Chapter 1107: Countermeasures

"Your Royal Highness, due to time constraints, we have not prepared a ceremony for you to transfer rights in accordance with the rules and your identity, I hope you can forgive me. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info "von. Admiral Pol said first. By order of the Kaiser, when Prince Ruprecht arrived in Wilhelmshaven, the command of the High Seas Fleet was transferred directly to the prince. At this time, the German fleet was rapidly assembling and von Fergu, who had been in charge of the transfer. Admiral Boll naturally didn't have time to prepare a welcoming ceremony for the prince or anything.

"It's nothing. I also don't want the British to know I'm back. The prince said indifferently, and then ordered, "Transfer the other three dreadnoughts in the Baltic Sea as well." ”

"Are you going to fight a decisive battle?" Feng. Admiral Pol said with some surprise.

"We must at least look like we want a decisive battle, rest assured, the Russian dreadnoughts are not yet in service, the Gulf of Finland will soon freeze, and they will not run out at this time. If I'm going to really fight a decisive battle, I'll pull up 6 quasi-dreadnoughts armed with 12-inch guns! The prince said.

This is absolutely true, at present, the German High Seas Fleet has 2 more squadrons, a total of 6 Caesar-class battleships in service. These ships have been equipped with a new fire control system, and the guns have been replaced by the original 12-inch L40 guns with the new 12-inch L45 guns, which are exactly the same as those used by the original Dreadnoughts such as Blücher, and the 6 guns can be considered for long-range fire. So these battleships are really no different from the Dreadnought, except that the main guns are a little less. If you really do a fight with the Grand Fleet, then these battleships still have to be brought, after all, 36 12-inch guns! You can also deal damage, and even if you can't do damage, it's always okay to share the damage, right?!

To put it mildly, these dreadnoughts are actually ready to be thrown. As soon as the situation is not good, a gecko will have its tail broken. But there was no way, the war was so cruel, and the prince believed that these former fearlessness would definitely play some role in the decisive battle of the main force.

"That will take at least almost three days." Feng. Admiral Pol said.

"Then hurry up, besides, how are our camouflaged battleships doing? If I'm not mistaken, there should be at least 3 by now, right? The prince asked. Camouflage cruisers are cruisers dressed in civilian ship skins, and the so-called camouflage battleships are made by camouflaging large civilian ships as battleships, this kind of thing was done by the British in World War I and World War II, and in World War 1, it was because of the bold sinking, and a fake "boldness" was made. And in the second war, the British also used the same method to make Germany misjudge the size of the British fleet. So the prince also decided to get such a few ships out, anyway, it wouldn't cost a few dollars, and it was the best to deceive, and he couldn't deceive and pull it down.

"Yes, we do have three of them now." Feng. Admiral Pol said.

"Well, pull them over too, I need to make the British realize that our fleet is regrouped in the North Sea." The prince said.

"Okay, let's start the meeting now, Moltke, haven't they sent a telegram yet?" The prince asked.

"Not yet, maybe it did, we can't receive it, but I can assure you that they didn't use the emergency band for communication." Hipper said.

"That's good, it means that it hasn't reached the point of no return." The prince said with a sigh of relief. "Where is the Grand Fleet?"

"The Grand Fleet should still be in the Bay of Forth. We have a submarine cordon on the perimeter, and if they make a move, we can quickly find out. Admiral Pol said.

"Alright, send a report to the Kaiser, and we'll go out for a walk." The prince thought for a moment and said.

"But we don't even have a plan now, so let's go out for a walk? That's too easy, isn't it? Admiral Ball was completely speechless.

"Because I need to determine the situation of the Grand Fleet, in fact, if we go around the same circle, we are earning, our fuel reserves are more than 3 months, we have the heavy oil imported from Romania and the fuel transported from the Middle East through the 3B railway, our fuel is quite sufficient, and the British cannot, their fuel reserves are far lower than ours, and their consumption is much larger than ours, in this case, in fact, if we go out for a walk, we take advantage!" The prince said with a smile.

Britain does not produce oil, nor does France, and their nearest oil recipient is the United States, but the relationship between the United States and Britain and France is not to be mentioned. Getting oil from the Dutch East Indies? It used to be possible, but now it can't, because it has just been ruined by the Dutch troops in the Far East, getting oil from the Persian Gulf? It's really a joke when the Su-Xiong fleet is playing, so the fuel supply of the British and French fleets in this plane is very problematic.

The allies are much better, so, according to the prince's idea, I have more oil and consume less than you, and if you play with me, then you must lie down first. And now the situation is that the German fleet as a whole is much faster than the British, and Admiral Scheer has been slower in history, and can run away from Jericho in extremely unfavorable circumstances, the prince thinks that he can at least slip away in this plane?

Of course, more importantly, the prince needs to look at the attitude of the British fleet, as well as the speed of reaction, judging from the current collection, it seems that the resurgent British fast fleet is encircling the German fleet, then the executor must be the group of queens and battle cruisers, the prince knows that it is not possible to deal with the large fleet, but, in the face of the British fast fleet, 9 Bavarians alone are enough to teach Thomas to be a man again.

If the British fleet does not come out, then he will directly lead the team to rush to the exit of the North Sea to see if he can meet the British encirclement fleet, if the British fleet comes out, then he will naturally evacuate quickly, and there are two principles for catching fast warships.

First, the speed of the pursuing battleship should not be too slow, for example, it is okay for the queen to chase the battle cruiser, but if you use a normal battleship to chase Bavaria? Then wash and sleep. Second, containment! This requires you to have an overwhelming superiority in fleet forces, such as Thomas's fleet of 10 capital ships against two German battle cruisers, that is fine. But the Grand Fleet wants to encircle the High Seas Fleet? This is a difficult point, not to mention anything else, do you dare to divide the troops? If you divide the troops, it will be the result of being eaten. And if the troops are not divided, it will be the result of being thrown away, so from this point of view, the safety factor of the German high seas fleet to go out for a walk is still high enough, and in the absence of Thomas's fleet, as long as the prince wants to go, it will definitely be no problem.

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