It's not so much a meeting as it is arranging the next work. Accardo asked Augustus and Merkel to negotiate with the Dutch royal family on behalf of the German Führer, fully accept the surrender of the Dutch, and deal with the aftermath.

"Let the Chief of the General Staff, General Bock, take over Rotterdam and restore the operation of the Dutch ports with Raeder, and these ports must be used to turn the German navy into a mobile and flexible force, instead of being trapped in Wilhelmshamn, as it is now. Accardo pointed to the map and said, "The place where the Dutch royal family is located is temporarily set in Frankfurt." Arrange a villa on the outskirts of the city there, and the vigilance force should be very strong!"

"Now we are more worried that as soon as the French Gammelin realizes that he is at risk of being surrounded, he will immediately mobilize forces from within France to attack the flank of our Army Group A. Brauchitsch pointed to the map.

"This is not a problem! Army Group C will attack the Maginot Line to create the illusion of a full-scale attack by our troops. The French did not realize so quickly that they had been deceived, they needed time to confirm the direction of our attack. Accardo waved his hand and said, "Now it's up to our General Rundstedt to capture Sedang as quickly as possible." ”

"Attacking Sedang is not a big problem at the moment, and if Gammelin moves his army south and flanks Army Group A with the troops in France, this will be a big problem. At that time, Rundstedt's situation was not very optimistic. Brauchitsch said worriedly.

Accardo smiled, pointed to some of the markings on the map, and said, "My marshal, General Catherine, has repeatedly assured that the Air Force has the ability to cause trouble for the Anglo-French forces as they move south, so that they cannot pose a threat to Army Group A. ”

He pointed to the northern region on the map: "In addition, the 6th Light Panzer Corps and the 7th Infantry Corps in Keitel's hands will follow the Anglo-French forces to the south, biting them so that they will not dare to attack Army Group A with all their might." ”

"That's all for today's meeting," Accardo said before ending the meeting, "I still have to prepare for the evening's speech." Lost company, everyone. ”

"Oh! That's right!" Augustus suddenly thought of something, and smiled embarrassedly: "I'm old, and I'm a little forgetful...... Hearing that the design of the helicopter had been completed, they tested the aircraft outside Berlin with great results. ”

Accardo was stunned for a moment, then nodded: This is good news for today, and it is worth celebrating. From the time when Accardo decided to rewrite history and win his own World War II, he wanted him to change the world's war system, which has always been his magic weapon for victory. He did not dare to bet on the German military commanders, because after all, they had failed once.

For example, he developed the ME-109 fighter for the Air Force in advance, and also produced the more mature and better FW-190 in advance.

He also vigorously developed long-range bombers, hoping to rely on the power of strategic bombers to rewrite the outcome of the war. In addition, the Air Force had already used the super-ammunition "napalm incendiary" that he had supervised, and had saved a lot of casualties in the process of breaking through the permanent fortifications during the German invasion of Poland.

In addition, he advocated the elimination of the German staggered double-row staggered load wheels, and led the German tank back to the normal suspension track. He worked hard to accumulate rubber, developed artificial rubber and expired rubber purification technology, and then based on this, he designed and manufactured the world's leading super main battle tank at least one generation of the Leopard tank.

In the navy, he has put a lot of effort into it, including the folding wing structure of carrier-based aircraft, the composition of the aircraft carrier fleet, the use and combat mode of the main fleet, and the deployment and tactical arrangement of ocean-going submarines.

However, as a pseudo-military fan, Accardo also has a lot of paranoia and mistakes, such as his superstitious belief in the speed of attack, and in order to allow his troops to advance quickly, he still did not produce cannons above 150 mm caliber in 1937.

So when he remembered the helicopter, which changed the mode of warfare, he called in several aircraft designers, and then asked about the feasibility of the technical situation of the helicopter.

Accardo then gave several aircraft designers the necessary hints on several very professional technical issues, such as the fact that Germany has carried out some helicopter verification tests, but it cannot solve the lateral stability problem caused by the propeller to the helicopter. The tail rotor concept proposed by Accardo was much more advanced than the concept of two propellers on the left and right that had been studied earlier by the Germans.

But as he gradually communicated with the technicians, many details of the design also made Accardo shake his own vision. A question gradually arose in Accardo's mind, and this question was: Is helicopters really a good thing, or is helicopters really suitable for the stage of World War II? Accardo was very confused, and this confusion directly affected his enthusiasm for the pursuit of armed helicopters as a weapon.

In Accardo's understanding, what are the advantages of helicopter anti-tanks? To put it simply: The first point is that it can quickly rush to the battlefield and carry out surprise attacks on enemy tanks in local areas. The second point is to use missiles and other guided weapons to carry out long-range fire attacks on enemy armored targets. The third point is that the advanced materials after World War II are enough for helicopters to withstand the threat of small-caliber ammunition.

However, when Accardo and weapons experts compared the weapons of World War II, they found that the anti-tank helicopter was a suicide in this era. The reasons for this include: lack of radar support, lack of bulletproof material reinforcement, and weapons configuration problems.

First of all, there are too many threatening weapons, which is a hard wound, and helicopters are too vulnerable to the ground weapons of World War II. The army of this time was generally armed with small-caliber anti-aircraft weapons, including 37 or 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, 12. Heavy machine guns of 7 mm caliber and the like. Helicopters were defenseless against the air defense network of these weapons, and helicopters in this era were only capable of using process weapons such as machine guns and rockets. The lack of long-range suppression means makes it extremely dangerous for helicopters to face ground attacks, and this one-for-one or one-for-several combat mode is obviously not conducive to the helicopter side.

Second, around 1937, materials research had not yet reached the level of the 60s. The defense of the helicopter itself is very problematic, because there are no high-quality modern materials, it is 7. 92 mm and 7. Rifle ammunition of 62 mm caliber is enough to threaten the flight safety of helicopters, not to mention a large number of light machine guns appear on the battlefield. Moreover, most of the ammunition in this era has a range of more than 1,000 meters, and there may be some problems with excessive range when hitting people, but it is just right to attack large targets such as helicopters. Helicopters, on the other hand, have neither radar support nor missile extended range, so there is no doubt that they will suffer a big loss.

In the end, Accardo has only now come to understand that there is one reason why helicopters are least likely to appear on the front-line battlefield in this era, and that is the lack of living space. Unlike in 1960, when jets were rampant, the mainstream fighter jets of this era were not very fast (relative to jets). The speed of these fighters allows these fighters to fly low enough to hunt helicopters, and in many cases the fighters can even fly at an altitude of twenty or thirty meters close to the ground, which is unimaginably dangerous for spray aircraft without excellent radar navigation. Other attack aircraft that are in service or will enter service in the future, such as the Soviet Il-2 and the German Stuka, can easily shoot down the newborn helicopter gunship with overwhelming flight performance.

And Accardo finally confirmed that the basic appearance of the gunship he could get in this world was very different from the image of the classic gunship Apache in his mind.

The flexible nose rotating turret was difficult to achieve due to recoil and power issues, and the alternative was to equip each side with a fixed-facing cannon. Other weapons include the Air Force's standard rockets, and as for anti-tank missiles, this is still a pipe dream at this stage.

Another flaw that makes people vomit blood is undoubtedly revealed during this time period, which is that this kind of aircraft cannot parachute and get injured. It was proposed to install explosives on the propellers of the aircraft, and to blow up the propellers during parachuting. However, considering that there is no ejection seat, the helicopter's flight altitude of no more than 100 meters is really unable to complete complex parachute jumps, so this construction is finally over.

Now it was only a question of choice: whether to build a flashy weapon to fight the enemy with bayonets in the face of Germany's lack of iron and oil, or whether to seriously evaluate and abandon this crazy plan. At least according to the analysis of German weapons experts and tank commanders such as Guderian, helicopters lack a front-line combat environment at this stage and are not competent for front-line combat missions.

However, these weapons experts are very optimistic about the future of this weapon, and at least three aircraft manufacturers have expressed their willingness to develop such helicopters at their own expense. These businessmen and designers, who have been dealing with the battlefield for many years, have keenly smelled the development prospects of this weapon and believe that this weapon definitely has a place on the battlefield -- this is a kind of aircraft that can take off without an airfield, and this weapon has a wide range of uses in emergency material transportation, personnel transportation, battlefield monitoring, close reconnaissance, special operations, and so on.

"Now that the prototype has been produced, let them hurry up and produce helicopters that can be used in real combat, and equip each division with two such helicopters for rapid communication and transportation of important personnel and materials. Accardo finally finalized the production plan: "But we have to test the flight repeatedly to confirm safety and reliability!"

"That's fine. I will relay this news to Krupp. Augustus nodded and said.