Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Soon, a large engineering team came here to start excavation work.

Although Yannick wanted to see the excavated gold with his own eyes, these boulders could not be cleaned in less than ten days and a half, and he did not have the time to wait here for that long, so he had to go home early.

Before leaving Egypt, he wrote a letter of surrender and scattered it in Cairo. However, Admiral Wavell was obviously a die-hard loyalist and ignored these letters of surrender.

Late at night two days later, ten He117 bombers slowly flew over Cairo. Although Cairo City implemented a light control, the German, Italian, and French coalition camps surrounding Cairo City were brightly lit, making it difficult for these bombers to find their targets.

"bomb!"

As the bombardier pulled the wrench hard, the ten bombs in the magazine fell one after another a few seconds apart.

These are not ordinary aerial bombs, but cloud bombs, one of the secret weapons of the German army. Each cloud bomb weighed 500 kilograms, and ten bombers dropped a total of 50 tons of cloud bombs.

Cloud bombs are different from ordinary explosive explosions because cloud bombs use oxygen within the explosion range, while ordinary explosives rely on their own oxygen supply. Therefore, in terms of power, cloud explosion bombs are 5 to 10 times more powerful than TNT explosions of the same mass. The working principle is to rely on its own fuel and air to be fully mixed, and finally detonate again to form high temperature (about 3000 degrees Celsius), high pressure (the pressure at the center point is as high as 3000 kilopascals), and high speed (between 1500 meters per second and 3000 meters per second) A large-area shock wave destroys living personnel through detonation, burning and suffocation. Any one of these three points is fatal to personnel.

Moreover, the cloud bomb is an area-killing weapon that does not require high accuracy when dropped. The density of the aerosol produced by mixing fuel and air is greater than that of air, so it will flow to lower places to fill the entire space, which is harmful to trenches and The destructive effect of confined spaces such as bunkers is particularly obvious.

At this time, a helicopter was hovering over the encirclement. The Italian and Vichy French officers in the cabin stared dumbly at the huge fiery red mushroom cloud rising in Cairo, shouting God.

The shock wave of the distant explosion even reached here, and the helicopter bumped a little in the shock wave. Rommel, who was riding with him, grabbed the armrest on the side and looked at the shocked officers with a smile. "Everyone, there is no need to make a fuss. This is not our army's trump card. In the near future, our army will have a super weapon that can destroy a city."

Upon hearing this, the Italian and Vichy French officers were all dumbfounded, with deep fear in their eyes.

Fires were burning everywhere in Cairo, and smoke was everywhere. Buildings within the explosion range of cloud bombs were reduced to rubble, and people were scorched or suffocated to death, resulting in heavy casualties.

Early the next morning, Admiral Wavell, who had been busy all night, obtained the casualty statistics. The hands holding the statistical report couldn't stop shaking. In just one night, nearly one-fifth of the troops were lost! !

What he couldn't understand was that many hidden fortifications were not damaged, but none of the soldiers hiding inside survived. The corpses of these deceased had no traces of shrapnel damage or burns, but their mouths were wide open; many of them had their throats scratched before dying, and their flesh and blood were blurred.

In the morning, the German army dropped leaflets again, the content was very simple.

If you don't surrender, more bombs will be dropped tonight.

"Surrender! Surrender!" The Egyptian and Indian soldiers, who had been frightened by the horrific death of their friendly forces, rushed to abandon their helmets and armor and ran to the coalition positions outside the city to surrender.

In just half a day, tens of thousands of people surrendered.

Admiral Wavell's determination to fight to the end has almost disappeared. If there are another few rounds of bombing, will there be anyone alive in Cairo? The most important thing is that if such a terrible bomb happens to fall on the underground fortification where he is...

Thinking about the tragic condition of those corpses, Admiral Wavell's face turned pale.

After hesitating for a long time, he sent a final telegram to London, and then announced the surrender of the entire army.

The German, Italian and French forces marched into Cairo in a mighty manner.

Rommel didn't like General Wavell at all, and went straight to Abdeen Palace after a simple surrender ceremony.

The Abdeen Palace was ordered to be built by Ismaili Pasha of the Muhammad Ali dynasty, and French architects were hired to design it. Construction began in 1863 and it was put into use in 1874 after 11 years. Abdeen Palace is considered to be one of the most luxurious palaces in the world. It is extremely luxurious in terms of decoration and paintings. Most of the living rooms and other rooms of the palace are decorated with pure gold, which shows that it is not ordinary gorgeous.

Walking into the palace, there was a faint smell of blood in the air, and there were bloodstains everywhere on the ground that had not yet been wiped clean.

Rommel frowned slightly, and an officer not far away ran over and saluted. "Report to the general, the palace guards resisted and have been wiped out."

"Where's Farouk I?"

"It's under control."

Rommel nodded and continued walking inside. He walked into the magnificently decorated hall and saw several soldiers guarding several men and women kneeling on the ground. To be precise, one man and many women.

"General!"

Hearing the salutes of several soldiers, the man kneeling on the ground quietly looked up at Rommel, met his sharp eyes, and lowered his head in a hurry.

Rommel looked at this childish young man with a smile on his face. "You are the 'Cairo thief'"

At a banquet, a pocket watch belonging to British Prime Minister Churchill was stolen, but luckily he discovered it in time. But what he didn't expect was that the thief was King Farouk I of Egypt. You know, Egypt is a semi-colony of the United Kingdom. It would be a big joke to steal things on the master's head. Churchill was furious about this, and the British government protested solemnly. Farouk had no choice but to return the pocket watch to Churchill.

After being taught a lesson, Farooq did not wash his hands of gold. In order to improve his business, Farooq searched all over the country, and finally found an experienced pickpocket in prison to learn from him. He learned theft skills and became a successful student. After that, he went to various dances and evening parties in the palace, walked among the distinguished guests, stole, and kept the obtained items as a personal collection.

In 1944, in the original time and space, when the funeral procession of the Shah of Iran passed through Egypt, Farouk I stole the funeral belongings from the king's body, including swords, belts and medals.

Farouk stole things purely for pleasure and to satisfy his psychological need to have all the beautiful things, rather than to use them. Many of the things he stole were of no use to him and had to be thrown into the warehouse after he got them. The number of stolen goods increased so much that the palace later had to set up a warehouse to store them.