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The fleet was expected to enter the Gulf of Aden on the morning of the eighth day. In the early morning of the same day, Li Guang woke Smith out of the bed. After a little exchange with Smith, he gave the order.

Major Smith was full of emotion, the Naval Resistance Force is allies, and there is also a buy-one-get-one-free offer, which is not only to escort due diligence, but also to take the initiative to undertake combat missions outside of duty.

This style did not appear at all in the British army, and the French army was definitely within the scope of the work and had to be resigned.

At three o'clock in the morning, twelve P40 fighters, six C47 bombers, and nine water reconnaissance planes took off simultaneously from land and warships.

At half past five, twenty-seven warplanes arrived over Mogadishu airport. The Italians were still asleep and defenseless.

The fighter squadron of the Naval Resistance Air Force was formed for an extremely short period of time, with only five or six pilots in the battle of Shixiang Island in March, and by October it had 50 pilots.

If these pilots talk about the level of air combat, they don't have much to show off. However, two officers, Liu Gensheng and Yuan Yin, believed that in the battle of Shixiangdao in March, the results of the fighter squadron were obviously inferior to those of the bomber squadron led by Liu Guobang, and they were deeply ashamed.

In order to wash away this shame, the two of them are very strict about the training of pilots. The fighter squadron of the Naval Resistance Force cannot be said to have any other technology, but there are two technologies that can be regarded as mastery -- dive bombing and dive strafing.

For the Gulf of Aden, for East Africa, and for Somalia, Li Guang was most impressed by the pirates and the escort of the Chinese Navy in the Gulf of Aden. Unexpectedly, in this war-torn era, the Maritime Resistance Army also took on the task of escorting ships in the Gulf of Aden.

The Italians have occupied Somalia since World War I. Mogadishu Airport, which has been operating in Italy for many years, is quite good in both planning and defense. But no matter how good the hardware is, it can't stop the Italians from being careless. There were simply not a few officers on duty at the entire airport, and the Italian military was now organizing troops to confront British troops on the Somali and Kenyan borders, not expecting the slightest air force to cross the ocean to bomb the Mogadishu airport.

From Yemen to Mogadishu, the distance is definitely not close, a full 800 kilometers. The Italians simply did not expect a fighter plane to strike from such a distance. You know, this is still a straight line distance, if you take a detour over the land, it will be more than 1,000 kilometers. The Italian Air Force did not have such flight experience, nor such long-range fighters, not even the British.

For the Naval Resistance Force, the prototype of the P40 fighter has a range of only 1,100 kilometers, but the range easily exceeds 1,300 after the addition of ailerons, and it can fly 1,800 kilometers with the addition of auxiliary fuel tanks, while the transport aircraft can easily fly 2,400 kilometers. Seaplanes are simple enough to take off off off from the sea near Mogadishu.

But this is just hardware, and to be able to carry out such cross-sea operations, there is one technology that is indispensable, that is, the simple directional antenna technology of the Maritime Resistance Army. Without such technology, it is not at all surprising that fighters on the sea are disoriented. This is also the reason why the Maritime Resistance Forces arrived in Mogadishu at half past five in the morning---- Italian radio station in Mogadishu did not start broadcasting until five in the morning, which was the navigation signal of the Maritime Resistance Forces.

When twelve P40 fighters appeared over the airfield, none of the Italians reacted at all. In five minutes, in just five minutes, twelve fighters dropped all the bombs in one round of dive. Due to the long run, the fighter was only carrying a 60-pound aerial bomb. However, the power of these twelve aerial bombs in the hands of the fighter pilots of the Naval Resistance Army was considerable.

Under the first round of attacks, the runway of the airport was suddenly blown to pieces, and several warplanes on the runway had become a blazing fireball.

Subsequently, nine water reconnaissance planes also bombed the antiaircraft artillery position next to the airport in a dive.

But it was not these that hurt the Italians the most, but the six transport planes (bombers) that came later.

Amid the terrible sound of air raid sirens, Italian pilots and ground crews rushed to the gun positions or fighter planes. But it was too late, many of the gun emplacements had been completely destroyed, and the runway of the airport was so potholed that it was difficult to take off.

In the minutes that followed, the Italians received a fatal blow. They watched as groups of small parachutes floated out from under the bellies of one large transport plane after another.

The parachute floated in the air, like dandelions flying in the sky. The dense dandelions are like a shade of the sun, but these beautiful little flowers bring a terrifying effect.

Hundreds or thousands of 60-millimeter mortar shells fell within the airfield area, and this kind of explosion was even more terrifying than the bombs dropped by fighter planes, and a bomb dropped by a bomber could cover a radius of 2 or 300 meters, and although mortar shells could not destroy strong fortifications, it was impossible for people and planes to survive in the coverage area. It's hard for ordinary buildings to withstand such intensive bombardment.

The Italian soldiers watched as the bomber dropped a bomb that could cause yellow sand to rise within two football fields, and the psychological shock of the explosion had taken a back seat, and the spectacular sand and dust were even more terrifying to the Italian soldiers. Can anyone survive the sand and dust rising into the sky? There was no answer, and the sight in front of them had already frightened everyone.

And the disaster of the Italians was not once, six fighters, a total of twelve covering strikes. Such a blow is not precise, but thousands of mortar shells, more than ten tons of ammunition are a devastating blow for an airfield.

When the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army evacuated, the area around the airport was in a mess, and if a stranger arrived, it would be difficult to see that this was an airport.

The battle of the Naval Resistance Air Force was really beautiful, and the Italian Air Force was not able to take off even a single fighter, and more than 20 fighters were destroyed. The loss of airfield appurtenances and casualties was even more severe.

Li Guang looked at the photos of the results of the bombing and was very satisfied, and the Italians could not organize an air force after ten or eight days of such destruction.

There are not many airports in East Africa, there is not even one airport in British Somalia, and there is one airport in Djibouti in France, but no fighter planes were found in aerial reconnaissance in the past few days. Eritrea, north of Djibouti, has several airports in Italy. It was the main force of the confrontation between the Italian army and the British, and it was much more heavily defended than in Somalia.

The Navy's resistance forces have just arrived in Yemen, and the entire air force has not been idle for so many days before completing the operational plan for the attack on Mogadishu. Attacks on other airfields in Italy were not sufficient, either in terms of intelligence or operational preparation. What's more, even if there is an air force in those places, it can no longer endanger the fleet of the naval resistance army. However, Li Guang did not intend to let it go, and was ready to name the Italian airport when the conditions were ripe. War is done at all costs, and nipping danger in the bud is the best choice.

The air force of the Naval Resistance Army succeeded in striking a blow, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted. Li Guang ordered that as long as the weather permitted, aerial reconnaissance should be carried out every day, and once the Italians were found repairing the airfield, they would bomb it immediately. In particular, several Italian seaports along the Gulf of Aden allowed the Naval Resistance Air Force to strike freely.

There are British people who provide military spending, and Li Guang is very willing. It is absolutely certain that the Naval Resistance Air Force will train and run in on such a low-intensity battlefield and rapidly improve its technical and tactical level.

Without the interference of the Italian Air Force, several small boats of the Italian Navy would not show their heads at all, and the Germans armed merchant ships would have hid far away. In short, the first escort, the Naval Resistance Army completed without suspense.

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