Chapter 868 Submarine
Qin Chuan guessed correctly.
When Rommel and Qin Chuan were alone in the same office, Rommel sighed dejectedly: "Lieutenant Colonel, I wonder if we were wrong. The Allied offensive target may be Calais!"
"No, General!" Qin Chuan replied: "After knowing this information, I am more sure that the target of the Allied forces' offensive is not Calais but the Brittany Peninsula!"
"Why?" Rommel looked at Qin Chuan in confusion.
Qin Chuan pointed to the map and said, "Scotland in northern Britain has assembled the Fourth Army to attack Norway? Forget it! Several Soviet mountain divisions were beaten terrible by one of our mountain divisions in the Caucasus Mountains, and the Allied forces did not even have mountain divisions. They were not familiar with the terrain and there were no mountain troops. What's more important is that they knew that we had helicopters to easily support mountain combat, but they would attack Norway? That was tantamount to seeking death!"
Rommel nodded when he heard this. You should know that the Kialian Mountains in Norway are 1,700 kilometers long and 200 to 600 kilometers deep... This is simply a natural barrier.
If the German army did not have helicopters, then the United States and British Allied forces were indeed likely to land in Norway. After all, this could directly support the Soviet Union's attack on the German North Front.
However, after the German army had helicopters, this was what the German army hoped to fight a head-on war in the mountains.
"Then..." Then Rommel understood: "From this point, that is, if the attack of the 4th Army was fake, then all the information heard by radio monitors was fake, and the British intended to let us hear this!"
"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "At the same time, you will find that we want to verify whether the information heard by these radio monitors is true. Because they implemented emergency traffic control during wartime, our spies were unable to get there in time."
"Yes!" Rommel said: "It is also outside the reconnaissance range of our reconnaissance aircraft, let alone warships! Everything is such a coincidence... The final result is that we can only make judgments from radio monitoring their propaganda and activities in Norway!"
"Yes!" Qin Chuan said: "So, this is obviously a trap. They have no intention of attacking Norway at all!"
"If the British could forge the radio communications of the 4th Army!" Rommel said: "Then of course they could also forge the radio communications of the 1st Army in Dover."
"Of course!" Qin Chuan said: "The British would not be so stupid. Before the war, they exposed their troops numbers, troops and even warships to our reconnaissance!"
"So what's going on in the military base in Dover?" Rommel asked.
"Marson Marshal!" Qin Chuan said: "You have done the same thing in Africa and deceived the British!"
Rommel nodded when he heard this, and then smiled with a self-deprecating smile: "I just didn't expect the British to learn so quickly!"
The two couldn't help but laugh.
After pausing for a while, Rommel said, "Then those three spies... must have been instigated!"
Qin Chuan raised the information of the three spies and said: "They went to the UK through the identity of a neutral country, and several of them have been in the neutral country for several years. The identity should not be a problem. The problem is... The British intelligence network has been spread in the neutral country long ago. They may have been targeted by British intelligence personnel before they were sent to the UK!"
Although Qin Chuan knew that this was not the case, he could only explain it this way.
Rommel agrees.
Because the intelligence personnel of Britain and Germany are indeed engaged in various open and secret battles in neutral countries, while the intelligence personnel of Germany are clearly at a disadvantage.
After Qin Chuan said this, Rommel obviously recovered his confidence. He flipped through the documents and said, "But the more important question is... we have no evidence, only with conclusive evidence, we can convince them!"
"I want to know if we have submarines in the North Sea!" Qin Chuan said.
"Submarine?" Rommel replied: "Of course there are, we have been sneaking into British transport ships! But it is getting more and more difficult now... Why do you ask the submarine?"
"If time allows!" Qin Chuan said: "I was wondering if the submarine could send a small team to Scotland for reconnaissance. I mean the 4th Army!"
Rommel thought for a while, then stood up "Teng" and said to Colonel Schuster: "Contact the Navy now!"
Qin Chuan is gambled for luck.
He bet not only on whether there are submarines in the North Sea, but also on whether the submarines are close enough to the Scotland coast.
The reason is that Qin Chuan also knows the existence of "super secrets" in the UK.
However, on the one hand, "super secret" does not mean that every secret power will be deciphered when it hears it. If this is the case, I am afraid that it will not be able to decipher all the secret powers even if it is turned on throughout the day.
So, it certainly has priority.
For example, the telegram sent to Hitler, and the transmission of secret telegrams in France at this time.
Telegrams sent to the Navy and telegrams sent by the Navy should be of lower priority.
On the other hand, it takes time for these secrets to be monitored, summarized, and then sent to "super secret".
Qin Chuan estimated that it might take several days to decipher at this priority level... The secret telegram with Hitler was the highest priority level. As mentioned before, when Rommel was fighting the Allies in Africa, Churchill already knew the content before he had time to send it to Rommel.
(Note: Rommel often commands operations on the front line, and it takes time for telegrams to be sent to him)
However, it is precisely because of this that other telegrams are more likely to be ignored.
That is to say, the submarine may have a few days.
Of course, these are just Qin Chuan's guess. Although Qin Chuan knows "super secret", he also knows nothing else. If there is anything else... it is to know that it is the most primitive computer.
But now Qin Chuan seems to have to try his luck.
Fortunately, Rommel was excitedly holding a telegram and said to Qin Chuan: "We happened to have a submarine near Edinburgh, only two hours away, but it had to wait until dark before it could move!"
Qin Chuan looked at his watch and it was still one hour before dark... In other words, the German submarine's scouts may only take three to five hours to get ashore and conduct reconnaissance on the 4th Army located in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The situation is much better than Qin Chuan predicted, which can be regarded as a surprise.
Chapter completed!