(I have lived, I haven't written for a long time, and I'm unfamiliar with it. Also, after watching the G League, hehe, it's so passionate!)

The Mediterranean in July is like a huge fire cage.

The Apennine Peninsula, which is rich in Mediterranean style, continues to be ruled by intimidating heat waves. The boot-shaped tip area of ​​southeastern Italy, the beautiful bay is about to lose its vitality. The iron bridge connecting Taranto's new city and the old city is empty, and there are no exotic sailors coming to hunt for curiosity in the ancient castle.

In the military port area, the German Navy Iron Cross and Black Hawk Flag in the center of the Taranto Naval Base, the tricolor flag of the Italian Navy, the red and white Navy flag of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the crescent flag of Turkey and the deep blue flag of the Mediterranean Combined Fleet could not withstand the burns of the sun, and they all hung their heads. The soldiers on duty near the dock hid in the shade of trees with rifles in their arms, and on the cool side of the moored warships facing the sun, the upper deck, the secondary gun deck, the hull deck and the bridge deck were hung with hammocks. There were also many energetic sailors playing ancient games. They put on a pedal on the side of the warship and plunged into the cool sea in light dance steps.

"This is the twelfth Joint Fleet Liaison Conference."

The heavy conference room door panel could not stop the huge noise and bottomless insults in the conference room. Albert, the Italian guard guard at the door of the conference room, turned his head and looked at the colorful naval flags outside the building gallery, and said worriedly:

"It is said that this meeting was chaired by Heidi Silem, the commander-in-chief of the United Fleet, personally. I hope that this beloved naval god of war can end this farce that lasted for more than a month and avoid the thirteenth contact meeting..."

The liaison meeting was a coincidence of the Mediterranean Combined Fleet. In early June 1916, the Mediterranean Combined Fleet, the Allied Mediterranean Combined Fleet, was established in a rush and rushing sound in the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa. The countries selected elite troops from their own naval departments to arrive in Taranto in advance, set up the framework of the Joint Fleet Command and held regular liaison meetings to discuss joint combat matters.

At the same time, the first commander and commander of the luxury fleet, including ten battleships, one battle cruiser, eight old battleships, nine cruisers and twenty-one destroyers, was finally settled.

The lucky one in the eyes of the Allies and the guy who slandered as a pitiful person in every way was Heidi Sileme!

In May, when we learned that the Mediterranean powers formed the Mediterranean joint fleet, the media of good-for-going neutral countries and allied countries offered long, qualifying options for Wanro. Human imagination was endless, and even the funny Bulgarians proposed that their inland security commander be the fleet commander. But no one expected that through Italy, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the three strong men of Turkey, a series of despicable and shameless dark-box operations were carried out, but the conclusion was that Heidi Sileme, who had been silent for several months.

After being surprised, the media people from the neutral and allied countries who came back to their senses couldn't help but give a thumbs up to the Mediterranean tyrants. The Mediterranean powers' covetousness of the command of the joint fleet is well known to everyone. Unfortunately, the Turks did not have the capital to participate. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was slightly inferior, but the joint fleet was dispensable to them. The Italians had obvious advantages but were pinched by the Austrians because of their eroded North Africa war situation.

After complicated calculations, people found that the person who was most suitable to serve as the commander was Heidi Sileme, who had no connection with the Mediterranean Three, but had enough personal prestige and resume.

The news soon reached Germany. Heidi Sileme, a magnificent appearance on the front page of the newspaper, which was agreed to be forgotten by the Germans who like to remember the past.

In the gray and white old photos, the face of the guy who made the German nation unforgettable was not too devastated by the passing years. Many Germans who were familiar with him could still find the past of chasing the wind from the face with a small beard and dyed with vicissitudes. However, Heidi Sileme was not the German naval hero who brought them victory at sea time and time again. Germany no longer had his world. But the Mediterranean was full of his legends and to be continued.

The German Emperor William was terrified. He showed his allies the emperor's anger at the right time to cover up the emperor's lonely fear. Although he said he looked down on Heidi Silem's words, William, who was inferior, never doubted that Silem could command a group of Mediterranean miscellaneous parts to clean up the proud French Navy.

Time is a good medicine. The Germans have withdrawn from the anger of the third naval political storm in 1915. The calming German nation's characteristics of being good at rational thinking are once again revealed. The emperor and the government's search for the Social Democratic Party after the political storm. Friedrich Albert, the right-wing leader of the Social Democratic Party, mysteriously disappeared, and the rumors of the emperor's disagreement with the admiral before, the Germans finally understood the emperor's identity in the political storm. William began to be criticized by the people, but he could still hope that the Ocean Fleet would continue to win to eliminate the sea soul imprint of Sileme's land power. But now, the Ocean Fleet without Sileme is not enough to get in. Sileme, who was forcibly suppressed by him, was in a prosperous Mediterranean.

The better Silame performed in the Mediterranean, the more it contrasted with William's stupidity. The emperor, who was struggling to survive, would never allow this scene to happen again.

The emperor was furious and buried millions of corpses, but to William's surprise, the unruly Ocean Fleet, and the supporters of the industrial and commercial class and universities praised the wise and magical martial arts of the allies, and wished the prosperity of the Mediterranean martial arts. The Chief of Staff of the Army Falkenhein, who once stood on the emperor's side, and the conservative leader of the Juncker landlord Norman, also remained silent. The Chief of Staff of the Eastern Front Command was competent as the Army's Military Chief of Army Command, Erich Rudendolph, also stood up and clearly supported the decision of the Mediterranean powers. He hoped that Silame could open up the Mediterranean situation, involve and attack the French, and help the Empire win the Battle of Paris.

In May 1916, the Imperial Army defeated the French's attempt to launch active defensive operations outside Paris, spreading the war to the Paris capital.

The Italian army was crossing the Alps and attacking the French side. The navy was restrained by the Allied Navy and could not move in the Eastern Mediterranean. The French government, who was forced to a desperate situation, had to fight back. First, it recruited all the nationals who could take up weapons to defend France, and then brazenly declared that Paris became a war zone and France would never surrender.

Faced with France, which could collapse at any time, the Allies and the gamblers who had poured too much bets on the Allies were red-eyed and fell into a state of madness. In just two months, the Royal Navy used warships and civilian ships to transport millions of guns and nearly 10,000 artillery to France, and more than one million soldiers who had no time to train. Standing on the same ship, Japan had sent a division of troops and a large number of escort warships to Europe.

The Russians transferred reinforcements used in the North Caucasus to the Western Front. Countless Russian gray animals were holding simple weapons. They shouted the slogan "Don't fight the German devils, only the Austro-Hungarian puppet troops" and attacked the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the German and Austrian defense line. The US government and Congress provided low-interest and free loans to the Allies seven times. Under the high-voltage line of Monroeism, their navies were sent to escort the merchant fleet of the Allies to curb the increasingly fierce German submarine strangle battle.

Even though the Allies tried their best, facing the German Army that entered its peak state with the "total war" mode, the Allies' troops were still defeated in Paris. The French, British, Bilibili and Japanese troops, which had only one regiment left, could only rely on the few ground strongholds in the city and the Paris underwater road system that even the French themselves could not figure out.

The Battle of Paris almost exhausted the empire's strategic reserves, and the speed of arms production was far from keeping up with the astronomical figures on the front line. Therefore, Ludendolf, who proposed the concept of "total war", was transferred by Falkenhein, who was worried about, as the military chief, to be responsible for the allocation of materials on the Western Front. Given the personal prospect of Rudendolf being tied to the Battle of Paris, the army general stood up with a clear stand against the emperor.

Not only was the German Navy and Army dissatisfied with the emperor's interference, but even Italy, which relied on Germany's aid, Austro-Hungary and Turkey were dismissed. Under the advocacy of Italian Foreign Minister Song Nino and Enzel, one of Turkey's three giants, Heidi Silem was appointed as admiral by the Allies' three Mediterraneans. He officially took office as commander of the Mediterranean Combined Fleet in early June.

"Although General Sileme is powerful, he is not the god on Mount Olympus after all." Bergunino shook his head and said, "We have had the Lisa Battle with the Austrians and the Italian-Turkish War with the Turks. Austria and Turkey were entangled in the Balkans. It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to integrate the maritime forces of three countries that are full of contradictions. General Sileme may not be able to deal with such a scene..."

The guards were whispering, just through a corridor of a wall, the Italian guards' words were accurately translated by Wang Heidi's full-time translator and clearly passed into Wang Heidi's ears.

Wang Heidi leaned against the Italians' luxuriously decorated headquarters building gallery. She looked up and spit out the smoke rings, and there was a strange color on her face, so she was not sure.

"Look, even the most ordinary soldiers in Italy can see the namelessness of the Mediterranean Combined Fleet. It is precisely because all the main ships of the joint fleet have arrived that we cannot even organize a decent formation training, so the French who are about to fall out dare to put all their main ships in the crisis-ridden Eastern Mediterranean!" Wang Heidi's new assistant Gunther Lütjens took out his watch and looked at the time. While urging Wang Heidi to go in for a meeting, he complained in German: "But even so, those guys who only see the national interests in their eyes will not make any concessions! Even if this meeting is hosted by you personally, the result is still not optimistic."

Wang Heidi, who had a cigarette in his hand, was reluctant to move. He tilted his head and asked in a low voice: "Lütjens, do you think I'm almost out of the way to play in the Mediterranean?"

"I just think it's too inefficient to hold a naval liaison meeting that all middle and senior officers can attend. More than one hundred people attended the meeting, leaving the time to express opinions and quarrels, how much time do we have to decide?"

Gunther Lütjens's eyes dodged and did not want to answer Wang Heidi's questions directly. Until Wang Heidi pointed at his rapidly beating heart, Lütjens was willing to reveal the truth:

"The army is about to win the Battle of Paris. The French are about to surrender. The Mediterranean powers no longer care whether the joint fleet can defeat the French navy with dignity. Instead, they hope to use the Mediterranean joint fleet as bargaining chip to force the French to surrender as soon as possible. Then their navy can divide the ten main battleships of the French Navy without any risk."

Wang Heidi was still expressionless, Gunther Lütjens paused and continued:

"General, before the Battle of Paris, it was an incomparable decision to be the commander of the Mediterranean Combined Fleet. However, when you only have one last step to win the Battle of Paris, you will become the most unpopular person in the Mediterranean powers. This is a step... bad chess!"
Chapter completed!