August 29, 1939, was certainly the most chaotic day in Europe.

The Germans approached Warsaw, the Polish government declared exile to the nation, and tens of thousands of government officials and citizens sought their own livelihoods. Before he could come to his senses, the news of the Soviet troops crossing the border on a large scale shook the whole of Europe. By the afternoon, Britain had also suffered its heaviest losses since the start of the war, when the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Valiant was being lowered less than 2,000 meters by the German submarine U-29 while slowing down to recover the aircraft.

The 20,000-ton Brave struggled for only fifteen minutes before sinking into the icy North Atlantic with 578 officers and men. When the news reached London, Churchill, who once again served as Lord of the Navy, bluntly stated that after the defeat of the Royal Navy in Asia, the traditional Atlantic territories also began to bleed. In order to avoid further losses, the British Navy had to order the remaining four aircraft carriers, the Athletic, the Glory, the Fury, and the Ark Royal, to be withdrawn to the mainland.

But Churchill certainly did not expect that German Field Marshal Raeder, whom he had never dreamed of strangleholding, would throw aside the news of the sinking of the Brave. An oil field! A large oil field under Germany's nose that can be exploited in one year! Is today April Fool's Day? After learning the news, even Hitler flipped through the calendar, and after making sure that it was not April Fool's Day, he immediately looked at Himmler.

The Gestapo was not a vegetarian, and in addition to not knowing about the decoder, he had long since figured out who was on board the Chinese fleet. Facing the Führer's gaze, Himmler immediately introduced: "Führer, this Chinese woman did not lie. The ships were filled with Polish scientists, university professors and engineers, as well as some family members and refugees of government officials. As for whether there is anything else, you need to bring the boat back and check it carefully. Himmler said the end, his eyes on Raeder. The latter also did not have a good impression of him, and oil was life for the navy. So even if there was something good on board, the German Navy did not want to continue the search, and there was no need for such a stupid thing as a fish dying and the net was broken.

So Raeder assured: "Rest assured, Colonel Greykamp has been examined three times in detail, and he is a very conscientious captain. "Hitler didn't really care what kind of fleet, his mind was full of oil, endless oil! Enough oil for German tanks to conquer the world! As long as it was not in the areas controlled by Anglo-French and Soviet Unions, it was worth taking any risks.

Anyway, China has no time to clean up now, and the Battle of Ahvaz is even praised by Manstein. After the Balikpapan oil field incident last time, he once considered purchasing bombers from China, but he did not implement it because the fat man from Goering said that Germany would soon have its own bombers. The main enemies now are Britain and France, and there is no need to offend China before defeating the old enemy. What's more, Yang Qiu also helped Germany drag millions of Soviet troops, so after thinking about it, he simply ordered the fleet to be released, but let Himmler detain Jin Bihui. It is necessary to wait until it is clear whether there is a real oil field before deciding whether to release it.

The efficiency of the German army was very high, and before Hitler could think of what words to use tomorrow to express his excitement about the sinking of the aircraft carrier Brave by the U-29, Jin Bihui arrived in Berlin on a JU52 transport plane escorted by a team of airborne troops. Of course, Hitler would not have intervened, but Himmler and Raeder were waiting at the airport early, and even Manstein, who was commanding the Polish campaign, arrived.

After learning that the fleet had been released. Jin Bihui returned to his former ease and hooked his finger to the German intelligence officer next to him: "I want a map, it's from North Africa." ”

"North Africa!"

Manstein was one of the few high-ranking officers in the German army who opposed an attack on Poland because he believed that Poland should serve as a buffer zone between Germany and the Soviet Union. Even after the Battle of Ahvaz, a Sino-Soviet war was inevitable. He also believed that the Eastern Front should not be easily opened before China and the Soviet Union were decided. So he was nominally commanding the Polish campaign, but in fact he had been secretly considering a plan to defeat France and seize a huge French African colony. So when I heard that the oil field was in North Africa, I hurriedly took advantage of the gap between the guards and the map and asked, "Miss Jin." You are talking about oil fields in French Africa? ”

Jin Bihui knew this German general, who was said to be very admired by the president and the domestic general staff, and said with a smile: "General. If the oil field is in a French colony, how are you going to exploit it? Manstein was slightly stunned, and soon realized that she was trying to trick herself. However, he was not angry, but shrugged his shoulders very gracefully: "If you are in the French colony, I'm afraid that President Yang Qiu will need to pay you a large ransom." ”

Jin Bihui was not disappointed without saying anything, and deliberately glanced at Himmler, who had a cold gaze next to him: "The general is really funny, much better than some people." "Raeder and Maninstein touched their noses, and it was true that no one liked Himmler. But after all, everyone is a colleague, so they stopped Jin Bihui from continuing to sow discord and asked, "Then where is it?" You wouldn't want to tell us, in the regions controlled by Italy, right? The Romans explored there for ten years! Nothing was found. ”

"Really? That's too bad! Jin Bihui pretended to be stunned and said, "General, if Mr. Mussolini knew afterwards that I had sold you a light oil field in Libya that had been explored, with reserves of more than seven billion barrels, and it was likely to be the best quality aromatic hydrocarbons, would he send someone to assassinate me?" ”

"Libya! Seven billion barrels! ”

Not to mention Raeder and Manstein, even the sulking Himmler felt like he had been hit in the head by something! The reverberations of a billion tons and Libya are in my ears. If it is in the French or British region, Germany really can't do it, but in Libya, even if it gives half to Italy, it will be 3.5 billion barrels! That's 3.5 billion! Last year, Germany consumed only 35 million tons of crude oil a year!

The Soviet Union had oil, and now Stalin had a request from Germany, so 200,000 tons of oil were sent by rail every month. But once China takes Tehran, Baku's oil-producing areas will be all covered by bombers. The production of small oil fields in the Urals and Siberia was insufficient, and the supply of Soviet troops was extremely difficult. Romanian oil fields are the best choice, but the production there is also not large, and the production of top-secret coal-to-oil is too small.

So, this oil field must be controlled no matter what! Even if you can't develop it right away, you have to keep it under control!

Since the last European war, oil production has become an indispensable criterion for a strong country. The United States has Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, Britain and France will have Venezuela and other American countries to provide oil even if they lose the Asian part, and China will take the opportunity to seize Saudi Arabia. In addition, after the continuous discovery of the North Sea oilfield, Yumenguan oilfield and Xinjiang oilfield in Irkutsk, it has also got rid of the hat of poor oil. The Soviet Union had Baku and Western Siberia, and even Japan grabbed Balikpapan, Palembang and Sarawak. Among the eight major powers in the world, only Germany and Italy are the worst, so only by getting this oil field can Germany really have the capital to compete with Britain, the United States and China in the world!

But how to cross the Mediterranean is always a problem, and to get this oil field it is necessary to completely solve France, and then to solve the British power in the Mediterranean. Raeder also understood that no matter how hard he tried, he could not compete with the British navy, and he could not rely on the Italians. So how to break through the blockade of the Anglo-French Mediterranean fleet became the key. Since the Navy can't move, then the only way is.

Raeder and Manstein looked at each other, just as the guards had spread out their maps, and their eyes swept around the French territory almost simultaneously, and then they both slowly slid down to a halt.

Gibraltar, Spain!

The name of the place quickly brought Manstein to his senses. Start thinking about it seriously. With the idea just now, he now believes that this oil field is real, because this is simply a bait that Yang Qiu deliberately threw out to make Germany completely break the old order. For Germany, this move is really hitting the soft underbelly, even if the generals are unwilling, the Führer, who has always dreamed of dominating Europe, will not agree to let go of this oil field. The only thing that he couldn't figure out was that Yang Qiu wanted to use Germany's hand to eliminate Britain and France. Or did he take an interest in Africa?

Manstein shook his head, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Siberian fronts were long enough, and Yang Qiu was not arrogant enough to allow the army to cross the Suez Canal and enter North Africa to fight.

So what exactly does he want to do?

Manstein's gaze circled around the Mediterranean coasts such as Egypt and Greece, and then slowly moved to England. He wanted Britain to fail. And then take over all the British possessions east of the Suez Canal? This is possible, after all, east of the canal is an area coveted even by Germany. And judging from the fact that he still maintains diplomatic channels with Germany, he may not have the intention of drawing a line at the last moment.

But is that really the case?

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After the plane came to a standstill, the crew carried Chen Haohui, who was in a wheelchair, out of the cabin.

This father of intelligence of the Republic of China, who has not left Hubei for a long time, looks a lot older. But he was in good spirits, and when he saw Yan Baohang who came to greet him, he took the initiative to push the wheels over.

"Teacher. How are you doing lately? "Yan Baohang was discovered by Chen Haohui, so he has always been commensurate with disciple etiquette.

Chen Haohui came to Beijing because he learned that Jin Bihui was trapped in Germany and was worried that something would happen to her. Seeing that he was tall and capable in a military uniform, he was also very happy: "Yes, no wonder the president has to mention you every time he calls me." You, the golden girl and the rain farmer are all productive now, very good! ”

"That's all the teacher's cultivation."

"I'm just giving you the opportunity, it's all your credit for developing the Strategic Intelligence Agency, and you don't need to put gold on my face." Chen Haohui waved his hand. Because he was worried about Jin Bihui's safety, after Yan Baohang helped him into the car, he immediately asked, "Is Jin Ya okay now?" ”

Of course, Yan Baohang knew his intention to come to Beijing, but fortunately, Chen Haohui's identity was special, so he didn't have to worry about leaks, so he immediately gave a general introduction to the decoder and the oil field. Finally, he said: "Teacher, you can rest assured that the Germans are already excited." Now the younger sister is secretly taking them to the oil field to explore, and Germany promised to buy it after the survey was correct, and immediately released the younger sister. ”

"That's good, that's good." Chen Haohui said hello twice, which shows that he cares about Jin Bihui very much. continued to ask: "So, you deliberately arranged for the golden girl to take this opportunity to sell the oil field to Germany?" Yan Baohang nodded and said apologetically: "Please forgive the teacher for being reckless, I don't have a way." Both the Gestapo and the German Army had British and French spies, but the Navy was better. So I had to deliberately let my junior sister take this opportunity to pretend to exchange urgently needed talents and hand them over directly to Raeder. ”

Chen Haohui didn't blame him, but smiled: "Good job!" By the way, is that decoder really that powerful? ”

"I don't know if the decoder is powerful, but Katzmarz and these mathematicians are the president's eyes on us for years. Although they study cryptography, cryptography is very close to logical mathematics, so the president hopes that they can work with us to develop a superelectronic machine. Yan Baohang introduced. As director of the Strategic Intelligence Agency, he knows all the details of the 3010 program, but to what extent the technology is being developed. He's just a layman.

Chen Haohui didn't expect Yang Qiu to attach so much importance to it, and he sent someone to secretly investigate a few years ago, and he couldn't help but think that these Poles had any special skills. He knew that the decoder and Kaczmarz and the others meant too much to Yang Qiu! You must know that after the Polish decoder was finally lost to Britain many times in history, the British government immediately asked Turing to lead Rozocchi and others to continue to develop, not only finally deciphering the Enigma cipher machine, but also helping Britain obtain countless secrets. Even after the entry of the United States into the war. At one point, it was used to spy on communications on both sides of the Atlantic for several years. It can be said that it is precisely because of this "super bomb" that the electromagnetic sky of World War II is actually one-way transparent to Britain. Later, Churchill learned from the telegram that the air battle in Britain had frustrated Hitler, so he boldly bombed Berlin. Decisions such as the complete abortion of the Sea Lion Project are inextricably linked to this machine.

As for Katzmalz, it is a pity that this world-renowned logic and mathematics master at that time, on a par with Turing and others, was arrested by the Soviet army and killed in Katyn for escorting a decoder. It was also Turing who took the opportunity to study the "bomb decoder" and the Kaczmalz algorithm, and finally realized the first real electronic computer ace after the war.

So whether it was the decoder or the Katzmalz, the most that fell into the hands of Britain and France was to decipher the telegram. But in Yang Qiu's hands, the meaning is completely different, if they can be combined with the computers led by Hua Luogeng, PN transistors, etc., it is a transistor computer with real logical computing ability!

It's exciting to think about!

Chen Haohui doesn't really care about these things. After listening to him, he asked about the oil field: "Baohang, is that oil field real?" ”

"It's true, six years ago we organized experts to go to Libya to secretly survey, and we also found a few Americans to buy the entire area under the pretext of mining. After drilling out the oil. For fear of being discovered by Britain and Italy, they were all sealed and buried with cement. Judging by the amount of gas, there are at least seven billion barrels of reserves below. Professor Li Siguang also gave the possibility that this area contains 13 billion barrels. ”

There is no guarantee whether 13 billion can be reached, but 7 billion is not a small number! Thinking of the location of the oil field, Chen Haohui suddenly understood: "The president wants the Germans to go to North Africa to threaten Egypt, right?" Britain is in real trouble now! ”

"After the Soviet Union is pinned down by us and can no longer threaten Germany, Britain will have to drag the United States into the water! Moreover, this oil field will make Germany aware of the crisis in the Mediterranean, and the Italian Navy alone will not be enough to defeat Cunningham's Mediterranean fleet, so Germany is very likely to consider it. ”

"Spain!" Before Yan Baohang finished speaking, Chen Haohui shouted out the key.

Yan Baohang nodded: "The importance of Spain has risen all of a sudden, although Franco is very shrewd, but for the sake of oil and North Africa, it is difficult to guarantee that Hitler will not attack Spain and grab Gibraltar, so as to completely close the door to the Mediterranean." If this is the case, the United States is likely to face a situation in which Britain has surrendered, and Roosevelt will not be able to see Asia and Europe divided between us and Germany, so he will definitely support Britain's involvement in the war! So that he would have to abandon the Pacific Ocean for the time being. ”

Chen Haohui's eyebrows gradually wrinkled, judging from what he said just now, Yang Qiu's move was very good, but there is a very important question, what should China do? Do you want to make an alliance with Germany? Faced with the question, Yan Baohang was a little hesitant, the matter of announcing the secret agreement between the Soviet Union and Germany was extremely confidential, although Chen Haohui was a former intelligence officer, but he had retired in the end, but he didn't want to make up nonsense, so he finally answered honestly: "Teacher, I can't say it." The president has personally issued a gag order on this matter, so you just have to wait and see. ”

Chen Haohui knows the rules, so he shook his hand: "Look at me, I forgot if I wasn't in my position or anything." Don't ask, don't ask! Let's talk about the golden girl, according to what you just said, she can come back if she sells the oil field, right? ”

"I have to go to Belgium once to help Lord Lu Zhengxiang deal with some things."

"What are you doing for Zixin?" Chen Haohui was a little puzzled. Since the death of Mrs. Peide, Lu Zhengxiang has received the status of a Belgian ambassador, in fact, he is hiding to support his wife and miss him. Although he has helped deal with a lot of things in China over the years by relying on the identity of "Belgian son-in-law", he has rarely come forward, so why should he be used again?

This time, Yan Baohang did not hide it, and said: "Belgium has a uranium mine in the Congo, and the president asked Lu Zhengxiang to contact their boss and prepare to buy all the ore at a high price. "Speaking of the purchase of uranium ore. He was also full of resentment: "This boss named Edgar Sengier is very slippery, and he didn't know where he learned about the purpose of uranium ore, so he secretly contacted the United States to prepare to transport the ore to New York, but fortunately the United States was not interested." After Lu Zhengxiang found him, he actually opened his mouth and quoted a price of $4 a pound. Damn it! He only sold it for $1.6 a pound last year. Originally, Lu Zhengxiang wanted to lower the price, but the president replied and asked to buy it all regardless of the price. I did the math that there were 1,200 tonnes of high-grade ore in the Belgian town of Oulen and 1,250 tonnes of lower-grade ore in the Hinkolobwe mine in the Congo. It all adds up to 22 million US dollars, and with the use of civil yuan, it is 44 million. ”

"So much money?" Before Chen Haohui left office, he had already begun research on the nuclear bomb program, so he knew very well what the uranium ore was used for. He was surprised by the price. You must know that each 36 tank is 200,000 yuan, and the military purchase price of each H-7 bomber is only 550,000 yuan, so he asked in surprise: "Aren't we short of uranium ore?" ”

"It's not Britain and the United States that are making trouble." Yan Baohang explained.

It turned out that since last year, after the news that Britain and the United States were going to study nuclear bombs, Yang Qiu began to worry about the discovery of China's nuclear weapons program. You must know that the development of nuclear weapons involves a wide range of aspects. There is a lot of material mobilization, and once Britain and the United States have the concept of nuclear weapons, they will pay attention to this aspect of things, and the possibility of leaks will increase. So just buy uranium ore aggressively. He also asked the Strategic Intelligence Agency to set up a fake high-energy physical agency, put on the posture that it was also going to study nuclear bombs, attract the attention of Britain and the United States to this fake agency, and then constantly release false news such as development difficulties and unsuccessful research to confuse the outside world.

Besides. Yang Qiu also had the idea of obstructing the progress of US nuclear weapons, but Yan Baohang and everyone did not know about this matter. Because at present, the world can provide uranium ore spot except for the Republic of China. There is only Hinkolobwe in the Congo. Historically, the uranium used by the United States to make nuclear bombs relied on the 1,250 tons of ore that Edgar had shipped to the United States in advance. You know, it takes hundreds of tons of ore to build a nuclear bomb, and the uranium mines in Hinkolobwe have been basically mined, which means that as long as this batch of uranium ore is bought, it will be difficult for the United States to scrape together enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb by 1944.

In addition, Hesenberg's plutonium fission theory was brought to the United States in 1943 by his friend, the Danish physicist Bohr. Therefore, if there was no uranium ore and all plutonium, the United States would probably only be able to stockpile one or two nuclear bomb materials before 1945.

Chen Haohui took a deep breath. Yang Qiu's step by step feels like a pair of eyes that can see the future. While everyone was staring at the artillery planes, he had already begun to calculate the international uranium ore and delay the time for others to build nuclear bombs. This shows that he is not only trying to win this war, but also counting Britain and the United States and even the whole world, and the war is just a tool used by him to establish the status of a world power.

Such meticulousness also made him look forward to the war that was about to begin, and leaned back in his chair and asked, "Has the president decided?" When to play? ”

Yan Baohang said: "It's not that we want to fight, it's the Soviet Union that can't help it!" After the partition of Poland to suspend the pressure on Europe, Stalin thought that Europe was left with such a trivial matter as the Baltic Sea and Finland, so in the past few days, Zhukov and others have been recalled to Moscow for a meeting, and he has also actively transferred troops to the Caucasus. Since the end of the Battle of Ahvaz, another 120,000 Soviet troops have entered Iran, and at least two more regiments have entered northern Iraq. Stalin's demand is said to have increased the total force in the Caucasus to 1.1 million troops, at least 3,000 tanks, and 40,000 artillery pieces by October.

If this information is true, based on the figures of troop movements, we will probably be able to start a full-scale operation in mid-October. This time was chosen because the Soviet Union has always felt that it is better at winter operations than us, and it happens that after entering November, it will snowfall in Kazakhstan and Siberia, and in December, it will basically not be able to fight large-scale operations, and even Afghanistan and Iran will become very cold when they are on the plateau, so even if there is a mistake in the fight at this time, as long as they persist until the beginning of December, the weather can help them win 5 months of winter and readjust back. ”

Chen Haohui subconsciously moved his somewhat hot body, and with the gradually louder horn, the blood seemed to start burning again.