Chapter 1356: Blind Optimism 1
There is an old saying in military circles: "Staff officers always have a perfect plan for the last war." (Yes, there is such a statement, and the expression may not be accurate, but the meaning is not bad.) What this means is that when the staff officers have drawn up a plan based on the lessons of the last war, they suddenly find that the plan is completely useless in the coming war. This incident has repeatedly appeared in history, so that how many soldiers who claim to be elite hate the battlefield, not to mention the history of the second war, when the French learned the lessons of the first war, honestly repaired fortifications and pillboxes, and smashed billions of francs and a large amount of manpower into the Maginot Line, and this expensive line of defense did not play a role in actual combat.
For example, before World War II, when the top brass of the US Navy was preparing to engage in a Jutland-style naval decisive battle with the Japanese Navy with a large number of battleships, and when the Japanese were preparing to use the gradual reduction tactics of the nine-stage operation to gradually consume and even finally defeat the US Navy, the formulators of these plans could not have imagined that a gambler named Yamamoto Isoroku would completely sweep these plans into the garbage heap of history with 6 aircraft carriers and more than 400 aircraft! So much so that the comer has to sigh that creation makes people! In later generations, military enthusiasts on the Internet spent their days thinking about what would happen to the war if the Yamato was replaced by the Shozuru aircraft carrier, and what would happen if Zeppelin was put into service. And in this plane, the Americans seem to have made such mistakes, but their mistakes are more technical, and they underestimate the level of German technology!
After all, there is only one traverser, after all, Huaxia is the longest opponent with Germany. Xu Jie knew that Roosevelt was not a good stubble, so while doing enough on the face, he was very well hidden on the inside! What cannot be told to the Entente must not be said, and what can not be told is not told! So under the effect of this guideline, Xu Jie hid a lot of valuable information. For example, the new FW190 fighter of the Luftwaffe can be called a strong combat power, for example, the German tanks of more than 50 tons that will definitely appear in this plane, and then the rapid attack formation of the German Navy. As for the methods and machinery for deciphering the German code, Huaxia did not share too much with the Entente, so it would be good to give an information, and as for the source, you want to go! Some of this information is more or less clear to the United States, Britain, France and other countries, but they don't believe it, because these things seem too incredible to them, if it weren't for Xu Jie being a traverser, then Xu Jie himself wouldn't believe it!
Thus, under the deliberate cover of China, the Americans, the British, and the French began to assess the current combat strength of the German army and formulate future battle plans. The three giants of the Entente thought that they already knew the German army very well, after all, the great war had been fought twice, and the equipment of the Germans seemed to be still those, and not much had changed, of course, the same was true of Britain and the United States.
First of all, the Air Force, after a big war, the British had to admit that the Luftwaffe had made great progress in organizing major campaigns and electronic warfare, and the cooperation of the Luftwaffe Air Force in Operation Sky Garden could be described seamlessly, and after a set of combination punches, the British Air Force in Iran was completely blown up, but what made the British feel relieved was that it seemed that the Luftwaffe was not very effective in upgrading its equipment, and the fighters were still BF109 and BF110, the former was not as comprehensive as the Spitfire, And the latter seems more suitable as an attack aircraft, bombers? It is still JU88 and HE110 that fight the world, and the strategic air force is still HE177 Griffin. Such a combination was not terrible in the eyes of the British, especially in a small theater such as Europe, and with the well-equipped and numerous airfields of Britain and France, the lack of range of Spitfires was not a serious problem. In terms of scale, the British Air Force plus the French Air Force plus the US Air Force in Europe should be no less than the opponent, and their own fighters will have an advantage in defensive operations, which means that at least there will not be too many problems in the air force.
As for the level of electronic warfare of the Germans? After some research, the British concluded that their defeat at the Hanging Gardens was largely due to outdated equipment, and that the results would have been much better if they had been replaced with newer equipment. The three giants of the Entente believed that the combat power of the French and British air forces alone would be enough to block the Luftwaffe, and as the three countries switched to the war system, the three countries believed that their superiority in national strength would gradually turn into a combat superiority, and it would be feasible to return to bomb Germany in the future.
"I hope the British can get out of the Spitfire 9 as soon as possible, otherwise the British Spitfire 5, the French D520 and the American P40 will not be tortured to death?" Xu Jie: This is still a conservative estimate, who knows if the Germans will come up with JUMO213 in a few years, think about the use of C3 oil + MW50 FW190D in the middle and low altitude and Spitfire mid-term model and the American P47 pre-model play, then the situation will be very wonderful. Spitfire 9 can't beat the FW190D9 with oil change and 2nd level supercharging! As for P47? This aircraft is indeed NB at high altitude, but the P47, known as the milk bottle, is sad at medium and low altitudes. Although a powerful engine can make the refrigerator go to the sky, whether it can be played after the sky is another question.
As for P38 and P51? At least the historical P38 had no advantage over the German late model, and the P51? The design team has come to China, and the Americans have not planned to introduce this aircraft so far, after all, the P51 fighter without the Morin mid-term engine behaves like that. Big countries all want to save face, and if it is not their own things, it is really impossible to do it, and it is rare that they will introduce things from other countries on a large scale.
As for the size of the Air Force? Xu Jie believes that the German mobilization ability of this plane must be a level higher than that of history, firstly, the Speer, who was born as an architect in the Third Reich in history, has appeared, and secondly, if the mobilization ability is discussed in terms of history or reality, the mobilization efficiency of Germany under the rule of the Kaiser is much stronger than that of the mustachioed Third Reich! Think about it, in the case of rampant corruption in the Third Reich, Speer was able to increase the aircraft production capacity to 39,000 a year under the strategic bombing of the United States and Britain, in this plane, Germany's strength far exceeds that of the Third Reich in history, and the mobilization efficiency is also higher, so the air force production capacity of the Third Reich will definitely reach a terrifying data, plus Germany is not short of fuel in this plane. So Xu Jie thinks that the Luftwaffe maintains a scale of 20,000 aircraft and a production capacity of about 70,000 fighters a year in wartime, which is really not a big problem!
What's more, the production capacity of the Luftwaffe is actually not fully utilized, the Germans mobilized too late, and did not mobilize when the impact of strategic bombing was not great, and waited until the bombed did not work and began to mobilize, in fact, if it is purely about industry, even according to the scale of the German aircraft industry in history, there is potential to improve, after all, it is needless to say what the situation is over Germany in 44 years, the early stage is still the two sides fight for consumption, and in the later stage, it is basically the backyard of the American and British Air Force, in this case, It is a miracle that the number of aircraft produced in Germany can reach 39,000 aircraft, which is also a miracle!
If you diverge a little further, this plane of Austria-Hungary still exists, even if Austria-Hungary is worse, the industrial base is much stronger than that of Japan in history, if the proportion of multi-engine aircraft is lower, more than 25,000 a year is not too much, right? There is also the production capacity of Italy and Spain, even if you count the passive slackness of the Italians. Together, whether the two are produced or assembled, it is possible to spell out a production capacity of 15,000 aircraft per year. Italy's industry is actually not weak, and Italy in this plane is actually stronger than it was in history. If you calculate it this way, the annual production capacity of nearly 110,000 aircraft is absolutely terrifying. Of course, if the Germans had increased the number of strategic bombers, then this figure would have decreased. However, there is no difficulty in more than doubling the actual production capacity.
On the other hand, on the side of the Entente, although the United States and Britain entered the combat readiness system relatively early, it is obvious that their strength is not much higher than in history, and if the British can be calculated according to the difference in history, 26,000 a year will reach the sky, and the mobilization efficiency of the British is not low, and they entered the war earlier. There is no such thing as not having time to exert force. In fact, the British reached the peak of production capacity in '43, and it declined in '44. Even considering that the number of British bombers is relatively large, and there are a large number of Lancaster and Halifax heavy bombers, but the scale of the British aviation industry in this plane is definitely far inferior to Germany, whether the scale of the aircraft industry of the Allies can reach the level of full force of the United States, Xu Jie does not dare to guarantee, but what Xu Jie can guarantee is that it is absolutely impossible for the United States, Britain and France to overwhelm the Allies with their air forces!
Xu Jie carefully calculated that in history, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union constituted the main force of the air force against Germany and Japan. There is no Japan in this plane, but there is also no Soviet Union, and the Soviets said that there is also a 2000 horsepower engine for exploration, and the La series of coffee tables can also be fought with FW190D at low altitudes. Even though they began to be knocked unconscious by a suffocating stick, the Soviet Air Force still produced 40,000 aircraft a year. (Of course, it was mainly single-engine and twin-engine small aircraft, and if converted into man-hours, the Soviet Union was still inferior to Germany.) On this scale, can Japan compare? Therefore, in fact, the air force system of the Entente countries composed of the United States, Britain and France in this plane is weaker than the air force strength of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union in history.
As for the technical level, even if the historical FW190D and BF109K are weaker than the P51 and P47 in overall performance, they can still be played, and the gap between the two sides is far less than the gap between the eggs and the P51 in the Pacific Theater. What's more, this plane is more technologically advanced.
Considering the direct distance between the United States and the European battlefield and Germany's strong navy, in front of the wolves and the Allied navies, it is unknown how many planes and fuel bombs the Americans can send to Britain! Don't forget, although the Allied navy is weaker than the United States, Britain and France on paper, the main force of the German and Austrian navy is in the Mediterranean, and it is a home battle, and it is an internal operation, and there is Spain as an important forward base. It is unrealistic for the Allied navies to have a large number of anti-submarine forces when they want to ensure the superiority of the fleet in a decisive battle. And the layout of the base is too poor. The UK has resources, while the US is too far away? France? Everyone understands that the Allied Air Force wants to get rid of Huaxia and fight the Allied Air Force alone? Let's wash and sleep! If not, the British will have to taste the burning of London!
Of course, what Xu Jie painstakingly summed up would not be told to the Entente, only the more difficult the situation of the Entente, the more benefits Huaxia could get from it. Just when the Allied air forces said that they could at least hold on and ensure that they were undefeated, the Allied navies also expressed rare optimism. And they are more confident than the Air Force! And the reason for this is that the German Navy has not performed well since World War 1! During the Italian Civil War, the Allied countries and China did not dare to speak up, and the only Mediterranean naval battle, the German Mediterranean Fleet and the Austro-Hungarian Fleet hated the scene again. In this Iran war, although the Germans won the victory, it was a victory achieved by mobilizing the strength of the German naval system, giving people a sense of victory.
The United States believes that this is a sign of the immaturity of the German Navy, and if we look at it purely from the perspective of confrontation against the breaking of diplomatic relations and submarine warfare, the Germans' performance is indeed inferior to that of the United States and Britain, which is like how easy it is to be a thief, but it is very difficult to guard against thieves. As the saying goes, there are a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent a thief. Therefore, at the internal meeting of the Entente powers, the United States, Britain, and France believed that if an effective attack fleet could be sent to attack Germany's shipping routes in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, then the German Navy, which was already at a disadvantage, would inevitably allocate a considerable part of its forces to maintain the security of the lines of communication, which would lead to a further decline in the German Navy's mobile strength. "Even with the strength of the British Home Fleet, the American Atlantic Fleet, and the French Fleet, we can already have a certain advantage in the decisive battle. And as long as we keep the Allied fleet in the Mediterranean, most of the seas of the United States, Britain and France will be safe. Winston Churchill once said of the situation.
The Entente thought very well, relying on the naval superiority on paper, the Entente could completely cut off the defense line of the German mainland through the North Sea and the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean, although Germany had already transferred its naval industry and shipbuilding industry to the Mediterranean more than ten years ago, but the tail was too big, no matter how it was transferred, the local naval facilities and production capacity still accounted for a relatively high proportion within the Allied navy. In the eyes of the Entente, it is not an internal battle in the full sense, even though the Germans began to transfer all the fleets over, but the newly built warships can still only hang around in the fishpond of the North Sea, and the main force of the entire German fleet is still separated, so the Entente believes that as long as France is still there, then the native German fleet and the Allied fleet in the southern Mediterranean are lonely, and it is difficult to form a rope. There is no possibility of losing.
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