"Huh? It's ......"

Seeing Louise wearing a delicate ring on her middle finger, Natsuki deliberately made a rather exaggerated expression of surprise, looking at her hands and then at her crimson face. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Looks like I've missed a very, very important moment?"

Louise was amused by Natsuki, she pursed her lips and smiled, "This is not an official engagement, because my father is still frowning and thinking about it!" ”

Since she frowned, she must not be very happy, but looking at Louise's appearance, the queen should have nodded.

Natsuki crossed his hands on his hips: "Now you can always tell me who that lucky boy is, right?" ”

"Oh, with His Highness's popularity, I thought you already knew!" Louise quipped.

Natsuki sighed at this time: "I'm really sorry, Louise, I've only been busy with my own affairs in the past two years, not to mention caring about you and taking care of you, and I have very little time to talk and chat with you, and I haven't fulfilled my brother's responsibilities at all, I'm really ashamed to say it!" ”

Louise hurriedly put away her jokes, and said with gentle and lovely relief: "It is said that Jochen, every man should have his own business, and besides, I am now grown up and can take care of myself." Also, last Christmas, when the war on the front line was so tense, didn't you come back to accompany me? I'm already satisfied. ”

The words of understanding made Xia Shu's heart swell with warmth, and he took Louise's hand: "You are such a good girl, Louise, who can marry you is really his blessing!" ”

"Don't you really know?" Louise asked seriously.

Natsuki winked at her and grinned, "Max Inmaiman, the number one flying ace of the German Imperial Army!" Anyway, that's really a handsome young man, and he must have received a lot of love letters from girls every day! ”

Louise shook her hand and sneered: "You deliberately teased me!" Make fun of me! ”

"But I'm the last in the royal family to learn about it." Natsuki explained, "Outsiders say that we are the closest brothers and sisters in the royal family, but almost everyone knows before me, which is really bad! ”

"But what does it matter?" Louise asked rhetorically.

Natsuki shrugged his shoulders and said, "yes, it doesn't matter, as long as the wedding gift I give you isn't the worst." ”

"How is that possible?" Louise smiled again, "But, Jochen, although my father likes him very much, he is very concerned about his status as a commoner, can you help me find a solution?" ”

Natsuki thought for a moment, "Isn't it very simple?" Ask his father to bestow him a title of nobility as a reward for his exploits. ”

"It's not that simple! His father said that he would not be granted nobility unless he was able to shoot down the 30th plane. Louise pursed her lips, such a childish expression that had previously only been seen by the queen and Natsuki, but now it was obvious that there was another person.

"30?" Natsuki shook her head. In the history of World War I in the old time and space, the number one ace of the Luftwaffe, the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen, shot down 80 planes, and the number one ace of France and Britain also set a record of 75 and 73 respectively, at first glance, 30 is not very difficult, but that was when the war lasted for four years, at the height of the battle, the sky on the Western Front was full of fighters from both sides, and the Luftwaffe shot down more than 40 aces There were 12 people, and in this time and space, the war lasted less than a year, Britain and France, the most powerful of the Entente powers, withdrew before they could fully exploit their war potential. During this limited period of time, the German aviation units firmly grasped the air supremacy on the battlefield by virtue of their obvious technological superiority, and the military planes put into the battlefield by Britain and France became the prey of the German pilots.

Born in 1891, the young Max Inmaiman is one year younger than Joachim and a year older than Princess Louise. As one of the most influential and capable pilots in the history of air warfare, his number one contribution was the invention of the famous maneuver of "jumping upwards and then rolling to flattening", known in history as the "Yinmaiman turn", thus opening up a new field of vertical maneuver and making air combat truly an all-round mobile operation. To the present day, this move is also used in combat training and stunt performances called "half-somersault flips" or "ascent reversals".

From an early age, he was adventurous and envied the life of a soldier, and later entered the Saxon non-commissioned officer school, and after graduation was assigned to the railway corps as a midshipman. In order to learn technology, he gave up the opportunity to become an officer and entered a higher technical school to study machine building, and then became obsessed with flying and became a pilot. At the outbreak of the war, the young second lieutenant had officially become a fighter pilot, piloting the Hubert-D combat reconnaissance plane and embarking on a new journey. On the Western Front, he shot down four French planes and one British plane in his first month, and became one of the first German pilots to attack Paris, earning him his first Medal of Honor. After that, Inmaiman was unstoppable, and with his superhuman piloting skills, he took the skies of the Western Front, and by Christmas, his official shot down record had climbed to 17 planes and two airships, with another four aircraft downed unofficially confirmed, a record well ahead of Oswalt-Polk, another all-time hero. However, after entering 1915, it was difficult to find the Allied planes on the Western Front, and by the time France and Britain withdrew from the war one after another, the number of Inmaiman's shootdowns was fixed at 21 planes and 2 airships, even if one airship was equivalent to two planes, it was still 5 short of the 30 required by the Kaiser. For this reason, Yin Maiman did not hesitate to apply for transfer to the Eastern Front to continue the battle, but the embarrassed Russians did not have a few planes left in their hands!

"Marcos wrote that he had seen only one Russian plane in the last week, but that the cowardly Russian pilot fled lifelessly as soon as he saw the German plane." Louise is upset about her would-be fiancé.

Natsuki raised his eyebrows lightly: "Maybe it's a British pilot." ”

"Huh?" Louise looked nervous.

"But it doesn't matter." Natsuki quickly changed the subject, "Tell me how you met!" ”

Louise looked at Natsuki curiously, thinking he was teasing herself again.

Natsuki shrugged his shoulders again: "There are so many rumored versions that I can't guess which one is true." ”

Louise burst out laughing.

From Louise's smiling eyes, Natsuki sensed the truth: "Uh, is this incident still because of me?" ”

Louise's smile confirmed Natsuki's speculation.

Natsuki remembers that it was in July last year, and Austria-Hungary had not yet declared war on Serbia, but the whole of Europe was already under the clouds of war, and the great powers were preparing for war. At that time, under the leadership of Natsuki, the German Navy and the Army launched a joint exercise, which was not only to enhance the coordination between the army and navy, but also to allow the officers and men to adapt to the atmosphere of actual combat in advance. During the exercise, the navy and army aviation units played the role of opponents, and the overall performance of the naval pilots was superior, but the army aviation units also had many strongmen, and Yin Maiman was the most eye-catching one, he conquered the audience with a series of dazzling and even bizarre tactical moves, and at the banquet after the exercise, Natsuki met and had a conversation with him, and it was on that moonlit night that Louise got acquainted with him.

"I was expecting you to find someone like me...... There are people who dabble and make achievements in many fields, not just a simple adventurer. Natsuki didn't mean to belittle Yin Maiman, and he didn't want his closest relatives in this time and space to misunderstand, so he made a careful choice of every wording of this sentence.

Before the performance of aircraft developed to a more reliable level, piloting was a high-risk profession, especially fighter pilots.

Despite Natsuki's caution, Louise's expression suddenly darkened a lot.

"I thought so too, so I tried very hard to accept Christian, until the moment I met Marcos, I realized how wonderful love can be. He is a person I can't forget at first glance, his grace is similar to yours, his happiness can infect everyone around him, and his flying talent is unique, sitting on his plane, it feels the same as sitting on your speedboat, there is a kind of happiness from the heart......"

Louise said this, a crystal tear sliding from the corner of her eye. Natsuki's heart is like overturning a five-flavor bottle, Louise bravely chooses love, why is he and Charlotte not like this?

Gently embracing Louise into her arms, Natsuki whispered, "I sincerely wish you, dear sister, and I wish you all the best to live happily ever after." No matter what happens, I will always be someone you can trust and rely on, and my arms are always open for you. ”

Louise leaned quietly on Natsuki's shoulder, without crying or sobbing, and quietly enjoyed the warm embrace of her brother. After a long time, she asked in a low voice, "What about you, Joheng, will you and Xia Luo be together?" ”

"Yes." Natsuki replied categorically.

Jiangshan, beauty, he will not give up any of the same.

"But will the Irish have an Englishman as their queen?" Louise was a little worried.

Natsuki replied, "There are only two things that can dissolve hatred, the same is time, and the same is love. ”

Louise thought for a moment: "Charlotte is a very kind person, and after a long time, the people of Ireland will be touched by her kindness. ”

Thinking of the innocent and kind Charlotte, Natsuki smiled heartily, the more so, the more difficult it was to control the thoughts in his heart. So, he hummed the almost forgotten tune softly, and the scenes of his happiness came to mind......

Let me see, your picture

Why, exactly, you disappear

Most of the time, which side you are on, will you get tired

Who are you missing?

And the roughness of the world, let me go to you, it's harder

And the delicacy of fate emerges clearly, your face

……

I want to find you and slap your face

I will open my hands and caress your back

Please let me have you, lost time

Keep your tears before they cry

……

(End of chapter)