"You have more money than Tirpitz. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info It looks like we're going to increase our budget again. The Kaiser said half-seriously and half-jokingly, 100 submarines, of which more than 60% are large submarines.

"But it's a must, it's the key to winning this war, and the Kingdom of Bavaria can even build its own fleet of 12 submarines and put it under the command of the High Seas Fleet." The significance of submarines is huge, even more than the main fleet, so even if Germany is unwilling to do it, the **** would rather pay for it himself to get the submarine fleet out! And according to the unspoken rules between kingdoms, since Bavaria is going to have its own submarine formation, Prussia must always express it, right?

What's more, although 12 submarines seem like a lot, but the tonnage is small, if you use a 700-ton one, it is only a total tonnage of 8,400 tons, and the cost of two 5,000-ton light cruisers will not exceed 800,000 pounds. The prince thought to himself.

"Admiral Liao Le, do you have any opinions?" The emperor looked at Feng on the side again. Admiral Liao Le.

"This is a brand-new way of fighting, and the combat effectiveness should be good, after all, there is no technology that can effectively restrain submarines, and I believe that His Royal Highness Ruprecht **** and Admiral Boll can develop a very good submarine warfare system." Admiral Liao Le first affirmed the work of **** and Admiral Pol, and then continued.

"But I'm worried about whether the system will face some legal or moral problems. For example, what should we do if the British hire neutral ships to transport supplies for them? To fight or not to fight? What if this leads to resentment or even interference from other countries? Well, to put it more plainly, if we find American transport ships in wartime, then do we attack them? "Admiral Liao Le asked a very sharp but very real question!

"Good, nice angle!" In my heart, I gave a thumbs up to Admiral Liao Le, who was right, the biggest problem of submarine warfare in World War 1 was not the counterattack of the British, nor the escort, but because of various political problems caused by unrestricted submarine warfare, sinking two transport ships was not a big deal. There is going to be a problem with sinking the passenger liner! What's more, for this situation, **** itself does not have a very good way to deal with it.

If you hit a neutral country's transport ship, it may lead to an overreaction from some countries, of course, not to mention the reaction of small countries, no matter how much you jump, you can't do anything to Germany. But the big powers, for example, the United States is different, although Britain and the United States have become enemies in this plane, but if, according to the profit-seeking nature of the capitalists, once the war starts, there will definitely be American ships to transport supplies to the British, then well, for these ships, Germany will fight or not? Hit? What if the United States enters the war? If you don't fight? Then the naval blockade of the British would have a huge hole.

Not even to mention the merchant ships of neutral countries, even the transport ships of hostile countries will lead to great criticism. After all, at the time of World War I, the countries did not have the idea of total warfare, and they thought that they were in the hotbed of the civilized era. This kind of naked killing of civilians is still relatively unacceptable to most Europeans and North Americans, of course, if it is concerned, the British blockade is actually more threatening, but it is not so bloody on the surface, and the Americans have asked Britain to relax the blockade of Germany in the early days of the war. Therefore, public opinion in this era is the biggest problem in submarine warfare.

Of course, at the very beginning, there were requirements for submarines to attack merchant ships, they first had to warn the transport ship, and give the crew time to transfer, and even verify the relevant documents on the merchant ship, and confirm the safety of personnel before attacking, which was the law of war at that time for submarines to attack merchant ships, but even a person who does not understand the navy knows that this is a very dangerous thing, floating on the sea for a long time, and then a torpedo or even a few shells can be solved, to ink for a long time, God knows, there are no destroyers of the British around. So from the very beginning, the submarine forces demanded to attack without warning.

And what's even worse is that many merchant ships in the 1st World War are equipped with artillery, don't say that you float up to warn the other party before launching an attack, if you dare to float up to someone, and then stand against the opponent, you may not be able to beat the opponent! At this time, it was naturally impossible to enforce the so-called laws of war. Just sneak up and take it away with a torpedo, so what's the rest? What's more, in the later period, the British also specially developed a camouflage submarine hunting ship, and specially used this method of war to hunt submarines, which was often called Q ship in later generations.

Therefore, it is impossible to carry out the mission in accordance with the provisions of the laws of war, because it is not realistic, and more importantly, the blockade of the British has already broken the laws of war, and if the British cannot destroy it, Germany must abide by it, right? Did the US imperialists consider international law when they used cluster bombs or white phosphorus bombs in the future? Apparently not.

Of course, if it is certain that the United States will not enter the war, the prince will definitely support unrestricted submarine warfare and will not engage in any reminder. But the key problem is that no one can determine the direction of American public opinion and politics, and the prince can only say that now the US imperialists are inclined to Germany, and if they really fight, especially when Germany wins on the Eastern Front, what will the Americans decide? No one can say for sure.

"What I personally mean is that submarines carrying out missions close to the British mainland do not need warnings, because the battlefield situation does not allow it, and most of them are British ships. Submarines carrying out diplomatic missions in the Atlantic Ocean should warn them to be cautious when attacking passenger liners. Neutral ships bound for Britain could attack, but as many casualties as possible avoided. **** thought about it and said.

"That's acceptable. But I am worried about whether such demands will be implemented once the war starts. Tirpitz thought for a moment and said. In fact, in history, the German top brassips still had a lot of scruples about unrestricted submarine warfare, and even at the beginning, submarine warfare was mostly carried out in the North Sea and near Britain, and was not carried out in the Atlantic, and because of the protests of the US government and many times, even because of the submarine warfare issue, on March 15, 1916, Field Marshal Tirpitz was dismissed because he wanted to resume submarine warfare.

It was only after Ludendorff took full power that unrestricted submarine warfare really began. Submarine warfare is a sharp sword, but at the same time it is politically risky. And this needs to be well grasped, as well as public relations and diplomatic work. The prince has not yet thought about this, so he can only give an ambiguous answer first.

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