Colonel Miller is the captain of the German Third Air Brigade. .

The Third Air Brigade is responsible for bombing Malta Island over the Mediterranean and protecting German and Italian troops' transportation lines to North Africa.

Colonel Miller couldn't help but complain again: "This is simply a tormenting task!"

Originally, these tasks were carried out by two aviation brigades, namely the second and third aviation brigades. However, after the second aviation brigade went to the African battlefield to assist Rommel's African regiment in the war, everything was on the shoulders of the Third aviation brigade.

These tasks seem simple, and they are finished in just a few words, but they are really complicated. For example, transport ships are going to and from Italy to Libya, so they need to escort the fighter, such as bombing of Malta Island, and British Spitfire fighters from time to time, coming to harass them in groups... All of this overwhelmed the Third Air Force, and even Miller, as the captain of the squad, had to fly in the air for three hours every day so that other pilots could get some rest time.

Thinking of this, Miller couldn't help but curse.

But he also knew that the battlefield situation at this time was not optimistic, not only the third air force, but other air force were not easy either... The great head of state wanted to turn all the fighter planes into two, so he had nothing to complain about.

Miller flew to the east of Malta Island with several fighter jets. In this area, Greece is in the north, Libya is in the south, and there is also a Crete island in the middle, forming an area called the death intersection by the German army... The reason why it is called the death intersection is because British and German warships and ships are easily discovered and blocked here. As a result, air combat firefights have occurred over this sea area again and again. I don’t know how many fighter jets and wreckage of ships have slept under the sea.

As usual, Miller was flying fighter jets around while looking around. This was a good habit he developed in long-term air combat. He always believed that this was a very important reason why he could survive until now and become a colonel.

Then he saw a few black dots faintly flashing at the position of the sun rising...

"British!" Miller shouted at the intercom, and he soon recognized it as the British Spitfire.

Before he finished speaking, the black dots turned around and approached them. British fighter jets obviously discovered their existence.

"Stay away from them!" Miller gave the order.

The enemy's number of fighter jets is the same as that of its own, and both sides have six fighter jets.

But Miller knew that compared to his own troops, British pilots had more quality advantages. So Miller would not let his fighter jets show off and fight the British, because his advantage lies in quantity... It is absolutely stupid to win with quantity but fight hard.

So Miller immediately notified the two nearby patrol teams to get closer to him. As long as these British people dared to catch up, they would fall into the trap they set.

But Miller soon discovered something was wrong, because another group of spitfire appeared in the other direction, with the same number of six.

"It seems that the British are planning to fight a big fight today!" Miller said, thinking in his mind: Eighteen vs twelve, the chances of winning are not very high, or even if he can win, he will suffer heavy losses.

So Miller did not hesitate and urgently transferred another group of aircraft.

But…the British planes soon increased to eighteen.

At this time, Miller felt something was strange. The British seemed to be deliberately mobilizing their main force. Intuition told Miller that this might be a trap carefully designed by the British.

What would that be?

Miller could no longer decide, so he immediately reported the situation to the command center.

Soon, Miller received the order from Marshal Kesseling: "Fight, Colonel, we have no other choice. No matter what is ahead, victory is our only reason!"

This is also an embarrassment for the party who has obtained air supremacy... The party who has obtained air supremacy is at least strategically passive, because if it obtains air supremacy, it is necessary to ensure the safety of the sky, so it has to constantly send fighter jets to patrol, while the enemy can concentrate its efforts at any point at any time.

What's worse is that after obtaining air supremacy, all ground units will relax their operations on the premise of "air safety", such as transport ships from Italy to Libya and ports in two places, which are constantly loading and unloading and transporting various military supplies.

This determined that the German army had to fight against the British army.

Because the price of incompetence is that the British army can unscrupulously bomb these ports and transport ships, causing heavy losses to the German army.

So Miller had to grit his teeth and ordered: "The first, the second aviation squadron took off urgently, and the third aviation squadron was ready for takeoff!"

From the perspective of the wingman, Miller would have made a big deal of this. There were only eighteen British fighter jets, and one squadron would be enough to win.

But Miller felt that things would not be that simple.

Soon, a group of thirty German aircraft arrived and met with Miller. Miller immediately commanded the aircraft to turn around and greet the British aircraft.

The British army fleet did not respond to the challenge. They turned around and flew towards the direction of Asanda Harbor. Miller couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and ordered that no pursuit be allowed.

The subordinates expressed doubts about the order and said that they could not let the British army flee, but Miller was unmoved.

Soon his subordinates discovered that Miller was right, because soon after, a larger fleet of aircraft appeared in the air, with at least one hundred aircraft, and they rushed towards the German fleet in two parts, one left and one right.

"It's a ganese!" Miller reported to the command anxiously: "More than one hundred aircraft, it is obvious that the British's aviation power has been strengthened, and this is a trap they set..."

"Gotun" is the British's name for "Hellcat". The United States has produced more than 10,000 fighter jets in two years. In addition to being used in the Pacific battlefield, these fighter jets have also been assisted by the UK through loan licensing bills.

However, the UK does not use this fighter often, mainly because its avionics and operations are somewhat different from the common habits of the British. After all, it is American goods, and it takes at least several years of training for British pilots to be proficient in flying them, and the UK obviously can't wait for that time.

So, at this time, Miller actually made a misjudgment. He thought he was hitting the "ganese" driven by the British... According to his cognition, although these "ganese" have excellent performance, their combat effectiveness is not very good, so he believes that his air team can still handle it.

But what he didn't know was that the combat effectiveness of the "Hellcat" he encountered was actually flying by American pilots, which was no longer comparable to the "Gotagid" of the past.
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