On the morning of 24 June, Hoffman was deliberating on a plan for military and troop readjustment drawn up by the High Command. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although the war was not completely over, everyone believed that the world war would end in six months or a year – at least for Germany.

Maintaining the size of the armed forces of more than 8 million is an imposing force for Germany, but at the same time, it continues to overdraw the national economic potential and the space for sustainable development, so the reduction of the armed forces is a matter of course. According to Hoffman's idea, the enlistment of new recruits should still be promoted, so that young people can feel the atmosphere of war, learn discipline, patience and obedience, but the conscription standards must be controlled, and young people who do not meet the conscription standards and do not have a strong desire to enlist in the army will not be accepted, and sometimes the will to fight is more important than skills.

Of course, disarmament is also a process of structural optimization, and in addition to disarmament, there is also the expansion of the armed forces, and to cope with the war in the United States, we need more powerful naval and air forces, especially as the Yunlong-class, Axis-class, and other aircraft carriers are waiting for service one after another, and the shortage of sailors is becoming more and more obvious. The navy, as the biggest shortcoming of the Third Reich, undoubtedly had to be filled, so the final plan was to reduce the overall force size by 1 million to 7 million by the end of 1944. Among them, the army will be reduced by 1.5 million, the navy will be increased by 400,000, and the air force will be increased by 100,000.

The expansion of naval personnel includes three parts: one is the Marine Corps Brigade, which is preparing to reorganize 12 brigades according to the requirements of the 1944 type, so that the size of the force will be expanded to 24 brigades; Some of them are sailors, and many army units will be turned into sailors, especially artillery, which is the most obvious: field artillery units can be transferred to naval artillery sailors, antiaircraft artillery units can go to the navy to operate antiaircraft guns, and other communications, radar, and other units can be used as they are; The third part is pilots, which will increase the efforts of outstanding pilots to become Hainan Airlines.

For example, after losing the target of breaking diplomatic relations, the sailors of small and offshore submarines have been transferred to destroyers, and except for the XXI submarines and the super submarines under construction, the construction of the rest of the small and medium-sized submarines has been temporarily suspended, and steel has been freed up for the construction of surface ships.

By the end of the year, the army will in principle no longer retain veterans over the age of 32, and all troops will be properly arranged to enter the factories, and as for the dismissed officers, the high command has also arranged other places: the countries of the Middle East, South America, and Eastern Europe are eager to hire German officers to increase their troops, and some of them will be enriched into the two territories of German East and West Africa and the government forces of the existing newly expanded territories.

In addition to personnel, the center of gravity of the military economy has also been adjusted. The production line of Tiger and No. 4 tanks will be stopped one after another, and only the two production lines of Tiger 2 and Leopard will be retained, of which the production capacity of Tiger 2 will be adjusted to 200 vehicles / month, and the production volume of Leopard will be 1200 vehicles / month, and the steel saved will be used to enrich the needs of the navy, and the No. 4 production line will be transferred to the Italians, and the Tiger production line will be temporarily retained as a backup base for the production of Tiger 3 (Tiger King, E45) in the future. However, although the production of the Tiger vehicle was stopped, the No. 5 Tan Jian (codenamed Berserker) developed based on the Tiger tank will also use the Tiger chassis and the Tiger tank that was returned to the factory for transformation, because the 105mm tank gun originally planned to be used by the Berserk ultimately proved to be less successful, so the gun was changed to the 128mm caliber that the Tiger 3 was intended to use, and the overall weight rose to 50 tons after the main gun was changed, but fortunately, the engine horsepower increased some, and the mobility did not decrease.

What displeased Speer the most was that Maybach kept saying that the HL234+ engine that could be finalized and mass-produced in June jumped to the end of the year again, because even the 901 series engine of BMW, which was the king of the bounce ticket and the delay again and again, was finalized and mass-produced not long ago, but this HL234+ engine could not be shown, delaying the service of the King Tiger tank -- Hoffman said that if the 800 hp engine could not be used, the King Tiger tank could be temporarily pushed.

Speer made a final threat at a meeting of the Ministry of Armaments: if he dared to skip the ticket again, he would put all the Maybach top brass on a rocket and launch it to the United States -- according to the schedule set by Dr. Braun, by the end of 1944, the V6 rocket with two stages in series with four auxiliary boosters could be successful, with a range of up to 2,500 kilometers. This is not what the scientists at the Penemünde base brag, the two-stage tandem method of range extension has been proven on the V2 rocket, and the rocket with the new propellant can hit up to 1,200 kilometers away with a payload of 700 kilograms. The V6, with its thicker diameter and longer length, is no longer a problem in theory.

Hoffman was very pleased with this and instructed that research should be intensified to provide more adequate supplies, energy, and personnel.

Both agendas finalized that day were more or less related to flights.

One is about the design of a new generation of aircraft carriers, which Hoffman believes should be put on the agenda, and his request is to build a new 50,000-ton large special inclined aircraft carrier. As the only country in the world with an aircraft carrier with an angled deck, the important value of the angle has been fully demonstrated in previous operations, and the new generation of aircraft carriers will no longer be based on battleships for transformation, but will use a new design concept to build a post-war attack aircraft carrier. The main criterion is to be able to safely take off and land jet fighters and attack aircraft, and the hull will be wider and longer. It was required to complete the schematic design by the end of 1945, and construction began in 1947 and entered service by 1950. In view of the lack of experience of German designers, we also plan to bring in British and Japanese naval architects to participate as a whole. Catching up with U.S. imperialism -- Hoffman knew that the Americans had a Midway-class design, but they just couldn't spare the hands to build it.

The second is about the mass production of the second-generation jet fighter Ta-183 from September, the determination of the finalists for the third-generation jet fighter design, and the release of the bidding specifications for the first-generation jet long-range bomber and the second-generation tactical jet bomber.

Although the Raven fighter (Ta-183) is still the same model as the historical aircraft, Hoffman knows that the substantive connotation is far different, and the current Ta-183 uses HeS-011F engines with a thrust of up to 20 kN (the more the static thrust is equal to 2000 kg), so the body is more slender than the historical Raven, if you let Hoffman look at it, it is exactly between the Ta-183 and the MiG-15.

Since Germany is now not short of supplies and no longer needs to use historical wood substitutes, the wing load capacity has been greatly improved, and the layout has been changed from a mid-wing to a low-wing wing. The overall air weight is about 3.3 tons, slightly more than 5 tons after full load, and the maximum speed exceeds 1000 km/h for the first time, reaching 1015 km/h. The maximum ceiling is nearly 15,000 meters, and the range is more than 1,500 kilometers. The firepower was still outrageously strong, with four MG213 cannons on the left and right flanks.

The test pilot was quite close to the speed of sound when diving at full speed under light load, but the aircraft structure was not adapted to this speed and eventually disintegrated, but fortunately, the ejection seat saved the pilot's life and laid a solid foundation for obtaining a reliable flight envelope. This process also made Tan Ke and other designers understand that subsonic and transonic have different requirements for aircraft structure and shape, and he believes that the era of supersonic speed will soon come - now the 27,000N thrust DB016 engine in the laboratory has been basically successful, and the 34,000N thrust BMW 018 engine is also advancing in an orderly manner. He was optimistic that 1946 would be the year of the supersonic age.

Therefore, the main tone of the tender for the third-generation fighter is to require the ability to fly safely at transonic speeds - to fly faster and higher.

Blom-Foss came up with the P.212 program, Focke-Wolff came up with the Ta-483 program, Junkers came up with the EF-128 program, Heinkel submitted the P.1078C program, and the Messerschmitt company came up with the P.1092 and P.1101 programs in one go, and the first three programs were quickly eliminated, among which the Blom-Foss and Junkers companies were instead required to produce Ta-183, and since the Ta-483 was an improvement of the 183 program, the Ministry of Armaments believed that there was no need to declare it, and it was enough to improve it directly.

Hoffman was happy when he saw the P.1101 scheme of Messerschmidt, because the design and shape were very similar to the historical Swedish Saab-29, which was nothing more than that the latter used the engine of the British de Havilland, and went down the Saab-29 scheme, and after Saab-32 (Spear), Saab-35 (Dragon) and Saab-37 (Thunderbolt) in the same vein, and finally got JAS-39 (Gripen), he readily approved the three plans of the two companies, Hopefully, in a year's time, we will see a supersonic plane.

As soon as the strategic adjustment meeting ended, Senior General Kaltenbruner, the head of the Imperial Security Administration, had been waiting in his office for a long time, and when he saw Hoffman returning, he whispered: "Führer, the K of hearts has made up his mind, and today he has officially submitted a request for assistance to us through an intermediary. ”

The King of Hearts is synonymous with Chiano and has a special meaning.

Hoffman raised his eyebrows: "What does he want to do?" Is he ready? Both psychological and means. ”

"Ready, it is said that he found a medicine for the leader...... Forehead...... A medicine that makes you happy. ”

"Pay attention to proportion, don't go too far, a leader is a leader after all." Hoffman punned, "He's been working hard for Italy for so long and needs a break for a while, it's good for his body." ”

"The King of Hearts thinks the same thing, but he cares more about our support and commitment to him."

"Our commitment remains unchanged, since he is the leader's designated successor and the leader's son-in-law, of course he will continue to hold high the banner of the leader and lead the Italian people forward."

"I'll relay that to him."

"In a moment, you can go to Marshal Kesselring and inform the troops in the Italian direction to enter a state of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside, ready to respond to emergencies at any time."