Chapter 226 The Messenger

Qinchuan's plan is actually very simple, which is to use the method of "Jiang Qian stealing books" to pass false information to the British.

Of course, you can't pretend to be drunk and fall asleep like Zhou Yu and let Jiang Gan steal the book... If the British could be believed by doing this, then this war would not have progressed to this point. The British should have been stupid long ago. died.

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

In fact, it cannot be regarded as a fake map. All the topography and coordinates on the map are real... Alexandria was originally the place of the British. The British probably conducted detailed mapping of the geography of this area. Qinchuan did not dare to go here. Don't cheat on any aspect, otherwise it will be easy to reveal your flaws.

The untrue part is the distribution of German troops on the defense line, which is the weakness Qin Chuan mentioned before.

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

This is a difficult problem, because ordinary "messengers" have no chance to send the "letter" out. Even if they reluctantly "send" it out, it will arouse the suspicion of the British... This is also the difficulty of the plan.

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

There is a unit in the Italian Infantry Division called the Bardia Division. This division is a colonial unit formed in the Bardia region of Libya. Like other colonial units, most of its soldiers are Libyans and only the officers are Italian... It was originally called the Bardia Army, but most of it was scattered during 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 the size of an army but a division.

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

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

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

Colonel Slain immediately found the division commander of Bardia Division, Major General Bergonzoli.

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

"General!" Colonel Slain sat down at Major General Bergonzoli's headquarters. The first thing he said was: "Given that our combat plans and whereabouts have been repeatedly informed by the British in advance, we have reason to believe that there are people lurking in the army. British spies, this is also the purpose of our trip!”

What Colonel Slain said is true, and even the entire African Corps knows this... For example, the British can often accurately know the location of the German armored divisions, or know the route of the Italian transport ships and then carry out bombings.

So there is no need to think about it, the Italians must have leaked the information.

But this is really an injustice to the Italians.

The Germans had a lot of information that even the Italians didn't know about, and the Italians simply had no conditions to leak it.

The fact is that the British army relied on "super secrets" to obtain that intelligence, and the British army cleverly "framed" it on the Italians... This has at least two advantages: one is to make the German and Italian armies suspicious of each other. The two armies were at odds; more importantly, the German army would not suspect that the code was deciphered and leaked, so the British army could always use "super secrets" to obtain intelligence.

At this point, British intelligence officers are extremely sophisticated and can even be said to be cruel... They have actually deciphered intelligence on German submarines sieging British merchant ships many times, but because they were worried about arousing suspicion among the Germans, they suppressed the deciphered intelligence and did not report it. As a result, the British fleet suffered heavy losses under the attack of German submarines.

Of course the Germans didn't know this at this time, and the Italians didn't know either. At the same time, they also suspected that there was something wrong within their own troops.

This is especially true of the Bardia Division, which is composed of Libyans. The reason is that the organization of this division is very chaotic, and it has also experienced the process of being broken up and reorganized. Egyptian and Libyan spies serving the British army can easily sneak into this division. A troop.

"Colonel!" Major General Bergonzoli couldn't help but 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 have no fixed residence. So, we can’t find out everything about them!”

This is one of the reasons why it is easy for the Bardia division to infiltrate spies... Libyans do not have any ID cards or other things that can indicate their identities. Some of them don't even have houses, and of course they have no neighbors.

"But this is not enough, General!" Colonel Slane said: "You know, the British will launch an attack soon, and now is the time when we need to eliminate the spies most, otherwise they will report all our information to British!"

"Okay!" Major General Bergonzoli spread his hands and replied: "If you want to check something, please do so. My adjutant will cooperate with you!"

Then he called to an officer who was busy sorting documents: "Colonel Mario!"

"Yes, General!" Colonel Mario quickly stood in front of everyone.

"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 must know that he was a general and the German officer in front of him was just a colonel, but he could speak to him in a commanding tone, which made Major General Bergonzoli feel His dignity was violated.

But there was nothing that could be done about it. The Italian officers were all a bit shorter when facing the Germans, especially when Bergonzoli was 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 he 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!"