Benghazi in North Africa is a historic city that was founded by the Greeks as early as the 5th century BC, when it was called Birinch.

It was later occupied by Egyptians, Romans, Vandals, and Byzantines, and was ruled by the Turks for 300 years from the 16th century. It has long been a caravan trading town leading to the interior of Africa, where a large number of merchants crossed the Sahara Desert to trade with southern Africa.

Benghazi is currently the second largest city in Libya province (less populous than the capital Tripoli) and the second largest port in Libya (with less port throughput than Sirte).

Although Benghazi is an ancient city, it will take a few years for Benghazi to really enter the fast lane of development. With the discovery and development of oil in Harigai, Kawat and other places in Libya, Benghazi, as the nearest port city, has also entered the fast lane of development.

And unlike other cities in North Africa, Benghazi has very few Arabic buildings in the city, and most of them are Italian. The reason is also the previous Italian plan to relocate the population to the region.

This is true not only in Benghazi, but also in other cities in Libyan province, as well as in Albania and Kosovo provinces. The local natives were forcibly relocated by Italy, and now the area is inhabited by native Italian residents, so the customs, language and culture of the place are also predominantly indigenous.

All of this was due to the forced relocation plan, which caused chaos in the area for a short time and increased the security budget, but the effect was very good, changing the local customs in a short period of time, and also increasing the centripetal force of the place towards Rome.

This is the case in Benghazi, where the city is mostly Italian, and the customs are no different from those of the Apennine Peninsula. It is the second largest city in Italy and has 130,000 people, 30,000 of whom are engaged in oil-related industries. Some of them work directly for oil companies, some are responsible for transportation, and some are responsible for repairing pipelines or working at ports. Together with his family, eight floors of Benghazi's population depend on oil.

And the thriving scene of Benghazi has also made the new mayor Trissy full of ambition. As one of the first officials to follow Governor Georgi to Libya, Tricy was a Libyan expert. Over the years, he has worked his way from an ordinary government worker to the mayor of Benghazi's second largest city.

Of course, being able to go from an ordinary government employee to the mayor of Canada is enough to show his ability.

And for Benghazi, the mayor of Trisi also knows very well

No, at the extended terminal of the port of Benghazi, the mayor of Trissi came with people from the government to inspect it.

"Your Excellency, the area you see today will be the main oil terminal for Benghazi in the future. In the future, Benghazi will be able to transport up to five transport vessels at the same time per day through the oil pipeline, with a maximum capacity of 50,000 tons per day. ”

The project leader enthusiastically briefed the new mayor about the importance of the terminal to Benghazi.

And Tricy listened very seriously, and asked a few questions from time to time.

On one side of the wharf, there are more than a dozen tall giant oil storage tanks, all of which have a volume of tens of thousands of square meters, and the largest can reach 100,000 square meters. These tanks are connected to pipelines, through which a steady stream of crude oil from the oil field flows into these giant storage tanks through pressurized valves. These storage facilities are the storage base of Italian oil company Benghazi and have the capacity to store up to 300,000 tons of crude oil.

In addition to this storage base, Benghazi also has a small refinery that refines refined oil products for use throughout the Libyan province.

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One more thing to say here is that the identity with the highest utilization rate of internal combustion engines is the province of Biya, which produces a large amount of crude oil. Libya province has the highest number of cars per capita and a variety of internal combustion engines, and even a small amount of arable land is cultivated by tractors produced by the Naples Machinery Factory.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the trend of oil overflow that Libya, a newly established province, is far ahead of other provinces in the utilization rate of internal combustion engines.

Of course, in addition to the internal combustion engine, in terms of local fiscal revenue, Libyan Province, which has two major revenues of iron ore and oil, is also ranked high among the Italian provinces. If it weren't for the fact that Libya's environment is not good and there is less arable land, the population would certainly be more than 800,000 now.

Of course, if the per capita GDP is counted, then Libya is definitely the number one status. The sparse population and good income have also made many Italians cross the sea to earn a living.

In addition, Libya province has a very high rate of electrification and public facilities. Thanks to adequate local finance and the large-scale use of oil-fired generator sets, even remote desert towns in Libya can have access to electricity. And if electricity can be used, then electrified infrastructure such as electric lights and telegraphs.

While Mayor Trissi was inspecting the construction of the wharf, there was also a group of people busy on the high slope on the side of the wharf. However, compared to the docks, which are basically ordinary construction workers, these people are engineers in military uniforms.

They are building a military installation, a coastal defense battery in Benghazi.

Benghazi's importance as Italy's main oil export port has been further enhanced. And given the importance of Benghazi, the protection of the port of Benghazi has become one of the important tasks of the Italian military. For protection on land, an infantry regiment of the Army, as well as a cavalry battalion, were stationed on the outskirts of Benghazi.

As for the main threat at sea, in addition to relying on naval warships, then shore defense batteries are also necessary, so the shore defense batteries in Benghazi must be available.

In fact, the Benghazi West Coastal Defense Battery existed after the Italian occupation of Libya, but Benghazi was not of great importance at that time, so only two 152mm coastal defense guns were installed. And as Benghazi became more and more important, then more and more coastal defense guns were installed, and in addition to 152 mm, 254 mm shore defense guns were also installed.

As for now, the naval engineers are installing the 305-mm coastal defense gun, which is the most powerful caliber and powerful of the current naval coastal defense guns. The prototype of this coastal defense gun is a minor improvement of the 305 mm 45 times caliber naval gun currently equipped with dreadnoughts.

It has a maximum range of 21 kilometers, which is enough to make enemy ships who want to enter the waters of Benghazi think twice. After all, unlike naval guns, coastal defense guns have a more relaxed environment, and their stability, accuracy, and range are not comparable to naval guns.

And this time the Navy intends to install two 305-mm shore defense guns in Benghazi for its coastal defense. Don't look at only two, it is enough to suppress a squadron (3-4 ships) of battleships.

Benghazi is also the second city (the first is Pontianak) to install the gun in addition to the Apennine Peninsula, which also shows how much attention the navy attaches to it.

As the Italian Navy pushes ahead with the coal-to-oil program, the demand for oil is becoming more and more serious, and it is very important for the Navy to protect its own oil.

It was also under the impetus of the Navy that Benghazi became the second city in North Africa to be equipped with a new 305-mm coastal defense gun (the first being Alexandria).