The next morning, before Fang Lang received the results of the investigation on the French officers, he received an even more surprising news. French occupation forces appeared near the rebels and began to monitor their actions.
According to the report of the personnel who tracked the French officer, after tracking Leo and finding the hiding place of the rebels, the French officer returned to the occupation headquarters without hesitation.
About an hour later, he led a plainclothes team of about ten people to conduct surveillance near the rebels. This sudden change almost led to the exposure of the soldiers who were monitoring the rebels.
So, early in the morning Qi Qingshan came to ask Fang Lang what to do now.
"Is that Leo also with the resistance?"
"No, Leo has returned to the cabin in the woods. Our people are following him. No new followers have been found around."
"That means this Frenchman only informed the occupation army of the intelligence of the resistance army, but did not inform them of Leo's existence, right?"
Fang Lang felt that things were becoming more and more interesting, and he felt that he had grasped something, but he could not be sure for the time being.
"It seems that he should, but why did he do that?"
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Qi Qingshan felt that things were becoming more and more complicated. The intelligence information they had was insufficient, which made him a little confused about the situation.
Hearing Qi Qingshan's question, Fang Lang smiled:
"Because Leo will implicate Paul. If I'm not mistaken, Leo and the rebels have already agreed on a time to excavate the treasure. And, that time will be soon, maybe tonight."
Seeing Fang Lang's expression, Qi Qingshan understood that Fang Lang must have found the logic of this matter and the relationship between these people. As a subordinate, although he was curious, he did not ask, just waited for Fang Lang to give orders, and he would execute them.
"So what should we do next?"
"Let the people who are monitoring the rebels and Leo, as well as the people who are monitoring the treasure hiding place, withdraw."
Qi Qingshan was shocked by Fang Lang's words.
"Ah! Don't we want the treasure then?"
Fang Lang nodded and said:
“Now this treasure has been presented by Paul to the occupying forces through this French officer.
This is the territory of the French occupation forces. How can we fight with them?
What a good trick to drive the tiger to devour the wolf. It seems that this guy named Paul knows that we are monitoring him. It’s not simple, it’s really not simple!
I admire him more and more now.
His plan to escape should be about to begin. What I am most curious about is what made him so determined to abandon this treasure and would rather give it to the French occupation army than keep it for himself. "
"You mean Paul wants to run away? Since we already know where the treasure is hidden, why don't we take it out right away before they do anything?"
Qi Qingshan would not raise any questions about Fang Lang's judgment, but he really couldn't bear to watch a treasure pass by him.
Watching him slip away from me.
"Haha... it's useless. We can't take it away after we take it out. Since others have already given it to the occupying forces, once we really touch this batch of treasures,
It is not just this treasure that is being offered up; we will also be offered up.
Our recruitment plan in Germany will be affected, and we cannot sacrifice our industrial development plan for a treasure of unknown value."
Fang Lang has to make a choice between treasure and industrial development. He doesn't want to let all his previous efforts go to waste.
In his mind, the importance of the industrial development plan must be greater than that of the treasure. The most important thing is that he feels that this matter is not that simple. Since Paul sold all his people and treasures to the French occupying forces, it can only mean one thing.
That is, this guy doesn't really want to share this wealth with the rebels.
And he was able to share this wealth with the French without hesitation, otherwise he was a French spy who infiltrated the German Gestapo and deliberately eliminated these German resistance forces.
However, judging from his actions, this was clearly not the reason. If this was the reason, he would have leaked the intelligence about the rebels to the French occupation forces long ago.
Instead of waiting for the French officer to appear, they used this French officer to send the treasure and the rebels out.
Since he was not a French spy, this French officer could be a German spy.
These two German spies gave German wealth and their comrades to the French. Such an operation is really puzzling.
Just when Fang Lang was still wondering why these two guys did such a bold move, Zhuang Xintian knocked on the door.
"Report!"
"Come in."
"Boss, the soldier who was following the French officer took a photo of this French officer at the French occupation headquarters."
As he spoke, he handed over a photo in his hand.
Fang Lang took the photo casually, took a look at it, and stood up suddenly.
"It's him!"
Then, he began to pace back and forth in the room. After walking for two minutes, he said to the two of them:
"Find a way to make a clearer map with three countries: Germany, France and Switzerland. Quick!"
After hearing Fang Lang's words, both of them were stunned, and then responded in unison:
"yes!"
Both of them turned and left.
Fang Lang sat back on the sofa, lit a cigar, took a deep puff, then looked at the photo in his hand and laughed.
"So that's it, I got you Paul."
Maps of this era were obviously controlled military items and were not easy to find. Fortunately, the war was over now. After nearly two hours of searching, Qi Qingshan and Zhuang Xintian finally found three maps of pre-war Germany, France and Switzerland.
Although the maps are of different sizes and scales, and some are just simple tourist maps, they are sufficient.
Fang Lang spread the map on the bed and studied it for more than two hours before he stood up and said:
"In this case, I will retreat in order to advance.
Someone, tell everyone to pack up and leave Germany.
Qingshan, you go and tell the assistant group to leave a few people here to follow up on the return of the recruited personnel to Brazil, and let them arrange the plane.
Inform Cerano that we will leave for Switzerland to purchase machine tools this afternoon and ask them to arrange professional personnel to go with us.
In Xintian, all surveillance personnel were withdrawn except for the one who was monitoring the French officer.
Get the car ready, I'm going to take my leave of Colonel Chatham."
A series of orders were issued. Although some people were confused, they did not question them and went forward one after another.
That afternoon, the French occupation headquarters in Stuttgart.
"Fang, why are you leaving so suddenly?"
Colonel Chatham looked at Fang Lang who came to say goodbye with a surprised expression on his face.
Fang Lang carefully observed Colonel Chatham's expression, trying to analyze whether the message received by the French colonel contained any information about him and his group.
After looking at each other, Fang Lang felt that the other party's surprised expression was not fake, and initially suspected that the French officer did not report all the information.
“Haha…Mr. Colonel, I was able to complete my work so quickly thanks to your strong support.
You also know that the main purpose of my coming here this time is to purchase high-quality and low-priced machine tool products, but unfortunately, after a few days of inspection, I found that all the good stuff had been taken away.
So, I can only go to neighboring countries to think of a solution.
But if the Colonel can provide me with a batch of suitable machine tools, I can continue to wait here for a while."
To be honest, Fang Lang really wanted Colonel Chatham to take the risk and provide him with a batch of machine tools they dismantled from Germany, so this sentence was to test the other party's attitude towards him.
At the same time, I sincerely hope that the Colonel can provide me with what I want.
Unfortunately, the French colonel was not as brave as the American colonel. Of course, it is also possible that he is indeed patriotic and knows that these devices are what their country needs now.
This is not to say that the American colonel is unpatriotic, it just means that Americans are arrogant and look down on the Japanese devils' scrap metal.
"Fang, to be honest, I really want to help you. However, these things all have accounts, and I can't handle them privately.
But don't worry, I will spare no effort to support your recruitment efforts."
If you have money to collect, you must support it! If you don't support me, I will find someone who is one level higher than you. If that doesn't work, I will try my luck in the UK or the US.
"Okay then! I'll go to Switzerland and think of a solution. If we have the chance to meet again in the future, I will definitely treat you to a big meal. Today we are in a hurry, so I won't stay any longer."
"That's great! When my wine estate is really open, I will definitely send you a few bottles of good wine for you to taste."
After a few polite words, Fang Lang left Colonel Chatham's office.
Fang Lang came here today to say goodbye to Colonel Chatham, but of course he didn't just come here to say goodbye.
Since the French occupation forces had already sent personnel to monitor the actions of the rebels instead of directly eliminating them, it meant that they had learned from their intelligence that they were about to discover the treasure.
As the supreme commander of the French occupation forces in Stuttgart, Colonel Chatham must have been the supreme commander in this matter, or at least a participant.
Through contact with Colonel Chatham, Fang Lang was able to find out how much specific intelligence the French occupation forces had obtained, or whether there was any intelligence that he was monitoring the other side.
Now it seems that the result is not bad. The German spy in the French army obviously did not reveal any information about himself to the French occupation forces.
I don’t know if the other party was worried that they might expose Paul, so they deliberately concealed the information that they were monitoring them from the French occupation forces.
This time, it was still Colonel Chatham's adjutant who escorted Fang Lang out. After walking a few steps outside, Fang Lang seemed to suddenly remember something and said:
"I almost forgot that I purchased a batch of supplies in Germany. However, it seems unsafe to arrange vehicles to transport them in Germany. I wonder if you can ask Colonel Chatham to arrange for my supplies to be sent to France together with your army's vehicles for transporting supplies."
After hearing Fang Lang's words, the adjutant smiled and said:
"Haha... there's no need to go through so much trouble. In order to ensure the smooth transportation of supplies, our French army has used heavy troops to open an absolutely safe transportation channel for the military and civilians. Both military and civilian transport convoys go to France via this route. If you need, I can draw this road for you."
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