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Chapter 6 The Falsified History (1)

[The conspiracy before the war, the old guy is gradually withering, and history will turn a huge turn here. This is the era of big ships and giant cannons, and the dynasty of young people, haha!]

On November 7, London was as rainy as ever in late autumn, and the wet weather always made people feel sad. Just after 12 o'clock, the big bell in the south of the old city shyly called out the time. After experiencing vicissitudes of life, the thick bells pierced through the hazy weather, swaying over the fog, and accidentally rippled into the old British Navy headquarters building.

Winston Churchill's personal secretary Eddie Marsh was a little restless. He threw down his heavy work from time to time and turned to look at the locked door of Churchill's office. At 9 a.m., Navy Secretary Churchill invited General Jelico, the commander of the Fleet, to negotiate behind closed doors, which lasted for three hours.

The massive enlarged naval meeting held in London on November 5 ended in disagreement and activism. Churchill, who gradually gained real power, decided to betray Marshal Fisher's theory of long-range blockade, and mobilized the main force of the large fleet to strangle the German East Asian fleet and attack ships that remained overseas, and prepare in advance for the Battle of the Dardanelles, which he personally planned. However, the commander-in-chief of the Great Fleet, who had a high prestige among the middle and lower levels of the navy, insisted on retaining a large fleet with a numerical advantage over the German Ocean Fleet to avoid potential risks.

In the UK, the Fisher Gang and Churchill civilians have been fighting openly and secretly for a long time, and even King George has heard of it. Churchill and Jelico went to the meeting alone. Although the latter was not a strong person, once the conflict rose to the height of theory or strategy, no one would dare to let it go easily. Churchill's office could not escape the passionate scene of Mars hitting the earth. When Eddie Marsh thought of this, he felt heartbroken.

Facts proved that Eddie Marsh was worried. The silence in the spacious office was apart from the slightly heavy breathing sound. This embarrassing aura had lasted for a long time. Forty-year-old Winston Churchill sat at his desk, drooping his eyelids, and sophisticatedly used small scissors to cut the large Cuban Havana cigar that he loved all his life. Admiral John Jelico, fifty-five, wore a dark black naval uniform, leaned his hands behind him, and leisurely looked at the chart hanging on the wall. It seemed that behind the ordinary chart was the treasure map of the red-bearded Barbarossa of the Nordic era.

The powerful bells that had been around for decades and the yelling and scolding of the Navy headquarters all day long came in. Winston Churchill took a deep breath, feeling unwilling to accept it, but in the end he lit the Cuban cigar that had been playing with for nearly three hours and said expressionlessly:

"In another two hours, the second enlarged naval meeting is about to be held. Admiral, as naval leaders, perhaps we should unite our position."

"Sir Churchill..." Admiral Jelico finally moved his eyes from the shallow chart, and said to his immediate superior as if he was talking to himself but firmly: "I can contribute to your Battle of Falkland Islands. The three battlecruisers of the Second Reconnaissance Fleet are just around the corner; I reserve the opinion of the Battle of Dardanelles in the Spring 1915 planned by you personally. The battleships of the Agincourt and the Irish will become the biggest trump card for you and the Mediterranean Fleet!"

The so-called Battle of Dardanelles was a joint operation of the British-French Navy and Army that was planned by Churchill at the end of October to control the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, occupy the Turkish capital Constantinople, and force Turkey to withdraw from the joint war with Germany.

At the end of September, Turkey's tendency towards allies became increasingly obvious. The British Admiral led by Churchill's rude and rude towards the Ottoman Empire was exposed by London tabloids. Churchill barely fooled the matter by using the excuse of avoiding technical leakage and adding free ships to the large fleet. In early October, Admiral Berkeley-Mirne, who led two battle patrols and five cruisers to cruising in the Aegean Sea in Greece, deliberately took the "world's cheapest battlecruiser" - the Fortune Return to the "Saint" of Alexandria, Egypt. As a result, the "Seven Turrets Holy Relics" with congenital inadequacies almost made the elderly

Sir had a myocardial infarction. Afterwards, the old Sir replied to the Admiral and Armstrong Shipyard a telegram about "returns" that had been circulating for a long time. The news came, and the voices accused Churchill of rising again. In order to restore his reputation and prove the strength of the Agincourt, Churchill couldn't wait to put the attack on Ottoman Turkey on the agenda, personally planned the Battle of Dardanelles, and planned to complete the battle preparations in February 1915. Jelico remained opposed to the plan for the Battle of Dardanelles, but he did not mind making a stable profit and loss deal with Churchill.

"Admiral, my suggestion moved me, maybe I should repay you..." Winston Churchill pointed out the vague River Thames outside the window, leading to the North Sea, and the faint smile disappeared, grabbing the cigar and said intimately: "North Sea? Or the authorization of the free action of the Great Fleet?"

"No, Sir Churchill, I am a professional soldier. Soldiers will not expect anything unrealistic!" Admiral John Jelico quietly pushed Churchill's sarcasm back. His stiff expression added a touch of playful reserve: "But, maybe you can give me the right to fire freely in the Battle of Dogers and the information and access to the German Navy."

"Admiral, this is not the key to the problem!" The Dogel Sands ambush action plan submitted by the Great Fleet Command was pressed on Churchill for a long time. Churchill took a sip of a cigar and let the light blue smoke rise at his desk. "Although I personally admire David Betty, his first battlecruiser squadron cannot fight against Hippel's first reconnaissance fleet!"

"What if three Orion-class battleships, the Second Battleship Second Team, were handed over to David Betty?"

After spending a long time in the circle, John Jelicot was able to find out, and mercilessly played his trump card, and stabbed him hard on Winston Churchill's weakness with a dagger called David Betty.

****

"Commander, has the Navy Minister agreed to our plan of action?" Jelico, who was holding the naval cap, walked out of the dilapidated Naval Headquarters building, and Lieutenant General David Betty, who was guarding the door, greeted him with a complicated expression.

General Jelico glanced at David Betty, and then stopped talking, and finally turned into a long sigh: "Betty, do you know that from today on, the Minister of the Navy will never favor you again. Your career that has risen to a prosperous future is about to fall into a trough, and the accumulated people will disappear in an instant. You will face a group of politicians who do everything they can!"

Churchill was kind to Betty. In 1911, Betty served as an adjutant to the Secretary of Maritime Affairs McKenna. Due to disagreement, Betty's work was not going well. In 1912, Churchill took action to save the panicked and helpless David Betty, making him the adjutant to the Minister of the Navy. In 1913, the commander of the First Battlecruiser Squadron of the Great Fleet was vacant. Churchill ignored the doubts of the Admiralty and handed over the fleet to Betty. Churchill valued David Betty not without utilitarian factors, but could simply appreciate more.

The feeling of betrayal was not good. David Betty covered his uneasy conscience and said with a heavy face:

"War is a soldier's business, it cannot tolerate any romance and arbitrary behavior! I am a professional soldier, and I have no choice but to have some things!"

"Well, you will get intelligence support from the three battleships of the Second Battleship and the intelligence services of the German Navy's confidential radio communications. In the Dogers Sands, you have the right to fire freely. The large fleet will become your most solid backing! Let go of it and let Franz Hippel, the most outstanding tactical commander of the German Navy and the best strategic genius Heidi Silem fail in the Dogers shoal!" Admiral Jelico patted David Betty's shoulder and encouraged him.

****

The weather in the North Sea was just right, and the Birmingham light patrol came over tremblingly and anchored in the shallow waters near the British coastline.

On August 13, the Birmingham Light Patrol, who was on duty in this area, discovered a floating and charged German U-15 submarine. The Birmingham Light Patrol easily sank the German submarine that could not escape. Twelve days passed, and the Royal Navy was defeated in the Battle of Helgolan Bay. The Birmingham Light Patrol, which belonged to the First Cruiser Squadron, failed to participate in the foggy naval battle due to mechanical failure, so he survived by chance. The collision and sinking of a German submarine became the only and only record of the Royal Navy.

Today, the German navy in the North Sea is dominant. Even though it is close to the British coastline, the British still feel that it is not suitable to stay here for a long time. Under the urging of the captain, the first diver jumped from the stern of the Birmingham ship and plunged into the dark ocean.

The position of the wreck of u-15 was not deep, and the divers were trembling and found many valuable things in the broken hull.

"Captain, I've discovered it!" The diver held up a sealed lead box and burst out of the water and said excitedly.

The lead box was quickly sent to the captain's room. The captain Birmingham struggled for a long time before prying open the iron box. The sweaty captain unscrewed the box carelessly, but he was shocked.

"Oh my God... Could it be that even God is on our side?"

On August 25, 1914, the British found the German Navy's cryptobook from the wreckage of the German submarine U-15. In the next two months, dozens of authoritative linguists, mathematicians and cryptotechnical experts gathered at the crypto analysis agency of the British Navy headquarters and barely grasped a small part of the password. In recent times, the British Navy's intelligence agencies intercepted the Ocean Fleet telegrams many times, and these vague telegrams pointed to the same place: Dogel Sands.

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