The smoke of gunfire in Alexandria is still filling, and there are people who are rescuing the wounded and clearing the rubble. It's just that now more people have gone into hiding, and only soldiers in military uniforms are busy on the streets.

"Quick, carry these boxes of ammunition to that position over there."

A logistics officer is directing the soldiers, carrying ammunition to the area he has assigned.

At this time, a roar overhead caught their attention, and they saw a large group of familiar Hurricane fighters flying over their heads.

The noise produced by the loud roar did not make the British officers and men feel uncomfortable. They raised their hands and cheered at the fighters flying above their heads, loud cheers that drowned out the roar of the engines.

It's miserable!

In the face of the Romanian raid before, many of them felt powerless. The airfield was attacked, the port was attacked, Alexander's air force was completely destroyed, the fleet was sunk, four capital warships were sunk, and five more were damaged.

With such a result, how can the British officers and soldiers not feel aggrieved, and how can they be willing.

Therefore, they will naturally give extremely high cheers for the appearance of their own fighters.

And this made Cunningham and Hawkins feel that their hard work was not in vain, and the morale of the soldiers had obviously improved a lot after the Hurricane fighter jets were flying.

"It works."

Lieutenant General Hawkins exclaimed.

"As long as it works."

Cunningham's face finally looked a little better. The army has always been most afraid of lack of morale, and the previous attack, which demoralized the soldiers of the British Empire, is much better now.

Who would have thought that in fact, all this was caused by the fact that the airport could not be installed. Fighter jets arriving from Cairo and Said filled the Loguel airfield, and the head of the airfield, Lieutenant Colonel Eric, reported to the two about his difficulty.

Cunningham had an idea to let the fighters that had been filled up immediately go to the port to inspect the port in order to make room for space, and it seems that the effect is not bad so far.

Just as the two generals were watching the cheers of the officers and soldiers in the military port because of the arrival of the fighter planes, a shrill telephone rang, and an officer walked over quickly to get the phone.

"Hello, this is the fleet command."

The officer, who heard the news from the microphone, immediately changed his face, and he put down the phone and immediately ran to the two generals.

"Report, the destroyer Oak in front has reported that a group of Romanian aircraft has appeared in the open sea 25 kilometers from the port, and its number is no less than 260."

Cunningham, who heard the news, immediately ordered. "Sound the air defense sirens and get the officers and soldiers ready. Call Lieutenant Colonel Eric and ask him to send all the planes out at once. ”

In less than two minutes, the piercing air raid sirens sounded, and the British troops in the port all changed their faces. The fighter plane, which had previously shown its heroic posture at low altitude, also began to climb hard, and its liquid-cooled V-12 engine made this roar.

A few minutes later, in the direction of the open sea, a group of black pressure groups appeared in the sky, the top of which was the RH20T fighter, although this high-altitude fighter was replaced with an air-cooled engine, but its performance was still suitable for medium and high altitude combat.

In the lower echelons is the HF201 fighter, which has the ability to fight in the middle and lower echelons, so that all Romanian fighters will be willing to lose.

As for the H57 torpedo aircraft and RU18T dive bombers that were protected by it, the British officers and soldiers had already felt their power in previous air raids.

And the British side is not ambiguous, the Hurricane fighter is also the main equipment of the British Air Force, the Gladiator fighter can be described as the best biplane, as for the Hawker fighter, they may not be able to deal with enemy fighters, but against bombers flying slowly with ammunition, there is no problem at all.

An aerial battle is about to begin.

I saw that the fighters who had split a large number of planes from the attacking fleet rushed towards them, and the group of planes defending Alexandria was not ambiguous, and immediately met them.

Nearly 200 fighters from both sides fought in the open sea off Alexandria, under the noses of British officers and men.

I saw that the fighters of both sides used a head-on attack that did not lose momentum at the beginning, and I saw that the two groups of fighters were like fast-moving flocks of birds, quickly approaching each other to attack.

It's just that as soon as it looks at it, the British fighter group suffers a big loss.

In an adversarial attack, range, power, and rate of fire are considered (in descending order). The British fighters, on the other hand, had only the advantage of the rate of fire and were far from being the opponents of the Romanian fighters in terms of range and power.

The main reason is that the British fighter clings to the 7.62 caliber and does not let go. In World War I, the 7.62 caliber machine gun was enough to cause great damage to the wooden aircraft of the time. But now it's almost the 40s, and the fighters are all made of metal even with their skins, and the 7.62 caliber is obviously not powerful enough.

It's just that Britain was slow to react, and still used 8 7.62 machine guns on its latest Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. These ancestral machine guns, where are the opponents of two Romanian 20 mm cannons and two 12.7 mm machine guns. It's completely a mode where I hit you, you can't hit me, and I'm more powerful than you.

So after the head-to-head attack, more than a dozen fighters appeared in the sky and fell down with thick smoke. The British officers and soldiers who watched the battle below were surprised to find that these crashed fighters were basically from their own side.

As soon as the two sides skimmed each other, they began to engage in a close fight, which immediately made the British pilots realize how much of a mistake they had made. In the face of the grappling king Zero in the early days of World War II, its routine of attacking around the rear is not worth mentioning at all. Many British pilots remembered that they were obviously circling the tail of the enemy's plane, but they did not expect the enemy to appear in their tail, and many fighters were shot down in this way.

As for the RH20T fighter, there is no chance of fighting with you at all, it is all a one-hit walk, dive pull-up, attached center pull-up. This fighter may not be qualified as a carrier-based aircraft, but it is very good as a fighter.

Although the RH20T fighter is inferior to its own air force brother, the famous RF20 fighter, but with the strength of the British Air Force in Egypt, there is no way to deal with itself.

Not to mention the fighter that attacked him this time, there is actually a biplane, although it is the best among biplanes, but the generation gap between biplanes and monoplanes is not so easy to break.

So in the next battle, it was a bit one-sided. Because most of the downed fighters were from the British side, this greatly frustrated the British officers and soldiers who watched the battle.

And basically the downed Romanian fighters were the fruits of the hurricane. As for the gladiator, its poor maneuvering put it in a position of abuse in battle.

As for the Hawker fighter, well, don't talk about it.

Eventually, after losing all the Hurricane fighters, the remaining gladiators and Hawke all fled in a hurry. The Romanian fighters, on the other hand, did not give up and continued to chase the fleeing British fighters. This provoked some of the fleeing British fighters, who led the Romanian fighters over the air defense positions, completely ignoring the possibility of accidentally injuring themselves in the air defense positions.

And in the face of this situation, the Romanian fighters, having dispersed it, came to Alexandria.

Inside the port, the anti-aircraft positions were already fully fired. The battleships Rodney, Sovereign, and War-Weary were also moved, while the Malaya had long been stranded to the southwest corner.