Around the port of Sirte, a tightly packed air defense base has been built. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Because it was about to become an important port for German oil transportation, the defense was more tight than ever.

Around this, Germany deployed more than 70 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, supplemented by no less than 70 Bofors 40-mm anti-aircraft guns.

In order to avoid another accident in Sirte being attacked by enemy troops, the Germans also set up two radar stations belonging to different command systems on the high ground on both sides.

One radar station is under the command of the anti-aircraft artillery unit, and the other is under the command of the fighter unit.

South of Sirte, German siege forces are building a new field airfield where new FW-190B fighter jets will be deployed, and more ME-109E fighters will be used for anti-aircraft operations.

And deeper into the desert, there is also a secret airfield where 20 ME-110 night fighters are deployed.

This kind of tight configuration, even in some first-tier cities in Germany, can be regarded as a very high standard, which shows that the Supreme Command attaches great importance to Libya's oil-producing areas.

Since the discovery of the bodies of unidentified peepers during the last patrol, the German side has carried out an unprecedented reinforcement of the defense system of the entire Libyan oil fields.

First of all, it was to come up with the turtle shell tactic and build many turrets to strengthen the inner vigilance. There are low walls and barbed wire fences between these turrets, but they are still not coherent because of the distance.

Eventually, Goering, the Imperial Marshal with a stake in Libya's oil fields, finally showed his worth by setting up an Waffen-SS infantry division in Libya to strengthen the defenses.

The construction of this series of defense measures required a large number of workers and population, and in order to build this area into an important industrial base as soon as possible, Germany and Italy even started the idea of immigration.

4,000 German workers and more than 5,000 carefully selected Italians were transported here. For a while, the tents here were even connected, and the water was extremely scarce.

Although dozens of desalination systems work day and night on the beach, the fresh water produced can only be used for bathing and flushing toilets.

Precious real fresh water had to be transported from other places, mixed with some desalinated seawater, for the average person to drink.

Machines are also a large consumer of cooling water, and in order to ensure the proper operation of these machines, only precious fresh water can be used for cooling, rather than desalinated seawater.

Fortunately, fresh water can be recycled, and cooling water will eventually be mixed with desalinated seawater to wash clothes and flush toilets......

The reconstruction of the port of Benghazi is in full swing in Italy. The importance of this matter was almost as important as the ongoing war against Greece.

Huge quantities of supplies were sent to Tobruk and then transported by road to Benghazi. Anyway, now the supply of gasoline in North Africa, especially in Libya, is almost self-sufficient.

Libya can produce fuel for the Air Force, destroyers of the German Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, and diesel fuel for patrol boats.

Even local electricity generation is using oil produced in Libya. The gasoline and diesel produced by the refinery every day are piled up in the desert.

The oil transferred to Sirte has begun to feed back to France and Italy on a large scale, and Italy and France, which have received benefits, are also becoming more and more interested in developing Libya.

For example, Petain and Darlan of Vichy France began to take a keen interest in the development of Libya. They promised to strengthen the defenses of Morocco and Algeria.

While such a promise is no different from farting, it is a good diplomatic victory to get the French to promise.

A German-chartered Spanish transport ship slowly docked in the port of Sirte, a freighter that transports oil and can carry more than 2,000 tons of crude oil.

The huge figure was docked at the edge of the harbor dock, and the soldiers on the dock were already busy. Because of the presence of oil transportation pipelines, transportation here is very efficient.

"This ship is transported back, at least one armored division can squander it for a while." Standing in the distance, a German army colonel, holding a cigarette, looked at the freighter docked at the dock.

"The ship that carried away the oil yesterday was bigger than this, and I heard that it was going to be unloaded in Italy and then taken by rail." Another officer in charge of port security said with a smile.

Now, after a series of efforts, the port of Sirte is not a small number of oil that is shipped back to Germany every day.

The benefits of running Libya have already begun to show themselves, and although they may seem insignificant now, they will gradually develop and become more numerous.

"The Führer sent a telegram yesterday asking us to continue the construction of the port terminal and to lay a new oil pipeline, and a buried pipeline." The officer who spoke first pinched his cigarette and exhaled a puff of smoke and said.

"It seems that the Führer has sensed the danger...... It is impossible to build a huge oil field forever, and the enemy will eventually find out and try to attack it. The officer in charge of port security nodded.

The attack on Sirte was not a whim of the enemy, and there will be many more attacks on Libyan oil fields in the future.

"How's the fuel being prepared for the front line in North Africa?" The mist-swallowing officer withdrew his gaze from the harbor and asked.

Two refineries have already been built, one in Sirte and one in the oil field. The gasoline and diesel produced by these two factories have replaced a large amount of fuel transported locally.

This resulted in cost savings, allowing Axis transport ships to transport large quantities of ammunition and other items, as well as to bring petroleum products back to their homeland – the cost savings were simply too much to calculate.

In real historical time and space, every time the Axis powers took a step forward in North Africa, the fuel consumed was replenished from domestically. None of the ports along the route could fully meet the transshipment needs, and the motor transport troops consumed a lot of fuel on the way. This is the main reason why historians say that whoever attacked in the North African campaign suffered a loss.

Now, although the fuel consumption is also very high, there are enough ports behind Germany for transshipment, and the discovery of oil fields in North Africa to produce much-needed gasoline, which makes Rommel's life easier.

With the two ports of Alexandria and Said, and Cairo, a huge base for supplies, the Afrika Korps is now living a very prosperous life.

Rommel was resting his troops on the west bank of the Suez Canal, and the whole army had suspended the attack for almost ten days. This period of time boosted the morale of the Axis forces that were about to enter the Middle East, and they stockpiled large quantities of fuel and ammunition from the rear.

Everyone knew that both General Auchinleck and General Montgomery, who replaced him, knew that the Suez line could not stop the German offensive at all, and they could only retreat into the deserts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq to stop Rommel's advance.

However, once Rommel captured Jerusalem and hit the Turkish border, he almost surrounded the British expeditionary force in Greece......

Greece, which is already embattled, will be completely desperate after Rommel attacks the Middle East!

For Li Le, Rommel's attack will also bring a huge benefit. That is, the damned, pus-like Balkan guerrillas will disappear completely because they are not resupplied.

You must know that these partisans have held back a large number of Italian and German combat units in real history.

These guerrillas, who seemed to be fighting independently, were strongly supported by the Allies in the Mediterranean, both in terms of training and supplies.

Now, supplies and support from the sea are about to be cut off by Germany. The resistance forces in the Balkans will be discounted by the real history after all.

There is no need to completely eliminate those tricky guerrillas, as long as the strength of the guerrillas is weakened, it will already be a good deal for Li Le.

"The situation with fuel readiness is optimistic because there are Alexandria and Port Said and shipping is very efficient." The officer in charge of port security replied.

"Since it's efficient, that's good." The officer who smoked the cigarette said with satisfaction: "In the future, fuel consumption in North Africa will increase, this is a certain thing." ”

In the future, in North Africa, Germany and Italy will have to station heavy troops. Defending against Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria, as well as operations in the Middle East, would require a considerable presence in North Africa.

After saying that, the officer closed his mouth. He looked at the yellow sand rolling in the distance, and the turrets that stood one after another in the dust, like beacons.

These turrets wind along roads and pipelines, stretching into the unseen distance. On Sirte's side, a larger and thicker pipeline is being built, and it will take a long time to complete it.

On the road next to the first phase of the pipeline, trucks full of goods are busy back and forth.

Most of the trucks came from France and Italy, and were ordinary civilian models, towing welded boxes and carrying all kinds of supplies, between the oil fields and Sirte.

Compared with the barren desert of the past, Libya is much more vibrant today. Several cities are emerging as the locals are beginning to become wealthy due to the development of Germans and Italians.

There was a thriving scene everywhere, as if the desert in front of us and the people in the desert were far away from the war.