Chapter 484 The World of Ears

@@@@@@ Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Algiers.

In the early morning, a small biplane flew by the sea quickly. In the cabin, Shuangxi gently turned over the vertical pole. The light osprey drew a beautiful arc in the air like cotton wool rolled up by the strong wind. At that moment, his body formed parallel to the sea, as if he had become a real Osprey. Looking for a target in the water.

From the meritorious airship observer who found the traces of the Royal Far East Fleet a few years ago, to now, he has traveled a long way to become a pilot.

On the snow sculpture in the distance, the red flag flashed a few times, which made him end his free flight and quickly flattened the fuselage and began to descend slowly.

Osprey fell little by little. The humid air flew along the wings driven by the propeller. The closer it was to the sea, the more diffused the water mist was. The fog brought by the propeller even wet the wind mirror. When the two large floats under the fuselage suddenly hit the sea, he was relieved.

No matter when and where, take-off and landing are the most dangerous. This is not what he observed, but the experience summarized by today's growing domestic pilots, which is a lesson from paying hundreds of lives.

When driving the Osprey slowly approached the Snow Sculpture, the boom on the left side of the deck also quickly turned. The anchor hook slowly put a aircrew soldier on the top wing of the Osprey. When the aircrew comrade-in-arms hung in the air like juggling hung in the air, Shuangxi and his beloved fighter were included in the stern cargo. In the warehouse.

When the plane entered the warehouse, Mining, who had been standing on the deck watching, was relieved.

A few years ago, Sibiru Island, which shocked the world, sent the Royal Xinhua Navy to the list of the world's top navies, which also made countries begin to focus on all kinds of weapons and equipment that appeared in that naval battle, especially the first aircraft, which made Europe immediately turn from airship fever to aircraft fever, including Britain, France, Germany and other countries began to His seaplane was loaded on a warship, coupled with the emerging private flight craze, so the picture of the osprey circling was not abrupt.

But even so, Minning still dares not let Osprey fly for too long. After all, compared with Xinhua, there is still a big gap between countries and can't stay in the air for a long time, so staying for a long time will certainly cause suspicion, not to mention that the Snow Sculpture is not an ordinary cargo ship.

As the second Golden Eagle-class electronic reconnaissance ship, except that it still looks like the most common cargo ship, its interior has been quietly upgraded. The most important thing is that a passive reception system is installed for the first time, which can accept any radio signal nearby.

The value of this system is great, because as countries have increased their investment in radio, coupled with the large export of the first generation of domestic radio stations, the current radio signals in Europe have become very busy.

There are both encrypted signals from various [***] parties and open signals from the people, so Xuediao has another task, which is to collect and monitor radio communication signals between countries and take them back to China for analysis.

It is extremely difficult to crack encrypted signals, so no one knows how much of the messy information they send back to China can be analyzed, but through the analysis of non-encrypted civil signals, a large amount of useful information can still be obtained.

For example, not long ago, they intercepted a piece from the Atlantic Ocean that was sent to British saltpeter from France, "Russia needs to purchase 20,000 tons of saltpeter." The news inferred that there was an urgent shortage of explosives in Russia. At the same time, because the news contained negotiated price information, the ambassador to France immediately contacted Russia through channels and got this large order at a lower price.

In addition to these, in the previous competition for the procurement of Chilean battleships, the Golden Eagle intercepted the representative of the British Armstrong Shipyard off the coast of Cuba and sent it to the United States by cable telegram, and then transferred the radio from the United States to the United Kingdom. Only then did the equipment department take the initiative to give up a discount of 100,000 pounds and rob the two ships. The big business of battleships.

This set of high-power passive monitoring equipment is like plugging a pair of Shunfeng ears into the snow sculpture, and you can hear all kinds of useful or useless things every day.

In addition to monitoring and investigation, Snow Sculpture is also responsible for quickly forwarding the news here to China. Due to the lack of bases in Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, it is impossible to build a fixed high-power launcher, so if you want to send back what happened here in time, you need a mobile forwarding station like Snow Sculpture.

However, it is the confidential cutting-edge technology on it that makes all four Golden Eagle-class electronic reconnaissance ships very **. For safety, not only a number of sea valves have been set up, but also internal explosives have been installed, which can quickly blow up the core parts of the ship into pieces if necessary!

This measure also forced the general of the navy to change slightly. On other warships, the largest official rank must be the captain, but here, Minning, the electronic reconnaissance colonel of the naval intelligence department, is the real master.

Stepping into the wide No. 2 electronic cabin, a row of neat radio stations are constantly ticking. More than 20 electronic officials monitor the whole world with their ears with novel large ear veins. This is the terminal of passive monitoring. On the edge of these terminals, each is connected to a pendulum recorder, which can automatically Convert the signal into wave symbols. According to these specific symbols, the Ministry of Intelligence can distinguish which band the signal is used and analyze the extent to which the radio in Europe has developed.

This is a world that has never been imagined ten years ago. If outsiders come here, they will definitely think that they have come to the future. The sophisticated third-generation frequency-hopping radio, automatically encrypted high-power forwarding radio, strong-power full-spectrum interference transmitters, needle analyzer recorders, passive monitoring radios, and just been researched. For a long time, a fax machine that can send real-time photos.

Even in the most emergency situations, Mining can directly carry out radio voice communication with His Majesty, but because that is very likely to be monitored by dense European radio enthusiasts and other countries, this can only be used in the most urgent situations.

And everyone here knows that if Mining picks up the red phone, it means that he has entered the war or the Snow Sculpture is about to sink!

Outside, people can feel the progress of technology through a larger battleship, but here, only a pair of pricked ears can understand how powerful the empire is.

In order to bring these high-precision and cutting-edge equipment to the extreme, everyone here has graduated from college and has gone through at least three years of training. They need to master at least three foreign languages and obtain a special certificate.

So even Minning sometimes feels that he has mastered a special army with the highest knowledge and culture.

Looking at a monitor wearing a headset, he smiled and was ready to go to the bridge to discuss the next route with the captain. Just as he was about to turn around, a big hand in the position of the No. 03 monitor radio suddenly raised, and then slowly clenched his fist under everyone's gaze.

This is a special gesture, which means that the monitor has received a valuable message and must be kept as quiet as possible in the cabin. It is this action that makes Minning stop and a smile on the corners of his mouth.

In fact, he likes this kind of work very much, as if he has returned to the era when he was a child when he hid and listened to the corner of the wall whenever a newlywed got married. There is an indescribable strange feeling. Anyway, every time he sees this gesture, everyone seems to become very excited, just like seeing a hunting dog with prey.

The cabin was quiet in an instant, and all eyes were on the monitor who was recording. He only saw him writing quickly on the note, transforming the signals he heard one by one into various symbols.

This is the advantage of technology leaders. Because Xinhua is a radio inventor and the largest and only exporter in the world, it has specially formulated a set of radio usage procedures and manuals.

Since more than 70% of the world's radio stations are sold by Xinhua, this set of rules and user manuals have quickly become the only international radio standard, and patents have been registered, so it is very easy to monitor unencrypted information and translate.

As time went by, Min Ning himself did not realize that he had walked not far behind the monitor. When he was finally approaching, the monitor had quickly taken off his headphones and handed the note to the special translator.

After a minute, the translation result came out, message.

"There was a riot in Morocco. A German gunboat arrived and confronted the French navy. There was a danger of war. Please send a ship to pick us up as soon as possible!"

Signed by Garls.

Who is Garls? Is it a businessman or an expatriate from a certain country? This is actually not important. What matters is the first half of the message he sent through the civilian radio.

There was a confrontation between the German gunboat and the French navy, and there was a danger of war!

"Notify the captain to adjust the route. If we go to the Atlantic Ocean, we must pass through the Strait of Gibraltar before noon."

"Encrypt three times, forward the message back."

"Contact the vulture and come to help from Cuba as soon as possible."

"Three-level alert, start the No. 5 generator to enhance power, turn on all monitoring channels, and focus on monitoring all signal sources in Britain, Germany and France." Although Mining's words are urgent, they still maintain the usual rhythm. For everyone on the Snow Sculpture, the third-level alert is just a small exercise.

But they didn't know that when the telegram was encrypted three times in a row and returned to China and transferred to Li Mo, he was deeply relieved.

No one knows better than him what the Moroccan crisis indicates. This event can be called a watershed. When William II was forced to leave the land that had vowed to protect its reading and territorial integrity under the powerful joint pressure of Britain and France, he watched his enemies France and Morocco sign the Treaty of Fez and issued "Germany" After the signal that it will no longer be cede, the European ship-building competition has finally evolved into a head-on confrontation between the two major military groups!

For its own interests, Britain did not hesitate to deter France by force at the critical moment, strengthening the close relationship between the Anglo-French Treaty and the Triple Agreement. Due to the expansion of Germany, the Triple Agreement has truly become a military alliance. Later, Britain made an agreement with France to let the British navy defend the English Channel and France defend the Mediterranean Sea.

For Li Mo, the news brought by the electronic reconnaissance ship with the most sensitive ears also made him a little relieved, at least to show that he can still grasp the future for a period of time. The war is inevitable. More importantly, because the Moroccan crisis has made North Africa turbulent and let Italy see the opportunity. I saw a good excuse to use the protection of expatriates! ......

(to be continued)