On January 13, 1921, the day after the League of Nations announced its armed intervention in the United States, the International Coalition was formed.

Since there are so many countries involved, it is naturally impossible to gather all of them together and attack the Americans again!

The two oceanic countries are both an advantage and a disadvantage for the United States, and this time they will not have a good time when they are attacked by enemies from two directions at the same time.

The British Royal Navy was divided into two, the Indian Ocean Fleet, the Far East Fleet, and the Pacific Fleet, Japan, Austria-Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and other countries formed a coalition to march towards the United States from the Pacific direction.

The Mediterranean Fleet, the Home Fleet, and the Atlantic Fleet launched an attack on the Americans from the Atlantic Ocean, along with Bulgaria, France, Russia, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and other countries.

Don't look at Nicholas II is busy with the civil war, but they still have to participate in such international events, anyway, the civil war has nothing to do with the navy, how can the Baltic Fleet of the woolly bear also be among the top ten navies in the world, and it is still okay to make up the numbers.

In return, Britain, France, and Bulgaria each provided Nicholas II with a free amount of arms, and also had to bear the cost of their naval contributions.

Nicholas II would not admit that he was almost unable to maintain a navy, but in fact he did, and before the Russian navy sent its warships to the French shipyards for upgrades.

This was strongly requested by the governments of the three countries, and it was obvious that it was not only Ferdinand who knew that there was a problem with the Mao Bear Navy, but Britain and France were also very clear, and the unqualified and inferior warships were kicked out in advance.

Well, at the same time there are warships of other small countries that are being taken care of, and this time the three bosses are very generous, and they are overhauled for free, and the old warships are not used directly.

For the sake of insurance, this time everyone is also hard enough, the capital ships of the Bulgarian Navy poured out, basically within twenty years, all the warships with a tonnage of more than 5,000 were sent out by Ferdinand.

The French were also the main force, and the British, because of their large number of ships, also left behind some old warships to fight piracy.

Britain, France, and Bulgaria all came out with their main forces, and other countries naturally couldn't let it go, either coerced or lured, anyway, the main fleets of all countries were pulled over, including the Republic of China Navy.

So in the end, the total size of the coalition's navy also forced the historical record.

Pacific Fleet: 32 capital ships (dreadnoughts or super-dreadnoughts), 13 battle cruisers, 16 front dreadnoughts, 38 cruisers, 92 destroyers, and more than 200 other warships.

The capital ships consisted of 19 ships of the British, 10 of the Japanese, and 3 of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Atlantic Fleet: 33 capital ships, 8 battle cruisers, 21 former dreadnoughts, 51 cruisers, 86 destroyers, and more than 200 other warships.

The capital ships consisted of 15 ships of the British, 8 of the Bulgarians (5 of their own construction, 1 of the captured Italians, 1 of the semi-finished slipways of the Italian slipway, and 1 of the post-war partition), 6 of the French, and 4 of the Russians.

Of course, the US Navy of this period was not weak, they had 28 capital ships, 8 battle cruisers, 38 cruisers, 68 destroyers.

In March 1916, President Wilson delivered a speech in St. Louis calling for a navy capable of guaranteeing U.S. supremacy at sea. Accordingly, the U.S. government proposed several shipbuilding plans.

On August 29, 1916, the U.S. Congress passed the first three-year shipbuilding plan, stipulating the construction of 147 warships, including 16 capital ships, 8 battle cruisers, and 50 destroyers; After the completion of the plan, the US Navy will be able to reach parity with the British.

Of course, the Americans' shipbuilding plan has not yet had time to complete, but these warships are already on the slipway, which is why the British are in a hurry to push for this decisive battle.

If we don't wait until after 1924, the U.S. Navy will have to stand on top of the British, and it will be difficult to suppress them at that time.

Don't look at the show, the U.S. Navy seems to have the strength to fight, but it can fight in the face of a fleet, but the actual situation is that unless the U.S. Navy can be doubled, they will be at an absolute disadvantage in this battle!

The reason is that the gap between ships and ships is not so easy to make up, the shipbuilding industry of the Americans is developed, and it is not enough to refer only to the scale, not the quality.

So their dreadnoughts, especially the first generations, of course, by 1921, the Americans had caught up with their shipbuilding technology, and they were not much worse than the European countries.

4 South Carolina-class battleships

Displacement: standard 16,000 tons, full load 17,746 tons

Length/Width/Draught (ft): 452.9'/80.25'/27.1' (Max).

Power: 12 boilers;

Main engine output: 16,500 hp;

Speed: 18.5 knots;

Endurance: 5,000 nm / 10 knots

Armament: 4-seater twin 305 mm/45

double-caliber main guns; 22 secondary guns of 76 mm caliber

Armor (inches): waterline 11"-9";

Deck 1.5"-3";

Turret frontal 12", conning tower 12"

Crew: 863 people

2 South Carolina-class battleships

Main engine output: 16,500 hp;

Speed: 18.5 knots;

Endurance: 5,000 nm / 10 knots

Armament: 8-door twin 305 mm/45

double-caliber main guns; 22 secondary guns of 76 mm caliber

Armor (inches): waterline 11"-9"; Deck 1.5"-3";

Turret frontal 12", conning tower 12"

Crew: 863 people

Delaware-class battleship

Length/Width/Draught (ft): 518.9'/85.23'/27.65'

power plant 14 boilers;

Main engine output: 31635 horsepower;

Speed: 21 knots;

Range (knots): 6,560/10

Main guns: 10 twin 305 mm/45 x caliber guns;

Secondary guns: 14 127-mm guns, 6 76-mm guns

Armor (inches): waterline 11"-9";

Deck 1.5"-3";

Turret frontal 12",

Commander Tower 11.5"

Crew: 933 people

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Historically, these early warships were decommissioned after the Washington Conference, and in 1924, one of them was forced to be decommissioned early in 1921 due to quality problems.

It can be said that most of the "dumplings" that the Americans served in 1910 were inferior products used to fill the number, and accumulating technology and training designers may be the real purpose of the Americans.

Therefore, Ferdinand was still very optimistic about this war, and the worst outcome was nothing more than the Americans concentrating their forces to defeat the allied Atlantic Fleet, and the Bulgarian Navy suffered heavy losses.

And the Pacific Fleet marched in triumphant, directly completed the blockade of the American coast, covered the landing of large armies, and then won the war and dismembered the United States.

As for whether it is possible for the Americans to open up, for example, to use the air force to sneak attack the fleet and win the war by inflicting heavy losses on the coalition forces, Bulgaria, as the first air force power of our time, can say very clearly: it does not exist!

The main reason is that the flight speed of the planes in this era is difficult to control, the hit rate of bombs is too low, and the prepared fleet is also equipped with anti-aircraft firepower, unless the Americans can come up with a "kamikaze special attack team" in advance.

The Americans only need a few thousand death squads, and they will probably be able to inflict heavy damage on the coalition fleet and get a chance to end the war with dignity.

It's not that Ferdinand underestimated the Americans, the death squad may be easy to find, but if you want to find a few thousand death squad pilots, Japan or Bulgaria, a nationalist fanatic, may still be able to make it up, and the free country should not think about it.

The chances of success of this suicide attack were not as high as ordinary people guessed, and the Japanese had only a 5 percent hit rate that year, and it was the first attack that had the best effect.

It's equivalent to exchanging twenty planes for a warship, and it's just hitting, not sinking! Usually this kind of attack is also picked up by destroyers and cruisers, and the chance of being hit by the capital ship is not very large!

In addition to the navy that poured out of the nest, Bulgaria also dispatched 30,000 air forces and 350,000 land forces, and the total strength of the navy has been as high as 460,000!

The total number of troops is only more than that of Japan, which has the largest number of troops, and the British Commonwealth, and slightly more than the French!

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