The journey was a bit painful. In order to avoid the blockade of the British and US Air Forces, transport planes were not allowed to circumvent Sardinia and fill up the fuel before flying back to Algiers.

Algiers is also a midway station. After filling up the oil, they flew to the Timlager Basin... The German army has built a military airport near the Timlager Basin to protect the oil field, and it is said that a regiment of troops has also been transferred to protect the oil field.

As the plane flew over the Timlager Basin, the baker looked down through the glass window and said, "They said that an oil refinery was being built here, but I saw nothing!"

Qin Chuan looked into the probe and said, "Did you see those oil pipes?"

The baker looked carefully and replied, "Yes, but they lead to the mountains in the north!"

"That's right!" Qin Chuan replied: "It's impossible for them to build the refinery outside and let the enemy bombers blow it up!"

“So they built the refinery in the mountains?”

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "Otherwise, as long as the Americans send enough B17s, our refinery will never be built!"

"It's a good idea!" the baker nodded.

The plane landed at the airport soon, and ten cars had already parked outside the airport.

The airport manager was a colonel, and he asked nothing. Qin Chuan saw from his eyes that he knew nothing.

"Ten cars, five of them are supplies, five are empty! There are ten motorcycles," said the colonel: "No driver, no license plate, no record... every Wednesday to send people to get new supplies, the same five cars, but you must drive five empty cars. If you have any other needs, send people to notify us two days in advance!"

"Yes, colonel!" Qin Chuan replied.

In fact, all of this has been written in the document Rommel gave to Qin Chuan.

The car drove along the road for a long time before the team arrived at the destination...Sarat.

This is an abandoned village near the Atlas Mountains, where you can often see such places in the desert, especially during wars.

There are many reasons for their abandonment, such as being looted by bandits, such as drying up well water, or because food is no longer hunted around, etc.

The reason why this village was abandoned is probably because of the well water. Werner immediately used a flashlight to shine it inside, and then said, "There is no water!"

This is reasonable, because the most important thing in the desert is water. Where there is water, there will be people coming, and where there are people coming, there will be no confidentiality.

The "target machine" must be kept confidential, so there should be no water.

Domestic water is to send people to the airport every week.

Qin Chuan took the map and compared the surrounding environment, then pointed to a high ground hundreds of meters away and said, "We are going to dig air raid shelters there and then build fortifications around it, just like we did in the Timlager Basin, do you understand?"

"Yes, Captain!" the soldiers responded, and then rushed according to Qin Chuan's order.

The trench fortifications were not difficult, and the soldiers were busy for a long time until it was almost over before dark.

Qin Chuan went to inspect it and was quite satisfied. The barbed wire mesh, mines, fortifications, telephone lines, and even the empty canned shells on the barbed wire mesh were hung... It was for warning purposes, and it was usually two or three hanging together. In this way, when the enemy touched the barbed wire mesh in the dark or wanted to cut it off, the empty canned iron shells would collide with each other and make a strange noise to arouse the sentry's alertness.

The difficulty is the air raid shelter.

There are two mountain ranges in Algeria, one is the Tel Atlas Mountains and the other is the Sahara Atlas Mountains. Both mountains run east and west, starting from eastern Morocco, and going through Algeria to Tunisia, covering about 1,600 kilometers.

This is also the main reason why the Allies were unable to attack Algeria... Unless they fought the Gabes defense line and landed from the north of Algeria through the Tunisian Strait, they had to go deep into the Sahara Desert and crossed these two mountains.

One of the mountains is the Taylor Atlas Mountains near the coastal city and the Zoaf Corps are stationed there.

The location of Qin Chuan and others is near the Atlas Mountains of Sahara.

Because it is close to the Sahara Desert, the land on the highlands is full of stones... This is a feature of the desert landform. The highlands are severely weathered, and what can be left behind is often stones, and the others have become sand and dust.

Fortunately, the baker in charge of this task found two caves on the high ground.

"These two caves are enough to accommodate five hundred people!" said the baker. "And it is very strong, we can transform it into an air raid shelter. I mean, just dig a few traffic trenches!"

"No problem!" Qin Chuan said: "You can do it!"

The German army had good quality, or it could be said that they had strong action. In the Chinese, they had the spirit of "ownership". They would complete the tasks assigned to them seriously and even consider things other than the tasks, so Qin Chuan didn't need to worry about anything.

The next day, when Qin Chuan marked the location of the fortification on the map, Werner shouted: "Captain, someone is here!"

The soldiers stopped their hands and picked up their guns and consciously prepared for battle.

Qin Chuan looked up and saw a convoy of more than 30 cars of various types drove to the base in the sun with a scattered dust. The leaders were several jeeps.

Qin Chuan went up and saw Colonel Conrad jumping out of the jeep and said, "Captain, we are meeting again."

"Is this all of you?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Yes!" Colonel Conrad responded and looked at the sun in the sky, complaining: "It's so hot here, isn't it?"

"Of course!" Qin Chuan said: "You will get used to it here!"

As he said that, he waved his hand and asked the soldiers to let go.

"Very good!" Colonel Conrad looked at the soldiers who were ready for battle and the meticulous fortifications around him, and said, "You have turned this place into a barracks!"

Another jeep was parked in front of the two, and several researchers in casual clothes got out of the car. One of them, wearing a white shirt and a combed hair flat and an untied tie hanging around his neck, said, "Col. Is this our destination?"

"Yes, professor!" Conrad replied.

Then he raised his head to Qin Chuan and said, "Professor, this is Captain Flick who I told you!"

The young professor's eyes immediately lit up. He took the initiative to move forward and shook hands with Qin Chuan and said, "I'm honored to see you, Captain. To introduce myself, my name is Feng Braun, the director of the technical department!"
Chapter completed!