Bordeaux is an important support for the European Entente at present, at least 6 million troops of the Entente are concentrated, and any disturbance in it will directly affect the heart of the Entente, when the German High Seas Fleet is attacking Bordeaux's ships and protective batteries, through the cross-sea telegraph line, the distress message has been sent to the Allied Joint Conference in Britain, which is the first distress message sent by Bordeaux.

After the fall of Paris, Bordeaux became the wartime capital of France, with the support of Britain and the United States, the two sides along the line of Bordeaux, launched a catch-and-fight, the total number of troops concentrated in the vicinity of Bordeaux almost reached 10 million, although he was widely distributed around Bordeaux, at least 120 kilometers in the area, but most of them were still concentrated near the city of Bordeaux, that is to say, the scope covered by the naval guns was huge, and the troops involved were also very skilled, even including several important locations.

As wartime commanders, they are all experienced, 4 years of war, especially land warfare such as strangulation warfare, they are very experienced, especially the British side, they are more aware of the threat of naval artillery to the army, for the army has enough role in the fortifications, simply can not resist the attack of naval guns, fortunately, when they just encountered, it was the coastal protection warship and land-based battery, which helped them through the attack and gave them enough time to react, but this time was not long, When the coastal defense ships were almost attacked, the army generals knew that this was not a problem they could solve, and immediately sent a report to the British.

Even if it was only 5 o'clock in the morning at this time, and the sky was not yet dawn in most parts of Europe, even in their sleep, all the generals of the joint conference were pulled down by the command, which was the highest level of emergency, and the front-line command in Bordeaux had already sent detailed battle messages to the command, and when most of the generals on duty had already arrived at the headquarters, all the news on the front line was clearly obtained, and all those who knew the current situation in Bordeaux could not be happy.

Mason, deputy director of the Navy Command Department on duty, Seagate, commander of the garrison fleet, and several rear admirals, were looking at the things in their hands with some dark faces, they never thought that they would encounter such an attack, Germany actually attacked their most core place, the seventy-year-old Admiral Fisher ran over, he himself has retired, after Churchill abdicated because of the defeat of the Navy, this highly decorated old general re-became the Admiralty, but unfortunately some were born at the wrong time, At this time, he was facing the most severe moment of the navy, and he was already old, and he became more and more old.

But at this moment, he couldn't help but relax, he was almost 80 years old, almost trotting all the way over, and before he could calm his breath, he asked a little eagerly: "What happened, what's wrong with Bordeaux, is it dangerous?" ”

As a high-ranking naval officer, Fisher knows very well that if there is really a problem in Bordeaux, then it will all be finished, 6 million troops, which is already the most that the Entente can come up with, although in Britain, France and the United States, accumulation and accumulation, it is still possible to get the same amount, it will take time, not even more than a year, it is impossible to train in place, come in handy, once Bordeaux falls, the entire 6 million troops are lost to Bordeaux, the European war is equivalent to the actual end, even if it is as strong as the United States, It is also necessary to withdraw from the war, otherwise it will not be possible to retreat at all, let alone Britain and France, admit defeat and cede land and pay reparations.

Seeing Fisher come in, Mason let out a sigh of relief, handed him the telegram in his hand, and said: "Your Excellency, the situation is very bad, we have been fooled, Germany's target has never been Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, their target is Bordeaux, the entire main force of the High Seas Fleet, has appeared in Bordeaux. ”

"Bordeaux?" Fisher took a breath of cold air, how important Bordeaux is, once attacked, it can even affect the overall situation of the entire Entente in Europe, this is not a simple force, it is the High Seas Fleet, Britain's biggest enemy at present, they have a direct threat to Bordeaux, otherwise the defenders of Bordeaux will not send a report in a hurry.

At the stall where he continued to worry, Fisher also put back his more hanging heart, not all Bordeaux problems would be easy to do, if at this moment, the Bordeaux defense line was completely problematic, then the trouble would be big, but even so, the trouble was not small, as the Minister of the Navy, he knew very well that 28 battleships, dozens of heavy cruisers, and countless light cruisers and destroyers were a threat to Bordeaux such a port city, and the most important thing is that this belongs to the naval pot, and he must carry it anyway.

After sorting out his thoughts a little, Fisher then asked, "What about the offshore ships and the shore defense forces?" ”

Mason explained: "Because of the transfer of Gibraltar, almost 30% of the coastal defense forces went to Gibraltar, and the rest were basically wiped out by Germany!" ”

"Wiped out, so quickly?" Fisher was even more angry, he knew very well that in the Bordeaux defense line, there were at least 200 large and small ships, although they were torpedo boats of less than 100 tons, but there were so many, and it was impossible to be eliminated in a short time, what went wrong there, even if the British Navy dispatched all the ships in the stage of complete victory, it was impossible to kill more than 200 ships of all kinds and distributed everywhere in a short period of time, such an accuracy was still in the dark night, which was almost impossible.

"We had suspicions before, in the hands of the Allies, they should have mastered a means of rapid reconnaissance, otherwise it would be impossible to attack our coastal defense ships so accurately in the dark of night."

"Do you know what the means are?"

"I don't know for the time being, but it may be ......" Speaking of this, Mason hesitated for a moment, and then said: "A young staff officer said that it could be an airplane!" ”

Plane? Fisher is a technical officer, but his technology is above the navy, Fisher as a technical officer when he was a meritorious person, is the British Royal Navy in the past 20 years to steadily occupy the world's first direct mastermind, whether it is a cruiser, a former dreadnought, or a dreadnought, a battle cruiser, a perfect battleship, these are all let Britain occupy the first place in the world, until the emergence of the German Navy, as well as the emergence of China's fantasy class, but he really did not pay attention to the aircraft.

Fisher knew very well that at this moment, at this time, there was not much time to delay, and he said coldly: "Don't talk about things that are not so sure, let's go back and study them, the key now is to solve the problem, what can you do!" ”

At this moment, everyone stopped talking, even Mason, who had been talking all the time, he also tentatively said the plane, but this was just a staff officer's whim, and even he himself didn't believe it very much, and now to solve the problem, what to do. Everyone knows that this is a successful German operation, and even now, when they have actually put the target of the attack in front of them, even if the English Channel is only more than 30 kilometers wide, they cannot solve it. Only battleships have a role to play against battleships, and the difference in the number of battleships between the two sides is extremely obvious, besides, the ports densely covered with all kinds of mines, although it is not absolutely impossible for battleships to come out, but it will waste a lot of time, as little as 2 hours, as much as 5 hours.

On the waterway densely covered with all kinds of mines, it was necessary to be extremely careful, and any mine that touched the battleship would be a big joke, but at this moment, in the face of the sudden attack of the German High Seas Fleet, they did not even have the slightest solution.

All the officers of the joint conference looked at each other, there was no way, the only thing that could be done was to let the Bordeaux defenders strengthen their vigilance and dodge as much as possible, but everyone knew that such a method was useless, the periphery of Bordeaux, the defense line was very in place, but this place was aimed at the army defense line, not the naval gun, any enough defense, even a permanent anti-artillery hole, if it was hit by a large-caliber naval gun in the front, it could not resist the penetrating power of this naval gun.

Fisher smiled bitterly, looked at the group of officers who were looking at each other, sighed, and said: "Then order Bordeaux, anti-artillery!" ”

The officers under his command looked happy and were about to act, but they were snorted by Fisher and continued: "I can't accept that such a situation will continue to appear, you study it, that plan comes out, how to avoid such a situation from happening again!" ”

At this time, the officers under his command suddenly collapsed, and one side occupied an absolute advantage, flattening the same use of the high seas fleet to attack the ground, how to guard against it, it is impossible to let all torpedo boats and coastal defense ships defend all the time, only the reason to be a thief for a thousand days, and even if the forced defense is done, it can be done in a short time, and it cannot be done for a long time.

Everyone knows that this time it was Germany that attacked the east and west, caught off guard, and made the Entente not protect well, but what next? Germany made it clear that it would use the strength of its navy to bully the Entente, and the many islands in the north of Britain were examples, and now they are placed on land, and there are really few ports that can be blocked, and it is better to say that mines can be arranged in the port, and the method of self-harm can be used to resist the attack of the Entente, but Bordeaux has no choice, he relies excessively on sea transportation, and it is impossible to block all the ports, otherwise millions of troops will not be able to replenish, but will run out of ammunition and food.

The people below are sad to give Bordeaux a power generation, and the rest are thinking of a way, in fact, even Fisher knows that before the home fleet is restored, there can be no good way, but if it can be reduced a few times, it will be reduced, and Bordeaux will not be able to support it at all. (To be continued.) )