"By the way, what's the situation in the Mediterranean now?" Suddenly, the prince remembered that Europe was not at peace now, that the poor imperialism was still struggling with a sick man on a European sickbed, and that he had not heard any news for so long, and that he had left all the military affairs to his uncle, who had been busy with these things lately, and had neglected the situation in the Mediterranean. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"How so? The current situation is probably stable. The Italians had an advantage at sea, and although General Scheer used the cover of the night to sweep a waterway to the outside world with the help of minesweepers, and successfully destroyed an Italian cruiser and several transports, the impact on the overall situation was relatively limited. ”

So far, according to our statistics, 15 ships of various types totaling 40,000 tons have been destroyed by mines, but this action has aroused the alarm of the Italian Navy, and they began to blockade the Adriatic Sea, and the captain of the Swordfish also coped with it, disguised as a merchant ship and left the Eastern Mediterranean before the blockade. Intercept Italian merchant ships in the Atlantic with the Waves. These two warships have so far intercepted 21 Italian merchant ships with naval guns, with a total tonnage of 70,000 tons! Count Schelling said.

"It seems that the results of camouflaged assault ships at sea are even better than those of our armored cruisers." The prince joked. In fact, if Scher's Prince Albert had not contained most of the Italian Navy's forces, I am afraid that the results of these two naval assault ships would not have been so good. Sometimes the role of a battleship is not something that can only be seen in battle. Now, in order to blockade this behemoth, the Italians do not have enough strength to go to the Atlantic Ocean to find two camouflaged assault ships, which is the fundamental reason why Swordfish and Seawolf have been able to get away with it until now......

"What about the Italians' army?" The prince thought for a moment and asked.

"To be honest, I think if you look at the performance of the Italian Army, they are definitely not worthy of the word Great Powers, up to now, the Italian Army in Africa has about 120,000 people, but the battle with our volunteers and the Turks is still more defeated than victorious, the Italians are still very poor in terms of equipment and personnel quality, and the most unbelievable thing is that the Italians are not even as good as the Turks in their will to fight. On one occasion we managed to capture an Italian artillery company, which also had a large number ......of shells, but the Italian soldiers chose to surrender because they could not open the ammunition box without a crowbar. Count Schelling couldn't help laughing out loud as he spoke. It is not easy for such a country to become independent!

"Very good, then continue to fight, and strive for this war to be fought for more than 2 years until Italy can no longer afford it." The prince said indifferently. "What is the internal political situation in Turkey now?"

"Our partners have taken control of the governments of Istanbul and Turkey in the name of military control, although they have not overthrown the old sultan, but they have also been overthrown, and cooperation between us and them has begun to be in full swing, and everything is going according to plan." Count Schelling said.

Generally speaking, the current situation is not a small good, but a big good! Taking advantage of the war, the Turkish government has achieved a smooth transition, and its plan to support this little brother can be officially launched, while Italy is mired in the quagmire of war, you know, at this time in history, Italy has slowed down the development of the navy, and single-mindedly developed the economy, so that the national strength has been improved to a certain extent before the expansion of dreadnoughts in the early stage of World War I, and a famous Italian poet wrote "armed to the bow of the ship, to the world." "Such arrogance and confidence! But now? I can only hehe!

If you want to talk about Italy as a country, if nothing else, it is somewhat resilient, and their desire to become a colony and a great power is actually no worse than that of Germany, but it is not strong enough. Whether it is the two invasions of Ethiopia in history, or the Italian-Turkish War, or the participation in the Spanish Civil War before World War II, it shows that although their strength is not enough, as long as they do not suffer a decisive defeat, (such as the Battle of Adua) they will persevere, and such persistence will consume a lot of national strength!

It's like a person with bad teeth who has to compete with 1 mature beef tendon ....... The Navy is fully mobilized, and there are still 120,000 troops in Africa, so the consumption of this scale must be not small, right? More than £250,000 a month isn't too much, right? The prince is now curious to know how much money Italy has left to throw in this bottomless pit!

The so-called a few happy and a few sad, some people are happy, and some people are naturally deflated. For example, the current King of Italy, Umberto I, at this time the war has been fought for nearly half a year, and neither the Italian army nor the navy is any longer as heroic as at the beginning of the war. The Navy was better, there was not much loss except for being caught off guard by a bite from Scheer and losing a cruiser and a couple of auxiliary ships, and if the news of the constantly missing Italian transports could be automatically ignored, then the operation would be considered a fruitful ....... At least the opponent was blocked, didn't it?

But the Italian Army is different, so far it is all kinds of sending heads and all kinds of losses, and even an officer of the British Royal Army who came to watch the battle once said ironically that if Turkey and Italy border, then the current Italian palace may be hung with the flag of the Ottoman Sultan! The British, who had been annoyed by the Boers in Boer, found self-confidence here.

"This war cannot go on like this, the offensive of the army must be intensified, and our lines of transport at sea must also be secured, especially the latter, Duke Abu Qilu, I don't care what method you use, find me those two raiding ships that are rampant in the Atlantic! From the beginning of the war to the present, our losses on these two raiding ships alone have amounted to more than 500,000 pounds! Panic has been raised in the country about the government's policies. And the Germans don't want to let go, we can only rely on ourselves! Umberto I said.

"Our current main fleet is divided into three groups, one for the blockade of the Dardanelles, one for the protection of sea lines of communication in the Mediterranean, and one for rearmament in the harbor, and at the beginning the Germans raided our harbor and destroyed two warships that were about to be launched, which overstretched our capital ships, and in order to deal with the fierce prince, we must have at least 3 capital ships! Unless, we can now buy a battleship that can rival the Prince Albert-class armored cruisers! Duke Abqilu said.

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