Montgomery took steps to purge those whom he had diagnosed as "rotten wood" and brought in some of the more vigorous men by way of promotion or transfer from England.

He tunes Oliver from the UK? Leith took over the 30th Army in the north, Horox took over the 13th Army in the south, and Brigadier General Kirkman was appointed artillery commander.

He was going to put Miles? Dempsey was transferred to command the planned new Panzer Corps, and Alexander persuaded him that it would be too much to bring in three new commanders at once.

In this way, he gave up a better option and made Ramsden, a desert veteran who had commanded the 1st Panzer Division, the commander of the new Panzer Corps.

But this was by no means a purge, and history showed that Montgomery was a man of subordinatery.

During the Second World War, the staff structure of any army group could probably not be compared to Montgomery's.

American weapons and equipment were successively shipped to Egypt and delivered to Montgomery, but Montgomery knew that Rommel was very powerful.

Feeling that these weapons and equipment alone were not enough, Montgomery began a strategic deception program, codenamed "Bertram".

First, forge a huge accumulation of ammunition and other combat materiel in the forward area.

The second is the movement of tanks and other vehicles with fake vehicles, so that the enemy gradually becomes accustomed to the accumulation of a large number of troops in combat positions.

But at night, the real combat vehicles of the assault division are used to replace the fake combat vehicles that are already "in place".

And with special camouflage called "visors", artillery and tanks on combat posts were masked.

Montgomery also had the infantry dig elongated trenches for them to lie down during the day, and these trenches were camouflaged as if they were part of the terrain.

At the same time, in order to guide the direction of the German offensive, Montgomery also laid fake pumping stations, water points and cisterns.

In desert warfare, occupying the enemy's water source is a crucial part, and this water source is definitely the key target of the German army, which is just a false target.

In addition, communications units were deployed to erect fake communication lines and to signpost new roads.

In order to make the camouflage seamless, and to communicate only to the junior officers what was going to happen, and in batches according to rank, all British troops were stopped from all leave and city activities by Montgomery.

Montgomery has no bottom in his heart as to whether these measures can make the cunning Rommel foolish, at least Montgomery has worked hard to do it, and the rest is the battlefield theory.

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At this time, Rommel had already arrived in the small country of Tunisi, because Speer had already sent Rommel seven or eight oil drilling equipment.

Although the country is small, it is still rich in oil, and the largest oil field in ****** is the Borma oil field, which is close to the border with Algeria and has reserves of 360 million barrels.

Another field with estimated reserves of more than 100 million barrels is the Ashtart field, with the remaining oil production coming mainly from the Kilani and Manzah fields.

Why did Rommel remember the oil fields of Tuniz so accurately? Because Rommel was a German fan before the crossing, Germany's biggest shortcoming is that there is no source of oil, so Rommel remembered all the oil and minerals around Europe before the crossing.

Libya's oil reserves are even more terrifying, Libyan oil and gas fields are mainly distributed in the Siirt Basin in the north, Libya's remaining proven recoverable reserves of oil are 41.5 billion barrels (equivalent to 5.681 billion tons), ranking 9th in the world and first in Africa, and the remaining proven recoverable reserves of natural gas are 1490.891 billion cubic meters, ranking 21st in the world).

But the Siirt Basin was too close to Egypt's defense lines to allow Rommel to safely extract oil in Libya until the British were expelled from North Africa.

The Tunis is already more than 1,200 kilometers away from the Egyptian defense line, and now there are no fighters with such a combat radius in the whole world, and there are no bombers escorted by fighters to the Tunis, and the Tenth Air Force in Rommel's hands is not an ornament.

Rommel left all the work of the army to his brothers Bismarck and Luxembourg, and led a drilling team himself to find oil fields in Tunis.

Rommel's secret wife, Elsa, used the connections of the Rothschild family to find more than 100 oil drilling experts for Rommel.

France already has several large oil refineries, and when Rommel was the governor of France, he had already started construction of several new large oil refineries in France, and it is estimated that they will be completed by the end of the year.

Now everything is left to the east wind, as long as Rommel extracts the oil, the French refineries can turn that oil into gasoline or diesel.

For this drilling, Rommel brought in more than 20 helicopters, which of course helped transport personnel and equipment.

Rommel and the drilling experts flew by helicopter with detection equipment to explore the border between Tunisi and Algeria.

With the assistance of these more than 20 helicopters, people and equipment are basically transported by helicopters, which undoubtedly speeds up the detection.

There are many simple ways to detect oil: use a small drill rig to drill a hole 10 meters deep and 10 centimeters in diameter, and then put several kilograms of explosives into the hole.

The hole is then sealed with earth, and the explosives are detonated, and the oil detection equipment determines the location of the oil field based on the vibration echoes.

Rommel, who knew the approximate location of the oil field, found the largest Borma oil field in Tunisi in only seven days.

Rommel found the remaining two oil fields in just seven or eight days using the same method.

After the three oil fields were found, several drilling rigs that had already been transported to North Africa were transferred from the port of Tunisi to the three fields, and drilling work began in the three fields.

Rommel entrusted the matter of oil extraction to Speer, who was an architectural genius and extremely talented in organizing production and transportation, and Rommel did not have to worry about the problem of oil extraction at all.

Rommel immediately telegraphed Hitler and the High Command about the discovery of oil in Tumuds, which shocked Hitler and the German executives.

A group of executives in the German High Command were blown up at this time, and everyone immediately discussed:

"OMG! Rommel actually found oil in North Africa. ”

"It is still a large oil field with reserves of hundreds of millions of barrels, and now Germany's steel torrent is not afraid of running out of fuel oil."

"Is this true? I'll pinch me...... Ouch, so this is not a dream! …… Haha......"

"Thank God, thank you Rommel! Rommel was one of Germany's greatest contributors. ”

"Rommel's discovery of oil in North Africa is definitely a great achievement, but the oil field still needs to be handed over to the Ministry of Industry to manage!"

"What? What does your Ministry of Industry have the authority to control oil extraction? Your Ministry of Industry should take care of production, and those oil fields should be handed over to the Ministry of Defense. ”

"You are kind enough to say that I am also in charge of the oil fields by the Ministry of Defense, which is really laughing to death."

"You're all wrong, those oil fields are managed by the Ministry of Finance, because those oil fields are the property of the state!"

…… (To be continued.) )