The telescope on the chest of the army major floated around, leaving footprints on the beach with long boots, which was quickly washed away by the broken waves of the English Channel.
"Deprived of all military posts and ordered to retire …" Arthur Wilson raised his head slightly and didn’t know whether he was gloating or sentimental and indifferent, and he was cruel after telling the truth.
"Ah …" Churchill snorted noncommittally, then turned his head and stared at two pieces of grenades in the gray English Channel. In the fog, there was cold light, long boots and shallow beaches were trampled repeatedly for a long time. Churchill quickly took off his white gloves and pointed to the mud and shallow water. "Mr. Arthur Wilson, I swear, I swear Winston Churchill, the duke of Marburg, and the most loyal guardian of the British kingdom, will come back."
"I will!"
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On April 7, 1915, it was dark in Portsmouth on the west side of the North Sea. Winston Churchill, the former British Secretary of the Navy, and his volunteer army from the Scottish Highlands-Scottish dú lì rifle camp boarded a transport ship for le havre. On April 7, 1915, Clay, a warship designer of the German Naval Ship Design Bureau, grabbed his pen and opened a thick book.
"On April 7, 1915, Ri Berlin Y and N haze.
I am very strong, but I don’t have the courage to criticize the general, not because he is the best commander of the navy, not because he is an admirer of Director brukner, but because he is the author of On Asymmetric Warfare in Battleship Age, and he is Martin Luther of the Imperial Naval Ship Design Bureau!
There is no denying that Heidi Selim’s prestige in the ship designer industry is far higher than that of his imperial navy. Although I once lashed out at the general in Ri Ji, I am actually a genius admirer.
I looked at the workbook in an awkward corner, and I didn’t know if it should be so good. At this time, an accident happened. General Selim came out to help me out.
What if I want to attack the British and heavily guard the Thames estuary?’
When General Selim said these words, his expression was solemn, his gestures were not decisive, and he was stunned for a moment. At last, the anger of the deputy commander of the White Ocean Fleet was not only aimed at us small people who were obsessed with design and indifferent to politics and situation, but wanted to use the stage of the Naval Ship Design Bureau to think in a fierce way and bring a brainstorming to the Admiralty.
Perhaps this kind of effort has a long history, and it was brilliant since On Asymmetric Warfare in the Battleship Age. Heidi Sealem began to exert altruistic influence to promote the development of the imperial navy and avoid detours by the navy. Unfortunately, Sealem was too weak at that time. Just now, the Naval Association, Kiel Naval Academy and the German Naval Yearbook accumulated a little popularity, and the covert attacks of some big men quickly disappeared. General Sealem was also exiled overseas.
However, everything is worth it. Marshal Erpitz agrees with him. The development of the navy strictly follows the expectation of Selim. More and more young officers and technical engineers become his supporters. When Marshal Erpitz gives Heidi Selim a chance to go against the current and stop this guy who is destined to lead the navy to glory.
The invincible Ares, the foresight of the ship era, is a German national hero. Although Selim is the deputy commander of the ocean fleet and has the rank of lieutenant general, his prestige has penetrated into every corner of the navy. No designer will despise his suggestion, and no staff officer will despise him. He predicts that no imperial navy official dares to speak frankly. Selim is from a humble background, and no naval officer who is interested in victory dares to fail to serve.
On April 7, 1915, without the attendance of Alfred von Erpitz, Friedrich von Ingenohl and Henin von Hertzendorf, without the Minister of the Navy Edward von capelle and the Minister of the Navy George von Muller, who had suffered from elbow and armpit for twenty years, did General Selim finally leave alone?
After the general made a decision on the modification of class 15 torpedo boats and second-hand civilian boats, the k-ra shipbuilding meeting continued to discuss the design of class 500 -1915 torpedo boats and class u-135 ocean-going submarines. The class 1915 torpedo boat will be equipped with two 24-piece hedgehog guns, each of which has 24 small-sized deep-bomb firing devices. This small-sized deep-bomb warhead is only 2kg, but it can clear a minefield with a radius of 2m with only one shot, and it can sweep out a 1-nautical-mile minefield safety passage U in ten rounds. The water tonnage of the -135-class ocean-going submarine exceeds 1 ton, and it has an endurance of 15 tons and 1 nautical mile/knot. In order to further enhance the water raid and viability, the u-135-class submarine is also equipped with a retractable snorkel.
Although it is also true that Selim is not afraid of his wife and navy and doesn’t like to attend the meeting, this time the deputy commander of the shipbuilding meeting showed his imposing manner and absolute dominance as an imperial navy. There is no doubt that General Selim will finally leave alone!
At dusk, the Secretary of the Navy left Mr. Goode’s office with a brilliant senior officer. Suddenly, many young people began to complain that General Selim was too harsh. At this moment, the old director brukner got up and his sharp eyes swept over the prison. sā The young man stretched out his hand and pointed to him, thanked his head and folded his way.
Maybe you should thank General Selim instead of slandering him! General Selim didn’t come to our Ship Design Bureau to find fault. On the contrary, he was helping us to change our rigid thinking. The Royal Navy was no longer the Royal Navy in 1914, and our high seas fleet was not owned by the high seas fleet in 1914. We can’t continue to design the high seas fleet in 1915 with the imaginary enemy of the Royal Navy. We must know that the vast and rich North Atlantic is now dominated and enjoyed by us Germans!’
The director is right. It’s time to change your mind! For a long time, that design and plan of the naval design bureau has been based on defeat the imaginary enemy-the Royal Navy suffered an unprecedented defeat in 1915, and Germany no longer needs to worry about them threatening the imperial coastline. On the contrary, it is time for Germany to block the British empire and threaten the British soil!
Compared with General Selim, brukner, the old director, is very straightforward. Young people used to be outstanding in design and machinery. After being confused, they finally caught something important for the German navy to move on.
They finally caught something important for the German navy to move on in shame, so Germany continued to seek the road of great country and sea soul, sturm und drang! "
-Excerpted from "Imperial Ship Affairs" brukner, former director of the Imperial Naval Ship Design Bureau in 1922.
Key words in Chapter III of the Second Gun-Asphyxiation Plan (4)
The third chapter keywords-suffocation plan (4)
Just like the strange political situation in the Mediterranean, the weather is so evil, it is raining, and western Europe is about to get moldy, but it has just ended. The warm and humid winter in Adriatic Sea is dry and interesting.
It’s not cool. In the morning, the morning sun hangs lazily on the Albanian coastline. The low ridges are stacked, and the thin sea fog recedes early. A few wisps of soot leap out of the sea level. Soon, a steel fleet painted with the most beautiful Victorian navy in age of steam and hung with a miter flag slowly approaches the Albanian coastline.
There is no doubt that this is a British fleet consisting of fourteen warships. At the core of the fleet are seven large transport ships, two formidable ships, two Apollo-class second-class protective cruisers and four A-class destroyers, which are arranged in a standard escort formation to accompany the seven full transport ships to the scheduled landing site-the Frole area of Albania.
"It seems that the Italians will not take action." The bad news has been delayed. The temporary commander of the fleet and the former deputy commander of the Third Battleship of the big fleet, Brigadier General Freeman-Telle, can finally relax his nerves.
After the naval battles in Mudros Bay and the North Sea, the situation in the Mediterranean Sea was complicated, which didn’t live up to the great reputation of the "Balkan". After the declaration of war on Serbia, although Italy and Romania declared strict neutrality, people of insight in the world regarded them as lying.
Romania is a small country in the Balkans, but Italy is a first-class industrialized country. Once it falls to the Allies, the situation in the Mediterranean will inevitably deteriorate.
It has become a top priority to test the attitude and bottom line of Italians towards the Allies. Belfo insisted on this reinforcement of Albania and tried to test the Italian landing fleet.
This is a dangerous journey. The landing fleet in Mudros Bay is equipped with two standard displacement 1.
Tons of equipment: two pairs of 35mm heavy guns, 16 2-pound guns, awesome old-fashioned battleships. Two ships started construction in 19-192, with a standard displacement of 36 tons, two 6-inch main guns, six 47mm auxiliary guns, Apollo, second-class protective cruisers, and four B-class destroyers in service after 195. However, this escort force is slag in front of a willing heart.
Although the Austro-Hungarian Empire reached the Aegean Sea by stealth, the British Empire could not hide its every move from the local strongman Italy. Even if the Italians were unlikely to be shirtless, once they leaked information, it would be a real disaster for landing the fleet.
Brigadier General Freeman-Tel decided to sneak out of Mudros Bay at night and arrive in the Flore area of Albania early in the morning, and then quickly retreat after landing.
So far, Belfo’s adventure has been successful. Although Italy tends to fall to the Allies, they dare not despise the details of the Allies after all.
"The destroyer School Leopard contacted the Albanian guerrillas." The captain of the battleship Resistance pointed to the beach in front of the coastal ridge and woke up.
"Send a semaphore to inform the transport ship to change to the remaining ships and pay attention to the jǐng ring!" Brigadier General Freeman-Telle reached the landing order in high spirits and regretted it half an hour later.
"Brigadier general, the situation is not good!" The sound of the lookout in the microphone was a little distorted. Freeman-Teller raised his high-powered telescope on his chest and saw the destroyer Vulture with smoke at a glance through the narrow porthole of the Commander Tower.
The destroyer Vulture desperately released smoke in the northwest of the landing site and issued a pre-jǐng banner to the flagship resistance.
There is no need for the signalman to translate the vulture to send a message. A steel fleet with a red and white crown and a navy flag in the lens of the Brigadier General’s telescope told me to come straight in.
"It’s Austrian! Nine large warships, four cruisers and nine small warships! "
It is necessary to compare the Admiralty’s J ○ ng Heart-made Ship Identification Manual. Brigadier General Freeman-Telle has been in the Mediterranean for more than a month. At a glance, he can identify the three large warships in the front section of the battle line of the Austro-Hungarian fleet, which are painted with gray Se, with four backpack-mounted triple main guns and compact hull.
Joint power level! This is a standard displacement of 1969 tons, equipped with four pairs of 35 mm main guns, 12 15 mm auxiliary guns, waterline with main armor, 2 mm turret armor, 2-35 mm maximum speed and 2 joint power levels!
"The first battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Fleet, three joint-power battleships, the second battleship, three radezky-class quasi-fear ships, the third battleship, the erzherzg-karl, and the Friedrich Dagong, Erzherzg-ferdinand-a, three old-fashioned battleships, the first cruiser Maria-Tracy, the Austrian Emperor Carl VI, the third cruiser Saint-George, and four second-class protective cruisers of Helgolan class! "
The well-trained Royal Navy staff also confirmed that the number and scale of the enemy fleet were just a mess, and Brigadier General Freeman Teller was no longer listening to these cold data. He once smugly concluded that the Italians had not betrayed the Allies, and Brigadier General Teller seemed to have been temporarily lost by being slapped in the face.
The history of the rise of the German navy is somewhat similar to that of Austria, the predecessor of Austria-Hungary before the end of the 1st century. After the seven-year war, the sea suffered a great loss. Austria suddenly woke up and began to form its own navy. By 1914, through a hundred years of accumulation, Austria-Hungary had built a fleet with good strength, including three dread ships, three quasi-dread ships, six old battleships, four coastal defense ships, three armored cruisers, two protective cruisers and three reconnaissance cruisers.
Obviously, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has moved out of its property, and he, Brigadier General Freeman-Telle, this small fleet, can definitely live.
"Damn Italian brokers, when they fooled the British Empire!"
Brigadier-General of the roaring cannon came to my ears. This just happened. I jumped around and scolded the Italians for their meanness and shame. After all, the Royal Navy still had seven seas and seven seas to calm down. Brigadier-General Freeman Telle almost relied on a series of effective instructions.
"The signalman sends a semaphore to make the transport ship as close as possible to the coastline and land on the beach! Inform the destroyer formation to retreat at full speed and retreat to the south. I will send a message to the Murderos Bay Naval Command requesting the French to support and meet the escort fleet. The remaining ships will raise the Z-flag. We must win when the army brothers win! "
Retreat can’t come, except for the B-type destroyer. Even if the escort fleet loses the transport and escapes, the old ships can’t run past the new warships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is better to cover the transport and land on the beach to win a chance.
The Austro-Hungarian cruiser fired 24 mm and 15 mm armor-piercing projectiles, and a terrible barrage was formed around the cruiser Sirius and the destroyer Vulture, and the destroyer Vulture was quickly torn to pieces, and Sirius was struggling with fire.
The battle horn of the M-flag then sounded far away from the center of Europe, and the Royal Navy of the Adriatic Sea fought for British pride. The battleships Rebel and Inconsistency rushed across, and the weak transport ship Apollo cruisers launched a desperate charge on the reconnaissance cruisers at the end of the Austro-Hungarian fleet column. Three B-type destroyers refused to retreat. They formed two old battleships and released smoke on the left side to cover them.
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