Chapter 121: Warriors from afar

"Your Highness, Colonel Perridge is here, will you wait a minute, or now?" After dinner, Ruprecht accompanied his father and cousin as usual, and in any case, they were all relatives, and they were still very close interests!

"Father, Your Highness the Princess." Without the slightest hesitation, Ruprecht got up and prepared to take his leave.

"It's important to get down to business." Princess Mary is very generous, but Her Royal Highness the **** next to her is a little dissatisfied, I don't know if it's pretending, or really dissatisfied! But these things have nothing to do with Ruprecht, the most important thing now is those who are fighting from afar!

"How are our comrades-in-arms doing now?" In one room, Ruprecht asked.

"Very badly, the Dingyuan ironclad accidentally hit a mine when it sailed out of port, and the Zhiyuan was sunk in an encounter. Except for the Zhenyuan, which is still in Weihai, only one Mainz in the entire Beiyang Fleet continues to fight at sea, but the current situation is also very bad. ”

"The British are tipping off the Japanese that the Yellow Sea is too small after all, and although the East China Sea and the coastal areas of Japan have a greater range of maneuver, the boilers that have not been repaired for a long time are obviously unable to support the battleships to continue to fight at high intensity! According to the last contact, the maximum speed of the cruiser Mainz has dropped to 15 knots, and if there is another engagement, it may not be able to escape! Colonel Perridge said.

"What does the Admiralty mean?" Ruprecht asked. Colonel Perridge was a member of the Prussian military mission to Bavaria, and at Ruprecht's request, he now also began to act as an intermediary between the Forces nouvelles of the Navy represented by Tirpitz and His Royal Highness the Prince.

"They want to end this battle as soon as possible, the boys have done a good enough, but unfortunately, now our forces in the Far East are very weak, and after the British provided intelligence to the Japanese, our supply ship was driven out of the area of operation several times, and the Mainz has already delayed the supply twice, and now we don't know where the battleship is." Colonel Perridge said.

"What about the Russians? Let them help find it. Ruprecht said.

"The Russians did not care about this, their fleet was concentrated in Vladivostok. Damn, I knew that the Russians were unreliable! Colonel Perridge said with some annoyance.

"If I were the number one in the Navy! I will order me to keep up with the Japanese on the fleet! Let them know the consequences they may face when they act! ”

The German Admiralty is now planning to close, the Mainz has been sold to Beiyang, and there is no way to sink it, but the hundreds of German Navy officers and sailors on it have gone through the baptism of war! That's a precious intangible asset! It must be saved.

But the forces of the German Navy in the Far East were very thin, and it was very difficult to find a cruiser in the open sea, and the Russians were clearly unreliable in this regard! So Ruprecht came up with this solution! I won't say anything else!

It's radical, but it's the easiest way to do it!

The Japanese absolutely did not dare to fire first, and the German staff officers and front-line personnel were not as unreliable as the Japanese staff officers in history, and they would not fire first. According to Ruprecht's idea, the best outcome would be to have an opportunity to sink itself when the Mainz was overwhelmed, and then let the other two German cruisers pick it up

"I will convey your meaning to the Admiralty, to be honest, I am surprised that you can do so much for your comrades who have fought together, and in the hearts of all the officers and men of the Navy who have fought side by side with you, you are no longer a prince, but a comrade-in-arms who can entrust your back." Colonel Perridge said respectfully.

Ruprecht had done a lot, and before leaving the Far East, Ruprecht had already spent a lot of pounds to contact the best hospitals in the Qing Dynasty, and in the first few rounds of supplies, the wounded could be quickly transferred to hospitals in the Shanghai Concession or elsewhere. And in order to ensure the health of the soldiers, Ruprecht also paid for many out-of-specification supplies. Everything that could be done was done, and Ruprecht won the respect of his former comrades!

"Although it seems radical, but it is not dangerous, the Japanese have no ability or idea to confront us again, their hunting fleet size is only 4 cruisers, except for the certain cruiser of the British, the other warships are vulnerable, even if 2 against 4, we have the advantage." The Secretary of State of the Navy reported to Bismarck. He was more inclined to Ruprecht's opinion, I can't find my own people, just keep an eye on my opponent!

It must be said that a series of actions of the German Navy in the Far East really had a great impact at home! The ability of the navy to defend its overseas rights and interests and its position in the national strategy became more prominent, and the Germans saw the advantages of building a navy, but also saw their own shortcomings, and the call for expanding the navy became increasingly loud, while Bismarck still maintained the original idea of building a navy moderately. However, for those soldiers who fought for the empire, he still supported a more forceful solution to the problem!

"Then so be it, by the way, inform the German ambassador that if something inhumane happens, the German fleet will definitely seek justice at sea!" Bismarck is Bismarck! In addition to solving problems with fists, I am also considering the possibility of solving problems with my tongue. If you really reach the end of the road, after surrendering, you can keep these people!

"Colonel Scheer, this is an order from the Admiralty! Our fleet will follow the Japanese fleet to prevent something inhumane from happening. "On the cruiser Hamburg, an officer sent the information he had just received to the commander of the German Far East cruiser detachment, Colonel Schell.

"Then let's get moving, and work hard for our hero to be able to return to the naval port of Kiel again!" Scheer ordered loudly after reading the telegram!

"Long live the Empire! Long live the Kaiser! Long live the Imperial Navy! With the shouts of the soldiers, the two armored cruisers left Shanghai and began to think about sailing out to sea.

"The Germans moved!" Colonel Parr said to Major General Filimant next to him.

"Just let the Apollo follow from afar, and the rest is none of our business." Major General Filimante sighed, now he only hopes that the Japanese will stop doing anything brainless, and now even the British are not willing to protect the Japanese anymore!

The German government pledged to prevent Japan from doing things that violated the "bottom line of human morality." The British said it was understandable, and the synonym for understanding was compromise!

And soon, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also received a harshly worded note from the German government! "When the German servicemen on the Beiyang battleships decided to abandon the battle, they would automatically reinstate the status of the Imperial Navy! And after that, any attack or insult will be regarded as a provocation in the eyes of the Empire! The Imperial fleet is ready to fight back with fire and death for this provocation! ”

"Tell Hikarama that as long as the armored cruiser Mainz gives up resistance, stop firing and allow the ship's personnel to evacuate. Finally, I repeat it! You can't torture any captives! Any! Whether it is the Germans or the Qing people! Ito's words are calm and unmistakably majestic!

The second more presented~~~, ask for Sanjiang tickets, ask for collection~~~, some book friends said that the author wrote too much about Jiawu, how to say this, after all, those major events happened in the world at that time, and Europe was very calm at that time! However, after the first day of the first day, there will be nothing to do in the Qing Kingdom in the next few hundred chapters. After all, what happened after the Qing Dynasty had little to do with the major powers.