h2>The 11th German Armored Division, during nearly a month of combat, galloped across the board, defeated the Allied offensives many times, and achieved remarkable results, becoming a brave and good fire brigade. Its main experience is: First, it moves quickly. The division maneuvered 1,500 kilometers for more than a month, with an average of 50 kilometers per day. Its movement is rapid, causing the Allied forces to be dizzy and at a loss.

The second is to be flexible in tactics. Whether it is retreating or counterattacking, the division can seize the fighter jets, flexibly use various tactical means such as blocking, ambushing, and attacking, make full use of the terrain, and covertly attack the opponent suddenly, and achieve brilliant results of winning with less and more many times.

The third is to be brave and tenacious. Under the conditions of passiveness in the overall strategic situation, the division did not fear strong enemies, did not fear fatigue, and responded calmly, and defeated the opponent with amazing courage and perseverance.

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By this time Eisenhower had already understood that the 550,000 Allied troops led by Patton had no hope of breaking through the siege and could only be sacrificed as abandoned children. As long as they could persist in the encirclement for seven days, Ahaha was to have confidence in breaking through the Maginot Line and the Ziegfe Line arranged by the German army. This was a major event that concerns the life and death of the entire Allied forces.

Eisenhower gave Patton an order to "persist until the last soldier". Patton, a fanatical war dealer, directly expressed his willingness to accept this order for the honor of the soldiers.

Eisenhower and Admiral Arthur Harris, nicknamed "Bombard", formulated a large air strike plan to attack Germany's war potential, while also dispersing the German troops deployed on the Maginot Line.

Harris is a fanatical "bombing mechanism victory theory" who advocates strategic bombing of German cities to reduce Germany's war potential, and to dampen its people's morale and strive to end the war as soon as possible. He is still immersed in the dream of the Allies' victory.

Before Harris, the Allied Air Force had conducted night bombings on Germany for more than a year, because nightfalls could reduce the chance of bombers being hit by German air defense fire. However, these bombing operations by the British were not large in scale, often about dozens, and most of them were only 200. In front of the German tight air defense net, this small-scale bombing effect was not ideal, and its own losses were quite serious. Harris decided to adopt large-scale bombing, and mainly used incendiary bombs, turning German cities into seas of fire.

Harris acted vigorously and did what he said in order to verify his theory. He sent 191 bombers to attack the old city of Lupke. Although more than 80 bombers were shot down by Germany, it also triggered a 32-hour fire in the old city of Lupke: the next day, Harris sent 468 bombers to attack the old city of Rostock, losing more than 160 aircraft, which also caused fires to ignite more than 60% of the buildings in the old city of Rostock. Seeing that the effect was good, Harris decided to do a larger ticket, and called it the "Thousand Aircraft Plan", which was to use 1,000 bombers to bomb a German city at a time.

This tactic is a helpless tactic of fighting for consumption and national strength. When this is exactly what Germany cannot bear, as long as the Allies dare to fight with Germany, even if Germany has extremely brilliant victory in the early stage, it will eventually shed the last drop of blood. Even if Li Mo is a time traveler, there is no way.

Germany's only way out is to annihilate the landing Allied forces as soon as possible, try to capture their officers and soldiers, and then use prisoners to force the Allied forces to negotiate. Even if it is just one or two years of false peace, Germany can free up his hands and fight alone with the Soviet Union. This is Germany's only opportunity and vitality.

In early October 1941, Eisenhower asked Harris if he could take out 1,000 bombers. Harris made a positive reply. At that time, the Allied Air Force Bomber Command had a total of 437 medium and heavy bombers squadrons and equipped 10,000 bombers. However, in Li Mo's last full-scale air strike, the losses were very large, but the Allied forces had more than 2,000 left. With British stocks, the Allied bombers were quickly restored to more than 3,000, and it was not difficult to touch more than 1,000 bombers at one time.

If the air strike is 48 hours, there are 1,000 backup bombers that can be used. In addition, the Allied Naval Coastal Defense Command can provide 2,100 "Whitley", "Hudson" and "Hampton" bombers. This will result in 17,100 bombers. There will be about 2,500 escort fighters, and the total number of air strikes has reached more than 4,200, which is almost 60% of the remaining Allied aircraft.

In order to ensure that the "Thousand Aircraft Plan" can be implemented, Harris lobbyed Eisenhower in a panic and eventually received strong support. Li Mo did not want to fight a war of attrition with the Allies, but the Allies would not give him such an opportunity.

However, there has never been a time when using so many bombers to conduct air strikes in history and faces many difficult problems. First, the air strikes must pass through the German "Cambola" system, that is, the detection and guidance system mainly composed of the "Wurzburg" air defense radar, as well as the "Kanghube" defense line composed of the BF110g-4a night fighter and a large number of flak anti-aircraft guns.

In previous air strikes, British bombers suffered a lot in front of this defense line and suffered heavy losses. 1,000 bombers were extremely fat for German air defense firepower. How to reduce combat losses

Second, the Lancaster and other new bombers are equipped with advanced navigation equipment, but many old bombers do not. How to form these different types of bombers to avoid air collisions?

Third, the air strike is planned to last for one hour, with the purpose of using a short period of intensive bombing to increase the intensity of bomb drops. But in such a short time, can 17,100 bombers reach the target area and drop bombs?

Harris handed over these problems to experts. The experts deserve to be experts and quickly came up with solutions. In response to the first problem, the experts suggested that bombers should implement long "stream" dense formations at night, so that the chances of bombers being discovered by the German "Canopus Bed" system would be greatly reduced (at that time, each "Canopus Bed" of the German army could only guide one night fighter to intercept operations at a time, and could only conduct up to 6 direct interceptions within an hour, which was only suitable for small-scale bombings. Intercepting dense formations with long and short horizontal lines would be ineffective).

However, German anti-aircraft artillery cannot concentrate on shooting a large number of targets in a very short time, so experts believe that the "stream" dense formation can greatly reduce bomber losses. The solution to the second problem is that new and old bombers are arranged separately to attack three different areas of a city, and to increase the altitude when flying, so that the chance of collision will be reduced to only once an hour.

The third problem is better solved, extending the duration of the air strike to 90 minutes, so that the bomber group will fly more calmly and will not have much impact on the strength of the bomb drop. Harris was very satisfied with the solution proposed by the experts and immediately appointed General Charles Porter, the Chief of Staff, to formulate a detailed combat plan.r1152
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