Chapter 250: Help to the Marshal 2
On the night of January 31, 1941, Libbi, Sirt Basin
"This is? Information on the tribes of Libbi? "When the Air Marshal and Mr. Otto were studying napalm, a few pieces of paper in the letter fell out, and Rommel endured it for a long time, and finally picked up the letters driven by curiosity, and this was the content of this paper that puzzled him, because it was full of tribal information around the Siirt Basin, a brief history, population, economy, and military, but what was the use of this? How many armed forces do these tribes have combined? It was simply not enough for the 7th Panzer Division to fight.
"Here's the key!" Hearing this, the air marshal handed Rommel a piece of paper in his hand.
"This, will those guys from Noodle Country agree?" Rommel glanced at the letterhead, the content was very simple, nothing more than a few suggestions, nothing more than to share the oil dividend, attract nearby tribes to build the Siirt Basin, form a modern tribal army, defend the Liby, defend the Siirt Basin, liberate Africa, and build an independent North African empire.
In fact, there is nothing new about this, at this time, many people are doing it, and the noodle people are also doing it, but they all want the local natives to be cannon fodder for them, and they don't want these natives to share the interests and power of this land, so the effect can only be said to be average, and it can also be said to be the crux of the low combat effectiveness of the colonial army.
But Li Yunlong's suggestion is different, not only pulling the natives to make money together, but also sharing real political benefits with them, and even promising a brighter future, which the noodle country can't give to them, and the British won't give them either, but Hans, who is strongly involved in North African affairs, can give them.
"Libby is not ours now, North Africa is not ours, as long as we can master the resources here, even if it is to help them drive out the colonizers and achieve national independence? It's best to have the whole of North Africa and West Asia in one place! The Air Marshal pulled out a photo from the letter and said with a smile, he had an impression of the Briton in the photo, wasn't it the "Lawrence of Arabia"? It was the Britons who united the local tribes to break the Ottoman rule in the land.
If the Britons can do it, why can't they Hans do it, although the number of troops and resources that the Empire can support Rommel is very limited, it can still be done to help Rommel organize a good colonial army, and even, if the conditions are right, the Empire can also use the British army on the side of Libby like the Britons used the Tianzhu army.
And on the land of North Africa, Hans is not only an ally of the Noodle Country, compared to the tattered army of the Noodle Country, the military force of Country F in North Africa is also very strong, 200,000 troops, more than 500 aircraft, more than 80 warships, if this force can mobilize the two, the war will be more interesting, but the old guy of the Vichy government is not easy to deal with.
"If these tribes around the Siirt Basin can really pull out a colonial army of 100,000 people, it will really solve the dilemma we are currently facing." Rommel was even more puzzled by how the general Li Yunlong, who was thousands of miles away, obtained information that the colonial authorities of the noodle country might not know.
How did he know that the information of later generations has been digitized, and as long as you move your fingers, you can automatically complete the retrieval and sorting and screening of information, which used to take thousands of people to sort out the information for several years, and it may only take tens of seconds on the computer. This information was collected by the Noodle Country back then, declassified by the British Intelligence Bureau, compiled by the Yin people of the Bald Eagle, and even collected by the seemingly honest Ottomans.
"General, just do it boldly and boldly, I will give you full support!" The air marshal has already thought about it, and when he goes back, he will help Rommel get a few divisions of equipment, but there are countless captured materials in the warehouses of the Air Force, as long as Rommel needs it, not to mention the equipment of 100,000 people, it is no problem to have equipment for 1 million people.
"Your Excellency, I will try!" Thinking of the promised follow-up troops before leaving, Rommel's heart was even more excited, he was already faintly able to sit on one side, and if he added the support of the air marshal, his position would be more stable.
It's just that will the Air Marshal let himself stand in line? Probably not, the air marshal has no shortage of troops in his hands, and there is no shortage of obedient army generals to be loyal, in fact, the air marshal has much more troops than that one, and there is no shortage of his own small division commander.
Obviously, at this time, Rommel really did not think that he could also become a field marshal in the future, and had a great voice in the Wehrmacht, and even passively involved in a coup d'état, and finally could only die for no reason.
"Don't be so serious, General, I've already asked people to prepare, today we will try this new type of incendiary bomb here, if it really can, in the future, you will not lack air support." Capturing the fleeting hesitation in Rommel's eyes, Air Marshal Quan did not see it, and pulled Rommel to a large tent on the side of the airport, which was the temporary mechanic workshop of the field airfield, where Mr. Otto was already working on the design.
The body of the bomb was made of gasoline drums, the detonating device was removed directly from the bomb and simply fixed to the gasoline drums, the gasoline was used from small refineries, and the thickener was obtained directly from Tripoli by a crane transport plane sent by the Air Marshal.
After a lot of tossing, he was busy until midnight and finally made a napalm that looked a little nondescript, and the air marshal couldn't care about being sleepy, and ordered the plane to take off immediately to carry out the experiment.
The target of the experiment was a nearby "deserted" village, in order to test the effect of the weapon, the ground crew also got a few cars and a tank produced by Dabobo, some cattle, sheep and livestock were also gotten over, indoor, outdoor, in the car, and inside the tank were stuffed some, which was used to simulate the human body, and the conditions were not enough, so it could only be improvised.
Although it was late at night, under the guidance of the cross-light pillar of the two searchlights, the pilot piloting the Stuka still smashed the gasoline drum into the village very accurately, and a huge fireball exploded immediately, almost swallowing the bomber that was pulled up, and the pilot's scalp was numb, Nima, who told me that this was an ordinary incendiary bomb.