Early in the morning of February 7, 1940, Lin Youde had just come to the office after breakfast, and a staff officer came to report to him: "The Russian army launched a new offensive in the city of Warsaw early this morning. ”

"Got it, just leave it to the High Command and Army Group A to deal with it, and remind them not to mobilize the forces that are expected to be used for counterattacks."

"Yes sir."

After the staff officer left, Ysera stopped his pen, looked up at Lin Youde and said, "Are the Russians trying to deplete our forces so that we can't organize a counterattack?" ”

"That's probably it, Eye of Odin says that the Russians judge the number of our troops in Poland to be 2.5 million to 3 million, then they will naturally think that an offensive at Warsaw will force us to put our forces in the city of Warsaw." Lin Youde smiled, as if mocking the Russian military intelligence agency, "But in fact, the number of our troops in Poland has far exceeded this number, and we have enough troops to resist their attack in Warsaw while planning an attack." ”

As soon as Lin Youde's words fell, the door of the office opened, and Nia rushed in: "Dad, I'm ready!" ”

"Oh, let's go, then."

"Be careful," Isera, who was about to bow her head and continue to look at Wen Jiàn, looked at Lin Youde worriedly, "It's better to let Oh-chan serve as a guard, right?" ”

"No, no, Oh-chan should follow Lydia, Lydia's combat power is unreliable, maybe she will be killed in a daze, it's better for Oh-chan to protect her. As long as I have Nia with me, I'll just grab me and fly when I'm in danger. ”

"You can also let Lilith grab Lydia and fly."

Lin Youde smiled: "Do you think it's a good idea to let your two-year-old little sister drive an adult to fly?" ”

Ysera sighed, no longer said anything to Lin Youde, but turned back to Nia and said, "Be careful in everything and be vigilant." ”

"Yes, yes, sister, you can rest assured." Nia patted her chest.

Then Lin Youde and Nia went out.

**

In the car, Nia suddenly said: "Actually, these new weapons, wouldn't it be good to let professionals verify the effect and then submit a report, why do you have to take a look for yourself every time Dad?" ”

"That's to show my concern about the development of new weapons," Lin Youde told his daughter very dryly, "There is no other point in that, after all, I don't know the technical details at all, and I am not as good at evaluating weapons as professionals." ”

"I see."

"It's also important to look like it sometimes," Lin Youde paused and added, "What's more, I'm really concerned about the research of new weapons, so I should express this concern in a superficial form." ”

After that, Lin Youde chatted with his daughter for a while, and the test site appeared in front of him.

**

This time, Lin Youde accepted two new weapons, both of which were bombs.

The first is a radio-controlled bomb.

Lin Youde is not very optimistic about this weapon, because the technology for producing "smart bombs" in this era is not mature at all. In another time and space, the United States and Germany both developed their own guided bombs, but the Americans actually found that this thing was too difficult to use, and it required well-trained operators to ensure the hit rate, and what was even worse was that in the process of hitting the bomb, the aircraft guiding the bomb had to be within the range of the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery, which was very dangerous.

So the Americans are very cautious about the actual combat of this weapon, staying only at the stage of testing and mastering technology.

The Fritz X remote-controlled bomb developed by Germany in another time and space is much more famous than the Yankee bomb, and countless German sticks have blown this bomb to the gods, and sighed, "Why not mass produce it and put it into actual combat, maybe it will rewrite the situation of the war."

But in fact, the Fritz X was already mass-produced, after all, it was a high-tech weapon at that time. The reason why it didn't change the tide of the battle was not because the production of the Fritz X was too small, but because the combat effectiveness of this thing was really bad. Those "fans" of the Fritz X always talk about the results of this bomb, but many people have no idea how many Fritz Xs were dropped by the Germans in another time and space for these results.

In fact, the Luftwaffe, equipped with the Fritz X, dropped hundreds of these weapons, and only achieved less than 20 confirmed effective hits, which was even lower than the hit rate of the US Navy and far lower than the US Navy Air Force's dive-dropped bomb hit rate, and far lower than that of the Japanese Naval Aviation, whose elite pilots had not yet died in 42 years.

Compared to the pitiful hit rate, the Dao-217 bomber using the Fritz X was shot down a lot because it had to stay within the range of enemy fire because it had to direct the bomb.

In contrast, dive bombers have a higher survival rate. Because dive bombers can generally fly in the air above 3,000 meters before diving, basically except for the 40mm Bofors rapid-fire gun, there are no ship-based air defense weapons in World War II that can threaten them, and when dive bombers enter the dive, they are generally at a large elevation angle, and shipborne weapons have limited defense capabilities against this attack from directly above because of the elevation angle firing range problem.

In fact, according to the experience of the two naval battles of Midway and Santa Cruz, when the enemy aircraft entered a favorable dive position and began to dive, there was very little that the fleet's air defense could do, so the commanders of the US military generally demanded that the small-caliber Erliekong cannon be replaced with a Bofors that could stop the enemy plane before it dived.

And when the dive is over, the dive bombers will fly away at high speed, at this time they generally have a speed of 700 kilometers per hour, and the sea-skimming flight can quickly leave the fire circle of the battleship's anti-aircraft guns. Therefore, although a dive bomber attacking a battleship is a dangerous job of dancing on the tip of a knife, its survival rate is still much higher than honestly staying in the enemy's circle of fire to guide the bomb.

All in all, the Fritz X of another time and space was an over-mythologized weapon, and in fact, even the Luftwaffe found it unusable after trying it, so they gradually stopped using it despite having thousands of Fritz X.

Of course, guided weapons are the trend of the times, and it is impossible for Lin Youde not to study this technology, but the development of tactics and technology must complement each other, and when the guided weapons are not yet mature, it is better to obediently use the old weapons, otherwise they will be like the US Air Force in another time and space, hanging air-to-air missiles with the same hit rate as not having them, and as a result, they will be beaten all over the field by the Vietnamese with machine guns.

With the experience of the previous time and space, it is conceivable how low Lin Youde's interest in radio-guided bombs is in this time and space.

However, as a technical reserve, he must study this weapon, and he must master more technical information so that he can improve it step by step.

Therefore, after seeing the bomb hit the huge circle with a diameter of 200 meters at the test site, Lin Youde ordered the establishment of the 603 Technical Practical Brigade to begin actual combat testing of this weapon.

And the second weapon, Lin Youde is very much looking forward to: napalm.

Compared to cloudburst bombs that can be made little by little if they know the general principle, and then continuously improve the technology, napalm has a key technical threshold: the production of colloidal fuel.

The chemical industry in this time and space is more backward than in another time and space, and after Lin Youde took control of Germany's industry, he was surprised to find that the Germans could not produce synthetic rubber other than methyl rubber, and naturally there was no way to make napalm. So he hurriedly ordered the German chemical industry to start manufacturing synthetic rubber.

Fortunately, the German chemical science and technology of this time and space are at the forefront of the world, and under the artificial acceleration of Lin Youde, the technology tree from sodium butadiene rubber to styrene-butadiene rubber was finally completed before the war, and a production line for large-scale production of styrene-butadiene rubber was established. Otherwise, after the war, the British would open the Suez Canal and control the export of several natural rubber producing areas, and Lin Youde's motorized plan for the whole army would be bankrupt.

Now, German chemists have finally completed the test of colloidal gasoline, which can be used as the core charge of napalm in the optimal ratio.

When the napalm dropped by the German bombers blew up a huge wall of flames on the test site, Lin Youde laughed excitedly.

Then he asked the leader of the engineering team that was in charge of the development of napalm: "How many napalm can we throw now?" ”

The group leader seemed to be frightened by Lin Youde's excited tone, and stammered and replied: "We have about ten tons of napalm that can make ......"

"Open to me! In a month I want a thousand thousand pounds of napalm to equip my Air Force! I'm going to let the Russian army understand what siege warfare is! ”

After Lin Youde's words fell, Nia looked at Lin Youde strangely: "Dad, I don't understand what you are saying, is it possible that the way the Russian army is attacking Warsaw is wrong?" ”

"It can't be wrong, but in modern warfare, large cities are very troublesome to capture, and both sides of the battle will pay a heavy price. So we should adopt a more efficient approach to capturing cities. Lin Youde grinned at his daughter, "I studied napalm to practice this method." ”

"Wouldn't that be the way to burn the city and the enemy troops stationed there, and then send troops to take it?"

Lin Youde laughed and patted Nia on the shoulder, and praised repeatedly: "It's worthy of being my daughter, that's it." Not only that, but this method is also suitable for clearing the jungle where the enemy is stationed. ”

Nia turned her head to look at the wall of fire that was still burning.

At this time, I don't know who muttered softly: "This sight is like the flames of hell." ”

Lin Youde did not investigate who said this, but directly continued: "We are in hell now, if we are not careful, all the cities of Germany will fall into a sea of fire that is even hotter and more terrible than the flames in front of us, for this, we must first push the enemy into hell, and then climb out by stepping on their corpses." ”