Chapter 900: Shadows of the Mediterranean 1

"Okay, these things, you can actually contact the Emperor Ao, and then just tell the General Staff. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "Little Moltke is really a little speechless, and what is even more speechless is that today the Kaiser's interest seems to be very high, after solving the problem of the army, the long-lost naval soul is burning again......

"Your Majesty, Marshal Tirpitz and von . General Pol has already arrived and is waiting. The attendant came to the Kaiser's side and whispered.

"Well, well, let them in, Ruprecht, and say together what else you have to say about the Navy before returning to the Eastern Front. Let them do it. The Kaiser said. As a result, Moltke Jr., who had already held a four-hour meeting, could only continue to sit next to him, as the background, this time it was a completely internal meeting of the Navy, and he, the chief of the army general staff, could only sit aside and accompany .......

"Well, first of all, let's look at the choice of the British, if the Grand Fleet is concentrated in the Shetland Islands, then we can naturally let go of our hands and feet in the southern part of the North Sea, for example, launch some attacks on the east coast of Britain, and even take offensive mines in the English Channel or send submarines and torpedo boats to attack. Both. But they shouldn't be so stupid, Jericho's Grand Fleet is most likely stationed around the Bay of Forth to replace the battered Betty Fleet to maintain pressure on the High Seas Fleet. In that case, we could have taken aim at the blockade line in the North Sea. ”

"The production of submarines and the training of the personnel involved need to be strengthened, and the number of submarines we need to continue to increase, especially for ocean-going submarines, and we can try to develop the hunting area of submarines from the British coast to the west coast of France. The production of capital ships is best done in a step-by-step manner, and I am very much looking forward to the majesty of the 12 Bavaria-class battleships at sea. The prince smiled.

"Also, increase intelligence work, to be honest, I'm not very satisfied with the current intelligence work, the Navy's access to intelligence is too passive. There is a certain danger of continued operation in the vicinity of the North Sea blockade, so I would like to intensify submarine and aviation reconnaissance to ensure that the British Grand Fleet is always under our surveillance. ”

"The actions of the battlecruiser Setlitz are commendable, and the battlecruiser detachments can be present regularly in the North Sea blockade zone until the British Grand Fleet returns to Shetland, and the value of your battle is to ensure that the transports carrying supplies to Germany can deliver as much supplies as possible to the mainland during this time. By doing that alone, you have done what the Army can't. At this time, the prince did not forget to say a kind word to Colonel Edelman.

"As for the main fleet? I think that the fleet should always be active, and in the Baltic direction it is possible to launch some offensive operations and clean up Russian warships and transports in the Baltic. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the mine blockade of the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Riga. Finally, the prince made some pre-arrangements for the operation he was going to carry out in a few months. I will make a plan for the relevant action guidance. You can look into it. ”

"By the way, one more thing, I wonder, how has Count Spee been doing lately in the Mediterranean direction? He has 4 super dreadnought warships in his hands, and it may be difficult to suppress it with the French Navy alone, right? At this time, the prince suddenly remembered that the Allied Combined Mediterranean Fleet seemed to have been quiet lately.

This shouldn't be, judging from the intelligence before the war, the French fleet should not be in service with a super dreadnought, and in this plane, the British dreadnoughts and super dreadnoughts are both at home, and Italy has not participated in the war, the French Navy should have no other advantages other than tonnage advantages, according to the ability of Count Spee, why not make a big news like Su Xiong, you occupy the front page headlines at least twice, right? But what's going on with being so quiet now? The prince was eager to find out why the Count was so aberrant.

"This, because the naval forces of the two sides are not as we began to imagine, although Italy is nominally neutral, but it provides France with a part of the capital ships, after the outbreak of the war, the Italian Navy will belong to the two super dreadnoughts transferred to the French Navy's combat sequence, at the same time, there are also some destroyers, submarines and other auxiliary warships." Tirpitz said.

"What's going on?" The prince said with a frown.

The official Italian explanation is that in the war in North Africa, Italy owed Britain and France a large amount of loans, and these warships were to repay the principal and interest of the loans. Moreover, the Italian government stated that all their actions were completed before the war, but the handover coincided with the outbreak of war. This group of two or five boys, a group of mercenary villains! Tirpitz's words were filled with anger against Italy.

"It's a bit tricky." The prince put his hand on his chin, he was not very clear about this accident, to say that it was impossible to come up with a concrete plan in a hurry.

"In addition to the French Navy, it seems that in the fortress of Sevastopol, the Russians also completed 2 battleships, although they are dreadnoughts, but the 12 12-inch guns on them cannot be underestimated. Although Count Spee did not make a major operation, with the help of auxiliary warships and minefields, the fleet was firmly in control of the northern Aegean Sea, and the French fleet was now stationed around Alexandria. At the same time, there was a detachment deployed on the island of Malta to blockade the Adriatic Sea with mines and submarines, and as you said, the main fleet of Austria-Hungary in the Adriatic really had no room to play. "Feng on the side. General Pohl said.

"It seems that the situation is very complicated." The prince let out a long sigh. Tirpitz and von. General Pohl spent about two hours giving a general introduction to the Mediterranean. The French fleet was similar to what it was historically, with only 4 Guba-class dreadnoughts and 6 Danton-class quasi-dreadnoughts in service at the beginning of the war. But now, two Brestany-class battleships have entered service, and this is 6 ships of the Dreadnought-class class.

In this case, in the face of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Turkey's lineup of a total of 6 super dreadnoughts, the French actually had no advantage, but at this time, although Italy declared neutrality, the 2 super dreadnoughts built for the French broke the situation in the Mediterranean!

According to intelligence reality, these two battleships were almost built according to the Brestany-class battleship template, and Italy only completed these three battleships according to the drawings of the French, as for using them to repay the previous loan, it is also possible, but judging from Italy's actions, this two or five boys are still inclined to the Entente.

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