Li Le was not the only one who was staring at the Battle of Oran. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoItaly, of course, is more concerned about the outcome of this naval battle.

Mussolini left Rome and personally rushed to the Italian naval headquarters, where he personally sat down, hoping to get the news as soon as possible.

After all, it was a quid pro quo between him and the Führer, and his greatest effort to reverse Italy's repeated defeats.

To his dismay, it seemed that things weren't exactly going the way he expected.

"What do you say? The battleship Veneto was wounded? Damn, this is a trap! "Inside the headquarters of the Italian Navy, an anxious Mussolini almost dropped his cup to the ground.

The Italian naval fleet was Mussolini's baby bump, so he was shocked to hear that something had happened to the Veneto.

In his heart, there was always one of the greatest fears, he was afraid that the British would pretend to leak information to Germany and lure the Italian navy to their deaths.

Hearing that the battleship Veneto was wounded, Mussolini's worries exploded at once.

Full of fantasies, he had even seen the burning fleet with his own eyes, and the corpses floating on the surface of the sea as dense as ants.

"Leader...... The Veneto was wounded, but only slightly! The results of this battle are quite brilliant! The commander of the navy was a little proud at this time and boasted to Mussolini.

"Because the intelligence of the German allies was accurate, our ambush dealt a heavy blow to the British fleet." The chief of staff also had a happy face.

Since the beginning of the war, it has been the Germans who have been destroying the withering and decaying, and now it is finally the turn of the Italian Navy to raise its eyebrows.

Although this victory mainly relied on the intelligence sent by Germany, after all, Italy needed such a victory.

"One British battleship was sunk, and another cruiser was sunk! We've won! The Commander of the Navy was in high spirits when he mentioned this.

The chief of staff nodded on the side: "Two destroyers of the British were captured, the H fleet of the British Navy suffered heavy losses, we saved the French Navy!" ”

Hearing this series of good news, Mussolini subconsciously pinched the water glass in his hand.

He suspected that he was in a dream, and that he was still dreaming a beautiful dream.

He laughed when he confirmed that his navy had indeed sunk a British naval battleship, the battered H Fleet of the British.

"The British should know this time, in the Mediterranean, it's still the world of us Italians!" He said excitedly to his smiling men.

If you don't know how to make a fool of yourself at this time, then you don't have to come out and mix.

For a time, there was a chorus of praise, and everyone agreed that Mussolini was the greatest leader Italy had ever seen—not one of them.

However, when Mussolini realized another problem, he could not laugh anymore.

He remembered his foreign minister, and the officials who had just signed a series of economic and energy agreements with Ribbentrop.

The Supplementary Provisions of the German-Italian Agreement on Energy Development are still dry, and they clearly stipulate the issue of Libya's oil exploitation rights.

A few days ago, Mussolini felt that he had fooled the German Führer by selling a place where there was no oil for a "good price".

But now he realized a fatal problem - the German Führer seemed to have started with Poland and had not yet lost......

"Is there really oil in Libya? Where were the Germans really able to find = oil? He looked at the huge map hanging in the naval headquarters in confusion, and his mind was full of questions.

And such doubts also dimmed the joy brought by the Battle of Oran. Mussolini had to make the decision to smoke his own mouth.

He arranged for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to organize personnel to rush to Berlin to revise the Supplementary Provisions of the German-Italian Agreement on Energy Development to be more favorable.

“30%！ In any case, it is necessary to increase the share of Italy's oil production in Libya to this level! At least! Mussolini was determined.

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The news that "the catapult project failed......" flew back to the British mainland and flew to Churchill's desk.

The exact situation will have to wait for Somerville's detailed report, but the failure of the operation and the loss of the battleship Resolve were enough for the collapse of the British Navy.

After the loss of the battleship HMS Royal Oak and the sinking of HMS Resolve, what kind of ordeal did the British Navy have to go through?

"A lot of parliamentarians are shaken, we are losing more and more in the war, and a lot of people want a decent end to the war." A staff member stood beside Churchill and spoke to the slightly obese prime minister.

Churchill looked at the telegram on the table, closed his mouth and said nothing, now the situation was very bad for him, or rather very bad for Britain.

Although the Dunkirk evacuation gave the British a respite, more than 300,000 soldiers were rescued and repatriated, allowing the country to continue to hold on.

But even Churchill himself saw no hope of victory - it was already a war without victory......

There is no doubt that the British did not win World War II, they lost, and they lost very ugly.

The former empire on which the sun never sets, the first hegemon on the sea, became a vassal of the United States after World War II, which cannot be called a victory in any way.

It suffered numerous losses in the war, and in fact the whole of Europe was the loser of World War II, and only the Americans were considered the victors of World War II - the Soviet Union could only be counted as half.

But Churchill had to fight, that was his destiny and the path he chose when he came to power.

"Gentlemen......" Churchill said suddenly, with a hint of heaviness, "this war must be fought firmly!" This is our responsibility, a responsibility that must be fulfilled. ”

"Whatever future generations say about us, they should not add the word coward! We must fight! Fight to the end! He stood up and pressed his hands to his desk.

Annoying the French fleet, which had been wavering, was a failure in itself, and God knows what role the French fleet would play in the war at a later date.

Another defeat was the loss of the battleship Determination, compared to which the other losses were negligible.

However, the failure of this operation made Churchill and the top brass of the British military department vigilant.

The investigation team had been formed, and the subsequent fragments of information were received with a piece of news that Somerville believed in and made Churchill and the Navy Department shudder.

Information on the H fleet's attack on the port of Kebir was leaked, and the fleet was the first to encounter an ambush by German submarines!

It is no secret that a submarine attacking a warship with a high speed in motion is unlikely to succeed.

How could it have been possible that so many submarines had appeared near the British fleet if it had not been for a pre-ambush?

This fatal detail alarmed the entire British intelligence service, who was already convinced that there was a German "spy" inside them!

"Find this spy! This man must be found as soon as possible! "Churchill's face was frosty, and he gave the order for an internal investigation.

After all, as a secret of the Navy, not many people had access to the "Trebuchet program".

So on the other hand, the scope of this investigation is actually not too large.

But if you think about it carefully, it is enough to make people's scalps tingle: there is an officer in the navy who is of a high enough rank to defect to the Germans!

The person who can see the specific details of the plan is at least a high-ranking official like a colonel or a general, but the intelligence is leaked out like this, so how many secrets does the navy have?

If you don't find this damn spy, where is the possibility of success in the future operational safety of the Navy?

But there is another question at hand: not long ago, the British Navy and spontaneous people had just completed the most spectacular retreat in history, the Dunkirk Retreat.

If German intelligence officers were so shrewd, how could they have allowed the British to retreat without taking any measures?

"Isolate all the generals and commanders who have come into contact with this plan and review it clearly!" Churchill was also in a hurry to go to the doctor.

Combining these two contradictory pieces of information, he came to the conjecture that it was not a German spy who had done it, but a trick played by his political opponents.

The Prime Minister believes that the leak was a personal betrayal of him, not an enemy spy to find out what had happened.

"This is treason! This is using the future of the country for its own future! An exasperated Churchill commented on the incident.

The entire British military department has also become cautious, and any military operation has turned into a risk until such a spy is found.

And once the Germans find a flaw, it will be a heavy loss of rhythm.

At the same time, just in case, all the cipher codes used in the UK have to be replaced, and July is destined to be a busy month for British intelligence.

However, the traitor he was talking about was a person who did not exist at all, and the German intelligence services had never rebelled to such an extent that they could install spies of this level in the British hierarchy.

So whatever British intelligence and counterintelligence find out, they are doomed to go further and further down the wrong path.

As for who was wronged and who was wronged, it was not a matter for Li Le, the foolish Führer, to care about.

Because, at this time, for Li Le, one of his main goals has been achieved. The aim was to cement his identity and convince the German top brass of his judgment.

When his plan was successfully executed, he had already established himself as the head of state, and the invisible intelligence force in his mouth had been accepted.