Chapter 191: Britain's Bloodletting
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After 1917, the countries of the world could clearly feel that China's top leaders had a hint of "arrogance", and after World War I, when countries re-examined China's economic figures, they were surprised that China's steel output in 1917 reached 48.13 million tons, overshadowing the United States' 450,000 tons of steel production, becoming the world's largest industrial power.
A stronger national power will make the country's leadership full of confidence, but this is a gradual change as the national power continues to increase, and the 17-year Chinese leadership gives the impression of a mutation, until the appearance of China's weapons in World War II, all countries know what China has accomplished in 17 years through guò declassified archives. When Einstein first proposed the mass-energy equation in the special theory of relativity in 19o5, no one thought that in just 12 years, China had already proved this equation through practice, and God may not want to let the world enter the nuclear age so soon. Nuclear weapons continue to grow in secret.
The current Hammer Club is like this, holding a nuclear stick, although he hides this stick in his bag and doesn't want to show it, but he unconsciously shows his domineering attitude in his policies and various diplomacy towards other countries, and has a strategic weapon that instantly destroys a city, and the confrontation of Europe's million-strong army has become a child's game in the eyes of the Hammer Society's top management.
In 1917, these European dolls in the eyes of the Hammer Society can be said to have displayed all their toys, and the most spectacular capital ship decisive battle during World War I began. This is the pinnacle of the industrial revolution of this era. There are no fools in the world, after the large-scale use of aircraft in the chain hammer society, these naval warfare experts began to explore the role of aircraft in naval warfare, the reconnaissance role of reconnaissance aircraft was revealed, and the huge sea steel fortress clusters of Germany and Britain knew very well where their enemies were, this is the role of aircraft, and under the guidance of aircraft, two steel giants collided in the North Atlantic.
Reinhard, the commander of the German fleet, was not confident about this battle, because the gap between the British Navy and the German Navy was too great in terms of numbers, the British Royal Navy had a far greater total number of naval guns than their opponents (272:2oo), and because the German naval guns were generally of small caliber, the gap in broadside salvo fire was even greater. Such a large gap, coupled with Britain's reputation as invincible in the Royal Navy for hundreds of years, filled the German Navy with the shadow of invincibility.
Until one day, a 6th Army general questioned this admiral in person, the role of the British Royal Navy. Reinhard patiently told this colleague of the 6th Army that the British Royal Navy is the cornerstone of Britain's maintenance of global hegemony, and can quickly strike at the world, based on a strong navy, Britain has become the world's number one power through global trade, when Reinhard gushed about the role of the navy, the officer of the 6th Army asked unceremoniously: "What about the role of the high seas fleet?" Reinhard frowned, he thought that this was because his colleagues in the 6th Army were very dissatisfied with the inaction of the navy, and when Reinhard wanted to explain the role of the navy in Germany's becoming a world power again, the officer of the 6th Army said politely: "Dear sir, I don't know the navy, but I understand the role of the army in the war, guarding the goals that should be guarded, and destroying the goals that the enemy wants to protect." Now Germany's coastline is very small, the external trade lines are completely strangled, Germany has no more worthy targets to protect at sea, the British have destroyed the sea targets we need to protect, and they can still protect their own targets, I think the German navy has lost until now. ”
This remark made Reinhard's mind like a light flashed in the night, the German navy has always been mired in the theory of naval decisive victory, and the strategic goal of the navy has been in a dead circle on how to destroy the opponent's main fleet, but it has never thought about the strategic role of the navy to the country. Yes, the survival of the navy is to protect its own trade lines and destroy the enemy's trade lines, and when it is unable to complete the task of monopolizing sea power, it must do the above two things as much as possible.
Reinhard remembered the war between China and Japan a few years ago, when all countries focused their attention on the bright spot of China's sneak attack on Japan's Grand Fleet with aircraft, but ignored that even if the Japanese fleet was attacked by China, its maritime strength was still stronger than China's, but it was surrendered by China with a broken war, the fundamental reason is that Japan is more dependent on maritime trade than China, a big 6 country, even though Japan's fleet is still strong, but it can't take care of the sea lines of communication, and Japan's powerful navy has failed from the country's point of view. Naval warfare is by no means just about how many enemy warships are sunk, but about how much other countries' maritime strategies are injured more than their own in naval warfare.
When Reinhard drew up a battle plan like looking for an officer of the 6th Army who woke him up, he learned that the captain had died on the battlefield, Reinhard regretted that Germany had lost a master strategist, and for the sake of Germany, Reinhard explained to Wilhelm the upcoming mission of the German Navy.
In 1917, when the High Seas Fleet rushed towards Britain with an indomitable decisive momentum, Reinhard gave orders to the entire fleet to all the owners, "The target is a hovering mass belonging to England on the ocean." The British naval commander John was also very excited when he received the dispatch of the German Navy, and the Royal Navy, which had absolute superiority in sea power, needed a lively fleet decisive battle to establish the advantage of this world war.
From the high-altitude point of view of the aircraft, there were more than a hundred warships in each of the two fleets, and the British had a clear advantage in the main forces and tonnage. Millions of tons of steel were divided into two camps as they battled at sea, and swarms of battleships split the waves and spewed black smoke into the cloudy sky.
Suddenly, all the batteries on both sides turned in unison, and the huge barrels of guns pointed at the opposite side, like a legion of iron giants pointing their swords at each other. "Boom" Within a few seconds, the batteries on one of the battleships fired one after another, and the huge reaction force pushed the steel hull of the huge battleship in the opposite direction. The firefight began. At the same time, hundreds of tons of shells were smashed against the opposite side of the battleship. The light of the occasional explosion of fire resonated wildly on the steel hull.
When the war started, Reinhard's current situation was not as bad as he imagined, the shells used by the British were picric acid, picric acid explosion was powerful but unstable, the shell exploded on the periphery of the hull because of violent vibration when it touched the steel plate of the German battleship, the power of the gunpowder explosion did not completely act on the hull, and the German shell hit the British battleship and exploded after a distance, although the power of TNT was not as great as picric acid, but the explosive exploded inside the hull of the British, The damage inflicted was much greater than that of the British shell strikes. As for the hollow charge, the navy of the Chain Hammer Society used it against the Dutch, and such small naval battles were ignored by the nations.
Now that the British cannonballs are not powerful, Reinhard remembered the proverb in Europe that a country died because of a horseshoe nail, and now is the moment when the British horseshoes at sea are nailed off, Reinhard is determined to seize this moment, if the British wait until next time, the British repair the problem of cannonballs, the high seas fleet will not be able to take advantage of this. Reinhard said in a deep voice: "God is giving Germany a chance to create a zào, and this battle will make the British feel distressed." ”
The European war ** appeared, the Germans relied on the advantages of artillery shells and battleship design to start a full-scale decisive battle with the Royal Navy, the German fleet did not accept it as in history, and left with a small win, but stalked and fought against the British, if the Germans won this naval battle, then the Germans had world-class naval personnel from then on, the battle went from day to night, both sides did not retreat, and the destroyers on both sides began a lightning battle at night.
As the war progressed, the hearts of the British began to sink, the losses were too great, and Britain could not withstand several such challenges. The British Empire could not withstand such drastic attrition, but Britain could not retreat, and once it could not prevent the German Navy from breaking through the blockade, then the British mainland and trade routes would be threatened, and Britain's losses would be even greater. Both sides gritted their teeth and fought this naval battle. However, as the night deepened, the capital ships of both sides left to prevent the loss of the surprise attack of the opposite boat.
In this naval battle, all six old battleships of the German army were sunk, the loss of three dreadnoughts, the loss of four battle cruisers, and the total tonnage loss of other battleships was close to 360,000 tons, and the combat effectiveness of the high seas fleet was weakened by half, but the British lost even more ruthlessly, and 600,000 tons of battleships were sunk. Tactically, Germany won, Germany sank more enemy ships, in the short term strategy Britain won, the German navy was still blocked in the port, but from the national strategy, Germany maintained the status quo, and the foundation of Britain's world dominance was loosened.
The magnificent North Atlantic naval battle has just come to an end, China's support for the Republic of Lanfang can be said to be blatant, the Dutch set off a large-scale counterattack in Jawa, more than 200,000 natives were instigated by the Dutch to charge towards the army of the Republic of Lanfang, in the face of this group of disorderly troops that rely purely on numbers to frighten, Lanfang used chlorine bombs. The miserable green mist slowly rushed towards the charging natives with the breeze, and at this time, China's chemical industry can be said to be the world's first in terms of output. A large number of tribal warriors were smoked to the ground in groups, unorganized and undisciplined, and even the natives who did not have a unified command encountered this unfavorable scene of war, burrowed into the jungle like monkeys, and 200,000 people disappeared without a trace. Only the corpses and the Dutch "indigenous army" about to turn into corpses remained on the land. Immigrants from Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi were sent to Nanyang in groups, and for the first time, the Chinese occupied overseas land in an organized manner. Militarily, Lanfang's army is now completely dependent on the support of the big 6, and in agriculture, China's big 6 has now developed hybrid rice, and as soon as this artifact appears, Lanfang, a fascist country, has been firmly controlled by the big 6.
The genocide of the South Seas began, and as for the Dutch, for the sake of international influence, according to the construction of the Great 6, these Dutchmen were handed over to the Great 6 to return to Europe. No one cares about the massacre of natives in this era, but the massacre of whites should not be done for the time being. Sooner or later, the revenge will be avenged, and the time will come when China's industry has climbed to a certain point and China and Europe understand the cause and effect in the South Seas.
Strong diplomacy requires strength. Cheng Pan believes that China in this time and space will definitely shout out that it will be punished even if it is far away. In the face of the unscrupulous stirring up of the Hammer Society in the South Seas, the British have begun to be vigilant, and British diplomats have even discussed with their allies how to suppress China after the end of the European war.