Chapter 487 Eagles Over North Africa (Season 3)

October 30th.

In the cockpit, Fan Wu took a breath, and the propeller in front of him turned into a virtual shadow, as if it were [***] medicine, which made people sleepy.

I can't help it. After flying around Istanbul for reconnaissance, I followed the Nujiang to the coast of Tripoli at a speed of 30 knots. I kept taking off and landing with my partners for almost two days. I was really tired.

He was tired and could still survive. In the past, he survived for a few days and nights when he received the field survival training. The biggest problem was that he didn't know how long his beloved baby could last. From yesterday morning to evening, the two Ospreys took turns flying almost uninterrupted. Although after the Osprey changed the engine, the voyage reached Four hundred kilometers can fly for more than three hours in a row, but now it has exceeded too much. Even the most trusted one does not know whether there will be a problem with the engine that usually has problems.

In case of trouble and forced landing, it will be a tragedy.

After slapped himself twice to wake up, Fan Wu looked at the oil meter and could fly for an hour.

As long as the oil was enough, at least he was not afraid of falling down like an iron piece, which made him a little relieved. He took out a milk candy from his pocket, tore the sugar paper with his teeth and threw it into his mouth.

The fragrant milk candy refreshed him. Unfortunately, he couldn't smoke in the sky, otherwise he could take a bite. As he thought about it, he rubbed the sugar paper into a small ball, but just as he was about to throw it out of the cabin, the black smoke in the distance suddenly made his eyes all the time.

As an old naval aviation pilot, he can naturally distinguish the smoke of warships and civilian ships. Because of the low speed of civilian ships, the smoke is lighter, and this is not an area where pirates are infested. Few ships will flock, but what do you see now?

A piece of black smoke!

Almost without thinking about it, he suddenly pulled up the fighter plane. When the Osprey quickly rose to 1,000 meters, the spectacular scene in the distance almost made him excited to death!

One, two, three!

Don't look carefully, there are more than a dozen!

"Report, found a fleet, 30 nautical miles northwest, is going for reconnaissance!" After Fan Wu grabbed the microphone and shouted for a reply, he immediately pressed the nose and rushed to the Italian fleet.

Thirty nautical miles, it takes an hour for the Nujiang, but for Osprey, it reached the best observation position of about 10,000 meters after more than ten minutes. After the telescope, Fan Wu looked even more excited.

As a HNA pilot, in addition to practicing flight technology, his biggest job is to remember the appearance of the main warships of various countries, so when the fleet in the telescope got closer and closer, he immediately recognized the other party.

"Confirm, confirm! The Italian fleet has a total of 14 warships!"

"Two battleships of the capital ship San Giorgio class, two battleships of Queen Elena, and one of Queen Margaret! No trace of Dante was found!" Fan Wu kept hovering over the fleet, which attracted the attention of the Italian fleet, and a biplane was released in the fleet a moment later.

"I found a seaplane and was coming to me quickly, asking if I would shoot!"

In the command tower of the Nujiang, when he heard the excited voice in the horn, the captain couldn't laugh or cry. These pilots were more excited than themselves! He quickly picked up the microphone and said, "No!"

"Yes." After a weak response sounded again in the horn, all the officers in the bridge flattened their mouths. The captain returned the microphone to the newly established communication officer and immediately ordered: "Second-level combat alert!"

"send the message back immediately, and the detector will start the test!"

"The second plane is ready to pick up."

When the Nujiang raised its barrel like a cheetah, Fan Wu had already put the radio microphone. He looked at the Italian biplane that was slowly climbing in the distance and looked at the oil meter. After thinking about it, his eyes suddenly lit up. His right hand suddenly pushed the vertical pole, and his left hand quickly pushed the accelerator on the side at the same time. The bottom.

The sudden increase of aviation gasoline suddenly rushed into the engine through the tubing, and the black smoke under the nose suddenly thickened. After hearing only the roar of a propeller, Osprey rushed to the Italian plane like a shuttle.

Major Alfonso is a pilot of the Italian Army. Sitting next is a pigeon plane that has just replaced its wheels with a float. This time, he rushed to the navy to help guide the upcoming shelling.

But I didn't expect that not long after coming out of Sicily, a plane with strange claws suddenly appeared in the sky and kept circling to scout the fleet, so the fleet commander immediately asked him to take off to see who it was.

But when he had just taken off, he was still a little confused and found that the plane seemed to be in the wind and suddenly deflected from the upper direction.

At a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, the engine made a series of hiss, and thick black smoke kept pouring out of the flue under the nose. With just a glance, Alfonso knew that the plane was much faster than his own. He immediately turned left to avoid it.

Seeing the Italian plane trying to dodge, Fan Wu grinned even more, because this was the opportunity he wanted to create.

This is a technical job!

Fan Wu smiled in his heart. Although the two are about the same size, whether it is speed and mobility, the Italian plane in front of him is definitely not an opponent, so what he has to do is to use the height to constantly squeeze the opponent, and use the speed advantage to repeatedly pass close to the opponent, creating a sense of oppression while using the plane. The strong winds brought by the wings and propellers forced the other side to keep falling.

This is the skill that the instructor played when he was training. If the instructor hadn't let him go in the end, he would have almost hit the ground.

"Wow."

The shrill roar of a strong wind sounded beside Alfonso's ear with the sudden sound of the motor. As soon as he turned his head, he saw a dark shadow suddenly passing by his side. Before he could curse, the violent side wind suddenly made the fuselage suddenly deviate, as if the swift in the storm, losing its balance.

This accident scared him so that he didn't have to look at his opponent anymore. He pulled the pole with both hands and tried to maintain balance. But when he finally flattened it, the plane in the distance actually circled, and the guy sitting inside still raised a middle finger at himself! Then it seemed that he saw the bull of the red cloth and rushed up fiercely.

"God!" He didn't figure out what the arrogant middle finger meant. The guy who didn't even know his identity chose the right side this time. The same side wind made him busy again, and he didn't notice that he was losing his height quickly.

In the Italian fleet, all the soldiers stared at the two planes entangled there, and then turned left and right, and kept descending.

And the plane, which had been figured out that it was the Xinhua Empire, was like a nasty fly, constantly surrounding Major Alfonso and his plane, and repeatedly ssing by in circles.

What's more annoying is that this guy even flew to Colonel Alfonso's head, and then the fuselage sank down. The huge weight directly lowered the poor pigeon by dozens of meters!

Compared with the unknown Chinese plane in front of him, Major Alfonso and his pigeon plane were like a full goose, licking his big belly and being chased by people and stepping on it!

This is a provocation!

On the warship, the Italian soldiers were furied, and some even secretly pulled off the machine gun bolts to give this bastard a shuttle.

But at this moment, the plane turned around, ignoring Major Alfonso, who was only 100 meters away from the water. After patting his buttocks and shaking his wings, he quickly flew away.

The unlucky Alfonso did not expect that he would encounter this kind of bad luck when he drove the plane for the first time. When he saw his opponent leave, he found that it was close to the sea. He quickly pulled up the nose, and the float under the fuselage fell to the sea and remained stable.

"Bastard! You impolite bastard!"

Standing in the cabin, Alfonso cursed until a destroyer arrived.

It was like an episode. After seeing Fan Wu's return, the Nujiang apologized by radio and said that there was no doubt that after intervening in the war, it withdrew from the coast of Tripoli at high speed, and the Italian soldiers soon forgot this for the time being.

When the fleet arrived at the port of Tripoli, a naval gun roared quickly, and countless shells fell down like raindrops. As the main guns of the five Italian battleships began to roar the day after the declaration of war, the 50,000 Italian army soldiers who had already been prepared also set out from Sicily to land in North Africa.

The same day as the Italian fleet shelled Tripoli, a large cargo ship from Kuwait quietly entered the port of Bengazi. After unloading a total of 48 disassembled vultures, it quietly joined the Nu River and left before the arrival of the Italians--

"600,000 pounds a boat?!"

When the Ottoman admirals Hakan and Talat Pasha arrived in Latakia, the news of the Italian team's Ottoman declaration of war had been conveyed here, especially the fact that Italy sent five battleships to shell Tripoli, which made both of them realize that without strong naval containment, the Ottoman general could You can lose this war.

So when they saw the newly transformed duke level, their eyes suddenly lit up, because the Chinese had said they wanted to sell it to themselves before!

However, when Wu Yingke quoted the price with a smile, both of them took a breath of cold air.

"Hehe, please take a look!"

Wu Yingke pointed to the three Duke-class ships on the sea in the distance and said with a smile, "We have changed the original four double-loaded 203mm guns of this battleship to four single-loaded 305mm guns, so that the firepower is consistent. When firing to one side, there are only two main guns less than the Izmail."

"In addition, the power of this battleship has also been comprehensively upgraded. It adopts the same new steam engine equipped by Germany on the Kaiser-class battleship. Compared with the two of you, we have heard that we have spent a high price to buy it, so its speed is from the original 18 The festival has risen to 22 knots!"

"According to our test, its combat capability has reached 70% of that of Izmer, but the price is less than half of that of Izmer. As long as it does not meet the Italian battleship Dante, which has just been launched, it is invincible in the Mediterranean Sea!"

Wu Yingke's introduction made neither of them excited, but the problem is that the Ottoman Empire has just purchased a super battleship from Britain, and it can't afford so much money at present!

"Two of you." Wu Yingke looked at his watch and pretended to be anxious and said, "I can only stay for a few more hours. If your country can't make a decision, we will leave, because if we stay any longer, I'm afraid the Italians and the British will find out."

This sentence made the two of them suddenly anxious. The total funds given by Mohammed V were only 500,000 yuan, but they didn't expect that they couldn't even buy one. Do they really want to watch the fall of the North African provinces?

"500,000!"

Talat directly quoted the price.

"How many?"

"one!"

"What, one? That won't work." Wu Yingke shook his head like a rattle.

Seeing Wu Yingke's decisive refusal, Talat and Hakan were all anxious to death. On the one hand, there was the indiscriminate bombing of the Italian fleet, and on the other hand, there was a high price, which was really embarrassing!

"Of course, if your country is in trouble at present, I have a way."

"Oh? What's the way?" Taratpa suddenly stood up and asked.

"Ha ha." Wu Yingke smiled and suddenly lowered his voice: "The right to build the Baghdad Railway!"

"What!"

(to be continued)