Albert learned of the escape of the main force of the High Seas Fleet from Wilhelmshaven in the early hours of the next morning, and the signal flag effectively severed the connection between Wilhelmshaven and Berlin, and it was not until the fleet had rounded Cape Grenen that communications were restored.

"The main fleet ran away?"

Albert's face was full of consternation, among the terms of the Allies' armistice, the High Seas Fleet was an unavoidable one, and according to the preliminary agreement, the High Seas Fleet should go to Scapa Bay under the watchful eye of the Royal Navy. Moreover, in order to prevent accidents, the firing devices of all the guns of the High Seas Fleet were to be removed, the number of sailors had to be kept to a minimum, and the fuel was almost enough for a one-way voyage.

If the High Seas Fleet had not been guarded, the Entente would never have been at ease in carrying out peace talks like this, and now the people below have actually told him that the main force of the High Seas Fleet has run away, do you think Albert is in a hurry?

"Bastard, who gave them such audacity, who gave the order!" Albert slapped the table angrily and asked a few completely pointless questions.

Fortunately, this Su zhì, who also has a political family, quickly sobered up and knew that there was no point in scolding the street like a shrew. Albert, who forced himself to calm down, pondered for a moment and then asked, "How strict is the situation?" How many ships have left port? ”

The list of departing ships was quite long, and Albert's face turned ugly every time the secretary read a name. Let's pick up the important ones, two Bavaria-class battleships, four King-class battleships, two D-Fringer-class battlecruisers, one Cedritz-class battlecruiser, one Moltke-class battlecruiser, two Cologne-class light cruisers, four Collins-class light cruisers, two Brummer-class light cruisers, and don't mention anything about destroyers.

Anyway, these battleships are the essence of the German Navy, the main force of the main force. Without them, the strength of the high seas fleet is basically removed by almost half.

"Send them a telegram at once. Order them to return to the military port at once! Albert said this almost through gritted teeth.

But his orders work, if they work. The High Seas Fleet will not escape. For the order of the Prime Minister. Domanik scoffed at it and sent back a statement that had been prepared long ago.

In this statement, von . The officers led by Ruit refused to recognize the legitimacy of Albert's provisional government, nor did they accept the result of Wilhelm II's abdication. They regarded Albert as a traitor to the state and the nation, and demanded that the people of the whole country act immediately to overthrow the illegal regime of this traitor and arrest him! Hang him!

Such a statement naturally made Albert angry enough, but what was the use of being angry. It is important to eliminate unfavorable outcomes. After an urgent discussion at a cabinet meeting, two decisions were made: first, to continue to contact the defective officers and continue to do "ideological work" to strive for a peaceful solution; Second, prepare for the worst and immediately organize the remaining ships of the High Seas Fleet to intercept them.

"It's sad that a handful of conspirators with ulterior motives have stolen our fleet in an attempt to disrupt our quest for peace," Albert said. I would say that we will tell them with practical actions. This is wishful thinking! ”

The applause rang out, but I didn't know what was worth applauding. Isn't it all crap?

Of course. Albert doesn't just talk nonsense, he's also quite political. Immediately after the meeting, he contacted Hindenburg, the representative of the German officer corps and the Junker landlords.

"Didn't you say that the army was completely under control? Why is this happening! ”

Hindenburg was a little unhappy with Albert's questioning, and in his opinion Albert was just a political clown, just a relatively less bad choice in the current bad situation. However, for the sake of the overall situation, he tried to restrain his anger as much as possible, explaining:

"As far as I know, this is an action taken by a part of the officers privately. I will do my best to convince them! ”

"Then you'd better hurry, we're limited in time!"

With that, Albert hung up the phone angrily, annoying Hindenburg on the other end of the line.

"Unreasonable harness worker, he thought he was talking to someone." Hindenburg vented at Grener, scolding and chattering for a while before hanging his head, "What the hell is going on?" Don't Scheer and Hippert even have the slightest bit of control? ”

"It's a mess across the country." Grener replied with embarrassment.

Indeed, as the revolution unfolded, there was no place for Germany to stop, and the first rebellious navy was already the hardest hit area, and it was not surprising that there would be any more chaos.

"Try to convince them that now we can only surrender!" Hindenburg rubbed his head and commanded weakly.

By this time, the mutinous fleet had arrived in the strait of Rice Island, and there was a lively discussion among the officers who remained on the flagship Baden about the way forward. The officers, who were immersed in the joy of Shun Lì's escape, were optimistic about the future, and even felt that if they reached Szczecin, the puppet regime in Berlin would collapse.

"General, call from Wilhelmshaven."

Feng. Ruyter took the telegram, glanced at it, frowned, and as he handed it to Domanik, he said: "The situation is not good, Albert ordered to intercept us, the fleet has sailed to the Kiel Canal, and the fleet in the port of Kiel is also on its way to sea......"

This news came as a surprise to the reneging officers, who had always assumed that those who did not join them in the uprising would not be hostile to them and would not take orders from Albert's puppet regime. At the very least, it should be neutral. Who would have thought that their actions would be so decisive, and that the German Navy would have to fight in the same room?

All eyes were on Karpovich for a while, and as the initiator of the uprising, everyone wanted to hear what he had to say about it.

Karpovich calmed down and said calmly: "Not everyone can fight for Germany to the end like us, and there are many cowards like Mesnier. So it is not at all surprising that they will succumb to the orders of the puppet regime! ”

Truth be told, this answer was not satisfactory, and immediately an officer asked: "Then what do we do?" Fight them. Shoot shells at our former comrades? ”

Karpovich shook his head and said, "Of course we can't do that. We can't fire on our fleet, we're not traitors like Albert, we can't attack our own people! ”

This answer made the officers a little more satisfied, if Karpovich just said that it was necessary to destroy the fleet of the puppet regime, then it would definitely be back, they would never fire at their own people, never!

"Then we surrender? Back to Wilhelmshaven? ”

Naturally, Karpovich will strongly resist this opinion: "Isn't that a failure? ”

As he spoke, he slammed the table hard: "We must not give in. Continue to Szczecin, this is our only chance! ”

He continued: "I think that from now on we should not pay attention to Berlin's telegram of surrender, we must be firm in our convictions, and we will not give up until we achieve our goal!" ”

Karpovich's words restored a little confidence to the officers, and the fleet continued southward, as if no force could stop them from proceeding to Szczecin.

Karpovich was not at all happy about this, he still did not know what was going on with Szczecin, and the qiē he had painted for the officers was all in vain. There will be no response, there will be no military coup against Berlin. After the fleet sailed into Szczecin. All lies will be exposed!

"Comrade Morrigan, is it time for you to convey to me Comrade Andrei's final instructions, and continue in the direction of Szczecin, either we will be intercepted by the German fleet, or we will be put in prison and interrogated after docking...... Either means that the operation will fail! ”

Karpovic has always been a little puzzled, why Li Xiaofeng didn't tell him the whole plan, but sent a woman to command it remotely. Karpovich to no machismo, just felt that someone did not fully trust himself.

Morrigan smiled and said, "The operation will definitely be successful, you don't have to worry about being intercepted, and you don't have to worry about sailing to Szczecin." A qiē is ready! ”

After saying that, she closed her eyes and stopped paying attention to Karpovic, which made the future ace spy a little unhappy, but he couldn't do anything to a woman, so he could only walk out in a daze.

In fact, Li Xiaofeng in Berlin is even more nervous than Karpovic, and all the forces he will be able to send have been sent out, if the operation fails. That's really a lot of work.

"Kiel calling!"

Bulganin rushed in, and from his face he could see that this was good news.

"The 2nd Squadron of the Vympel called, the operation was successful, the Kiel Canal was successfully blocked, and the German fleet was stuck!"

After hearing this news, Li Xiaofeng breathed a sigh of relief, the Kiel Canal is much closer than detouring Denmark, and once Albert wants to intercept the fleet, he will definitely use this canal. At first, a certain immortal was ready to destroy the locks of the Kiel Canal directly.

However, he overestimated the combat capabilities of the Vympel and underestimated the importance that the Germans attached to the Kiel Canal. After some field work, Li Xiaofeng was forced to abandon the plan, but blocked the canal again. Thinking about it, he could only attack the ships, and if he could sink one or two ships sailing in the canal, then the navigation of the canal would definitely be affected, and if it was done properly, it was not impossible to completely block the canal.

However, how to sink the ships sailing on the canal is a big problem, in the territory of Germany, the signal flag cannot go with heavy weapons such as cannons, and it is not particularly easy to sink a ship with artillery, it is very likely that it will be detected just after the cannon is fired, and then the signal flag will be served in a pot.

For this reason, Li Xiaofeng used his brains to think of a way, from artillery to torpedoes, all naval weapons were passed through by him, and finally his eyes fell on mines. Compared to other weapons, mines don't seem to look amazing and don't have much technical content, but they really work.

However, it is not particularly easy to lay mines in the Kiel Canal, after all, the volume of mines is also very large, and it is impossible for the German soldiers to watch the signal flag pass through with mines. And the type of mines must also be reconsidered, the trigger mines will definitely not work, the canal is only 44 meters wide and 11 meters deep, and the round trigger mines can be found at a glance. After careful consideration, Li Xiaofeng chose a magnetic sinking mine. If you throw it into the water, it will sink to the bottom, and it will be basically impossible to find, and the magnetic fuse also determines that the ship of this age is completely defenseless.

While Karpovich was agitating the main forces of the High Seas Fleet to flee Wilhelmshaven, the Vympel special forces also took advantage of the cover of night. Mines were thrown into the bottom of the river from the bridge of the Kiel Canal. Calculated according to the unlocking time of the fuse. It is estimated that the High Seas Fleet will be the first to taste the power of magnetic mines.

"Very good!" Li Xiaofeng nodded with satisfaction. Ordered: "Start the next step, let our men in Szczecin send a telegram, and let the fleet divert to Danzig!" ”

"Divert to Danzig?" Feng. Ruyt incredulously asked the translator, "Did Szczecin really say that?" ”

"Yes, Captain. A large number of warships have appeared in the direction of Szczecin, the harbor has already been blocked! ”

This news made Feng. Ruyt secretly cursed to himself, damn it, the interceptor fleet was much faster than he thought, and he actually blocked Szczecin first, what can I do?

"We can only go to Danzig!" This is Karpovich's opinion.

Let's be honest. Karpovich was also surprised by this result, because just a few minutes earlier Morrigan had told him: "Your task is to agitate the fleet to turn to Danzig. At first, he thought it was a fantasy, and it would not be easy enough to fool the Germans into Szczecin, which was close to Berlin and could use it under the guise of overthrowing the puppet regime. But what's the point of going to Danzig? And how to convince these Germans to go to Danzig? Perhaps, as soon as he made this suggestion, he would be cut into eight pieces by the angry German officers.

But now, the situation is completely different. Going to Szczecin was no longer possible, unless the Germans were willing to fight to the death with their former colleagues. Or just raise your hands and surrender, otherwise going to Szczecin is a dead end. Since it was a dead end, it was only natural to turn to Danzig.

"I am categorically opposed to going to Danzig!"

Just as the officers were contemplating Karpovic's proposal, a discordant voice came out, and Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier, who had been imprisoned, burst in and shouted: "The facts are already obvious, this operation is a joke at all, obeying the orders of Prime Minister Albert is already the general trend, we can't just go our own way!" ”

Karpovich is a little greasy, why did this thing come out again? He glanced at Feng. Ruyter, I hope that the general will immediately deal with this unsociable subordinate.

However, the general shook his head directly, and refused solemnly: "Although Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier disagrees with us, he is an officer of the Empire after all, and our actions are to protect the interests of the Empire, not to kill colleagues!" ”

Karpovich can't complain, the chivalry of the Germans is really unbearable!

After saying this, Feng. Ruyter glanced at Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier and asked in a heavy tone, "What do you think we should do?" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Messnir took a deep breath: "We should sail to Kiel ...... at once"

Karpovich immediately interrupted him: "What will you do other than surrender?" ”

Mesnier said without flinching: "This is not surrender, but obedience!" We are soldiers, and the most basic creed is obedience! ”

Karpovic was about to retort, but Domanik interjected: "Sail to Kiel for trial? Do you think it's a good building? ”

Mesnier frowned, looked at the dark faces of the officers around him, sighed and said, "We can first get in touch with General Hipper, put forward our requests, and resolve the differences through negotiations......"

Karpovich hurriedly interjected: "I am categorically against this practice, what is the difference between this and direct surrender!" As he spoke, he waved his arm heavily: "We should go to Danzig, and then take further action depending on the situation!" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier glanced deeply at Karpovich and said gloomily: "Mr. Special Envoy, I really don't understand whether you are really stupid or fake!" After the Jews in Königsberg revolted, Danzig was not safe. You insist on sending the fleet to an unsafe port, do you want to give the fleet to the Jews? ”

Karpovich instantly understood Li Xiaofeng's true intentions, Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier was not bad at all, someone was planning this. As the German uprising intensified, the German army could not take advantage of Königsberg, and the Jews easily expanded their territory in East Prussia, which had already occupied Danzig on the day of the Berlin uprising.

Let's put it this way, as long as the main forces of the High Seas Fleet sail into the port of Danzig, then don't think about leaving. Vice Admiral Basilev of the Baltic Fleet had received instructions from a certain immortal, and a large number of sailors and officers were happily waiting at Danzig to receive the ship!

"How can you be sure that Danzig is not safe enough?" Karpovich understood the intentions of a certain immortal and immediately began to retort: "There is no evidence that Danzig is not safe enough. A hundred times safer than going to Kiel to surrender! ”

"Not necessarily!"

A voice abruptly interrupted Karpovich, and Major Schroeder hurried over and handed a telegram to von Brown. Ruyter, who took the telegram and glanced at it, his face changed suddenly. By the time he looked up at Karpovich again, he was already murderous.

Karpovic's heart thumped, instinctively feeling that something was wrong. However, he forced himself to compose himself, and calmly faced Colonel Domanik's glance.

Moments later, von. Colonel Ruyt spoke: "Your Excellency, I have just received an interesting piece of information. It says that Danzig had been occupied by Jewish rebels a day earlier, and that it was already a traitor's world...... Can you please sue me why you let us go there? ”

Karpovich calmly retorted: "I didn't get this information. And how can you be sure that the information you're getting must be accurate? ”

Feng. Ruyt's face flashed with murderous intent, and he shouted with anger: "Of course I can be sure that my brother served in Danzig, and he has confirmed that Danzig has fallen!" As he spoke, he roared, "Also, Major Schroeder made a special call to the Admiralty and His Excellency the former Prime Minister at the request of Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier, and they unanimously denied your existence!" Also unanimously denied what the group of officers opposed to the Provisional Government! Say! Who the hell are you! (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank Comrade Juventus and the brother who gave the mooncake, because I don't know who gave it to me, so I can only express my gratitude in general!