Chapter 3: The Mysterious Base

A suburb of Tripoli, Libby, North Africa

Stacks of weapon boxes, quaint marching beds, scattered canned food boxes, rows of cars, artillery, and tanks exude a unique coercion, coupled with dim incandescent lamps, flags and portraits of leaders of the Hans and Noodle Countries, like the large caves in "Return to the Hans Army Headquarters".

With a burst of space-time distortion, the incandescent lamp on the wall flickered violently, and then, a figure appeared here out of thin air, Wang Yue looked around in a daze, and then fell into ecstasy, came back, sure enough, it was back, Lao Tzu came back, released a few pockets from the carry-on space, opened it and looked at it carefully, and breathed a deep sigh of relief.

Brought back, Li Yunlong's medicinal materials were brought back, and the quality did not change at all, it seems that he can not only bring things from the past to 1940, but also bring back things from 1940. The most important thing is that the quality of the herbs has not changed. Looking at these precious Chinese medicinal materials that are comparable to gold in 2023, Wang Yue couldn't help crying, he could finally return to China and finally be able to pay off his debts.

To say that Wang Yue was once a legend, after retiring from the army, he was forced to take over the family's small trading company, although the real economy seems to be going downhill in recent years, but he still keenly grasped the cross-border e-commerce outlet, relying on his own efforts and perseverance, in the industry to mix well, young with hundreds of millions of assets, as if he has become a cross-border e-commerce boss.

It's just that when he was most complacent, he mistakenly believed the advice of his investment adviser, and took a heavy position in the stock of a bank in a beautiful country, and never wanted to get rid of it, not only did the money run out, but also owed tens of millions of debts, companies, houses, cars, his own treasured wine and delicacies, antiques, calligraphy and paintings were used to pay off debts, even so, he still owed the bank more than 9 million debts.

In order to repay his debts, Wang Yue had to take over the commission of a domestic bank to come to RLB to help them take care of the bank's non-performing assets here, and the bank promised that as long as he could stay here, the interest on his debts would be reduced during this period, in addition to his salary of 2,000 US dollars a month.

The so-called non-performing assets are an unfinished high-end residential area on the outskirts of Tripoli, which was built by a domestic enterprise before the war, and later, it became the bank's non-performing assets.

But who wants to go to this place, there is no security, the living conditions are poor, and the prices have always been high, not to mention that there are certain requirements for this person, and he has to meet the conditions, and he can't implement this thing. In the end, it was Wang Yue's debt commissioner who remembered his client, so the errand fell on Wang Yue.

Wang Yue, who had no choice, could only come to Libi Country in a hurry, and he was dumbfounded when he arrived here, with a radius of ten kilometers in the vast desert. Not to mention that it is inhabited, there is not a single tree, there is no water, no electricity, no communication signal in the residential area, and even the road built during construction is buried by quicksand.

It's not a place that doesn't have any benefits, because it's too remote and dangerous, and the local warlords, big and small, don't look down on it, so you don't have to deal with those difficult guys. Wang Yue lives here, except for a little harder life, most of the time is safe, and he doesn't have to worry about being as chaotic as Tripoli, and he doesn't know when he will be killed by a stray bullet that flies.

A few days ago, a few fine-horned gazelles broke in, Wang Yue, who had eaten canned food and compressed food for a month, his eyes were almost green at that time, and he immediately chased after him with an AK47, but in the underground parking lot, he actually fell into a cable well, and then, he found a small underground space.

This is a military base of the Hans Kingdom during World War II, and with the help of translation software, Wang Yuekan can understand the records of the base. Originally a base for the Noodle Country, it was an important arsenal and weapons repair base for the Noodle Country during the war. In June 1942, a battalion of Hans armoured units took over the building, and the Hans converted it into a laboratory.

As for what experiments were being carried out in the laboratory, there was nothing to be seen in the records of the base, but from the documents, the records of the entry and exit of materials here were recorded until January 24, 1943. What kind of laboratory is it that makes Hans hold on to it until the city falls?

Driven by curiosity, Wang Yue began to explore the base, but the more he explored, the more frightened he became, the coffee on the table was still hot, the lighting system of the base was also working well, and even the canned peas opened on the table were fresh. You can see some clothes and weapons everywhere in the base, it looks like people suddenly disappeared, and then the clothes and weapons inside and outside naturally fall, he touched the clothes, and vaguely felt that the clothes were also warm, which made him even more creepy, could it be that after eighty years, there are still people stationed here?

When I came to the power distribution room, the light on the distribution box was on, and the machine was motionless, touching it, the machine was hot, which confirmed Wang Yue's other guess, the time of this base is actually static, no wonder everything is not corrupt and aging, but where are the people here, shouldn't those people also be still? Also, everything is static, why aren't you, you're normal, you can even feel the flow of the exhaled air.

Putting aside some messy ideas, Wang Yue continued to explore here, arsenals, garages, repair shops, oil depots, grain depots, there are really a lot of materials here, it seems that when the Hans took over here, the noodle country didn't even have time to move the materials here, so, in addition to the German equipment of that battalion, there are a lot of weapons and equipment and materials in the noodle country here, and the amount is staggering.

Firearms

According to warehouse records, the main one is the Carcano M1891 rifle, which is the largest material, almost more than 50,000 pieces, Wang Yue checked it, most of them have been fired, and some of them are quite seriously worn, it should be some old guns from the First World War, no wonder the noodle country is reluctant to use these weapons in the storage here. To say that the noodle country of this period is not even comparable to the devil in some aspects, and many grandfathers' weapons are still in use, do you dare to think?

And what you don't dare to think about is that some of the artillery guns during the First World War were repaired and used by the noodle country until the end of the Cold War, and they served for almost 80 years.

The Carcano M1938 carbine is very few, only more than 2,000 pieces, and they are all put into storage after repair, this gun is easy to carry, reliable in performance, and unanimously welcomed by the front-line troops, and there is no reserve

Grisenti 1910 pistols 4,000, this is also a World War I weapon, the reputation is particularly average, ostracized by the front-line troops, and the reserve forces and gendarmes are equipped a little, so this batch of pistols that did not go to the butter can only eat dust here.

Beretta M1934 pistols 351, most of them are some old guns, but also after the repair of the storage, a model of pistols out of two calibers, the power is not great, but the advantage is easy to carry, reliable performance.

The M1891/38 rifle has 3.0000 pieces, this gun uses 7.35X51mm bullets, and its power and performance are much stronger than the Carcano M1891 rifles that use 6.5X52mm bullets.

M35 45mm light mortar, 2581 units, this thing should have been withdrawn in 1942, so it was mothballed here along with millions of rounds of ammunition, and it was this thing that Wang Yue later gave to Li Yunlong.

There are more than 2,000 Beretta M1918 submachine guns, all of which are old guns before and after World War I, and the magazine is 25 rounds, or upward, what the hell is this? And this bayonet, forget it, the bayonet on the early submachine guns was only a basic operation, and this is really not the patent of the noodle country.

Beretta M1938 submachine gun 377, a rare high-quality weapon of the noodle army, a fine product in the collection of firearms in the same period, it is said that one can be sold for 200,000 US dollars, but I don't know if this unrecorded gun can flow into the collection market?

Breda 1930 light machine gun 5000, this gun is very wasteful, but it is the only light machine gun in the hands of the noodle country, there is no choice, it can only be used hard, these here are also repaired, the strange design of this gun is not suitable for use in desert areas at all, a large amount of damage is normal, and there are more than 2000 left that have not been repaired.

Revelli 1914/30 machine gun 1000 pieces, old guns from the First World War, most of these things were changed from water-cooled to air-cooled, and they are particularly easy to break when used in desert areas, so it is normal to have more here.

Breda M1937 heavy machine guns 311 units, there is no choice of the best choice for the noodle country army, so the repair was basically immediately pulled away, there is not much storage here.

Heavy weapons

47 75-mm guns in 1906 and 22 75-mm guns in 1911, when the war broke out, these noodle countries were still equipped with more than 3,000 guns, but on the battlefield in North Africa, this thing had no advantage over any kind of artillery of the same type of Allied forces, but in order to maintain the face of the so-called great powers, they could only use it head-on.

There are 7 M1934 75mm guns, the advanced weapons of the noodle country, which are rare and rare, but only a few hundred were built until the end of the war, because the number is too small to play a big role.

There are 44 M14/M16 100mm guns, which are the trophies of the Noodle Country during World War I.

Armored vehicles

AB-40 railway and road dual-purpose armored vehicles 3, it belongs to a road and railway dual-purpose armored vehicles, usually on the railway patrol mission, can also be installed rubber tires, in the normal highway to perform tasks. The armament part is different from the former, the main armament of the AB-40 is equipped with a Breda 20 mm machine gun, and the auxiliary armament is a 6.5 mm parallel machine gun, the body armor is 6~17 mm, and the body weight is 6.85 tons.

There are 146 CV-33 light tanks, which are positioned as reconnaissance, support and artillery towing in the Noodle Army, with a 13.2 mm Beretta M31 heavy machine gun installed as the main armament, and a twin 6.5 mm M14 machine gun installed in some models. The total combat weight is 3.2 tons, the body length is 3.2 meters, the width is 1.4 meters, and the height is 1.28 meters. Legend has it that the fastest speed is 42 kilometers per hour, the thickness of the body armor is 5~10 mm, and the ones here are all early models, the speed is only a pitiful 13 kilometers per hour, which cannot keep up with the speed of the troops, and the reason why the reserve here is to wait for the replacement of the engine, and there are also 500 Fiat SPA CV3-005 inline 4-cylinder gasoline engines in the warehouse.

Vehicle:

TL37 combat passenger cars 39 units.

RSO tracked tractor 2 units.

255 units of Fiat Lancia 626BL multi-purpose truck.

Then there are more than 10 million rounds of bullets of various calibers, more than 50,000 rounds of artillery shells of 70mm caliber or more, 10 tons of grenades, 200 tons of clothing and equipment, and more than 300 tons of canned military rations.

In addition, there are some damaged weapons and captured weapons, the record is not complete, Wang Yue doesn't want to count, don't look at the many weapons here, but for the North African Legion of the Noodle Country at that time, it was already exhausted, it was hundreds of thousands of troops, not to mention that many warehouses were actually empty, or simply stuffed with some captured materials, and even captured Ethiopia, I don't know if the Noodle Country really wants to use these things.

As for that Hans battalion, the equipment is also average, the small arms look complete, but they are also patchwork, MP28, MG13 Is this the equipment of the main forces? As for heavy weapons, there were even less, and the only ones that could be brave were the 12 No. 1 tanks, all of which were early models, and apparently, the Hans did not have enough equipment.

Wang Yue groped in the base little by little, and it took almost a day for him to finally find a heavy steel door behind several lines of defense that no one was already in, the door was not locked, and when he entered it, this should also be a warehouse, and there was a lot of equipment distributed around, although he didn't know what it was for, but it should be the most advanced in that era, right?

In the middle of the warehouse was a huge table, with a lone pallet on it, and a black thing dragged in the middle.

Meteorite? Hans fought such a big battle just to study a meteorite, no, how could there be hieroglyphs on top of this meteorite? Wang Yue couldn't help but touch the meteorite, although he subconsciously resisted, but for some reason, his hand still stretched out uncontrollably towards the meteorite, followed by a tingling pain in his fingertips, and then he fainted directly.