The Kaiser's heart rippled slightly, it does not mean that the relationship between Germany and China is broken, can lead Germany to today's position, Wilhelm II has never been a short-sighted, now the great enemy, the struggle with China, is a post-war thing, although China is very strong, but China is too remote, let's say his new 17 million square kilometers of land, Siberia is the same alpine zone as Canada, in various aspects, not as good as Canada, Southeast Asia, It was a barbaric land, Britain, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, several colonial powers, it took hundreds of years to make them a civilized place, China okay. Australia is a little better in the middle, but it is also a poor country, a hundred years ago it was still a place of exile, of course, the United States was also a place of exile, but there are more enterprising there, there are many problems such as timing, Australia has missed this opportunity.

The Kaiser's emotion turned slightly, and he put it down, at the critical juncture of the war, when even the Entente was not defeated, he considered the post-war, it was just a thought, if everyone was defeated then what to fight, they were all losers, in the middle, we can see the benefits of geographical advantages, if Britain, France and Russia are defeated, they must be reparations for land cession, completely weakened, the United States may only pay reparations, if the United States is tough, Germany does not have the confidence to reach the United States, even if there is, it is a private affair in the next war, Similar to the United States, far from Europe, although the benefits obtained will be greatly reduced, but people are far away, even if Germany is defeated, the impact on them is minimal, but the benefits are eaten, with the construction level of the Chinese, the population base, as long as there are three or five years, these places, but really mature, and then take back, it will be much more difficult.

This is China's advantage, 60 million people, and 600 million people, ten times worse, before it can be described as China's backwardness, but Germany knows that since 1911, Germany and the northwest contact, they have found that China in the level of science and technology, has not been weak, and even in some aspects, far more than the rest of the world, this is also the fundamental reason for exchanges between Germany and China, such exchanges, Germany found that countless times, they have felt as much as possible overestimate China, In the end, it was found that China was still underestimated, and China had successfully possessed a strong amount of strength outside the world's mainstream vision, which was not transferred by anyone's ideas.

To be honest, in order to retaliate against the United States, China sent 4 emperor-class sneak attacks on the United States, which not only caused huge losses to the United States, but also gave the United States a direct blow to the Caribbean World War. For Germany, it is also beneficial, not to mention the sea, China killed the other party's 12 capital ships, which means that their capital ships are 12 less, which is a great advantage for the evenly matched, and even Germany still occupies a slight advantage, although it is said that Britain has made up for it as much as possible, they have laid mines outside the port, and also reduced the travel of warships, but the gap is the gap, before because of the mines, Germany was afraid of huge losses, did not get close to the UK, It doesn't mean that Germany can't get close, minelaying is just the stupidest trick, it can only defend, not attack, as long as it avoids the minefield, Germany can do whatever it wants.

For Germany, the key problem now is to win such a war, the loss of a large number of warships, etc., so that Britain is in an absolute disadvantage for a considerable period of time, their arrangements, if not prepared, let the German fleet be forced to retreat, but if prepared, it will not have any effect at all, now, in the navy, Germany has been in a considerable advantage, to a certain extent, Germany can ignore the warships of the Entente countries in most of the sea area, even to a certain extent, forcing Britain to fight a decisive battle at sea. This is the essence of the ancient Chinese art of war, and it is also used by some people abroad, but it has not been summed up, and Germany is quite in place in terms of strategy.

Scheer identified 12 battleships, after the sinking of the Americas, when there was no external threat, Germany's high seas fleet began to dispatch, began to constantly compress the space of the British army, before, because of the close relationship between the two sides, most of the fleet of the high seas fleet, must be left behind, used to deal with the battleship formation of the Entente, but now, there is no need to consider these problems at all, only the core of 9 battleships, as well as 6 relatively cutting-edge warships, sent to the vicinity of the English Channel, It was used to monitor the main British fleet, and the rest began to attack many important points next to the British, such as the Faroe Islands and Shetland Islands

Although these are not all British territory, but the British have set up some defenses here, which is one of the important barriers of the British mainland, and when these are uprooted one by one, and Germany begins to set up some supply docks or other things in them, this will become a bridgehead for attacking the British.

If it's just these, Britain doesn't care, after all, these are not all British territory, but when Germany concentrated battleships and part of the army, attacked the Orkney Islands, this is already British territory, Germany's purpose is very simple, is to take advantage of this time, little by little to uproot Britain's forces in the North Sea and near the Baltic Sea, once this goal is achieved, it will be Germany that has a base to protect, Britain will be surrounded by these islands, in this way, all the battleships ordered by Britain in the United States will come backIt will not be easy to regain these islands on an equal footing with Germany.

Britain watched this, but there was no way to do it, Germany could even send 5 to 10 battleships to deal with these small islands, one was almost enough, and it could not go on like this, because according to the information they received, Germany began to set up airship bases in the Shetland Islands, which was the closest to Britain, for a special attack on Britain.

This is a big deal, the previous German airship base set up on the European continent, because the English Channel, only more than 30 kilometers away, so that they can easily cross the English Channel, they no longer dare to set up on the seaside, generally in the coastline self-defeating, at least 60 kilometers or more, counting the range of the airship, and safety, they rarely hit cities other than London, at most near London, for the northern region, they can't hit at all, those industrial cities are relatively safe.

But now, the distance between the Orkney Islands and Scotland is only 32 kilometers, but here, almost the entire northern part of the United Kingdom, including Manchester, many British heavy industry areas, all under the threat of German airships, Germany can flexibly choose to attack the British, plus the airships located in the European part, it can be said that most of the entire British Isles are not safe. This is quite terrifying, for Britain, this has already hit the inside, and Britain itself is likely to be attacked by Germany.

Britain didn't have any way to deal with it, and even Britain could think that the airship force was just the beginning, and the key was that if Germany stockpiled supplies, soldiers, or even landing troops here, maybe they could use windsurfing boards or fishing boats or the like, they could cross it.

To deal with such an offensive, it is necessary to come up with the navy, less is not good, that is not the opponent of German warships at all, but more, even more not, then it is not a rescue, it is a strategic decisive battle, even when Britain has the absolute upper hand, there are intentionally or unintentionally avoid a strategic decisive battle with Germany, now, there are 12 less battleships, and Germany is in an absolute disadvantage, at this time the strategic decisive battle, Britain will lose the last chance, even if the American warships are in place, it will not be able to save Britain.

At this moment, for Britain, it can only endure, there is no way, Britain began to frantically lay mines in the northern seas, raising the defense level to the highest, but this is useless, these can avoid the German army to attack the British mainland, or the problem of direct landing, but death can not prevent Germany from taking these islands as the core, carrying out fleet activities.

As long as a simple supply point is set up on the island, the fleet can move back and forth quickly, striking at the merchant ships on both sides of the British, if the blockade of submarines is used, it can only attack sporadically, and can only deal with scattered ships, but the battleships and large-scale fleet blockade are deadly, if there are few warships, it is just to send food, and send heads to the Germans in vain, but if there are many fleets that come, it is a strategic decisive battle, and until now, Britain has not been prepared for this.

Britain is now really hard pressed to the extreme, since the start of the war, under a series of changes, Britain not only the army has been deeply hit, pressed by Germany, even the proud navy, under a series of changes in Germany, there have been huge problems, and even dare not go to sea to fight, this is the first time in the history of the British Imperial Navy for decades.

There was no way, the capacity of the Entente began to move closer to the south, and the transport ships would rather go around in a circle to ensure safety, so that at least hundreds of nautical miles went around, which was a huge impact on the already exhausted transport fleet, but it had to be adjusted in this way, although the navy knew that this was only temporary, but who knows, there will be more changes next!

The wings of the butterfly are getting bigger and bigger, and after the war spreads to the whole world, any aspect of the impact will affect the other place, Germany is constantly at sea, putting pressure on Britain, and Britain can only resist hard, waiting for the moment when the capital ship is in place. (To be continued.) )