"Look, warship!" As soon as Qin Chuan and the others stepped on the dock, they heard someone shouting.

The Germans on the docks soon got busy, either looking for shelter or preparing artillery...... But in fact, it is useless to do this if it is an enemy warship, they can raze the dock to the ground with large-caliber naval guns from a few kilometers away.

Qin Chuan followed the soldiers out of the sheltered part of the cruise ship, and sure enough, he saw a few black spots slowly emerging on the sea level, Qin Chuan habitually raised his rifle and looked in that direction through the scope, and then put it down again...... The 2.5 magnification sight has no effect at all on objects at a distance.

Immediately, Qin Chuan took the telescope hanging on his waist to observe.

This is a priest 6*30 telescope, a German standard military telescope, 6 indicates magnification, 30 indicates objective aperture...... Qin Chuan, who specializes in the history of the German army, knows that such a telescope is worth 115.50 marks, which is equivalent to the cost of an MG34 machine gun at the exchange rate at the time.

So Qin Chuan protected it very well, and tried not to take it out of the case if he could, so as not to stain the lens with the dust in the desert.

Several warships appeared in the aperture of the Qinchuan telescope, followed by several more......

"Whose warship?" Werner asked nervously.

Qin Chuan saw a little red on the flag of the warship, so he replied: "It's Italian!" ”

The Italian flag at this time was somewhat different from the modern one, in addition to the green, white and red, the coat of arms of the Savoy dynasty was added in the middle, the red shield and the white cross. (Note: The Italian flag disappeared from the stage of history in 1946 with the fall of the Italian royal family.) ）

The German soldiers could not help but cheer, although they did not recognize the fighting power of the Italian army, the appearance of an Allied fleet and the arrival of reinforcements at this time was in any case exciting.

The most exciting was of course Alfredo, who had been a shadow in the German army during this time...... He always chose the safest place to hide, and the German soldiers were accustomed to this.

Kuhn is also said to have discussed with Bazel whether to take Alfredo to a corner and make him disappear forever, but eventually dismissed the idea...... This was partly because Alfredo's presence did not affect the morale of the troops, since he was not a German soldier, and partly because he was worried that if the news leaked out, it would affect the alliance between Germany and Italy.

"Behold, Italian warships, our warships!" Alfredo raised his hands and shouted: "Long live Italy!" Long live the Navy! It was amazing, I could go back, I was safe......"

Shouting and shouting, Alfredo couldn't help but kneel on the ground and hide his face and cry, the German soldiers all looked at Alfredo with disdain, and Werner spat in the direction of Alfredo, and said disdainfully: "Italians! ”

But Qin Chuan could understand Alfredo's feelings, because this was not a place for people to stay at all, it was full of blood and death all the time, full of danger all the time and challenged the limits of human tolerance again and again.

In fact, deep down in his heart, Qin Chuan also had the urge to shout and even cry like Alfredo a few times, but Qin Chuan knew that it would not help.

Suddenly, several black shadows in the air came into Qin Chuan's eyes, Qin Chuan raised the telescope to look at it, and couldn't help but change his complexion, and said: "'Mosquito' reconnaissance plane!" ”

Bazel looked in the direction indicated by Qin Chuan, then nodded and said, "The British are prepared, they know that we have reinforcements, and they are likely to send an air force to intercept them!" ”

As he spoke, Bazel shouted at the soldiers: "Prepare for air defense, there will be a fierce battle soon!" ”

"Yes, sir!" The soldiers answered, turned and drove away.

The so-called air defense preparation is the construction of air defense positions.

The equipment, of course, is taken from the warehouse...... The British army has all kinds of equipment in its warehouses, and anti-aircraft equipment is no exception.

However, due to the low air defense needs of the British army, the previous opponent of the British army was the Italian army, and although the number of fighters of the Italian army was huge, most of them were old and backward fighters, and the British Air Force did not take them into account at all, so the British army's air defense equipment was not much.

THE GERMAN SOLDIERS SEARCHED IN THE WAREHOUSE FOR A WHILE BEFORE LAUNCHING A DOZEN BOFORS 40MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS.

This anti-aircraft gun is made in Sweden...... It was a weapon used by very few Allies and Axis powers and was considered standard anti-aircraft equipment: the British purchased directly from Sweden and Poland, and the Germans indirectly from Sweden through Hungary.

Because all countries in the world use it for air defense, it is also known as the "screen of air defense of all countries".

Then the soldiers took out dozens of Vickers heavy machine guns from the warehouse, arranged them in a circle of sandbags, and soon formed an anti-aircraft position.

However, the total number was only fifteen small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine guns...... This air defense force can only be said to be better than nothing, mainly depending on the anti-aircraft fire on the Italian fleet.

The fleet was getting closer and closer, and the flag with the red shield and white cross insignia was blazing in the sea breeze, it was indeed the Italian fleet, and in the distance there were also Italian sailors waving flags at the bow of the ship.

Seeing their lineup, Qin Chuan's hanging heart was half relieved, because this fleet had ten ships, of which there were one battleship and seven destroyers, and the other two were transport ships, which were obviously transporting reinforcements.

Although these warships are a little old, they can still cope with ordinary bombing.

"Airplane!" At this time, someone exclaimed: "The plane of the British! ”

Sure enough, I saw a row of black spots appear under the dazzling sunlight in the east, and there were hundreds of dense ones, not to mention them.

"Air raid alert!" Bazel shouted.

A shrill whistling sounded over the harbor, partly to inform the German soldiers to be ready, and partly to warn the Italian fleet and tell them to move closer to the harbor to fight side by side with the air defenses on the shore.

However, Bazel's efforts were in vain, as the speed of the Italian fleet slowed down noticeably as the air defense sirens whistled.

At first, Qin Chuan thought that the Italian fleet was preparing for battle, because the fleet was indeed not suitable for port calls when encountering air raids, and they should be dispersed on a more open sea surface and drive at high speed, and if necessary, they should do some serpentine maneuvers to avoid the bombing of enemy aircraft.

Later, Qin Chuan found out that this was not the case, and the first reaction of the Italian fleet was actually to escape.

The British bombers swooped down in the whistle, and to Qin Chuan's surprise, the target of the British bombers was not the Italian fleet, but the port and several cruise ships parked in the port.