Chapter 2 Keywords—Exploding Warships
The glass-colored door could no longer hide the fanatical atmosphere outside the military court. The military police who maintained the discipline pushed open the door, and warm light sprinkled in, accompanied by a wave of heat waves like overwhelming. Wang Heidi's figure had just appeared in front of everyone, and there were already overwhelming cheers under the solemn imperial flag.
Wang Heidi was dizzy and felt a feeling stronger. In the past, Wang Heidi always felt that he was just a passerby, and because of an accident, he had to temporarily live with a stranger with Germany. After twenty-one years of time traveling through life, the memories of the previous life became increasingly unpredictable, the barrier gradually faded, and there was a belief that became stronger and stronger-this is my country!
"Today is a great moment!" The mediocre otaku who used to be no longer needed to rack his brains to his Baidu speech. When he was so emotional that he blurted out some words.
"I made a mistake in the Battle of Jutland, but the Empire showed great tolerance to me, so this was the moment of my personal greatness, Heidi Sileme. In 1915, we defeated the Royal Navy, we defeated the Allies' conspiracy against Turkish allies, we conquered cities and land in the hinterland of Russia, and our army will eventually enter the Palace of Versailles in France. The warships of the Ocean Fleet will definitely enter Scapa Bay. The Germans, please forget the personal glory of Searme for the time being, and win the glory of the German nation with iron and blood!"
"Silem, you are a natural speaker!" The atmosphere at the scene rose to a high point. The Allied intelligence personnel in the crowd were full of envy. The emperor's secretary looked gloomy. Avril unconsciously grabbed his father's trousers and panicked. Radell tilted his head and sighed sincerely.
"Redel, when you feel that you can take responsibility, you can say something without teaching you." Wang Heidi suppressed the turmoil in her heart, left behind the confused Redel, took his wife and daughter's hands and took the military vehicle sent by her father and Shrekt and his wife to the military department.
To Silem's expectations, the destination of the car was not the Navy headquarters, but the Charlottemberg Palace.
The dark sedan is driving at high speed on William Street. The lush University of Berlin, the luxurious buildings of the Adelon Hotel in Paris Square, the thick Brandenburg Gate and the statue of the Victory Girl retreated in the small windows, and the heart of the Empire's rule - the Charlottemberg Palace is vividly remembered.
"General Boer continued to serve as Chief of Staff of the Navy, and I was transferred from the Navy War Section to the First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Navy. The rank was also promoted to Major General. General Scher was promoted to Marshal. He became Minister of the Imperial Navy, and the old guy Capelle served as Commander of the Reserve."
Avril sat in Anne's arms, staring at the street scene outside the window with his thief-eyed eyes. Major General Raidel, who was sitting in the front row, lit a cigarette on his own, proudly swallowing the clouds and roughly introduced the changes inside the navy.
"Now General Hippel is in charge of the Ocean Fleet. According to your suggestion, General Hippel has established a submarine command on Helgoland Island, and the king of submarines, Otto Vedigan, became the commander of the lieutenant colonel. The first flight squadron of the experimental nature of the aircraft carrier has been formed. Lieutenant Hanna-Xiao, who creatively used wrench as an attack weapon in the Battle of Jutland, will become the captain of this flight squadron with only six aircraft."
The smell of high-end tobacco leaves made the old tobacco gun Wang Heidi, who had been trained from the naval battle, couldn't hold it. Unfortunately, Anne sat next to him, Wang Heidi, who was afraid of his wife, didn't want to be greedy for a moment of pleasure, which led to the extra fat on her waist who had been resting for half a month and did some irregular exercises.
"Our emperor seemed to be aware of the Navy's alienation from the Hohenzollern family. He first happily approved the Navy's temporary budget for a combat patrol and eight cruisers, and gave an additional budget of 80 million marks separately, and then announced that your promotion and award ceremony would be scheduled on the same day as the Navy's trial, with Prince Baden Marks in charge of presidency."
The car stopped in front of the palace gate. The guards waved to let go after checking the documents for the door. Redel picked up the military cap placed on the bridge and asked, "Silem, you won't embarrass the navy, right?"
"The right to be promoted to a general is retained in the hands of the emperor. Haha, William is a mature politician!" From afar, he could see the important imperial minister standing in front of the stairs of the award hall, and Emperor William was among them. Wang Heidi's eyes shifted from the military cap that Raider had just worn to the expressionless imperial emperor, and his sharpness was revealed in an instant.
Although Wang Heidi claims that she is just a soldier more than once, Wang Heidi, who has repeatedly encountered political storms in order to protect herself, has long experienced the vision and skills of a politician. Although she is not very mature, she does not understand the emperor's tricks clearly.
In the Battle of the North Sea, Wang Heidi did mobilize the fleet without authorization. William captured Wang Heidi's pain and launched an offensive. Wang Heidi had already anticipated this situation when planning the decisive battle in the North Sea. Before mobilizing the First Reconnaissance Fleet, Tirpitz had reached a certain level of tacit understanding with Navy Chief of Staff Boer, so the emperor was destined to have to suffer another defeat.
The old guys in the Tirpitz era always couldn't get rid of the derogatory words of Emperor William who was very happy and had a suspicious personality and extreme thinking. But it is undeniable that if William could remain calm, he would at least be considered a qualified politician. William realized that his actions not only could not eliminate the threat of Silem, but would instead make the navy rebellious and gradually move away from the Hohenzollern family.
So William began his action. He first approved an additional fund that was enough to make the army jealous, eased the opposition between the Navy and the Charlottemberg Palace, and then retreated to advance, announcing that he would personally award the medal to Silame and make a reconciliation with Heidi Silame. If Silame had any impolite words and deeds at the award ceremony, the emperor would become the biggest beneficiary. If Silame could see through his plan, then the emperor would at least gain a good reputation. As for the decisive battle, there would always be a chance!
"Don't worry, Raidel. Although I am incompatible with the Emperor, it is obvious that the decisive battle is not this time!"
(--Gorgeous dividing line--)
On Orkney Island in northern Scotland, the warmth of early spring is just around the corner. The sky is gloomy and looks like it is about to get moldy.
In front of the building, the rice-shaped flag that was used to flying high drooped with its head curled up, and the convertible military vehicle with the license plate of the military police headquarters was parked outside the apartment building. Two military policemen threw the cigarettes they had finished smoking on the ground. The heavy leather boots stepped through the residue of the cigarette butts and walked towards the apartment of the senior officers of the Fleet.
The watchtower sentries deployed in the Scapa Bay Cape sounded the alarm desperately. The coastal artillery and several unshutdown destroyers acted quickly, and the most important military port of the Royal Navy was suddenly in chaos.
"U-type submarine or the first reconnaissance fleet?" David Betty asked unconsciously, and then remembered that it was no longer his turn to care. The dismal light penetrated into the blinds that were lifted up. It hit Betty's diary spread out in his hand. The sound of leather boots sounded at the end of the corridor outside the room that had not been closed. Betty slowly turned around, and his thoughts pulled away from the Scarglake Strait, which was full of fire.
"Lampard, I think I should leave..."
Before he finished speaking, two well-dressed gendarmerie knocked in and saluted Betty and Lampard respectively.
"General, the time for your application to the prosecutor is over. It's time to return to the Gendarmerie Command at Scapa Bay Base." Faced with the ending hero, the Gendarmerie tried to make his tone gentle.
"Gendarmerie...**Prosecutor..."
Lampard shook his figure and instantly understood the origin of Betty's endless memory of the memoir of "Scarglack's Gold".
The navy has always been the foundation of the British Empire. It is the greatest reliance for the Empire to maintain its dignity. The British were any country in the world who knows the ocean better, and the British rely more on the ocean than any country in the world. Because of this, the British Empire ignored the financial difficulties and economic recession and reduced their clothes and diet to create a large fleet of more than thirty main battleships.
In the Strait of Scarglak, the British Empire lost not only eight battleships, but also the more precious Nelson spirit and hundreds of years of heritage. Without the battleships, the British Empire could hollow out its wealth and rebuild another fleet, but the loss of well-trained sailors and positive morale may only be measured by brilliant gold.
Therefore, restoring the number of main battleships and replenishing the losses is not the whole of the Royal Navy's self-salvation. It may change the navy's impetuous strategic thinking. It is more important to face reality with a pragmatic attitude.
Unfortunately, it is the first priority of the Navy to calm the anger of the people, find the scapegoat for the failure of the naval battle, and restore the balance of the naval forces between Britain and Germany as soon as possible.
Not that no one has seen the root of the failure of the Royal Navy. Arthur Belfort was busy eliminating Churchill and Fisher's remnants in the Admiralty, establishing authority and gaining administrative resources for the Conservative Party. As a politician, he did not want to and dare to consider this issue in depth; Jackson was obsessed with new technologies and weapons, and in his opinion, building warships was the fundamental way to solve everything; Betty was determined to change all this, but unfortunately, as scapegoats, they no longer had the right to speak.
"Sergeant, you can't do this! The failure of the naval battle is not the fault of any fleet commander. The master and naval designer who cannot see the situation at the Navy headquarters should be sent to court and to the guillotine that once killed Charlie!" Lampard lost his mind and blocked the door of the apartment and roared angrily: "Our national strength has long been allowed to continue the two strong policies and maintain the global existence of the navy. However, the men in the Navy who have been sitting in the office for many years are still fantasizing that the Royal Navy can fight against the whole world!"
"Lampard, calm down, my era is over!" Betty took the shoulders of the somewhat excited deputy and old friend in front of him and comforted him: "Admiral Jelico and I have taken the initiative to resist the responsibility of the fleet's ineffective combat at the Admiralty Meeting in mid-March. Lampard, Belford will send others to take charge of the fleet. As veterans of the old era, you will be suppressed and isolated, but please hold on anyway! We need to keep a glimmer of hope!"
(--Gorgeous dividing line--)
At night, Berlin has become a sea of joy. Koch Street, Friedrich Street, and William Street are brightly lit, and tens of thousands of Berlin residents flock to the streets to continue to celebrate the unprecedented victory of the navy. In the Lower Linden area near the Brandenburg Gate, the Political Square, the Palace Square of Kings and the Paris Square, members of the Pan-Germany Association were dispatched to give publicity speeches to the Berliners.
Although the army was in trouble on the French battlefield, notices of death from young men were sent back from time to time on the Eastern Front battlefield. Although the supply of bread, potatoes and barley on the Berlin market was a little scarce, and although at the end of 1914, while the empire implemented a relatively free economy, materials related to military raw materials began to implement wartime economies, these did not affect the unity of the Germans. During the war, the national discipline of the German people and their leaders, the scientific originality of the Imperial University and scientific research institutions, and the amazing organizational capabilities of the government army were released to the greatest extent, and the German people remained at a high morale and were enthusiastically looking forward to more victory.
After the award ceremony, the grand reception was at the Grand Hotel in Berlin Square. The doors of the best hotel in Berlin were full of gun-carried Army soldiers and police. In the hotel, the young navy and army who had been suffering for a long time had already cried into the dance floor. Senior army officers gathered in a hidden angle to study a new weapon called a land cruiser handed over by Max Hoffman, deputy chief of staff of the Eastern Front Command. Senior naval officers were holding wine glasses and drinking and discussing their new enemy - Arthur Belfort.
"Belfort completed the bloodbathing and replacement of the British Navy's top leaders in just about ten days, winning the initial trust of the picky Londoners. For the large fleet with low morale, Belfort did not undergo drastic changes, and instead adopted a roundabout policy. Judging from the above actions, Belfort has a strong personality and superb ability and a strong means. He is the iron-fisted figure that the Royal Navy currently needs!"
After discussing Belfort's "glorious deeds", the naval officers finally remembered that they and the naval strategic masters were also known. Wolfgang Wegener, who sneaked out of the hospital, spoke first, and pointed out Arthur Belfort's advantages and disadvantages incisively.
"But after all, Belfort is just a politician who is thousands of times better than the stupid Churchill." At this point, a one-armed general with a broken arm but a little more cruel. Wolfgang Wegener, deputy commander of the First Battleship Fleet, seemed to have a little regret on his face: "It's a pity that he... is not a real soldier after all!"
Weigener's words are obviously too profound, but this cannot defeat the newly promoted deputy commander of the Ocean Fleet - Lieutenant General Heidi Sileme.
"There is still a lot of surplus in the 1915 Naval budget. After the Battle of Jutland, Charlottemberg Palace gave us another huge sum of money." Wang Heidi rubbed his hands excitedly and said in a slight manner: "In order to get Mr. Belfort astray, how about three York-class battle patrols on the basis of three Markens?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendation votes, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
Chapter completed!