In fact, Qin Chuan has this plan and other considerations.

For example, the labor problem... If I had not reached Greece before, Qin Chuan would never dare to think about establishing an industry on the African continent.

This is because the establishment of industries on the African continent is too easy to attack... Britain still occupies the island of Malta, and they can send a force from the island of Malta at any time like they did before assassinating Rommel.

Even the British could bribe African underground organizations to launch guerrilla wars and attack the siege factory... There are countless tribes in Africa, and a lot of them have no national connotations. As long as British spies give them small profits or confusions, they will easily be used by the British.

More importantly, Africans have low educational level, and they are naturally lazy and difficult to become qualified laborers, so building an arsenal on the African continent may become a waste of food and a pity.

But it would be different to build a factory in Crete.

Crete is a closed island. Apart from the Greek People's Liberation Army, there is basically no need to worry about other harassment. What's more important is that the Greek people and British prisoners have a high level of education... There are even high-level intellectuals or technicians who originally came out of factories. They only need to go through simple training and can easily become qualified laborers.

As a major industrial power, Germany will certainly consider these issues.

So Rommel quickly agreed to Hitler after making this suggestion... Of course, Hitler was relatively cautious. He first sent a geological detective team to Europe to inspect the iron ore in Egypt.

This is the basis for establishing an arsenal in Crete. Greece and Italy are both resource-poor countries. If they cannot obtain the iron necessary for large amounts of production equipment from Africa, it will not make much sense.

As a result, the Detective Team was surprised to find that the African iron ore had a huge storage capacity and good quality.

"I can't believe it!" Professor Buckhouse, the leader of the detective team, said when reporting to Rommel: "General, we seem to be lucky. The iron ore here has high iron content, shallow burial of the ore, and the quality is excellent... Who would have thought that such rich resources would be buried in this barren land of death!"

"Very good!" Rommel replied excitedly: "You will report to the Head of State truthfully!"

"Of course, general!" Professor Buckhouse replied.

"General!" Qin Chuan, who was standing beside him, reminded: "Why don't we let the Kansen team stay for a longer time? They can see what resources there are here, such as coal or oil!"

"Good idea, Lieutenant!" Rommel agreed immediately.

If coal or oil can be found, of course it will be of great help to industrial islands, especially oil... This thing is not only a resource that is scarce for the African legion, but also a resource that Germany can be said to be scarce for Germany (part of the reason Hitler attacked the Soviet Union was for the Baku oil field).

Of course, Qin Chuan knew that it was difficult for Buckhouse Detective Team to find oil... The reason was that the formation of oil in this era had entered a misunderstanding. Scholars generally believed that oil was formed by mud at the seabed, so they found that oil fields were basically on the seashore, while oil fields in Libya and Egypt were at a distance from the seashore.

But now there is no rush. Qin Chuan has time to mention Buckhouse.

Because the supply line is unobstructed, the ironworks were soon built in Crete. At the same time as the ironworks, there were also an arsenal that produced bullets and shells.

Although bullets and shells are inconspicuous, they are in high demand. If they can be self-sufficient, they can greatly reduce the transportation pressure in Germany, and thus they can free up more transportation capacity to transport other machines for Africa.

On the other hand, an iron ore on the African continent has also been built to lead to Matru.

Later, Rommel felt that the highway was too low, so he simply built a railway from the iron ore to Martru. As for the materials and equipment for the construction of the railway... when he captured Alexandria, the British railway and train were seized, and now he was just enough to use it.

So iron ore was continuously transported from the Port of Matru to Crete. The iron smelting plant transformed it into steel and became the raw material for the arsenal. Other raw materials such as gunpowder, which were temporarily unable to produce themselves, were transported from Italy... This formed a system that could operate and produce. Other factories also rose one by one in Crete, and there was even a tank assembly factory.

Qin Chuan was not surprised at all. What is needed for desert combat is tanks, so Rommel will never let the tank factory go as long as he has the chance.

In terms of defense, Rommel, just as Qin Chuan suggested, not only did not pull out troops from Crete, but also strengthened Crete's defense...

The coastline is basically defended by the Italian army, which is necessary. The German army is not strong enough to defend such a long coastline.

The German army mainly defended three airports... The 90th Light Armored Division was divided into three parts, distributing tanks and armored vehicles at three airports.

As mentioned earlier, the nemesis of the airborne troops is tanks and armored vehicles, and the German tanks are not as fast as the British "Matilda". They can reach the enemy's airborne points and enter battle in the shortest time.

More importantly, the British army does not have an "iron fist", which means that it is difficult for British paratroopers to confront the German mechanized troops.

Rommel was not at ease about this. He set up many anti-aircraft facilities on Crete... One by one, the wooden stakes pointed to the sky, and barbed wire was hung between the stakes, and landmines were tied to the wire mesh.

Because these sharpened wooden stakes looked like bamboo shoots, German soldiers called them "Rommeel bamboo shoots".

Moreover, it seems not difficult to do this, because Crete itself has more mountains and there are not many places suitable for airborne landing, and it is even more difficult to be arranged by Rommel.

In terms of air defense, Rommel has invested a lot of air defense firepower along the coast, including 88MM anti-aircraft guns.

Of course, these are secondary, and more importantly, fighter jets... Rommel arranged both air brigades in the air wing on Crete.

This arrangement makes sense. Alexander's defense line almost does not require fighter jets, and if fighter jets are needed, the fighter jets from Crete can fly to Alexander for support at any time.

In addition to the thirty air defense radars transported from Germany, Crete can almost be said to have cast a net of heaven and earth.

Then, the German army seemed to have to wait for the completion of the construction of one factory after another, and then the victory came.
Chapter completed!