It is human nature to show off, just as men will show off their wealth and status, women will show off their jewelry and looks, and a warrior who has just won a big victory will naturally use the fastest way to inform his comrades, how can there be a saying? If you don't return to your hometown, it is equivalent to a night trip in brocade. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info You won the battle, don't tell the above, how can people give you a salary increase! Think of the telegram that Lüthorns sent to the German Admiralty after he killed Hood in the Danish Sea. (4,000 words) And immediately after the triumphant escape of the UB-12 submarine, Captain Lerch sent this information on the radio, and said that he must have severely damaged at least one of the main French battleships!

The signal traveled at the speed of light and arrived at the main base of the Austro-Hungarian fleet in Bora in an instant, and the Allied Mediterranean Fleet in Constantinople also received the news, and at 8 o'clock the next morning, the prince who had just gotten up learned of it.

"Very good, very good! This captain's record is enough to go down in history! After carefully reading the telegram several times, the prince said excitedly. Although it was only a dreadnought that was temporarily removed from the battle sequence, it caused great confusion to the French, if they planned to save the ship, then they would definitely send troops to escort it, Alexandria may not be able to repair such battle damage, then, they can only go to Italy or mainland France, there is an Austro-Hungarian fleet in the Adriatic Sea, and their escort forces must not be less. So....... ”

For a moment, the prince thought of the most likely scenario in which this matter might lead.

"But if the French endure and let that capital ship run aground in port like this, then what will we do?" Tirpitz on the side said that generally speaking, if the battleship is damaged, it does need to be repaired quickly, but if the conditions do not allow or are not suitable, it is okay to put it away temporarily. There is no shortage of such things in history, for example, after the Goben was mined, it was repaired in Sevastopol more than a year later, and Richelieu was also severely damaged in the battle of Dakar in World War 2, and the power was seriously damaged, and it took a long time to go to the United States for repairs.

This time Tirpitz was right, although the French lost one capital ship, the number of dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts was still 7! There were also a large number of Dandong and armored cruisers. In terms of stubborn capability, it still stabilizes the Mediterranean Fleet of the Allies. At the same time, the entire blockade can be maintained. And soon the Japanese fleet will come, and when they arrive, won't the French fleet repair the damaged battleships? Why rush for a while?

"It makes sense, the French are very likely to do this, although the UB-12 submarine is doing a good job, but it is really impossible to pry the French blockade line with a single attack, but what if we continue to attack or harass?" The prince asked rhetorically.

"That's not going to work, where is the overall number of the opposing fleet?" Tirpitz said.

"Watch the telegram! The UB-12 submarine had laid dozens of mines before it was evacuated. The captain emphasized that the channel in the harbor is very narrow, and these mines are very threatening to ships entering and leaving the port, even if the French are very lucky, they find mines, and carry out demining operations, and not a single battleship is lost, then it will also take a while, maybe a few days, and the French fleet is divided into multiple deployments, and in the case that the main force of the French navy in this port cannot get out, even if the fleet of the Count of Spee cannot take out another French fleet, it is enough to cause certain casualties, If the Austro-Hungarian fleet cooperates at this time, it may not be able to force the French to temporarily abandon the blockade! The prince said with some dissatisfaction.

To say that it is a pure dream to use this opportunity to completely push off the French fleet, but it is possible to keep the French trapped in Crete and no longer maintain the blockade line, and the most successful thing about the UB-12 submarine is that in addition to damaging a capital ship, more importantly, it temporarily delays the pace of the French fleet with mines. There were not enough mobile forces for the French to mobilize, and they could not have gone too far to protect the damaged ships in the harbor.

Castelly was not a military port in the first place, so naturally it was impossible to have fortifications such as batteries, and if the French fleet went out to act, what if the fleet of Count Spee, which had been killed from the Dardanelles, bombarded the port indiscriminately? You know, the wounded battleship could not move at all, and the problem of observation could be completely solved with a seaplane, and with the help of a seaplane to hit a fixed target, it was not too simple! To say that let the French just throw away this battleship? It's not a good decision! So, they had to leave a sufficiently strong fleet here. And if the fleet is crucified after Crete, then the Austro-Hungarian fleet can switch positions and enter the Aegean Sea, and then join the Spey fleet. To some extent, maintaining the blockade line and protecting capital ships damaged in port is a contradictory topic.

What's more, even if this problem is solved, the Allied fleet still has a fleeting opportunity!

"Let's go to the conference room, where there's a sandbox from Crete." Without further ado, the prince turned to leave, while Tirpitz and Admiral Rolls followed.

"If your maps and intelligence are not wrong, then we can be sure that the waterway in Castelly is probably not wide, you come here, the French have deployed obstacles and minefields on both sides of the waterway, directly blocking most of the passage, and if the UB-12 submarine lays mines here, then it is almost certain that in the absence of minesweeping, there will definitely be a ship mine, and if we are lucky, then a damaged battleship will sink here, which will directly block the channel for the French fleet to leave the port." The prince made a few taps with a putter at several points in the fairway.

"Then the French had no choice but to clear the previous minefield or be blocked in the harbor. And whatever is done, the French will need time, and during this time the French fleet of Castelli has been temporarily eliminated! If Count Spee acts, he will definitely make a difference. The prince said.

"But do you think Count Spee will act? This information is only the word of a certain captain, and for the sake of this ambiguous information, we are going to put the fleet in danger! This is reckless, even irresponsible. Tirpitz was a little unhappy with what the prince had said. He always thought that it was too imprudent to act simply on the side of a submarine captain.

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