The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Qin Chuan's plan was actually very simple, which was to use the method of "Jiang Gan stealing the book" to pass false information to the British.

Of course, he couldn't pretend to be drunk and asleep like Zhou Yu did to let Jiang Gan steal the book... If this could make the British believe it, then this war would not have been going on until now, and the British would have been stupid long ago.

The first thing Qin Chuan had to do was to ask the cartographer to make a fake map.

In fact, it was not a fake map. All the terrain and coordinates on the map were real... Alexandria was originally a British place, and the British may have conducted detailed surveys and mapping of the geography of this area. Qin Chuan didn't dare to make false claims in this regard, otherwise it would be easy to reveal his flaws.

The untrue part was the German army's deployment of troops on the defense line, which was the weakness Qin Chuan mentioned before.

Then, Qin Chuan needed to find a suitable "messenger".

This was a difficult problem, because ordinary "messenger" had no chance to send the "letter" out, and even if they "sent" it out reluctantly, it would arouse the suspicion of the British... This was also the difficulty of the plan.

However, Qin Chuan still found a suitable "messenger".

Among the Italian infantry divisions, there is a unit called the Bardia Division. This division was formed in the Bardia region of Libya as a colonial unit. Like other colonial units, most of its soldiers are Libyans and only officers are Italians... It was originally called the Bardia Army, but most of them were scattered in the previous battles pursued by the British army. It was reorganized after the German army entered Africa and launched a counterattack, but it was no longer a corps but a division.

The combat effectiveness of such an army can be imagined. It basically runs away without a trace when it hears gunshots.

The German and Italian armies will use this division on the front line, mainly to use them to lay mines on the front line.

Obviously, the "messenger" should be found in this division.

Colonel Slaine found Major General Bergonzoli, the commander of the Bardia Division, as soon as possible.

Of course, as the commander of the division, Major General Bergonzoli could not lay mines with the soldiers on the front line.

"General!" Colonel Slaine sat down at Major General Bergonzoli's headquarters, and the first thing he said was: "Given that our combat plans and whereabouts have been known to the British in advance many times, we have reason to believe that there are British spies lurking in the army, which is also the purpose of our trip!"

Colonel Slaine said all the facts, and even the entire African Corps knew this... For example, the British often knew the location of the German armored divisions accurately, or knew the routes of the Italian transport ships and then carried out bombing.

So there is no need to think, it must be the Italians who leaked the information.

But this matter is really unfair to the Italians.

There is a lot of intelligence about the German army that even the Italians don't know, and the Italians have no conditions to leak it.

The fact is that the British army obtained those intelligence through "super secrets", and the British army cleverly "blamed" it on the Italians... There are at least two benefits to doing this: one is to make the German and Italian armies suspicious of each other and cause discord between the two armies; more importantly, the German army will not suspect that the code was cracked and leaked, so the British army can always use "super secrets" to obtain intelligence.

British intelligence officers were extremely experienced and even cruel in this regard... They had actually deciphered the intelligence of German submarines besieging British merchant ships many times, but because they were worried about arousing German suspicion, they kept the deciphered intelligence secret and did not report it. As a result, the British fleet suffered heavy losses under the attack of German submarines.

The Germans at this time certainly did not know this, and the Italians did not know it either, and they also suspected that there was a problem within their own troops.

Among them, the Bardia Division composed of Libyans was particularly chaotic, because the division had a very chaotic composition and had been disbanded and reorganized. Egyptian and Libyan spies serving the British army could easily infiltrate this unit.

"Colonel!" Major General Bergonzoli frowned and replied, "We have conducted investigations several times at your request, but you know... they are Libyans, they have no identity and many of them are homeless, and we cannot check every one of them clearly!"

This is also one of the reasons why spies easily infiltrated the Bardia Division... Libyans do not have any ID cards or other things that can explain their identities. Some of them do not even have houses and of course no neighbors.

"But this is not enough, General!" Colonel Slain said, "You know, the British will soon launch an attack. Now is the time when we need to eliminate spies the most, otherwise they will report all our information to the British!" "Okay!" Major General Bergonzoli spread his hands and replied, "If you want to check anything, please, my adjutant will cooperate with you!" Then he called out to an officer who was busy sorting out documents: "Colonel Mario!" "Yes, General!" Colonel Mario soon stood in front of everyone. "You cooperate with their work!" Major General Bergonzoli lowered his head and pretended to read the documents. Bergonzoli didn't like the domineering attitude of the Germans... You have to know that he is a general and the German officer in front of him is just a colonel, but he can speak to him in an imperative tone, which makes Major General Bergonzoli feel that his dignity has been violated. But there is no way, Italian officers are always shorter when facing Germans, especially Bergonzoli is the commander of the dispensable Bardia Division.

"Yes, General!" Colonel Mario respectfully invited Colonel Slain and Qin Chuan to another room.

It's time for Qin Chuan to speak.

"We need a list of suspicious persons!" Qin Chuan said, "I think you must have such a list!"

"Yes!" Colonel Mario replied, then rummaged in the drawer for a while, then took out a list from the file and handed it over, and said to Colonel Sline: "Colonel, I want to remind you, they are just suspicious. !”

"You only need to do what the second lieutenant told you!" Colonel Slaine casually handed the list to Qin Chuan and replied in a stiff tone: "You don't need to remind you about the other things. At the same time, you have to follow us to the front line. trip!"

Colonel Mario couldn't help but look at Qin Chuan, his eyes full of anger, because he felt that this was an insult to him... A colonel actually wanted to obey the order of the second lieutenant.

So Mario decided to make some modest rebellion.

"Colonel!" Mario replied: "Maybe I can send my assistant to help you. He is the person in charge of eliminating spies..."

"Colonel Mario!" Colonel Slaine interrupted Colonel Mario unceremoniously: "Wasn't my order clear enough? Maybe I should ask your general to come with us in person!"