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"The Sound of Cannon in the Atlantic" is mainly about a battle in the Atlantic Ocean during the one-stop period.

This is also the first time that the people of the ugly country have participated in a naval battle.

In August 1914, the First World Station broke out, and the two sides of the war were divided into two factions, one was the Entente led by Britain, France and Russia, and the other was the Central Powers led by Germany and Austria-Hungary.

As the war progressed, both sides were in a painful stalemate.

How can this impasse be broken?

It depends on who can pull a powerful ally into their camp, and the most powerful key ally to determine the outcome of the war at that time was the United States.

As we all know, the ugly country entered the war in the late stage of World War I, so how did Britain pull the ugly country into the gang?

Benefit!

Britain is very scheming and has long wanted to bring in ugly countries, but ugly countries have historically pursued the "Monroe Doctrine", that is, the fifth old Monroe of ugly countries, and proposed not to allow Europe to intervene in the Americas, nor did they want the United States to intervene in European affairs.

In this way, ugly countries will have time to digest some of the dividends they have gained through expansion in the Americas, South America, Central America, and the Pacific.

Wilson, the boss of the ugly nation at the time, had won the election by promising to remain neutral, so it was very difficult to get him to agree to join World War I.

But if the ugly country is asked to choose a side between Britain and Germany, it will undoubtedly choose the sunset empire, after all, the same roots speak the same language, and many of the early systems of the ugly country were copied from the British, and the ugly country has a natural affinity for the United Kingdom.

Germany is different, in terms of ethnicity, language, system, etc., it is impossible for ugly countries to stand on their side, and Germany is well aware of this, so Germany has not considered attracting the United States to join it, but only thinks about how to prevent it from joining the other side's camp.

Originally, the ugly countries claimed to remain neutral, and Germany did not have to worry, but in 1917, the situation changed.

Germany is good at fighting land warfare, but it is completely unable to match Britain in naval warfare, because Britain's maritime strength has been accumulated over several hundred years, and although Germany wants to catch up and surpass, it will be very difficult for a while.

The British Navy blockaded the German Navy in the ports off the coast of Germany, and in the famous Battle of Jutland in 1916, the German Navy had the upper hand but was unable to break through the blockade.

So Germany decided to use unrestricted submarine warfare to counteract.

The so-called unlimited submarine warfare means that warships and merchant ships, as long as ships appear in the war zone or neutral countries, use submarines to attack, and do not even greet them in advance.

Indiscriminately seeing who is hitting whom, although somewhat unreasonable, is very effective.

Seeing this, many neutral countries did not dare to take the risk of transporting supplies to Britain, and Britain relied on imports for many supplies.

If Britain is locked down for a few months, the British will have to starve to death.

But this practice has offended a large number of countries, and the ugly country is one of them, and the capitalists are not allowed to make money, and they will have a good life if they are cut off from their financial routes?

Of course, there's another trigger, though it's not very helpful.

As early as May 1915, a German U-boat launched a torpedo attack on the transatlantic passenger ship "Lusitania", killing more than 1,000 civilians, 124 of whom were of ugly nationality.

This provoked public outrage in the ugly country, and then the boss of the ugly country issued a warning to Germany.

If Germany did this again, the Ugly Congress would immediately join the Entente camp and declare war on Germany.

Germany was pressured by all sides to compromise.

However, in 1917, the old German trick was repeated, and unrestricted submarine warfare was carried out again.

The unrestricted submarine war not only caused the lives of many ugly people, but also violated the interests of ugly countries, you must know that the war has caused the United States to lose trade contacts with many countries, and if it does not make up for it from the Entente countries, what can the domestic economy do.

That's the fundamental!

Moreover, Britain bought a large amount of war materials from the ugly country and managed to borrow 10 billion from the ugly country, so that the interests of the ugly country were tied to the Entente.

If the Entente were defeated, how could they have the money to pay back?

Therefore, Germany was a little uneasy about the ugly country, and feared that the ugly country would join the British camp, so it wanted to do something to make it set fire in its backyard and force the ugly country to have no time to take care of European affairs.

So Germany immediately followed up with two more things, trying to prevent the ugly country from entering the war, but it turned out to be counterproductive.

One thing was to send spies to incite workers to strike in the ugly country, and also planted bombs everywhere to sabotage, which was later discovered by the agents of the ugly country, causing public outrage.

Another thing is the diplomatic oolong incident.

What's going on?

In January 1917, Foreign Secretary Zimmerman wanted to take advantage of the historical contradictions between Mexico and the ugly country to do something.

He wrote a telegram to the German ambassador to the United States and asked him to forward it to the German ambassador in Mexico, which read as follows:

[Our side is preparing to launch an unrestricted submarine war on February 1.

Still, we hope that the ugly country will remain neutral, otherwise we will propose an alliance with Mexico.

The conditions for the alliance were that "the two sides join forces in the war, seek peace together, and provide preferential financial assistance."

and understand Mexico's urgent desire to regain lost territories such as Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona."

We're also in discussions with Neon about this, so please let the Mexican boss know. 】

This telegram is the famous Zimmerman telegram during World War I.

It turned out that Mexico had been indignant that a lot of its territory had been snatched away by ugly countries in the early years, and Germany wanted to take advantage of this to do something.

At the same time, Germany wanted to win over Neon against the United States, but unfortunately later Neon fell to the Entente.

At that time, the telegram was intercepted by the British on the way.

As early as 1914, in the early morning of the second day after Britain declared war on Germany, the scheming British cut all five of Germany's only submarine cables, which later proved to be very far-sighted.

It was because of the cutting of the cable that Germany's secure wired communications could not be used, and until the end of the war, due to the strength of the British navy, Germany had no chance to re-lay the cable.

Germany was forced to use radio communications to borrow cables from countries with which it had better relations, and the telegrams sent this time threatening the territorial security of the ugly country were sent by borrowing the cables of the ugly country.

But how could it be intercepted by the British?

Because this cable does not go directly from Germany to the ugly country, but will pass through the islands of the British territory.

Here, the attenuated signal is filtered and amplified, and it can be relayed across the Atlantic to the ugly country.

According to the relevant laws and regulations, the United Kingdom cannot take the opportunity to intercept or receive it.

One may ask how could the Germans be so stupid, using someone else's cable, and still dare to let the telegram go through the door of the opponent's house, without fear of being intercepted?

In fact, Germany overestimated its encryption technology too much, thinking that the codebook would not be leaked, and the telegrams they sent were encrypted.

Originally, Zimmerman planned to send this top-secret telegram to the ugly country by submarine, but the submarine planned to go to sea was suddenly canceled, so he used the telegram instead.

However, the British Ministry of Intelligence had a decipherment organization called "Room 40", which recruited all kinds of cutting-edge talents, and intercepted and deciphered more than 15,000 German ciphers throughout the First World War.

Of course, it is useless to decipher the secret telegram by relying on the brain, and it is also necessary to get the German diplomatic codebook.

This intelligence organization obtained the codebook through various espionage methods, and then relied on the top brains to decipher it.

The British were overjoyed after deciphering it, and they had long wanted to drag the ugly Chinese into the water, but they finally seized the opportunity.

But a new problem arises again, if the ugly country is told that Britain can decipher the German diplomatic code is exposed, won't the Germans change the codebook, and how easy will it be to get a new codebook in the future?

It would be very difficult to intercept German ciphers.

In addition, according to relevant international regulations, Britain is not allowed to eavesdrop on the submarine cables of ugly countries.

Moreover, Britain also had to protect the secrets of "Room 40", because during World War I, this organization deciphered many German military operations in advance and made great achievements.

In order to keep the secrets of this organization from being discovered, Britain took the lives of many people.

Therefore, the two necessary prerequisites for Britain to stab the contents of the telegram to the US side are to conceal the existence of the submarine cable and Room 40.

If you can successfully pull the ugly country into the water, it will be worth it, in case the ugly country still insists on neutrality, won't it be a bamboo basket to draw water?

The British thought about it and came up with a perfect solution.

The German telegram was to be sent to the German ambassador to the United States, and it was eventually to be forwarded from the ugly country to Mexico.

It is better to work on the second line, so that the Germans mistakenly believe that the telegram was intercepted on the way to Mexico, and they would not think that the British had tapped the submarine cable of the ugly country and had the technology to decipher.

But how did you get the telegram from the German ambassador to the United States to Mexico?

The British were quite lucky, and the British arranged for an intelligence agent in Mexico to save the life of an employee of the Mexican Telegraph Office, who stole the telegram in return.

The results confirmed that the contents of the two telegrams were essentially the same.

In fact, when the cipher was intercepted for the first time, it was not completely deciphered, especially not the Mexico in the message, but only guessed that it was Mexico based on the situation at that time, because the ugly country suppressed the Mexican peasant guerrillas in Mexico at that time.

On the second occasion, the British stole the telegram in Mexico and deciphered it again, and because the decoding used in the second telegram was relatively low-level, Room "40" was able to decipher the contents of the telegram in its entirety.

At this time, the ugly country broke off diplomatic relations with Germany because of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare, but it had not yet declared war.

Wilson, the boss of the Ugly Country at the time, said:

"Unless there is a blatant and deliberate act of war on the part of Germany, the ugly country will continue to remain neutral."

As soon as the words fell, Britain gave the deciphered Zimmermann telegram to the president of the ugly country at the right time, but the British did not tell that it was intercepted by the submarine cable of the ugly country.

Rather, it happened that in the course of a spy theft, he was fortunate enough to obtain a telegram from the German ambassador to the Czech country to the German ambassador to Mexico, and it happened that Britain had the 13040 ciphers used for this telegram, and was able to understand the full contents of the telegram.

Wilson, the boss of the ugly country, was very angry when he saw it, and then made the telegram public, and for a time the major media reported it, and the whole ugly country was shaken, and the people of the ugly country demanded that Germany be punished.

Should I say it or not, the nosy problem of ugly people is in their bones, and it is by no means cultivated bit by bit by future generations.

When the Germans discovered that the telegram had leaked and believed that it had been stolen in Mexico, the diplomatic department sternly questioned the ambassador to Mexico why he had not kept the telegram safe.

The ambassador hurriedly called back:

"The telegrams were all translated by my secretary, the original manuscripts have been burned to ashes, and the translations are still in my safe."

The diplomatic department still couldn't figure it out, and continued to send a message to the ambassador in Mexico:

"There are many clues that the mole is in Mexico, so you must be cautious."

After receiving the telegram, the ambassador called back to justify his innocence and caution:

"I couldn't have been more careful, the content of the telegram was told to me by the secretary in the middle of the night when he was on the third watch, and he lowered his voice to tell me."

When the Germans sent these messages, they still did not change the code, and the contents of these messages were once again intercepted and deciphered by the "Room 40" intelligence organization, which made the British laugh.

This is not the end of the matter, and a very funny thing happened later.

Because the ugly country has to go through Congress when it enters the war.

But the telegram published in the media, because it was too shocking and too vigorous, many people questioned it, and the key was that the high-level officials of the ugly country looked hesitant in the face of the media, just saying:

"We can't go into too much detail, it would jeopardize the safety of the intelligence officers at the front."

Therefore, many people unanimously believe that this is a fake news, made up by the main battle faction, and want to fool the ugly country into getting on the thief ship, and it turns out that there are still shrewd people.

But who would have thought that when the ugly people were arguing, Zimmerman would not admit himself and stand up to relieve the high-level of the ugly country, and he admitted to reporters frankly:

"The situation of an alliance with Mexico against the ugly country will only happen when the ugly country enters the war."

Looking at Mexico and Japan, which are involved, they are trying to distance themselves from each other, but Zimmerman honestly admits that no one knows the real reason, and people can only speculate.

Maybe he saw that this matter was found out by the ugly people, and thought that there must be evidence, and it was useless to deny it, it would be even more embarrassing, so it would be better to take the initiative to admit it.

It's a refreshing person, but it's too refreshing, a little stupid.

For a time, anti-German sentiment in the United States instantly soared, and the US Congress had nothing to say now.

On April 6, 1917, the ugly country finally declared war on Germany.

Subsequently, Pershing was appointed commander-in-chief of the Chou Expeditionary Force, and in June he led an expeditionary force of 14,000 to land in France.

Over the next two years, the Uchigo invested a total of 2 million troops, which played a key role in turning the tide of the war for the Allies.

The famous Zimmermann telegram incident, which was a major mistake in the history of German diplomacy, was also the fuse for the ugly country's participation in World War I, and tilted the law of victory in favor of the Allies.

In order to achieve final victory in wartime, in addition to forming gangs and finding good allies, it is also necessary to improve one's own armed equipment, but information warfare cannot be ignored, because often a small detail determines a major history.

And this story is also the background of the main story to be told in "Cannon Sound on the Atlantic", if it were not for this mistake, I am afraid that this fierce battle would not have happened!

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