"yes, it's time for us to act, are the three camouflaged ships in place?" The prince asked after reading the telegram. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's already in place. Lieutenant General Hipper wanted to personally lead the team to pick up his men. Lieutenant General Scheer said.

"Hipper? Let him go on the Cedritz, but not the other battlecruisers, let him go with the third squadron of battleships. "The prince had no intention of having another meeting to discuss anything. Commanded directly.

"Third Battleship Detachment? Those three new Bavarians? Well, they belong to the headquarters of the High Seas Fleet. Scheer said with some surprise, let Hipper take the battleship that did not belong to him to carry out the mission, this, is it really good?

"If you don't let them go, who will go? Do not forget that two of our three camouflage ships are imitations of the Bavaria-class shape, and one is a reference to the battle cruisers. If the British had found out that there were 11 Bavarians in our harbor, they would have found out what a bad thing they were. So since there are fakes, then the real ones naturally have to go out. And I always feel that the Bavarian class is a bit more stable. The prince said.

The prince's idea was simple, three camouflaged ships would be used to fill the main fleet, and then the replaced real ships would perform the answering mission. This task is not easy to do, the size of the fleet of sorties must not be too large, otherwise the main fleet will be empty, the British planes can fly to the vicinity of Wilhelmshaven, if they find that there are too few capital ships, they will definitely think that a German fleet will act from another exit. So there are three camouflages, so the battleships that go out are 3 or 4, not more.

It is possible to run into Thomas's fleet when you go out to pick up, and Thomas's fleet has 10 fast warships, and it is not certain how many Blücher can attract away, so the receiving fleet needs to be ready to fight at all times, in terms of combat effectiveness, the Moltke-class battlecruisers are lower than the Helgran-class, and the Helgel-class is lower than the Bavarian-class, if there are three Bavarian-class ships, plus Cedricz and Moltke, even if the British come with 3 queens and 4 battlecruisers, the prince is not worried. Even if more warships come, there is a high probability of evacuation. And if you want to change to other types of warships, you can't. So, in order to ensure that the operation could go smoothly, the prince decided to send three Bavaria-class battleships that were newly commissioned and in the best condition!

"So is the High Seas Fleet going to attack?" Scheer then asked.

"It depends, we first need to know the situation of the British fleet, and if they are very close, then don't go out." The prince said with some hesitation. In fact, the main warships of the High Seas Fleet can only enter and exit Yade Bay at high tide, and the water depth is not deep enough at low tide to ....... If the other party really blocks the door and the fleet can't return home, the problem is a bit serious......

"Or to put it another way, if the British airships and planes can fly over our ports, then we don't have to go to sea, because the purpose of our existence is to tell the British that we are all in port and that there are no capital warships in the North Sea." The prince said with a smile.

"The planes of the British flew over our ports? It's a terrible experience! Lieutenant General Scheer said with a little embarrassment. Although the German Navy attached great importance to the role of the air force, it was limited by the limited size of the German air force and the need to resist the strong air forces of Britain and France on the Western Front at the same time, so the German Navy did not have an independent air force. There were several planes, but there were not enough of them.

In a private meeting after returning this time, Hipper once said to Schell very worriedly that in the future, in addition to dealing with the large fleet at sea, the German fleet should also beware of British bombers in the harbor that did not know when, and they could bomb the army, and naturally they could also bomb the planes moored in the harbor. And after this sea confrontation, Scheer is no longer concerned about the air defense of the high seas fleet, but worried!

"yes, the V1500 came out too early." The prince also sighed and said. The V1500 four-engine heavy bomber, which is the highest achievement of the aircraft of World War I in history, does not have any proud achievements, and the fundamental reason is that it came out too late, and the war was almost over when it entered service, so it naturally did not need much. The number is limited, and the role is naturally limited, but the appearance of this plane, this behemoth, caught Germany a little off guard. But fortunately, the Bavarian Air Hunter twin-engine interceptor has already entered service on a large scale, and after taking out the Russian Ilya bombers, these idle hunters might as well take on the air defense tasks of the German Navy first!

Of course, simply supporting an air defense network in his own home is not the ultimate goal of the prince, he has more plans, but now, for the high seas fleet, the most urgent task is how to receive the Moltke back home!

"Act tonight, our fleet movements are absolutely secret only at night, your fleet first reaches the Baltic Sea through the Kiel Canal, where a seaplane carrier, a detachment of light cruisers and 2 detachments of destroyers are waiting for you, take them through the Skagrak Strait, and then meet our warriors from afar. Be careful, be sure to keep the radio silent, don't send a signal until they find you, and we will keep an eye on your opponent when the British Grand Fleet arrives near the German coast and tell you about it. As for how you decide, that's up to you. ”

Later, when he gave Hipper the task, the prince said. The prince can't do everything himself, but he must let the commanders below have some responsibility and decision-making ability. The overall layout has been completed, it depends on how well the people below are doing.

So that evening, after returning to the port and having just pulled two hot meals, the British Grand Fleet attacked again, up to Jericho and down to the ordinary soldiers, nibbling on the hamburger in his hand, drinking hot coffee and walking to his post again. At the same time, the work of stealing beams and columns for the high seas fleet was also being carried out intensively, and in the Kiel Canal after martial law, Hippers took four of his warships through as soon as possible, and after they arrived, three camouflaged ships with a mighty appearance and were actually civilian ships crossed the Kiel Canal to Wilhelmshaven.

On this night, far away in the vast Norwegian Sea, the Blucher was breaking into the North Sea with the cruiser Wiesbaden at a speed of 20 knots. Although it has been used as a decoy, Colonel Hellhouse still hopes that a miracle can happen, and that in about 8 hours a night, at a speed of 20 knots, the fleet can run 160 nautical miles, that is, more than 300 kilometers! This speed cannot be said to be slow, but for the Royal Navy, which has formed an encirclement posture and has a strong air and sea reconnaissance force, it is not too difficult to find them, and more importantly, the British fleet has blocked two passages back to China, and the Blucher can only wander around at sea!

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