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Benghazi in North Africa is a historical city. As early as the 5th century BC, the Greeks built a city here, and it was called Billinghi at that time.

It was occupied by Egyptians, Romans, Vandals and Byzantines successively, and it was ruled by Turks for 300 years since the 16th century. Since ancient times, it has been a caravan trade town leading to the African interior, and a large number of merchants have traded with southern Africa through the Sahara Desert.

Benghazi is currently the second largest city in the Libyan province (with a smaller population than the capital Tripoli) and the second largest port in Libya (with a smaller port throughput than Sirte).

Although Benghazi is an ancient city, it will take a few years for Benghazi to really enter the fast lane of development. As Libya has successively discovered and developed oil in Hari Ge, Kawat and other places, as the nearest port city, Benghazi has also entered the fast lane of development.

And Benghazi is different from other cities in North Africa. There are few buildings in the city that reflect the Arab style, and they are basically Italian style. The reason is also the previous Italian relocation plan for the region.

In fact, not just in Benghazi, but also in other cities in the Libyan province, and even in the provinces of Albania and Kosovo. The local aborigines were all forcibly relocated by Italy, and now all the residents living in this area are from the Italian native, so the customs, language and culture of the place are also dominated by the local.

All of this is due to the forced relocation plan. Although this will temporarily cause chaos in the local area and increase a huge amount of public security funds, the effect is very good. It has changed the local folk customs in a short period of time, and it has also increased The centripetal force of the place against Rome.

This is the case in Benghazi at present. The city is basically Italian, and its folk customs are no different from those of the Apennine Peninsula. As the second largest city in Italy, it has 130,000 people, of which 30,000 are engaged in oil-related industries. Some of them work directly in oil companies, some are responsible for transportation, and some are responsible for maintaining pipelines or working in ports. Together with his family, Benghazi's eight-story population is dependent on oil.

The thriving scene of Benghazi also made the new Mayor of Tracy smug. As the first group of officials to follow Governor Georgie to Libya, Trish can be regarded as Libyan. Over the years, he has worked hard all the way from an ordinary government worker to the mayor of Benghazi's second largest city. Looking at his already prosperous and slightly vicissitudes face, he knows that the hardships are inhumane to outsiders.

Of course, being able to become the mayor of Western Canada from an ordinary government employee is also enough to demonstrate the ability of this person.

And for Benghazi, the mayor of Tracy is also very knowledgeable

No, the Mayor of Trish came to inspect the expansion terminal of the Benghazi port with the government.

"Your Excellency, the area you are currently seeing will be the main terminal for oil transportation in Benghazi. In the future, through oil pipelines, Benghazi can transport oil for up to five ships at the same time every day, and the maximum daily transportation volume will reach Fifty thousand tons."

The project leader was enthusiastically introducing the importance of the pier to Benghazi to the new mayor.

And Trish listened very seriously, and occasionally asked a few questions.

On one side of the wharf, there are more than a dozen tall and giant oil storage tanks, all of which are tens of thousands of square meters in volume, and the largest can reach 100,000 square meters. These oil storage tanks are connected to oil pipelines, and the crude oil extracted from the oil field continuously flows through the oil pipelines and then through the pressure valve into these giant oil storage tanks. These oil storage facilities are Italian oil companies' storage bases in Benghazi, which can store up to 300,000 tons of crude oil.

In addition to this oil storage base, there is also a small oil refinery in Benghazi, and its refined oil is provided to all parts of the Libyan province.

One more thing to say here, the current status of the highest utilization rate of internal combustion engines is Libya, which produces a large amount of crude oil. The Libyan province has the highest car ownership per capita and a variety of internal combustion engines. Even a small amount of arable land is cultivated with tractors produced by the Naples Machine Factory.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the trend of the flood of oil that the newly established province of Libya is far ahead of other provinces in the utilization rate of internal combustion engines.

Of course, in addition to the internal combustion engine, in terms of local fiscal revenue, the Libyan province, which has two major sources of income from iron ore and oil, also ranks at the top of the Italian provinces. If it weren't for the fact that Libya's environment is not good and there is less available arable land, then the population must be more than 800,000.

Of course, if the per capita GNP is calculated, then Libya is definitely ranked first. The sparse population and good income have also allowed many Italians to travel across the ocean to earn a living.

In addition, the electrification rate and the penetration rate of public facilities in Libya are also very high. Based on sufficient local finances and the large-scale use of fuel-fired generator sets, even remote desert towns in Libya can use electricity. And if you can use electricity, then electrified infrastructure such as lights and telegraphs.

When Mayor Tracy was inspecting the construction of the pier, there was also a group of people busy on the high **** on the side of the pier. However, compared with ordinary construction workers at the wharf, these people are engineers in military uniforms.

They are building military installations, coastal defense batteries in Benghazi.

As Italy's main oil export port, the importance of Benghazi has been further enhanced. Given the importance of Benghazi, the protection of the port of Benghazi has become one of the important tasks of the Italian military. For land protection, an infantry regiment of the Army and a cavalry battalion are stationed on the outskirts of Benghazi~www.NovelMTL.com~ As for the main threat at sea, in addition to naval battleships, coastal defense batteries are also necessary, so Benghazi’s Coastal defense battery is a must.

In fact, the Benghazi west coast defense battery existed after Italy occupied Libya, but Benghazi was not very important at that time, so only two 152mm coastal defense guns were installed. As Benghazi became more and more important, more and more coastal defense guns were installed. In addition to 152 mm, 254 mm coastal defense guns were also installed.

As for now, the Naval Engineers are installing the 305mm coastal defense gun with the medium caliber and the most powerful current naval coastal defense gun. The prototype of this coastal defense gun is a small improvement of the 305 mm 45 caliber naval gun currently equipped by the dreadnought.

It has a maximum range of 21 kilometers, which is enough to make enemy ships that want to enter the waters of Benghazi Port think twice. After all, unlike naval guns, coastal defense artillery has a more relaxed environment, and its stability, accuracy and range are not comparable to naval guns.

This time the Navy intends to install two 305mm coastal defense guns in Benghazi for its coastal defense. Don't look at only two doors, enough to suppress a squadron (3-4) of battleships.

Benghazi is also the second city to install the gun (the first is Pontianak) besides the Apennine Peninsula, which also shows the importance the Navy attaches to it.

It’s not enough if you don’t pay attention. As the Italian Navy promotes the coal-to-oil plan, the demand for oil is becoming more and more serious. It is very necessary to protect the importance of its own oil to the Navy.

It is also under the promotion of the Navy that Benghazi became the second city in North Africa to be equipped with the new 305mm coastal defense gun (the first being Alexandria).

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