Hans, the chief of staff, and Bismarck, the deputy commander, were busy with more than 100 staff officers every day, while Rommel took a helicopter to inspect a unit.

In Rommel's words:

"I'm going to be with my soldiers, and I'm going to let the Afrika Korps soldiers see their commander."

Rommel was on patrol at the front line, often talking and chatting with the soldiers to shorten the sense of distance between them.

The phrase "I want to be with my soldiers in everything" has long spread throughout the Afrika Korps, and Rommel has proved this sentence with practical actions.

For example, the last time Tobruk was surrounded by more than 100,000 British troops, Rommel risked his personal safety to reach Tobruk by helicopter, where he held out with thousands of German paratroopers.

All the officers and men of the German Afrika Korps are honored to be able to fight under a general like Rommel.

Although the German Afrika Korps is a newly formed unit, most of the main divisions in this force are units that have been in actual combat and have achieved brilliant results.

Under the leadership of Rommel, the morale of these troops was unprecedentedly high, and the troops were eager to fight, and many generals and soldiers wrote bloody letters asking for battle.

The greatness of the German nation lies in their honor, sacrifice, valor, loyalty, and in both world wars, he was an important participant, but they were also defeated countries, their territories were divided, their economies were facing collapse, and a large number of young and middle-aged people were killed and wounded.

But even so, less than two decades after the crushing defeat in World War I, he regained his position as one of the most powerful countries in the world.

Only 20 years after the defeat in World War II, by the end of the sixties it had regained its position as the most important economy in Europe, and today Germany is known as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.

In condemning the crimes committed by this country, we cannot but admire his tenacious vitality and enterprising spirit.

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On February 23, the air battle began.

Ever since the Air Force appeared in the battle sequence, especially since the outbreak of World War II, any battle has been fought from the air.

There was little fault with the air forces of the British and German armies, and there was little difference in quantity and quality.

The German BF109 and the American P40, P51 and the British Spitfire, there is no longer a significant gap in the performance of the fighters.

The only difference is that the German fighter pilots are all veteran pilots and have participated in countless actual battles, while the proportion of British pilots participating in actual combat is not very high.

The first air battle was not initiated by Rommel, but Montgomery first launched an air attack on Tobruk, the material concentration of the German army.

Why did Montgomery use all his air power to attack Tobruk, because there were tens of thousands of tons of various supplies captured by the Germans and the British?

Most of the supplies of the German front in North Africa came from here, and it was only a short distance of more than 100 kilometers from Tobruk to the front line.

The supplies of the British army were transported from the United States, which was thousands of miles away, and after the Americans sent all kinds of supplies to Alexandria, there was still a land distance of more than 500 kilometers before they sent all kinds of materials to the Egyptian defense line.

Montgomery is also a famous general, he is not blindly passive defense, he adopts a proactive defense strategy, which is also the most correct way to defend.

Montgomery first sent his own air force to launch a massive air raid on Tobruk with all its might.

Montgomery sent more than 600 fighters and more than 300 bombers at once.

Because the British army had blown up all the airfields around Tobruk before evacuating Tobruk.

After the withdrawal of the British troops, it took more than 20 days for the German army to build some field airfields, so the German army deployed only two aviation regiments of "BF109" on the Egyptian front, with about 320 fighters.

Among the more than 600 aircraft in the British Air Force, there are more than 100 P51 fighters, and of course, the BF109G is a little more advanced than the initial P51 model in the United States.

The maximum speed of the P51 is only more than 800 kilometers, and the best state of the "BF109" is 850 kilometers, but the "BF109G" is in a high-speed state for a long time, and the aircraft is prone to problems.

Even if the "BF109" is a little more advanced than the American P51, so many enemy planes will press on all of them at one time, which will be enough for Rommel to be extremely nervous, and the air force will be the key to victory in future battles, so we must not lose too much.

Tobruk wanted to go on the radar, and the British planes were detected more than a hundred kilometers away, so that the German planes were not destroyed on the ground.

"Woooooooooo......oo Woowoo woo ......"

As soon as the air raid sirens sounded, Major James of the 10th Air Force rushed to the planes, and these pilots were on duty 24 hours a day, and they would immediately board the plane as soon as the situation arose.

The conning tower's announcements were loud, amplified by loudspeakers, and could be heard by half the city:

"The enemy aircraft group from the southwest, the number is huge, estimated to be the size of one air corps, and the BF109 of the 1st brigade immediately took off for operation, repeating ......"

James was listening to the tower briefing as he ran, and after the first briefing, James had already run to his car, and the ground crew had already prepared ladders and were waiting for the pilots to board the plane.

James was very agile, quickly climbed into his plane, then started his plane, began to taxi, and then gradually increased the throttle, and the faster and faster plane soon took off into the air.

James was the captain of the 1st Flying Group, and his group consisted of forty "BF109s", all of which followed James in a southeasterly direction after taking off in formation.

According to the report of the tower, the attacking British army is an air force, with at least more than 900 aircraft, and the German fighters deployed on the front line are only more than 300, which means that James and they have to face three times the enemy, of course, the German planes deployed in the back will also arrive in reinforcements within an hour.

The radar on the Tobruk Fortress has a detection distance of more than 100 kilometers, and for the aircraft traveling on the opposite side, it is almost in the blink of an eye, James has always been in contact with the tower, and the altitude and route of the British aircraft James is clear.

At this time, the function of the radar completely coincided with Rommel's Eye of God, and there was no need for Rommel to use the Eye of God to provide intelligence to the Luftwaffe.

Rommel, the commander-in-chief, had little experience in air combat, so he would not meddle in the command of the air force.

"The height of the British aircraft is six thousand."

"Understood, all the brothers lifted the plane to an altitude of eight thousand meters."

"Buzz...... Buzz ......"

"Enemy aircraft spotted, below."

"Attack ...... with me"

James has always been the leader, James will never say, brothers give me, and then he is at the back, James is not the kind of commander, the first is James's honor.

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…… (To be continued.) )