There is one last country left, Russia! The prince was the last to think about the country because Russia was so important that Germany would fight the British, French, and even Italian fleets in World War I. But there is only one fleet that must be completely destroyed www.biquge.info and this is Russia! Neither the Russian Baltic Fleet nor the Black Sea Fleet must fight to the point that there is not even a slag left! In the future, these two relatively closed seas will become the backyard of the German Navy!

Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, the prince must carefully deduce the impact of this news on the Russian navy once it spreads to Russia, after all, the two sides will see on the battlefield in the future! Russia is a country with more ambition than strength! This is the prince's summary of Russia in this life and in the previous life! The Russians believe only in weapons in their hands and are willing to spend the last ruble in the treasury to arm their army. This can be seen from the huge battleship formations of Russia during the Russo-Japanese War.

And the Russians are also very interested in new things. In 1909, the Russians started construction of four Gangu battleships, using four triple guns in a central layout. In 1911, three other similar Queen Mary-class battleships were built, and in 1913 four Borodino-class battleships (also called Izmail). This Borodino is the name given by Conway. Super Dreadnought, a first-class super-dreadnought with a design speed of 26.5 knots or more and 12 14-inch guns! Russia later spent more money on shipbuilding in individual years than Germany! If it weren't for the seriousness of Russia's internal problems and the poor basic industry, the size of the Russian fleet would have been quite terrible!

Although during the Russo-Japanese War to the start of construction of the first dreadnought, Russia did not start construction of 8 capital ships at once like Japan, but there were 5 ships, three of which were the Three Saints-class quasi-dreadnoughts, in addition to 4 12-inch guns, there were 14 8-inch guns and 12 4.7-inch guns, with a displacement of up to 17,000 tons. If the resources and money for the construction of these ships were converted into dreadnoughts, it would be terrible for the German Navy!

After the middle of World War I, after the battle line pushed through Poland, most of Russia's forces were concentrated on the Baltic coast, and if the Russians wanted to completely defeat them, fighting in the Baltic region was inevitable, and fighting in this region had advantages and disadvantages for Germany, the advantage was that it could obtain supplies by sea transportation when advancing along the coastline, and the disadvantage was that the Russians resisted very fiercely in order to keep the future Belarus and the three Baltic states.

If it wants to go well on the Northern Front, then the Russian Baltic Fleet is among the objects that must be annihilated, first in the Gulf of Riga, and then in the Gulf of Finland! No matter how bad the state of the attack was, the German High Seas Fleet would be stronger in the face of Russian mines, torpedo boats and battleships! This is absolutely not to be backed down!

However, attacking important naval fortresses has always been a very troublesome thing, in history the Germans launched two attacks on the Gulf of Riga, the first time failed, and the second time under the cover of more than a dozen dreadnoughts of the German Navy, won a partial victory, of course, this victory is also thanks to the Russian Navy, because in this battle, all the dreadnoughts of the Russian Navy avoided the battle, and the only capital ship to resist the German fleet was the Glorious, which did not hesitate to chase the water in the stern to increase the elevation angle in order to obtain a larger range! His fighting spirit and will were touching, but in the end, he still destroyed ....... What a tear-jerking story!

If it were not for the internal problems of the Russian Navy, it would have been much more difficult for the German Navy to capture the Gulf of Riga, and if the Russians had a few more dreadnoughts or even super-dreadnoughts, the situation would have been even more troublesome, although according to the memory of the previous life, a revolution would have broken out in Russia at that time, but who could pin the light of victory on the opponent? The so-called leniency of the enemy is what it means!

If you want to land in the Gulf of Riga, you must be aware of the mines on each waterway, and the minesweeper will be attacked by fish boats, shore guns, and battleships, if the defender's firepower is too fierce for the minesweeper to operate, then the attack cannot be launched, and the precious dreadnought cannot be used to enter and hit the mine, right?

So, in general, it doesn't matter if there is one more dreadnought in the British Royal Navy, but if there is one more in the Russian Navy, it will be troublesome, and from this point of view alone, the prince believes that the Russians must not be informed of the construction of dreadnoughts. And to delay the construction of Russian dreadnoughts as much as possible.

"It's better to keep this matter secret for a while, and when the time is right, we can inform the Americans of the relevant information, and it is better for other countries not to know the news." We can even form a tacit understanding with the British. Eventually, the prince wrote in his reply to Wilhelm II.

Of course, all this is just to delay the spread of dreadnoughts, from the point of view of time, this time although the British started the dreadnought earlier, but the construction speed is not fast, but there is no historical level of 14 months to complete the dreadnought, on the one hand, the British are busy with the Boer War at this time There is some pressure on funds, and on the other hand, the British still have doubts about the dreadnought.

Unlike in history, the quasi-dreadnoughts of the British appeared earlier, and they always hovered between all-heavy artillery battleships and second-class main gun battleships, because the latter did not have the same amount of firepower, and the combat effectiveness of large-caliber guns was not so high before the qualitative change of armor-piercing shells (before the appearance of cap-piercing shells). And now they have a chance to test it, because the British battleship Agile has been sold to Italy, and the battle between this battleship and the Prince Albert will be inevitable, and the victory or defeat this time will be directly related to the national strategy of the British Navy in the future!

The British still attached great importance to this confrontation, although this did not mean that the two sides would be directly hostile, but the British still planted a large number of British officers and men on this battleship, and they were not satisfied with the fighting quality of the Italians. And the Italians were willing to let Britain take on "the responsibility of an ally." "So. This can almost be seen as the first encounter between the British Royal Navy and the German High Seas Fleet, but both sides are fighting for other countries!

However, what the British and Germans did not expect was that the first duel between the British Navy and the German Navy warships would come so quickly! Before the Prince's letter could reach the Kaiser, the armored cruiser Prince Albert under the command of Scheer slipped out of the Dardanelles Strait and into the Mediterranean, and this time, the Italian Navy's newly acquired Agile battleship and the cruiser Pizzana also went to sea again. A small, but far-reaching battle is about to break out!

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