In the last week of June 1942, tens of thousands of tons of bombs fell on the tiny island of Malta.

This small island in the heart of the Mediterranean has always been the site of four wars, but no war in history, whether it is the rise of Arabia or the Crusade of St. John, has brought as much damage to the heart of the beautiful Mediterranean as it does today.

The counterattack of the multinational air force gradually weakened after the Han Emperor's air force was stationed in Sicily and Dante. As the Luga Air Base on the island of Malta and the Birkirkara airfield were damaged by new anti-road bombs, the Multinational Force Air Force had to retreat to Tunisia and Algeria.

The Tianlong and Xunlong fighters of the 9th and 11th armies of the Royal Air Force of the Han Dynasty gradually occupied the sky of the Mediterranean. Small fighter formations of four and eight have begun regular patrols.

After entering the jet age, the high speed of fighters makes it easy to see the large formations of hundreds of planes in the past, especially the emergence of supersonic fighters, and then requires flexible and agile fighters to form large formations, which will not only affect the tactical actions of fighters, but also often lead to accidental hits.

In the first phase of the Maltese air battle, there were a number of incidents of attacking friendly aircraft on both the Allied and Allied powers.

The Royal Air Force took the lead in responding, reducing the number of fighters from 16 to four, and then selecting targets under the command of AWACS.

In the rear, whether it is a base or an ordinary factory, the aircraft are equipped with a friend or foe identification system in the pulse radar. However, in a large-scale air battle, none of these measures can completely avoid accidental hits. When hundreds of advanced fighters are concentrated in a relatively small airspace, when both sides are equipped with advanced guided missiles, when the air is filled with gunsmoke and tracer shells are unable to dodge, and when pilots are in a state of high tension, anything can happen.

The performance of the fighter and the quality of the pilot are extremely important in such an air battle. In terms of these two, there is no significant gap between the two sides in the skies over Malta. Such an air battle is a war of attrition, and it is no longer news that many famous ace pilots have been shot down.

The Allies won't win easily! On the sixth day after the Royal Air Force joined the air battle, 211 fighters and 63 bombers were shot down, but fortunately, the Mediterranean Sea has long been full of Han and German sea wolves, and the Dongfeng-class and U-shaped submarines are absolutely completely destroyed by British and American submarines in the ship attack battle. If there is still a war between the two sides on the surface of the Mediterranean, but underwater, it must be the territory of the Allies.

Thanks to the efforts of the Han and German submariners, most of the Allied pilots who were shot down and parachuted were successfully rescued. But within a week, the number of killed and missing in the RAF still reached more than three hundred. More than half of them were flight crews of bombers.

This figure made the eyes of Lieutenant General Long Zhou, commander of the bomber unit of the Royal Air Force, jump. Needless to say, during the bombing of Japan, it was a daily routine flight training, but in the months of Hawaii's bombing of the West Coast of the United States, only a few hundred pilots were killed. This to the Mediterranean, the first week was so much lost.

Of course, the losses of the Royal Air Force were worth it, the Multinational Force Air Force was forced to retreat, and even in the ensuing air battle in Tunisia, the counterattack of the Multinational Force Air Force was no longer as sharp as before. Often even the joint patrols of the Tianlong fighters and the small teams of the Italian ghost fighters are ignored, and no longer send interceptors to fight each other. He said that the US military's triangular javelins had long been exhausted in a week's air battles, and that the current multinational air force had no good way to deal with the high-speed cruising Swift Dragon.

Especially when the United States still has to deploy a large number of triangular javelins on the west coast to prevent strategic air attacks, even Luo Cripple cannot come up with more triangular javelins to devote to the air battle in the Mediterranean. Even the F-107 Ultimate Sabre, another type of Sabre that reaches the speed of sound, has just begun mass production, and the number of factories has not had time to make up for the losses on the battlefield.

In six days of air battles, 565 aircraft were shot down, and with the previous losses of the Italian Air Force, more than 600 fighters crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, a speed that made the Americans with deep pockets ...... Nima, which country can produce more than a hundred aircraft in a day? This is not a propeller that can fly with a bamboo dragonfly, this is a sonic aircraft that combines advanced avionics and fire control systems.

The war has evolved into a confrontation between the strength of the Han and American military industries. The military industrial capacity of other small partners is negligible, and even the UK is completely soy sauce in terms of the production capacity of advanced fighters, not to mention others?

Explode airplanes, explode tanks, explode warships...... In other words, the Red Alert battle is in the late stage, isn't that how it is played?

The Yanhuang steamer convoy in the Indian Ocean has never been interrupted, and the base for the expedition to Xitai has become a busy naval base in the world -- the base personnel who are busy just recovering the Yanhuang ship are on all fours.

"Than consumption, who are we afraid of?"

His Majesty of Wei Qingge smiled lewdly, and threw a few stills of Monroe's half-fruit into the drawer. "Tell Long Zhou, don't feel sorry for the plane! Drop one, I'll add two to him. Let Guan Canghai send all the submarine forces, don't be afraid of not enough! Thirty Dongfeng-class ships should have arrived in the Seychelles. Then send a telegram to Hans and Xiao Guoxing, and ask the two of them what they are doing? Are there beauties to see in the desert of Libya? , me, kill Eisenhower......"

Playing Red Alert, who doesn't understand, is afraid of being attacked by someone when the base is developed in the early stage, and in the later stage, when there are as many planes as dogs and tanks everywhere, there is a war of attrition, and WHO is afraid of WHO?

The current majesty is very bullish, and the current majesty is very excited...... The beauty has an appointment, and you can taste the beauty again tonight, it is a rare stunner, and ...... Some celebrity effects.

Monroe's private life in her previous life was erosive...... Among the famous stars in Hollywood, which one is not erosive?

Legend has it that Monroe and the President of the United States still have many scandals, and His Majesty is very suspicious, "Just Luo Cripple, the goods with cerebral hemorrhage, just him...... Or Truman? "Of course, in this life, Monroe, who came to South China with Aunt Anna at the age of 15, has nothing to do with the President of the United States, but ...... Zhong Yi suddenly looked down at himself, it seems that this girl really has the destiny of the dragon!

"Today is a good day, everything you want can come true, tomorrow is a good day, the time of the daughter can't wait, today and tomorrow are good days......" His Majesty, who walked out of the office with square steps, hummed a song, and didn't see the little face of the female secretary outside the door at all.

Since moving out of Jinhua Hall in a fit of anger and living in Weiqing Pavilion, His Majesty's small life has been quite good. Moreover, it is well received by the public.

The day is as good as the ancient Dayu, and the night stay in the public pavilion is to promote the Han Dynasty!

Zou Taofen, editor-in-chief of the South China Daily, the empire's most widely circulated newspaper, personally wrote the headline on the front page, announcing His Majesty's diligence and giving him 32 likes at once.

The Son of Heaven worries about the country, the soldiers serve their lives, and the Han Dynasty is prosperous, why not do it?

The "Guards Daily" even published in a large format the deeds of His Majesty's stay in the Weiqing Pavilion and his day and night attention to the front-line war, which suddenly aroused the enthusiasm of the front-line soldiers to bravely kill the enemy and swear to serve the country to the death. "Bitter or not, think about Your Majesty's diligence and surpassing my generation, whether you are tired or not, think about how much Your Majesty suffers alone." A slogan similar to this was widely circulated at the front, "Fight for the Great Han, Fight for the nation, Your Majesty is with us!" "This kind of patriotic education is basically spontaneous.

"The boss is mighty, and the girls are so earth-shattering, and the coquettish is endless!"

Zhiqiu Island, Jakarta, the Governor's Office of the Imperial Nanyang Colonial Region, Governor Qian Zhihao couldn't help but give a thumbs up after reading the latest newspaper, "Nima, this is the gap, that's why the boss is the highest commander, why am I still a ...... Senior colonel! ”

Such a big publicity momentum caught His Majesty a little off guard, and secretly scolded a few times that this Leng Yun was really bad, and he didn't dare to go against His Majesty openly, and he actually came up with this trick to vent his girlfriend's anger!

The general trend is the same, and His Majesty has to show his spirit and put on a posture. In other words, the recent military affairs have indeed been enough for His Majesty to be busy. In the Battle of Central Asia, Ye Weixun and Chen Shukang's Far Eastern Front Army pressed forward step by step, with the cooperation of the White Russian Army and the Dongying Army, the front had been pushed to the Yenisei River Valley, and Chen Shukang's Left Route Army entered Kazakhstan after recovering Tangnu Ulianghai, and the forward division of the Youzhou Army created a small massacre in Ust-Kachonogorsk.

"I'll go, what's this name!" Speaking of Lao Maozi's place names, not to mention letting His Majesty remember them, even if they read it, they almost bite their tongues.

After the Youzhou Army conquered the small city of Uszsk, because the local Bolsheviks organized the residents to join the street fighting, the forward division was furious, surrounded the city with tanks and armored vehicles, and fired nearly 1,000 special shells into the city with the 155-mm self-propelled howitzers of the divisional artillery regiment! To put it bluntly, it's a gasoline egg. With the large amount of fuel that had been poured into the city before the troops were ignited, the entire town was shrouded in fire and black smoke.

The 10,000-strong troops of the entire division built improvised fortifications outside the city, and the soldiers and queens lay behind sandbags and leisurely shot the "Soviet troops" who ran out of the city due to the fire.

The order given by the division commander was that the Soviet Red Army lost the dignity of soldiers, shamelessly took off its military uniform, and wanted to break through the siege by dressing up as civilians.

"The heroic Han Imperial Army, of course, can't let it escape." Wang Tiehan said in his investigation report to Commander-in-Chief Ye Weixun.

Although it is a bit cruel, but in war, can such incidents be few? We can't use the lives of our soldiers to show the so-called justice and mercy, right?

What is Justice? It is justice that is won. What is Kindness? Well, we'll be merciful after the battle......

His Majesty didn't care too much about this "little incident", but just scolded with a smile, "Wang Tiehan, this kid, is shameless enough, but ...... I like it! ”

On the Mediterranean front, three lieutenant generals of the former enemy's three-member command group, Xiao Guoxing, Guan Canghai, and Long Zhou, jointly issued a letter: In view of the inability of the multinational air force to respond in recent days, our unit plans to launch a campaign to seize the island of Malta in the near future.

Seeing this document, His Majesty smiled on his face and thought about it seriously.

The battle in the Mediterranean did not directly strike a thunderous blow with a powerful offensive of multi-arms joint operations, as was the case in the previous "Thunder" operation, but was the first to engage the enemy by the air force, and even did not hesitate to wear off the air superiority of the multinational forces in a war of attrition. This is because the strategic location of the Maltese Islands is so important.

In the previous life, the German and Italian armies suffered here for more than two years, until Rommel was completely destroyed in Africa, and failed to touch Valletta, the capital of Malta and the location of the British naval base.

Lessons from the past, Zhong Yi can't help but take the battle of seizing the island very seriously. In the eyes of His Majesty, Malta is a point, and as long as Malta is taken, the multinational force will have to retreat to the defensive.