At the time of the reorganization of the Military Intelligence and Stasi into the Reich's Central Security Service, there were three separate departments from which they were directly subordinate to the General Staff. They are:

1. The Miuta Special Forces, which were assigned to the Air Force under the leadership of Admiral Kesselring Aviation and became the backbone of the proposed Airborne Forces;

2. The Intelligence Research Department, which is engaged in the analysis and study of the situation of foreign armies, was reorganized into the Military Intelligence Department after being transferred to the General Staff;

3. The Strategic Deception Division, which was personally "discovered" by Hersmann and the spy wizard Reinhardt. Lieutenant Colonel Galen was in charge of the leadership. When the Military Intelligence Bureau and Stacy were reorganized, this department was also integrated into the General Staff as a whole, and it was also expanded, upgraded from the Strategic Deception Department to the Strategic Deception Bureau!

And the "bureau" of the strategic deception bureau Reinhardt. Lieutenant Colonel Galen's daily work is certainly not to fool people on the radio in person. He is in charge of a lot of things, in charge of 7 departments and 1 central command post.

Seven of these divisions are responsible for strategic manoeuvring work in seven areas, including the navy, the army, the air force, the military industry, strategic material reserves, secret weapons, and military communications. The central command post is responsible for the "large-scale comprehensive deception project", which is a big scam that can only be carefully arranged by mobilizing the forces of all sides.

And this time the emperor's coronation parade was organized by this central command post.

It is true that this military parade is actually a big deception -- in fact, most of the military parades that are open are characterized by strategic deception, and no country will put its true military strength in front of outsiders.

What is shown at the parade is only what the general staffs of various countries want others to see.

When Hersmann and Schleicher arrived at the airport, as the deputy commander-in-chief of the military parade headquarters, he had a very high and broad forehead, and looked very bookish, like Reinhardt who was a scholar. At this time, Galen was at a military airfield outside Berlin to explain the flight route to several air force officers.

"Remember. Not one, but five! I fly repeatedly according to the flight course at the time of the rehearsal...... That is, do not land after flying back, and then fly according to the prescribed line, a total of five flights before landing, absolutely no mistakes. Got it? ”

"Report to Your Excellency the Marshal, Your Excellency the General." Reinhardt. After making sure that several Air Force Group Captains understood the flight route, Galen reported to Hersmann and Schleicher that "the flight route was designed so that the 'friendly people' watching the parade would mistakenly think that we had sent five times as many planes to the parade." So that they would have been extremely impressed by the powerful heavy bomber forces of Germany. ”

Of course, these heavy bombers, which were to impress Britain, France, and Poland, were also the product of strategic deception -- the planes, of course, were all real, and they were a new four-engine heavy bomber that had been developed since the early 30s at the suggestion of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Val T. Weaver, to replace the famous J.28H (the BT-1 heavy bomber used by the Soviets to scare the Japanese).

According to the requirements of the Air Force, the new heavy bomber should be able to take off from the German mainland with at least 5 tons of bombs to bomb the British Isles and all of France!

Other words. The effective combat radius of the new heavy bomber of the Luftwaffe must be higher than 1000 km. Moreover, in order to effectively break through the air defense of Britain and France, the new heavy bomber also needs to have the ability to sail at night and bomb at high altitude -- and the two performance requirements of "high altitude" and "night flight" are to avoid ground fire and interception by enemy aircraft.

This is related to the "bombing deterrence strategy" that the Luftwaffe in this time and space adhered to before breaking through the Treaty of Versailles. At that time, the German army was weak and could only adopt a delayed strategy against a full-scale invasion of the enemy. Under these circumstances, Germany's only way to defend itself was to use long-range bombers to indiscriminately bomb the enemy's major cities in order to force them to sue for peace.

Of course, this is only a theoretical "method of self-defense". However, it was very popular in the late 20s and early 30s. At that time, the Italian general Duhei put forward the "theory of air force victory", believing that in future wars, there would be a pattern in which the army was trapped in the trench defense line and relied on the air force to bomb the enemy's cities to win.

In 1928, the "BT visit incident" between the Soviet Union and Japan made all countries realize the importance of strategic bombing. As a result, the "bombing deterrence strategy" was continued by the German army. Until Germany re-armaments.

By 1932, after Germany had re-armed Germany, the Luftwaffe felt that the J.28 was backward. There is also limited room for upgrading, and the development of new bombers is needed to ensure the continuation of the "bombing deterrence strategy".

So the task of developing a new heavy bomber was entrusted to Fokker, Junker and Dornier, who were in the ascendant in the field of civil aviation at that time.

Between 1935 and 1936, Fokker, Junker and Dornier produced their own designs, the Fokker F.36, the Junker Ju.89 and the Do.19 from Dornier.

However, the Fokker F.36, which had the best performance, did not appear in the parade - this one adopts an upper single-wing, twin-tail, front three-point landing gear layout, with a solid fuselage and powerful self-defense firepower. Equipped with four BMW 700 series engines with turbocharging technology, the heavy bomber that can fully cope with high-altitude bombing missions is actually the real winner of the "new heavy bomber tender" and has received the most orders.

In order to meet the "high-altitude performance" required by the Air Force, Junkers and Dornier chose the liquid-cooled engine of the Umo company, which is not very outstanding. As a result, the Ju.89 and Do.19 were far inferior in empty weight and full take-off weight to the Fokker F.36 with turbocharged air-cooled engines.

However, the Ju.89 and Do.19 received orders for 30 each, and all 60 Ju.89 and Do.19 have now been delivered to the Luftwaffe. All of them will participate in today's military parade.

In addition to these 60 new bombardments, another 100 J.28Hs will also appear over Berlin. 160 planes will make five circles in the sky over Berlin, flying 800 planes.

The reason for exaggerating the size of the Ju.89 and Do.19 fleets was to carry out a "strategic deception plan" against Britain, France and Poland - the "Black Plan".

The plan was to convince Germany's enemies that Germany was going to win the war with thousands of four-engine heavy bombers such as Ju.89, Do.19 and J.28H through a year-long strategic bombing.

This seems very conceivable, given that the Keynes Plan and the expanded Soviet-German cooperation have made the production capacity of Germany's aviation industry, especially civil airliners and transport aircraft, far stronger than it has historically been. Until 1935, the five German aviation giants of Fokker, Juncker, Henkel, Focke-Wolf and Dornier maintained the lead of the 20s and still controlled 70% to 80% of the world's civil aviation market, except for the United States and the Soviet Union.

And in the field of medium and heavy bombers, which are based on civil airliners/transport aircraft, Germany also has a greater advantage than Britain and France!

"Good!" Hersman looked out the window at the planes on the tarmac, one after the other, as if out of sight, and nodded with satisfaction, "This is exactly what I want, we want them to know that we have a lot of big planes that we can use to bomb London, Paris and Warsaw, and it will scare them." And to enhance the effect of intimidation, we can also use Ju.89 and Do.19 on the Spanish battlefield. ”

"But will we do this to speed up the enemy's development of advanced fighters?" Schleicher was a little worried.

"They've sped up!" Hersman laughed, "Britain and France have begun to accelerate their research. However, the air superiority fighters they studied could not deal with our heavy bombers. Because according to the philosophy that we instilled in them, the target of these heavy bombers was their big cities. Therefore, these large aircraft do not necessarily have to strike during the day. They can use the cover of night to bomb Paris, London, Warsaw, ...... So that the British, French and Poles needed to develop night fighters. And these night fighters will end up being a huge waste! ”

Night air combat in this era was very difficult, because there was no lightweight radar to use, and even if an airborne radar was developed, it would not be possible for aircraft like the Bf-109 or Spitfire. Twin-engine heavy fighters are generally used to carry searchlights and radars. And this bulky twin-engine fighter is simply not capable of fighting during the day, and is not at all an opponent of a nimble and light single-engine aircraft. Moreover, even if Ju.89 and Do.19 could strike during the day, they would have taken the approach of high-altitude penetration. For this reason, Britain and France had to focus on the development and production of fighter jets on the liquid-cooled route with better high-altitude performance, so as to further expand Germany's advantage in the air-cooled route.

Of course, Britain and France could also form a huge group of heavy bombers like Germany, and also use night air raids to counter - but Hersman did not believe that Britain and France, mainly because the British really dared to easily provoke a night bombing battle in the absence of German bombers.

Because the Bureau of Strategic Deception would have convinced them that Germany had a much larger and more advanced force of heavy bombers. Unlike Goering, Hersmann did not pin his hopes of conquering Britain on indiscriminate bombardment. He didn't have so many valuable pilots to fight the British.

Moreover, in his view, the blockade was the most effective means of seriously damaging Britain's war potential, and it was better to conquer England by landing at the right time. (To be continued.) )