At the beginning of 1916, after maintenance and minor modification, the Far East Fleet, a large armored ship, three light cruisers and two latest augsburg-class light cruisers went to sea again, but the secret replenishment point of the Imperial Sea was completely lost due to the lack of operation of the naval staff, and the water surface was still not improved.
In 1915, when the construction of the Canadian Super Fear was completed at the Armstrong Shipyard in Newcastle and the sea trial was launched at the mouth of the Tyne River, the whole world kept its eyes open and waited for a new round of sea confrontation.
It seems to be an indisputable fact that the British lost a capital ship again, but the ocean fleet failed to live up to the insights of the world media and naval experts
The story of the battleship Canada is enough to write a strange epic. From mid-July to the end of 1915, the great fleet of the ocean fleet launched a series of soul-stirring battles around this super-feared ship called "Xiangrui" by China people without navy.
On July 1, 1915, it was a dark and windy night, and the battleship Canada slipped out of Newcastle and ventured to break through to Scarpa Bay. As a result, the poor Canada was deployed off Newcastle, and the German submarine found that it could avoid two torpedoes and had to return to Newcastle angrily.
On July 26, 1915, the USS Canada made a comeback. This time, Jellicoe made a large fleet patrol composed of a lion-class patrol, a tireless patrol and two king kong-class patrol take the bait. The North Sea patrol covered the breakout of the USS Canada. Thanks to the imperial SEE spy system, although there were several hours of errors, the USS Canada was blocked by the main fleet of the ocean fleet, and Newcastle Port also received many large-caliber naval guns and shells. The weak patrol was almost bitten by the first reconnaissance fleet. If it was not for the fog in the North Sea, I am afraid that the last patrol of the British empire would be destroyed.
The first two sea battles were very gratifying to the Imperial Emperor and Dick. However, in 1915, the Battle of Galicia entered the first battleship of the ocean fleet, and the battleships turned into the Baltic Sea to cover the landing of the Marines in the Baltic Sea lowlands. gulf of riga was brave and brave, and David Betty finally showed his fangs.
After the capital ship of the Grand Fleet Department joined the Canadian battleship Tangtang South, the imperial people regarded the Helgolan Bay as an armed parade and sank several imperial merchant ships. There was only one battleship fleet, nine battleships and a reconnaissance fleet. Four battle cruiser ocean fleets were able to retreat to Jed Bay, which was still splashed by the British.
The morale of the ocean fleet was greatly boosted, and the British people were not idle. Belfo searched for two King Kong-class battle cruiser from Ri, rented a Milas Gilas-class battleship from Brazil, and then reached an agreement on two Canadian-class battleships, and then conveniently rented a Rivadavian-class battleship from Argentina.
Even if the four capital ships are enchanted, the British are still dissatisfied, and they are spending a lot of money to build new ships. The main shipyard’s capital ship building plan has been scheduled for 191 and a half years, and a generation of capital ships have completed the drawing design and officially entered the preparatory stage.
John Niu is so obsessed with the large-scale shipbuilding plan that it occupies precious steel and human resources in Britain, which leads to the fact that ocean-going merchant ships and light warships crammed with docks of small and medium-sized shipyards in China have to slow down the shipbuilding plan.
Of course, this is not a big problem for John Niugen, who has deep pockets. The British people are just like the extravagant family. They are going out in boxes to pay for the wealth accumulated during the voyage, overdrawing the national strength, subcontracting the orders of the Admiralty and the Ministry of Commerce to the United States, RI, Spain and Portugal, and even the last-rate China Jiangnan Shipyard and Fuzhou Shipyard have also received orders from several ocean-going merchant ships and several escort soldiers.
Since 1916, the British have made great sacrifices and finally ushered in the harvest period. The strength of the big fleet is a thousand miles.
In February 1916, David Betty, the British Minister of the Third Sea, insisted on the completion of Britain’s first post-Seidlitz Queen Elizabeth patrol project in magic change. After the naval battle in ScarGerakl Strait, the British Admiralty did not intend to refit this fast battleship, but David Betty, the Minister of the Third Sea, successfully said that the Admiralty had spent an extra sum to refit this light cruiser.
In March 1916, the Queen Elizabeth-class magic change patrol No.3 was completed. It will form the first patrol unit of the fast fleet with the new flagship of the fast fleet, the Queen Elizabeth, and the remaining two Elizabeth-class patrol units, which are expected to complete the magic change project in July. It is expected that in February 1917, the first patrol unit of the fast fleet will be composed of three lookout-class patrol units and two King Kong-class patrol units, and those lucky and old patrol units will form the third patrol unit.
In April 1916, the Canadian-class battleship No.2, the South African Battleship, was commissioned. It formed the ninth detachment of the Fifth Battleship Team with the Hong Kong (formerly the Battleship Giras, Milas, Brazil), Singapore (formerly the Battleship Rivadavia) and Canada.
In April 1916, the first ship of the revenge-class battleship was completed, and the remaining four battleships will also be commissioned around 1917.
The speed of the British navy’s recovery made the world stunned. Heidi Selim predicted that the period of strategic superiority was coming to an end, and the Germans began to miss their naval god of war more than ever.
At the beginning of the European War, the navy was able to defeat the mighty Royal Navy Heidi Selim, which was absolutely great. Now retired Heidi Selim faded out of the German field of vision early and enjoyed the warm sunshine in the Mediterranean. Can the Royal Navy replicate the miracle without Heidi Selim’s ocean fleet?
Before actual combat, no one knew the exact answer. However, no one dared to try once. The German Empire was no better than the local rich man on the other side of the North Sea. Once the ocean fleet suffered a major defeat, it was impossible to expect the empire to restore its naval vitality.
Germany reopened Heidi Sillem, and the emperor went on the rampage and asked the navy to send out a naval battle to win a victory in the Sea without Heidi Sillem.
So the night battle broke out off the coast of Newcastle
In April, 1916, even though the number of the main ships of the big fleet has reached its peak level, there are still some advantages over the big fleet because the main ships, the ninth unit of the fifth battleship team and the third patrol unit of the fast fleet, were supplemented by a Devlinger-class patrol and a Bavarian-class patrol.
The Imperial Naval Staff planned the plan of strangling the battleship South Africa early. After the poor South Africa was completed, the Imperial Naval Intelligence Service was always on high alert. When the British island left the battleship South Africa, the North Fleet would send its main ship South to cover the news. Ma Zhuang’s first reconnaissance fleet went to sea and went straight to Newcastle, while the main fleet of the ocean fleet was looking for the big fleet’s bad luck
The bad observation and aiming conditions in the hazy night make the fighting distance between the two sides about three kilometers. Even those 6-inch or 15-mm sub-guns can bite each other without eliminating the main guns of the capital ship.
In view of this, the first reconnaissance fleet is very cautious and will soon be upgraded to the first reconnaissance group. The first reconnaissance fleet is not eager to sink its opponent by virtue of its number and firepower advantages, but is leisurely waiting for the opponent to make mistakes.
At the turning point of the ninth minute of the engagement, a destroyer accompanied by the British battleship South Africa was shelled by a deputy and caught fire. Three Devlinger-class patrol boats, a Seidlitz-class patrol boat and a Mao Qi-class patrol boat pointed their main guns in the direction, aiming at the distance of 3 kilometers. A 35 mm armor-piercing projectile easily hit the target ship.
The armor on the side of the British capital ship, which was resold for export, should have been shredded. After the earth-shattering explosion, the battleship South Africa ignited a raging fire and spread. The fire seemed to detonate the water and ammunition depot. After another explosion, the target ship disappeared from the sea.
"Last night, I learned that the spy battleship South Africa was about to go to sea. In the early morning, I slipped out of Jed Bay to intercept the main channel on the northeast side of Newcastle and found the target ship. It was unbelievable whether the British were too stupid or we were too lucky!"
Major-General Paul Henry, captain of the command tower of the Luzov, used to touch the cluster of Frederic Hu, but there was always a flash of light in his mind, but he couldn’t catch the center.
"There seems to be something wrong with the captain!" Luzov’s war patrol watchtower witnessed the process of the target ship from being shot, exploded and sunk. The lookout recalled that he had been shocked and trembled before, got up and grabbed the microphone and stumbled to the commander tower and shouted.
"We didn’t sink the South Africa!"
The lookout panicked, and the commander tower echoed, and Major General Chang breathed a sigh of relief and finally understood the origin of the anxiety.
Before the naval battle in Newcastle, the target ship once ran out of the maximum speed of more than 24 knots, which was the speed of a unified battleship. In the naval battle, the target ship should have a 14-inch main gun, and a gun from the head to the tail did not fire back. All these are some unreasonable places of sub-gun-level guns, which may be superimposed together. There is one possibility that the target ship was sunk by Luzov, not the South African battleship! The ocean fleet was played by the British!
(Gorgeous dividing line)
"General, it’s time for you to return to Germany …"
General Liman Sanders of the North Caucasus Army Command pushed the door and came in to raise his hand in the newspaper trail.
Because of the Jewish descent, Lieman Sanders was ostracized by the German army. His situation was somewhat similar to that of Wang Haidi and he had a deep friendship.
"I said that West Lyme will return to the soil with a victory …"
"But do you have a chance in the West Lyme Mediterranean!" Saunders, commander-in-chief of the Turkish army, shook his head and dismissed it. "Everyone knows about the Mediterranean naval battle after the attack on Mudros Bay!"
"No war is imminent!"
1 The original Koenigsberg class light patrol was augsburg class because the plane Koenigsberg light patrol has not sunk yet.
2 Revenge Battleship "Bomb Warship" chapter There are five revenge battleships. Let’s stick to the original plan. Liberal arts students are really not sensitive to numbers. To be continued, if you like this one, you are welcome to vote for recommended votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.
The second gun Chapter 17 Declare war on France (6)
(I was forced to fight all night in the Internet cafe …)
In the early hours of the morning, Germany was silent and tired. Berliners rested early, but they couldn’t keep the war room of the army headquarters in Koenig Square. Senior officers of the Imperial Army were doomed to sleepless nights.
"I have figured it out!" War staff put words microphone twist a head toward a face looking forward to colleagues spread out hand face se heavy way "the first reconnaissance fleet sank not South Africa battleship but disguised warrior armored cruiser! The main fleet of the North Sea Fleet did not find the trace of the British fleet, which means that the navy was played by the British! "
Falkenhayn, the former army chief of staff in the sand table, has a heavy face.
After the Battle of Galicia on the Eastern Front in 1915, Hindenburg and ludendorff, the high command of the Eastern Front, demanded to continue to attack Russia and force the Russians to surrender first, but Falkenhayn was worried about defeating Russia completely.
France is not weak. It is impossible for the Russian Empire to deploy another front as it did in 1914 to attack the western front and keep a large number of troops. After the imperial army invested in the eastern front, it would be relatively insufficient, and it would easily be dragged down by the Russian huge territorial strategy and then repeat the Napoleonic style in the cruel winter.
This is not the only reason. Heidi Selim’s prediction of the situation of the European war after the Ritland naval battle has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The Ritland naval battle can enable the empire to win a strategic advantage period of one and a half years. This period is the most favorable time for the empire to break the prison of the war of attrition. Once the strategic advantage period has passed, the war will enter a strategic stalemate. Considering the natural unfavorable geographical location of the empire, the strategic stalemate means slow suicide for the German Empire, which lacks a stable resource transportation channel.
Seeing that the strategic advantage period is coming to an end, the lack of Heidi Sillem’s navy and the French Empire’s struggle for more have brazenly driven Heidi Sillem out of Taiwan to avoid failure, so that they can play a desperate battle at the last minute of the strategic advantage period.
The army is too far away from St. Petersburg and Moscow, but Paris is only a stone’s throw away. Falkenhayn vetoed the demand of the Eastern Command to bet on his personal honor and future, and at the same time bet on the empire’s national movement in the next century to plan the most tragic land war in Paris since the outbreak of the European War.
If the army can take Paris, even if France announces its move to the capital and continues to fight, it will lose nearly half of its population and French industry, and the French army will be devastated. On the contrary, if the empire fails to do its best in one battle, everything will be over and the best outcome will be just to find a decent peace.
The last obstacle to the British Defence Council’s sending more troops to France, a precarious ally, has swung away.
After the successful breakthrough of the Canadian battleship and its sister ship, the miracle will be repeated one year later, which will not only greatly inspire the Royal Navy’s low morale after the naval battle in Rilan, but also declare that Britain needs to worry too much about the fact that its soil defense ocean fleet dominated the North Sea!