The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Monthly tickets, brothers!

The exploration work started the next day.

This job does not seem as simple as imagined... The exploration team needs to conduct a large amount of surveying and mapping on the surface, divide key areas into depressions, convexities, etc., then drill and take samples, and use rock samples to roughly analyze the structure of the underground rock layers. . The last step is to drill a well in the area determined to be an anticline to see if there is oil.

"Do you know why there must be oil in the anticline?" Backhouse said while drawing a few curves on the drawing: "The convex ones are anticlines, and the concave ones are synclines. These rock layers are like curved and closed There is water and oil in the water pipe... Because oil is lighter than water, it always floats on the water. Over time, the oil will float to the higher anticline, while there is only water in the syncline. "

"In other words, if we didn't drill wells in anticlines, it would be difficult for us to find oil?" Qin Chuan pretended to be a studious student.

"Of course!" Backhouse replied.

"Does this mean...the oil is always at the bottom of the mountain?" Kuhn couldn't help but interjected: "Then why don't we dig wells directly from the mountain?"

"Oh!" Professor Backhouse said with a smile: "If you think that the bulges on the surface are anticlines, you are totally wrong. In fact... the mountains we see are often synclines because of the The slope has been weathered and eroded over the long years, so it deceived you! "

"Okay!" Kuhn said with a wry smile: "It's hard to imagine, I think I still have a rifle that suits me!"

"So oil can move?" Qin Chuan couldn't help but talk nonsense.

"Yes, of course!" Colonel Backhouse couldn't help but get excited: "I think...in a broad sense, oil should be present in every inch of land under our feet, but the amount is very small, and we can't discover its existence. , or some places are very dry, and they cannot gather in large numbers. Only in rock formations such as synclines and anticlines with abundant groundwater can they gather together bit by bit relying on the buoyancy of groundwater, over millions of years. It took even longer for them to form a large oil field!”

Qin Chuan couldn't help but nodded secretly after hearing this. Backhouse's idea has been proven in modern times, because scientists found substances in the oil that are older than the nearby rock formations. This shows that the oil did not originally belong there, but moved from other places. Came here.

Then Professor Backhouse talked with Qin Chuan about his other ideas with great interest... Obviously, Professor Backhouse had not lectured for a long time, and now he was taking advantage of this time to enjoy himself.

But Qin Chuan didn't care about this. He stared at the Timrag Basin on the map... In his memory, there was an oil field there.

The reason why Qinchuan remembered this oil field was that it was only more than 2,000 meters deep among the Algerian oil fields with an average mining depth of more than 3,000 meters.

The location of this oil field is only more than fifty kilometers away from here.

"Professor!" Qin Chuan pretended to be casual and asked: "I want to know why you chose this place as the exploration point?"

"No reason!" Professor Backhouse replied: "But I have to choose a place!"

"So...you chose randomly?"

"Yes!" Professor Backhouse replied: "Any questions?"

"No, there's no problem!" Qin Chuan looked around and said, "It's just... I believe this is not suitable for setting up a radar station!"

As he spoke, Qin Chuan pointed to several protruding hills to the east and said, "You know, our radar station is mainly used to detect enemy planes flying from the east, but if there are mountains blocking it from the east... …It means that it will seriously affect the radar’s low-altitude detection capability!”

"But we don't really want to build a radar station, do we?" Professor Backhouse said, "Our purpose is to detect oil!"

"Please, Professor!" Qin Chuan replied: "We are building a radar station to cover up oil exploration. If the British find out that we have built a radar station in such an unreasonable location, what do you think they will think?"

Although Professor Backhouse is knowledgeable, he still lacks common sense in this area.

"Hmm, that makes sense!" Professor Backhouse picked up the telescope and looked at the highlands to the east, and then called to an assistant beside him: "Hans, go call Captain Thomas. I have some questions." Ask him questions!”

"Okay, Professor!"

After a while, a German captain rushed over. He and Qin Chuan saluted each other, and then asked Backhouse: "Professor, what's the problem?"

"I want to know..." Professor Backhouse pointed to the hills to the east and asked: "Will they affect the radar's low-altitude detection?"

"Of course, Professor!"

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Professor Backhouse sounded a little annoyed.

Unexpectedly, Thomas gave the same answer as Professor Backhouse: "We don't really build a radar station, do we? It just provides cover!"

Professor Backhouse couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Well, our work these days has been in vain!"

Then Backhouse patted Qin Chuan on the shoulder again and said, "But it's lucky that you discovered it early...otherwise it would have been a few days of wasted work. You know, if the British were suspicious of us and sent Come bomber bombing... I don’t want to try that again!”

From what Backhouse said, it seemed that the Kantan team had been bombed.

Qin Chuan guessed correctly. Not only had the exploration team been bombed, but they also suffered heavy casualties and losses... That was when they were conducting exploration on the Libyan coast and were bombed by British bombers taking off from Malta Island.

The exploration team is related to the resources and mineral deposits of the German army, so the British will not give up such an opportunity.

Fortunately, the British had already transferred most of the Malta Island's air power to Port Said at that time, and only a few Mosquito bombers were used to carry out the bombing. Otherwise, the expedition team would not have suffered as many casualties as a dozen people.

"So..." Professor Backhouse spread out the map again: "Where should we start?"

"Why not here?" Qin Chuan pointed to the Timrag Basin and said: "This is a basin that looks like a place with oil, and it is not far from us. At the same time...it is not like here. There are such obvious hills!”

Backhouse looked at it and nodded: "Yes, and there is a road nearby that connects to Algiers. If oil is found, it will save time to build the road!"

Uh... Qin Chuan didn't expect this.

It seems that the oil fields in the Timrag Basin are really prepared for the African Corps.