With a "boom", a violent explosion suddenly occurred in the mortar position of the British army, and it turned out that the bullet hit the mortar shell placed on the ground, and the entire mortar position immediately suffered a continuous explosion of ammunition.

Dozens of British gunners were completely enveloped in a continuous barrage of ammunition, which destroyed several mortars and turned them into human parts.

The FA223 helicopter, which violated military discipline, had just destroyed the artillery positions of the British army, and before it could pull it up, it was hit by a burst of "fluttering" machine gun bullets.

The reason was that the British commander, Colonel Boulder, was angry, picked up a light machine gun and fired wildly at the helicopter in the air, and Boulder was originally trying to vent.

But his venting worked, the FA223 helicopter had almost no protection, and the fuel tank was not equipped with any armor, and the helicopter was hit so hard that the fuel tank caught fire.

Although the fuel tank caught fire, the helicopter's engine was still barely running, and the helicopter could only fly quickly out of the combat area, and then find a place to make a forced landing, and the helicopter could not be saved.

The FA223 helicopter is still too fragile, almost an air lighter, just a hit, which is why Rommel strictly ordered the FA223 to directly participate in the war, transportation is the purpose of the FA223, and combat is not what this kind of early helicopter is good at.

The Hummingbird helicopter gunship supported by Rommel is no different from today's helicopter in appearance, that is, there are still many problems in this helicopter that have not been solved, and it will be seen whether it can be put into trial production at the end of this year.

The other two helicopters patrolling in the air certainly did not dare to shoot at the ground under such circumstances, but these two helicopters were not without a solution.

They hurriedly flew towards the place where the paratroopers had landed, and the German paratroopers had landed on the flat ground five kilometers away from the barracks, and the two helicopters were trying to pick up the paratroopers to stop the British troops who were about to flee into the fortress.

Five kilometers is not a distance at all for a helicopter, and the two helicopters quickly arrived at the airborne landing site, and as soon as the two helicopters landed, dozens of soldiers immediately ran towards the helicopter.

When these paratroopers saw the helicopter coming, they immediately ran towards the helicopter, and the two helicopter pilots hurriedly opened the window and shouted to the paratroopers running outside:

"Hurry up, you need reinforcements there on the mountain road, ...... quickly"

Without saying a word, dozens of paratroopers boarded the helicopters one by one, and when the people were full, the helicopters immediately took off into the air, and when the helicopters flew over the mountain road.

On the mountain road, the remnants of more than a dozen German paratroopers were still shooting frantically with the British army, and the British army at this time was also desperate, they saw that there were only a dozen remnants of the German army on the observation deck, so they had the courage to attack so desperately.

There is no way for the two helicopters to land on the observation deck, where not only are bullets flying, but the observation deck has been reduced to a pile of rubble.

"Go to the top of the trail and hover and land."

One of the helicopter pilots, gritting his teeth, decided to use the most difficult to control hovering landing. At the beginning of World War II, helicopters were imperfect in all aspects, and if you want to hover, you need extremely high skills, otherwise the plane will be destroyed and people will die.

"Then I'll go first, you wait."

A helicopter slowly lowered its altitude towards the top of the trail, the speed was getting slower and slower, it was supposed to be a sandstorm today, Tobruk was at the intersection of the sea breeze and the sandstorm, and the wind speed was not small.

If the speed of the helicopter is enough, the impact of this wind on the helicopter is not great, but now it is hovering, then the helicopter is blown by the wind to sway left and right, and if you are not careful, the propeller of the helicopter will touch the mountain.

The pilot gritted his teeth, grabbed the joystick with both hands, pedaled the rudder, and slowly lowered the height of the helicopter, ten, five, three meters, and could not reduce the altitude.

The sloping mountain road is about to hit the propeller of the helicopter, and if that is the case, it will be the end of the plane crash and death.

"Brothers, there is no way to lower the height, immediately jump down to help the brothers at the observation deck, they are almost unbearable."

Three meters is not too high, but there is a sloping mountain road below, and it is impossible to stand at all if you jump down, and it is absolute to roll down on the mountain road, but now in such an urgent situation, these German paratroopers have no other choice.

One of the paratrooper lieutenants looked at the height outside, turned to the man behind him and said:

"I'll jump first, and the people behind me will follow in turn."

After the paratrooper lieutenant finished speaking, he "clanged", opened the door of the window, and then jumped out of the helicopter with a "whoosh", and with a "poof", the lieutenant landed on the sloping mountain road.

The wind from the helicopter's spinning propeller was so strong that the lieutenant could not stand on the sloping mountain path, so he rolled down the hill with a rumbling.

Jump down a paratrooper, roll down one, a distance of three meters, jump will definitely not fall to death, but the injury is certain, whether it will be fractured, it only depends on the luck of the individual.

After the first helicopter had jumped the paratroopers, they immediately flew to the bottom of the paratroopers' airborne landing, and the second began to repeat the maneuvers just now.

The German paratroopers who rolled down the mountain road were slightly wounded and fractured, and as long as they did not have a broken hand, they could fight, and the German troops participating in the observation deck immediately received strong support.

The German paratroopers all used automatic weapons, the most common paratroopers used P40 submachine guns, each squad also had an MG42 machine gun, and some squads also had a 50 mm mortar. (All machine guns changed to MG42)

The firepower of the British army was much worse than that of the German army at close range on this steep mountain road, and the British troops who charged towards the mountain were suddenly overwhelmed and could not raise their heads.

Even though the British charged up the hill in large numbers, the firepower of these German paratroopers was so strong that all German paratroopers used automatic weapons, powerful rifles, which were like burning sticks in such close-range fire.

The British commander Boulder lay on his back on the mountain road, his eyes glazed over, and he muttered to himself:

"It's over, it's all over, how could this damn German choose to be airborne in the weather of a sandstorm! I am not convinced ......"

The two helicopters just now quickly returned and carried out another hovering airdrop, and the great effect of the helicopters was fully revealed.

Although the FA223 is an ugly and crying garbage transport helicopter, it has no combat capability at all, but if it is used as a pure transport aircraft, as long as it is used well, it will definitely have the effect of changing the outcome of the campaign.

The British troops on the mountain road were so crushed by the German paratroopers that they could not raise their heads, and the previous sharpness of the British troops was now all released, and some of the British soldiers were already beginning to cry.

When facing death, not every man can face it calmly, not to mention that these British soldiers are not very old, and it is normal for some people to cry because of their collapse.

…… (To be continued.) )