Private Capello is a gunner of a 4-inch cannon on the battleship Bold. He looked at the giant cannons of the big ships with the M-flag near the battleship Bold near the port, and a heroic mood came to him.
"The strength of the big fleet far exceeds that of the ocean fleet. Why didn’t we go to the door of the German family to panic in the ocean fleet, but were driven to the desolate Swahili Bay by those German iron coffin submarines?"
The young gunner is full of complaints. He thinks that the big fleet should continue to attack the glorious system and attack the German ocean fleet with elegant posture like a medieval knight in Europe, instead of being suppressed by a young German officer named Heidi Selim and some light cruisers, lightning ships and submarines with a full displacement of no more than 5,000 tons.
"The French can’t hold on any longer. They urgently need British supplies and men. Most of the navy’s light ships have been dispatched to the Channel Fleet and the English Channel escort fiasco. The Harriet Fleet is unbearable to drive. The Far East, Mediterranean and South American fleets are firmly held back by the German overseas attack fleet. We don’t have enough strength to deal with the small, fast and smart light ships in Germany. It’s not appropriate to let the big fleet take risks and win. If we accidentally hit a torpedo or a mine, we will become eternal sinners .." The gunner came to the young gunner.
Capello was convinced by the gunner’s explanation, but he was careless. Capello didn’t hear the gunner’s whisper when he turned his back.
"Is it safe to hide in Swahili Bay …"
It seems to be a test of the gunner’s complaint that the water part of the battleship Bold was dull and the hull trembled slightly. It seemed that the boxer closed his fist and gathered strength. After a second, the boxer punched again and pierced the seawater. The reverberation in Capello’s ear instantly made him deaf. The deck of Bold shook violently, and the hull of Bold jumped one meter with a left-leaning angle. Even the water level line, the green algae seashells and a hole more than ten meters wide were clearly visible. After a few seconds, the battleship Bold slammed into the sea and splashed the water column to the deck gunner and Capello.
"Betty is not good! The Bold touched the thunder!" Lampard grabbed the telescope and rushed into the commander tower, panicked and said
The deafening cannon gradually stopped, dizzy and shaking the earth to return to peace.
At noon on November 1, 1914, a highway highland in the 100-kilometer defense line of the French province of Marne finally got a break. The German heavy artillery began to extend backward, choking smoke and flying dust gradually dissipated and flattened. The French highland suddenly fell into a strange silence before hand-to-hand combat.
"Don’t be a fucking cat in the hole!" The second-class Shi Bunidu grabbed the old Glass rifle, the vulgar Toulon dialect and sharp fists, and huddled in the anti-gun hole. The recruits kicked out of the anti-gun hole all day long. "Damn it, go back to your position and go to Germany. It’s time for the ghost to charge!"
Although I can’t hear what Bunidou said, the expression and movement of the second-class soldier are rich enough. The 19-year-old French private Dickas rubbed his deaf ears painfully and got up in a daze. In the dark, he learned that Sosso touched his antique Glass rifle and bravely ran towards the trench.
This is a highway location near the coastline in northern France. According to the plan of the French Ministry of National Defense, it will be guarded by only a small number of troops behind the security line. However, the war situation is changing rapidly. Before the war, it was declared that it would move northward to recover alsace-lorraine. The French army that occupied the Ruhr of the Rhine soon tasted that their ancestors had trembled, and the German army soon captured the French border fortress group. This coastal road instantly became a British and French garrison guarding the lifeline of the Marne River. The reserve troops of Cadiz were transferred here by the Ministry of National Defense. After the Battle of the Marne River, the German main force began to move to the coastline. After a short exchange of fire, the British and French allied forces were defeated, and this road naturally became a frontier.
The first world war was that worst war in the history of mankind. the war began only three month after France deploy the elite troops on the northern border, and the British reinforcements disappeared. the numb of casualties was enough to dwarf the Boer war. the fighting continues to this day. the definition of the regular army reserve, the first-line reinforcements, the veterans, the recruits, the French army, the British army or the Belgian residual troops has been blurred. The reinforcements were surrounded by the Germans before reaching the designated position, and inexplicably formed a first-line force to support them for three or five hours, and then the inexplicable army collapsed; The smallest statistical unit of the old barracks disappears. A new recruit with the latest Lerbe or the old glass rifle can become a veteran after a few shots. It is logical to wait for a Hamlet-style life torture.
Dickas is an out-and-out recruit. When the war broke out, he didn’t even have shooting experience today. On February 2nd, French streets and alleys were covered with famous white conscription orders. The government and politicians were incited by nationalism and revenge. Dickas, a farmer from the central basin of France, turned back and joined the reserve forces. With the tight war, after a week of surprise training, Cadiz and his comrades were rushed to the front, and their northward road was crowded with defeated British and French regular troops and Belgian remnants who had died.
When Private Dickas climbed the highway highland from the anti-inclined blasting hole, he was shocked by this scene. It seems that more than half of the 30-meter-high hills standing next to the highway have been cut off by heavy artillery shells. The reserved positions have disappeared. A company of more than 100 officers and men have disappeared. The machine guns in the bunkers have disappeared. The main peak of the undulating hills is inserted-the French tricolor flag on the highland side is fragmented.
"Don’t stare blankly. Do you want to eat German guns or what?"
Bunidu’s loud position echoed with Dickas’s borrowed shovel, which was ploughed by artillery. The position was dug up desperately, and the floating soil several feet thick was quickly cleaned up. When Dickas was determined to strike while the iron was hot, the sharp shovel seemed to cut something, and blood gushed out from the deep black land with the smell of smoke.
"ah!" The young private panicked, dropped his shovel and retreated again and again, then tripped over a stone and fell to his knees to loosen the soil.
Private abnormal shocked the second-class Shi Bunidu, who participated in the Battle of Marne River. The new veteran came over and squatted on the ground. The black soil was stained with blood, and soon he dug a warm body with blood from the eluvial soil.
It’s a young body with a green face, and Buni doesn’t change color. He doesn’t jump, sniffs and shakes his head. He spat, "erde (French equivalent to D) just died, which made me busy in vain!"
The warm wind blew too high. Not far from the body, a bunch of dusty blue irises were dancing in the wind.
"Don’t be afraid of the Germans’ heavy artillery, but we can’t do anything!" A few years older than Cadiz, the second-class Shi Buni sighed and patted him in shock. Cadiz comforted, "When calculating, the British supported us with heavy artillery. We should land in Cadiz. I swear that we will fight back with the British heavy artillery at the latest!"
"Scholars don’t need to expect that the German ghost has launched a charge and supported us. The British heavy artillery has already been buried in the belly of the fish …" Major Millay, the commander of the highway highland, came up with a cat on his waist. His eyes were full of despair. "In the morning, a German fleet raided the port of Rostock. When the German submarine took the opportunity to sneak into the main channel of the English Channel to mine mines, at 44 minutes, a British transport fleet was hit by German mines, a escort destroyer and six transport ships sank, and a British infantry battalion and a large number of materials were destroyed."
The second gun Chapter 5 British two-front war (3)
The fifth chapter British two-front war (3)
On November 1, 1914, at 3: 00 p.m., the waters near korol Port, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean.
Scharnhorst, Gnesenau, Leipzig, Redstone, and five German corvettes Spey, who rushed to meet Nuremberg, commanded the korol waters in the East Pacific to advance southward according to the search formation. At the same time, a British naval combat squadron composed of a heavy cruiser, two light cruisers and an auxiliary cruiser was also aggressive in the north.
At 3: 34, two steel fleets belonging to different camps collided head-on in the vast waters of korol. The former German Redstone cruised the British Glasgow almost at the same time and found several wisps of smoke in the southeast and northwest.
"Single-handedly, the Emden has two scharnhorst-class large armored ships in the Indian Ocean, but we sank a small French gunboat and several allied merchant ships …" Baum Garten, the watchtower of the barrel-shaped main mast at the stern of the armored ship Shane Khost, kept complaining to his colleague Gefenus while carefully searching the ocean with a high-powered telescope. "It’s a pity that this good ship is heroic!"
"Don’t be discouraged!" Gefenus patted the cold steel body of the armored ship Shane Horst proudly. "According to the intelligence of the Admiralty, there are only two old battleships and several armored cruisers in South America. Watch, Commander Spee and Captain Auden will lead the British South American sub-fleet to become the most brilliant victory in the history of our East Asian fleet sooner or later!"
Even when Baumgarten and Gefenus were busy at the watchtower, the atmosphere in the commander tower of Saudi Khost was equally relaxed and cheerful.
"The opponent is stronger than we expected …" Lieutenant General Maximilian-von Spee squinted with a pencil in his hand. "Auden, do you have any suggestions?"
At 3: 04, the Redstone light patrol sent a confirmation that the British * * ship was cruising in the waters of korol, but it was composed of four warships. The combat squadron Spee threw a pencil to the command table of the command tower, and the chart rolled several times. bernhard von Auden held down the cheerful pencil and did not laugh.
"Commander, if only that old star battleship was also in korol, then our victory would be even more brilliant!" Thirty-six-year-old Auden ignored his army as sharp as an eagle, and his eyes flashed from time to time. Limon grabbed a pencil and charted the korol area with a heavy cross. "You must know that we are not a Rodgers Twinsky mad dog fleet but a glorious and great German East Asian fleet!"
Auden, the hero of the Three Musketeers in Kiel Sea School, pushed the hat brim of the military cap.
A moment later, Count Spee’s mouth twitched faintly, and the German Admiralty was famous for its brilliant talents. An old man smiled at each other and a young man smiled at each other. Lonely and arrogant banter resounded through the commander Tatsu. A group of rigid German staff officers and deputy officials with rigorous and meaningful bones looked at each other
At 3: 47, the harsh alarm went out from the buzzer, and the well-trained sailors came out from all corners, or scurried in three steps and two steps, or galloped along the escalator slide, or jumped from the crowded and narrow pavement, or looked up from the roar engine room.
Flammable objects are turned out regardless of throwing them into the sea; A character was put back in the restaurant, and the chef was busy putting tableware and food into the beer barrel. Sandbags, plugging plugs, canvas rigging and fire-fighting appliances are placed well, and all loose appliances on the deck are tied up; The gunners and gunners who got into turrets and control towers took off their coats one after another, taking advantage of the tranquility before the war to relieve their tight muscles; Engine room Han will find out the repair machinery and wait for the German man’s most eager home!
"Five German ships and two large armored ships?" Major-General craddock turned the Glasgow light tour to watch the cold sweat flowing down his forehead and down the open collar into craddock’s heart, which was instantly condensed into frost from the fiery heat. craddock showed his pride and temperament for the first time, but his throat tightened and gave him a vibrato. "Who can tell me where the scharnhorst and Gnesenau came from?" ！”
Britain’s South America Sub-fleet has two battle squadrons, one led by Major General craddock, including the old battleship Cape of Good Hope with Old Man’s Star, the armored cruiser Glasgow with Monmouth and the auxiliary cruiser Otranto, and the other led by Major General stoddart, including the old battleship Canavon, the armored cruiser Bristol and the armed merchant ship Aulama, which are stationed on the east coast of South America. Uruguay is thousands of nautical miles away from korol.
In view of the strength of the German fleet and its isolated posture, Major General craddock has reason to be afraid. Although his flagship Cape of Good Hope has been eradicated from the German navy, the scharnhorst class belongs to the heavy cruiser, but the E class heavy cruiser is actually a quasi-battle cruiser scharnhorst class. The Cape of Good Hope is like a dwarf in Lilliput.
In 1997, Wang Haidi first came up with the concept of the perfect cruiser. Erpitz realized the potential value of the perfect cruiser. In 1994, he came up with the E-type battle cruiser shipbuilding plan, which was strongly opposed by William, the owner of the ocean fleet and the emperor with a special liking for battleships. So Erpitz had to retreat to the next excuse to develop heavy cruisers and steal the column to build a concentrated perfect cruiser. In 1995, a code-named E-type heavy cruiser was freshly released, which was the famous scharnhorst-class large armored ship.
Scharnhorst-class large armored ship is the only one in Nuo Nuo. The German Admiralty’s strong character emperor William was forced to compromise "half" the scharnhorst-class large armored ship with a full displacement of 1.
Five-ton ship with a length of 16 meters and a width of 24 meters, with a freeboard and a forecastle, has three three-expansion steam units with maximum power of 3.
The maximum speed of horsepower is 25 knots
It is worth noting that Shuang Jie Heidi Sillem and Wolfgang Wei Gena advocated that the conservative naval design department finally broke through the idea of 21 guns plus barrel multiples and shell penetration, and adopted 24-SKL/ Type 4 guns with 14 pairs of 24 guns are arranged along the center line of the bow and stern. The 15mm auxiliary guns are distributed in a diamond shape, and there are four 45mm torpedo tubes. In terms of defense, the average thickness of scharnhorst-class waterline armor is 135mm, and the average thickness of the paperback deck is 12mm at the thickest part, and it can reach 79mm at the thickest part. In a sense, the scharnhorst-class large armored ship can be shrunk. battle cruiser is just like the full displacement of the scharnhorst-class No.3 ship blucher in 1997.
The defense force of the 2-SKL/45 main gun with 2 mm double loading at Tonnage Gate is also higher than that of scharnhorst and Gnesenau, and its comprehensive strength is quite close to the first German battle cruiser-Von de Tanne.
Since Germany passed the "First Naval Expansion Act" in 19 years, the tragic German-British naval arms race drama began. Marshal Hill was full of energy, and battle cruiser threw stones to ask for directions. He successfully tested the sincerity of Erpitz’s theory of risk and relied on the powerful shipbuilding strength of the British Empire and the strong naval force (the British pocket army cried …) to stabilize Germany, but Erpitz was the minister of the navy for more than ten years. The German navy was not proud of the British people because of the naval arms race. Whenever they found that they were embarrassed, Germany can always easily catch up with the British when it has developed an epoch-making new technology and applied it to naval vessels. They put forward the theory of "cottage" to follow the trend, which is far more mature in quality or technology than the British Empire. The rectification movement of the Royal Navy Shipyard, the British intelligence department, churned out many unjust and false cases, but the German cottage business is still booming, so the British can console themselves with the speed of building ships and several "firsts"
After World War I, the British wanted to know the truth behind the arms race, but the senior officials of the German navy who knew the facts and swore allegiance to the emperor kept silent. General Reinhard von Schell, who published his memoir after World War I, had a few strokes.
"In 1995, Marshal (according to the author of Erpitz), a lifelong enemy (according to the author of Hill), started the plan to build the dread ship. After learning the news, Marshal was almost ecstatic. He reported it to the emperor. The emperor was shocked and took out the design scheme of our Nassau-class battleship in no hurry. So the emperor took no chances. I knew that since Heidi-Selim went out of the dread ship concept in 1997, Marshal instructed the technical department to secretly track down the private design draft of the technical design department and constantly improve the British to rob the United States of the first dread ship.
Although the scharnhorst-class large armored ship is worthless in front of the real patrol, it is obviously a solution in front of the craddock fleet. The main gun of craddock’s flagship Cape of Good Hope has a caliber of 234 mm, and its firing rate and artillery power are far from scharnhorst. Old-fashioned battleships with old-fashioned asterisks certainly have four 35mm cannons, but the old-fashioned asterisks are, after all, a product of the times. The hull of the old-fashioned battleships is aging, the speed of artillery is slow, and the power of ammunition is insufficient. How old are the crew members of the old-fashioned asterisks? To put it bluntly, this 10,000-ton giant ship has the ability to scare people. Momus and Glasgow are similar to light cruisers. The British light patrol suspects are not unusually persistent in defense. The German rival ship of the same class, the auxiliary cruiser Otranto, is not worth
"General, the Germans are aggressive. Why don’t we retreat first and meet the old man’s asterisk …" The captain of the armored cruiser Cape of Good Hope faltered.
"Retreat how to retreat? ！”
On January 29th, Major-General craddock turned down Major-General stoddart’s kindness to let stoddart’s fleet keep the port of Montevideo in Uruguay. Three days later, craddock’s stubborn East Asian fleet became a ridiculous and childish selfishness, from manipulating life and death hunters to killing prey and riding a tiger. craddock was angry and anxious to tear up the captain of the false military intelligence Glasgow.
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