Chapter 40: Meeting
When the energetic students all went out, Lin Zhun said strangely: "Brother Hansheng's method is good, can you really find a submarine instructor?" ”
"I don't know. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Li Kongrong just talked nonsense, "Idle is idle, they always have to do something, otherwise they ......"
"How else?" Lin Zhun asked, he couldn't understand Li Kongrong more and more.
"When we returned to Berlin, many people were staring at us, and the students had nothing to do, so why not look for a needle in a haystack." Li Kongrong's brows were tightly locked, and his mind was not here at all. He is already a hunter with a net waiting for his prey, and it all depends on whether Hitler will be fooled. He believed that Hitler would have been fooled. This person has some genius meaning, his sense of smell and perception is extremely sensitive, and he has a strong ability to grasp things instantly, or a strong sixth sense. Throwing such a big bait yourself will always get his attention.
"I'm going out tomorrow." Li Kongrong said, "It may take a long time to go out." ”
"For a long time?" Lin Zhun looked at him hopefully, "What are you doing here?" Where are you going? ”
"Europe goes round and the Americas go round and round." Li Kongrong's big and transformed way. Seeing that Lin Zhun also wanted to go, he smiled and said, "My diplomatic attaché, you are not, besides, I want your assistance in the affairs of Berlin, how can you go." ”
"Ahh Lin Zhun was stunned for a moment, and then said: "In case the Germans ...... here"
"No in case." Li Kongrong said. "The Nazis are very good, and if they are not sold by the Japanese, they will not look back. I'll be back around August, and I'll leave it all to you, so don't let anything happen. ”
Li Kongrong couldn't help but entrust all the affairs of Germany to Lin Zhun, and the next day he took the ticket he had bought a long time ago and then went to England with a visa, which was where he should have gone a few months ago. He had always feared that the Germans would restrict him from leaving the country, so he circled Berlin several times on the day he left before boarding the plane alone, holding David Robert Lee's passport; And Zhong Qiangong will be waiting for him in Switzerland.
"Hello, 007!" After getting off the plane, Li Kongrong was taken into an Austin sedan, and in the car, a white man in his forties greeted him in London's English full of flavor, and he could call his code name, which was naturally MI6. "I'm Colonel Russell." Russell looked at Li Kongrong with a smile and stretched out his right hand, he had been waiting for this day for a long time. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Me too." Li Kongrong shook hands with him with a smile, chatted a few words and asked, "I want to meet a guest from afar in London, can Your Excellency provide convenience?" ”
"Guest?" Russell was puzzled, but he said, "Of course, I'm more than happy to help." ”
After the car started, Colonel Russell continued, "The chief wants to see you, right away." ”
"Immediately? Is it about the Czech Republic? Li Kongrong did not reveal anything more than confessing some things to Welfare in Flensburg that time. This time, as a gift to meet in London, he will offer the German Navy's Plan Z.
"Yes. We must know what the Germans thought. Russell said. The Cabinet would like to know everything related to this. ”
"But I want to know everything about the wolf plan." Li Kongrong saw the opportunity to reiterate his request for the wolf plan.
"Of course." Colonel Russell's eyes flashed, "I very much agree with such a bold and brilliant plan, the Intelligence Bureau has laid it out, I think you will be happy with it......"
The car drove directly to 21 Queen Anne Street, and Li Kongrong soon met the director of MI6, Admiral Sinclair, a gentle and gentle fat man, but with an astonishing mango hidden in his eyes, he was by no means a character to be messed with.
"It's been a pleasure to meet you, Sir." Li Kongrong greeted with a smile, and he noticed that everyone else had retreated, including Russell.
"I'm honored to ...... too," Sinclair looked at Li Kongrong, as if to judge how the yellow man in front of him was different from other yellow people, but after a while he gave up this effort—Li Kongrong was uninhibited in front of him, like a white man with yellow skin. Tea or coffee? Sinclair looked away and finally asked.
"Tea, thank you." Li Kongrong sat down naturally, under the oil painting of Queen Elizabeth on the wall.
"We've been hoping for you to come, and today it's finally here." Sinclair rattled the bell and said with some old age, "I hope to have a thorough understanding of some of Germany's ideas in the next few days, such as their annexation of Czechoslovakia, and whether and when will they really start a war?" ”
"Sir, I can only describe what some Germans thought about Czechoslovakia. As for the war, it will break out, but when it will break out is still a mystery. But I'm sure it was within three years. Li Kongrong said, he saw that Sinclair had the intention of asking him to continue, so he added: "Hitler will never sit idly by and watch the Germans in the Sudetenland be isolated from the motherland, according to the nature of the Nazi Party, these are noble Aryans, and they will not give up until the Sudetenland is annexed." I think it's already on the line, and the exact time will be in September of this year, and Hitler will send his troops into the Sudetenland, as he did with Austria, and then ......" The door suddenly opened, and the teacup came in, and Li Kongrong couldn't decide whether to drink it or not.
"Then," he took a symbolic sip, "as long as the Sudetenland is annexed, then the rest of the region is next." Hitler, a former military man, knew very well that Germany could not fight on two fronts, so it was likely that he wanted to ally with Britain and France to attack the Soviet Union or, conversely, with the Soviet Union to attack Britain and France. ”
Sinclair had been listening to Li Kongrong, and although his English was not pure, he could still understand it. Moved by the idea of an alliance between Hitler and the Soviet Union, he said: "Will he really do this?" Did Goering reveal such news? ”
"That's my guess." Li Kongrong will not say to death, "If Britain and France declared war on Germany, Hitler would naturally ally with the Soviet Union, and vice versa, it was impossible for him to let Germany fight on two fronts again." Of course, all this was a strategy, and the Nazis generally wanted to form an alliance with Britain and then attack the Soviet Union with the help of Britain. Nazis and Communism were incompatible. ”
"If Britain and France oppose Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland, will Germany start a war?" After a moment of silence, Sinclair repeated the previous question, which Li Kongrong did not answer just now.
"Yes, if Britain and France declare war on this without agreeing, then war will break out." Li Kongrong replied clearly. "There is no longer a restrain on the Nazi Party in Germany, and even if there is, it is only ......"
"Just what?" Sinclair grabbed this sentence and asked, he felt that Li Kongrong had something to say.
"It's just a handful of people, and they don't do much other than provide intelligence." Li Kongrong said with a smile. Without going into details, who these people are.
"If Germany annexed the Sudetenland, what would Hitler do next?" Sinclair understood that Li Kongrong was unwilling to say those people, this was his informant, and he no longer asked.
"What's next? The next step, of course, was Danzig. Li Kongrong said: "Hitler's idea is very simple, that is, what is lost must be taken back." After getting Danzig, the next step was France. War may break out at this time, and this is the latest point in time. ”
"Within three years?" Sinclair repeated the time that Lee Kong Rong had said earlier.
"Yes, within three years." Li Kongrong nodded. "If Britain and France do not oppose the German taking back Danzig, then the war will be within three years, and if they do, it may be next year or the year after. In addition, Goering's cronies told me that the German economy had been sustained by internal debt, that foreign exchange was very tight, and that if the Nazi government did not want to displease the Germans and reduce the standard of living of the Germans, the war would surely break out within three years. But Hitler gave the Navy a different timetable, he said to Colonel Dönitz, commander of the submarine fleet of the Navy: if there is a war, it should also be in 1946, so let him not worry about the number of submarines......"
Based on his own recollections, Li Kongrong gave an all-round account of the views and preparations of all parties in Germany on the war, which not only made Sinclair listen to it with relish, but also made the German experts who were through the oil paintings listen to it with relish, and no one has ever revealed Hitler's and the Nazi Party's views on the war from so many angles. This was something that the political spy Baron Drup, who had never provided before, and who would only say something ambiguous, and which the Nazis had signaled him to reveal to the British - the Nazis knew about his relationship with the British, which was the reason why he wanted to leave Germany for Switzerland, and this guy had already decided to leave Germany for two months.
Li Kongrong spoke for about half an hour before he said: "I brought the German Navy's Plan Z and Plan Y this time, and judging from Hitler's comfort to Dönitz, he should have chosen Plan Z." That is, six H-class battleships, 3 O-class battleships, 2 P-class armored ships, 12 M-class light cruisers and 22 SP-class reconnaissance cruisers ......"
Li Kongrong introduced the German plan Z, and Sinclair nodded again and again, this is indeed very important information, and the Royal Navy once again anticipates the enemy, although some of the code names in it are not known for the time being.
After spending about half an hour talking about the German naval plan, Li Kongrong smiled and said: "Sir, I want to know some about the wolf plan next, my subordinates have been driven out of the base by the Germans, and now it seems that we can only hope for the wolf plan." ”
"Li, according to our understanding, the shipyard has been suspended, do you still insist on implementing this plan?" Sinclair asked.
"Of course. In the case of the approaching war, Germany will not give up these two ocean-going submarines that have been built for most of the time, at least Dönitz will not give up, they will resume work soon, but by no means hand it over to us. Li Kongrong said.
Seeing Li Kongrong's insistence, Sinclair said: "The Royal Navy fully agrees with this plan, they have compiled a hydrographic data on the Telavi River and the Telavi River estuary, and the Intelligence Bureau is also collecting information on the Lübeck shipyard and the city of Lübeck. In general, it is not difficult, I mean the submarine into the Baltic Sea, and the obstacle at this time is only at the border checkpoint at the mouth of the Travi River. The real difficulty is how to get out of the Baltic Sea and into the North Sea ......"
Lee's plan had been evaluated by the Royal Navy, and experts suggested that the shipyard's access to the mouth of the Trawe River would not be a problem, and that the submarine would be able to avoid border checkpoints at night, where the Travi River is nearly 600 feet (180 meters) wide. The difficult thing was how to get out of the blockade of the German Navy.
Li Kongrong also thought about what the British thought, and he also had a rough draft in his mind, but he didn't want to tell the British about this draft, he said: "Sir, in my opinion, the real danger is the few miles from the shipyard to the sea, if the submarine can sail into the Baltic Sea, then the plan is almost equal to success." There was really no way but to sit and sink in some shallow water, wait for the Germans to search for it, and then sail it into the Baltic Sea on a suitable day. ”
"It's not an option." The solution was written in the report, and Sinclair had heard from Colonel Russell. "The Danes, if they found out, would have told the Germans, and, besides, you are of the yellow race, and the sudden appearance of dozens of yellow people in some seaport would attract the attention of the inhabitants. Lee, submarines are really that important? What exactly are you going to do with it? ”
"To fight the Japanese with it!" Li Kongrong said firmly.
"But these are just two submarines, and they don't change anything, unless you have hundreds, and you need a naval base that won't be occupied by the Japanese." Sinclair shook his head, deeply puzzled. Of course, he felt that Li Kongrong acted in this way out of patriotic fanaticism, and did not feel that he needed submarines for other plans.
"Even if there are only two ships, they can inflict substantial losses on the Japanese. Sir, will the Royal Navy give up fighting because its sacrifice is insignificant? No, never! Although I regret not having the opportunity to study naval in England, I can fully appreciate the spirit of Nelson and the proud traditions of the Royal Navy. ”
Li Kongrong's words were passionate, and Sinclair was also a little infected by him. Indeed, the tradition of the navy is to fight when the enemy is seen, rather than to enter the port to protect the ship, and honor is more important than life.
"Looks like you're having a good time with Sir." Twenty minutes later, Lee left Sinclair's office and went downstairs from the secret elevator he had arrived. Colonel Russell, who had been waiting outside for a long time, said this as soon as he saw him.
"Sir is a wise man, he completely agrees with me, and we had a great conversation." Li Kongrong said. Most of what he said was true. "Mr. Colonel, I have submitted the Sir to the Plan Z of the German Navy, do you want to ...... it too"
"Of course, I need it, very much." Russell was pleased that with this plan, the work of the Navy Division would be far ahead of the rest. "Lee, your friend arrived in London last week, and I have arranged it according to your request, so you can meet him later." ”
"Thank you very much." Li Kongrong was forced to ask the British for help, and he didn't want the stick to know who he was. (To be continued.) )