Admiral May did not pay much attention to the battle outside the Helgoland Bay, the Hipper's fleet was an accident, but such harassment was of no avail, the sinking of a few troop transports and the death of thousands of soldiers was insignificant, and his fleet brought a full 100,000 troops, as long as the resistance at the mouth of the Elbe could be solved and those two divisions could be sent to Cuxport as quickly as possible, then the operation would be considered a victory.

At this time, the British cruiser destroyers that were blocked by drifting mines had gradually sailed out of the minefield, and were rushing towards the German battleships in two groups like wolves, but during this period, one British light cruiser and four destroyers were sunk by drifting mines, and these sunken battleships were lying across the channel, causing a lot of trouble to the British battleships that followed, and the drifting mines that followed down with the current also began to crash into these sea monsters.

For these old antiques that appeared from time to time in the waves, both the captain and the ordinary sailors on the British battleships were stern and lacked sufficient vigilance, and as the German cruiser destroyers that posed a serious threat to them were forced to turn around and block the approaching British cruiser destroyers, the thirteen German battleships that had lost cover were exuding an alluring aroma like thirteen pieces of fat. In this case, the British captains who were carried away by the victory did not care about this, they could almost dodge, not to mention a maximum of 100 kilograms of black medicine, even if they were replaced with nitrocellulose of the same weight, in their opinion, it was no different from a mosquito bite, of course, a lion would not let the mosquito get close to him when he napped, and who would care about them when he pounced on the antelope.

In this way, the two British capital ships crashed straight into the first wave of minefields down the river, and almost in the blink of an eye, two explosions that were not too big sounded on the surface of the water, and the battleship Sovereign and the battlecruiser Daring each collided with a mine almost simultaneously. As the core of the British Home Fleet, the Edward VII-class III, the Sovereign only reduced its speed, but the Audacity, which had the same name as the original historical ship, was exploded and tore a big hole in the waterline, and then the sea water rushed into its cabin under heavy pressure.

Supposedly, such an injury is not serious. There were several, and even more than one of the German battleships that were now at war on the sea, but what made Admiral May almost clubbed the telescope into his eye socket was that the huge body of the Bold began to tilt obviously, and then after a few minutes, the inclination began to increase. The signal soldier hurriedly made a request to withdraw from the battle, and before Admiral Mei could agree, the huge ship with a displacement of 20,000 tons could no longer care about the battle. Like a whipped dog, it slanted its huge body and hurriedly sailed to the shallows in the distance, obviously its goal was to run aground there, otherwise it would be difficult for the more than 700 officers and men on this ship to escape once it overturned in the deep water.

The officers and men of the German navy, who were fighting against adversity on the sea, were so uplifted by this scene that cheers rang out from some of the warships, and so far three British capital ships had been sunk, which was very important for them who were outnumbered. It is indeed worth cheering, but unfortunately before their cheers have fallen, the Thuringia sank under the fire of the French Guba and the Paris because of too many bullets and water ingress.

This was the first German battleship sunk by the French Navy, and the French Navy since the Vietnam War. The heaviest victory, for a time everyone on the four French battleships cheered.

Inside the command tower of the Deutsches, Prince Heinrich watched the scene with a calm expression.

In fact, at this time, even he understood. The High Seas Fleet was sure to be wiped out this time, and when he heard that Britain and France had formed a combined fleet to enter the Gulf of Helgoland, he and the main admirals of the High Seas Fleet were already aware of their fate. The current one qiē is nothing more than stalling for time, buying as much time as possible for the reinforcements of the army. In order to keep their homeland, William and Count Schlieffen had to shrink their lines again, and at the cost of abandoning Lithuania, they drew back an extremely valuable army group from the Eastern Front and arrived by train, as well as an army stationed in the Netherlands, which would take at least a day to complete the adjustment.

Prince Heinrich and his fleet had to hold the British back for at least a day with their lives, which was clearly an extremely difficult task given the balance of strength between the two sides.

"Let's start wrecking." His Royal Highness looked at the sinking Thuringia and said with a blank expression.

Scheer saluted him, then turned to give the order.

After receiving the order of Prince Heinrich, six merchant ships that had just sailed from Hamburg to block the shipping lane, as well as two Saxony-class ironclads that had actually been used as a naval museum, opened the sea valve at the mouth of the Elbe and slowly sank underwater, leaving only the upper half of the hull still exposed, with the sinking of these ships, the Elbe channel was completely blocked, not only the Elbe channel, but also the channel to the mouth of the Wiehy River to Bremen was blocked by several old ironclads from Wilhelmshaven.

Of course, this was completely expected for the British, who were not prepared to go north through the Guò Elbe River to Hamburg, their target was only Cuxhaven, which was already within the control of their cruisers, and there was no need to worry about this problem at all, and now they only needed to sink the German High Seas Fleet in the middle, and the landing ships that were currently waiting behind could rush up and quickly solve the small number of German troops hastily cobbled together there by rushing to the beach and then occupy the port.

So all they need to do next is to continue to fight until their old opponents are completely eliminated, the brutal bloody battle at sea continues, the two fleets are like two gladiators in the gladiatorial arena fighting endlessly, the steel warships shuttle between the stirring water columns in the roar of cannonballs, the wreckage torn apart by the explosion slowly sinks with flames, the leaked diesel fuel is ignited and burns on the surface of the sea, and the tracks dragged up by torpedoes under the sea water are moving rapidly, The sea monsters in front of the torpedo hurriedly dodged and the huge cannons were still spewing flames, and the Helgoland Bay had completely turned into a blazing bay at this time.

While this decisive battle was in progress, Hai Jing and the Austro-Hungarian Minister to China, Roston, also arrived at the Imperial Palace in Beijing with the last hope of the Allied bloc, and once again asked the Chinese Emperor Xià to enter the war immediately.

"I'm afraid this is unlikely, declaring war requires a reason, and China is a democratic constitutional country, although I have the right to declare war, but that also needs to be authorized by the Congress, as for the Congress, you should also know that it is very difficult to expect those parliamentarians to make a decision in a short period of time, not to mention such a big thing as declaring war on the outside world, after all, they need to be responsible for the domestic people, and China is emotionally very deep for either of you, if there is not enough reason, rashly announce that you will join the Allies, I'm afraid it's hard for them to accept. Emperor Yang said with a sincere face, as the chief director of this big play, of course he couldn't run to dismantle the stage when it just opened.

However, what he said is also the truth, joining the Allies is only a guarantee made by him and the Chinese government, and the Chinese Congress has never guaranteed anything to Germany and Austria, although everyone knows that at this time, the Chinese Congress was completely under the control of Emperor Yang, and 90% of the members of the upper house who had the qualifications to declare war were only his leader, and the remaining 10% were just used as decorations.

Although it was still in vain, fortunately, the mobilization of the Chinese navy and land forces was still very reassuring to Germany and Austria, because at this time, a huge fleet consisting of all nine battleships, sixteen battle cruisers, and more than 160 cruiser destroyers was just joining China with Laos and Khmer to join China's assembly at the Cam Ranh Bay naval base in the Kingdom of Vietnam, in addition to almost all the large landing ships and troop carriers currently in the hands of the Chinese navy.

The three Marine Divisions and the Army's six infantry divisions that were preparing to take these ships were also rushing by train to the assembly area in Cam Ranh Bay.

It is clear that China is already making final preparations for entering the war, and it only needs to get a reason, an excuse, that the first ten divisions will sail to Europe as fast as possible, and at the speed of those high-speed troop carriers they will be able to sail from Cam Ranh Bay to Kuwait in fifteen days, and then go directly to the battlefield along the railway in Ottoman territory.

Of course, it is unrealistic to expect the Chinese army to solve the current danger in Germany, all Wilhelm needs is for China to announce its entry into the Entente, at that time Yang Feng's allies in Europe will naturally turn Germany into a safe place, the Ottoman Empire's one million army will join the Eastern Front, the Russian army can only shrink the current defensive line, and Germany can draw another army group to join the defense of Hamburg on the Eastern Front. Similarly, when the Spanish Army attacked northward, the French could only draw men and horses from the front line to defend their backs, and Germany could draw out at least one army group, so that even if the two army groups drawn by the British from the Italian battlefield were all sent to the German battlefield, the result would be a dead end.

In the eyes of Britain, France and Russia, it is obvious that Yang Feng is going to bet, since it is a bet to the side that will win, and the current situation is naturally them, not to mention them, at this time the vast majority of countries have determined that before the end of the year, this four-year world war will eventually end in the defeat of the Allied bloc.

Unfortunately, no one knew that at this time, more than a million Chinese troops, including three armored divisions, were massing towards Mongolia. (To be continued......)