The Rhine River is the largest river in Western Europe. It originates from the northern foothills of the Alps in Switzerland, flows northwest through Liechtenstein, Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and finally empties into the North Sea near Rotterdam.
Since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it has become an international shipping waterway with a navigable length of approximately 869 kilometers. This river is an important transportation route for the import and export of Swiss industrial products.
With the end of the war, the Rhine River has slowly begun to return to its former prosperity.
A thousand-ton cargo ship from Strasbourg sailed south in the early morning mist. This kind of ship is very common on the Rhine River and did not attract anyone's attention at all.
In addition to the captain, this cargo ship also has a ship escort who is also wearing a French military uniform, and a middle-aged man in casual clothes who is busy in the cabin.
If you walk in, you can see the men in the cabin removing the seals from the wooden boxes and replacing them with new seals.
There were clear ** marks on the removed seals. Obviously, these were the real ** treasures that Gestapo officers transported from Stuttgart.
"Sir, so many people from the French transport company are involved in this operation, will they be discovered?"
The captain, who was driving the ship seriously, looked at Leon, who was wearing a French uniform and looking around with a telescope.
"Don't worry! Our people will take care of it!"
Leon answered the subordinate's question without looking back. As an old spy, this kind of job of killing people and silencing them is really not too easy.
However, he must let these French soldiers die after returning to the military camp, preferably after completing the next mission.
It's not that I don't dare to take action, but I hope people won't easily connect the deaths of these soldiers with this transportation mission.
Only in this way can the secret be discovered later.
As for the person who finally silenced him, it was the French military officer Fang Lang had been looking for, Captain Gerald, captain of the transportation company.
The moment Fang Lang got Captain Gerald's photo, many doubts that he had not understood before were solved.
So Fang Lang immediately removed all the original surveillance points and only needed to keep an eye on Captain Gerrard.
This Captain Gerrard is the deepest trump card that Leon has hidden. Why does the great main combat force not stay and take the initiative to transfer to the transportation company to serve as company commander.
Why was his guerrilla leader frequently attacked, and finally he, a young man, was called the guerrilla leader.
If he, the judge, injured Paul, the German, the French would not have any doubts if they did not understand the situation.
When Paul discovered that the people monitoring him were not French occupation forces at all, he asked Gerald, the original French guerrilla captain, to track and discover the German resistance.
And overheard the news of the treasure, the French army could not find anything unusual at all.
For some doubts, Fang Lang could think of countless explanations for him.
For example, why are you following this guy named Leo? As a guerrilla leader behind enemy lines, is it normal to recognize a former enemy?
After tracking, they discovered the figure of the German rebels that the French occupation forces had been looking for, and overheard that the other party was preparing to unearth a hidden treasure.
With such information in the hands of the French army, it is natural that the French army only monitors but does not take action.
Since everyone is German and Paul's subordinates, why did Paul betray Major Robin, who is a rebel?
Thinking about Captain Gerald's identity as captain of the transport company, Fang Lang understood that the treasure Paul exposed was simply a bait, a bait used to attract attention.
Leo was obviously his abandoned subordinate. When Gerald followed Leo, Leo must have received a clear time to unearth the treasure.
This time will not be long, and Paul will not leave much time for the French occupation forces to investigate.
When Leo and the others set out to excavate the treasure, the entire Stuttgart's attention will be attracted by the treasure, and Paul will take Gerald to use the French's own
Transport Company, transport away the real treasure.
This is what Fang Lang thought after discovering that Captain Gerald was a German spy.
If Paul wants to take these treasures as his own or realize them, he can only transport them to Switzerland. Only Switzerland, as a neutral country, will turn a blind eye to these treasures that are obviously Japanese heritage.
Other surrounding countries may confiscate the property.
Therefore, Fang Lang concluded that even if Paul used the French transport company's vehicles to transport them, he would never transport this batch of materials back to France.
When Colonel Chatham's adjutant introduced Fang Lang to the safe route to Switzerland, Fang Lang knew that he didn't even have to keep an eye on Captain Gerard.
Therefore, Fang Lang began to ask people to just keep an eye on the French transport convoy leaving Stuttgart while Leo and the others were discovering the treasure.
And personnel are placed at several important nodes of this safety line for monitoring.
Therefore, after our Gestapo Mr. Leon escaped from the hospital through the golden cicada, the person following him could no longer be found.
The people following him had already been waiting for his arrival.
This made Mr. Leon find nothing unusual even though he kept his eyes open throughout the whole journey.
The speed of water transportation is not fast. After a whole day of sailing, Mr. Leon's ship finally entered Basel, Switzerland along the Rhine River when it was just getting dark.
Basel, Switzerland, is located at the bend of the Rhine River and is a border city at the junction of Germany, France, and Switzerland.
After the ship entered Basel, Mr. Leon finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Of course, their ships did not enter the city of Basel, but continued along the upper reaches of the Rhine.
Finally, we stopped at a small private pier more than 20 kilometers away from downtown Basel.
This small pier is very remote and there are no lights in the night.
Maybe it had been arranged in advance, or maybe everyone was too tired after a day's sailing. After the ship docked, no one got off the ship.
What they didn't notice was that there was a fishing boat returning late. When it passed by them, there were more than ten black figures on the boat sneaking into the cold river water silently.
There was also a dark shadow on the shore slowly moving toward the pier.
Danger often occurs when you relax your vigilance when you think it is safe, and Leon, the Gestapo, did not escape this fate in the end.
Diving in the water and fighting on ships are basic subjects for Marines.
Therefore, except for a few undetectable muffled hums in the dark night, calm was quickly restored.
When the lights on the boat came on again, Fang Lang got on the boat from the pier unhurriedly.
When he came to the cabin and saw three corpses on the ground, Fang Lang recognized the guy who called himself Paul at a glance.
As for leaving him alive and bragging to the other party about how he discovered his plan and how he caught him, Fang Lang would not do it.
After all, this is all the fun of being a villain, and Fang Lang is not a villain, so how could he have such boring thoughts!
The most important thing is that he knows that villains often die because they talk too much. What desperate measures will the Gestapo use later? Not only will it hurt him, but it will also hurt the flowers and plants!
In short, Fang Lang would never admit that he was saving his life.
After confirming the identities of the people on the ground, Fang Lang stopped paying attention and turned to look at the warehouse.
This is a diesel-powered cargo ship of at least 1,000 tons, which is considered a relatively new type of cargo ship.
At this time, the volume of goods in the warehouse was not small, and it was slowly stuffed.
Fang Lang knew that if it were all gold, it would definitely not be so big. He walked forward and picked up a crowbar, opened one of the rectangular crates, and found that there was a carefully wrapped oil painting inside.
Although Fang Lang was not familiar with Western oil painting art, he also understood that the paintings that could be collected as treasures by the German government were definitely not ordinary paintings.
I glanced twice to make sure I didn’t see him.
After that, I stopped paying attention.
After opening a few more large boxes, he found sculptures, bronzes, and porcelain from his hometown. Fang Lang knew that the things were right.
However, no gold was seen, which was somewhat surprising to Fang Lang.
After walking around twice, I discovered that some small ammunition boxes were placed at the bottom of the cabin and were used as ballast.
Considering that there are so many warriors around, it would not be good if one is dazzled by gold or confused by money and has unrealistic ideas.
So Fang Lang didn't open the ammunition box underneath to check.
He clapped his hands and said to everyone:
"Okay, our operation this time can be considered a successful conclusion.
Congratulations in advance to everyone, we will all be rich when we return to Brazil. "
Everyone smiled knowingly.
Everyone knew that their commander was not a stingy person. Since he told everyone that they had made a fortune, it meant that they could also share a lot of profits from this batch of goods.
Fang Lang certainly cannot be stingy with the brothers who have followed him through life and death. The value of these works of art is difficult to estimate.
He planned to take out 30% of the gold in the ammunition box and distribute it to those who participated in the operation.
But don't think that 30% is less. As a commander, you have predicted in advance that you will definitely get the big share of this target.
The most important thing is that after these guys made a fortune one by one, they all retired from the army, and Fang Lang suffered a huge loss.
"Thank you, sir!"
Looking at the smiling soldiers one by one.
Fang Lang smiled and said:
"Don't be too happy, everyone. There are still certain variables before the items are shipped to the Brazilian bank and locked in insurance.
If other countries discover this shipment, our work may be in vain.
Therefore, I would like to remind everyone not to tell anyone about tonight's actions, nor to spread the news that you are about to get rich to anyone.
As for the specific amount you can get, we will not be able to tell you until we ship it back to Brazil for detailed statistics.
I plan to give 30% of the gold to everyone, so don’t be too little. "
When everyone heard that 30% was given to them, everyone started talking.
Although it is still not possible to confirm how much 30% is, there are not many of them.
Assigned, everyone will have to work hard for at least ten years less.
The most important thing is that they didn't do anything, which made them all ecstatic.
You said to Fang Lang:
"Thank you boss, the boss is very generous."
This is different from Japan. In Japan, in order to prevent others from being discovered, the Japanese wrapped the gold in copper materials, and no one knew that there was gold inside.
I thought I just harvested some bronze vessels and copper rods, but I had no idea.
However, this time everyone knew that this was a treasure, so if Fang Lang didn't do anything good, it would inevitably make his soldiers dissatisfied.
