Anti-piracy chapter! 3rd Update!!

"Although our basic conditions are still very simple, we have finally taken the most critical step, with a relatively large engine, a relatively mature airframe design, an aircraft carrier for taking off and landing aircraft, a relatively large air force and a more reasonable training system. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info The current naval aviation is like a butterfly, although it is fragile, but sooner or later it will set off a storm, we don't have to wait too long, history and the battlefield will prove the truth of what I said. ”

In the end, the prince decided to write a letter to the Kaiser to obtain official authorization, and at least to get the other party to promise to equip the three aircraft carriers that are being rebuilt. At the same time, it is necessary to give a certain share of the Navy's land-based aviation. Dozens are not a lot, 100 is not much! Let's find a way to make up for the rest of the princes. As for saying, is it useful to create a strong naval aviation at this time? Or is naval aviation cost-effective enough for the same resources?

If it had been January before, the prince would not have been able to answer this question, but now, when the Count of Spee had inflicted heavy damage on the French fleet and had greatly delayed the battle of the Dardanelles, the prince concluded that it was of great importance to build up naval aviation, or even even a naval aviation capable of attacking ships. While people were still marveling at the courage and skill of the Count of Spee in the night raid on Crete, and when people only looked at the impact of the two Allied fleets on the sea situation, the prince had realized that the tide of the war had changed from a deep direction!

Previously, the prince had realized that with the withdrawal of the French navy, the Allied legions on the Eastern Front had enough time and strength to complete the encirclement of the Polish pocket and the offensive in the Balkans, so after that, the situation in Russia would definitely be worse than in history, if the prince did it beautifully enough, then in the Polish pocket, the prince could inflict heavy losses and kill at least 5 Russian armies! From the perspective of personnel, it is estimated that it can exceed 1 million, and in terms of equipment, it is almost all the accumulation of the Russian army before the war! And then with the industrial capacity of Russia wants to make up for these losses? What international jokes?

And how long will it be before the war starts when it's all over? It's only been 1 year! In 1 year, the European steamroller, which once shocked and frightened the whole of Europe, was driven to the edge of the cliff, so well, what will the Russians do? What will Anglo-French do?

They have only one choice! Put all one’s eggs in one basket! It is possible to launch a diversionary offensive on the Western Front, but the effect is limited, then their only way is to break through the Dardanelles! Open the Black Sea channel, although this strait is very narrow, although it is already impregnable with mines and submarines, but the Entente has no choice!

The historical battle for the Dardanelles lasted for ten months! Britain and France successively invested 500,000 troops, and more than 2 dozen battleships of various types participated in the battle! (most of them were ex-dreadnoughts) paid an extremely heavy price. And this time, Britain, France and even Russia will launch a campaign at any cost in order to break through here!

What does it mean at any cost? It's a double choice question! If the war is won, the Entente will be superior, Turkey will collapse, Russia will receive foreign aid, and if it loses, not only will Russia be nailed to the last coffin, but Britain and France will also be forced to completely abandon the Eastern Mediterranean because of too great losses! There are no Americans in this plane to pay for the Entente! With the family background of Britain and France, such a loss is absolutely unbearable!

Therefore, the Entente group will definitely try its best to fight this war, around the Dardanelles, Britain and France may land from Greece, and Russia may also launch an offensive from the east, it will be a full-scale war for the sake of the strait! The entire Balkan region, Asia Minor, will be the battlefield of this battle! Perhaps the Entente attack will be very fierce, and the desperate posture will be very terrifying.

But alas, on this battlefield, the Allies have an absolute advantage, a huge army advantage plus geographical superiority, and full preparation! This is tantamount to giving the prince a chance to break the game, a chance to make the Entente break the Allies in one fell swoop with a greater chance of victory and a huge advantage! Here, the blood shed and the national strength consumed by the Entente countries may exceed that of any previous battle! And by this time, naval aviation will become a trump card in the hands of the prince! Naval aviation, which is not mature, will play an extremely huge role in a given environment! For example, aviation lightning strikes and aviation mines!

If the Entente wants to transport troops and equipment to the Balkans, the only way to do so is by sea! And compared with the Royal Navy, which is strong in strength and hematopoietic ability, and the replenishment speed is faster than the sinking speed in history, although the French Navy and the Japanese Navy have a certain advantage in strength, but the replenishment capacity and escort level cannot be compared with the Royal Navy, and the Japanese can still slowly build new Fuso-class battleships, and now what about the French? Visually, there will be no new battleships launched in two years, that is really sinking one less one!

Although escort warships can be produced, it is thought that France also shoulders most of the pressure on the Western Front Army, and it is also impossible to replenish the escort warships and naval personnel with the French industry and population, so the naval strike on the Entente in the Aegean Sea will directly determine the final victory in the Balkan theater and the battle for the Dardanelles.

Before the war, the prince demanded the formation of the Allied Combined Fleet in the Mediterranean, equipped with submarines and a naval base in the Sea of Marmara, and the convergence with the Austro-Hungarian fleet in order to win this battle, and now, with the basic conditions of aviation hardware in place, the prince has added a new heavyweight chip for this upcoming battle! And this bargaining chip is something that the Entente cannot copy!

The Allied fleet could be temporarily blocked in the Dardanelles by the Allied fleet, and the submarines could be handed over to destroyers and trawlers. So what about airplanes? Airfields deployed in Greece, Serbia and other places will face an offensive by superior German-Austrian armies. As long as the prince wants to, then it is a matter of time before he takes out these things. Naturally, airfields could be built on some islands in the Aegean Sea, but guys, the combat range of aircraft at that time was in the triple digits. Generally not more than 500KM. Is there a feeling that the whip is out of reach? In this day and age, because of the problem of short flight range, the advantage of fighting at home is too obvious.