Chapter 434 The best student
The "First Lord of the Admiralty" believed that his men had a sense of proportion.
As General Winter said, victory in the Antwerp War was also in Britain's interests, and the "Admiralty" did not want to completely screw up the matter.
However, he believed that revealing the truth to the Germans would not mess things up.
The transport ship transporting fuel is on the sea, only a few dozen nautical miles away from Antwerp and can be delivered in a few hours. Now we just wait for a word from Charles.
Even if the Germans knew the truth and launched a counterattack, as the fuel was delivered to Antwerp, Charles's armored forces would still have time to resolve the crisis.
But this can use the Germans to put pressure on Charles, so that he has to obey the British "deployment".
So the "Admiralty" did not hesitate, and he arranged for people from MI6 to pass the "truth" to Germany through spies.
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In Berlin's Wilhelmstrasse, Falkenhayn was still busy directing the German troops to break out.
The urban area is indeed not suitable for tank operations, but it is also not conducive to the passage of large troops. The German army had to compete with the enemy for every building, especially tall buildings.
Otherwise, the French could easily block all the streets within a few kilometers as long as they set up a machine gun there, or simply disassembled the 75 cannon and transported it to the roof to reassemble it.
At the same time, the French army was also very difficult to deal with. They always charged wave after wave towards the buildings where the German troops were stationed.
The two sides were fighting inextricably. One second the building belonged to the Germans, and the next second it belonged to the French.
When the fighting got fierce, there were situations where the living room belonged to the Germans and the bedroom belonged to the French, and they were in a stalemate.
At this time, Colonel Moritz walked up to Falkenhayn with a pale face and handed him a telegram: "General, there is information that the French army is really short of fuel."
"What do you mean?" Falkenhayn didn't even raise his head, his eyes always fixed on Mons's map.
He was red-eyed. The focus was Mons. As long as Mons was cleared, the German army could successfully break through.
"It means we may have been fooled." Colonel Moritz replied: "This is information sent by our spy in the UK. He said that the channel into Antwerp was blocked by our submarines, and only three transport ships carrying ammunition entered Antwerp. , the fuel tanker failed to enter in time.”
Falkenhayn was stunned and looked up at Moritz in astonishment: "This is different from what we analyzed before."
"Yes." Moritz's eyes flashed with hesitation.
"Then why did Charles do this?" said Falkenhayn. "He didn't want us to break out at Tibbits?"
"Maybe so," Colonel Moritz replied, but he added, "Maybe not."
"What do you mean?" Falkenhayn asked.
"I'm asking someone to investigate the spy who brought the news, General." Colonel Moritz replied: "I believe there will be results soon."
Falkenhayn said "Oh" and nodded slightly.
The job of a spy is very dangerous. Once discovered by the enemy, it is almost impossible to survive.
This is also the reason why they can easily develop into double agents: after being discovered, in order to survive, they can only provide intelligence to the enemy at the same time or pass on some false intelligence.
(Note: This was the case with Harry in history. She was developed into a double agent by the French Second Bureau, but was shot after losing her use value)
"I think there is something fishy about it." Moritz analyzed: "The British fuel transport ship is at sea. This news is almost isolated from the world. Even the British military rarely knows about it. In such a short period of time, How did it get to our spies?"
Falkenhayn nodded in agreement with this statement. Britain is an ally of France, and this war is in Britain's interests. How could the "truth" be spread out so easily!
Unless, this "truth" is false and part of Ciel's scam.
Falkenhayn never expected that Britain at this time really wanted to trick Charles.
Therefore, Falkenhayn once again turned his attention to Mons on the map, thinking that if this was the case, it would further prove that the breakout from Mons was correct.
About half an hour later, Colonel Moritz took a few deep breaths of relief after receiving the telegram. He quickly ran to Falkenhayn with excitement and pride in his tone: "General, it's confirmed, the intelligence agent has been captured by the British." People buy it.”
Falkenhayn nodded.
He had always preferred the latter. The British had always done a good job in intelligence, and it was hard to believe that such important intelligence would be leaked to Germany.
Falkenhayn sighed: "If this is Ciel's idea, then his methods are terrifying. He used various methods to mislead us and try to pull us towards Tibbits. There is still room for maneuver in what has already been confirmed. ”
"Yes." Colonel Moritz felt the same way: "He is a respectable opponent, and we were almost fooled."
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The Belgian guerrillas are leisurely collecting fuel from various places.
Mainly in the southwest area, the German army in that area was in a state of encirclement, and the German army had no intention and ability to control the guerrillas.
The German army deployed a small number of armed forces in each town in the controlled area. They used these troops to control the police and the government, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling the towns.
These armed forces range from hundreds to a dozen.
The reason why they were able to successfully control an area with a population hundreds or even thousands of times theirs was because they had a strong German army as their backing:
Once people rise up and overthrow the control of these dozen people, they will immediately be suppressed by a large number of German troops.
But by this time, their "strong backing" no longer existed, and the main force of the German army was fleeing. It would be impossible for the German army to control them as before with this small number of manpower.
Therefore, under the call of Albert I and the command of Colonel Eden, the fuel oil was smoothly delivered from the German-controlled area to Antwerp.
The Belgians responded positively, and some places directly revolted and drove away the Germans and organized their own teams.
So while collecting fuel oil, the guerrillas were also growing rapidly.
Tijani was not concerned about this. He was restless in the office and asked the signalman every now and then:
"Have the Germans turned?"
"What's the situation in Tibitz?"
"Have you found the enemy?"
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"Relax, General." Charles replied: "Things are not as urgent as you think. Even if the Germans did not fall for it and chose to break out of Tibitz, as long as I agree to the British, it will be fine."
Unexpectedly, Tijani replied:
"Do you think I'm worried about this?"
"No, Brigadier General, I know no one can defeat you."
"What I care about is that the art of war has a new definition, and it can also achieve great success by creating illusions."
Charles' eyes darkened. It was time, and this guy was still thinking about his "art of war"!
But on second thought, Charles felt that perhaps someone like Tijani was the best student.
