Lan Fang's side, the battle of the Philippines, has basically been settled, among the remote islands, there is also the battle to seize the island, but unfortunately those have little to do with Lan Fang's regular army, under Lan Fang's command, there has always been a native army, under the complex geographical conditions, Lan Fang will never let the regular army move, away from those small islands in the Philippines, maybe there is no danger above, maybe there are many natives on it, only the natives are the most suitable.

After the combat mission was issued, although the gunfire in the entire Philippine region, and even in the entire Southeast Asian region, did not completely stop, but most of the places have entered the formalization, the next thing, the northwest has been quite skilled, immigrants mixed with sand, reverse immigration to China, China has both infinite labor, but also lack of labor, among the local people, the most basic type of work has been very few, in a specific field, the primary type of work is still more needed, which can effectively reduce costs, And these natives will become suitable.

Although the natives are lazy and stupid, many things can be changed, and if you don't give them room to be lazy or give them room to think, they will become qualified junior workers.

The situation in Asia, at the end of 1914, tended to be calm, and after the war in the north and south ended because of the victory of the Chinese, the conflict between the Allies and the Allies intensified in Europe, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.

It has been decided to mobilize all forces to have a strategic Armageddon with the Entente, the German navy has been much busier during this time, and the Baltic Sea is evenly divided, which is already the final bottom line, but the weak side is the Central Powers, and the British have never been good people, as long as there is an opportunity. Just aggressive.

The ten days of waiting for the return of the Scheer fleet were a difficult time for Germany, and the Allied warships were completely aggressive, and they kept approaching, looking for all opportunities. Penetrate into the interior of the Baltic Sea, not only at sea, but also on land.

The North itself was not taken very seriously, but because of the change in the strategic goals of the Entente, it became important, and diplomatically, British and French diplomats kept going to the three Nordic countries, and the three Nordic countries were originally in the gap between the Entente and the Central Powers, relying on neutrality. It was saved. After the Entente became strong, it was under tremendous pressure, and the political situation began to waver, although it had not yet announced that it would join the Entente camp, but it was only a matter of time before it joined.

The three Nordic countries were able to be on the European map of this era, and also guaranteed to have independent countries, proving their strength, three countries. At the very least, we can mobilize a million-strong army. , a million army, on the premise that the two sides are evenly matched, is definitely not a small number.

Germany also did not watch it, although the capital ships were squeezed and could not confront it head-on. But the middle line of the Baltic Sea is a bottom line, and Germany cannot use capital ships, so it can only find a way from somewhere else. Airships and submarines are Germany's strengths. However, it is really difficult to find an opportunity in the hands of the naval power Britain.

Finally, under the patient search, in the midst of the retreat, the Germans finally found an opportunity, followed by a small group of dreadnoughts of the main fleet of the Entente, because of the speed, they could not catch up with the speed of the capital ships, and there was a distance of 50 nautical miles between the group, and the submarine forces and airships seized the opportunity to directly start attacking, first the airship bombing, so that they could avoid the bomb rain with difficulty, and then use the submarine sneak attack, two work, just an hour and a half, Completed the attack on 7 former dreadnoughts, sank 4 of them and damaged 3, which greatly dealt a blow to the arrogance of the British.

The result of this matter can be said to be immediate, the aggressive Britain itself, began to converge, although it is still active near the Baltic Sea, but it has not gone deeper, airships, especially more than 1200 airships, under intensive bombardment, for the fleet, there is still a certain threat, these fleets have urgently installed anti-aircraft machine guns, but these things, for the airships that have been kept above 4000 meters, there is not much effect, they do not have the strength of the northwest, Produce an anti-aircraft machine gun that can shoot at a range of more than 5,000 meters, and there are not enough airships to have a head-on confrontation with Germany, so you can only watch.

However, the combat radius of the airship is limited, they only protected this small area on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and did not reach another inlet to the sea, after all, the opponent's warship is huge, and the airship has not been used, in this case, God knows if there will be an ambush.

Of course, the real reason is actually that the damage of the airship to the battleship is too small, and the whole 700 airships were dispatched, and the intensive bombardment lasted for an hour and a half, which only made the front dreadnought a little slightly injured, and for some of the exposed machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, etc., there was damage, as for most of the hull, including the main turret, it did not suffer much damage, and the only benefit was that the dreadnought split the camp when it was dodging, which allowed the submarine to seize the opportunity and sink 4.

Such a record is not replicable, the dreadnought is more powerful than the previous dreadnought, coupled with the wide structure, the air defense is also more dense, and it is unlikely to be separated, plus there are escort light cruisers and destroyers, when the submarine does not work, the airship alone has little effect.

The two sides have reached a weak balance in this way, but Germany knows that this balance is fragile, if Britain does whatever it takes, it can directly attack the Baltic Sea coast, in the North Sea, except for the Kiel Canal, there is no second outlet to the sea, almost all shipyards are distributed along the coast of the Baltic Sea, at most deep into the inland rivers, but especially huge warships, the inland rivers can not withstand it, Germany does not have a deep-water channel like the Yangtze River, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, can withstand 30,000 tons, Even the 50,000-ton giant ship has been traced up, and the protection of such natural advantages has made the Yangtze River a natural shipbuilding base.

It's just that there are too many shipbuilding bases in China, not to mention anything else, there are countless in the Bohai Bay, the narrow Bohai Bay is only more than 30 kilometers, under the protection of land-based artillery and aircraft, no warship dares to go deep into the Bohai Bay, this is the safest place, and even the Bohai Bay can also carry out a series of training, which is not the same as the Yangtze River. Therefore, in the future, China's shipbuilding base will mainly be Bohai Bay, which is safe and not easy to leak.

Tirpitz frowned, the asymmetry on the battleship put him in a natural weakness, in the face of the aggressiveness of the British, he could only passively defend, to a certain extent, it was also a helpless choice, all the naval officers were indignant, but there was no way,

In a strategic sense, this sneak attack was successful, successfully holding the German defense line in the Baltic Sea, but the crisis was also exposed, once the Entente was desperate, even if the Scheer fleet would never come again, he would have to go to the First World War, although close to Germany, and with the help of airships and submarines, but Scheer's 9 capital ships did not return, relying on the existing warships, taking it out is an absolute disadvantage, even if it is all filled in, it may not be able to exchange one-to-one with the British, which is tantamount to a sacrifice in vain. But it's really hard to say what the results were.

Fortunately, even if he is thousands of miles away, Scheer can still use the radio network arranged in the northwest and Germany to communicate with the Admiralty by relay method, and he has already left the Strait of Malacca, and has passed the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, and can reach Europe in 10 days at most. There are still 10 days left, so wait a little longer, as long as the battleship returns, everything is still in time.

After a defeat, it can be regarded as dispelling the arrogance of the Entente, but how strong Britain is, if the 7 former dreadnoughts were sunk, maybe they will be honest for a little longer, but there are those who run back, when they were hit hard, and spent a lot of time, ran back to the front dreadnoughts in a safe place, and presented the entire battle report, countless British naval experts and generals personally went to the battleship to investigate a circle, and finally got a very amazing result, That is, the airship does very little damage to the battleship.

Different from fixed targets on land, the battleship will maneuver quickly, in this case, it will be quite difficult to aim, so when the airship attacks, it must make a trade-off, whether to use a larger number of bombs to obtain a sufficient amount of absolute hits, or use larger bombs to ensure the effect of the attack, this is a difficult choice of the problem, in fact, the Germans chose the former, so the attack on the front dreadnought is not effective, against the dreadnought, the effect is even worse.

The real threat to the dreadnought is the submarine, which is evading the bombs in the air, and is unwittingly introduced into the encirclement of the submarine, compared to 50-100 kg aerial bombs, 450 mm, or even 500 mm torpedoes are more aggressive, and the 4 former dreadnoughts are all under the attack of torpedoes before sinking into the sea.

If such a blow is encountered again, especially for the dreadnought, there is speed, there is protection, it can be completely ignored, as long as it is under the escort of a certain light fleet, to prevent torpedo attacks, airships in the air can be ignored, at most a little injury, then destroyers, light cruisers, etc., must be densely covered with anti-aircraft fire, 50-100 kg bombs, the threat to the capital ships is not great, there is still a threat to them.

When the British returned, the German navy was immediately under great pressure, although the British did not attack the German coastal ports, and even when the airships arrived, they would quickly retreat, but their troops were steadily advancing, and they were getting closer and closer to Germany. (To be continued.) )