Although he won the exercise, Chen Tian was very dissatisfied with the process of the exercise, relying on very advanced weapons to get a crushing victory, which also exposed many problems, the problems of the East Prussian regiment itself.

The commander of the First Army, which was routed during the exercises, General Prit, is 63 years old and a favorite of the emperor. His rise to prominence relied on winning the emperor's favor with funny **** stories at the dinner table. He has a big belly, is known as the "fat man", and has no brains or interest in military affairs. Chen Tian tried to remove him for many years, but the emperor always spoke for him, and in the end he had to give up. During the exercise, the guy began to retreat after a heavy artillery bombardment, and the unknown soldiers then retreated, and the enemy crushed the army with little effort.

The Second Army of the East Prussian Corps is currently led by Augustus. Feng. Commanded by General Mackenyan, Chen Tian still admires this veteran who participated in the war of 1870, and in fact he is indeed one of the most capable commanders of the German army. The 3rd and 4th Armies of the Reserve were commanded by General François and Ollie, respectively, and in peacetime they served as deputy commanders of the 1st and 2nd Armies.

In view of the fact that General Prit maintained his "heroic and tenacious fighting" during the exercises, Chen Tian promoted him to deputy commander of the East Prussian Corps and let him stay in the command to tell his jokes. Due to Oli's lack of qualifications, Chen Tian appointed General François to be promoted to commander of the First Army, and promoted Matthew, chief of staff of the Panzer Corps, to deputy commander of the First Army and commander of the Fourth Army of the Reserve.

General François, like most of the soldiers of the First Army, was a native of East Prussia, and he fought very bravely and was greatly loved by his subordinates.

"General François, please be seated!"

The Prussian general in front of Chen Tian was not tall, but his face was full of flesh and he looked very fierce. Almost all earthlings think that the Germans are the most obedient people, but this general is not, and his unruly personality makes him always oppose orders that do not agree with him, and when he is a deputy commander, he often contradicts Prit. During the exercise, he also vigorously opposed the retreat of the First Army, but Pritt remained weak and incompetent, and in the end he was unable to turn the tide.

"Your Royal Highness, it's an honor to meet you!" François gave a standard military salute, then sat down on the chair in front of him.

"General François, I will hand over to you the most precious First Army of the East Prussian Corps! Hopefully, this force will be able to exert its maximum combat effectiveness under your command! ”

"It's incumbent!" François stood up with a serious face, without joy or gratitude.

"You may be seated! You are invited to come today for a casual chat, and no one else will know about our conversation! Chen Tian motioned for him to sit down and speak.

"I wonder what you think of your ex?"

François was a little surprised, but he gave his answer without thinking:

"Your Highness, I'm sorry! I don't like to judge other people, but I think it would be better for Prit to keep General in politics or diplomacy! ”

Luckily, it seems that he is not a particularly reckless guy. Only then did Chen Tian realize that he didn't know much about the officers of the East Prussian Legion, except for his classmates and friends.

"You're from East Prussia, aren't you! If the powerful Russians invade East Prussia, and I order you to retreat with the First Army, will you obey this order from me? ”

A look of surprise and disdain appeared on François's face.

"No, never! I will never abandon my homeland until I die in battle, and I believe that my soldiers will be the same! ”

Hearing his answer, Chen Tian showed a worried look, it seemed that he was going to brainwash this guy.

"If you resist desperately and do not allow the enemy to advance a single step, the final result will be total annihilation; If you temporarily retreat, lure the enemy deeper, wait for reinforcements to outflank the enemy's rear, and the result is that you can completely annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop, in that case, do you choose to withdraw or not? "After curing Tirpitz's depression against a powerful enemy, and now he has to treat this bull's straight brain, Chen Tian feels that he has simply come to this world to be a psychiatrist, and he does not charge for his illness.

"This ......" François began to fall into deep thought, just as he had spoken to Tirpitz last time.

"What would you do if you ordered one of your regimental commanders to attack the enemy's high ground, but instead of following your orders, the regimental commander went around the enemy's back and attacked according to his own ideas?"

"How can this be? I will definitely shoot this regiment commander, and I don't obey orders on the battlefield! François began to burrow into the trap of Chentian's thoughts.

"So back to the original question, if I ordered you to retreat, to temporarily cede East Prussia to the Russians, would you obey the order?" If people can empathize with problems, Chen Tian doesn't need to play the role of a god or a psychologist here to help these unenlightened guys solve problems.

"Your Highness......" François at this time looked confused.

"Go back and think about it! Tell me when you figure it out! Chen Tian felt that if this guy couldn't get around this circle, he would have to be replaced by Ollie or Matthew in the future.

"Yes, Your Highness!" François stood up and gave a blank salute, and was about to walk out of the office when he turned and walked back.

"Figured it out?" Seeing the joy on his face, Chen Tian knew that this guy had finally opened his mind, and then he would become a sharp sword in his hand.

"Your Highness! I understand! If you go forward, you are a warrior, but you don't know that you will become a reckless man! François smiled innocently.

After this, Chen Tian often invited François, Mackenyan, Ollie, Olge, and Matthew to dinner. At dinner they discussed the coordination of aircraft, artillery, armoured units and infantry, how to boost the morale of the soldiers, discussed the tactics of a battle, listened to Ollie talk about his experiences in Turkey, or told them about their experiences or anecdotes, all of which made them familiar and trusting each other.

At this time, the East Prussian Army had established an air force directly under the corps, with a total of more than 300 aircraft, including 15 new monoplane reconnaissance aircraft "Pigeon", 32 new monoplane fighters "Hummingbird", 37 biplane reconnaissance aircraft "Sky III", 55 biplane attack aircraft "Sky X", 42 new biplane bombers "Ostrich I", 71 old biplane bombers "Sky IV", 43 "Sky I" and "Sky II" as trainer aircraft, and water biplane reconnaissance/attack aircraft "Exocet III" 21.

After more than one year of research, the engineers of the aircraft factory finally developed a synchronous coordinator for machine gun firing and propeller rotation, that is, using a cam system to connect the shaft of the propeller and the firing device of the machine gun, so as to ensure that only when the muzzle and the blades of the propeller are not in a straight line, the bullet is fired from the muzzle. After completely solving the problem of bullets passing through the rotating surface of the propeller without hitting the blades, the combat effectiveness of the aircraft was greatly improved. The small and nimble "Hummingbird" had only one pilot, and the fighter had two machine guns mounted on the front, which could fire both in the air and on the ground. All "Sky IV" and "Sky X" aircraft also installed 1-2 machine guns on the front of the aircraft according to this technique, 1 machine gun in the back seat of the aircraft was retained, and the co-pilot was responsible for ground observation and bomb dropping. "Ostrich I" had a special magazine and improvised sights, and instead of a machine gun mounted on the front, a rotatable twin machine gun was installed in the co-pilot position. The Exocet III is designed for coastal and lake patrols, and its aircraft turned out to be essentially the same as the Sky III, and the armament was a machine gun located in the co-pilot's position.

In addition, the aircraft factory is testing the first heavy bomber "Owl" that can be used for night bombing, and the prototype of this bomber comes from the British Handley-Petti bomber in Chentian's memory. The "Owl" is a traditional wooden structure with cloth skin, its main wings with upper reverse angles can be folded back, the fuselage is rectangular in cross-section, and each set of main landing gear includes two wheels, and the tail is equipped with a sled landing gear. The aircraft had a 300-horsepower sunshine engine in an engine nacelle with armor protection. The crew is seated in an open cockpit with the pilot and navigator/mechanic seated side-by-side and the shooter/bombardier in the nose, and a new radiator has been added to the water-cooled engine. The wingspan of the aircraft is 35 meters, the length of the aircraft is 23 meters, the fuselage weight is 2.5 tons, and the maximum take-off weight is 6.5 tons.

The East Prussian Regiment had already introduced transmitters to infantry regiments, and had established the Corps Aviation Support Service, which was responsible for processing requests for air support from various ground forces, and then communicating these requests to the General Staff, which decided whether to send air units for support.

Taking a deep breath, Chentian's war preparations are ready, waiting for ......