Seeing that Churchill was about to erupt, the Royal Air Force was about to bear the thunderous wrath of the Prime Minister. But one person unexpectedly stopped Churchill's eruption, and Learwin made Churchill patiently with just one sentence.

"Private, I must remind you that this is a joint bombing!"

Churchill looked at Learvin. Of course he knew that this was a joint bombing, and it was because of this joint bombing that he could not bear his anger. It would be fine if the Royal Air Force just showed his eyes at home, but according to the principle of not being able to make his family scandals public, it would be fine to cover it up. But this time he was embarrassed and made a fool of himself in front of the Russians. This would be impossible to bear.

Just as Churchill was about to say something, Learvin said in a stressful tone again: "Privately, this is a large-scale bombing operation jointly carried out by the Royal Air Force and the Red Air Force. This operation has basically destroyed the large oil refinery in the Ploiesti region of Romania, and severely hit the arrogance of the Axis powers. This is a successful bombing! It indicates that victory must belong to the British Empire!"

Churchill suddenly reacted, and he finally understood what Learvin meant. He should have emphasized in the parliament and to the public that the victorious bombing operation was carried out by the Royal Air Force and the Red Air Force, and achieved remarkable results. Anyway, the parliament and the people did not know the truth about the Ploiesti bombing. He insisted on emphasizing the attributes of joint bombing, and even secretly used subtle plans to guide it wrongly. So is the result still necessary?

Churchill was happy, his face immediately turned cloudy and turned the saliva spraying towards the Royal Air Force into praise: "Immediately select some heroes from the pilots involved in the bombing. The British Empire needs to know their heroic deeds!"

After sending away the commander of the Royal Air Force, Churchill's face immediately collapsed. He said to Learwin with a calm face: "You should pay attention to the guidance of public opinion. I hope the people think that we are the main body of this bombing. Pay attention to downplaying the image of the Soviet Union, and never give the Bolsheviks an opportunity to take advantage of!"

Churchill was also scared. Every conspiracy against the Soviet Union would always fail. This time he had to secretly go to Chen Cang again, so he could only emphasize to Li Erwen one after another regardless of the guidance work.

I have to say that Learwin is still a bit genius in this regard. Her Successful Mistakes》7style_txt; led the public opinion of Britain and the so-called self-self world, making the public think that the Ploiesti bombing was a great air bombing operation led by the Royal Air Force. As for the Soviet Union, it was just a supporting role, providing only some of the venues and airspace opening. This fully demonstrates that only Britain can save the world.

"Aren't you angry at these disgusting reports?" Yakov asked.

Li Xiaofeng smiled and said, "Why am I angry with a group of self-deceiving idiots?"

Yakov shook his head and said, "This is not like your temper. You have always been vengeful!"

Li Xiaofeng continued to laugh and said, "I really don't plan to take revenge on the British, and I don't even intend to expose them."

Yakov was surprised: "Why?"

"Isn't it good to let them continue to live in the dreams they woven into themselves?" Li Xiaofeng smiled evilly. "The Royal Air Force carried out a victorious strategic bombardment of great significance. How representative is it? Not worth remembering forever? Isn't it worth learning from the advanced experience of success in it?"

Yakov complained: "There is no advanced experience here? The British did a mess!"

Li Xiaofeng laughed and said, "Who said they were a mess? I am now ready to start my own way. The world's public opinion power helps the Royal Air Force summarize the experience and lessons. Let them maintain this advanced bombing method forever forever!"

Yakov immediately understood what a certain immortal wanted to do, and was still cheating the British. Didn’t the British say that the bombing was successful? Then continue to maintain this "efficient" bombing method forever? What? The Royal Air Force wants to change it? Sorry, Ploiesti’s successful experience will not agree!

This is to cheat people with open conspiracy, but the British are still suffering when they are cheated, and they will have to pay a heavy price to correct them. On the contrary, the Red Air Force is actively summarizing experiences and lessons and constantly improving strategic bombing tactics.

For the Red Air Force, although the bombing of Ploiesti was a huge success, it also exposed many problems. The success of this operation was largely unexpected. Germany and Romania did not expect that the Soviet Union would suddenly bomb Ploiesti, and the air force was slightly insufficient in this direction. Ground air defense was proved not so reliable. When facing large-scale strategic bombing, ground air defense could only be passively beaten, especially after radar and other detection equipment were scrapped, air defense was just a blank word.

"We must pay attention to electronic warfare. In the future, it is not ruled out that the enemy will use the same method to deal with our radar. Can we block the enemy's bombing at that time? Therefore, upgrading radars requires not only a fixed radar station, but also a more mobile radar equipment. After the main radar is suppressed or destroyed, backup radars can quickly make up for the gap."

This is the one who focuses on the defense, while the one who advocates the attack is even more sharp: "From this operation, we can see the importance of radio equipment such as radar to future wars. Paralyzing the enemy's radio equipment is particularly important. We must focus on this direction, develop new weapons that can destroy enemy radio equipment, and actively develop new targeted strike tactics!"

After the special meeting of the Military Commission, the Soviet equipment department immediately launched three particularly high-priority projects - one is highly mobile air defense radar, and the two are new electronic reconnaissance and electromagnetic interference equipment.

Of course, these lessons are focused on the technical aspects. For the Red Air Force, the new tactical problems of strategic bombing and escorting strategic bombers also need to be solved urgently.

The first is a more advanced strategic bomber, whether it is the Tu-3 or Pe-8 range and bomb load, it seems to be smaller. The Red Army needs a new bomber that can carry four tons of bombs to 2,000 kilometers away for bombing. This project was handed over to Tupolev.

The second is the issue of escorting strategic bombers. This issue has actually been mentioned several times before. By adding a disposable secondary fuel tank to the Jacques-3, it seems that this problem has been solved. But in fact, the Air Force knew that this did not solve the problem. Because they found that the old escort tactics are the key to restricting escort efficiency, and to modify this tactic, the first thing to do is to challenge Alxnis!

Why challenge Alxnis? Because he really attaches too much importance to and cares too much about long-range aviation. He does not allow anyone to express any different opinions on long-range aviation. Especially on the issue of escort, Alxnis is not ordinary stubborn. He strongly ordered the Air Force fighter troops to escort next to long-range bombers throughout the journey, ready to expel all invading enemies. In Alxnis' words, "The primary responsibility of the fighter troops is to ensure that the bomber group can return safely!"

I have said before that this tactic is problematic. Such stereotypes directly led to the fighter troops becoming vassals of bombers, without any initiative and could only passively parry. After Tukhachevsky stepped down, Alkesnis posted this sentence as a slogan in the airport command towers of all the air force.

According to Alxnis' requirements, fighter jets often gather around bomber formations during combat, trying their best to prevent German fighters from rushing into bomber groups. However, cunning Germans often lure their tigers out of the mountain, use small troops to divert fighter jets, and then invest in the main strike bomber. Sometimes they even concentrate their forces to strike fighter jets first, which have no altitude, speed advantage, and lack flexibility, and then completely suppress them, and then solve the bomber group. This caused huge losses to the Red Air Force fighter troops and their morale was very low.

This bad situation was not until a man began to express dissatisfaction with the situation of the Air Force. That was Li Xiaofeng. As a time traveler, he knew the power of long-range aviation and strategic bombing, so he was a staunch supporter of Alqueznis in the past ten years. Even in the era when Tukhachevsky's most arrogant period, Tushu, who was in love with front-line aviation, could not completely suppress the development of long-range aviation.

However, this does not mean that Li Xiaofeng is satisfied with all Alex Nice's actions. The significance of the existence of the Air Force is not just strategic bombing. Tactical bombing support to ground and seizing air supremacy are equally important. Li Xiaofeng never thought of unilaterally taking which side to favor. Now, Alex Nice deprived all the initiative of the fighter troops for strategic bombing. Turning the fighter into a puppet is really something that a certain immortal doesn't want to see.

After learning about the dissatisfaction of the fighter force, as the director of the General Political Department, Li Xiaofeng personally went to the front-line troops to learn about the actual situation, listened to the conversations of front-line pilots in the radio during the battle, and sat silently on a chair, waiting for the last one of his own planes in the sky to return safely.

Many years later, a fairy recalled when talking about this matter: "There were many problems in the early stages of long-range aviation in the battle. There were technical problems and tactical problems. Technical problems could only be solved slowly, but tactical problems were urgent... At that time, the mission of the fighter unit was once stipulated by Comrade Alxnis very rigidly. Of course, this was not just his fault. In the early days of the strategic air force, everything was to cross the river by feeling the stones. In the beginning, the mission of the fighter unit was to protect bombers and never stay away from them."

"By going to the front line to actually understand the situation and listening to the analysis of fighter ace pilots and senior tactical experts, I think this tactic has serious problems. Because the original purpose of fighter design is to deal with enemy fighters. Fighter pilots are evil dogs in the sky, which are used to bite people. The training they receive is to control the sky with aggressive means. All our fighters are designed for attack purposes."

"I think our fighter units should intercept and annihilate the enemy's fighters before they see our bombers. 'Don't leave the bombers' put them in a passive situation, how could they not complain?"

"After learning about this, I was determined to make a change. When I left the Air Force Second Army Command, I said to Lieutenant General Stepan Akimovich Krasovsky: 'Comrade Stepan Akimovich, this slogan is no longer valid, tear it off!'"

At that time, Lieutenant General Krasovsky was obviously stunned, and was silent for a moment before asking in a puzzled tone: "Comrade Andre, which slogan do you want to tear off?"

Li Xiaofeng pointed to the "The primary responsibility of the fighter unit is to ensure that the bomber group can come back safely" and said, "It is Comrade Alxnis's sentence. From now on, this sentence is no longer valid. I authorize you to post another slogan, 'The primary responsibility of the fighter unit is to eliminate the Luftwaffe Air Force!'."

Krasovsky simply couldn't believe his ears. He was stunned for a moment and then asked carefully: "Comrade Andre, do you mean to authorize me to take offensive operations?"

Li Xiaofeng replied calmly: "I order you to do this!"

Tears began to appear in Krasovsky's eyes. He had been arguing with Alxnis and his supporters on this for several weeks, but his request for priority attack on the German fighter force was mercilessly thrown back. Alxnis even revoked his position as commander of the Second Air Force Army. If it were not for the situation and Krasovsky's impeccable ability, this outstanding Air Force general would have to return to Moscow to retire.

In the next period of time, Krasovsky and Li Xiaofeng carefully studied the relevant ideas of the fighter jet troops launching offensive operations. He admired Li Xiaofeng's statement that "the primary responsibility of the fighter jet troops is to annihilate the Luftwaffe." He was very enthusiastic and excited, even if Li Xiaofeng told him that he would still send some fighter jets to carry out personal escort missions. Krasovsky expressed his understanding of this.

"Of course, the main force of the fighter unit must be put into the battle to annihilate the Luftwaffe as soon as possible. It must look for enemy fighters and drive the Germans out of the sky. Eliminate them on the ground, attack them at the Germans' airports, and finally destroy them until they break into the Germans' homes!"

Shortly after Li Xiaofeng left, Krasovsky turned his head and saw the slogan on the wall behind him. Soon, the lieutenant general brought a chair and tore the paper to pieces. Then Krasovsky summoned all the fighter troops commanders of the Second Air Force Army to announce the decision. The imaginable cheers, whistles and applause drowned the entire headquarters. The morale of the fighter troops suddenly rose to an unprecedented level.

Of course, not everyone likes Li Xiaofeng's decision. The commanders of the bomber troops sent telegrams to Alxnis, or went to the Air Marshal's office to complain in person. They believed that this new tactic had too many risks and dangers, and some even claimed in front of Alxnis that a certain immortal was the "murderer and butcher"!

The bomber pilot was worried that after losing the cover of his "friends", he could only face the German fighter fleet alone, which made them really difficult for them to accept.

Soon Alxnis broke into Li Xiaofeng's office in the Kremlin: "Comrade Andre, do you want to destroy the long-range aviation that we have worked so hard to build?" Alxnis asked.

Li Xiaofeng smiled. From the moment he made the change, he knew that Alxnis would blow up the thorns. However, after discussion, he came up with Krasovsky and Sergei Ignatievich Lujianko, and he came up with a new escort tactic.

Li Xiaofeng smiled and placed the summarized new tactics in front of Alxnis, and said, "Don't be excited first, let's talk about it after reading!"

This new tactic is actually very simple. The fighter troops have changed from being intimately escorted by bombers to patrolling over the airspace where the bomber group will pass. The short-legged Jacques-2 and La-5 are responsible for medium and close escort missions, while the Pe-2m2 with long dual-engine range is mainly patrolling over the target area. Maintaining high-altitude flights, once enemy aircraft are disturbed, they immediately use their altitude and speed advantages to rush up to drive out the enemy. As for the Jacques-3 equipped with a discardable secondary fuel tank, on the one hand, they are responsible for long-range escort missions, and on the other hand, they have become killers of free hunting over German airports. The main task is to hunt down those German fighters that have just taken off or are ready to land.

Moreover, it is aimed at the tactical characteristics of German fighters who like to strike the Tu-3 and Pe-8 from the 12 o'clock wind direction. In the future, in strategic bombing, the main force of escort fighters will not be operating around long-range bombers, but will be moving in front of the bomber group to disperse these annoying German flies in advance.

Alqueznis was not very cold about this seemingly perfect tactic. He still thought it was too risky. If there was a mistake, wouldn’t it be that long-range aviation troops would fill the pit?

However, Li Xiaofeng said: "I haven't tried it, how do you know that the new tactics are not useful? The previous escort tactics have been proven not very effective, and the losses of long-range bombers are as big. It is time to make changes, test them for a while. If it is proved that the new tactics cannot significantly improve the escort efficiency, it will be cancelled. At that time, the fighter troops had nothing to say, right?"

Alxnis opened his mouth and wanted to say something. But when he spoke, he held back. Because he had exploded thorns at anyone, but he could not explode thorns at a certain immortal. If it weren't for the support of an immortal, the long-range aviation army would have stood aside long ago and drank water and did not forget to dig the wells. Alxnis could not cross the river and tear down the walls.

After thinking about it, he nodded reluctantly... (To be continued.)

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