If you want to make a battle plan, then you must first find out the situation of the fleets of both sides! And now, after synthesizing the basic information of the Allied Mediterranean Fleet, the Austro-Hungarian Fleet, and the Entente fleet sent by Tirpitz and others, a general framework has appeared in the prince's mind. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The first was the 4 ultra-dreadnought battleships of the Allied Combined Fleet, which were almost all based on the German Helgrand-class fast battleships. They were the Austro-Hungarian Tesghof and Prinz Eugen, and the Sultan Ottoman I and Reshadiye, which the Ottoman Turkish Empire ordered from Germany. At the same time there were two Mainz-class armored cruisers gifted from Germany, where, of course, these two cruisers were named Redbeard Haireddin and Amitye by the Turks. and a number of light cruisers and destroyers. Among them, all warships of more than 1000 tons add up to no more than 20.

And Austria-Hungary, stranded in the Adriatic Sea, also had two super-dreadnought battleships, namely the United Forces and the St. István. As well as 3 quasi-dreadnoughts, or dreadnoughts, this is the Radetz-class battleship, Austria-Hungary finally chose the scheme with larger guns instead of the Mainz-class armored cruisers recommended by the prince, but unlike the historical Radetz-class pre-dreadnoughts, the 4 twin 240MM guns in the four corners became 4 single-mounted 12-inch guns. In addition to this, there was an Austro-Hungarian version of "Mainz" with a steam turbine, as well as a number of light cruisers and a large number of destroyers.

Of course, in order to break diplomatic relations, Austria-Hungary also had a large submarine force, with a total of 2 groups, each with 3 squadrons, and a squadron of 4 to 6 submarines. At present, there are about 32 submarines connected to the training program.

And the French fleet they had to face was much stronger. In terms of capital ships, the current French fleet has 4 Brestani-class super-dreadnought battleships (including 2 provided by Italy), as well as 4 Lone class dreadnought-class battleships. Another Brestani-class battleship is under construction. Judging purely by the combat effectiveness of the dreadnought-class battleships, the French fleet was stronger than either of the two Allied fleets. But it's better to join forces.

However, not every battlefield is as high as in the North Sea Battlefield, and the dreadnought ships have no human rights. The two sides in the Mediterranean still have to pull forward the dreadnoughts to fight! And the French have a huge advantage in front of the dreadnought!

Are 6 Dandong-class battleships afraid? SIMILAR TO THE RADETZ-CLASS BATTLESHIPS OF THIS DIMENSION, THREE OF THE SIX DANTON-CLASS BATTLESHIPS RECEIVED SIMILAR IMPROVEMENTS, WITH SIX TWIN 240MM HEAVY GUNS ON THE SIDE CHORD REPLACED BY SIX SINGLE-MOUNTED 12-INCH GUNS. This turned their sidestring fire into seven 12-inch gun ....... These 6 quasi-dreadnoughts (dreadnoughts) formed the third French battleship detachment in the Mediterranean.

In addition, the remaining 6 usable ex-dreadnoughts formed the 4th Battleship Detachment. In this way, the French Mediterranean Fleet concentrated up to 12 ex-dreadnoughts! Judging from this number alone, it has firmly suppressed the Allied fleet at this level. When the French dreadnoughts and the Allied dreadnoughts were firing at each other, and the latter had no time to take care of them, these former dreadnoughts went up, which was also quite terrifying!

And in addition to the former dreadnoughts, which are several times more powerful, the French fleet also has nearly 20 armored cruisers of the 10,000-ton class! And 12 of the best of them were deployed in the Mediterranean Fleet! And on the side of the Allies, there are only three armored cruisers, although the latter has better performance, but no matter how powerful you are, you can't fight 4 in 1, right?!

And next to these battleships and cruisers were at least 6 destroyer detachments, 6 destroyers each, a full 36 destroyers two streets away from the Allied fleet! And people can also get reinforcements. On the side of the Allies, the destroyers built by Austria-Hungary could not go out, and the destroyers built by Turkey also needed to buy German power systems. And the construction speed is too slow.......

In the case of a very inferior force, the Allied fleet was scattered in 2 places, and at the same time, everyone was crowded in the very crowded Eastern Mediterranean! The French fleet also acquired the island of Malta and Alexandria as its backbones, and several other ports as a cluster of maritime bases for the network. Both the military strength and the geographical advantage occupy a considerable advantage.

If it weren't for the fact that the last combined-force-class super-dreadnought, the St. István, had just been commissioned, the situation at sea on both sides would have been even worse! It would be difficult to gain an advantage by relying on guerrilla tactics similar to those practiced by the prince in the North Sea, because the eastern Mediterranean is too small, too calm, and the weather is too good....... So the daytime sortie will almost be detected, and if it goes far, once the French Navy blocks the west entrance of the Dardanelles, the Spee fleet will not be able to go back, and then 4 super dreadnoughts will fight people, 4 super dreadnoughts and 4 dreadnoughts will be purely overthought .......

Austria-Hungary is even more out of the way, and if you want to enter the Mediterranean, you must first pass through the Strait of Otranto in the southern Adriatic Sea, which is only 75 km at its narrowest point. It was very easy to monitor, and because Italy was inclined to the Entente, the French navy had eyeliners on the Italian side of the Adriatic, which made the movement of the Austro-Hungarian fleet even more difficult. On the whole, the situation of Count Spee's fleet is dire, which is why the surface battlefield in the Mediterranean is still a pool of stagnant water when there is big news in the North Sea and the Indian Ocean!

However, compared with the situation when the surface fleet was helpless, the Allied underwater fleet did a great deal of killing, and in terms of substance, the French navy was far worse than the British Empire! The British were caught off guard by the attacks of the German wolf packs, so the French could only be worse in the face of the blows of Austria-Hungary and the Allied submarine forces based in the Dardanelles!

In this plane, although many German submarines have not traveled far into the ocean to fight in the Mediterranean, relying on the Austro-Hungarian Navy and more than three dozen submarines deployed in Turkey, in the first month after the start of the war, the Allied Mediterranean submarine formation sank 38 ships of various types, with a total tonnage of 120,000 tons! And then in the following months, it climbed again, and last month, under the blows of torpedoes, artillery and mines laid by dozens of submarines, a whole 102 ships of various types, with a total tonnage of 250,000 tons, were sunk! And under the constant blow of submarine warfare, the French fleet is not much of a deal, but the transport fleet is frightened!

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