What was a headache for Axis pilots was how the jet planes were as fast as the old propellers, and the pilots were often pressed to their seats by the strong wind pressure after lifting the cockpit canopy, so they naturally could not jump out of the plane. Most of the downed Axis pilots had a much smaller chance of surviving if they failed to make a forced landing, and of the 400 fighters shot down this time, the Chinese army only captured more than 30 prisoners, and the rest returned to heaven.

The fighter units were beaten and fled, and the Axis bomber units that lagged behind did not dare to go forward as targets, so they had no choice but to return home. The Chinese Air Force, which had gained air supremacy, dispatched a large number of bombers to bomb the Axis positions indiscriminately, and a large number of improvised fortifications built by the Axis forces were soon ruthlessly destroyed.

Marshal de Gaulle knew that the war could not be won if he could not regain air supremacy, so he quickly gathered all his air forces and massed in this area, hoping to regain air supremacy, and at the same time mobilized all the ground forces at his disposal to desperately block the opponent's attack.

For this attack, Gao Hong made very adequate preparations in advance, and for this reason, he also specially submitted an application to the country to use reserves. Fang Ruijun knew that this battle was very important, not only to reverse the offensive and defensive situation on the southern route, but also to remove the threat of the middle lane troops from the flanks. Therefore, Fang Ruijun was very generous, and with a direct stroke of his pen, he handed over the 500,000 army reserves and the air force of twenty wings to Gao Hong.

Fang Ruijun can be described as a big deal, the number of troops mobilized this time is quite large, this is a quarter of the army and half of the air force reserves on the entire Western Front, with this powerful force, Gao Hong naturally has to fight with de Gaulle.

In the Air Force, it has not suffered a loss, and the newly joined reserve Air Force uses the latest production of Golden Eagle 5 fighters, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong. With these air forces, the Axis air forces under de Gaulle were even more miserable, the Golden Eagle 5 fighters carrying air-to-air missiles did not allow them to fight at all, they began to launch missile attacks from twenty kilometers away, and before the Axis air forces could enter the firing range, they had already suffered heavy losses.

Under the attack of missiles, the Axis air force was defeated one after another, and the Chinese air force planes with various airborne radars could also take to the air at night, so under the protection of the Golden Eagle 5 fighters, a large number of Kunpeng 3 bombers took advantage of the cover of night to carry out air raids on various airfields of the Axis countries.

There were so many Axis fighters who were sent to the area to participate in air battles that they were crowded into a few dozen field airfields that the ground forces had no time to build anti-aircraft aircraft shelters for them, and a large number of fighters could only line up on the tarmac at night. This situation without any protection just gave the Chinese Air Force an opportunity to take advantage of it, and a large number of Kunpeng 3 bombers braved the fierce anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground to carry out carpet bombing of these field airfields.

Under the heavy bombardment, the planes lined the tarmac and the runway were cut into ashes, and to the greater sorrow of the Axis high-brass, the pilots' quarters were also intensively bombed, and those excellent pilots suffered heavy casualties.

This sudden night attack caused heavy losses to the Axis air forces. The loss of more than half of the air force units responsible for the southern route operation and the drastic reduction in strength made the Axis air force a little powerless in the face of increasing pressure from the Chinese air force.

The sharp decline in the combat effectiveness of the Axis air force made the Axis Southern Route Army more and more unable to seize air supremacy, while the Chinese Air Force, which had absolute air supremacy, recklessly carried out continuous bombing of the Axis forward positions, logistics supply bases, and reinforcements. Although de Gaulle mobilized all the anti-aircraft artillery units he could muster to concentrate on guarding these important places, no amount of anti-aircraft artillery could defend against the dense bombers like flying locusts, and the losses of the Axis army were still very heavy.

Under strong air cover, the two attacking forces took advantage of their superior firepower and mobility to advance rapidly, and it took only two days for them to capture Nalehan and Boratler respectively, dividing and encircling the 1.5 million Axis forces used to attack Ankara, the capital of the Empire. With the favorable support of the follow-up reinforcements, the attacking troops drove the other side away with artillery fire, gradually narrowed the encirclement, and gradually compressed the living space of the Axis troops, while the Axis forces had no time to launch a counterattack, they could only retreat step by step, carrying out the last stubborn resistance.

Seeing that the main force was surrounded, Marshal de Gaulle immediately urgently transferred troops from all over the country to relieve the siege, but the Chinese army and the Iranian army were attacking on the whole front, and there were no extra troops to be transferred from all places, and he could only watch his own troops being divided and wiped out, so Marshal de Gaulle had to ask Howell in the center for help.

Howell was also shocked when he received Marshal de Gaulle's telegram asking for help, but the two forces were thousands of miles apart, and it was quite difficult to rescue, even if the air force was fast enough to fly over in a short time, but now the Axis-controlled airfields on the Istan Peninsula were being heavily bombed, and they had no place to maintain and replenish them, and they might even accompany themselves, which could not have any effect on the course of the war at all.

Even so, Howell sent nearly two million troops from four armies to the south, and in addition to doing his best, he was prepared to let these two million troops cover the flanks of his main forces when the situation deteriorated sharply, and avoid being attacked by the freed up troops of the Islamic Stans and the Mediterranean Military District of the Chinese Empire. In addition, Howell intensified his offensive against the Chinese army in front of him, hoping to draw the opponent's attention back to the middle and relieve the pressure on de Gaulle.

Although his defense is not as famous as Fu Mingcheng, he is also quite sharp, and what he is best at is to use asymmetric tactics to carry out mobile defensive operations. Faced with the enemy's pressing approach, he once again ordered the army to begin to retreat, and at the same time used the special operations army and the sniper groups of various armies to conduct special operations.