The occupation of the two small islands of Hawaii made the Joint Staff Committee realize that the situation was not good, and the Japanese army did not give up the attempt of a large-scale offensive campaign, which verified from the side that Japan's offer to ask for Hawaii was not a whim, and the news from the battlefield in South Africa was really chilling.

At 4:30 a.m. on November 5, 1944, nearly 500,000 German troops finally launched the South African campaign after a long wait and deployment.

A full of ambition Guderian had just announced from the Mozambican command: "The offensive begins!" In the next minute, thousands of scuds and silkworms began to rise into the air.

In order to support the needs of the campaign, the German army sent most of the rocket production produced in the rear in the past two months to the South African front. After the end of the Eastern Front campaign, the focus of German production has undergone major changes, except for self-propelled guns, tank guns, and recoilless guns, the production of the rest of the traditional towed artillery and infantry guns has basically stopped, up to 150mm caliber howitzers, down to 80mm caliber mortars, and follow-up orders have been cancelled by the Ministry of Armaments.

It is not that the German army is superstitious about rockets and believes that artillery will not be needed in future operations, but that the British and American artillery obtained from Britain, the fulfillment of France's early orders, and the artillery possessed by the Eastern Front Army after the reduction have far exceeded the establishment, and there is no longer a need to produce traditional artillery.

However, the Ministry of Armaments obviously will not let Skoda, Rheinmetall and other dry companies be empty, so after charging a fee for technical licensing, they will pass on the standard specifications for rocket production to them and let them produce according to the drawings.

In addition to the artillery company, the Ministry of Armaments has also made drastic adjustments to aviation orders, the original German + Italian aircraft production has exceeded 5000 / month, and now it is obvious that there is no need for so much, in addition to carrier-based aircraft, new jets, professional aircraft due to refitting, navy, export factors continue to vigorously produce, the rest of the model production has been fine-tuned, Speer lowered the monthly production target to about 3500 aircraft, and the spare production capacity was transferred to rocket production.

It is less difficult for airlines to switch to rocket production than artillery companies, especially since the Silkworm rocket looks like an unmanned aircraft, so all orders for cruise missiles are sent to traditional airlines. Speer's requirements for them started at 500 pieces/month, and gradually increased the production to 2,000 pieces/month together with the supporting companies.

As for the artillery companies with precision assembly capabilities, which focus on tackling key problems in the production of Scud ballistic missiles and Hail anti-radiation missiles, the Ministry of Armaments needs 400 Scud missiles per month for mass production, but the actual production capacity is less than 200 units.

The companies are enthusiastic and energetic in the production of missiles, and the significant difference with aircraft and artillery is that missiles are disposable products, although the price is slightly lower, but they are consumed as soon as a war is fought, and the energy source is constantly generating a stream of orders - artillery can be used for several years, and aircraft theoretically have a life span of more than a year. In their eyes, fighting a war with missiles is no different from throwing money out of the air.

What's even better is that missiles are currently the exclusive products of Germany, artillery and aircraft are competing with Britain, France, Italy, and even the United States and Japan, not to mention the price not to mention, just after the war, there are mountains of stocks everywhere to digest, and missiles are completely new fields, not only will there be no competitors for export in the future, but also other countries have no equipment, and the thought that the world's armies are their own potential customers, the arms giants tremble with excitement - this is all money spent in vain!

Usually always a bargain, they now do not hesitate to carry out the orders of the head of the economy, Speer, without frowning at all.

Now, the missiles flying in the night sky of South Africa are worth more than 100 million Reichsmarks, and when they blow up, it means that they are equivalent to 350 Tiger tanks being lost, and in order to lose the "350 Tiger tanks", the rear will be equipped with nearly 400 million worth of launch vehicles, tracked vehicles, railway mobile launchers, launch positions, personnel and materials, etc., even if this money will not be consumed all at once, a single investment will be added at least 80 million marks, which is equivalent to such a wave of the South African campaign. 200 million marks will be scattered!

Even a marshal like Guderian, who is accustomed to seeing big scenes, is extremely smacked by this, but Hoffman told him not to think about it, and emphatically stressed: as long as Blitzkrieg 2.0 is successful, it represents the direction of future war development, and with the advancement of technology and the improvement of accuracy, missiles will become more and more expensive and less expensive.

This sentence initially stunned everyone: Isn't it a contradiction that missiles are getting more expensive and less expensive?

But Hoffman didn't think so, and he taught the generals a lesson in the economics of war: at present, the accuracy of missiles is low, so the saturation coverage is used for launching, if the accuracy of missiles can be increased to a circular probability deviation of hundreds of meters or even tens of meters, what is it necessary to work so hard? For example, to blow up a fortress, the first shot drills a hole, the second shot drills into the hole in the front and explodes, and the second shot guarantees that the problem will be solved.

Everyone was dumbfounded, saying that it was incredible, and this was amazing, and the drill might not be possible.

Hoffman only smiled and pretended to be able to see it, and besides, didn't there be ready-made examples? -- If a heavy bomber is used to bomb a US escort aircraft carrier at night, if ordinary bombs are used, the hit rate of horizontal bombing is only 1 percent, but with infrared guidance, the hit rate suddenly increases to more than 15 percent, is it possible that an infrared-guided bomb is more expensive than 15 ordinary bombs?

Seeing that everyone still had concerns, Hoffman cited a second example to prove the changes in the mode of warfare and the consumption of funds brought about by scientific and technological progress: "In the last war, when a battleship was to be sunk, the main guns of the warship were required to carry out dozens or even hundreds of rounds of bombardment, but after the use of dive bombers and torpedo planes in this war, a giant ship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons could hardly be used as long as it ate a dozen bombs or a few torpedoes. If the Bismarck is put in the first battle, maybe it will not sink for the whole game, and it is not now killed by the 'little flies'? If the rocket hits accurately, how many saturation attacks can the Bismarck withstand? I can't survive 10 rounds! ”

Everyone nodded thoughtfully.

The Führer inspires a circle of marshals with intent: "In the last war, planes and tanks appeared, but they seemed to be dispensable appendages, and it was not they who played a decisive role in the success or failure of the war. In the same way, whoever dares to ignore the value of rockets and missiles will not be far from losing the next big war...... You don't want Germany to be like France in the future, lying on the success of this great war and finally being beaten and surrendered in six weeks, right? If we take 20-25 years as the node of the next war, many of us can still see it! ”

Everyone's hearts were in their hearts, and this sound alarmist, but it is not an old saying to take precautions.

With a piercing whistling, a shining light and a deafening explosion, the 200 million marks of brilliant fireworks are in the process of being unfurled: the first tactical nodes to be hit by the missile group are US airfields, command headquarters, communication arteries, radar stations, material warehouses, troop concentrations, air defense positions and key fortifications - whether they are distributed in front of the battle line or in the rear!

In Blitzkrieg 2.0, the battlefield range is greatly folded, and the 400-kilometer range is a first-line depth. During the previous month-long reconnaissance flight, the German side had almost found out the information.

South Africa's Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant General Bradley of the U.S. Army, nicknamed "Cobra," was also not idle, and fully camouflaged and deceived the deployment, with inflatable aircraft models, artillery camouflaged in wood, and tanks built from trucks and other things lying outside to lure people, these tactics were used in North Africa, deceived opponents many times, and German pilots were repeatedly fooled. However, after a long period of tactical use, there will always be a day when they will be discovered, and the German army's reconnaissance methods have been upgraded in a targeted manner; after the reconnaissance plane uses visible light to take a large number of photographs during the day, it also conducts infrared thermal imaging scanning and reconnaissance of suspicious and uncertain points at night.

Those disguises that look like they are subtle can fool the visible band, but they are invisible under infrared radiation, making it easy to distinguish between real and fake targets.

The signs of the German army going to move are so obvious that three days ago, the South African armies entered the highest state of alert, and many front-line positions have entered a state of lying in peace, and they plan to respond as soon as possible, but the German army puts on a posture every day as if it is about to attack, but it just does not attack, and this kind of harassment and tossing has made the US army, especially the South African army, blaze with fire.

When the radar station reported to Bradley that there were countless fast flying objects coming at him, he and the other staff officers, who had been in the command for several days, couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief - the Germans had finally called, and I hope they were here for real.

He knew that those undefensible rockets had the ability to penetrate defenses quickly, and now he could only pray that his luck would be a little better, so that the Germans' rockets would be a little less accurate, but he maintained a mocking attitude in his face and sneered: "I hope the big fireworks of the German army can shoot a little more accurately, and kill the inflatable model and wooden artillery sooner!" I'm going to throw up if I take it any longer! ”

The crowd was stunned for a moment, and then applauded enthusiastically - it seems that their commander is very confident! The Supreme Leader of South Africa, Marshal Jan Christian Smash, who is old and usually unsmiling and serious, also showed a knowing smile.

Guderian didn't have the heart to pray, whether the rocket hit or not was not something he could control, he could only give orders to hit and tell the specific direction, he had a lot of things to worry about now, how could he have the heart to care about the rocket landing point, this kind of thing would be left to the professionals.

At 4:45, Marshal Kesselring ordered the attack aircraft group to take off!

As soon as the standard time came, more than 200 Ar-234 planes quickly appeared under the protection of more than 90 Me-262 planes, skimming from high altitude at a speed of more than 800 kilometers, focusing on releasing anti-radiation bombs and infrared bombs, and using the ability of rapid penetration and precision strikes to carry out a secondary supplementary attack on the remaining targets after the rocket saturation and ground washing.

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