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Chapter Thirteen Those False Sublime (4)

The embarrassed footsteps were retained by the top secret telegram of the Ocean Fleet Command. Wang Heidi grabbed the telegram and ignored the new commander of the Baltic Sea Blockade Fleet, Major General Bihanik, and countless instructions blurted out: "Staff Officer, order that the Luzov battle patrol and the Deflinger battle patrol immediately set off fire and anchor, and combat preparations must be completed before 6:30. Major General Reuter and Major General Maas must rush to the Luzov battle patrol chart room for a meeting within ten minutes; inform the First Reconnaissance Fleet located in the southeastern waters of Norway to quickly move closer to the Swedish coastline and stand by at any time; reply to the Ocean Fleet Command, the First Reconnaissance Fleet has taken action; telegraph the General Staff of the Navy to fight Colonel Koerrich-Redel, content: Long live the German Empire!"

A dim desk lamp was placed on the desk in the Luzov battle chart room. The dim light barely illuminated the desk and Major General Bihanik, who was confused by the desk lamp. Wang Heidi, Captain Ludwig von Reutt, Captain Luzov Major General Paul Henry, and the Second Reconnaissance Fleet Leibrecht-Mass accidentally disappeared in the boundless darkness.[]

"Commander, it seems that the British have given up the North Sea combat cruise plan. They have placed their cruise in Portland Bay or the west coast of Scotland." The red pen drew a not-secret circle in the Orkney Islands, Lewis Island, and Portland Bay areas. Paul Henry threw down his pen and returned to the darkness. His frown brows were slightly relieved, and he said in a deep voice.

"You can talk more, what is..." The young Major General Bihanik scratched his blonde hair and asked in a dismay: "North Sea Battle Cruise Plan?"

"General Bihanik, the British Battle Cruise Fleet has had two combat cruises since the war started, and the cruise locations are all deep in the North Sea. It is interesting to note that Betty's first combat cruise was after the completion of the Tiger Battle Cruise, and the second combat cruise was also accompanied by the completion of the Queen Elizabeth-class rapid battleship. In March, the Queen-class modification was completed, and we have reason to suspect that the third North Sea combat cruise of the British Fast Fleet was about to begin." Paul Henry glanced at Wang Henry, until Wang Henry nodded quietly, and Henry continued to explain reluctantly: "The Ocean Fleet has a plan to intercept the British Battle Cruise Fleet. This plan was planned by Colonel Redell, the chief of the Navy Staff Operations Section, and our commander, and was approved and supported by General Schell and General Hippel."

"Stop the British fast fleet!" The coffee that Major General Bihanik had just picked up unconsciously spilled out, touching the brand new European chart.

In March, the naval political storm seemed to be raging, and the large fleet continued to add ships and artillery. Sileme's first reconnaissance fleet was scattered in the Baltic Sea and the Norwegian coast. Under such conditions, the British fast fleet with five battle patrols and two fast battleships was intercepted and hysterical. Major General Bihanik almost jumped up, blushed and tried to dissuade something. The brewing words just poured into the Adam's apple and remembered that the most outstanding strategist in front of him was the German Navy's most outstanding strategist.

"Maybe the British don't want to take risks. They put their cruise locations on the safe west coast of Scotland or the Portland Bay in the north!" Major General Bihanik took out his handkerchief and wiped the blackened chart repeatedly until the blurry Baltic Sea on the map could no longer carry any plans. Then he learned to pick people up.

"No, the British will not give up the North Sea cruise easily." Wang Heidi stood up, looked at the chart stained by coffee, and said firmly with her hands on her chest: "First, when the Royal Navy suffered a failure in 1914, they urgently needed to make changes. The Battle of Redemption - the Battle of Falkland Islands and the Battle of Dardanelles - failed to achieve the expected goals. Therefore, Britain urgently needed to make more powerful moves; secondly, my first reconnaissance fleet was scattered in the waves

The Luohai Fleet, the number of main ships left in Wilhelmshaven, was far inferior to that of the United Kingdom, and they were all slow-moving battleships. This was the best time for the British to take action; again, I planned a raid in the Mudros Bay involving torpedo ships and submarines. Although the specific battle report has not yet been released, I believe the Turks' determination to believe more of the strength of the German young men. Gentlemen, that will surely be a big victory, and the Royal Navy has no way out!"

The three musketeers of the Kiel Sea School and the German Navy's strategic two masters rarely demonstrated their ability to talk to the group members at the 1898 Congressional hearing. Major General Bihanik has been conquered, but he just said with the last trace of curiosity: "What about the last point?"

"Finally, the commander of the British Rapid Fleet is my old friend - David Betty, the 'Sea Light Cavalry'." Wang Heidi turned his head, and his deep eyes seemed to be able to penetrate hundreds of millimeters of defensive armor, and saw the British Rapid Fleet galloping in the North Atlantic. "I and Betty fought side by side in the Far East. We have had fifteen years of friendship. I know that young man. He is not lacking in strategy and rationality, but he can't get rid of the adventurous spirit in his bones. Korang is his most valuable advantage, but it is also the biggest failure of his North Sea combat cruise plan!"

From the British combat cruise practices, to the flaws of the Imperial Navy, to the situation where the Royal Navy had to be fired on the string, and finally David Betty's personal command style, Bihanik could no longer find a reason to object, but he could not get rid of the problem of looking back and forth, and he said:

"Silem, the Navy's General Staff will not agree to this plan. Admiral Hugo von Boer is an old antique who crazy worships ships to avoid war and exists in the fleet. Without the transfer order from the General Staff, the First Reconnaissance Fleet could not take any action!"

Before Wang Heidi could answer questions, Reutt, who was familiar with Wang Heidi's command style, Henry and Major General Maas smiled knowingly. The laughter was not accompanied by any reconciliation or disdain, but was bold and unscrupulous enough and non-Germany!

"It's not the first time I'm bullying the superiors and concealing the subordinates. Besides, there's the assistance of the Chief of the General Staff Operations Section, Redel..." Major General Maas took his eyes off the chart, closed his eyes and calculated for a long time, and hesitated: "However, even if the battle patrol of Luzov and the Deflinger were new warships, the range from the Oran Sea to the Jutland Peninsula is more than 700 nautical miles, and the maximum speed of the whole journey will take twenty-eight hours. The coal-fired boilers cannot operate at a long time. In other words, before dark on the 3rd, we can only reach the Norwegian waters at most. The British set off earlier than us. If they drove into the North Sea again in the early morning of the 2nd, we would have no time to intercept them!"

"The British could not slip into the North Sea again in the early morning of the 2nd. If you guess well, my old friend David Betty is currently in a northeastern cruise exercise in Portland Bay. This fleet will not consider the issue of whereabouts. Moreover, the two Queen Elizabeth-class ships will never be in the battle sequence!" Wang Heidi picked up the red pen thrown by Major General Henry on the table, drew two completely different routes from the Orkney Islands on the chart to Jed Bay, and then pressed the red pen on the Baltic Sea, lifting lightly: "And, we will not go to the line between the Katgarts and the Scarglake Strait, but..."

The red pen could not leave a bright red mark on the Baltic area dyed black by coffee. Just when Wang Heidi was a little annoyed, the intelligence consultant pushed open the door of the chart room and hurried in, handing him two telegrams.

"General, it is also the top secret telegram given to you by the Ocean Fleet Command."

Wang Heidi sat back at her desk, and Gu Jing sat back in the dark without boring, reaching out to find the new things in her pocket - glasses. She touched her left and right pockets but still couldn't find the old glasses that were newly equipped in Berlin while taking advantage of the naval political storm. Then she remembered that the glasses followed his luggage and fell on the traffic boat, so she had to put the telegraph papers close to her increasingly blurred eyes.

"As expected, Earl Lukner, who went out secretly at the end of February, and his sailing warship Seahawk, accidentally discovered the British First Battle Cruise fleet passing by. The Count reported that they had only five battle cruisers and were on the way to the Orkney Islands." Wang Heidi picked up another telegram, and a group of senior Imperial Navy officers pricked up their ears, waiting for more final words.

"Gentlemen, today is the day of glory for the Allied Navy. In the distant Bay of Mudros, the Turkish Navy fought side by side with the Imperial Navy and won a great victory! We sank at least one main ship of the British-French Combined Fleet and four old battleships, severely damaging three to four old battleships!"

The generals in the room cheered one after another, and the old-fashioned generals in front of the sailors hummed the naval song regardless of their identity in the hidden chart room. Wang Heidi hid herself in the deepest part of the darkness, leaving only her slightly trembling hands under the dim light of the desk, holding her iron desk tightly.

"In the European War, Betty became an enemy. Oden died in Falkland. His friendship with time was becoming increasingly indifferent and thin. God, forgive my selfishness and don't let Rausw and Rut Gunther be so heroic..." With the high-pitched tune of "We Are Going to England", Wang Heidi silently recited in his heart.
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