In just 70 minutes, the carefully designed siege battle came to an end. The 24th Armored Brigade, from more than 3,000 British troops below Brigade Commander Brown, became prisoners of the African army, and the total casualties of the German army were less than 200, which was a refreshing victory. What is even more amazing is the tank battle between the 35th Armored Regiment of the 4th Armored Division and the British army. They wiped out (or captured) 85 British tanks at the cost of 7 tanks (of which 3 can still be repaired). Among them, 27 relatively new m4 Sherman-style vehicles were eliminated (or captured) 85 British tanks, including 27 newer m4 Sherman-style vehicles.

More than 100 prisoners were taken to the fuel warehouse, and Merlinjin ordered them: "Pull these empty barrels away." Richardson immediately directed the prisoners to do as they did. He felt strange: He had visited the fuel warehouse once, and could not find anything valuable at all. What did the Germans want to do? The others were also confused and confused.

"Use tools to dig the soil..." Meilinjin explained, while asking the military police to hand over the pickaxe and shovel and signaled Richardson to distribute it. The first few prisoners took the tools numbly and started working, but more prisoners were shocked. Are they planning to bury us alive? Even if we have to dig the pit ourselves? They suddenly became excited again and struggled continuously. Several people who had already obtained the tools also reacted, holding the tools in their hands tightly, staring at the Germans who were watching them, intending to fight the death of the opponent.

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"Captain, do you want to resist labor?" He stared at Richardson and said seriously with the word "resistance".

"Labor?" Richardson did not pay attention to the word "resistance", but captured another word, "What is labor?"

"Dig this soil."

"You want to bury us?" Richardson was shocked and angry. "We are prisoners and should enjoy all the treatment stipulated in the Geneva Convention. You fascist beasts..."

Seeing that he was excited, he spoke quickly and quickly, he showed a helpless look and pointed to his ears, indicating that he didn't understand everything - Richardson just said it in English. Richardson also felt strange. Although the other party's expression was very serious, it did not look fierce, so he asked tentatively: "Are you planning to kill us after we finish 'work'?" When he said the word "kill", he was afraid that the other party would pretend to be deaf and dumb again, so he gestured with his hands to cut a false slash.

"no!no!" The second lieutenant finally understood. He shook his head like a rattle and asked in confusion, "How come you have such a strange idea? If you want to kill you, just use a machine gun to thrust you outside. Why do you have to spend so much effort? The sir, please dig out the things below."

Richardson also reacted: "Dig out something? Is there any treasure buried underneath?"

"Of course not, you just dig it."

Since their lives were free, the captives started working again. Although Richardson explained the misunderstanding, everyone was still lazy and unable to get faster to work. Only when the second lieutenant of the military police rushed over, their movements were more vigorous.

Fortunately, there were more than 100 prisoners after all. Although they were constantly grinding foreign workers, the layer of soil on them was quickly cleaned up. In their confused eyes, there were steel plates that were pressed on the top. Meilinjin asked the prisoners to lift up the steel plates, revealing the neatly stacked oil barrels below. Looking at these things, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the Germans did not mean to deceive everyone, but what did the Germans mean to do this?

Richardson suddenly wanted to slap himself in the face. He couldn't find fuel. The enemy clearly buried the oil underground. Smelling the smell in the air, it was actually a rare diesel for the Germans. Thinking of the things on the battlefield, could this new tank burn diesel? Didn't the Germans only use gasoline tanks? He still didn't know that this batch of t-34 was all diesel-burning, and was transported by Collingwood from Italy from a thousand miles away. He was very precious. Since there were not enough trucks to transport these diesels, he only transported some of the remaining diesels, and he was reluctant to throw them to the British like other supplies. What if the British fled the oil depot before dying? So he thought of a way to dig all the diesels and sealed them.

According to the original plan, Collingwood should use the batch of fuel supply tanks buried underground to keep the batch of fuel on the supply truck outside. But in order to save time, he turned the order in reverse to save time and directly used the fuel on the supply truck. Now, in turn, he needs to replenish the fuel buried underground back to the truck.

Now, Richardson knew that the German fuel warehouse was really out of oil, but what did this have to do with him and the 24th Armored Brigade?

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Chapter completed!