Chapter 30: Darkness (2)
Zhao Zhi is a special existence in Germany, only a few high-level German and some generals in the military circles know that Zhao Zhi is a person, and only a few people know about the plans he has formulated, so far, the British intelligence department, which is also pervasive, does not know that there is such a person as Zhao Zhi, let alone that the danger is slowly approaching London. At the initiative of the British royal family, Britain opened the port of Southampton, and in order to relieve the pressure on the Jewish refugee camp in Bremerhaven, a large number of British merchant ships poured here, transporting more than two-thirds of the Jewish refugees to the port of Southampton.
The Red Cross people who helped Tian Jing were all evacuated to the port of Southampton, especially Sister Demi, who wrote to the British royal family, was summoned by Queen Elizabeth. Fortunately, Karina and a few Jewish volunteers were helping Tian Jing, otherwise this stubborn Chinese girl would have been exhausted long ago.
With a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, the Black Lady is a large oil tanker belonging to a newly registered shipping company in the United States, in order to transport Jewish refugees, the owner removed the redundant facilities on board, and built countless small warehouses and chase shops with steel plates and wood, if the Black Lady is crowded with Jewish refugees, under the condition of ensuring its navigation, this large oil tanker can carry 7,000 refugees at a time under the condition of ensuring its navigation. There were five ships belonging to the same shipping company as the Black Lady, and it is said that the owner of the shipping company was also a Jew, so he did not hesitate to stop his business and sent all the ships under his name to Bremerhaven to help transport Jewish refugees to the port of Southampton.
The Black Lady was the largest ship to arrive in the port of Bremerhaven today, and before Tian Jing could arrange to board the list of refugees on the Black Lady, Salen, who commanded the SS, informed Tian Jing that the ship would not be able to carry a small number of refugees until it had carried the weapons and ammunition that Zhao Zhi had brought to China. Tian Jing is still Chinese from the bones, since Zhao Zhi transported weapons to help the Chinese people fight the Japanese, Tian Jing naturally had no complaints, in order to facilitate the Black Lady to carry weapons, Tian Jing also specially arranged the Black Empress in the most hidden position in the port.
A long boardwalk has already been built on the dock, which is welded with steel like the one in the Portsmouth shipyard, and anyone who is familiar with armored vehicles will surely exclaim that this steel plank road is clearly a straight passage through tanks. Under the pretext of needing to refuel, the Black Lady docked quietly on the dock, and as soon as it was dark, the German SS guarding the periphery of the dock would drive the Jewish refugees scattered around the dock back to the camp, and this was the case every day for more than half a month, so when the roar of tanks sounded on the dock, the Jews who slept peacefully in the camp did not feel strange.
The two large loaders on the deck of the Black Lady kept running back and forth, moving the Tiger tanks on the plank road to the deck, and then the large lifts made by American mechanical experts sent the Tiger tanks on the deck into the bilge, and when the first rays of sunlight in the morning shone on the sea, more than 30 Tiger tanks had been loaded into the two decks of the Black Lady. The Black Lady, which originally belonged to a Canadian company, was funded by the Rockman family, and Hans used a fake passport to register an oil tanker in the United States, and in order to rebuild this large ship, the Rockman family gathered thousands of mechanics to work on the family's own docks for more than a month.
With its two-step loaders and large lifts on deck running at full speed, the Black Lady was able to get 30 Tiger tanks hidden in the double bilge onto the dock in three hours. In fact, including the 20 Tiger tanks that Goering promised to give to Zhao Zhi, this behemoth that is currently called the Tiger tank by the German army is not the kind of Tiger that Zhao Zhi is familiar with, and the ownership of this kind of big guy with an overall total weight of 35 tons does not belong to the German military, because they are still only experimental products, to put it bluntly, they are still prototypes.
Considering the staggering number of tank units in the British garrison troops, the German High Command decided to use the heavy tank that had been developed since 1937 in advance, but after two years of research and development, more than 80 of these large tanks, known as the Tiger, were counted in the warehouses of the weapons factory. With a stroke of his pen, Goering simply went to the British forward base by sea, and while participating in the war, while inspecting the operation data, Zhao Zhi, who had long coveted the famous Tiger tank, did not know that the 20 Tiger tanks that Goering gave him were just experimental products.
After loading more than 3,000 sallow-faced "Jewish refugees", the Black Lady finally lifted anchor and left under the reluctant gaze of the Jews on the dock, including Tian Jing, who did not know that all the German soldiers who were sent to the Black Lady just now were German soldiers. Hunger and cold had long caused the Jewish refugees in Bremerhaven to ignore everything and people, so the German soldiers, dressed in the same clothes as the Jewish refugees, with the same stooping bodies and carrying the same simple luggage, did not attract their attention at all, and even if anyone looked at it a few times, they were instantly forgotten, because they were in a hurry to occupy the bunks vacated by the departed.
As soon as the fleet left the port of Bremerhaven, the Black Lady slowly fell behind, and the other ships belonging to the same company all had enough power to go straight to the port of Southampton. Taking advantage of the cover of night, the Black Lady suddenly turned to Portsmouth at a position still 100 nautical miles away from the port of Southampton, and the name of the Black Lady could not be strangely found on the list of ships arriving at the port of Southampton, and the Jews who were busy munching sausages had long forgotten about the Black Lady, so the British Red Cross personnel in the port of Southampton did not know that there was still the Black Lady.
"Here, signal" The tarpaulin on the speedboat was lifted, and Hans's flashlight was turned on, signaling the oncoming Black Lady. As soon as the Black Lady left the port of Bremerhaven, Zhao Zhi received a telegram from Salen, and according to the planned steps, as soon as it was dark, Hans took two speedboats out of the Portsmouth shipyard to meet the Black Lady. There were no whistles and no lights, and the Black Lady sailed into the Portsmouth shipyard under the guidance of the two speedboats, repeating the same scene that had happened in Bremerhaven Harbour again, only this time by moving the contents of the cabin instead of loading them in.
The Jewish mechanics who had been ordered by Zhao Zhiqiang to rest for a day during the day were called up to help, waiting for the big guys in the cabin to be transported by the loader on the plank road and driven into the factory, and the Jewish mechanics who had been fighting in the shipyard for half a month knew what the Chinese boss wanted to do. It's a pity that they only have wrenches and shovels in their hands, and in the face of the loaded submachine guns in the hands of the mercenaries, these things are simply toothpick-like existences, after the German soldiers lined up on the ship appeared, the Jews in the shipyard finally chose to compromise, and An An began to get busy according to Zhao Zhi's orders.
One by one, the tanks were driven into the huge pit in the factory, and steel plates could be placed on the pit, as long as the steel plates were fastened to the pit, the tanks hidden inside seemed to disappear out of thin air. The 3,000 German soldiers who came with the ship were temporarily placed in the shipyard, and they could only follow the men sent by Krim into Southampton in batches. Krim opened up a number of smuggling routes from Portsmouth to Southampton, and the transferred German soldiers dressed up in the public would not attract the attention of anyone who cares about it.
By the time the ship full of Jewish refugees departed from the port of Southampton for the Suez Canal, the Black Lady, which had unloaded its tanks and weapons at the Portsmouth shipyard, made a strange appearance on the convoy's course. After half a month of busyness, Kerim's henchmen were tired enough, not only did they have to sneak into the manor in Southampton with those Germans, but they also had to find a way to transport a large number of weapons from the Portsmouth shipyard to the manor.
In just half a month, the Black Lady smuggled the 80 Tiger tank prototypes and a large number of weapons sent by the German army to Bremerhaven to the Portsmouth shipyard, and the Black Lady was sent to Portsmouth with the elite infantry division of the German army selected by the German High Command. A full 12,000 people, filling Zhao Zhi's shipyard, these German soldiers could only be sent to the advance base in Southampton in batches, and the large amount of material consumption every day made Zhao Zhi miserable.
Half a month of high-intensity work, so that the Black Lady paid the price of a loader and a large elevator as a whole, after sending a large amount of ordnance to Zhao Zhi for the last time, the Black Lady, full of supplies, mixed into the fleet transporting refugees and rushed to the Suez Canal. The materials transported with the Black Lady were all factory equipment, including a power plant and a steelmaking plant, which were all necessary infrastructure for Zhao Zhi's construction base. Of course, the Jewish mechanics who had the privilege of participating in the tank transfer at the Portsmouth shipyard were taken to Burma by the Black Lady, and Zhao Zhi would not give anyone a chance to reveal the news of the German infiltration into the British mainland.