"My Führer...... You mean? At the same time that US President Roosevelt was depressed in the White House, in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Goebbels looked at Li Le in front of him with a shocked face. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In his opinion, the "national symbol" in front of him, which was popular with his hand, has now become unfathomable, making him a little unrecognizable.

However, this change made Goebbels's whole heart tremble, and the excitement kept him awake at night. It was a sense of accomplishment that exceeded his expectations, and Goebel was so happy that he wanted to cry.

If he analyzes it rationally, he can certainly see that the Führer is the same as before. On this basis, he should even be as suspicious of the Führer's identity as Himmler.

It is a pity that the Nazi propaganda minister had no suspicions at all, and he climaxed in the first second of seeing the changes that Li Le brought to the Führer, and he was so excited that he couldn't help himself.

Now Goebbels has almost stopped thinking about who the Führer in front of him is from the depths of his soul. He wants a topic, he wants victory, he wants a leader who takes him to a higher peak!

"Yes, we found at least 45 new American bombers in Crete." Li Le touched the iconic mustache above his lips and said to Goebbels.

"I came to you to see if there is a way for the Propaganda Department to make a fuss about this matter and add a little blockage to the Americans!" The Führer's words made Goebbels' eyes light up and he began to think carefully.

Crete had just come back with the news that German paratroopers had made another miraculous achievement, capturing a large number of American bombers on field airfields.

As soon as he heard the four-shot bomber, Li Le of course knew that this was the most terrible trump card in Roosevelt's hand, that is, the flying fortress that completely destroyed the Luftwaffe and German industry!

Don't underestimate the B-17 bomber, after the appearance of this aircraft, like the well-known blitzkrieg, changed the rules of combat on the battlefield!

Yes! The German army changed the rules of land warfare, and then directly killed France, which is known as the world's first army, and also swept half of the Soviet Union.

And the United States changed the rules of air warfare, and only then did it take the skies of Europe from under the wing of Messersmitt and win a decisive victory in the air war against the Germans!

Before the B-17, the Luftwaffe had never been afraid of enemy bombers, and they hunted these bombers, making the bombing of Germany the most costly military operation for the Allies.

But after the advent of the B-17, the rules of air combat were completely changed by this behemoth - in the face of the Flying Fortress, the German fighter pilots found that the previous tactics were useless.

The B-17 was equipped with more than 10 self-defense machine guns on the fuselage: the smallest caliber of these machine guns were 12.7 mm caliber, which was a rebellious against German aircraft.

When 100 B-17s were in a swarm, the German fighters had to face a rain of bullets. Even without escort aircraft, it is not easy to navigate through such a barrage and find an opportunity to open fire and kill the opponent.

The agile aerial entanglement, like a knight, relies on technical dogfights to shoot down the opponent's traditional air combat, in the face of such a group of aircraft has become a thing of the past, and air combat has become an intuitive contest of firepower.

The German ace pilots, who were familiar with the ME-109 and FW-190 fighters and could shoot down any opponent, found that the enemy was no longer playing tricks with them when the B-17 appeared......

Therefore, when Germany's valuable ace pilots had to give up their skills and degenerate into a novice state of fighting positional battles, it was unfair to simply compare with their opponents who had more cannons.

You see, excluding technology and dexterity, pulling the fighter back to the same level as the bomber, and then competing with the opponent who has a larger caliber of weapons and who has more barrels, this is the birth of positional warfare in the air.

In this aerial positional battle, the losses of both sides gradually pulled in, and the battle became mutual attrition. And fighting with US imperialism is in itself a suicide option......

In addition, when the B-17 had enough weapons for self-defense, the fighters of the US Army Air Corps were freed up.

They don't have to fly to the left and right of the bomber, protecting the vulnerable bomber. Therefore, the American escort tactic was to let the fighters fly higher and wait for the German planes to fight the bombers before attacking.

So there was a situation that was inexplicable for the German pilots: they attacked the American bombers, and then they were dispersed by the dense mass of large-caliber machine guns equipped with the American bombers, and then the American fighters used their potential energy to dive down and destroy the German planes that had lost their formation.

You must know that the B-17 bomber flies at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and the German fighter can fly to this altitude, but the performance has plummeted at this altitude.

If you use a fighter that has lost most of its performance advantage to attack the American bombers, the losses will of course rise in a straight line.

The American fighters, flying higher, had no worries about a drop in performance - they entered the battle later, when the German aircraft formation was already out of order, and all they had to do was dive and attack.

Using the theory of potential energy in air combat, German planes had no superiority in altitude or speed, and they had no ability to maneuver at an altitude of 10,000 meters -- most of them could only sit and wait for death.

Repeated losses consumed the valuable trump cards of the German pilots, and also made the Luftwaffe lose their air supremacy little by little.

The bombers were consuming Germany's pilot units while still eating away at Germany's valuable production capacity -- this made the German army completely lose blood and have no ability to replenish the war.

By the time the veteran pilots of the Air Force had all been killed and lost, the novice pilots did not even have the basic ability to fight at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and they suddenly lost all their ability to counterattack.

Thus, in 1944, the touching scene of two German planes rushing at hundreds of Allied bombers appeared - not that there were not enough German planes, but that there were few pilots who could fight at that altitude.

Theoretically, if you want to break this rogue tactic, after excluding methods such as technological updates, you can only rely on one set of tactics to defeat the enemy.

That was to develop better aircraft engines, so that German planes could fly above the heads of American planes first, and take out all the fighters escorted by the Allies.

However, this was a false proposition for the German army -- because of the poor fuel quality, the engine performance of the German aircraft had not been able to catch up with the performance of the Allied aircraft engines in the middle and late stages of the war......

Tangled and entangled, Germany relies on a strong industrial foundation, and it has become a natural thing to engage in jet fighters that can run with one shot.

However, this set of jet interceptor solutions, in Li Le's view, still has the flaw that the technology is not mature enough, and it is not the best option.

The best option Li Le chose for Germany was to make the B-17 bombers never able to rush to the German mainland, forcing the German fighters to fight positional warfare.

This tactic is theoretically very similar to the thing called the local core defense circle made by Japan, and the key is to completely eliminate the B-17 base in Britain, which threatens the heart of Germany!

"Let the media poke this out and hand it over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to operate! Even if the United States does not admit to supporting Britain, it will make them depressed for a few days. Li Le gave Goebbels the order.

Then he continued to instruct: "But the strength must be mastered, don't let the Americans jump over the wall in a hurry!" If we guide public opinion and force the United States to rein in for two months, the situation will be favorable to us. ”

Goebbels heard the song and knew what he meant, nodded and promised: "Yes, my Führer!" When I go back, I will definitely go back and forth to formulate the most suitable plan. ”

Li Le nodded, and he could be regarded as having completed the beginning and end of a matter. There's a lot more to do, and he's still busy.

In the afternoon, he summoned various aircraft manufacturers to prepare to start the production of imitations of the Empire's 4-engine long-range strategic bombers on the captured B-17.

That's right, Li Le doesn't plan to waste time researching any new bombers, he plans to directly take the American B-17 and use it himself, and things like shame have nothing to do with him at all.

Of course, according to the practice of German engineers, eighty percent of the aircraft should be changed to make a deformation of the entire aircraft with a double vertical tail or something like that, so as to maintain the so-called dignity of German engineers.

The most important thing is that he wants to have his own long-range strategic bomber when attacking the Soviet Union, so as to give Stalin an unexpected surprise.

Another major purpose was to enable the German companies that produced the aircraft to understand the performance of the American B-17 and design a fighter that was more suitable for intercepting such aircraft.

The third point is actually very simple - learn the design skills of high-altitude engines, and accumulate valuable technical experience for the design of new engines after the oil is improved in the future.

In short, Li Le hopes that his air force can completely understand the B-17 bomber, so that when the American bomber enters German airspace in the future, it will have a good experience of what it means to be hit head-on.

Of course, many of the performance data of the B-17 bomber are not comprehensive, at least the manufacture and use of remote-controlled machine gun turrets is one of the materials that Li Le has not been able to find in the 21 st century.

This is also the main reason why Li Le does not use his own "shadow" intelligence department to spoil the detailed performance of the American B-17 bomber.

Although he knew the flight performance of the American bombers and knew a lot of other intelligence, Li Le still could not accurately come up with tactical indicators for the B-17s, which was also the reason why he was so treasured by this batch of B-17s.

And there is something after him, which is a summary of the landing on Crete, and the battle for the airborne landing in Crete. He had to study it carefully so that he could draw up a battle plan for landing in Britain.