The Battle of East Prussia in 1914 exposed the weakness of the double-headed eagles. On the premise that the battlefield on the Western Front could not be opened, the Imperial Prime Minister Bateman Holvich, Austria-Hungarian General Staff Aolacon and the Eastern Front Commander suggested to the Imperial Command to move the center of combat to the east.

The decision-making process was not difficult. In the era of Frederick, Prussia once fought against the three major military powers of France, Austria and Russia. Their madness was no less than that of the Swedish king Charles XII. What was strange was that Frederick the Great actually won, and the first bone-miller card that fell was Russia. In a cycle, the Germans once again fought against the whole world with one force. The military commander would break the nightmare of protracted war and multi-line combat and pour the hope of the polar bear. [..com]

The materials and main forces hoarded on the Western Front began to gather eastward, and with the developed railway network, the mobilization work was carried out very quickly. In the spring of 1915, hundreds of thousands of troops from Germany and Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had been resting, would launch a comprehensive offensive from the Baltic Sea to the distant mountains of Carba.

General Boer, or rather, the Imperial Emperor William, always had a chaotic feeling when facing the British. However, if the weak Russia was on the road toward the German chariot, the inferiority complex in his blood would become a kind of courage without hesitation.

With the z-shaped flag raised by Hirahachiro Togo and the shout of "The fate of the imperial kingdom is here to fight", the Baltic Fleet of the Double-headed Eagle was wiped out in the Tyrannostra. Although the Russians started the most important point in the battle, the poor economy of the polar bears could not support their huge shipbuilding plan. At the end of 1914, the only four Baltic Fleet had designed displacement of 23,360 tons, and the design aviation

The Gangu Super Dreadnought, equipped with 4 dual-mounted 305mm main guns, has just been completed, and is still a long way from serving to form combat effectiveness. The once famous Baltic Fleet is only a few old battleships and cruisers. Millions of standing troops, endless human resources, strategic depths of thousands of kilometers, and terrible winter. The once European road rollers are still intimidating, but who remembers its navy?

The Army almost effortlessly convinced the Navy, and the General Staff of the Navy General Staff fought Coerrich Redel planned a feint attack code-named "Albion", the Fifth Detachment of the Third Battleship, the Fifth Detachment of the Third Battleship, the Battle Patrol of the Deflinger and the Lyzov, the Fourth Reserve Fleet, the five Vicchelsbach-class front dreadnoughts and two Brunswick-class front dreadnoughts, the Five Light Patrol of the Second Reconnaissance Fleet and the Boro

The Sea Fleet has three light patrols, three auxiliary cruisers, four destroyers, one light patrol leader and forty destroyers, a submarine detachment, six submarines, and minesweeping, eleven supply ships, a total of four main battleships, seven front dreadnoughts, nine light patrols, three auxiliary cruisers, and fifty-seven light fleets will participate in deterrence operations against Russia's Bay of Gary, Port Kronstadt, and St. Petersburg in the spring of 1915.

In terms of the scale of the fleet and plastic surgery of the navy, the Navy spared no effort. Six main battleships and seven front dreadnoughts were enough to destroy the Baltic fleet. Not to mention that Operation Albion did not conflict with the Baltic combat cruise training plan of the Ocean Fleet. The deterrent fleet can increase its strength at any time.

However, the Army is not satisfied with this. Look at the Navy's plan: the fifth battleship team has just been formed, and both battle patrols are newly served battleships, and the fourth battleship is a reserve fleet. The old ships have been sealed for many years, and the re-mobilized officers and soldiers have also been distracted for a long time. The sixty-eight light battleships look scary, but most of them are broken goods in the hands of Prince Henry. Although there is a second reconnaissance fleet that has made long-term achievements, the two brand new Glaudentz-class light patrols can tell everything.

"The Navy is almost writing perfunctory on his face!" The shrewd and capable Major General Ludendolf tightened his armed belt and jokingly said to Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg, who was sleepy in the combat command room: "Fortunately, I brought Lieutenant General Heidi Sileme, who is the most strategic and courageous in the navy, into the deterrent fleet!"

Marshal Hindenburg, who was dubbed "wise commander" by officers and soldiers of the Eighth Group Army, seemed to be awakened. The pocket watch given to him by Queen Mother Elizabeth slid out of the thick marshal's suit and staggered in the cold air.

"Good job!" The old marshal cleared his throat, grabbed the marshal's scepter and stood up slowly, and said to his energetic deputy Gu Jing Fubuha: "I'll leave it to you here. I'll go back to make a nap. The winter in East Prussia is really terrible!"

The spring offensive of 1915 was imminent, but Hindenburg, the commander of the Eastern Front troops, was not concerned about preparations. Colonel Max Hoffman, deputy chief of staff of the Eastern Front Army Command, looked helpless, and Rudendolf spread his hands and could not help but silently recited what he had written in his diary:

"Can a truly capable person happen to be a marshal?"

The young man's nagging and complaining floated over faintly. Marshal Hindenburg was about to walk out of the gate, his old figure paused, looked up at the map hanging in the command room, and a trace of undetectable sharp light flashed in his muddy eyes, and hesitated:

"The relationship between the army and the emperor cannot make the navy do its best. Could it be that the peak decisive battle between the Royal Fleet and the High Seas Fleet was in 1915?!"

****

Ibnhausen outside Munich, Germany.

There was no pressure from the emperor and the opposition within the navy, no strong royal fleet, nor the John Abbasnott Fisher, whose personality and temper were similar to his three-point appearance, and the "forever" Marshal Alfred von Tirpitz's retirement life was simple and easy.

The fallen leaves and fine snow in the garden were accumulated. The old marshal trimmed the potted plants he had moved back from the office of the Berlin Navy Minister, picked off his reading glasses, picked up the shovels placed behind the door and went out leisurely to clear the annoying snow. At this time, the small white fence door of the garden was pushed open, and a naval officer with the rank of admiral walked in.

"Maria, we have guests!" The black shepherd came out of some corner and excitedly greeted the soldiers. Tirpitz leaned against the shovel and wiped the fine sweat beads on his forehead, turned his head to shout to his wife in the kitchen, "It's Reinhard-Sher!"

Taking off his white gloves and hanging his thick military uniform on the hanger, General Reinhard Schell, the commander-in-chief of the Ocean Fleet, who was known as bravery and fierce, came to the fireplace in the living room, and burned the warm fire, which was almost frozen.

Soon, Tirpitz's wife Maria Auguste Ripek wore an apron, carried a cup of afternoon tea and a small dish of steaming toast, and gave Schell a German veneer kiss.

"Are everything okay?" The soldiers met and chatted for less than a few words. The topic eventually had to be shifted to military and war. Tirpitz, wearing a marshal's uniform without a sticker, sat on the sofa, turned his head and asked casually.

"The Army focused on the Eastern Front. In order to cooperate with the army's offensive, the Combat Section's Staff planned a deterrent operation code-named Albion." Scher was obviously a frequent visitor to Tirpitz's family. The shepherd trotted over and leaned on Scher's trouser legs without seeing him. Scher scratched the shepherd's fluffy hair and easily leaked the top secret of the navy: "Although the Ocean Fleet conducts long-distance training in the Gulf of Finland every few years, and in 1895 we also conducted a deterrent operation against Japan, we finally lacked the experience of deterring and blocking a naval power, so the Ocean Fleet was also exploring the blockade war in addition to preparing for war this winter..."

"Okay, it seems you are already in your heart." Tirpitz lifted the lid of the celadon tea cup that he had returned from the Far East Qing Kingdom, and let the fragrance of tea spread in the room. "Although he and that old guy Hippel have hated each other for many years, I have to mention it..."

"What?" Sher could not see the heroes on Tirpitz's face and asked in a low voice.

"I want to say that Winston Churchill is nothing without Fisher!" Tirpitz sucked a sip of strong tea and said meaningfully.

****

Four new main battleships of the Ocean Fleet drove into the Baltic Sea, which is not a strange thing. Compared with the surging waves of the Del North Sea, the Baltic Sea is obviously a good place for winter training. What’s strange is that the second reconnaissance fleet has five light patrols, two destroyer fleets and a submarine detachment have also entered the Baltic Sea one after another.

After the outbreak of World War I, the main force of the Ocean Fleet gathered in the North Sea. Germany left only the Baltic Fleet composed of old ships and the re-armed Fourth Reserve Fleet seven former dreadnoughts. Although Prince Henry's Baltic Fleet was a little old, it could deal with the weak and evil consequences of the Baltic Fleet. The Ocean Fleet light ships headed to the Baltic Sea not to maintain world peace, but to war!

The Allied intelligence personnel lurking in Germany took action, and summarized the scattered intelligence, combined with the German army's strengthening of the Eastern Front, the intelligence officials of the Allied Navy came to a ridiculous conclusion: the Germans were going to land on the coast of St. Petersburg, the most economically developed in Russia!

The Battle of Doger Sands is not enough to shake the advantage of the Royal Navy. The first ship of the Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleship has been completed. The second ship War Warfare will be completed in January. In the spring of 1915, the large fleet will have twenty-three dreadnoughts and five battle patrols. The Germans, how dare the Germans ignore the Royal Navy, and openly send the main fleet to the Baltic Sea and land on the alliance Russia!

The Russians were panicked because their Baltic fleet was unable to bear the drive; the Italians who were ready to move were panicked and became ambiguous about the olive branch delivered by the Allies; the officers and soldiers of the large fleet were shouting, feeling that the British Empire's rice flag and the pride of the Royal Navy were greatly insulted. The Empire's Navy headquarters breathed a sigh of relief. The battle to encircle and suppress the Spe's fleet was about to begin. The Dardanelles Battle Plan gradually took shape, and the Ocean Fleet gave the Royal Navy room to move around the east. However, no one noticed that at the end of 1914, more than 12 offshore submarines were dismantled and moved onto the narrow Adriatic Sea by land.

In late December 1914, at night, Helgoland Island.

The dim lights at the pier cannot dispel the dark night of the North Sea. The submarine soldiers took advantage of the vast night to transport supplies to the submarines. Major Otto Vedigen, honored by the Allied newspapers, carefully patted Captain Carl Denitz on the shoulder and whispered something.

Through the bitter cold wind, Weidigan's murmur came intermittently. Just "sneak attack on the anchorage of the Mediterranean Fleet" and "flexible use of wolf pack tactics" were enough to make everyone have wonderful imaginations.

"General, do you have anything to tell me?" The "Wolf King" Dunitz, who left a flash of the water in Wang Heidi's limited historical knowledge base, walked over and said seriously.

"Go and turn the Mediterranean fleet to the ground!" Wang Heidi's answer was concise, but it was enough to make Denitz, who yearned for victory, beat faster.

At the end of December, six German ocean-going submarines, led by Captain Karl Denitz, sneaked out of the base of Helgoland Island and rushed towards the unknown front without hesitation.
Chapter completed!