The big fleet joined the fray! The earth-shattering explosion made Wang Haidi wake up. He thought about whether history had changed dramatically because of his accidental factor. He also thought about what it would be like to have a close friend and confidant David Betty before the Jutland naval battle in 1916. He didn’t want to guess whether Germany and Britain would leave a bunch of cornflowers in front of their friends’ graves after the fateful confrontation.

"retreat! Fall back! The ocean fleet meets! " The explosion of the 343 mm heavy artillery of Mainz upset everyone’s eardrums and made them temporarily deaf. Wang Haidi grabbed the captain of Mainz and shouted at the top of his voice.
The light cruisers can’t resist the battle cruiser thunder. Wang Haidi was arrogant. After the British came to the conclusion that the ocean fleet was supported by the tidal method, they would send some light ships to raid, but they didn’t want the British to pay so much attention to this small-scale retaliatory naval battle and put so much money into it!
At 9: 52, after the first round of artillery test, the shooting angle was re-adjusted. The second round of shelling in battle cruiser, England, began to be caught off guard. The Strasbourg light patrol was hit. It was not even stubborn and was instantly torn to pieces by an armor-piercing blasting bomb. Only a pool of blood, oil stains and several burning rags were left in the fog.
Almost at the same time, General hippel commanded the First Reconnaissance Fleet, and three battle cruiser and a large armored ship also arrived at the battlefield.
At 1: 00 p.m. on March 23rd, fog filled the sea area 30 nautical miles west of Helgolan Island, deep in the North Atlantic Ocean. Since Germany and Britain declared war on each other, the world navy has been waiting for a long-awaited showdown between the giant guns of the bloody fire ship, and it seems that it is about to start.
Hippel’s first reconnaissance fleet took the lead in firing, and the hit rate of the main gun across the foggy sea was not ideal. David Betty’s first battle cruiser fleet was not to be outdone, and five British battletrains fled across the German cruiser, but the effect was also not ideal.
"General, when the Admiralty is in a hurry, the main force of the German Ocean Fleet will sail out of Jed Bay. Where will it go?" Lampard and the intelligence staff rushed into the operations room.
"Commander, the Admiralty is in a hurry. At about 7: 03, the main force of the British fleet sailed out of Scarpa Bay. No!" The chief staff officer of the first reconnaissance fleet frowned and grabbed a newspaper and walked into the commander tower.
"Four thousand-ton Strasbourg, so finished? No one really lives, even if there is one person … "Two battle cruiser sub-fleets have fought hand-to-hand with light cruisers. In this level of naval battle, Wang Haidi did not dare to take the lives of soldiers to" make a brave pursuit of the enemy "to earn greater military merit, but directed his warships to slowly withdraw south.
"Commander, that’s David Betty battle cruiser!" Lieutenant heat was in a bad mood.
"Well, David Betty, you owe me 354 lives!" Otaku Haidi to desolate north erected middle finger cold way
At 11 o’clock in the afternoon, the sea fog in Shazhou, Dogel gradually dispersed, and a German patrol boat with a herringbone flag often wandered in the shallow waters.
"Roy, they’re back!" Far away, more than a dozen roads of smoke were raised, and the old captain got excited, and his legs and feet were not very clever. He tried his best to pick up his son’s sail mast and climb the fishing boat to welcome the hero back for him.
Roy spat at the tender little hand and climbed along the mast with a few steps to sit on the bracket and look far away.
"How to win and return to the Royal Navy? ！” The old captain gloated.
"There’s something wrong with dad …" Roy mast bracket stammered. "Royal Navy … Royal Navy …"
After half an hour, the confident old captain of the fishing boat saw a scene that broke his heart. A broken fleet of five patrol escorts quickly ran through the sandbar of Dogel towards Harwich Port.
This fleet seems to have suffered a terrible nightmare. Not only is it twice as many as it was when it went out, but it barely came back. The dark gray hull of the warship is densely covered with craters, and it is not a "ship shape". The last few warships are even more terrible. Their buildings are almost flattened, and the hull is full of cracks and the five warships are dragged and dragged by the giant hole filled with plugging plugs.
"The Royal Navy seems to have lost the battle …" The stuttering Roy finally shouted out the words behind him.
"Who won the sneak attack?" At the stern of the David Betty Lion patrol ship, the facial muscles of the Harriet fleet and the squadron of the No.1 Cruiser, which were badly damaged and almost wiped out, twitched faintly, and some emotion was brewing.
"Obviously …" It’s not easy to make the proud Royal Navy people noble heads. Lampard paused for a long time before admitting the fact that "we lost …"
David-Betty took a deep breath and compared a middle finger with Wang Haidi’s usual gesture. "Well, Heidi-Selim, we’re done!"
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Chapter III Old Rivals and New Enemies (1)
The boom gun finally stopped
Knowing that the main force of the ocean fleet was dispatched, the British navy chose to retreat, and the German navy dared not pursue it because of the south support of the big fleet, so some tacit noise and boiling sea finally calmed down.
The sea fog still hangs over the sea, although there is a tendency to dissipate, but the moonlight sunshine still can’t penetrate it. The thick fog and humid fog choke propellant, smell of sulfur and smoke, smell of death and smell of burning products. The spread of the ocean easily defeated those young German sailors who were brave in the face of the 343 mm main gun, but they were not afraid of iron and blood. They threw up on the side of the ship, clutching their stomachs.
Kaiser Wilhelm summoned Lieutenant General hippel’s First Reconnaissance Fleet and Major General Rebo Pachevens’ Third Reconnaissance Fleet to defend Jed Bay, while Major General Leib Li Xite Mas’s Second Reconnaissance Fleet and Hewan Defense Command Fleet were left to clean up the battlefield.
The sea is covered with debris, broken navy and sailors, oil stains leaked from sunken ships and blood stains from loyal warriors, iron coffins barely floating on the sea, countless wreckage of warships and several bodies.
Lifeboats were released. Young German sailors jumped into lifeboats. Their eyes were red and swollen. They held up loudspeakers and long sticks. The fog in Helgolan Bay continued to shuttle through the fog. The voice echoed in the fog like a sad evocation song in North Germany.
"We are the German Navy. Can anyone help us?"
Sailors sipped their mouths and carefully fiddled with the wreckage of long sticks and iron pins in their hands. When they never gave up hope, the fleeting time changed from their stiff fingers to the simple hope of an hourglass to a kind of stubbornness and then sublimated into a kind of despair. The trembling hands of sailors collected the ups and downs of the dead bodies, residual limbs and rags one by one, and then turned the wood pulp to move on. They shouted at the top of their lungs and looked forward to disappointment in the fog.
"We are the German Navy. Can anyone help us?"
The sea is as silent as death, except for the warship birds’ unbridled predation. In addition to floating on the sea, the small sampans that are still burning occasionally crackle and burst. In the fog, Germany won the naval battle. However, the reality is always a little colder than the history. The sad sailors cried and turned to see the lifeboats built into hills. The bodies of familiar or unfamiliar colleagues Paoze fell on their knees in the dinghy and became tearful.
"Auerbai-Lev G-192 destroyer gunner Navy confirmed death …"
"The destroyer Denzel-Oden G-192, the engineer, and the first class of the Navy confirmed the death …"
There was a dead silence in the light patrol room of Mainz. The staff officer had changed one crop after another. Lieutenant Shearer held a long list of dead people, and his hands shook like a sieve.
The light cruisers Strasbourg and Cologne sank, and the Rostock and Colburg were seriously injured during their light patrol. Five destroyers, G-192, G-193, G-195, V-196 and S-143, and two destroyers, G-194 and S-14, sank, and the number of people killed was as high as 1,156, and 174 people were still missing. Only the Hewan Defense Command lost 917 people.
The first-line commander, Wang Haidi, must sign every death notice. The otaku doesn’t know how many German families will send white-haired people to black-haired people when these death notices are sent by the admiralty. How many German parents, wives and children secretly curse him?
"Lauren, did I do something wrong?" The pen was broken by the otaku, the solid pen was twisted, and the dark black ink came out from the gap. The notice of soldiers’ death was annoying. The black quickly penetrated the paper back and was quickly evaporated by the damp heat in the cabin. Wang Haidi crumpled up the dead and looked up at the corner of the cabin. Lieutenant Lauren wondered
Since the otaku Wang Haidi returned to the Ocean Fleet in 1914 and became the Chief Staff Officer of Hippel, Captain Lauren has always been an otaku. He appreciated Captain Lauren’s shrinking appearance and belonged to the German national stubbornness in his bones. When he was promoted to the head of the Helgolan Bay Defense Command, he took Captain Lauren away for the first time. After a fierce naval battle, despite the victory and glory, he could shoulder thousands of people’s lives and deaths. The commander of the company was a great success, and his bones were dead, which made Wang Haidi feel uneasy. He tried to find the truth from the pure Germans.
"The German nation in the school is not rich in food. The salinization of North Germany and the swamp stand for thousands of years. Whether Gauls, Romans, Tatars or modern Anglo-Saxons and Slavs failed to completely levy Germany, it was blood and death that created the young German Empire!" Captain Lauren hid in a dark corner, but his answer was limited to the sunshine. In those days, Kiel, the porter from the old dock in augsburg, was as brilliant as Blount Mountain Flower. "Everyone is afraid of death, but there are always some things to do! Let a generation suffer, it is better to let the nightmare end from our generation! "
On the 19th day of the declaration of war between Germany and Britain on 23rd, 1914, the British Empire and the young German Empire, who dared to challenge the ocean, were unknown. A naval battle broke out in the misty sea of Helgolan Bay, which was called the Helgolan Bay naval battle in history.
Brigadier General Reginald Tyrwhitt, commander of the British Harriet Fleet, was resentful because of the classic submarine ambush planned by the naval ghost Heidi Sillem on June 6. He corrected his friends-Brigadier General Jed Case of the first submarine detachment and Brigadier General William Goodnow of the first cruiser squadron-and submitted an ambitious plan to the British Admiralty to raid the Helgolan Bay to encircle the patrol fleet of the German Hellsland Defense Command.
As we all know, Sir Winston Churchill is a civil servant with a romantic nature. He doesn’t have the military tactical qualities, but he is proud and conceited. Since the war, the Royal Navy has been criticized by newspapers and the public. He is desperate to support Brigadier General Reginald Tyrwhitt’s rough plan, even though Sir Hill, the First Minister of the Sea, broke out in a fierce dispute and directly led to the latter’s resignation.
The British plan is simple and rude. According to the information from the first submarine detachment, which is unscientific to investigate and lurk German spies, the surprise fleet composed of Harriet’s fleet, the first cruiser squadron and the first submarine detachment will break into Helgolan Bay when the tide level of Jed Bay, the anchorage of the German ocean fleet, is the lowest window, attracting the patrol fleet of Heidi Selim, the commander of the defense circle of the German navy, to gather in a predetermined ambush and annihilate the possible danger. The British Admiralty sent David Betty, who is known for his bravery, to lead his battle cruiser fleet to support.
The Germans are not unheard of of the British raid plan. Heidi Sillem, commander of the defense circle in Helgolan Bay and a naval ghost, adopted a policy of keeping the outside world. He let the submarine with strong concealment and the destroyer with super-fast speed go out of the attachment command, and the second reconnaissance fleet, the first cruiser squadron, four cruisers docked in the waters near Hedo and picked up Major General Leib Li Xite-Maas. The second reconnaissance fleet, the second cruiser squadron, was stationed outside Jeddah Bay and left Jeddah Bay before the main force of hippel’s first reconnaissance fleet.
The news of the naval battle in Golan Bay, Ziher, spread all over Europe and then to the United States and Asia with the help of developed modern communication technology. Although Germany and Britain claimed their victory at the first time after the war and inflicted heavy losses on the other side, we can see who lied from the scene of the new york Stock Exchange, the national debt of the Allies, on April 24.
In a sense, this naval battle was a classic chaos in the era of big ships and huge guns. However, the later generations did not think highly of this naval battle because it was a beautiful misunderstanding from beginning to end in this fog. The British mistakenly dispatched a large number of light ships into the dangerous Helgolan Bay by mistake, while the David-Betty battle cruiser sub-fleet only supported the fleet to stay far away from the fighting waters. The Germans mistakenly thought that the Royal Navy would underestimate the German defense forces but did not want Sir Churchill, so that he loved David-Betty to get more appearances and glory and stubbornly sent the first battle cruiser sub-fleet.
It can be seen that both sides of the war foresaw the naval battle in Helgolan Bay, but both sides had major mistakes and shortcomings. Compared with the rough plan formulated by the British Admiralty, the ocean fleet, to be exact, was more fully prepared for this naval battle. If there was no such bloody sea fog, the British raid fleet would have been hit head-on by Heidi Sillem School and rushed to support David Betty. Helgolan Bay would have collided head-on with hippel, and then staged a real knife, a real gun, a huge gun and a mine array. The main support of the lightning strike ship and the ocean fleet is also the best tactical commander of Germany, General hippel, and the best strategic genius of Germany, Heidi Selim bring up the rear. The German navy is likely to win.
Unfortunately, history didn’t. If a sudden sea fog disrupted the Germans’ arrangement of aeroplanes, airships and destroyers to form a cordon, this bad weather was useless. The British shelled Helgolan Island, the German duty staff made mistakes and the captain of the Cologne was bold. The impact of this bad weather was magnified to an even worse situation. If Heidi Sillem was not keenly aware at 7: 55 that the British might reach a far-sighted strategic steering order, perhaps the history of Helgolan Bay would be rewritten.
In the fog, the German navy dispatched three battle cruiser, a large armored ship, thirteen cruisers and seventeen other light ships, while the British navy dispatched five battle cruiser cruisers, thirty-two destroyers and three submarines before and after. The Germans finally sank two cruisers, five destroyers, two light cruisers and two destroyers, seriously injured and killed 1,330 people, and sank five British light cruisers (Xianlin, Southampton, Los tofte, Jammers, scout) 14 destroyers, 1 submarine captured a light cruiser (Sydney) and a new destroyer. According to the historical records of the British war, more than 2,000 people died in this battle in Britain, saying that the German victory was brilliant.
As far as Britain is concerned, the Royal Navy, an old-fashioned powerhouse, finally began to face up to the theory of long-range blockade by General John Jellicoe, the commander of the second largest fleet in the world. There are more and more supporters of the British Admiralty, and the British people and newspapers are becoming more and more critical of the Royal Navy. The British Parliament has repeatedly called senior naval officials to attend the hearing and ordered them to explain to the British people. Winston Churchill’s mastery of the Admiralty’s ocean policy has been radical and conservative until the Battle of Daniil Strait in 1915.
The influence of the Battle of Helgolan Bay on Germany was strikingly similar to that of Britain. On 23rd, 1914, Sir John Hill, the British First Sea Minister, did not come to the naval department. The British navy finally confirmed the resignation of Marshal Hill. At the same time, Al Fresi von Erpitz, Sir Hill’s arch-enemy and founder of the ocean fleet, submitted his resignation to the emperor during the naval battle …
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The fourth chapter old rivals and new enemies (2)
"After further anxious reflection, I have come to the regrettable conclusion that I can’t continue to work with you, so there is no need to get to the bottom of the national interest. I don’t agree to rush into the Helgolan Bay raid plan, but I can’t stop it. This is not only extremely unpleasant to me, but also unfair to you. I am leaving for Scotland at once, and people ask questions."
-Excerpt from Hill’s resignation report
Marshal Hill has a high prestige in the British Admiralty. Many front-line commanders, middle-level officials and technical officials in the Admiralty are surrounded by him. Because of their distrust of Churchill’s command ability, the young Turks in the British Admiralty demanded that Marshal Hill return to the Admiralty on the eve of World War I.
Hill is a great threat to Churchill, the secretary of the navy. Under pressure, Churchill has revived Hill, a retired official. However, Churchill will never give up his position as a civil servant. He has been constantly squeezing out and fighting Hill. Churchill concluded that Hill is strong in character and will not resign in anger. It is only a matter of time before.
Otherwise, the British Minister of the Navy and his three ministers of the sea received the resignation letter from Marshal Hill, the first minister of the sea, when the British surprise fleet killed Helgolan Bay in the early morning of March 23rd.
The suspicion of the Helgolan Bay naval battle was the catalyst of Churchill Hill’s contradiction. Churchill stubbornly launched this battle from the perspective of politicians, and Hill was still a professional soldier. He would never allow the Royal Navy to take risks. After a fierce dispute, Marshal Hill, a high-ranking naval officer, resigned sadly.
The news of Hill’s resignation made the British navy somewhat unprepared. The news of the fiasco in Helgolan Bay returned to the naval headquarters, which made the British Admiralty even more eager to try for a long time. Winston Churchill dared to come out. He first announced that Britain had won a brilliant victory at a heavy price in the fog, knocked off the arrogance of the German navy and sent Arthur Wilson, the secretary of the sea who had always had a bad feeling with Hill, to persuade Hill to change his mind.
The result of Arthur Wilson’s persuasion can be imagined. On March 23rd, John Abbas Nott Hill, a veteran who saved the declining Royal Navy and led the Mizi flagship team to glory for decades, finally came to a close.
Jeeps gallop in the highlands of northern Scotland. There are not many breezes, cars and churches. There are vast grasslands and hills, and piles of sheep and long Scottish bagpipes pass by the jeep window.
Four days after Hill’s resignation, David Betty was working hard to write a report on the battle of Helgolan Bay by the Lion in Scarpa Bay, Orkney Islands. Suddenly, he received a signed Hill newspaper, so he became a main force of Churchill. He had to jump into a military jeep deep in the Scottish Highlands to catch lunch. Lieutenant General David Betty finally appeared outside a small villa on the Spee River in northern Scotland.
After resigning, Hill looked full of energy. He was dressed in a simple farmer’s clothes and had a cigarette in his mouth. He sat leisurely and comfortably fishing by a stream at the head of Spee River.
Marshal!’ David Betty got out of the jeep and raised his hand to salute his army.
"Ha ha Betty, I’ve resigned. Don’t be so formal." Hill put out the cigarette butt and pointed to Ruye’s fish basket with an embarrassed smile. "I wanted to invite you to a fish feast, but I’m not good at learning …"
"Marshal, let me do it." David Betty was a little tickled. He took off his white gloves and took the fishing rod in Hill’s hand. He looked around and found a cool place. Soon there was a small fish biting the hook.
"I didn’t expect that David Betty, who is known as the first expert of the Royal Navy, is also an old fisherman. I also think this thing is patented by our old guys." Marshal Hill joked that he was a little fat and put the lively fish in the fish basket.