weak", found that there was no good model when it had to conduct research on submarine technology.

As a last resort, like the Russians, he set his sights on Simon, who was not recruited by Jochen in the first place? On Lakeke's case, Lake's design of the Defender in 1901 was targeted by the British at the same time, and the British spent 175,000 pounds to buy the design drawings of the Defender. And under the direction of American technicians, the Vickers shipyard came to build the first submarines of the British.

It's not that the Defender is not good, but Lake seems to have been too bold in its design, and his submarine was actually equipped with wheels so that it could travel on the riverbed, and the British were not only delayed in developing the submarine, but it also looked like it could be carried off by someone for a short distance.

However, although German submarines had the best performance of their time, they still could not escape from the North Sea to Africa. So under the construction of Jochen, the German admiral August? The Victoria cruise ship was bought and converted into a submarine carrier, but it was not renamed for secrecy. This cruise ship can be regarded as avoiding the fate of being sold to the Russians to become an auxiliary cruiser, and then running back and forth for the Russo-Japanese War.

And this time, with the support of submarine carriers, the Ub-4 departed from Walvis Bay and arrived in Durban to undertake the transshipment of gold. The Germans secretly carried the gold to the Ub-4, and then the Ub-4 sneaked out of the eyes of the British and sent the gold to August, which was dozens of nautical miles away? Victoria.

Although there are some submarines that have transported gold in history, the Ub-4, which was the first to do this job, may not be able to surpass the number of transports.

242 tons of gold were transferred to Auguste in more than ten transshipments? Victoria, and then Ub-4 will follow August? The Victoria returned to Walvis Bay together and returned to Germany after a short rest. Jacob and Albert swaggered out of the British's control as Frenchmen. GSG, on the other hand, stayed here and was ready to wrap up the whole thing.

Although Albert offered to help Cronje get out of Africa through his own channels, Cronje was instinctively wary of the French, and it was obviously safer to leave Africa under the protection of his men, although it was more troublesome.

However, he obviously underestimated the Germans, and the GSG's job here in addition to protecting the army's intelligence officers was to exterminate the mouth, and of course, to do a lot of black and black.

The GSG, who followed Cronje back to his hideout, intercepted the Boer team on the way, and dozens of Boer soldiers were wiped out in an instant under the fire of semi-automatic rifles, Cronye was killed by snipers on the spot, and his body was properly buried. The Germans took back all the same things that they had exchanged for gold.

But that wasn't the end of it, as the Boer army, which discovered Kronje's disappearance, began to panic, and the Boer army, which had lost its backbone, soon collapsed. Some of those who voluntarily surrendered to the British gave information that Cronye's army had close contacts with French arms dealers, and that they had contact with French bankers.

The British soon thought they had pieced together the truth of the matter: with the help of French arms dealers, Cronye transferred the gold to the French in exchange for a bank check, and then abandoned his men and fled Africa. As for Cronye's life or death, it is no longer the concern of the British, what matters is the gold!

At this time, the Boer War had ended, the Boer regime had been completely wiped out, and their lands had completely belonged to the British Empire, but the British government really had no face to boast that it had won a great victory, because the whole of Britain knew what Britain had paid for this "victory".

They also hoped to take out some gold from the Boers to show off the results of the war, and by the way subsidize the depleted finances, knowing that although the gold and diamond mines of the Boers were now in the hands of the British, all work had been suspended due to the impact of the war, and it was not possible to restore production in a moment. So at this time, the gold reserves of the Boers became a forbidden place in the eyes of the British.

Now that the fruit has been picked by the French, how can this be endured? British Prime Minister Balfour sent a stern note to the French government to return the "spoils" of the British to Britain.

Where did the French get their gold? Besides, don't say that I didn't take it, even if I took it, it would be impossible to hand it over to you, more than 30 million pounds, a fool will spit it out.

Of course, the French retaliated by the British as a quibble, a denial, and a refusal to admit it, especially when the Boer President Kruger was in exile in France, the hero-like welcome of the past was once again mentioned by the British, as if this qiē had been planned by the French for a long time. Therefore, after a month-long anti-German wave, the British began to set off another wave of anti-French.

The war between the two countries began to escalate, and at this time, the German intelligence agencies in France began to fan the anger of the French people in France, and once again trumpeted the inhumane treatment of the Boers. This eventually led Boer sympathizers in France to gather and march against the British Embassy.

At this time, Jochen's desire for the French to help share the firepower of the British was finally realized. (To be continued......)