On a passenger ship that crossed the Atlantic and finally docked in New York, a young American tanned by the sun took off his top hat. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The passenger liner has a small tonnage and is fast. And there was a flag belonging to the Vichy French government. It runs from Morocco in North Africa to New York, and most of the routes are outside the war zone.

He smiled and walked down the suspension ladder, then hugged the middle-aged man who had come to greet him on the dock. After the hug, the two of them didn't say anything, turned around and walked to the car on the far side of the dock.

It wasn't until he got into the car that the young man spoke about the results of his trip: "The Germans do have a huge oil field in North Africa, probably in the north-east of Libya, in the Siirt Basin. ”

"There? It's really surprising......" The middle-aged man frowned, obviously a little entangled in the result.

No one could have predicted that a huge oil field could suddenly be discovered in Libya, and it was in a good location - it was not deep into the desert and relatively easy to transport.

In less than a year, the Germans could build it into a huge oil production base. This was not good news for the United States, nor for the Soviet Union or the United Kingdom.

With this oil field, the German war machine could develop without limits. Everything that is in short supply seems to have a replacement from here, which is definitely a dangerous precursor for the United States and the United Kingdom.

Many in the U.S. decision-making hierarchy believed that the war waged by the Germans could be contained. The reason was that Germany had too few strategic resources and was completely controlled by the Americans.

The Germans did not have much oil or rubber resources, and they were heavily dependent on imports. As long as Britain and the United States blockade these strategic resources, Germany will collapse because of the lack of such materials.

Originally, this plan was very feasible, and it did work in the middle of the war. But now, the emergence of Libyan oil fields has made the means of restraining Germany uncertain.

Long before the start of World War II, German technicians were developing technologies for making artificial rubber from petroleum derivatives.

At the same time, the Germans were also playing with coal-to-oil technology. They are trying to open up the bottleneck of their own constrained resources.

Originally, such efforts had little practical effect in an era when oil production was seriously insufficient. But now, the Germans have found more oil!

More oil can be used to refine more derivative products, such as diesel, gasoline, plastics, and artificial rubber products!

Extrapolating from this, it is really possible for the Libyan oil fields to allow Germany to achieve self-sufficiency in strategic resources and break the monopoly of strategic resources of the United States and Britain!

The lost Mediterranean, because this oil field has become more important, the battle for the Mediterranean, from a small fight in a corner, has risen to a key strategic level in an instant.

"Is the production capacity really huge?" The middle-aged man asked again after thinking about many things in his mind for a moment.

The young man leaned back in the soft seat of the car, nodded and said, "We arrived for a few minutes to reconnoitre, and the Germans have a lot of oil wells there, which reminds me of the Gulf of Mexico. ”

Hearing the young man mention the Gulf of Mexico, the middle-aged man's expression suddenly became even more exciting. He did not expect that the oil fields discovered by the Germans would be comparable to the largest oil production base in the United States today.

Even if Libya's oil production capacity is not comparable to that of the Americans, it will be quite terrible that one day in the future it will be enough for the Germans.

After only being stunned for a second, the middle-aged man came back to his senses and sighed with some emotion: "I knew that the Mediterranean should not have been let out so casually......"

The Germans occupied Egypt and the troops advanced into the Suez Canal, which was beyond the control of the British.

The British Navy has already been driven out of the Mediterranean, closest to the bases in Libya, either as far away as South Africa, East Africa, or in the Middle East.

Moreover, it is impossible to expect these troops to counterattack the Germans and invade Libya. The situation now is that it would be good for Germany not to trouble the British troops in these places.

"Atlantic anti-submarine warfare, we have developed some new technologies, and I hope these new technologies can slightly help the British to survive this most difficult time." The middle-aged man said with emotion.

He was a senior member of the U.S. intelligence service and knew a little more about it. Now the battle in the Atlantic was very passive, and the elusive wolves made the British ships suffer heavy losses.

Some of the ships that the United States "aided" to Britain were also quickly sunk, and the Allied transport lines throughout the Atlantic were in chaos, causing untold losses.

This is not a loss of tens of thousands of tons of materials, but a huge loss of one million tons, or even two million tons. These supplies are sent to the bottom of the sea and turned into fish food.

October 1940 was about to pass, and in the course of a month, the total loss of the British transport fleet was close to 1.7 million tons, which was so miserable that it was impossible to look at it directly.

"What if...... If we form a force to go for a sneak attack, will there be unexpected results? A middle-aged American man who was worried about the Germans' oil self-sufficiency asked.

The young man thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "If I lead the team, the probability of success is only thirty percent." ”

"You only have a 30% success rate with your team?" When the middle-aged man heard the news, he was obviously a little incredulous.

Obviously, the young man was not confident in such an action, and he nodded and admitted: "Yes, the most optimistic estimate is only a thirty percent chance of winning." ”

He took out a blank piece of paper from his backpack and drew two random strokes on his lap: "The enemy has arranged cars and armored vehicles on the perimeter, as well as many high-rise guard posts...... Once we do it, there is no way to escape. ”

For such a defensive position, sneaking in and setting fire to sabotage is no different from suicide. The entire oil production area is too large, and the destruction of a simple small team will not affect much production.

Obviously, there is really no good way to attack with ground, because the whole of North Africa has almost fallen into the hands of the Germans, and it is not even easy to find a base to advance there to organize a sneak attack.

So after the middle-aged man tentatively asked, he thought of another possibility: "What if we bomb there?" ”

The United States has long-range strategic bombers, and the British, of course, have them. If long-range strategic bombers were used, bombing the German oil fields in Libya, the destructive power would be much greater, and the losses would seem acceptable.

Although, now the British base in North Africa has been lost, but as an advance base, Crete is still there!

There is an airfield for the Air Force on the island of Crete, where large bombers can take off! As long as you take off from there, most of Libya is within the combat radius of B-17 bombers!

Hearing this plan, the young man agreed: "This plan is feasible, I have marked the exact location of the German base on the map, as long as there are no problems in navigation, there is no difficulty in bombing." ”

Compared to a ground attack that cannot be retreated, bombardment from the sky is much safer. If there were enough planes, they would also be able to inflict a sufficient amount of damage on the Germans.

"When you get back, get all your information in order and give it to Director Hoover. Now that he had personally intervened in this matter, it could be regarded as one of the most important pieces of information. The middle-aged man opened his mouth and explained what he was going to do next.

He looked at the young man and finally admonished: "If it is possible, you should report this operation to President Roosevelt personally, go back and write a good script, and think about what you should say." ”

When the middle-aged man said this, he also felt depressed. There's been so much work lately that it's been a bit of a meltdown.

There is a ghost hiding inside British intelligence, and that invisible shadow has thrown the entire British top brass into chaos.

The United States is also in the same vein, and the grass and trees are all soldiers. Everyone is afraid of being infiltrated by the powerful German intelligence services, so the recent covert investigation work is quite rigorous and complicated.

Now, there is another plan to be drawn up, to send a sufficient number of B-17 bombers to attack the oil fields of the Germans in Libya.

"That's a lot going on." He thought of this, sighed, and closed his mouth. The silence in the car returned, and neither of the two men, including the driver, said anything more.

Although President Roosevelt could not openly join the world war, he had already decided to put the United States on Britain's side.

The United States, which has stayed out of the way, has always adhered to an isolationist foreign policy that is outside Europe. It hopes to put its chips on the table when the situation becomes clearer.

Of course, in the last world war, the Americans pushed their chips to Britain, but at the last moment allowed Germany to "surrender and lose half".

Such a left-right choice made the United States the biggest winner of the last world war. Now that time has passed, the United States has to choose again and be the biggest winner again!

As long as the Libyan oil fields of the Germans are destroyed, everything will still be under control. The strategic arrangement of the United States will still be effective, and the outcome of the war will be easy to control.

The premise is that the United States will help Britain to destroy the Libyan oil fields, so that Germany's shortage of oil resources will continue to be in shortage!

Cars, moving slowly through the crowded streets of New York, quickly blended into the rolling traffic. The United States was the country that produced the most cars during World War II, and this is not for nothing.

In 1940, the streets of the United States were already congested, and the traffic congestion was not comparable to that of other countries at all, even in Germany at this moment.