If Xu Jie is asked to evaluate do335, then Xu Jie's point is that a good idea is ruined by a tragic design. The pull-forward and push-back design really allows this aircraft to have decent speed. Some models of the DO335 can easily fly at speeds of more than 700 kilometers with two DB603s. Even the speed of P51b and D is no more than that. Arguably one of the fastest twin-engine propeller aircraft in service at the end of World War 2. The biggest problem with the DO335 is climbing, even with the most optimistic estimates, the DO335 only climbs around 1,200 meters per minute when driving the MW50. It can't compare with the climb of the Spitfire and the Corsair 4 in the case of high standard oil. The problem of climb is not caused by the layout of the engine, but by the weight,

It is also a twin-engine fighter, and the empty weight of the P38 is only about 5 tons. And the empty weight of the DO335 is close to 8 tons! Just looking at this empty weight, you can know that the power-to-weight ratio of this aircraft is really poor, and if it can achieve the estimated climb of 1200 meters per minute, it is quite good. The extra weight of more than 2 tons eventually ruined this very innovative aircraft. If the weight can finally be cut to about 6 tons, then this aircraft should still be very good. After all, the main weakness of this aircraft is climbing. Roll and dive performance is okay. In this process, the first thing to do is to reduce the weight of the built-in magazine and fuel tank. Then as the weight decreases, the weight of the landing gear can also be reduced. Then step by step, the weight is reduced to a tolerable level. And that's exactly what Richthofen is now directing the technical department to do. They intend to design the DO335 as a specialized long-range fighter. Because the Germans lacked it.

At this time, Huaxia did not know that a historically crooked thing was returning to the right track. While the Germans were adjusting to the situation at the front, Qin Yue was also considering the impact of the future air battle situation. When he saw the battle situation that was sent up, Qin Yue's first reaction was frustration. He had expected that the Germans would give it their all in the first wave of attacks. To this end, he specially united the British and American fighter forces, which were ready to inflict heavy damage on the opposing side's attack forces. Who knew that in the end, the other party played very modestly. The strategic bomber barely moved. Attacks on targets in depth are also relatively limited. Although from the point of view of the exchange ratio, Huaxia has an advantage. However, the results were still lower than expected.

"If this continues, it will be difficult for our future plans to go smoothly. The Luftwaffe is said to have demanded that the Army need to learn to be self-reliant. It seems that General Peng Yi's armored forces will also rely on themselves in the future. Qin Yue shook his head and smiled bitterly.

China's aim is to eventually keep the northern part of Iran. For this reason, Xu Jie even did not hesitate to use the strategic air force to threaten the oil-producing areas of the Transcaucasia. But there are a lot of difficulties with this plan at the same time. As a traverser, Xu Jie knows very well how much the British and American air forces have paid for Germany's strategic bombing in history. Tens of thousands of heavy bombers and more than 100,000 crew losses! A B17 starts at a cost of up to $350,000! Not to mention the loss of ammunition and fuel and training personnel, the loss of bombers alone is an astronomical amount! Not to mention whether Xu Jie can make up his mind to fight a brutal air strangulation war, simply to maintain and destroy the strategic bomber force in Transcaucasia is a very difficult thing for China now.

And politically speaking. Xu Jie was also worried that the attack on the Transcaucasian would touch the bottom line of the Germans, and dealing with Germany was a matter for China and the Entente. And if Huaxia really does this, then the final result will be to be pushed to the front and directly tear the face of the allies, so Xu Jie will send bombers to symbolically attack at the right time, but if you really fight to the death in the Transcaucasia, this determination is still difficult to make, and the Air Force is also quite opposed to this.

So, the priority of this plan was pushed to second place before the start of the war. The Chinese Army and Air Force decided to carry out another plan that was relatively costly and could also deter the Entente, and this plan had already taken shape long ago. The new plan is nothing but an enhanced version of the original plan. That is, under the cover of the air force, with Mosul as the core, the implementation of encirclement and reinforcement, and the ruthless consumption of a series of German elite troops. Attacking this oil-producing base was one goal, but the more important goal was to make the German Army realize that the cost of attacking the north would be great. And finally choose to let go.

In fact, the German armies were not very concerned about the territory of northern Iran, and perhaps the Kaiser wanted to include all of Iran in the sleeve of the Allies. But the Prussian officer corps had to think about the costs and costs of this plan beforehand. At the end of the day, the Germans wanted to get a suitable forward base. Iran is not Italy, whose industry could provide the German armed forces with the equipment they needed. And Iran has nothing but some oil. The Germans of this plane are not short of oil. And the German top brass understood very well that even if northern Iran was defeated, there would not be much fuel that could be distributed to the three armies. Because as agreed. Iran's oil will be divided among the three companies. Naturally, after Germany gets a part of it, it will not give it all to the army. So the end result is that the gains from taking northern Iran are relatively limited, in this case. There would be a disagreement between the German military top brass and the Kaiser. There is an old saying in China that county officials are not as good as being in charge. If the three German armies made up their minds and did not want to fight China to the end. Then the two sides will have the basis for an eventual negotiated settlement of the Iranian issue.

Judging by the current situation, the German Army is strong, very strong. Huge scale and well-equipped. However, due to logistical and various constraints, the number of troops that can be used in the Middle East is still relatively limited. And the German Army is considering a rearmament. The tanks currently in use are the early tanks III and IV. But the plant is considering the production of the IV modification and the Tiger tank. Replacing a new tank requires capacity. So the production capacity of the early tank will definitely decrease. And the German General Staff also has plans to let the Tiger tank show its face in this war, on the one hand, it will take a certain amount of time for this tank to form combat effectiveness. Another reason was that the Germans saw it as a strategic weapon to defeat the enemy. So it is necessary to prevent premature exposure.

Of course, to realize this plan, the army needs strong support from the air force. And if the Air Force wants to do this, it will first have to consume the Luftwaffe in large quantities. Compared with the Germans, the Chinese and Allied air forces were more defensive and less attacking, and if they wanted to attack Kirkuk, it was obvious that they had to hit the opponent's interior line. Once the offensive and defensive momentum is transformed. Then the current advantage of the Huaxia Air Force will all be the Germans, and when the time comes, let the Huaxia Air Force attack the German defense line. Then this is a bit more difficult.

The Luftwaffe's plans inadvertently disrupted the strategic layout of the Huaxia Air Force. The price paid by the Germans in the air campaign that began was not significant. The strength is still stable and dominant. So in order to deal with this change, Xu Jie and Qin Yue needed to readjust their tactics. Originally to cover the Army. Huaxia still prepared some Tiger Cat planes and medium bombers to support ground operations, the former with a cannon is an interceptor, and a bomb is a bomber. But alas, the strength of the Luftwaffe is still there. In a future offensive, the Huaxia Air Force should first consider air combat and then consider ground attack, so the aircraft delivered to Iran were quickly replaced with Foxbat twin-engine fighters (Huaxia version P38. Tiger Cat fighters continue to be used. Except for some electronic warfare aircraft and special aircraft, all the medium bombers were replaced .......

In addition to making the aircraft fleet more capable of air combat, Huaxia also needs to equip the army with more mobile antiaircraft guns and mobile radars. After all, if the Air Force cannot guarantee air supremacy on the battlefield, then the Army can only rely on its own firepower for air defense. The Chinese Army even decided to deploy a large number of antiaircraft artillery pieces in some key material transit centers. And early warning radars and fire control radars are installed. In order to ensure the needs of the attacking troops, Huaxia even reduced the anti-aircraft firepower of some large cities.

However, what Xu Jie and Qin Yue didn't expect was that the arrangement carried out by Huaxia did not play much role at the beginning. Not that the Allied air force was unmatched, but that the Germans used the main air force in southern Iran for the next phase of the war. It seems that the Germans are also used to picking soft persimmons and pinching. So much so that Huaxia did not receive much air strikes at the beginning of the attack. Even many Foxbat fighters that were originally mounted on air superiority were replaced with bomb pylons to carry out ground attack missions. Of course, this was only before the Luftwaffe reacted, and it was only after a large number of BF109 fighters were transferred to the northern front that the war of attrition between the two sides officially began.

If the Luftwaffe and the Huaxia Air Force in the early stage of the war could be deliberately dealt with by the Germans, the Huaxia Air Force was a little caught off guard. Then Britain and the United States can be described as lying guns. They really did not expect that the Germans would not fight to the death with the largest Chinese air cluster on the northern front, but would fight the doctrine of the US and British air forces in more depth, and purely from the distance point of view, the US and British positions would undoubtedly be farther away from the Luftwaffe air bases. And the Luftwaffe would rather build the airfield step by step than eat this weakness first. As a result, Britain and the United States, who thought they would avoid the fierce German offensive at the beginning of the war, were first attacked by the Luftwaffe and Air Force. This also proves that a weak opponent must be eliminated first. It was not only the air force that decided to open the gap on the southern front, but the German army, after the Turkish and Austro-Hungarian armies in the north had provided some armored reserves, began to advance north. And because the United States and Britain deployed their troops relatively late, the Germans began to attack very smoothly, and it was more like an armed march than a fight. And the carelessness of the United States and Britain also gave the German Army an advantage in the initial attack.

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