Marshal Italo Barbo was born in Ferrara, Italy and graduated from the University of Florence.

During World War I, he served as an officer in the Alpine Legion. He was also a very qualified general. At the same time, he was also one of Mussolini's teams.

He once led the Blackshirt militia to march towards Rome, and was highly valued by Mussolini, and was promoted to become Minister of Aviation by Mussolini.

You know, he is a man who knows nothing about flying, but he soon learned to fly and began to reorganize the Royal Italian Air Force.

As a fanatic under Mussolini, he has done many great things.

In 1930, he led a high-speed sea flight squadron composed of the Savior-Progressor to visit the Americas, setting a record.

He once dropped bombs from the air alone, killing thousands of Ethiopians.

In 1933, he led 24 seaplanes to complete a transatlantic flight from Italy to Chicago.

Chicago named a Balbo Street to commemorate it, and Franklin Roosevelt invited him to lunch.

It can be said that he is definitely a legend in the Italian military and political circles.

Unfortunately, Mussolini removed him from office. On the surface, he left the Air Force and became the governor of Libya, which was a promotion, but in fact, he was promoted openly and secretly because of his high reputation, which aroused Mussolini's suspicion.

It is gold and shines everywhere. After arriving in Villa, Balbo transformed Libya from a backward colony into a model of Italian province, known as the fourth coast of Italy.

Especially after Germany exploited Libyan oil in large quantities, Balbo began to introduce the petrochemical industry and started petrochemical industry in Tripoli, making the Libyan colony exciting.

But recently, Balbo has had a headache.

The European battlefield was in full swing, and Italy also began to expand the colony eastward on the battlefield in North Africa. They were very hoped to defeat the British, occupy Egypt, control the Suez Canal, and even expand to the Middle East!

However, the situation is not optimistic.

On the European battlefield, all the British expeditionary forces were lost, and in Egypt, the 250,000 Italian troops could not defeat tens of thousands of British troops!

Now, I heard that the German army finally landed in North Africa, he immediately took a plane and prepared to go to the German base in Libya. This base has now developed to a large scale, and even the runways in the base can take off and land large passenger planes.

Sitting on a temporary bed and looking at another plane flying outside, Barbo lit a cigarette.

There are many things he has to worry about. The German army with strong combat capabilities has arrived, which has promoted the situation on the battlefield in North Africa. However, he faces another question: Who shall be the command?

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Benghazi.

A sharp air defense alarm sounded throughout the port. With this alarm, all the Italian sailors ran towards their positions nervously.

Not only were the British dominant on the ground, but even in the sky, the British could often be seen. Perhaps being stimulated on the European battlefield, they went to North Africa to find a balance. During this period, British bombers almost appeared every day to bomb the Italian navy in Libya.

On the east side of the port is an Italian Navy's old armored cruiser, the USS Giltio, which has been in service for many years and has a sense of vicissitudes.

Sailor Coraldio Mazola was nervously sitting in his gun position. The breda m1935 20mm anti-aircraft gun is the air defense weapon on this warship. Compared with other caliber anti-aircraft guns, its power is very poor. The only advantage is that it has a high firing rate.

At the same time, even this kind of anti-aircraft gun was installed later. The anti-aircraft guns used on land were barely installed on the deck, without even a shield for the anti-aircraft gun. They even piled up sandbags around them as cover.

The British did not even let go of such a simple old ship if they piled up sandbags on the warship!

Just as he sat in his gun position, the shadow of British bombers appeared in the distance.

The last time the British bombed the oil base, they suffered heavy losses. After that, the British learned their lessons and detoured from the north every time they flew, so they were completely outside the radar detection of the Libyan oil base, so they had never been intercepted.

Two British bombers flew in from the sky, as if they were picking up soft persimmons and swooping down towards the Gilgio again!

"Fire!" the cannon leader shouted loudly.

When the firing device was stepped on, the 20mm anti-aircraft artillery shells flew towards the sky. With the sound of banging fire, the shell shells fell out from the other side.

It looked good, but the two bombers made a cool steering action after diving and dropped bombs and flew away.

The bomb exploded dozens of meters away from the warship, and the water splashed more than ten meters high.

it's over.

After letting go of his feet, Cladio felt his brain swelling. When the fire was just now, the sound of cannons in his ears were echoing all the time. He looked up and saw that on the bridge, the captain and the second lieutenant, all walked down.

Victory again and drove away the British, they must have gone to the shore to drink red wine!

Thinking of red wine, Cladio couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick his chapped lips. It's really unfair. As officers, they can drink red wine at any time, but as soldiers, they can only get one glass every day!

Now, the British bombers have flew away, and the rest of the time is to be sent on the deck.

Sitting on the deck next to the cannon position, looking at the shore in the distance, before the war started, you could see the girl swimming on the beach, but now, there is nothing.

It's so boring!

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Cladio, who was sitting very boring, looked up at the sky casually, and suddenly found that two planes flew over again in the direction of the British plane flying away!

"Alarm, alarm, the British are here again!" he shouted loudly, running back to his cannon position quickly.

At this time, there were not many people left.

According to the previous rules, the British came once a day. Today, but they killed a rebellion. The officers went ashore to drink, and many low-level officers also escaped. When Cladio was sitting in his gun position, even his gun captain could not be found.

No one was in command, and these ordinary sailors stared at the sky nervously, and the British planes were getting closer and closer.

"Brothers, don't be standing there, just do it!" Cladio aimed at the sky with his anti-aircraft gun. Maybe he would be promoted because of this opportunity!

Open fire!

He stepped on the firing machine, and the 20mm anti-aircraft shells flew into the sky again. This time, the two bombers did not dodge!
Chapter completed!