Above the stretching sea of lead-gray clouds, the "Yingzhou" flying carrier was like a floating city, pressing majestically towards the end of the seemingly boundless sea of clouds.

At first glance, the "Yingzhou" is nothing more than two cigar-shaped floats connected together left and right, and a long box with wedge shaped fluid at both ends is sandwiched in the middle.

The upper and lower surfaces of the box are flat and open all-through decks, and both have elevator openings: the elevators on the upper deck are to lift the aircraft to the deck and take off, while the lower deck is to "lift" the aircraft into the air and "release".

Inside the box is the hangar that houses the carrier-based aircraft, the hangar is divided into two floors, and four elevators leading to the upper flight deck and the lower "release and recovery area" penetrate through, and the carrier-based aircraft take-off and recovery operations can be carried out on the flight deck and the release and recovery area at the same time.

On the left side of the flight deck, in the pocket-sized upper bridge, Captain Luo Likong watched through the glass window a "Dongfeng" single-engine two-seat reconnaissance plane smoothly detach from the deck, until it turned sideways, dived, and disappeared into the sea of clouds in the blink of an eye, and then turned back to the distinguished guest on the ship, Lieutenant Colonel Nie Wenqing, the liaison commissioner to Germany at the base camp, and smiled lightly: "Commissioner Nie, are you still used to it?" ”

Nie Wenqing just nodded slightly, and did not respond to the topic, but sighed to himself: "It's really an eye-opener, if you don't see it with your own eyes, it's really hard to believe." ”

Raleigh Kong smiled bitterly: "When I saw this guy's British counterpart over the Bay of Bengal last year, I felt almost the same way as you. ”

"Let's hope this guy at our feet doesn't have the same 'good luck.'"

Before Nie Wenqing's voice fell, suddenly, a hurried report sounded from the bridge speaker: "Port No. 5 lookout post, there is an unknown aircraft approaching at 10 o'clock, the distance is 12 kilometers, and the identification signal has not been answered......"

Raleigh Kong quickly took a step forward, grabbed the microphone and ordered in a strong voice: "The whole ship is ready for air combat!" The barrage of each firepower group is prepared, and the guidance department immediately contacts the alert aircraft......"

The tense atmosphere only lasted a puff of smoke, and the dozens of guns scattered all over the ship, left and right, finally did not shoot out the gorgeous barrage in the sky as Nie Wenqing expected, and several lookout posts near the stern of the ship soon came with a unanimous report: The unidentified plane was indeed this carrier-based aircraft from the appearance and livery.

Raleigh was shocked and relieved: "It seems that the signal light used to answer is broken...... Fool, the lamp won't shake its wings when it's broken, which squadron is this - the aviation captain! After this plane landed, let the pilot come to me! ”

After Luo Likong finished sending out that little fire, Nie Wenqing comforted himself without being salty: "With the cover of clouds, it should be difficult for the ground to find us." Even if they are discovered by the ground, from reporting the situation, to forming determination, issuing orders, to organizing and dispatching planes by troops, to the climbing and interception of fighters, the joints and time spent in this are enough for them to drink a pot. With today's means of detection and communication, it may be difficult to accurately predict the course of the ship and at the same time guide fighters such as Newport to climb to an altitude of 5,000 or 6,000 meters to launch an attack. ”

Raleigh's empty eyebrows tightened, and he said solemnly: "It's about the safety of you, the commissioner of the base camp, of course, everything has to be careful and cautious, cautious and cautious." In addition, I was originally guilty of the loss of ships in the Bay of Bengal, and I no longer had the luxury of expecting the opportunity to fight as the captain of an air ship, but fortunately, I was favored by the emperor's holy grace and was able to make meritorious contributions, and I had already made up my mind to become a benevolent if I did not succeed, and I swore to live and die with the 'Yingzhou', and I would never allow any more mistakes!"

"Then I'll ask Captain Luo for my little life." Nie Wenqing half-joked without malice.

While talking, news came from the navigation room: there is still 1 first attack wave from Moscow! ”

Raleigh Kong gave an order, and the workers with safety ropes on the flight deck moved quickly and quickly, only to see the elevators frequently go up and down, lifting the fighters full of oil bombs to the deck, and the workers in various vests then carefully moved the planes to the attack wave standby position on the deck.

When 10 planes – six single-engine, two-seat "Dongfeng" reconnaissance bombers and four single-engine, single-seat "Yundian" fighters – set up on the flight deck and started their engines one after another, a string of flags was raised on the small mast at the top of the bridge, the wind from the deck that had been erected high at the front of the deck slowly fell, and the deck wind swept through at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, which was almost enough to make the two-seater Dongfeng, which was loaded with 200 kilograms of bombs, naturally lift off without starting its engines.

Different from aircraft carriers on the sea, the order of the "Yingzhou" take-off attack wave when sailing at high speed is from back to front, because at that time, the "Yingzhou" itself was flying fast enough to make the carrier-based aircraft rise into the air, and there was almost no need to slide away, but it was necessary to worry that the airspeed of the carrier-based aircraft that had just taken off was not enough, so that it would be blown backwards by the strong deck wind and crash into the subsequent group of planes waiting to take off.

A red flag rose to the top of the mast, the attack wave began to rise into the air, and a "Yundian" at the rear of the group was the first to let go of the rope, and was immediately blown backwards by the deck wind, under the skillful control of the pilot, the full-powered plane jumped up in the blink of an eye, slowly climbed at a small angle, and the canvas wings were blown by the strong air flow coming again, and finally entered a stable level flight state at an altitude of forty or fifty meters from the deck, and then turned sideways to turn the rudder, accelerated out of the flight deck range, and began to fly clockwise around the ship.

In this way, one after another, until all 10 carrier-based planes were lifted into the air, with two wedge-shaped three-plane formations in the center and front, and two diagonal two-plane formations dragged behind on both wings, they marched towards the world under the sea of clouds.

"Prepare for the second attack wave!"

……

In Constantinople, in a ward of the Navy Hospital, on two beds side by side, lying by the door was Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Shuren, military attache of the Chinese Embassy, with gauze on his head and a German newspaper in his hand; Hanging one leg by the window was Carl Brown, who had just been promoted from midship-to-warrant officer to second lieutenant. Dönitz, a beautiful German nurse, had just finished taking his temperature.

The female nurse packed up her things and went out the door, and the bored Dönitz put her hands on her pillows, looked at the ceiling and said inexplicably: "Hey, Zhou, what do you think of her?" ”

Zhou Shuren, who was looking at it, was suddenly stunned: "What? Who? Who and whom? ”

Dönitz tilted his face at him, looking a little dissatisfied: "I mean, the nurse just now, didn't you pay attention?" ”

Zhou Shuren just shook his head: "I'm reading the newspaper, I really didn't pay attention." ”

Dönitz let out a breath from his nose and laughed self-deprecatingly: "Well, it seems that I am thinking too much." ”

Zhou Shuren raised the newspaper in his hand, flipped to another page, and said slowly: "It is natural for a young man to like to look at beautiful girls, and it is not normal to dislike it." ”

Dönitz squinted and smiled, "How do you know she's a pretty girl?" You still say you didn't pay attention? ”

Zhou Shuren replied calmly intently: "If she is not beautiful, how can you ask me?" It's you, Carl, who must have fallen in love. ”

Dönitz blushed and hurriedly turned his head to the side: "There is no such thing, I have never had time to think about this kind of thing. ”

"Now you have." Zhou Shuren blinked and smiled, continuing his report.

"Don't make fun of me, let's talk about yourself, Zhou, why didn't you see your wife? At your age, you should be ......",

Dönitz was clearly in a hurry to change the subject.

"She has to take care of the elderly and raise the children in her hometown...... In fact, we had never met before we got married, and the mixing should be completely decided by our parents, which was a common thing in my day. ”

Zhou Shuren didn't seem to be very reluctant to mention that "she".

Dönitz thought for a moment, tilted his head and asked, "So, do you love her?" ”

Zhou Shuren lowered his head and sighed lightly: "I can't say what I love or not, she is a traditional rural woman, we don't have any common topics when we are together, since I went to school in other places more than ten years ago, I have rarely even met, and I haven't seen each other once in the past three years since I went abroad." ”

"So you don't miss her either?" Dönitz looked like he was trying to break the casserole and get to the bottom of it.

Zhou Shuren smiled noncommittally and bitterly: "Maybe, in fact, I have a real beloved woman after I went to school in other places, I want to divorce and remarry, but my family disagrees, they only agree to make her a concubine, which is unacceptable to me...... You know, in China, the orders of parents are above all else. ”

"So you compromised?" Dönitz obviously didn't mean to look down on the other party in his eyes.

"I can't go against my parents, and on the other hand, the lady in my family, like my parents, turned a blind eye to the existence of my lover, and that's the Chinese rule, which may surprise you, but it's not a common thing." Zhou Shuren explained helplessly.

Dönitz nodded and smiled as if he didn't understand: "It's very interesting, I really hope to see your 'lover' one day, why, didn't she come with her?" ”

"She felt that it would become a burden to my career, so she decided to stay in China and wait for me."

"What a great woman, I can't wait to meet her, do you have any pictures?"

Zhou Shuren hesitated, but still reached out and picked up the briefcase at the head of the bed, and was about to dig something inside, when a big man in the uniform of the Ottoman Navy broke in, and asked in German: "Are you Lieutenant Colonel Zhou?" Someone wants to meet you. ”

Zhou Shuren calmly asked: "Who is it?" ”

The person who came raised his eyebrows, quite condescendingly: "General Adviser of the German Empire to the Ottoman Empire, Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Empire Navy - Admiral Sorochin." ”