"Hurricane" and "Kangaroo" are not the same level, both in terms of weight and volume, "Kangaroo" has an overwhelming advantage in the face of "Hurricane". Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

With a length of 19.50 meters, a wingspan of 29.22 meters and a height of 5.2 meters, the modified Kangaroo weighs 10 tons, making it a big guy in the middle of the day. With a wingspan of 12.2 meters, a length of 9.8 meters, a height of 4.00 meters, and an empty weight of just over two tons, the "Hurricane" is simply over two tons.

With Long Chengyuan's command, the "kangaroo" was also equipped with a ramming angle on its belly, so when the "kangaroo" flew over the "hurricane", Dou Yongyi in the distance felt as smooth as a table knife cutting through cream, and the "hurricane" in the air was torn apart almost instantly.

It's not like it's split, the tail of the "Hurricane" and most of the left wing have been cut off in half, which makes the "Hurricane" lose its balance in an instant, and fall directly into the air with its head over.

In fact, the distance from the sea is not high, two or three hundred meters, but falling at this distance, it is still unbearable for the body, the plane is instantly torn apart, and the pilot does not even have the opportunity to parachute, so he sinks to the bottom of the sea with the plane.

This death was so tragic that the pilot of the other "Hurricane" was so frightened that he had no idea of recovering the field, and turned the nose of the plane in the direction of Italy and wanted to run.

Where else can I escape, the three "Kangaroos" that Long Chengyuan changed are all on the clouds, one is used to deal with the "Hurricane" piloted by Silvinho, and the other two are waiting to be picked up.

The final result was that the other "Hurricane" was even worse, and was hit and disintegrated by the "Kangaroo" directly in the air.

The "kangaroo" was not having a good time, the wing on one side was seriously damaged, and the fuselage was even knocked out of a large hole, but fortunately, the structure of the "kangaroo" was firm, and the pilot barely piloted the "kangaroo" to fly back to the airport crookedly.

This is the result of poor learning, if you choose the right position when you hit it, just like the first "kangaroo", there will be no damage at all.

The results were already very good, although not a single shot was fired, but the two "Hurricanes" were also left, as long as the wreckage of the "Hurricane" was salvaged, it would not take a few days for Long Chengyuan to guess the approximate performance of the "Hurricane".

After shooting down the two "hurricanes," the Lanfang destroyer, which was cruising on the nearby seas, rushed to the area of the incident according to the predetermined plan, and blocked off all the area where the incident occurred, prohibiting any foreign ships from entering.

Three hours later, two destroyers of the Italian Navy also arrived at the scene of the incident and confronted the destroyers of the Lanfang Navy.

At this time, the Lanfang Navy will definitely not retreat, just on the sea not far away, two salvage ships are salvaging the wreckage of the "Hurricane", before completing the operation task, the Lanfang Navy must resist the pressure of the Italian Navy.

The Italians did not back down either, the Italians signed a contract with the British when they bought the "Hurricane", and if the "Hurricane" fell into the hands of the Lanfangs, the Italians were responsible.

And this responsibility is often war, so the Italians also have reasons not to back down.

Before two o'clock in the afternoon, the destroyers of the Italian Navy attacked the defensive line formed by the destroyers of the Lanfang Navy several times, but to no avail, and the Lanfang Navy did not give in at all, preferring the warship to collide with the warship than to take half a step back.

The destroyers equipped by the Italian Navy are all about 1,000 tons, which cannot be compared with Lan Fang's destroyers of two or three thousand tons, not only is the speed not as fast as Lan Fang's "Brave class" destroyers, but they can't hit it, so at about two o'clock in the afternoon, the Italian air force finally rushed over to help.

Compared with warships, the air force has a much higher degree of freedom, and it is difficult to intercept aircraft without firing.

However, there is a gap between the data of the "Hurricane" and Lan Fang's "Eagle Falcon" in all aspects, and the Lan Fang Air Force has long been prepared, and there are more than ten "Eagle Falcons" above the fleet to help in the battle, ready to expel the Italian planes at any time.

So from two o'clock, the planes in the sky were fighting, and the warships on the sea were also confronting each other.

In fact, before formulating the "Falcon Plan", Qin Zhiyuan expected that if Lan Fang shot down the Italian fighter, no matter whether Lan Fang shot down in the process of shooting down, the Italian government would definitely take corresponding actions.

Qin Zhiyuan still underestimated the madness of Mussolini's madman, at six o'clock in the evening, when the sun was about to set, Mussolini made a declaration of war on the radio: -- The arrogant Lanfang people have repeatedly harmed the dignity of our Italians, they have not only violated our Sardinia with despicable means, but now they are brazenly shooting down our war eagles in the sky, this is a blatant provocation to our Italy, this is a repeated trampling on the dignity of our Italians, we will never accept the rude behavior of the Lanfang people, so now I declare, It's time to use war to preserve the dignity of Italy!

On July 7, 1924, Italy officially declared war on Lanfang.

Just half an hour after Italy declared war on Lanfang, Pope Benedict XV visited Mussolini, while French President Gaston Dumerg and Qin Zhiyuan spoke on the phone.

Gaston Dumerg hoped that Lan Fang would not respond to Italy's declaration of war, and expressed his willingness to mediate to resolve the conflict between Lan Fang and Italy, which Qin Zhiyuan did not comment. At nine o'clock in the evening, Qin Zhiyuan received another call from Auerbach, and the communication between Benedict XV and Mussolini was inconclusive.

At half past nine, Lanfang officially declared war on Italy.

Not to declare war, and at the same time that Mussolini declared war on Lan Fang, the Italian colonial army of Eritrea launched an attack on Djibouti.

Eritrea was a colony of Italy, and Italy stationed two divisions in Eritrea and formed two Eritrean servant divisions, which were much stronger in terms of strength than Djibouti, which had only one division.

However, the combat effectiveness of the Lanfang army is not comparable to that of the Italians, if it is compared to noodles, the Lanfang soldiers who basically can't cook may not be able to win against the Italians, but compared to the war, the Lanfang soldiers can throw the Eritreans ten streets away.

As soon as Mussolini's side declared war, the Italians launched an attack on Djibouti from Assab in Eritrea and Asayta in Ethiopia.

After receiving the news that the Italians were attacking Djibouti, Chen Kangjian on the one hand ordered the 16th Division of the Lanfang Army stationed in Djibouti to defend on the spot, and on the other hand, ordered the 8th Division of the Lanfang Army and the 5th and 7th Divisions of the Foreign Legion stationed in the Middle East to prepare reinforcements in the direction of Djibouti.

In fact, there is no need for reinforcements, when the Italians first started attacking, they did break through several outposts on the Djibouti border, but that's all, by the time Lanfang declared war on Italy, no Italian army broke through two kilometers into Djibouti, basically Lanfang's army as long as it could mobilize a battalion of troops, it could withstand a division of the Italians.

This may sound like an exaggeration, but it is true, the terrain in Djibouti is complex, mountainous and hilly, mechanized troops can hardly deploy, and narrow mountain roads also limit the rapid advance of the Italian army, in many places two machine guns are enough to block a mountain road, and the numerical superiority of the Italians is not obvious.

The attack launched by the Italians was still relatively sudden, and Lan Fang's army could be said to be defenseless at all, so it was not easy to organize a counteroffensive for a while, so when Lan Fang declared war on Italy, the battle on the Djibouti side was a bit stalemate.

Compared to the slow progress of the Italian army in the Eritrean direction, the Italian naval threat on the Sardinian side was much greater.

When Mussolini declared war on Lan Fang, the Lan Fang Navy was facing off with the Italian Navy at sea, which was supposed to be a contest between destroyers, and Lan Fang had the upper hand, but after the Italian Navy's battleships joined, the situation quickly tilted in favor of the Italian side.

I have to say that the Italian Navy in this period is still a bit of combat effectiveness, in the last world war, the main opponent of the Italian Navy is the Austro-Hungarian Navy, in the face of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the "sick man of Europe", the Italian Navy was mighty, the Austro-Crème Navy lost its armor and collapsed, and even the flagship became the trophy of the Italian Navy, so the Italian Navy in this period was very ambitious, after Mussolini came to power, there was a saying that the Mediterranean Sea "is our sea".

After the World War, the Italian Navy did have a shipbuilding plan, but because of financial problems, this shipbuilding plan has not really been implemented, so the main equipment of the Italian Navy is still those battleships that were in service before the World War, which are quite old.

Even if it is a dilapidated battleship, the caliber of the gun is much larger than that of the destroyer, although the "Brave class" destroyer of Lanfang has a tonnage of two or three thousand tons, but it is not equipped with large-caliber guns, and all 152 mm caliber guns are used, which makes the destroyer not have enough means of attack in the face of the battleship, only the torpedo can form a certain threat to the battleships of the Italian Navy, and the range of the guns of the battleships of the Italian Navy is much larger than that of the Lanfang Navy, and the conditions for the use of torpedoes by the Lanfang Navy are insufficient, Therefore, the destroyers of the Lanfang Navy could only carry the fierce fire of the Italian Navy battleships, launch a death charge against the Italian Navy, and close the distance between them and the Italian battleships, so that they could use torpedoes to attack the Italian battleships.

The result was very miserable, two of the six destroyers of the Lanfang Navy were sunk and three were damaged, fortunately, the Italians took the initiative to retreat after the reinforcements of the Lanfang Air Force arrived on the battlefield, otherwise these destroyers are estimated to not be able to return to their home port.

When the destroyer fleet returned to the sea, in the face of the questioning of the investigators of the Lanfang Military Department, the commander of the destroyer detachment, Shen Zhixin, said in a sonorous voice: "We can't retreat, behind us is Sardinia, it's Your Majesty, as long as we take a step back, the Italians may threaten Your Majesty's safety." ”

Yes, Qin Zhiyuan is still in Sardinia, this is the front line.