The decisive battle against the Third Reich

That night, almost everyone was awake, and most of them were waiting around Well No. 3. Even Colonel Slaine came.

"I heard that oil was dug?" Colonel Slain said excitedly: "This time... it wasn't us who did anything!"

"No, absolutely not, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "This time it was discovered when replacing the drill bit. It was dug up more than 2,000 meters underground. Look at this..."

As he spoke, Qin Chuan grabbed a handful of black rocks collected in a gasoline barrel and handed them to Colonel Slaine.

Colonel Slain took it carefully, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, then nodded excitedly and said, "Yes, that's the smell! I like this smell! It's hard to believe that we really found it, we really found it. Found it..."

Colonel Slain then turned to the working exploration team and shouted: "Well done, gentlemen! Believe me, you can ask for anything, anything, as long as you get it out!"

"Colonel!" Professor Backhouse replied: "You should tell the captain this, at least if the oil can be dug out this time, it will be his credit!"

Colonel Slain looked at Qin Chuan, and then replied: "No, I think it is your credit!"

Although Colonel Slaine said this, everyone could tell that it was just a polite word.

At this time, just a cheer was heard, and a black liquid spurted out from the drilling well. It sprayed high into the air like a fountain and then fell back down again. The sky sprinkled little bits and pieces of pungent smell like rain. oil.

"Found it!" Colonel Slaine hugged Qin Chuan's shoulders and cheered: "We really did it! We found oil..."

The exploration team members were all like children running and jumping under the oil spring and hugging each other. Professor Backhouse was even so excited that he knelt on the ground and cried with joy.

Qin Chuan can understand them. Modern people may not have much feeling for oil, thinking that it is just a matter of money. But in this era, oil means more about the rise and fall of the country and the survival of the people... This is why the oil-rich Balkans are regarded as European powder keg.

Colonel Slain immediately called Rommel's headquarters.

At this time, Rommel was resting, and the staff member answered the phone for him. After hearing Colonel Slaine's words, the staff member couldn't help being stunned, and then excitedly walked to the bedside to wake up Rommel.

"General!" the staff officer said, "I think it's worth waking you up. You must be happy to hear the news. We have dug oil!"

"What? What did you say?" Rommel sat up from the bed as soon as he turned over.

"Yes, General!" the staff officer repeated, "We have found oil!"

"I'm not dreaming!" Rommel still couldn't believe it.

"No, General!" said the staff officer: "Colonel Slain is on the line..."

Rommel rushed to the phone like a whirlwind, answered the phone and asked: "Colonel, are you serious? Have we really dug oil?"

"That's absolutely true!" Colonel Slain replied: "General, listen to its cheers..."

As he spoke, he pointed the microphone in the direction of the oil blowout, and the sound of running water soon reached Rommel's ears on the other end of the phone.

"Prepare the plane for me immediately!" Rommel ordered.

"Yes, General!" the staff officer replied. Just as he was about to turn around, he added: "General, please take me with you!"

"Of course!" Rommel said: "Now!"

An hour later, the stunned Rommel stood in front of the oil field that was still spraying outward. After being stunned for a while, he suddenly laughed. He held the hands of Qin Chuan and others and said, "Well done, gentlemen." , you saved us all, everyone!"

No need to think about it, Rommel then reported the good news to Hitler.

Hitler's daily routine was to go to bed at three or four in the morning and get up at around ten in the morning. If there was no urgent information, Hitler's news would generally not be disturbed.

However, the staff believed that this could definitely be called "urgent information", so he immediately took the telegram to Hitler's house, hesitated for a moment, and knocked on the door: "My head of state, I have important information to report to you. !”

The door was quiet for a while, and the staff officer was a little frightened. He didn't know if he had woken up Hitler. Just when he mustered up the courage to try to knock on the door again, the door opened... Hitler stood with a tired and angry face. In front of the staff.

"Your Majesty the Head of State!" The staff hurriedly handed over the telegram: "I'm not sure... whether it's right to wake you up, but..."

Hitler glanced at the telegram, and then his eyes lit up.

"When did you receive the telegram?" Hitler asked.

"Dai...ten minutes ago!" the staff officer replied.

"You should have sent it to me earlier!" Hitler, who was originally listless, suddenly waved his fists as if he had become a different person: "You rushed to me as soon as you received the telegram. That's great. , you shouldn’t even knock on the door, you should just kick it open and shout to me... Your Excellency, we have dug oil in Africa!”

Of course, the staff officer would not take Hitler's words seriously...if he did, he would probably be killed by Hitler as an assassin in the next second.

Then Hitler immediately called Rommel back: "Very well, my general, you did a good job! The next step is to defend North Africa. Don't be fooled by the appearances of the British. Their target is Greece." ,Understand?"

Rommel couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at the telegram, and then he looked at Qin Chuan. He was sensitively aware that everything Qin Chuan said had happened. Not only had it happened, but it was also possible that he had deceived Hitler. That's why Hitler was like this. Believing that the British target was Greece.

But what could Rommel say?

Hitler did not tell Rommel what the reason was, or what events led him to make this judgment.

Based on Rommel's understanding of Hitler, Rommel knew that Hitler already believed this, and once the conceited Hitler believed in something, it would be difficult to persuade him to change.

This is indeed the case. Hitler in history was deceived by the British "meat plan". Even when a large number of Allied troops had landed in Sicily and started a large-scale offensive, Hitler still firmly believed that these were created by the British. I thought that the British would make unexpected landings in Greece and Sardinia, so they decided not to reinforce Sicily.

Rommel raised his head towards Qin Chuan and said, "Captain, I think we need to go to Berlin!"

"What?" Qin Chuan couldn't help being stunned when he heard this.