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It's getting dark.

The train from Vienna to Trieste is traveling through the Alps. The trains are traveling through caves from time to time. Whenever this happens, there are loud echoes in the carriages.

There were few passengers on the train, Colonel Heinrich Muller sat alone in a sleeper room, quietly looking out the window, savoring the loneliness of travel. The cool mountain breeze blew in from the half-open window, carrying the unique fragrance of plants in the mountains, which was completely different from the salty and wet sea breeze when on the sea.

The carriage was shaking, and the wheels made rhythmic clanging sounds. The black mountains and trees in the night outside the window were like black water flowing, and quickly rushed backwards. Colonel Muller turned his thoughts to the conversation with the Navy Minister of Personnel in the Admiralty Building yesterday. He went to Trieste this time to accept a new thing for what a soldier often encounters, but it made him reluctant to accept his position - to serve as a naval military adviser in the distant East.

According to some sophisticated guys in the Navy, this means two situations: one is that his future in the navy may end, and generally only retired officers will be sent to the Far East. The other is that he may have risen to the top, and a considerable number of officers who returned from the Far East were quickly promoted after returning to the country and were entrusted with important tasks.

Colonel Muller was a little uneasy about this, which meant that his future was unknown. He had been in the Imperial Navy for twenty-five years, and it was not easy for him to slowly survive from a torpedo boat captain during the war to his current position.

Generally speaking, people like Colonel Muller are alternatives in the Imperial Navy because the Naval Aviation Administration, the department they serve, is the main body in the Navy department to manage the daily affairs of the Navy. In fact, the reason why Muller survived the major layoffs in the Navy was also due to his former service in Split's Naval Aviation Force.

During the European War, aircraft were increasingly used in the war, and the Imperial Navy also established the first naval aviation unit in 95. However, during the European War, the naval aviation unit did not make much achievements. Because the aircraft had a short range, it could only perform reconnaissance and patrol missions in the waters near the port. At that time, the naval aviation unit was not affiliated with the fleet as it is now, but was under the command of the Port Guard Command.

However, after the European War, active research and discussion were carried out on the use of aviation and aircraft in the military field. The most famous work of the Italian Air Force Major Giulio Duhei on the use of air power - "Air Supremacy". In this book, Duhei elaborated on his own understanding of air combat. He believed that aircraft as an offensive weapon has an incomparable potential advantage over traditional weapons. In future wars, the advantageous aviation force will use it to seize air supremacy, and can strike the enemy's military, political and economic centers for long-range strikes, and destroy the enemy's defense lines on the ground, thus achieving victory in the war in one fell swoop.

Du Hei's theory is also called the "Air Force Winning Theory". His main point is that the Air Force will be the main and decisive force in future wars. This theory has a profound influence in the aviation community of various countries.

Mueller was interested in the plane entirely because of an exercise organized by the Navy Department during the European War. At that time, his friend Saab happened to be a pilot and they served at the Kotor Naval Base together. Saab made his joke during the exercise and drove an "albatross" to chase and tease the B02 torpedo boat sailing at high speed on the sea. The torpedo boat commanded by Mueller, with a speed of up to 35 knots, could not avoid the pursuit of the plane. In the end, Saab accurately threw a bag of water bags filled with dye onto his bridge.

Mueller was shocked. Although Saab's flight and driving skills were excellent, he could throw water bags into a displacement of less than 200 tons during high-speed movement, and it was indeed not easy to have a torpedo boat just 30 meters long. But if it was not a water bag but a bomb, it would probably be a heavy blow to his warship if it landed within 20 meters around the boat.

From then on, Mueller began to pay attention to learning aviation knowledge, and learned to fly an aircraft from Mueller during the war, passed the pilot assessment organized by the Naval Air Force Command, and obtained a pilot certificate.

It is precisely for this reason that he escaped the major naval layoffs in 925 and was still able to stay in the navy for service.

Colonel Mueller has quite an insight into the naval aviation theory.

Due to the emperor's attention, the Imperial Navy began research on aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft early, and used a cruiser to modify the USS Pilotion, one of the world's first aircraft carriers. In 924, the first aircraft carrier specially designed and built by the Imperial Navy, the Hun King Attila, began construction. The ship was 96 meters long, with a displacement of 3,000 tons, a speed of 29 knots, and can be equipped with 52 carrier-based aircraft. This marked that the Imperial Navy began to use aircraft carriers as the main combat ship.

Since Sabo was transferred to the "Hun King Attila" at that time as the aviation commander, Muller's interest was attracted to the aircraft carrier. He studied a large amount of domestic and foreign data by himself. According to some experimental research, he found that although a single combat aircraft could not pose a great threat to the warship, if a formation was used to attack, even the battleship might be sunk.

He wrote his experience into an article and sent it to a magazine. Unexpectedly, the article was valued and praised by the emperor, which undoubtedly showed that the emperor stood on the side of the "Aviation Sect" in the fierce debate between the "battleship faction" and the "Aviation Sect" in the navy.

Although Emperor Fredrich rarely interferes in the government affairs of the empire and rarely expresses his political stance, he often intervenes in military affairs. Because the emperor has unparalleled prestige and influence in the imperial team, his views are enough to influence the development direction of the imperial army and navy.

Unlike countries like the United States, Britain, France and Italy that have air force branches, the aviation forces of the Second German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire are placed under the command of the Navy. Each army group of the army has its own air wings, and the major naval fleets also have their own naval aviation wings. This has also affected China and Japan in the East.

In essence, the performance requirements of the Navy Air Force and the Army Air Force are very different due to the different combat environment, purpose and mission...

Someone knocked on the door of the box, interrupting Mueller's thoughts.

The door opened, and the female conductor stood outside the door, "Sir, do you want tea?"

"Okay, give me a drink, thank you!" Mueller said.

The conductor was pouring tea into his cup.

"When will you arrive in Trieste?"

"There are two hours left, and I will remind you in advance."

The door was closed, and Mueller suddenly felt that the new appointment might be a good thing for him. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!