Chapter 69: Imperialism
Immediately after receiving this information, Chamberlain convened several principal officials of the Cabinet, who were the Minister of War Belisha, the Secretary of the Admiralty, Lord Svetton, and others to meet in the Prime Minister's Office:
"Everyone circulate this information, and pay attention to confidentiality after reading it."
Chamberlain handed the information to the War Minister Belisa on the left, and after reading it, Belisha handed it to the Admiralty Minister and pondered, this information was not long, just two short sentences:
"According to 007, Germany is about to send a large number of arms to China in the near future, and the amount is unknown."
Several members of the British cabinet quickly read the intelligence, and then it was Chamberlain who began to question:
"What do you think, Baron Belisha?"
After a moment of contemplation, Belisha had his own opinion:
"Mr. Prime Minister, I think that the war provoked by Japan in China has seriously infringed on our interests in China, at this time Japan is about to fight under the city of Nanjing, if Japan fully occupies China, it will be extremely unfavorable to the British Empire, we will not only lose all interests and privileges in China, but also magnify Japan's ambitions, you must know that our colonies in Southeast Asia can be rich in oil and rubber, these are the strategic materials that Japan dreams of, after Japan completely occupies China, Will be watching our colonies in Southeast Asia. Therefore, I suggest that we keep this information confidential and not notify any party, so that it is more in the interests of our British Empire. ”
"Bang bang...... Bang bang bang ......"
Several British cabinet ministers applauded Belisha, and Belissa did analyze it more thoroughly, and if he was not capable, he would not have been able to become the Secretary of State of the British Empire.
"I agree...... I agree ......"
As a result, everyone unanimously adopted Belisha's opinion, which of these cabinet ministers has no interests in China, and in Southeast Asia, they have a lot of interests in China, in Southeast Asia. They absolutely do not want Japan to completely occupy China, and the best outcome they hope for is that Japan will be in a stalemate with China, and the current form is that Japan has an absolute advantage, and it is almost time to attack the capital of China, so they do not want this to happen, and it is logical to let go of the German arms ships.
All imperialism exists for their own interests, and they cannot really hope that China will be strong, and the only thing they want to do is to make profits in China. Regardless of whether you are surnamed capital or society, it will not change their essence towards China, Russia is proof that the former Soviet Union is also encircled and blocked, and now Russia, which is now the master of the people, is not the same as being contained.
The German side did not know that any spies had obtained information about these arms, but fortunately it was the British spies, because Britain did not like Japan's complete occupation of China, so they chose to continue to keep it secret for Germany, and this huge hidden danger was in the past.
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Rommel, who was at the Vienna Military Academy, also quickly received an order, which was simply a thing that made Rommel ecstatic, originally his wish was to command an armored division, but now the Führer actually arranged for himself to command an armored corps, although most of the soldiers in this army are Chinese soldiers, but after all, it is still all-German equipment.
Rommel still has some old friends in Berlin, after all, he also served as a captain of the Führer's guard, and soon knew the ins and outs of the whole thing, it turned out that his student Krupp Ondt recommended himself to the Führer, Rommel thought of Ondt, and the talented and dissolute boy came to his mind, this time he did a great favor for the division, I heard that this kid was personally promised by the Führer to command an armored division, it was really more popular than a person, a German major, to command a Chinese armored division, Unheard of, who made the father of the family Krupp! The era of spelling dad is really everywhere.
Rommel rushed to Berlin immediately after receiving Hitler's order, and after meeting Hitler, he began to set up the "Flying Eagle Army", Hitler asked Rommel to go to the 2nd Light Armored Division to transfer personnel, this division will soon be renamed the Seventh Panzer Division, the Seventh Panzer Division in history is the meritorious unit of Rommel's beginning, it is really invincible, invincible.
Hitler still made a consideration, the tanks equipped with the 2nd Panzer Division were originally tanks No. 1 and No. 2, and now the personnel of the 2nd Panzer Division can be put into actual combat as soon as they go to China, without retraining. Rommel did not dare to pick the fat and the thin, and immediately went to the 2nd Panzer Division's garrison Tulingen to select personnel.
Li Mo put several of his brothers in the 2nd Light Armored Division very early, what Bismarck, Funk, Maisie, Otto and others were all in the 2nd Light Armored Division, Bismarck and Otto were both tank soldiers, Otto had already become the battalion commander of the tank battalion, Bismarck also became the company commander, and the other brothers and brothers had at least the rank of second lieutenant. They had all been in actual combat, and Li Mo didn't believe that his teacher Rommel would look down on them.
There is another person Li Mo can not forget, that is the Italian Cent, Vincent's family background is still good, it has only been more than half a year since he returned to China, and his military rank has also been promoted to major, it is impossible to have no background. As soon as he received Li Mo's telegram, he immediately left his new girlfriend and immediately wrote a report on studying in Germany, and Vincent got the approval two or three days later, and hurriedly flew to Germany.
June 12, 1938, at six o'clock in the evening:
There are 12 10,000-ton ships quietly parked in the port of Bremerhaven, Germany, of which 10 are cargo ships, two are passenger ships, and there is also a battle cruiser Gneisenau, before the Bismarck-class design appeared, the German Navy designed and built 3 German-class armored ships because of the restrictions of the treaty, they have the firepower of battleships and the displacement of cruisers, and use electric welding to reduce the weight of the hull, use diesel engines and light armor, equipped with 9 280 mm main guns, 12 150 mm secondary guns, The maximum speed can reach 26 knots, its firepower is stronger than that of heavy cruisers, and its speed is faster than that of battleships, making it a good surface breaking ship.
Next to the battlecruiser Gneisenau was the Admiral Hipper, along with two light cruisers Emden and Koenigsberg, as well as four destroyers Z31, Z32, Z33, Z34, and 12 U2 submarines. This ship is the essence of the German Navy, they will be the main force of this escort mission, this fleet can be said to be quite advanced and powerful, Germany organized such a powerful and luxurious fleet to China to escort merchant ships, it may not be without the intention of showing off to Japan.
Hitler can only show off, it is impossible for the naval convoy to really attack the Japanese fleet, Hitler is not so stupid, and after the convoy has completed its mission, it has already left China, and Germany will announce to the outside world that the "Flying Eagle Legion" volunteer army, the volunteer army means that he is a voluntary team of civilian people, not an act of the government, in fact, it is an act of the German government, just a means to temporarily avoid the immediate turn of the face of Germany and Japan.
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