"Damn, Huaxia can always make trouble at the most critical moment!" Garand's battle report was delivered to the Red Baron the next day, and it has to be said that the scale and losses of this battle exceeded the Red Baron's expectations, according to the Red Baron's estimates, if the battle continues like this, it will take up to 2 months, and it is estimated that the entire Transcaucasian aviation cluster will be replaced!

Now, let alone continue to be prepared according to the original plan, it would be good to ensure that the current aviation training and supplemental system remains unchanged! The wings that were supposed to receive the new aircraft and then train and recuperate must return to the front line and continue the battle of blood and fire, and the experienced pilots will not be able to pass on their knowledge to the newcomers, and they will continue to fight on the battlefield until one day they are killed or disable and withdraw from the battle!

"Now, immediately transfer fighter wings from the 4 air armies of the Imperial, Griffin, Manticore, and Black Hawk to the Transcaucasian theater of operations, and each air corps will draw 2 fighter wings! Those experienced veterans, and then from the general reserve, draw a DO335 wing and a HE219 wing. We must defend the oil fields of the Transcaucasia, where the fuel supply accounts for almost half of the empire! There must be no room for error! The Red Baron pondered for a moment and said.

"But in this case, the rotation of these 4 air corps will be suspended! They have been fighting on the front line since the beginning of the war! They need to be corrected, and now that the production capacity of the DO335 and HE219 aircraft is declining, they have given way to the Army's much-needed ground attack aircraft and new single-engine fighters, if two more wings are transferred. The number of long-range fighters and night combat aircraft in our hands will be stretched! Kesselring exclaimed. The current Luftwaffe air forces are a carrot and a pit, and there is not so much residual force to call on. He thinks that this practice is tantamount to drinking water to quench his thirst.

"Those aviation wings that have already begun to be reequipped cannot be moved, and the process of refitting must not be abandoned halfway, and the Baku oil field cannot be left alone, so we can only draw troops from the current combat readiness wing. I understand the Huaxia Air Force, as long as they start attacking, then they will definitely not give us a chance to breathe! They will engage us part of the day and night, and the air defense situation in Europe is not so serious relatively speaking. Let's block this wave of Huaxia offensive first. Richthofen sighed and said that the current Luftwaffe is completely a bit of a tear down the east wall to make up the west wall. The newly trained fighter units will be given priority to replenish these 4 air armies, which can be regarded as some compensation for them! A moment later, the Red Baron added.

This time, though, the Red Baron thought the situation a little too far. Such a large battle damage was also a bit unbearable for Huaxia, and more than 200 heavy bombers were destroyed and damaged in one battle! More than 200 of them! These planes are enough to form an aviation army when converted into single-engine aircraft! Only half of the damaged aircraft have repair value, while the other half can only be dismantled and supplied as parts. In this way, Huaxia threw away more than 100 4-engine bombers in one day. Such a high battle loss rate made the Chinese military also have some drumming! "If we continue like this, it will take up to three months. We're going to get a whole new batch of bombers and crews! Qin Yue wrote in his report to Xu Jie.

"Stick with it, let's fight like this for a week! Regardless of the months running out, according to the original plan, after fifteen missions, you can rotate once. I'll give you as much as you hit! Xu Jie unceremoniously instructed in his reply that it was not that Xu Jie did not understand human feelings, but that he knew that such an attack on German resource points would greatly reduce the losses on the frontal battlefield. Because at this moment, Huaxia can no longer find such a suitable attack point! He is very close to the mainland of China, and he is one of the most important nodes of the allies, and at the same time, he can also tie up his opponents and consume them well! We're tired, but we're also uncomfortable!

Xu Jie found out after comparing this strategic bombing with the strategic bombing of the United States and Britain in history. In proportion, the losses of the Air Force in this operation were also not very large. You must know that when the Americans bombed the Romanian oil fields in history, they reimbursed nearly one-third of the bomber force in World War I! In this operation, the Huaxia strategic bomber unit had a strong escort of fighter units, and the combat distance was relatively close, and the time spent in the air was long enough! In terms of the combat environment alone, the combat environment of the current Huaxia Air Force is much stronger than that of its American and British counterparts in history! The historical American and British air forces began to fight the Germans without the escort of fighter jets! Of course, it is also a fact that the Luftwaffe is much stronger in this plane, but Xu Jie still asks the Air Force to persevere!

As a result, the Chinese strategic bomber unit and fighter unit continued to fight the Germans in the skies over the Baku oil fields. And after several days of continuous fighting. The Luftwaffe's interception capabilities were generally declining, and although the Red Baron tried his best to replenish the losses at the front, it was limited by various conditions. The effect is not obvious. And under the baptism of thousands or even tens of thousands of tons of bombs per day! The Baku oil field and nearby refineries have been hit extremely hard, and the daily crude oil production at the lowest time is only about 3% of the normal time!

And because the bombing is gradually extending to infrastructure, road hubs. As a result, the Germans were unusually slow to recover, as much of the equipment had to be transported from mainland Europe, first overland to the Mediterranean, and then via the Black Sea to Transcaucasia. Then take the railway into the oil production area! The bombing of Huaxia was a systematic destruction of everything the Germans had built here, and according to one German official, Huaxia even completely destroyed the railway system 100 kilometers away from the Baku oil fields! Not only was the rebuilding of the fuel industry affected, but even the rebuilding of the German garrison airfields and radar stations was very slow! Even if the Luftwaffe base near Baku survives, it will encounter the attacking Huaxia Air Force almost every day! "People are constantly suppressing the bombing overhead, how can the reconstruction work begin?" Garland complained.

The strategic air raids on Baku from China soon affected the decision-making of the German High Command. When the Red Baron claimed in a meeting that it would be difficult for the Air Force to use the current forces and bases to provide protection for the Baku oil fields. The Kaiser and the entire German military top brass finally could not sit still. They even adjusted their battle plan in order to ensure the safety of the Baku oil fields! The series of consequences caused by this made Xu Jie a little unexpected!

"Our biggest problem is the lack of forward bases, the number of airfields in the Transcaucasian region is limited, we have a large fleet of aircraft but we can only deploy them on the periphery, if the army can take the north of Iran, then the air force can get enough forward bases, we can not only protect the security of the entire oil field from the flanks, but even take off bombers from here to launch air strikes on the Central Asian region occupied by China!" The Red Baron gave his opinion at the meeting.

"The army is about to launch an attack on India, and there can only be one strategic main offensive direction for a period. Northern Iran is an area where China has been operating for many years. If we move our troops north, even if we can take it, we will pay a considerable price! And while we are entangled with China, the United States and Britain may have strengthened India's defenses. And if you adjust it when the army has already been deployed, it will cause great chaos! Marshal Bock was firmly opposed to this!

"If we just knocked out the north of Iran. Then we can't end the war, because the United States and Britain will continue to fight us, and China will continue to fight us, but if we can occupy India, the British Empire will be hit hard. And we see the entire western Indian Ocean as our inland sea. We can get enough food, raw materials from India. No one can defeat us again. Although India is huge in size. But there are not many American and British troops stationed, and Huaxia has 300,000 troops in northern Iran alone! The attack of this heavy aircraft group may not be enough, but the defense is absolutely fine! Manstein said.

There is such a heavy army group on the side of his own troops, and no one is at ease. But the German army top brass agreed to understand that it seems that the 300,000 troops in China are not much, but if it is really technical equipment, the combat effectiveness of this corps is much higher than on paper! A German panzer division had no more than 200 tanks of various kinds. The number is around 15,000. And one armored division in China has more than 320 tanks! There are only about 12,000 people! It has to be said that the total number of vehicles owned by the elite armored units of China is much more than that of the German regiments of the same level, and the number of so-called logistics personnel is relatively small. There are relatively few personnel, but the combat effectiveness is not low at all!

Of course, this is not to say that the German Army is weak, but because the German Army is too large and too far from the mainland. The logistics unit lacked enough vehicles, so it had to be compensated for with personnel and livestock. For the same reason, the German infantry corps lacked a sufficient number of tanks, and each infantry division in China could be assigned at least one battalion of tanks or tank destroyers. And the number of tanks in the German infantry divisions did not exceed 40 at most! As for the heavy tank battalion? Although there are more than 20 battalions in total, there are not many of these troops after they are dispersed into the vast chariots, so it is not that the Germans do not want to move China, but the price of moving China is a little too high! Unless the Germans were willing to flank all the troops attacking India, Kluge and others were not optimistic about the outcome of the battle.

"Northern Iran is too close to the Chinese mainland, and China can be quickly replenished by water and air. If the Army attacks, will the Air Force be able to keep us safe above our heads? If you can't. We can't resist the air raids of the Huaxia Air Force, right? Kluge said.

Although he was not an air force officer, he also knew very well that the Huaxia bomber unit that attacked the Baku oil field was only the Huaxia air force stationed in Central Asia, and there was another air group in northern Iran. Even if the air force can suppress the Huaxia air force in northern Iran, reinforcements from Central Asia can easily regain air supremacy! How many Luftwaffe were in total in the entire Middle East? In terms of the number of aircraft, it is certainly not comparable to the Chinese aviation units in Central Asia and the Middle East, after all, Germany's forces are too scattered, and the Chinese Air Force currently has only this one main battlefield! Resist the main force of the Huaxia Air Force with the strength of a theater of operations, this can be fought!

So, the meaning of an army general is simple. That was the eastward march of the army to attack the weak British India. The Air Force only needs to be responsible for defense. In this way, the Luftwaffe will have less pressure, and the army will fight more easily. The Germans are no longer thinking about how to force Huaxia to withdraw from the battle, because through several encounters, the Germans know very well that if Huaxia wants something, even if there are no allies, they will fight to the end with the Allies. As for the question of the Baku oil fields? Generally speaking, relying on reserves and three other large oil fields, Germany can still support it for a while, and Germany has also begun to engage in coal-to-oil in Germany. The German Army believes that even if the production of the Baku oil fields is cut in half, it will not be intolerable!

"But in any case, we also have to launch a preventive campaign, Huaxia has inserted several nails in the southern corridor of Iran, these nails directly threaten our logistical supply lines, we will drive Huaxia's troops at least 70 to 150 kilometers north! Then establish a buffer zone. Deploy defensive lines and bases. Only in this way can we guarantee the safety of the Eastward Advance Corps! Just when the army bosses agreed that it was not advisable to change the original plan, Guderian suddenly proposed a compromise plan, which surprised everyone present.

"The southern part of Isfahan province? This hidden danger left over from the Iran war really needs to be removed. If you're lucky. We can also push a little further north and take down the oil fields in Isfahan province to make up for our losses in Baku. The Kaiser thought for a moment and said.

The Kaiser's attitude caused some reluctance within the army, and after the navy assured that supplies could be supplied through ports within the Persian Gulf, the army finally agreed to launch a limited offensive at Isfahan. For this attack, the German Army planned to mobilize 5 panzer divisions and 11 infantry divisions, while the Air Force promised to provide air support from 3 air armies!

"So is our offensive in India going ahead as planned? An offensive against China will weaken our theater reserves. Manstein, who was in charge of moving east into India, asked.

"The Luftwaffe can still guarantee your department's aviation support, as long as the army itself is okay, the plan can remain the same." The Red Baron replied. This is not to say how generous the Luftwaffe is now, but because the Allied air forces of the entire South Asian subcontinent are not very strong. And even less power can be used in the northwest. The Anglo-American Air Force in the Indus Valley seemed to the Red Baron to be nothing more than an addition.

So at the same time as the strategic bombing of China against Germany was launched, the Germans were also ready to attack on land, and one of the Teutonic spears that was originally going to pierce India was used against China, and the first large-scale ground battle between China and Germany in World War II was about to kick off!

Thanks to the book friend zhouyu1976, May 5th, and the 1st Tank Guards Brigade for their tips~~~. (To be continued.) )