Djibouti, Tajira Bay, about 120 kilometers southeast of the sea area. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Under the blue sky, the sea is calm. The Italian Navy's Arrigeri Dante-class battleship "Dante" is cruising from west to east at a cruising speed of 12 knots.

On the newly modified flight deck at the tail of the battleship, a helicopter that looks like a Mi-4 is parked at the take-off and landing point, ready to take off.

Not far from the sea, the Italian Navy's Oriani-class destroyer "Oriani" is on a par with the "Dante".

This Italian-made piston helicopter anti-submarine plane, which was a copy of the Mi-4 and modified, took off slowly from the aft deck of the battleship, and after turning behind the destroyer "Orinia," it flew more than 10 kilometers to the east and west, hovered at an altitude of about 20 meters, and lowered its sonar.

The two aviation anti-submarine torpedoes suspended under the hatches on both sides of the helicopter fully show that Italy represents the first-class level in Europe in the field of aviation industry and anti-submarine technology research and development.

This Mi-4 piston helicopter technology introduced from the Donghua Empire, jointly developed by Germany and Italy, is a "Da Vinci" helicopter with a single rotor with tail rotor layout. The original steel beam timber structure rotor was changed to an all-metal rotor to improve the rotor life and performance. In addition, the rotor girder is filled with high-pressure gas and a pressure detector is installed to monitor whether there are cracks.

The Da Vinci is equipped with an 18-cylinder radial piston engine with an output of 2,240 hp and four rotors with four blades. The horizontal tail face is at the end of the tail boom. Four-wheeled non-retractable landing gear. Two-seater cockpit. Duplex manipulation system. Rotor systemRotor left-hand rotor, 4 blades, articulated fixed.

The main propeller has a diameter of 21 meters, a length of 16.8 meters and a height of 4.4 meters. The landing gear is a fixed four-point type, with a transverse track of 1.53 meters for the front landing gear, 3.82 meters for the main landing gear wheels and 3.79 meters for the front main wheel.

The cabin has a volume of 16 cubic meters, one side hatch, one clam-type rear hatch. It can carry 11 heavily armed soldiers at a time, or 8 wounded stretchers and 1 medical officer. The engine nacelle is located in the nose and drives the main rotor on the roof of the nacelle and the tail rotor in the tail section through the propeller shaft. The cockpit is located in the upper part of the nose of the aircraft, and the crew of two people can complete the flight control independently. It can load 1.2 tons of cargo and 1.35 tons when lifted.

The original removable auxiliary fuel tank of the Mi-4 was canceled, and two auxiliary fuel tanks on the outside of the fuselage were installed. The fuel tank is changed to an aluminum alloy thin-walled design, and a 650mm*900mm bilge door is opened on the floor of the fuselage, which is cheaper than airdrop and hanging cargo. The hand-cranked winch was also changed to an electric one, and the generator power was increased by 88 kilowatts from 3 kilowatts. The stationary oxygen supply system was changed to a lighter movable type.

On the battleship "Dante", Tony watched the anti-submarine helicopter gradually turn into a small black dot in the sunlight, and then slowly lowered the telescope in his hand.

As a captain squadron leader of the 1st Squadron of the 1st Brigade of the Italian Marine Corps amphibious special forces "Remus", this is the first time that Tony has left the Mediterranean Sea to carry out a special mission in the Gulf of Aden.

Five days earlier, Tony and his squadron had destroyed a strategic material logistics warehouse on Greece on the Greek peninsula and were preparing to return to Sicily aboard the Zara-class heavy cruiser "Bora". What he didn't expect was that when the fleet was about to arrive in Sicily, he suddenly received an order to land from Libya with the entire crew of the squadron, and then come to Djibouti via North Sudan.

In 1935, Italy launched a war of aggression against Ethiopia, and at that time, Italy and Britain had not yet turned against each other, so when a detachment of the Italian Navy entered the Red Sea through the Suez Canal and came to Ethiopian-controlled Eritrea to fight with the Italian Army Afrika Korps, it was not stopped by the British army in Egypt.

After the outbreak of World War II, the Italian Navy's Gulf of Aden Squadron, headed by the Ali Geri Dante-class battleship "Dante", remained in Somalia to cooperate with the German Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet headquartered in Madagascar to strike at the British on the Indo-Red Sea route.

Because the British Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet is the strategic core of guarding the Suez Canal, and the British mainland is being fiercely attacked by the German army, it is the British Royal Navy's delay in mobilizing forces to solve the German Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet and the Italian Navy's Gulf of Aden Squadron.

This unfavorable situation was not until the Seventh Task Force of the Royal Donghua Navy suddenly landed and occupied Somalia, the Gulf of Aden became the "bathtub" of the Seventh Task Force of the Royal Donghua Navy, the Indian Ocean Fleet of the German Navy retreated to the island of Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden Fleet of the Italian Navy withdrew to the Tajira Bay Naval Base in Djibouti, and the safety of the Allies' merchant shipping routes from India to the Suez Canal was guaranteed.

The Task Force 7 of the Royal Navy, Donghua, received protection money from the British and Americans, and of course had to escort these merchant ships. In the face of such a strong and domineering behavior of the Royal Navy of Donghua, the German Navy and the Italian Navy dared not speak out.

Tony had a gut feeling that the General Staff suddenly transferred his 1st Squadron to the Ethiopian colony, most likely with a covert special operation against the Donghua Empire.

As it turned out, Tony's previous guess was not wrong. The initiator of this secret operation turned out to be Germans.

According to a mission briefing from the agent codenamed "The Professor" from the German Military Intelligence Service, Tony and his squadron of "Remus" were tasked with boarding a freighter, locating a man, and escorting him back to Rome.

The German agent said it simply, but Tony knew that this mission was anything but an easy one. Because that target person is a spy agent of the CIA in Donghua!

German intelligence had received credible information that the CIA was planning an espionage operation against Italy in Ethiopia. If the CIA succeeds, Italy's military deployment in Ethiopia will face extremely heavy losses, and the chain effect will be unimaginable.

Due to the fact that the CIA has done a very good job of secrecy, the German intelligence services have not been able to know the specific plan and content of the CIA in Ethiopia for the time being. However, it was found that a senior agent of the Donghua CIA was on his way to Somalia from the Donghua Empire through secret channels.

German intelligence speculated that the purpose of John Kirby's senior CIA agent was likely to be the executor of the conspiracy against the Italian occupation forces in Ethiopia planned by the CIA, so they asked Italy to use the "Remus" special forces in order to catch this key person and obtain a confession from this person, so as to take timely precautions.

Finally, we have a chance to fight against the agents and special forces of the Donghua Empire! Tony is excited about this covert operation.

This is because all the special forces of the countries and armies of all countries and countries, including the Brandenburg Special Forces in Germany, imitate the tactical characteristics and training methods of the "Navy SEALs" of the Royal Marine Corps of Donghua, and then form them according to the characteristics of each country and army.

As long as Tony can successfully catch the Donghua agent named John Kirby this time, Tony believes that the Donghua CIA will definitely send Donghua special forces to carry out rescue operations.

Neither the German nor the Japanese special forces dared to confront the Donghua special forces, but the great Italian special forces "Remus" dared to provoke any opponent.

Not for anything else, but for "Remus" is the son of the god of war in Italian mythology and legend!

(To be continued.) )