Although the performance parameters of the German post-Cedritz patrol are closer to the fast battleship, the British media still stubbornly believe that Queen Elizabeth is the world’s first fast battleship in order to boost people’s morale.
To be honest, the Queen Elizabeth battleship is an excellent performance, highlighting the standard displacement of the battleship 2.
The design speed of the 15-ton oil-fired boiler is over 25 knots, equipped with four double-mounted 15-inch main guns, and the main armor of the turret reaches 13 inches. In early January 1915, the first ship of the Queen-class battleship Elizabeth was completed less than a month ago, and the workers of the Queen-class No.2 War-weary Davenport Shipyard worked hard to build it.
The number of the main ships of this large fleet has reached a formidable 27, including 22 dreaded ships and five cruises, while the German ocean fleet on the other side of the North Sea has only 17 dreaded ships and five cruises. At the end of January, the German eastern front launched an offensive to contain Russian forces. At the beginning of February, the six main ships of the ocean fleet, the East Baltic Sea, were blocked and deterred. At the beginning of February, the Mao Qi patrol and the German patrol were repaired, and they followed the Cedritz to conduct cruise training in the southern waters of Sweden. Now there are 13 dreaded ships in Port William and Jed Bay, and the royal navy is
Since Germany and Britain declared war on each other on April 4th, the German humiliation submarine warfare and mine warfare have caused the Royal Navy to fall into the quagmire of asymmetric warfare. On November 1st, 1914, the battleship Boldness of King George V of England was struck by thunder, and on November 26th, 1914, the former dreaded ship London Class Barricade was struck by thunder and sank in northern Scotland. On January 1st, 1915, the former dreaded ship Portland Point was sunk by a submarine. This is just the number of casualties of large ships. Busy English Channel transport lines, patrol lines of the Channel Fleet, Casualties of British light ships and merchant ships on the northern shore of Scotland at the mouth of the Thames River are common. The ocean fleet covers the German light patrol, destroyers and submarines, and even the slow-moving airship carrying a machine gun or a few 5 kg aerial bombs can chase the British to the North Sea!
It’s not that the Royal Navy is not responsible for the defense of the southern part of the North Sea in the Helgolan Bay naval battle. The surprise attack before the naval battle in Dogel sandbar interrupted the last fighting spirit of the Harriet fleet. In the battle of Dogel Shoal, the British lost two patrol boats. Even if the enemy class was unyielding and indomitable, the British fast patrol boat with a tiger class, two lions class and two enemy class patrol boats was by no means a German patrol boat. The naval battle in korol, battle cruiser has proved this point. The British lack of investigation power and lose eyes and ears. The big fleet can hand over the North Sea system.
In January, 1915, the unfavorable situation in the North Sea was finally changed. The British people lost their competitive spirit for a long time and were found again. The favorable opportunity to recapture the southern part of the North Sea and cut off the German North Sea transportation line was put on the schedule of the British Navy General Staff.
On January 26th, two Minotaur-class patrol ships of Britain’s second patrol fleet and four Warrior-class patrol ships sailed out of Scarpa Bay, swept the North Sea south and sank the third reconnaissance fleet Munich, which was patrolling the northwest waters of Rafe Shoal in Hoorns.
On February 1 ST, the battleship Weary was completed and incorporated into the first battle patrol fleet of David Betty, so that the Elizabeth Weary could form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. The British Admiralty formulated the North Sea combat cruise fleet.
On February 3rd, it was quiet for a long time, and Scarpa Bay became lively. The British decided to practice on behalf of others. Through combat cruises and low-intensity naval battles, the two Queen-class battleships formed combat effectiveness as soon as possible. So David Betty’s first battle patrol fleet re-left the port. Five battle cruises and the first patrol fleet covered the two Queen-class cruises along the Danish coastline.
"In front of the commander is the so-called 2-nautical-mile defense circle of the Germans …" Major General Lampard, deputy commander of the First World War Patrol Fleet, pointed to the foggy sea area with a little enthusiasm. "Do you want to conduct a fire reconnaissance?"
"Next time …" Betty picked up the telescope and tried to penetrate through the fog, and the young empire’s determination to the ocean waned. "This is just the first long-distance sea trial of the Elizabeth War-weary. When they form combat effectiveness, I will bravely break into the Helgolan Bay defense circle built by my old friend!"
In January, a German fleet consisting of six capital ships and seven former formidable ships suddenly blocked the Gulf of Finland, seized and sank Russian merchant ships and even made a gesture of landing in Gary Bay.
The German fleet put more pressure on the Russians than a week and a half. Before the completion of the service, Essen had the former flagship ship of the former Far East Fleet, the former Saljevic, the former Saljevic, the Russian shanzhai Glory, and the two former ships, the San Andrei Paul I, which were built after the Russo-Japanese War. The British built the Ryurik ii armored cruiser to support the facade. It was not enough for Germany to block the fleet with four former ships, five armored cruisers, four light cruises, sixty-two destroyers and twelve submarines.
In the face of such a sinister situation, the Russians had to sacrifice an iron drum array, and all the ships had to retreat to Helsinki, Tallinn base and Klangstad, and destroyers, mines and coastal guns blocked the waterway of the Gulf of Finland to prevent the Germans from landing. Two hundred thousand Russian troops were transferred and strengthened in the Baltic Sea.
Although mines blocked the Finnish Gulf waterway and got the support of the army, the feeling of failure still flourished among Russian sailors, like the most terrible plague, and the morale of the Baltic Fleet was like that of Russia’s freezing point in cold winter. Nikolai Essen, commander of the Baltic Fleet, would do nothing about it.
Good Alexander-vasilyevich-kolchak School came forward. The 42-year-old kolchak is absolutely mediocre and conservative. He graduated from St. Petersburg Naval Academy and is proficient in many foreign languages. He is a part-time hydrologist and chart expert on the Arctic Ocean expedition. He insists on active tactics to keep the German fleet as far away from the coastline as possible.
On January 26th, 1915, kolchak insisted on four iria-Muromets strategic bombers to bomb the blockade fleet.
Iria-Muromets strategic bomber is the world’s first heavy bomber with a flying speed of 137 kilometers per hour, with a maximum ceiling of 4 meters and a maximum range of 54 kilometers. The crew members are 4 ~ 4 people. iria-Muromets can install as many machine guns, equipped with driving and pilot instruments, bomb sight machines, and for the first time, the aircraft has a bomb load of 4 kilograms, and the timeout can reach 7 ~ kg. Historians recognize that iria-Muromets strategic bomber is the most powerful strategic bomber in World War I, because whether it is an enemy or an ally in World War I, it has never produced a comparable heavy bomber.
This was the first decisive battle between ships in human history. Although it predicted the end of the big ship and huge guns, the bomber’s ability was humiliated in 1915. Although the training program of the ocean fleet was compiled by Wang Haidi, there was a brand-new subject of fleet defense. However, the well-trained German gunners were not familiar with the defense, and they were still in a hurry and created several defense formations for the first time. For the first time, they adjusted the elevation of the mm high-level guns to the maximum and fired at enemy aircraft for the first time.
Four iria-Muromets strategic bombers were attacked in ten minutes, throwing a total of one ton of ammunition at the German blockade fleet and strafing with machine guns. Only the Governor of the Border had several scratches on the starboard armor, and the light patrol lifeboat Madgeburg was covered with a few feet of blood at the stern of the B-9 destroyer. Two German sailors were killed and four sailors were injured in the attack.
Although the attack failed, kolchak University was not discouraged because of the commander of the mine corps, who also had an elite mine-laying detachment and the long night in Russian winter.
The army insisted that Wang Haidi become the general commander of Albion operations, just as General hippel was nervous at the beginning of the war, and Wang Haidi had to be the commander of the first reconnaissance fleet and the commander of the Baltic blockade fleet.
Operation Albion has been going on for a month, and the boring life of the ship and the inability to stick to the Baltic fleet have made the fleet officers and men a little nervous. However, from the unique attack by the Russians, Wang Haidi saw that the polar bears were hiding and fangs were obvious. The Russians did not give up fighting back, and they were waiting in the dark.
Wang Haidi tried to hold a captain’s meeting, but in early February, the news that the first reconnaissance fleet’s battle cruise in Norwegian waters and the German patrol were about to be completed distracted him. On February 2, Wang Haidi temporarily attended the completion ceremony of the German patrol. On February 4, the Berlin naval headquarters called Wang Haidi to attend the Berlin naval high-level meeting to discuss how to deal with the recent aggressive situation of the big fleet
Wang Haidi has been busy blocking the fleet. Before leaving the ship on February 2, Wang Haidi ordered the blockade fleet not to be close to the Russian coastline, and immediately entrusted the fleet to Lieutenant General William Su Xiong, the deputy commander and the fourth battleship fleet.
This decision was logical at that time, but Lieutenant General Su Xiong failed to live up to Wang Haidi’s expectation. After February 6, this decision became the best excuse for a willing heart to deal with Wang Haidi and eventually turned into a storm.
On the morning of February 6, the intelligence department of Imperial Army learned that the Russians were secretly deploying troops from the defense forces along the Baltic Sea. Marshal Hindenburg and General ludendorff requested the blockade fleet to take strong actions to organize the Russians to deploy troops to reinforce the eastern front battlefield. Compared with Wang Haidi’s clear understanding of the essence of Albion’s actions, Lieutenant General Su Xiong was obviously a little hot-headed. He made the Fourth Battleship shell the island of West Uma on the west side of Estonia and approached the coastline to make a landing battle posture.
At noon on February 6, Wang Haidi took a supply ship and returned to the blockade fleet’s flagship Luzov. The patrol was dusty. He found that seven old battleships of the Fourth Battleship were missing and the guns were rumbling in the direction of Hiuma Island.
Wang Haidi angrily walked into the command tower of the fleet and asked Lieutenant General Su Xiong, the deputy commander who had not yet exported, to come over and handed over a newspaper with red eyes.
"General, what happened? Did the Magdeburg light patrol sink? " With a sullen face and inexplicable anxiety, Wang Haidi made a cold joke when crossing, and delayed to pick up the newspaper until General Su Xiong spit out a few words that made Wang Haidi crazy. Wang Haidi finally changed his face and growled and made a sudden snatch and took the newspaper away.
"Commander, it’s a pity that Auden’s Falklands died heroically!"
Bernhard von Auden was killed? ! Wang Haidi’s eyes were black, and his dizziness came like a flood. Rao was Su Xiong’s load of eyes failed to hold down. The command tower of Wang Haidi Luzov was in chaos, and the coastline direction faintly exploded.
A warship has been shot or struck by lightning! Wang Haidi, an experienced "veteran" who took part in two naval battles, couldn’t help but gasp at the sound.
"General, something’s wrong! The Brunswick struck a mine!"
The second gun Chapter 12 Naval political storm (1)
Chapter XII Naval Political Storm (1)
On February 1, 1915, Earl Spee’s East Asian Fleet was patrolled in the narrow channel north of strait of magellan’s Marandias port. The Bristol light patrol East Asian Fleet sank this light patrol without blowing off dust, but the exposure of its whereabouts still gave the whole fleet a bad feeling.
Sailing thousands of nautical miles from the equatorial region of the western Pacific to the southernmost tip of South America has made the warships of the East Asian Fleet go from bad to worse. Some floating algae and seashells in the hull of the ship have seriously affected the speed. Although sailors have been repeatedly organized to dive and clean up, the disadvantages of coal-fired boilers have little effect. During long-distance sailing, the attached water pipes and the sediment at the bottom of the boiler are always completely removed uninvited. Even in the best state, the highest speed of the East Asian Fleet is 24-245 knots. Now the speed of the East Asian Fleet has dropped by 23 knots. This speed is the way to get rid of Ma Zhuang, Britain and
Earl Spee and Auden had to give up their plan to attack Stanley Port in Falkland Islands, and then they used their lost steps again. After that, the Redstone light patrol passed through the force and was transferred to the Drake Strait, and the main force of the German East African Fleet sailed along the Argentine coastline to make a gesture of hunting in northern Uruguay, and immediately turned around to avoid the Falkland Islands, and broke through the vast waters in the northern Falkland Islands and headed for German West Africa.
Alone overseas, facing the British interception fleet, the officers and men of the East Asian fleet were prepared to hide in Tibet. However, the situation was earlier than the most pessimistic sailors expected, and their whereabouts were exposed before sinking the Bristol light patrol. They sailed along the Argentine coastline and then turned around, and they never got rid of the allies to spread the intelligence network composed of merchant ships, ocean-going fishing boats and patrol boats on the east coast of South America. On February 6, Major General Moore intercepted the fleet and sent a search formation across the Falkland Islands to search for the past and head-on collision with the East Asian fleet.
Encounter unexpectedly met the boundless sea, caught Spey’s fleet Moore and arranged his interception fleet with a width of more than ten nautical miles. At 1: 12 pm, the interception fleet Aulama armed ship first discovered that the East Asian fleet was converted from a merchant ship and sank at the first time, but the damn warning was still sent out.
The battle patrol Canavon, which is located near the armed ship Aulama, is reinforced by the Devon county-class armored cruiser Canavon. Although it has a standard displacement of 15 tons, the maximum speed of four 75-inch main guns and six 6-inch auxiliary guns is 22 knots, which makes it hard to shake the scharnhorst-class large armored ship head-on. At the beginning of the encounter, the flagship battle patrol of the interception fleet was besieged by the Shane Horst Gnesenau.
The 12-inch main gun with 45 times the diameter of the tireless class patrol door is really terrible. The 12-inch gun with 16 mm waterline and 1 mm main turret armor of the scharnhorst class is vulnerable in front of it. The 6-inch (152 mm) waterline with main armor and 7-inch (17 mm) turret main armor of the tireless class can resist the 42-times diameter 24 mm main gun of the scharnhorst class door in the same way.
Thousands of nautical miles turned in, several low-intensity attacks and korol naval battles made the officers and men of the East Asian Fleet run-in to an amazing level. After several rounds of shelling, the Shane Khost was only slightly injured, but the stern of the tireless patrol ship was shot with a thick smoke.
At 1: 43, the old-fashioned battleship with the old man’s asterisk rushed to the battlefield, while the large armored ship Gnesenau and the light patrol of Leipzig were tireless. The war patrol of tireless focused on the two German ships. At that time, the 12-inch main shells rained down on the scharnhorst ship, and Auden led the brave team to try to cover the light patrol of Nuremberg with a slightly thicker hull. At this time, the disaster happened. The Shane Horst was shot!
A 12-inch armor-piercing projectile penetrated the fragile waterline of the Shane Khost, tore open a crack several meters long on the starboard side, and hundreds of tons of seawater surged in. The speed of the Shane Khost suddenly slowed down, and the Gnesenau tried to rescue it. However, the British interception fleet, the New Zealand Battleship, the Defense old battleship and the Cornwall patrol, rushed to the battlefield one after another. Whether it was bernhard von Auden, the captain of the Shane Khost, or Maximilian von Spey, the East Asian fleet, all realized that the last moment had arrived.
Spee shouted for the total death of the scharnhorst ship and left the fleet commander to him to value the young man. Captain Oden of the bernhard-von Oden Shane Horst was unwilling to let a white-haired old navy bear this tragic glory for him. He stubbornly ordered the sailors to escort the stubborn old count to the Nuremberg light patrol and immediately commanded the hull to tilt a little. The fire attack indefatigable in the large armored ship tried to destroy each other.
Major General Moore saw the determination of the Shane Horst. He ordered the signalman to hang up the "Australian and New Zealand bypassed the scharnhorst ship to pursue" signal flag. The Shane Horst was handed over to the slow-moving defense and the old star battleship, but he didn’t want to set foot in hell. The scharnhorst ship hit the main mast with 24 shells.
Half of the long signal cable was cut off by flying shrapnel, and the smoke soon swelled up from the midship of the tireless ship, and the rhythm of the interception fleet became chaotic. Finally, Australia joined the battlefield to pursue it, and then it was embarrassing to find that it had no reinforcements and had to give up this effort. The captain of New Zealand began to imagine freely according to the signal flag in the middle of the smoke and unconsciously aimed the muzzle at the Shane Horst.
Major-General Moore was able to and timid. After the signal cable exposed in this interception battle was destroyed, Major-General Naimur immediately thought that the indefatigable was in danger. He needed to find the flagship again instead of repairing and replacing the signal cable or sending information in the form of newspapers. Major-General Moore approached the old man’s star battleship in a transport boat, but was told that "our ship can’t send information completely without the flagship equipment signal flag." In all cases, Major-General Naimur had to go to the New Zealand war patrol, which was enough to make the main force of the East Asian fleet escape from the pursuit range of the interception fleet.
At 11: 01, the New Zealand patrol finally hung the flagship flag of Major General Moore, the large armored ship Shane Horst, and several patrol ships, old battleships and armored cruisers finally failed to overturn.
Auden refused the British prison camp. He made all the crew abandon the ship and surrender, but turned himself into the captain’s room. On February 6, 1915, at 11: 04, the East Asian fleet Shane Horst sank, with 567 crew members, three musketeers from Kiel School in Germany and a hero, Auden School died heroically.
Auden is dead. bernhard von Auden, a domineering general who never refuses to lose, insists on aristocratic unity and pride but also attaches great importance to love and righteousness, is dead!
In 1997, Auden’s good friend Sherman was killed in the Yola Valley in German West Africa. Auden returned to the Bavarian rural farm Fridberg to fulfill Sherman’s long-cherished wish to build a childhood fantasy winery and put Sherman’s grave in the air. Wine glycol, cornflower fragrance and pine and cypress accumulated water mist to roam the hillside.
In memory of Sherman’s dead, it was Auden’s unswerving reserve for more than ten years. Even though Auden was sincere in the war years of 1914, small paper flowers and soldiers’ tears in the South Pacific were enough to comfort all life. The passing of life was not the end of friendship. bernhard-von Auden insisted on explaining this definition, but who should inherit Sherman’s friendship memory after Auden’s death? Gorgeous February 6, 1915 Who should comfort the dead in Auden, Falkland Islands? ! In the final analysis, Fridberg Winery has not yet opened the market, the tragic imperial war has not yet won, the ocean fleet has not yet won the ocean throne, and the Three Musketeers of Kiel Sea School have not yet made a name for themselves, so how can Auden leave at this critical juncture?
Holding the cold bulkhead soft, sitting on the deck of the battle patrol control tower of the Luzov, waving to the fleet staff to verify the news, Haidi narrowed her eyes and turned her heart around.
This is not the first time that Wang Haidi suffered death. Hathaway’s death in 194 made him hesitate, but that kind of unforgettable feeling is that he can’t go back to the past and can’t see through the future. In 1914, the Battle of Helgolan Bay and the Battle of Shazhou, Dogel, made Wang Haidi bite the silver teeth, but that kind of cone was biting to the bone, and it was a kind of unbearable pain to build a thick stack of death notices for the young woman in the shroud. In 1915, Auden died, and the mood was different. Auden was once his enemy and his confidant for 20 years. In 1997, the torpedo training ship in Guiya Bay was reconciled for 19 years, and the Englishman David Betty crossed the street in Beijing’s 49 cities in 192. The picture of dying on the eve of the winter wedding was like a desolate movie. Repeated playback in Wang Haidi’s mind made it difficult for Wang Haidi to breathe.
Declined the kindness of the staff officer. Haidi insisted on sitting on the deck of the cold commander tower and refused to put herself in the commander’s cabin. The suffocating claustrophobia tried to let the deck seep into her body so that the chaotic mood could return to reason.
"I am not only a good friend of Auden, but also the commander of the blockade fleet!" Wang Haidi clenched his fist and cracked his mouth. "Can the deputy commander Brunswick be saved?"
"The Brunswick is too old, and its watertight structure is not enough to fight against mines …" Lieutenant General Su Xiong obviously panicked and hesitated to tell the truth of ending his military career
The fact is that since February 1st, kolchak and his mine team will sneak out of Helsinki Harbor almost every night to take risks. The German blockade fleet may appear in the sea area. The adventure of Brekolchak succeeded. At 12: 21 on February 6th, the fourth battleship accidentally broke into the Russian mine field with only three mines. The first ship of the Brunswick-class old battleship was struck by lightning and sank, and 325 crew members were killed.
"In 1915, I expected that the opening of the year of the decisive battle in the ocean was so painful …" Wang Haidi finally loosened his fist and was full of bursting emotions. "Lieutenant General Su Xiong’s political storm began!"
The news of the Falkland Islands naval battle has broken into Charlottenburg Palace. A large scharnhorst-class armored ship will not ruin the German navy, but the incomplete East Asian fleet and the dying navy sun star still make the imperial emperor feel depressed
"something happened to the blockade fleet in the Baltic Sea …" Edward von capelle, the imperial navy minister, knocked at the door and walked into the emperor’s room.
"Oh?" Reading documents Emperor William threw a little bit of ink at the document with his right hand, and the white paper was extremely enchanting and dazzling. "Is it the capital ship?" ！”
"It’s not an old-fashioned battleship." The emperor’s words showed a vibrato, and his feelings for the ocean fleet were beyond words. On the contrary, capelle, the highest naval officer, was not as sincere as the imperial neurotic emperor. "The fourth battleship Brunswick was distributed at 12: 21 and the Renrick sank."
"There will be accidents when the blockade is difficult, just as the naval guns of the Allied countries and the marine corps in the Battle of Daniil Strait destroyed most of the fortress guns in Saidaba, but the Allied countries also lost the old battleship Giant and a light cruiser." The emperor finally breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the document that was no longer pure white and read it again.
"Although the sinking of the Brunswick is an unfortunate thing, we can help to eliminate some uncontrolled heresies of the Admiralty who always try to gain fame by taking advantage of the fleet …" capelle’s face was all scattered, and it was impossible to hide the ghosts and smiles. "For example, Heidi Selim!"
The second gun Chapter 12 Naval political storm (2)
Chapter XII Naval Political Storm (2)
"Heidi Selim?" Pick up the pen and put it back. The emperor didn’t look up and pick it up backhand. He never left his white gloves and his expression became stiff again.
William first learned this name more than ten years ago, in January 1997, when he was a favorite, Erpitz handed him a paper with a title page of less than 6,000 words and the signature Heidi-Selim.
In all fairness, Heidi Selim’s thesis is amazing compared with his age of 19. William knows that what young people say is not the inheritance and variation of the Theophile-Oberaoul-Castel Green Water Naval School. Although the viewpoint is rough and slightly immature, it is more practical than Mahanhai’s theory. This thesis is worthy but does not meet the emperor’s psychological expectations. William von hohenzollern, emperor of the German Empire, needs an imperial royal family that is full of positive challenges and the sun does not set. The navy has won the "sunshine territory" from dying imperialism, and will never live up to the status of the German Empire as a great power. This fleet should have countless huge ships and huge guns instead of reloading battleships, perfect cruisers, big airships, submarines with poor performance and Verne-type torpedoes.
I have to say that the young people’s views are quite inflammatory, which will bring unpredictable resistance to the emperor’s grand naval plan. The emperor tried to suppress the young man, Erpitz, and he shot his second-class secret to end the past.
Before the 19-year congressional appropriation hearing, Erpitz was full of pride. It was the young people who were talking and laughing. Heidi Silam became a naval hero and an assistant to the imperial secretary of the navy. The emperor was noncommittal about all this. However, after the First Naval Expansion Act, the marshal and junior officers of the naval headquarters argued endlessly, and the emperor finally had an excuse to transfer the young people from the land and let him wander around the world in Prussia and East Africa.
In 1995, when the era of dread of ships was opened by the British, Erpitz repeatedly delayed and prevented the number and time limit for the construction of Brunswick-class follow-up ships and Prussian-class battleships, and squandered William’s trust and patience again and again. It was not until the British started to build the dread battleship that the emperor figured out a little flavor by waving the stick of "British threat theory". The young man’s point of view was that Erpitz was not indifferent to the asymmetric theory for taking the fall for him, but it was his persistence and willfulness of William von hohenzollern.