In the chaotic air battle, the British bombers suffered heavy losses, but the British fighters and the German fighters were about the same in quantity and quality, and as a result, the two sides turned into a war of attrition, fighting evenly matched.

"Click...... Woowoo...... Bang bang bang ......"

The sky was raining bullets, bonfires were curling on the ground, and planes were falling like kites with broken strings.

Ten minutes later, the British bombers lost more than two-thirds, the air raid mission could not be completed, the German 10th Air Army all rushed to Tobruk, and the British surprise plan was aborted.

The British bombers began to open their magazines, dropped their ammunition indiscriminately, and then accelerated to escape, and the German fighters did not chase after them, but continued to fight with the British fighters.

The air battle over Tobruk continued to be in full swing, as Britain already had American P51 fighters.

The P51, a brand-new fighter, can be tied with the BF109 in the initial model, which shows the huge potential for improvement of the aircraft.

When Rommel learned the news that the United States P51 had entered the war, he was immediately deeply worried, and Germany had less and less advantages over other countries in terms of weapons and equipment.

Britain and the United States, which are developed capitalist countries, are desperately developing new weapons and equipment, and Germany's superiority in weapons and equipment at the present stage will soon be completely lost.

The first British air raid ended in thirty minutes, but the losses on both sides were unacceptable to each other.

The "BF109" of the 10th Air Army lost more than a hundred aircraft, the BF110 bombers lost more than a hundred, and the Germans lost more than three hundred aircraft in total.

The losses of the British army were even heavier, more than 900 British planes participated in the air raid, more than 300 returned to the airport, and the British army lost more than 600 planes, and this was only the first air raid in the war.

Montgomery hurriedly sent a telegram to Churchill explaining the serious situation here and requesting that planes continue to be sent for reinforcements, and Rommel also asked Speer for planes.

At this time, France was already mass-producing the German BF109, and the output was not low, providing Rommel with 2,000 aircraft of various types every year, and France's industrial capacity was quite strong.

For example, modern France has its own very good battles such as Mirage and Rafale, and France is not weak in the manufacture of warships, and the production capacity of tanks is not bad.

France was defeated by Germany in World War II, and France was defeated not in weapons and equipment, but in tactical thinking.

During World War II, they were still using the tactical thinking of World War I to face the blitzkrieg Germany, and they could not be defeated.

France's industrial production capacity is Rommel's greatest reliance in the future, and Hitler will definitely deploy all the weapons and equipment produced in Germany to the German army attacking the Soviet Union.

It is unlikely that the Afrika Korps will receive any reinforcements, because the Soviets will become more and more deadlocked, and the German attrition will increase day by day.

All the weapons and equipment that Rommel needed in the future could only be produced in France, and even if the soldiers were replenished, Rommel could only be recruited in European countries other than Germany.

With Rommel's great military exploits and influence, there is no problem in recruiting more than 100,000 young Germans in various European countries.

Not to mention the other international volunteers, these young people may not have joined the German Afrika Korps for the sake of faith, they simply did it to experience the blood and fire of the battlefield, simply because most of these people were militants.

Rommel's Afrika Korps already had two such divisional units at this time, the first was the Wansheng Volunteer Division, and the other was the SS Viking Panzer Division.

In this air battle, the air forces of both sides were half-crippled, and tactically speaking, the British army was the losing side, because they did not complete the task of bombing Tobruk, and Rommel's tens of thousands of tons of supplies were saved.

This victory for the Luftwaffe was also a pyrrhic one, with the German 10th Air Army losing a third of its combat aircraft.

Although the British army lost more planes than the German army, Britain could buy P51 Mustang fighters in the United States without restrictions, and the military production capacity of the United States was not comparable to that of France.

Rommel knew that Montgomery was definitely not a mediocre person, and as soon as he came up, he gave Rommel a heavy punch, which wounded the German army and the British army itself.

A lose-lose ending, the air battle in front of the Egyptian line of defense was temporarily stopped, and the artillery units began to test again.

This bombardment, however, was initiated by Rommel, because Rommel was preparing to launch an offensive three days later, and before the attack, it was necessary to destroy as many British defensive positions as possible with heavy artillery.

The artillery commanders of the divisions of the Afrika Korps, each of them received their own map of the targets of the shelling.

This shelling target map is a magnified aerial photo, and the targets to be shelled are all circled by Rommel in red, and there are also markings next to the red circles, such as ammunition depots, reservoirs, minefields, etc.

This aerial photo is more intuitive and accurate than the map, and the artillery commanders of the Afrika Korps division liked such a map of the shelling target, and they hurriedly organized personnel to calculate the shooting yuan.

The artillery battle that followed the air battle began, and thousands of German Afrika Korps artillery began to roar at the front of the Egyptian line.

The German artillery bombardment was precise and fierce, the various fortifications built by the British army were blown into the sky, the minefields were destroyed by the shelling, and the ammunition depots were turned into brilliant fireworks.

Rommel was equipped with a lot of large-caliber heavy artillery, and with Rommel's "Eye of God", all kinds of targets of the British army could not escape Rommel's detection.

Montgomery's disguise plan, in front of Rommel's "Eye of God", was actually a joke.

The British positions were filled with gunsmoke, the explosion kicked up dust, the British were hit by German artillery fire, suffered heavy casualties, the fortifications were badly damaged, and the ammunition depots on the front line were completely lost.

How to fight this battle, if Rommel continues to shell without scruples, maybe the British army will be crushed by the German artillery.

Montgomery, a famous general, was not a mediocre person, he ordered his more than 1,000 artillery guns to counterattack, and at the same time, the air force was all dispatched to destroy the German artillery positions.

Because the artillery positions of the British army were very well hidden in the early stage, many artillery positions escaped the detection of Rommel's "Eye of God", and now as soon as they were exposed, they were immediately discovered by Rommel's "Eye of God".

How could Rommel let go of the British artillery, soon the artillery target map was sent to the artillery commander, and the British artillery was miserable.

Soon after their artillery counterattack against the Germans began, they were countered by the Germans. The British artillery counterattack did not have any effect, but instead put in hundreds of cannons.

Montgomery knew that Rommel was powerful, and the German army did not fight the false target he had arranged, as if the German army had already seen through it, and the German artillery was like having eyes, specifically shelling at very important places of the British army, and the shelling was very accurate.

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…… (To be continued.) )