Chapter 968: Local tycoon

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Germany ’s massive attack took more than two months to prepare, which also meant that Americans spent more time and thought on the Suez Canal defense line. △ ↗The top vertex novel, after the defeat of American and British troops from the defense of Alexandria, they were desperately preparing this line of defense. At that time, Germany had not occupied the Nile River Basin yet.
So, even if Rommel carefully prepared this raid attack, but to say that the entire Suez Canal line was torn apart within two hours, it was simply a whimsical thing. While the Marshal of the Third Reich was eager to break through the Suez Canal line, the US and British coalition forces were also trying to prepare Rommel with a very big surprise.
"Ignite the oil in stock and use a special line of defense to stop the Germans from moving forward!" While retreating, the US battlefield commander issued an order to start a planned response that was already ready.
In fact, speaking of this special method, the US and British forces in the Middle East are also very helpless. The loss of Egypt with better infrastructure and some light industry is a fatal blow to the entire Anglo-American Middle East strategy. The production of many weapons and ammunition on-site has become difficult, and most of the material must be shipped from far behind India.
From the beginning of the war to the present, Britain lost Tobruk itself, the US-British coalition lost Alexandria and Egypt, and most of the construction in the Middle East was lost to the German-Italian coalition, which reduced the logistics line of the German-Italian African Legion by more than half— Because obviously Alexandria is much stronger than distant places like Thunsi and Tobruk.
Most of the US weapons depend on transportation from the distant United States. These weapons bypass the Atlantic Ocean, enter the Indian Ocean from the Cape of Good Hope, and finally reach the Middle East. The distance of this route is so long that the American team rarely gets timely supplies.
In addition, the US and British coalition forces also have a certain gap with the German North African Army. Therefore, the US and British commanders could not find the possibility that they could hold the Suez Canal. When the strength comparison between the two sides was not so obvious, Alexandria was occupied by Germany. Now the gap between the strengths of the two sides is even greater. How can the small Suez Canal hold it?
Driven by this idea, the British and American coalition forces began to constantly think about what their own advantages were. Ammunition can only be processed by a small factory in India, which is completely inferior to the German and Italian African Legion: Because the ammunition shipped from Italy can directly reach Alexandria Port, which is about the same distance from both sides, but on the industrial level India and Italy are completely absent One grade.
Although the number of troops has been replenished, it has managed to maintain a balance of power, but there is a huge gap between the personnel of both sides in terms of equipment morale and fighting will. The majority of British soldiers are now at the same level as Italy. The US team is more than the German team, so it can only be described as huh.
In terms of armor, Patton was fought by a German paratrooper in Dammamhur, and half of the tanks were dropped in Egypt. The domestic supplements simply cannot supply American soldiers in the Middle East to rebuild a strong armored force. In the end, the Americans relied on their huge production capacity to barely allow the number of American tanks in the Middle East to reach two-thirds of the Germans.
In the Air Force ... After countless additions, the Americans still cannot obtain air supremacy in North Africa. This is a polite official statement. In fact, the United States Air Force was beaten in front of the superior German Air Force.
In the Pacific battlefield, the US soldiers who overwhelmed the Japanese with their superior firepower and production capacity, and had a good record. In the face of the Germans with more powerful firepower and more convenient supply, as if they encountered natural enemies, there was no confidence to win at all-let What is the difference between a group of new recruits looking for the stalemate of the veterans of the African Legion?
Thinking about it, the senior leaders of the British and American coalition forces did not think of a good way. In the end, General Mountbatten, who was far away from India, put forward a plan: use oil! This barren desert in the Middle East requires pitiful infrastructure and few natural barriers, but it has such an advantage that it has so much oil.
Since the British navy has lost the right to control the sea in the Mediterranean, oil in the Middle East can no longer feed the British mainland. With the end of the British homeland war, the transportation of oil from the Mediterranean became a joke. The oil share of the United States and Britain in the Middle East simply failed, and more than a decade of development investment in the Middle East became a burden.
Fortunately, the United Kingdom shipped oil from the Middle East to India, hoping that the oil hoarded there could be used as a resource for future restoration. But the United States is pitiful. It is not as cheap to extract the oil in the Gulf of Mexico as it is transported back to the country. After all, the cost of raising the entire Africa is too horrible.
As a result, the Middle East became an oil hoarding warehouse, hundreds of thousands of tons of American oil was so idle, and the British also had a lot of output that could not be shipped out. Withholding the German share and the Italian share, as well as the French oil share after the surrender, such a huge oil production capacity is cheaper for the locals.
Since there is so much oil, and most of the oil is useless, Mountbatten suggested that we burn the oil directly to stop the German attack, would n’t it? So the British and American coalition forces opened up and began to build an "oil defense line" that used oil to prevent the Germans from advancing.
The oil is neatly placed in the trenches, and the criss-crossing trenches are only covered with a layer of floating soil. These terrible incendiary bombs exist like fishing nets and are built about 20 kilometers behind the first US position. After the first line of defense was broken, it was intended to use such a line of fire and defense to prevent the Germans from advancing.
American soldiers began to retreat along the planned road, and hundreds of German troops began to cross the Suez Canal. All the scripts seem to be developing according to Rommel's design. He watched his troops ascend to the river bank on the other side, and he watched that his engineers had crossed the pontoon over the canal's river center.
As long as he was given half an hour, his leopard tank could drive through the Suez Canal. This line of defense that blocked him for several months would be left behind by his head. The troops of the Third Reich will occupy this land, and those Yankees and Britons will eventually be defeated by themselves.
Just when Rommel imagined his future, an old Stukka bomber above the sky was looking for its target. The pilots in Stukka finally found a trench on the ground that was packed with American troops. So he began to dive to lower his height.
This trench was one of the retreat routes reserved by the US military. No one expected that the German attack was so violent that the retreat of the US military was chaotic. The planned batch retreat became crowded. The shoving in the tunnels, the trenches that were not conspicuous in the past, have now become the main target of the Stuka bomber attack.
The battlefield is changing rapidly, and any planned procedures may change during the execution process. Although the US team conceived a strong German offensive method as much as possible, it still did not expect that the German army could be established on the other side within an hour. Bridgehead.
The Stuka plane rushed towards its target with a roaring sound. It was as close as possible to the ground, and then dropped the terrible aerial bomb below the fuselage into the trench. As the fuselage trembles, the pilot knows His bomb had already detached from the fuselage, so he began to pull the joystick to let his plane pull up quickly.
But at this moment, a bullet that didn't know where to come from broke his cabin glass. The bullet hit his throat, and the blood immediately splashed onto the spliced ​​glass of the Stuka plane like a burst water pipe. The pilot pulled the joystick twice with the remaining consciousness, and then pulled his head down. No breathing.
So the Stuka fell to the ground, and then with unburnt aviation fuel, a huge explosion occurred at the moment of hitting the ground. Immediately next to the blasting plane, a node where dozens of barrels of oil was buried, a loud bang exploded, setting off the dark smoke that covered the sky and a flame several meters high.
The American soldiers beside the positions were completely dumbfounded. Although they buried these oils, they did n’t know how terrible these terrible things would explode. You need to know that their positions are not far from these terrible burial sites. Everyone thought that the burning of oil would turn into a flame wall, but no one knew that this thing would burn up to a few floors.
The other oil-filled areas connecting here also started to explode and burn. The smoke was rolling across the position and nothing could be seen at all. Many American soldiers who had not retreated were forced to retreat by the flames. Some of the people who had escaped were also disgraced. dirt.
Rommel and Gallibo witnessed this amazing scene with their own eyes. At the beginning, the Third Marshal thought that the bomber unit he pursued had hit the enemy's ammunition depot, but the subsequent explosion made He was dumbfounded.
I have seen luxury, but I have never seen such luxury! The German armored forces have been troubled by their own fuel supply. Gasoline heating is explicitly prohibited on the Eastern Front, not to mention this and so, burning a wall of fire with oil to prevent the enemy from advancing?
In the first time, a question emerged in Rommel's heart: with so much oil, is it not good to use armored forces to cooperate with infantry to support the defense line? At this moment, he suddenly discovered that the world of local tyrants, he did not understand the diao silk, and the United States with such a wealth of money is really a strong enemy of the Third Reich.