Chapter 289: Tungsten Ore
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The group struggled to walk on the tall Alpine mountains, the roads were so rough that they couldn't use the vehicles at all, so they had to walk on their own two legs.
Even so, they still carry heavy equipment, one step at a time.
"According to General Ciric's inference, it is likely to be here." A middle-aged man said, "Do it! β
Do it! Several people put down the equipment they were carrying, and soon, they assembled the equipment, and a small gasoline engine was started, and the equipment also buzzed, and underneath, a drill bit quickly drilled into the rock.
This is a geological team, and each of them is physically strong, after all, the life of the geological team is the hardest, such as now.
For the sake of the Empire, they want to unearth more minerals, this is their mission! The tall Alps are not only beautiful, but also have a lot of minerals!
Lighting a bonfire and making a cup of coffee, they stopped to rest in between drilling.
"Hans, do you think our reasoning is correct?" A young geological team member, holding bread and drinking coffee, said to the leader.
"Of course it's correct, General Ciric's inferences have always been extremely accurate!" Hans said.
"Then I heard that I used to go to Libya to mine for oil, and it was a joke? It's been more than ten years, and I haven't heard of anything there. β
"You idiot, do you really have anything to say? Pay attention to the discipline in the confidentiality manual, we are here, if we find anything, we can't say it, otherwise, just wait to report to the Gestapo headquarters! Hans gestured and punched the man who had said the wrong thing.
"Found it, found it!" At this moment, on the side of the drilling rig, a person shouted loudly: "Sure enough, it is tungsten ore, and the quality is not bad!" β
I found that when I drilled down a few meters, I found tungsten ore!
Suddenly, the entire geological team cheered.
Not in vain!
In the Austrian Alps, tungsten ore was discovered! The news quickly spread back to Berlin!
"Ciric, you are truly our hero!" Hitler couldn't hide his inner joy, Germany, is a country that lacks resources, for example, as an important rare metal tungsten, Germany can only import.
Historically, Germany imported a large amount from China, and it is the same now, but with this tungsten mine, there is no need to worry about it anymore!
After all, importing from China requires a long detour, and once it enters a state of war, it is easy to be blocked by the United States at sea.
"Ciric, how do you know there's tungsten there?" Goering on the side was also puzzled.
"I guess." Ciric's voice was a little slouched.
Later generations have always had a lot of sighs when they talked about World War II, for example, if Rommel had known that there was oil under the Libyan desert, would he still fail in North Africa?
If Hitler had known that Austria had the world's second largest tungsten mine, would he still be concerned about the metal?
Austria's tungsten mines, in later generations, reached an annual mining scale of 400,000 tons of stone, producing 1,800 tons of commercial metal tungsten. And after entering the war, even if it is only half of this amount, it will be enough for Germany!
This is the best material to use to make armor-piercing bullets! Before the advent of depleted uranium, tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets were the best.
"FΓΌhrer, I suggest that this matter should not be publicized for now." "We now need to secretly develop this tungsten mine, so that Reinhardt can find a large number of death row prisoners, and first carry out the basic construction of the mining area, including the road to Vienna, the railway, the establishment of various factories in the mining area, the construction of mineral processing, smelting and other equipment," said Shirek. β
Looking for death row prisoners to do it, of course, it is for the sake of secrecy, and when all the infrastructure here is built, there is only one fate for these death row prisoners.
"Now, we still import tungsten ore, after all, our import channels have not been hindered in any way, and once our import channels are blocked, then we can immediately start tungsten ore production here." Ciric continued.
Just like oil, it is hidden first, and when it is used, it can be used immediately.
The problem of tungsten ore has been solved, and at the same time, another rare metal that is most needed by the German armor force is molybdenum, which is a necessary rare metal used by Germany to make armor.
And in the whole of Europe, except for the Soviet Union, only Norway is rich in molybdenum mines. Historically, in 1944, the U.S. imperialists carried out a strategic bombing specifically targeting the Norwegian molybdenum mines, and after that bombing, the German armor force was seriously reduced.
At present, Norway has not yet been conquered, and it can only be temporarily stockpiled by importing large quantities of Soviet ore, as long as it can be used to conquer Norway.
At the same time, when the war broke out, priority was given to the protection of these mining areas.
Now, why is Ciric asking for secrecy? Of course, in order not to let the outside world know, to save from being bombed, and when the forces of the whole of Europe are integrated, will the United States still have the ability to bomb?
"Ciric, you're right." Hitler said: "Just do it your way." β
Hitler was in high spirits.
With Hitler's decision, the entire prisons in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic ushered in the most tragic period of their lives.
They were told that they could be exchanged for freedom by their labor, but when they were transported to the mines, where they were to work under the whip of the overseers, they discovered that it was a job that would exhaust them to death.
Some of the condemned prisoners wanted to escape, but they were mercilessly shot to death by the Gestapo around them, and the remaining condemned prisoners could only survive day by day, and when a year later, after all the projects were completed, the remaining number of death row prisoners was less than half!
Subsequently, they were loaded into cars and sent deeper into the mountains, and then, there, the sound of machine guns from MG43 was heard.
Everything is so natural, and countless souls are entangled in the valley.
In this era, only the strongest can survive!
After the occupation of the Czech Republic, the wheels of German war seemed to come to a sudden halt! The Germans suddenly became harmless rabbits, and some relaxed again, believing that Hitler had finally eaten enough after annexing the Czechs.
There are also some people who know that the next time there is another war, it will be a shocking thing, such as Churchill, who continues to run to tell each other, but unfortunately, many people feel extremely tired of his war remarks!
Time, day by day, during this time, Ciric did not relax, want Germany to win World War II, this year, is quite important!
On this day, he took a car and came to GEMA.