There weren't a lot of explosives in this pack, and the weather was very cold, and the winter clothes were very thick, so Eli stuffed a pack of explosives into his arms and wrapped his coat tightly, and he didn't see anything strange about it on the outside.

After successfully getting the "tinder", Eli hurried back quickly, it was already around 7:45, and in fifteen minutes, his team would have to take over from yesterday's evening shift team to the station, and the consequences would be serious if he was late.

The Germans are really a bunch of machine-timed machines, full of minutes and seconds, Eli grumbled as he ran.

He misses the days when the factory was still part of Belgium, and although the requirements for them were strict, he would never pinch the time to the second, and he would be punished for being late for every second.

So when a man codenamed "Mole" approached their group of ordinary workers and asked them to join the organization and "cause some trouble for the evil German invaders from behind", he agreed without hesitation.

In the future, he never regretted it, because he found that joining this organization could not only help his country, but also get a huge reward.

And even much more than the pre-war salary several times the salary!

For example, the day before yesterday, a subordinate liaison contacted them and asked them to destroy several already fragile machine parts, and then reported them to the superior management in the name of normal damage to the machine.

As soon as they did so, the subordinate liaison paid each of them 50 marks in cash!

This is already very high, you know, a second lieutenant officer in the Wehrmacht has a salary of just over 300 marks a month, and he himself only earns a little more than 35 marks a month, and this is only a reward for a small task!

In a hurry, Eli finally arrived at the door of the workshop at 7:55 and smoothly entered the factory with the "tinder".

There weren't many soldiers in the factory, only three or four people patrolling the huge factory with rifles, and there was no doubt that they couldn't do it in every position.

This gave Eli a good opportunity to act.

"Hey! Eli! The night team leader saw Eli and the others enter the workshop, and just hurriedly greeted him, and said in a low voice, "The boss said that the action is still the same, did you bring anything in?" ”

"What about here......" Eli patted his chest and whispered as well.

"Good." The night shift leader smiled, "I'll put the other things at the bottom of the tool cabinet for you, and then it's up to you!" ”

"Hmm." Eli nodded vigorously.

"Be careful, go to the scheduled evacuation point as soon as your things are packed, and wait until 10 o'clock at most to pick up our people who leave here." The team leader patted Eli on the shoulder, gave one last remonstrance, and left the workshop with a smile on his face.

How could he not smile? According to what the "mole" said, each of them will get 2,000 pounds (about 8,000 US dollars, which is about 216,000 US dollars or 1.48 million soft girl coins when converted into gold when converted into the current money), which is enough money for them to live comfortably for more than ten years.

And the "mole" also promised them that when the deed was done, he would help them and their families leave Belgium, which had already fallen for the most part, and take them to Britain, which was safe across the Channel, which is why they were given pounds sterling instead of marks.

The fact that the rewards are so generous also means that the program is extremely risky.

According to the plan, they divided into several shifts to bring all the components of a time bomb into the workshop, then assembled it by Eli, put it on the target, and when it was set, they returned to the workshop to wait for it to explode and fled to the intended evacuation point.

The whole process was under the supervision of the Wehrmacht soldiers, although the Wehrmacht had only two infantry companies to cooperate with the German managers to monitor the entire industrial area due to the need to continue the offensive, and there were less than 20 soldiers in each factory, but if only one link of all the steps was detected, the entire operation group would be wiped out.

And what is worth the "mole" to make such a big effort to get rid of is naturally worth a lot of money.

The target they had spent so much energy destroying was a 300-ton tilting refining furnace that FN had purchased from the United States for millions of dollars!

FN envisions that this furnace will be used to replace the old 50-ton rotary refining furnace in the industrial park, and together with the two half-built 1,000-ton blast furnaces, the annual steel production of the Vervina industrial park will directly increase by five times, reaching a terrifying 1 million tons!

You know, Italy's annual steel output is only about 2.26 million tons.

It can be said that the 300-ton refining furnace is a very important part of the plan for the rise of the Vervina industrial area and the entire FN company.

Unfortunately, as soon as this hopeful machine arrived in the Belgian industrial area of Vervina from the United States, the German invasion of Belgium began, and this valuable refining furnace was renamed to Germany along with the entire industrial area before it could even produce even a gram of steel for Belgium.

Due to the size of the industrial area and the large mess (all small damage caused by workers), Speer sent a team of engineers in charge of taking over the factory to overhaul the damaged equipment all day long, and did not even bother to take a look at the other intact equipment, let alone the large machine that was placed in the corner and not even assembled.

Eli sat in his chair and kept looking at his watch, and finally, the hands pointed to the hour of 8:50 in a tense atmosphere.

Nine o'clock is the time for the Wehrmacht soldiers to change the guard, and the short period before the change of guard is the time when the attention of the night guard soldiers is the most distracted after a night of fatigue, and it is also the time of the day when supervision is the most lax.

Eli nodded to his fellow workers, then walked to the side of the tool cabinet and bent down to pull out a backpack on his back, and ran quickly to a corner of the factory, where his target lay quietly.

Sure enough, the Germans were as strict as they could not avoid making mistakes in the last ten minutes, and the Wehrmacht soldiers who were going back and forth failed to notice that there was one missing man from what was supposed to be a four-man station.

Eli hid all the way to the equipment, and finally arrived at the equipment without danger, and looking at the huge machine, he seemed to see 2,000 pounds and a ticket to England beckoning to him.

He squatted down, took out the pack of explosives from his arms, then untied the backpack behind his back, opened it, took out the detonator timer and other things, and assembled the time bomb that was not difficult to assemble according to the "manual" of the "friendly gift".

"10 minutes ......" Eli muttered silently as he turned the knob of the timer, pointing the pointer on the timer to the 10-minute column, and placed the powerful bomb in a delicate place.

As a steelworker who had operated a refining furnace, he knew that this was the most vulnerable part of the machine: the tilting mechanism.

After planting the bomb, he quickly returned to his station, pinching his watch and counting down.

Living up to the expectations of many people, 10 minutes later, with a violent explosion, Torpex was detonated by a detonator!

Torpex explosives, which are made of a mixture of 42% cyclotrimethyltrinitroamine (also known as black suokin, cyclone explosive), 40% TNT and 18% aluminum powder, are violently heat-emitted in thousandths of a second, and the specially added thermite pushes the explosion temperature to the peak, reaching a terrifying 2500°, which makes the steel parts near the central explosion point directly turn into a puddle of molten steel!