"Forgive me for not making up for yesterday's record in the early morning. In the middle of the night, General Lampard informed all captains of the Express Fleet to go to the flagship Barham for a meeting. Captain Cole, who was supposed to stay on duty on the ship, had to entrust me to war-wear. It was not until three o'clock in the morning that the captain returned to war-wear on a small traffic boat and told me that the Express Fleet was about to head south to Forth Bay.

The captain said this was a routine naval mobilization, but I do not believe the arguments of the Great Fleet Command. Although before the Battle of Scarglake Strait, the battleships and the fast fleets of the Great Fleet were not all gathered in Scarpa Bay, just as the Second Battleship was stationed in the Port of Cromati, the fast fleet occasionally stayed in the Furth Bay in central Scotland. However, since the Mediterranean Rescue Fleet headed by the USS Ireland Battleship was destroyed, the USS Collingwood battleship was chased by a light patrol fleet and fled everywhere. The Orion battleship was ambushed in the Irish Sea. The Navy learned his lesson and gathered the main battleships as much as possible to avoid the ocean fleet defeating them one by one.

Not only did I not believe the words of the Great Fleet Command, I even linked this operation to the tragic battle of the Scarglak Strait. As a destroyer captain of the Harrich Fleet, I was unable to participate in the magnificent battle that represented the highest achievements of mankind, but this did not prevent me from understanding the battle through General Lampard's "The Gold of Scarglak".

I know that before the Battle of Skaglak Strait, the two sides carried out countless deceptions and anti-deceptions, disguises and anti-camouflages. Referring to the naval battle that brought strategy to the extreme, I boldly speculated whether the sudden rapid fleet that suddenly moved south was simply a bait to attract the German reconnaissance cluster.

Colonel Cole said it was impossible because the fast fleet with thirteen battlecruisers "Chapter" had no reason to be afraid of the sneak attack of the German reconnaissance cluster with only eight battle cruisers on its own territory!

I sneered, and I woke Colonel Cole up in just one sentence.”

The book of Major Jenas, deputy captain of the War War Cruise, was interrupted as soon as he finished writing this.

In summer, the sky at high latitudes always brightens up earlier. Just five o'clock in the morning, the residents of the Orkney Islands were still sleeping soundly. However, the anchorage of Scarpa Bay, which gathered in the Empire, started to move.

The sea supply flag was raised on the main mast of the fast fleet, and the fleet auxiliary ship slowly leaned on the fast fleet, painted battlecruisers with gray painted as said to have a camouflage effect, and handed over the water and oil hoses.

The sailors on the auxiliary warship were wearing dirt-proof and deep uniforms, leaning against the valve and staring at the pressure gauge nervously, pressing the pipes and sending the fresh water and fuel from the supply ship to the wet cabin below the Zhanzhang waterline.

The powerful mechanical booms on the supply ship and the mechanical booms of the battle patrol themselves are also running at full load. Tons of high-quality Welsh white coal are hung on the battle patrol that is about to go to sea, and are moved to the coal bin by the engine room soldiers in a push cart. In the busy supply process, many impatient battle patrol captains once again used small games for naval personnel to temporarily act as mechanical booms, or lift the camel-type seaplane floating on the water to the rear deck of the battleship or move the coal box on the supply ship with lower freeboard to the relatively wide front deck.

Major Jenas walked along the upper deck and looked at the modern battle patrol under its feet with the inherent pride of British gentlemen. The stranding incident and the collision incident made this battlecruiser a big "" the laughing stock of the fleet, but Jenas didn't care about this at all. This battlecruiser was transformed from the battleship's main gun removal and adding boiler magic. The captain was the captain of the original Dawn Goddess reconnaissance cruiser. Half of the officers in the main positions were military academy students who graduated early and were half from destroyers. The officers transferred from the Q ship. In addition to more than a hundred backbone, most of the sailors were merchant ship sailors who volunteered to join the Royal Navy. Whether it was a warship or the officers and soldiers who drove it still needed time to get started!

Coal chips fly in the sea breeze. The colander-shaped coal bin close to the power cabin is filled, and the dry cabin acting as waterline armor is also filled. The water and oil tanks that are stored under the waterline form the trunk also store enough materials. The original light load state of War Wars' freeboard height has dropped sharply. Fortunately, the reputation-level war patrol is a long forecastle ship type, and sailing in the North Sea might not be a problem of waves on the fore deck. Otherwise, Major Jenas would have to worry about whether the sailors with unfamiliar rudder technology would have caused War War Wars' large light cruiser to be the same embarrassment.

The only chimney in the unit of the War War had already risen a few wisps of coal soot. The chief of the engine reported to Jenas that the power compartment was storing enough steam for the steam turbine. The tugboat sent by the Port Authority also threw thick cables. Major Jenas then climbed the towering bridge of the War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War

The sea supply flag on the foremast of the fast fleet flagship Balum battle patrol has been removed, the main mast is slanted with the Rice Flagship of the Royal Navy, and the commander flag of Lieutenant General Lampard at the top is also fluttering in the wind.

The Royal Navy is accustomed to raising the flag at 8 a.m. and falling and descending the flag. When sailing out of the sea, it must always be hung. Since the Balum flew the naval flag before 8 a.m., it is not far from the time for the rapid fleet to leave the port.

"The Great Power Sea Soul Chapter 8: Guns and Cannons Loaded (III)" Captain Colonel Cole instructed the sailing to raise anchors. The mechanical winch at the bow raised the heavy anchor from the silty bottom of Scarpa Bay under the push of steam. The sailors gathered under the main mast and looked at the inclined truss of the rice-shaped flag raised to the main mast. Three minutes later, the flagship Balum hung the flag saying "Each team maintains its formation and goes out to sea gradually" and repeated it with radio. As the No. 3 ship of the Second Battle Patrol, the Battle Patrol followed the footsteps of the flagship Prestige, hung the square flag representing the right turn and rang the whistle, slowly sailing towards the sea outlet under the drag of the tugboat.

At 6:30 am on June 17, 1917, the fast fleet sailed out of Scarpa Bay in four cruise formations and headed to Furth Bay in Scotland for routine training.

When the fast fleet left Scapa Bay, the Orkney Islands rose, and the clear sunlight shone the anchorage of the large fleet pale. Neither the large fleet stayed in Scapa Bay or the fast fleet heading to Furth Bay had ever thought that this quick fare would be a permanent separation between heaven and man.

Major Jenas returned to his cabin again and continued his story.

"I sneered, and in just one sentence, Colonel Cole woke up: 'Can the three old Invincible and Tired Class Battle Patrol ships of our Fourth Battle Patrol team run?'

In addition to the vicissitudes of life, the Fourth Battle Cruise can also run at an overload speed of 26 knots. Due to mechanical wear, the power systems of the Fortune, Indomitable and New Zealand have a maximum speed of only about 23 knots, which is only a little faster than the German battleships. The Fourth Battle Cruise has no position in the fast fleet, and the reason why it stays here is just to cover up.

"The Great Power Sea Soul" Without these four battle patrols, can the nine battle patrols of the fast fleet beat the eight Seedlitz-type battle patrols of the German reconnaissance cluster?"

As soon as the fast fleet left, the atmosphere inside the Scapa Bay Naval Base became strange. The young people in the General Staff of the Great Fleet thought that the fast fleet's departure from the Fleet Bay was just a simple combat cruise, but from the frown brows of generals such as David Betty and Osmond Brock, the young people vaguely realized that something was wrong.

"God, is it another battle in the Skaglak Strait?"

In the duty room of the General Staff of the Fleet, a staff officer who was thinking hard suddenly slapped the table and whispered to his colleagues in the room:

"In 1915, the fast fleet was able to fully explode the German reconnaissance fleet, but the large fleet itself was not the opponent of the Ocean Fleet. Now, our fast fleet is not the opponent of the first German reconnaissance cluster because of the three invincible and tireless battleships. However, if we count the four battleships of the fourth battleship of the fast fleet and the USS Defence battleship that retreated to the second line, the large fleet with twenty-nine battleships can completely explode the nineteen battleships of the German Ocean Fleet! Could it be that General Betty decided to replicate the Battle of the Skagerak Strait and teach the arrogant Germans a lesson?"

The bold speculation of this flexible-headed staff member triggered a brainstorm. Based on a little information and a vivid example of the Battle of Skaglak Strait, the staff members made up all kinds of earth-shaking blueprints for the decisive battle in the North Sea:

The fast fleet heading south to Forth Bay is the German reconnaissance fleet in the Battle of Skaglak Strait. The purpose is to lure the Ocean Fleet into its own team, and the Large Fleet is followed closely, find the German Fleet and destroy it!

At the London Navy Headquarters, Captain Jackson, who was in charge of naval intelligence, hurriedly left his office and quickly walked into the famous Naval Intelligence Department Room 40, and asked briefly: "Where is the call code of the German Express Fleet flagship now?"

"Jade anchorage!"

Jasper anchorage is the synonym for Wilhelmshaven by the British. Captain Jackson, who "despises all folk scholars and decoding experts", still did not change his view. He nodded slightly and turned around and left without looking back, and would never stay with the "civilians" for an additional quarter of an hour.

Half a minute later, the "civilians" that Captain Jackson looked down upon rushed in and shouted to Captain Jackson who was reporting to Naval Intelligence Secretary William R Hall, who was holding the phone:

"Captain, I received the message that they went out to sea!"

The news of the emergency going out of Germany's first reconnaissance cluster was quickly fed back to Scarpa Bay. At this time, the building of the Great Fleet Command was full of rumors of a decisive battle in the North Sea, which attracted the news that the Great Fleet's three main fleets and subordinate officers were firmly convinced of the news that the Great Fleet was about to go out to sea to fight.

And locking himself in the commander-in-chief's office, David Betty pressed his inner ecstasy, and seemed to speak to Osmond Brock, the commander of the Scapa Bay base, standing beside him, and seemed to be advocating the naval god of war across the North Sea:

"Old friend, look, I will surprise you!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!