"No, let's disperse the formation soon, the enemy bomber group is coming."

"hidden!"

Xu Yuanhao and others were rushing towards the fierce firefighting battlefield not far away with pride. As a result, just two or three kilometers away, they suddenly discovered a group of small black dots rushing towards them in the distance.

Regardless of whether these enemy planes came for him or not, they must not keep the formation as a living target, Xu Yuanhao and others quickly dispersed the formation and rushed to the surrounding trees, bushes, valleys, slopes and other places where they could hide.

Buzzing!

Fortunately, just when Duan Anguo, Xu Yuanhao and others were frightened, a buzzing sound of motors also came from the east sky of True Fortress.

"Great! Our Air Force is here too!"

"We shouldn't have anything to do now!"

When everyone looked back, they felt at a loss. Although it might not be possible to completely avoid the bombing of enemy aircraft, with the interception of their own air force, at least it can effectively interfere and deterrent, and those enemy aircraft can't calmly drop bombs for precise bombing.

Jijiujiu, as everyone expected, the enemy bombers did not dare to stay too much, and as soon as they flew over the True Fortress, they began to throw bombs impatiently.

The German escort fighter jets left the formation and went to intercept the Allied fighter jets that came to participate in the war. Soon a fierce air battle broke out instantly under the attention of everyone.

Tobrook Fortress, Axis North African Theater Command Operation Room.

"Report to the Marshal, our tank and armored troops suffered a large number of 88mm anti-aircraft guns on the front line and suffered heavy losses!"

"Report to the Marshal, the enemy dispatched ground attack aircraft, causing serious damage to our armored forces, and the front-line troops requested air force support."

"Report to the Marshal, our army was seriously blocked and there was no way to break through the outer defense line of the Matru Fortress."

"Report to the Marshal, the Allied Armored Clusters have begun to fight back, and our army is in a tough battle!"

"Report to the Marshal, the Third Reich Air Force suffered heavy losses,..."

As the unfavorable news came back, Rommel's face became increasingly ugly, and his calm smile had long been thrown into Java.

It is difficult to know that the Allies will definitely defend the Fortress of Matrus, and the Fortress of Matrus, which is extremely important in its strategic position, was destined to be an extremely difficult and difficult bone from the beginning.

Before launching this general attack, Rommel's African Legion had attacked the fortress many times, but under the desperate resistance of the British and American coalition forces, they had never been able to make breakthrough progress.

But Rommel was far from expected that it would be the situation in front of him.

For this strategic general attack, Rommel can be said to have made sufficient preparations, not only investing in a large number of new fighter jets and new heavy tanks, but also concentrating unprecedented forces for a frontal breakthrough.

However, at this time he realized that the strength of the Allied forces had been strengthened almost overnight, not only not only in terms of technical equipment, but also in terms of combat will and morale, but also had a very significant improvement.

The attack started in the early morning, and a full 10 hours passed, and it was almost dark.

However, neither the air force nor the ground attacking troops took advantage of the situation. Instead, the combat losses were increasing.

Especially the ground troops suffered extremely heavy casualties, and so far there have been at least 50,000 or 60,000 casualties!

As for the air force, it seems that it has taken a lot of advantages in combat losses, but in fact, it is fighting for consumption with the United States of America, which has strong industrial supply capacity, which is simply drinking poison to quench thirst.

Rommel frowned, looked down at the sand table covered with famous war games and African military maps, and kept thinking about how to break the deadlock.

The ultimate strategic goal of the current African Legion is nothing more than to conquer Egypt, take over the Suez Canal and the Port of Alexandria, and completely control the Mediterranean.

While strangling the British Mediterranean supply line, the German troops fighting against Stalingrad and the Transcaucasus met south of the Transcaucasus and then obtained the long-coveted Azerbaijan oil fields in the Third Reich.

As for further east attacking Persia, the Middle East, and further away from India, that's a story.

However, in order to conquer Egypt and take down the Suez Canal and the Port of Alexandria, we must chew off the hard bone of the Fortress of Matru.

Of course, in addition to advancing along the coastline, Rommel has another road to walk, which is to detour through hundreds of kilometers of Libya desert, then break through the Nile River, or take a detour to hit the key points of Alexandria Port and Cairo.

However, it is obvious that this offensive route cannot be achieved. First, crossing the desert area of ​​hundreds of kilometers is an extremely difficult task, not to mention that the Allies will not sit and wait for death, and can easily cut off the rear route and supply lines.

In addition, Rommel had another option, which was to go south to attack Sudan according to the Italians' vision.

The idea of ​​seizing Sudan oil fields to obtain extremely rich oil field resources is still possible on the surface.

But as long as you think a little, you will know that this idea will not work at all, because without taking Egypt and controlling the Suez Canal, not only will the Allied forces continue to grow and threaten themselves, but even if they occupy Sudan, they will not even think about transporting oil out.

In a word, the best offensive route is to push along the coastline, first take the Port of Matru to gain a solid forward fulcrum, but then further attack the Port of Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt.

It’s just that the ideal is full of reality and skinny. At present, the African Legion has encountered a hard nail and is already bleeding from the head.

After thinking about it, Rommel's head was still in a mess.

Faced with this three-dimensional shrinking defense of sea, land and air, and the attacking party has no advantage in crushing the advantages, even if it is familiar with military books and three strategies, it is useless.

As long as the Allies defended the Martru Fortress, Rommel's African Legion would not have any substantial threat to the port of Alexander and the Suez Canal, let alone conquer and capture it.

Since it is impossible to break through on the front line, how about three-dimensional naval, land and air combat that will allow the Italian Navy to attack the Port of Matru by sea?

Rommel raised his eyebrows and began to seriously consider this possibility.

Although the Italian Navy suffered considerable losses in the past few days of attacking horses, it did not hurt at all, and only damaged several small tonnage ships and troop transport ships.

On the side of the British Mediterranean Fleet, three main battleships were destroyed not long ago, and the overall combat effectiveness of the fleet was greatly reduced.

The British Mediterranean Fleet, which originally did not have the advantage, now has no ability to fight the Italian Navy head-on sea.

The only thing to worry about is that the fleet's attack near the coastline is not only necessary to fight against powerful shore defense artillery, but also to beware of the attack of land-based bombers.

However, as long as the air force on his side can be more powerful and can threaten the opponent's bomber group, it seems that this is not a big problem.
Chapter completed!