Hoffman patiently explained two sentences: "I explained to you last time that you should carefully study General Ludendorff's "Total War", and I don't know if you have all read it. In such a national war for the fate of the German nation for thousands of years to come, all forces should be used by us, and in the face of the resources and population of the Allies, the Reich does not have an advantage, and only the mobilization of the most basic and vast masses of the people can win the war. Now that women have been allowed to serve, it is natural to have some female officers, both to boost morale and morale, and to enhance the intimacy of the nation as a whole. Stalin had a large number of female soldiers and officers, and I did not see his men object, but the British and Americans had female officers and female officers, and their armies accepted them as well. Why can't we, the German nation? ”

When he said this, Hoffman thought to himself: Could it be that I really have the potential to be a politician, and I learned these righteous and awe-inspiring speeches, which occupy the commanding heights of public opinion, and have sufficient inciting momentum, in less than two days.

Hearing this tirade, Keitel was a little stunned, and thought: This matter cannot be simply compared, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union do not have a strong officer corps as a constraint, but this is impossible to say in front of so many people in any case.

In the midst of the stalemate, Helen interjected: "Führer, can I really have a chance to become an officer?" ”

"Of course. You see, in the past, women were not allowed to go to university, but now there are not only university students but also female scientists; In the past, women were not allowed to participate in politics, but now women not only have the right to vote, but also have female politicians. Hoffman elaborated and gave a vivid example, "Do you know Hannah Leich? ”

Hearing the name, Helen's eyes lit up and she nodded heavily. In 1941, Göring was awarded the Diamond Air Pilot Medal on behalf of the Air Force, and the next day Hitler announced that she had been awarded the honorary rank of Air Force Captain and the Iron Cross of the Second Degree. Yeshunek next to him thought to himself that he was fortunate that he didn't say anything stupid just now, otherwise he would be embarrassed now.

"Women like him who have made outstanding contributions are qualified to become officers, and if you continue to work hard, you will have the same opportunity." Hoffman glanced at the senior generals who still had hesitant expressions on their faces, understood that there was a lot of resistance to this matter, sighed and said, "Forget it, according to Marshal Keitel's words, let's communicate first, we have broken a lot of traditions in order to win the war, I hope the generals can understand my hard work." ”

"The Führer is wise."

"By the way, what is the current position of Captain Becker, who shot down 3 enemy planes today?" Hoffman also did not forget the Air Force hero who won the triple line today.

"He is the captain of the 4th Brigade of the NJG1 Wing, our ace pilot, and he has more than 30 crash records counting today's results." Kamhuber hurriedly took credit for Captain Becker.

"The Air Force needs such courageous and resourceful commanders." Hoffmann later learned that Becker had been in pursuit of the third to ensure that he had been able to secure a 200-metre attack before firing, in stark contrast to the cowardice of Gerhard Schöppfel. He turned his head, this time to Jeshunek, "Examine it, and if the situation allows and the conditions are met, you can consider it as a candidate for the new wing captain of the JG26 wing." ”

Although the Führer said that he would "inspect it", it was just a matter of routine, and everyone knew that Captain Becker's promotion was a foregone conclusion. Kamhuber was very happy about this, he had wanted to promote this combat hero who had saved the face of the Air Force, and now it would have been better for the Führer to speak directly, and he glanced at Jeshunek, who also nodded his head repeatedly, obviously in complete agreement. At this time, news came that the Lancaster that escaped last had also been shot down by another night fighter, and in order to finally miss the fish, Colonel William called in 5 fighters to surround and intercept it.

"Gentlemen, after looking at today's air defense operations, it is necessary for us to reflect on the situation of counter-air strikes." "Intelligence shows that the British have made it clear that bomber crews can be removed from service as long as they have completed 30 bombing missions, and their internal capacity for battle damage is about 5 percent at a time," Hoffman said. I asked people to calculate according to this probability, the survival rate after 30 combat missions is still 21%, if we can improve the efficiency of air defense and increase the enemy's loss rate to 10%, according to the calculation, it should be ......" Speaking of this, he is stuck, it is now 1942, he can't take out his mobile phone to calculate at any time, so he has to turn his eyes to Speer for help.

Although the architect's mathematical skills are very solid, he can't calculate the results for a while, but he immediately thought of Helen, isn't this a ready-made mathematics college student? It only took Helen two minutes to calculate the result: "My Führer, according to the survival rate of 90% each time, 30 missions are 90% to the 30th power, and the survival rate after 30 missions is about 4%. ”

"Very good, with a 4% survival rate plus accidents, mechanical obstacles and other factors, the British basically can't complete this kind of task, and the so-called 30 missions can be retired is a complete hoax, and then Dr. Goebbels can start the propaganda machine to make them resist this kind of lifeless mission, so as not to be deceived by Churchill." Hoffman thought about it for a moment, and asked Helen to calculate the battle loss figure of 12% or 15%. The results surprised everyone: with 12% damage, the survival rate after 30 missions was only 2%, and with 15% damage, the chance of survival was even less than 1%. It was clear that as long as the losses exceeded a certain limit, the air strikes of the British were unsustainable.

"Hopefully there will be more guys over there, like Major Schöpfeld, who are too willing to care for their lives, so that the pressure on us can be reduced a bit."

"It is not advisable to pin our hopes on the cowardice of the enemy, we should take the initiative to improve our tactics, I have observed today's air defense, it is clear that there are two problems." Hoffman cocked up two fingers, "First, there are problems with our anti-aircraft guns, to be exact, with the fuses. I've seen the intelligence that Britain and the United States have developed a perfect radio proximity fuze, which they call VT proximity fuze......"

"Proximity fuse?" Keitel and Garland don't understand it, but that doesn't mean Jeshunek and Kamhubel don't. Proximity fuzes are actually a large category of fuzes, mainly using the characteristics of the target or the characteristics of the surrounding environment of the target to play a role, and trigger the fuse, delay fuze, etc. together to form a shell (including bombs, torpedoes, mines) different explosion methods, mainly including radio, light, sound, magnetism and other media. In 1940, Britain developed a prototype of a radio proximity fuze with the same principle as radar, and after the United States entered the war, the design of the radio proximity fuze was completed through the U.S. Agency for Science, Technology and Research: the main structure is to use a cartridge case as an antenna, and the fuse is embedded with a vacuum tube radio wave transmitter, which emits a radio of 180 to 220 MHz after being energized. When the projectile is close to the reflective object, part of the radio wave is reflected, and as the distance between the projectile and the target decreases, the Doppler effect causes the reflected radio wave to cause a low-frequency signal of 200-800 Hz in the current of the transmitter, which is filtered and amplified, and detonated when the signal strength exceeds a certain limit.

The advantage of proximity fuzes over trigger and delay fuses is that they can automatically detonate according to the change of the target, which can cause maximum damage to the target and greatly improve the hit rate of the shell. The difficulty was that the entire device had to withstand the acceleration of more than 20,000 times the Earth's gravity and the spin of 500 revolutions per second when the gun fired, and it had to be small enough to fit in the warhead of the shell. It is precisely because of the advantages and difficulty of the VT fuze that the British and American allies listed it in the top secret and kept it strictly secret, the Germans did not know, but Hoffman opened his mouth, and he also knew that in the 30s, Rheinmetall was developing a proximity fuze, and the electrostatic proximity fuze they planned to use was more efficient and cheaper than the radio proximity fuze invented by the Americans, but it was never able to solve the problem of too small a distance, and then it was forced to stop researching, and even thought that the Germans could not make this kind of thing, and the same was true for Britain and the United States.

After thinking for a moment, Jeshunek said: "I know about similar projects, and I can understand the value of this fuse for anti-aircraft guns, and if the Allies have developed similar products, we must have them too." ”

"This kind of fuze is very important, not only anti-aircraft guns need to be used, but also need to be used on other occasions, so it should be included in the highest priority, and I will let the Reich Security Directorate figure out how to find a way for the finished product of the British and American proximity fuse." After talking about the fuze, Hoffman sighed, "The second problem is the radar guidance operation that seems to be very successful today. ”