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July 1, Republic 257 (196 AD), Turkey, Port of Izmir.

Formerly known as "Smyrna", Izmir is the third largest city in Turkey and the capital of Izmir Province. Located at the head of the Gulf of Izmir in the Aegean Sea, Izmir is a natural deep-water harbor. Nearby is an important agricultural area, with river valleys leading to the interior. Since ancient times, the city has been the center of the agricultural region of the Aegean coast, an important seaport, a historical and cultural city, a tourist attraction and a military fortress.

It was also the main base of the Ottoman Navy and had the largest military port in the country.

At this time, all the streets of Izmir Port were cleaned. Colorful flags flutter high throughout the docklands, and locals and people from other places dress up in festive costumes and dance in the streets, making the city look as lively as a festival.

This is due to the fact that today is the day of the return of the Ottoman fleet, which was ordered from China. People are so happy because the Ottoman Empire's first super-dreadnought "Suleiman Magnificent" is in this fleet, and there is also the world's largest professional aircraft carrier "Fatih" in the fleet, and other cruisers, destroyers and submarines are also the most advanced models in the world today. It was a rare event, and many Ottoman crowds spontaneously rushed to Izmir to welcome the fleet home

A sailor on the watchtower stuck out his head and shouted to the crowd waiting below: "The fleet is back, the fleet is back, our fleet is back"

"Oh......" The crowd let out an earth-shattering cheer, and then they rushed to the shore, scrambling for the vantage point where they could see the sea.

"Buzz Buzz ......" bursts of roar in the sky, and a water bomber/patrol aircraft "Lion's Head Goose" appeared in people's field of vision. This kind of aircraft is a large two-wing, twin-engine seaplane, with a hull layout (the aircraft in this layout is also called an "airship" or "flying boat"), and the appearance looks a bit like the PM2 of the American Martin Company in the original time and space

The Water Bomb-L is an all-metal fuselage with a total length of 2L meters, a wingspan of -L meters, and a total height of B4 meters. Empty weight 26 kg, effective load 36 kg. The powertrain is two "HHQ05" piston air-cooled engines, each with a power of 60 kW (04 hp). It has a maximum flight speed of 26 kilometers per hour and a cruising speed of 140 kilometers per hour. The range is 26 kilometers, and the ceiling is 706 meters. The crew was armed with four 7 mm caliber 19UU machine guns, one in the nose and one in the tail, and two in the back. In addition, it can be loaded with 60 kg of bombs.

This is currently the world's most advanced seaplane, produced by China's Xiangyin Aircraft Manufacturing Company (Xiangfei), which made its first flight in January last year and entered service in June.

The Ottoman Empire, having tasted the sweetness of aircraft in the Balyu War, paid special attention to the construction of aviation power, which they considered to be a weapon that could change the war. It can be said that the current Ottomans are more enthusiastic about aircraft than China, which is the number one air power. After learning that China had produced this new aircraft, the Ottoman Navy immediately discussed with China about the purchase. Now the relations between China and the Ottomans are very good, and the two countries will not make difficulties if they work together to make a fortune in Europe. So in October last year, Osman ordered five "Lion's Head Goose" in China, mainly for maritime patrols and vigilance

The "lion-headed goose" in the sky is a patrol plane belonging to the port of Izmir, and its mission today is to meet the returning fleet. Now that it's back, it means that the fleet is out of port.

On the viewing platform at the pier, a group of high-ranking Ottoman officials were sitting under a pergola and waiting. The "Big Three" of the Young Turks who are currently in power have all arrived, and these three are the Minister of War and Chief of the General Staff Envel Pasha, the Chairman of the Party and Minister of the Interior Talat Pasha, and the Minister of the Navy and Inspector General of the Istanbul Police, Jemal Pasha Pasha is an honorific for military and political officials such as governors and generals).

However, this group was clearly divided into two circles, in addition to the Young Turks on the side of the Big Three, there was a slightly smaller group, which were all members and supporters of the Ottomanco Socialist Party, led by Kemal and Nefles, who was currently the deputy chief of the Ottoman General Staff and governor of Saloniki and Macedonia, and Nie Fules who was currently mayor of Thessaloniki. Although the Ottomanco Socialist Party has increased its power considerably, it is still not comparable to the Young Turks, which is the largest opposition party in Ottoman. Kemal and the others also held some central positions, but they were all deputies, and the central power of the Ottoman was still in the hands of the Young Turks. There is no way, most of Kemal's bones are too young, and their qualifications and prestige are still a little worse.

At this time when they should be happy, the faces of the Ottomanko Socialist Party were not very good-looking. This was because the Big Three had decided yesterday to put their men in charge of the fleet of the new fleet, and in the event of important positions, the candidates recommended by the Ottoman Socialist Party were pushed aside, and in the end, in order to appease them, only an aircraft carrier captain and some deputy positions were offered. The captain of this aircraft carrier is also because there is really no suitable candidate in the Big Three, because now the Ottoman air power is the territory of the Austrian Socialist Party, and almost all the pilots are members and supporters of the Olympic Socialist Party.

When this kind of thing happens, it's no wonder that Kemal can be happy.

One of the young lieutenant colonels said indignantly: "Hmph, what is that guy Jamal? I don't even dare to fight in the face of the Greek navy, and sit back and watch the Greeks invade our islands, it is really infuriating that such a waste can become the commander of the fleet."

"That's right, Jamal is a coward, even the best warship won't work for him. ”

Everyone vented their anger in their hearts every word, and they deliberately did not lower their voices. They said it so loudly that the Young Turks naturally heard it, but they really didn't know how to deal with it, and the choice of the commander of the fleet was indeed controversial.

In fact, not to mention the dissatisfaction of the Austrian Socialist Party, even the internal and public opinion of the Youth Party and the public opinion have quite a lot of criticism about this appointment. Jamal's guy was in the war with Bal, but he lost face. Throughout the war, in the face of opponents who were inferior to his own, the Ottoman navy under his command was in the harbor almost every day, without any achievements worth mentioning, so that almost all the islands in the Aegean Sea were occupied by Greece, and if it were not for Kemal's Austrian Socialist Party who captured the Greek crown prince in the war, those islands would probably not return.

But al-Shabaab can't help it, the Ottoman navy is not good in the first place, and many of the past admirals are royalists, and they have even fewer naval talents in their pocket. This Jamal is still short and tall, and the others are probably even more unreliable. As for the Olympic Socialist Party, there are indeed some good talents, but the rapidly increasing power of the Olympic Socialist Party has caused the Big Three to be uneasy.

Now that the Austrian Socialist Party has mastered air power, and two-thirds of the army's young officers are inclined to them, the support of the Austrian Socialist Party in the army is at least more than half, and this is the reason why the Austrian Socialist Party has too shallow foundation. There is no way, the aura of Kemal's war hero is too strong, and the soldiers are willing to obey the strong

Compared with the Air Force and the Army, the situation on the side of the Navy is much better, probably because the royalists, the Shabaab and the Austrian Socialist Party are divided into three parts, and no one has a majority, barely saving some face for the ruling party. If the Austrian Socialist Party is allowed to occupy important positions in the navy, this is still a piece of, and it is better to let the Big Three and Al-Shabaab directly step down. Al-Shabaab now regarded the navy as a confidant, and in that respect it was impossible for the OCS to occupy all the important positions.

Kemal couldn't listen anymore, so he said to everyone: "Okay, comrades, don't talk about this matter for the time being, let's focus on the overall situation for the time being." Everyone should believe that this abnormal situation will not last long."

Kemal had a very high prestige in the party, and as soon as he opened his mouth, everyone immediately stopped ridiculing the "mediocre generals".

At this time, in order to adjust everyone's psychology, Nie Fulais pointed to the sky and said: "Look, the organic swarm on the sea is coming."

Everyone looked up, no. From the direction of the sea, a large group of planes was flying over. There were at least 100 planes in this group, forming three wedge-shaped formations, flying in the direction of the dock in black pressure.

Admiral Jemal Pasha stood up at once, he raised his binoculars and looked at it, and then asked the adjutant beside him, "Is this the carrier-based aircraft on the Fatih?"

The adjutant hurriedly replied, "Yes, Jemal Pasha." Just now the fleet sent a telegram, and now the Fatih has released 20 of the 2b carrier-based aircraft for air display. Of these aircraft, 40 were fighters, 40 bombers and 40 attack aircraft. And the B plane is a reconnaissance plane, so it was not released......"

"Suke, are these fighters monoplaned?" Kemal was also consulting with an Air Force colonel beside him.

Colonel Suke replied: "Yes, Chairman, this is the J-Shrike fighter developed by the Chinese comrades, which is the world's first all-metal fighter and the most advanced fighter. Now in the sky these are professional naval carrier-based types, which should be called J-H' Hayshrike, and its performance is similar to that of the roadbed type, but the wings can be folded ......"

Another Air Force officer said: "Chairman, as far as I know, at present the Chinese comrades themselves are not equipped with much of this type of aircraft, and they are willing to sell the most advanced aircraft for the sake of our party." ”

As mentioned earlier, China's technicians regard the Fatih as a "guinea pig", and the things on it are naturally very advanced, except for those black technologies such as radars and computers, which are all advanced and equipped with anything. The above 2B carrier-based aircraft are no exception, all of them are the latest models, the fighter is the J-H "Seaskelet" (prototype P2 "toy gun"), the bomber is the H-"Warship Bird" torpedo bomber (prototype "Swordfish"), and the attack aircraft is the J-IH "Hibling" dive bomber (prototype 2, the reconnaissance aircraft is a two-seat reconnaissance version of the J-6. By the way, in the establishment of the ** squadron in this plane, dive bombers belong to the establishment of attack aircraft, and torpedo planes are counted as bombers, which is exactly the opposite of the division of the original space, space, Japan, the United States and other countries.

After arriving at the pier, the Ottoman pilots began to do actions in the sky, of course, their current technology is only better than that of rookies, too fancy actions are not daring to do, just do some more popular queue interspersed, low-altitude through the field and other actions, and finally turn on the cigarette puller, in the sky to pull out two red and one white three groups of colored smoke.

If placed in the later generations, these actions are nothing at all, but they are indeed quite popular in this era. At least the onlookers below were blinded and fascinated.

After the air show, the planes did not return to the aircraft carrier, and in turn went to the airfield to land. This is to avoid accidents at this welcoming ceremony, as everyone knows that the landing of carrier-based aircraft is the most difficult, and if you drop a plane or something at this juncture, everyone's face will not look good. So the Ottoman navy brass simply asked them not to return to the mothership to land, lest the sons and daughters accidentally drop the chain, which would be ridiculous and generous.

Not long after the plane left, dozens of columns of smoke soon appeared on the sea-sky communication line. Then two warships gradually "rose" from the sea level and appeared in the eyes of everyone.

These are the two former dreadnoughts of the Ottoman Navy, the "Hailatin Barbarossa" and the "Torgud Lessen", that is, the "Wilhelm the Great" and "Wiesenburg" of the former German Navy, both of which belonged to the Brandenburg-class battleships. Both dreadnoughts were commissioned in 1893 and sold to the Ottoman Navy in 1910. The two ships were sent out to meet them, and now they were to serve as lead ships to guide the returning fleet into port.

Not long after the two former dreadnoughts, the figure of the returning fleet appeared, followed by destroyers, cruisers, and then the finale of the battleship "Suleiman Magnificent" and the aircraft carrier "Fatih", especially the "Suleiman Magnificent", a huge super-dreadnought, took everyone's attention as soon as it appeared. The crowd of onlookers cheered, and the reporters' flashing lights kept flashing.

Even the members of the Austrian Socialist Party, who had just been agitated, threw aside the unpleasantness, cheered loudly, and then began to discuss it in a heated manner. As for the big three on the rostrum, they couldn't even close their mouths with a smile.

Of course, the Chinese convoy led by Li Ang would not steal the limelight from the big customers, so they fell in the end, and when the submarine also entered the port, they slowly approached the dock under the leadership of an Ottoman destroyer.

As soon as they got off the boat, they saw Kemal waiting on the dock with a group of OC officials.

Kemal stepped forward quickly, shook Leon's hand, and muttered enthusiastically. The translator next to him immediately translated: "Chairman Kemal said: Welcome to you Chinese comrades, you have worked hard all the way"

"Thank you for your welcome, Ottoman comrades," Leon also hurriedly responded