After a while, a group of more than ten bombers appeared in the sky, flying towards Qin Chuan and the others.

Qin Chuan recognized it as a B17 bomber of the US military...... This bomber has a ceiling of 10,667 meters, while the German fighter BF109 can barely reach 10,000 meters.

As a result, the B17 can basically enter the enemy territory and bomb without the escort of fighters, that is, as if entering a no-man's land.

The German anti-aircraft guns distributed around the perimeter soon rang out, and their shells exploded into "black clouds" in the sky, but unfortunately, most of these anti-aircraft guns could not pose a threat to targets at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

Then, the bomber's bomb compartment door opened, and piles of black bombs fell from the sky with a whistling sound like eggs.

Qin Chuan turned around and shouted into the bomb shelter: "Get ready!" ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard the sound of "boom" outside, and there were bursts of shaking on the ground, and the sand and gravel on the air-raid shelter fell like leaking rain.

The explorers couldn't help but scream and scurry around in the air-raid shelter, leaving behind what Qin Chuan had told them just now, but because Qin Chuan was blocking the entrance of the cave, no one dared to go out.

Qin Chuan poked his head out to observe the explosion point of the bomb, and fortunately, after the bombing, several drill frames were fine, and only one drill frame seemed to be slightly deformed by shrapnel...... This is the price of high-altitude bombing, and although the bomb can evade the interception of enemy fighters at high altitude, the bomb falls from an altitude of 10,000 meters and does not know where it is flying when it reaches the ground.

A few minutes later, the explosions stopped, and the American bombers were chased by German fighters out of sight.

However, when everyone walked out of the air-raid shelter, they were stunned to find that there was an aerial bomb only a dozen meters away from the entrance of the cave...... Most of it was buried in the sand, with only a small tail fin exposed, and for some reason it didn't explode, and if it did, I'm afraid everyone would be buried inside.

"Thank you, Captain!" Professor Buckhouse said a pun when he passed by Qin Chuan's side: "Thank you for your protection!" ”

Obviously, Professor Buckhouse thinks that Qin Chuan brought all this to the exploration team.

The members of the exploration team returned to work in fear, and Qin Chuan organized several soldiers to be responsible for detonating the unexploded bomb.

At this time, Colonel Slain hurried in a jeep, drove to Qin Chuan's side, stopped with a sudden brake, and asked loudly before he got out of the car: "How is the situation?" ”

"Nothing to lose, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "Everything is normal!" ”

Colonel Slain breathed a sigh of relief, he jumped out of the car and walked to Qin Chuan's side, and said in a low voice, "Captain! It seems that the British got the news and found out where we are! ”

"Uh-huh!" Qin Chuan nodded: "Now...... It's up to them how much they know! ”

If they knew what Qin Chuan wanted to tell them, then there would be no problem, at most, a few more high-altitude bombardments.

But if what you know is the secret that Qin Chuan wants to hide, then it will be a big problem.

With a "boom", the bomb was detonated in the distance, and Qin Chuan and Colonel Slain bent down slightly to avoid the sand and gravel brought by the shock wave.

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan patted the dust on his body and said, "We should build more derricks!" ”

"How many are you going to build?" Colonel Slane lifted his hat.

"At least...... Fifty of them! ”

"What?" Hearing this, Colonel Slane couldn't help but be stunned: "But we don't have so many drills and manpower!" ”

"I mean against those bombers!" Qin Chuan said.

Colonel Slain couldn't help but let out an "oh" and said, "Good idea, we should have done this a long time ago!" ”

Soon, dozens of derricks were erected in the desert, dotted around the Timlag Basin.

Needless to say, most of these derricks are fake, they are spliced together from wood, and some of them are even crooked.

However, the bombers at an altitude of 10,000 meters could not be recognized, so the high-altitude bombing the next day did not even touch the side of the exploration team.

Montgomery was a little helpless when he heard the news.

"Our bombing doesn't seem to be working!" Montgomery said.

"Yes!" Eisenhower replied: "The drilling target is too small, and it is difficult for high-altitude bombing to hit the target, and now they have laid out so many false targets......"

Montgomery was in a dilemma.

High-altitude bombing doesn't work, let's do low-altitude bombing...... The German air power was greatly strengthened by the reinforcement of the 24th Air Force, and the British and American forces also did not dare to act rashly.

What's more, such bombing does not seem to have stopped the exploration work of the Germans...... Blowing up the derrick they can build again, blowing up a few people they can replenish.

"It seems like we're going to have to attack from the front!" Eisenhower said.

"Frontal attack?" Montgomery shook his head: "You know very well the problem of the Gabes line, it is impossible to break through on land. Maritime...... The German 24th Air Wing is stationed in Sicily, and the 27th Air Wing in Tunisia is forming a flanking situation in the Tunis Strait, unless we can defeat the Germans in the air, it will be difficult for our warships to pass through the Tunis! ”

It was not impossible for the Allies to defeat the Germans in the air, and the combined air power of Britain and the United States was more than 500 planes, which was more than twice that of the two German air groups.

However, most of the German pilots were veteran pilots with rich combat experience, while the British and US troops were very lacking in actual combat experience, especially the US pilots, many of whom did not even have air combat records.

Experience in air combat is well known, with veterans such as Marseilleu being able to shoot down several enemy planes in a matter of minutes, while novices can't find out where the enemy is even if they fly the best aircraft.

"But what else can we do?" Eisenhower said: "Is it just like watching the Germans dig up oil and then become more and more difficult to deal with?" This will even bring great benefits to Germany and even France! ”

There is no doubt about it, because oil is not only needed militarily, but also in industry to start machinery, and commercial transportation is of course also essential.

Germany, France, and Italy have adopted a rationing system because of the shortage of fuel caused by the embargo of Britain and the United States, coupled with the huge military needs, which have caused their industry and commerce to suffer a huge blow...... That is, the state uniformly distributes food to the people.

If an oil field appeared in North Africa at this time, it would greatly alleviate the military, industrial and commercial relations of Britain and the United States against Germany, France, and Italy.

"Ike!" Montgomery, looking at the map, replied, "Maybe we should look a little bigger!" ”