Of course, the long-planned operation of the Entente will not be just a surprise attack of 100 triangular javelins, and the goal of the US F-102 fleet is to contain the J-41 Raptordragon interceptors of the 31st Flight Division of the Royal Air Force.

Bigger fleets are yet to come.

Nearly 500 British "Vulcan" and American B-47 "Stratojet" bombers, escorted by the F-107 Ultimate Sabre, avoided the melee airspace of the Swiftloon and the Triangular Javelin, and headed straight for several airports on Sardinia.

Lieutenant General Long Zhou, commander-in-chief of the Allied Mediterranean Air Force in Naples, also judged the operational intention of the multinational air force from the information quickly transmitted by the Beidou system, that is, to destroy the air base on Sardinia and prevent the Allied air force from using the airfield on Sardinia to block Gibraltar's direct passage into the Mediterranean.

But this is the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean called a bathtub by the Navy and the Air Force! Such a large-scale operation of the multinational force...... Is it at any cost?

Long Zhou felt that such an action had gone out of his imagination. Long Zhou, who was born as the commander of the strategic bomber force, could hardly accept a large-scale bomber dispatch when the air forces of the two sides were equal or even slightly inferior to their own. I think that when the Imperial strategic bombers were first built to bomb Japan, they were also carried out when the Japanese Air Force suffered a devastating blow and the Japanese fighters could not catch up with the Eye of Hell.

Is the commander of the multinational force crazy or crazy?

One way or another, this was a good opportunity to massively eliminate the Entente bombers. Long Zhou immediately ordered the 9th fighter of the Royal Sicily Air Force to take off and join the air battle in Sardinia, and at the same time coordinated the D-4 Phantom aircraft group of the Italian Air Force to participate in the battle, and also divided the combat airspace with the Italian air force commander in order to avoid accidental damage.

The skies over the Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and Sicily were handed over to the Han Air Force, while the Italian Air Force was responsible for the defense of the airspace between the Spanish Balearic Islands and the French island of Corsica.

Staring at the map on the wall, Long Zhou also knew that even if there was a Beidou system that could shorten the time for information transmission, the airfield where the multinational force group took off was too close to Sardinia, and even if the Sicily Air Force 9th Army was fully prepared and could take off quickly, it would not be able to stop the first bombing of the multinational force bomber group.

In previous battles, it was the Royal Air Force that took the initiative to bomb others, and it was rare for this to be bombed by others. The time has come to test the operational standards of the air defense forces.

Pinching his nose, Long Zhou suddenly had an idea - it seems that this small action that arose from His Majesty is really helpful for thinking about problems, and its effect can be compared to that little monk in Japan drawing circles on his head.

"Since the air force of the multinational force is coming, and since we can't intercept the enemy planes with a large number of them, then the Allied airfields must be empty......"

Lieutenant General Long only hesitated for three seconds, and then immediately picked up the phone, "I am Long Zhou, I order, the bomber troops of the northern airfield of Sardinia and Sicily will take off immediately, and the target is the southern shore of the Mediterranean." The specific bombing coordinates will later be sent by the command to the ministries. ”

A whim, a hasty counterattack.

The air defense units of the Royal Air Force turned out to be brave enough and sharp enough, but far from enough in number. The previous strategy decided that the Royal Air Force had never considered defense, and went overseas to fight, let alone have too many air defense units. The air raids of the multinational forces' oversized aircraft groups made the anti-aircraft firepower of the airfields very thin, and the number of downed bombers was not too small, but they were powerless to stop the strange Vulcan bombers and B-45 Tornadoes and B-47 stratojet long-range strategic bomber groups from wreaking havoc on the airfields.

The only good news was that the early warning of the radar gave the Allied command time to respond to the air attack, and Longzhou's counterattack order allowed the bombers to avoid being blown up on the runway and hangar.

Several air bases and airports in Sardinia, Solgono, Ozieri and Pausania were damaged in the air strikes. The only fortunate thing was that the large airport built on the coast of Aranch Bay was not discovered by the reconnaissance planes of the multinational force because it was not completed in a short time.

An hour later, the Swift Dragon and Celestial Dragon fighters of the 9th Air Force began to join the air battle, but they only arrived in time to intercept the bomber group that had returned from dropping bombs over Cagliari.

It's not too late to make amends. The appearance of the fighters of the 9th Air Army, although it could not prevent the loss of the battlefield on Sardinia, was still a disaster for the multinational force bomber group returning home.

More than 200 bombers were shot down in Cagliari, and less than half of the bombers that managed to return to the airfields in Tunis and Algeria were less than half of what they were before the expedition.

But for the command of the multinational force, as long as the airfield on Sardinia is blown up, the air attack can still be considered a success. The casualty figures are already automatically filtered in their line of sight.

It's just that the front-line airfields of our side were also destroyed by bombers of the Allied Air Force, which is equivalent to another confrontation between the two sides, and our losses are a little ...... It's too big.

There's not much time to think about gains and losses. On the day of the air battle in Sardinia, another group of fighters on standby in Morocco had already begun to transfer in the direction of Tunisia and Libya.

The destruction of coastal airfields such as Tunis City forced the multinational force to launch Plan B, which was to increase the number of medium- and long-range bombers. More British three-V series medium-range bombers and American B-47s joined Operation Bright.

Just when the Allied General Command in Cairo was still analyzing why the multinational forces suddenly went berserk and played air battles regardless of the life and death of the British Army in Benghazi, the latest intelligence came, which made Jiang Yunzhi and others finally understand.

Such a massive operation on the part of the Allies was definitely not only to rescue the British Eighth Army, but also to regain control of the Mediterranean, or at least to level the previous disadvantage.

In the early morning of the second day of the air raid on Sardinia, the radar ships of the Allied Navy, which were in charge of the vigilance, once again spotted a large group of aircraft, and this time in the direction of Sicily.

The Air Force Command of the Multinational Force did not even seem to bother to change the time, and still launched air strikes in the early morning, but the size of the fleet was larger than the previous day.

The bombing of the West Coast led Roosevelt to agree to Churchill's adventurous plans. Everyone knew what it would mean if the Mediterranean Allies broke through Gibraltar and into the Atlantic.

"Seize the Mediterranean at all costs" is exactly the order that Roosevelt shouted on behalf of Roosevelt at the highest military meeting of the Churchill Entente. The joint order of the two giants led to this unprecedented and powerful operation.

None of the fleets that bombed Sicily were the ones that made yesterday's sorties. The multinational force simply prepared two air clusters to strike at the Allied forces.

To this end, they dispatched a large number of aircraft from various theaters to participate in the war. It's just a pity that the German army is fighting hard at Stalingrad, and the eyes of Air Force Commander Goering are all focused on the Don River valley. If the Luftwaffe had been able to pull out now to continue the "Eagle" program, then they would have found that it was not so difficult to occupy the skies over the English Channel.

Although the Soviet Union's jet fighter research was two years later than that of other powers, their achievements cannot be ignored. Su-7, MiG-15 and a large number of fighters imitating the J-5 were quickly mass-produced and put into the Great Patriotic War, fighting with the Luftwaffe's May-262 Swallow, D-4 Ghost and other fighters, especially the birth of the all-weather fighter Yak-25 equipped with radar, which made the Soviet Air Force not fall behind in the performance of the fighter in the battle with the Germanic Eagle. Although with the advent of the Me-283 Yellow Rose and the He-117 Black Knight, two German supersonic fighters, the maximum speed is only 0. The Mach 82 Yak-25 was also gradually inadequate, but the Soviet Air Force was researching advanced fighters while making up for the lack of performance with numbers. Just like in the ground battlefield at Stalingrad, the T-34/76 fought against the German Leopard, although the T-34's 75 mm caliber gun was difficult to penetrate the Panther's armor in the front, but the T-34's simple work continued, making it far more efficient than the Leopard in mass production.

Germany's military production was affected by the late general mobilization, which had to build a large number of submarines and air defense forces on the European continent, and could not devote all its forces to the production of the army and front-line air forces, as the Soviet Union did, resulting in the production of advanced weapons such as the Leopard tank and the Black Knight fighter not being able to increase to a satisfactory level.

The advantages of the Soviet dictatorship were undoubtedly revealed in wartime, and the Chelyabinsk Plant, the largest producer of T-34 tanks, was a locomotive factory before the war, and under the slogan "everything for the war", it switched to the production of tanks, which met the needs of the front to the greatest extent.

The Soviet Union, with its huge land area and abundant resource reserves, could not have used a war of attrition against Germany. The Battle of Stalingrad has gradually reached a stalemate from the early German army's sharp edge. In his speech to the nation, Stalin had already uttered the rhetoric of "defeating the German fascists and liberating all of Europe."

But what would be the effect of the same attrition tactics used against the Han Empire?

Jiang Yunzhi did not expect that the "poison" operation in Benghazi would have a fish hooked so quickly, and the fish was too big, far more than he expected.

Two days of massive air strikes by the multinational forces succeeded in blowing up most of the airports in Sardinia and Sicily. Some of the Allied air forces, which were caught off guard, still made a powerful counterattack, and the Allies lost more than 500 bombers and more than 300 advanced fighters in the two-day air raid.

On the Allied side, two hundred bombers were also blown up on the ground, and one hundred and four Swiftloon and Draco fighters were shot down in air combat.

In the airspace over the western Mediterranean, which the Italian Air Force was responsible, there was no multinational air force, but they encountered a combined formation of the British Mediterranean Fleet and the American Atlantic Fleet, which rushed out to face Ratuo.

The appearance of the F-2 Banshee and F-7 Sea Javelin in the United States dealt a heavy blow to the Italian air force, and the appearance of the Harrier short-take-off and landing carrier-based fighter jointly developed by Britain and the United States also ended the history of Britain not having carrier-based aircraft with excellent performance, and greatly increased the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier.

In the past, British aircraft carriers could not match the advanced naval carrier-based aircraft because of their small tonnage and short deck runway distance, so that the British fleet would suffer a great loss because of the performance of the fighters when fighting against the Italian land-based air state. The D-4 ghost exported by Dahan to Italy was an unsolvable problem for the British Navy.

The appearance of the harrier style suddenly solved the big problem of Canning's peace of mind. The FR Sea Harrier series of the GR series of air superiority in ground attack made the C Fleet, which lacked excellent carrier-based aircraft and had to avoid the battle in Gibraltar all the time, stiffen its waist again.