Chapter 10 The King of the North Atlantic! (4)
(I plan to write this final battle from the third perspective, which may cause some dyslexia, but there is no repetition of the skills. The rest is the ultimate dreadnought, which will definitely make you happy!)
“(The King of the North Atlantic, the discovery of Baron Purple)
Where is the opponent? Can the British Fleet heading south save their battle patrol team, can the German Ocean Fleet heading north successfully find their old enemy? Is it the British who join the battle patrol team and the American battleship team perform a counterattack in the North Sea or the Germans' determination to live without their death to survive, and make a decision on the battle off the coast of the Orkney Islands?
The ending is unknown.
Perhaps the two famous fleets on both sides of the North Sea have carried too much pressure and shouldered too many missions, or perhaps the two sides have put in too much effort and longed for a brilliant victory. In short, on the eve of the answer to the ultimate puzzle of the North Sea, the panic of the fast fleet, true and false information, fragmented rumors and the commander's neurotic performance pushed the tension and terror to the high cháo, making the surface of the North Sea always shrouded a pathological entanglement, and a nearly tragic solemnity.
In the desolate North Sea, the two Madberg-class light cruisers and two Glaudents-class light cruisers in the German Second Reconnaissance Fleet, which had not yet been renamed, were the main forces of the Germans' reconnaissance, galloping northward in the waters about 100 nautical miles from the Port of Aberdeen, south of the Bay of Cromarty, England.
The upright bow of the Madberg light cruiser split the steep waves of the North Sea, dragging the long, white wake to the north at high speed. The gunman was nestled in the narrow gunman command room, allowing the strong sea breeze to blow the German naval flag hanging at the top of the main mast, making annoying crackling sounds. He seized the time to record his mood at the moment in the RI notebook.
‘We are under imaginable pressure to search the British's main fleet in the coastal areas far away from the empire and close to the British defense zone. I look forward to the upcoming renamed Second Reconnaissance Fleet to find the British and help the empire win this crucial naval battle. But at the same time, as the son of the parents, the husband of his wife and the father of two daughters, I am afraid to enjoy this glory.
The support forces that accompanied the British main fleet were only more and less. The weak "Chapter" were very likely to be entangled by the British light fleet. God will forgive my cowardice. This is not Helgoland Bay, which is 250 nautical miles away from the local area...'
Although the officers and soldiers of the Second Reconnaissance Fleet were uneasy, the eight sharp battle cruisers behind them were located in the northwest of the Ocean Fleet and the professional qualities they possessed by the German Navy still gave the Second Reconnaissance Fleet the strength to continue moving forward, and the four light cruisers searched forward stubbornly and proudly.
Until 11:18, Heidi Sileme and David Betty, the best friend of the first half of their lives, were still tirelessly playing the game of cat and mouse. Although Sileme used Jingcai tactics to deceive, this advantage was not stable. As long as Betty could discover the Ocean Fleet before Sileme, the identities of cats and mice could be reversed instantly.
Just like the darkness before dawn, the confusing war always suffocates. After only ten minutes, the Germans cheered and cheered forth because they were the first to discover the traces of the British!
It was both accidental and inevitable. At 11:18, German Purple Baron Hannashaw, who was flying Frederick 33D seaplane, was the first to discover the British fleet.
When Hannashaw discovered the large fleet, he was at least 20,000 meters away from the British. At this distance, even the majestic 30,000-ton steel giant ship in the lens of the Zeiss high-power telescope, which was well-crafted in Germany, could only be a series of small moving black dots that were loomingly moving.
Baron Purple was able to escape the two cruiser squadrons in front of the British Fleet and the British seaplane heading south to search for advancement, and then use a telescope in the bumpy cockpit to find a series of moving small black dots in the blue bottom of the North Sea with a telescope.
Of course, it is inevitable that the Germans can discover the enemy first.
As a maritime commander who is as famous as Heidi Silem, David Betty is by no means a fictional person. He never gave up his efforts to reconnaissance on the battlefield. It was only because of the misjudgment of the strategic intentions of the German Navy and the preconceived subjective impression of Heidi Silem's "appetite", David Betty used the large fleet's limited reconnaissance power to the wrong direction.
In Betty's view, Silai """ has a spirit of adventure that the Germans do not have. At the same time, this courage has never exceeded the limits that the German navy, which is strong outside and works at the same time. Unlike Britain, a typical maritime power country, the Germans must maintain a strong army for the land battlefield, Silailai has obviously noticed this.
Silame never allowed his fleet to suffer major losses. The resources determined that this fleet lacked potential and foundation, so Betty had no doubt that Silame would abandon the weak fast fleet and instead deal with the large fleet that gradually became a climate due to the large number of 15-inch main guns.
After learning about the disappearance of the German Ocean Fleet, Betty drew two smooth straight lines on the North Sea map that extended from the Bay of Helgolan to the Bay of Forth and Bay of Helgolan to Scarborough, and used a pencil to mark the fan-shaped shadow composed of two straight lines.
Betty was not sure which direction the Ocean Fleet would suddenly rush out, giving the fast fleet a fatal blow. However, Betty insisted that the Germans would not leave this fan-shaped area, so when dozens of warships of the Fleet entered the North Sea from the Pentland Strait between Hoy Island and Scotland, Betty ordered two cruiser squadrons to quickly pass through the west edge of the Cromaty Bay, bypassing the peninsula in the south of the Cromaty Bay and into the North Sea, focusing on searching for the wide sea area from the south bank of the peninsula to the Fers Bay.
At 10:37 a.m., the sea conditions in the North Sea eased a little, and Betty ordered the seaplane mothership, Engadin, converted from the ferry, and the main ship carrying the seaplane, to release all 12 water reconnaissance aircraft.
The British were able to concentrate more reconnaissance forces, but they were converted from old cruise ships into seaplane carriers. After the Battle of Scargerac Strait, the 20,000-ton aircraft carrier Campania, which was upgraded to an aircraft carrier, was upgraded to a 20,000-ton aircraft carrier, which was upgraded to an aircraft carrier by the British Admiralty, but due to steam leakage, they had to return to Scarpa Bay in advance.
Due to the number of seaplanes, Betty focused on the west and southwest waters of the southern peninsula of Cromati Bay, and sent only two seaplanes to the southeast. These two seaplanes failed to create miracles. Instead, the seaplanes flying towards the southwest accidentally bumped into their German counterparts, deepening Betty's beautiful misunderstanding of the strategic intentions of the Ocean Fleet. At that time, the Ocean Fleet had sharpened their swords and approached the unknown large fleet.
"The Great Power Sea Soul Chapter 10 The King of the North Atlantic! (IV)" To sum up, the two-plane formation piloted by Baron Purple can escape the British cruiser squadron and seaplane. There is some inevitable factor in finding the British in the vast North Sea.
After discovering the large fleet, the Purple Baron, who had ulterior motives, asked the wingman to return to report, and he stayed on the battlefield and monitored the British nearby.
In 1917, radio generators were still unable to be used for aviation reconnaissance. As a large toy made of wood, canvas and a small amount of metal, the aircraft could not bear the weight of the transmitter due to its own structural strength, fuselage space and payload. Although the Frederick 33d seaplane can carry radio generators, it obviously cannot have both range and takeoff weight. Therefore, the Ocean Fleet aviation reconnaissance could only continue the ancient dual-aircraft formation, the flag-tongued and simple communication rafts connected to the fleet.
Hannasha's wingman went out to complete the report mission. So Hannasha, the purple baron who became a laughing stock of the German real man because of the Count Lukner, finally ushered in the day of being proud.
Regarding the feat of rewriting history by the Purple Baron Hannasha, Captain Glaudentz has had an interesting record of his navigation:
At 11:05, two Frederick 33d seaplanes, which were led by the Navy Air Force, crossed the second reconnaissance fleet at a low altitude and searched towards the northwest direction of the North Sea.
At this time, my first mate came over to complain to me that HNA's stinky brats were too lawless. Baron Purple, who was scared by a woman, dared to wink at him in the cockpit.
About 23 minutes later, at 11:28 am on June 21, 1917, my first mate could not say anything else, because a Frederick seaplane returned. The pilot flew the seaplane and circled low over the Glaudents for a while and then dropped a communication raft.
After the sailor salvaged the sealed communication raft the size of a water cup, everyone was shocked by the crooked and irrecognizable lines of handwriting on the small note stuffed into the communication raft.
Hannashau formation discovered the British fleet about 50 kilometers away from the 340 direction, and at 11:18.’
"The Great Power Sea Soul" is not all the contributions of Lord Hannashau in the Battle of the Orkney Islands. It should be noted that the commander-in-chief of the German Navy Air Force no longer looks down on wrenches and hammers. Instead, he used his position to get a batch of 37mm shells from the mechanics with temporary improvements to the fuse...
The second reconnaissance fleet, who received the news, quickly reported the situation to the flagship Bavaria, and the commander tower of the Bavaria, who had been depressed for a long time, instantly boiled in a posture of drought and rain.
The famous German one-armed general Wolfgang Wegener described Heidi Silem's expression at that time in his personal memoirs:
‘When the news came, Raul (the general staff officer of the Seventh Team) and I were both so happy that I felt that the goddess of victory was calling us. At this time, I noticed that a hint of anxiety in Yin's darkness, a hint of relaxation and freehand brushwork flashed quickly on the face full of traces of time, and my chest and the medals issued by the Admiralty were rising and falling, and then I became calm.’
The answer was revealed, but the next task was not easy, because the relative distance between the two main fleets was replaced by the commonly used navigation distance unit of only 28.6 nautical miles, which was only one hour for two steel fleets that were almost facing each other. Considering the adjustment of the course of the Ocean Fleet, and the combat distance that often exceeded 13 kilometers in the era of the Dreadnought, the reaction time for the Ocean Fleet was left to no more than half an hour.
The calm Silem just calculated in his heart for a few seconds, then jumped onto the chair resting in the corner of the commander tower of the Bavaria, and shouted to the senior officials of the Ocean Fleet Command to break an era and ruin a dynasty.
Many years later, the sound still echoed in the North Sea and lasted for a long time.
‘The Ocean Fleet, turn to change formations, seize Germany’s first T-shaped head!’
At 11:34, the Ocean Fleet on the way broke the radio silence and issued an order to evade the second reconnaissance fleet and return the first reconnaissance cluster.
The second reconnaissance fleet quickly changed its course and moved closer to the Ocean Fleet itself. The first reconnaissance cluster eight battlecruisers reduced their speed and embarked on the 'z'-shaped line.
At 11:38, the flagship of the Ocean Fleet, the Bavaria, raised the combat flag, "" repeated the commands of turning and changing the entire fleet in flags and radio.
Five battleships of the Seventh Team of the Third Battleship, located on the left wing, suddenly accelerated and began a high-angle turn in the North Sea. The other three squadrons also maintained or reduced speed under the leadership of the squadron flagship, waiting to join the battle line led by the Seventh Team.
Just as the Ocean Fleet changed its formation, David Betty had just received information forwarded by their third cruiser squadron and discovered German seaplanes in the southwest.
Betty did not notice the hidden murderous intent in the southeast, but just turned Yin Yu's eyes to the southwest Ferth Bay, hesitating whether to take out the Royal Navy's battle line in advance.
At 11:47, the two fleets were already quite close. The British observers on the main mast armored watchtower of the New Zealand Battle Patrol could vaguely see a few wisps of smoke flying into the southeast.
The panicked lookouts sounded the report desperately, regardless of the direction of the smoke pillar appearing in the opposite direction of the Royal Navy's previous expectations. Soon, the entire fleet noticed the fleet in the southeast, and the Royal Navy then calmed down and seriously thought about the possibility of the Germans appearing in the southeast.
Regardless of whether the British could react at the last moment, everything seemed to be over. The Ocean Fleet had already arranged a battle line that stretched for more than ten kilometers, occupying a favorable sight line, and their course was also faintly on the way southward of the large fleet.
Just as the British were experiencing a deep soul shock, history quietly opened a sea meat grinder called the Battle of Orkney Islands.
Thanks to Heidi Sileme's heart planning and the perfect interpretation of the officers and soldiers of the Ocean Fleet, the German Navy, which brought adventure to the extreme, blocked the British Fleet's fleet from the British doorstep, and won the T-shaped horizontal head that any sea commander in the world dreamed of!
Of course, any risky action must bear a certain price. It is affectionately called the "green bomb" by domestic naval enthusiasts. It caused the ammunition depot of the British Avant-garde battleship to explode and sink after it was launched. The new armor-piercing bomb, which neither the British nor the opponent Germany, could not wait to teach those who despise it a lesson!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!