81_81266 The British found a German pocket radio station in Poison's quarters, and this advanced equipment stunned the American and British technicians who rushed to hear the news. The small radio device, which bears the Siemens logo on the outer box, is not much larger than the single battery of the radio equipment used by the British agents.

What kind of gap is this? It's a world of difference. While Britain was still trying to break up the radio stations and send them into Germany in batches, German spies could carry a handbag with a radio station on it and swagger down the streets of the United States or Canada.

The work of copying this telecommunications equipment can be said to have started immediately after a few days, and now is definitely not the time to be a good face, and when it is time to admit it, you must clamp your tail and be a man. American experts even relied on the small and delicate battery equipment on this radio station to roughly guess the diving time of the German submarine.

"Are you saying that German submarines can stay underwater for that long with this battery once they float?" asked a British technician, looking at the American engineer in surprise.

The American engineer nodded, and with a pilgrimage on his face, he seemed to be amazed at the advance of German technology. He looked at the British personnel and replied, "If the batteries on their submarines are made according to the standards of this kind of battery." ”

"Can we ......?" asked the British spy, apparently moved.

"It can be used for our submarine technology, but it will take some time to digest this aspect of the process. The American engineer nodded and said: "But I am more optimistic about their achievements in fine machining, these fine parts are too standard, and they are not at all processed by ordinary workers......

It is indeed not processed by ordinary workers, but by a kind of mechanical programming machine, which has begun to be popularized in several German factories for the production of engine parts and precision electronic equipment. And these mechanical programming processing equipment that simulate the work of skilled workers, the standard parts produced are a few points more standard than the parts made by old skilled workers.

Accardo's "new industrial revolution" is not only about improving the production process, but also changing the production process is only the first step of the entire new industrial revolution, and it is followed by every step on the road to the information revolution.

When Accardo completes the new development of German industry, then the measure of how strong a country's industrial base is is not how many skilled workers there are, but how many precision machining equipment it has. He started this process earlier and faster than the United States, which, on the other hand, broke the absolute superiority of the United States in the number of workers and machine tools.

Avoiding the enemy's superior project and entering another realm to defeat his opponent is the most ingenious trick that Accardo is ready to use against the United States. He does not fight with the United States for resources, consumption, and production, but with the United States for the content of science and technology -- don't laugh, it is indeed the content of science and technology.

In 1938, the United States' technological reserves were not much ahead of Europe, and it can be said that they were completely flat, and even many technologies were lagging behind Europe. For example, the much-praised American Mustang P-51 fighter actually uses British engine technology, while the American aerospace technology that took off after the war is actually copied from Germany.

Therefore, Accardo is very confident to fight with the United States for technology, and he desperately pulled out the nail of the British mainland with heavy casualties, with the purpose of leading the United States onto a road that cannot compete with absolute production capacity. The United States, which almost dominated the resources of two continents and had the support of Britain's overseas colonies, was a behemoth that Germany could not surpass, but the situation was completely different across the Atlantic.

As long as Germany's naval fleet on the high seas in the Atlantic Ocean is not completely annihilated by the United States, then the United States will only be able to land and counterattack the European continent in a dream. At this time, even if the US Army surpassed the strength of the German Army, the United States would not dare to launch an operation against the European continent.

The United States' superior geographical conditions far from the European continent have become a sad shackle to its inability to intervene in the war in Europe. In fact, the United States was not the center of the world before 1900, but rather a marginalized small player. The two world wars shattered Europe, exhausted the accumulation of foreign powers, and the development of means of transportation and communication, so that the United States gradually became the focus of the world.

But this happened after Germany lost World War II, before that, Accardo was surprised to find that the United States was not as godly as he imagined, many European countries had not yet bred "Americanphobia", and the United States was not at all an unsurpassable myth.

At least many people say that the British Navy is the world's largest navy and the French Army is the world's largest army, but few people feel that the US Army, Navy, and Air Force are anything special -- at least in terms of the army, the German Wehrmacht is now recognized by the world as a relatively powerful "ruthless role."

Now the British have more than just a radio station in their hands, but there is another important thing, that is, the German codebook. This is the news that the United Kingdom and the United States are ecstatic, and the codebook can crack many German codes that could not be deciphered before.

Compared with a battery technology, this can be said to be enough to affect many key points, and the British department and the American intelligence department immediately began to decipher the German code.

In just one day, several important pieces of information were placed on the desks of intelligence officers from both countries. One is the news of the food reserves sent by the High Command to the German troops in France, which confirms that there is a slight problem with the food reserves of the German army, and that adjustments in this regard are being urgently made. One piece of information was even more important, a telegram from the High Command ordering Rommel's Afrika Korps not to attack in the near future.

It seems that there is a very heavy gap in Germany's material reserves, which makes this huge war plane difficult to function. At least in North Africa, the German army began to be forced to retrench, which was in line with the American analysis of the war potential of Germany at the beginning of the war.

Judging from the German war reserves that the United States can grasp, Germany is indeed now approaching the limit of its war potential. The German army had about 500 or more troops, which consumed a lot of supplies every day, and various reserves, including oil, were exhausted.

This is undoubtedly good news, and the most intuitive manifestation of this on the frontal battlefield is that the pace of the German offensive has slowed down - this has been confirmed by various aspects: the German offensive on the Eastern Front in Ukraine has suddenly slowed down, the armored forces have begun to reduce the interspersed assault movements, and the North African side has stopped the offensive.

There was nothing wrong with the telegram itself, but it would be a bit hasty to infer that the German reserves had been depleted. A British intelligence officer reminded: "Our intelligence agencies in Romania have confirmed that the German army's technical support and control of the Romanian oil fields is stronger than we thought." So their oil resources have been relatively abundant so far. ”

"In the Ruhr area, the Germans have been converting coal to oil, and their chemical industry is very well developed, mainly focusing on the company's technology research and development, which has always been very efficient. Another intelligence officer said helplessly: "Of course, the resources plundered by the Germans in Poland, France and our own country are not counted. ”

"To put it bluntly, there may be a lot of war materials left in them, and the pace of their invasion is so fast that the strategic resources of many countries are intact and fall into their hands. An American intelligence officer lamented: "The blitzkrieg is undoubtedly successful in terms of quickly grasping the adversary's resources." ”

"But now that we know that the German army's operations in North Africa are blocked and the logistical pressure is relatively high, let's use this information. A general looked at the information in his hand and said to his deputy.

"I have given the order to Barton and Montgomery to organize a tentative offensive after today, a limited offensive near the German relay station, to see how much confidence the Germans have left. The deputy replied to the American general in a low voice: "General Patton, replenished with 90 tanks, is preparing a summer offensive in the hope of completely removing the German threat to Tobruk." ”

"The Germans reacted very quickly, they changed their codebook just 3 days after the poison suicide, and this time they were very cautious and even replaced some non-keyword codes, so we couldn't decipher their codes. Finally, the head of the intelligence department opened his mouth and concluded: "Our adversaries are very sophisticated, and their work on password protection is very worthy of our learning." ”

In order to counter Rommel's forward base that threatened Tobruk, the British and American forces had established a defensive line 40 kilometers west of Tobruk, and at this moment they were increasing their forces to this defensive strip that had been only a cordon based on the information obtained from the deciphering of German codes.

The 90 latest M4 Sherman tanks shipped from the United States have arrived, and Patton has even more leverage against Rommel's armored forces. These additions gave Montgomery confidence in the upcoming offensive, and he could even see that he was satisfied with the defeat of the Germans.

"This time it's a complete bully of Rommel, our tanks are outnumbered and improved in quality, he can't have imagined that we would give him such a fatal blow when he is at his most vulnerable!" Barton said proudly, biting his cigar