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Monrovia, the largest military fortress of the German army, was stepping up the construction of fortifications at this time.

Since the bombardment, the fortress of Monrovia has been in ruins, and the angry local Germans and the German soldiers stationed in Monrovia have all rebelled to punish the Luftwaffe for their shameless bombing.

Schriefen couldn't tell the truth, after all, this was the top military secret of the German Empire, and he didn't dare to say that this was an oolong incident, so he could only make a mistake and confirm the crime of betraying the German Empire.

At this time, the German Empire and the Chinese Empire were negotiating in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and Schliefen knew that in the end, neither would escape the catastrophe, and the Chinese Empire would definitely attack German Southwest Africa, and the question was whether it could get the tacit approval of the German Empire.

Obviously, as far as the international strategy of the entire German Empire is concerned, the German military needs enough time for military training and war resource reserves, otherwise it will not be able to compete with the Chinese Empire at all, which requires sacrificing some colonial interests and exchanging space for time.

Although Schriefen vaguely guessed the conspiracy behind this, he finally chose to sacrifice himself for the German Empire, determined to fight the Chinese Empire to the end in German Southwest Africa, and buy precious time for the development of the German Empire.

Fortunately, Schriefen still has use value, so Prince Baden and Hitler have not planned to give up, and secretly mobilized military supplies to Monrovia during the negotiations.

Similarly, the Chinese Empire was searching for the location of secret bomber groups of the German army.

Schriefen was well aware that the Chinese Empire was afraid of the secret bomber groups of the German army and feared a large-scale bombardment of Roberts Harbor.

However, this situation has greatly improved the night air defense capability of the Chinese Imperial Air Force with the beginning of large-scale night take-off and landing training, the large-scale increase in the deployment of anti-aircraft artillery forces, and the recent sudden erection of eight huge iron towers, which have greatly improved the night air defense capabilities of the Chinese Imperial Army, which made Shi Lifen feel deeply worried, and he knew that his preparation time was short.

"Look, it's enemy planes, they're here again!"

Suddenly there was a shout, and the German troops in the fortress of Monrovia fell into panic and prepared to flee in all directions.

"Don't panic, that's just a reconnaissance plane of the Chinese Empire!"

Schriefen let out a loud shout, calming everyone's panic, but he himself was as heartbroken, he knew that the German soldiers had already panicked about the planes after a major bombardment.

"Immediately let the fighters take off and chase away these flies!"

Soon a squad of German fighters rose into the air and flew over against the reconnaissance planes of the Chinese Empire.

Several reconnaissance planes of the Chinese Empire quickly flew to the other side, luring away the German fighter squad, and then six more reconnaissance planes flew from the other side, intending to approach the fortress of Monrovia for aerial reconnaissance and photographing.

"I've already guessed your little trick!"

Schrienfen below snorted coldly, and once again ordered another prepared squad of German fighters to rise into the air and go to expel them.

However, Shi Lifen soon became confused, because the third reconnaissance ship team of the Chinese Empire appeared again.

This time, there were no fighters in Shiri's hands to take off to intercept.

"Damn it!"

Schliefen was furious, he finally discovered his weakness, that is, on the night that Monrovia was blown up, a large number of German fighters parked at the airport were blown up, but the Chinese Empire not only had a large number of army aviation fighters in Roberts Port, but also eight large aircraft carriers, adding up to hundreds of aircraft, which was in an absolute advantage in numbers.

"General, we still have anti-aircraft artillery! Knock them down! ”

It was suggested that ground anti-aircraft guns should be used to drive him away, but Schria shook his head and did not dare to do so, knowing that this was a delicate time and that he had to hold back.

"Let them scout! Tell the workers to camouflage the ground equipment and do the underground work first! ”

The Monrovia Fortress was being built intensively, and many of the original fortifications were destroyed in the bombardment, which helped Schria a lot to re-plan, renovate and build stronger fortifications.

An hour later, the Imperial Chinese reconnaissance planes hovering over Monrovia flew away, and they took enough photos.

At this time, a German officer came to report: "Report, our reconnaissance plane is back!" ”

Shi Lifen was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Tell me, what have you detected?" ”

The officer shook his head with a bitter face and said, "We sent six reconnaissance planes, only one came back, and the other five were all shot down by the opponent's fighters and anti-aircraft artillery. ”

"What?" Shi Lifen was shocked, he didn't expect the Chinese Empire to be so well guarded, and then asked, "Isn't that one back?" Did you detect any information? ”

The officer then said: "The Chinese Empire was well defended, and after the five reconnaissance planes were shot down, the last reconnaissance plane hurriedly withdrew, only taking a few pictures from a distance. ”

As he spoke, the officer handed over a few photographs to Schrifen.

"What is this? Watchtowers? ”

Looking at the tall towers, Shi Lifen was confused, not knowing what it was.

The officer explained: "It doesn't look like a watchtower, if you take the height of the Chinese Imperial soldiers below as a reference, you can estimate that the tower is more than 100 meters high, and it is not a watchtower structure on it, but more like a complex antenna structure, similar to a broadcast antenna." ”

"Broadcast antennas?"

Shi Lifen was stunned for a moment, and he didn't understand why the Chinese Imperial Army was building a broadcasting antenna.

"Is it a political offensive against us?"

Schliefen thought of the possibility of the political offensive of the Chinese Empire, using radio stations to sell the ideas of the Chinese Empire to the people of the German Empire, such as how powerful the Chinese Empire was, how developed the economy was, how high the people's living standards were, how harmonious the society was, and so on.

This kind of broadcasting was very lethal to the people of the German Empire, because the people of the German Empire lived in poverty, and they especially longed for the life of the people of the Chinese Empire, and wanted to go to the Chinese Empire to work, live, and even live in that harmonious society forever.

The more the German people thought so, the more they hated the current government of the German Reich. Just as the Chinese people in the 21st century envy the Americans, they are desperately trying to make money to immigrate to the United States, desperately publicizing how good the US imperialists are, how bad they are in smearing China, and even preferring to go to the US imperialists to pick up garbage rather than stay in China.

The Chinese Empire has been carrying out ideological infiltration of the German Empire, attacking the politics of the German Empire, shaking the rule of the Kaiser, and inciting the German people to rebel.

In today's German Empire, there are many rebel forces that are shaking the foundations of the German Empire.

Therefore, this propaganda war was hated by the German Imperial government, and Schriefen, as Minister of National Defense, knew all the more about the dangers.

"It's so shameless!"

Schriefen thought that the Imperial Chinese army on the opposite side was preparing to launch a propaganda war to shake the morale of the German army defending the fortress of Monrovia.

"Send a telegram to Berlin now, and if the war starts, I hope that the bomber group will be the first to blow up those damn radio towers."

Schriefen thought it was a radio tower, but when the photos were sent back to Berlin, Hitler was startled at the first moment.

He recognized the transmitting antenna on it, which was definitely not a broadcast tower.

"Not good! The Chinese Empire deployed a radar system in Port Roberts! ”

Wilhelm III and Prince Baden asked one after another when they saw that Hitler was so nervous.

"What is radar?"

"You look nervous about those towers!"

Hitler calmed down and explained to the two: "Your Majesty and the Prime Minister should know about the sonar system used by the Navy's reconnaissance submarines!" ”

The sonar system was no secret anymore, and both Wilhelm III and Prince Baden understood it, so they nodded their heads.

Just listen to Hitler continue: "Sonar can detect submarines underwater, and radar can detect planes in the air. ”

Able to detect aircraft in the air?

William III and Prince Baden were stunned at first, but soon realized the seriousness of the problem.

Prince Baden, in particular, immediately thought of the bomber group.

"Our bomber fleet can also be detected?"

"Yes!"

Hitler nodded very affirmatively and said: "The reason why the Chinese Empire negotiated with us was also because it was afraid of the Empire's bomber group, they don't seem to have much of a coping strategy, but if they build a radar station, I'm afraid they won't be afraid of our bomber group." ”

William III suddenly said: "It's not so scary! Even if we can detect our bomber group, we will not be able to stop it, after all, we are a night raid, their fighters take off to intercept, and our bombers may not be visible in the night battle. ”

Hitler shook his head and said: "Your Majesty is only thinking about one aspect, but we don't know how far their radar can detect, if it is more than a few hundred kilometers, it is easy to find the direction of our bomber group, if they wait for the daylight to suddenly appear on the route of our bomber group, then our bomber group will be wiped out." ”

Prince Baden was also anxious: "Then what now?" If our bomber fleet loses its strategic deterrent, wouldn't it mean that the Chinese Empire could terminate negotiations at any time and then start a war! ”

Hitler was also helpless, he thought of a clever plan to attack the Chinese Empire at night with a bomber group, but ignored the big hidden danger of radar.

"At present, the Chinese Empire may have stepped up the deployment and development of radar, so in order to ensure the strategic superiority of the empire in the future, we have to think of other ways."

Wilhelm III asked: "Hitler, do you have any good advice?" ”

Hitler thought for a moment and said: "If the Chinese Empire has radar, then our bomber group cannot easily carry out bombing missions alone, and we need to immediately develop supporting long-range escort fighters to cover the bomber group for bombing." At the same time, bomber attacks will gradually lose their deterrent effect in the future, so we need to strengthen the saturation firepower on the ground, and I propose to immediately launch rocket artillery systems. ”

The problem of long-range escort fighters was understood by both Wilhelm III and Prince Baden, but ground-based artillery rocket systems were unheard of.

"What is an artillery rocket system?"

Hitler explained: "The Russians invented individual anti-tank rockets, which actually extended the flight range of the rockets and combined them on specific launchers, which could achieve large-scale saturation bombing, which could achieve a bombing effect similar to that of a bomber group." ”

Prince Baden nodded and said, "Does this sound good, but is there a technical problem?" ”

Hitler shook his head and said, "There is no technical problem, it can be solved quickly, but I am afraid that it will cost a lot financially." ”

When it came to financial issues, William III and Prince Baden instantly had a bitter face, and the latter asked weakly: "How much money does it take to form a fighting force?" ”

Hitler said: "The key to the rocket artillery system is the rocket engine technology, after each rocket is launched, the rocket engine will be destroyed along with it, so it is a one-time rocket engine, similar to the fish and radium engine." ”

Fish and radium are very expensive, not because of the warhead, on the contrary, the warhead of fish and radium is very cheap, and the expensive thing is in the engine and fuel of the fish and radium, because they are all disposable consumables.

And the rocket launcher is a salvo of dozens of rockets, or even a salvo of hundreds of rockets to achieve the effect of saturation bombing, and the money needed is the sea.

The corners of Prince Baden's mouth twitched, but Wilhelm III did not think about it and agreed to Hitler's plan without hesitation.

A new round of quarrels ensued, in which Wilhelm III agreed, but Prince Baden did not agree and did not give money.

Hitler stood silently on the side, waiting for the two to quarrel, a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Eventually, Prince Baden compromised, after all, Wilhelm III was still the Emperor of the German Empire. If there is a real falling out, it does not seem to be beneficial to Prince Baden, at least not for now, and it must wait until Schriefen dies, otherwise with Schrifen alive, the German Imperial military will not be able to sit idly by and watch Prince Baden depose Wilhelm III.

Hitler received a financial allocation of 50 million Deutsche marks for the development and production of rocket artillery systems.

These 50 million German marks seem like a lot, but Hitler knew that this was a drop in the bucket, and he could only build a rocket artillery regiment, and it was not enough to deter the Chinese Empire.

However, Hitler was cunning and quickly made contact with Starling, seeking cooperation with the Russians.

Starling has the successful development of Katyusha rocket artillery technology in his hands, but lack of funds and factory production, just Hitler sent an olive branch, the two hit it off, Hitler promised to provide Starling with two regiments of Katyusha rocket artillery systems, take the Katyusha rocket artillery system and then cooperate with Germany's largest arms giant Krupp, Krupp saw the value of Katyusha rocket artillery, so he spent a huge amount of money to buy drawings and was willing to give the German army mass production.

So Hitler achieved his goal with almost no money, and almost all of the extra 50 million German marks went to his private account.

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