Chapter 303 Battle

The Royal British Empire Navy, which was preparing for a morale battle, has encountered many big troubles recently. On the Western Front battlefield on the land, there is still no breakthrough progress, and the Navy still needs to make some decent achievements to block the mouths of the media and attackers.

Of course, the Germans wanted to go further than them. After a passive victory, the top leaders of the Navy also received praise no less than the heat of this summer when the summer came. The stars here are Schell and Reinhardt.

In addition to awarding him a medal adorned with leaves and an honorary title related to place names that can be recorded in history, Emperor Scher also specially granted the naval officer from the middle and lower class the honor of adding the word "Feng" to his surname. Although General Scher was very happy with this honor, he still did not change his surname. In his own words, he would accept this grace when only the German fleet in the North Sea was proudly cruised.

His rank was promoted from Lieutenant General to Admiral, which made him the most dazzling new star in the navy. It also faintly made General Ingnoll, the commander of the High Seas Fleet, feel a little jealous. His deputy, General Boer, occasionally showed some similar emotions, so he often reminded his superiors on some less important occasions whether he should establish new merits. Of course, this time, he would exclude the glowing friend.

Schell's current position is the commander of the Battlecruiser Fleet. After he was promoted to general, it was obviously a bit out of place to serve as such an important squadron commander. However, no adjustments were made to his position this time, and it was obvious that he had given some face to the High Seas Fleet Command. If he wanted to continue to maintain these faces, General Ingnoll also felt that it was not enough to just not make mistakes.

Therefore, he was more involved in the intense preparations than ever before. He even approved one or two risky attack plans, but the decision-making power in time was still in his hands. Now it is definitely not a good time to attack. After a setback, the British might be waiting for the opportunity to come to the door. Of course, they would also actively look for fighter jets to regain their faces. If such a thing happens, General Ingnoll feels that such an opportunity can no longer be left to Schell.

So he also adjusted the fleet's command system in the summer. General Scher was promoted to the new position of deputy commander of the High Seas Fleet. After negotiations, the headquarters did not appoint a new full-time commander to the Battle Patrol Squadron, but was directly commanded by the headquarters.

When the summer was at its hottest time, General Ingnoll received excellent news, which seriously supported his judgment of the British - they were eager to find opportunities to make face, and were almost crazy.

On August 19, 1912, news came from the outer defense line of the submarine that, outside the Netherlands, a patrol formation composed of three submarines, U-9, U-7, U-4, discovered three British armored cruisers Cresey, Hug and Abukier during patrol. After a period of tracking and concealing, when approaching night, he used the cover of night to sank the three British warships with torpedoes.

The Fleet Command's celebration party was held for three consecutive days to celebrate the achievements of sinking three British cruisers. This also made many officers speculate whether the celebration party would be held for four consecutive days if the next time they sink four ships?

This was just a joke, but the shocking news that followed made them fall to their knees and thank God, you are so kind to protect the great Germany.

Perhaps some officers had not recovered yet. When the ink marks on the submarine's credit book were not completely dry, it was only on August 25, 1912, when it was almost 8 o'clock in the morning. When the British, who seemed to be blinded by hatred, they actually dispatched a luxurious queue of seven super fearless battleships that had originally planned to go out to sea to train and cruise to pursue such a poor German ship.

Of course, they didn't know in advance that this German ship was just a Berlin, a Berlin, modified from an old cruise ship. If they had known it before, they could even avoid the next tragedy.

The battleship formation with Captain Hundreds as the flagship was coming in the direction of the small German ships. They didn't know what the German ship was doing, so of course they didn't notice that the hundreds of black egg balls that had just been laid from the mother ship on the channel were swaying with the waves under the fog. Shortly after leaving the port, the luxury battleship formation received a new direction of the German ships rewarded by the airline. The flagship Captain Hundreds, the flagship Hundreds, the Bold, George V, the Orian, the Monarch Hundreds, and the Thor six subsequent ships followed the flagship to turn a beautiful big bend on the sea, and several white routes were generated on the water.

At this moment, the tragedy happened, and after turning, the Bold seemed to have encountered something. The people on the deck heard the dull impact from underwater, but it didn't sound like an explosion. So the cautious British began to check, but they forgot an important thing - closing the watertight door.

One of the hundreds of mines laid here by the Berlin, the muffled perpetrator, not only deceived the British, but also exploded the port cabin of the Bold, the behemoth, and made the waterproof diaphragm lose its due role. Just as the British began to inspect, the port cabin began to violently enter.

Captain Brigadier General Dampeer discovered this problem. The Bold had already begun to tilt seriously. In order to maintain balance, he had to order the corresponding part of the starboard side to fill the starboard side and drive at full speed to try to drive back to the home port to grab the beach before completely sinking. However, since the port side cabin was completely abandoned, the maximum speed of the entire ship could only reach 9 knots, and it was already very difficult to maintain the balance of the warship at this time.

Helplessly, after asking the fleet and the large fleet, Dampeer ordered the abandonment of the ship with tears and all the crews evacuated to the friendly ship. After more than three hours of struggle, the unlucky Dabang gave up his final efforts. After the efforts and help of various ships supported by the shore defense direction failed, the last remaining crew also announced their departure, and finally sank at around 17 o'clock that day.

This super fearless battleship worth more than 2 million pounds declared its withdrawal from the battle sequence of the British Empire's Royal Navy under the influence of a mine worth less than a mark. The culprit of the incident, the Berlin, had already escaped from the tracking, and after leaving all the mines, he successfully returned to Germany.

That night, the base of Wilhelmshaven, the sunken high seas fleet, was filled with joy from a secret channel. This summer they left a profound lesson for the British, and they had not lost a large ship. This was the victory of the navy, and the two commanders were also very happy that the radiant Admiral Schell was not the direct creator of this contribution.

The British side was naturally blind. The angry Jelico directly asked Dampeer to go back to his hometown. He was under enough pressure. While the bastards in the Admiralty were waiting to see their jokes, this stupid subordinate helped create one. Is there anything more difficult to tolerate than this?

This bad summer is over! For the Royal Navy, it is a summer cursed by God.

But if General Jelico could take out even a little energy from the accusations of the storm of the storm and the constant emergence of the local fleet to pay attention to the things on land, he would find that Mr. God was definitely not just the Royal Navy, but the other object seemed to be even worse.

That was the most miserable country in the world - the once glorious Russian Empire.

The rewards received by General Hindenburg and his assistants after seeing His Majesty the Emperor were naturally essential, but the order of His Majesty the Emperor to intentionally transfer them to the Western Front, which they judged in advance did not appear so quickly, and the words that Rudendolf had thought of did not come in handy. His Majesty praised their achievements gently and also worriedly raised the Western Front, but seemed to take care of the face of the little Moltke who met at the same time. His Majesty quickly turned his mind and talked about the issue of the Eastern Front again. The news received by the German Emperor showed that the comprehensive mobilization of the Russian Empire had begun. In just half a year, more than 900,000 new recruits had been incorporated into the army. Now, in the direction that East Prussia has to face, from Poland to Lithuania, from Warren to Riga, on the long front, the Russians had already hoarded an army of one.7 million.

On the eastern direction of the Russians, they also hoarded more than 600,000 troops on the front line of Yekaterin Arbor. The comprehensive mobilization of the entire Russian Empire has tapped out all the war potential of this empire. Although only 800,000 soldiers in this huge army with a number of 2.3 million people in the front-line war zone can hold a rifle. However, this huge number can still shock General Hindenburg.

Yes, even if they don’t have guns, they will be obedient to capture you, but you have to use the troops to guard them and you have to let them eat something. It is really an exaggeration to provide hundreds of thousands of prisoners for free.

In his hands, there were only the Eighth Army and the Guards Reserve Army that were reinforced later, and two Chinese divisions, with a total of only 200,000 people. To deal with the 1.7 million troops opposite, he felt for the first time that he and Ludendorff had basically determined the goal of another battle on the Eastern Front.

William II seemed to see through his worries. After a burst of laughter, he brought good news to Hindenburg like God. His Majesty the Emperor told the star-studded general in the army that he had been appointed commander-in-chief of the German and Austrian coalition on the Eastern Front, and that the Austrian army would have three armies close to half a million for him to use.

This is the price that Austria is willing to pay. As long as the Slavs get out of the way, they are willing to pay more.

So at the moment when May came, Hindenburg and his assistants returned to East Prussia. There, they began to formulate a war plan to curse Russia.

By the end of summer, their results were already amazing. Even Hindenburg and Rudendolf did not expect that the Russians on the opposite side would be so weak and vulnerable.

In late May, the German and Austrian coalition forces began the Polish offensive, and took more than two months to sweep the entire territory of Poland and conquered Warsaw on July 10. More than 200,000 enemies were annihilated and nearly 500,000 prisoners were captured.

After more than ten days of rest, the eastward attack began on August 5. The peak of the Bingfeng pointed directly to Lithuania, and St. Petersburg was shocked. A large number of nobles had already appeared among the nobles, requesting surrender to Germany. Even the most determined pro-war factions no longer had the strength to resist the Hindenburg group like the god of death. The best suggestion they could make was to move the capital.

But they soon discovered that moving the capital did not actually bring much security. Because as summer approached, the shrinking of the territory in the East had reached the last warning line.

After the founding of the New Mongolian Kingdom, supported by nearly 600,000 mercenaries, the conquest of Siberia was completed in the summer when Siberia was at its best climate. Their capital also moved from borrowing the Kulun of the Shang Kingdom to Mengjing, which was the past Tobolsk. By September 3, the army had assembled and formed an attack on Yekaterin Arbor, which was more than 600 kilometers away.

General Feng Guozhang, commander-in-chief of the Northern Front Army, also received an edict on this day and was promoted to general.

In the Central Asian part, the Third Front Army commanded by General Wang Shizhen also made great progress. After obtaining military strength, the Wang Shizhen group completed the Caspian offensive this summer, and conquered two important cities on the east and north coasts of the Caspian Sea - Aicheng (i.e. Ashgabad), a trade center at the foot of the Kopet Mountains, and Astrakhan on the Volga River, on August 21 and September 11 respectively.

On the other side of the Caspian Sea, the Turks also raised their courage and launched a revenge attack on Russia. They pushed the front line 400 kilometers into Russia and formed a horizontal front between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. In the last century, the Russians finally waited for the opportunity to revenge. After the Chinese army conquered Astrakhan, they also pushed the front line to the Astrakhan line while cooperating with the war. The two sides maintained a light confrontation with the Volga River as the boundary.

At this point, with the approaching winter and the transformation of strategic goals, the military operations on the Western Front came to an end. Due to his huge military merits, Wang Shizhen was promoted to marshal and became the second marshal after Nie Gongshicheng since the Chinese Empire implemented the military rank system. The edict said it was very clear that Wang Shizhen was promoted to the title of third-class Duke of Wuwei, and Jin Marshal, and was in charge of the third-party military affairs.

For Russia, the cold this winter is unprecedented. They are facing the danger of overthrow of the country. In St. Petersburg, everyone is worried because they know that the reason why the Germans have not yet been called is just because of the help of winter. Once the spring comes to spring, maybe...

The bad situation in the country has reached a critical moment when it is about to break out. The St. Petersburg Garrison Command took advantage of the approaching winter to slow down external military pressure and began a large-scale arrest operation in the country. A large number of people who are preparing to launch a violent revolution in the near future have been arrested and imprisoned.

Of course, this does not include Trotsky, the lovely internationalist is currently troubled by the current situation in a wealthy businessman's manor in the suburbs, and has rekindled new hope. The wise Swiss said that, when spring is in full bloom, the decaying empire will usher in a complete failure, and that will be your best opportunity. So, he began a winter waiting.

Zhao Bingjun was also waiting for news. With the momentum of military power, his education work was much better than what his predecessor had done. He was helping Yuan Shikai and General Wang. No, it should be Marshal Wang now. Since establishing communication with General Wang, although Wang was disdainful of the ideas of the people in Beijing and scolded them for being a wolf-like ambitions that would be detrimental to thousands of years, he was still very supportive of Zhao Bingjun's education work. In addition to trying his best to meet Zhao's needs in materials, he never interfered with the contact issues with Persia and Afghans in the south where Zhao Bingjun was responsible. Sometimes Zhao Bingjun advised him in military terms and did not blame Zhao for overreaching power. On the contrary, he also broke the several strategies of Zhao and showed certain effects in several battles.

This is inseparable from the change in temperament and attitude towards life after going through hardships and human feelings. Before he came, he had carefully studied Wang Shizhen, who was indirectly from Li Hongzhang's old central hall before the rule of the emperor. His old boss was Ye Zhichao who was embarrassed on the Japanese battlefield. In the 16th year of Guangxu, he organized the Dragon Banner Army. This person joined the system of Nie Shicheng's husband and has always been the emperor's direct descendant. His attitude was extremely natural. It can be said that without the emperor, there would be no Wang's today. Almost everyone of Mr. Nie's old subordinates took Old Nie as an example to imitate, and hoped that these people would be able to open their eyes for the two scholars in the court, which was tantamount to seeking a slight ties with the tiger.

Thinking of this, Zhao Bingjun realized that Yuan Shikai was talking, but he never said a word he thought he should do it. All of them were reposting Premier Dai's words of what he should do. President Qu (the title after taking over as Minister of the Royal Society Research Institute left by Liang Qichao) said what he should do... What did Old Yuan think? He was also very kind. Who knows whether Old Yuan was dealing with these two scholars in accordance with the emperor's edict?

Why did Old Yuan ask himself and Wang Shizhen to join this line? Zhao Bingjun is really confused.

After all, he was a person who made mistakes, so he dared not have any luck in this regard. So on the night when Wang Shizhen was promoted to the title, Zhao Bingjun began to write secret copies. What he didn't know was that Wang Shizhen was also writing secret copies, and Yuan Shikai's secret copies had been left in the small study of Yangxin Hall for a summer.

He didn't know, of course I knew this was just a trick to get rid of Dai Hongci. As for Qu Hongji, if he hadn't been worried about the hundreds of thousands of working party members under his command that he didn't want to see something he didn't want to see in this era of full-scale production, he would have died even if he had ten lives.

Of course, my mind has not yet been put on these political struggles. The edicts from many years ago have given the officials and workers above the seventh rank to have the power to report secretly. While adding to my workload, it also makes the imperial power more majestic and solid. The two systems of military affairs and political training, and the two local religious systems, make this ruling system indestructible. Of course, I don’t need to focus my energy on fighting in this turbulent era before me.

Over the past year, the cooperation between China and Germany has basically become clear. A series of joint offensives have forced Russia to the point of ending their straits. Considering the upcoming changes in their country, my pace is about to adjust. After Hindenburg completed his death-driven offensive on the Eastern Front, perhaps my strategic preparations have been concentrated in the south.

After Feng Guozhang and the general of Jin and completed the military display and offensive preview in Mengjing, the Fourth Front Army had already begun an orderly retreat. It is expected that by the beginning of next spring, the number of mercenaries in Siberia will be reduced by half, and of course this half will not continue to stay in the north. They will all be reorganized into the currently weak Second Army. There is a new Mongolian country as a buffer between them and Russia. The current military structure in the north is a bit too much.

The West still needs to maintain a certain offensive and military presence, after all, the mission there has not been completed. Some of the cooperation actions of the Persians and Afghanistan will be carried out on a large scale after the offensive of the Second Army was launched, and the maintenance of the newly occupied territory also requires a large number of military personnel to exist. Therefore, the adjustment range of Wang Shizhen's troops should not be too large.

The Southern Front Army is currently being uniformly promoted by Cao Kun, but it has not yet been clearly given a commander, which is somewhat unfair to him. After all, two equal peers were promoted to marshals and generals, but he could not save the opportunity for promotion because there was no war, so it was time for him to perform.

While paying attention to the upcoming new round of naval duels that are likely to be a decisive duel in the North Sea, the entire empire's military system is gradually shifting southward.
Chapter completed!