Chapter 874: The Phantom of Port Elizabeth
Churchill racked his brains to get his hands on gold, and he ordered more than 300 tons of gold from South Africa to be shipped to Swiss banks to finance the purchase of planes and other weapons.
At the same time, he began to pick up gold in the dilapidated London, gathering all the gold he could get his hands on and shipping it to Switzerland in the shortest possible time. It's just that he doesn't understand why it's Switzerland, but it's hard to reverse the decision on where to trade, and it seems that it is not known what the arms company has to do with Swiss banks. Although this Switzerland is not very famous, it may be related to weapons companies, which will lead to all gold transactions going to Switzerland.
The next day, the old Xi devoted all their energies to attacking France, and their army advanced along the 110-kilometer gorge into French territory, bypassing the Maginot Line, and directly attacking the French army. The frontal attack was changed from a feint to an actual attack, and the French army was to be routed as quickly as possible, and then to attack the British.
The reason why he did not provoke Britain was to wait for the shells to arrive, he did not provoke Britain, believing that Britain could set aside a few days to put down the decisive battle of the air war and start preparing for a big war, and then he would occupy the whole territory of Holland, the whole territory of Belgium, and control France.
Similar to him, Churchill took over the shells and anti-aircraft guns on the freighter and urgently transported them to London and several important cities, arranged prevention and control, produced radars, and restored early warnings, and did not mean to provoke Lao Xi, he believed that in an extremely tragic air battle, it would be difficult for Lao Xi to organize bombing, after all, he had to take into account the French battlefield.
BUT OUT OF SELFISHNESS, HE DID NOT SEND THE SHELLS TO FRANCE, ALTHOUGH THERE WERE ALSO 127MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS THERE, AND HE HAD TO KEEP THEM FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE MAINLAND, OTHERWISE, A LOT OF GOLD WOULD HAVE DISAPPEARED, AND HIS HOMELAND WOULD BE BOMBED SEVERAL MORE TIMES. The factory is completely paralyzed, which means that he will completely fail and become a loser in this game.
He didn't know that his selfishness would make the French army collapse soon, and the Maginot Line would soon collapse, France. will also collapse in his preparations, and his army, withdrawing is a problem.
The two sides came to a standstill, and a life-and-death aerial duel was temporarily suspended. The caverns ramped up production, and five more ships shipped the remaining French gold out to Switzerland before starting to ship shells and various supplies, including Tiger tanks and aviation oil, from Pontianak and several secret military factories into Germany. When a large number of empty ships are built, all German supplies will be monopolized by Dong Ku.
At this time. In Burma, Sun Tao's army had already cut off the connection between Okamura Ninji and Tojo Hideki according to the established plan, and Qu Jungang was also making the most difficult preparations, forcing Okamura Ninji and Nakajima Imago's army to enter Laos, enter Cambodia, and rush to Thailand, and import a large number of people to occupy the places that had been occupied. When France had no time to take care of it, it quietly added blood to Vietnam, which had been attacked. It is expected that in two months, the Japanese army can be driven into Thailand, occupy the entire territory of Vietnam, and arrange the coastal defense artillery.
By this time, France had lost contact with Vietnam and had no idea what was happening there. And where Qu Jungang's army passed. First of all, all the radio stations were confiscated, the aborigines were controlled, and troops were left everywhere to maintain law and order, and those tattered weapons were collected. The managers sent by Liu Defeat City took over the local management, restored law and order, resumed production, settled life, and completed the process of replacing colonists.
In India, Myitkyina has been defeated by Yu Lei and is advancing towards Bengal, but there is no intention of attacking India.
As for Southeast Asia, everything is going on in secret, or it hasn't arrived yet, and there is no movement for the time being.
These, for the time being, have nothing to do with Britain and France, they are already inseparable from Germany, and they can't take care of any crown or not. But South Africa is still robust there, and gold is being raised to be shipped away.
Gold is concentrated in Port Elizabeth from all over the country, to the banks there, and it is estimated that by three days at the latest, more than 300 tons of gold, plus high-quality diamonds, will be shipped here.
Port Elizabeth was as quiet as ever, the two battleships were quietly moored there, the huge gun muzzles were covered with gun jackets, and the rest of the battleships, except for the necessary remaining soldiers, had gone down to the harbor for recreation.
It's not that they're lazy, it's actually that their warships are all old-fashioned warships, and ocean-going operations have been eliminated, but they haven't canceled their establishment, and they are just returning to the furnace to make iron, and they are just used here as a mobile battery, or to escort merchant ships.
And there will be no war here at the Cape of Good Hope, because Germany is blocked in the English Channel, and Japan cannot cross Malacca, so they are absolutely safe here.
On the dock, a few dark-skinned Thais, chattering, walked towards their cargo ship. It was a 1,000-ton ocean-going freighter, a little smaller, but it was also an indispensable carrying capacity for the current transportation capacity.
The sun was slowly setting, and the battleships and freighters were plunged into darkness one by one. Inside the harbor, several cargo ships waiting for wool were also silent. Most of the crew went up to the dock, with only the occasional figure visible in the dim light.
In the dark, the Amazon rose and fell slightly under the swelling of the waves, and the other Westminster, as did it, staring silently into the docks in the dark.
The sea breeze blew slowly, speeding up the night. At this time, if someone gets close to the side of the two warships, they will definitely find a strange phenomenon, one by one, geckos, climbing on the battleship, approaching the side of the ship.
On the battleship, several figures wandered around boredly, and then entered the cabin, or smoked leisurely there.
Suddenly, a smoky shadow flashed over the side of the Amazon and vanished. Soon, another black shadow flashed in the dim light.
The same was true of the USS Westminster, black shadows as faint as light smoke flashed in the darkness and disappeared into the shadows on the deck.
The battleship, still quietly undulating, did not feel anything, did not notice anything, everything was quiet.
About an hour had passed, and the dock suddenly became noisy, and a car drove up, followed by the soldiers who had gone to the dock to rest, jumped out of the trucks and returned to their respective boats. And the battleship was suddenly brightly lit, and the figures on the deck were running and busy.
Going to sea?
The people on the freighter in the distance were disturbed, and they all leaned on the side of the ship to look at the two warships in the distance, and secretly guessed.
In the light, truckloads of vegetables, truckloads of meat, and fresh water pipes also stretched out to the battleship, and began to replenish before sailing.
No one knew where they were going, but it was obviously a long voyage, and it was not difficult to see from the supply that the two old warships were about to sail.
As they got busy, several frigates were lit up, and then turned around with the help of tugboats and drove out of the dock.
Is there going to be war?
On those freighters, everyone stood up, watching the lights from a distance, not knowing what was going to happen.
Before they could discuss the results, trucks drove up on the dock again, and then a large number of British troops jumped out of the cars and blocked the dock.
This action really frightened the people on the freighter, and they looked at the dock with trepidation, not knowing what was going to happen to the road.
After about ten minutes, the lights of the car came on again, and then the trucks drove close to the dock, and under the supervision of the soldiers with loaded guns, they approached the battleship, and then began to unload the trucks, carrying boxes of goods to the Amazon by two people.
Figures shuttled, the soldiers loaded on the ship trotted one by one, and the two of them carried the small boxes very heavy, but they were quite fast, and it took an hour of busy work before the trucks were all unloaded.
When the last truck was finished, the trucks left the dock one by one and disappeared into the darkness.
As the truck disappeared, the figures on the battleship ran, followed by untying the cables, retracting the springboard, and rushing quickly.
On one side, two tugboats also followed in place, dragging the battleship out of the dock, slowly turning around, and then the battleship's boiler burned, and thick smoke rose from the chimney, and it set sail.
Looking at the battleship that was fading away, a figure on the side of the Thai freighter in the port said in a deep voice: "The tuna has swam, and the shark hunting has taken over!" ”
As his words fell, a waterline was drawn in the harbor, chasing the distant battleship, like a sharp arrow, breaking through the water and following the battleship in the dark.
Just look at the traces of the stroke, you can tell that this is a submarine, a submarine with an air duct out of the water, and the righteous highest speed pursues the battleship to determine their whereabouts.
The battleship, unaware of the tail behind the road, after leaving Port Elizabeth, headed directly for the Strait of Mozambique, apparently going through the Gulf of Aden and into Suez.
There, in Madagascar, a submarine floats silently, with a slight smoke emitting from the exposed air vents. The engines in the boat run at low speed, ready to set sail. Radar also stared at the nearby sea with full attention, not letting go of any suspicious figure.
Soon, in the early hours of the morning, the people inside the submarine moved, followed by adjusting the direction, and waited quietly.
After a while, a roar came, and the two battleships drove one after the other, and the speed was extremely fast, much faster than the cruise. And later, the waterline disappeared, the submarine did not show up, and they simply could not catch up.
But it doesn't matter, there are successors, as long as they don't go to Malacca, they really go to Switzerland, then, they can't get through Somalia, where piracy is said to be rampant. As for being able to hijack the battleship, I'm afraid it is up to the British to have the final say. Their careful planning had already been exposed to the gaze of the advance army, and there were those tiger warriors on the ship, who wanted to escape, but the door was gone...... (To be continued......)