Chapter 184: Airborne with Blessings and Misfortunes

The sandstorm also made the British army's radar malfunction, although Amini encountered the sandstorm and died for a lifetime, but there was this unexpected benefit, the British army actually because of the sandstorm, and did not find such a huge fleet, it is really a blessing and misfortune sandstorm, not false at all!

is still the same sentence, people are really not as good as heaven.

A huge fleet of planes flew in the dusk sky, the sun had risen above the horizon, the Mediterranean Sea was already in sight, and Tobruk was faintly visible.

Although there was still yellow sand and dust in the air, it did not affect the view too much, and Tobruk glowed golden and dim under the morning sun, where the countless ships of Tobruk Harbor were moored.

On a hill not far from the harbor, there were twelve canopy fort batteries, which guarded everything in Tobruk with their muzzles held high.

Amini's joy at rebirth was indescribable, he looked down at Tobruk in the distance, picked up the microphone and shouted in surprise:

"Arriving over the target, the aircraft immediately landed in accordance with the position established on the command."

Amini had just rushed out of the sandstorm with the group, and the group had reached a short distance from Tobruk, and the previous airborne plan had no effect.

Originally, the first to be airborne was a helicopter, and when the helicopter was airborne, it went to the British army to be airborne, but now there is no such need, whoever arrives first will be airborne first.

Because of the terrible sound of anti-aircraft sirens in Tobruk, pedestrians in the streets fled like crazy, and there were sparse anti-aircraft weapons on the ground firing in the air.

The commander of the British army in Tobruk was Colonel Boulder, and the weather was strange today, when it was almost dawn. The sky was clear and cloudless. But in the blink of an eye, sand and dust rolled in.

Because Tobruk is by the sea. There is a sea breeze blowing on the land, and the sandstorm and the sea breeze meet in the Tobruk area, which makes the sandstorm in Tobruk not very serious, but outside Tobruk, it is the world of sandstorms.

Boulder had planned to have the soldiers out for morning exercises at six in the morning, but was disrupted by the damn sandstorm.

In such bad weather, people don't want to go out, because as soon as they go out, they are covered in yellow sand. The mouth and nose are also full of sand.

Tobruk, a seaport city on the edge of the desert, is already in good condition, and if you go a hundred kilometers deep into the land, the conditions there are even worse, and all the fresh water is completely transported from outside.

Since there is no morning exercise due to the weather, Boulder will go back to bed and sleep for a while, because of the sandstorm, the radar cannot work, and the goods in the port cannot be loaded and unloaded for the time being, and Boulder, who has nothing to do, can only sleep to pass the time.

Boulder had just fallen asleep. I heard the terrible sound of air defense sirens, and the sound of "woo wow woo wow" was particularly harsh and desolate. Boulder, who was half-asleep and half-awake, was awakened at once.

Boulder, who woke up, couldn't help but curse secretly:

"What kind of damn bastard is this, how can there be an air raid in such bad weather, it's rare that the Germans appeared out of thin air...... You must teach this bastard who pulls the air raid siren a good lesson. ”

Boulder sat up lazily and began to get dressed, when suddenly a British soldier "slammed" the door of Boulder's room, because the Englishman was so panicked that he almost fell in the door.

"Airplane...... Lots of planes ......"

The soldier's unreasonable behavior made Boulder furious, and he immediately pointed to the British soldier who had crashed in without knocking on the door and shouted:

"You...... Get out of here, won't you even knock on the door? ”

The panicked British soldier was so grieved that he was about to cry, but he could only choose to obey in the face of his angry commander.

The British soldier hurriedly retreated, closed the door at the same time, and then knocked on the door, and the British soldier knocked for five or six minutes in a row, but Boulder ignored him, and waited until he slowly put on his uniform, and then said:

"Get in!"

Boulder had wasted seven or eight precious minutes for the sake of his face and majesty, such an officer, such a big shelf, so great majesty, but he had missed Tobruk's only chance in vain.

"Report to Mr. Colonel, there are so many German planes coming, too many to count!"

Boulder asked nonchalantly to the British soldier:

"You didn't wake up! In sandstorm weather, where planes can take off and land, it is even more impossible for the Germans to cross the sandstorm, it is absolutely impossible. ”

The soldier was already crying, and he was just about to speak, when suddenly the ground shook violently, followed by a "boom" explosion, and the glass on the window of Boulder's room shattered in one fell swoop.

The splash of glass scurried all over the room, and a piece of broken glass the size of a fingernail slashed across Boulder's forehead, causing Boulder to involuntarily let out an "ouch" in pain.

Then Boulder heard the terrible screech of the plane's dive, a sound Boulder was all too familiar with, having heard it during the French campaign.

The sound was the scream of the German Stuka dive bomber, and it was like coming out of hell, and it made people tremble and tremble.

Boulder now knew that his guards were telling the truth, and that the Germans had come to attack him, and that Boulder had no intention of bandaging the wound on his forehead, and after removing his pistol from the wall, he rushed out of the room.

Dozens of dive Stuka bombers were wreaking havoc over the barracks, and pillboxes and anti-aircraft guns were the main targets of these screaming Grim Reapers.

These Stuka precision bombardments sent the British pillboxes and cannons flying into the air.

The British soldiers who escaped from the barracks did not dare to approach the deadly pillboxes and cannons, knowing that those things were the object of Stukka's attention, and no fool would go to his death.

A few kilometers outside the barracks, parachutes fluttering in the sky, this was not what made Boulder despair, as long as he retreated with the remnants of his troops to the fortress of Tobruk on the top of the hill, Boulder was confident that he could hold out until reinforcements arrived in Selum.

After all, the paratroopers didn't have any heavy weapons to attack the fortress, but Boulder saw a flying machine that could take off and land vertically.

During the last Battle of Gibraltar, the battlefield bulletin said that the Germans had a flying machine that could take off and land vertically, and today Boulder finally saw it for granted.

The ugly German vertical flying machine is landing on the top of the fortress in Tobruk, and some German troops have already disembarked from this vertical flying machine.

"Damn the Nazis...... Quick, all retreat to the fortress...... Be quick. ”

Boulder shouted as he ran, and the British soldiers, who were like headless flies, saw that their commander had finally appeared.

Suddenly there was a backbone, and they all ran with Boulder, Boulder ran alone in the front, and more and more British troops followed him, after all, Stuka bombed the pillboxes and artillery first, and these British troops were not their targets for the time being.

[Fifth Update]

…… (To be continued.) )