Imperial Overlord

"My head of state... what do you mean?" Just as US President Roosevelt was depressed in the White House, in the Chancellor's Office in Berlin, Germany, Goebbels looked at Li Le in front of him with a shocked expression.

In his opinion, the "national symbol" in front of him, which he held in the palm of his hand, has now become so unfathomable that he can't even recognize it.

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

If he analyzes it rationally, of course he can see that the head of state is completely different from the previous one. On this basis, he should even, like Himmler, doubt the identity of the Führer.

Unfortunately, the Nazi propaganda minister had no doubts at all. He climaxed in the first second of seeing the changes Li Le brought to the Fuhrer, and he was so excited that he couldn't help himself.

The current Goebbels has almost no longer cared about who the Führer in front of him is from the depths of his soul. What he wants is a topic, what he wants is victory, and what he wants is a leader who will make him reach a higher level!

"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 because I wanted to see if there was a way to make a fuss about this matter and add a little block to the Americans!" .

Crete just returned the news that the German paratroopers made another extraordinary contribution and captured a large number of American bombers at the field airfield.

As soon as he heard the four-engine bomber, Li Le of course knew that this was the most terrifying trump card in Roosevelt's hands, that is, it completely destroyed the air fortress of the Luftwaffe and German industry!

Never underestimate the B-17 bomber. After this aircraft appeared, it changed the rules of battle on the battlefield just like the familiar blitzkrieg!

Yes! The German army changed the rules of land warfare, and then directly killed France, known as the world's No. 1 army, and swept half of the Soviet Union.

And the United States changed the rules of air combat, only from under the wing of Messerschmitt, took the skies of Europe, won the decisive victory over the German air battle!

Before the B-17, the Luftwaffe had never been afraid of enemy bombers, which they hunted, making bombing Germany the costliest Allied military operation.

But after the B-17 appeared, the rules of air combat were completely changed by this behemoth. Facing the air fortress, the German fighter pilots found that all the previous tactics were useless.

The B-17 is equipped with more than 10 self-defense machine guns on the fuselage: these minimum caliber machine guns are all 12.7 mm caliber machine guns, which are simply against the sky against German aircraft.

When 100 B-17s swarmed, the German fighters faced a baptism of bullets. Even if there is no **** aircraft, it is not an easy task to shuttle through such a barrage and find an opportunity to fire and kill the opponent.

The agile aerial entanglement, like the traditional aerial combat in which the knights rely on technical dogfights to shoot down their opponents, has become a thing of the past in front of such a fleet, and aerial combat has become an intuitive contest of firepower.

After hundreds of battles, the German ace pilots who can drive the familiar ME-109 and FW-190 fighters can shoot down any opponent. After the B-17 appeared, they found that the enemy did not play tricks with them...

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

You see, excluding technology and dexterity, pulling fighters back to the same level as bombers, and then competing with opponents who have larger caliber weapons and more barrels, and this is the birth of air position warfare.

In this air position battle, the losses of both sides gradually pulled in, and the battle became mutual consumption. And fighting with U.S. imperialism is a suicide option in itself...

In addition, when sufficient self-defense weapons of the B-17 became a prerequisite, the fighters of the US Army Air Forces were liberated.

They don't have to fly around the bomber, protecting the vulnerable bomber. Therefore, the American **** tactics are to let the fighter jets fly in higher places, and wait for the German planes to fight the bombers first before shooting.

So a situation that was incomprehensible to the German pilots arose: they went to attack the American bombers, which were then dispersed by the dense large-caliber machine guns equipped on the American bombers. German aircraft destroyed.

You must know the altitude at which the B-17 bomber flew, but above the 10,000-meter air squeeze, the German fighter jets could fly to this altitude, but the performance has plummeted at this altitude.

Using fighter jets that have lost most of their performance advantages to attack American bombers, of course, the losses will skyrocket.

The American fighter jets flying at higher places had no worries about performance degradation. They joined the war later. At that time, the formation of the German aircraft was already chaotic, and all they had to do was dive and attack.

Using the potential energy air combat theory, the German aircraft has no altitude advantage or speed advantage, and at an altitude of 10,000 meters, it has no maneuverability and most of them can only sit and wait to die.

Repeated losses have consumed the precious trump cards of the German pilots, and the Luftwaffe also lost their air superiority little by little.

While the bombers were consuming the German pilot force, they were still eroding Germany's precious production capacity, which caused the German army to completely lose blood and no ability to replenish and fight again.

When the veteran pilots of the Air Force were all killed and lost, the novice pilots did not even have the basic ability to fight in the air at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and all of a sudden they lost all counterattack capabilities.

As a result, in 1944, the touching scene of two German planes rushing towards hundreds of Allied bombers appeared not because there were not enough German planes, but because there were very few pilots who could fight at that altitude.

In theory, if you want to break this rogue tactic and exclude methods such as technological updates, you can only rely on a set of tactics to defeat the enemy.

That is to develop better aircraft engines, so that German aircraft can fly over the heads of American aircraft first, killing all the fighters escorted by the Allies.

But this is a false proposition for the German army. Because of the poor fuel quality, the engine performance of the German aircraft has been unable to keep up with the performance of the Allied aircraft engine in the middle and late stages of the war...

It was a matter of course for Germany to rely on its strong industrial foundation to develop jet fighters that would run after a shot.

But this set of jet interceptor solution, in Li Le's view, still has the flaw of immature technology, not the best option.

The best option that Li Le chose for Germany was to make the B-17 bombers never 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. The key is to completely kill the British B-17 base that threatens the heart of Germany!

"Let the media reveal this matter, and then hand it over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for operation! Even if the United States refuses to admit to supporting the United Kingdom, they will be depressed for a few days." Li Le gave Goebbels an order.

Then he continued: "However, we must grasp the strength well, and don't let the Americans jump over the wall! Guide public opinion and force the United States to retreat for two months, and the situation will be in our favor."

Goebbels heard the song and knew the elegant meaning, nodded and promised: "Yes, my head of state! After I go back, I will ponder over and over again to draw up the most suitable plan."

Li Le nodded, and it was the beginning and the end of a thing. There are many, many things left, and he is still busy.

In the afternoon, he recruited various aircraft manufacturers to start the imitation production of the Empire's 4-round long-range strategic bomber on the captured B-17.

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

Of course, according to the practice of German engineers, 80% of them should change the design of the entire aircraft, make some deformation such as double vertical tail, and maintain the so-called dignity of German engineers.

This Li Le did not intend to intervene. The main thing was that he wanted to have his own long-range strategic bomber when he attacked the Soviet Union, giving Stalin a surprise.

Another main purpose is to let German companies producing aircraft understand the performance of the American B-17~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to design a fighter more suitable for intercepting such aircraft.

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

In short, Li Le hopes that his air force can fully understand the B-17 bomber, so that when American bombers enter German airspace in the future, they can experience what it means to be hit by the head.

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

This is also the main reason why Li Le did not use his "shadow" intelligence agency to spoil the details of the American B-17 bomber.

Although he knew the flight performance of American bombers and other intelligence, Li Le was still unable to accurately come up with the tactical indicators for the B-17, which is why he was so precious to this batch of B-17s.

And he still has things after him, which is a summary of the landing on Crete and the battle of airborne on Crete. He has to study it carefully so that he can refer to the combat plan for landing in the UK.