Hope is always exciting, but in the MI6 building at 21 Queen Anne Gate in Westminster, London, there is no hope in the newly appointed director, Major General Tuert Menzies, who promised to provide the entire offensive plan before launching an offensive on the German Western Front, and until today: May 9, he has not failed to deliver on his promise. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Is it that he doesn't know anything about it? No. He knew of the 'Yellow Plan No. 2', which had been provided by the Belgian Intelligence Service three months earlier from a German staff officer who had made a forced landing in Belgium. The problem now is that 007 indicates that there are several yellow schemes for the Germans, and that Plan 2 was abolished as soon as it was leaked, and Plan 3 was abandoned, and that the Germans were really likely to implement Plan 4. But Plan No. 4 was not drawn up by the General Staff, it came from a Wehrmacht general. According to the intelligence, he offered Hitler this plan to him when he was inspecting the troops, and Hitler was 'almost like an elf and very quick to understand' and attached great importance to this plan. The 'elven plan', which was the abbreviation of Menzies's plan for attacking the Germans, has not been traced until now.

Under the huge portrait of Sir Cumming, the first director of "So......", Rear Admiral Menzies, the director, propped his hands on the oak desk, and looked helplessly at Colonel Russell of the Navy Division, "007 needs to wait for his intelligence agents to arrive in Switzerland to get accurate information?" ”

"Yes, sir. 007 said that the intelligence agent had obtained the information, but there was no reliable way to deliver it, so he could only take it out of Germany in person. Russell said, "He estimated that she would arrive in Zurich the night after tomorrow at the latest." ”

"Oh my God." Menzies couldn't sit still, and he said impatiently, "The Germans are about to attack, can't he advance it?" Whitehall kept asking about the plan, and Lord Chatfield called me three times a day. ”

"Sir, he said he had done his best. This is not a plan drawn up by the General Staff, this is a plan developed by Hitler and the Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht called Manstein, and the German Army deployed on the border is also fully adjusting the plan, they also need time, maybe they will not attack so quickly. Russell is also helpless, 007 is in Switzerland, and he is also very anxious.

"Sir, he's here!" As Colonel Russell explained, his subordinate, Arnold Foster, broke into his office.

"Who? Who's coming? Russell and Monxi hurriedly asked, staring intently at Foster.

“007。” Foster gave the news they had been waiting for. "He's just arrived at the airport and he's on his way here."

"Are you sure? Did he hint at anything? Menzies asked.

"Yes, sir, it's him. He said he brought an elf. Foster said.

"Thank God." Menzies exhaled, he looked at the time again, and at four o'clock in the afternoon, the prime minister should still be at the official residence.

"The Germans were divided into three clusters. Group A, commanded by General Rundstedt, consisted of about fifty-five divisions, which were to cross the Ardennes Forest Strip, cross the Meuse, and then advance towards the coast, cutting off the Allied forces from France in a roundabout way......"

Half an hour later, Menzies personally listened to 007's brief description of the German elven plan, and he was taken aback as soon as he started, "Lee, it is impossible for them to pass through the Ardennes Forest area, the French said that the armored forces ......"

"Don't believe the words of the French. Armored units could pass through the Ardennes Forest. This was confirmed after a visit by German engineers, which is an important reason why the plan was proposed in February and deployed only this month. Li Kongrong looked at Menzies, this is not the first time the two have met, but compared with Admiral Sinlek, Menzies's bureaucratic taste is heavier, and he seems to be very smart. Sir, why did Hitler understand it as soon as he heard it? It was because the plan was simple, to emerge from an unexpected place of the enemy, then cut off their retreat, to isolate them in the small space between Calais and Belgium, and then the war was won. ”

Li Kongrong was not a new intelligence agent, he had accurately predicted the situation after the Wehrmacht was controlled by Hitler; predicted the exact time of the German attack on Poland and captured two of their ocean-going liners; Accurate intelligence was also provided that allowed the Royal Navy to sink the heavy cruiser Admiral Spee at the mouth of the La Plata River in South America, which gave life to the whole of Britain, and allowed the newspapers and parliamentarians who were dissatisfied with the current prime minister to ease their accusations, and MI6 became famous in World War I.

Li Kongrong is not a novice, but Menzies is the new director, he hopes to get results, and for the time being, he can rely on 007.

"Okay. There is some truth to this. Out of the blue. Menzies thought about it and began to agree with Li Kongrong's view. But I can't just report to His Excellency the Prime Minister, don't you have a plan of war? Even a few pages is fine. ”

"Nope. When leaving the country, the Germans searched very strictly, and the intelligence officers had to throw the film in the trash. "Li Kongrong has already thought of an excuse, Menzies is extremely disappointed in this, but there are things that make him even more disappointed." In fact, there is no need for documents, Germany will attack in a few days, and the French campaign is nothing more than redemption, what can be done now is to rescue the troops from the beach as soon as possible, so that they do not all enter the German prisoner of war camp. ”

"Lee, I'm ......" Menzies knew about Li Kongrong's so-called French defeat in one month, and he didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional because the intelligence arrived so late. But he did not have any evidence to prove that Li Kongrong deliberately delayed the arrival of the information, and he had been waiting for the information in Zurich last month.

"I have two more pieces of news." Li Kongrong continued: "Hitler is sending people to persuade Italy, and I think that if France is defeated, Italy may be involved in the war next month and declare war on us. ”

"What?" Menzies forgot his suspicions for the time being, and if Italy declared war on Britain and France, they would cut off the British Mediterranean shipping lanes, and the ships would have to go around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

"Yes, the Polish campaign Hitler was lobbiing Italy, he did not succeed that time, and if France were quickly defeated, they would certainly have entered the war in order to gain some advantage on the French. It is for this reason that my fleet will capture two Italian-flagged ocean liners in the Atlantic......"

'Boom! Menzies almost fell headlong, and Li Kongrong had already captured three ocean liners, each of which caused a storm in the world. The first two times I did it with a side-kick, what kind of embargo, but this time I didn't even play the side-kick, and went directly to the Atlantic Ocean to grab it. "Lee, you can't do that in the Atlantic, you don't have a valid reason. This, this...... I think this is already piracy, and no country is going to let those two cruise ships into their own docks. As a friend I advise you only if Italy had declared war. ”

"Sir, if you come forward directly, of course, it is standard piracy, but what if it is Abyssinia?" Li Kongrong smiled. "What if the Abyssinian Empire comes forward to capture it?"

"Abyssinia?" Menzies remembered an empire that had been annexed by Italy, and their emperor Haile Selassie seemed to be in London - but Britain and France refused to help him resist Italy, nor did they recognize him as Emperor of Abyssinia. "That's a valid reason." Menzies had to agree that it was a good idea, "but I advise you not to do it, not to get too close to the black race." Also, if the Italian Navy pursues, the Royal Navy will not be able to protect your men as much as they did last time. ”

"If the Italian Navy pursues, then my fleet will sink them in the name of the Abyssinian Empire." Li Kongrong said confidently. "Sir, please believe that my fleet will defend Singapore and India when it is formed, and I want the Italians to chase them down and sink them, weakening them before they declare war on Britain."

"But you only have one... German submarines. Menzies said regretfully, he didn't even say that the destroyer last time, in his opinion, it was not a destroyer at all, just a four-hundred-ton torpedo boat.

"No, there are two more training aircraft carriers, one of which was commissioned just last month." Li Kongrong said, he was talking about the Yingrui training aircraft carrier, with a hull of more than 8,000 tons, a single-story hangar, and 33 carrier-based aircraft. The deck is 10 meters longer than that of the Tongji, 185 meters, and the width adheres to the design concept of the Volunteer Navy, which has always wanted width rather than air defense, reaching 25 meters, while the deck width of the Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho of the same tonnage is only 22 meters. In addition to tonnage, there is also a disadvantage of speed, the two-shaft steam turbine outputs 40,000 horsepower, and the maximum speed is only 26.4 knots during sea trials.

"Lee, although you have been lucky, I still have to warn you that you will face the entire Italian fleet, which is a very, very dangerous thing." Menzies said two very much, and he remembered Russell's report last month: 007's fleet has launched another small aircraft carrier, which is of the same class as the previous one, and can only be used for fleet training.

"Thank you for your concern, sir. But the resources at my disposal are very limited, and I can only do this to expand my fleet. Li Kongrong pretended to be very helpless, but in fact, he was not worried about the Italians at all.

"What kind of help do you need?" Sighing, Menzies had to ask, but he immediately added, "I have to remind you that there is only so much I can do if I violate international law, and even more so to avoid angering the Italians." ”

"I'm just informing you and Whitehall about this, and I don't need much help." "Because the aircraft carrier and destroyer have been sold to the Chinese Volunteer Navy and cannot be returned to the United States, I hope that after the Italians declare war on Britain, they will be able to anchor in Bermuda or elsewhere for a short time," Li Kongrong said. ”

"Anchored?" Menzies remembers mentioning it to Li Kongrong, but he refused.

"Yes, no more than three months, four months at most." Li Kongrong said that he remembered that the destroyer base exchange agreement was signed in September, and his plan was to attack Italian Somaliland around October and November. "In return, they will join the Royal Navy to escort the merchant fleet for a period of time after training in submarine defense."

Menzies originally wanted merchant ships, but it was okay to escort them. He asked: "It is possible after the declaration of war in Italy, but, Lee, how long are you going to escort the merchant fleet?" ”

"For three months, I will escort the escort for as long as I am." Li Kongrong said. In fact, the Yingrui training aircraft carrier, the destroyer Jiankang, the oil tanker Foton (captured by the light cruiser Ninghai, loaded with 10,000 tons of oil, with a maximum speed of 2.5 knots), and the AWACS seaplane carrier (rebuilt from a free ship, with a horsepower of 40,000 horsepower and a speed of 25 knots), these four warships did not have to be stationed, and he was worried that it would be a little troublesome for the Italian cruise ship to enter the American dockyard after capturing it.

From the point of view of international law, there is no problem with the capture of an Italian cruise ship in the name of Abyssinia, which is in accordance with international law; There is no problem for the Abyssinian government to sell these two cruise ships to the bag company, and there is no problem for the bag company to entrust the New China Shipbuilding Company of the United States to rebuild them, all of which are in line with international law, but what cannot be ignored is the public opinion, if too many people die in the process of capture, the volunteer navy is bound to be condemned by American public opinion, and there are many Italian citizens in the United States, and if these people launch a boycott, the consequences are unimaginable

-- Those two ships were not only huge but also very luxurious, and they were the top two cruise ships in Italy, and there was no one. Among them, the Rex (SS. Rex) has a displacement of 48,000 tons, a length of 270 meters, 1,600 cabins, and an extremely fast speed, reaching a high speed of 28.92 knots in the Mediterranean, and the sister ship Conte di. Savoia, with a displacement of 48,500 tons and a length of 248 meters, is slower than Rex, but also has a speed of 27.5 knots. Li Kongrong likes their high speed, which means that the power system can be retained, and the rebuilt compartment can be covered with armor to make an aircraft carrier.

Two national treasure-class ocean liners were robbed by the black race and the yellow race, and Mussolini, the lion king, would definitely send the Italian Navy out of the Mediterranean to pursue it, but France was about to lose, whether to defeat the water dogs or recapture the cruise ship, this is a choice. However, Li Kongrong believed that the shipboard on the Ying Rui would help him make a choice—he did not have to choose, because all the warships sent out had already been sunk when he thought about it.

"Lee, I have to report this matter to His Excellency the Prime Minister before I can give you a final answer." Menzies said. "You just said that there are two pieces of news, besides that Italy will declare war, and what is the other?"

"It is important to note that Italy will declare war not only against France, but also on Somaliland, which belongs to Britain and France." "Then there is the French fleet, if France surrenders soon, their fleet is likely to be used by the Nazis, and its only use is to land in Britain." ”

The cool air was unconsciously pumped into his lungs, and the stunned Menzies took a while before he said, "Yes, the French fleet." "I will definitely report this to the Prime Minister, definitely." ”

"May Mazu bless Bless Britain." Li Kongrong smiled and sincerely blessed the British.