The Germans laid mines along the coastline of the British, shelling the harbor These are trivial, the most lethal is the attack on the English Channel, the British also found that their mines seem to be very difficult to use, and if the effect of the mine array is not good, once a large number of submarines and destroyers enter, then the damage to the British and French fleets in the English Channel is too great!

The English Channel is not only a supply of soldiers and equipment for the French battlefield, but more importantly, Britain can provide vital coal for French industry through the English Channel! That's right, you read that right, it's coal, France is also a big European country, before the loss of Alsace and Lorraine, France had enough coal, do you really think that the Germans want Alsace Lorraine for geographical defense and to form an integration with the Ruhr area? Too young, too simple!

What did Sun Tzu say? Because of the food of the enemy! Although France is not rich in coal, the largest and best mined coal mine is in the Alsace region, which is actually an extension of the Saarland mine in Germany. Pen~Fun~Cabinet www.biquge.info The cession of Alsace made French industry completely unable to be self-sufficient, the iron ore mines in Lorraine in Alsace are admittedly an important economic reason, and the complete loss of coal supply to France is also an unavoidable problem, which is why even in the case of Bismarck's opposition, the Kaiser still let France cede this region an important reason!

France's resource predicament can also be seen from a quote by later de Gaulle, "The First World War needed coal, France lacked coal, the Second World War needed oil, and France did not have oil." (Probably this means, don't take it seriously.) ）

France had two main industrial bases in World War I, one was the central Lyon region, where there were some small coal mines nearby, which could naturally partially meet the coal burning needs, and the other was the coastal industrial base, with Dunkirk and Foss as the core, and the latter could easily obtain overseas coal.

Well, well, where did France's coal come from in World War I? Only from the UK! How much do you want to do? From March to August 1917, for example, a total of 8,825 ships sailed between Britain and France to provide coal for the French, and the earliest comprehensive convoy by the British began in the English Channel, which officially began in April 1916. Naturally, the effect was good, and in the period from March to August 1917, only 14 coal carriers were sunk .......

And now, if the Grand Fleet is still in Shetland, how can those old former dreadnoughts in the English Channel be able to hold back the strong onlookers of the High Seas Fleet? It doesn't take a long time for the fleet to be stationed there, opening a gap and putting a bunch of torpedo boats, submarines and mines in it will drive Britain and France crazy! So, in any case, the British fleet had to be stationed in a position where the English Channel could be taken into account, even if the blockade of the North Sea could not be guaranteed! Otherwise, before Germany hangs up, the industry of the French hangs up .......

Jericho, as the commander of the Grand Fleet, did a good job of this, and he could be regarded as losing the car to protect the commander. And in this way, the question of what to do if the big fleet was killed back that the prince was worried about was completely gone, and at this time, Hipper had already gone on a killing spree at the exit of the North Sea, and under the suppression of electronic jamming and absolute superiority of warship technology, Hipper's fleet carried out an unusually smooth slaughter! What is even more surprising is that because Hipper is almost a single ship, even if a ship is sunk, the British think that it was a submarine that hits it, and the auxiliary cruiser has no status ...... in the first place. Now there is a big war going on in the south, so some "unimportant information" will be ignored for the time being!

"There are two more regular warships that may appear in this sea area, namely the British is the 1st Armored Cruiser Detachment, the commander is Rear Admiral Arbath Nott, and has a total of three armored cruisers, namely the Black Prince, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Warrior, and the 2nd Armored Cruiser Detachment, which has a total of 4 armored cruisers, the commander is Rear Admiral Heath, and has the armored cruisers Minotaur, Hampshire, Cochrane and Shannon. Most of the other warships were auxiliary cruisers, and the number of armored cruisers currently on duty would not exceed four. An officer reported to Hipper.

"Very well, it's time for the executioners who slaughtered the women and children of the German Empire to be punished! Send a report to all the troops participating in the war, in this war that is related to the fortunes of the country and the survival of the nation, any mercy and forgiveness is a crime against the empire and the nation! The British have gone beyond the normal needs of war! They aimed their butcher knives at women, children and civilians who had nothing to do with the war! So, they are no longer soldiers, but demons! As for the demons, we can only destroy them completely with sword and fire! Therefore, there will be no mercy, no forgiveness! We don't need captives, all we need is for them to die at sea one by one! After pondering for a moment, Hipper finally gave this order, which would later be known as the prophecy of death in the North Sea!

"From this moment on, war ceased to be a struggle for profit and glory, but completely degenerated into a beastly fight! According to this order, all British auxiliary cruisers carrying out blockade missions in the area from Shetland to Bergen were entangled in an invisible lock, and the German Navy would no longer regard them as war personnel, the only purpose of both sides was to kill their opponents, and there would be no forgiveness for timely surrender or incapacity fighting, and even if conditions permitted, the German Navy would no longer rescue the drowning personnel, on the contrary, they would acquiesce in the massacre of the overboard! ”

From this moment on, the North Sea blockade was full of blood, and the German battleships became like the demons hidden in the deep sea in myths and legends, they devoured lives and souls, and became a group of out-and-out demons, and the 10th cruiser unit of the Royal Navy also began to fight against these demons! Hipper went from a talented naval officer to an out-and-out demon king! He was even more cruel and terrible than the Blood Count Su Xiong! He is the most terrifying demon in the world! An object that must be eradicated! ”

It was written in the war history of the British in later generations. Between the lines, there is a dislike for Hipper and a disdain for this order. But I have to admit that this method of almost killing for the sake of killing did play a certain role! Not only did it allow all the German anti-blockade fleets to free their hands and feet, but more importantly, it left huge psychological pressure on all the British troops involved in the blockade!

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