Imperial Overlord

On a passenger ship that crossed the Atlantic and finally docked in New York, an American youth tanned by the sun took off his top hat.

The passenger ship is small in tonnage and fast. And it flies the flag belonging to the Vichy French government. It runs from Morocco in North Africa to New York, most of which are outside the war zone.

He walked down the hanging ladder with a smile, and then hugged the middle-aged man who came to greet him on the pier. After hugging, the two of them didn't say anything, turned around and walked towards the car in the far side of the pier.

It was not until he got into the car that the young man spoke about the results of his trip: "The Germans do have a huge oil field in North Africa, located probably in the north-east of Libya, in the Siirt Basin."

"There? It's really surprising..." The middle-aged man frowned, obviously a little entangled with the result.

No one expected that a huge oil field could suddenly be discovered in Libya, and the location is not bad, it is not deep into the desert, and the transportation is relatively convenient.

In less than a year, the Germans can build a huge oil production base there. This was not good news for the United States, nor for the Soviet Union or the United Kingdom.

Using this oil field, the German war machine could develop without limit. Everything that is in short supply seems to be able to find a replacement here, which is definitely a dangerous precursor for the United States and the United Kingdom.

Many in U.S. decision-making circles believed that the German wars could be contained. The reason is that Germany has too few strategic resources and is completely controlled by the Americans.

There are not many oil resources and rubber resources in German hands, and these things are heavily dependent on imports. As long as Britain and the United States block these strategic resources, Germany will collapse due to the lack of such materials.

Originally this plan was very feasible, and it did play a role in the middle of the war. But now, the emergence of Libyan oil fields has changed the means of restricting Germany.

Long before the start of World War II, German technicians were developing technology to make artificial rubber from petroleum derivatives.

During the same period, the Germans were also playing with coal-to-oil technology. They are working hard to open up their restricted resource bottlenecks.

Originally, this kind of effort has little practical effect in the era of serious shortage of oil production. But now, the Germans have found more oil!

More oil can make more derivatives, such as diesel, gasoline, plastics and artificial rubber products!

It is inferred from this that the Libyan oil field is really likely to allow Germany to achieve self-sufficiency in strategic resources and break the strategic resource monopoly of the United States and the United Kingdom!

The lost Mediterranean, because this oil field has become more important, the battle for the Mediterranean has risen from a corner to a key strategic level in an instant.

"Is the production capacity really big?" The middle-aged man asked after thinking a lot of things in his mind for a moment.

The young man leaned on the soft seat of the car, nodded and said, "We arrived for a few minutes to investigate. The Germans have a lot of oil wells there, which reminds me of the Gulf of Mexico."

Hearing the young man mentioned the Gulf of Mexico, the expression of the middle-aged man suddenly became more exciting. He did not expect that the oil fields discovered by the Germans were comparable to the largest oil production base in the United States today.

Even if Libya's oil production capacity is not comparable to that of the Americans now, it will be quite scary if enough Germans use it one day in the future.

Just stunned for a second, the middle-aged man came back to his senses and sighed with emotion: "If I had known, the Mediterranean should not have been let out like this..."

The Germans occupied Egypt and the troops marched into the Suez Canal, which was beyond the control of the British.

The British navy has been driven out of the Mediterranean, with bases closest to Libya, either as far away as South Africa, East Africa, or the Middle East.

What's more, expecting these troops to fight back against the Germans and break into Libya is simply impossible. The current situation is: Germany will not go to the trouble of the British army in these places, it is already good.

"Atlantic anti-submarine warfare, we have developed some new technologies, and I hope these new technologies can help the British a little bit to support this most difficult time." The middle-aged man said with emotion.

He was a high-ranking member of the U.S. intelligence community and knew more. The fighting in the Atlantic is now very passive, and the elusive wolf pack has caused heavy losses to British ships.

Some ships that the United States "aided" to Britain were also quickly sunk, and the Allied transport lines across the Atlantic were in chaos, causing countless losses.

This is not a loss of tens of thousands of tons of materials, but a huge loss of one million tons, or even two million tons. The supplies were sent to the bottom of the sea and turned into fish food.

October 1940 is about to pass, and in this month, the total loss of the British transport fleet has approached 1.7 million tons, which is so miserable that it is impossible to look directly at it.

"If...we form a team to attack, will there be unexpected results?" asked the middle-aged American man who was worried about the self-sufficiency of German oil.

The young man thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "If I lead the team, there is only a 30% chance of success."

"You lead the team with only a 30% success rate?" The middle-aged man was obviously a little unbelievable when he heard the news.

Obviously the young man is not confident about such an action. He nodded and admitted: "Yes, the most optimistic estimate is only a 30% chance of winning."

He took out a piece of white paper from his backpack and put it on his leg and made two random strokes: "The enemy has arranged cars and armored vehicles on the periphery, and there are many high-level guard posts... Once we start, there is no way to escape. "

In view of this arrangement of defensive positions, sneaking in and setting fire to destroy it is no different from suicide. The entire oil production area is too large, and a simple small team destruction will not affect too much production.

There is obviously no good way to use a ground attack, because the entire North Africa has almost fallen into the hands of the Germans, and now to organize a sneak attack there, it is difficult to find even a forward base.

So after the middle-aged man tentatively asked such a sentence, he thought of another possibility: "What if we bombed there?"

The United States has long-range strategic bombers, and of course the British have them too. If long-range strategic bombers were used to bomb German oil fields in Libya, the damage would be even greater, and the losses seemed acceptable.

Although the British base in North Africa has been lost, but as a forward base, Crete is still there!

There is an airfield on Crete that can take off large bombers! As long as it takes off from there, most of Libya is within the combat radius of the B-17 bomber!

Hearing this plan, the young man agreed: "This plan is feasible. The exact location of the German base is marked on my map. As long as there is no problem with navigation, the bombing will not be difficult."

Compared with a ground attack that cannot be retreated, bombing from the sky is much safer. If the number of aircraft is large enough, it can also cause enough damage to the Germans.

"After you go back, arrange all your information and hand it over to Director Hoover. Now that he has personally asked about this matter, it can be regarded as one of the most important pieces of information." The middle-aged man spoke and explained what he would do next. .

He looked at the young man and finally said, "If possible, you should report this action to President Roosevelt in person, go back and write the manuscript, and think about what you should say."

When the middle-aged man said this, he also felt depressed. There's been so much work lately, so much that he's broken down a bit.

There is a ghost hidden in the British intelligence agency, and that invisible shadow has thrown the entire British high-level into chaos.

The United States is also in a state of turmoil, and the grass and trees are all soldiers. Everyone is afraid of being infiltrated by the powerful German intelligence services, so the recent secret investigation work has been quite rigorous and complicated.

Now, there is another plan to be drawn up, to send a sufficient number of B-17 bombers to sneak attack on the oil fields of the Germans in Libya.

"There are so many things." He thought of this, sighed, and closed his mouth. The car returned to a silent atmosphere, and neither of the two, including the driver, said anything.

Although President Roosevelt could not blatantly join the world war, he had already decided to let the United States stand on the British side.

The United States, which is outside the world, ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ has always adhered to an isolationist foreign policy that is outside of Europe. It hopes to place more leverage when the situation becomes clearer.

Of course, during the last World War, the Americans pushed the chips to Britain, but at the last minute allowed Germany to "surrender and lose half".

Such a choice of both sides made the United States the biggest winner of the last world war. Now time flies by, the United States has to choose again and be the biggest winner again!

As long as the German Libyan oil fields are destroyed, everything is still under control. The strategic arrangement of the United States can still be effective, and the outcome of the war can be controlled.

The premise is that the United States wants to help the United Kingdom to destroy the Libyan oil fields, so that the shortage of oil resources in Germany will continue to be in short supply!

Cars, moving slowly through the crowded streets of New York, soon mixed into the rolling traffic. The United States is the country that produced the most cars during World War II, which is not just a name for nothing.

In 1940, the streets of the United States were already congested, and the traffic jams were not comparable to other countries, even Germany at this moment.