Chapter 289： Tungsten

Austria.

On the tall Alpine mountains, a group of people was walking with difficulty. The road was too rugged. They could not use vehicles at all. They could only walk on their two legs.

Even so, they still carry heavy equipment, step by step.

"According to General Cyric's inference, it is likely to be here." A middle-aged man said: "Do it!"

Do it! A few people put down the equipment they were carrying, and soon they assembled the equipment. A small gasoline engine was started. This equipment also buzzed. Below, a drill bit, Soon it got into the rock.

This is a geological team. Every one of them is strong. After all, the life of the geological team is the most difficult, such as now.

For the empire, they have to unearth more minerals. This is their mission! The tall Alps are not only beautiful, but also rich in minerals!

Light a bonfire and make a cup of coffee. They stopped for a rest between drilling.

"Hans, do you think our inference is correct?" a young geological team member, holding bread and drinking coffee, said to the leader.

"Of course it is correct, General Cyric's inferences have always been extremely accurate!" Hans said.

"Then I heard that going to Libya to extract oil in the past was a joke? It has been more than ten years, and I have never heard of what is there."

"You idiot, do you really have something to say? Pay attention to the discipline in the confidentiality manual. Here, if we find anything, we can't say it, otherwise, we will wait to report to the Gestapo headquarters!" Hans The gesture hand smashed the man who said the wrong thing.

"Found it, found it!" At this moment, on the side of the drilling rig, a person shouted loudly: "It really is tungsten ore, the quality is not bad!"

I found it. After drilling down a few meters, I found tungsten ore!

Suddenly, the entire geological team cheered.

Not in vain!

Tungsten ore was discovered in the Austrian Alps! The news quickly passed back to Berlin!

"Cyric, you are really our great hero!" Hitler couldn't hide his inner joy. Germany is a country lacking resources. For example, as an important rare metal tungsten, Germany can only import it.

In history, Germany imported a large amount from China, and it is the same now, but with this tungsten mine, there is no need to worry anymore!

After all, importing from China has a long way to go, and once a state of war is entered, the sea is easily blocked by the United States.

"Cyric, how did you know that there is a tungsten mine?" Goring on the side was also puzzled.

"I guess." Cyric's voice was lazy.

Later generations always complained about World War II. For example, if Rommel knew that there was oil under the desert of Libya, would he fail in North Africa?

If Hitler knew that Austria had the world's second largest tungsten mine, would he still worry about this metal?

Austria's tungsten mine, in later generations, has reached an annual mining stone size of 400,000 tons, producing 1,800 tons of commercial metal tungsten. After entering the war, even if it is only half of this number, it is enough for Germany to use!

This is the best material for making armor-piercing bullets! Before the advent of depleted uranium, tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectiles were the best.

"Head of State, I suggest that you don't have to speak up in advance." Cyrek said: "We now need to develop this tungsten mine secretly, so that Reinhardt can find a large number of executed prisoners, and first carry out the basic construction of the mine, including the access to Vienna. The establishment of various factories in the roads, railways, mining areas, the construction of mineral processing, smelting and other equipment."

The purpose of seeking death row prisoners to do it is of course to keep secrets. After all the infrastructure here has been built, there will only be one death row prisoner.

"Now, we still import tungsten ore. After all, our import channels have not been hindered in any way. Once our import channels are blocked, we can immediately start tungsten ore production here." Cyric continued.

Just like oil, it’s hidden first and used as a second hand, when you can use it immediately.

The tungsten ore problem has been solved, and at the same time, the other rare metal that the German armor forces need most is molybdenum, which is a necessary rare metal for German armor.

In addition to the Soviet Union, Europe has abundant molybdenum mines only in Norway. Historically, in 1944, the U.S. imperialism carried out a strategic bombing specifically targeting Norwegian molybdenum mines. After that bombing, the German armor force shrank severely. Without this metal, they could only use the surface carburizing process to strengthen the armor. the quality of.

At present, Norway has not yet been conquered, and it can only be temporarily stockpiled through a large amount of imported Soviet ore, as long as it can be used to conquer Norway.

At the same time, after the war starts, priority will be given to protecting these mining areas.

Now, why does Cyric demand confidentiality? Of course, it is to prevent the outside world from knowing it, so as not to be bombed. Once the power of the whole Europe is integrated, will the United States still have the ability to bomb it?

"Cyric, your opinion is correct." Hitler said: "Just do it your way."

Hitler was in high spirits.

With Hitler's decision, all prisoners on death row in prisons in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic have ushered in the most tragic period of their lives.

They were told that as long as they were able to gain freedom through their labor, but when they were transported to the mining area and worked under the whip of a supervisor, they discovered that this was a job that would exhaust them. .

Some condemned prisoners wanted to escape, but were killed mercilessly by the surrounding Gestapo, while the remaining condemned prisoners could only survive day by day after one year, all projects After they are completed, the remaining number of executed prisoners will be less than half!

Afterwards, they were loaded into a car and sent to a deeper mountain area, and then, there, there was the sound of MG43 machine guns.

Everything is so natural, countless souls entangled in the valley.

In this era, only the strongest can survive!

After occupying the Czech Republic, the wheels of the German war seemed to stop suddenly! The Germans suddenly became harmless rabbits, so some people relaxed again. They believed that after Hitler had annexed the Czech Republic, he was finally full.

There are also some people who know that if there is another war next time, it will be rock-shattering. For example, Churchill will continue to tell the news. Unfortunately, many people feel extremely tired of his war speech!

Time passed day by day. During this time, Cyric did not relax. It is very important for Germany to win World War II this year!

On this day, he took a car to the GEMA company.