ps: It's no longer anti-theft today, everyone relax......

The telegram calling for the French to take charge of the oil was like a stone in the sea, and the other party simply replied with a "I know" and said no more, neither when it would be sent nor in what form, as if it did not care at all. Contini was a little puzzled, but since the French were not in a hurry, he didn't bother to worry about this matter, but instructed the oil fields and oil tankers to further speed up the transportation, and it would be better to have more luck, but in order to prevent the French from making a bad move, the oil guards continued to stay on the Libyan side and remained ready to be dispatched at any time.

The French did not react, but Shell was very attentive and sent a telegram saying that the price could be raised to $62 million, but 65 million could not be promised.

This made Contini a little irritable, because the end of the year is approaching, many accounts have to be cleared at the end of the year, and this year is the last accounting year before the listing of Union Bank, some accounts must be done, so it can't be too obvious, Shell's way of raiding shares not only makes him a little uncertain, but also makes him unable to choose, in the end?

In the end, after thinking about it for 2 days, he made up his mind to ask for this money, but 62 million was a little less, and he decided to reduce it by $1 million to 64 million.

On 19 November, the unrest in Algiers continued, with a tendency to spread to the surrounding areas, although the French authorities had issued a curfew and announced that they would send the Foreign Legion to Algiers to quell the rebellion.

This inconspicuous news made Contini feel a little nervous, because the Foreign Legion is the most combat-ready unit of the French, and now it is said that it is going to Algiers to quell the rebellion, will it wait for the counterinsurgency to be completed and give it to himself? At that time, it was too late to beat the rabbits, the lineup and strength of the Foreign Legion were not small, and they had maintained combat readiness for several years, in case they pounced on the oil fields, the oil guards alone might not be able to parry. What's worse, even if he can parry, he can use oil to guard the hard top? This is unwise.

Now not only Sickert advised him to be cautious, but even Blomburg and Enzo were urging him to be cautious, and it was already a taboo for the French to incite the Algerians, and if he fought with the Foreign Legion again, it would be a troublesome matter whether he could win or not.

In the face of the unanimous persuasion of his subordinates, Contini was also a little nervous, he did not have reinforcements for Italy's 4 army divisions is impossible for him to use, and the follow-up more than 3,000 oil guards recruited by the heart will not be put into Libya until at least February next year, during this time he can only rely on the troops at hand, and it is very unfavorable to remain on alert for a long time, suddenly his eyes lit up, there is a way!

"Laying mines!?" Hearing this unbelievable request, everyone was stunned, the scope of the oil field is so large, how can it be defended by laying mines?

"Stupid, who said you can prevent it with mines?" His Excellency the President was angry, "The mine only serves as an early warning, and we still have to rely on our mobile forces to deal with it in the middle, we have few people and many people on the other side, so we can only attack quickly and slowly, and attack everywhere, and the mine also has an advantage, which can prevent the inaccessible tribal armed forces from breaking in......"

Sickert agreed, saying that in any case, laying mines was a defensive strategy, and the French could not say anything more, and the key now was how many mines there were, and how many people were planted.

"I have a batch of mines on my ship, and the others are urgently sent over by China, not enough to buy them in Germany, the more the better!" Contini thought for a moment, "Let the Chinese workers do these things, and the engineers will guide them!" ”

Beginning on November 23, the Algerian oil fields began an unprecedented mine planting war: 1,800 mines were sent to the site and urgently planted on the traffic road facing the north, anyway, Contini was not going to the north, and then the Germans divided more than 40 minefields, large and small, according to the location of the oil fields, and believed that they were necessary to be laid, and the demand for mines was as high as 70,000.

"Buy! Buy them all for me! Contini gritted his teeth viciously, "Shell has initialed an agreement with us to invest $63 million in shares, and the president has money!" How is 70,000 enough, double! Except for the Libyan side, don't bury it, all other areas will be buried for me! ”

"Do you want to put a warning sign?"

"Put!" Contini thought for a moment and smiled evilly, "In Italian and English!" None of us know the noble language of French......"

Sicter shook his head again and again, he just couldn't figure out why Contini, a noble son or a leader of a big business, could sometimes do things so shamelessly? It's shameless! But he had to admit that the president's domineering and routines were still very effective, at least so far the Italians had not suffered a loss, and when he remembered the half of the regiment he had lost in Munich, his heart ached faintly, and he had been spoiled in this way.

Since the mines are to be laid, it is impossible to stop trying to delay time, Contini racks his brains on the map every day to see what other tricks can delay the large-scale landing of the French It is said that the Foreign Legion will transfer 30 battalions to bulldoze Algiers, which is at least more than 20,000 troops, and it is said that the leader of the troops is still Petain, this is the hero of Verdun, Contini will never dare to take it lightly. Although he had a dozen future German marshals under his command who could beat the French to their knees and beg for mercy, it was 1926 and not 1940, and these marshals were tied together without Petain's title and prestige, so he could not but be cautious.

After two days of pondering, he came up with a new solution: Morocco!

The Moroccan uprising had just been quelled by the Foreign Legion, which is why Briand immediately thought of using the Foreign Legion, which was just in combat condition, and it worked very well. However, although the large part of the Moroccan uprising has been extinguished, it does not mean that the Moroccan armed forces have stopped resisting, they are still making sporadic trouble, and if they are given a little support, they can guarantee that the fire can be lit again.

But Morocco and Italy are too far apart, and the ports are all controlled by France and Spain, it is difficult to carry out transportation, but this is not difficult for Contini, who has two aces in his hands Airborne Forces and a floating airfield at sea!

He immediately gave an order, on the one hand, to let the Ji'an send people to infiltrate, and on the other hand, to prepare the Roma and the carrier-based aircraft and aviation, and now the newly produced T1 torpedo machine can even carry torpedoes, and carry and airdrop some Briand vests and Sickert cocktails. Isn't it a matter of getting your hands dirty? The only requirement is that the pace must be accelerated!

At the end of November, the first foreign legions landed in Algiers, and in less than a week they took control of the situation, and by the way began to strangle the resistance forces everywhere, by which time the United Group had transported more than 80,000 tons of crude oil from Tripoli by pipeline, but the amount reported to the French was less than 70,000 tons, and the French were not in a hurry, and continued to push forward with the extermination policy unhurriedly.

On 4 December, when the mines urgently mobilized from Germany and Italy arrived in the Algerian oil fields, Contini hurriedly planted them all, while urging the next shipment to arrive. After the more than 20,000 mines were planted, he suddenly felt a lot of confidence. Of course, it is not wise to fight hard with the French, and it is necessary to find the opponent's soft underbelly to fight an asymmetrical war, and he is even considering whether to buy a group of Algerians to go to Paris to play the game of the same end, thinking about it for a long time, he feels that the malignancy is too great, and he gives up for the time being. But letting go of Paris is not the same as letting go of other places, and he set his sights on Syria, where there was also a tribal rebellion two years ago, and more than 500 people died in the Foreign Legion.

Now the British are big-stirring sticks, Contini and the United Group are trumpet-stirring sticks, in order to keep their own oil, the whole world is looking for fault with France, only he feels excited, and his subordinates are all frightened, but no one can stop what the president wants to do, maybe Mussolini is a little useful in speaking, but how can he know these small actions?

Five days later, Briand ignored the British hints that the Italians were being squeezed out by economic means, and was determined to use force to force the Italians and regain the lost face, so he gave Bey a clear order: he asked to send troops to prepare for the Algerian oil fields to purge the "suspicious" militants.

This request was vaguely written, but Petain understood the truth: this was Paris dissatisfied with the loss of more than half of the colonial group last time, and planned to take Ciano Jr., and as for the oil that Tripoli had transported, it was all trivial, and when the time came, it could be returned with interest. He was a cautious man, and did not set out until 14 December, using the last few days to recuperate, and on the other hand, questioning the colonial officers and soldiers who had fled, and he believed that they would not lie.

After hearing the news that the oil guards had tanks and armored vehicles, his brows also furrowed, judging from this posture, the United Group is really not an idle person. However, he is a character who has seen the bloody battle of Verdun, and he will not be simply frightened by the tank, and ordered to bring more artillery, Miss 75 still has a lot of experience in dealing with tanks at this time, he doesn't believe that he can't hold it down, but just in case, he dispatched 8 battalions in one go, nearly 5,000 men and horses.

He never imagined that in just half a month, the United Group was desperately laying mines and obscenely wrapping the oil field into a hedgehog; What was not expected was that the Roma floating sea airfield had already given more than 1,000 sets of Briand vests, more than 2,000 Sickert cocktail bottles and French rifles captured some time ago to the Moroccan resistance. Morocco, which has just been pacified, will soon make waves again!

The British watched the scene with the mentality of watching the excitement, and now Baldwin and Chamberlain wanted to see the French beat up little Ziano with the Foreign Legion, and then they could jump out and occupy the moral high ground and accuse the French of the best of both worlds. And then in the process, seek some benefits for yourself.

This is their most wishful thinking, who knows that the minefield of the United Oil Field is blocking the way of the Foreign Legion......