Sometimes being simple and crude is the best way to solve a problem.
Being treated roughly on their own territory, the British certainly refused to let it go, so the lawsuit soon came to Yang Deshan.
Yang Deshan's reply was simple. The Mobil oil field in Tunisia was attacked. There was enough intelligence to show that the gangsters who took the goods fled to Oazi. The fraternal alliance must protect their own interests, so Yang Deshan ordered the tank troops to wipe out this group of people with overwhelming force.
Gang of gangsters.
At this point, it is no longer important whether Yang Deshan's reasons are true. The key is that the British have no way to verify them. If the British send a joint investigation notice to the French, they will definitely be thrown into the shredder. The French will not pay attention to these trivial matters.
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What's important is why the Brotherhood has tank troops. This is a very serious question.
The role of tanks has been proven beyond doubt in the world war. After the war, the whole world was studying new weapons such as tanks. To be honest, it was the British who created the concept of tanks, so the British believed that they had a research laboratory on tanks.
They are at the forefront of the world, but in Vazin, a British officer saw with his own eyes the tank troops of the Brotherly Alliance, which seemed to be no less inferior to the British armored troops.
Even if we exclude the glorification of British officers, the tanks of the Brotherhood should be more advanced than the British tanks.
This is really unacceptable.
Just by looking at the appearance, we can tell that the Alliance of Brothers is equipped with Stalkers from Lanfang. This type of tank is not a secret. Of course the British know about it, but they are not very clear about the specific parameters, so they asked the British
Just as they hid the progress of their tank research from Lanfang and France, Lanfang and France also set up a trade embargo against Britain.
Of course, this embargo is limited to military weapons. The British once wanted to pay a large price to purchase a batch of tanks to study the progress of Lanfang's tanks. However, this request was ruthlessly rejected by Lanfang, and the reason for the rejection made the British
There is nowhere to vent the anger.
Lan Fang claimed that the current tank orders have been queued until 1925. If the British want to buy tanks, please pay a deposit first and then queue up.
five years
Who knows what the tank will develop into in five years. By then, Lanfang may have launched an updated model, and there will be no point in studying the Stalker.
The tanks equipped by the Brotherhood Alliance gave the British an opportunity to study the progress of Lanfang tanks.
After learning that the Brotherhood was equipped with Stalkers, the British immediately made a request to Yang Deshan, asking Yang Deshan to provide five tanks to the British for related research.
Yang Deshan did not refuse this request. In order not to suffer a loss, Yang Deshan made a condition to the British, asking for ten tanks equipped by the British army to strengthen his own strength.
The British also did not refuse this request.
But during this exchange, the British troops who had landed in Liabi stopped mobilizing, and the mobilization that had already started resumed its original state. Because of this short-term cooperation, the originally tense Liabi actually calmed down again. This is also
It's an unexpected surprise.
Of course, this level of joy was obviously higher in the Brotherhood Alliance. Rommel was quite good at what he did. After arriving in Wazin, Rommel keenly discovered that Wazin is really a good place.
As a small border town straddling Tunisia and Lyabi, Oazim is located on a traffic artery. In the entire border between Tunisia and Lyabi, Oazi is the only oasis within hundreds of square kilometers nearby. This has brought Oazi
A certain degree of prosperity, and the desert around Wazin is not a sand dune, but an environment similar to the Gobi Desert. This environment is very conducive to the deployment of armored forces. Whether it is training or combat, it has the most conducive space for tanks to perform.
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Since the conditions were so good, Rommel immediately wanted to upgrade the temporary base into a permanent base.
If you want to establish a permanent base, the population in Wazin Town is a big problem.
Although the small town of Wazim is not big, it still has a population of nearly 10,000 people. The composition of these people is complex, including Tunisians, Lyabis, and some Algerians. Among them, there must be a large number of British and French informants.
If you want to establish a permanent base here, you must first get rid of the people here.
No matter in any era, demolition is a very difficult matter. If the residents of Wajin are supporters of the Brotherhood Alliance, then this problem can be solved satisfactorily with just one order. But the problem lies in the Brotherhood Alliance.
The forces have not yet reached this area, and the residents here are still very resistant to the Brotherhood. It will definitely not be easy to carry out demolition at this time.
Rommel was still full of vixen. After knowing that the residents of Vazin Town were not cooperating, Rommel did not waste any time and directly obtained a batch of loudspeakers from Djerba Island to play Brotherhood of Brothers outside the town all day long.
According to the military regulations, the troops were ordered to train in batches, and live-fire shooting was added to the training program.
Rommel was really shameless when he was playing with live ammunition next to a residential area.
However, the effect was still good. Within a week, nearly half of the residents finally agreed to move out of Wazim. For these people, Rommel did not treat them badly. One thousand francs per family was enough for them to live in Liabi or Tunisia.
Make a new home anywhere.
Among the remaining Wajin residents who are still unwilling to leave, some of them are really reluctant to leave their homeland, and the rest have ulterior motives.
One night, a group of horse bandits raided the small town of Wazin. Dozens of houses were burned down and some residents' belongings were robbed. Fortunately, these horse bandits were relatively restrained and they did not hurt anyone. However,
The horse bandits left a message that they would come again in a few days.
What's weird is that although the horse bandits made a lot of noise, the military camp next to the town didn't react at all. The soldiers of the Brotherhood Alliance even stood at the sentry post, watching the horse bandits galloping around and aiming their guns.
There are no actions.
At this point, everyone knows the origin of this gang of horse bandits, and the residents know very well that the next time the horse bandits come, they will not be so kind, and the soldiers will definitely stand by and watch.
So in just two days, all the remaining residents of Wazin moved out of Wazin, and the entire Wazin became an empty city.
On the third day, it was not the horse bandits that came, but the second batch of tank troops.
Tianichiro's efficiency was quite good. The second batch of tanks had just arrived in Wazin. Tianichiro immediately began to organize training and sent some of them to Wazin to strengthen Rommel's strength. When this batch of tanks arrived,
, Rommel's first order was to send five tanks to demolish the former residential area, bulldoze all the houses, and then Rommel would build a fully equipped military base here.
It's really easy for a tank to demolish a house. It doesn't require ropes or explosives. The tank just needs to increase its horsepower and hit the house. The houses here in Wajin are not made of bricks and wood, let alone reinforced concrete. Most of them are made of adobe.
Only a small part of the houses used stones to reinforce the foundation. These stones were also collected and prepared as materials for building military bases in the future.
If the people from the Lanfang Military Logistics Department were present, they would definitely call Rommel a prodigal son if they were using tanks to demolish a house. However, they were destined to have no chance. After completing the demolition mission, these tanks were immediately sent to Tripoli to share with the British
People make exchanges that have been agreed upon.
There really aren't many honest people who can get ahead. When Yang Deshan started negotiating with the British, he had already made plans to change things. The British would definitely not get the Stalker. How many Renault FT17s there were?
Yang Deshan’s biggest concession.
Of course, the British are not easy to cheat, so during the exchange, Yang Deshan and the British representative Henry Saxton were both a little dumbfounded. Yang Deshan brought out a Renault FT17, and Henry Saxton brought out a Nomad.
The Grand Nomad is the first generation of British tanks. It was in service earlier than the Renault FT17. These ten tanks are already antiques and should be displayed in museums. It’s a shame that the British have the nerve to use them to make up for their numbers.
Well, in terms of being shameless, the British are about the same as the people in Lanfang.
Since they were inseparable from each other, Yang Deshan and Henry Saxton couldn't bear to fall out face to face, so they still completed the deal according to their prior agreement.
However, the result of this transaction was very sad. The five ft17s were driven directly to the training ground and served as targets for the British tank crews. Only four of the large nomads brought out by the British could be driven to Wazin.
The remaining six vehicles all broke down halfway and were irreparable.
After such a transaction, you can imagine how heartbroken Yang Deshan and Henry Saxton were. It is estimated that it is indispensable to greet each other's ancestors and female family members.
In early April, the Galyan Oilfield finally began to produce oil in batches. A total of eleven derricks in the first phase of the project were completed, with a daily crude oil output of more than 150,000 barrels. Because the oil is of better quality, it has been highly praised by major oil companies since it was introduced to the market.
enthusiastic pursuit.
The British have no idea of selling oil. They must first meet their own needs and then consider selling it to other countries.
Since it is digested internally, the left hand changes to the right hand, and the price cannot go up. This has caused dissatisfaction among the shareholders of Galyan Petroleum Development Company, including Yang Deshan.
Yang Deshan owns about one-tenth of the shares of Gale Yang Petroleum Development Company, which is a considerable proportion. Among the private shares, Yang Deshan has the highest proportion. Therefore, seeing that the price of crude oil is not going up, Yang Deshan is really anxious.
There is no point in being anxious about this kind of thing. The main thing is coordination. As long as shareholders can reach a consensus, price is not an issue.
So one day in mid-April, the horse bandits who once ravaged the Mobil Oilfield and Wajin appeared again.
