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170 losers who went to the ocean

The east is adjacent to the Jieshi to view the sea, and the water is full of mountains and islands.

Situ Nan stood on the bow of William's ship, facing the wind and waves, and had his own heroic spirit. Before I knew it, the above verse jumped out of my mind.

Although Lao Cao was heroic back then, he was an emperor after all, and the ocean was still too profound for him The ancients rode horses in the Central Plains, after all, they went around and around or nested in the small world over there for thousands of years.

"I've got a little gold, a little silver, a couple of boats in the sea, and a beautiful wife, what more could I ask for?"

As this Spanish folk song that Stunan heard from Havana says, in the eyes of Westerners, their happiness comes from the sea, from trade and conquest.

And the people who have lived for generations and east of the Himalayan foothills have used "30 acres of land and a cow, and wives and children are hot pits". Their happiness comes from the ground, from the hard work and sweat.

The difference in understanding of the sea has caused the different situation between the East and the West today, and the long-term lead of the Eastern land civilization has been gradually overwhelmed hundreds of years ago with the rise of Western navigation.

The lessons of history tell Situ Nan that he has declined against the sea and prospered near the sea. From Spain and Portugal to the Netherlands, and then to the United Kingdom and the United States today, the key to how much a country and a nation can achieve lies in how much sea it has mastered

"You know what? Leo, it seems to me that this vast ocean in front of us is like the Colosseum of ancient Rome, in which countless competitors are fighting selflessly, and all the contenders have countless bloody corpses under their feet.

You Germans were also strong challengers, but unfortunately we failed, but I still admire the spirit of competition, and you show the world your strength and courage. “

Situ Nan said lightly.

The unsmiling man standing beside him was the drunkard who had been brought back to the William last night. But at this moment, he has come to his senses.

"Did the German Navy fail? In the race to break out of the North Sea and dominate the Atlantic, did Germany lose? ”。

Leo snorted his lips and said unwillingly: "No, we have not yet failed, our submarine forces have tightened the throats of the British, and they are almost unable to withstand it."

On the Eastern Front, we have already dealt with the Russians. The German Empire was not going to fail. ”

"Oh? Is it? I think Germany is in a very difficult situation, as the saying goes, two fists are no match for four hands, and you have had a hard time dealing with the British, the French, the Russians, and the Italians, but now you are annoying the Americans.

The Americans are the key to the direction of this war, and the continuous flow of supplies from the United States to Europe will be the 'straw' that overwhelms the German giants."

Situ Nan said disdainfully, he knew very well what kind of role he played in it.

Leo was silent for a while, shook his head, and said firmly: "The soldiers of Germany are loyal and brave, they are invincible. Even if the navy is trapped for a while, on land the soldiers of the empire will deal a heavy blow to their enemies. Germany will not lose, even if it fights to the end. ”

"Well, you're right. But we will wait and see what the final result will be, in short, now that the German navy has indeed suffered a setback, they will not be able to get out of the Atlantic for a while. ”

Situ Nan smiled, and without waiting for the other party to refute, the conversation changed, "I heard you say last night, you are a German navy, so I took the liberty of inviting you to my ship."

Can you tell me your story? The Far Eastern Fleet once had a glorious history, and I wonder how you guys did it"

Leo took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: "I left Qingdao with the Spee fleet shortly after the start of the war, when I was the captain of the combat staff of the Scharnhorst cruiser, and I was sent to the Far East shortly after graduating from the military academy, but I didn't expect to catch up with the battle all of a sudden.

Unfortunately, the Japanese were joined by the dwarfs of the East, and after they declared war on us, we lost our foothold in East Asia and headed south along the Pacific Ocean.

We went all the way south, raiding a lot of British ships along the way, getting supplies from them.

Like hide and seek in the Pacific, the British could not find us, and we constantly broke through the enemy blockade, frequently attacking British, French and Russian merchant ships.

Every time we left, the British couldn't find us at all, and had to follow our ass and eat ashes, and their routes in Asia were greatly damaged.

The "Emden" also entered the Indian Ocean for a time, and they achieved brilliant results, but unfortunately I was not under the command of Major Müller.

However, under the leadership of General Spee, we soon destroyed the enemy's Clark fleet in the Battle of Coronel, and the old ships of the British were no match for us at all, and the "Cape of Good Hope" and "Monmouth" were sunk by us.

Ha ha

Think of those exciting battles, which are now nostalgic. This was the first time that our navy had fought face to face with the British, who had dominated the seas for two or three hundred years, and it was the first time that we had given them a taste of defeat. ”

Leo remembers that the excitement of watching the enemy's rice flag slowly sink into the sea at dusk, which smelled faintly of gunsmoke, was indescribable.

Despite the fact that the battle began at more than four o'clock in the morning and ended at seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and the fierce battle lasted for more than ten hours, everyone was immersed in the joy of victory, and everyone did not feel hungry at all.

After all, it was the first time that they defeated the British Royal Navy on the water, it was not easy, since the British became the world hegemon, all European countries were overwhelmed by them, but in the Battle of Coronelle, the Germans suddenly showed the British how powerful they were.

"Unfortunately, the joy of victory did not last long, and our situation became bad after entering the Atlantic."

Leo's tone became low, "The Annoyed British sent a large number of warships to surround us from all directions in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and all our routes home were blocked.

In the Falkland Islands, we were overtaken by them, and we fought fiercely, but this time the goddess of victory abandoned us.

The disparity in our strength is too great compared to the other. Spee's fleet consisted of only two armored cruisers and three light cruisers led by the Scharnhorst, and the enemy actually sent all the battle cruisers, and there were two, not counting their three armored cruisers and a number of light cruisers?

The British's cannons had a maximum caliber of 305 mm, while ours had a maximum caliber of 210 mm, and their shells penetrated our armor lightly, and our shells hit them as if they were tickling.

The battle was unfought, almost one-sided slaughter, like the one we had recently staged on Clark's fleet, desperately tragic."

Leo closed his eyes in pain, as if he saw the cannon fire coming towards him like thunder, blowing his own warship to pieces

The burning battleship, the broken limbs of the ship, and the torn shouts of the officers and men reproduced in Leo's mind, until suddenly a huge explosion blew the ammunition depot of the Scharnhorst, and the air wave catapulted him into the sea, and finally he was unconscious.

Situ Nan listened quietly, without saying a word, he seemed to smell a faint smell of gunpowder smoke from Leo. He, who had never felt the battlefield, was a little moved by this soldier who survived the catastrophe

After the war, except for the small "Dresden" and one hospital ship, which escaped by night, the Spee fleet was completely destroyed.

From a military point of view, the Battle of the Falklands fully showed that the battlecruiser was the nemesis of the heavy cruiser. Since the firepower of a battleship and the speed of a cruiser, a battleship other than a battleship is almost dead or alive when it encounters a battlecruiser.

has the intention to kill the enemy, but has no power to return to the sky

Leo still remembers the helplessness and pain when General Spee ordered the "Scharnhorst" to sink itself.

The countless soldiers struggling in the icy waters are still vivid, because he is one of them

Go fight like Spee until the last lesson and never surrender

The best fate for a navy is to die at sea, and like Spee and his two sons, Leo thought he too would die with a bang, but fate teased him

Before he could save a drop of blood for the German Empire, he was swept out to sea by a sudden wave of air, and a "nosy" freighter happened to pass through the waters of the Falkland Islands.

At that time, it was already dark and the sea was dark, and the British Royal Navy searched the sea, rescued some German prisoners, and returned triumphantly.

Most of the German soldiers who fell overboard were killed in the belly of the fish, except for a few who became prisoners of the British.

Leo was lucky, when he was fished up, his whole body was cold and breathing, but he survived in the end.

When he opened his eyes, he saw another lucky man, his current companion Lucas, a non-commissioned officer who had been a sailing non-commissioned officer of the Gnexenor.

However, Lucas was more fortunate to be rescued first, and he was still conscious when he was rescued, and it was Lucas who begged hard to make the German captain turn around and search around, and finally rescued Leo.

Later they recuperated on the ship. During this period, he also thought about returning to Germany, but in the face of the British blockade, it was never realized, so it was slowly delayed.

The journey back to Germany was too long, and over the years Leo and Lucas had been following the captain who had taken them in, often traveling back and forth between Cuba and South America.

Since the Battle of Jutland, the High Seas Fleet has become the fleet of the Zài, much to the disappointment of the two of them. The Germans became the losers who went to the sea, and they failed to realize their ambitions for the sea.

On the contrary, the ships of the Americans, who had been watching the fire from across the shore, could travel all over the world as they pleased, and they became the winners

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