"The British Navy has suffered Waterloo!"

"In the battle of the century, the German High Seas Fleet won a great victory! The German Navy raised its eyebrows! ”

"The Anglo-German naval battle, the British fleet was completely annihilated!"

"The iron cross over the North Sea is flying high!"

"The air raid destroyed Scapaflo, and the plane became the new natural enemy of the battleship!"

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On September 3, 1914, the news of the German naval victory flooded the front pages of the world's major newspapers, and people were even more surprised than the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary more than two months earlier. Over the years, warships with the St. George's Cross flag on their masts have become the natural hegemons of the seas. 100 years ago, France, under the leadership of Napoleon, joined forces with Spain to challenge the British navy, but was defeated; 100 years later, the Germanic peoples, who had always been accustomed to living on land, challenged the mighty British navy with inferior sea power, and in just one day, the British Grand Fleet, which was superior to the entire German navy, was almost wiped out.

Despite the heavy losses suffered by the British on September 2, there were still many people who believed that "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", believing that the British were just taking a nap, and many more people believed that the era of a more intense and exciting Anglo-German maritime struggle for supremacy had arrived.

On the sea south of the North Sea, an unusually large fleet is slowly heading south. At the front of the fleet, 16 majestic and hideous dreadnought-class battleships and 12 old battleships were lined up in four neat columns, and the mighty and rough black cannons were the capital of their eyes; In the center of the fleet was the biggest contributor to the defeat of the British Navy - the aircraft carriers "Lisa" and "Super Duck Mother". The pilots and ground crews who had worked all day were mostly leisurely blowing the sea breeze at this time, and only a few reconnaissance patrol planes took off or landed from the deck from time to time; At the rear of the fleet, a large number of destroyers and cruisers carrying prisoners of war were towing ships that had lost power due to wounds, including the battered battlecruisers "De Seritz" and "Moltke", as well as five other German destroyers, three British battleships, and one British cruiser, while the "von der Tann" and two other captured British battleships were able to sail slowly under their own power. Submarines followed the fleet like a flock of sharks basking on the surface.

In the captain's room of the flagship Frederick the Great, Admiral Jerryd, who had become a prisoner, tried his best to maintain his demeanor, but his eyes kept glancing out of the window. Unfortunately, the aircraft carrier cannot be observed from that angle.

"Mr. Admiral, don't be restrained! We're just here for a casual chat! Tirpitz and Heydrich in the chair smiled at each other, the two of them had been friends for many years. And Jerlid had been their rival for many years, and it was something that none of them had ever imagined to meet in such an environment.

"Thank you both for your generosity! I know I'm a prisoner of your rank now, and I don't have the right to ask for anything, but as a soldier, I really want to see the weapon that defeated me! Jerlid wasn't going to talk to them about anything, he only had one thought on his mind right now. Just look at the secret weapon of the Germans.

"Mr. Admiral, I'm afraid we won't be able to meet your request!" Tirpitz rejected his request outright. All British prisoners were kept in the rear of the fleet, and no Englishman should have a chance to see an aircraft carrier. If it weren't for the need to continue air raids with aircraft carriers and blockade of the British mainland, Heydrich would even want to send the raiding fleet directly back to East Prussia. The Raid Fleet will now return to Wilhelmshaven with the High Seas Fleet, and the Lisa and Super Duck Mama will be camouflaged as they were last time in Port Kiel.

"Sooner or later, the world will recognize and understand this weapon. But now, it belongs only to Germany! With that, Heydrich asked the guards to invite Jerlid out, leaving him and Tirpitz alone in the room.

"Remember the time we met this guy at a banquet at the Imperial Palace in Vienna? I don't know how arrogant and arrogant he is, and now he has finally been punished! Look at his bitter gourd face, haha! Tirpitz had a happy look on his face, and Prince Heydrich had the same expression.

"Yes! Do you remember? Twenty years ago, when we were working together on the cruiser 'Jazz', we often dreamed of the day when we would be able to command the mighty German Navy to defeat the British, and today we have done it! Recalling the old days, Heydrich couldn't help but sigh at the time that had passed.

"Yes, of course I do! But you left the Navy 6 years ago, leaving me alone to support it, it's really not interesting! Tirpitz walked to a small cabinet, took out a bottle of champagne and poured a glass by himself, Heydrich hesitated, took the glass and said:

"When the Emperor asked me to command his planned superfleet, I didn't accept it, because I decided that we couldn't defeat the British, and I didn't want to do anything that was doomed to failure. Isn't that cowardly? ”

"Anyway, we have now accomplished the most impossible task in the whole world, the past is gone, and now we can finally fight side by side again!" Tirpitz raised the cup in his hand and looked at his old comrade sincerely.

"That's right! But I need to thank one person for being able to go to the battlefield again! ”

"You mean the Prince of East Prussia? He is indeed a rare talent, a commander full of imagination, but he still needs more experience, and he still lacks a kind of domineering, domineering to lead a country! ”

"Tirpitz, you ......" Heydrich looked surprised, although he had the same idea, but he did not expect this sentence to come out of Tirpitz's mouth.

"I'm just talking about things, and I'm not targeting the current crown prince!" The two men looked at each other for a few seconds, then said no more, clinking glasses and drinking down the champagne.

When the fleet sailed to Wilhelmshaven, a signal was sent from the harbor: Germany wants to pay tribute to the heroes who have returned triumphantly!

Many German citizens even arrived from dozens of kilometers away, and the docks were surrounded by people holding flowers and small flags. Kaiser Wilhelm II also came to the viewing platform early. Countless nobles and dignitaries gathered around him, and the sound of congratulations and compliments was like a surging river......

Two huge airships floated above the pier, and from the airships, the masts outside the harbor were lined with smoke, and the whole fleet had stopped. The battleships in front began to enter the port in turn.

Amid a roaring gun salute, the flagship of the High Seas Fleet, Frederick the Great, was the first to sail into Wilhelmshaven. The 24,000-ton behemoth was equipped with five turrets of twin 305mm cannons, including one main turret in the bow, two diagonally arranged in the center and two in the stern. It was also hit by 2 British shells, and there were still obvious bullet marks on the port side.

Behind the "Frederick the Great" are two of the newest King-class battleships that have been commissioned on August 9, 1914, and the "Elector", which was commissioned on August 9, 1914, and the "Elector", which has the same number of turrets and the caliber of the main guns as the "Frederick the Great", and all five turrets are arranged along the centerline. There are 2 guns in the bow and stern, and 1 in the middle is arranged backwards. In pursuit of the British ships, they were the first to arrive at a maximum speed of 21 knots and inflicted heavy damage on 2 British ships that had lost speed after being torpedoed.

The next four battleships of the Caesar class except for the "Frederick the Great": "Caesar", "Catherine", "King Albert", and "Regent Louitpol", in the naval battle, they sank and damaged a total of 4 British battleships as the main force of the battlefleet. The "Catherine" and "Catherine", the "King Albert" and the "King Albert" also suffered some minor injuries.

Amid the cheers of the 100,000 German citizens, the remaining warships rushed in, and all the officers and men of the navy lined up in the bow and side of the ships to salute. The superstructure has been inadmirably doped with the "Deseritz". When the battlecruisers "Moltke" and "Von der Tann" appeared, the docks were suddenly much quieter, and low exclamations came and went, but when the captured British battleships "George V", "Daring", "Ajax", "Conqueror", "Thunderbolt", and "Avant-garde" were dragged slowly into the harbor, the crowd burst into thunderous applause and cheers. These British battleships only needed 4-8 months of rest to enter the battle sequence of the German Navy.

Aircraft carriers and submarine battle groups are waiting quietly 5 nautical miles outside the harbor and will quietly enter Wilhelmshaven after dark.

When the "Frederick the Great" docked, Tirpitz and Prince Heydrich, the greatest heroes of the British navy, appeared in full view, followed by pilots, submarine captains and other naval officers and sailors who had made great achievements in naval battles, and they walked along the long red carpet to the emperor, who would present them with medals. The festivities continued until nightfall, and citizens across Germany even enjoyed the festivities all night long.

That night, Wilhelm II had dinner with Tirpitz and Prince Heydrich, and after the dinner they had a three-hour conversation, in which Heydrich highlighted Wilhelm II's idea of raiding the main British naval ports and shipmasters.

At the Imperial Council the next day, the Kaiser announced a very important appointment: Generalissimo Tirpitz was relieved of his post as commander of the High Seas Fleet and remained in the post of Minister of the Reich Navy because he had led the High Seas Fleet without authorization; The raid fleet that attacked the British port of Scappaflo was temporarily merged into the High Seas Fleet, and the commander of the raid fleet, Prince Heydrich, was appointed as the new commander of the High Seas Fleet; The Baltic Fleet was upgraded to the Baltic Fleet, with the Prince of Prussia concurrently serving as the commander of the fleet, and three old battleships that had originally belonged to the High Seas Fleet were transferred to the Baltic Fleet to curb the military power of Tsarist Russia in the Baltic Sea.

The Kaiser also proposed that the task of the German Navy and the new High Seas Fleet was to firmly grasp control of the North Sea, to bombard and bomb the important coastal cities and shipyards of the British mainland as soon as possible, and to force the British Navy to concentrate its remaining forces for a decisive battle and destroy them in one fell swoop, thereby replacing Britain's supremacy in the oceans.

This surprised everyone, including Heydrich himself, and he quickly expressed his willingness to take on the responsibility. Admiral Chancellor Tirpitz also said he would work with Prince Heydrich to create a navy that Germany had never seen before.

At this time, Chen Tian led his East Prussian Corps to prepare to attack the Russian army, and he was very happy to hear this news, in his opinion, such a navy could make the army units have no worries.