The sudden air defense sirens broke the silence, the lights in the ship switched to red to represent the battle, the crews rushed to their respective combat positions, the officers and men in the turret, ammunition depot, and main engine compartment put on gas masks, bags of propellants and shells were sent into the turret by the ammunition delivery mechanism, and guns of various calibers were aimed around. In the hangar, the technician wearing magnet boots pushed the tool cart and ammunition cart to the side to fix, and the MDS was ready to go to hang up the catapult, just waiting for the green signal light to indicate "departure" to turn on, and with the gesture of the ground crew, more than 30 shipborne MDSs would eject into the air within 3 minutes.

"11 minutes 09 seconds. ”

With the first mate's report that "the whole ship is ready for battle", Freya pressed the stopwatch, and a smile appeared on Yan Sù's face.

"Pretty good results, Captain, you've trained your men well. ”

"It is my pleasure, Your Excellency. ”

"Did you find anything at the posts?"

"So far, Iqiē is normal, and no suspicious targets have been found. ”

"Good, disarm the battle alarm. ”

Air Colonel Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Speeze saluted with a dignified salute, and his iron-clad face turned to the first mate to give the order to disarm the battle alarm, and Freya nodded secretly.

She had seen Spee's resume, which was a standard professional soldier. Stern in appearance and unsmiling in front of his subordinates, he aspired to become the captain of a warship at the age of 13, and it was his greatest dream to dedicate his life to the country, so he brought his two sons, Otto Ferdinand Spee and Heinrich Franz Spee, into his military career. With a saint-like devotion and fanaticism for his duties, he seems to be a little difficult to get along with. But his colleagues and subordinates who worked with him considered him a charismatic officer, and regarded him as a loving father or brother he could trust. Being able to rank at the rank of Colonel in the Defence Force, which has strict promotion requirements, is enough to prove that he is excellent.

After a few days together, Freya found a valuable advantage in Spee and his men: there would be no superfluous problems or objections to orders from above. For this mission, this advantage may be more important than the captain's own abilities.

Thinking of this mission. Freya's expression couldn't help but be a little gloomy.

She is not surprised by Roland's rebellious behavior, and the humanism and idealism of Roland's personality and the brutal realism of his personality are destined to clash. For that naïve and pedantic teenager, the law of the jungle and the political ethics of social Darwinism were unacceptable after all, and it was a period of restless rebellion, so it was not surprising to do something out of the ordinary. The only problem is that it's a bit of an anachronism at this imminent juncture......

(There's no point in talking about that now.) The most important thing now is to make sure that there is no chaos, and of course it is best that Roland doesn't make any trouble, and if he really plans to rush into this foggy reef airspace, I will have to spank him hard. ）

Freya reached through her sideburns and looked out the window at the wingship Seydlitz.

Two Deflinger-class floating warships, with a total of 24 280mm main guns, can bomb the largest capital ship of mankind from here to the Arctic Sea with a single salvo, while the front-loading smoothbore guns of humans have no way to deal with the terrifying 350mm main armor belt, with a maximum speed of 120 knots. The turtle-like sail float ship didn't even have a chance to escape.

Coupled with the support of shipborne MDS equipped with guided bombs and the latest radar, once a battle breaks out, it will be a one-sided slaughter without suspense, and Roland has no chance at all.

"Is this just abuse, no matter how you look at it, it's a dinosaur stepping on Xiaoqiang. ”

With such a huge disparity in combat power, the only thing to worry about is whether Roland will come, and how to capture that group intact.

Then. A giant black shadow swept through the porthole, looking at the dragon's wings as it scrambled to climb. A wry sigh crept up the corners of Freya's mouth.

The two floating warships on the interception mission belong to the same Derringer class, adhering to the tradition of the elven camp warships that have always attached importance to the living environment, and the living environment of this class of warships is far ahead of foreign counterparts. When sailors and crews from other countries crowded around the cannons to make bunks, eating maggot-infested mush, and picking up soap with their friends in the sea. The D'Fllinger class has a living area of 3.2 square metres per person per person for the average crew, and the living quarters are equipped with a laundry room with washing machine, ironing board, dryer, drying rack and steam room. The captain's cabin also has a bathroom with a bathtub and toilet. In terms of food, due to the huge cold storage enough to feed 100,000 people in small and medium-sized cities for a day, in addition to Dunton, there are abundant meat, eggs, aquatic products, milk, butter, vegetables, fruits, coffee, as well as free soft drinks and ice cream. Compared with human warships, the Derlinger class can be regarded as a hotel and restaurant dedicated to local tyrants.

However, the Prinz Eugen and the Seydlitz were in order to install a new batch of equipment, including a new radar. The ice cream making machine was dismantled. Originally, at an altitude of 10,000 meters below freezing, it was not a big deal not to eat ice cream, but Nied Hogg, the captain of the personal guard who boarded the ship with Freya, was an avid ice cream lover. As the most staunch sweet party, the captain of the pro-guard said that he could not bear the days without desserts and ice cream. Driven by a thirst for food, Nidhogg and the ground crew invented a new device for making ice cream: a 500-kilogram bomb was denied a fuse, the explosives were poured out, and a large amount of milk and cocoa powder (and occasionally cold beer) were hung under the wings. Then, the captain of the pro-guard team flew to an altitude of 15,000 meters and solidified the raw materials by the low temperature at high altitude.

Initially, the device could only produce a good iced drink, but the milk and cocoa powder could not be mixed well, and the diligent ground crew and the captain of the personal guard fought at night, and finally concluded that the freezing unit was only subjected to a vertical load during the flight, and did not produce the centrifugal rotational force that facilitated the mixing. So they modified a set of 5-gallon aluminum cans, and the air flow from the flight pushed the pulp blades at the top, rotating the containers around the central axis, allowing the milk and cocoa powder to mix well. These small containers are packed at the hanging points on both sides of the dragon wings, and can provide high-quality chocolate ice cream to nearly 100 people every time they take off.

"It's a shame that he can eat that kind of thing that is so sweet that he can eat it, ice cream or something, it should be poured with soy sauce and salt to eat......"

The die-hard salty party members clenched their fists hard and muttered quietly. Just as Freya wondered how to turn ice cream into a salty flavor. The radar monitor suddenly looked up and shouted:

"Maritime surveillance post U-52 reported, 0730, direction southwest, direction 10 o'clock in the direction of the fleet, at a distance of 80 nautical miles, and the radar captured an airborne object. It is 70 meters long, has a speed of 24 knots, has a metallic reaction, and is presumed to be a man-made object!"

After a brush, the eyes of everyone in the command bridge focused on Freya, and the lieutenant general of the General Staff took a deep breath and whispered:

"It's about to start......"

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Looking at the iron bump under his feet, the familiar trance sensation invaded Minerva again, and his fingers subconsciously rubbed his temples.

- The extremely ugly "Iron Duck".

Ladies including Her Royal Highness. The first impression of Roland's first all-metal structure floating ship "Entreprenant", which has 100% independent intellectual property rights of the human camp, is obviously not good.

For ladies who have no naval expertise and have only a few visits to shipbuilding, the floating ship should be in the open open air, where the fine timber is cut, cut, sanded, and assembled by countless industrious workers like ants, with a beautiful flying shear bow and a towering mast, with a gilded bow in the bow, and equally gilded intricate patterns and mythological carvings on the outside of the stern. In addition to being a basic function of a ship. In itself, it is a perfect work of great artistic value.

Even a floating cruise ship like the Zeppelin, which subverts the traditional aesthetic, relies on sleek, clean lines, massive body and lavish interiors. It's still remarkable.

But this thing is riding at the moment......

Do you dare to be uglier?

Towering chimneys, rivets all over the ship, bare iron sheets, strong smell of engine oil, harsh noises, dim and cramped interiors...... The elements that make up this boat do not make the ladies feel good in the slightest, let alone only a little better than the sampan.

"I have to say that in terms of aesthetics, you and Li Lin are completely father and son. ”

"If I have time, I'd like to design it carefully......"

Roland replied with a wry smile.

"I only provide the general direction of the technology, and the appearance and technical details are all left to the masters of the dwarf clan to solve......"

When it comes to the development of new technologies. Basically, the customer puts forward the demand, the technical staff is responsible for the implementation, and the political leader or department head is responsible for communicating and coordinating the contradictions at both ends, but you should avoid imposing your will on both ends as much as possible, otherwise there will be laymen guiding insiders. As a result, unnecessary confusion and even disaster arose in the process of development and equipment.

A young man with little artistic talent, but a master of neuroticism and paranoia, and his conviction that dictatorship could be used in practical chambers and workshops, resulted in a number of remarkable achievements by ambitious Nazi technicians, some of whom were more than half a century ahead of their time. However, these things are beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and they are beyond the scope of military utility, and they do not have the ability to produce and equip them, so they are of little use to the troops who urgently need a large number of reliable equipment to resist the Allied steel torrent. In addition to the post-war cheap Maozi and Midi, it can only be used by military fans who worship Germany to argue that "I am the best in the world in terms of scientific power".

Another example is the Cold War-era Maozi, which malfunctioned on October 24, 1960, during an ICBM launch test at the Baikonur launch site. In order to ensure that the missiles would be in the sky during General Secretary Cornhead's visit to the United States, Marshal Mitrofan Ivanovich Nederin, the first commander-in-chief of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces, refused the advice of the commander-in-chief at the Baikonur launch site to postpone the launch...... In this way, of course, the result is that he can't die anymore, not only did the marshal himself burn to the point that there was not even a slag left, but also reimbursed a large number of Maozi's top rocket experts by the way.

Roland didn't know the examples, but he understood that interfering too much was easy to do, and after providing the general direction, technical indicators, and technical samples for reference, he let the dwarven craftsmen explore them.

That being said...... It's a bit too avant-garde.

Alfheim has a complete set of wind tunnel facilities, the shape of the Zeppelin and other floating warships are finalized after repeated blows, Endeavour does not have this convenience, in addition to the inevitable reference to Zeppelin when determining the shape, it also uses a hand-built scale model, pastes a note to eject out to observe the impact of the shape, and then begins to modify, after repeated tossing, the shape of mankind's first all-metal floating ship is finally finalized.

As pioneers of humanity's march from the age of sails to the age of steam power, it is inevitable that all kinds of ideas and brains will come together – just like the current people in another world. Finally, Roland and the dwarves have ready-made references, which makes the Endeavour not as "skeletal surprise" and "visionary" as the "Virginia" ironclad and the "Monitor" ironclad during the American Civil War, but it is also very similar to the contemporaneous American Confederacy's special attack submarine "Henry" - a flying submarine with wings and four sets of propeller thrusters, and carrying 10 105mm rear-loading rifled guns.

Submarines and airplanes are streamlined shapes, and it is not surprising that there are similarities, for the needs of high-altitude flights, it is understandable to choose a design that enhances air tightness, even if it is ugly, you can use "the shape is just decoration" to fool the past, but the average living area per capita is 1.2 square meters, the internal air is turbid, and the food smells of oil. Even if it is a real model, it is necessary to consider the basic physiological needs to some extent, and this kind of concentration camp-like living environment is really ......

"Forget it, I understand that this is just a boat for real yàn, and now I'm in a hurry, so I can't ask for too much. ”

"Thank you. ”

Grateful to the girl from the bottom of his heart, the boy scratched his nose embarrassedly.

"If we have a qiē shun lì, we will be able to land on the outskirts of Toulon the morning after tomorrow, and the next step is to confirm the location of the 'research institute' and collect relevant evidence. ”

"But what exactly are you going to do? seize the evidence of the consortium's inhumanity and expose them?"

Minerva asked cautiously, lowering her voice.

Roland holds most of the secrets of the consortium and the elves, whether it is a war or a negotiation, it is good and bad to be able to pull him to his side. Before that, Minerva needs to determine exactly where Roland intends to go in order to adjust her strategy.

Is it driven by a sense of justice, regardless of the fact that he puts the shady curtain under the sun, even if it causes a big war? Or do you plan to take this opportunity to stand independent and fight against Li Lin? Or ...... Why don't you replace Li Lin?

“...... Negotiation materials. ”

Frowning slightly, Roland replied in a flat tone.

"I'm going to put those things ...... The evidence of the human body is used as material for negotiation. ”

"...... negotiation?"

Minerva wanted to ask again, but saw Roland suddenly look up, and before she could come to her senses, the red light on the bulkhead suddenly turned on, and the shrill siren echoed in the cabin.

Without being told anything, Minerva understood what was happening, and tried to calm her head and goosebump-pleading body as she approached the small porthole in the wall.

- Something is coming.

The words that lacked clarity stirred in the girl's chest, and the right hand that caressed the chest clenched hard. (To be continued......)