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The French have the character of a rooster, arrogant, reckless, stubborn, brave and tenacious. They can make a simple thing very complicated or turn a serious thing into a comedy; they are sometimes very nervous and sometimes cautious; they have left countless classics in history, half a brilliant victory, and half a tragic failure. They may be the most unconventional and elusive group of people in the world. People can mock their slow-responsive sense of smell, mock their self-confidence traditions, but cannot criticize their IQ. The wording of "stupid" seems to have nothing to do with the French...

Faced with the conditions that the British government had launched to expand the scale of the expeditionary force in exchange for the French main fleet to fight north, the French were always vague and did not argue. No matter how clever the lobbyists sent from the other side of the strait were, they had many dreadnoughts and quasi-dreadnoughts, and the French main fleet, which was far stronger on paper than the German Northern fleet, was still anchored in the port of Brest and was ready to return to the Mediterranean at any time.

The French are not unaware of the principle of dependent on each other, but the Faroe Islands are far and unfamiliar to the French Navy. They are not sure to overcome the many difficulties in weather, psychology, tactics, etc., and even if they win, they will inevitably pay a heavy price. Moreover, such victory will not have any obvious benefits to France's maritime strategy. Furthermore, the Western Front war may at any time lead to avalanche defeat. Once France is forced to make peace with Germany, the powerful French fleet can become an important bargaining weight on the negotiating table.

No matter from which perspective, dispatching the French main fleet to the north is a business that loses money and makes a lot of money!

The French Navy remained unmoved, and the British Navy was unable to maintain the northern front, so it had to withdraw its land forces from the Faroe Islands. However, the tight blockade of the German fleet made the British retreat difficult. Among the British fast ships sailing to the waters of Soud Island at night, most of the British were attacked when they arrived near the coast to receive the retreating troops. The German Navy used battlecruisers and armored cruisers as tactical support to organize large torpedo boats and high-speed torpedo boats into multiple fast attack teams, using one strike to leave, and then returning the shark hunting tactics. Under the repeated rush of German ships, British ships that did not receive strong support from the main ships suffered heavy losses. There were less than a thousand marine troops that had successfully withdrawn from Soud Island every day and night. The retreat operation scheduled to end within five days failed to achieve half of the expected target in the first week.

In this week, the German troops that had already gained a foothold in Soud Island changed from "speed attack" to "steady progress". The new forces that followed landed replaced the combat troops with heavy casualties. The troops who retreated and rested were drawn out some non-commissioned officers and veterans to help friendly and neighboring troops better adapt to the battlefield environment through words and deeds. The German landing troops, who were ready to fight against Kvalbar as the starting position of the offensive, advanced southward in an orderly manner, gradually eroding the British positions, and compressing the remnants of the British army to the southern part of Soud Island. The British army has fewer and fewer sea ports and beaches, and it is increasingly difficult to evacuate from the sea. As the situation deteriorates, the fighting spirit of the British officers and soldiers has been deteriorating. In the subsequent battles, it is difficult to see the determination to fight to the death in the Battle of Kvalbar...

Port Tols.

With the outstanding meritorious battle cruiser "Sedlitz" entering the port, the huge main wharf suddenly became a busy construction site. The steam-powered dock crane and the ship-powered engine-powered crane worked together to transport tons of combat supplies and maintenance components onto the ship. Navy officers and soldiers in dark blue uniforms and peddlers in the field gray work uniforms each started a silent labor competition between the warships and the docks. In just five hours, 640 rounds of 305 main shells and cartridges, 2,800 rounds of 150 rounds

Millimeters and 6400 rounds of 105mm caliber sub-air ammunition were shipped onto the ship. Three hours later, 500 tons of fresh water, 200 tons of food and 800 tons of heavy oil were also loaded. As a result, this powerful warship that the British Navy was quite afraid of quickly regained its vitality. The only regret is that the severely worn main gun inner tube cannot be replaced in Port Thors, and it must be returned to the local base before it can be fully repaired and maintained, which had a certain impact on the continuous combat of the "Sedlitz".

After the "Sedlitz" returned to the front line of Soud Island, it rotated the "Deferringer" to the port of Thors for supply. During this period, the light cruisers and large torpedo boats participating in the battle also sailed to the port of Thors for combat supply. In order to facilitate ship supply, the ammunition and fuel were piled up everywhere in the port of Thors. If the British team used long-range aircraft to carry out a sudden bombing here, or carried out a sneak attack with naval ships, even if the combat situation on Soud Island cannot be changed, it can relieve the pressure on the British troops on the island. Unfortunately, the British had neither courage nor vision to carry out such combat operations, "condoned" the German fleet to fire thousands of artillery shells at Soud Island every day. At least half of the British officers and soldiers who died in the Battle of Soud Island died of artillery fire from the German Navy, which is undoubtedly a great irony for the once arrogant British Navy.

Time passed day by day, and the British officers and soldiers who were defending Soud Island had no results. The materials necessary for maintaining the operation were increasingly short of resources, guns, ammunition was left, and food and medicine had been exhausted. As freshwater equipment was damaged by German artillery bombardment, soldiers had to use the most primitive sand and soil percolation method to obtain bitter drinking water. The mortality rate of wounded people who could not be evacuated and could not be properly treated was extremely high. On the 13th day after the German army landed on Soud Island, more than 7,000 remaining British officers and soldiers on the island were finally raised.

The white flag was not only the largest surrender of the British team in this war, but also the only time the British Marines had been disarmed in an established manner since the fall of Napoleon. After Sir Grierson evacuated Soud Island, Brigadier General Foggs, who was acting in command, became the first British general to lead his troops to surrender to the German team. This small white flag set a number of records for the British Royal Marines and the entire British team, and thus became the greatest shame for the British Marines in the past century.

The Battle of Soud Island fell a bloody curtain with more than 30,000 casualties between the two sides, but the war in the Faroe Islands has not yet ended. At this time, more than 2,000 British officers and soldiers were stationed on Soud Island, north of Soud Island. Because the combat depth of Soud Island is small, the geographical terrain is not very beneficial to defense. Moreover, the British Navy lost a large number of ships in the early rescue of Soud Island garrison, and their situation is much worse than those of their surrendered colleagues. In the absence of external assistance, the road before them is very tragic: they defend until they are eliminated by the German army, or symbolically resist and then follow in the footsteps of friendly forces, or give up hopeless resistance directly.

After private discussion, the British commanders of Mang Island decided to defend the reputation of the Royal Marines and fight to the end with the Germans. Only the wounded who completely lost their combat effectiveness could surrender to the Germans.

However, the Germans did not intend to use tough force to flatten the British defense line on Son Island. Before using naval guns, they fought psychological warfare, used planes to throw flyers day and night, and used both soft and hard to act in a sensible way to shake the British officers and soldiers' determination to resist and disintegrate their psychological defense line. Then they chose a sunny weather, allowing the huge combat formation led by "Frederick the Great", "Deferring" and "Sedlitz" to come to a massive maritime review, and used dozens of large-caliber naval guns to violently bombard the British positions in various parts of Son Island. Their force was so fierce that they could sank the small Son Island into the sea.

In the face of the unstoppable general trend, the British troops of Sang Island surrendered, but they threw all the cannons and guns into the sea between the German landings, in this way to preserve their pitiful self-esteem.

On December 7, 1914, the Battle of the Faroe Islands, which lasted for nearly a month, ended with the German victory. The outcome of the Battle of the North undoubtedly pushed Britain into the abyss of disaster. During the battle, the Russian army of Tsarist Russia attacked Silesia under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and once again severely damaged the army of Austria-Emperor Franz. The German army hurriedly drew troops from the Western Front to the Eastern Front, and launched a famous Polish offensive under the command of Hindenburg and Rudendolf.

Within two weeks, they defeated two heavy troops of the Russian army and occupied Warsaw at the end of November, eliminating the Russian threat to the Austro-Hungarian hinterland. The German troops rushing to the front line of Serbia also broke through the Serbian defense line that the Austro-Hungarian army had not defeated for several months with amazing efficiency, forcing the Serbian army to abandon its capital Belgrade to retreat to the mountains. At this point, the Allies had lost all the fronts, and the army and navy suffered serious strategic losses.

On the second day after the British troops stationed on Sand Island surrendered, the French government expressed his wish to pray to Germany through the neutral US government, saying that France could immediately withdraw from the Three Kingdoms Agreement and ced all French colonies in the Pacific as war reparations. The German government did not accept France's prayer, but disclosed the news in international newspapers, which immediately caused a huge sensation. The French Berian cabinet, which had been in power for less than two months, fell. General Gallieni, who had outstanding performance in the three major battles of Marne, Paris and Rouen, was appointed to become a rare military prime minister in French history.

Gallieni vowed to fight the Germans to the end. He resisted the opposition and took the initiative to give up the flat northern region, deploy defense lines along the Loire River, and took advantage of the German army's opportunity to "run to the Atlantic Ocean" to rectify the troops and build fortifications. However, although France maintained half of the country's territory south of the Loire River, the vitality of the army's troops was slightly restored, and the naval power was basically intact, most of the country's industrial facilities and industrial resources were concentrated in the northern region. Moreover, after the loss of the northern and northwest coastal areas, the strategic bond between Britain and France was split, and the two countries could no longer work closely together to fight the enemy like in the early stages of the war.
Chapter completed!