"What's that?" The future German admiral, the current German Navy Lieutenant Commander Franz? Hipper stood on the deck of the Ninghai and watched through the telescope as the destroyer behind him activated the boom. In fact, he had wanted to ask this question for a long time, and he had this question when he first got on the ship, because the five small destroyers of seven or eight hundred tons in the rear of the Chinese fleet were actually equipped with booms in their sterns, and the large object under the booms was firmly covered with a thick tarpaulin.

"That's the eyes of the fleet." The gunslinger smiled incomprehensibly.

The tarpaulin was lifted, and a biplane propeller was hooked on a lanyard, slowly raised by the boom, and then smoothly stopped on the surface.

"Why are there only three sorties, and why don't the other two be dispatched?" Hipper asked curiously, pointing to the other two destroyers that had only hung their slings but had not lifted them.

"You have to ask Wu Tou about this, which is what my little gun commander can know." The gunner grinned and bent down into the fire control room. The big war is coming, and now it's time to finally check the parameters of the shelling. The Wu Tou in the mouth of the gun commander is the commander-in-chief Wu Deren, because Li Ming has said many times that Wu Deren has led the Chinese Navy into a nest of pirates, and the pirate head is Wu Deren, so Wu Deren has such an "honorific title" as Wu Tou. Hipper thought about it, too, this may be part of the strategy, and it is indeed not something that a gunner can know. So he nodded and followed.

Since the Battle of Arthur, Tirpitz has seen the actual combat skills of the Chinese Navy, so he asked Wilhelm II to bring the observers he brought to study in the Chinese Navy as students, and Wilhelm II watched with greed as China won the status of a great power in East Asia through the victory of one naval battle after another. Tirpitz also agreed to his request. After a series of negotiations, Germany exchanged large-scale processing technology for 100 study places. 70 of them are navy. This is also the main reason why China has the equipment needed to build eight capital ships at the same time, including the Bai Qi. However, in the Chinese army sequence, no matter which army is the land, sea and air. Only those who have experienced actual combat can get rid of the title of intern, otherwise even if you are an excellent graduate of the Royal Military Academy, a lieutenant colonel officer, you can only wear the epaulette of a trainee lieutenant colonel. So, don't look at Hipper as a German lieutenant colonel, but he is only an intern in the Chinese Navy.

Reinhardt, who is also a trainee in the Chinese Navy? Scheer, who was now in the bridge of the Hychen, was also holding a telescope and asking the same question as Hipper.

"This is the first time that an aircraft has participated in real combat. With them, the fleet's field of vision can be extended to hundreds of nautical miles, knowing the enemy's movements in advance, allowing us to make the right tactical choices in the first place. And the reason why those two planes didn't go out was just. The current planes can only stay in the air for less than two hours, so the other two are just ready to take over. Liu Buyun did not hide the facts, but he was very troubled by the task assigned to him by the emperor himself - to sell planes.

In fact, he had seen monoplanes that flew higher, faster, and with better performance, and he didn't look down on the oldest test aircraft, but the emperor just planned to buy these obsolete planes to the Germans for some money, and he could only do it. As a professional naval officer, he really didn't know how to do business, he didn't know how to sell planes to the Germans, and the only thing he could do was to exaggerate the usefulness of planes in a different way. It's still hundreds of nautical miles. When it comes to the past that really flies, it can't fly back.

"Tutu Tu Suddenly, the fuselage raised its head, and the entire plane took off. Fly into the blue sky.

Scheer, who was watching the plane take off, was shocked by Liu Buyun's words. The vast sea from the sky was already clear at a glance, and when the sight was sent back to the fleet by radio, the enemy's every move was well understood. If the plane can really fly 100 nautical miles, then at least a radius of 100 nautical miles is under China's eyes. So what is the use of tactics such as ambush warfare at sea that they have learned? And the same applies to the Army, although airships have the same effect. But where is the speed compared to getting on the plane, and isn't the Chinese Army already doing this?

As an intern in a foreign country, of course, you will have to specialize in the subjects you are doing in your home country, as well as other subjects related to it. As a naval intern, in addition to naval tactics, you also need to understand and learn the skills related to ships and them. The Chinese Navy has not only not made difficulties in sharing tactics and experience, but has also actively cooperated. Not only did they teach themselves the experience they had gained in naval warfare, but their young officers often discussed tactics with their German trainees. In the same schools, in the same classes, taught by the same teachers, at least the interns from Germany did not find any difference between them and their other classmates, including training at sea and in actual combat exercises. And the four ships they were most concerned about, the super sea heavy cruise, and the Baiqi-class battleships that they only knew about when they boarded the ship in Naha, including them, all the Chinese Navy trainees failed to get up. It is said that this is related to a tradition in the Chinese army: trainees cannot enter the main battle battleship.

As the main battleship of the navy, it is responsible for determining the situation of naval battles, and allowing some soldiers with no actual combat experience to serve, which may lead to a series of unnecessary mistakes in the fierce naval battles. Although this is deeply regrettable for the German Navy trainees who are eager to learn about the performance of the main warships of the Chinese Navy, it is also said in the past. It's just that the Chinese Navy is only 20 years old, and it has a so-called tradition, which is a bit too much.

Tradition is actually the continuation of habits, when habits become natural, they become traditions, and the longer the habits, the more deeply rooted the traditions become. Although the history of the Chinese Navy is only 20 years, the next ten years are also the key years for habit formation. The habit of interns not being allowed to serve in the main battle ships comes from the fact that the Pacific Fleet has been assigned to the Chinese Navy since the First Sino-Japanese Naval War. The initial reason was that Wu Cheng and others were afraid that the emperor would secretly split the Pacific Fleet, so they used the excuse that the quality of the officers and men of the Beiyang Fleet was poor, and most of the officers and men did not even fire a few rounds of live ammunition. Under the pretext that it would affect the performance of the Pacific Fleet's actual combat, it was put forward before Li Ming began to rectify. But they don't know. This was exactly what Li Ming wanted, so Li Ming also used the excuse of the low combat strength of the Beiyang Fleet. Directly let the Pacific Fleet take over and put things in order. In this way, the Pacific Fleet will inevitably be constrained by the officers and men of the former Beiyang Fleet, and the rebuilding of the Nanyang Fleet will be in line with the imperial balancing technique. As a result, it became a rule that there was no explicit provision for officers and men who had not experienced actual combat to enter the main battle warship, and with Li Ming's deliberate promotion and the change of the situation, after Wu Cheng and the others also became the supreme commanders of the national navy from the commander of a fleet, there was naturally no longer a distinction between inside and outside, but this rule was retained. That's also because the Chinese Navy has no successor.

China's modern navy has only the original group of people who went to Britain for training, and some of them have entered the Beiyang Naval Division. The other part was sidelined and ended up in Hawaii. It can be said that there was a ten-year hiatus before the First Sino-Japanese War, and it was not until after the First Sino-Japanese War that the stepwise education of the reserve personnel of the Navy and Army was newly launched. Fortunately, the Chinese Navy continued to fight naval battles, and the new recruits of the Navy grew rapidly in successive low-intensity wars, both in terms of combat strength and fighting spirit, and finally had the brilliant victory of the Battle of Arthur. But unfortunately, it is also the continuous war, so that groups of outstanding students either kill the field with hatred, or retire due to injuries, so that the naval reserve is always in a state of tension. But even so, we still adhere to the principle of preferring to be short and rotten.

This is one of the reasons why Scheer is amazed. The Chinese Navy has really done what it does. Then there is China's national strength. It was only since the Westernization Movement that China began to build its own industrial system, but it was only a matter of shape in the first decade. But in the decade that followed, China's industry grew by leaps and bounds. The Chinese government's industrial support program has stunned all of Europe. And the Chinese government cares a lot about innovation, not only in science and technology, but also in the military. The Navy's annual exercise program is primarily a test of the use of new tactics proposed by the Navy. Scheer visited the Chinese Academy of Sciences once, even though it was already full of civilian projects. But it is said that the current Zhonghua-type bow was originally a crazy idea proposed here. With the unconditional support of the emperor, it eventually became the standard model of the world's shipbuilding industry today......

China has used unknown methods to make the industry reach the world's advanced level after ten years of accumulation and development, and the emergence of Bai Qi is the best proof of this. Now it's time to prove the strength of the White Rise, it's just a pity. The officers and men of the German Navy, who were still trainees, could only observe from afar. Scheer looked at the massive white horn and sighed.

The White Horn is the crystallization of the latest Chinese technology. Steam turbines, fire control systems, automatic bomb feeding systems, telephone communication systems, radio control centers, large AC motor-driven turrets, etc., these may be a concept for an industrial power like Germany that they can quickly imitate. The simplest time-delay, as long as the Germans could think of it, then the triple installation of naval guns was not a problem. Because some gunners in the Chinese Navy have heard the slight difference in the firing of the triple gun, and they thought that there was a failure and reported it urgently. Therefore, it is true that he did not dare to let the Germans get close. So much so that Germany promised strict conditions to ensure that it would not enter the hull, but it was still blocked by the Chinese Navy on the grounds that the trainees were not on the capital ship, but the corresponding German trainees were fully open to other warships, and even secretly allowed German engineers to enter the ship for surveying and mapping, plus the first generation of radio technology for China to change back lens processing technology.

Not only the navy, but also the Chinese army began to equip armored vehicles modified from automobiles, although the distance was short and slow, but the Chinese combat vehicles were able to quickly break through the defense line established by the German army trainees according to German standards, which proved that armored vehicles have an incomparably outstanding ability to impact the enemy's battle line. Not to mention the air force in the world, which only China has. What Schell has to admit is that China's navy, land, and air forces have already gone ahead of Germany in terms of technology and equipment.

The Chinese government did not want German interns to participate in the war, but the German government sent 500 senior technicians of various types to China to guide Chinese industry, in exchange for all the interns in China to participate in the war, in the hope that they could gain practical experience from this Sino-Russian war, and finally let them lead Germany to find a place under the sun.

"Colonel Scheer, the reconnaissance plane has sent a report that we will soon engage the Russian Navy head-on. War is bound to die, are you ready? Liu Buyun put down the telegram and said to Scheer, who was still flustering.

Scheer stood upright: "Your Excellency, Captain." The German Navy trainee, First Officer Scheer, awaits your orders. ”

Liu Buyun nodded and said, "Order the whole ship." Prepare for battle—"

"What's that?" On the mast of the Russian flagship, the Duke of Suvorov, the observation post listened to the strange noise coming from afar. I finally saw the reason for the abnormal noise in the sky.

"What's that?" When Roger Sterwin heard the report from the observation post, he also quickly saw the plane in the sky.

"Airplanes?" When Filimant, who had been silently following China, saw the planes in the sky, he couldn't help but think of the air show in Shanghai two years ago in winter. It was the first time that humans had used the power of machinery to leave the sky. As the film recorded images of human flight, people in Europe suddenly became extremely enthusiastic about flying, and various small flying machines gradually appeared on the European land. However, European aircraft are still in the experimental and recreational stage, and Chinese aircraft are already equipped with the army? Philistine believes that no private aircraft will fly over the battlefield at this time.

As the plane flew closer and closer from the horizon, Filimante could see clearly the flag of the Oriental Dragon painted on the fuselage, and he was now sure that it was a plane equipped by the Chinese military. There were two planes. Together. The plane flew very high, and it was barely possible to see the dragon flag painted on the fuselage with a telescope, but the plane flew very smoothly.

The technology of manufacturing Chinese aircraft is even stronger than that of Europe? Filimant had this question, Tirpitz had this question, and the other countries had the same question.

The two planes circled over the Russian fleet for a week, and during this time they flew smoothly. But when the plane circled, one of them suddenly began to shake, and then swayed up and down. At this time, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, oh - the performance of Chinese aircraft is also average. It's just a little bit early.

On the plane, Zhang Chaoyang held the radio in one hand and sent a telegram in the other. So he doesn't have his hands to control the plane, and the plane will sway and fall. So he sent a telegram to pull up the nose, which was very troublesome.

Zhang Chaoyang turned out to be a naval telegraph officer, since he followed Ren Pengfei into the Chinese Air Force to fly at the Chinese Air Force. has always been the commander of the Air Force reconnaissance. As soon as the plane could be safely taken off and off, he began to learn to fly the airplane. Finally, he participated in this epic naval battle as an air force. But Zhang Chaoyang understands why he wants to fly such an old-fashioned plane. That's because the emperor thinks that the pre-research and development cost of the aircraft is too high. These old guys need to be sold for some money to invest in follow-up research and development. But Zhang Chaoyang really didn't want to fly such an old plane. Because these old planes don't have fixed radios installed, and the strapped radios are really shaky. A message had been sent for a long time before it was finished. When the last stop was sent, Zhang Chaoyang clenched the joystick with both hands, and he wanted to shout: It's finally time for the Air Force to show its skills.

"He's going to fall—" shouted the observers on the surface of the ship, pointing at the rapidly descending plane, while the other plane began to shake incessantly.

The plane descended faster and faster, as if it were falling from the sky, and everyone looked with a miserable face as the first air crash in history was about to occur. Zhang Chaoyang was extremely excited, because when the speed exceeded a threshold, the buzzers hanging on both sides of the plane would emit a sharp whistling sound, which was unacceptable to ordinary people.

"Tshh The sound was extremely unpleasant but suddenly sounded, and some people even dropped their belongings on the ground. Their hearts seemed to stop.

Roger Sterwinster had to endure the strange noises while directing his flagship to turn, because the plane that was "falling" was actually rushing towards his flagship. The warship was too big, the steering was slow, and it was like the plane crashing into its own deck. At this moment, the plane suddenly pulled up again and flew into the sky, and at this moment, the sharp whistling also stopped. Roger Stewinst also breathed a long sigh of relief, this voice was too TMD to hear, but there seemed to be the hateful ridicule of the Chinese in the air. But before he could breathe, another plane rushed down towards his flagship.

The shrill whistling sounded again as the other plane rushed down, then pulled up and disappeared, and the plane that had just taken off turned around and rushed down again.

"Knock them out, knock them out—" Roger St. Winster couldn't take it anymore, he was going to take out the pesky flies.

"Boom-" The Russian gunners, who could not bear it anymore, opened fire, and the first shot of the Sino-Russian naval battle of Riau Island was fired by the Russian Navy. It's just that the naval guns and Ben couldn't aim at the fast planes, and the shells were wasted. The main guns did not have enough angles of fire, rapid-fire guns did not have enough angles, and the machine guns equipped on warships did not raise their heads. Only two Chinese planes can be allowed to toss the Russian Navy back and forth.

With the passage of time, both China and Russia have risen from sea level in the sight of each other. The Russian navy, which had 55 warships of various types, was dispersed and looked very large. The Chinese navy, which was coming at high speed, was in a tight formation and was more capable. The cruisers of Britain, France and Germany turned to force away from the Russian navy to avoid the fish pond. (To be continued.) )