On the night of January 31, 1941, Libbi, Sirt Basin

"It's not just high-grade gasoline, diesel, gasoline, kerosene, lubricants, you need it all here!" The air marshal pointed to the row of oil drums and said very excitedly, in order to check the quality of the oil, he even personally flew the plane for a while today, and the results were very gratifying, the aviation fuel produced by those small refineries has completely reached the standard of imported fuel from Bald Eagle.

Not only jet fuel, but also the quality of the lubricant refined in the small refinery is also very good, and it can be used for aircraft with a little blending, and it can also be used for vehicles and machines after changing the formula. In Mr. Otto's words, it is true that these small equipment are rudimentary and the production efficiency is poor, but the quality of the oil produced is really good.

How do they know that the production process of these small equipment is the result of decades of technology accumulation of countless small oil refineries in a certain country in another time and space, and even the improvement of many processes still uses computer simulation software, which has tapped the potential of these similar pressure cooker equipment.

"Your Excellency Marshal, this, these can be directly supplied to the army?" Rommel was excited all of a sudden, the Seventh Panzer Division looked extremely powerful, but his family knew his own affairs, and the fuel they carried was not enough for a campaign, once they really clashed with the British, it would definitely be a problem, and now it's okay, this problem doesn't seem to be a problem anymore.

"My general, do you see that? There are already dozens of small refineries that can produce hundreds of tons of refined oil per day, and in the near future, tens of thousands of distillation towers will be erected on this land, and the Empire's fuel crisis will be completely alleviated. The air marshal looked at the still desolate basin and said proudly.

"Your Excellency, the Mediterranean is British." Rommel was somewhat disappointed to remind, and although he was happy, reason made it impossible for him to ignore the question.

Although he had just learned of the Empire's oil fields in Libby, it did not prevent him from speculating on the reason for the British's recent unusual behavior, and the current situation was that as long as it could not obtain control of the Mediterranean, the Empire would not be able to transport equipment to Libby, and similarly, the crude oil and refined oil produced would not be able to be shipped back.

"But the sky of the Mediterranean can belong to the empire, General, my air force has high-grade aviation fuel, a steady stream of aviation fuel, we not only have to protect the sky of Libi, we also have to completely control the Mediterranean!" The air marshal said categorically that the Air Force has recently withdrawn a lot of elite forces from the Strait, and there are still a few months before June, and he can use these few months to call the surrounding British Navy and Air Force to Texas to be ruthless, Malta, the Pharaohs, the Middle East, the Balkans, as long as there is a British air base, the only thing to worry about is whether the Führer will approve this plan, after all, the Empire's valuable strategic reserves are prepared for the alliance.

When thinking of strategic reserves, the air marshal suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and remembered the letter forwarded by the embassy of the eastern power the day before, Li Yunlong, that guy, always likes to give himself some hints at critical moments, and I hope this time is the same.

Sure enough, after opening the letter, the first thing the air marshal saw was a small piece of paper the size of a palm, on which was a brief description of a weapon:

Napalm – A bomb filled with a gel made of gasoline and other chemicals, usually dropped by an airplane. When exploding, it can produce a high-temperature flame, forming a layer of flame that sputters around, producing a high temperature of about 1000 °C, and can stick to other objects for a long time to burn.

Seeing this, the Air Marshal couldn't help but be a little disappointed, what's new about napalm?

In World War I, Hans first designed the infantry flamethrower, and later developed various models of flamethrowers on both sides of the war. One of the major problems of the early liquid combustible agent is that it is easy to splash and difficult to adhere to the target, so it is difficult to achieve the purpose of concentrated killing.

Later, the bald eagles lost color and discovered that switching to colloidal gasoline could increase the range and effectiveness of the flamethrower, but gelatinous gasoline required the use of large quantities of expensive and undersupplied natural rubber. So even if everyone basically understands this technology, no one is idle to make a glued gasoline bomb, no way, it's too expensive, okay.

This is especially true for Hans, who are not only short of natural rubber, but also of gasoline! Li Yunlong, that guy, did you guess that the empire had solved the gasoline problem before suggesting that I engage in this napalm?

But at the bottom of this piece of paper, two equations were simply written, as well as the percentage added, and the air marshal reacted immediately, Nima, this is the viscous agent suggested by Li Yunlong, how could he forget, Li Yunlong's guy is still an authentic "scientist", so the air marshal rushed into the tent and pulled out Mr. Otto, who was still there to test the refined oil.

"Your Excellency, according to the above tips, as long as the mixture of napthenic acid and palmitic acid is added to the gasoline in proportion, the gelatinous gasoline in the best state can be obtained, and the best incendiary effect can be achieved." Mr. Otto looked at the piece of paper and thought for a moment.

"Are these two substances hard to come by?" The Air Marshal asked, if the problem of gasoline and viscous was solved, then what else? Isn't that just a tin shell and a detonator?

Compared with expensive traditional bombs, napalm can be ignored in terms of manufacturing costs and manufacturing processes, of course, provided that the viscous agent proposed by Li Yunlong is cheap and easy to obtain.

"Very easy to obtain, naphthenic acid is an acidic compound that exists in petroleum, so it is also called petroleum acid, I read the technical information handed over to us by the big countries in the East, their kind of small oil refining equipment can extract naphthenic acid in small quantities. As for palmitic acid, it is widely found in nature, almost all oils and fats contain palmitic acid components in varying amounts, and some vegetable oils and fats even contain palmitic acid content of more than 60%. Mr. Otto spoke with some admiration, and the more scientifically simple things looked, the more difficult they became, and he could come up with a lot of gasoline viscoses, some of which might be more effective, but those that were both inexpensive and easy to obtain were not so easy to find.

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