The British planes flying over Tobruk entered the bombing route in a neat queue, and this part of the British planes came to bomb the Tobruk fortress, and the bombing effect was the worst and at the same time the most dangerous.

Because there are more than 30 anti-aircraft gun emplacements on the fortress of Tobruk, and the operators of these anti-aircraft guns are all German paratroopers, and these German anti-aircraft artillery are all elites, and they are definitely not the kind of Libyan peasants who just put down their hoes.

As soon as the British bombers flew over Tobruk, the anti-aircraft guns on the Tobruk fortress began to roar, and most of the British anti-aircraft guns were small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

For example, 37 mm, 50 mm, 75 mm, these three kinds of anti-aircraft guns, there is still no mild problem in dealing with the low-altitude bombing penetration of the British army.

The British bombed at an altitude of 1,500 meters, and in order to ensure the accuracy of the bombing, the planes had to be lowered so low.

The fortress of Tobruk is built on a hill by the sea, where the sea breeze is not small, and if you use high-altitude bombs, the hit rate will be indescribably worse.

Therefore, the British could only use low-altitude formation bombardment, and these British troops braved German anti-aircraft fire to strike over the Tobruk fortress.

The German anti-aircraft shells were intertwined with a network of fire in the air, and the shells "whizzed" through the air, and the British planes had no possibility of retreating, so they could only brave the rain of bullets and bullets to attack Tobruk.

Suddenly, a British bomber was hit, and the plane immediately smoked into the Mediterranean.

Then a second British plane was knocked down, and then a third...... By the time the British rushed over the fortress of Tobruk, more than a dozen planes had already been shot down by German anti-aircraft guns.

The downed British planes were all bombers, because the combat escort planes were all monitoring the surrounding airspace at high altitudes, and they did not come down to engage the anti-aircraft guns head-to-head.

The remaining fifty or sixty bombers flew over Tobruk and began to drop bombs, which rained down and exploded immediately.

After these bombs landed, the power was not great, and the explosion splattered out gasoline, and the combustion after the explosion was the most violent.

The British army actually used incendiary bombs against Tobruk Fortress, it seems that these British are still good at learning! When Rommel attacked the Strait of Gibraltar, he used a fire attack.

Rommel used helicopters to pour gasoline into the fortress of Gibraltar, while the British now used incendiary bombs, one inside and one outside, and the effect of the two was of course different.

The raging fire enveloped the Tobruk fortress in an instant, and the first to be injured by the fire were the German anti-aircraft artillery, although there was a passage into the fortress next to the anti-aircraft gun emplacement.

But the German anti-aircraft artillery did not have a chance to enter the fortress at all, and the splash of gasoline burned them to the ground.

The high temperature generated by such a large-scale incendiary bomb attack was enough to roast people, and only a few of the more than 100 German anti-aircraft artillery soldiers fled back to the fortress, and the rest died on their own combat posts.

Within the headquarters, various reports continue to come:

"Vent 18 has an inflow of burning gasoline and is being plugged with sandbags."

"There is a flame coming out of the No. 39 air intake, which is being sealed with sandbags."

"There is smoke coming out of the 67th air intake." ……

After listening to these reports, Harold turned to the chief of staff and asked:

"How many air intakes and exhausts do we have left?"

The chief of staff of the paratrooper division was also a fine man, he immediately took out a statistical table on his folder, looked at it and said:

"We also have twelve air intakes and eight exhaust ports available."

Harold frowned and continued to ask:

"And can these air intakes ensure the safety of the people inside the fortress?"

"It's basically enough, it's just a little stuffy."

"Then immediately organize personnel to extinguish the fire, and when the fire is extinguished, more vents will be built, and at the same time, the vents will be modified to a certain extent, so that they can be properly fireproofed, I estimate that the British army will continue to use incendiary bombs to deal with the Tobruk Fortress in the future, and we must first make relevant fire prevention preparations."

The chief of staff of the paratrooper division hurriedly wrote down Harold's order, and then handed it over to the herald to find the relevant personnel to carry it out.

Although Rommel was recuperating with his eyes closed, he could still hear the conversation in the command clearly, and Harold did not make any major mistakes in the whole command process, which can be said to be quite good.

In fact, several division commanders under Rommel have really good command ability, thanks to the perfect military education system of the German army, and these talents will be his right-hand man in the future.

The friendship established in the battle is the deepest, Rommel may have to do some great things against the sky in the future, without these good brothers, Rommel will not be able to succeed, which is why Rommel often delegates power to let his subordinates rest assured that he commands.

Slowly, the temperature in the entire command room began to rise, and the air became turbid, mixed with the smell of hot gasoline.

The people in the command untied their own discipline buttons, but they didn't stop their work because of this.

The staff officers in the entire command post were still busy at their posts, and countless alarms were gathered in their hands, and they were summarized and handed over to Harold for decision-making.

After Harold's decision was made, these staff officers had to hand over the relevant orders to the relevant troops and people to carry them out.

The command headquarters is like a human brain, which plays the role of the central nervous system, and only when the command headquarters is well functioning can the combat units below be better at ease to fight.

The Tobruk Fortress was shrouded in a raging fire, watching the entire mountain burn, this formation was very scary, in fact, this fire did not have much impact on the Tobruk Fortress.

The fire must have had a damaging effect on the walls of the fortress, but the degree of damage was also very slight, and after the fire burned the cement, the cement would be weathered, which was caused by thermal expansion and contraction.

However, the top of the wall of the Tobruk Fortress is four or five meters thick, and the side walls are mostly made of mountain rock, and even if the side is a cement wall, the thickness of the wall is at least seven or eight meters, so the damage of the fire to Tobruk is very limited.

Speaking of the city of Tobruk, they were also attacked by the British at the same time, and he had seventy or eighty anti-aircraft guns in the city of Tobruk.

When the British planes went to the air attack, the anti-aircraft artillery of the Libyan militia division, under the command of the German instructors, fired fiercely at the British planes in the sky.

Dozens of anti-aircraft guns fired at the same time, and the formation was also very scary, but the anti-aircraft artillery of the Libyan militia division was all a group of rookies.

They fired tens of thousands of shells at the British in the sky, only to shoot down the pitiful two British planes.

…… (To be continued.) )