Chapter 1308: New Trends in South Vietnam
Tesla talked to Qin Kai about the research he was going to conduct for world peace, and Qin Kai immediately found that this guy was definitely a world-destroying scientist, and what kind of research on directional earthquakes and tsunamis-induced by the proposed was not only unthinkable, but also undisciplined, but the mustache swore that these were undoubtedly important directions for maintaining world peace, and finally, the mustache also took out the nuclear energy he saw from the northern test computer and asked about it, and decided that this thing was worth doing!
It's really worth messing around...... This made Qin Kai depressed, but he didn't bother to continue to go deeper into these issues, Tesla did engage in research that caused the resonance of the earth's crust, and really let this guy experiment with this in the north, maybe one day he would collapse the super laboratory he had built at a huge cost.
Therefore, in addition to repeatedly telling this product not to carry out research in these aspects for the time being, Qin Kai told Sun Xiang to take care of the mustache when he left, God knows if under the guidance of the technology of the later generations, this person will come up with something new that causes the resonance of the earth, and when the time comes, it is not only human beings who will be destroyed, he asked Sun Xiang to follow up all the research topics of the mustache...... After Qin Kai lingered in the northern laboratory for a few days, he got a piece of news that surprised him too!
In late November, after nearly a month-long tracking by the U.S. Pacific Fleet searching Spee's fleet on the east coast of the United States, Edward ? Vice Admiral Abel finally realized the problem, and the Spee fleet was not prepared to cross the sea search network of the huge British and American fleets as they had expected, so it was obviously a pointless task for the fleets of the two countries to pull out the long search line from the west coast of the United States.
Realizing what was going on, the shrewd American immediately made contact with the Royal Navy, and Lord Dust, who was in command of the battle patrol squadron Invincible, who had temporarily entered the Hawaiian military port to resupply, carefully considered the advice offered by the Americans. I also have to agree with Vice Admiral Eber's judgment - the Spee fleet did not go south at all!
Since the Speese fleet did not go south, they obviously did not have many options, in the vast Pacific Ocean, the direction that can allow a formation of more than 7 giant ships to sail, except for the frozen Alaska in the north, that is only to bypass the Pacific hinterland controlled by the Chinese! The question is. Even if the Speeze fleet relied on capturing coal carriers to fuel the fleet, it would never have been able to provide enough food by fishing at sea.
Realizing this, Vice Admiral Abel and Lord Dist immediately redirected the search direction of the fleets of the two countries, and in addition to sending a destroyer formation north to search the coast of Alaska, they also invested a large amount of naval forces in the North Pacific...... Of course, in view of the strong control of China in the Pacific Ocean and the secret agreement between China and Britain earlier on maritime rights, two days after Lord Dieters' decision, the British side, through Minister Bauer in China, informed the Beijing government that the Armada formation would sail into the North Pacific.
Of course. The British were also very cautious to conceal their intentions, only saying that the Royal Navy formation under the command of Lord Dest would sail to Japanese waters for a short rest, and did not directly mention the pursuit of the Spee fleet, but in the current situation, the British immediately attracted the attention of the South China Military Region General Staff, which was responsible for liaising with the Spee fleet.
In fact, while the Americans and the British were searching for the German fleet on the west coast of the Americas, a destroyer formation of the Northern Fleet successfully contacted Spee in the waters off Alaska, and the Germans had planned to launch an attack on the cities off the coast of Alaska. However, it was seriously troubled by the cold snap in the north, and Alaska entered the winter. This era is almost synonymous with the wilderness.
After the Spee's fleet conducted reconnaissance, it completely lost its interest in attacking the target that was almost a fishing village along the coast, and what was worse, the sharp drop in temperature even caused the fleet to run into a lot of trouble, and the older Leipzig light cruiser. It even failed to pass the extreme temperature test in the nearby Arctic Ocean region, and the damage to the power system in the earlier operation eventually led to the failure of the warship's power system.
In the end, Admiral Spee's trip to Alaska was unexpectedly unexpectedly unsuccessful, because he was thinking about getting rid of the opponent behind him as soon as possible. He had to order the Leipzig, which had lost power, to sink in the icy Kuril Seas, so when the Chinese destroyer contacted him, he immediately agreed to the Chinese proposal and followed the Chinese formation quietly through the cold Kuril Islands.
On December 5th, under the premise of fully complying with the international neutral port supply rules, the Spee fleet sailed for nearly 20 days, and finally entered the Sapporo Free Port in the northern province of Dongying, as the northernmost civilian port in the entire Greater China region, here is closer to the north than the Vladivostok military port, and it is more deserted.
Therefore, for the German fleet, which had been adrift in the Pacific Ocean for four months, this was undoubtedly the most suitable resting point, and as a vassal state of the Yamato ethnic group in Central Africa in the entire four islands of Dongying, the northern country of Dongying was controlled by the Ainu people, that is, the original indigenous people of the North Island of Japan.
After receiving the telegram from Beijing, Sapporo had already begun the planning of a temporary military camp, and some local paramilitary personnel were dispatched to strengthen the vigilance, after all, the German fleet that entered the port to replenish this time was also a powerful armament with 6 huge ships, and there were nearly 3,000 people on the warship alone, so it was not a simple matter to let such a large number of people hide in Sapporo.
On the day that Admiral Spee entered Sapporo with his tired army, officials from the Beijing Intelligence Department and the military attache of the German Consulate in China had already met with him there, and the German Consulate brought commendations from Wilhelm II and the Berlin General Staff, and at the same time, Berlin proposed two plans for the future of Spee's fleet.
The first is to wait for the opportunity to break through the blockade line of the British and American navies in the South Pacific, and once again carry out a voyage around Cape Horn, passing through the Atlantic Ocean to return to Europe, this plan has always been the first choice of Berlin, after all, even if China continues to release water in the Far East, if the strength of the Spee fleet, compared with the British and American Pacific Fleet, which has now swelled to an alarming extent, it will definitely have to meet and run.
And once caught up by the British and American fleets, the Royal Navy is the best at tailgating tactics in this era, which will make the Spee fleet, which has no overseas bases, finally fall to the point of despair, after all, once targeted, the possibility of obtaining ammunition from the Chinese will be almost zero, and the Royal Navy, and now with a rapidly expanding US Navy, will have high-speed destroyers and cruisers that will be enough to complete all-weather surveillance.
Even if the German fleet was fast enough to throw off the Anglo-American Grand Fleet during this period, once the supplies were exhausted and entered a neutral port, it would mean that the exit would be met with a broadside salvo from the American and British battleship groups lined up in a battle line...... In this case, a fool will also understand the outcome of the battle!
Compared with the first plan, Admiral Spee, who had already run a circle in the South and North Pacific, was more inclined to put forward the second plan from the Berlin side, which was based on another major event now taking place in the Far East -- the war in French Cochinchina, in which the German expeditionary force had won an overwhelming victory in the past six months.
The German Expeditionary Force won successive victories in the battle with the French army, and in early December surrounded the remnants of the 2nd and 3rd Divisions on the French side of Cochinchina in Xining.
This mechanism directly contributed to the complete suppression of the military strength of the entire French Cochinchina region, and the day of surrender of the French garrison was just around the corner...... However, for Berlin, the occupation of the French colonies in Cochinchina was undoubtedly the icing on the cake of the Franco-German war, but the situation that Germany now faced was far more difficult than the war against France.
Therefore, the Berlin side proposed that Admiral Spee be stationed in Cochinchina to establish a base in the German Far East, and at the same time began to build an army in the local area to contain the British military strength in the entire Far East.
This requirement made the existence of the Spee fleet an important resource for the new territory of Cochinchina...... The French territorial nature of Cochinchina gave an explainable reason for the existence of German military power...... This is not contrary to the Chinese government's foreign commitments, after all, as far as the Cochinchina War is concerned, it was only a continuation of the Franco-German War. (To be continued......)