Chapter 1723 Transactions and Information

On September 3 last year, after Britain and France declared war on Germany, the peace expressed by both sides in the strange war on the Western Front could not conceal the tension that permeated the Atlantic Ocean.

On the day when Britain and France declared war on Germany, the captain of the German U30 boat, Colonel Linp, discovered that a British ship leaving the usual route did not light the lights as required, and sailed in the shape of a "z" and believed that it was a transport ship, and fired torpedo to sink it, and 128 lives were buried under the sea together with the ship. As a result, the ship was a passenger ship "Athena" heading to the United States, and most of the people who died were civilians. This misstrike incident opened the prelude to the Atlantic Naval Battle.

On September 14, the British aircraft carrier "Royalty" sailed in the northwest sea of ​​the Heblis Islands. The U39 boat commanded by Major Grades, the German Navy, happened to encounter the ship. The U39 boat desperately launched torpedoes. However, although the submarine used advanced magnetic explosion torpedoes, it unfortunately lost control and caused an early outbreak, which only caused the paint of the aircraft carrier to peel off the layers. Subsequently, the destroyer escorted the U39 boat and captured all the personnel on the boat.

Three days later, the German U29 boat attacked unexpectedly.

Captain Major Shuhald was waiting for the British ship to take the hook on the west side of the English Channel. Soon after, a ten-ton class passenger ship was found in the periscope of the u29 boat. At the same time, an escort aircraft was found flying above the passenger ship. Therefore, the major judged that it was legal to attack the passenger ship. However, when he ordered the launch of the torpedo, the passenger ship suddenly changed direction. Due to the extremely fast speed and the slow underwater u29 boat cannot be chased, it is worth floating on the water surface to advance as quickly as possible, and attempting to launch an offensive at the appropriate shooting point in front.

Before floating, Major Shuhald's periscope found a black spot on the horizontal line on the port side. After careful observation, it was confirmed that it was a huge aircraft carrier. Two hours later, the aircraft carrier entered the torpedo range. Major Shuhald seized the opportunity and aimed at the target with his eyes and fired three torpedoes one after another, and at the same time quickly carried out deep submarine to avoid the attack of the escort destroyer. The British Navy's "Calegias" aircraft carrier, together with the captain, all sank in the blue waves of thousands of slump.

In the early morning of October 14, the German U47 submarine sneaked into the main berth of the British Royal Fleet in the Bay of Spaca and sunk the "monarch-class" battleship "Royal Oak". 786 officers and soldiers, including General Grove, commander of the British Second Fleet, and captain of the "Royal Oak", were buried in the belly of fish.

On October 30, British Admiral Churchill was attacked by German submarines U56 and U59 while on the flagship of Admiral Booth, the battleship of Admiral Booth, and the battleship of Scapa Bay. After all, time and space have changed. This time, the three torpedoes that hit the target did not explode as in history due to fuse failure. The torpedo broke into the middle and cut the Nelson into two pieces. The sea giant with a full load displacement of up to 38,000 tons suddenly capsized.

However, Churchill's luck was extremely good again. Only 126 of the 1,640 crew members of the ship were rescued, less than one-tenth of the total number, but Churchill was one of them. For some reason, the fat man with a big belly felt uncomfortable and came to the bow of the ship to look around with a telescope, trying to find the source of anxiety. As a result, when the torpedo hit the "Nelson", the bow raised high and threw it into the cold sea water. He was rescued by a destroyer following the "Nelson" battleship, and was lucky to escape.

By the end of last year, Germany had sunk more than 150 merchant ships at the cost of nine submarines, with a total tonnage of 780,000 tons. In January this year, it sank another 40, reaching 120,000 tons. In February, it has reached 45 ships in total, totaling 170,000 tons. There have been big troubles in the British's maritime transportation routes.

It is precisely because of the strong restraint of the German Navy that the British Royal Navy had to arrange a large number of warships to defend the land, and at the same time blocked the North Sea and tied up the German Navy's hands and feet. Therefore, we could only barely respond to the aggressive offensive launched by the Navy in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Upper Salzburg Mountain near Berchtesgaden, Germany, Hitler's Palace.

That morning, Hitler, who had been entangled with his lover Ava for a night, was in his dream. The personal servant Linger shouted outside the door: "Good morning, my head! It's time for you to get up." Then he placed the newspaper and news briefs in front of the door.

Hitler got up in his pajamas, opened the door and picked up the newspapers and news briefs, returned to the bedroom, sat down on the sofa, and browsed it quickly, and found that it was all boring news, so he threw these things down and walked alone to the huge floor-to-ceiling window of the bedroom, overlooking the Alps scenery, and calmly pondered the next step of fighting against Denmark and Norway.

About half an hour later, Hitler rang the bell and asked someone to bring breakfast, and Ringer brought a glass of milk and some bread made by a specific recipe to the table.

After breakfast, the personal bodyguard Hans Ladenhuber came to report that the SS deputy commander Reinhard Heidrich came to meet him, and he also brought a Chinese.

"Chinese?"

Hitler suddenly remembered that Heidrich, who was still in Berlin last night, mentioned to himself on the phone that he would bring Zhou Chong'an, Vice Premier and Minister of Finance of South China, to visit. At present, the strategic materials that Germany urgently needs, especially non-ferrous metals such as tungsten, antimony, and tin, are mainly provided by South China, and the Chinese have considerable ability to move in Germany. Not to mention anything else, the discovery of northern Germany's oil fields and North Africa's Libyan oil fields has great benefits to Germany and its ally Italy. Therefore, the density of Germany and Chinese is now many times stronger than that in real history.

Hitler was dressed neatly and felt refreshed. Eva got up lazily. Hitler kissed Eva's cheeks and came to the living room with full energy.

After seeing Hitler, Reinhard Heidrich quickly stood up and extended his right hand to salute. Zhou Chong'an stood up with a smile on his face and bowed slightly to pay tribute.

Hitler walked to Zhou Chong'an, took the initiative to stretch out his hand, and said with a smile: "I have been close friends with your country's leader Chairman An Yi and Governor Yin Jinan for many years. I heard that Mr. Zhou is Chairman An Yi's brother-in-law and is in charge of Nanhua's money bag. This time I meet, I am very honored!"

Zhou Chong'an always thought that Hitler was a war madman, his personality must be cold and ruthless, and the atmosphere of meeting must be very bad. However, when he saw him this time, he found that the leader who had been praised by the Germans on the stage, with a smile on his face, giving people a feeling of spring breeze. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this is the true nature of a hero.

Zhou Chong'an held Hitler's hand heavily and said in skillful and sincere German:

"Head of the People's Republic of China, please allow me to extend my cordial greetings to the People's Republic of China, on behalf of our Supreme Commander, Chairman An Yi and Deputy Commander Yin Jinan. Chairman An Yi said that when he visited Europe, he had a fierce discussion with the People's Republic of China on the future of Germany and the world, predicting that the rejuvenation of the Germanic nation and the Chinese nation would become an irresistible trend. Now everything has confirmed his judgment one by one, so he hopes that we can maintain a cooperative relationship in the future and not be affected by the interference of third countries.

"General Yin Jinan said that Germany's future decision is in the hands of the head of state. When General Yin left Berlin, he made suggestions on the future development strategy of Germany. Everything the head of state has done far exceeds his expectations at the beginning. General Yin felt very appreciative and gratified. General Yin asked me to tell the head of state that the points he suggested that the head of state should pay attention to are still places that must be fully paid attention to at present. As long as Germany can maintain single-line combat and protect experienced veterans as much as possible, and use more brains on the resource supply ground, you can fully take the initiative in future wars!"

Hitler couldn't help but recall that he had not yet taken over German authority. An Yi generously sponsored the German National Socialist Workers' Party and gave guidance to himself, who was in trouble and confused at the time, which made him more firm in his belief in leading the German nation to glory, which made him achieve today's achievements. During his tenure as a military officer in Germany, Yin Jinnan devoted all his strength to help him design a road to rise rapidly in the cracks between Britain and France. From the current perspective, the implementation effect is good, and Germany is moving from one victory to another.

Thinking of this, Hitler pulled Zhou Chong'an to sit down on the sofa and asked with a smile: "Mr. Zhou came to Germany this time, I don't know what to do? If I need my help, I will do my best!"

Zhou Chong'an smiled and said, "This time I came to Germany mainly for a batch of submarines we have. We obtained 78 submarines from the Navy of the Far Eastern Republic. These submarines were made entirely using advanced technologies and processes provided by Germany. They can be said to be the sisters of German U-type submarines.

"After we obtained the manufacturing drawings of U-type submarines from Germany the previous year, we have produced 24 U-type boats, and it is expected that by the end of the year, the U-type boats will exceed 60. Our current navy can no longer accommodate so many submarines, but at the same time, Germany has no combat submarines, which cannot block the British connection with the outside world because of the lack of combat submarines. I think we can cooperate on this."

Hitler's eyes lit up. According to the naval agreement signed between Germany and the United Kingdom four years ago, the Navy's Navy's plan to build the "Z" shipbuilding plan predicts that Germany will only build 6 battleships, 8 cruisers, 4 aircraft carriers and 233 U-boats by 1945.

As a result, when the war broke out last year, only 46 of the 56 U-boats commanded by the commander-in-chief of the Navy Submarine Force, were able to participate in combat operations, of which only 22 were traveling in Atlantic operations, and the rest were small Ui-types. Due to their limited endurance, they could only be used in North Sea operations.

Denitz studied the relationship between U-boat mission and boat size, and believed that if you want to attack a fleet with guard forces, large U-boats are much better than small U-boats in terms of speed, torpedo loading, taste and range. However, small U-boats turn with a small radius and can sneak quickly in emergencies, and even if they float to the sea, it is difficult for the enemy to discover the advantage.

At the same time, using the resources to build a large U-boat, four small U-boats can be built. Obviously, four small U-boats are more powerful than one large U-boat, because once several small U-boats are spread onto the wide sea surface at the same time, the ratio to the enemy ships will be increased. Based on the above factors, Denitz determined that the displacement of each U-boat is 500 tons, which is the largest Vii submarine in the German Navy.

Denitz was extremely dissatisfied with the current number of submarines. He complained many times in front of Hitler that if he could give him 300 U-boats, he could deal a fatal blow to the Allies as soon as possible. His plan was to attack 100 ships for attacking enemy fleets, 100 ships traveling between the battlefield and the base, and the other 100 ships were renovated at the base.

Hitler knew very well that if 100 U-boats could be maintained on the front line, it would not be difficult for Germany to cut off the British trade route. This trade route is the lifeline of the British people. Once it is cut off, it would not be difficult to destroy the British economy, disintegrate the morale of the British people, and thus subdue the UK.

"I don't know what your request?" Hitler pondered for a moment and asked calmly.

Zhou Chong'an explained: "A brand new U-type submarine, in terms of the hull alone, costs about US$2,500 per ton. The surface displacement of C-class medium-sized submarines equipped by the Far Eastern Republic Navy is 1,070 tons, and the cost is US$2,675,000. We have eight submarines; the surface displacement of J-class submarines is 924 tons, and the cost is US$2,310,000. We have twelve submarines; the surface displacement of K-class submarines is 1,480 tons, and the cost is US$3,700,000. We have twenty-two submarines; the surface displacement of M-class submarines is 420 tons, and the cost is US$1,050,000. We have thirty-six submarines.

"All these submarines are built with German technology, using fully welded high-strength steel pressure-resistant shells, strong battery capacity, and all torpedo launchers are in German format. They can be put into use after driving back to Germany. Generally speaking, power and weapon systems account for half of the overall cost of the ship. However, given that these batches are old ships, even if we give them away for free, we will only calculate based on the cost of the hull. I wonder what the head of state has on this?"

Hitler quickly thought about it.

Nanhua's quotation is very fair. According to the budget of the Navy, the cost of submarines per ton is now about US$3,200. The quotation provided by Nanhua is obviously the price before the outbreak of the war. With Britain and France declared war on Germany, the price of weapons in the international arms market increased by at least 40 to 50%. For Germany, even if you have money, you can't buy anything. Now the other party has also provided weapons and equipment, which is almost half cheaper than building it on its own.

What is particularly important is that even if major German shipyards are now working hard to start construction, they will build up so many submarines by the end of the year. Now they only need to pay a sum of money, and it is possible that they may even catch up with the battle against Norway in April, which is nothing more touching than this.

Seeing that Hitler was still pondering, Zhou Chong'an thought that he despised the submarines as old ships, and said, "We calculated before coming. The total price of this submarine is about 169 million US dollars. We only need to pay 100 million US dollars in equivalent gold or silver. The rest is treated as a thanks to the German Empire for the convenience provided to us in taking care of our Chinese expatriates and migrating Jews!"

Hitler felt even more relieved now.

You should know that from 33 to now, the Nazi taxation agencies have been actively committed to "eliminating the Jewish economy", plundering and occupying the Jewish wealth in Germany. Those Jews who want to escape have to leave all their property, and this money is collected in the form of a so-called "export tax".

So far, the property plundered and robbed from the Jews has reached nearly 80 billion imperial marks, or 32 billion US dollars. The property plundered and confiscated by these Jews has provided one-third of the financial guarantee for Germany to launch a war.

"Okay, that's it!"

Hitler smiled: "With these submarines, the Imperial Navy's backs are much harder. I now doubt that when these submarines appear in the Atlantic Ocean, will that weak guy Chamberlain be so scared that he wet his pants? When and where will these submarines be handed over?"

Zhou Chong'an smiled and said, "Now the routes between the Syrian Mansion and Berlin are unobstructed. The head of state can send submarine members directly to the Syrian Mansion, and then transfer to the Navy Submarine Base at the Nanhua Haifang Port to receive it. However, the head of state has to say hello to the *** side. Now the *** Navy controls the Strait of Malacca and the eastern Indian Ocean region. The head of state's submarine force wants to return to Germany, which is inseparable from their help."

Hitler nodded, without too much entanglement in details, and obviously had great confidence in negotiating with Japan.

Reinhard Heidrich had been silent before. Seeing the two of them talking about the serious matters, he whispered to Hitler: "First of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Zhou told me a top-secret information. I feel that the matter is serious and I must report it to you in person!"

"Um!?"

Hitler glanced at Heidrich in confusion, and then looked at Zhou Chong'an.

When Hedrich saw this, he knew that Hitler wanted Zhou Chong'an to explain himself, so he kept silent. Zhou Chong'an's expression became extremely solemn and said in a low voice:

"Since the advent of radio and Morse codes, military communications have entered a new era, but radio communications are completely an open system. While one side receives the telegram, the other side can also "see at a glance". Therefore, the passwords that emerged with war in human history immediately combined with radio, and radio passwords appeared. Until the end of the last European war, all radio passwords were manually encoded.

"Twenty-one years ago, German inventor Arthur Shelbius founded a new technology application company. Shelbius, who had studied electrical applications, used modern electrical technology to replace manual encoding encryption methods and invented a machine that can automatically encode, which is the "Ennigma" crypto machine. The German Navy began to formally equipped thirteen years ago. Two years later, the "Ennigma" crypto machine entered the army again..."

Hitler interrupted Zhou Chong'an and said with some confusion: "Zhou, are you trying to say that something went wrong with our 'Enigma' cipher machine? But after I became the prime minister, I organized an expert team composed of physicists and mathematicians to evaluate the use of the 'Enigma' cipher machine. The expert team believed that the cipher machine is easy to carry, easy to use, and more importantly, it is extremely safe. For the enemy, even if you have a cipher machine, if you cannot master the key composed of three lines of defense at the same time, it will still be impossible to decipher.

"I also asked the military for advice. Colonel Erich Fergibel, head of the communications department, believed that the "Enigma" aircraft was the most perfect communication device for the German Wehrmacht blitzkrieg. Because of this, from our command, to the army, navy and air force, we all used the "Enigma" as a standard cipher. If you tell me now that it has been decrypted by the enemy, it may not be convincing!"

“I also hope our intelligence source is wrong!”

Zhou Chong'an spread his hands and made a helpless expression: "The intelligence personnel we recruited include a large number of former British and French intelligence personnel, who are all victims of the economic crisis. The series of intelligence they provided to us have not yet made any mistakes.

"The cause of the incident originated from November 8, eight years ago, when French intelligence personnel and the younger brother of the German communications department head Hanstyro Schmidt, the younger brother of the German communications department, connected in Belgium. For some reason, Schmidt, who worked in the crypto office, hated his motherland and provided French intelligence personnel with two copies of information on the operation of the Enigma crypto machine and the internal circuits of the rotor. However, the French intelligence agencies at that time did not decipher the password, because one of the design requirements of the crypto machine was to remain highly confidential after the machine was seized. The French at that time believed that because the Treaty of Versailles restricted the development of the German team, even if they could not decipher the German code, they would not suffer much loss if they met on the battlefield in the future. So after reaching the conclusion that the German code was "unresolvable", they never studied it carefully again.

"Unlike the French, Poland, which was independent after the last European war, had a strong sense of crisis. Their leaders needed to always understand the internal information of Germany, which had been divided into many territories. This steep situation has created a large number of excellent cryptographers in Poland. They easily monitor the communication system of the German team. Since Poland had signed a military cooperation agreement with France, under Poland's insistence, France handed over the information obtained from Schmidt to the Poles. It was this point that the Poles used this as a breakthrough to partially decipher the "Ennigma" crypto machine.

"After Poland's failure last year, the most powerful Polish government brought the secret of the cipher machine to the UK. The British government was so scared that it immediately set up a special cipher-breaking agency in Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes. All cipher and cipher files intercepted from Germany, Italy and cipher will be sent there for decoding. There is a cipher school in Bletchley Park, which specializes in censorship decoding talents. The intelligence departments of the Admiralty, Military Department and Air Force occupy the first floor of the main house, and the top floor of the main house becomes the territory of MI6. In addition, the manor is also equipped with the Ministry of Telecommunications, teletype room, kitchen and dining room for staff to use. The Aimas Boarding Boys School, which is adjacent to the manor, was also requisitioned by the commercial and diplomatic departments of the government cipher school.

"According to the information we have, the German Navy used the Enigma aircraft to transmit all top-secret combat orders, and each submarine was equipped with one. Under the leadership of General Hugh Sinclair, the Enigma aircraft's cryptographic system was deciphered by Colonel Winterbosham of the Air Force. Although it was not comprehensive enough, it was able to make a relatively accurate judgment on the content of the message based on the deciphered signals, secret levels, and receipt locations. It is reasonable to believe that it will take no time for the British to completely decipher the password, so that the messages transmitted by the Enigma aircraft will become the guiding light for the British Navy!"

When Hitler heard Zhou Chong'an tell the time, place, and characters in a very clear manner, he knew that the situation was true and credible, and immediately savored the risks contained therein, and his face turned red.

Hitler has always been an extremely emotional person. Due to his anger in his chest, he suddenly stood up and paced back and forth. Finally, facing Heidrich and Zhou Chong'an, he waved his fists and roared loudly: "Damn it, it's so hateful. Schmidt's behavior is a shameless crime against Germany and the Germanic nation. Traitors must accept God's punishment..."

After chattering for half an hour, Hitler's tone became slightly calmer and he shook his head repeatedly: "No, the 'Enigma' aircraft is no longer reliable. I do not allow our army's every move to fall into the eyes of the British and French. We must update our password system..."

During this trip to Europe, selling submarines was just one of Zhou Chong'an's mission. In addition, he was also preparing to go to Sweden and Switzerland to purchase the production license of Swedish Bofos Company's 40mm anti-aircraft guns and Swiss Erliton Company's 20mm anti-aircraft guns. These two types of air defense weapons were praised by Zhang Xianchu, a ship expert who returned from studying in the United States. He believed that the performance was more advanced and reliable than the current air defense weapons equipped by the navy. So An Yi asked Zhou Chong'an to get things done together.

Before coming, An Yi had reminded Zhou Chong'an about the problem that Hitler might have schizophrenia, so in the face of Hitler's hysteria, Zhou Chong'an's face was calm. Only after Hitler calmed down did he say in an orderly manner:

"As friends, we also hope that Germany can improve the cryptographic systems of the military, government and diplomatic departments, so as to ensure the secrets of military and diplomatic operations. The cryptographic machines we adopted in Nanhua are very similar to those of the German 'Enigma' machines, and they all use wheels. However, the turntables of the 'Enigma' machines, whether they are three or four, are rotated in sequence, and then drive the turntables next to them. The mechanical movement is relatively simple and easy to be cracked.

"Our password machine has fifteen rotors, ten of which can be taken out and rearranged and placed in different positions. The direction of the rotor can be forward or backward. After any keyboard is typing, more than one rotor may rotate. Such complex mechanical actions make it seem like it changes randomly, greatly increasing the difficulty of the enemy's cracking. But even so, we still frequently change our password system, so that the enemy can take advantage of it. I think this may be a place where the new German password machine can learn from."

Hitler headed and felt grateful on his face. He knew very well what this important information provided by South China meant to Germany. Now that the German tanks have started at high speed, it is too late to brake. It is hard for Hitler to imagine that if the army's mobilization is in the hands of the enemy, how could it be possible to win?

Zhou Chong'an still looks calm and gentle.

Cooperation with Germany is originally about mutual utilization. South China needs Germany to charge forward and completely destroy the old order. South China obtains sufficient development funds from Germany by selling resources and arms, and through the continuous replication and expansion of the industrial chain, it quickly narrows the industrial gap with the United States and Germany. When the situation becomes clear, it will clean up the mess to obtain the best interests.

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