"Long live, our Emperor! Long live, our leader! Long live, our empire! ”

When the parade convoy of 400 No. 2 tanks drove through the Brandenburg Gate, the bomber formation also happened to pass through the air at the same time. The Germans watching the parade seemed to be intoxicated by the tanks and planes in front of them, and let out a tsunami-like cheer in a frenzy.

The German Emperor Wilhelm, who was sitting on a makeshift parade platform under the Brandenburg Gate, also stood up excitedly, raised his right arm and performed the "German salute" like his people. Adolf in a brown military uniform. Hitler looked even more complacent, frequently raising his hand to the cheering crowd.

The German and international dignitaries seated on either side of the podium also stood up, cheering, clapping or pretending to be elated.

As a member of the British delegation, Hugh. Caswall. Lieutenant General Dowding, who had forgotten even the elation of his camouflage, was now cocking his neck and holding a Laika camera to shoot at a four-shot heavy bomber in the air that he had never seen before.

He actually saw two new four-engine heavy bombers at once today! They were supposed to be the product of the Luftwaffe's tender for a "new heavy bomber" in 1932. It has been strictly kept secret before, and not even a single photo has been taken. I didn't expect so many to appear at today's military parade at once.

After a sharp slap, Lieutenant General Dowding wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, ignored the cheers of the people around him, just closed his eyes and began to reminisce in his mind about the two new four-engine heavy bombers he had just seen.

He was a lieutenant general in the Air Force and a member of the Royal Air Force Commission since 1930, where he was well versed in the various aircraft types and technical routes. So he is different from those Germans who get excited when they see big planes, they are all laymen, just looking at the doorway. And he is an expert, and he can see the doorway at a glance.

Two "new heavy bombers" for the Germans. If you just look at the range and bomb load, I'm afraid there is no improvement compared to the J.28H. Just look at their size, these two planes are holding out with three or four tons of bombs.

To the uninitiated, it was as if the Germans had spent a lot of money on two aircraft that were not very advanced - although there were still many improvements, such as the adoption of recyclable landing gear. The use of thinner and thinner high-strength aluminum alloys, improved aerodynamic performance, etc., but the progress is not obvious. But in Hugh. In Dowding's opinion, Ju.89 and Do.19 are two very terrible weapons!

Because they have a brand new liquid-cooled engine! Stop. Dowding saw the shape of their engines through the camera lens, and both aircraft were fitted with four liquid-cooled engines.

The Germans were not technologically advanced in this area and simply could not compare with their air-cooled engines.

According to Hugh. According to the information available to Dowding, the smooth output of Germany's best in-line liquid-cooled engine is only around 1,000 horsepower. Their last air-cooled engine must have made more than 1,600 horsepower, and that's still a performance indicator for the production model.

The Germans, however, used liquid-cooled engines on their bombers, which were significantly less powerful. It was certainly not to improve the aerodynamics of the aircraft - the four-shot bombardment didn't care about the drag of the big, air-cooled engines.

So what did they do with the air-cooled platoon, but put the bombers with liquid-cooled engines with less horsepower?

Is it because Mercedes-Benz and Yumo can't sell their engines?

Stop. Lieutenant General Dowding shook his head slightly. Whispered a word: "Height!" ”

"Height?" British Foreign Secretary Eden and Hugh. Dowding sat together, he also craned his neck to watch the big plane, "It's not flying very high." ”

"No, the Germans adopted liquid-cooled engines that they were not good at, and the purpose was only one ......" Hugh. Dowding saw another group of large planes in the sky, picked up his camera and continued to shoot hard.

He went on to say, "It's a high-altitude penetration!" The high-altitude performance of air-cooled engines is very poor, and the power of air-cooled engines will decrease rapidly at high altitudes. As a result, the J.28H, equipped with an air-cooled engine, could only operate at low and medium altitudes. It was easy for our ground fire to take it down.

Therefore, in actual combat, J.28H can only take the way of night raids. And the accuracy of night bombing was low. While it may cause heavy casualties among civilians, the damage to our military bases and industrial facilities will not be too severe. And these two German bombers were equipped with liquid-cooled engines, which shows that they are pursuing high-altitude penetration performance, ready to bomb us during the day! ”

The Bureau of Strategic Deception of the German General Staff, of course, would not have told Hugh . Now the German aviation industry is looking for ways to make air-cooled engines have excellent high-altitude performance, and it has found a very effective way. It is to add a turbocharger.

Historically, due to the lack of non-ferrous metal reserves in Germany, there were not many superalloys with excellent properties. So German aero engines can't withstand too high temperatures, and turbocharging raises them. Therefore, although Germany has mastered turbocharging technology, it has not invested enough in this area - the middle and late stages of World War II in history. British and American aircraft are generally equipped with several superchargers, known as "N" stage boosting, while German aircraft usually have only one stage of pressurization.

In this time and space, Hersman has long begun to carry out a strategic reserve of non-ferrous metals. Although it cannot be used as openly as the US imperialists, it is still enough to ensure that some air-cooled engines are equipped with high-performance turbochargers and superchargers.

The BMW 700 series used in the Fokker F.36 is a "demonstrator" that has both a supercharger and a turbocharger installed.

However, the BMW 700 is too bulky to fit on a regular fighter jet because of the bulky supercharger (which is now only the first generation) - it needs to be continuously improved, the turbocharger is smaller, and a better cooling system (intercooler) is designed to significantly improve performance.

The Fokker F.36, in a sense, also existed only to improve the high-altitude performance of German air-cooled aero engines. In fact, the production of this aircraft is not very large, including demonstrators, bombers, reconnaissance (long-range reconnaissance aircraft, equipped with airborne radar to search for sea targets), transport types, and attack types (ready to be equipped with artillery to bombard ground and surface targets), and only 90 aircraft.

And the 30 Ju.89 and 30 Do.19 that are now flexing their muscles are not all bombers, they just look like bombers. After the parade, most of the remaining 40 planes will be converted into passenger planes and sold, except for 10 Ju.89 and 10 Do.19, which will be incorporated into the Condor Legion to bomb cities in Spain......

Because in the plans of the German General Staff, there was no intention at all to actually use a few thousand heavy bombers to force Britain and France to surrender. At present, they are developing four rounds of bombardment, precisely to deter the Soviet Union, a "red ally" in the future, and the Baku oil field is the target that needs to be considered in the medium term.

Now Hersmann was simply trying to divert attention from German armored forces and tactical aviation by exaggerating the influence of the "bombing theory".

"Oh my God, how many four-engine heavy bombers did the Germans have?" Vice-President of the High Military Council of the French Army, Maurice. Gammelin was also frightened by German heavy bombers that overshadowed the sky.

As a highest-ranking figure in the French military, he had long heard that the "bombing theory" was very popular in the Wehrmacht.

This theory first originated in Italy, when it was put forward by General Duhey, and fascist leaders such as Mussolini and Balbo were superstitious. In their view, the Air Force is the key to victory or defeat in future wars, and the Army is just putting on a show, and they cannot rely on them to fight a war. If a war breaks out between the great powers, the army will have to crouch in the trenches and lines to stop the enemy - if there really is such a stupid enemy who will ram into the strong lines!

And the real winner will be decided by the bombing of the city by big planes! Think of such beautiful cities as Paris, Lyon, Reims reduced to rubble in brutal air raids, do the French people still have the courage to resist?

"Admiral, they still have a lot of tanks!" The man who reminded him in his ear was a tall French colonel named Charles. De gaulle. It's a figure from Weygand and Renault's faction (right Pai, fascist or something). In today's French Army, he is not very ambitious, but he is not a bad person. Because he was considered an expert in mechanized warfare, he brought him to see the tanks at the German military parade.

"I see, they're all small, they can't beat our tanks, and it's impossible to break through the Maginot Line with them. ”

And that's true! De Gaulle's view of the German No. 2 tanks was the same as that of Gammelin, they were certainly no match for the French tanks, and they could not break through the impregnable Maginot Line.

"What's there to worry about?" Gammelin glanced at de Gaulle, whose brow was still locked, "If they want to bypass Maginot, we and our British friends can defeat them with more advanced tanks and artillery." Charles, you don't have to worry...... I will support you, the idea of a 100,000 mechanized professional army is good, we need to build such an army. ”

The "100,000 Mechanized Army" was one of de Gaulle's ideas, with a mechanized professional army of about 100,000 men as the main striking force of the French Army. This idea was not taken seriously by the French Army at first, but after the German army expanded its armaments and organized a large number of mechanized troops. The French Army began to mechanize itself, and began to reorganize some infantry divisions into motorized infantry divisions (7 divisions were planned), and also began to form light mechanized divisions (in July 1935 there was the first light mechanized division), and are still preparing to form a powerful armored force - reserve armored divisions (planned to be organized 3 divisions).

"But," said Ganmalin, shaking his head, "even if we had 100,000 mechanized professional troops, we would not be able to rely on them to break through the German 'Siegfried' lines. He pointed to the sky, "Wars are still fought by them, aren't they?" (To be continued.) )