"Woo, woo, woo......"

The blaring air raid sirens sounded, causing Salsey to roll out of bed. While flipping out of bed, he also patted his friend and comrade-in-arms Lomon who was sleeping in the next bed with his hand. "Hurry up Lomon, the Romanian plane is here again."

Lomon, who was woken up by a loudspeaker and a friend, couldn't help but complain. "These damn Romanian planes, it's been more than ten days. Come here so early every day, can the old men of Paris come to see what kind of life we are living? ”

Although Lomon cursed in his mouth, his movements did not fall at all, and he put on his military uniform in less than a minute. It's all been trained in speed, and he's getting dressed faster and faster since the air strikes began in Beirut. It is estimated that if he waits for a while, he will not be able to solve the problem of dressing in 30 seconds.

"Are you rabbits alright, hurry up and gather."

Outside the door, there was the roar of the squad leader, Sergeant Deka, which made the two of them rush out even more quickly, and he couldn't care about the two buttons on Lomon's shirt.

It is a small plain Arabic style courtyard with four or five rooms. And the family has fled to the countryside to escape the impending war. The house was requisitioned by the Beirut authorities because of its proximity to an anti-aircraft position set up. Along with the requisitioned more than a dozen houses, the owners of which were also resettled elsewhere by the French army.

And in the courtyard, there are people who are faster than them, and it seems that there are not a few people who have been trained by the Romanian Air Force. The two of them hurriedly lined up, and within two minutes of the queue, everyone had arrived, and Mir, who came out at the end, was kicked by the sergeant.

"Now, let's go."

Following Sergeant Deka's order, they immediately lined up and rushed to the position.

That's right, they are the air defense forces of Beirut, tasked with defending the airspace. It's just that there is always some helplessness in reality, and without the support of air planes, the effect of ground air defense alone on incoming planes is much lower.

However, the current situation is that the air power of Britain and France is mainly dealing with Germany and Italy, and the Romanian air force is the weakest.

Romania is currently urgently expanding four airports on the island of Cyprus, in addition to five new airports and deploying more than 900 aircraft. In the face of the Romanian air force attack, the air power of the French side in the Middle East was exhausted.

Although Britain still has a lot of aircraft, it needs to defend Egypt and the Suez Canal, and the air force it can support is not enough. Basically, it can only be sent every few days to send an air force to contain it, which is a move to deal with the situation, so that the Romanian air force on the island of Cyprus should not be too arrogant.

In fact, the British and French air forces did not think of carrying out air strikes on the island of Cyprus, sneaking up on Romanian air forces, and solving the imbalance of air forces, but there was no chance at all. In addition, Britain and France organized a night raid, which was very ineffective, and they also returned with a combination of searchlights, anti-aircraft artillery, radar, and night combat aircraft.

It needs to be said here that the newly developed small radar in Romania has been able to be used, although this small radar is twenty or thirty meters high compared to the shore-based radar, but ten meters high is already a big progress, and the equipment is also much smaller, which is more convenient to deploy.

Since there is no way to do the island of Cyprus, then Britain and France can only honestly do air defense work.

One of the air defense forces was Salsay's company, which operated the Erlikon 20mm anti-aircraft cannon and was responsible for protecting the 100-mm large-caliber anti-aircraft guns deployed on the nearby high ground. This anti-aircraft gun is the most powerful anti-aircraft weapon of the French army in Beirut, with a maximum rate of fire of 8 rounds per minute.

This anti-aircraft weapon was deployed in Beirut with 18 guns and was organized into three companies. Other anti-aircraft weapons mainly rely on their deployment to play a protective role in the surrounding area.

That's right, this is also the general air defense deployment of various countries, with medium and large caliber anti-aircraft guns as the main force, and medium and small caliber anti-aircraft guns can only be assisted. Moreover, the main purpose of large anti-aircraft fire is not to shoot down many aircraft, but to disrupt their formation and reduce the losses suffered by bombing. They all estimate the route in advance, and then wait for the group to collide.

Therefore, in the face of the Romanian aircraft group attacked by black pressure, the anti-aircraft fire on the ground was even more fierce, especially the medium and large caliber artillery was its main force.

The constant barrage at an altitude of seven or eight thousand meters made it impossible for the group to maintain such a flight pattern. I saw that the large group of aircraft immediately dispersed, and the twin-engine bombers were preparing to carry out horizontal bombing. And dive bombers also began to choose targets. As for the fighters of the escort, they are also looking for opportunities to launch an attack on these anti-aircraft guns.

"Pay attention to the enemy's dive bombers."

As the squad leader, Sergeant Deka roared loudly and commanded the two 20mm anti-aircraft guns operated by his squad. That's right, their mission was to deal with the most dangerous dive bombers, and in these air battles, they shot down a dive bomber, so they could proudly paint a white circle on the barrel of the anti-aircraft gun.

"Fire."

Following the order of Sergeant Deka, who was observing the height of the enemy aircraft, two 20-mm anti-aircraft guns immediately fired bullets.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

The bullet marks in the air were clearly visible, but they aimed at the dive bomber and dodged left and right in the barrage, passing through the barrage they had created.

Seeing that the target enemy plane had dodged, Sergeant Deka, who was angry, cursed. "I said that pay attention to the amount in advance, pay attention to the amount in advance, haven't you figured it out these days?"

It's just that his shouting didn't work, and the enemy plane climbed straight out of their range. There is no way, the maximum fire height of the Erlikon 20mm cannon is only 4700 meters, which is still a 45-degree shooting range, and the most powerful 20×110MM bullet effect is used. Generally, they shoot at an altitude of 3,000 meters, and no matter how high they are, it will be difficult to hit.

And this dive bomber also saw that the anti-aircraft fire below was too powerful, and he did not plan to try his skills.

Although they were able to stop the attack by the enemy plane, the Romanian attacks continued elsewhere, starting with horizontal bombardment.

At an altitude of five thousand meters, a formation of RU28 twin-engine bombers immediately began to drop aerial bombs. Bombs consisting of 50KG, under the optical sight of the pilot aircraft, began to bomb military targets in the city of Beirut.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The bomb was dropped on the ground with a rumbling explosion, and the smoke and dust raised completely obscured the bombed target. However, this was nothing for horizontal bombing, which was first used by Germany in Spain, but Romania, which was a quick learner, would do the same.

I saw that in the target area, a series of bombardments flattened the area, and both the army and civilians suffered heavy casualties in such bombardment.

The small carpet bombing currently used in Romania is horizontal bombardment in the scale of one to three squadrons.

Moreover, at an altitude of 5,000 meters, small-caliber anti-aircraft guns are useless at all, and only medium and large anti-aircraft guns have an effect on them.

And medium and large air defense is a huge flaw for Beirut at the moment. In fact, it is not a defect, but there were too many losses in the previous bombing, and there are currently less than 50 gates in the entire city of Beirut. You must know that there were more than 150 doors before, which shows that the losses are heavy.

Of course, during this bombing, some bombers were unfortunately shot down, and this naturally drew loud cheers from the officers and men on the ground.

However, this does not hurt the root cause of the huge fleet.

As for Salsay's company, they need to pay more attention to dive bombers because they are more efficient in attacking.