Under the instigation of Chen Dao and the strong promotion of Gorene, with the active participation of Deputy Minister of Aviation Marshal Mirch, Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe, Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe, Udet, Director of Weapon Production of the Luftwaffe, and Commanders of various aviation teams, the Luftwaffe began to seek transformation without being willing to fall behind.

The purpose of transformation is simple and clear, that is, to get rid of the Tactical Air Force that belongs to the Army and truly become an independent strategic air force.

After a thorough investigation, Chen Dao was surprised to find that the embarrassing identity of the "Air Artillery Army" who was nominally independent but was actually assigned to the German Army was indescribable. It was quite like an unsolvable problem of having chickens or eggs first.

The German army has always been strong, and European countries once made an image metaphor. Germany is a country where "an army owns one country". This army refers to the German army. This shows the powerful force that the German army has in Germany.

In 1934, despite Hitler's obstruction, Rom, the leader of the stormtroopers repeatedly threatened to replace the German army with the stormtroopers. Finally, under the strong rebound of the German army, and under the injustice of Gorene, Himmler and others, Hitler launched a major purge of the stormtroopers in tears.

In June 1934, with the assistance of Goring and Himmler, Himmler fired Rom from the German Federation. On the night of June 30, Goring's secret police and Himmler's SS suppressed the stormtroopers and shot Rom and more than 150 stormtrooper leaders. The stormtrooper with more than 2.5 million people was wiped out overnight.

This bloody night is called the Night of the Long Sword in German history.

The German Army is so strong that the new stage of the Luftwaffe was unable to avoid being influenced by the German Army.

In 1933, the Luftwaffe began to be formed secretly until it officially became an independent army in 1935. This period was the initial stage of the construction of armored troops led by Guderian within the German Army. How the Luftwaffe cooperated with the German Army to conduct blitzkrieg war is a major issue that the Luftwaffe must study.

In the practice of blitzkrieg theory, Guderian found that even large caliber howitzers towed by trucks could not keep up with the speed of armored troops, resulting in tanks often not being able to receive timely support from artillery.

Guderian immediately proposed to the Army Ordnance Bureau to develop self-propelled artillery to cooperate with tanks to solve this problem, but was strongly stopped by Gorene who had come out halfway.

The reason given by Goring was that the Stuka dive bomber could fully utilize the right and left of self-propelled artillery, and there was no need to waste valuable resources to study self-propelled artillery.

Guderian naturally could not defeat Gorene, who was the general manager of German industrial development, and the development of self-propelled artillery was temporarily shelved.

What's even more strange is that senior executives of the Luftwaffe, such as Gorene, Udet and others, are obviously a fighter ace, but they are all keen on the construction of high-speed bombers. Udet himself is the induction engineer of the famous Stuka dive bomber.

Is it because the German Army was too strong and led the Luftwaffe to the deviant air force? Or is it because the German Air Force took the initiative to go further and further on the road of army accessories, which has become a headless unfair case. It is hard to tell who the responsibility is, but the result is that both the Luftwaffe and the German Army are victimized.

Under the status of being an independent vassal, the Luftwaffe had to grab his eyebrows and beard.

The miserable Luftwaffe must not only undertake strategic tasks such as seizing air supremacy, bombing airports, bombing transportation hubs, bombing industrial areas and conducting strategic transportation, but also undertake the call of the German Army and act as a tactical task of the "air artillery" of the German Army, especially the armored forces.

High-intensity combat missions will inevitably lead to chaos, and errors will inevitably occur in chaos.

The result of the mistake is that the Air Force is scolded and the Army is in trouble.

The Army's unlucky situation is that the Air Force's slow response speed and inability to provide air support to the front line in time, resulting in delays in fighter jets.

After the more serious army solved the crisis with its own strength, the bombers who obeyed the call came late. Then they mistakenly thought their own people for the enemy and threw the bombs on the army without mercy.

During the Battle of France, the Great German Motorized Infantry Regiment was accidentally injured by Stuka, the Third Air Force, shortly after crossing the Maas River. It can be imagined that this accidental injury must have attracted a lot of criticism among the soldiers of the Great German Regiment.

After investigation, the number of accidental injuries to the German Army by the Luftwaffe in the French Battle was as many as 27 times.

In addition, the air force was unable to dispatch due to bad weather, or the front line was too far from the rear airport, and other reasons such as the armored soldiers rushing to the front line could not receive heavy fire support, and had to make greater sacrifices to win.

Learning from the pain, taking advantage of the opportunity of the reorganization of various German troops after the French Battle, the German Air Force under Goering decided to change his mind and become a "person" again, and carry out a reform from head to toe, from the inside to the outside, in order to completely get rid of the status of a vassal of the army.

With the mass production of self-propelled howitzers of wasps and wild bees, the problem of disconnection between tanks and divisional artillery in German armored forces was solved, which would inevitably lead to a reduction in the amount of ground support tasks of the Luftwaffe.

At the same time, in order to take the professional specialization route, under Chen Dao's active suggestion, Goring made a decision to implement the second season of the Cuckoo Plan without hesitation. He used Chen Dao, the "undercover" who invaded the armed SS, to play "infernal Affairs" with Himmler, and established the Army Air Force in one fell swoop, and transferred the task of supporting the ground to the armed SS.

After getting rid of the big burden of ground support, the Luftwaffe conducted a thorough thinking transformation from below Goering.

Under the pressure of Goering's slogan "If you don't change your mind, change people", the Luftwaffe reversed the idea of ​​building a military with bombers as the core, and turned to the construction path with fighter jets as the main and other aircraft models as the auxiliary.

The Luftwaffe also clarified the five major tasks of the Luftwaffe's Air Force to seize air supremacy, national air defense, strategic bombing, strategic transportation and airborne strike.

In terms of seizing air supremacy and national air defense, the Luftwaffe actively improves the existing main fighter model of the me-109 fighter to deal with the strong enemy Spitfire fighter jets that appeared over the UK.

During the airdrop leaflet operation in London, the me-109 exposed the shortcomings of insufficient range and unable to provide full coverage for bombing. After research, Messerchmitt equipped the me-109 with a secondary fuel tank, which extended the air stagnation time of the me-109 fighter jet by 40-60 minutes.

The Luftwaffe also increased its investment in the new FW-190 fighter jet that was just put into production in October, giving German fighter pilots a new choice.

In order to keep up with the pace of the times and meet the needs of national air defense, the Luftwaffe continued to increase research on radar and jet fighter jets.

In terms of strategic bombing, the Luftwaffe stopped producing the old Do-17 bombers, instead retaining the production lines of the Ju-88 and He-111 bombers, and decided to produce a small number of He-177 strategic bombers.

Every time Chen Dao thought of the he-177 strategic bomber, he couldn't help but feel so angry that his teeth were itchy.

Germany must have a powerful strategic bomber, not for anything else, just to have a suitable carrier to hit the enemy's head after the development of the atomic bomb in the future.

With current scientific and technological level, only strategic bombers can shoulder this important task.

The overall structural layout of the he-177 is pretty good. The problem is that the Luftwaffe actually wants such a big guy to have dive bombing capabilities, which is really outrageous.

"Do you admit that asking the four-engine bomber to dive bomb is purely nonsense?"

In Goring's magnificent office, Chen Dao looked at the manual of the he-177 strategic bomber in his hand and said.

"I admit that this is all done by Udette's dive bombing maniac, and it's not my business." Golin pushed the blame without hesitation.

"No need to do dive bombing or complex dual-linked coupled engines, just create a four-engine strategic bomber that can be put into production quickly. First produce thirty or fifty aircraft for the bomber troops to try out." Chen Dao said.

"I know. Next summer, we will reach 7,000 front-line combat aircraft, of which 2,000 fighter aircraft will be of a certain difficulty.

Now all the troops in Germany are reorganizing, and our inventory of resources is not enough. We must speed up foreign trade, especially our scrap steel business, to exchange more resources for Germany." Goering said with a frown.

"The most important thing is to end the war against Britain as soon as possible. The Italians cannot stand it anymore and the time is almost over. Our Santa Claus plan is also accelerated. We will strive to take Iraq on Christmas and then hit Churchill hard on the head."

Gorene sneered a few times and showed a gloating expression on her face.
Chapter completed!