Chapter 99: A step-by-step strategy
In the "refuge" base with an inflated military rank, the general is really not a prominent figure, and there are only a handful of people who really enjoy the official residence of reading power. Newly married Yan'er, Lynn just moved from the officer's dormitory in the imperial base camp to the officer's suite in Reading Li, and walked up one floor. This suite has one bedroom, one bathroom and one balcony, plus a small living room, the size and interior decoration are the same as the general's suite of the 1st Barracks of the Imperial Guards diagonally opposite.
The newlyweds should have a lot of fun, but this base cave is a closed space, and the meals are served by the designated restaurant, except for the Führer, Goebbels and other big people who have a small stove, but in addition to holding banquets, they insist on eating in the restaurant every day. In the upswing and down, the Gargos lost the pleasure of having breakfast to themselves, and at best they only used an electric kettle to make coffee and tea. In terms of holidays, although the base camp arranged for Lynn to rest for two days, the bad weather was raging, and it was difficult to walk around the base, so Lynn simply postponed the vacation, and the special and important work began again the day after the wedding.
The Empire's physicists determined that the information brought back by the commandos from North America was indeed a core secret for the manufacture of atomic bombs, and that according to these technical drawings, graphite-type reactors and uranium enrichment centrifuges could be quickly built with all the materials available, but the prospects for the manufacture of atomic bombs on the base did not look optimistic. The biggest difficulty is the lack of professionals. At the time of the fall of the empire, the top leaders pinned their hopes on several high-tech projects such as disc vehicles, and the top experts and technical teams in rocket and nuclear physics were not included in the "Aryan Ark Project", so that now there are no more than 20 people who can be engaged in the development and manufacture of nuclear weapons in the "Vault". Although Dr. Wick was a genius in the German physics community, his main research focus was on electronic applications, and he was not a real nuclear expert. Based on his limited knowledge of nuclear research, Dr. Vic gave Lynn a list of them, telling them that if they wanted to carry out a successful nuclear weapons development and production program, they would have to find and persuade these people to help, and then search for technical personnel at all levels, and purchase technical equipment and raw materials according to their requirements.
At the top of this list is Germany's leading radiochemist and physicist, Otto Brown. Dr. Hahn, the world's first scientist to bombard uranium nuclei with neutrons and fission, laid the foundation for the use of nuclear weapons. However, this German doctor was a "thorn in the head", during the rule of the Third Reich, he refused to join the German government-led atomic bomb project, refused to participate in any form of related research and experiments, he foresaw the terrible power of this weapon early on, and even said that "if Hitler gets this kind of weapon one day, I will kill myself".
At the second place on the list is Lisé, who was not as famous and famous as Hahn in the physics community at that time, but was highly praised by later generations. Dr. Meitner, an Austrian Jew, chemist and physicist, studied with Max. Brown. Many well-known physicists, including Planck, made extremely important contributions to neutron testing and the discovery of fission as Hahn's assistants, and even received the unofficial title of "mother of the atomic bomb". Facing anti-Semitic persecution, she fled to Sweden before the outbreak of the war, where she continued her research work at the Nobel Institute throughout the war.
In third place on this list is the famous Timo Werner. Dr. Heisenberg, formerly the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (later Max. Planck Institute for Physics). He became famous not only for his scientific achievements in atomic and nuclear theory and his position in the world of physics, but also for his work on the German nuclear weapons research project during the Third Reich - which he openly and acknowledged, but the controversy was whether he was actively or passively involved. At the end of the war, Heisenberg's justification for his apparent obedience and covert sabotage of Germany's atomic bomb program saved him from prison, but it has also been argued that he was not only the technical backbone of Germany's atomic bomb program, but in a sense his role was similar to Oppenheimer's in the Manhattan Project, but that the bureaucracy of the Third Reich, the ignorance of the upper echelons, and the resistance of the occupied territories ultimately ruined the nuclear weapons program that could have made a difference.
There are other names on this list that Lynn has heard or not heard of, Fritz. Strassman, Robert. Frisch and so on. At the height of the Third Reich, or even at the end of the war, it would have been difficult to find these scientific experts, but Lynn took the list to Colonel Andri, the chief of intelligence of the Strategic Staff, and was soon told a series of bad news: according to intercepted British communications, Otto Murphy was able to find the scientists. Dr. Hahn and Werner. Dr. Heisenberg and others have been sent to England for trial, and some other German experts in nuclear physics have either been captured by the American or Soviet forces, or have fled incognito.
On the way back, Lynn was fully mentally prepared for the dilemma of "making an atomic bomb in a cave", and fortunately, with Oppenheimer, Frank, and Fermi, three ready-made top physicists and key core technical materials, he submitted a formal report and his own personal plan to the Reich Führer. Rommel, who held the two important posts of chief of the General Staff of the Strategic Staff, fully cooperated. In a matter of days, four submarines carrying more than 60 senior spies and intelligence liaison officers rushed to the European continent, and the base also notified its own personnel lurking in various European countries by radio and mobilized their forces to participate in the search.
After that, Lynn did not passively wait, but pushed the "discord plan" according to the strategy she had brewed.
In order to inspect the progress of the plan, he completed the main work at hand and drove to the submarine cave.
Since the Führer woke up and became pro-government, the cautious way of working in the "Vault" base was completely broken, and in the words of the Führer himself, "the emperors who came here were loyal and reliable warriors". The iron railing between the submarine dock and the maintenance dock was removed, and the patrol personnel were not limited to the Navy and Gendarmerie units, and the companies of the two Marine Combat Regiments were also assigned to take turns on duty, while the sailors who had been relieved of the patrol duties were neatly dressed and went into other caves to patrol and guard.
As a team of marines on duty watched curiously, maintenance technicians belonging to the Imperial Marine Corps were working overtime to repair the three submarines that had entered the dock. They belong to the relatively early VII series of submarines, of which the VII-B began to be built as early as 1936 and can be considered a naval veteran of the Third Reich. There are very few such submarines in the "Vault" base, and if it weren't for Operation Rainbow, Lynn would not have been able to find such a suitable submarine for appearance and shape.
After getting out of the car, Lynn walked unhurriedly to the Marine patrol and said nonchalantly, "Hey, man, what do you think it will be transformed into?" ”
The soldier on the right side did not look back and said: "Maybe it is modified according to the appearance of a British submarine, look at its strange jagged corners, it is simply the configuration of the U-boat during the emperor's period, the conning tower has expanded its outline, and the side can not walk at all, and the lines have become more rigid and rough, tsk, it's just going backwards!" ”
Another soldier apparently disagreed with this speculation: "I think it is a Soviet submarine, and only their naval ships of the warring countries are still at the level of a few decades ago, and it is a shame to be defeated by this group of barbarians!" ”
It was interesting to listen to the soldiers' fair comments in this way, and when everyone had almost finished their opinions, Lynn asked, "If a Soviet red flag were flying on the sea, the seamen on the passing ships would probably think it was a Soviet submarine!" ”
At this time, someone finally felt that this voice was too unfamiliar and turned his head to look, this glance almost made him lose his soul, and hurriedly stood up and saluted:
"Salute to the General!"
The other soldiers turned around in panic and saluted Lynn with the same look of consternation.
After returning the salute, Lynn waved his hand to signal everyone to relax.
"As you can see, we do plan to transform these submarines into the appearance of foreign submarines for some special tasks. The smallest of them will be transformed into the Russian Barracuda class (Xiuk class), but it will be difficult to achieve the same appearance, after all, their Barracuda class is stubby compared to our submarines, and the displacement is more than 100 tons less. ”
Seeing that Lynn's expression and tone were very pleasant, and he was a young general from the land army, the soldiers were relieved, but their captain still explained a little crampedly:
"Sir, we are on a patrol mission, we were so curious just now, so we stopped for a while, thank you for explaining this valuable knowledge to us, we have to go!"
Lynn smiled calmly, if it weren't for the support of Goebbels and Andri, he would not have gone to the United States to embark on an amazing adventure, and even he feels incredible when he thinks about it now. If nothing had happened, he would still be a low-level field lieutenant, sitting in the Strategic Staff and doing low-level chores day after day. Bach will not lose the position of chief of staff, in the final analysis, it is really a trick!
Seeing the soldiers leaving in a hurry, and seeing Lynn's figure, the 28-year-old Kurt Brown, the technical engineer of the Navy who was in charge of the submarine transformation. Lieutenant Meborg came around from the other side of the dock.
"Sir! The project is progressing well and will be completed in two days, followed by a one-to-two-day trial and adjustment, and if nothing else, it will be ready to set sail next Monday! ”
"Next Monday?" Lynn nodded, using this time, his own technicians were enough to copy some of the core drawings of the atomic bomb needed for the "planting plan".
(To be continued)