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Chapter 2 Accepting an Order in Adversity (2)

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The war brings more than only the destruction of the Europeans, positional warfare, hand-to-hand combat, poison gas war, injury, bleeding, sacrifice, endless struggle, life is despised, friendship is mocked, and ideals are exiled.// Baidu search                                                                                             �

The politicians in the warring countries stayed in a safe place to plot and plot, and the strategist generals blew the exquisite map, but no one thought of this question: since the scale and intensity of this war far exceeded any war in history, then is the experience and inspiration they gained from previous battles to the present, or will there be anything other than conspiracy and plot and exquisite maps in this war?

On the front line of fire, behind hunger and cold, a tsunami was transformed into a tsunami. Soldiers began to get tired of moldy potatoes, dirty military uniforms and stenched trenches, workers and peasants were tired of the government's exploitation, meager salary and food quota systems, where light did not notice, nationalism had cooled down, revengeism, nationalism and anti-humanity were growing, pacifism was already slightly shallow, and more negative defeatism and more violent and radical socialism were running parallel to the scorched earth of Europe in a stance of ice and fire.

These changes were ignored by politicians and generals, but in retrospect, he was not irresponsible. In the wealthy British Empire was deeply involved in Irish riots, the huge Tsarist Russia collapsed during the April Revolution, and the Ultimate movement in the Arab and Palestinian regions of the Ottoman Empire became increasingly fierce.

At 3:12 pm on May 27, following the Irish riot in Britain, the April Revolution broke out in Russia, and the Kiel Sailor Uprising broke out in Germany.

This day may be the craziest and bloodiest day in Kiel's history. The German Communist sailors led by Otto Strathus suddenly launched an attack and armed control of the entire ship of the Odin without bloodshed. The German Communist Party representative Strathus delivered a peace speech on the front deck of the Odin, which historians called the "Kir Declaration", proposing that the empire should completely eliminate the command of the Baltic fleet, increase the treatment of sailors, and seek peace negotiations from the Allies as soon as possible.

Strathor waited for the support of most of the Odin officers and soldiers, twenty minutes after the riot, the Baltic Fleet Odin's sea defense ship officially revolted. The sailors removed the Iron Cross and Black Hawk flag and used a piece of red cloth as the flag of the uprising ship. When the steam was enough to support the boiler operation, the 3,000-ton old ship left Kiel Pier without any advice and drove into the deep waters of the bay.

Shortly after the Odin sailor riot, the clear telegram from General Secretary of the German Communist Party Albert had been transmitted to the Baltic ships. Due to the emergency, the Odin riot and the Odin sailors and the military marines confronted each other with the military police and the Marine Corps were finally determined.

The Siegfried, Heimdal and five other 1892-class torpedo boats operated according to the planned revolt in advance. They controlled the command tower, occupied the firearms storage room, took over the command of the warships with rifles, and then promoted the policies and propositions of the German Communist Party, so that the sailors who had originally sympathized with the workers would completely turn and stand on their side.

Because the German Communist Party had a strong foundation on these seven warships, their uprising was a great success. At 4:35 pm, the size of the uprising fleet had expanded to eight.

At this time, there were only two old sea defense ships and several 1892-class torpedo boats docked on the shore of Kiel. The Urri's sea defense ship's uprising failed. The captain of this sea defense ship was different from the Kapf of Odin. The strict self-disciplined Captain Ludwig Rennes had a high prestige among the sailors. When the German Communist Party members incited a group of sailors to attack the commander's tower and the firearms storage room, Ludwig Rennes sincerely asked the uprising sailors to calm down and kill a riot in the cradle.

On the other hand, the sailors who supported the uprising and the sailors who were loyal to the captain clashed on the Hagen seafighter. Because the uprising sailors did not have the advantage and they failed to seize the firearms storage room, the uprising eventually failed. The Uri and the Hagen seafighter became the only trump card for the Baltic Fleet Commander General Gustav von Bachmann for a long time.

In order to cooperate with the sailor riots, the German Communist Party members who infiltrated the Baltic Fleet Command and the Kiel Naval Base and their sympathizers rushed into the arsenal and important departments of the Naval Base, and successfully occupied the Fleet Command and the Base Command for half an hour. When the military police and marines confronted the uprising fleet at the dock returned to the rescue in time, the sea defense ships Aire and Hagen were anchored on the dock also supported the land war with small caliber artillery. The weak German Communist Party was soon defeated and the remaining troops retreated to the city of Kiel.

As the uprising broke out early, Berlin and Munich, whose revolutionary situation was not yet mature, could provide limited support, and the revolutionary forces in other places were even more disorganized, so the Kiel revolutionary forces could only fight against the reactionary forces of the entire Germany alone. Under this premise, whether the Kiel Port mastered the Kiel Port was able to obtain external aid - in fact, the assistance of Russian comrades was crucial.

When the news of the rebel forces' failure to seize the Kiel Naval Base came, Albert Feronth, who was a contact with the German Communist Party, was furious. He ordered the uprising fleet cruising outside the Kiel Fjord to approach the coastline, use 240 mm ship artillery to attack the seafjords of the Erie and Harlem, who were trapped in the harbor, and fired at the reactionaries gathered at the naval base.

The uprising fleet refused. Although Strathor and other representatives of the German Communist Party supported Albert Feronther's orders, the uprising sailors were generally unwilling to fire at their motherland.

The sailors hated the noble officers headed by General Bachmann, the commander of the Baltic Fleet. They were dissatisfied with the low salary and rising prices. They were eager for Germany to end the war and usher in peace, but this did not mean that they broke with the navy and the empire. If Heidi Sileme, who was loved and respected by the navy, and a group of young and energetic civilian officers led by him, would not have left the Ocean Fleet to come to the Baltic Fleet. If the Admiralty had not been too indulged in the group of experienced naval veterans, this uprising would not have happened at all if they had not had any choice!

While Kiel's sailors revolted, Kiel was in chaos.

The workers scattered all over Kiel suddenly attacked. The Kiel military and police who were patrolling the streets were soon swallowed up by the ocean created by the rebel workers. Most of the Kiel garrisons who were infiltrated were on the spot. Except for some of the officers loyal to the emperor, the remaining opponents were forcibly detained by Colonel William Wetzelt.

The sudden gunfire put Kiel into complete chaos. At the port, the rumbling sound of cannons scared many international ships. The panicked captains used all terrible and disastrous words to describe the rebellion and mutiny in the telegrams sent back to the country.

In Kiel, the workers' armed forces and Kiel's military and police used weapons including machine guns, rifles, pistols and grenades. The streets carefully laid out by urban designers have become cruel battlefields. The exquisite sculptures, convenient trams, corners of bakeries, and stone pillars in the outer hall of the hospital all became the best cover. For a moment, the bullets were under the old oak trees on the street, outside the windows of the finished clothing store, jumping in the shouts of pedestrians who could not dodge. Occasionally, a ball of blood was brought out. The grenade released the black smoke with the anger of death in the crowd, wrapping up a piece of dripping flesh and white brain.

In less than an hour, the streets of Kiel had already flowed into a river, and the smell of blood was shrouded in the whole process. Innocent passers-by, police officers loyal to the government, soldiers loyal to the emperor, new recruits and workers in the Kiel recruits station, soldiers of the uprising army either fell softly on the streets and alleys, covering their broken limbs and legs and coughing up a lot of blood, or fell in a pool of blood in a row.

The murderers firmly believe that they are on the side of justice and that the souls of their lost comrades will stay in heaven. But the fact is that imperialism did not allow the Allied Team to hit the city of Kiel, and pacifism would not allow its followers to use killing to achieve peace. Socialism would not allow so-called workers to rush into the wealthy mansions under the pretext of revolution, burning, killing, and looting, or directly robbing gold and jewelry stores.

At 4:00 p.m., Colonel William Wetzolt had completely controlled the Keil Army. The ambitious Colonel had ulterior motives to kill some old officers who were "stubborn" and "no sign of progress" to prevent future troubles. Then, in accordance with the orders of the Social Democratic leader Albert, the attack on the Keil Town Hall and the Keil Military Police Command, which were most likely to threaten the revolution.

At the same time, the workers attacked all important government facilities along the streets, occupied the telegraph office, power plants and railway stations. Then Keil's customs, reactionary newspapers and prisons were also taken down by the workers. Under the command of Blunt, the workers cut off the railways and roads and set up machine guns to prevent the reactionary armed forces near Keil from sending reinforcements to Keil through the railway highway, while other workers gathered at the Keil City Hall.

At 5 pm, except for the telegraph system at Kiel Naval Base, all contacts with the outside world were temporarily interrupted, and Kiel's situation was completely out of control.

The uprising forces occupied the Kiel Gendarmerie Command at a considerable price. The victorious workers set fire to the gendarmerie Command. The flames and thick smoke could be seen even dozens of kilometers away. Colonel William Wetzolt led his army to the front of the Kiel Town Hall and joined forces to attack the last fortress of the Kiel reactionaries.

The final battle went from late at night to late at night and then continued to dawn. Since Colonel William Wetzelt's great purge, the cadets of the Keil Naval Academy and the remnants of the Gendarmerie Command gathered at the Keil Town Hall. The Keil Naval Base also sent a Marine Corps of more than 300 people to support and fight with the uprising soldiers and workers.

At this time, the army near Kiel, which was loyal to the emperor and the officers' regiment, also moved towards Kiel, and exchanged fire with the workers on the periphery. The situation in Kiel was like the fog that had been all night during the Battle of Jutland, and neither insiders nor outsiders could see clearly!

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It was a crazy night.

The gunshots from Kiel shocked the exhausted Europe. With Kiel as the center point, a tsunami that was enough to profoundly affect the world pattern continued to spread outward.

The headquarters of the Soviet representatives of workers, peasants and soldiers in St. Petersburg, Vichy, a small town in southern France, Downing Street in the British Empire, and the White House in Washington, USA was brightly lit. Allied politicians red eyes during this long night.

Vienna of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Rome of the Kingdom of Italy, and Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire, countless politicians of the Allied Powers were also unable to sleep at night, waiting anxiously in front of the telegraph office for the latest news.

Germany is the pillar of the Allies. Without the well-trained German Navy and Army, the Allies' Group would have fallen long ago. Referring to the experience of the Russian April Revolution, the politicians of the Allies had an inexplicable and unrealistic expectation for the Kiel Revolution. Of course, they also knew that Germany was different from Russia where the building was about to collapse. The army led by Rudendolf and the navy led by Heidi Silem were not completely infiltrated by the Workers' Party. They still maintained a high morale. The German Kiel Revolution was destined not to be as devastating as the Russian April Revolution.

"Everything is just like my plan. Why do you still obstruct the Brest contract in every way?" Lenin, the future owner of the East Palace, slapped the table and shouted angrily at the Bolshevik Central Executive Committee.

Lenin, the great mentor who was about to become the master of Russia, insisted that signing the Brest Contract and allowing the Germans to let the decisive battle on the Western Front was the best support for the German Revolution, and the German Revolution was the most solid and powerful guarantee for the Russian Revolution. As long as the Russian Revolution was successful, the land ceded would be reclaimed sooner or later. As for the previously promised national self-determination, it was not the style of the Russians!

"We cannot let our 'alliers' Russia fight alone. We should act and support Kiel!"

The owner of Vichy town kneaded the French financial collapse report sent by the Minister of Finance into a ball and threw it into the trash can. Looking at the ruined Paris and the more distant Alsace Lorraine, gritting his teeth.

"Our mission is to provoke a civil war between the German Navy and Army..."

Although the intensifying Irish riots made Britain frustrated, and even many irrational MPs suggested dividing some of the Irish areas that insisted on being the best, most of the Downing Street owners still focused on this war.

"Michaelis, please assure me that I will not be the next last tsar!"

Berlin, Charlottemberg Palace. Expensive vases fell to pieces, documents, pen holders and desk lamps scattered all over the floor, and Emperor William of Germany was circling around his study.

"Of course, your majesty, as long as you give more rights to Marshal Hindenburg and General Rudendolf, let them mobilize their troops to suppress the workers' riots."

The new Prime Minister of the Empire, Micha Ellis, is an absolute admirer of Rudendolf. He always believed that only absolute centralization can eliminate French army-like mistakes and exert the true strength of the German army.

"What should I do with that rebellious fleet? Hippel of the Ocean Fleet and Hoffman of the Baltic Sea Blockade fleet both explicitly refused to take any form of armed action against the revoltary fleet..."

The existence of the uprising fleet is the biggest threat to the army's counterinsurgency operations, and William, helpless, asked.

In 1917, the emperor's influence on the navy had dropped to freezing point. He only existed as the nominal supreme leader of the navy, and could not even mobilize even a single combat ship!

"Give Heidi Silem enough name to make him the commander-in-chief of the Kiel riot and suppress the rebellion, and to rule over all the rebellions and naval and army!"

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