On November 16, Wang Yaqiao came to Xiao Zhenlei's office to report important intelligence from Europe, "President, there is important news from Europe!" ”

"Oh? What's the news? Xiao Zhenlei put down Wen Jiàn and got up and pointed to the sofa next to him and said, "Come, sit down and talk!" ”

"Yes, President!"

The two came to the sofa and sat down, Xiao Zhenlei poured two glasses of cold boiled water, and Wang Yaqiao said: "There are four main news that we think are more important. First, Germany has been producing five aircraft per day since it got our aircraft manufacturing technical data and drawings, brought back to China and began to produce it, according to the intelligence analysis we have obtained, now Germany can produce five aircraft per day, and two months later, Germany can produce ten aircraft per day, as long as the resources can keep up, the production efficiency will only get older and higher! ”

Xiao Zhenlei took a sip of water from the back of the water cup, and after a moment of silence, he said: "According to this production efficiency, Germany has 600 first-generation fighters in three months, and three months later, all the 300 planes we sold to Britain have been delivered, that is to say, Germany's fighters are twice as large as Britain, if Germany still can't win, then I can only feel sorry for Wilhelm II!" ”

Wang Yaqiao heard this: "President, I think the German side should be fine, speaking of aircraft, although Britain developed earlier than Germany, but Germany before buying our drawings, both production capacity and technology are stronger than Britain, I think Germany should be no problem, before the war, the French aircraft technology is better than the British, let alone the Germans, now France has been destroyed, some of France's research technology has also been obtained by Germany, plus the manufacturing technology bought from us." I believe that Germany is ahead of the curve in the field of aircraft than the UK."

To say in other ways. The Germans may be inferior to the British, but in the field of military technology. The Germans have a very keen sense of smell, and during this period they were very tolerant of scientists from other countries, so there were many scientists from other countries in Germany during this period, and Germany not only did not reject these foreign countries, but also took good care of them, and the Spanish scientists who invented the aircraft airborne machine gun firing coordinator were in the service of Germany at this time, and there were many other foreign scientists engaged in study, scientific research and other work in Germany.

Xiao Zhenlei nodded, lit a cigarette and took a few puffs, and asked, "What about the second news?" ”

Wang Yaqiao said: "The second news is very unfavorable to the German side. According to information obtained by our intelligence officers in London, in August of last year, the Germans sent a light cruiser 'Megdebug' to attack the Russian coast. However, the sea fog was very thick that day, and the cruiser 'Megdebug' ran aground when it sneaked into the target in the thick sea fog, so the attack was exposed. When the fog began to lift, a terrible situation arose. The captain of the cruiser 'Megdebug' saw a number of Russian warships sailing out of the Gulf of Finland and rushing towards his 'Megdebug' in battle formation! In the critical situation of man-made swords and fish and meat, the captain first thought of the security of the password. He immediately ordered one of the officers to take out the secret book of the Navy. Tie it to a small boat with a lead block, and want the officer to take the boat away from the stranded warship and sail to the deep sea area, so that the code book can still be lowered into the deep sea. But at this moment. The Russians opened fire on the German warship. 'Megdebug' was shot. During the Russian offensive, there was chaos on the German ships. The officer in charge of the codebook died in the Russian attack before he could leave the ship. Swept into the sea by artillery fire. The Russians captured the cruiser 'Megdebug'".

"The Russians, while cleaning the battlefield, found the code book of the German army! At that time, the Russian Navy and the British Royal Navy had a close cooperation in the exchange of intelligence. Knowing that the British Navy had a strong technical force in deciphering codes, he handed over the captured codebook to the British Royal Navy Intelligence Service. ”

"The British Naval Intelligence immediately organized deciphering crews to work day and night. According to our recent information, the British successfully deciphered all the codes of the German Navy last year. Moreover, the British knew the rules of the German army's code arrangement and mastered the key to open the German army's code combination system through the process of deciphering Guò. After that, no matter how the German cipher changed its combination, the British decipherers were able to decipher it very quickly. Germany sent warships to British waters many times in an attempt to attack British ships or ports, but each time the British received the news in advance, and not only did not cause damage to Britain, but suffered a lot of losses themselves."

After listening to the news from Wang Yaqiao, Xiao Zhenlei sighed: "No wonder the German Navy has been pressed and beaten by the British Royal Navy for so long, it turns out that the British have long since cracked the law of the German army's cipher code arrangement, and if this continues, it is no wonder that the Germans are undefeated!" ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Zhenlei stood up with a cigarette between his fingers and paced in the office, Wang Yaqiao also had to stand up, two minutes later, Xiao Zhenlei stopped and instructed: "In the field of intelligence, the Germans can eat France, but in front of the British, the Germans' intelligence system is too poor, you have to find a way to let the Germans know about this situation." ”

Wang Yaqiao said rightly: "Yes, President! ”

"Let's talk about the third news!"

"According to reliable sources, the Entente side is formulating a landing plan for the 'Zeus Plan', led by the British, assisted by France and other Entente countries, and this plan is currently being formulated in London, and it is speculated from the sporadic information obtained that the Entente is preparing to land in the southwest of France, the specific location is not clear, the total strength is about two million, and there are more than 1,300 ships of all sizes!"

Xiao Zhenlei frowned and asked, "Does the German side know?" ”

Wang Yaqiao shook his head and said, "We don't know about this!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought about it and put the news aside, and decided that even if the Germans didn't know, he wouldn't let Wang Yaqiao inform the Germans, he thought about it and said: "It's okay to do this thing, let's talk about the fourth news!" ”

Wang Yaqiao said: "The fourth news is that the war between the Central Powers and the Entente in the Ural Mountains has entered a stalemate stage, the main reason is that the Allied side is mainly the army of Austria-Hungary this time, supplemented by the armies of Germany and Bulgaria, and the number of troops is smaller, so the combat effectiveness is limited, and the Entente side does not have many troops in the south, and now the weapons and ammunition are all supplied by Britain, so the logistics are also a little unable to keep up, so the Allies are unable to fight after 60,000 casualties and the Entente after 100,000 casualties. Both sides had to stop and recuperate, and the Italians wanted to show their respects to the Entente, but unfortunately Britain and France were too wary of it to allow it to go into battle."

Xiao Zhenlei took a few puffs of cigarette, squinted his eyes and asked, "Is there any news from Tsarist Russia?" What was the situation of the revolutionary parties in Tsarist Russia? ”

Wang Yaqiao said: "The situation in Tsarist Russia is getting worse and worse, although the Tsarist army has withstood the attack of the Germans on the front line, but the domestic economic situation is getting worse, from the beginning of the war to the present, Tsarist Russia has increased its production capacity in the field of machine industry, which is also brought by the war, but most of the products produced are consumed by the war, the average military production has increased by more than 13 times per year, while civilian production has only increased by 40%. Up to now, as far as we know, the agricultural machinery products in Tsarist Russia are only one-fifth of what they were before the war, and the production of locomotives and carriages has decreased significantly, with locomotives and carriages reduced by 16% and carriages by 14%. The lack of machines and lathes has affected the decline in ore, coal and oil extraction. Due to the lack of fuel, raw materials, the blast furnace was ceased, and many factories had to be closed. Before the war, textile mills that relied on imported cotton production ceased production. 20% of the looms in Petrograd could not be operated. At the front, the supply of weapons, ammunition is already somewhat insufficient. 60,000 rifles are needed every month, but only 134,000 rifles were made in August ~ December last year. 800 machine guns were needed per month, and in the second half of last year a total of 860 machine guns were manufactured. ”

"Traffic, transportation is strictly blocked. Railways cannot afford to transport the tasks that have increased dramatically. In recent months, the Russian railways have been able to deliver only 70% of the food needed for the army. I estimate that by the end of the year or the beginning of next spring, the volume of grain transportation in Tsarist Russia will drop again, and some wounded soldiers will not receive food and gauze for several days. Food was scarce in Petrograd, Moscow and other industrial cities, but in the Urals, the Caspian Sea, the Volga and the Don rivers a lot of grain, meat and fish rotted. A few months ago, due to the hot weather and the inability of the transportation situation to keep up, Tsarist Russia stored 150,000 wagons of spoiled grain. Sea freight is not good either. The Baltic Sea and the Black Sea have long been blockaded by Germany and Austria-Hungary. ”

"This is only a matter of industry and transportation, and the most serious problem in Tsarist Russia is that the battlefield has devastated agriculture, and the number of conscripts who can work in the army is 15 million, mainly from the countryside. According to a survey of our intelligence officers scattered throughout Tsarist Russia, the rural male labor force has decreased by 47.4 per cent in the 50 provinces of Europe and Russia. The area of cultivated land was reduced by 10 million acres, the number of cultivated animals was reduced by a quarter, and the amount of grain harvested was reduced by a quarter. The difficulties in transportation have in turn effectively severed the links between urban and rural areas. In the market, there is a growing shortage of grain, meat, sugar and other agricultural products. Petrograd received only 14% of the planned food supply. The landlords, kulaks, and merchants, on the other hand, had in their hands a large amount of the necessaries of life, hoarding and speculating. Food often disappears from the store, only to be sold at high prices on the black market. The price of grain in Petrograd is 1.5~3 times higher than before the war, and meat and sugar are especially expensive. The vast majority of the common people in Tsarist Russia were starving, and there were more than 600 peasant uprisings this year alone, but all of them were suppressed by the Tsarist authorities! (To be continued......)