Chapter 4 Old Rivals, New Enemies (3)
"Are you okay?" The newcomer pouted and took away the flowers and decided to throw them again. Catherine hesitated for a moment, but finally came over, asked in a low voice, and then answered for Wang Heidi: "Hi, this question is really boring. You are doing well, and the newspaper is full of news. Congratulations, Deputy Commander of the First Reconnaissance Fleet, Major General Heidi Sileme!"
Captain Vedigan's wedding caused a sensation in Germany. The great merchant of Kiel, chemical tycoon Dick and his baby daughter Catherine naturally received the invitation. After not seeing each other for more than ten years, Catherine in a long dress is as charming as the intellectual and charming as she was back then. However, as time goes by, the youthful spirit gradually fades away, and the years finally left a pale mark on her beautiful face.
"vielleicht (maybe)..." Wang Heidi smiled freely. The white bones behind the heart-warming victory in the newspaper, the turbulent political struggle after the naval war, the admiralty's rise and fall against him, and the new opponent he had to face, everything Wang Heidi experienced like a roller coaster in the past four days seemed to have melted into that quiet smile and dissipated in the joyful church.
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"Heidi Silem was promoted to Rear Admiral and transferred to Deputy Commander of the First Reconnaissance Fleet; Helgolan Bay Defense Command was abolished, and the surface ships under the former Helgolan Defense Command were under the command of the Second Reconnaissance Fleet, Major General Maas also served as Commander-in-Chief of the Helgowan Patrol Fleet; Helgoda Command was established, and the former Helgoda Defense Command's airship aircraft squadron and coastal defense forces were assigned to the command of Helgoda Command!"
On August 25, the day after the Battle of Helgolan Bay, at an emergency meeting held by the Berlin Naval Headquarters, the flag of the conservatives of the Navy and the Navy Cabinet Secretary General George Von Muller proudly introduced the Imperial Army's raging August offensive in France and a bright future for war, and then read out a series of personnel appointments on behalf of Emperor William.
The otakus has been promoted again. Wang Heidi's life trajectory is always so wonderful. It only took a few months to get from an alternate lieutenant who graduated from a military academy to a naval lieutenant. After the Congressional debate in 1898, the otakus who was in full swing fell to the mortal world like a broken balloon, and then was displaced overseas. After 16 years of exhaustion, he was only promoted to a naval captain. In early 1914, with the efforts of Hippel and Raidel, Wang Heidi finally got out of Istanbul.
The barren land returned to the Ocean Fleet, and its military rank also rose like a rocket with the accumulation of large-scale European war clouds in the continent and the military quality he had cultivated in his twenty-year service career. From a naval captain to the chief staff officer of the First Reconnaissance Fleet, it only took four months; less than a month after the war broke out, Wang Heidi finally passed the threshold that countless people could not get what they wanted for their entire lives, and used his great merits to put a brilliant general star on his shoulder stamp.
"Is this a consolation prize?" Major General Wang Heidi, who is already in the front row of the Navy Headquarters conference room, took the appointment letter with the seal of the Navy Minister, turned his head and looked at Lieutenant General Franz von Hippel, and said with a wry smile.
Although the commander of the Hewan Defense Command is the rank of colonel and is higher than the deputy commander of the First Reconnaissance Fleet, which is not as rank as a major general, in terms of actual power, the Hewan Defense Command is much more affordable than the deputy commander of the fleet with a false reputation. Moreover, the nature and functions of the Hewan Defense Command also determine the arduousness of its mission and the frequent combat. Only war, soldiers and time travelers' favorite merits, glory and victory can be within reach.
Anyone with discerning eyes can see that this is the revenge of the Imperial Admiralty against a series of self-decisive and unruly provocative actions during his tenure as the head of the Hewan Defense Command. This can be seen from the frown of Colonel Erich Redell, the Navy General Staff Officer. Under the praise of the Imperial Propaganda Department and the Navy Department, Wang Heidi, who has never lost the enterprising power in the North Sea since the war started, has become the German version of Nelson. It is inappropriate to suppress national heroes at this time, but the Navy has some way to deal with a young man. Being vain is the best clarity of the sleek political skills of the politicians in the Navy!
Wang Heidi was not discouraged. She was suppressed and refrigerated by the Admiralty more than once or twice. From being furious in 1898 to being so cool and naturally confident now, the experience and wealth given to Wang Heidi by her nearly twenty years of wandering career is not a small part.
On August 23, the Battle of Helgolan Bay broke the myth of the invincible Royal Navy. The morale of the Ocean Fleet was swept away since the beginning of the war. Now the morale of the navy was strong. They were no longer satisfied with the tentative step towards the sea. The young sailors could not wait to try to challenge the authority of the Royal Navy, test the quality of the Empire that the sun never set, and then overturned the Rice Flagship that traverses the seven seas to the ground.
In the face of the brilliant victory promoted by the otaku, the naval young officers led by Scher and Hippel continued to speak. The negative and conservative strategy of avoiding war formulated before the war was shaky under the impact of young people. The terrible blockade war lasted. Bernhard von Oden and his East Asian fleet failed to break the Falkland Islands, the exhausted 1918 riots and sailor riots, and the "rainbow" on Scapa Bay, which made Wang Heidi, who loved this fleet, unable to sleep at night. These nightmares that had always been shrouded in the tragic German Empire are now finally seeing the clouds and fog and dawn.
Wang Heidi is sure that he has got what he wants, and no one can take away his future, whether it is his old rival, Tilpitz, or Mueller, who is used to showing off his verbal but has a terrible talent, or Ingnoll!
Just as the otaku was proud, General Friedrich von Ingnore stood up, accompanied by George von Muller's wild smile, the higher his post, the softer his bones became, the more he read the first naval order, which was premiered by the Navy Cabinet Minister.
"The time for a large-scale naval decisive battle is not ripe. The Imperial Navy should hold on to the mouths of the North Sea before the army achieves a decisive victory, or before the Royal Navy suffers major losses. In addition to the reconnaissance fleet, the main fleets of the Ocean Fleet shall not be dispatched privately. Those who violate the order shall engage in military laws!"
The Army achieved a decisive victory? Without the control of the sea, would John Bull, who started his own business as a navy, be impatient to surrender, or would the General Staff expect the Army to swim through the English Channel?
The Royal Navy suffered a significant loss? Without the navy's active attack, would it be possible to expect the British to use their super-dreadnought to verify the area and power of the German minefield?
After a brilliant victory, the victorious side sticks to the port and does not take the initiative to attack. Isn’t this the usual style of a major country in later generations?
Wang Heidi's boiling blood instantly solidified. The proud and young heart skipped a beat, and she felt a star on her eyes.
The naval emergency meeting ended hastily in depression and dullness. The dejected young and strong people and the conservatives who had the upper hand dispersed like a tide while hostile to each other. After a while, only Wang Heidi and Ingnoll were left in the empty conference room. General Ingnoll was leisurely and contented with the coffee in his hand, while Wang Heidi, who was sitting on the old chair in the front row of the conference room, looked like Kiel's June weather, with uncertainty.
After General Ingnoll read out the first naval order, beyond everyone's expectations, the young and energetic Wang Heidi did not jump out to criticize and refute immediately, but sat on the chair and leaned obliquely, squinted his eyes and said nothing. Wang Heidi's silence not only caused Hippel and Schell to be slightly disobedient, but even the Navy Cabinet ministers who were preparing to take advantage of the situation were caught off guard.
After a long time, the old chairs in the conference room finally squeaked. Wang Heidi sighed a long time, and her dissipated gaze gradually became firm. She walked out of the conference room a few steps.
"Silem, can you tell me the reason for choosing silence?" Ingnoll had put down his teacup and called out to Wang Heidi, who was in a hurry. "Silem is not Heidi-Silem's character!"
"General, what do you want to hear? Let me jump up and down like a clown, perform lonely monologues or drunken dreams, and then be humiliated and suppressed by you?" Wang Heidi's roar almost overturned the empty conference room dome: "Well, as you wish, because my fate has been tied to the Ocean Fleet and Germany. Whether you believe it or not, I have to say something!"
"Earl Spey's East Asian fleet will restrain the British and French fleets in the Far East and America. Lieutenant General Sorochin's Goben battle patrol dragged the British and French Mediterranean fleets in the Aegean Sea and could not move. The three fleets defending the British mainland were only large fleets that could be fought: the Harrich fleet had almost been destroyed in the Battle of Hewan, the Strait fleet was deeply trapped by submarine mines, and the deep transformation of Marshal Fisher's resignation on the large fleet he created was still continuing. The remaining months in 1914 will be the best time for the Ocean Fleet to challenge the large fleet, and the only time!"
The otaku's murmur was strong and loud, and Ingnoll smiled, and his smile was without any sarcasm. "Major General, how will you save the German Navy?"
Wang Heidi was almost desperate about the conservative and ignorant Admiralty. Those senior officials of the Admiralty who stayed in the office all year round and were in a tranquil position were not aware of Ma Han's "Theory of the Sea Power" and the maritime competition in the era of large ships and giant cannons, and could not foresee how serious the economic blockade would destroy a country's war potential. They only decided the strategy adopted by the Ocean Fleet of the Steam Age based on the cold intelligence data and wargame deductions with the shadow of the sail era.
"Maybe the only one who can save all this!" Wang Heidi looked at Friedrich von Ingnor, who had also been passionate when the Navy was first established ten years ago, and said coldly.
The reason why the otaku was able to escape the fate of retirement early in 1898 was just exiled overseas, and it seemed that the favor of the German Emperor was the emperor. The reason why the otaku was able to escape from the Istanbul purgatory in 1914 seemed to be related to the fact that Redel made a statement in front of the German Emperor. When he was in a state of poverty, Wang Heidi felt that persuading the German Emperor William to change his mind would be his only and only opportunity!
"No, Silame, you're wrong!" General Ingnoll, known as the "Emperor's verb," paused in a soothing tone, narrowing into a thread of eyes flashing from time to time. "This world is dirty. Under the affectionate political packaging, what you see and hear with your own eyes may not be the truth. It's like agreeing that the Ocean Fleet is your old enemy Tirpitz, just like that old guy resigned to the emperor two days ago, just like...
Ingnoll's words came to an abrupt end, as if they were still unsatisfied, but they were stubborn and unwilling to express even one word.
"Silem, please remember that only relatives and your wisdom in this world will not deceive you. You must first be a politician and then become the most outstanding naval commander! There is no doubt that this is the advice given to you by a stale veteran!"
[Thinking all the money, I still have a **ug. I treat the convertible as a jeep. I apologize... I am changing it in the middle of the night to avoid false updates. I am very nervous, and I don’t know if these chapters will be criticized. When it involves the protagonist’s psychology, Xia Yu is timid and afraid that everyone will be unable to talk. Finally, I recommend a book about Jiu Astronomy, which has a very good writing style and is very interesting.]
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Chapter completed!