Compared to the sneaky blockade of the Germans with submarines, it was much more convenient for the British to do. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info The British Grand Fleet is deployed in the Orkney Islands, and the distance between the Orkney Islands and Shetlands, as well as the Norwegian coastline, constitutes the entire entrance to the North Sea. The distance between the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands is about 67 kilometres. The straight-line distance between the Shetland Islands and the Norwegian coastline is about 167 kilometres. Theoretically, as long as the British Royal Navy could control these two areas, which were less than 240 kilometers in length, it could completely cut off Germany's access to supplies from the direction of the North Sea.

And the British actually did just that, and the distance between the Orkney and Shetland Islands was nothing for a large fleet. What is really difficult is the 167-kilometre-wide sea to the east. And for this area, it is really impossible for the British to use the Grand Fleet to hang around all day, after all, the Grand Fleet has to ensure that it conducts suppressive cruises in the North Sea twice a week, and it is a huge consumption for a million-ton warship to go out and walk around.

So the British used armored cruisers, light cruisers and auxiliary cruisers to carry out a cruising blockade in this area, and divided it into 7 different cruising areas. And in fact, although it cannot be said that every ship will be inspected. But in general, most ships still had to get permission from the British to go out.

But in reality, the blockade was far from simple, because Norway itself was a neutral country, and Germany did alleviate the shortage of resources by importing iron ore and other materials from Norway in history. In order to ensure the blockade of Norway, the British also deployed the 10th Cruiser Squadron in the vast Norwegian Sea to inspect merchant ships bound for Norway.

If this task is to be carried out, it is necessary to send boarding teams and armed personnel to board the ship. After all, they are neutral merchant ships, and it is definitely not okay to fire directly if they disagree.

As for these two blockade lines, the German High Seas Fleet has no intention of immediately sending the main fleet in a short period of time, after all, the British are very strict about the German ports in the North Sea, they also have submarines, and the Harwich fleet arrives close to reconnoiter from time to time. Admiral Pol, like Jericho, is a ...... of people who can lose a war in one afternoon.

And for this situation, Prince Ruprecht and the German Admiralty also have a plan, but it still needs to wait for an opportunity. The seeds have been planted, just waiting for them to blossom and bear fruit! Prior to this, the German High Seas Fleet had decided to send submarines and auxiliary cruisers to break diplomatic relations and, if conditions permitted, to hunt down the British auxiliary cruisers.

"I wish our warriors a safe journey." An officer sent the telegram to Major Nagel, who was sailing with his raider, the Seawolf, toward the northern exit of the North Sea. At Ruprecht's insistence, the officer, who had served on a light cruiser, was assigned to the camouflage assault fleet. This historic raid captain is back in the field!

The prince was still very interesting, and under his care, an assault ship called the Seawolf was completed before the war, although the tonnage of this battleship was not large, and the displacement was only 6,500 tons. Outwardly, it was not much different from an ordinary merchant ship, but in reality, the firepower, speed, and defense were designed exactly according to the standards of a second-class protected cruiser of the pre-dreadnought period. Two 150mm guns were hidden under the false deck. There were also four other 150mm guns on the sides of the hull, as well as four 105mm guns and other small-caliber guns, as well as four 500mm torpedo tubes, so that the battleship had a terrifying one-sided firepower of seven 150mm guns and two 105mm guns.

It is impossible for such a battleship to be equipped with armor belts, but it has a layer of dome armor with a thickness of 3 to 2 inches to protect the core cabin, and the gun emplacements also have a certain amount of protection, which can theoretically fight with light cruisers. And the speed is also very good, although it is still a steam engine, but the kerosene mixed boiler is quite powerful, the maximum speed is about 22 knots, theoretically except for the blue ribbon (high-speed cruise ship) can not run, most of the other civilian ships can run through, combat effectiveness can crush all the Entente auxiliary cruisers converted with civilian ships. As for not being able to beat the light cruisers, there is no way to do it....... This thing is a bit ruthless.

Every camouflaged cruiser is precious. After all, a ship of more than 6,000 tons and hundreds of naval officers and sailors, and in order to ensure that the Seawolf can safely enter the high seas, the German Navy even arranged 3 submarines to accompany this camouflaged cruiser from the direction of the North Sea, and it turns out that the cooperation between the auxiliary cruiser and the submarine is still very good!

The first choice of camouflage attack ships flying the flag of a neutral country, and even the appearance is very similar to a neutral country steamer, the Germans have to think twice about attacking neutral country merchant ships with submarines, so the British naturally cannot be bombarded when facing suspicious ships. In order to confirm the identity of the other party, the British had to board the ship for inspection.

If the opponent is an auxiliary cruiser to intercept, then the Seawolf can even rely on high speed to get away. But if the other party is a light cruiser or an armored cruiser, these are also running fast ships, it will be difficult to do, catching up is almost certain, in this case, if you are caught up, and then the other party boards the ship, your own battleship identity will be exposed, at this time generally speaking, German battleships can only use torpedoes to fight to the death, and such a thing is not no one has ever done, the German attack ship Leopard in the history of World War 1 is because of the desperate fight to lose .......

But now the situation is different, the so-called open guns are easy to dodge and hidden arrows are difficult to prevent, in any case, when the opposing armored cruiser is close to preparing to board, the speed will definitely come down, and if at this time, there are submarines accompanying the attacking ships in this sea area, then the situation is different, camouflaged attack ships can even use themselves as bait to create opportunities for submarine attacks. And this time, Major Nagel took 3 submarines! Even if you really run into an armored cruiser, and when the other side tries to get closer, 3 submarines suddenly attack, if you still can't hit, then God really let you finish, you have to finish .......

As for how the submarine keeps up with the attack ship, it is naturally on the surface to keep up! It is actually easy for a submarine to run at a high speed of more than 16 knots on the water, and in the cruising state, the submarine and the camouflaged assault ship can go together at all. As for what to do if the submarine was spotted on the surface? The Germans also thought of a way.

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