Whenever and on any occasion, before smoking a cigar, Hans. Andriy always cut the cigar heads with such calmness and patience that it seemed to be a serious job. After a long period of contact, Lynn was also accustomed to this, and unhurriedly looked at the classified information provided by the intelligence chief - it was printed and pasted one by one in a large workbook, and the entire base was authorized to be viewed by no more than five people, and the rest except the Führer could only be consulted by the intelligence department and could not be taken away or copied at will. Of course, this does not mean that all the information is sealed here in Andri after it is obtained, and the working procedure of the Intelligence Department of the Imperial Strategic Staff is that different personnel are responsible for the analysis, selection and determination of intelligence in designated areas and areas, and carry out artificial ratings. After that, the A- and B-level intelligence will be sent to the Chief of Intelligence with a brief analysis report, who will decide whether to submit it to the higher-ranking officer separately or to other relevant departments, and the C-level and below the C level will be sent to the Strategic Staff Planning Division Research Branch and stored in the archives. Regardless of the outcome of the processing, each level of information is posted into the ANDRY Intelligence Workbook, each containing different contents, and a detailed record of the rating, the opinions of each level of processing, and the results of the processing. In this era when there were no computer documents and spreadsheets, it served as the equivalent of a manual database of intelligence services, original, comprehensive and detailed.

Regardless of the manual rating, Lynn searched for information related to the ship one by one. Looking at the contents of the workbook, there are about twenty pieces of intelligence coming from North America on average every day, although the rating is not very high, but excluding the human factor, looking at their quality through Lynn's eyes, Lawrenz. After Bach took charge of intelligence in North America, the efficiency of the intelligence network has improved significantly.

"Hey, here, about the Europa!"

Lynn pointed to the information written on March 17 and read: "The U.S. political axe announced that the 'Europa' troop carrier will be handed over to the French transatlantic shipping company as compensation for the French mail ship Normandy, which was requisitioned by the United States in 1942 and then burned by fire, and it is reported that the ship will depart from the port of New York on March 20 to the port of Le Havre, France, and sell commemorative packages to the public." ”

Andri had already cut his cigar and had just lit it with a lighter, when the mellow and intense smell of tobacco instantly permeated the office, driving away the chill of the northern land.

"It was like an excerpt from a news report from a local newspaper, March 20...... I guess I should have arrived in France yesterday at the latest. How? ”

"Tsk! If only I had seen this information a few days earlier! Lynn shook her head helplessly, "It should be the largest cruise ship ever built in Germany?" ”

Andriy did not forget Lynn's Danish origins, perhaps in his eyes, the glory of the "Europa" had long been swallowed up by the haze of defeat in the war, so he said in a tone of loss: "No, in the last glorious era, Germany also had three larger and more luxurious cruise ships, which were the three pearls of the Emperor's crown: the Emperor, the Fatherland, and the Bismarck. Europa and Bremen were built during the German Renaissance to be faster, more advanced and better, and these giant ships have won the Blue Ribbon Award for speed in the Atlantic. ”

Hearing this, Lynn temporarily paused his flipping back and asked with interest, "Was this Europa planned to be converted into an aircraft carrier?" ”

Andriy nodded. As we all know, due to the obstruction of His Excellency the Reich Marshal, who claimed to be "everything that can fly" and claimed to be a "chubby angel", all the aircraft carriers of the German Navy were aborted, so when it came to the stillborn aircraft carrier program of the Third Reich, everyone was eager to spit on Goering. Now that Goering is dead and his henchmen are gone, Andriy did not scold him in the middle of a word, but introduced Lynn, a colleague with a special background: "After the defeat of France, the Navy began to transform it into a large troop carrier to participate in Operation Sea Lion, and later planned to put it on a flight deck to make it a large aircraft carrier, but by 1942 all plans were in vain, and it hid in the Baltic Sea until 1945, until the end of the war, when it was captured by the United States and put back into shipping. It was used as a troop carrier to transport American soldiers who participated in the war back to Japan. ”

In terms of displacement alone, the Europa cruise ship is several thousand tons more than the Bismarck-class battleships, and it is definitely a shocking big guy to sail on the sea. Seeing that Lynn looked down in contemplation without squeaking, Andrie took his cigar and asked, "What, you want to snatch it back from the French?" ”

Lynn shook her head, "If it's still in the Atlantic, I'd like to send it to the bottom of the ocean." ”

"You're kidding!" Andri's expression was indeed as he said, not taking Lynn's words seriously.

"We can't get it back, and we can't use it, but don't you think it's a very strategic thing to let the American crew on it be a substitute for the dead?" After that, Lynn felt that it was too late to think about it, so she continued to look through the earlier information, but the more time passed, the fewer opportunities she could find, and it seemed that she had to wait patiently for new information.

At this time, Andri slowly swallowed, "In that case...... I could have reached out to the North American side and asked them to see what was going on. You must know that such a large cruise ship is nearly 20 years old, and during the war, the eastern hiding province lacked maintenance, and it may be postponed to set sail! ”

"Postponement?" Lynn suddenly had a wit in his head, if there was still a chance...... Think of the sinking of the British liner Lusitania in 1915, which killed 1,198 people, including a large number of American citizens; In 1939, the British mail ship Athena was sunk, killing 112 people and killing dozens of American citizens. Although these two events did not lead to the direct entry of the United States into the war, they laid an important foreshadowing for the United States to enter the war - it triggered a diplomatic crisis, made Germany's image in the eyes of the American public vicious and demonized at an early stage, and made the eventual entry into the war logical.

Andri, apparently not sure of a position on this issue, asked with some hesitation: "Are you sure that the last remaining essence of German shipbuilding will be sunk in the icy Atlantic?" ”

Lynn immediately asked, "If sinking it can not only arouse the anger of the Western world, but also wake up the Germanic people, who have sunk to the bottom of defeat, why not do it?" ”

Andri sighed: "Okay! I'm going to have them contact the North American Intelligence Headquarters. ”

The sinking hope rose slightly, and Lynn only roughly looked through the early information, but did not find any valuable and time-sensitive surnames, so he agreed with Andriy to send the latest information about the ship to his office as soon as he had it, and left in a hurry. Before the news of the "Europa" came back, he did not rush to report to the Führer, but went to the technical department of the Navy and inquired in detail about the imitation and preparation of Soviet-made torpedoes, and learned that at present, Soviet submarines generally use the same 533 mm torpedoes as the German Navy, and the fuse is of the traditional trigger type, and the G7 torpedoes of the German Navy can be transformed, and the ten torpedoes that have been modified are enough to kill any large ship on the planet as long as they are used properly.

Immediately afterwards, Lynn went to the naval command under the base command, and asked the head of the submarine force of the Imperial Guard, the former ace captain Victor. General Schütz asked about the submarine forces. Recently, in order to cope with the threat of frequent movements of the Soviet Navy and Air Force in the northern waters, the Navy Department suspended the secret transportation of submarines between Europe and South America, and only kept two XXI-class submarines with long-term submarines, silent, advanced sonar, and submarine radars, and two low-noise, low-detectable XXIII-class offshore submarines to conduct surveillance in Norwegian waters. As a result, most of the submarines owned by the Imperial Guard are currently moored in the caverns of the "Vault" bases, and some transport submarines are on standby at secret bases in South America. Under the necessary circumstances, the base can currently dispatch up to six XXI-class submarines that are most suitable for ocean-going operations, as well as more than a dozen improved ocean-going attack submarines of other types.

Lynn has no authority to give orders to attack, because in the base system, he is only granted high-level query privileges by the administrators and has no actual control over the attack. However, half a year ago he was only an SS non-commissioned officer, and Lynn has far exceeded his own expectations by this step, in every way, he is still just a fledgling, in the process of climbing the peak of power, the rocket-like ascent speed often corresponds to the free fall of the fall, and seeking progress in stability is the most reasonable mentality of a person like him who has neither background nor support.

Andri, of course, is an elusive object of inner thinking, but as long as it does not touch his own interests, he can still distinguish priorities more objectively. After dinner that day, he brought Lynn the unexpected news: although the Europa had set sail from New York on time, it had a mechanical failure shortly after departure and had to go to the nearest Halifax port in Canada for repairs, and it was unclear whether it had been repaired and set off again. In addition, intelligence officers heard that the 50,000-ton giant cruise ship was carrying more than 1,000 passengers, mostly civilians who had departed from the United States for France, as well as French officials who had come to receive the cruise ship, and about two companies of officers and soldiers who had traveled from the US mainland to US military bases in Europe.

Hearing this, Lynn clapped his hands violently: "Providence is so!" ”

Subsequently, while asking Andriy to investigate the current situation of the "Europa" as soon as possible, Lynn rushed to report to the Führer overnight. In his opinion, with the Führer's vision and courage, even if he subconsciously resisted sinking the "Europa", he would definitely agree to this plan of killing three birds with one stone after listening to his own explanation.

(To be continued)