People will always have the mentality of underestimating the enemy, especially when they have a long-term and comprehensive control of the situation.

For example, the Allied Air Force in the Battle of Sicily......

More than a month before the launch of the campaign, they had fully mastered air supremacy, and the whole of Sicily was bombed by the Allies, and all German and Italian fighters who dared to take off to meet the battle would inevitably be ruthlessly wiped out.

This forced German and Italian fighters to avoid Italy or Sardinia, and Allied bombers could not even carry out bombing missions deep into Sicily without the escort of their fighters.

Over time, the Allies almost forgot about the German, Italian, and air forces.

Qin Chuan took advantage of this.

He first separated the U.S. Navy and Air Force from the British Navy and Air Force...... If the military forces of the British and American armies were tightly united, to be honest, any action of Qin Chuan in Sicily would be in vain.

Tactics, deception, qualities...... These will be wiped out in the face of absolute strength.

But this was not the case with the British and American armies, and there were contradictions between them, which Qin Chuan recognized before the war.

Therefore, if you want to defeat the Allies, you must first separate the British and American forces and let them fight separately.

The method of discord is very simple, that is, to fight the US army at the beginning and not the British army, and to chase the US army all the time, so that the US army feels that it is suffering and angry with the main force of the German army alone, while the British army is easily harvesting fame and fortune on the other side and hyping it up.

Eisenhower may have endured this, because he was the supreme commander, and his task was to unite the two armies.

But if ...... If the safety of the US military itself is in question, Eisenhower may not be able to hold on any longer.

Sure enough, things were the same as Qin Chuan thought, the US Navy retreated to the beachhead to protect itself, and the fighters could not sting in Tripoli, just so that the "surrounded" beachhead could give reinforcements in time when needed.

So...... The German and Italian armies could concentrate their forces against the British.

Not only Syracuse, but also the British fleet and the British Air Force, the British army, which thought that the German and Italian air forces were no longer powerless, was doomed to pay the price.

Originally, it was difficult for the Italian Air Force to play a role in front of the British Mediterranean Fleet and the British Air Force.

This can be said to be Mussolini's pot, Mussolini's vain personality makes him pay more attention to superficial data than substance, so the army walks in the best queue in the world but has no combat effectiveness, and the air force is huge but most of them are fighters with backward performance.

To make matters worse, Italy's navy and air force are two completely different branches of the armed forces, which are largely uncoordinated with each other...... A large part of the poor performance of the Italian Navy is due to the failure of the air force to give coordination, you must know that the most important thing in naval warfare is air supremacy, before the naval battle starts, the air force needs reconnaissance, and then the air force needs to fight for air supremacy, if the air force completely ignores the interests of the navy, the warship is almost blind at sea: it cannot see where the enemy is, it has no power to fight back against the enemy's air attack, and it does not know whether the enemy's warships are attacking themselves and cannot be prepared, etc.

Of course, the Air Force also has Air Force reasons: the maximum speed of the fighter Marqui 200 is only 512 kilometers per hour, which is a big difference from the 655 speed of the British Spitfire, and the maximum speed of the BR bomber is only 440 kilometers per hour, and this data still has water.

In order to cater to Mussolini's vanity, the Italian top brass often did such a thing, that is, exaggerated equipment data to make Mussolini happy.

The "Piaggio" heavy bomber, which claimed to have a range of 3,600 kilometers, boasted that even the Italians themselves believed it, and bombed the Strait of Gibraltar and the British fleet according to this data, with the result that more than half of the planes had to make a forced landing in Spain due to lack of fuel.

After checking the reason, it turned out that the 3,600-kilometer range was derived according to the situation of taking off without ammunition and full fuel.

The results of these fighters and bombers with water in real combat can be imagined...... Air supremacy in the Mediterranean was basically transferred between the German and British armies, and nothing happened to the Italian Air Force.

But now it is different, the sky is full of fighter planes flying like kites, and even from time to time there are two fighters who can't dodge and collide with each other and die at the same time, not to mention the anti-aircraft gunners and anti-aircraft machine gunners on the ground, and even the British pilots in the air are also in chaos.

A Spitfire easily latched onto the Italian fighter with much faster speed, and as a row of bullets from the wings fired, a row of bullet holes exploded in the Italian Macchi and plunged headlong into the sea.

However, the British pilot was about to look for another target when a roar of machine guns was heard behind him...... At the same time that he shot down the Italian fighter, the German fighter plane had also locked on him.

A Hurricane swooped down on an Italian Br bomber preparing to carry out a low-altitude bombing, and the pilot noticed that the Br bomber was targeting the British aircraft carrier Dreadnought.

The pilot knew how dangerous it was, because there were fighter planes parked on the deck of the Intrepid aircraft carrier ready to take off, so even if German fighters were chasing him behind him, he would shoot them down.

But just as the pilot locked on to the target and shot it down, several clouds of black fog suddenly appeared in front of him, and then with a "boom", the plane lost its balance and fell hard into the sea.

At the moment when he tumbled and fell to the surface, the pilot was so angry that he opened his mouth and shouted...... Because he knew that it was not the enemy who destroyed the fighters, but the anti-aircraft guns on his own warships.

The anti-aircraft gunner who committed this "crime" could not help but be stunned, he aimed at the Italian bomber in front, but because the plane was too fast, the shells he fired could not keep up, but destroyed his own fighter behind him.

Then he could only watch as the Italian bombers dropped rows of bombs with a whistling sound...... And below is the aircraft carrier "Dreadnought".

"Boom", in the midst of a burst of fire and explosions, one after another fighters on the flight deck of the "Dreadnought" aircraft carrier were blown to pieces, because these fighters were full of fuel, so it immediately caused a fire, many British soldiers were affected by the fire, they were ignited and screamed wildly, and many people could not stand the pain and jumped from the aircraft carrier into the sea.

The anti-aircraft gunner couldn't help but stop what he was doing, because he thought that he had caused all this, because of his own mistake.

But he didn't need to worry about it soon, because a Macchi fighter swooped down and fired a volley of bullets at the anti-aircraft gun.

Whistling, machine guns, explosions, the sea and the air were filled with fire and black smoke, and a fierce and brutal battle of sea and air played out over the port of Syracuse......