The British responded to the German air superiority with a surprise attack, which really hit Rommel in the soft underbelly.

Because Rommel didn't have enough planes on the front line! There were only more than 300 fighters, but they had to deal with more than 600 fighters and more than 300 bombers, and the British army was three times the strength of Rommel's air force at this time.

Rommel also had more than a hundred BF110 bombers on the front line, which must have been used against the fortifications of the British front.

Soon the bomber commander Ryan sent a request, Rommel knew that the BF110 bomber was not the opponent of the British fighters, at this time he also had to agree to the air force's request to send BF110 bombers to fight, the German fighters deployed in Merkili still have about ten minutes to arrive for reinforcements, which is a fatal ten minutes.

"Ryan, you can fight as much as you want, you don't need to ask for instructions to fight, I believe in you, may God bless you."

"Thank you, General Rommel."

"Come back alive."

“…… General, I'll do my best......"

Colonel Ryan commanded his bombers to start fighting, of course, these more than 120 bombers did not carry aerial bombs, so they were much more flexible, but compared with the fighters, the gap was still very large.

BF110 and the British fighter were the first to encounter, the bomber and the fighter rubbed against each other, the outcome can be imagined, the German BF110 heavy fighter is certainly not the opponent of the British Spitfire, but the German BF110 is not without the power to fight back.

It's just that the British Spitfire is extremely flexible, and the German BF110 is very clumsy, and in the struggle, it is often the German BF110 that is shot down, but there are also British battles that are shot down by the BF110, and the battle losses on both sides are about 3; 1.

"Aim...... Shoot...... Bang bang bang...... Woowoo woo ......"

One after another, German BF110s fell from the sky like crows on fire, and then turned into a burning bonfire on the ground, and more than a hundred BF110 heavy fighters lost extremely quickly.

In just ten minutes, two-thirds of the BF110s were shot down by the British Spitfire, but not a single BF110 escaped or flinched.

The German pilots of the BF110 bombers knew that their planes were no match for the British Spitfire, but they were still afraid to rush at the British Spitfire.

Because behind them is Tobruk, that is, tens of thousands of tons of materials piled on the ground of the other side of Tobruk City, these materials are the guarantee of hundreds of thousands of German troops in the future, and these BF110s have no way to retreat.

The remaining twenty or thirty BF110s faced hundreds of British fighters, and they had no hope of escaping. At the last moment, Ryan radioed a farewell telegram to the General Command:

"Tell the great General Rommel that I have done my best, and tell my mother that I still love him."

Rommel looked at the telegram in front of him, burst into tears, and was speechless for a long time. This is the war, where you live and die, without sympathy, without mercy, all for the honor of the soldiers, all for the sake of their respective countries.

After James returned to Tobruk Airport, he did not even get off the plane, but called over the radio to the tower:

"Call the tower, refuel and reload me."

"Don't worry! They're already running for you. ”

James turned his head to look at the end of the runway, where a fuel truck and an ammunition truck were whizzing towards him, and it seemed that the airport had made all preparations.

Then some BF109s landed one after another, and more refueling trucks and ammunition trucks rushed to the returning fighters, and BF109s refueled and loaded ammunition in ten minutes at the earliest.

And the huge fleet of British planes, which is less than ten minutes away from the Tobruk flight, means that James and them are likely to be destroyed on the ground by British planes, which is really a terrible ten minutes.

British planes began to fly at the German positions outside Tobruk, and these ground infantry positions were not the target of the British planes' bombing, their target was the airfield, and these ground positions had to wait until the German air force had eliminated them.

When these British planes flew over the German positions, the German anti-aircraft artillery began to roar.

Rommel has always been an artilleryman, his troops are equipped with a very large number of 88 guns, other units only have 4 88mm anti-aircraft guns in a division, while one of Rommel's divisions is equipped with 18 88 guns.

Now it has played a big role, and with the addition of other anti-aircraft artillery of Rommel's troops, the number is very large, and the total number is about three hundred.

There are about 18 anti-aircraft guns in the southeastern position arranged in the infantry position, and these anti-aircraft guns can not only be used to fight aircraft, but also can be used to attack infantry and British tanks, such as 88mm anti-aircraft guns, which are the "can openers" of tanks, and a single shot will go straight into the sky.

Ground-based anti-aircraft artillery began to fire heavily at these British aircraft, and all German anti-aircraft weapons were tilting ammunition at the huge fleet of British aircraft.

The shells fired by small-caliber anti-aircraft guns formed a whip of fire that stirred in the air one by one, and as long as a British plane was swept away, it was generally shot down.

The shells fired by the German large-caliber anti-aircraft guns were different, these anti-aircraft shells exploded one by one black fireworks in the air, which were beautiful and brilliant black fireworks, and of course, black fireworks that harvested life.

Hundreds of British planes crashed into Rommel's anti-aircraft position, which was Tobruk's last line of defense, and once the British planes broke through this line, Tobruk was like a beautiful woman undressed, waiting for the British planes to arrive.

At this time, one British plane after another was shot down, and these downed British planes were mainly bombers, and the British fighters were in a higher space at this time, and the bombers were full of bombs, and they could not fly high or fast at all.

There were too many British bombers, and as soon as the bombers in front were shot down, the ones behind them immediately took up their positions, and they rushed towards Tobruk without hesitation.

Although some British bombers were shot down, they still gradually broke through the positions of anti-aircraft artillery by relying on their huge numbers, and the tens of thousands of tons of materials piled up in Tobruk seemed to be doomed.

Tobruk must have hidden a British spy, this spy must be a Libyan, Rommel had just moved those supplies out of the sewers, the British army came to bomb them, the British news is too accurate.

The battlefield without the smoke of gunpowder also changes the outcome and direction of the war, there is no doubt that you have me, I have you, this is also the norm of the warring parties.

At this moment, the German fighters who took off from Merkili arrived, and more than 500 BF109s were divided into small groups of one group and one group, and they braved their own anti-aircraft artillery to directly rush into the British bomber group.

The British bomber group is now in tragedy, with raging anti-aircraft fire below, and those ubiquitous BF109s in front of and on the left and right.

One by one, the British bombers were knocked down, and the British fighters had to dive down from high altitudes to participate in the melee.

At this time, the British bomber formation was completely disrupted, and they began to scurry, they wanted to get out of this dead airspace.

…… (To be continued.) )