Thanks to the many "wide rail prototypes" in the wide rail test site of the GGL Great German Locomotive Manufacturers Federation, the set of "National Glory: Battle" moved from Sicily took the shortest time. Almost all the crew lived in the wide rail cabin according to the original department. The wide rail "model" that has settled in many important departments has even installed a spare 50-kilowatt starter motor, a 180-kilowatt auxiliary generator, and a 25-kilowatt headlight generator, and another 12-volt battery. Even if the external grid of the GGL Great German Locomotive Manufacturers Federation is cut off, it can ensure the normal power use of the set of "National Glory: Battle".

Naturally, the oil supply is sufficient. The reason behind this is just like the German commander-in-chief Albert Kesselin insists on defending Sicily and is unwilling to hand over the air bases in this area to the Allies to ensure that neither the German industrial zone nor the Romanian oil fields will be directly exposed to air strikes.

In fact, due to the extremely scarcity of oil resources in Germany during World War II, the powerful war machine of the German Iron Empire was like a castle built on a beach, which seemed majestic and fragile. The purpose of the German army's several military operations was to plunder oil resources, but it still failed due to the lack of fuel supply. The Allies also launched targeted attacks on Germany's oil system, causing the German supply system to gradually collapse and eventually buried the Third Reich.

Before 1939, Germany's oil mainly relied on imports, and was also working hard to study the technology of converting coal into fuel oil. In 1939, Germany imported 5.16 million tons of oil, most of which came from Romania, while the remaining part came from the Soviet Union, and a small amount came from Iran, Austria and other countries. When World War II broke out in September 1939, Germany had a total of about 2.4 million tons of refined oil reserves. Once the war broke out, its oil consumption would increase rapidly, so Germany had to fight against its allies in oil resources.

From a geographical point of view, Romania is the best source of oil in Germany. First of all, although Romania does not border Germany, the gap between Central European countries is generally weak and easily annexed by the "blitz war" initiated by Germany. Moreover, Romania has rich oil resources and good quality of oil. In the 1930s, Romania was an agricultural country with very limited consumption, and most of its oil could only be used for export and foreign exchange earnings. Moreover, although Germany and Romania were not traditional allies, the political and military pressures the Soviet Union continued to exert on Romania in the 1930s prompted it to get closer to Germany. At that time, the United States and Britain had invested in a large number of oil projects in Romania. Seeing that Germany's desire for Romania's oil will naturally not be careless.

Before the war officially began in 1939, Britain used strong capital as a weapon to buy large amounts of oil from the crude oil market, while trying various ways to prevent Germany from transporting oil. The land transportation in the lower Danube, where Romania is located, was difficult, but the Danube shipping capacity was very strong. So the wealthy British simply bought all 182 oil tankers in the Danube at that time, and refused to let Germany use it even if the transportation capacity was severely greater than Britain's own needs. At the same time, Britain and France also wooed Romania at the political level, hoping to take the initiative to cut off the absolute German oil supply after the outbreak of the war. However, what Britain and France did not expect was that Romania, which was under pressure from the Soviet Union, finally chose to turn politically to Germany in 1940.

After Germany occupied Poland in 1939, it bordered Romania, which made Britain and France almost no longer able to prevent Germany from obtaining Romanian oil. Of the 2.07 million tons of oil imported by Germany in 1940, Romania accounted for 970,000 tons. By 1941, Germany imported 2.37 million tons of oil, and Romania's oil imports were as high as 2.09 million tons. After the outbreak of the Soviet-German War in 1941, the Soviet Air Force bombed Romanian oil facilities, but the German army was ready and did not achieve effective results. On the night of June 11, 1942, the Allied forces bombed Romanian oil fields for the first time, prompting the German army to further increase the air defense force in the region. In the following two years, Romania provided one-third of Germany's oil and all Italian oil. In the eyes of the Allies, Romanian oil fields were the largest "oil pump" of the German army.

But just when the Germans thought they could rest easy, the US bomber troops joined the European battlefield. On August 1, 1943, 177 US-made B24 bombers set off from Benghazi Airport to bomb the largest Ploieşti oil field in Romania for the first time. Despite the fierce resistance from the Luftwaffe and anti-aircraft artillery units, the bombs dropped by the US military still destroyed nearly a quarter of the oil field's production capacity. Although the Germans strengthened their defenses, the allies also realized the importance of destroying the oil field. From April to June 1944, the Allied forces launched 24 high-altitude bombings on it, dropping about 130,000 tons of bombs to finally completely destroy the Proyeşti oil field. When the Soviet army finally attacked Romania in August 1944, the production of the oil field was negligible.

However, because the main plot of "The Great Battle" "similar and fusion of time and space in the inter-plot, which is similar and soluble in World War II plot fragments, the Italian Coast Division was promoted to the textbook-level "group portrait performance", the landing battle in Sicily, which was code-named "Husky". On August 1, 177 US-made B24 bombers departed from Benghazi Airport were intercepted and shot down by the German Air Force before they arrived in Romania. No Allied aircraft successfully arrived over the Projesti oil field.

In other words, in a plot similar to "Battle of the Bulge", the scene where the Third Reich tank legion, known as the "steel torrent", was finally abandoned by the roadside due to exhaustion of oil, and it is likely that it would not appear before 1945.

This is another bad news that is not good for the Allies and the Adventure Squad.

After the engineer Conrad Chuze, who had arranged to arrive on the set by a special train, the female inventor Heidi Rama and the deputy director of the casting Mrs. Katy both returned to the director's carriage and immediately realized that the atmosphere was wrong.

"What happened?" Mrs. Katy asked first.

"Heidi, your 'cheap ex-husband' just called..." The female reporter told the two of them the bad news.

"The Nazis are indeed secretly implementing the 'revenge weapon program'." The expression of the female inventor Heidi Rama is not surprising at all. Her ex-husband, a fanatical Jewish Nazi arms dealer, must have told her: "By the way, when did the Nazis surrender unconditionally in history?"

"May 8, 1945." Battlefield girl Danielle could not remember it wrong.

On May 8, 1945, Germany signed the unconditional surrender letter, marking the end of the European battlefield war in World War II. This day was used as "European Victory Day" and is also a symbol of victory in the world anti-fascist war.

"In other words, we still have at least half a year (released in 1944) to prepare for the shooting plan for "Dragon Seed"." Heidi Rama, a female inventor who looked at the problem from another perspective, immediately reminded everyone.
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