"Scheer, are you looking for me?" Rear Admiral Beinke pushed open the door to the meeting room of the battleship Bavaria, and at this time, he and Reinhardt were the only ones in the huge conference room. The two of them, the overly empty environment and Scheer's serious expression made Beanke feel a little uncomfortable. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Call from the Admiralty, look at it." With that, Scheer sent an open telegram to Beinck.

"Isn't this for you?" Beinke muttered. But I still honestly opened the letter.

"It's a bit of a joke." After reading the telegram, Beinke was a little incredulous. "I admit that the prince fought very well on the Eastern and Western Fronts, and I admit that the warships he designed for us were very good, and it was the honor of an admiral to have a battleship like the Bavaria, but it was ridiculous to have an army general in command of the High Seas Fleet?" Major General Beinke said.

"Prince Ruprecht has the rank of Admiral of the Imperial Navy." Scheer's answer was very calm.

"His Majesty the Emperor and the Generalissimo of the Royal Navy." Beinke tossed the telegram aside.

"He fought naval battles, and he won them, and he won them very beautifully, and he planned the battle against the French." Scheer said.

"But he didn't have a systematic naval education after all." Beinke said.

"Do you mean a diploma from the Naval University?" Scheer looked up at the other man, making Beanck a little hairy.

"Sort of." The rear admiral said with little confidence.

"Do you dare to talk to Hippel like that? He also did not have a diploma from the Naval University, but he was the most successful man in the Imperial Navy. You don't deny it, do you? What you just said was enough for him to duel you. Scheer said half-seriously and half-jokingly.

"You won't agree to let the Bavarian prince command us?" Beanke looked at Scheer in front of him in disbelief and said. "And His Majesty the Emperor can't just hand over command just because you or some people agree, right? That's kind of incredible, isn't it? ”

"I don't know His Majesty's attitude, but I think it's okay to work with this prince. The navy needs an attitude, a spirit, we must dare to challenge the opponent, only in this way, the imperial navy can really become strong, and if we do not fight a war with the former maritime power that is enough to shine in the annals of history, the imperial navy will not be able to rise at all, we lack a spirit, we lack a courage. Especially in this kind of war that determines the fate of the country, we cannot exist as spectators, we must be involved, even if some of us will die, but it is better than sitting in the port! Scheer said in a strange tone.

"In your opinion, His Royal Highness the Prince is a radical?" Beinke said.

"At least he's better than the current fleet commander, you know, I get up every morning and tell myself that I now have the most powerful warship in the world, and I need a battle zone to change the fate of me, my fleet, and my country, but the people above us have been stopping us. We want to break the brutality of children by the British (breaking the blockade). But there is no way to do it, maybe we will fail, but we must at least try. ”

"So I agreed to work with the Prince. I agreed to give him a chance, a chance to command the high seas fleet. Give ourselves a chance, too! After saying that, Scheer stopped looking at Major General Beinke and began to write a reply, and ten minutes later, at the end of the letter, Major General Beinke, who had been hesitating for a long time, also wrote his name.

And almost at the same time, Count Spee, who was far away in Istanbul, also received this telegram. Unlike Scheer, who was eager to break the naval dilemma with the British Grand Fleet, Count Spee analyzed it strategically: "From the present point of view, the most brilliant operation of the Imperial Navy after the start of the war was the operation of two fast battleships led by General Su Xiong in the Indian Ocean, which has proved Prince Ruprecht's mastery of naval problems, and I think that it is much better for the Prince to command the High Seas Fleet to launch a limited offensive in the North Sea than to keep the fleet in port." ”

"If the British really moved their most powerful squadron of battleships to the Indian Ocean, then with the asymmetrical advantage on fast battleships, we could really make a difference in this time, and even more so if we could attack the blockade line at the same time! This plan is a very genius plan, and it is also a very feasible plan. In the telegram, Count Spee wrote.

The last telegram was sent to Fao along with the prince's reminder, and fortunately, at this time, Su Xiong and Raeder did not leave with the fleet, at this time, the two most powerful warships of the German High Seas Fleet in the open sea were making final outfitting preparations, and when Su Xiong received this telegram, the first reaction was to immediately increase the reserves of fuel and various materials! At the same time, remove everything on the battleship and what you don't want to take care of in battle!

"You know Raeder, I've been thinking lately, who the British might send to clean us up, we inflicted tens of thousands of casualties on the British, they have suffered such heavy defeats all too few times since the formation of the Royal Navy, and after Napoleon, the British have never failed at sea, they will not let us go."

"I've been thinking about who the enemy will be in the future and how they will take care of us. How do we defend ourselves, but now, I've finally got some information! Su Xiong raised the telegram and said. And I also found the key point where we avoided this catastrophe! ”

"What do you mean?" Raeder's heart moved, and he also realized the seriousness of the matter.

"First of all, it can only be the Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleships, and only their arrival is the most threatening to us! Evan. Thomas's fleet is more threatening than Betty's Lion, Tiger, and Princess Celestia! Su Xiong said.

"But the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships aren't fast enough to catch up with us. We're not going to fight them, and it's hard for them to keep us as long as we want to go. Raeder said.

"If it's a race, we're not afraid of Thomas. But don't forget, we are fighting with the British in the inland sea of the British Empire, and when they go to the Indian Ocean, they can supply and maintain in Bombay, Calcutta, anywhere, and now the only Allied port that can better maintain these two battleships is Bafao! In this battle of endurance and logistics, we will lose, and we will lose badly! They were like wolves trailing a herd of deer, dragging us to death and eating us after a long chase! ”

"Our enemy is not only Thomas's fleet, mechanical strain, fatigue of personnel, consumption of fuel, will be our mortal enemy, and in this case the British will not have to overpower us at the highest theoretical speed." Major General Su Xiong said.

"So, from this alone, you think that His Royal Highness the Prince is more suitable to command the High Seas Fleet? Are you going to support him? "Raeder, of course, knew about the Admiralty's telegrams. He said in disbelief.

"At such a time, we don't support people who can still think of you and give you valuable advice, who else do we support?" Su Xiong asked rhetorically.

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