Chapter 851: The Road to War 3
"Perhaps, Admiral Hipper could sink a British battlecruiser, but this is not what we need, we need to sink at least three or more British capital ships! Our efforts must change the situation in the North Sea to some extent, the Empire is in the midst of a life-and-death war, and the Empire expects every soldier to do their duty. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info The High Seas Fleet is duty-bound! The prince said.
"And now, I believe that the British have also received the relevant information, and if Betty chooses to fight us, then they will definitely strengthen it. This is not something that the Hipper fleet can handle, and such a moderately sized and delicious prey is worth hunting! ”
"Although we don't yet know how the British will adjust Betty's fleet, we might as well imagine that now on the mainland, the British still have a Queen, and recently a new super dreadnought cruiser, Queen Mary, so that the number of Betty's fleet may increase to 7 capital ships. The Grand Fleet would have retained at least one battle cruiser detachment, which was supposed to be Rear Admiral Hood's 3rd Battle Cruiser Detachment. ”
"The size of this fleet is three. And then the British also had 3 dreadnought battlecruisers, two of which were in Betty's hands, and one more Australia might also go in, so that the pinnacle of Betty's fleet would be 8 fast battleships, and it could not be more. The prince said.
"And the size and strength of this fleet may be a little difficult for Admiral Hipper, but it is just right for our Bavarians?" Scheer said that this time, it was the Scheer fleet that replaced Hipper's combat mission, and the first battleship squadron in his hands at this time concentrated the most powerful combat forces of the German High Seas Fleet! 2 detachments for a total of 6 Bavarian-class battleships!
If there are 8 queens on the other side, Scheer is still a little weak in his heart, but if it is 1 queen with 4 super dreadnought cruisers and 3 dreadnought cruisers, then Scheer will only have hehe left in his heart. Although he doesn't know what results he can achieve, he thinks that winning should not be a big problem!
"Actually, if it's just against Betty, such a fleet is already high-matched. We all know that the combat effectiveness of the Bavaria-class fast battleships is definitely a notch higher than that of the Scharnhorst-class fast battleships. But this is needed, because we may be dealing with more than just the Betty fleet! Admiral Hipper mentioned many times in his report that there are other main fleets in the British Navy, so our fleet needs to have spare strength to deal with other fleets while dealing with Betty! The prince said.
Faced with this problem, the prince also considered whether to solve the problem of insufficient combat effectiveness by increasing the number of warships, but if this was done, it would lead to an oversized fleet, which would make the British smell something. If you send a fleet, whether it's 5 or 6 ships, it's a small attack, but it's not the same if you add other ships.
If you go out with 12 warships at once, Betty will definitely not fight you, and if you have to go up and fight, you may run into the ...... of the Grand Fleet. Judging from the current situation, the Hipper's fleet has to carry out other tasks, and now the main force of the German High Seas Fleet is 13 ships, including 6 Bavarian, 3 Helgoland-class fast battleships, and 4 dreadnought battleships. 6 Bavarians already accounted for more than half of the combat strength of the remaining fleet.
In fact, the high seas fleet will not provide much more combat power either. And if all the warships go to sea together, the scale is too large. After all, before the two sides officially fought, the British could choose not to fight! What's more, the 4 dreadnoughts have also been in service for a long time, and there is also a slow dreadnought, which is difficult to keep up with the new Bavarian fleet in terms of speed, so it is okay not to bring it with it in this operation.
Fighting sometimes requires empathy from the opponent's point of view, and this time the prince wanted to give the British the illusion that this attack by the High Seas Fleet was the same as the usual Hipper's fleet sortie, but it was a harassing battle with a lack of preparation and no follow-up fleet. The prince wants to convince Betty that with his fast fleet is enough to take out this fleet, only then will the British fight, and only when the fight is made, will the German high seas fleet have a chance to make a shadow of the opponent once!
The prince's heart is very big, so he must get a result no less than Jutland's capital ship kill! In other words, at least 3 battle cruisers must be sunk, and at least one of them is super dreadnought. As for the killing tonnage, this may not be reached, after all, in the Battle of Jutland, the British also sank several armored cruisers and light cruisers, and these things are also very heavy when converted into tonnage! And to achieve this, the German High Seas Fleet came up with his most elite squadron of battleships!
"From what I observed last time, the size of the other British fleet was about four, and I felt that it might be dreadnoughts." At this time, Hippert had spoken. Why is it said that about 4 dreadnoughts could be dreadnoughts? This is not only because a British Empire has about 4 dreadnought fleets, but more importantly, if a battleship fleet has more than 6 ships, then there are only two possibilities.
First, you're running into a part of the British Grand Fleet. The scene of the Grand Fleet as many as more than 2 dozen super dreadnoughts unfolding is really shocking, not to mention the Grand Fleet, even if the high seas fleet is deployed in history, the entire length is more than 10 kilometers (because of the dreadnought)! Therefore, it is really difficult to see the entire Grand Fleet from one angle of the sea. You can only see part of it.
As for whether it is possible that the British sent 2 detachments? This possibility is also very low, because Jericho emphasizes that the Grand Fleet has the ability to crush head-on, if there are two sub-fleets, that is, about 8 capital ships, then there are only 16 ships left in the Grand Fleet, which is no longer enough to ensure the advantage of the Grand Fleet, and it is more like a refueling tactic, it cannot be said that there is none, but it can only be said that the probability of appearing is not large.
Second, you're running into a bunch of former intrepids! There are a lot of dreadnoughts in the British. Moreover, if these battleships are sunk, the British will not feel much distressed, because there are many of them, the amount is enough, and the combat effectiveness is relatively low, so naturally the scale of the dreadnought battleship detachment will be larger. If it was a fleet size of more than 6 ships, Hipper might have been on it, and because it was a detachment of 4 ships, which was not low or high, it might be dreadnought, Hipperer finally instigated ....... After all, once you are at war, it will not be easy to leave.
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