Chapter 290

This is indeed a worrying choice. On the one hand, Germany's expansion in Europe makes the United States fidgety; on the other hand, Germany's every move in Asia is helping the United States a lot. But Roosevelt always believed that Europe was the fundamental interest of the United States, so he was more inclined to help Britain to bring Germany back to its original shape.

But because Congress is dragging his feet, he can't find any other good way for a moment. He can only continue to watch the changes in Europe, hoping that Britain and France can hold back the pace and let the United States have time to respond.

Now Roosevelt's mood is very ambivalent. He hopes that Germany can beat the British at once, so that the United States or the "lease act" implemented by him can be accepted by the British. In this way, the American soldiers will get the benefits they dream of without blood; On the other hand, he did not want Germany to expand rapidly. He was afraid that Germany would win the whole war before the United States reacted.

So Roosevelt had to use his personal influence to sell 400 American fighter planes to Britain at one go. The 400 main US fighters, P-36, are the most similar to the German foreign trade me-109c fighters in the world.

The me-109a fighter, which was designed with speed of 480km / h due to its birth in the Spanish Civil War, is very close to the castrated version of the German export-oriented me-109c fighter. Although there is still a gap in some main performances, it can at least bring the gap between the two sides to the level of "War I".

In order to get these advanced fighter planes to defend the domestic airspace, Britain had to pay the frightening bill with a large amount of foreign exchange. Of course, it is even more ironic that Britain got 20 me-109c fighters from Spain and Finland in batches, and also changed the painting equipment and equipped a flight squadron.

The reason for this is to get the air supremacy back from the German air force. Of course, this kind of attempt failed in the end. In the fierce air battle of a few days, the German Air Force fought bravely and shot down all kinds of fighter planes of the British air force, including intrepid, P-36 and me-109c. Britain lost a total of 410 fighter planes.

It also forced the British air force to look for more powerful weapons. They chose a super fighter in the design stage, which was named hurricane by the British. At their request, the new hurricane fighter has a speed of 500 kilometers per hour and is equipped with large caliber machine guns. Britain has even begun to deploy production lines in Canada and the mainland at the same time to prepare for the production of this more powerful fighter.

Of course, the United States is not idle. They put in their own designers and eventually designed the famous P-40 fighter in advance. However, this kind of fighter is still on the drawing and can not be put into production immediately, just like the hurricane.

Akado has brought new changes to the world, and engineers and scientists from all over the world have also provided their motherland with the most advanced science and technology in a more cruel environment. For example, the British new aircraft carrier has begun production, and the German segmented construction method has been adopted on some non main superstructure. This method has been fully tested in the United States, and it is believed that mass production will start soon.

Of course, while the whole world is trying to catch up with the pace of German science and technology, the Germans are not idle. At the weapons test ground in the suburbs of Berlin, 20 German helicopters soared up to demonstrate how to use helicopters to rapidly deploy mountain troops for several generals of the Logistics Department of the German defense forces.

All the generals on the scene were stunned by the excellent performance of this new weapon. 20 helicopters dropped 80 fully armed German mountain soldiers into the target area 10 kilometers away, and also hoisted 10 large caliber mortars and more than 4 tons of combat materials. All this took only one hour. In the past, these troops were transported by mules and horses, and it took at least one morning to complete the operational deployment.

In a round of applause, the German logistics force announced the purchase of 2000 such helicopters and follow-up aircraft, and customized safer and improved models for the German head of state and senior officials as candidates for short-distance rapid transfer.

Of course, the more confidential experiments were carried out in the mountains. The German new weapon "rocket" has successfully carried out short-distance flight experiments. This new weapon, which changes its flight path to attack the target according to radio instructions, was named "missile" by the head of state, which is the conjunction of guided missile.

The German government is quite dissatisfied with the US's insidious behavior. However, in view of their close and covert cooperation with the US, they have no choice but to let the us ride the wall. For example, after the beginning of World War II, the United States still left a large share of oil exports in the Middle East to Germany's ally Italy.

This kind of overt trade has left Britain helpless. First, the British navy has been defeated one after another, and the British government has deployed the Mediterranean fleet. As a result, the maritime strength of British forces in the whole Mediterranean region is obviously inferior to that of Italy. Second, because neither the United States nor Italy has declared war on Britain at present, rash intervention will make the two countries turn to support Germany.

But even fools know that Italy imports a lot of oil, at least one third of which is sold to Germany at a high price. So the U.S. government has always been like a good man in a quarrel. On the surface, he said he hoped everyone would stop fighting, but he handed a pistol to everyone who quarreled.

The tragedy is that everyone has to give this hypocritical Uncle Sam some face, because Germany, Britain, Italy, Japan, France and other countries do not want to push the United States into the arms of others. They have to try their best to please the hypocritical Uncle Sam, and they do not want to turn over their faces until they have to. This is the enviable geographical advantage of the United States, and this is the unique skill of the United States in the two world wars. However, all the Germans in Berlin trusted their omnipotent head of state. They pinned their hope of winning the war on akado's personal victory. Recently, the German government has launched a series of economic reforms, drawing on some of the contents of Roosevelt's new deal, and launched the next stage of development plan. Taking advantage of the expansion space of Poland and the Netherlands, Germany's economy has been slowly on the right track, because it has ruthlessly plundered part of the Polish occupied areas in disguised form, and the development and utilization of western Poland has soon been on the right track. On the other hand, the German government also made use of the plundering advantage established by repeated battles to repay a large number of debts of mifford bonds, which helped the German government get rid of the financial crisis at one stroke. On the one hand, with the talented combination of Augustus and Schacht at the helm, Germany finally did not embark on the war economy mode kidnapped by Juncker nobles. Instead, it planned to distinguish civil enterprises from military enterprises, adopted more efficient planned economy strategy for the whole Germany, and put German agriculture and light industry, which had been in a slow development state, on the fast track of rapid development. On the other hand, the German people who have obtained material satisfaction have invested in the construction of heavy industry with higher production enthusiasm, doubling the industrial output value of Germany at one go. By means of high pressure, Germany has established a national industrial and agricultural structure with reasonable layout: heavy industry and centralized automation agriculture are the focus of local development; Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria develop light industry, and the Netherlands is the follow-up supplement; Automatic farms and light industry will be developed in western Poland, while predatory agricultural production will be developed in central Poland. This kind of soft development strategy makes the whole Germany operate efficiently, and the only one that is squeezed is the central part of Poland, even the western part of Poland is the beneficiary group. This arrangement makes the population against German rule compressed to a controllable level, and wins a stable rear environment for Germany. On January 11, 1938, under the leadership of prime minister Augustus, the Berlin parliament passed a bill, which approved the proposal of the great German Party in the form of law. The proposal stipulated the scope of the great German nation, which is of great significance as a guiding document. According to the document, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, the northeast of France and the occupied areas of Poland are the traditional activities of the great German nation, which should and must be under the rule of the German government. For the absolute security of this great German national territory, Germany must control a larger scope. In order to completely maintain the territory, the German defense force will be expanded to 7 million, and it should also be maintained at 3 million in the future peaceful years. In this document, Germany will continue to produce military supplies to ensure the complete conquest of the above-mentioned areas. Another report on Germany's domestic achievements claimed that in the past six months, although it had been in a state of war, Germany still produced 36.9 million tons of steel, 29 trains, more than 7000 kilometers of roads and railways, and dozens of automobile and aircraft production lines were put into use. Augustus was proud to announce in his speech to Congress that Germany's economic growth in 1937 maintained a 20% forward speed. The people's daily necessities and food are fully self-sufficient. In major cities, the power generation is more than double that of last year. In the control area, Germany has built 21 more thermal power plants to provide reliable power supply for various factories. In a round of applause, Augustus announced to everyone that the head of the Empire at the stone castle, akado? Rudolph will return to Berlin in a few days to formally accept the surrender of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands at the residence of the head of state and formally merge the Netherlands into the rule of the Third Reich of Germany. Everyone was chanting akado's name on the mountain. Everyone was chanting the slogan of long live the head of state. It took only four months for the Germans to fight the first World War, which took them four years to fight - and in some ways they did even better. And all this was brought by one person, the supreme ruler of the Empire, akado? Rudolph.