"Your Highness, you seem to have been very happy lately. "When Ruprecht entered Sanssouci again, he happened to meet Tirpitz, the Minister of State for the Navy.www.biquge.info The latter greeted the prince very kindly.

"Winning a game makes you feel better after all." The prince said with a smile. And as a close minister of the Kaiser, Tirpitz naturally made a bet with His Majesty the Emperor and this ****.

"I've been happy lately, and it's reassuring to be able to recognize the frailty nature of the country next to me." Tirpitz said with a smile.

In fact, judging from the situation at that time, General Makanov's response and disposition can be scored more than 8 points. Don't judge heroes by success or failure, there are not many people in this world who can do better than him. "To be honest, the prince really didn't expect Makanov to take away 3 Japanese capital ships and more than 2 dozen destroyers and torpedo boats, you must know that in the history of the Battle of Tsushima, Japan suffered a total of 700 casualties, and this time, the Asama and its escort fleet killed more than 1,400 Japanese people!

With such a huge difference in strength, it is really not easy for Makanov to run away. This is different from the Anglo-German fleet in Jutland, the Germans are not far from their bases, and their own strength is relatively strong, while the Russians are different, first of all, they are always tired divisions, there are not enough escort ships, and even not enough coal and ammunition to come. The Japanese intercepted their return route from the beginning, and they still had thousands of nautical miles to go after this battle. It's hellish in difficulty!

The prince was still very careful about Tirpitz's face this time, and in a slightly more remote place, the prince replied to the admiralty. Russia is very weak, but it is absolutely impossible to despise Russia, and even in World War I, when the Russian Baltic Fleet was almost out of proportion to the High Seas Fleet, Russia's mine warfare and submarines still caused great trouble for the German Navy.

"But our worst enemy is the British, isn't it?" Tirpitz sighed: "To be honest, my purpose in building this fleet is not to defeat the British at sea, but just a bargaining chip, a deterrent, and I hope to make the British face up to the strength of the German navy and make concessions." But now it seems that the British chose to respond to the threat by expanding their army. ”

As the hulls of a large number of warships were completed and launched and outfitting began, the British quickly assessed the scale of the new German warships - about 4 to 5 of them, but the specific model was uncertain. The British were shocked and quickly adjusted, and according to German intelligence, the British Parliament passed a new naval expansion bill, and a new batch of warships would be built with 6 to 8 ships, which was almost twice the size of the German fleet estimated by the British.

The British did not hide their actions, they even told the Germans through diplomatic channels that in this new arms race, the British government would definitely not back down! "It is irrational for Germany to try to have a strong force at sea, and it is even more ridiculous to try to blackmail the British Empire in this way. If your country builds one capital ship, then the British Empire will build two, and the British Empire will never back down on the issue of maintaining sea power. The British envoy said to Tirpitz bluntly.

Tirpitz knew that his plan had failed, the so-called risk fleet was, to put it bluntly, a bluffing fleet, if the other party was afraid, then the natural goal was achieved, but if the other party was not afraid, then you had to "educate" the other party with facts, but unfortunately, in the face of the fleet of the British Empire, even Tirpitz did not have the confidence to defeat, and at the same time did not know how to defeat such an enemy! In the prince's opinion, Germany needed a fleet in World War 1, but how to build this fleet, how to use it, and how to hit the British with a sore foot is the key!

"Are you feeling a little lost right now? You know the plans of the British, you know that the British, they will not back down but there is no better way to deal with it, so you want to continue your fleet plan in the hope that in the future the British may succumb? Are you betting on it? You don't even know how sure you are that you might win? His Royal Highness said.

"But you can't defeat the British either, can you? From this point of view, we do not make a difference. The Admiralty Minister said-for-tat.

"The possibility of us destroying the British fleet on the front is very small, but it does not mean that we have nothing to do with the sea power of the British, the British can use the fleet to restrict our use of the sea, and we can also use submarines against the British merchant ships, the war is inherently neat, you put too much emphasis on the confrontation on the main fleet, and I focus on the fundamental interests of the sea - the use of sea lanes, which is our first difference. Submarine warfare is a completely new crisis, a crisis that has never appeared before, and I can't guarantee whether it will work well in the future, but when it first came out, its lethality was enormous. ”

"As for the main fleet, we are also different, how to say it? You are more like a politician, you just think about the relationship between the cost of construction and the quantity, you are concerned about how to build a large fleet with limited funds, and do not consider whether this fleet is suitable to fight the British, and do not consider how to confront it, it is impossible for us to defeat the British, and even say that it can be achieved in time, and the high seas fleet will be exhausted. This outcome would be detrimental to both sides. ”

"The main fleet of my navy is planned to be based on three points: first, this fleet must be able to ensure the safety of the German coast, second, this fleet can help us gain sea supremacy on the Baltic Sea coast and assist the army in combat, and third, this fleet can make the British jealous by attacking the Grand Fleet. Your foothold is to intimidate the British into giving up, and mine is to deplete the British fleet through real actions. ”

"By the way, I have to add one more point, my fleet strength can be very well in line with the national strategy, my plan is to assist the army in combat, submarines forced the British to not get enough resources, this is to help the army, and the confrontation between the fleets is to shake the British war determination, this is also to shake the British war determination, I have a complete and feasible plan, and you don't, you just see the increase in the number of warships, and you don't consider more important strategic issues." Lu Presit **** thought that it was necessary for him to explain to the Admiralty Minister before attending the meeting, and he needed to make the other party think about the problem more realistically and thoroughly.

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