In modern warfare, there are very few opportunities to show one's bravery. For example, in the era of the Three Kingdoms of the ancient Han Dynasty, it is difficult to see the scene of brave warriors prancing on horses and thousands of troops and riding alone.

When all kinds of high-tech equipment came out, even the role of the commander in battle changed dramatically. The supreme commander of a strong army does not need to dictate to the front-line commanders and fighters, and do a good job in the coordination and supply of all the participating troops, and the real battle is actually determined in the plan.

In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, the "Surgery" strike group did not fly directly to Gibraltar over the sea, but chose the airspace over the inland city of Murcia in Spain as the airspace for the assembly.

On the naval side, two "Eagle" squadrons, three "Brute Dragon" squadrons, and several surface rescue fighters participated in the battle; On the Air Force, two "Raptor" squadrons, two "Weilong" squadrons, and 12 "Helleye" and three "Spinosaurus" early warning planes joined the group.

The strong lineup made the Spanish Defense Force officer in charge of ground contact dumbfounded, "I know that the Han Navy and Air Force are powerful, but this is too scary!" I am afraid that the multinational forces in the whole of Africa will not be able to come up with so many advanced fighters now. ”

How can a small country and a small country understand the huge effort required by the great Han Zhongxing. If the pilots of the Han army knew that the Spanish officers on the ground were amazed at the strength of the strike group, they would have laughed at him as a frog at the bottom of a well.

These more than 200 fighters are indeed the most advanced fighters, but in terms of quantity, the strike fleet is less than one-fifth of the Empire's air surface in the Mediterranean theater......

At exactly 5:50 a.m., the commander of the operation of the Acanthosaurus early warning aircraft received an order to "take immediate action" from the Zhongmou Shangguan Canghai General. No one noticed that after receiving the report, Commander Guan gave this order, with an interval of nearly ten minutes.

At 6:18 a.m. on March 28, 1943, J-15A "Eagle" fighters and G-41C "Brute Dragon" fighters carrying out the first attack mission flew to the airspace 50 nautical miles away from Gibraltar in two ways. And in front of them, there is the Royal Air Force's fleet of "Raptors".

The black-painted raptor's wings are mighty and hideous, and the five-clawed golden dragon -- this is a squadron of "raptors" belonging to the Weiyang Palace's air special service, and as His Majesty's air bodyguards, they flew from Chang'an to the Mediterranean Sea for a long distance to carry out "surgical" operations.

"The best pilots should show their value on the battlefield, not stay in Weiyang Palace to waste their time!"

Zhong Yi has repeatedly emphasized that he does not need to keep so many elite troops around him. If we talk about safety, is there a safer place in the world than Chang'an, the imperial capital?

In the Indian Ocean, in the Pacific Ocean, there is simply no enemy that can threaten the South China continent. Chang'an City, located in the middle of the mainland, is also guarded by Queens, known as the world's most mysterious military forbidden land.

"If there is an enemy that can threaten the imperial capital, it means that our troops around the world have been defeated. If that's the case, what's the use of Chang'an keeping more troops? ”

It was at His Majesty's insistence that the important "blinding" operation in the Battle of Gibraltar would be carried out by the "Raptors" squadron of the Royal Special Service, which was also the only unit with experience in firing "tongue-sticking penguin" missiles.

Weapon designation: Tongue-sticking Penguin-2 anti-radar missile

Construction funds: 220,000

Bullet length: 3. 05 meters;

Weight: 177 kg;

Bullet diameter: 203 mm;

Wingspan: 706mm;

Range: 28. 8 km;

Flight speed: Mach 2;

Warhead: Explosive fragmentation warhead;

Warhead weight: 47. 5 kg;

Construction time: 45 minutes;

Description: An air-to-surface anti-radar missile, the tongue-sticking penguin may receive radio waves radiated by the enemy's air defense radar, without emitting electromagnetic waves itself, and guide the flight of the missile according to the orientation and parameters of the air defense radar.

As early as 1941, the Tongue Penguin-1 has been successfully developed, but the frequency searched by its seeker has been adjusted to a fixed range, so once the enemy deploys a radar with different frequencies, it is necessary to develop a different seeker. Secondly, the seeker of the Tongue Penguin-1 cannot rotate in all directions, and the field of view is fixed and quite limited, so the first generation of "Tongue Penguins" needs to be perfectly aimed at enemy radars before they can detect it. Even so, as soon as the enemy's radar is turned off in time, the tongue-sticking penguin will immediately trip and enter a state of untargeted ballistic movement.

Until the second generation of the protruding Penguin was developed, a seeker capable of searching for multiple channels was installed, and a white phosphorus target designator was introduced in the warhead to mark the point of impact.

After several experiments, the Tongue-Sticking Penguin-2 was allowed to enter service. His Majesty gave a special instruction, "The existence of the Tongue Penguin-2 is listed as the highest level of the Imperial Army's secrets." The outermost pylons of one of the Royal Air Service Squadron's "Raptor" squadron fighters were also specially modified to be able to launch the open-ground Penguin-2.

In the dark, it all seems to be preparing for the Banguin-2 air-to-surface anti-radar missile to face the Ratuo head-on.

The British army's defense in Gibraltar has always focused on the sea, and the defense in the isthmus area has been dominated by underground fortifications. Gibraltar's small area of less than six square kilometres also determined that it was overly concentrated in important targets such as radar stations, airfields and headquarters.

This greatly facilitated the air strikes of the Allied forces.

Less than a minute after the British radar station on the top of the rocky hill received the signal and urgently notified the "Lightning" on standby at the airport to take off and intercept it, the "Raptor" squadron of the special service unit had already taken advantage of the excellent performance of the ground-based tracking radar to rush into the attack range of northern Gibraltar at a low altitude, and before the main attack group behind launched a strike, it launched 32 Penguin-2s with sticking out tongues, destroying the British radar station on the top of the rocky hill and at the end of the runway of the airport in the first place.

It was not at all expected that the Han army actually had missiles specifically aimed at radar, and the air defense system of the British army fell into a semi-paralyzed state in a very short time. In the ensuing defense, a large number of anti-aircraft artillery groups in the fortress could only rely on visual inspections to counterattack.

This greatly restricted the air defense capability of the British army, and the four lightning planes that took off urgently did not play a big role under the blows of the eight Raptors that had been on guard above the aircraft group. In the face of the tracking speed of the Fire Phoenix-8 air-to-air missile above Mach 4, the maximum speed of Mach 2 of the lightning is not enough to see, and the British air kings who have played a prestigious role in the air over the English Channel are obviously extremely unsuitable for the locking performance of the Fire Phoenix-8.

Under the command of the "Spinosaur" early warning aircraft, the four Fire Phoenix-8 bombs fired by the "Raptor" fighters of the Royal Special Service were all shots, shooting down the last hope of the British Air Force and the last hope of the United Kingdom.

At the same time that the special service squadron had completed the "blinding" operation and suppressed the British air defense system, the Allied strike aircraft group, which consisted entirely of high-speed fighters, had launched attacks on its intended targets from the land north of Rock Hill and the sea surface of the Strait of Gibraltar.

On the sea, the first formation of the carrier-based aircraft group fired nearly 100 air-to-surface missiles of the Hung Penguin-3 and Long-crested Penguin-6 at the British coastal defense artillery positions. The second formation, composed of more "Brute Dragon" attack planes, braved the still dense anti-aircraft firepower to break through the British air defense positions at low altitudes and accurately hit the headquarters of the British army, the Gibraltar Governor's Palace, with more than 10 Ruby-2 laser-guided missiles.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally made up his mind to follow the ancestral teachings to be loyal to the King of England, and paid with his life for his hesitation.

Although the king's telegram had been sent to Nanhua overnight, Zhong Yi had no intention of terminating the "surgical operation" that had already begun. The British Home Fleet had already broken through the naval blockade of the Air 11th Army and the Italian Air Force and bypassed Portugal to reach Gibraltar, which did not take much time.

Because the words of a distracted British officer terminate the operation, and even pay a greater price in subsequent operations. Zhong Yi didn't think it was good news, and the urgent telegram from the Grand Duke of Windsor was sent into a paper ball, which popped up gently, but it happened to hit the secretary of Wu who pushed the door in.

"Instigation, this is absolute instigation!" Wu Jiayi forgot what she was going to do when she came in, and kicked her white boots hard in a huff, as if Zhong Yi was lying on the ground and trampling with her.

"I want to resign, I want to go back to Xinhua, you ...... You are disrespectful! ”

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The Supreme Commander of the British Army in Gibraltar, Governor Mark Farane, was killed in the first wave of Allied blows, which was fatal to the multinational force.

The destruction of the radar station at the first time had greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the British army, and the bombing of the command organs had caused the coastal defense positions, underground fortification groups, and port areas to fall into a situation of fighting on their own.

Without unified command, the fighters of the British "Lightning" squadron and the US "Triangular Javelin" squadron that took off on the south bank of the strait did not dare to rashly break into the air defense circle; antiaircraft shells were not missiles, but also enemy and enemy devices, and the intensive antiaircraft fire had always been indiscriminately fired, and whoever hit it was considered unlucky, and without the guidance of radar, this was all the more so.

However, many of the Allied attack weapons were attacks outside the defensive circle, and the range of various missiles of several tens of kilometers far exceeded the firing range of the coastal defense artillery.

Forty minutes later, when the first wave of Allied attack aircraft began to retreat, the huge number of artillery groups that the British army had been proud of was actually completely unreaped, and there was no radar guidance, even when the "Brute Dragon" formation broke into the air defense circle and launched an attack on the governor's palace, airfields, and ports, the British artillery could not complete even a single shot down.

But the Allied attack was not perfect. The failure to launch a first missile attack on the airfield was the biggest mistake in this wave of attacks. In the "surgical" plan, the staff officers took it for granted that a formation of eight Brute Dragons, carrying 32 precision-guided skunk bombs, would be enough to disable the Chiba airfield, which had only one runway.

But in fact, after the four "Lightning" on duty were shot down by the Fire Phoenix-8, the squadron of the Royal Special Service "Raptors" that completed the "blinding" operation and the "Lightning" that took off later happened to have a time gap, and missed the best opportunity to shoot them down in the first place.

The Navy's "Eagle" formation was also caught in a bitter struggle with the British and American fighters that took off from the south coast, and at that moment, above the Gibraltar airport, a blank area controlled by the Allied escort group actually appeared.

Although a few minutes later, the "Spinosaurus" early warning aircraft discovered the situation and called back several "Raptors", it was too late, and the big mistake was made.

Of the eight "Brute Dragons" of the 3rd Formation, which was responsible for bombing the airfield, were shot down by the "Lightning" Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, and only two of them completed the bombing and returned safely.