() Unlike the high spirits of the US military, the German army was in mourning. In the two days of air battles, the losses were so heavy that everyone in the German Air Force felt unbearable. Even the German air force had already put its energy into

The politically advanced Air Force Commander, Nazi Second Marshal, Marshal Hermann Göring, also had to turn his attention back to the Air Force.

Now, the Americans' intentions are so obvious.

"Those Americans just want to use the window of time when most of their fighter jet technologies are superior to consume us. We can't just be fooled by them!" an officer shouted at the meeting.

"But should we just let them bomb?" another officer asked weakly.

"Is the current situation different from letting them bomb? Can we stop their bombing now? Since we can't stop it, we will lose so many elite pilots, why do we continue?"

"I agree that we should stop such interceptions. Do you remember during the Battle of Britain? What Dowding did when we started bombing London! He hid the elite and watched us bomb London,

Then he silently gathered strength and finally gave us a hard blow! This war

It is a national war, and everyone has the obligation to sacrifice! The British have set an example for us! I am not unwilling to sacrifice, I am just opposed to meaningless sacrifice! I think that before our main fighter aircraft can be regained

Technical superiority, at least until we get rid of technical inferiority, we should avoid such a decisive battle!"

"The current situation is different from that of the Battle of Britain! At that time, our bombing intensity was completely incomparable to the current bombing intensity of the Americans and the British. And at that time, they could hide in Scotland, which was beyond our reach. But

Now, they can now dispatch thousands of bombers at once, causing unbearable losses to Germany! For example, if they launch a series of attacks on Romanian oil fields, what will we do? Once such a target is destroyed, our entire

The army cannot be maintained. How can we avoid war?

And even if we hide, others can still come to us. As long as the Americans are willing, their fighter jets can even fly directly from the UK to the Russian airport. Where can we hide? Can we still not take off for training?

?”

"We can strengthen the anti-aircraft firepower and top it with anti-aircraft cannons. Then we can fully produce the me-262. After a certain number is formed, we can launch a large-scale counterattack, just like Dowding did in the Battle of Britain.

That way! As for training, I don’t believe that Europe is so big that Americans can stare at every piece of airspace with a magnifying glass.”

"Okay, stop dreaming!" Marshal Hermann Göring said, "The head of state will not agree!"

This judgment immediately silenced the officer who kept preaching to avoid the war temporarily. He turned his attention to another senior general in the meeting-Marshal Spehler.

However, Marshal Spehler said nothing. He sat there quietly, like a marble statue.

…

The meeting never achieved any results. When it was time to adjourn, Marshal Spehler stood up. He looked at the officers present and said:

"The war situation is not optimistic, but no matter what, we must persevere for the long term. To do this, you must learn to protect yourself in air combat."

This last sentence was so profound that everyone was surprised. Goering stared at Marshal Spehler, but Marshal Spehler did not say anything, but sat down directly and spoke again.

Transformed into a statue again.

…

It was nearly midnight after the meeting. In the car returning to the official residence, Marshal Spehler said to the adjutant:

"Heinze, help me make arrangements. I'm going to meet the head of state."

…

It was a sunny day again the next day, and there would be no widespread rainfall in the next week. This was good news for the Allies, but not a good thing for the Germans.

Because the weather was very good, of course the routine of the previous two days continued. Early in the morning, the Yankee fighter jets came out to bully people again.

The P-51s occupied their respective cruising areas with ease and began to circle there boringly. It would be nearly an hour before the bombers would arrive here. Before that, the German fighter jets would not appear.

Sure enough, about 40 minutes later, the sharp-eyed Rodriguez discovered a German aircraft group. However, compared with the clusters of the previous two days, the number of aircraft in this group was much smaller, with a total of only 8 aircraft.

"What tricks are the Germans up to and why do they need so few planes?"

"Could they be using these planes as bait to trick us away?"

When performing the task of clearing the airspace, there was no need to maintain radio silence, so everyone discussed it directly on the radio.

"Ignore him, General Ron said, our fighter force never cares who the enemy is or how many there are. We just want to know where the hell he is!"

"But Ron Zhang Guang also said, maintain our position and fight at an altitude that is beneficial to us."

"In this way, Team Hearts and Team Spades go over and take a look, while everyone else continues to keep their height."

Eight P-51 fighter jets from two squadrons began to break away from the group and flew towards the Germans.

The eight German FW-190s were climbing. But what was different from usual was that they did not climb at the maximum climb rate. They climbed very slowly, which allowed them to maintain a fairly good horizontal speed.

When the P-51 dived down at high speed, these fw-190s all used a beautiful instant turn to avoid the attack. Then the American fighter jets pulled up at a large angle as usual and prepared to continue to attack the opponent. Unexpectedly, when the Americans changed

After leveling off, they discovered that the eight FW-190s simply gave up and continued to climb. They dived and flew to low altitude.

"Abandon the pursuit and return to the formation." Just when the eight P-51s were about to catch up with the enemy, this order came from the wireless power.

"Keep your height and don't be tricked into flying to low altitude. As long as they don't climb up, they can't threaten our bombers. So what's the point of letting them fly at low altitude?" Rodri seemed to understand the doubts of the people below.

Gus gave this explanation.

...On this day, Rodriguez's squadron went on two missions and encountered four groups of German fighter jets. This was no different from before. It was just that the number of aircraft in these German fleets dropped a lot, and all of them were

They are aircraft such as BF-109 and FW-190, which are similar to those of the past.

None of the JU88s and BF-110s with anti-air missiles were seen. What’s more terrible is that these aircraft now almost give up climbing and run to low altitudes as soon as they see the US military fleet without saying a word. It seems that they don’t even

We plan to seriously carry out the mission of intercepting bombers. What do the Germans want to do?

…

"What do the Germans want to do?" Ron frowned while looking at the new battle report. During this day, the Germans basically did not launch any decent counterattacks, and the number of air battles between the two sides was even one-fifth of yesterday's

Even less than that. In this day's air battle, Ron's fighter force only lost 10 aircraft, two of which were shot down by anti-aircraft artillery.

. And they shot down only 14 German planes. This was the closest exchange ratio in air combat in the past few days. Li Mei's bombers did not receive even a single strike from the air. The most dangerous thing

The me-262 never appeared at all. However, it still lost 22 bombers, all of which were shot down by ground anti-aircraft artillery.

Obviously, the Germans wanted to avoid fighting. The losses in the previous two days were too great for the Germans to bear. Moreover, the Germans probably saw that their real purpose was to consume the German Air Force through such air battles.

Dropped. So they stopped playing with the Americans.

The basic strength of the German Air Force is still there. Jets are also being continuously produced and improved. Ron thought that if he were a German commander, he would definitely want to preserve his strength first, and then make a counterattack after accumulating a large group of me-262s.

Raid. Ron knows that the British are also developing jets, and the United States is also developing them. But these jets

Firstly, it is difficult to quench the thirst of the aircraft when they come from far away. Secondly (this is the more important point) the range of these aircraft is very tragic and they cannot fly into German airspace at all. And a jet fighter with a long range like the P-51

, at least in this era, it is still completely Zentraedi technology. He must find a way to force the Germans to come out to fight again.

To do this, we must rely on Li Mei's help.

…

"Okay, I understand what you mean." Li Mei said, "You want me to intensify the attack to force the Germans out."

As Li Mei spoke, she walked to a wall and opened the curtain hanging on the wall, revealing an extra-large map of Europe.

"Let's study together. Attacking those targets can cause pain to the Germans."

Ron walked over, his eyes wandering around the map, and finally, he said to Li Mei:

"How's the Ploiesti oil field?" Ron asked.

"We attacked there in the first half of the year, but the effect was not great. However, the scale of the attack was limited. Increasing the scale of the bombing might have some effect. However, the Germans' fuel mainly comes from coal-based synthetic oil, so these synthetic oils need to be added.

Factory. But this way, there are more targets."

"What about the other targets that can make the Germans feel pain?" Ron asked.

Li Mei lit up a cigarette and fell into deep thought. Knowing that the cigarette was almost burning her fingers, Li Mei said:
Chapter completed!