"But the commander boys intelligence investigation seems to be wanting more." British glaire, chief of staff of the fleet, turned out the last message and wondered, "The intelligence ship in Norway also reported to Luzov half an hour ago that Betty found a large number of smoke columns on the northwest side of the first world war patrol fleet …"

"That’s Betty’s successor-two Queen-class battleships!" Wang Haidi spent an instant gazing at the chart defiled by red pens and stains, and immediately picked up the white gloves on the table. While walking to the battleship restaurant, she cocked her head and muttered to herself. She walked out of the commander tower and was one of the best naval strategies in Germany. Wang Haidi smiled at herself, relieved her locked brow, and chose to trust her own judgment in a paranoid way.
"Seven British fast capital ships strangle five German war patrol Dogel sandbar? It’s impossible that two queen-class battleships that have not yet formed combat effectiveness are Betty’s department’s aid to one or two tireless-class war patrols, and they have to rest in the middle of this month to arrive at Scarpa Bay at the earliest! "
[After reading Jutland, give me feedback so that I can adjust …]
The second gun Chapter 13 Those false sublimes (7)
[When these chapters pave the way for the plot, the number of Jutland’s combat troops was counted out. Because many warships were not in service in 1915, it is not surprising that the history of Jutland’s combat troops is different. It has been a long time since I wrote 4,000 words, although it was watered out …]
At 11: 03 noon on the 3rd, David Betty’s fast fleet was galloping south along Jutland coastline, which was a three-hour voyage from the edge of Helgolan Bay.
At lunch, the technical officers in the engine room of the British sailors lined up to go to the restaurant to eat, which ensured the sailors’ cold and physical strength in the kitchen in early spring. The food they prepared was biscuits, bread and a whole piece of chocolate, which were melted into thick coffee. The navy was always in a strict hierarchy. The officers’ restaurant had a cup of beer that Britain liked and was not strictly restricted. The middle and junior officers occasionally raised glasses with knives and forks. The fact that everyone recognized that the British navy was on the glorious road to sturm und drang.
The sailors and junior officers of the First World War Patrol Fleet were in a good mood, but the Lion patrol commander tower was another scene. At 11: 27, three Short 14 seaplanes searched the southwest and ran out of fuel, but they failed to find out that the German patrol force had to return to the mother ship Ernst as expected. David Betty was used to wearing a military cap and was a little decadent. He took out his pocket watch from time to time to measure the distance between the fast fleet and the deep end of the sea.
"Old friends are not afraid to let the interception battle of swallowing mountains and rivers turn into a pale pursuit battle …" Betty seems to remember what the direction of Scarpa Gerakl Strait is flustered and made a fork. After bending over the chart with a pencil to calculate the distance of William Canal in Oran Sea for a long time, Betty spit out the pencil in her mouth and drew a dotted line from Oran Sea to Jutland coastline. "Lampard Scarpa Bay still has no information about the ocean fleet going to sea?"
Germany and Britain have done their homework for the possibility of a European war before the war, and both sides have deployed enough eyes and ears in the home port and waterway of the other fleet. Both sides are well aware of this and try their best to sweep and kill the hidden spies of the other side. The remaining main fleet usually chooses to go out to sea late at night to ensure the concealment of sailing, but this can also delay the confirmation and sending of information by spies.
According to the usual practice, Betty should receive the information of whether the ocean fleet attacked late at night in the morning, but it was almost noon, expecting the information to come.
"If Selim wants something, the ocean fleet will never be indifferent!" Betty asked Osmond Brock, the chief of staff, to explain to Major General Lampard, the good deputy commander. "Does the commander want to break the line and ask the fleet command?"
"It’s not so wonderful that we take the initiative but shrink from the strength of West Lyme!" Betty caressed the crooked cap and threw a pencil in her hand. With it, she rolled to the middle of the chart in Beihai, noncommittally saying, "I’m afraid the naval headquarters of the ocean fleet is also confused …"
At 12: 12 noon on the 3 rd, Jellicoe rushed the big fleet to the middle of the North Sea
This is a powerful and fragile steel fleet.
It is powerful because this fleet has 20 dread ships, which not only makes the old naval powers such as France, Russia and Italy hide their faces, but also envies the ocean fleet. The famous battleship dread has been in the limelight for a while. Two giant battleships, such as Bellerophon, Saint Vincent and Neptune, the battleship of the ancestor hunting seat of the super dread ship, and the battleship of King George V equipped with a 15-inch main gun. This steel fleet has a ballistic computer and a fire shooting director. The iron duke class is piled up at will.
It’s not that the British are arrogant. You know, the big fleet is not alone. It is accompanied by an armored cruiser, a light cruiser, 52 destroyers, six auxiliary cruisers and a seaplane carrier.
Major General Robert Abbas Lott’s first patrol fleet-Rear Admiral L-Heath’s second patrol fleet-the former has two Edinburgh-class patrol ships, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Heitai, two warrior-class patrol ships and the Achilles, while the latter has two Milotao-class patrol ships, Shannon, two warrior-class patrol ships, Cochrane and Natal, who are responsible for supporting and covering the fourth patrol fleet of Brigadier General Le-messier, two Burhan-class light patrol ships, Adelaide and Nottingham. -J-INR Naval Academy commands the 4th destroyer fleet, J-R-Commodore Kley’s 11th destroyer fleet, and Major J-Irling commands the 12th destroyer fleet, with a total of 51 destroyers, including three reconnaissance cruisers, the Blonde, the Blanche and the Goddess of War, the flagship transport ship of the fleet, the Oak destroyer, and six crew members to rescue the auxiliary cruiser, the Royal Ark, the seaplane carrier.
Of course, before paying tribute to this fleet, no one can deny that it is weak. The Royal Navy is afraid of the fleet’s large number of main guns and strong firepower, but its defense strength is really not flattering, and it is not only one meter higher than the waterline. The hardened main armor covers an area of 1-12 inches. The front armor of the 11-inch turret is 9 kilometers away, which is almost impossible to resist the first-class main guns of the German capital ship, and 9 kilometers is the standard of naval warfare in the era of fear of ships. The tragedy goes far beyond the excessive pursuit of the caliber of the main guns. Quantity of Side Firepower The British are generally afraid of the ship’s hull, and the design and protection ability of watertight compartments have been weakened repeatedly. On November 1, 1914, the British King George V battleship Bold was sunk by only one mine, which is the embodiment of the lack of defense of watertight compartments.
Although the Royal Navy people have always trusted their warships’ firepower and Poseidon care, this confidence has been greatly reduced in both temperament and connotation. Just as Jellicoe agreed in principle that the stormy Admiralty would advance together and retreat together, he did not dare to delay the battle of strangulation of the first reconnaissance fleet into a decisive battle that would determine the situation in the North Sea!
"Signal intelligence? Hall doesn’t know that this is a rapidly changing war. Omission and lag may lead to eternal consequences? " Germany and Britain are among the top scientific and technological powers to prevent the Germans from secretly arranging some line interception directional search devices on the coastline of Jutland to give play to the royal navy’s habit of keeping the line silent during navigation, that is, being able to receive and not send newspapers
The command tower of Iron Duke, the flagship of the big fleet, was waiting for the nickname "signal light" with anger. William R-Hall, the director of naval intelligence, vowed to provide intelligence support.
Although the ocean fleet has considered the secret problem, it is refreshing to sneak out of Jed Bay at night to avoid the British. If Jed Bay talks about it in the morning, it can’t stop the British spies from rioting. At 7: 35 pm on the 3 rd, it was confirmed that the British spies sent out the information that "the main force of the ocean fleet was sailing late at night."
The newspaper was received by Captain Jackson of the Naval Intelligence Department. It is said that this man "despises all civilian scholars and decoding experts". He quickly walked into Room 4 with the newspaper and asked the cryptographer "Where is the flagship calling code of the German fleet?"
The deciphering experts spread out their hands, so he turned and left quickly, refusing to stay with the "civilian" for one more minute. When Captain Jackson returned to the office, he made a brief analysis report on the situation according to his own understanding and prepared to give it to Hall, the director of naval intelligence. At 1 pm, just after he went out, Captain Jackson was shocked by a shocking news.
The British-French joint fleet suffered a fiasco in the Mediterranean, and the news leaked that the streets of Greater London were rapidly flowing. Winston Churchill, Minister of the Navy, and Sir Arthur Wilson, Minister of the First Sea, submitted his resignation to the Prime Minister ten minutes ago!
Chaos and Vertigo The naval headquarters has suffered an unprecedented fiasco, which has made the Royal Navy’s inefficiency and confusion worse for a long time. Captain Jackson held up the moldy wall in the dark and humid aisle of the admiralty for a long time before he digested the news. He remembered his duties and set foot in the office of Minister Hall. As a result, he was told that General Hall had attended an emergency meeting of the National Defense Commission and was driven out of his wits. Captain Jackson had to hand over the information and analysis report to the naval staff in accordance with the normal procedures of the British Empire.
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"Commander, we have penetrated into Helgolan Bay for 2 nautical miles!" Unfamiliar sea areas may encounter mine fields and marginal pressure of submarine ocean fleet at any time, so Major General Lampard can’t wake up carelessly.
Betty hesitated for a moment and agreed to Lampard’s subtext. At 15: 05, the huge first battle patrol fleet began to turn around and search for the north at a speed of 2 knots.
Dozens of warships lifted a number of messy halos on the ocean surface of Helgolan Bay, and the vast soup went north into the handshake, and the hands of the pocket watch flew away. In a blink of an eye, it was another murderous hour. The first world war patrol fleet still failed to find a small sampan with a German iron cross and a black hawk flag.
"It is impossible to judge the main position of the ocean fleet. It is expected that the first reconnaissance fleet has not yet appeared, and the third reconnaissance fleet does not defend the Helgolan Bay!" The success or failure of the campaign planner was honored by David Betty, who was attached to the ocean, and the arrogance of the British Empire’s century-old national movement navy was disguised as indifference. Finally, it was torn apart by bursting emotions, and the pressure of Helgolan Bay was unscrupulously vented. All the pressures converged on the fist and then smashed the armored wall of the 11-inch commander tower. "Damn Germans? ！”
Frozen hands split apart, enchanting blood seeped through the pure white gloves, and deputy Lampard hurriedly called the medic. At this moment, the Lion towering watchtower came as a refreshing news.
"Four light cruises with a distance of 2 yards were found in the northwest, and it was judged that it was four Bremen-class light cruises!"
"It is the third reconnaissance fleet! It is the third reconnaissance fleet! " Handkerchief hastily covered Betty’s hand wound. Major General Lampard unconsciously looked up with a face of agitation.
"The Hill Gang is reserved, the Royal Navy is honored, and the Secretary of the Navy knows how to meet him. At 15: 43 on March 3, 1915, David Betty will reinterpret the lofty definition!" Betty left her head and heaved a sigh of relief. The bottom of my heart was inexplicable. She immediately turned to the commander tower fleet staff and said angrily, "The first world war patrol fleet rushed over to destroy them and destroy them! I don’t mind trying a light appetizer before strangling the West Lyme fleet! "
The second gun Chapter 13 Those pseudo-sublimes ()
Beihai has always been a rich sea, coveted by ambitious nations. Hundreds of years ago, a long journey to explore the new continent and new routes began here. Hundreds of years of world wealth have gathered here; Hundreds of years later, the cod still buried the treasure and the sunken ship still competed for the North Sea, but the sea coachman fell the Gaul cock, and no one knew who would be the first to fall in Germany and Britain, which were wrestling in the North Sea.
At 15: 44 on the 3rd, the Germans on the south side of Dogel Shazhou made every effort to build this uninhabited water area in the essence of the ocean fleet. Beihai is the throne of the North Atlantic, and the gong is about to ring!
"From the northwest side of Dogel sandbar to the outer waters of Helgolan Bay, there are many British ships spinning around. General Selim predicted that the British would take a shortcut right in front of us and go home. It will be half an hour before the British will encounter our patrol fleet. If the British dare to be stubborn, everyone will give them a big surprise. If the big fleet wants to join in, we will go there and take a little look and scratch their creaky nests."
The chilly sea breeze slaps the steel hull of the flagship battleship frederick the great, and the sailors whisper to each other through the cold wind. If there is any, the navy of Rheinhardt Schell will spread his ears, and the corners of the mouth of the vast North Sea will unconsciously involve a little smile. You must know that behind him are not only sixteen dreaded ships, but also three Prussian-class old battleships Hanover, Silesia and Schleswig-Holstein, the first patrol fleet, and five patrol Luen. York, Prince Albert of Bismarck Heinrich, four destroyers of the Fourth Reconnaissance Fleet patrol Hamburg, Flawn, Lobstuttgart, Berlin, the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh destroyers patrol Gazelle, 32 destroyers, three auxiliary cruisers, a seaplane carrier and five Led Zeppelin.
Prussian-class front-dreaded ship, although the hull boiler can run out of a waterline with a speed of 24 mm at most, the actual defense force of the main armor is not satisfactory, but there is still room for the fire support of the 23-L4 main gun to exert its residual heat; The first patrol fleet is all old armored cruisers, but the ocean fleet is more than enough; The carrier of the Peter-Strasser seaplane refitted from a fast tanker can only carry four seaplanes due to the size of the hull, which can be five Led Zeppelin feet strong and time-delayed.
In general, this is a fleet that is the overlord of the sea in some aspects-the Royal Navy has surpassed it on a par.
First of all, German warships have always attached importance to the theory of performance, whether it is Nassau, Helgoland Bay, which is a latecomer, or Caesar, which has the largest number and excellent performance. Their waterline armor thickness exceeds the caliber of the British main gun, that is to say, the German 35 main guns can penetrate the British people’s intentions, and even the waterline with the main armor reaches the prehistoric level of 13 inches Queen Elizabeth, while the British can’t penetrate the German main ship at the same distance.
In addition, the quality of young ocean fleet sailors is not worse than that of the Royal Navy. The excellent artillery damage ability of officers and men of Dogel Shazhou naval battle and West Lyme fleet in the night battle once surprised the mighty Royal Navy, but the British did not seem to deeply realize this.
Of course, the disadvantages of the ocean fleet are also obvious. The caliber of the main guns of the ocean fleet is far inferior to that of the British. There are 1 12-inch main gun, 6-inch main gun and 4 15-inch main guns, while the German ocean fleet has 32 2 2 guns, 2 35 main guns and 32 35 mm main guns. The main gun ratio is 2: 146, and the ratio of 15-inch main guns is very 4!
In addition, there is a serious shortage of light ships in the ocean fleet. Because Kaiser William was bent on building a main fleet strong enough to save face in front of his British relatives, the German Admiralty had to put all its energy resources on the main ship when the war broke out. Except for two defined warships, scharnhorst-class one quasi-war patrol blucher, the ocean fleet had almost no modern armored cruisers to drive, and the number of light cruisers was also stretched.