It’s not time to think about cleaning up Bohr and Selim, but it’s important to deal with the rebound of the imperial people and the admiralty. In this storm of public opinion, the means of Charlottenburg Palace are not high, and William is almost shirtless. Now he must give the navy an account to the people
"Bateman Hollwich, you made me bow to that poor Kiel fisherman descendant?"
William, the emperor of West Lyme, refused to get up and ease the situation. He was used to cleaning up the mess. Bateman Hollwich, the first German repairman, had to shake his head with a wry smile and look at William’s bloodthirsty eyes, Lang announced.
"Since there was no unauthorized transfer in the West Lyme War, a press conference will be held to explain everything clearly. The problem of West Lyme violating the rules of engagement and concealing and tampering with post-war statistics will be handed over to the naval military court."
Loyal Bateman gave William the best step, and the emperor finally loosened the white gloves that had been ravaged in every way, sullenly and resentfully said
"I declare the emergency meeting of the high-level navy over!"
Emperor William’s palace guards escorted the first naval officers who left the venue to keep the meeting. The naval officers struggled to suppress their excitement and let the road skew. The military salute watched the emperor leave.
As soon as the emperor’s back disappeared, the huge conference room at the door rang with thunderous applause and cheers. More young officers took off their hats to pay tribute to the Prime Minister and struggled to squeeze into the conference room.
Prime Minister Bateman turned his head and took a slightly surprised look at West Lyme. He was surprised that this Kiel fisherman came from a family, worked as a porter on the dock and was exiled overseas by William for more than ten years. The vice admiral navy is a first-class young man. If he can recruit an unruly navy for more than a year and remove the influence of Hohenson dynasty from the navy,
"This is a glorious moment!"
Tired, Wang Haidi gave a standard military salute to his supporters with a shallow smile on his face. For a second, Wang Haidi was lifted by his supporters and held high.
"Long live the general west lime! Long live the general! "
Wang Haidi felt that she had flown in the clouds. William sullenly, the palace guards were frightened. capelle was bereaved. The reporter quickly peeled off from Wang Haidi’s eyes. There were salty and humid sea breezes and magnificent North Atlantic. There were steel fleets and lovely people. Even if he died of old age, there would be no regrets in this gorgeous land.
"Little girl, I really like this feeling of struggling forward!"
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The story is destined not to belong to the old general’s chief of staff, Bohr, who got up lazily and staggered to retreat. The conservative minister of the Admiralty lifted his feet and walked outside the naval building. At this time, he sneaked out of the naval hospital. Wolfgang Wei Gena stopped him and asked.
"The general can ask what? Noble, your choice of venue will bring a stain on your military career. "
"Well …" Bohr will make a thoughtful joke to explain another feeling indifferently. "The old guy who belongs to the Erpitz era may never guess. Maybe we can be divided and balanced, but in the end, we are not mature politicians. We are soldiers!"
Bohr will put on his military cap and continue to walk outside the meeting room. When he leaves the room, he looks back with envy and looks at Celim’s face, all of which belong to years of loneliness.
"It’s a pity that we are old …"
Although Bohr said it was foggy, Wei Gena’s negative title of "Shuang Jie of naval strategy" soon understood Bohr’s meaning.
"It’s not that the general is getting old, but that Selim is so excellent that he makes his contemporaries feel ashamed!" Wei Gena no longer blocked Bohr’s way, but stretched himself straight and gave Bohr the most solemn military salute.
Veteran Bohr’s face is charming again. He walks a few steps easily and seems to remember what wobbly and stooped back and patted Wei Gena on the shoulder and asked with interest.
"By the way, while I’m still here, is this young man interested in joining my staff?"
"Don’t worry about me, General." Wei Gena looked down at his sleeves and smiled faintly. "Since I fell from the warship, I-Wolfgang Wei Gena will get up from the warship!"
Bohr didn’t insist on turning around and walking outside the naval headquarters building. Just after going out, fresh air and warm sunshine came to him.
"One-armed general bernhard von Auden tastes good!"
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March 2, 1915, Imperial Berlin
The Admiralty released the news very early. The investigation and evidence collection union of the independent naval prosecutor ended in days. On March 2, the naval military court will try West Lyme.
On this day, the weather in Berlin was not very good, and the cold wind was chilly. A few bleak dark clouds persisted in leaving the sky, but all this could not stop the Germans from being enthusiastic. Berlin citizens and supporters from other places rushed to gather outside the court to welcome the aggrieved naval hero back.
"How did the trial last so long? Will there be an accident? " Wang Haidi, a professor at Kiel University, looked at the old brandeis, a neighbor, who closed the door of the garrison court by the army and the police.
"I’m not worried about this!"
Brandeis Jr. tiptoed on a slate and sent wisdom that didn’t belong to that age to a 13-year-old boy.
"After the decisive battle in the North Sea, General Schell transferred Admiral hippel, the Imperial Navy Secretary, to Lieutenant General Schmidt, Commander of the Ocean Fleet, and to Lieutenant General Mawei, Commander of the Third Battleship. The post of Commander of the First Battleship is temporarily short than that of Major General haneke and Deputy Commander of the Second Battleship. I wonder if General Selim will take over as Deputy Commander of the Ocean Fleet after the war."
It is time for the 37-year-old deputy commander to be promoted to commander-in-chief. It is also a stone’s throw from his dream of brandeis Jr. to join the navy.
Berlin naval court-martial
Representatives of naval officers and sailors, reporters from mainstream German newspapers, Anne, Avril Lavigne, Frey and Shrek got up from the gallery, and the spotlight flashed and suffocated. Everyone was waiting for the final verdict of the military judge.
"In view of the fact that before the British North Sea decisive battle, it was announced that the restrictions on the indiscriminate use of the neutral national flag first undermined the rules of engagement, so I ruled that it was not against the law to fly the Norwegian flag in the investigation of the Ska Gerakl Strait by General Selim; After the North Sea naval battle, the officers and men of the reconnaissance fleet were killed only by the lexical evidence of the captured British sailors. Therefore, I ruled that it is not against the law for General Selim to insist on putting the officers and men of the reconnaissance fleet on the list of missing persons after the naval battle. Because the independent prosecutor didn’t complain about the leak of General Yusilim’s naval meeting, the military court won’t hold him accountable. "
Even if roaring the court is a sin, you can’t restrain your emotions. Cheers rang and almost the general and judge read the verdict.
"To sum up, I declare General Selim guilty and released in court!"
The second gun The first chapter Scarborough Gerakl Gold (10) 【 Be careful when injecting water 】
"Although it is the most difficult time for the Royal Navy, it has overturned the enemy fleet and defeated the Dutch fleet and defeated the Faxi fleet. The Royal Navy will not just succumb to the British Isles and the British have never surrendered voluntarily!"
Orkney Island issued the publication of the Grand Fleet Department, which published the speech I of the new Minister of the Navy, Arthur Belfo Buckingham Palace.
"regroup?" David Betty, who has been suspended from his post, shook his head contemptuously, stuffed the newspaper into the trash can and knocked on the door and walked into Lampard’s apartment.
"Commander, are you back?" Lampard buried himself in a small table and wrote, "Did the London Naval Conference reach a unified consensus?" What is the opinion of the Admiralty on us defeated soldiers? "
"Major-General, there is good news and bad news here." Betty took off her military uniform and hung it on the hanger. The British gentleman sneered coldly. "The good news is that Arthur Belfo received the bad news from the Secretary of the Navy and Arthur Belfo received the Secretary of the Navy."
"So we will give up?" Lampard rekindled hope in his heart and instantly extinguished the senior naval officer. He knew the cruelty behind Betty’s reserve.
Belfo’s strong character, firm will and spicy means are conducive to cleaning up the mess after the North Sea fiasco of the Royal Navy. However, regaining the former Belfo of the Navy is bound to break everything in the Royal Navy and start over according to his ideas.
"When we go to the sea battlefield, people are always used to connecting me with Selim. We have had personal friendship for more than ten years. We are both outstanding young people in each other’s country. We are both producers and beneficiaries of new tactics and new theories. After a naval battle, we face court-martial trials at the same time. Unfortunately, welcoming Selim is a heroic trial endowed with lofty meaning, and I …"
David Betty, who used to be brave and unruly, is now somewhat lonely. The former deputy commander of the big fleet laughed at himself in vain and didn’t want to think about it and put his attention on the table.
"Lampard, is this your personal diary?"
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"March 2, Scarpa Bay haze.
The decisive battle in the North Sea ended on March 1 ST, the London Naval Conference. Mr. Arthur Belfo, the new naval minister, put forward many views aimed at saving the Royal Navy. I vaguely saw the shadow of impetuousness and a defeat from Mr. Belfo’s tough attitude. I have experienced three steam naval battles and witnessed the largest and most tragic naval battle in history. I think it is necessary for me to write something that may be unpleasant for Jambers Fu.
Because of the decisive battle in the North Sea in the Scarborough Gerakl Strait, let’s name this naval battle in the Scarborough Gerakl Strait. This long-lasting naval battle can be roughly divided into two battle groups: General Betty’s fast fleet, the first reconnaissance fleet in West Lyme, the patrol team, General Jellicoe’s big fleet, and the Schell Ocean Fleet team.
We have a numerical advantage in the patrol and the battle group. We used to have a horizontal advantage, but the result of the naval battle was frustrating. Only 32 capital ships, the Royal Navy, lost four battle cruiser, a fast battleship and three battleships at one time.
What went wrong and led to the Royal Navy’s crushing defeat in the Battle of Scarborough Gerakl Strait?
Tracing back to the reason, perhaps we can get a clue from the sinking of the battleship Bold before the long-standing Dogel Shazhou naval battle or Dogel Shazhou naval battle.
On November 1, 1914, the naval battle in Cape Sochi and the naval battle in korol broke out on the same day. The battleship Bold was desolate and sank in northern Scotland.
In response to the German naval shipbuilding plan, the parliament allocated a huge shipbuilding budget for as many as one capital ship in one breath, and began a large-scale battleship assembly plan. Four hunting-class super-fear ships and four hunting-class super-fear ships were improved, and the King George V super-fear ship was always regarded as the mainstay of the big fleet. However, it was such a super-fear ship with a cost of 1.92 million pounds, which was cold in Willis Bay on the northern shore of Scotland. After being hit by a mine, it was flooded with water, which damaged the pipe and dragged it over, and then capsized and sank.
On November 14, 1914, a naval battle broke out in Shazhou, Dogel. There were three main ships in the West Lyme Fleet, namely the Mao Qi. The Von-de-Tann and the blucher visited Kiel Port in June 1914. Betty noticed that the Germans called the Seidlitz-type patrol blucher after the Mao Qi. The German official name is that the large armored ships are obviously nondescript. Mao Qi and Von-de-Tann are old-fashioned capital ships, while blucher can be called quasi-patrol. In fact, it is these three old capital ships that have withstood General Betty’s five patrol ships and three hunting-seat battleships and supported them to General hippel’s two Defringer-class and one Sedley.
The naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel was followed by a Devlinger-class patrol that easily sank our battleship Raytheon.
Marshal Hill is a perfect cruiser equipped with guns of the same caliber as battleships, but without the protection of battleships. However, the sinking of the battleship Raytheon subverts Hill’s theory in some sense.
It’s a pity that we refused to consider the deep-seated things, instead, we blamed Major General Levinson’s poor command attainments and the Royal Navy’s unfamiliarity with the midnight battle. I was the sinking of the Bold and the defeat of the Dogel Shazhou naval battle, which could have alerted us to arrogance, but we insisted on the glory of the imperial world’s first navy and personally ruined the glory of the Royal Navy!
What is the problem?
First, we are too contemptuous of the protection of the capital ship. Our side protective armor of the capital ship can be absolutely shocking. Most of the armor of the battleship Shui Mi Qi keeps 1-13 inches, while battle cruiser maintains 5-9 inches. The latter is obviously not qualified to participate in the battle. Although the former can defend the Germans from the battle distance of more than 13 yards, it is generally equipped with 12 inches and armor-piercing bullets. However, we must know that our main armor never covers more than one deck, and our side. The end of the armor belt is 229 mm and the end is about 23 mm, and there is a sloping dome behind this thin and discontinuous armor belt, which was once unable to resist the fragments of armor-piercing projectile.
Secondly, the horizontal armor is neglected. It must be admitted that when we designed warships, we didn’t anticipate the characteristics of naval battles in the era of fear of ships. This led to the fact that the horizontal armor of our battleships generally had two layers, totaling 25-4 inches, and the patrol was 2-3 inches. In the naval battles in the Gerakl Strait, most of the fighting distances were repeatedly penetrated by the Germans in the naval battles, which led to the hull damage and the sinking of the Royal Princess. The first reason was that the horizontal deck was continuously penetrated.
Finally, our turret design is also quite a failure. Battleship, our turret front armor is generally 11 inches, and the gun base is 9-1 inches, which means that the Germans can easily penetrate our turret front armor at a distance of 11 yards. Moreover, our turret front armor has an inclined angle, which is helpful to reduce the turret and reduce the armor weight compared with the absolute vertical armor. However, considering the parabolic flight path after the shell leaves the chamber, it is suspected that the opponent’s armor-piercing projectile will form a vertical angle. To achieve the maximum penetration effect, in addition, the design of the inclined plane of the turret top armor is also the same problem. Although the 64 mm "horizontal" top armor is not the same, the inclined design weakens the armor protection of this layer several times. It is precisely because of the breakdown of the turret top armor that the battleship Reckless exploded and sank.
Secondly, our gunners did not strictly enforce the combat regulations in naval battles. According to the combat regulations accumulated by the Royal Navy, the hatch of the ammunition depot can only be opened when the ammunition is shipped out. After the ammunition is shipped out, it should be closed immediately. After the ammunition is transported to the turret by the ammunition conveyor, the protective cover in the barrel should also be closed immediately before the turret can be launched.
However, in actual combat, we did not strictly follow this procedure, which led to the possibility that once our turret was hit by an armor-piercing projectile, it would be exploded by a secondary fire. In the naval battle, the flagship Lion of the fast fleet was shredded by a 35 mm armor-piercing projectile patrolled by the Luzov, and it exploded in a horizontal armored bomb conveyor near the turret. If Harvey had not been desperate, perhaps the number of capital ships in the British Empire would have increased.
Third, we have the problem of artillery shells. In the Battle of Scarborough Strait, four king-class battleships launched a death charge on the big fleet. Four of our detachments opened fire on the Germans. Almost every ship was shot more than five times. However, the four king-class battleships still resisted our fire. The Selim fleet covered the withdrawal team.
Although we make the penetration of heavy bombs no better than that of the Germans, although the German warships are extremely strong in protection, they are not able to bite their opponents. Perhaps this is more worthy of study by British imperial artillery experts than simply blaming the German warships for their strong protection.
Finally, we cut corners in the watertight design of the capital ship. The waterproof torpedo armor and armor belt of the capital ship usually do not constitute continuous protection. Although the side of the capital ship is paved with a layer of buoyancy dome armor, the weak armor belt makes the dome armor greatly discounted. In addition, the early capital ship was not equipped with the longitudinal partition of the watertight compartment, and the strength of the watertight compartment and the connecting door was also problematic. Once the hull was shot, great vibration would cause the watertight hull around the shot part to loosen.