Salalah.

British, French and German warplanes crackled and fell from the sky, and Sultan Temur bin Faisal was really a little thin. He had no idea at all that the outcome of the air battle would be such one-sided.

Obviously, the Chinese planes in the sky are less than half of the fighters of Britain, France and Germany, but the injured are always 'Britain, France and Germany'!

At least 100 planes were shot down by the Chinese.

Sultan Temur bin Faisal returned to the basement in frustration, much to his disappointment. Yesterday he received news that there were air battles in Tagai, Hauf, Millbat and other places, and without exception, the losers were all Britain, France and Germany. Sultan Temur bin Faisal had been terrified, and it was not yet 10 o'clock today that he witnessed a crushing defeat of the British, French and German forces in Salalah.

"Send people to gather the pilots on both sides, and no one is allowed to harm any of them, including the hateful Chinese."

Rather than waiting for the Egyptian side to send a telegram to him to save the British, French, and German pilots, Sultan Temur bin Faisal himself preemptively gave such an order, and cleverly extended the protection to the entire group of pilots, including the Chinese.

Sixteen of the British's newly manufactured Wildbee fighters took off from the runway in turn, circled over the airfield, and climbed to an altitude of 2,500 meters. Then it heads east, climbing and flying straight over.

The current Gulf of Aden is a very, very dangerous area for the pilots of these three countries. The rapid reaction fleet, which had not yet reached Salalah, was called back by a telegram from Aden in the middle of the road.

Britain, France and Germany have a large number of fighters and have more eyeliners. It is possible to know the area and direction of the Chinese aircraft group in the quickest, but in many battles on the front line of the Gulf of Aden. But it has always been in an absolute disadvantage. The situation has been more difficult than anyone expected and is far from comparable to the battlefield in Somalia.

Brian led the wild bees at an altitude of about 2,500 meters. Slowly and leisurely over the golden desert one after another. Brian was a pilot who had been transferred directly from England to the Middle East, and he had never seen such a vast desert before coming to the Middle East.

Before engaging Chinese planes, Brian's favorite thing to do was fly over the desert on a sunny day.

Now, of course, he is not. The air battle that took place along the coast of the Gulf of Aden made every pilot of the Triple Alliance tremble. In the frequent air battles, every time the fighters of both sides were mixed in, there were no less than 500 fighters on both sides, and every time the news brought back to the joint forces of Britain, France and Germany was undoubtedly a fiasco!

The Brian squadron was supposed to have 24 fighters. Now that three new pilots have been added, the entire squadron now has only 16 aircraft in the air, and there is no need to say how heavy the casualties are. As a second lieutenant in the aviation before the war, Brian was absolutely not qualified to be a squadron leader, but the heavy casualties removed one 'competitor' after another for him, and Brian, who was only 22 years old, is now sitting on the throne of squadron leader without any suspense. He wasn't happy about it at all!

Two hours later, the vast desert had disappeared from view. Below is a green meadow with low trees growing here and there, and the local aboriginal rooms are dotted on the ground.

Now that the residential area has appeared below. That would mean entering the zone of engagement.

Now that large-scale air battles can no longer be fought, the air forces of the three countries, which have been defeated repeatedly, are unwilling to fight again, and the generals such as Jericho are also unwilling to fight anymore, and the capital in their hands will be gone if they continue to fight. How will we protect the Gulf of Aden when the time comes?

No one thinks that a large number of dreadnoughts can sink the Chinese's aircraft carriers. There were too many submarines in the entire battlefield, and as soon as the fleet attacked, they would be observed by submarines. If you continue to attack, you don't have another purpose. It's to find your own death.

Now the Europeans can only deal with the Chinese fleet with passive defensive warfare, and the British envoy has long arrived in Salalah. Persuade Sultan Temur bin Faisal to leave the dangerous seaport city and return to his capital, Muscat. And promised all his losses. The British Empire would pay him a pound long.

Brian and his fleet raised the altitude to 3,500 meters, and their mission was to patrol the sentry and inspect the safety of the point. If they encounter Chinese fighters, they will pounce on them if there are few of them.

The combat power could not be modified to carry a radio station, and all they could get was the hint given by the Arabs on the surface. These Arabs, who fought with the British, French and German alliances, were of course the fruits of the labor of the British Empire.

The British Empire pledged its 200 years of credibility in the Middle East for the support of the Imam of Muscat and the support of Sultan Temur bin Faisal. But whether this kind of mortgage can be recovered, none of them really dare to guarantee it.

Brian was relieved to see the third set of safety signals he had shown along the way from the desert to the farming area. Ahead was Nishton, who had twice encountered Chinese planes in this place in previous battles, and each time he had narrowly escaped survival. So after receiving today's task, he asked the lieutenant colonel's cousin of the staff department to help check the data of the Nishton air battle after the end of the war, and found that the coalition fighters cruising to Nishton had a 33 percent chance of encountering the Chinese, and in all the battles that encountered Chinese fighters, the number of Chinese fighters remained above 20 percent with a 50 percent chance.

As a result, there is a 20% chance that the Nishtun patrol fleet will be wiped out, and a large part of all the statistics will be passed on by the local Arabs. It's a statistic that makes Brian creepy and he has to come!

Long flights are a boring thing, and there is no radio communication for instant communication in this era, so there are ways for pilots to talk to each other. All of them can only keep flying on the course, while either looking around boredly, or simply remembering what is on their minds.

The two pilots flying in front began to swing their wings. It's a sign -- Nishton is coming. Brian quickly concentrated and observed the air around him—around here. The odds of encountering Chinese fighters are too high. He gave the signal, and half of the fighters climbed upward. The altitude of 5,000 meters is also close to the limit of the Wild Hornet.

However, the surroundings were quite calm, and there was no shadow of Chinese fighters in the most threatening positions. Brian's concern now is that the Chinese fighter jets are hiding in the clouds or in a higher position.

Compared with the early days of the war, the aircraft climbed two or three thousand meters, and now the fighters are not afraid of 5,000 meters. This height can be reached by the Wild Hornet fighters, and there is no reason why the Chinese fighters that are closer to the Wild Hornet fighters cannot reach it. Although their flight altitude is often maintained at an altitude of 4000 meters.

The wild bees began to speed up. Everyone turned the engine horsepower to the maximum value, and the sound of the engine that was already violent was more like it was about to explode in the next moment, and the hum was terrifying. No one wants to increase the speed after seeing the Chinese fighters. To survive, you'll have to be as fast as you can the moment you touch them.

At this moment, a wild bee in front of Bryan suddenly broke the silence, it shook its wings, and at the same time the pilot fired three red flares in a row, indicating that it had encountered an enemy aircraft, which indicated that the situation was urgent.

9 o'clock!

Brian quickly found the enemy, and thankfully, there was still some distance between them. But the tragedy is that the enemy has 12 fighters, 8 in front of them are rushing towards their side, and there are 4 guards in the rear.

The 8 Chinese fighters are like 8 black dots that are rapidly magnifying in front of their eyes, and they have quickly changed from knowing the size to the size of a sparrow. These Chinese planes apparently spotted Brian them. So I hurried over.

They weren't afraid of the enemy.

On the contrary, every enemy must fight, which is the same pride as the Royal Navy of the British Empire. It is deeply engraved in the bones of Chinese pilots. Not to mention that now they have 12 fighters, even if there are only two fighters. They will also be rooted without hesitation.

"The Chinese pilots really ...... It's amazing. Brian thought silently. Under the condition of such an absolute superiority, under the influence of the tradition of fighting every enemy. The Chinese can still leave 4 fighters to sweep the formation, such an opponent, even the enemy cannot be insulted.

Underestimating the enemy is the pilot's worst enemy, and prudence is their best friend.

But now is not the time to sigh, as the supreme commander of the formation, Brian must take the lead to meet it, or take the lead in fleeing back. He had to make a decision!

Brian chose to attack without hesitation. As a citizen of the city of London, the heart of the British Empire, Brian's innate pride overwhelmed the fear of his death in this moment.

The final result is self-evident, all eight of Brian's fighters were lost, and only two of the eight Chinese fighters on the opposite side were injured.

Eight-on-eight! Yes, this war is the war of 8Vs8. The four fighters that were pressed by the Chinese side were not involved, and the eight fighters that flew to a higher altitude on the British side did not even show their faces.

Brian, who had parachuted from the crash, had time to think about it at this time: why did the other 8 fighters of the squadron never show up?

Brian, who was floating like a dandelion in the sky, his face was so hideous and terrifying at this moment, he swore that as long as he could go back alive, he would definitely take revenge, and he would definitely let those cowards know what punishment was!

The eyes of the world are focused on the war in the Gulf of Aden, and the advantages and disadvantages of both sides are clear. At present, it seems that the Chinese navy has reversed its declining trend and is striving for more obvious strategic superiority little by little. At the same time, the main fleet sent troops to the Gulf of Aden, and a large number of warplanes kept bombing and sweeping the northern shore of the Gulf of Aden.

The British, French, and German coalition forces occupy an indisputable advantage in terms of geography and people, and there are so many fighters, but they are not even half cheap, and every air battle ended in the defeat of the three alliances, and the situation is worse than that of Somalia. Naturally, it can't stop the fall of the war situation.

At this time, all the people in the world suddenly discovered that the era of giant ships and cannons had really passed. The combined navy of Britain, France and Germany had such a powerful surface combat capability, but because it could not be kept secret, it was locked in the Gulf of Aden. There is no place for the powerful hand-to-hand combat ability!

Japan's Asahi Shimbun used a large number of textual maps and analysis to interpret the ongoing war in detail, comparing the European fleet, which was powerful in close combat, to the European knights of 700 years ago, and the Chinese fleet, which had aircraft carriers as its main combat strength, to the Mongolian iron cavalry of the year. Because of cognitive errors, these Japanese regarded the victory of the Mongol expedition to the west as the victory of the Mongol cavalry. So it is very 'appropriate' to make such a analogy: the Mongols used the Mangu method of warfare to hang the whole of Europe, and now the Chinese use aircraft carriers to hang the whole of Europe, the two are extremely similar, aren't they?

Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" only has some influence in Tokyo Japan, and it is the same in the entire Oriental world. If such a statement were published in Ta Kung Pao or Huaxia Daily, Europeans would certainly bring out N more historical materials and spray them at the East. But a Japanese newspaper is not at all.

The whole of Europe is now nervously watching the air battle in the Gulf of Aden, and now that the Chinese have completely occupied the advantage of the eastern coast of the Gulf of Aden, will they also land and build an airfield? In that case, the whole situation of the war would be even more unfavorable to the Triple Alliance.

Sure enough, after the Chinese fighters firmly controlled the air supremacy in Salalah and other places, the elite marines were bloodless in the Gulf of Curiamuria. It's a big bay right next to Salalah [to the east]. Although it is still a thousand kilometers away from Aden. But as long as China has a firm foothold on the shore, their powerful national power will be mobilized, and a steady stream of planes will be sent to the peninsula.

The threat of this 'heel' is in no way less than that of the Somali air base. The Europeans did not allow the Chinese Navy to gain a foothold in Somalia, and they could not allow the Chinese Navy to gain a foothold in the Gulf of Curiamuria.

"Tell Temur bin Faisal that if he is willing to call on the tribes to wage jihad against the Chinese, all the land north of Yemen is the territory of the Faisal family."

The British paid a lot of money for Timor Ben Faisal, and their previous calculations were all bulldozed, and now they can only parry. In addition to the desperate attack of the submarine force every day, the only way to win over the local natives is to try to win them over.

Of course, their rear is also working hard to produce aircraft, train pilots, and do their best to continuously deliver planes and pilots to the front line. It's just that it doesn't seem to be of much use, Britain, France and Germany have the industrial capacity to build enough planes, but they don't have so many pilots.

In World War I aviation, it was much easier to build an airplane than to train a pilot. The Europeans have tried their best to train pilots in recent years, but they can't match the speed at which pilots are lost. (To be continued.) )