The rumbling cannon finally stopped.

After learning that the main force of the Ocean Fleet was dispatched, the British Navy wisely chose to retreat. Forced by the large fleet to go south to support, the German Navy did not dare to pursue. So under some tacit understanding, the noisy and boiling sea finally calmed down.

The sea mist is still shrouded in the sea. Although it is dissipating, the August sun still cannot penetrate the thick water mist. The damp mist, the choking smell of sulfur and smoke from the emitter medicine, the bloody smell of death and the burning smell of burning substances spread on the ocean surface, easily defeating the iron-blooded real men who are not afraid of the battle patrol 343mm main gun. The young German sailor covered his surging stomach and lingered on the side of the ship and vomited.

Under the gold medal summons of the German Emperor William's twelve consecutive "processing" gold medals, Lieutenant General Hippel's first reconnaissance fleet and Major General Rebe Pachvins' third reconnaissance fleet have returned to defend Jade Bay, while Major General Leibrecht-Mass' second reconnaissance fleet and Hewan Defense Command fleet were left to clean up the battlefield.

The sea was filled with fragments, including broken naval uniforms and personal belongings of sailors, oil stains leaked from shipwrecks and blood stains of loyal and brave men, iron coffins that barely floated on the sea, countless wreckage of warships, and countless corpses.

The lifeboat was put down, and the young German sailors jumped onto the lifeboat. They held their red and swollen eyes and held the loudspeaker and the long rod pins to continue to shuttle through the fog of the Bay of Helgolan, and their desolate and tragic voices echoed in the fog, just like the tragic soul-song song of the North German region.

"We are the German Navy, does anyone need help?"

The sailors pursed their lips and twisted them carefully in the wreckage with the long sticks and iron pins in their hands, and never gave up any hope. Time flew, and the passing years turned from the hourglass between their restrained fingers, simple Xiyi to unrestrained stubbornness, and then sublimated into a kind of despair. The sailors used their trembling hands to collect the corpses, limbs, broken clothes, and undressed in the ocean, and had no nationality. Then they turned the wooden pulp and continued to move forward, holding the loudspeaker and shouting loudly in the fog, hoping and disappointed.

"We are the German Navy, does anyone need help?"

The sea was as silent as death, except for the unscrupulous snatching food by warships and birds, and the occasional crackling sound of the burning sampans floating on the sea. Germany won the naval battle in the fog, but reality was always a little more sentimental than the cold black and white words in history books. The sailors cried and turned to see the corpses of familiar or strange colleagues who were robbed on the lifeboat and knelt on the small boat and cried.

"Olbai-lev, destroyer gunner of G-192, naval sergeant, confirmed death..."

"Denzel Oden, destroyer G-192, first class of naval corps, confirmed death..."

The Mainz light patrol command room was silent. The staff who counted the number of casualties had changed one after another. Lieutenant Hiller held a long list of casualties, and his hands were shaking like a sieve.

The light cruisers Strasbourg and Cologne sank, Rostock and Cologne were seriously injured in light cruisers, G-192, g-193, g-195, v-196, s-143 Five destroyers and lightning strikers sank, G-194, s-140, two destroyers suffered heavy damage, with a number of casualties as high as 1,156, and 174 people were missing, and 987 people were killed in the Hewan Defense Command alone.

The death notices on the table were very high. As the front-line commander, Wang Heidi had to sign every death notice. The otaku didn't know that these death notices symbolizing death were sent by the Admiralty. How many German families would send them to black-haired people, and how many German parents, wives and children would secretly curse him.

"Lauren, am I doing something wrong?" The pen was crushed by the otaku, and the solid pen tip was twisted. The dark black ink rushed out of the gap and flowed on the soldiers' death notice. The annoying black quickly penetrated the back of the paper and was soon evaporated by the wet and hot air in the cabin. Wang Heidi kneaded the death book into a ball, raised her head and looked at Lieutenant Lauren who was leaning against the corner of the cabin and wondered.

Since the Otaku King Heidi returned to the Ocean Fleet in 1914 to become the General Staff Officer of Hippel, Captain Lauren has always been his subordinate. The Otaku admires Captain Lauren's stubbornness in his bones under the appearance of timidity, so when he was promoted to the head of the Helgolan Bay Defense Command, he immediately took Captain Lauren away. After a fierce naval battle, despite the footnotes of victory and glory, as the commander who shouldered the life and death and glory of thousands of people, the death silence of a general's success made King Heidi feel uneasy, and he tried to find the truth from the pure Germans.

"Col. The German nation has stood for thousands of years in the North German salt and swamps, which are not rich in food. Whether it is the Gauls, Romans, Tatars, or modern Anglo-Saxons, the Slavs were unable to completely conquer Germany. It was blood and death that created the German nation and shaped the young German empire!" Captain Lauren hid in a dark corner, but his answer was infinitely sunny, exactly the same as the mountain flowers of Blunt, the old dock porter from Augsburg, Kiel, back then: "Everyone is afraid of death, but some things are always done! Instead of making the next generation suffer, it is better to let the nightmare end in the hands of our generation!"

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On August 23, 1914, on the 19th day of the declaration of war between Germany and Britain, the British Empire, which had permeated marine culture, and the young German Empire, who dared to challenge the ocean, broke out in the unknown sea fog of the Bay of Helgolan, known in history as the Battle of Helgolan.

British Harrich Fleet Commander Brigade General Reginald Tiritte held a grudge for the classic submarine ambush planned by Navy Heidi Sileme on August 6. He gathered his friends, Brigadier General Jed Keith of the Eighth Submarine Detachment and Brigadier William Goodnow of the First Cruiser Squadron, to submit an ambitious plan to raid Helgolan Bay and encircle and annihilate the patrol fleet of the German Helgoland Defense Command.

As we all know, Sir Winston Churchill is a civil servant. He is romantic by nature and does not possess the tactical qualities of a soldier, but he is proud and conceited. Since the war started, the Royal Navy has been defeated continuously. He has been criticized by newspapers and the public and supported Brigadier General Reginald Tillet's rough plan at all costs. For this reason, he had no choice but to have a fierce dispute with the First Minister of Sea Sir Fisher, which directly led to the latter's resignation.

The British plan was simple and rough. According to the unscientific investigation of the Eighth Submarine Detachment and the information sent by the intelligence personnel lurking in Germany, the raid fleet composed of the Harrich Fleet, the First Cruiser Squadron and the Eighth Submarine Detachment will break into the Helgolan Bay while taking advantage of the lowest tidal water level in the anchorage of the German Ocean Fleet, and attract the patrol fleet of Heidi Sileme, the commander of the Helgolan Defence Circle, to the planned ambush circle, gathered and annihilated. In order to prevent possible dangers, the British Admiralty sent David Betty, who is known as brave, to lead his battlecruiser squadron as support.

The Germans were not without news about the British raid plan. Colonel Heidi Sileme, commander of the Helgolan Bay Defense Circle and the naval genius, adopted a policy of defending the inside and the outside. He allowed the highly concealed submarines and the extremely fast destroyers to come forward. Four cruisers of the Second Reconnaissance Fleet, the First Cruiser Squadron of the Second Reconnaissance Fleet, which belonged to the Command, docked in the waters near He Island, and picked up Major General Leibrecht-Maas's Second Reconnaissance Fleet's Second Cruiser Squadron to be stationed on the periphery of Jade Bay. The main force of Hippel's First Reconnaissance Fleet came forward.

On August 23, 1914, the news of the Battle of the Helgolan Bay spread throughout Europe with developed modern communication technology, and then spread to the United States and Asia. Although Germany and Britain claimed that their side had won the victory after the war and caused heavy damage to each other, it can be seen from the scene where the Allied state's national debt was ignored in the New York Stock Exchange on August 24 that it was ignored by anyone.

In a sense, this naval battle was the forerunner of the era of large ships and giant cannons, and a classic chaos. However, later generations did not have a high evaluation of this naval battle because this naval battle in the fog was a beautiful misunderstanding. The British mistakenly thought that the Ocean Fleet could not be dispatched, so they were fearless to dispatch a large number of light ships to break into the dangerous Helgolan Bay, while David Betty's battle cruiser squadron only stayed far from the battle waters as a support fleet. The Germans mistakenly thought that the Royal Navy would look down on German defensive forces, but they did not expect that Sir Churchill stubbornly sent the first battle cruiser squadron in order to give his beloved David Betty more opportunities to play and glory.

It can be seen from this that both sides of the war had foreseeable expectations for the Battle of Helgolan Bay, but both sides had major mistakes and shortcomings. Compared with the rough plan formulated by the British Navy, the Ocean Fleet was more fully prepared for this naval battle. If there were no damn sea fog, the British raid fleet would have been hit by Colonel Helgolan Bay. David Betty, who rushed to support, would also have hit Hippel's battle patrol head-on in the Bay of Helgolan, and then staged a duel between real swords, guns, and giant cannons. With the support of the mine formation, the lightning strike ship and the main force of the Ocean Fleet, as well as the best German tactical commander General Hippel and the best German strategic genius Helgolan, the German Navy is likely to win.

Unfortunately, there is no history if, a sudden sea fog disrupted the arrangement of the Germans, and the cordon composed of airships and destroyers was useless in this harsh weather, the British shelled the island of Helgoland, the mistakes of the German duty officer and the boldness of the captain of the Cologne Major Mickron would have magnified the impact of this bad weather to an unparalleled situation. If Heidi Silem had not keenly noticed the possible backup of the British at 7:55 and issued a visionary strategic turn command, the history of Helgoland Bay might have been rewritten.

In the Battle of Helgolan Bay in the mist, the German Navy dispatched three battlecruisers, a large armored ship, thirteen cruisers and seventeen other light ships. The British Navy dispatched five battlecruisers, ten cruisers, thirty-two destroyers and three submarines. The Germans eventually sank two cruisers and five destroyers, two light cruisers and two destroyers seriously injured, and killed 1,330 people in the battle, 14 destroyers, 1 submarine, capturing a light cruiser (Sydney) and a new destroyer. According to British war history records, more than two thousand people were killed in this battle, so the victory of the Germans was brilliant.

The Battle of Helgoland Gulf had a profound impact on the naval policies of Germany and Britain. As for Britain, the veteran Royal Navy finally began to face up to the challenge from the world's second-ranked Ocean Fleet. General John Jelico, commander of the Great Fleet, had more and more supporters within the British Navy, and the British people and newspapers accused the Royal Navy of inaction, so that the British Parliament repeatedly convened senior naval officials to attend hearings and ordered them to explain to the British people. After the Battle of Helgoland Gulf, the ocean policy of the Admiral Department controlled by Winston Churchill was still lingering between radicalism and conservatism, and it was not concluded until Churchill stepped down in the Battle of Dardanell in 1915.

The impact of the Battle of Helgolan Gulf on Germany was surprisingly similar to that of Britain. On August 23, 1914, the British First Minister of Maritime Affairs Sir John Fisher did not come to work in the Admiralty, and the British navy finally confirmed the resignation news of Marshal Fisher. At the same time, Sir Fisher's long-standing enemy, Alfresey von Tirpitz, the founder of the Ocean Fleet, submitted his resignation letter to the emperor during the naval battle...

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