On the other side, Rommel sent a telegram to Hitler as planned:

"Your Excellency, Honorable Führer! It is with great excitement that I report to you that our soldiers inadvertently dug up oil while digging a well! Yes, it's true, as confirmed by Professor Buckhouse, it was indeed oil. Professor Buckhouse said it was likely that we had stumbled upon an oil field, but he couldn't guarantee that. We've organized people to set up a well to drill! ”

Rommel was very shrewd, he didn't say it all, and there were some words in the telegram that were "maybe" and "dare not guarantee".

In this way, if the oil is not drilled in the end, Rommel can find an excuse to excuse it.

Hitler looked at the telegram and couldn't help but be stunned. It took him a while to react.

"God, there's oil in North Africa!" Hitler waved a telegram to his staff officer: "Do you believe it? There is oil in North Africa...... Rommel, he found oil in North Africa! Any idea what that means? If this is true, we don't need to send oil to North Africa, on the contrary, we can get oil from there, which is definitely good news! That's great! ”

While Hitler was basking in this exciting news for everyone, another telegram from Rommel came:

"Your Excellency, after receiving this news, I can't help but worry at the same time, you know...... If the British also get the news, they will launch a tidal attack on us, and our strength is simply not enough to stop the enemy's attack, the biggest difficulty of which is the lack of naval fuel and air power! ”

If it had been before, Hitler would have used a lot of data to prove that Rommel had no less equipment and fuel than the British, and then said a set of empty words that the Allies could be defeated by spirit and will.

But this time......

Hitler didn't think much of it, and he immediately telegraphed Rommel back: "You will get everything you need, my general, to hold the Tunis Strait and the Gabbès Line." They are the gateway to Algeria! Also, don't let the British know about oil! ”

Rommel looked at Hitler's reply with satisfaction, the only telegram he had received in months that did not disappoint him.

Hitler moved quickly, and the next day he withdrew the 24th Air Wing, which was operating on the Eastern Front, from the line of fire and moved to North Africa. It also sent a large amount of fuel to North Africa for the first time...... While this would hurt the strength of the Eastern Front, it was nothing compared to the oil fields of North Africa.

There was one thing Hitler didn't do: he didn't want the British to know about it, but the British knew about it when Hitler received the telegram.

Montgomery and Eisenhower looked at the telegram and couldn't help but look at each other.

"Do you think that's true? Monty! Eisenhower said incredulously: "They found oil seedlings in Algeria? Could it be another trap? ”

"No, I believe it's true!" Montgomery said, "If it is false, what is their purpose? ”

Montgomery was right when he said that the result of deceiving the British did not seem to do the Germans any good. What's more, this is a telegram from Rommel to Hitler obtained "super secret".

"We need to determine where it is!" Eisenhower said, "It should be near the shoreline!" ”

Montgomery replied, "No, he's not near the shoreline!" ”

"How do you know?"

"Because they dig wells!" Montgomery handed over the telegram: "There is an abundance of water near the shoreline, and there is no need to dig wells!" ”

"You mean ......"

Montgomery nodded: "Just like we found oil in Saudi Arabia, this time it's their turn to hand in good luck!" ”

However, the specific location of the oil seedlings was not revealed, which made the British army spend a lot of effort, using spies, reconnaissance planes, etc., and finally the Algerian people who moved out of Dade found a breakthrough and determined the Timlag Basin.

On this day, the explorers were busy around several drilling wells...... Professor Buckhouse drilled a total of five wells, numbered from 1 to 5.

The five wells were identified by Professor Buckhouse based on the data analyzed, that is, they were erected where oil was most likely to exist, and the well where the oil seedlings were found was certainly one of them.

The derrick stands high on the ground, the drill pipe is connected down one by one, and the drill bit is "rumbling" against the rock in the downhole.

Qin Chuan asked Professor Buckhouse about their drilling wells that could drill 3.53 meters per hour...... This is a certain gap with modern drilling, Qin Chuan once visited an oil field, according to the introduction of the area of the old mechanical drilling speed of up to 4.65 meters per hour.

But that's the modern era, and it's pretty good to have such a high rate of penetration at this time.

In this way, day and night, there is a possibility that the drill bit will wear out and need to be replaced, or there may be a deviation of the well...... The so-called well deviation is because the drill pipe is too long, and the drill bit and drill pipe deviate from the original direction in the vibration of the work, and then it will be corrected by the well deviation.

Therefore, roughly calculated, it will take at least more than a month to reach more than 2,000 meters, that is, the oil layer.

At this time, Qin Chuan couldn't help but think of the PDC drill bit...... This thing set a one-hour record of 16.93 meters in the Liaohe oilfield, and even in the conglomerate and basalt sections with very poor drillability, it can reach speeds of more than 11 meters per hour with minimal wear.

If this were to be used here, it would take only seven or eight days to complete more than 2,000 meters.

But the current equipment is at this level, and Qin Chuan can only wait patiently.

At this time, a piercing air defense siren suddenly sounded, and the exploration members and Professor Buckhouse, who was looking at the drawings, couldn't help but raise their heads, and then turned their inquiring eyes to Qin Chuan.

"Enemy air strike!" Qin Chuan shouted: "Go into the bomb shelter, this is not a drill!" ”

Only then did the exploration members react, and they all left their work and ran to the bomb shelter.

Of course, the air-raid shelter was dug by Qin Chuan and others for the exploration personnel, and Qin Chuan had also conducted several air defense exercises before that, which made the exploration personnel not panic at all when they entered the air-raid shelter.

"Remember what I taught you?" Qin Chuan said: "First: Unless I give you an order, don't run out of the bomb shelter under any circumstances. Second: Open your mouth wide and plug your ears, it helps protect your eardrums! Third: Don't lean against the side wall or lie on the ground! ”

The British bombers had to enter the defensive line for a considerable distance to reach the Timlag Basin, so Qin Chuan had enough time to explain this again.

"Yes, Captain!" Hans replied: "We remember, was it the enemy's bombardment?" ”

"I don't know yet!" Qin Chuan said, walked to the entrance of the air-raid shelter, took out a telescope, and looked into the air.