‘…… To what extent can command be implemented for a group of submarines? Is it possible to command an attack, or can it only be coordinated before the attack? What is the ideal conclusion between the exercise of total command and the independent operation of submarines? Is the commander going to be at sea? On a submarine? Or on a surface warship......

It is not advisable for the commanders stationed on the shore to exercise overall command over the submarines in the theater and to exercise leadership over their joint operations, because they lack knowledge of the field and, in particular, do not understand the enemy's resistance and the conditions of the wind and weather. Therefore, we have to conclude that when searching the fleet, the extensive operational and tactical grouping of submarines can be led by the commander, but the actual operational command should be delegated to the commander of the submarine force on the spot, and the entire commander in charge of command should remain on the surface as much as possible at a considerable distance from the enemy......

The detection range of hydrophones and sonar is limited, and the results of the third gunboat simulation exercise showed that in order to save the limited torpedoes and improve the hit rate, the submarine attack must be launched at night at a distance of about 500 to 600 meters, which is so short but extremely effective. And it is not dangerous: as soon as the enemy finds itself besieged by submarines, there is a high probability that the merchant fleet will fall into disarray, especially if the fleet constantly sinks and catches fire. It's like a group of chivalrous warriors beating up scoundrels who are doing evil, and the scoundrels will only flee in all directions in the shadow of swords and swords......

Colonel Karl Dönitz spent an afternoon reading the letter forwarded by Admiral Raeder, and after reading a few lines, he was drawn to the words on it—something concocted by two Lee Kong Wings, which finally convinced the wolf king, Colonel Karl Dönitz, that on the other side of the world, there was a naval officer who had the exact same idea as himself.

In addition, under extremely rudimentary conditions, the other side has conducted many exercises and tests using surface gunboats, and has thus gained valuable experience comparable to that of the submarine fleet's combat regulations. Probably because of the general inferiority complex of inferior peoples, he did not know that he was already at the forefront of the times, so he wrote to himself, hoping to gain his own evaluation and recognition.

Colonel Dönitz smiled unconsciously when he thought of this, but after a moment he was a little annoyed by the frustration: an inferior person actually walked ahead of him, which was really an insult to the excellent Aryans! Fortunately, he was a pragmatic naval officer, and this irritation was quickly put to his senses, and he continued to read through the forty-five pages of the letter.

In the course of reading these contents, new ideas came to the colonel's head one after another: the biggest one was to invite the Chinese naval officer to visit the upcoming submarine fleet exercises, and then present his valuable experience, which he then rejected. How could this be known to a foreign officer, and a potential enemy of the German allies, who had created a group beating tactic aimed at the Japanese?

This idea was abandoned, and the colonel felt that it was indeed necessary to meet him and discuss it in detail—at the end of the letter, still because of the inferiority of the inferior people, many of the 'immature' ideas were omitted, and he thought that it would be 'laughable and generous' to write them, so he did not dare to write them. It's really a poor inferior people, even if they are excellent, they still think they are inferior.

The idea of a meeting was brewing in the mind of Colonel Dönitz, and as soon as it appeared, it became incomparably stronger. For several years, he had been alone in exploring the tactics of joint submarine operations, with no one communicating with him, and many people even held an opposition to it, such as Admiral Günther Gunzawa, the deputy commander of the Navy, who had been advocating the construction of large battleships, and he believed that such joint tactics could not be implemented, especially since the destruction of radio silence was a taboo in naval warfare. Now, he can only summarize and refine specific tactical rules through exercise after exercise, perhaps this Chinese can bring himself a different idea.

Colonel Dönitz's thirst for a confidant led him to immediately decide to meet with the Chinese, and he asked his secretary to contact the Chinese naval lieutenant named Li Kongrong. The man lived in Berlin, and the call to the Chinese embassy was soon returned, and in a few moments the secretary informed Colonel Dönitz that Major Li of China would come to visit him at half past eight tomorrow morning.

Calling a guest to visit the naval headquarters was a trivial matter for the secretary, but this phone call from the embassy suddenly caused some confusion in the Chinese naval quarters on Spandau Street, and when the officer on duty hung up the phone and excitedly shouted to the commander of the German submarine fleet to invite Chief Li to a meeting, everyone who heard the news hurried to Major Li Kongrong.

Major Lin Zhun, who threw down his German textbook, was the first in line, and he said: "The Germans called, is there a drama about the submarine?" ”

"I don't know, I guess we will talk about this, but let's not get our hopes up." Major Li Kongrong, of course, knew why the Germans took the initiative to call, so he was very indifferent to this. Tomorrow it's time for him to go to bed again, and this matter can only be done by himself.

"It's good to see people, we couldn't find anyone before!" Lin Zhun knew a lot about the inside story of the submarine transaction, and the thing he was most concerned about was that after the two training boats were bought, one would belong to him and the other would belong to Li Kongrong; And the commander of the submarine fleet, with Li Kongrong's temperament and background, it is impossible to compete with him, so the relationship between the two at this time has become extremely harmonious.

"It's hard!" Major Li Kongrong sighed. During this time, he moved several more times, spending more than three thousand dollars. In fact, in addition to the Nazi pro-Japanese faction and the Navy's concern for Japan's protests, the Hebulou Company was also not happy with the Chinese Navy buying the two training submarines of the German Navy, because the original intention of the Admiralty to sell them was to make money to replace them with new ships, so the company's profits would be greatly reduced.

Wehrmacht generals, German bankers, German military-industrial magnates, relevant officials of the national government, national. Officers of the military-industrial system ......, and these people have formed a big net after several years of operation. This big net makes the German-made arms exported to China extremely expensive. In the preliminary negotiations of intent to go, the company quoted an intentional price of 10 million marks for the Type VII submarine and 5 million marks for the II submarine, but fortunately, the construction period could basically meet the requirements of the Chinese side, that is, the Type VII submarine would be delivered within one year and the Type II submarine would be delivered within six months.

In Li Kongrong's cognition, this is simply a sky-high price, which is the result of a two-and-a-half-or even three-fold increase on the basis of the cost. If he had negotiated the purchase directly with the shipyard, the price would have dropped to about 7 million marks or 2.5 million marks—this was the approximate price that he had asked the Dutch embassy to inquire about from the Dutch shipyard. However, the Netherlands itself is an agricultural country, and she does not need minerals and agricultural products such as tungsten sand and soybeans. Submarines cost a lot of money, and the huge amount of more than $7 million paid for the navy is obviously beyond the ability of the Ministry of Finance to pay.

Major Li Kongrong sighed and went to other places. At the moment, he was browsing several resumes sent from the embassy, because the time for sending resumes varies from place to place, and there are only two people who are suitable for the time being: the first is named Huang Minglong, a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, born in 1898, he studied at Zhejiang Medical College, the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and finally received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Berlin. But more important is the work experience of this person, he has been the director of the laboratory of Zhejiang Health Laboratory, a professor of Zhejiang Medical College, etc., at this time he is studying at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Wizburg, as a visiting professor, and has been in Germany for two years.

The second is Zhuang Xiaohui, a native of Junan County, Shandong, who studied at the School of Science of Shandong University in his early years, went to Germany last year, and is studying at the Department of Zoology of the University of Munich at this time, specializing in experimental embryos.

The first step in the development of penicillin is to find a scientific leader, and then to find relevant researchers to form a laboratory, and after the success of the laboratory, the problem of large-scale production, that is, the construction of the factory. Therefore, the leader is the most important, if you choose a person who is self-righteous and will repay him, then the laboratory is likely to be opened by Wu Dalang, one is shorter than the other, and in the end, God knows what can be made by spending a lot of money.

Of course, Major Li Kongrong doesn't understand this kind of thing, but Li Hansheng is extremely familiar with it -- in order to make a living, he has taken many certificates after graduating from the second book: builder, supervisor, environmental assessment engineer, and accountant, among which there is a PMP certificate, with the affiliation fee of these certificates, he has more than 100,000 yuan a year, and a good annual income may exceed 200,000. I was living a comfortable life, but I didn't die to translate foreign military works for my hobby, in order to do something serious, but I was accidentally hit by a car and died.

Penicillin R&D is a project project, so the project leader is extremely important. Because of this, the selection of candidates is a very difficult task, and if the wrong person is chosen, the whole project is likely to be ruined.

Major Li Kongrong excerpted the information of these candidates according to the instructions in his diary, and then sent a telegram to the two men, inviting them to meet in Berlin, and especially to this Huang Minglong, he also wrote a very kind letter, with a round-trip ticket.

Penicillin was a thing, and the news from Spain was good, and the General Archive of the West Indies in Serlia was fully present, which was founded in 1781 and contained most of the documents on the discovery and conquest of the New World, as well as some manuscripts of navigators. It's just that the civil war affected Seville, and this archive is temporarily closed to the public, and Kong Xiangxi, who has arrived in the United States, called to inform him that he has sent someone to Spain, and for the sake of secrecy, he will not investigate this matter for the time being, and will discuss how to excavate the shipwreck together after finding valuable documents.

Several official matters are like this, and the private matter is to go to a Swiss bank to open an account, and how to obtain Jiang Weiguo's address and phone number, which is a backup plan that Kong Xiangxi could not convince Chang Kaishen to change the Battle of Songhu. The former is very simple, just spend two days and go to Geneva once; The latter is a little troublesome, Ambassador Cheng Tianfang, Commercial Counselor Tan Boyu, and Army Military Attache Colonel Xu Bozhou know more or less about some of the situation, but how do they know about it, did they send someone to secretly follow Chang Ergongzi? But who should I go to?

Major Li Kongrong, who was about to be promoted, had to deal with the trivial matters in the diary patiently, which he didn't want to do, but he thought that the situation would be reversed within four days, and he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, so he had to deal with it patiently. The next morning, he slept peacefully so that his other self could go to meet Colonel Karl Dönitz, commander of the German submarine fleet.

The Admiralty of Nazi Germany is still on the site of the Reich Navy, an old whitewashed building with the German flag, the naval flag, and a swastika flag on the outside. Obviously, the Admiralty is no match for the Air Force building, which is full of flags, and even the Ministry of Defense, and it seems that the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy still wants to follow the old-fashioned tradition: to stay away from politics.

Li Kongrong arrived at the door of the Admiralty building very early, and after showing his ID at the guard office and informing him of the matters of entry, a non-commissioned officer who came out led him into a meeting room that was not very large, and soon after he sat down, Colonel Dönitz, the wolf king, came.

Now that he had met Führer Hitler, Li Kongrong was naturally not surprised by Dönitz, and he greeted him in German, "It's a pleasure to have the opportunity to meet you, Mr. Colonel." ”

Carl Dönitz was a stern German, dressed in a white naval officer's uniform with a straight top, straight trousers and shiny black boots. When Li Kongrong greeted him, he looked at the Chinese Navy Lieutenant in front of him: the black hair and black eyes inherent in Asian people of color, fortunately, the bridge of his nose is straight, his eyes are shiny, and his lips are thick and straight, and he is not short of facial features like common Asians, but unfortunately he is not tall and his body is not strong.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Major." After staring for about two seconds, Dönitz hesitantly stretched out his hand to shake hands with Li Kongrong, his hand was thin and fleshy, but extremely powerful. "You may be seated, Major."

"Thank you very much, Mr. Colonel." Li Kongrong sat down again. Although he wanted to focus his attention on Dönitz's eyes, his gaze was involuntarily fixed on Dönitz's head—his head was like an upside-down grapefruit, big and small. And the eyebrows and eyes are very low, and the facial features are all crowded into everything, while the hairline above is very high, and there is little hair, so the whole head is wide and shiny. The brain is so big! This is probably the official minister, Li Kongrong suddenly jumped in his heart.

Li Kongrong was strange to Dönitz's brain, and Dönitz looked at the Chinese in front of him but did not know how to speak. He had never had the experience of exchanging submarine tactics with others, and the other party was still an inferior people. Men talk to each other completely differently from women, and generally whoever speaks first is passive. Of course, Colonel Dönitz, who focused on submarine tactics, did not know this rule, and he opened with some crampedness, "Mr. Major, after reading your letter, I sincerely agree with your experience in submarine joint combat tactics, but after reading the letter, I found that there are still some problems that do not seem to be completely solved. ”

"Yes, Mr. Colonel." Li Kongrong nodded and replied, this is what he deliberately did not write, for this rare meeting that is about to change history.