He came to England in a hurry to meet Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, but after meeting Menzies, Li Kongrong's life suddenly became idle -- he did not know when Chamberlain would receive him, and he did not dare to leave London rashly, and in London, England, which had not been bombed by the Luftwaffe, he really had nothing to do except pay attention to the carrier-based mosquito bombers and the receiving and receiving telegrams that he had deliberately customized last year. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Equipping mosquito bombers was Li Kongrong's idea last year, and the purpose was to cooperate with early warning planes and air tankers to sweep away Japanese merchant ships on the sea, but this idea does not seem ideal now. The bomb load of the Mosquito is not much more than that of the Douglas attack aircraft, and the advantage of two pilots taking turns to rest can also be achieved as long as the attack aircraft adds one seat, and the water-cooled engine of the Mosquito bomber is not easy to maintain, and its width of 8.31 meters after folding is also difficult to put into storage. The hangar of the aircraft carrier is designed for F5F and Douglas attack aircraft, and the width of 16 meters can put down four folded F5F or 3 folded Douglas attack aircraft, and it will be embarrassing to put 8.31 meters of Mosquito, and only one Mosquito carrier-based aircraft can be placed if it is neatly arranged.

After about two weeks of leisurely days in London, when Li Kongrong was feeling that his whole body was going to rust if he continued like this, Colonel Russell of the Navy Department came to the apartment, and as soon as he entered the door, he shouted: "Lee, they sank it, they sank it!" ”

Russell, who was full of excitement, couldn't suppress his excitement when he saw Li Kongrong, and he was talking about the German battleship Admiral Spee, which was supposed to sink in the port of Montevideo, Uruguay, and was ambushed by the Royal Navy at the mouth of the Río de la Plata today, which was the first major victory for the Royal Navy, which had suffered heavy losses since the start of the war. As an intelligence provider and participant, Russell ran to tell Lee Kongrong as soon as he received the news.

"It's great." Li Kongrong was not excited, the German soldier he despised the most was the German captain Langesdorff who sank without a fight, and this person committed suicide cowardly in the end, which was really too cowardly.

"Lee, the cabinet is ready to award you an Imperial Commander Medal." After the excitement, Russell, who had calmed down, said. "In recognition of your service to the Government of the King of Great Britain."

"Really?" Li Kongrong was stunned, he didn't think that the British would be honored, he cooperated with the British in an attitude of exchanging interests. "What medal are you talking about?"

"Commander of the Order of the British Empire." Russell said solemnly, "Although it is not enough to recognize your merits in my opinion, at least it is an affirmation of your contributions." ”

"Definitely something...... Let's not mention it first," Li Kongrong thought that he had stayed in London for so long just to wait for the medal to be awarded to himself after sinking the German battleship, and he felt that it was a waste of time, and the New York side had urged him several times to go to the United States as soon as possible. "What I really care about is whether my plan is supported."

"What's the plan?" Russell didn't know what Lee was going to do.

"Plans to protect the Straits Settlements." Li Kongrong only said what he could say, and he didn't mention Somaliland at all. "I think the Japanese will choose to go south, and they will definitely attack Singapore, Burma, and even India."

"Maybe you can convince Mr. Prime Minister." Russell had heard about Lee Kong-young's plan before, and he couldn't help it.

"The question is when exactly I'll see him." Li Kongrong complained. "I've been waiting for twelve days."

"No, Lee. You'll see you tomorrow. Russell said, "Soon Sir Menzies will call you." ”

Russell was right, shortly after he left, the director Menzies called, and after the account had been explained, he began to say that the prime minister would be available to meet him and Lee Kong-rong sometime the next afternoon, but the time was very short, estimated to be only ten to fifteen minutes -- the prime minister wanted to know what kind of German offensive the German army would launch on the Western Front, and whether there was any way to end the war as soon as possible.

After hanging up the phone, Li Kongrong began to prepare for the rare ten to fifteen minutes tomorrow, and he wrote down all the questions that Chamberlain might ask on pieces of paper, and then perfected them one by one, except for removing some inappropriate words, he hoped that Chamberlain would delay the meeting a little, so that he could describe the harm caused by Japan's southward march to the Straits Settlements. It was only when he was brought into Whitehall by Menzies the next afternoon that he discovered that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was not the only one who had met him, but that it was actually a wartime Cabinet defence meeting, and that he had come to offer some advice as MI6's best intelligence officer.

"Colonel Lee, the British Empire is at war, and we urgently need accurate information about the German army, and Director Menzies strongly recommends that you report to us the next possible move of the German army and the possible losses. I have always heard that you are in the service of Great Britain, and that you provided the intelligence on the sinking of German battleships by the Royal Navy in South America, and I am very grateful for that. I hope that you will continue to serve the King's government and that you will be duly rewarded. ”

It was Chamberlain, who was sitting at the head of the round table, who was sitting at the head of the round table, his thick beard was gray, his eyes were shaking, and his right hand raised his monocle to look at Li Kongrong carefully. The eyes of the cabinet members sitting on his left and right also glanced over, and these eyes stayed on the commander's medal on Li Kongrong's right chest for a moment, and then took it back arrogantly. Britain is an empire, and perhaps Li Kongrong, who does not have a medal, cannot be summoned by the prime minister.

"What do you want to know, Mr. Prime Minister?" Li Kongrong's gaze also swept over everyone, and finally fell on Chamberlain.

"Haha......" As soon as he said, 'What do you want to know?', several cabinet members couldn't help but laugh, they thought that this yellow man was too arrogant, as if he knew everything.

"Hitler, what is he going to do next? Where will the Germans attack? Chamberlain didn't smile, but slowly informed Li Kongrong of his request.

"If ......" Li Kongrong didn't care about the laughter just now, he just hated being disturbed when he was talking. If the Royal Navy did not act in Norway to undermine Norway's neutrality, then Hitler's next move would be to attack France. The German Commander-in-Chief, Raeder, had repeatedly asked Hitler to occupy Norway in order to secure the source of iron ore and to obtain the Norwegian port bases it needed, but I received information that Hitler did not intend to do so unless Norway's neutrality was breached. ”

"Are you sure?" A voice questioned. "Why didn't Hitler want to occupy Norway?"

"Absolutely." It was a gentleman with rimless glasses who spoke, and Li Kongrong didn't know this person, and no one introduced him. "The most critical thing on the Western Front is France, once France is defeated, the problem on the Western Front is only the blockade of the Royal Navy, which is a problem that the German army cannot solve by LinkedIn Grand, and this is also the trouble of the German General Staff to formulate the Sea Lion Plan."

"Occupy LinkedIn Glen?!" The room was moved, followed by laughter. Another man stood up, and he said, "Colonel, I appreciate the information you provide to the Royal Navy, and I hope you will continue to provide valuable information." Like, how will the Germans attack France? Why would you think that France would be defeated and surrendered in a month, and also suggest that the cabinet draw up a plan for the retreat of the expeditionary force? Director Menzies seems to have been convinced by you, but we are still perplexed. ”

"France lost a generation in the last war, and the whole country feared war, and the Germans, on the contrary, were mostly looking forward to revenge." Li Kongrong replied. "The battle of Poland has proved that the Germans are engaged in a new type of war, so I think that France will be defeated very quickly, and once France is defeated, it is likely that the British expeditionary force will not be able to withdraw to England; At the same time, the French colonies in the Far East would also be invaded by Japan, prompting them to peek into the South Seas, a rich colony that they would be robbing, not the Soviet Siberia. ”

"It's just your ...... Judgment? "Standing up was Lord A.V. Alexander, the Minister of the Admiralty, whose attitude was elusive.

"It is also my judgment that Germany will go to war in September of this year, and it is also my judgment that Hitler will not completely control the Prussian officer corps." "If my judgment is correct, Hitler will launch an attack on France in May next year, and France will be defeated in June, and the French government will surrender with it." Gentlemen, it's December, and in two hundred days we'll know the answer. ”

"Colonel, I admire your guts." Out of Whitehall, Menzies looked at Li Kongrong a little helpless, he hoped that Li Kongrong would convince the cabinet like he convinced himself, but he made a simple and rude judgment.

"I suddenly remembered one thing," said Li Kongrong, "that Hitler did not attack Norway does not mean that Hitler did not support the coup d'état of the Norwegian government, and I heard that there are Nazi admirers within the Norwegian government." ”

"Understood." Menzies nodded deeply, and then said, "Colonel, can you get the attack plan of the Germans?" ”

"As I said last time, the German General Staff had several yellow plans, and Hitler would only choose one of them when he was close to the attack, and no one knew what Hitler would choose before the German attack." Li Kongrong said.

"Plan Yellow? Yes, I remember, that's what you said. Menzies shrugged, "So when will you probably know which plan Hitler chose?" ”

"You must have known three days before the war." Li Kongrong said that he planned to penetrate the German scythe plan to the British three days before the start of the war, and at this time it was too late to remobilize the British and French forces.

"Well, I'm waiting for your good news." It was too early for Menzies to know the plan. After he finished speaking, he was about to say goodbye, but when he saw Li Kongrong looking at him, he suddenly woke up and smiled: "The Governor of Burma will soon get an order from the Cabinet, and he will support your troops through Burma within the scope of his ability." ”

"That's it?" Myanmar's problems are not just the passage of marines, but also the delivery of supplies and the expansion of ports. "My troops need war materials, and the railway transport is basically saturated, and I hope to open an inland waterway transport company in Burma to operate the shipping line from Myanmar to Bhamo, and also need to open a road from Bhamo to Ruili, which will be closed after the war. I hope to expand the port of Kyaukphyu in the direction of the Indian Ocean, and then the road from Kyaukphyu to Magway will be re-planned and built, and this port and road are just a kind of preparation, which will be used when the Japanese army invades Yangon, Burma, and will not be used in peacetime. ”

"Colonel, these issues need to be resolved through direct negotiations between you and the Governor of Burma, and the Cabinet does not interfere in the specific affairs of the colony." Menzies explained. "If the Governor of Myanmar is against it, you can go to the cabinet again."

"What if the Governor of Burma objects again?" Li Kongrong asked. It occurred to him that the Navy should also have an office in London.

"Unless necessary, the cabinet can't do anything." Menzies said. "Britain does not want to be drawn into war in the Far East as well."

"The war in the Far East was imposed by the Japanese, not by Britain on its own initiative." Li Kongrong emphasized. "The port of Kyaukphyu and the highway are just backups, and the water transport from Yangon to Bamo was originally agreed by the Burmese side, and as the successor of the Qing Dynasty, China has the right to fulfill the treaty between the Burmese government and the Qing Dynasty. Besides, these are just businesses, and the design is only for goods to transit. ”

"Colonel, you can only get results if you negotiate with the Burmese government." Menzies still shrugged his shoulders, he did not know much about Burma and did not know what treaties had been made between Burma and the Qing Dynasty.

"Okay!" Li Kongrong knew that he had found the wrong person. "Thank you for your hospitality during this time, I think I will leave England tomorrow."

"Good luck." Menzies knew that Li Kongrong was in a hurry to go to New York, so he solemnly shook hands with Li Kongrong before saying goodbye.