At the same time, in London, England, a group of Royal Air Force commanders at the Vickers Huppmarin Aircraft Design Company, on which the Royal Air Force had high hopes, were also saddened by the news they had just received.

"Intelligence from France. An expert from the Air Force intelligence department looked around at his colleagues and said: "In the Spanish air battle, the performance of the most advanced fighter of the Soviet Red Army, the i-16, has completely surpassed the Bulldog fighter being used by our army, which is not good news for us. ”

An air force pilot sighed and complained: "Why did you go earlier? A few years ago, we made a GC-type fighter (nicknamed Fighting Cocks), but we had no funds and equipment, so we finally produced a few of them and sold them to the Japanese. ”

"Yes! A few years ago, our chief designer, Michel, returned home on a military transport ship, and his disappearance at sea is unknown, and there is a good chance that the damned Germans have poisoned him!" an aircraft engineer interjected.

"Okay! Don't go too far! We are very sorry about the disappearance of designer Michelle. But now we are talking about how to deal with the growing number of air threats. An Air Force colonel knocked on the table and said, his expression was obviously a little strange: "Besides, don't mention that bullshit cockfighter anymore, the problem we will discuss next is not something that the old biplane fighter can solve." ”

"Obviously, the Soviet Union's advanced fighter I-16 appeared in the skies over Spain, and this very fast fighter made all our planes obsolete, but this is not the main content of today's meeting, the main content is that the I-16 fighter jet has suffered heavy losses in the skies over Spain!" The intelligence officer of the Air Force saw that everyone was silent, and continued to introduce the information in his hands.

"Oh my God, you're saying that the Soviet I-16, which was said to be able to fly 186 miles per hour, was defeated?" asked an aircraft designer, incredulous.

British intelligence officers pressed a photograph to the table, with a blurry shadow on it, but apparently the shadow still showed many features, such as the slender fuselage, the enclosed cockpit, and the monoplane structure: "Franco's Nationalist Army used a superfighter that we had never heard of before, and defeated the Soviet I-16 fighter very easily and completely." ”

The intelligence officer said: "The information from the spies we deployed in Germany does not contain much information, except for the mention that several German companies have jointly developed a new fighter jet, named after the Messersmitt company, and the official code name is the ME-109 fighter." ”

He paused, pointed to various parts of the plane in the photo, and continued: "This plane should be an all-metal structure, with a fully enclosed cockpit, and the aerodynamics are terrifying. According to our intelligence team in Spain, and Franco's people, the German plane has been flying faster than anyone could have imagined, and many say it is going to be more than 250 miles per hour. ”

An Air Force fighter pilot looked at his colleague in horror, and his voice changed tone: "This is impossible! No plane can fly so fast! Even the new fighter pre-research project led by Michelle does not have this flight speed." ”

The intelligence officer snorted, and then replied to his question in a solemn tone: "I'm sorry to tell you! This speed is true! Because we also have spies in the IRA Air Force, and they confirmed the existence of German fighters from another aspect! They say that this fighter has reached a speed of at least 250 miles per hour!

"Oh my God! Are you saying that both the Soviet Union and Germany now have fighters that we can't match? And one of them can't even do our technical reserves?"

"In fact, the development of a new superfighter was delayed because of the disappearance of designer Michelle. Now we have two fighter options, the Dreadnought with an all-round rotating turret and the Navy Dapeng fighter, both of which are similar in design and on par with the Soviet I-16 fighter. An Air Force technical officer frowned and said, "But we need time, and we need time to deploy and produce these aircraft." ”

"Test fly both aircraft immediately! By the end of the year, I want all the relevant numbers to reach a level that can be mass-produced. The highest-ranking British RAF Major General finally set the tone for the discussion: "Next year, these two types of aircraft will be produced immediately! The Royal Air Force will purchase 500 aircraft of each model." ”

"Besides, even if Chief Designer Michel is gone, you should continue to develop a new future fighter for the Royal Air Force!" he stood up, walked to the blackboard on one of the walls of the conference room, and picked up a piece of chalk: "The Royal Air Force requires a future fighter plane, which must have a speed of 300 miles per hour!"

He took a piece of chalk and wrote the number "300" on the blackboard, and then continued: "Having a fully enclosed cockpit allows the plane to fly to higher altitudes! Also, a monoplane structure must be used! Got it?"

"Yes, sir!" everyone stood up.

"Designers and manufacturers, I know that in the past, you developed the aircraft and provided it for us to choose from, but now is a very difficult time, so I have to change some of the traditions that we continued before!

"No problem! we support the decision made by the Royal Air Force!" several designers and merchants nodded.

......

General Brauchitsch, the General Headquarters of the Wehrmacht, is looking through this month's Army Expansion Report, and in a top-secret cover, he records the important achievements of the German Wehrmacht Army expansion in the past two months.

In the past few days, the German Army has received 70 heavy guns produced by the Krupp company, all of which are 150 mm in caliber, and these cannons are the largest calibers in the weapons used by Germany at this stage, and they can hit targets 20 kilometers away with new shells, which are definitely world-class artillery weapons.

Add to this the 28 trucks and 41 tanks supplied by Mercedes-Benz, as well as more than 5,000 G43 semi-automatic rifles produced by various factories, and 12,000 recruits - then the process of German military expansion in the past two months can be described as perfect.

In fact, the strength in his hands now is enough to scare the British and French, the total number of Wehrmacht is close to 1 million, with the largest number of cars and motorcycles in the world, equipped with a full 2,700 tanks and armored vehicles of various types.

In addition to the 30 ME-109A fighters sent to Spain to support Franco, the Air Force has deployed 110 of these aircraft in the country, and the staff has improved the ME fighters produced later on the basis of their experience in Spain, slightly enlarged the fuel tanks in the aircraft, and added two universal pylons under the wings - which can be used to carry auxiliary fuel tanks or small bombs.

Air Force Commander-in-Chief Catherine had another trump card in his hand, and this month he received 17 Ju-87 dive bombers, named Stuka by Accardo, which were specially designed to attack the ground, giving the small Luftwaffe one more function: attacking enemy ground targets.

Of course, if the German Army has basically recovered its vitality and the German Air Force is constantly developing and growing, then when it comes to the German Navy, the changes of this month are enough to describe it as earth-shaking.

At the shipyards in Kiel, the Germans stepped up their vigilance, and in several large dockyards furthest from the civilian area of the port of Kiel, shipbuilders began to weld huge hulls in sections, the first aircraft carrier in German history, and two of them.

These two ships, on which the admirals had high hopes, would in the future become the only striking force in the German Navy's surface ship formations that could challenge enemy warships. Became the nucleus of the two German naval formations, respectively.

This was all carried out in an orderly manner in the Führer's plan, and the huge German warplane was already operating efficiently and ready to fight to wash away its shame. Thinking of this, a wry smile appeared on the corner of Brauchitsch's mouth: these equipment were conceived by the Führer and the military together, and they have not been tested in actual combat, and they seem to be powerful, but they really make people feel bottomless.

As a matter of fact, some of the army's equipment has been tested in actual combat, and the air force is even happier than ever dreaming, but because the navy has not been tested in actual combat, many generals doubt the direction of development set by the Führer, but they are still trembling and developing the weapons and equipment designated by the Führer.

Major General Gascol of the intelligence department knocked on the door he did not close: "Lieutenant General, we have just dismantled a spy organization affiliated with France and captured four key personnel who tried to steal the blueprints of our fighter jets and were caught by the Gestapo. What do you think about it?"

"Have you asked the embassy?" Brauchitsch asked, putting down the text in his hand.

Gascoll nodded and replied, "Yes, our diplomats have contacted their embassy, the French are still the same, they don't admit any espionage activities, these people are 'not zài' on the French side." So they're at our disposal. ”

"Then do as you did before! Send it to the concentration camp and produce socks!" said Brauchitsch.

"Yes, General!" Gascoll turned and walked out.

"Gascoll......" Brauchitsch asked suddenly, "do you believe in the Führer's qiē?"

"Of course!" replied Gascoll, without thinking, "he is a gift from God to the German people! ”

"Me too......" Brauchitsch exhaled, as if talking to himself, as if to persuade himself.