At the same time, on the other side of the ocean, in Washington, the United States, in the presidential office of the White House, US President Roosevelt looked at Marshall and other aides in front of him with a pale face.

He spoke slowly and asked in a sickly tone, "I heard that the Germans have found another oil field in the Saudi Arabian region?" ”

"Yes, Mr. President...... They did find new oil fields in the Saudi region, and the French and Italians were talking about it, so ......," said a head of an intelligence service, depressed.

"Germany's intelligence services can't be so magical, can they? Can they find untapped oil fields? An army general turned his head sideways and whispered Marshall, who was standing beside him.

General Marshall was also unhappy now, and he had a passive feeling of being played with between applause, which made him doubt his own life.

If it comes to strategizing, organizing production and recruiting soldiers, he may be the strongest general in the world.

It's a pity that no matter how you strategize, you can't compare to a prophet who has opened a plug-in. The other party did not defeat him with stratagems, but defeated him with tricks like magic sticks.

"German intelligence? I believe that they developed a new technology, and around 1930 they began to explore Saudi Arabia and Libya and other regions! Marshall snorted coldly and said to the generals beside him.

He didn't believe that the other party had the ability to predict the future, in Marshall's opinion, the other party had only one possibility, and that was to make a precise layout in advance!

In the era of World War I, the United States began to dig holes for the Germans, and always hoped to use Germany to pull down the world hegemon Britain.

Therefore, they did not give the Germans many options, and after Hitler came to power, he had to go to war, and after the war, he would eventually lose miserably, which was a script written by the United States itself.

It's just that, for some reason, after all the previous means of supporting Germany were under control, Germany suddenly broke away from the prediction of the Americans at a certain point in time.

"They have known for a long time that there is oil in Libya...... So I kept holding it down and didn't act...... But that doesn't make sense, I can't explain the problems......" Marshall, troubled by the conflict of his reasoning, had a pained look on his face.

"If you have any ideas, speak up and listen." Roosevelt looked at Marshall, who was already seriously ill at this time, and was only supported by his own mental strength.

Therefore, when he asked, his breath was a little unsteady, and after asking this sentence, he coughed violently.

Marshall organized his language and spoke: "The German attack and the ensuing war dividends are too abnormal. ”

"Immediately after the Libyan counteroffensive, they invested in the development of Libyan oil fields." Marshall walked over to the map, pointed to it, and spoke.

Then he pointed to the Middle East: "Then Rommel's troops took Egypt in one fell swoop, with material support from the Axis powers. ”

"I've always wondered if the Germans were going to risk attacking Iraq, fighting in the desert, and consuming their supplies in vain." Marshall pointed to the desert area between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Then he shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly: "But I was wrong, the Germans stopped across the desert, and stopped at the farthest distance they could advance, without the slightest intention of advancing." ”

"When I was amazed, they immediately discovered Saudi oil...... It's not normal, it's very abnormal! Marshall affirmed: "They planned it beforehand!" This is what they planned in advance! ”

This reasoning is very correct, unless the other side has a magic stick that can predict where there are resources, and Hitler still believes what this magic stick says, and dares to risk it with hundreds of thousands of troops and millions of tons of supplies, it will not be able to explain everything that is happening in front of him!

However, how could the other party have a magic stick? And it's such an accurate magic stick? How could Hitler gamble the fate of his country with an illusory prophecy?

It's a simple counter-example: If an old man came up to Marshall and said that oil had been discovered in Mexico, would Marshall suggest that Roosevelt send troops to invade Mexico? Are you kidding?

"It is almost impossible to circumvent the surveillance of the Disarmament Commission and carry out large-scale exploration in the British colonial areas...... Not to mention the need for secrecy......" One of the generals looked at Marshall and raised his own objections.

What he said is indeed to the point - Saudi Arabia was the territory of the British back then, and how could it be possible to bypass the eyes of the British when they were exploring mineral deposits there?

What's more, there was no oil in Libya, and Italy did not find it - how could the Germans find it, and hide it from the Italians?

"There's another problem!" Marshall felt his head ache growing stronger: "The Germans know the time. ”

"If they knew there was oil in Libya, then why didn't they lay the groundwork in advance and invest some infrastructure in Libya......," Marshall said, pointing to the mess of information on Libya's oil fields on the table, pointing to Roosevelt.

"Their construction only started in 1940, which is too weird, even if there are no oil fields, it is in their fundamental interests to make some deployments in advance before the war." This is another place where Marshall can't figure it out.

If Italy or Germany had financed the construction of ports such as Benghazi or Sirte, even if some roads had been paved in advance and some local extrusion construction had been added, this would have made sense.

However, before the start of the war, Germany and Italy did not make any small moves, not even a little advance construction, and even before June 1940, they did not make any advance preparations.

And after that? Like thunder - the Germans made a surprise attack on Malta, airborne Crete, drove the British fleet out of the Mediterranean Sea in one fell swoop, and then remembered to build Libyan oil fields......

It feels like they didn't know there was an oil field before, and they stumbled upon it, rushing to clear the obstacles on the transportation route and then develop a new oil field.

It was precisely because of this oil field that Germany broke away from the control of the United States and began the Great Leap Forward by surprise in all aspects.

Weapons innovation, army expansion, abundant energy, self-sufficiency...... This series of changes seems to have taken place by leaps and bounds, without warning, and concentrated after June 1940.

Thinking of this, the same thought flashed through Marshall's mind: what had happened in June 1940, when Germany had surrendered in France......

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Today is a change for the time being, and three watches during the day will be made up.