On the evening of November 15th, the Times, an old British newspaper, specially added an issue, and the headline outside published a passionate article "The M-flag is still flying". Holding the extra number, the British imperialists finally rushed to the streets with a sigh of relief to celebrate the victory.
"On November 14, 1914, the big fleet shamefully ambushed the returning West Lyme Fleet, Major General Heidi West Lyme, and the main force of the ocean fleet under the temporary command of General Schell bravely reinforced the German navy, which destroyed the evil intentions of the British. We sank a large armored ship at the cost of sinking two British warships and a feared ship. Glory belongs to Germany!"
On November 15th, the Berlin Chronicle devoted four aspects to the news of the "victory" of the Battle of Flanders, and introduced in detail the sea battle in Shazhou, Dogel. The passionate words of the Berlin Chronicle ignited the melancholy rain on the streets of Berlin and made the beer in German pubs and pubs instantly out of stock.
"On November 14th, 1914, there was silence for a long time, and the North Sea war reignited the two most powerful fleets in the history of the earth, YunDogel Shazhou. However, this naval battle has been full of surprises and incredible since the mobilization before the war.
Even if the dust settled in the naval battle, the ups and downs did not diminish at all. After the naval battle, Germany and Britain declared victory for the first time and foiled the ambush attempt of the other side.
We live in a time that allows us to find clues from declassified archives and memoirs of participants, sort out clues from these messy threads and make a pertinent evaluation of this chaotic naval battle. However, in 1914, the information was not prosperous, and the world was really shocked by the words of the British and German governments
Who ambushed who in the two ambush wars?’ When time magazine summarized the great events in 1914 at the end of that year, it expressed such feelings about the naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel.
Dogel Shazhou naval battle fleet invested 19 battleships (Bao, Indian emperor just finished the final debugging, Ajax temporarily terminated the power modification, actually there are 16 battleships), 7 Qianwei ships and 5 patrol ocean fleet invested 15 battleships, 5 patrol ships and a large armored ship. In view of the state of the two fleets, once the giant guns of the big ships play a decisive battle, the ocean fleet is likely to hit the big fleet with quality advantages.
However, in the end, General hippel chose to be conservative and didn’t struggle to escape. The Germans pulled three echelons to form a refueling tactic because of the launch time and speed. John Jellicoe took the big fleet in his hand with complete combat power, but the general was responsible for the big fleet and the life and death of the British Isles. It was unimaginable that outsiders forced him to choose to be conservative, so two huge and ambitious fleets crossed their shoulders around 22 o’clock.
The main fleet did not participate in the battle. There were always David Betty’s first battle patrol fleet, Heidi Silam bait fleet and Franz von hippel’s first reconnaissance fleet. Therefore, this naval battle was also called the peak battle of war patrol.
In the naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel, the British lost the new patrol Queen Mary, the old patrol enemy, the dreaded ship Raytheon, the Royal Princess and the Monarch, and the Germans lost an old one, but its performance was no less than that of the dreaded ship Von de Tann, and a quasi-patrol blucher and Mao Qi suffered heavy losses. As far as the naval battle results are concerned, the Germans barely achieved tactical victory, but the naval battle failed to achieve the highest goal of crushing the big fleet, even the lowest goal of strangling the first patrol fleet. We say that the ocean fleet still failed to break the blockade of the big fleet.
The influence of Dogel Shazhou naval battle is enormous.
Americans will learn from the experience of naval battles in Shazhou, Dogel, and quickly schedule battleships; Russians can remember the less glorious past after listening to the bloody naval battle; Japanese people who are poor in resources are more interested in night fighting, melee and disorderly warfare. In 1917, as a shipbuilding supervisor, they went to Britain to inspect shipbuilding technology. Teng Kikuo solemnly wrote the words "asymmetric warfare" in his notes.
In order to appease the British people, the British Admiralty declared that the enemy ship was slightly injured and sank in mid-December. Major General Levinson was sent to a secret military court and ordered to retire. Later, the design speed was 25 knots, and the construction speed of the Queen Elizabeth battleship was accelerated. The plan to build three R-class (revenge-class) battleships was cancelled. A new patrol code-named Lookout was started at the end of 1914.
Although the first-line commanders of the ocean fleet knew that they had missed the best time to defeat the big fleet, in order to boost people’s morale, everyone had to smile. The deep-seated evolution of the naval battle against Germany was far more than that. After the victory of the Helgolan Bay naval battle, the emperor fought back even more fiercely. After the battle of Shazhou, Dogel, Ingenohl and Hertzendorf both made a thousand choices with regret, the emperor valued honesty and obedience. Bohr ordered his chief of staff of the navy to put heavy shackles on the ocean fleet.
However, all this can’t tie the wild horse that is about to run away from the ocean fleet. Because of the belligerence, Lieutenant General Reinhard Schell was promoted to be the commander-in-chief of the ocean fleet, Franz von hippel, the best tactical commander of Germany, the commander of the third battleship sub-fleet and the deputy commander of the navy. Major General Heidi Sillem, who has strategic vision, was promoted to be the commander of the first reconnaissance fleet … "
-Excerpted from The Sea War of 1914-1944. John Roots (UK)
The second gun chapter otaku fleet (7)
Chapter Otaku Fleet (7)
Scarpa Bay, northern Scotland, November 17, 1914
The farewell report of the enemy number Levinson panicked. Jellicoe was conservative and cautious, and finally fell short. Everything was like switching slides quickly. David Betty replayed it in his mind
The waves are swaying gently. The temporary flagship of the first world war patrol fleet, the strange battleship Tiger, the strange cabin and the pride of the lifeless fleet, David Betty, lay tossing and turning in a narrow iron bed and couldn’t sleep.
"Young man, maybe we should go to the officers’ club for a drink …"
Marshal Hill, an idle fu family, visited Lampard late at night. Major General helped push the door and came in. He unscrewed the wall lamp in the commander’s room and let the dim light illuminate the dark and decadent cabin.
The distant and desolate Orkney Islands are not permeated with coolness in the middle of November, and the narrow streets can’t be seen. The sailors who sneak out and get drunk can’t hear the indulgence and sing "blue－briannia". At the beginning of the war, the fanaticism is like the critical point of defeat in Scarpa Bay on this cold night.
The black car is driving like a ghost. The strong wind on the main island of Orkney beats David Betty’s gaunt body through the half-open window. The officers’ club has rested. Lampard drove around only a few streets in orkney Island for a long time before he found a pub that is said to stay up all night.
Walking into the half-closed door hung with bells, I was shocked to hear that the so-called sleepless pub was closed, yawning and balding. The boss grabbed the mop and pointed to the half-closed door, which made Lampard blush.
The half-open door of the pub is an unwritten rule in English pubs to accept regular customers. Lampard, an Englishman, had to lead the marshal and lieutenant general to flee back to the car carriage with a few bottles of brandy in a small tin can.
"In 1994, I became the Minister of the First Sea. At that time, the Germans sharpened their swords and our Royal Navy was demoralized, so I made drastic reforms and offended many noble lords." Marshal Hill took a sip of brandy and leaned over the back seat of the car and looked at David Betty with a sigh. "In 191, I was forced to resign. At that time, I felt that all this was terrible. I was attacked by the enemy in exchange for a shot of blood …"
"Ridiculous?" David Betty’s depressed expression was slightly loose. He turned around and asked in surprise, "Marshal what?"
"It is better to try to make yourself higher because of complaining and blaming others!"
"Marshal …" Looking at the travel-stained old marshal David Betty who came to comfort himself, he was ashamed of being so melodramatic these days.
"Dogel Shazhou naval battle proves the value of war patrol, and the enemy level and tireless level of war patrol are unbearable. The ship is subject to the speed, which will not only help the war patrol fleet, but will drag it down." After retirement, the leisure life makes Hill a little fat. The old marshal patted the young man on the shoulder and smiled. "Although Jellicoe has outstanding ability, his character tends to be conservative, and the quality of war is violent war. The mean is low energy! The Queen Elizabeth Battleship, which was commissioned in the spring of last year, will not join the big fleet sequence. It will be commanded by Lieutenant General David Betty, the deputy commander of the big fleet! "
Hill was dumbfounded. Lampard looked at the breathing and gradually became heavy. Betty insisted
"David Betty rally Dogel sandbar is not your fault! We, Sir Churchill, are bent on achieving his landing in the Daniil Strait. I have a hunch that there will be another battle between us and the ocean fleet at the turn of spring and summer next year, which will be a hundred times more tragic than the Dogel sandbar and will determine the hegemony of the ocean and the ups and downs of the national destiny! "
November 17th, 1914, Berlin, Germany
Dogel Shazhou naval battle, two German capital ships sank, and the death toll was as high as 2,300. When the travel-stained ocean fleet and the rickety unsinkable Mao Qi sailed back to Port William, the whole of Germany was stirred up.
Residents and dockers who heard the news were stunned and looked at the scarred Mao Qi method to imagine how the West Lyme fleet suffered a blow; The front door of the Berlin naval headquarters is full of worried families, and the navy may leave them with incomplete relatives or a pale notice of death.
It seems that someone has revealed the day in Berlin, or wrote a German farewell song, and the haze has been lingering in this ancient city for a long time. The annoying drizzle is pouring over the sky-blue dome of Charlottenburg Palace, and the face of the goddess of victory is wet and the curtains of the main palace are flying.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, the light rain can’t stop the enthusiasm of the German people. The front door of Charlottenburg Palace is crowded with German civilians celebrating the victory. In a few minutes, the naval medal ceremony will be held in Charlottenburg Palace, and there will be a grand celebration ceremony in the evening.
Heroes of the naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel marched into the luxurious Whitehall of Charlottenburg Palace with black umbrellas. Retired Marshal Erpitz was attacked. Mao Qi, the chief of staff of the Army, was almost audacious and young. The Secretary of the Navy, capelle, and Marshal Hertzendorf were forced to resign. Ingenohl and Marshal were all covered with expensive red carpets. The imperial emperor wore his ancestors’ armor and wore a rare light blade. As always, his left hand was holding white gloves, but it was somewhat unnatural.
"In peacetime, people with my personality may be considered unqualified to command the fleet."
Lieutenant General Reinhard Schell, commander-in-chief of the upcoming ocean fleet, made a meaningful self-mockery to hippel and Wang Haidi before the stage, and immediately ignored his army’s choice of walking on the red carpet and gave a military salute to the emperor.
Schell is not a Croatian aristocratic officer corps. He is loyal to the emperor. He is the bravest warrior in the empire, but this does not mean that he regards himself as a knight of the Hohensolen family.
Reinhard Schell, wearing the iron cross 1st class Medal and the Red Eagle Medal, will walk up the steps with a sullen face.
"Maybe today is worth remembering because the ocean fleet will turn a new page …"
Lieutenant General Franz von hippel pinched Wang Haidi’s shoulder and walked towards the podium. Everyone saw that hippel was first a standard military etiquette and then a noble knight ceremony.
General hippel took over the deputy commander of the ocean fleet and the commander of the third battleship sub-fleet, and came with a medal of grace to focus on Wang Haidi, a young man who was only 36 years old and had won two naval battles.
"At the age of thirty-six, was I the captain of the light patrol major or the staff officer of the fleet?" Over one hundred years, but carrying a major general or school rank veterans glances sighed.
"A new page!" Wearing an army with no rank, Wang Haidi said to himself from the bottom of my heart and finally moved.
In front of him, he fought bloody battles and came to the stage. In front of him, he could look up to his opponent. The otaku tried to move forward and stepped on the steps to climb the magnificent platform.
Looking at the emperor Wang Haidi, who is romantic but always hysterical with two bushes, slowly raised his right hand.
"Lieutenant General, maybe you should be steady …" The emperor took the lieutenant general’s epaulettes from the squire and put them on the otaku’s shoulders and chest, which was intriguing.
"Of course, Germany belongs to the great Hohensolen family!" Death can’t change the rest speech convulsion. Haidi is rare and steady. She wears the Grand Cross Red Eagle Medal and the iron cross 1st class Medal in her chest.
It is extremely difficult for Taiwan to ring like a thunderclap for a long time. In the era of ship-fearing, the displacement of hardened armor equipment often sinks 20,000-ton or 30,000-ton warships. In the past, the sinking of only one capital ship in the Dogel Shazhou naval battle made the world exclaim. The loss of an old-fashioned battleship in Germany and three patrol ships in Britain was enough to make the ball tremble. In this life, a total of five capital ships sank in the Dogel Shoal. How to evaluate the heroism can’t be overestimated by Wang Haidi’s theory of wisdom and courage.
At the moment when I went through all the etiquette procedures, Wang Haidi vaguely saw the emperor’s twitching cheeks and not far away, the imperial navy minister capelle showed his violent eyes
"On November 14th, 1914, two patrol ships of the ocean fleet and a large armored ship formed a surprise attack fleet to ambush the main fleet at Harwich Port and Los tofte Port in Dogel Shoal. David Betty and John Jellicoe will lead the big fleet into a bloody battle and defeat the Germans’ attempt to sink the two patrol ships. The Royal Navy of the German surprise attack fleet won a brilliant victory!"
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