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“(The King of the North Atlantic, Section 5, Fearless People Falling Like Meteors)

When we comment on the day of June 21, 1917, we always use the phrase "moment that changes history".

The original words come from the German Navy God of War Heidi Silem. When the battle of the Orkney Islands settled, the German main battleship returned to Wilhelmshaven with its scarred hull. The first sentence the German Navy Chief of Staff gave Heidi Silem was neither a congratulation to win the naval battle nor a remembrance of the deceased, but a shock to the just-passed June 21ri, so Heidi Silem defined June 21ri as a "day to change history."

Let's count how many major events happened on this day:

On the morning of June 21, 1917, a US battleship detachment consisting of two New York-class battleships and two Nedahua-class battleships crossed the Pentland Strait between Scotland and the Orkney Islands and entered the North Sea with the rumbling gunfire.

At this moment, the British Fleet and the German Ocean Fleet, two fleets that firmly occupy the top two in the world, are about to fight off the coast of the Orkney Islands, while the Americans entering the battlefield only have some vague and fragmented and even contradictory intelligence obtained from their own intelligence personnel and naval officers.

The Americans couldn't understand the situation in the North Sea, but only knew that the German Navy and the British Navy had all been dispatched to compete in the vast North Sea. Therefore, Major General Hugh Rodman, the highest-ranking naval officer in the United States, wandered in the tower of his squadron flagship commander for a long time, and did not make the final decision to make him fall into the situation of everyone in the following decades.

At 11:45, the battleship Nedahua broke the silence of wires again and sent the agreed "Eagle Flag" code to their Admiralty.

The 'Eagle Flag' means 'war'. Roosevelt, the pro-English and French assistant secretary of the naval who received the telegram, came to the White House proudly. A few minutes later, the US Congress held a hearing at lunchtime, unusually rare.

At 12 o'clock, the U.S. Congress, the British envoy and the U.S. Admiralty Assistant Secretary Roosevelt successively published reports that "Germany and its allies are threatening and damaging the United States." In the subsequent vote, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed a declaration of war.

At 12:30, heavy rain fell outside Capitol Hill in Washington. US President Wilson took over the resignation letter of the US Secretary of State and the famous pacifist William Jennings Brian, and picked up the word of declaration of war in the other hand. He stood in front of Congress with expressionless face and read the war. The reporter still recorded the scenes that shocked the world with the spotlight.

Wilson's reading of the war marks that the last great power that watched the fire from the other side of the river was also involved in the quagmire of war. In 1914, the Europeans lit a war in Africa, Asia, and Oceania, and finally affected the Americas three years later. Although the United States received countless pairs of shoes sent by the people, the power of capitalists was unparalleled.

The European War officially advanced into a world war. Twenty years later, a new war broke out before the armistice agreement signed in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, involving dozens of countries was not dry, and the war broke out, so the war was renamed World War I again.

On this day, Wilson said:

‘The world must be safe…rights are more valuable than peace. We will fight for what we cherish the most.’

But the fact is that when the Americans gave up their cherished peace with great perseverance and chose to let minzhu and zi you shine on the land of Europe. The first army, including the Finston troops in Kansas, had boarded the transport ships heading to Davenport Port in England and Normandy in France. The first naval 'escort fleet' had long crossed the vast North Atlantic Ocean and crossed the Pentland Strait into the North Sea.

It was also June 21, another drastic change occurred in the Paris Basin in France.

This summer, Germany... "" is turbulent. As usual, the naval forces were incompatible with the emperor's fire, and the workers' power rose. They launched the Kiel Uprising and the Schleswig Uprising one after another, forming a group of conservative forces that counterattacked. At this time, the German Emperor, who was in trouble internally and externally, abdicated. The military commander who wanted to replace it failed to take over the power vacuum, and eventually formed a situation where the royalist party, the navy, the army, the Junker, the bourgeoisie and the working party were entangled.

Civil strife weakened the German army. On the Western Front, the fierce German army showed a slight decline. So when General Xiafei, the commander-in-chief of the French Army, who had hoped to recover the local government, ignored the fact that the British and French coalition forces on the Western Front suffered heavy losses in the restraining battle that was forcibly launched in late April and early May to prevent Russia from withdrawing from the war, he insisted on launching a new battle, vowed to completely regain Paris, drive Germany out of France in one breath, and burn the war to Germany.

The British and French coalition forces launched a series of offensives under the leadership of Marshal Wevel, but in front of the German army who was good at defensive operations, the confident coalition forces lost 200,000 again. In mid-June, the British army began to refuse to obey any orders from the French. On June 17, the French team began to experience large-scale mutiny and mutiny. At first, only a few regiments refused to obey the orders, but after General Xiafei took forced measures, the confrontation between the officers and soldiers intensified, and finally spread to the entire French army.

On June 21, all front-line troops in Paris mutiny, and the rebels rushed to the front-line headquarters. The commander of Kang's front-line sent representatives to contact the German army and unilaterally announced a state of truce with the Germans without maintaining the authorization of zhèng fu.

On this day, the British Empire was also sad.

When Dublin, which had accumulated all the army forces of the British Isles, finally fell under the continuous attack of the Irish Du Li army, the increasingly fierce Irish riots finally completely lost control.

The group of British Defense Council's wine bags shouted that Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of the Army, was hanged, but could not come up with a better way to curb the Irish riot. Prime Minister Bonalaw hoped that Belfort could re-take as Irish minister and handle love "The Soul of the Great Powers Chapter 11 The Moment of Change of History (IV)" The Erish riot, but the Navy also needed an iron-fisted figure like Belfort. The Secretary of the Army, who was in a turbulent position, could even place hopes on the US Army, who had just left the port of New York and was still bumpy on the vast North Atlantic.

It was also on June 21, when the Russian Civil War, which lasted more than three years, officially broke out.

After the April Revolution broke out, two regimes opposed to each other in St. Petersburg, the Russian political center.

Unfortunately, Russia did not form a relatively stable political system like the US two-party system, with the State Duma as the core, although the temporary and the Soviets represented by workers, peasants and soldiers had made such efforts.

In the all-Russian Constitutional Convention elections held on June 19, a total of 27 million Russians voted. The Bolshevik Party won 6 million votes, and the Social Minzhu Party won nearly 18 million votes. Among the 707 seats in the Constitutional Convention, the Social Minzhu Party occupied 370 seats and won the majority, while the Bolshevik Party only won 175 seats. The Bolsheviks who actually controlled St. Petersburg suffered a crushing defeat.

In fact, the election is not fair to the Workers' Party. Due to the long-term slander and reactionary propaganda by the Tsar zhèng fu Bolsheviks, most Russian civilians regard the Workers' Party, which represents the advanced direction of mankind, as a terrorist organization engaged in street politics, and the St. Petersburg people do not like the Workers' Party. Secondly, the Russian Workers' Party has not yet extended their strength to the countryside. Farmers who know nothing about the outside world are more susceptible to the bewitching of landlords and rich peasants who tend to temporarily and vote for the bourgeoisie.

So on the third day after the election, a workers' uprising, known in history as the "June Revolution" or the "Second Revolution" broke out.

At this time, the troops loyal to the temporary zhèng fu were on the front line, and the troops near St. Petersburg were completely controlled and controlled by the Workers' Party. When the cruiser Avlell, which was repairing in the port of St. Petersburg, randomly fired several empty-pack bullets for training, a bloodless revolution began, and the workers attacked the "Soul of the Great Power" along Neva Street. The latter fired a few shots and surrendered.

At noon, Lenin came to the gate of the Winter Palace surrounded by the people and announced complacently that "the Russian people made a wise choice again", but he did not know that his rash actions started a long civil war in Russia.

During this period, the Russian economy fell into a general collapse. The port of Vladivostok in the Far East was entrusted by international custody, and Sakhalin Island was swallowed by Riben. Even the interests of Mongolia and the Middle East were taken back by the Chinese. What's even more terrifying is that the Germans were neither defeated nor defeated by the "red sè ideas and armed subversion" exported by the Bolsheviks. A huge military empire that shared the same breath and destiny as the Germans quietly took shape on the side of the Russians' bed!

Nearly a hundred years after the end of World War I, we can stand at the commanding heights of history and look back on the past. Comment on the merits and demerits of those who have profoundly influenced the course of history in this moment of changing history. However, for the big figures who were fighting on the front line or were deeply trapped in the political quagmire at that time, they could only follow the flow of history, or make choices actively or passively.

Just as in the Battle of Orkney Islands, which had a decisive role in this series of accidents in 1917, General Lampard, commander-in-chief of the British Express Fleet, did not choose to protect himself, but assumed the historical mission entrusted to him by the British Empire, and resolutely led all ten battlecruisers to the north at full speed, embellishing the last tragic splendor of this naval battle.

Just as David Betty made mistakes in this naval battle. The British Empire's "Sea Cavalry" has never been a believer in the idea of ​​protecting ships and avoiding wars. It's just that the empire's national destiny is too heavy for the next century. His subordinates cannot give him courage like Erich Redell, one-armed general Wolfgang and fleet staff officer Lewinterzo, which makes Betty, who is bound to breath, seem to be worried when making any decision.

At 12:32, the Indomitable Battle Tour reported that after the turn was completed, the British flagship Revenge Commander Tower was filled with an unspeakable emotion that should not have.

"Entertainment Show" Regarding this emotion, Betty wrote in his personal memoir "Two Hours and One Time":

‘Our battle line has finally taken shape. The Chief of Staff reminded that our formation is too scattered, which is extremely unfavorable for naval battles, but from the Chief of Staff’s words, I still heard the meaning of ease.

This ease may be the common mood of the Great Fleet. Please don't blame us for going out fiercely, but forgetting the aggression and fighting spirit in the naval battle. No one can feel the feeling of discouragement when we encounter all the main ships of the Ocean Fleet far away from the Fleet. No one can feel the weakness of the seemingly majestic battleships and battle cruisers of the Great Fleet before the unsolved T-shaped head of Germany, and even less can feel the tragic moment of the back end of the front line in the dim flagship commander tower. We can only think about the paleness of the fleet's state from the constant reports of war losses and deaths sent by the telegraph room.'

The most difficult time seemed to have ended. Even though the Royal Navy lost a battleship loaned from Argentina and two old battlecruisers under the German T-shaped head, the First Battleship and the Fourth Battleship Fleet, they had already had a chance to breathe.

Next should be the long-distance battle of the Ridland naval battle. Based on the experience of Dogel's Sandland naval battle and Ridland naval battle, Betty judged that the large fleet could last until the moment General Lampard reinforced him as long as he gritted his teeth and persevered.

However, just as this unrealistic idea was formed, bad news came.
Chapter completed!