The battle began again, and compared with the evenly matched battle just now, as soon as the battle began, the British army fell into an absolute inferiority, even with the assistance of anti-aircraft artillery, there was nothing they could do.

Looking at the battle in the sky, Adrian Caton de Viat knew that it was over, and that the British air force still had a numerical advantage in the first round of battles, and now it was reversed.

Watching one fighter plane after another fall, Adrian's mood has turned to despair, and now their planes are falling one and one less.

At this time, no matter how strong the British Empire was, it could not be put into the Mediterranean, unless the Royal Navy dared to venture into the Mediterranean and fight a decisive battle with the Bulgarian Navy.

Even he, an army general, knew that a decisive battle with the Protectorate coalition in the Mediterranean region would be completely disastrous militarily.

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London

As soon as he received the news of the start of the war in the Mediterranean, Mr. Churchill broke out, and immediately issued a speech in Parliament, condemning Bulgaria for its undeclared war.

Well, politically he was a perfect score, but militarily, General Adrian needed definitely not his moral support.

Unfortunately, now Sicily needs reinforcements, and Egypt and South Africa are now in danger, and Persia is about to become a battlefield, these are the most important things to deal with immediately!

There is no way, the British system is like this, without the authorization of Congress, if you want to mobilize the strength of the whole country to fight the war, it is not for the cabinet to decide.

It could have been voted on directly in the National Assembly, but unfortunately, the first reaction of politicians was to seek political benefits.

When the British Empire was strong, this was not a problem, but when it came to a crisis, this system could not keep up.

The British are arrogant in this era, they don't think they are in decline, even if many people don't realize now that the most critical moment has come.

Paris

After receiving the news of the Bulgarian air raid on Sicily, the French were relieved, although the two sides have not yet declared war, but now that they have already started fighting, are they afraid that they will stop?

Bulgaria and the British were on the bar, and even if the Eastern European Alliance did not enter the war, the Germans would have to deploy heavy troops on the southeastern front.

Otherwise, Austria-Hungary or Western Russia will give them a moment behind their backs, and the fun will be great.

President Albert Lebrun is already beginning to celebrate, the unfavorable strategic situation in France is about to be reversed, and the alliance between France and France has become inevitable.

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Sofia

Looking at the battle report from the front, Ferdinand smiled with satisfaction, although it was only a preliminary estimate, he also knew that the big picture was decided.

The Air Force is not so easy to maintain, in addition to the aircraft is the easiest to replenish, the rest of the pilots and crew members need to be professionally trained.

It was not easy for the British to deploy more than 40,000 air forces in Sicily.

It's a pity that an air force of this size can be used against any country in the world, with the exception of Bulgaria.

Ferdinand had originally formulated the aircraft to the company, and now Bulgaria has a large number of pilots and crew in reserve, who can be used with simple systematic training.

During the war years, both pilots and airplanes were practically consumables, and it didn't matter if the quality was poor.

If we blindly pursued quality, World War II would not have been able to be fought, and neither the United States nor the Soviet Union had a sufficient number of pilots. In the end, they used defective products, and also heaped the Germans to death.

Ferdinand learned his lesson, and while pursuing quality, he also increased his quantitative reserves.

The model pursued by Bulgaria is that the development of the air force should pursue quality, and the number of pilots and aircrews in the army should be as long as there is quantity.

Anyway, they are all part-time, as long as the pilots can fly the aircraft normally, and the technicians are all part-time by the company soldiers, as long as they can carry out simple maintenance.

In this era, there were not many recreational activities, so it was easy to learn one more skill, and it was easy to assign jobs after the war.

As a soldier in the Bulgarian Army, as long as you stay in the army for five or six years, it is that the car and the plane have changed.

At present, the demobilized soldiers have almost monopolized the technical positions in the Bulgarian aviation industry, and they are all on the basis of strength, saving a lot of training funds for enterprises.

If nothing else, by the time the second round of air battles is over, the main force of the British Air Force in Sicily will be almost finished, and the third round should be unlucky for anti-aircraft fire. Further back, you can only be beaten passively.

Maybe from tomorrow, the British will lose the sky, and after there is no air supremacy, will the Mediterranean fleet dare to dock?

No matter how strong the anti-aircraft fire of the battleship is, in the face of four-digit enemy aircraft, it is all floating clouds.

There is no need for even dive bombing, ports can be destroyed at an altitude of a thousand meters, and as for the Mediterranean fleet, isn't there also the Bulgarian Navy?

What is the problem of dealing with the main forces of the Royal Navy and a mere Mediterranean fleet?

Without the air cover provided by the Sicilian Air Force, what good can the Mediterranean Fleet have only two aircraft carriers, which add up to less than a hundred aircraft?

Not to mention the main decisive battle with the Bulgarian Navy, it will be difficult for them to break out of the Mediterranean, the French have now blocked the Tunisian Strait, and it is obviously impossible to let them pass.

Without the Mediterranean Fleet, the Mediterranean route would be safe, and the African continent + world island would be connected, which was of extraordinary strategic significance.

Historically, the Germans just wanted to do it, but they didn't do it, and in the end they ran out of resources and finished playing.

"Father, what's wrong with you?" Little Ferdinand asked with concern

"Oh, nothing, it's just a momentary distraction!" Ferdinand said with a smile

Now the Bulgarian top brass is together, waiting for the war report, which is related to whether Bulgaria will continue to implement the next strategic plan.

Only by removing the threat of the Mediterranean fleet can Bulgaria be able to attack cities and plunder, for example, Egypt, South Africa, Sudan, and Persia.

Or even a little more daring, attacking Australia, New Zealand and other regions.

However, it seems that it is still a little difficult to do this, and Japan in the Far East is a trouble, and the object of the loot may be snatched, and that is the most odious enemy.

Little Ferdinand comforted: "Father, you don't have to worry, the situation on the battlefield is very favorable to us, our fighters are three times that of the enemy, both in terms of aircraft performance and air force training.

As long as the war requires, we can produce 8,000 fighters every month, and there is a reserve of up to 300,000 pilots, which can easily replenish the consumption on the battlefield! ”

Ferdinand smiled slightly, I have to say that Bulgaria is fully prepared this time, and now there is nothing missing.

Historically, the United States lost more than 70,000 pilots in World War II, and there was a shortage of planes at one time. In the end, the standard can only be lowered, and there is even a situation where the training is two or three months before going to the battlefield.

The British were even more ruthless in this regard, and at the most critical time, pilot training lasted only two weeks before they were sent to the battlefield.

Ferdinand shook his head and said: "I'm not worried about the air battle in Sicily, this is just a small war, even if there is an accident, it is within our tolerance, even if it is a heap of numbers, the final victory still belongs to us!"

The trouble is the post-war international situation, the British have declined, we have taken over their hegemony, what kind of international order to build, in order to best serve our interests! ”

Before everyone could figure this issue out, the battle report from the front came back.

Thanks to the invention of radio, the results of the battle can be known in advance without waiting for the plane to return.

There is no doubt that this time was much smoother than the last one. The British Air Force in Sicily had already lost a quarter of its fighters in the last round of air strikes.

Now that the balance of power is seriously imbalanced, the British are out of luck.

In the second air battle, Bulgaria crashed 113 fighters, while the British Air Force crashed at least 136, with a battle loss ratio of at least 1:1.2.

And this is still a conservative estimate, and the number of British fighters blown up on the ground is not within the scope of statistics.

You must know that landing with injuries in the battle is a stop, there is simply no time to move to a safe area, and the losses in this part cannot be counted at all.

In this regard, the Bulgarian fighters did not have this advantage, and once they were seriously injured, they did not even need to run, and they could not fly back at all.

Usually pilots can only parachute, and as for where the plane lands, even if it is, it is the territory of the British anyway, and there is no need to worry about them.

When you encounter a hot-headed pilot, it is to aim at a target and crash straight down. It's a pity that there were no skyscrapers in Sicily in this era, and the visual effect of 911 could not be created.

The results of the second round came out, and the fighters of the third round began to take off, and there is no doubt that at this time the air defense of the British had fallen to the lowest point.

No one is worried about whether they can achieve victory, judging from the battle situation just now, the performance of the British fighters is limited, and their sustained combat performance is not good.

Two rounds of major battles were fought in a row, and many fighters had to undergo major repairs, and everyone had a preliminary estimate of how many enemy planes could take off at this time.

After the next two rounds of bombing, it was time to prepare for the landing operation, and this time the big battle, Bulgaria had already won half of it!