Amid a roar, Colonel Bennett set out with his flight wing.

The British Air Force lost more than 100 fighter jets in the last naval battle, which can be said to be the heaviest loss since the Battle of North Africa began.

Originally, due to the heavy casualties, the British Air Force would be low-key over North Africa for a period of time... Germany transferred the battlefield and the main force of the air force to the Soviet battlefield, which was definitely a good thing for Britain.

Therefore, Colonel Bennett believed that Churchill's strategy was correct, that is, let Hitler and Stalin play more so that Britain could have a chance to breathe.

It is precisely because of this that the British Air Force was able to urgently transfer two air wings from the UK to North Africa, allowing the British Air Force to continue to have more than 400 fighter jets of various types in North Africa.

Among them, there are two air wings on Malta Island, which are mainly targeting the 24th Air Wing originally arranged in Sicily... The two air wings against one air wing in Germany, which is enough to maintain the British army's air superiority.

The other three air wings are arranged in North Africa, targeting the German 27th Air Wing in Tunisia and bombing and combating the German Gabes defense line.

In fact, Bennett believes that this is completely unnecessary. The British army only needs three air wings, plus the US air wing, and the cooperation of two aircraft carriers is enough to suppress the German air force in North Africa to gain air supremacy.

In other words, the UK did not originally need to transfer air wings from the UK, as long as it maintains such combat effectiveness.

But Britain still did this... It took great effort to travel thousands of miles and still transferred two air wings to the scene when the Germans had blocked the Strait of Gibraltar, but in fact, there was not much performance in the Battle of Sicily.

The reason for this is that the British army does not want to be compared by the huge US air force.

But does the UK still have the power to compete with the United States?

Bennett didn't know, Bennett only knew that he hoped to end the war as soon as possible and then go home to reunite with his family.

"091,091... Please answer when you receive it!" A call from the command center came from the communication equipment.

"I'm 091, please reply!"

"Report your location!"

"Uh..." Bennett adjusted the shape of the fighter plane and looked out of the cabin. Not far ahead, a bunch of shadows of warships and transport ships appeared vaguely.

"We are flying over the fleet!" Bennett replied: "We will arrive in Syracuse soon!"

"Very good!" the command center replied: "It's going to be dawn, be ready for battle!"

Bennett responded, and then gave an order to his subordinates: "Be ready for battle!"

A ray of light suddenly lit up from the east, the sun rose from the sea level in the east, and the ground seemed to be bright. Warships and transport ships on the sea surface were bathed in the sun and ups and downs with the waves. Bennett saw several British soldiers on the deck waving to them, and gunfire and explosions came from Syracuse on the other end.

Then, Bennett heard his subordinates' excited screams: "It's time for the performance, let's give the Germans a good look!"

"Hao!" The British pilots responded with cheers.

However, at this moment, an aircraft suddenly dived from the clouds, followed by a "dada" strafing, and two fighter planes rushed to the sea with black smoke.

"Yellow 14" Bennett couldn't help but scream when he saw the number of the fighter plane: "Damn, why did he appear here?"

There is a reason why Bennett was so surprised. The "Yellow 14" was the seat of the German ace pilot Marceyu. He belonged to the 27th Air Wing in Germany, which should be in Tunisia at this time. Tunisia is at least 350 kilometers away and the maximum range is only 700 kilometers. It is impossible for the BF109 to appear here.

Then Bennett felt something was wrong. If "Yellow 14" appeared here, then the 27th Air Wing of Germany...

Just as they were thinking, a group of fighter jets with black cross marks sprayed on the wings emerged from the clouds. They dived down at high speed with a harsh roar, and at the same time, rows of bullets with blue smoke were fired from the wings. Wherever the bullets passed, a wounded British fighter jets withdrew from the formation.

"Damn it, German!" Bennett ordered loudly while pulling the nose of the plane to respond: "We are in a hurry and fight freely!"

When Bennett's fighter jets passed through the clouds, he found that there were much more enemy fighters than he thought... because he saw the Italian "Maggie" fighter jets and the BR.20 bomber.

Montgomery, who was commanding the battle at the Malta Island Command, couldn't help but jump out of his chair like a needle when he received the aircraft group ambushed by the German aircraft group and was most likely the German 27th Air Wing.

Montgomery soon realized that the Germans had secretly transferred Tunisian fighter jets to Sicily.

Montgomery guessed correctly. Just when the German army launched a counterattack, the 27th Air Wing in Tunisia set off... The counterattack initiated by the German army focused all the British army on Sicily.

Moreover, in order not to attract the attention of the British army, the 27th Air Wing also circled a large circle on the sea: from Tunisia to Sardinia, and then from Sardinia to southern Italy.

The reason for flying to southern Italy instead of Sicily is that most of the airports in Sicily have been bombed by the Allied forces, and large-scale landings of fighter jets are likely to be discovered by the enemy and bombed again.

In this way, the German army deployed two air wings in Italy, plus two air wings in Italy, which even surpassed the two air wings deployed by Britain in Malta.

After thinking about it, Montgomery asked: "Why did they choose to intercept over the fleet?"

De Gangan replied: "It may be just a coincidence! Maybe they hope to rush before we attack the German Armored Division..."

"No!" Montgomery shook his head: "They can definitely wait for us to attack the German armored division before appearing. They do this because... the Navy is also their target!"

Montgomery was right, because a melee was taking place over the Syracuse fleet at this time: various types of fighter jets and bombers from Germany, Britain and Italy were mixed together, which was dazzling.

Of course, the fleet was also ready for air defense, but they found that their anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns had no idea where to go... because they could not distinguish which fighter jets in the air were their own and which were the enemy, Stuka, Spitfire, Hurricane, BR, Machi...
Chapter completed!