Bismarck

"General Bonte, maybe I should call you Captain. Captain, the aircraft carrier Zeppelin of the Grossdeutsche War Navy reports to you!"

Zeppelin saluted Bontai neatly.

“???” A question mark appeared on Bangtai’s head.

"I, Zeppelin, am the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin beneath your feet. She and I are one."

"Commander, this is——"

Bangtai suddenly felt like his brain was going to freeze. Anyone would find it incredible if a good girl said that she was a huge battleship.

"This is the secret. Some of our German warships have self-awareness!" Lütjens said. "You are one of the few people who know this."

"Commander, do you believe this?"

Bangtai asked incredulously, and then he suddenly looked at Bismarck beside him...

"General Bonte, I am the flagship of the German Navy, the Bismarck~" As if to confirm his guess, Bismarck smiled mischievously, then bowed and said.

"I think I need to calm down." Bangtai pulled out his chair and sat down on it.

"This is indeed hard to accept at first, but you have to know that with their presence, our combat effectiveness has increased so quickly." Lütjens sat down opposite him, Bismarck stood behind him, Zeppelin thought for a while, and walked to Bonte's side.

"Otherwise, how do you think that our German navy can possibly fight against the British Royal Navy?"

"Although I find it incredible, Commander, I do believe you... But, Major Zeppelin, can you prove that you are... Zeppelin?"

Bismarck chuckled. This question was just like the one in later generations: You can prove that you are you, and your mother is your mother.

"I was the one who closed the door just now." Zeppelin said quietly.

It was the first time that Bismarck saw Bonte look embarrassed.

"But I can prove myself again."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bangtai felt that the wall in front of him seemed to move, twisting like water ripples, and even the decorations on the wall rose and fell.

He stood up in surprise, glanced at Zeppelin who was still calm, then walked to the wall of "Crazy Dance" and reached out his hand to touch it carefully.

Cool is the coldness of steel.

Bangtai originally thought that the wall would be as soft as water, but the touch from his fingertips clearly told him that the object underneath was still very hard, just like steel. As for why such a hard object would vibrate, he didn't know.

As soon as his hand left, the dance stopped.

"How is it? How do you feel?" Lütjens asked calmly. He knew the psychological quality of his subordinates very well. This level of astonishment was already his limit.

Sure enough, when he came back again, Bangtai's expression had become much calmer, although there was still a hint of disbelief in it.

"I think I believe it, unless Commander you and them perform a magic trick for me." He said with a wry smile.

"This is not magic, it's the truth." Lütjens said, "Your performance has exceeded my expectations. When Lindemann found out, his reaction was even stronger than yours."

"Lindman also knows?" Bangtai sat down again. Knowing this secret, it was natural to discuss its follow-up issues.

"He started out as my adjutant, and now he has his own Tirpitz."

"So, not only the Bismarck and Zeppelin, but also the Tirpitz has its own consciousness?"

"Yes."

"I was wondering why Miss Bismarck and Major Zeppelin knew so much. So this is how it is." Bontai sighed.

"Since you also know about this, it doesn't matter if I tell you all this, but you have to remember one thing. This secret is not allowed to be told to anyone. I can clearly say that even Reger and the Führer don't know about the existence of these three people!" Lütjens said the confidentiality rules seriously.

"Yes!"

"General Bonte, I have a request," Bismarck said.

As Bismarck was Lütjens' secretary, Bontai had a very deep impression of her, especially the part about the anti-submarine exercise. It can be said that he admired her to the point of admiration. Now that he suddenly knew her identity, Bontai was surprised and then realized that this was the only explanation.

"Miss Bismarck..., please go ahead." Although he knew that the other party was not human, he still used the title of Miss out of habit.

"Zeppelin is my sister. Although she is taller than me, she is indeed my sister. She will be your secretary on the ship in the future. Please take good care of her. After all, it has always been her dream to be able to sail on the vast seas. Although this road is very tortuous and you should know the specific reasons, she has been working hard and has never given up."

"Actually, she is the one who takes care of me..." Bangtai replied speechlessly.

"After all, you are the captain." Bismarck smiled. "I don't have any other ideas. It's just that my sister suffered too much in the early stage. I always want someone to make her relax. We are no different from ordinary human girls. We also have joys, anger, sorrows and happiness, so please bear with us."

The hardships in the early stages... Bangtai naturally knew what this was referring to. Looking at Zeppelin's expression that always looked like he wanted to keep strangers away, he also guessed something.

"Please rest assured, Miss Bismarck. As my secretary, I will take good care of Major Zeppelin." He nodded seriously.

"I know you have met before, but now that I know your identities, I think you should get to know each other again. Bismarck and I will leave first, you guys chat." Lütjens stood up and said goodbye to Bismarck and left quickly.

"Well, Major Zeppelin, we have a pleasant cooperation." Bontai extended his hand.

"It's a pleasure working with you, Captain."

ps: I know this picture is a little short, I will make it up tomorrow!

It's almost the end of the month, and it's time to ask for monthly tickets. What do you think?

Chapter 196: Service

The day of completion of the Zeppelin finally arrived. As Germany's first aircraft carrier, she naturally attracted too much attention. The fact that Hitler brought two marshals of the navy and air force to the scene was an unparalleled event. The scale of this ceremony was even more spectacular than when the flagship Bismarck was launched.

Since the morning, the Kiel shipyard has been busy.

The main body of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, which was covered with military flags and various ribbons, was surrounded by a lively crowd and was quietly moored at the dock. The huge hull was enough for it to look down on all German warships, and even the faces of the sailors on the dock were full of pride.

Zeppelin and Bonte walked towards Bismarck and the others. After spending the past few days together, they probably got to know each other better. Bismarck looked at the two people walking in front and behind him and felt no sense of incongruity at all.

The only problem is that both of them are serious people, so...

"Good morning, Commander." Bangtai greeted.

"Good morning, are you all ready? Today is Zeppelin's home game." Lütjens said with a smile.

"Everything is ready." Bangtai nodded.

"Then Zeppelin will follow Bismarck, while Bonte and I will go to greet the Führer."

"No problem." Bismarck smiled and took Zeppelin's hand, completely ignoring the latter's "unhappy" look.

The sound of salutes suddenly rang out, and a team of neatly arranged black cars drove in. Almost in an instant, the cheers inside and outside the shipyard reached a climax!

"Führer, the commissioning ceremony of the Graf Zeppelin aircraft carrier is ready and can begin at any time!" Lütjens, as the highest commander present, stepped forward to report the situation.

"start!"

"Yes!"

As a group of military and political leaders surrounded Hitler and walked onto the viewing platform, Lütjens gave an order and the commissioning ceremony of the Zeppelin began.

The first thing was the indispensable military music performance. As the military band played the high-spirited and majestic European classical style military music, all kinds of ribbons and fireworks fluttered in the wind and fell together above the Zeppelin.

In the blue sky, as the military music reached a climax, there were even BF109 fighter jets dragging colorful smoke dancing in the sky, drawing out beautiful arc patterns one after another, forming circles of colorful rings.

Suddenly, six purple smoke bands swooped down from the sky, rushing straight down from the middle of several circles at lightning speed, like a falcon swooping down on its prey!

Everyone in the audience was stunned, worrying in fear that they would crash directly into the earth, but at the last moment, they dragged bright purple smoke to draw a beautiful arc, and pulled it up close to the ground at a height that was just the right height - and the brilliant purple smoke just formed a huge blooming corolla, blooming gorgeously in the blue sky - the red and green circles and arcs drawn by other fighters before were behind the purple corolla, green leaves set off red flowers, and red flowers reflected the purple corolla. A beautiful picture with the sky as the canvas was presented to the people.

wonderful!

The people in the audience applauded enthusiastically. Some people even set up cameras and video recorders, vying to capture such a beautiful scene. The Propaganda Department, as the mouthpiece of Germany, naturally would not miss this opportunity. The press corps recorded the commissioning ceremony of this giant ship in almost all aspects.

Even in the guest seat, the man with a mustache surrounded by the crowd in the middle also applauded and cheered for a rare time. On both sides were his naval marshal and air force marshal.

"These are the carrier-based aircraft on the Zeppelin, right?" Hitler asked, pointing at the planes flying like dancers in the sky.

"Yes, Führer." Goering immediately replied, "For the Zeppelin, I have transferred all the most elite pilots of the Air Force. They all look forward to fighting for Germany at sea!"

When it comes to speaking nicely, who can compare to Goering? Hitler immediately smiled.

"Very good." Hitler nodded with satisfaction. "Well done."

Goering showed a complacent smile. To create such a beautiful picture, he had specially asked the carrier-based aircraft unit to practice hard for more than a month. This would probably make some middle-aged literary painter very happy, right?

Goering glanced at a naval marshal standing on the other side: his face was livid, he was forcing a smile, and he was clapping weakly, just for show... Grinning with disdain, Goering snorted inwardly, thinking with glee that he could never have imagined that the aircraft carrier abandoned by the navy was actually a treasure.

If the ownership of the aircraft carrier could be completely transferred to the Air Force and used as an airport at sea, Goering felt that the Air Force could also sink the enemy's warships. By then, haha, Germany would no longer need a navy.

As he thought about this, he felt more and more proud.

The whole scene was filled with a joyful atmosphere. The only slightly awkward thing was the two people around the head of state...

Below the VIP area, in the neatly lined military area, two girls were squeezed in the crowd. Although they were standing straight, they were obviously making eye contact with each other - and in the "channel" that no one else could hear, the two girls never stopped chatting.

These two people are naturally Zeppelin and Bismarck, but the expression of one of them is very excited, while the expression of the other is a little cold.

"Hey, my sister, this is your induction ceremony. Why do you still have that expression? Be cheerful." Bismarck was chatting with Zeppelin in his mind while watching the air show.

"It's my first time to see a flying show. It's great. I didn't even have this when I went into the water!" She said with a hint of "jealousy".

"If you like it, I'll give it all to you," said Zeppelin.

"It's useless for me. There's no place to put the plane." Bismarck curled his lips.

"But then again, Zeppelin, since you know so much about airplanes, can you fly one?"

"Of course." Zeppelin said lightly as he looked at the fighter planes whizzing past in the sky from time to time.

But this kind of plane should not take off in a place like this for performance. What they need to do is to bring destruction to the enemy on the battlefield. This is why she was unhappy - although she had known that there would be such a performance today.

"I really like looking at the scenery on the ground from the sky. That feeling is really wonderful." Bismarck looked at her admiringly. "Please teach me how to fly when you have time!"

"No problem." Zeppelin patted Bismarck on the shoulder. "But remember to give me some compensation, haha."

"I am your sister after all, Zeppelin, how can you be so shameless!"

"I'm sorry." A smile finally appeared on Qi Peilin's face as he looked at the sister who was shorter than him.

"I won't tell you anymore!"

Bismarck expressed her anger, but after a while she started talking again.

"Hey, Zeppelin, I noticed that you look different from last time. It seems that many parts of the ship have been changed."

"That's true. Many things have been changed." Zeppelin nodded. "There were many unreasonable aspects of the previous design."

"For example, the aircraft fuel tank. When the navy designed it, it only gave me a capacity of 200 tons. The aircraft will run out of fuel after just a few flights, and will have no combat effectiveness at all." Zeppelin snorted disdainfully in his mind.

"In addition to these, the flight deck and bridge have also been expanded..."

The air show was over, and Hitler and his men began to go on stage to give speeches, but Bismarck and the other two boats were still chatting among themselves downstairs.

"The new bridge has four floors in total, a navigation bridge, a deck management room, a joint headquarters, and two cabins below to serve as a pilot standby area and a chart room. It's simple and light - look at that, the front and rear ones are 105 anti-aircraft gun directors..."

"I have this too, I know." Bismarck smiled.

"Well, and on top of me is the Freya search radar and navigation radio sent by the Air Force." Zeppelin briefly introduced the new equipment on him.

"It seems that you have a side elevator behind your flight deck? I remember that it was a turret before." Bismarck asked.

"Yeah, don't you have me as my guard? Then I don't need that kind of gun either, so I suggest to remove it all." Zeppelin said with a smile, "The entire flight deck is made to be outward-flared, and they are asked to move the runway more than one meter to the left, so that a large area behind the bridge can be used as an apron. If there is a conflict in the take-off and landing of the aircraft, there will be a buffer zone, and the take-off aircraft can be piled on the apron, and the landing aircraft can be recovered. The turnover rate is improved, and there will be no conflict in the deployment efficiency due to the conflict of take-off and landing time."

Although Bismarck, as a battleship, did not understand the things on these aircraft carriers, it can be seen that Zeppelin was very satisfied with his own modifications.

Bismarck was well aware of Zeppelin's abilities.

"But, come to think of it, I have to thank you for this as well."

"Me?" Bismarck pointed at his nose.

"Have you forgotten that you said last time that there will be jet planes and angled decks in the future? That's why I thought of improving the flight deck in this way."

"I just said that... It's rare that you can withstand the pressure." Bismarck silently gave a thumbs up. After all, they were still propeller planes, and Britain even had biplanes, which were the world of straight-to-deck aircraft. The radical Zeppelin wanted a design that would solve the problem once and for all, so naturally the pressure of being questioned was great.

"Actually, it's not that exaggerated. This is the first time that the Empire has used me and they have no experience. Both the designers and the military are easy to convince as long as they have a reason. The pressure is only at the beginning, but it will be fine later." Zeppelin winked at Bismarck playfully.

Actually, what you want to express is that you are fooling them... Bismarck looked at her speechlessly. However, Zeppelin, who had the temperament of a queen, made such a winking expression... It was really a cute contrast.

At this moment, on the stage, the man with a mustache also ended his speech.

"...The war 20 years ago brought great suffering to our country and our people, but now we have led our country to restore its historical glory! Even if some people have ill intentions towards our country and our nation, they can never stop us, and they can never stop our great German nation from striving towards unprecedented glory!!! Long live the Greater German Empire!!!"

Accompanied by enthusiastic shouts of "Hail!", the mustache's body language and his unique intonation pushed the atmosphere of the speech to a climax, and the audience burst into long and warm applause. In this atmosphere, the captain of the Zeppelin, Friedrich Bonte, read out the document that the Zeppelin officially joined the German War Navy amid the applause of the crowd, and saluted the Nazi German flag hanging at the stern.

"Long Live Germany!"

"Viva Heads!"

The cheers were getting louder and louder, and the whole dock was filled with a feeling of blood boiling, filling everyone's heart.

"Congratulations, my sister, you have finally joined the military. I look forward to fighting alongside you." Bismarck shook Zeppelin's hand vigorously.