The decisive battle against the Third Reich

After a while, a group of more than ten bombers appeared in the sky, flying towards where Qin Chuan and others were.

Qinchuan recognized that it was the US military's B17 bomber... This bomber has a ceiling of 10,667 meters, while the ceiling of the German fighter BF109 can only barely reach 10,000 meters.

Therefore, the B17 can basically enter enemy territory to carry out bombing without fighter escort, as if entering an uninhabited land.

The German anti-aircraft guns distributed on the periphery soon started firing, and their shells exploded "black clouds" in the sky. Unfortunately, most of these anti-aircraft guns were unable to pose a threat to targets at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

Then, the bomb bay door of the bomber opened, and piles of black bombs fell from the sky with a roar like eggs.

Qin Chuan turned around and shouted into the air-raid shelter: "Get ready!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "booming" sound outside, waves of vibrations came from the ground, and the sand and gravel on the air-raid shelter fell down like rain.

The prospectors couldn't help screaming and running around in the air-raid shelter, forgetting what Qin Chuan told them just now, but because Qin Chuan blocked the entrance of the cave, no one dared to go out.

Qin Chuan stuck his head out to observe the explosion point of the bomb. Fortunately, several drilling rigs were not seriously injured after the bombing. Only one drilling rig seemed to be slightly deformed by shrapnel... This is the price of high-altitude bombing. High-altitude bombing Although it was able to avoid interception by enemy fighter planes, the bomb dropped from an altitude of 10,000 meters and had already flown to nowhere by the time it reached the ground.

The explosions stopped after a few minutes, and the US bombers also left everyone's sight, chased by German fighter planes.

However, when everyone walked out of the air-raid shelter, they were shocked to find an aerial bomb only ten meters away from the entrance of the cave... Most of it was buried in the sand, with only a small tail exposed. I don't know why it didn't explode. If it exploded If so, I'm afraid everyone will be buried in it.

"Thank you, Captain!" Professor Backhouse said with a pun when passing by Qin Chuan: "Thank you for your protection!"

Obviously, Professor Backhouse believes that Qinchuan brought all this to the exploration team.

The members of the exploration team returned to work in fear. Qin Chuan organized several soldiers to detonate the unexploded bomb.

At this time, Colonel Slaine hurried over in a jeep. He drove to Qinchuan and stopped suddenly. Before he got out of the car, he asked loudly: "How is the situation?"

"Nothing to lose, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "Everything is normal!"

Colonel Slaine breathed a sigh of relief. He jumped out of the car and walked to Qin Chuan. He lowered his voice and said, "Captain! It seems that the British have got the news and found out our location!"

"Hmm!" Qin Chuan nodded: "Now...it depends on how much they know!"

If they knew what Qin Chuan wanted to tell them, then there would be no problem. At most, they would just have a few more high-altitude bombings.

But if what is known is the secret that Qin Chuan wants to hide, then the problem will be big.

With a "boom", the bomb was detonated in the distance. Qin Chuan and Colonel Slaine coincidentally bent down slightly to avoid the sand and stones brought by the shock wave.

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan patted the dust on his body and said, "We should build more derricks!"

"How many do you plan to build?" Colonel Slain raised his hat.

"At least...fifty!"

"What?" Colonel Slaine couldn't help being stunned after hearing this: "But we don't have that many drills and manpower!"

"I mean to use it to deal with those bombers!" Qin Chuan said.

Colonel Slain couldn't help but said "Oh" and said: "What a great idea, we should have done this a long time ago!"

Soon, dozens of derricks were erected in the desert, dotted around the Timrag Basin.

Needless to say, most of these derricks are fake. They are made of wood and some are even crooked.

However, the bombers at an altitude of 10,000 meters could not be identified, so the high-altitude bombing the next day did not even touch the edge of the exploration team.

Montgomery felt helpless after hearing the news.

"Our bombing seems to have no effect!" Montgomery said.

"Yes!" Eisenhower replied: "The drilling target is too small and it is difficult for high-altitude bombing to hit the target. Now they have arranged so many false targets..."

Montgomery was in a dilemma.

High-altitude bombing doesn't work, let's carry out low-altitude bombing... The German air power has been greatly enhanced by the reinforcements of the 24th Air Force, and the British and American troops also dare not act rashly.

What's more, such bombing doesn't seem to be able to stop the German exploration work... They can blow up the derrick and build it again, and kill a few people and they can add more.

"It seems we can only attack from the front!" Eisenhower said.

"Frontal attack?" Montgomery shook his head: "You know the problem of the Gabes defense line very well. It cannot be broken through on land. At sea... The German 24th Air Wing is stationed in Sicily, forming a formation with the 27th Air Wing in Tunisia. As we are attacking the Tunisia Strait, unless we can defeat the Germans in the air, it will be difficult for our warships to pass through the Tunisia Strait!”

It is not impossible for the Allied forces to defeat the Germans in the air. The combined air power of Britain and the United States, with more than 500 aircraft, is more than twice the number of the two German air fleets.

However, most of the German pilots are veteran pilots with rich combat experience, while the British and American military pilots are very lacking in actual combat experience, especially the American pilots, many of whom do not even have air combat records.

As we all know, experience is very important in air combat. Some veterans such as Marcelo can shoot down several enemy fighters in a few minutes, while some novices can't find the enemy even if they fly the best-performing aircraft.

"But what else can we do?" Eisenhower said: "Are we just going to watch the Germans dig up oil and become more and more difficult to deal with? This will even bring huge benefits to Germany and even France!"

There is no doubt about this, because oil is not only needed in the military, but also in industry to run machines, and of course commercial transportation is also essential.

Germany, France, and Italy have adopted a rationing system because of the fuel shortage caused by the embargo of the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries, coupled with the huge military demand, which has dealt a huge blow to their industry and commerce... That is, the country uniformly allocates Food for the common people.

If an oil field appears in North Africa at this time, it will greatly alleviate the military, industrial and commercial conflicts between Britain and the United States against Germany, France, and Italy.

"Ike!" Montgomery replied, looking at the map: "Maybe we should look further ahead!"