Until then, except for their commander Lampard, who was a little uneasy, the captains of the fast fleet remained optimistic and confident that the fast fleet could leave the port at 3: 40 in the morning and kill the whimsical German surprise fleet that dared to offend Britain before crossing the North Sea.
History is always full of drama. When the captains of the fast fleet are rampant, they will be fully fermented. A newspaper from the London Naval Headquarters will beat them to death.
Nineteen battleships of Port William Ocean Fleet disappeared at night, but the damn intelligence department swore to tell them that the Ocean Fleet had been staying in Port William safely.
The captains are really out of their wits at the moment. Since the oceanic fleet mysteriously disappeared, the J and jīng battle cruiser of the first investigation group may not have gone to sea at 3: 40 in the morning. Perhaps the so-called intelligence advantage is a complete joke. They joked that the German surprise fleet was bold and perhaps bold. It was them!
Pretending to be brave and ruthless, it quickly collapsed. At first, Queen Zhang’s fear firmly occupied their minds, saying that she was not afraid of Heidi Selim and the ocean fleet. It was unconscionable. Selim, the best sea commander on this planet, may have made mistakes, but he has never missed the record.
Can you have such a long-term strategic vision, pinch the points exactly when the campaign is launched, and interpret tactical deception so perfectly, just like a gentleman strolling around so that the god of war can be defeated?
The fast fleet has managed to accumulate low morale, and perhaps there will be those who are inexperienced and just joined the navy. ""The sailors continue their brave heart, but if they have experienced the tragic naval battle in the Scarborough Gerakl Strait, officers and men all know that once they make up their minds, there will be no accidents.
The captains raised their watches and took out their pocket watches to calculate the pace of the Germans, expecting to do something from the 300 nautical miles of the British coastline in Helgolan Bay.
The first reconnaissance group should have crossed the Dogel sandbar and approached the British coastline. Although the Ocean Fleet is still in Dogel sandbar, it is only a few hours away from the British coastline.
"Run, run, run, no matter how embarrassed you are, no matter how humiliated you are, just get out of this terrible place."
This is the common heart of the high-level of the fast fleet
"The Admiralty of London hasn’t lost its mind and let us hide in the Tyne River. We still have a little time when the big fleet is just south to meet us. Everything is still worth it!" Lampard’s navy general staff sent a newspaper to sign and breathed deeply, "The fast fleet is heading north!" "
At noon on 21rì, the Tish River stayed for nearly three hours, and the rapid fleet set off again. It was not originally scheduled for the south to encircle the "bold" German surprise fleet angrily, but a gesture of extreme humiliation to move north.
In the north of the fast fleet, at the same time, the 19 battleships of the West Lyme Toy Ocean Fleet and the first reconnaissance group, battle cruiser, cut a sharp straight line and firmly rushed to the northwest corner of the North Sea.
"Nineteen plus seems to be twenty-seven. Betty, look, this is my card!" At the bow of the battleship Bavaria, Wang Haidi roared against the scattered waves and water mist thunder, "Fight the ocean fleet, fight Germany. Nothing can stop the ocean fleet after the first world war! We will become the king of the North Atlantic and we will dominate this splendid Wang Yang! " to be continued
The second gun Chapter 10 King of the North Atlantic! (2)
(I found that "Industrial Power Empire" is a bit more vulgar. I saw it continuously from yesterday, and today I was completely absorbed. Today I almost didn’t want to code words. Finally, I couldn’t bear to donate money to "National Will". This god spent more than forty oceans. Finally, I thanked the pirate ship for sinking and rewarded me with some shame. We finally had the first deacon.)
"On June 21, 1917, in the early morning, the two most powerful navies confirmed each other that the other’s fleet had been deployed between people. Everyone knew that a large-scale naval battle was imminent.
According to the documents declassified by the British side, the British did not want a decisive battle on the day of 21ì, although the previous day, senior British generals including Betty and Lampard proudly claimed that the victory belonged to 21ì.
Thanks to the great general Heidi Selim’s tactical deception in the sea battle of the Orkney Islands, which is known as the "North Atlantic King-sealing War", the Royal Navy once again chose to divide its forces and send ten fast fleets to battle cruiser South to deal with the surprise fleet composed of the German Second Battleship and the Second Reconnaissance Group, which went to sea secretly earlier.
The whole British fast fleet insisted that they had gained an overwhelming advantage in intelligence. The Germans knew nothing about the follow-up points of their encirclement and suppression plan. But when the transport ship Jed, General Lei Deer of Port William, deliberately sent out the first reconnaissance group to leave a poster in scarborough on the east coast of Britain, the fast fleet and its commander Lampard fell into a terrible situation of riding a tiger.
The British have no doubt about the motivation of the Germans to send out the first reconnaissance group. Before the sea battle broke out in the Orkney Islands, almost all British naval officers believed that the Germans were aiming at losing the big fleet to protect the fast fleet. According to the Selim drama, the fast fleet of ten battle cruiser first reconnaissance groups could not resist, so the Germans could finish all the wars before the big fleet arrived in the warring waters.
Let alone the British misjudgment of the strategic goal of West Lyme, the British have had too many waves just about the future of the fast fleet. Even if the Germans really want to deal with the fast fleet’s nearly 15-hour voyage from Helgolan Bay to scarborough, they can’t afford the British to be so extravagant.
What is even more frightening than the wave time is that the British forgot a former theory that the fast fleet made a choice, and all the 23 battleships of the big fleet should immediately cooperate south at this time.
Sir Belfo, the former leader of the British Admiralty, is still undecided, but the commander-in-chief of the fleet, David Betty, has made a seemingly fair and practical stupid suggestion that the fast fleet should enter the mouth of the Tis River to make preparations.
The fast fleet was left in danger on the east coast until the sea fog over Port William dissipated, and the swing of Jed Bay shocked the whole of Europe.
Nineteen battleships of the Ocean Fleet disappeared. The British woke up from a rude awakening and realized that they had gained the intelligence advantage. Perhaps Selim deliberately gave the Germans a y and n dark angle in the North Sea to polish the butcher’s knife!
Until then, the Royal Navy still made mistakes. The British Navy J Ρ ng did not even think about the Germans crossing the North Sea to directly challenge the big fleet to make a great contribution to the battle. They stubbornly believed that the Germans would go far and near and slowly unload an arm of the big fleet until they gained an advantage in the final decisive battle, and then came to the conclusion that if the fast fleet retreated directly, it would be possible to drive the Germans back to Firth before reaching the eastern coast of Britain.
Lampard, commander of the British Fast Fleet, ordered his fleet to sail into Firth Bay, and he named the seven-hour voyage "Despair voyage" in his voyage. Until General Lampard could see the southern end of Firth Bay sticking out of the cape of the North Sea Peninsula, the officers and men of the Royal Navy Fast Fleet still failed to understand what despair was.
It is worth noting that David Betty also underestimated his old rival, the German Ocean Fleet. Before the news came, he led the big fleet, 23 battleships and three battle cruiser. This morning, I kept myself calm and calm. After sneaking out of Scarpa Bay, the fleet sailed not due south but … all the way west. "
Excerpt from European Tragedy and the History of World War I.
On the afternoon of June 21, 1917, the fourth patrol unit of the fast fleet of the Scarpa Bay fleet crossed the south sea of Hoy Island and appeared on the North Atlantic side of the Orkney Islands.
The misty fleet and the fourth patrol team sent loose cruise formations from the North Atlantic to search for the west side.
Almost half a berth ahead of the fleet is located in the cruise formation. The flagship of the left-wing fleet, Revenge, is followed by the newly formed seventh detachment and its three revenge-class battleships.
Because the big fleet broke out in the Battle of Scarborough Gerakl Strait in 1915 and suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Portsmouth, and in recent years, a large number of cutting-edge capital ships and second-hand capital ships continued to adhere to the original establishment of the big fleet, which was out of date, David Betty, Minister of the Third Sea, presided over the naval staff and scientifically reorganized the whole fleet according to the operational requirements of the Royal Navy’s capital ship model.
For a mature maritime power, the formation of the main fleet is a complex project. Staff officers should not only consider the speed balance, fire distribution and logistics maintenance of different ship types, but also consider the size and fire of opponents, so as to optimize the preparation of the main fleet of their own fleet, which can help their commanders to give full play to the local advantages of Tian Ji’s horse racing when the battle lines are against each other.
Four of the five revenge-class battleships in service around 1917 (Revenge, Jun, Ramiris, Determination) of the Royal Navy’s most advanced capital ships at this stage were incorporated into the seventh team, and four iron duke class (Iron Duke, Marlboro, Bao, and Indian Emperor) formed a powerful fourth battleship team. The goal of the team was to destroy the new armor-piercing bullets (green bullets) with 15-inch main guns.
Compared with the former powerful fourth battleship team, the strength of rebuilding the second battleship team is slightly inferior.
Previously, the second battleship was always the most tragic in a naval battle. The first sunken battleship in Britain, the battleship Bold, the first detachment of the second battleship, exploded and sank in northern Scotland in November 1914. The battleship Raytheon, the second detachment of the second battleship team, sank in the Shazhou Sea of Dogel in the first naval battle in Britain. One of the battleships with the heaviest losses in Britain is still the second battleship team, the world’s first super-feared warship, and the four swordsmen are now left with the battleship Monarch, while the other battleship unit, the four Joe-5 battleships, are not much better. The first four battleships in the world have made the 15-inch giant gun King George V’s battleship disappear today, and half of them are left with the centurion Joe-5, which continues to exert its residual heat.
The target of the second battleship team is five Kaiser-class battleships equipped with 35mm main guns and four Helgolan-class battleships also equipped with 35mm main guns in Germany, which has formed a certain firepower advantage for the Germans. Two battleships equipped with 15-inch giant guns and King George V of England were dismantled to bear the flagship equipment of the first detachment and the second detachment with 135-inch main guns for hunting seats. Finally, Chapter 10 of "The Soul of the Sea of Great Powers" was the King of the North Atlantic! (2) The battleship Widow Monarch has also been strengthened. The first detachment has four battleships, namely Joe V, Orion, Hercules and Giant. The second detachment has four battleships, namely Centurion, Saint Vincent, collingwood and Neptune.
In view of the fact that the target of the first battleship team is only four ships equipped with 2 mm main guns, Germany takes sā class battleships, and the first battleship team naturally becomes a big fleet with the worst strength.
Of course, from the book, the firepower of the first battleship is still quite good
The flagship of the First Battleship is the Royal Oak, which is equipped with a 15-inch main gun revenge-class No.5. In addition, the First Battleship also has two Canadian-class battleships. This huge ship with a standard displacement of more than 20,000 tons is known as iron duke class Blue, which can be considerable. The fifth unit of the main gun, Bellerophon, and the sixth unit of the Magnificent Battleship, Hong Kong (formerly Giras, Milas, Brazil, and Rivadavia, Singapore, Argentina), are all equipped with a 12-inch main gun, which is a
However, this fleet is also full of problems. Everyone in South America knows that the Canadian class is just a tall sample with a standard displacement of 20,000 tons, but it has a 9-inch main armor, and it can be seen that the battleships Hong Kong and Singapore are leased from the Royal Navy, an old South American ship. How much combat effectiveness they play is still unknown.
Located on the far right of this fleet are three battle cruiser (tireless, unyielding and indomitable) of the fourth patrol detachment. Although the tireless and enemy ranks are still divided into battle cruiser formations, due to the continuous high strength of the Royal Navy, their power and hull are severely damaged. It is difficult for these three patrol boats to soar into battle. They should have the speed to throw these three fake patrol boats into the battle sequence of the big fleet.
It is worth noting that the epoch-making meritorious warship, the Mighty, failed to catch up with the accident in the explosion and sinking of the battleship Vanguard in this naval battle. My master was glad that the ship could stay in the Scarpa Bay repair dock in the evening and watch the big fleet leave orkney vastly and then hide from people at some time.
The bleak fog and storm sea in the North Atlantic appears quiet and peaceful. The seven-row cruise formation of the big fleet shuttles through this quiet sea, carefully searching for possible American allies and always warning German submarines.
The "sea soul of a great power" is not dedicated to breaking the deadlock in Europe, but the United States, a quasi-ally of the British Empire.
After the peace attempt was shattered, the number of Americans magically doubled the size of their army several times a month. Although this army lacked commanders with actual combat experience and rifles as basic weapons, the first batch of American soldiers boarded a troop ship bound for Europe in new york Port.
The US Navy also kept the old secret and sent an additional US battleship unit consisting of two New York class battleships and two Dahua class battleships to the North Sea.
These four battleships are all new battleships. The New York-class battleships were built according to the 1991 shipbuilding plan. The foundation of the first American super-feared battleship was enlarged. Four 356 mm and 45 times diameter double-mounted main guns, which were finalized in March 1991, were placed on the flat deck.
Compared with the previous battleships in the United States, the armor thickness of new york-class sideboard and other key parts has been strengthened, but the cost is balanced. The New York-class battleship has changed from steam turbine to reciprocating two-axis propulsion, which makes the maximum speed of the New York-class battleship pitiful 21 knots.
The Dahua-class battleship was built by the United States according to the 1911 shipbuilding plan. At the same time, this battleship made great achievements in the protection of the triple-mounted and double-mounted main guns with a diameter of 356 mm and 45 times. The armor protection of the key parts of the hull was strengthened, and the strong armor protection was applied to the base of the chimney and other parts. The Dahua-class battleship also adopted detailed waterproof compartments.
In a sense, the Dahua-class battleship is a representative of the Smithsonian Iron Tortoise school of modern battleships, but the speed problem has always plagued Achilles’ ankle, a battleship with a perfect balance of fire protection.
Although the Dahua-class battleship uses oil-fired boilers, whether it is equipped with a steam turbine Dahua-class or a reciprocating steam engine, the speed of the battleship Oklahoma does not exceed 21 knots, and the latter has 25 knots.
The war in the North Sea is confusing. The officers and men of the big fleet are distracted and pay attention to the North Sea Express Fleet while paying attention to the possibility of the Stars and Stripes Fleet at any time.
The guest who didn’t come late told the big fleet to shuttle through the fog to be white-headed, and it was not until the Americans made another mistake and agreed to meet that the big fleet was dawdled. "The soldiers of Guohai told us that it would take another two hours to successfully realize the victory of the British and American navies.
"American battleships are not as good as our battleships after all …"
The commander of the flagship revenge of the big fleet, Tower Fleet War Staff Miller, poured out such feelings.
It seems to the British that all capital ships without speed are the products of failure. Although this view has not been able to come to fruition after the naval battle in the Scarborough Gerakl Strait, there are still many admirers of the "speed theory"
Compared with impetuous Betty, she was able to hold her horses, but when the admiralty transferred to Port William and the intelligence team sent a message to the commander-in-chief of the big fleet, her face was calm and she quickly collapsed.
The ocean fleet has disappeared. Damn it, it must have slipped out of Port William in the middle of the night. Now it has been lurking in every sea area in the North Sea, raising a butcher knife and waiting for Britain to make a mistake.
Take a straight line to intercept the fast fleet returning to the north. This is the ultimate goal of old friends. Without the fast fleet, even if Americans join, the two sides are still at the same level. It’s really a solution!
"Stop searching! Stop searching! " Betty, clutching a thin newspaper, seems to have seen the bow of the battleship Bavaria in Selim planning to swallow ten battle cruiser ships of the British fast fleet. The general was fooled, somewhat flustered, and shouted at his navigation staff, "I need the big fleet to leave south immediately before the Americans arrive in Lausch!"
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