"The 'Devonshire' is being pursued by two Austro-Hungarian battlecruisers!" This is a report sent back from the "Mosquito".

"We will fight to the end!" This was the last telegram sent back by the "Devonshire".

"'Devon', it's sinking!" This is a telegram sent back by the "Mosquito".

"We are under attack from two German battle cruisers!" The Blanche was never heard from again after the message was sent back. ……

At the Admiralty in London, there was a brief silence for those who were closely watching the battle.

"Well, gentlemen, a great challenge is ahead of us, and we urgently need to solve it as much as possible! The Minister of Transport has ordered all merchant ships bound for the Americas to cease sailing, and those that have left the port have returned to port. The threat was real, and now a third of Britain's supplies were forced to temporarily stop. Now to catch them, Colonel Blair, where are they now? The First Sea Lord, with his large signature pipe in his hand, sat on a couch beside the war room and turned his gaze to an officer standing next to the chart.

"In this area, about 120 nautical miles northeast of the Faroe Islands." Colonel Blair held a slender stick and pointed to the middle of the Norwegian Sea on the map, "There is already definite information on four battle cruisers, and we suspect that two of their other ships are also nearby."

"When the Germans built the Blucher, I feared that one day they would become a great threat to the British Empire. Now this concern does not seem to be unnecessary, and the Germans built them with the aim of creating enough trouble for our maritime transport. Churchill's inference was really inaccurate, Tirpitz didn't know anything about naval raids, but the problem was that there was another person who knew what the British were most afraid of.

In the early days of the war, Spee's small squadron caused the British Imperial Navy to be uneasy, sending more than a hundred warships of all kinds to search for them. But now, six battle cruisers, of such a scale, that even the entire French fleet may not be able to cope with it.

At the outbreak of war, the British Navy had a Home Fleet, a Mediterranean Fleet, an Indian Ocean and Far East Fleet, and a reserve fleet.

"Find them, sink them!" Before anyone else could say anything, the commander of the Home Fleet, Sir Jericho, made a sharp statement of his resolve.

It was a formidable enemy fleet, and the problem was that the British Empire found itself that it did not have enough suitable ships to deal with them. In addition to ten battlecruisers, all British armored cruisers and cruisers were not their opponents, and the battleships were too slow, except for the cutting-edge "Queen Elizabeth" class, but at present, only the "Queen Elizabeth" had just entered service, and in order to deal with the Austro-Hungarian Navy's cutting-edge battleships equipped with 380 mm guns, they also went to the Mediterranean.

Churchill suddenly realized that the tiny Austro-Hungarian Navy had caused enough trouble for the Royal Navy, which no one had expected before the war.

Helden remained in Germany, on the one hand, to keep an eye on the operation at sea, and on the other hand, to continue discussions with the new German Admiralty, Admiral Schell, on how to speed up the construction of new ships. He has always believed that the result of naval battles is the true embodiment of naval strength, and that defeating the strong with the weak is just some accidental event, although people will talk about it, but it is the slipway that really determines the victory or defeat at sea.

Count the battleships that the German Navy currently has: the "Deutschland", "Nassau", "Helgoran", "Caesar", "King" and "Bavaria" classes, which looked very powerful and had a slightly lower displacement than the British battleships. But a careful analysis of the balance of power between the two sides reveals the awkward situation and sorrow that Admiral Schell faced during the Battle of Jutland.

Think about the size of the guns of these battleships in history: the "German" and "Nassau" classes were 280 mm, the rest of the German battleships were 305 mm, while the British had nine battleships with 343 mm guns, five battleships with 356 mm guns and five battleships with 381 mm guns, not to mention that German artillery manufacturing technology was ahead of the British. The manufacturing technology only represents that the shooting accuracy is slightly better than that of the other side, but the huge difference in the caliber of the main gun is real, the heaviest weight of the 305 mm shell is only 460 kg, but the weight of the 381 mm shell is 920 kg, is it possible that the damage caused by the 920 kg shell and the 460 kg shell on the hull will be similar? Think of the fear and shudder that Schell faced when he stood on the "King" and faced the 15-inch shells that came at him from the British.

The Germans still had the guts to fight with the British, and Li Haidon estimated that if he faced that situation, he would definitely not say a word, turn around and run.

Due to the lack of strategic reserves, the German Navy began construction in 1913 to prepare the Bavaria-class battleships with 380 mm guns, but they lacked sufficient armor steel and were not built by the end of the war.

The German navy was trapped in the harbor throughout the European war, not because of cowardice or some so-called order of the Kaiser, but because of a despair that no one else could understand: to confront these battleships armed with 12-inch guns against British battleships armed with 15-inch guns was tantamount to making them commit suicide.

LeHaydon suddenly thought of a certain navy who was complacent about "hitting warships with fishing boats", and was simply speechless, do you mean they are ignorant, or do you really not understand what a real navy is.

Fortunately, in this world, due to the existence of Lechelton, the German Navy did not take the detour of "hexagonal main turret layout" in the era of dreadnoughts because of the way to configure the main guns, which allowed the ship designers of the German Navy to equip their capital ships with larger caliber guns with a limited budget with sufficient displacement, without weakening the defenses.

At present, the lead ships of the German Navy are equipped with 280-mm guns, the Nassau class is armed with 305-mm guns, the Helgoland and Caesar classes are equipped with the same 330-mm guns as the Austro-Hungarian Navy's Combined Forces class, and the King class is armed with larger caliber 350-mm guns.

And because Lechelton had stockpiled a large amount of rare metals before the war, the Germans did not have to halt the construction of the Bavaria-class battleships because they did not have enough high-quality steel, although they had to use a large amount of gold reserves. The stoppage of the "Bavaria" class was a fatal blow to the German Navy, because with the exception of the "Bavaria" class, they simply could not come up with battleships capable of confronting the British.

The result of Helden's discussions with Marshal Ingnoll and Admiral Spee was to complete the construction of five "Bavaria"-class battleships, and after the commissioning of this class of capital ships, they would be able to have enough strength to have a real main battle with the British Royal Navy. Regarding the sinking of battleships, Li Haidon's view is also unique, "Battleships are a kind of thing to be consumed with opponents, compared with industrial capacity and national strength, as long as they build more than their opponents and are faster than their opponents, no matter how big the loss is, they will eventually achieve victory at sea." In order to obtain maritime rights, it is worth the cost.

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