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Chapter 1807 tilted balance

"Haha, look at it like this. This time the British Empire was completely isolated, but what about Japan? As a member of the Allies, the Japanese actually made a big profit when we and the French were dragged down by the war. This was simply unimaginable." General Heg said to himself.

"Okay, I've finished what I should say. So now, General Heg, do you have anything else to tell me to the Prime Minister?" Chamberlain said.

"We need more aircraft, camel fighters, fb27 bombers, dh9 interceptors, no matter what, as long as they can fly," General Heg said after thinking about it.

"You should talk to the Ministry of Defense about this matter, right?" Chamberlain said in embarrassment.

"I have already reported at least one dozen or so with the Ministry of Defense and the Minister of the Army, but the plane I need is never approved. And what I can't accept the most is that after the British Expeditionary Force evacuated from the Balkans, part of the plane originally assigned to the Expeditionary Force was taken away by the Navy and put it on the Shetland Islands to play cats and catch mice with transport ships! Millions of British Army soldiers were reconnaissance in artillery fire, bullet rain and muddy trenches. A large number of planes were blowing on the Shetland Islands! This was a crime!" General Heg said that he was a little excited.

"Do you know? If you go to the front line now, as soon as you look up, you can see the Bavarian air forces that are sprinkling death on the Eastern Front and Balkan fronts! They are powerful and cruel. After they come to the battlefield, we have lost more than 600 various aircraft! (Of course, this is the result of the outbreak, the exquisite calculations and the British underestimation of the enemy.) Our aircraft cannot even guarantee the safety of our heads! "General Heg walked to the window a few steps, pushed open the window, and pointed at the sky with his finger.

At this moment, the air defense alarm suddenly sounded. One minute later, General Heg's commander rushed in with the guard: "General, it's an air raid alarm, the German bomber is here!"

"Damn, what's the matter?" Chamberlain shivered. Last week he heard that the Royal Air Force ruled the Western Front, why did people bombard the command center now?

"Sir, this is our current situation. When the Germans concentrate all their strength, the offense and defense will be reversed instantly." General Heg continued to explain on the way to the air raid shelter.

In fact, things are far from as serious as Chamberlain imagined. Since the war escalated from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, the restrictions on air power on both sides of the battlefield have been very fragile. Even the weak side of the air force may still attack the strong side's air force. This is not only the case in World War 1, but also in World War 2. For example, during the Battle of Britain, the British bombed Berlin, and in the 43 years when Britain and the United States carried out strategic bombing, the German He177 still bombed Britain.

So, at this time, there was nothing to surprise the British's rear being bombed. What's more, this time, when Chamberlain, the imperial envoy, had a meeting with Hegel, the German bomber, arrived, and by chance, came to the sky above the British command. In fact, the scale of the German air strike was relatively limited, but the medium-sized bombers of two squadrons, and the air strike target was a nearby material warehouse, not here...

So what is the real situation at the moment? The report of Marshal Trenchard, the number one leader of the British Air Force, to General Heghe, described it as follows: As the Bavarian Air Force gradually enters the Western Front, the two sides gradually tend to balance the air force. According to our speculation, the Bavarian Air Force currently has at least 800 aircraft fighting on the Western Front, most of which are fighters. If this number is maintained, we can still barely deal with it. However, if the Bavarian Air Force draws the main force into the Western Front again, and even the Austro-Hungarian Air Force comes, the Western Front Air Force will be completely at a disadvantage in three months!

As Marshal Trenchard, who had fought with the Bavarian Air Force in the Balkan War Zone for nearly a year, he still knew his opponent very well. He estimated that all the first-line aircraft of the Bavarian Air Force currently have at least 2,000 first-line aircraft, and there are also a large number of second-line aircraft that can enter the front line at any time. You should know that if it is not included in the navy, the number of first-line aircraft before the German Army on the Western Front is only 3,500 to 4,000! The Bavarian Air Force can reach half of the number of German aircraft on the Western Front! In terms of combat effectiveness, it is more than half!

What exactly is the reason? This does not mean that the aviation production capacity of the Kingdom of Bavaria can be compared with Prussia, but that it consumes too little. Not to mention the Eastern Front, even when the Russian Air Force is at its most powerful time, it will be just a big trouble for the Bavarian Air Force. Because the losses caused by accidents and weather are always much greater than those caused by the Russian Air Force......

As for the Balkans and Asia Minor frontlines? Although Trenchard was in charge for a while, the two sides could be considered balanced at the beginning, after a long war of attrition, in the eyes of Britain and France, it was just a separate battlefield. Faced with the heavy pressure of the main force of the entire Bavarian and Austro-Hungarian aviation forces, the exchange ratio was always a relatively tragic issue. In the end, the Balkan Air Corps, the Allied Powers, disappeared.

In other words, since the war started, the Bavarian Air Force has never received a heavy blow. So his fleet and pilot team have actually increased steadily! If it weren't for the large number of aircraft fleets being deployed on the frontline, the size of the Bavarian Air Force could have actually continued to rise.

Trenchard always believed that the Bavarian Kingdom did not do its best in this virtuous cycle, because even if Trenchard in the Balkans made a harsh and exchanged blood with his opponent, he could defeat more than 60 planes in a day. But at most a week, the British reconnaissance planes could find that the Bavarian Air Force was full of blood again...

Although the end of the Balkan war has brought back some blood, this is only temporary, because the Bavarian and Austro-Hungarian aviation forces have also been freed up! Although the latter is not very elite, as a European power, it is not a big problem to take out 3,000 aircraft while still surfing the Eastern Front! Therefore, Lieutenant General Trenchard clearly told General Heg that if the aviation forces of the Allies are concentrated, Britain and France will definitely not be able to support it at this stage.
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