Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Dilemma

Susan Esposito became a wealthy man in just three months, and had her own apartment and a new car: an Italian Fiat that was the envy of everyone who knew her. www.biquge.info Some people say that she was taken care of by a high-ranking German official and became the mistress of that man; Others said that she embezzled money that belonged to others......

In the face of these malicious speculations, Susan Esposito always turns the Fiat key on her finger a few times and then laughs without saying a word. She doesn't think she's the kind of fool who only earns money with her body and sweat, her money comes from bargaining, her own clever way of dealing with men, and, of course, God's favor for her. Think about it, if the intelligence had been sold for $10,000 instead of 10,000 pounds, would she have the income she has today?

The teacup was filled with high-quality Ceylon black tea, and Susan felt a little proud when she thought of her credit, and the more proud she was, the more panicked Captain Tang Zong, the deputy military attache of the Military Attache Office, who was sitting opposite him. After many contacts, he knew this Italian woman under the pseudonym Maria very well, and all she cared about was money. Although you can buy this woman with money, it is worthless, after all, all she does is pass on information, and Takano Rokuro will always hide behind the scenes - it has been verified in China in the past few months, and Takano Rokuro is completely pseudonym.

But it doesn't matter if it's a pseudonym, the Japanese spies around the chairman have been exposed, and the British ambassador to China, Sir Greson Huh, was bombed and killed by Japanese planes, but unfortunately the British government tolerated this, and the incident was finally defined as an accident; Another is the Japanese landing on the night of August 22, in which torpedo boats that had been ambushed in Xiaochuansha and Lion Forest sank several Japanese landing boats, killing hundreds of Japanese soldiers. This operation delayed the Japanese army for two days, and the state of the siege of the Japanese Marine Corps headquarters in Shanghai. Valuable time has been gained for the readjustment and redeployment of the army.

These are the values of intelligence, and although the principal is distressed by the expensive cost of intelligence, he is very satisfied with the results. Nanjing's instructions were to stabilize this intelligence channel and try to obtain more valuable information. At this time, the Italian woman who has not contacted her for more than two months called her to ask her out, and she was afraid that she would be ripped again.

"Lady Mary is getting more and more beautiful." Tang Zong complimented him in German, he has practiced German hard in the past few months, and he no longer stutters when he speaks. "I've noticed that at least twenty men can't help but salute you today."

"Haha......" Susan smiled exaggeratedly, but she was happy to hear such a compliment, and she smiled for a while before she said, "Mr. Takano has new information to sell to you." Very important! ”

"About what? Is Japan going to increase its troops again? Tang Zong lowered his voice and leaned forward.

"No, no. It's Germany. Susan extinguished the cigarette she was smoking, "You're in trouble soon." "The Japanese are well aware that most of the weapons of the Chinese army come from Germany, and they have been protesting against this, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Niu Wright, has ignored this, and the Minister of Defense, Field Marshal von Blomburg, has not cared about the attitude of the Japanese......"

Susan said something that made Tang Zong frightened, as the deputy military attache in Germany, he naturally knew how many arms the government had ordered in Germany after the outbreak of the war, and if Germany cut off the arms trade, the war at home would be difficult to continue in a few months. Allegedly, the government had only stockpiled arms for half a year, and if the German arms supply was cut off, the results would be catastrophic.

"The Japanese are on the move, they have devised a vicious ruse!" Susan saw the unconcealed worry in Tang Zong's eyes, and began to smile: she had done a lot of work in this business - it was she who had filmed Eva Gruen from the Berlin Police Department that had been a. The sub file also took some intimate photos of her and Marshal Blomburg, so she can get twice as much as she did before. "If your country is interested......"

"If that's true, of course we're interested!" Tang Zong replied without hesitation. His mission in Germany was to monitor the Japanese to prevent them from sabotaging the Sino-German arms deal, and if he leaked this information, Nanking would surely be furious.

"That's good!" Susan picked up the teacup with a smile again, needless to say, the rest of the words are naturally to pay first, and then provide information after confirmation. At this point, a certain amount of trust had been established, and she was not worried about it.

At noon the next day after payment, a photofilm was handed to Tang Zong, and after handing it over, Susan prompted: "It contains a file of the female secretary of Marshal von Blomburg, from the Berlin Police Department, which shows that she used to work in a massage parlor." ”

"This ......" spent 10,000 pounds to buy a secretary's file, Tang Zong was suddenly a little dissatisfied in his heart, but he was smart and still waited for the following, things should not be so simple.

“…… Marshal von Blomburg's wife died early on, and he and his female secretary had gone beyond their working relationship, and there was evidence that they would be married after Christmas. Susan said the marshal's secrets, with some disdain. But all this is a trap for the Japanese and the Nazis, and once the two get married, the result is that the marshal is required to retire, and then the government friendly people in China will completely step down, and the arms trade with China will be interrupted. ”

Tang Zong finally heard some clues, although he felt that this information was only in the nature of rumors, but the consequences were serious, he said, "How did Mr. Takano know this? ”

"I don't know, if you have doubts, you can check it out. In addition, Mr. Takano thinks that in order to prevent this from happening, he should destroy the file of the Berlin police station and assassinate Miss Grumman before they get married. Susan whispered. He said that this is the only way to save Sino-German relations and the arms trade. ”

"It can't be!" Tang Zong immediately jumped up from his chair, "We can't do such a thing!" This would have ruined the relationship, and we ...... that if all is true, we will advise Marshal Blomburg not to make that decision. ”

"It's your choice!" Susan didn't care what the Chinese did, and she made that suggestion at the request of Li Kongrong. "I'm only responsible for providing information." After expressing her attitude, she said, "Thank you for afternoon tea, Don." We'll see you next time. ”

The sale of intelligence to China was planned, and the provision of information on Marshal von Blomburg was only a supernumerary plan -- after waiting for more than a month, seeing that the British did not react, Li Kongrong had no choice but to take a risk. Sure enough, Nanjing did not dare to assassinate but advised. This time, I can't blame the government, for in the current Sino-German relations, the assassination of Field Marshal von Blomburg's lover is indeed too crazy.

Another £10,000 was credited, and after the double payment of £1,600 to Susan Esposito, a total of £35,600 was collected for the sale of information. But after deducting the 18,600 pounds (300,000 fiat currency, 14.5 pence per fiat) repatriated to the country for the mines, plus the 12,390 dollars (42,000 fiat, 29.5 cents per fiat) (39.5 cents per fiat), pensions, wages, and Pepe's side, his bank deposit amounted to 20,144 pounds, or more than 330,000 fiat.

But even with this money, Li Kongrong feels that having is equal to nothing. The money was too little for what he had to do. Huang Minglong, who developed penicillin, has returned to China with Kong Xiangxi, and the future funds will be directly allocated by the Executive Yuan; The Minister of the Spanish Shipwreck State in Spain, Qian Tai, was also keeping an eye on it, and several Spanish-speaking legation documents and overseas Chinese were looking through the 50 million original historical documents in the archives. Li Kongrong suddenly understood how the word 'to die' was written, which was the result of his momentary excitement to serve the party-state, and at this time he realized how brain-dead he was to believe in the party-state!

The "Hansheng Brothers...... the Chinese Navy dormitory on Spandau Street, Lin Zhun, the deputy, was reporting to him on the current situation of the cadets, and mentioned that the four-month German study was coming to an end, but the German Admiralty did not arrange for them to be sent to Kiel. Talking here, Li Kongrong suddenly gave himself a head, which made Lin Zhun misunderstand: he was annoyed that he was hospitalized and delayed his business.

"Brother Hansheng, I can't complain about you, it's all the ghosts made by the Japanese, those who are brothers! They're trying to sabotage the submarine deal so we can't buy anything. Lin Zhun was angry at the mention of the Japanese, and his eyes flashed with a fierce light - in the Battle of Jiangyin in September, the fleet had been completely wiped out, and only the Ninghai survived. Of course, people who don't understand the inside story should praise Navy Minister Chen Shaokuan for being far-sighted and taking precautions for a rainy day, and he transferred the Ninghai early, but he understands the inside story and knows that this is completely Li Kongrong's suggestion.

"Aren't you familiar with Colonel Dönitz, commander of the German Navy's submarine fleet, can you find him to be accommodating? The message from the embassy was that the crux of everything was now at the Submarine Fleet Command. The command of the submarine fleet said that the training school was overcrowded, so we were asked to go to Fransburg. Lin Zhun said the news from the embassy, his eyes looked at Li Kongrong tightly, he knew the relationship between Li Kongrong and the commander of the submarine fleet, Dönitz.

"Dönitz is a very difficult person to talk to!" After a few contacts, Li Kongrong naturally knows something about Carl Dönitz. This is a challenger who never admits defeat, strictly forbidden and meticulous. He also guessed the reason for refusing to sell the two training boats, that is, he did not want to know the depth and performance of German submarines -- the maximum depth of the two newly built ocean-going submarines was only 120 meters, at best, and only reached the level of the Tebch-class, the last type of submarine in World War II in the United States.

"What the hell is going on in Fransburg?" Li Kongrong asked again, "How did they arrange it?" ”

"There was a merchant marine school in Fransburg, and the German Admiralty thought it would be better to teach us individually." Lin Zhun said: "First of all, I entered the naval training camp for military training, and only after passing the training can I enter the merchant marine school to study. First of all, they will go to the merchant ship to study, and then they will go to the submarine for internship and actual driving, and the country will send people to come. ”

"Still sending someone?" Li Kongrong was taken aback, he felt that more than 30 people were already too much, but thinking about it, he ordered two ocean-going submarines with a full number of 48 people, but now there are only 30 people, which is obviously not enough, at least one submarine with a full number of 48 people still needs it. At that time, these 48 people will be disassembled, and the veterans will lead the novices, and the two submarines will be able to form combat effectiveness. Li Kongrong wanted to set up an ambush when the Japanese army landed at Daya Bay in October next year, but in terms of time, it was definitely enough time.

"Yes." Lin Zhun didn't understand Li Kongrong's plan, he only said the domestic arrangement. "Now there are only a few gunboats left in the navy, and all the cadets sent are sea cadets, who are temporarily serving as sailors. By the way, I also heard that the Electric Mine School was also going to buy submarines, but I didn't realize the idea of hitting our side again, so I was pushed back by the minister. ”

Fighting with the outside, fighting with the inside, struggle is everywhere. Li Kongrong smiled bitterly: "Leave him alone at the Electric Mine School, let them play torpedo boats." Dönitz ...... there, I want to figure it out. Now I'm not worried about where to take classes, but about training submarines, and without training submarines, it's useless to take classes anywhere. ”

Lee Kongrong was thinking about the crux of the matter, but Colonel Dönitz did not take it to heart - he was in a submarine frigate in the North Sea at the moment, and it was now a long-prepared Wehrmacht exercise, which was also the first real group tactical exercise of the submarine fleet. According to the exercise plan, he and the entire command will command the 1st and 2nd submarine fleets in the East Baltic Sea on this humble submarine frigate, a total of 30 submarines, which will search, track, and attack a fleet of enemy ships and convoys.

The exercises were always boring, and the frigate was parked just a short distance outside the port of Kiel. The North Sea also became cold in autumn, and cold winds constantly poured into the frigate's cramped captain's quarters. Inside, the charts of the sea area for the exercise are being laid out on the table, and the staff officers are working on the maps -- marking the location of the enemy's escort convoy and the possible location of their own submarines.

Twenty-five hours earlier, the U-35 submarine of the 2nd Fleet had been the first to report that he had found the convoy's tracks, followed by U-29, and the command that had received the telegram immediately sent the coordinates of the convoy to the other submarines, asking them to pursue the convoy at full speed, and ordering them to begin attacking the convoy at 11 o'clock tonight.

-- The situation of the submarine fleet is worrying: all 18 submarines of the 1st Submarine Fleet are 2 submarines, while 2 of the 12 ocean-going submarines of the 2nd Fleet are Type 1 submarines, and the remaining 10 are the latest Type 7 submarines. Fortunately, the selected exercise area is not large, and those 2 submarines of more than two hundred tons have a place to use.

Autumn was no better than summer, it was dark at six o'clock, and after dinner I waited quietly for two hours, watching the hour hand go to eleven o'clock, and the chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Eberhardt Goth, came and reported: "Colonel, the offensive is about to begin." ”

"Yes. It's time to get started. Colonel Dönitz, with his hands in front of his chest and his expectant gaze fixed on the chart in front of him, boldly ordered the submarine to fire at a distance of six hundred meters from the merchant ship. Imagining the constant emergence of submarines in the water, the torpedoes that spewed countless bubbles in the straight line, and the chaotic convoy of escort convoys, he was full of fighting spirit and excitement. But the Chinese naval officer, Li Kongrong, also flashed through his mind -- much of the exercise was set up thanks to the experience he had gained from earlier surface gunboat exercises. How nice it would be if this man were German!