In a trance, the pride and sense of mission of the imperialists who never set in the sun came into being, and a kind of blazing breath came into being. David Betty’s heart stirred and made him control himself. David Betty threw his fishing rod in his hand and got up from a pile of rocks. His eyes were firm and profound.

"But this is a matter of the future of the country and the future war of the nation. The Royal Navy has made a great name for the future of the British Island. I don’t want to choose the century-old glory marshal of the empire!"
The black car started again, and the sun was setting to the far east coast. Marshal Hill clapped his hands and jumped down in a deep stream to catch the floating fishing rod.
"Erpitz, my old rival, although it belongs to our era, is very bleak, but hatred and contest will continue!"
Hill grabbed the fishing rod cold way
William Cathedral into a happy ocean wedding guests seem to come to erich-Lei Deer shouting otaku promised to Lei Deer at random. Looking at the amorous feelings, Catherine shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
"vielleih (maybe) …"
With a free and easy laugh, the white bones behind the hearty victory of the newspaper, the ups and downs of the political struggle after the naval battle, and the fact that he had to face his new rival Wang Haidi, everything seemed to melt into the quiet and happy church and dissipate.
The second gun Chapter 5 The British fought on two fronts (1)
The fifth chapter British two-front war (a)
On November 1, 1914, the continental monsoon began to turn to the approaching Siberian cold air mass, which made the North Sea more and more manic.
At one o’clock in the morning, the night is deep, the chill of late autumn and the lonely and stormy sea beat against the shore. The wharf of Helgolan Island lingers. With the help of the commander of the first reconnaissance fleet, Lieutenant General Franz von hippel, and the deputy commander, Major General Heidi Selim, the commander of the second reconnaissance fleet and Hewan patrol fleet, Major General Leib Li Xite Maas, wrapped in a thin cloak, watched the attack fleet composed of the Mainz light patrol, twelve destroyers and nine modified mine-laid submarines set off for the dangerous English Channel.
When it entered November, the war in Europe became more and more fierce. On the 23 rd, after the naval battle in Golan Bay, Ziher, it was nerve-racking. Despite the excitement of the middle-level naval officers, the German emperor insisted on banning his pride-the ocean fleet circle. Can there be policies and countermeasures? General Ingenohl’s obscure and difficult hints, The War Department of the General Staff of the Navy boldly harbors and Wang Haidi has a unique plan. Under the pretext of routine patrol and mine laying, the support fleet of the ocean fleet often engages in wind and rain in the vast North Sea and the narrow English Channel. A large number of German lightning strike ships pretend to be British merchant ships, and the British coastline is simply explained. German cruisers, submarines and destroyers randomly appear in the south of the North Sea to intercept and detain allied merchant ships. The British exclaimed that "the North Sea is no longer the British Empire Sea"!
At the same time, the war in Europe was in full swing. On January 21, the German army began to attack France. Thanks to the efficient mobilization and good quality of soldiers, the German-French border offensive was in full swing, and soon it approached Paris to drink the Marne River. However, the British aid was swift and powerful. Although the heroic German navy sank three British transport ships and several escort warships, it easily killed 5,000 British pocket troops and delayed the British reinforcement of France, but the British navy still transported 60,000 troops to France before the Battle of the Marne River. On the left side of the army, the Battle of the Marne River in September, the German army once broke into the outskirts of Paris, but the British and French Coalition forces fought to the death and both sides lost, so they had to turn to positional warfare. The army chief of staff, Xiao Mochi, realized that his plan of quick victory might go bankrupt, saved the war and cut off the transportation lines between Britain and France to realize tactical circuitous. The army launched a mobile war to the seaside, and the army general staff asked the navy to join in.
The mast of the cruiser Mainz flashed across the formation’s sailing lights. This small fleet slipped out of Helgolan Island in the hazy night and headed for the dark English Channel. The next morning, the light patrol and destroyers will sneak up on the southern coastline of the British Island to cover the submarine’s crossing. The British old-fashioned ship-fearing, destroyers and mines form a sea blockade, and the busy channel of the English Channel is mined.
"West Lyme, I’m worried that this kind of small-scale cold shot will not change the army’s stalemate in northern France …"
The young emperor will never allow the ocean fleet to go out of Helgolan Bay. The navy can settle for second best and send some light ships to carry out sneak attacks on the English Channel sea transport line. It seems that hippel’s harassing tactics can’t stop Britain from supplementing the French defense forces. Germany seems to have fallen into a terrible protracted war and a war of attrition. Lieutenant General hippel is worried about this.
"Commander, don’t look at the fact that the British are crazy now, sending more troops to France, rejoicing in holding Paris." After the raid fleet set off, the otaku was a little sleepy. He made a casual haha and spread his hand. "In another month, when the danger approaches the British coastline, the British imperialists will miss their pocket army that is deeply immersed in northern France. They will be embarrassed to find that the British Isles are ready to send danger!"
Since Germany and Britain declared war on each other on April 4, the war has spread around the world.
The British and French colonial troops in Africa attacked the German colonies. However, the British-French-Portuguese four-nation allied forces, which were composed of a small number of professional soldiers from the allied countries who had been fighting for a long time, were no match for the German colonial self-defense forces. Paul von Volbek, commander of the German East African colonial army, commanded his self-defense forces and marines to carry out fruitful jungle warfare and guerrilla warfare in the East African jungle for several years, forcing Britain to continuously deploy troops from the Far East and India. Even so, the allied countries failed to capture the German East Africa as scheduled, and the battle was in a state of anxiety from the beginning.
Von Mueller in the Indian Ocean commanded the "Oriental Swan"-the cruiser Emden began its romantic adventure. From the beginning of September to the end of January, 1914, the Emden cruised all over the western Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, sinking an old British protective cruiser, a Russian auxiliary cruiser, a French destroyer and his merchant ships. The Emden guerrilla with a gross tonnage of more than 120,000 tons caused great panic among the allies. The British Mediterranean Fleet, the Far East Fleet stationed in India and Singapore, The colonial warships of Australia and New Zealand, and the auxiliary warships of France and Russia, Yun Indian Ocean, started a race against the "Oriental Swan".
At the same time, the light cruise of the Koenigsberg, led by Marx von Love, was no less wonderful than the three British cruisers in Koenigsberg at the beginning of the month of Emden. In the cold and windy weather, they resolutely sank a British 2,000-ton reconnaissance cruiser and fled to Lake Tanganyiga via the Laffiji River. Later, Captain Marx von Love and the commander of the East African colonial army, Paul von Volbek, combined their swords to perform a period of passionate burning.
East Asia is in high spirits to mobilize the war. The standing division of Kagoshima, a joint fleet, can’t wait to board the ship. Even its ally Britain is in a hurry. Before the war, Wang Haidi sent a letter to the imperial foreign ministry suggesting that the empire give up Jiaozhou Bay and return it to the Republic of China. However, at this time, after all, there was no man named Li Cheng Zhonghua, who was silent about his fate. The thief Hou Yuan Datou unexpectedly announced that the neutral Germany outside the Republic of China wanted to return the colony, but the Governor of Qingdao had to rely on the battery of Jiaozhou Bay to support it. At this time, the German colonies such
On July 7th, Count Spey of the Pacific Ocean looked back at New Guinea and smiled. On September 9th, the Caroline Islands flaunted a shot. On September 22nd, Count Spey sank a French gunboat in Papeete Port. The lost track and step succeeded in confusing the allied countries’ sight. Britain, France and the sabotage day mobilized troops to fortify the East Asian ocean. tight encirclement, then Count Spey and his two large armored ships and three light cruisers set off on their journey home easily.
On the morning of November 1, 1914, the South Pacific sea breeze blew the mast navy flag of the large armored ship Shane Khost clank.
"How far is Auden from korol?" Lieutenant General Maximilian-von Spey’s bridge, Shane Horst, enjoys the rare leisure before the war while sipping coffee against the beautiful sunrise and cool sea breeze in the South Pacific.
On January 29th, Lieutenant General Spey got the information that the Leipzig light patrol came over. The British light cruiser Glasgow was cruising in the waters near korol, Chile. The single-image Glasgow cruiser was obviously a gift from the door. Count Spey was determined to accept it and the lean East Asian fleet began to move into korol.
Lieutenant General Spee didn’t know that almost he got the information, and at the same time, Britain and South America only had the strength-the South American sub-fleet also received a report from the Glasgow light patrol. "The report of intercepting the German ship is presumed to be the Redstone light patrol!"
Being alone in Redstone is obviously a delicious meal. Major-General Christopher craddock abandoned the aging and faltering old man. The Star battleship led the Cape of Good Hope and the armored cruiser emmons, the Glasgow Light Patrol and the Otranto auxiliary cruiser to the waters of korol.
"You will hear the news that the Glasgow sank at 4 pm at the latest!" Bernhard-von Auden looked up slightly proud way
On November 1, 1914, the Black Sea was stormy.
A fleet of selim Sultan battle cruiser (formerly German Goro), Mitiri light cruiser (formerly German Brawles), Hamidiye British armored cruiser, Mechtier American armored cruiser and four German lightning strike ships cruised in the waters near the Russian Crimea in the Black Sea and looked for fighters.
Since the outbreak of World War I, the situation in the Mediterranean region has been complicated and strange. At the beginning of the Italian war, the allies were narcissistic and waited for the price, and the allies tried their best to win over the emotion, reason and profit. However, the allies were indifferent to this. There was a joke that had been circulating for a long time. An American reporter asked a German general to try to analyze the reason why Germany turned a deaf ear to the Italians. The German general frowned and said that if Italy remained neutral, they could calmly accept the fact, even though they would leave three divisions to guard against the Italian attack. If Italy declares war on Germany, they will be ecstatic because it takes two German divisions to destroy Italy; If Italy joins the Allies, it will be too bad. They need to send a division to defend Italy, just as they did to Austria-Hungary.
The situation in the Balkans has also changed dramatically. The Ottoman Empire did not want to join the war group. They were strictly neutral. Unfortunately, the arrogant British people grinned and pushed the Turks into the arms of the allies. After the war, Churchill made a pretentious defense for Britain in his Memoirs of World War I, and he slandered the Kenai Turks in various ways. However, Europeans did not know that Sir Churchill had turned his hands and covered his hands!
On February 2, 1914, Armstrong Shipyard was expelled, and the crowds in Turkey were excited. General Ensel, the famous pro-German and the leader of the three giants in Turkey, unceremoniously declared that he would join the Allies. Even the British "trained" with one hand and the Turkish navy was treacherous. At the same time, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Admiralty announced that they would sell the USS Gorgo and the USS Brawles to Turkey, which was a stroke of genius. It was inevitable that the Ottoman Empire would join the war in January.
On January 29th, a war patrol, three cruisers and four destroyers led by Wilhelm Soloqin vice admiral, commander-in-chief of the Turkish navy, attacked the Russian Black Sea ports of Sevastopol and Odyssey, which opened the prelude to Turkey’s participation in the war.
Attacked on January 3rd, Russia declared the Ottoman Turkish Empire in a state of war. Lieutenant General Andrei Avgustovich eberhard, commander-in-chief of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, led five battleships, two cruisers and twelve destroyers to encircle Soloqin’s Turkish fleet in the south.
"When the British Army Tyne River arbitrarily expelled me and my sailors with gun butts, I vowed to get back at Britain!" Raouf, the captain of the armored ship Hamidiye, turned his head to look at Captain Gunther Gunther Lutjens and solemnly said, "I know it is difficult to realize it, but I will never give up easily!"
Gunther Gunther Lutjens, who has been promoted to the rank of navy captain and vice captain of the armored cruiser Hamidiye, looked at a serious face and Raouf smiled and handed out a friendly hand.
"Captain believes that Germany will be your closest and most reliable comrade-in-arms with the Ottoman Empire!"
The second gun The fifth chapter British two-front war (2)
The fifth chapter British two-front war (2)
On January 24, 1914, the battleships of the old Eberle Luofeng and Saint Vincent and the Enemy patrolled Neptune, Giants and Hunters. The latest battleships, King George V and iron duke class, had a bumpy construction process, and the powerful lion-class battleships patrolled the Swilly Bay on the northern shore of Ireland.
For hundreds of years since the war, it has been arrogant and arrogant, showing that the British Imperial Admiralty has been defeated constantly, and the head of the Admiralty has been overwhelmed and gloomy.
Count Spee in the Pacific waved a shot in vain, which made the nervous British Empire deploy troops to fortify East Asia. However, the news of his return from South America was severely fanned, and the British Admiralty slapped him in the face. The British Navy General Staff was determined to save face and intended to encircle Spee’s East Asian fleet, which could be called the ball, but the Royal Navy was embarrassed to find that they were almost ready to send soldiers.
In the Indian Ocean, Germany’s Koenigsberg patrolled three British cruisers day and night to watch and escape, and sank the Pegasus reconnaissance cruiser. Emden light patrol more than 30 treaty ships * * before and after the siege, the attack was still killing the Indian Ocean. The British Admiralty blocked the demonstrations outside the naval headquarters building all day, protesting that the British people had to deploy troops from the Far East and Africa as allies in an attempt to strangle the "Oriental Swan" and hide in Koenigsberg deep in Lake Tanganyiga.
The Mediterranean Sea is firmly contained because the Berklee-Mill Navy will lead two enemy patrols of the Mediterranean sub-fleet. With the growing hatred of the Turks against the British Empire, the Royal Navy has to bite the bullet and send more troops to the Mediterranean fleet, saying that the Seventh Turret relic, the former Sultan Osman I of Turkey, and now the battleship Ginkul appeared in Alexandria in September.
The situation in the North Sea is even more erosive. Heidi Selim stirred up the tiger whiskers of the Royal Navy during the chief officer of the Hewan Defence Circle Command, and on March 23, Ziher’s Golan Bay naval battle, he pulled up the tiger skins of the British empire without mercy. On February 25, the German Imperial Circle banned his ocean fleet, and Heidi Selim was suppressed and lost. The British navy was overjoyed. Just as they secretly worked out a large-scale revenge plan behind closed doors, the German navy sacrificed Heidi Selim early. In 1997, the concept of "asymmetric warfare" came out. At one time, submarine ambush warfare, lightning ship torpedo warfare and mine warfare emerged one after another, and the Harriet fleet was barely rebuilt. The Channel Fleet simply blocked the English Channel by countless mines, leaving only the access roads and heavily guarded them.
The powerful fleet is not much better because of the fear of unfamiliar submarine warfare. On January 17, the patrol fleet of the Orkney Islands found that the commander of the German submarine fleet, Jellicoe, really disliked those German submarines with maggots attached to their bones. He asked the Admiralty to install submarine defense facilities in Scarpa Bay, which consisted of warning ships, trawlers, patrol boats, minesweepers, destroyers with towing devices, seaplanes and underwater anti-submarine nets. After discussion by the Admiralty Committee, the Admiralty decided to build a perfect anti-submarine net in Scarpa Bay and authorized the large fleet to retreat to the northern Ireland coast at the end of January to rest for a few days and
At nine o’clock in the afternoon, the wind and sunny waves in Swahili Bay gently swayed the battleship Bold.
Battleship Bold is King George V battleship No.3, with a full displacement of 257 tons. The output power of the main engine is 27 axes, and the maximum speed is 21 knots. It is equipped with a double-mounted 135-inch /45-times diameter main gun, 16 single-mounted 4-inch /5-times diameter auxiliary guns, and 3 21-inch water fish side armor belts. It has a full 12-inch front turret armor and 11 inches, which is one of the most powerful and feared ships today.