Berlin, Germany, the General Staff Headquarters, countless officers are busy here, the cold outside, it seems that it does not affect the warmth of the room at all, this German Army base camp, bear the glory of the Imperial Army, countless orders, are issued here, and then through the Army Command Department, passed to the hands of every front army, it is the rigor and professionalism of the General Staff, which has allowed Germany to win again and again.

Winter came, in order to protect the soldiers on the front line, and in order to determine the results of the war, Germany did not forcibly launch a campaign to attack Paris, but it does not mean that the staff is not busy, the staff is not only responsible for the command of the front line, but also shoulders the domestic training, the adjustment of the military industrial system, and more importantly, the staff is also an important organ of foreign intelligence.

Intelligence is crucial for any war, the reason why the Schlieffen plan went so smoothly, on the one hand, is that the airship played a huge role in attacking the fortification, and on the other hand, how is it not the victory of intelligence, in a long period of time, the intelligence officers of the German General Staff, spent great efforts and sacrifices, from France, Belgium, to obtain a lot of information, about the number and number of enemy troops at all levels, basic weapons and artillery, these greatly supported the German advance.

It is precisely because of the sweetness that the General Staff Department has also carried forward this aspect extensively, and has drawn a large number of personnel from the military and some specialized agencies, and even selected personnel from among the original overseas Germans, and these personnel were eventually distributed in all directions of the world, collecting all kinds of intelligence in a short period of three months. The total number of personnel in the Intelligence Department of the General Staff has increased tenfold, and the number of people receiving intelligence every day is a hundredfold and a thousand times higher than before. In the Intelligence Department of the General Staff, there are professionals who are responsible for sorting out intelligence and analyzing intelligence. It is almost 800 people.

In a certain way, this year's winter is one of the great changes in the whole world, the European war has begun, the Allies and the Entente have been fighting in the whole of Europe, and the short winter has become an important opportunity for adjustment, and some are not ready for war. Or some omissions, try to make up for them as much as possible.

At present, the most important task of the General Staff is to formulate a reasonable attack area and attack plan for the submarine forces.

Submarines, from a very unimportant small part of the German Navy before the war, to the attention of Yang Yuanzhao, aroused the interest of Wilhelm II and Tirpitz, after the outbreak of the war. The first submarine was sent to attack the British harbor, and the submarine can be said to have fired the first shot of the German Navy, but unfortunately this shot did not work well, and the Admiralty also felt it. The submarine is slightly awkward in terms of effectiveness, and is not able to take on the main task, at most it is just like the auxiliary ship. Responsible for auxiliary work.

But now it's different, starting with the start of the war. British and French fleets, traveling between the colonies and the mainland. Not only did they transport all kinds of wealth and raw materials, but they also transported a large number of young and middle-aged people selected from the colonies, relying on these colonists, frantically expanding the army, for whom only a sufficient number of troops could become a stable foundation.

The role played by the Qingdao submarine seems to have stimulated the German Navy all of a sudden, and the submarine force, which itself does not pay attention to, can also play a greater role at a specific time, and in the first two months, the main role of the German submarine is to sneak attack the opponent's military port and strive to kill the opponent's capital ship. This does not seem to have played a big role, the British side of the military port, the security measures are very good, although some sunk number of submarines, the loss of the most submarines, in just 2 months, at least 9 submarines sunk, the results are not large, most of them are some old ships, although the tonnage is not small, but for the British blow, almost minimal.

Germany got the help of the northwest, and the submarine has developed by leaps and bounds, from the immature submarine at the beginning, and gradually developed into a mature, mid-to-late World War I submarine, but such submarines, the warships in the military port that rashly attacked, are a little too risky, after all, the absolute capital ship, if there is no accident, will be in the core of the military port, the most dense place, outside, is the other warships that are distributed at one time. Submarines can sneak into military ports, and if they are not detected, they may be able to choose, that is, in a few minutes, it is difficult to choose important targets, and after the lake is large, it is to escape, otherwise it will be killed by patrolling destroyers, which is proved by a bloody example.

In the first battle of Qingdao, the submarine hid behind and shot at the combined fleet that had been in chaos, and even aimed at the troop carriers, which made the Germans see different places, the submarine could not attack the capital ships on full alert, nor could they threaten the warships in the military port, but for the neglected small boats, a large number of unprotected merchant ships, it was simply a weapon given by heaven, and there was no need to carefully pass through the defense of the British every time, underwater, quietly went out, as for the overseas supply problem, Although Germany had few overseas colonies, there were always some merchant ships, which could form a relatively fixed supply sufficient to support the operations of submarine forces.

In fact, the General Staff has done it a long time ago, and for an island country like Britain, the best way is to break diplomatic relations, which is also the best direction to choose after the increase of German power, that is, to develop the fleet. Unfortunately, because of the relatively poor relationship between Germany and Britain, it is impossible for the High Seas Fleet to consider breaking diplomatic relations for the time being, and can only consider combat teams, that is, those that can go to the battle line, and only this can confront Britain.

This is also after the start of the war, Britain almost pressed Germany in the Baltic Sea, there was no way to get out at all, not that Germany did not want to, because there was a big difference between the high seas fleet and the British fleet, and Tirpitz had avoided direct confrontation between the two sides before. Especially when the combat power of the ship received by Scheer occupies the building, it will be even more avoided, when Scheer's fleet finally returns, when the time comes, the high seas fleet will be on par with the British fleet on the capital ship, and even exceed the combat effectiveness, according to what Scheer said, whether it is the fantasy class, or the Orion change, it has super strength, and it is no problem for a ship to be better than 1.5 king-class, so to speak, 9 ships, almost equal to 14. Of course, this is not counting the improvement brought by the aiming system, when the 9 ships are combined into a complete whole, then these ships will be more powerful.

Originally, there was a big difference in strength, and it was natural to produce a division of ships, which was also the fundamental reason why Britain had been suppressing Germany, and now there was another one, which was enough to reverse the unfavorable situation between the two sides, and the large fleet was in adaptive training and sea trials, in this case, it would not be at war, and now the war started, the German side was at an absolute disadvantage, if the war was rash, if the losses were too large, even if Scheer's fleet returned, it would be impossible to solve the battle, and because of this, the high seas fleet was not in a hurry to face off with the British fleet. No matter what the British say, they always hide in the Baltic and do not go out.

Of course, another important reason is that Germany not only has a sea route, Belgium and France have seized a large number of logistics and raw materials, so that Germany has some pressure on the logistics and raw materials greatly supplemented, Germany's surprise attack, blitzkrieg, so that Belgium and France, there is no way to transfer these wealth, Belgium no matter what, is also a good country in Europe, France is needless to say, northern France, originally to resist the German front, from the middle of a large number of materials, It was enough for the Germans to compensate for the losses caused by the war, and even slightly increased. On the other hand, the 3B railway, when Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey connected cities and extended to the Middle East, and finally to the port of Basra, a very important passage, and the most critical passage of this passage was the Chinese behind them.

It has to be said that Germany's view of the Northwest, from the very beginning of contempt, initial cooperation, to the present inseparable, what Germany did, like Britain, Britain spared no effort to win over the Americans, wanted to pull the Americans into the camp of the Entente, after seeing China's strength, especially the ability to manufacture warships, weapons manufacturing capabilities, and the strength of the army, Germany also had the same idea, if the Americans are a hole card of the British, then China is a hole card of Germany, If China can join the camp of the Allies, then Germany and China can choose to carve up Russia first, and when Russia is completely eliminated and divided, this world war may not be far from the end.

The battle of Qingdao made Germany see that the important role that submarines can play, battleships can not go out, separate battle patrols, if in the case of five guarantees, the danger is also quite large, then the submarine has become a natural choice, the submarine can move forward, through the British tightly sealed strait, and then to the rear, to the British transport to break the operation, although it is impossible to intercept all, but it will have a huge pressure on the British, which for the British, I am afraid it can really become a chain, gradually tightened, trapping the British.

Shipping information from all over the world was transmitted to Berlin, Germany by radio, and the reliable miniaturized radio was still being studied in Germany, but the northwest had been put into use, and even ensured that the radio was devolved to the company level, and the materials exported to Germany included the radio, which was not the latest version used by the army now, but two years ago, it was still an electronic tube, and the reliability was not strong. But this is enough for Germany to bypass the cable telegraph controlled by the British, and build a network of German spies all over the world, who can immediately inform the staff headquarters of the tonnage, name and destination of the ships on the port, and the staff headquarters analyzes and summarizes the huge amount of information to find out the most likely and shortest route attack targets, and then transmits these targets to the submarine forces that have been distributed in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and even the Pacific Ocean through the radio network. The Seawolves finally came out of the charge with the double push of the Northwest and Germany. (To be continued......)