"The navy is facing seven seas and seven seas for hundreds of years without losing the Royal Navy. However, your weakness is stronger than your strength, which makes the proud British people repeatedly frustrated; The army turned a quick victory into a terrible protracted war! According to Schrieffen’s plan, the army will strive to defeat France on the central and western fronts in six weeks, and then turn around to deal with Russia. At the beginning, everything went smoothly. We captured Belgium and won the border war. The French army lost 30,000 people and lost the northern region. Then the army was in full swing in the Battle of the Marne River, but General Mao Qi was carried away by victory and glory. Some troops were transferred to East Prussia, but the army lost in the Battle of the Marne River, which caused the western front battlefield to fall into the quagmire of positional warfare .. "
"General, maybe we can talk about it in the car."
There are still star battles on the eastern front. hippel denied that Major General ludendorff stopped them in order to strengthen the naval and army friendship port. The sea breeze was dry and cold. hippel pulled the black military car door and drank a white water vapor at ludendorff.
A few cigarettes were scattered on the car door and window, a few heavy smokers were smoking, and finally there was a little more heating and smoke in the narrow carriage. Major General ludendorff picked white gloves and held them in his hand.
"The army should reflect on the two-front war. Which side should we focus on? Falkenhayn, the chief of staff, thinks that Russia has a vast territory and it is impossible to defeat it. Napoleon’s crusade is the best example. The army should focus on the western front and try its best to solve the problems of British and French Prime Minister Bateman-Hollwich, Austria-Hungary chief of staff Kong Lade and General Hindenburg. I don’t think so. Since the western front has entered a stalemate, it is better to try its best to end the eastern front and force Russia to quit the fighting."
"Although I don’t know the army …" History idiot Wang Haidi frowned slightly and followed his personal knowledge euphemistically. "The idea of giving up the western front battlefield makes me uneasy. Britain and France are not weak Russia. Although the poor mobilization mechanism made them suffer heavy losses in 1914, once they were given a break, they could easily arm millions of troops."
"No, Russia is the weakest country in the Tripartite Pact. They have a long front with us, Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire in the North Caucasus. We should crush Russia with medium strength, force a separate peace, and let the vacillating Balkan countries join us. Let’s end the second-line war and concentrate on dealing with Britain and France! Although some adventures are worth a try! "
Ludendorff took out a crumpled map from his pocket, pressed his hands against East Prussia and Austro-Hungarian Silesia, and finally closed the Polish hinterland.
"At that time, the northern line troops will be ready to attack Brest, and the German-Austrian Coalition forces will attack Lyme Fort. The two sides will be closed and the Russian main force will be surrounded by the’ Polish pocket’!"
"What can I do for the Navy?" There is no room for ambiguity about the army’s new strategic navy man Wang Haidi.
"The army hopes that the main force of the ocean fleet will attack the coastal areas of Russia’s Baltic Sea to contain Russian troops!" Ludendorff will finger move according to the Russian heavily guarded St. Petersburg ease way
"Well …" Wang Haidi seems to forget that he is just vice admiral sitting beside him. General hippel is the commander of the fleet. His fists in his pockets are tight and his body is stiff. He stares at the direction of Port William in a freehand way. "Before the navy is duty-bound, the army can say that Hugo von Bohr will."
"Mr. Bateman-Hollwich, General Hindenburg can talk about General Bohr." ludendorff hurriedly put on white gloves and pushed the car door, and the biting cold surged in, accompanied by ludendorff’s pleading. "However, I hope that the feint operation of the Baltic Sea of the ocean fleet will be planned and commanded by General Franz von hippel, the most outstanding tactical commander of Heidi Selim, the most outstanding strategic genius of the German Navy."
It is not difficult to say that Hugo von Bohr is conservative. The difficulty is that if the real master of the ocean fleet, the imperial emperor William, is assured by hippel and Wang Haidi, Major General ludendorff will jump into the train to Berlin in a hurry and the black military vehicles will start again.
"what advice do you have for that Baltic feint?" Franz von hippel leaned against the back seat of the car and his cold face was full of Gherardini.
"Let Count Spee’s East Asian Fleet go to German West Africa and then take several ocean-going submarines to the Mediterranean Sea in Jeancard-Deng Nici?" Wang Haidi’s military vehicle window isolated the bleak winter scenery on the outskirts of Hamburg to high-spirited way
The second gun Chapter 10 Preparing for Winter (4)
Chapter 10 Preparing for Winter (4)
The Battle of East Prussia in 1914 exposed the weakness of the two-headed eagle and the delay in fighting the situation on the western front. Former Imperial Prime Minister Bateman Hollwich, Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff Olakon and the commander of the eastern front suggested to the high command of the Emperor that the focus of the war should move eastward.
The decision-making process is not difficult. In Frederick’s time, Prussia once dealt with France, Austria and Russia with one hand, as crazy as karl xii, the king of Sweden. Strangely, frederick the great actually won, and the first multi-bone Miller card was a reincarnation of Russia. The Germans once again fought against the world military commander, and the nightmare hope was poured into the polar bear.
Stockpiling materials on the western front and mobilizing the main forces to the east with the help of the developed railway network will soon be completed in the spring of 1915, and hundreds of thousands of troops from Germany and Austria-Hungary will launch an offensive from the Baltic Sea to the distant Carpathian Mountain.
Bohr will say that the imperial emperor William always has a confused feeling when facing the British, but if the road ahead of the cross-German chariot is weak, the inferiority deeply rooted in Russia will become a kind of courage.
With the raising of the Z-flag in Dongxiang Pinglang and the cry of "The Fate of the Imperial Kingdom", the Baltic Fleet was annihilated by the Ma Haixia Army. Although the Russian was the highest in the shipbuilding competition in the fear of ships, the polar bear’s poor economy could not support their huge shipbuilding plan after all. At the end of 1914, the Baltic Fleet had only four designed displacements of 2.
36 tons, designed speed of 23 knots, equipped with four pairs of 35 mm main guns, Gangu Super-dreaded Ship has just been completed, and its combat effectiveness has a long way to go. There were a few old-fashioned battleships and cruisers left in the once famous Baltic Fleet, millions of standing troops, inexhaustible human resources, thousands of kilometers of strategic depth, and terrible winter. Once the European roller was still daunting, but who remembers its navy?
The army said almost effortlessly that erich Lei Deer, the War Department of the General Staff of the Admiralty, planned a feint operation codenamed "Albion". The fifth detachment of the third battleship team had four king-class battleships, the Devlinger and Luzov cruises, the fourth reserve fleet had five Witschel-class pre-feared ships and two Brunswick-class pre-feared ships, the second reconnaissance fleet had five light cruises and the Baltic Fleet had three light cruises. Three auxiliary cruisers, four destroyer fleets, one light patrol leader and forty destroyers, one submarine detachment, six submarines, eleven mine-clearing and supply ships, totally four main ships, seven pre-feared ships, nine light cruisers and three auxiliary cruisers. Fifty-seven light fleets will take part in the deterrent action against Gary Bay, Kranstadt Port and St. Petersburg in Russia in the spring of 1915.
From the navy to the fleet size and the entire Admiralty, it can be said that six capital ships and seven former ships have spared no effort to destroy the Baltic Fleet. What’s more, the Albion Action Ocean Fleet Baltic Combat Cruise Training Plan does not conflict, and the deterrent fleet can increase its strength at any time.
However, the army is not satisfied with this. Look at the wishful thinking of the Admiralty. The Fifth Battleship Unit has just formed two patrol ships, both of which are new warships. The Fourth Battleship Team is a reserve fleet. The old ships have been mobilized for many years, and the officers and men have been sparse for a long time. Sixty light warships look scary, but most of them are in The Prince Henry’s hands. Although loose woman has a long-standing meritorious military service, the second reconnaissance fleet can tell everything.
"The navy will not be perfunctory!" Major-General ludendorff tightened his armed belt and fell asleep in the war room. Marshal Paul von Hindenburg joked, "Fortunately, I got Lieutenant General Heidi Sillem, the most strategic vision and courage of the navy, into the deterrent fleet!"
Marshal Hindenburg, nicknamed "British Commander" by the officers and men of the first regiment, seemed to be awakened. The pocket watch given to him by Queen Elizabeth slipped out of the thick marshal and staggered in the cold air.
"Well done!" The gray-haired old marshal cleared his throat, grabbed the marshal’s staff and slowly got up. He said to the energetic deputy, Gu Jing, "I’ll leave it to you here. I’ll go back and catch up on the winter in East Prussia. It’s really terrible!"
In the spring of 1915, the offensive was imminent. However, Hindenburg, commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army, was not concerned about the preparations for the war. Max Hoffman, deputy chief of staff of the Eastern Army High Command, looked at Nai ludendorff’s stall owner, but Nai silently read his diary and wrote something.
"will a truly capable person happen to be a marshal?"
Young people nag and complain that if if if it floats up, Marshal Hindenburg will walk out of the door when he is old and paused. He looked up and looked at the map of the inner sanctum, and his turbid eyes flashed a subtle sharp-edged light. Hesitation way
"The army and the emperor can’t let the navy do their best. Is it that the Royal Fleet’s high seas fleet peak battle was in 1915? ！”
Ihausen, a suburb of Munich, Germany
Without the emperor, the admiralty, the opposition pressure, the powerful royal fleet, and the temperament, he is three points in appearance and seven points in similarity. John Abbas Nott Hill "forever" Marshal Alfred von Erpitz retired simply and easily.
Leaves and fine snow accumulated in the garden. The old marshal was trimmed and moved back from the office of the Secretary of the Navy in Berlin. He picked up the potted plants and reading glasses. After putting the door aside, the shovel leisurely went out to clean up the annoying snow. At this time, the small white fence door of the garden was pushed, and a naval officer with the rank of admiral came in.
"Maria, we have guests!" The black shepherd dog came out of nowhere and greeted the soldiers excitedly. Erpitz leaned on the shovel and wiped his forehead with fine sweat. He turned to his wife in the kitchen and shouted, "It’s Reinhard Schell!"
Take off the white gloves and hang the thick army clothes rack. It is known as a brave and ruthless name. General Reinhard Schell, commander-in-chief of the ocean fleet, came to the fireplace in the living room to heat the warm fire and freeze his rough hands.
After a while, Mrs. Maria August Ripak, wearing an apron, came out of the kitchen with a cup of afternoon tea and a small plate of steaming toast, and Schell gave a German kiss.
"Is everything all right?" Soldiers meet and chat for less than a few words, and eventually they have to shift to military affairs and war. Marshal Jun Erpitz sits on the sofa and turns his head and casually asks.
"The Army put its focus on the eastern front and cooperated with the staff of the Army Offensive War Section to plan the deterrent action codenamed Albion." Schell was obviously a frequent visitor to Erpitz’s family. He trotted over and lay down on Schell’s trouser leg. Schell scratched the fluffy hair of the shepherd dog and easily leaked the top secret of the navy. "Although the ocean fleet exhibited voyage training in the Gulf of Finland every few years, we also conducted a deterrent action against Japan in 1995, but after all, we lacked the experience of deterring and blocking a naval power .."
"Well, it seems that you have a plan." Erpitz lifted the lid of celadon teacups from the Far East, and the tea fragrance filled the room. "Although the old guy in hippel hated each other for many years, he had to say …"
"What?" White water vapor rising through the wind, Scheer couldn’t see Erpitz’s face clearly, and the hero asked.
"I want to say that Winston Churchill is nothing without Hill!" Erpitz suck up a mouthful of strong tea meaningful way
Four cutting-edge capital ships of the ocean fleet entered the Baltic Sea. This is not an anecdote. Compared with the raging waves, the Baltic Sea is obviously a good place for training in winter. It is strange that five light patrols, two destroyers and a submarine detachment of the Second Reconnaissance Fleet have also entered the Baltic Sea.
After the outbreak of World War I, the main force of the ocean fleet, Yunbeihai, left behind the Baltic Sea, which was composed of old ships and rearmed the fourth reserve fleet. Although The Prince Henry’s Baltic Sea fleet was a little old, it was more than enough to deal with the weak consequences. The light ships of the ocean fleet went to the Baltic Sea obviously not to maintain world peace but to fight!
The spies lurking in the German Allies acted to disperse the intelligence summary, and combined with the situation that the German army strengthened the troops on the eastern front, the naval intelligence officials of the Allies reached a ridiculous conclusion that the Germans were going to land on the coast of St. Petersburg, the most economically developed country in Russia!
The naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel is not enough to shake the advantage of the Royal Navy. The first ship of the Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleship, the Elizabeth, has been completed, and the second ship, the War-weary, will be completed in January. In the spring of 1915, the big fleet will have 23 dreaded ships and five patrol ships. How dare the Germans send their main fleet to the Baltic Sea and land in Russia?
The Russian were terrified because their Baltic fleet was impenetrable; The Italian who was eager to move panicked and handed out an olive branch to the Allies. The officers and men of the big fleet shouted that the pride of the British Empire and the Royal Navy was greatly insulted. The Imperial Admiralty breathed a sigh of relief and surrounded Spey’s fleet. The battle plan was about to reach the Daniil Strait. The ocean fleet moved eastward to the Royal Navy. However, no one noticed that at the end of 1914, more than 12 offshore submarines were dismantled and put into the narrow Adriatic Sea by land.
On the night of December 1914, Helgolan Island
The dim light of the dock can’t dispel the dark night in the North Sea like ink. The submarine soldiers took advantage of the boundless night to carry supplies to the submarine. Major Otto Weddigen, who was honored as "the king of submarines" in the allied newspapers, patted Captain Carl Deng Nici’s shoulder novels carelessly.
Through the cold wind, Weddigen mumbled intermittently. Just "sneak attack on the anchorage of the Mediterranean fleet" and "flexible wolf tactics" are enough to make everyone have a wonderful daydream
"Does the general have anything to tell you?" Wang Haidi limited historical knowledge base to leave a dragonfly water "Wolf King" Deng Nici came along seriously.
"Go and turn the Mediterranean fleet over!" Wang Haidi’s answer was concise enough to make Deng Nici’s heart beat faster.