In a roar, Colonel Bennet set off with his flying wing.

The British Air Force lost more than a hundred aircraft in the last naval battle, arguably their heaviest losses since the start of the North African campaign.

Originally, because of this heavy casualty, the British Air Force had to keep a low profile over North Africa for a while...... The transfer of the main forces of the battlefield and the air force of Germany to the Soviet theater was definitely a good thing for Britain.

Therefore, Colonel Bennet believed that Churchill's strategy was correct, that is, to let Hitler fight Stalin more, so that Britain would 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 Britain to reinforce North Africa, so that the British Air Force would continue to have more than 400 fighters of various types in five air wings in North Africa.

There were two air wings on the island of Malta, which were mainly aimed at the 24th Air Wing, which the Germans had originally deployed in Sicily...... Two air wings against one German air wing, which was enough for the British to maintain air superiority.

The other three air wings were deployed in North Africa, targeting the German 27th Air Wing in Tunisia and the bombing and operations of the German Gabes Line.

In fact, Bennett believed that this was completely unnecessary, and the British army only needed three air wings, plus the US air wing, and the cooperation of two aircraft carriers was enough to suppress the German air power in North Africa and gain air supremacy.

In other words, Britain did not need to transfer air wings from the British mainland, as long as it maintained such combat effectiveness.

But Britain did it anyway...... Thousands of miles away, the two air wings were transferred even when the Germans had already blocked the Strait of Gibraltar, but in fact they did not show much in the Battle of Sicily.

The reason for this was that the British army did not want to be compared with the huge air power of the United States.

But does Britain still have the strength to compete with the United States?

Bennett didn't know, Bennett only knew that he hoped to end this war sooner rather than later and go home to his family.

“091，091…… Please answer when you receive it! "There was a call from the command on the communications device.

"I'm 091, please reply!"

"Report your location!"

"Uh......" Bennett adjusted the shape of the fighter plane and looked out of the cabin, and a bunch of warships and transports vaguely appeared not far ahead.

"We are flying over the fleet!" Bennett replied, "Soon to reach Syracuse!" ”

"Good!" The command replied: "It's about to dawn, get ready for battle!" ”

Bennett answered, and then gave an order to his subordinates: "Get ready for battle!" ”

A bright light suddenly lit up from the east, the sun rose from the sea level in the east, the ground seemed to light up in an instant, the warships and transports on the sea were bathed in sunlight and rose and fell with the waves, Bennett saw several British soldiers on the deck waving to them, and on the other side of Syracusa, there were bursts of gunfire and explosions.

Then, Bennett heard the excited shouts of his subordinates: "It's time to perform, let's show the Germans!" ”

"Boom!" The British pilots responded with cheers.

However, at this moment, a plane suddenly swooped down from the clouds, and then there was a "da-da-da" strafing shot, and two fighters emitted black smoke and planted themselves on the surface of the sea.

"Yellow 14" Bennett couldn't help but exclaim loudly when he saw the number of that fighter: "Damn, how did he end up here?" ”

Bennett was so surprised for a reason, the Yellow 14 was the seat of the German ace pilot Marseilleu, who belonged to the German 27th Air Wing, which was supposed to be in Tunisia at this time, and Tunisia was at least 350 kilometers away, and the BF109 with a maximum range of only 700 kilometers could not have been here.

Then Bennett felt that things were not good, and if the "Yellow 14" appeared here, then the German 27th Air Wing would ......

Just as he was thinking, a series of fighters with black crosses on their wings swooped down at high speed with a piercing whistle, and at the same time rows of bullets with green smoke were fired from the wings, and at the moment the wounded British fighters withdrew from the formation.

"Damn it, Germans!" Bennett pulled up the nose of the plane to respond to the battle and ordered loudly: "We are ambushed, fight freely!" ”

When Bennett's fighter plane passed through the clouds, he realized that there were many more enemy fighters than expected...... Because he saw the Italian "Marqui" fighters and BR.20 bombers.

Montgomery, who was commanding operations at the Malta Island Command, jumped out of his chair like a pinprick when he received that the group had been ambushed by a German group, most likely the German 27th Air Wing.

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

Montgomery guessed correctly, and just as the Germans launched a counteroffensive, the 27th Air Wing in Tunisia set off...... The German counteroffensive focused the attention of the British on Sicily.

Moreover, in order not to attract the attention of the British, the 27th Air Wing also made a big circle at sea: from Tunisia to Sardinia, and from Sardinia to southern Italy.

The reason for flying to southern Italy instead of Sicily was that most of the airfields in Sicily had been bombed by the Allies, and the mass landing of warplanes was likely to be detected by the enemy and bombed again.

In this way, the German army deployed two air wings in Italy, plus two Italian air wings, and its strength even surpassed the two air wings deployed by the British in Malta.

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

Degan replied, "Maybe it's just a coincidence!" Maybe they want to get ahead of our attack on the German Panzer Division......"

"No!" Montgomery shook his head: "They could have waited until we launched an attack on the German Panzer Division. They do it because...... The Navy is also their target! ”

Montgomery was right, because at this time there was a scuffle in the skies over the Syracusa fleet: German, British, and Italian fighters and bombers were mixed together, making people look dazzling.

The fleet, of course, was also prepared for air defense, but they found themselves that their anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns simply did not know where to shoot...... Because they can't tell which of the fighters in the air are their own and which are the enemy's, Stuka, Spitfire, Hurricane, BR, March......

"God!" Vice Admiral Tovey, the commander of the British Navy, could not help but lament: "We are helpless and can only watch the bombers dive towards us!" ”