Chapter 963: The Blockade Line That Exists in Name 1
Yama Prefecture Youpeng, as a big man in Japan, is polite to say that his hands and eyes are all over the sky! Even in the news inside the Navy, he can get it! As he said, this time, the British did find the Japanese Navy, and they had already begun to urge the Japanese Navy to fulfill its previous agreement and send capital ships to the battlefield. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
During this time, although the main force of the German High Seas Fleet did not trouble the British, but the British were also quite uncomfortable, the British high-level finally adopted Jericho's suggestion, and the main force of the Grand Fleet was deployed in Forth Bay to ensure the safety of the English Channel and the British coastal waters.
When the prince was in full swing with his 6 Bavarian and British fast fleets on the Dogle Sandbank, Hipper's battle cruiser formation took N Duo's younger brother to directly perform a relatively clean and thorough sweep of the 10th light cruiser formation performing the blockade mission, and after this battle, the number of auxiliary cruisers that Britain could use for blockade dropped by nearly half!
And this was just the beginning, the heroic Royal Navy officers and men were not intimidated by Hipper's bloody butcher's knife! On the third day after the German battlecruiser detachment withdrew, he continued his career as a "Beihai city manager", but to the surprise of the British, there were still German battlecruisers who dared to stay on the North Sea blockade line, and in one night, two camouflaged cruisers mysteriously disappeared! One of them sent a vague telegram before it sank!
Sink two auxiliary cruisers in one night? The staff officers of the British are not vegetarians, and after presumed the location of the sinking of the two auxiliary cruisers according to intelligence, they thought that it was not easy to find out that it was not easy, because the positions of the two sunken ships were very far apart, and the time interval was only 1 hour, which was a bit too short, if it was a submarine, then there must be at least 10 submarines in this sea area to have such a coincidental thing, this is a matter of probability, the submarine ambushed the auxiliary cruiser, it was almost by luck.
Of course, there may also be suspicions of German auxiliary cruisers, but in any case, the British Royal Navy cannot sit idly by, and after suffering heavy losses, it should be more and more courageous, so the Royal Navy once again sent 6 auxiliary cruisers and some ships with anti-submarine capabilities to strengthen the entire blockade line, and by this time, the inventory in the hands of the British 10th cruiser detachment was almost exhausted! If it is lost again, then it will have to be rebuilt.
However, it was precisely because of this slightly hasty action that the British blockade line was finally shattered! In one night, the battlecruiser Cedritz, which was dormant in the North Sea, took out 6 auxiliary cruisers and small boats in a row! There is no need to look for the battlecruiser Cedritz, the British did not realize what kind of opponent they were going to meet, they did not implement light control at all, and for the sake of anti-submarine, they took care of each other, most of them were 2 ships acting together! At night in the North Sea, the British auxiliary cruisers, which did not implement light control, were tantamount to selling their heads in the eyes of the Germans!
Every exchange of fire is very short, when the British see this more than 200 meters long "large cruise ship" after naturally going to check the water meter, the camouflage can not be seen from a long distance, and by the time you can see clearly, it is too late! NOT TO MENTION THE POWERFUL 350MM HEAVY GUNS THAT CAN PENETRATE THE QUEEN'S ARMOR, THE FIREPOWER OF THE 8 150MM SECONDARY GUNS AND 88MM ANTI-LIGHTNING GUNS ON THE SIDE IS NOT SOMETHING THAT THE AUXILIARY CRUISERS CAN WITHSTAND, AND THE BATTLE GENERALLY DOES NOT LAST MORE THAN 15 MINUTES, AND THE GERMANS ARE NATURALLY NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING HELP TO THE PERSONNEL OF THE AUXILIARY CRUISERS OVERBOARD, AFTER THE BRITISH BROKE THE "RULES" WITH CAMOUFLAGE SUBMARINE HUNTING SHIPS, THE LAST BIT OF "TRUST" BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES DISAPPEARED. For such an irregular confrontation of ships, the German battleships only had to kill and bury!
And suddenly there was such a big thing, the British Royal Navy was shocked, and the next day Jericho also wilted after receiving the report, and this is not over! Although the Cedritz was killed, it also left a criminal record. The British finally realized that there was still a German fleet dangling near the North Sea blockade. And eighty percent is a big ship, and then Jericho is depressed, what should I do about this? Not to mention the heavy losses of his fast fleet, all those who survived were wounded, and they needed to lie in the dock for repairs ranging from 3 weeks to 3 months. Where are you going to find fast warships to hunt down these things?
"Don't we still have 2 Queen-class fast battleships?" When Jericho approached Fisher to report the issue, the latter asked. Then Jericho looked at each other with a rather strange look. New thoughts, Fisher has also worked in the first-line fleet, has his tactical level fallen below the passing line after being a civilian official for more than ten years? "The two wounded Queen-class fast battleships will need at least two and a half months to repair, while the other two battleships will have to maintain pressure on the Su-Xiong fleet in the Indian Ocean until they have new forces to take over,"
Leaving the front line for a long time has indeed made Fisher's level decline, but the most important problem is that the maintenance of the North Sea blockade line is too important for the Entente, Germany with or without foreign aid is definitely two concepts, some time ago, Germany with blocked materials can beat Britain, France and Russia a little miserably, if the North Sea blockade line collapses, even if it is only for a period of time, with the influx of a large number of materials, Germany's war potential will inevitably explode! This is something that Britain absolutely does not want to see! So Fisher wanted to get rid of the German battlecruiser that was dangling near the blockade line as soon as possible!
However, everything needs to be taken into account objective reality, not just what you want, and now the British really can't draw a battleship that can handle a fast battlecruiser.
"Think of a way, this problem has to be solved." Fisher said.
"How do I solve it?" Jericho muttered to himself, but then, he sent a detachment of battleships to try to take out the Cedritz. The North Sea was so big, it was still possible to find it, and then the British watched as the Cedritz entered the depths of the Norwegian Sea with a burst of small cannons....... No way, the speed is worse by more than 5 knots! I can't catch up at all.
And that's not the worst of it, after 2 weeks, when the British battleships again encountered the German capital ships near the North Sea blockade, the two British battleships were surprised to find that the opponents were actually two German battlecruisers!
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