Mussolini was furious when he saw this telegram. He didn't understand the situation at all and replied strongly: "No, Libya is the territory of Italy. I will never let the British step on this land, not at all... If the German army cannot protect its security, the tenacious Italian army will do it!"

Mussolini seemed to have forgotten that the British army had fought to Tripoli a few months ago, but this was not surprising. The Italians always lived in their imaginations, and they always had mysterious confidence in themselves, just like they thought they could easily defeat the British army and occupy the entire Egypt.

Hitler ignored Mussolini, he just sent a telegram to Rommel: "You are doing a good job, my general, let the British be proud for a while! Also, sometimes you don't need to consider the Italians' ideas, do you understand?"

Rommel couldn't help but be overjoyed... This is also Rommel's sorrow. Although he was Hitler's beloved general, he rarely received Hitler's support on the battlefield. For example, when Hitler repeatedly ordered Rommel to stop the attack, and rejected Rommel's reinforcements again and again, etc., this made Rommel feel a little psychologically shady.

Rommel once quipped to the staff: "The Head of State and I are like two opposite strategists. Whatever I want to do, the Head of State will oppose it!"

But for the first time, Hitler would support Rommel in this matter, which completely let Rommel down the stone hanging in his heart.

Then he savored Hitler's words: "No need to consider the Italians' ideas!"

Soon Rommel understood the meaning of this sentence, so he led his troops to retreat while making a noise: "Germany supports Libya's independence, but Italy is unwilling to do so!"

This seems to have no effect on the surface, because the Libyan people do not have much sense of independence, and many of them do not even have the national slightest contempt.

But the Libyan colonial army under the command of Italy is different. Because they are troops and have participated in battles on various battlefields, they have fought more and have more knowledge, and have a vague desire to establish their own country, but they did not dare to take any action due to Italy's control. At this time, they were ecstatic when they heard that Germany supported their independence. The troops responded one after another to break away from the Italian army and expressed their willingness to follow the German army.

This also includes the Italian "Lightning Master".

As mentioned earlier, most of the Italian "lightning agents" were Libyan indigenous Berbers. The news that the Germans supported Libyan independence reached Algeria that night... In fact, Colonel Slein intended to make a splash.

Then the Italian "Lightning Division" controlled the Italian officers who were commanding them that night and sent someone to contact Colonel Slein.

After hearing these situations, Mussolini couldn't help but burst into thunder, but there were Britain and the United States and the Libyan riots behind the powerful enemy. Mussolini did not dare to do anything to the German army. In the end, he could only make a promise to Libya: "If it can help Italy defeat the Allies, Libya will be allowed to be independent!"

It was like injecting a heart-warming injection into the Libyan colonial army.

More importantly, the colonist of Italy and the colonized Libya were originally in quasi-hostile relations, but now they have become comrades on the same front in an instant.

At this time, Qin Chuan was standing with Colonel Slein on the battleship "Dunkirk".

The two were invited by Redell to come to the warship to test the new shells.

"We meet again, Lieutenant!" Of course, Conrad is indispensable in this kind of occasion. He said to Qin Chuan excitedly: "We have produced this kind of fuse according to your idea... It uses a shell as an antenna, and there is a vacuum tube radio wave transmitter inside the fuse. After powering on, it will emit 180 to 220 MHz radio waves. Then... you know!"

Redell asked: "Have you verified the reliability of this shell?"

"Of course!" Conrad replied: "This is simply a pioneering move, at least several times the hit rate!"

"Then let's try it!" said Redell.

Of course, the experiment is not about target machines... There are no drones in this era.

Therefore, we can only use a few fishing boats on the sea that are as big as an airplane, which are different from each other, to perform experiments.

This experiment is feasible because the self-destructive function of the shell is tested rather than other ones.

In order to make the experiment as accurate as possible, Redell also lets these fishing boats sail automatically at sea... This is easy to do, just pressing the throttle with a heavy object to keep it running.

"Preparation!" With a command, the gunner loaded the double-mounted 130MM secondary gun with shells.

Then amid a burst of mechanical sound, the naval gun aimed at one of the fishing boats.

With a "fire", the naval guns "boomed" and fired two shells at the target... but the shells completely deviated from the target and exploded more than 100 meters in front of the fishing boat.

"Marson!" Conrad smiled and said, "You need to change to a better gunner, otherwise you are wasting shells... These shells will only automatically detonate, and I didn't say they will automatically find targets!"

The officers couldn't help laughing.

Redel frowned awkwardly, then gave a wink at the staff officer.

The staff officer understood and quickly replaced the gunners.

In fact, this is understandable. The Navy needs time to be familiar with the naval guns of French warships.

"Prepare, let it go!"

This time the gunner was reliable. Two shells hit the fishing boat accurately and exploded, and then several shots successively destroyed the farther and closer fishing boats.

"Gentlemen!" Conrad explained: "It may not seem like a big deal, it's just destroying several fishing boats. But be aware that the anti-aircraft shells we use and have not delayed the fuse, which means that the shells will automatically explode accurately according to the target's distance. Otherwise... the shells should explode before hitting the fishing boat or after passing through the fishing boat!"

There were soon a lot of applause around them. As the navy, they certainly knew the importance of this shell in air defense.

Redel held Qin Chuan's hand excitedly and said, "Lieutenant, you successfully convinced me. Now, I am very interested in your defense plan, and it is necessary for us to further discuss the detailed plan!"

Conrad said at this time: "Marson, I have to remind you that we only produce this kind of fuse for 130MM shells. The reason is that we cannot further reduce the volume for the time being, and at the same time, we cannot afford the cost of small-caliber anti-aircraft guns!"

"Enough!" Reedel replied: "I hope you can provide us with this shell as soon as possible, the more the better!"
Chapter completed!