The aluminum alloy obtained from Japan is indeed a new alloy with excellent performance, and since it is a new alloy, it must be imitated and then used in the navy's aircraft. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info Li Kongrong attaches great importance to this, believing that this is the second most important project of the Swiss laboratory after the radar of early warning aircraft, and other projects such as missiles, bazookas, penicillin, and jet engines have either been successfully developed or are not so important. But when he visited the metallurgical laboratory just now, Li Kongrong felt that the atmosphere was strange, the two responsible persons Ye Zhupei and Du Dianying did not talk much, and some questions were answered vaguely.

"Hey. Duxing and Zaishan, these two people are not in harmony. Wei Ru touched his head and said. Duxing is very patriotic, and he hates Zhang Hanqing, who lost the northeast without letting go of a shot. Zaishan was Zhang Hanqing's secretary back then, and he was a person from the Resources Committee, so his style was naturally a bit official, and he was also quite partial to Chongqing in some matters. The two fell out as soon as they met, quarreled a few times, and now basically don't speak. ”

"Is that so?" Li Kongrong didn't expect that the same research room would be incompatible. "Who's in charge of aluminum alloy now?"

"Duxing was in charge of heat-resistant metals from the beginning, so I handed over the aluminum alloy to Zaishan. However, the analysis of aluminum alloy composition has to be helped by the two of them, and the situation is finally better after I have come forward several times to ask the two to cooperate. Research is done every day, but if you ask when it will be imitated, neither of them can guarantee that it involves two people, and neither of them knows how the other is doing. ”

"That's not going to work." Li Kongrong is quite worried about the situation in the metallurgical laboratory. "The United States is waiting for the alloy to build an airplane, and the relationship between the two is like this, how can they cooperate. No, I'm going to talk to them. ”

"Huh!" Seeing that Li Kongrong was going to find Ye Zhupei and Du Dianying, Wei Ru immediately stopped him, "It's useless for you to go, in Zaishan's words, one of them is the Communist Party and the other is a national, it is okay to cooperate reluctantly, but it is impossible to cooperate sincerely." ”

"Ye Zhupei is a communist?" Li Kongrong was taken aback, there was no ban on political parties in the navy, but there was no ban on the research institute.

"It's not. It's just that his stance is pro-Yan'an, and he usually reads the "Motherland's Anti-Japanese Intelligence" sent from Paris, and Zaishan is pro-Chongqing, and he usually reads the newspapers sent from China, or simply reads British newspapers. Wei Rudao, "Now my idea is to arrange Zaishan to go to the United States, let him set up another research laboratory there, and put aluminum alloy research in the United States." But he didn't want to go, he meant that it was in Switzerland, and it was good that the personnel were transferred from the country, and he was an old Tongji student, and there were people in the school. Ay! Speaking of this, Wei Ru shook his head again, "Now there are three groups of people in the research room, Tsinghua University, the most people, and then Jiaotong University, and Tongji." Some things are really hard to say. ”

"Why do they dare to eat you?" Li Kongrong smiled undeniably, "Just do what Du Zaishan said, aluminum alloy is the fastest in speed, and the aircraft in the United States is already in mass production." We can do the first planes, and when we fight on a large scale, they will not come. The plane is too heavy and inflexible, the probability of being shot down greatly increases, the pilot is very precious, and sacrificing one is hundreds of thousands. ”

Building an additional metallurgical laboratory is purely a heavy bed, Li Kongrong agreed to Wei Ru is still a little worried, in the case of rejecting many project applications, this will definitely cause criticism, which is why he wants to arrange Du Dianying in the United States. Li Kongrong saw his embarrassment and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing." Wei Ru is not easy to say some things directly, especially to Li Kongrong, he doesn't want to bring Li Kongrong trouble.

"I'll be on my way to London early tomorrow morning after my cocktail tonight." Li Kongrong said. In the morning he received a urging telegram from MI6 Director Stuart Memphis saying that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain wanted to see him sometime tomorrow or two days later. As a foreign intelligence agent, it was absolutely rare to meet British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and Li Kongrong had to leave Switzerland early.

"Leaving early tomorrow morning?" Wei Ru was surprised. "So fast?"

"No way, it's urgent. Technology is only one aspect of warfare, and although important, it is only one of the decisive factors. Li Kongrong didn't say where he was going, nor did he say who he met.

"Everybody's going to be disappointed." Wei Ru thought that Li Kongrong would stay for three or five days.

"When the time comes, everyone will not be disappointed when they fight the Japanese." Li Kongrong smiled, but people thought about what they should say when they saw Chamberlain, whether they were sycophants or fools, they had to be fully prepared.

*

"Mr. Prime Minister, I have asked him to come to London today, and if you need to see him, I think he will be a great honour." At Whitehall, 10 Downing Street, London, Menzies, the newly appointed director of MI6, rarely came here to attend a meeting of the Imperial Defence Council.

"Why didn't the Chinese hand over the German intelligence officers to us?" Chamberlain wanted to meet Lee Kong-wing, and Lord Chatfield, Minister of the Reich Defence Council, was interested in the German intelligence network at his disposal, and he seemed to think that this Chinese, who was no longer in Germany, was superfluous, although his proposal almost saved the situation.

"He thinks the more people know about it, the more likely it is to be exposed." Menzies was embarrassed to defend his agent, "He said it was not his opinion, but the opinion of the agent in Germany. ”

"Gentlemen, I think his aim is more to keep Britain entirely on the side of China, preferably with me and the Japanese declaring war on each other." Lord A.V. Alexander, who succeeded the late Admiral Winston Churchill, interjected. "The Japanese signed contracts with Germany and Italy to deal with the Soviet Union, and in the last war they wanted to swallow Siberia and the frontiers, but they did not achieve this goal, and I believe that the Japanese will still attack Russia."

"All right, gentlemen. Next I have to go and see the U.S. ambassador. "Chamberlain was very busy, and he didn't want to spend time discussing a Chinese intelligence agent, even if he was Li Yiguan, and he wanted to meet this person just because he was curious.

"Yes, sir." As soon as Chamberlain said the US ambassador, the cabinet members present took their leave. At this time, although Britain was still the world hegemon, she was too weak to withstand any major war, not to mention that she was now facing a world war. Britain needed the support of the United States, both materially and spiritually.

At the same time, the British government also needed accurate information about the war, and 007 worked with MI6 for many years, although he often had some whimsical ideas, such as the assassination of Eva Gruen, the female secretary to Field Marshal von Blomburg, the Minister of Defense, but his proposal proved to be completely correct, and after the Prussian officer corps lost power, Hitler was able to take control of Germany and expand aggressively.

At this time, Chamberlain desperately hoped that the 007 intelligence agent would have a new idea to end the war as soon as possible, or that Britain could win a decisive victory. However, what he didn't expect was that Li Kongrong did not think about the interests of Britain, he wanted Britain to support his plan -- the navy wanted to seize Italian Somaliland, and it was impossible without the support of Britain; The Navy wanted to capture a large cruise ship in the Atlantic, and it was impossible to know the British Royal Navy; It is impossible for the navy to exploit the huge sums of money of the overseas Chinese in the South Seas without the tacit approval of the Bank of England......

In return, he had very little to offer, the USS Spee, the Soviet-German Treaty, and the Soviet invasion of Finland were not enough to impress the British. In the war that followed, without Churchill's insistence, the Norwegian campaign would not have existed at all, and the following French campaign could not be revealed, and if France had not surrendered within a month, the entire history of World War II would have been rewritten. It is difficult to judge the pros and cons of this change on the Chinese battlefield, but his reputation in the United States is about to be completely ruined.

"Colonel, the Russians have already attacked Finland." In the office of the director of MI6, Menzies smiled and handed Li Kongrong a newspaper, which is today's Times, and the headline is the outbreak of the Soviet-Finnish war. "What do you think about that?"

"The Soviets must have failed." Menzies didn't give him the feeling of shrewdness, it seems that he was not good at intrigue and trickery from a military background, and Li Kongrong felt much easier in the face of him. "In the past few years, Stalin killed too many officers of the Red Army, and the Red Army has no combat effectiveness, let alone fighting in winter, or in Finland."

"You mean to say that the Russians are bound to fail?" Menzies nodded, he had heard of Stalin's purges.

"No, Finland is too small, and the Soviet Union will win, but it will be a crushing victory." Li Kongrong said. "As I just reported, the Soviets and Germans divided their spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, and no one could help Finland, and they had to compromise or surrender to the Soviet Union."

"The Russians do not recognize that they have a treaty with Hitler." Menzies smiled as he said the news from the Foreign Ministry, "They claim that the Russians justify that the signatures are forged, and that no Russian will sign them in the Latin alphabet. ”

Menzies laughed at Li Kongrong and laughed, the Russians did not admit themselves, which is equivalent to proving the accuracy of Li Kongrong's information, and Britain and France now believe that there is a secret treaty signed between the Soviet Union and Germany. "My suggestion is to bomb the Soviet Caucasus oil fields immediately, because oil is flowing into Germany in preparation for the German offensive on the Western Front next year. Oil is the blood of war, and the Soviet Union hopes that the imperialist countries such as Germany and Britain and France will kill each other, and when everyone is exhausted, he can come out and clean up the mess. ”

"That's your opinion?" Menzies knew about the proposal, and it wasn't the first time he had made it. "What if the USSR declares war?"

"No way. The Soviets knew what he was doing, and if he wasn't tougher, he would have to get an inch. If this is not done, the public will again condemn the cabinet for its indifference to the Finnish war. "Li Kongrong is serious, as if he were a citizen of His Majesty the King of Britain." In addition, it must be reminded that the plan of action must be kept secret, and spies of the Soviets are everywhere. I think if we don't pay attention to secrecy, I'm afraid we're still planning, and the Soviets have already gotten the news. ”

"You know those people were Soviet spies?" Menzies's words changed suddenly, and he looked at Li Kongrong with a smile.

"The Soviet spies I know of are not in the UK, nor are they in MI6." Li Kongrong is still serious, "They are everywhere in China, and the situation in the United States is not much better." ”

"Okay." Menzies nodded, and he began to talk about the next thing. "If Germany launches an offensive on the Western Front, I want you to provide accurate intelligence so that France will hold out, and not surrender in a month, as you say."

"......" Li Kongrong was silent for a while, thought for a while, and then said: "Sir, I don't think anyone can save the fate of France's defeat." From the end of the last war to the present, every French government has been in turmoil, and the government's sluggishness has also affected national defense. For example, the Maginot Line, which intended to involve Britain in war again, was decided in 1928, and only a small amount of work was completed in 1932, and by 1936 the weapons had not been properly installed, and it seems that the whole project was completed last year because of the threat of war.

Another example is the French Army's decision to equip with a new type of machine gun, and asked for the unification of ammunition used by infantry, this kind of machine gun began to be used in 1926, and the production of rifles using unified ammunition only began this year, and the production is pitiful, I heard that the annual production is only 100,000 units, while the French Army has several million people.

With such efficiency and attitude, even God cannot save France. Sir, I think the intelligence services should remind the Cabinet to have the Admiralty prepare a plan for the retreat of the expeditionary force, so that in the event of a defeat by France, the British can withdraw from the mainland immediately. ”

"Withdraw from the mainland?" This was not written in the debriefing report, and Menzies was greatly surprised.

"Yes. Once the French army is defeated, the expeditionary force will either be completely annihilated by the Germans or captured by the Germans, and I think that either outcome will be unfavorable for Britain, and the cabinet will even fall as a result. Li Kongrong said. The Admiralty must have a proper plan for the retreat of the expeditionary force. ”

"Colonel, but I don't know why France was defeated until now?" Menzies raised his eyebrows again and again, and in the report, Li Kongrong only said that according to the judgment, but in order to say what the judgment should be based on, he still did not know how France would be defeated.

"Germany is fighting a new war, which I call a 'blitzkrieg' or 'blitzkrieg'. And the French Army is still basking in the glory of the last war, and the Germans will smash them to pieces like a red-hot steel knife cutting butter. These German steel knives would also be selectively attacked at the center of the French army, and once the center was paralyzed, the French army had no choice but to surrender. The war was not a long trench and barbed wire fence like in the last war, but a war of movement, in which the German army would strike at the vital points of the French army, and once the vital points were damaged, the French army would have to be captured with even 10 million of them. ”

Ignoring Manstein's scythe and praising only the power of the blitzkrieg, Lee immediately stunned Menzies, a former British Army officer, and when the two began to debate army tactics, he completely forgot what he was asking.