"Confirmed? Are these two aircraft enemy aircraft? The captain of the cruiser Gildio confirmed to the operational staff officer.

"It's not clear, but there is no logo of our African Army on these two planes." The staff officer said with a look of embarrassment: "Actually, we can't judge the identity of the other party for the time being. ”

However, as soon as the staff officer's voice fell, the 20-mm Breda anti-aircraft gun outside opened fire.

The naval officers of the ships, whose nerves had already jumped to the extreme, unanimously began to shoot quickly, pouring out hundreds of anti-aircraft artillery shells.

And the soldier who took the lead in firing the cannon was none other than the sailor Colladio Mazzola.

As it happened, Colladio Mazzola happened to be a rare master of artillery in the entire Italian navy, and as soon as the cannonball came out of the chamber, he felt that he must be able to hit.

Sure enough, one of the planes in the sky immediately dragged out the black smoke and crashed headlong into the ocean, while the other plane quickly lowered its altitude and made a forced landing on the sea surface to escape.

.......

On the S.79 plane five minutes earlier, Marshal Balbo was eating lunch comfortably while discussing the situation in the African theater with Count Florio.

As a result, the plane suddenly made a loud "boom", and then began to make a sharp descent.

Balbo's S.79 plane suddenly lost its balance, and he fell heavily into the cabin under the influence of the air current.

Later, although the hapless Balbo clung to the edge of the chair, he changed his posture, but he could not change the fate of the plane that eventually crashed and crashed.

.......

The Italian sailors aboard the cruiser Gildio were all cheering and celebrating their success.

They've been pressed by those damn planes for so long since they've arrived in Tobruk, and today it's finally their turn to jerk off.

However, the joy did not last long.

When the plane in the fall crossed the sky directly above their cruiser, the captain of the captain found out that it was actually an Italian S.79 plane?!

But it was already too late, because the group of Italian soldiers had already done the job.

The plane then crossed the Italian detachment and crashed into the sea in front of it, blazing with blaze.

Finding out that he had injured his allies, the captain of the cruiser Gildio was really frightened.

He immediately organized personnel to salvage and rescue, but the results of the salvage made him even more frightened.

Although the corpse on the plane has been charred, the epaulettes of the military rank on the clothes are still eye-catching, except for the two generals at the level of major general and lieutenant general, the largest military rank in the corpse is actually marshal!

Hunt down a marshal of a country! Such feats can be described as incomparably powerful in war.

The premise is that you have to kill the marshal of the enemy country!

It is not difficult for everyone to guess that the Italian marshal who returned to Libya at this time could only be Marshal Balbo, who was also the governor of Libya.

A dilapidated cruiser that is about to be scrapped can use the temporarily installed anti-aircraft guns to shoot down the fighters flying in the air, which is a rare ultra-high hit rate.

And there happens to be a super-senior commander at the level of a marshal sitting in this fighter, which is rare.

As for this hunted marshal, or the marshal of his own army, this is the first time that he has gone through the entire history of war!

Marshal Balbo can be said to be the highest-ranking general among the generals of all countries since the beginning of World War II.

Tragically, he died at the hands of his own people.

Corladio Mazzola's cannon was a miraculous shot because there was a marshal on board.

The marshal who commanded thousands of troops and horses was killed by him with one shot!

And this marshal is not simple, this is a man of the year who has been on the cover of Time magazine in the United States, and he is a real aviation genius who is ranked all over the world!

You know, in Italy, Balbo almost explained the presence of a military god.

Even in the original time and space, Balbo was the only Italian marshal who had never lost a battle in his life.

Of course, this may also be due to the fact that he hung up before he commanded the doomed North African operation.

However, before Balbo died in the crash, he built the Royal Italian Air Force into Italy's leading elite unit.

The pilot-turned-Italian Air Marshal was invited to lunch by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was awarded the prestigious honor of the Luftwaffe - a gold pilot-observer and a double qualification badge. So far, only a few people have won this medal, such as the Spanish regent Franco.

The air force he built for Italy was a far cry from the generally cowardly Italian army.

Soon after, during the North African campaign, people would hear about the hilarious deeds of the Italian Army surrendering at every turn, but in the Royal Italian Air Force, which Balbo single-handedly built, there would never be a single pilot who surrendered!

Of course, this may also be the reason why there is no way to surrender in an air battle......

But in any case, Italo Balbo, the Italian marshal who had never tasted defeat in his life and had none of his pilots surrendered in air battles, was considered to have met the standards of a qualified general.

After all, he was also a dignified marshal, and he was killed so simply, and he was killed by his own people, by a little-known soldier among his own people.

How aggrieved this must be!

The most important thing is that the ambitious Balbo, before he set foot on African soil, became a cloud of dust without any impact, and became insignificant in the long river of history.

If there is one thing that has had an impact, it is that Balbo used his bizarre death experience to make Corladio Mazzola, a little-known person, fortunate enough to leave his name in history.

Although the reputation is not good, at least this is a kind of artillery skills, is it certainly not it?

In later generations, some people even put the record of the Italians shooting down the air marshal with one shot on the same tactical level as the US army's hunting and killing of the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Yamamoto Isoroku.

This is a major achievement that affects the overall situation of history!

Who said that the course of the war can only be decided by those big people who are high up in the sky, and now, as a private, Colladio Mazzola killed the marshal Italo Balbo, creating a classic case of small people influencing the direction of history!

It's just a pity that this effect is negative.

One of Italy's finest qualified generals was never able to contribute to the Italian army again.

And the great Italian leader Mussolini, because of this ridiculously bad news, fell into a coma again....... Well, that's barely a positive impact for Italy.