On the same day when the British fleet left Hong Kong for vacation, the otaku Haidi moved back to the Seidlitz. He couldn’t go to the dock to see his old friend David Betty off. Although the otaku was a little sorry, he was young and he didn’t realize the seriousness of the situation. By the time the otaku met David Betty again, they had become fateful enemies!
Although the imperial government has not yet expressed its position, the German navy and land have entered a state of emergency to deal with the chess game in the Balkans like a fog
Wang Haidi, the chief staff officer of the First Reconnaissance Fleet, is very heavy. It is necessary to organize the daily training of guns and torpedoes for the whole fleet, add new supplements, and let the naval trainees and veterans run in to keep the crew’s morale high at last. It is also necessary to inspect the state of each warship’s armament equipment, so as to carry out targeted small-scale maintenance.
Ensuring the supplies of the whole fleet should keep the fleet in the best condition; According to the situation, increase the training of subjects such as raid and anti-raid, night fighting and melee, loss control, etc. Hippel, commander of the fleet, analyzed the comprehensive information, designed the preparatory scheme, arranged the duty list and arranged the torpedo net; Dealing with the coordination and liaison of fleet bases, attending the routine intelligence briefing and analysis meeting organized by the Admiralty, otaku is busy in the dark these days.
"The warship evaluation report has come out. The Mao Qi patrol boiler has a steam leak problem and cannot exert its maximum power; Von-de-Tann and the cruisers Seidlitz, Kohlberg, Graudenz and SteLarcon, many main guns and auxiliary guns are nearing the end of their life and need to be updated. The corrosion problem of’ blucher’ is serious, and the water sealing rubber is loose in several places. "Captain Lauren, the fleet staff officer, held a thick investigation report and put it on Wang Haidi’s desk." The detailed data of the staff officer are all reported … "
"The situation is not good …" Wang Haidi rubbed his swollen head and said with strength, "The results of the gun assessment in a week came out, except for the performance of the Rostock, which was still normal. The hit rate and efficiency of all his ships were reduced. The trainee naval cadets added that our gun skills were greatly reduced."
"Is the staff officer’s routine cruise going on normally this summer and autumn?" Lauren commandant asked.
According to the usual practice, the main force of the ocean fleet will go to the Mediterranean Sea, Iberian Peninsula and Azores for long-distance training every summer and autumn to strengthen the running-in and test the training results of the new and old crew.
"Who knows!" Otaku has no reason to get angry and angry
On June 2, guns came to the streets of Sarajevo, and the Admiralty immediately called a lengthy military meeting to discuss various possible situations. The navy veteran and the frontline commander quarreled, even arguing over whether to show the routine cruise training in summer and autumn on time. The only conclusion is that the Habsburg people will never give up this opportunity war. Germany, Russia and France may break out at the end of July, and the British will choose neutrality.
Wolfgang Wei Gena, the general staff officer of the first battleship sub-fleet, and Haidi, the general staff officer of the first reconnaissance fleet, were fortunate enough to attend the chaotic debate. German naval strategy Shuang Jie chose the most inconspicuous corner of the conference room, or covered his face with a military cap or read old newspapers with tea.
"Will the diplomatic art of’ balance and balance’ be perfected? Will John Niu not understand that his lips are dead and his teeth are cold? ! Will the British remain neutral because of the German warning? ！” The otaku can’t help but want to vomit at the thought of the short-sighted strategic consciousness of the navy’s top management. He wandered around the narrow officer’s cabin for a few times and couldn’t find any work passion any more. He hastily packed up his desk and walked outside.
As soon as the hatch was pulled, the sunset in Kiel spilled in, and the dark skin of the otaku was not like the heat wave at noon in midsummer, but a very warm and sweet feeling.
"Staff officer!" The sailors who were washing the deck to wipe the guns saluted in succession, and Wang Haidi raised his hand in return.
The navy has never been as romantic as described by poets and novelists. On the contrary, life on a warship is rather boring, and the crew can give way to steam engines, boilers, ammunition and fresh water supplies. After all, speed, firepower and endurance are the ultimate missions of warships.
The life of a warship is small, the bed is gloomy and damp, and the boiler is running for three days. Every day, the rhythm of training is monotonous, and the food is an unfavorable factor that tortures the morale of the crew. Because of this, cleaning the deck after dinner has become the crew’s favorite activity.
Sunset falls on churches, docks, ports and warships. The battleship Herangol glimpses the Gothic carved dome of the harbor church and the shadow created by the nearby Mao Qi patrol. At dusk, Kiel is as beautiful as a 19th-century impressionist oil painting and as yellow as an old photo in a museum window. The otaku wobbles and climbs the bridge of Cedritz, squinting at the distance.
"Do you want to come out?" Otaku stroking the steel body of the warship Cedritz and talking to himself. Otaku clearly remembers that after the naval battle in Jutland in 1916, the huge high seas fleet lay like a dead end, and the martyrs in Kiel Port were rusty in their twilight years. In 1991, the Kiel sailor uprising cast a layer of disgrace on this brave fleet.
"Staff officer Admiral Zhou Hai’s routine intelligence briefing and analysis meeting will be held before the meeting. William, Marshal Erpitz and Commander of Ocean Fleet Erpitz will all attend …" A communication soldier shouted on the bridge.
The otaku felt a quiver in his heart. He hesitated for a moment and immediately swept away those unrealistic ideas. "Wang Haidi, mind your mouth, you can’t fall down twice in the same place!"
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"Even the British allies are not sure whether Britain will go to war, Lieutenant Colonel. How dare you bet that Britain will go to war? ！” George von Mueller, Minister of the Navy Cabinet, asked angrily.
There is no doubt that calling the Admiralty for routine intelligence briefing and analysis before the beginning of July turned into a complete farce. The three-hour meeting ended with the resolution of routine summer and autumn cruise training in mid-July and fooling away the diplomatic mediocrity William II who attended the meeting, leaving only the young and middle-aged navy to stop arguing.
The "talent" of Kaiser’s diplomacy attended the meeting. Senior naval officers were well aware that William visited Tangier, Morocco on March 31, 1995. The Kaiser suddenly became hot-headed and declared that he supported Morocco’s independence. This incident caused an uproar in Morocco’s protection of France, the British supported Chen Bing’s border, and Germany and France were at loggerheads. In 1911, when France invaded Morocco, Kaiser Wilhelm came out again and made a tough speech, claiming that the French had violated the interests of Germany and Morocco. The gunboat Silent Leopard had entered the port of Agadir, Morocco. At that time, there were only a few unknown trading houses and a few German speculators in Germany and Morocco.
With the emperor’s field, everything with diplomacy will go to the bad side, which is not only the consensus of men of insight in the German Foreign Ministry, but also recognized by the heads of the admiralty. Therefore, the admiralty official tried his best to keep calm before the emperor, trying to pull his attention back from the Balkans and shift it to the mid-July, when the navy was about to cruise the sea training in summer and autumn. As a result, the emperor William happily announced that he would go to Kiel to participate in the annual sea training fleet on the day when the ocean fleet went to sea, and then he would go hunting in the North German forest.
After the emperor left, the general in the meeting room vanished into thin air. Whether the British would take a neutral position in the conflict was debated. The veteran who was born in the navy and had been away from the front line for a long time insisted that the army put an end to all things quickly. The navy sent more light ships to harass the French and Belgian coasts and threaten the flanks of the western battlefield of the Allies, while the British would remain neutral in the conflict. Minister of the Navy George von Muller would be convinced of this.
"How big is the old and conservative’ pocket army’ in Britain before the German Army’s devastating offensive? The British imperial navy is really powerful, but can the British be protected by mines and ocean fleets, and can their big fleet enter the Elbe River? If the British don’t remain neutral, do they still want the German Army to be stationed in the Scottish Highlands? ！” Gray-haired veteran Mueller looked at a face of disdain. Lieutenant Colonel erich-Lei Deer said, "It’s good for young people to have ideas, but it’s terrible to scare people to win fame …"
"What if the army fails to make a quick decision?" Young Lei Deer slightly raised his head and asked.
"Lei Deer, you don’t want to die!" Otaku tugged at Lei Deer’s clothes and took a glance at the front row. Marshal Alfred von Erpitz and the sullen commander-in-chief of the high seas fleet, General Al Fresi von Ingenohl, lowered the line and said with trepidation, "Think about my experience in these twenty years. It’s never an irrefutable truth to say too much. Lei Deer, sit down! "
Before the meeting, the host of Lei Deer invited Wang Haidi and a tavern near the Wei Gena Navy Headquarters to have a few drinks. The otaku never stopped talking, regardless of spitting. From the time of Erpitz, the marine strategy was ambiguous to locking the war plan in the cabinet of the Admiralty Headquarters. From the Italians’ duplicity to humiliation and cruelty, the otaku scolded Wang Haidi all over again. At noon, he advised him to be cautious. How did erich Lei Deer turn around and spit his wine table? Wolfgang Wei Gena also repeated it at the high-level meeting.
Once bitten by a snake for 20 years, the otaku earnestly advised Lei Deer, but it’ s a pity that Lei Deer’ s face will never move. Although he can sit on the edge of the meeting room, the first deputy director of the Naval Intelligence Service, he is surrounded by bright stars, and the old and the young Lei Deer is as timid as Heidi Selim, the persistent secret of the naval office in 19 years!
"If Japan joins the allies JIAOZHOU Bay, Caroline Islands and Singapore Asia in accordance with the anglo-japanese alliance, how can the East Asian Fleet continue to attack? If the Italians remain neutral, what should the Mediterranean sub-fleet of Adriatic go from? If the army is caught in a protracted war, how can the British join the war group and block our sea transportation line? "
"How could the army … be caught in a protracted war …" It seemed as if someone had grabbed the throat. General Muller’s aggressive momentum came to an abrupt end, and he faltered for a long time without saying anything.
As the old monk sits quietly, Marshal Erpitz pauses with his teacup hand suspicious. His eyes sweep across the stubborn Lei Deer and he looks over his head. Wang Haidi’s face is getting more and more gloomy carefully.
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After a fierce argument, the navy still failed to confirm whether the British would go to war, which is nothing to be ashamed of. Not only the German Foreign Ministry was not sure about the attitude of the British, but even the British Foreign Secretary was easily afraid to help the French back. It was emphasized time and again that the British king, prime minister and foreign minister did not declare war and decided to hand it over to the parliament.
Although the admiralty failed to confirm whether the British would participate in the war, it did have a definite plan for the navy’s pre-war preparation
The summer and autumn cruise training of the ocean fleet will be held around July 14, and the Norwegian fjord will be put in view of the tension in Europe.
In order to threaten the maritime transport lines of the Allies, ocean assault ships and coal tankers should act according to the predetermined plan, and at the same time, the Mediterranean sub-fleet in the Adriatic Sea should leave Italy as soon as possible and be as close as possible to Ottoman Turkey to win over and deter the Turkish government after the war broke out; Before the Admiralty of the East Asian Fleet allowed Count Spee to stall the British-French Far East Fleet and the Japanese Joint Fleet, he was free to move.
The formation of the Navy General Staff was also scheduled. erich Lei Deer, the first deputy director of the Naval Intelligence Service, was promoted to the Naval Academy and transferred to the newly formed Navy General Staff. The functions and defense areas of the Ingenohl Ocean Fleet Command and Prince Heinrich’s Baltic Fleet Command were re-divided. Once the war broke out, the ocean fleet would quickly form the Elbe River, Cape Jed, Vichy River and Ames River estuary, and its defense strength would be strong. Prince Heinrich’s Baltic Fleet will be composed of some old-fashioned ships. They are just a few old ships left after the Russo-Japanese War. The Russian Baltic Fleet will stab and threaten the polar bear’s flank.
The fourth, fifth and sixth reserve fleets, which are made up of old warships, partially mobilize the back-sealed ships in the dock for overhaul. All the training ships should be prepared to be converted into auxiliary ships. The officers and men of the reserve navy must report to the local military mobilization department as soon as possible, waiting for the mobilization order of the admiralty. The pre-war training of the reserve fleet marshallers and reserve crew members and the surprise training of reserve officers are all big projects. It is only a matter of time before the empire has a good mobilization body and the reserve fleet mobilizes its staff to restore its combat effectiveness.
The construction of Dole minefield in English Channel and North Atlantic minefield should be accelerated. In view of the importance of Helgolan Bay, the defense circle command of Helgolan Bay has been formed. The first reconnaissance fleet is composed of several cruisers and destroyers, coastal guns, submarines and airships on Helgolan Island. Major General Flantz von hippel and Deputy Commander Heidi Sillem, hippel’s chief staff, will be responsible for the specific work.
"Deputy commander-in-chief of Helgolan Bay defense circle? ！”
Already married, Wang Haidi almost didn’t write the villain’s face. He was clutching Gao Fushuai’s contradictory heart that he hoped to make a name for himself and was afraid of but before he could conquer, he was dead. He was glad that he didn’t stay like an iron coffin.
"Hiding in the safe place can guarantee the harvest of drought and flood with a random finger-pointing. This is what the traveler should do in master and commander’s blood-stained seas and seas. Fuck him!"
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The establishment of the General Staff of the German Navy has never been as efficient as it is today. In a few hours, it will plan the action plan of the navy for the next few months. After the July 7 meeting, the frontline commanders and the heads of the headquarters departments will shoulder the mission. They will go to Erpitz and drink the tea in the quilt and stop Ingenohl, commander-in-chief of the ocean fleet.
"General, I want to know what the naval preparation plan is to lock the admiralty cabinet," asked Marshal Erpitz, whose temples were gray.
Since the bankruptcy of risk theory, William II’s respect for the holy family of Erpitz has been getting worse day by day. General Edward von capelle, the emperor’s new favorite, is eyeing the throne of his naval minister. In 1913, Friedrich von Ingenohl replaced Wolfgang Wei Gena’s distant cousin Haining von Hertzendorf to become the commander of the high seas fleet. Erpitz had only a little actual control over the navy, and before World War I, except for his high prestige, there were some personnel left. Erpitz, the founder of the ocean fleet, was drafted by Lieutenant General Heeringen, who was said to improve the naval strategic plan every year.
Commander-in-Chief Friedrich von Ingenohl, nicknamed "The Emperor Should Be Wormed" by naval officers and soldiers, gave a miserable smile-his voice was very low, but with millions of volts, Erpitz was overwhelmed and then flew into a rage.
"Marshal, to tell you the truth, there is no naval plan … even if there is, it will be in the emperor’s mind!"
[Notes]
The political structure of the Second Reich is somewhat similar to that of the Red China. There are two administrative classes. The Minister of the Naval Cabinet is the equivalent of the imperial naval adviser of the German emperor.
General Rheinhardt Schell wrote "Ocean Fleet in World War I" after World War I, and it is not accurate that Ingenohl was the commander of the ocean fleet on the eve of World War I.
Ps, can everyone see something? There are pits …
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