In order to open up the sales of Oak Vodka, Li Yaoyang made up stories and rehearsed dramas, and he was very busy, but fortunately, the results were still good.

After repeated propaganda bombardments, the name of the oak tree gradually gained popularity in the eastern part of the ugly country.

There is a lot of interest in this base liquor for a variety of new cocktails.

As a result, Li Yaoyang took advantage of the trend to start a challenge game at the premises of his and related partners - pure drinking vodka.

He had the distillery brew vodka with different alcohol purities, with the highest bottle reaching 95% alcohol.

It's alcohol!

As we all know, beer is generally at 3 to 12 degrees, red wine is at 10 to 15 degrees, and white wine is at 43 to 65 degrees.

As the world's most advanced spirit, what is the concept of 96% alcohol?

The medical alcohol used for disinfection is only 75 degrees, and as soon as you open the lid, you can smell a strong smell of alcohol, which is very choking.

You can imagine what it's like to try the "water of life" at 96 degrees.

This "eaux-de-vie" native to Poland is called Spiatus, and it is brewed from grains and potatoes that have been distilled more than 70 times.

Anyway, since Li Yaoyang was reborn and returned, in this world, there is no wine that can exceed its degree, and it can also be used as disinfectant alcohol in an emergency.

If it is not suitable from the perspective of pure direct drinking, why do you say so?

It is said that some foreigners drank the water of life directly, and immediately felt numb in their mouths and throats, as if they were on fire, and their stomachs were like being hit with a heavy punch.

In fact, on the bottle packaging of eaux-de-vie, in addition to the particularly conspicuous words "96%", if you pay a little attention, you will find that the bottle itself is marked:

Not to be consumed directly.

But why do foreigners love to drink this kind of wine?

The eaux-de-vie are still very useful when mixing wine, increasing the degree of the wine and changing the flavor of the wine.

Because the degree is really too high, the eaux-de-vie are mostly used to make cocktails, and any juice can be a great cocktail, which will make the end of a cocktail more dry and powerful, which is difficult to do with ordinary vodkas.

In addition, because the alcohol is extremely high, it has a strong displacement reaction, and it is suitable for maceration of some spices or other flavors that are difficult to taste.

In addition to being used as a base for cocktails, it can also be added to beers, most of which have a low alcohol content.

For those who prefer high concentration, adding the right amount of vodka increases the concentration without changing the taste.

In addition, for red wines with low alcohol content, adding a little vodka can make the wine more aromatic and mellow.

Due to the high alcohol content of eaux-de-vie, some people will also judge how much alcohol a person drinks by how much they drink.

If you can drink a small glass of pure wine in one sip, and you can walk in a straight line smoothly, then the person is not bad at drinking.

Many people who like to drink spirits in the distillery can't help but be tempted to taste it directly, and then say one after another:

"The wine, beginning from the lips, flows through it like a burning gasoline rolling through the meadow, and is dry";

"Drink the strongest liquor and go to the best hospital for rescue!";

"Drank a tael and slept for a day.";

"With 15 bottles of beer and 1 and a half catties of whiskey, this wine can only drink 2 taels and is almost drunk." Wait a minute.

So I didn't wait for you to take a few sips, I guess I'm completely drunk, if anyone dares to drink it on an empty stomach, it can only be said that they are really nozuonodie!

However, Li Yaoyang doesn't care about the life or death of these dead people at all, and has only one purpose, to sell wine!

Maybe it's still a matter of technology, the 96-degree wine hasn't come out, and the 95-degree one is enough, anyway, people who really want to drink to death are not bad at this degree.

This special oak vodka has a blood-red background on the label and a line of words - Life Exclusion Zone!

At the same time, a warning is also marked on the back: The alcohol content is 95 degrees, and it is not suitable for pure drinking!

It's the equivalent of a cigarette pack: smoking is bad for your health.

Did it work? It's useless, it's equivalent to being a female cousin and setting up a memorial arch.

Each bar has a clean drink challenge, and the winner of each night's contest is the one who can last the longest without getting drunk.

The winner can be rewarded with $200, which is a huge sum for most of the people.

And for alcoholics, they are extremely confident in their own drinking, in the past, drinking was all about spending money, who would have thought that one day drinking could make money.

There are quite a few people who are already gearing up, thinking that the money belongs to them.

Li Yaoyang invested a total of 100,000 dollars in bonuses, which was enough to satisfy the drunkards.

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"Cannon Sounds in the Atlantic" is in full swing of filming, but Li Yaoyang suddenly received a notice from the Navy that a senior Admiralty official was going to visit the filming site.

Li Yaoyang didn't arrive in time because of work, and later heard from the executive producer that the other party wanted them to add a plot to the movie, that is, the Battle of Heligoland Bay!

is off the spectrum, and co-authoring movies in this era is subject to supervision?

In fact, the Battle of the Gulf of Heligoland was originally supposed to be put in the script, but later it was cut because of the lot of content.

According to the producer, although the Admiralty said that it was a suggestion, it was actually a request, and if it was not done according to the requirements, it was very likely that it would not be released.

Li Yaoyang was very aggrieved, originally he wanted to find someone, but after thinking about it, it was estimated that it was useless to find anyone, this should be the decision of the navy, not someone's will.

There's no way, my arms can't reach my thighs, so if you ask for it, let's shoot it.

So, the crew urgently saved the script, and Li Yaoyang also gave some suggestions.

Fortunately, there are a lot of materials for reference, and the script is not difficult to combine.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British Royal Navy, at its peak, was accustomed to striking first, often launching a short-range blockade of the ports of hostile countries as soon as war began, blocking their shipping and confining their fleets.

However, coal- and oil-burning steam warships are far inferior in endurance to sail warships, which requires spending money on more warships to rotate to ensure that a sufficient number of ships are always maintained on the blockade line.

Improved mines, torpedoes, and submarines have also made the waters around enemy ports dangerous.

So in 1913, the year before the outbreak of World War I, Britain abandoned its traditional short-range blockade policy under both economic and military pressure, and began to plan a long-range blockade against Germany, the number one imaginary enemy for many years.

The geography of the North Sea formed the cornerstone of a long-range blockade.

The north-south British island basically separates the North Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, leaving only two exits from the north and south, and the terrain greatly reduces the difficulty of blockade.

"It was the involuntary impulse of Great Britain to control Germany's access [to the Atlantic]."

On the eve of the start of the war, the Royal Navy launched three blockade fleets in the waters of the North Sea:

1. The Great Fleet, which concentrated almost all dreadnoughts and super-dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers, was responsible for guarding the northern exit;

2. Mines, dreadnoughts, destroyers and submarines are enough to export the already narrow southern exit - the English Channel;

3. The Harwich squadron, consisting of light cruisers and destroyers, patrolled the southern part of the North Sea to cope with the blockade of the two fleets in the north and south directions.

The new policy closed Germany's door to the open sea, squeezing it into the North Sea.

Although the blockade line has been retreated compared to the past, it does not mean that Germany will be able to roam the North Sea.

The Grand Fleet was to carry out offensive sweeps in the northern part of the North Sea with an average frequency of two times a week, forcing each voyage of the German Ocean Fleet to risk confrontation with superior adversaries.

Britain hoped that by combining physical blockade and psychological deterrence, Britain would keep the German navy firmly in the Gulf of Helgoland, a corner of the North Sea.

Germany, however, was ignorant of the changing tactics of its neighbors, and for many years the entire Imperial German Navy was convinced that the aggressive British would inevitably invade the Helgoland Bay and launch a short-range blockade of the German coast immediately after the start of the war.

The German Navy had already made targeted preparations for this in all respects, and later, the official German naval history of the First World War, Colonel Otto Gross, wrote:

"Before the war, the training system of our entire fleet, and even the shipbuilding policy to a certain extent and some specific performance details (such as the mass construction of mine-strike ships with a short combat radius) were based on the assumption that the British would blockade the Gulf of Helgoland with their superior fleet."

In the event of war, Germany would deploy mines, submarines, and light ships in the Gulf of Helgoland, gradually deplete the British blockade fleet by using its internal superiority, and then dispatch battlefleets to fight it out when the forces of the two sides were roughly balanced.

Battleships and battlecruisers, which were the weapons of the decisive battle, were all moored in Jed Bay in peacetime, which although it could reduce mechanical wear and tear and simplify maintenance, but it also greatly limited the ability of the main fleet to make emergency sorties.

First of all, the process of making a boiler to make a fire and raise steam is time-consuming; Secondly, battleships and rangers with a deeper draft were limited by the water level of the Jed estuary and could only pass during the high tide hours of about six hours in the morning and afternoon, and therefore could not maneuver arbitrarily between Heligoland Bay and Jed Bay.

Considering that one day the main forces of the Ocean Fleet would need sufficient maneuver space when participating in a decisive battle in the bay, the German naval top brass also consciously limited the scope of the laying of mines.

At midnight on August 5, 1914, Britain and Germany entered a state of war.

German mine-strikers and minesweepers, led by light cruisers, plowed through the Gulf of Heligoland, only to their surprise to find that the envisaged short-range blockade fleet did not exist at all!

According to submarine intelligence, the Germans vaguely guessed that the British fleet was consciously disengaging so as not to be consumed.

The German Navy, unwilling to give up, decided to stick to the established line of thought of a war of attrition and extend the front outward.

While minelayers and submarines were heading to the British coast, the defense zone of light ships was gradually expanded, but the British were still nowhere to be seen.

The Gulf of Heligoland is the southeastern part of the North Sea, near the coast of Germany, and is named after the island of Helgoland in the center of the bay.

On both sides of the war, on the British side there was a detachment of ships under the command of Commodore Tiritmay (31 destroyers and 2 light cruisers);

the group of battle cruisers under the command of Vice Admiral Beatty (5 battle cruisers) and the squadron of ships under the command of Commodore Goodenough (4 light cruisers);

another 1 submarine column (6 submarines);

On the German side there were 1st and 5th destroyer columns (19 destroyers), as well as 7 light cruisers.

According to the intentions of the British command, the British Navy was supposed to make a surprise attack on the German ships guarding the Helgoland Bay, cut off their retreat to their bases, and destroy them.

This first surface combat operation in the North Sea set a model for ambush and counter-ambush warfare at sea, and later combat operations in this area have been characterized by this characteristic.

British submarines under the command of Brigadier General Roger Case reported that the Germans were conducting reconnaissance activities in the Gulf of Heligoland.

The Bay of Heligoland is a triangular body of water outside the mouth of the Elbe and Weser rivers.

Every evening German light cruisers escorted destroyers to the sea for night patrols.

At dawn the cruiser and the destroyer met 20 nautical miles northwest of Heligoland Bay to escort them back to port.

Seeing this law as an opportunity for the British fleet, Keith drew up a plan for a surprise attack on the enemy.

Using his own submarines as bait, he placed powerful surface reinforcements outside the horizon and lured the Germans to the sea west of Heligoland Bay, where British surface warships could intervene from the north and turn west, dividing all enemy ships they encountered.

Keith believed that the British would be able to smash the night patrols of enemy destroyers and, if lucky, capture those cruisers.

Keith himself returned to London and presented his plan to the Lord of the Admiralty and the Admiralty Under-Officers.

The Admiralty agreed to the plan, setting the date at 28 August 1914, but limiting the surface reinforcements to 2 light cruisers and 33 destroyers, under the command of Brigadier General Richard Tierlett.

However, after Case's departure, the Admiralty sent six more light cruisers under the command of William Brown. Commodore R. Goodenough, commanding 5 battlecruisers, was sent under the command of Vice Admiral Lord David Beatty.

Due to the rough work of the Admiralty, there were unbelievable mistakes, and neither Keith nor Territ had been aware of such an increase in strength as they sailed towards Heligoland.

The Germans had already heard of Keyes's plan and were planning a counter-ambush, which further complicated the situation.

But they, like Keith and Territt, did not know that Betty and Goodenough's two detachments were coming.

The Germans had 19 destroyers and 2 light cruisers near Heligoland.

On the southeastern flanks there were four more light cruisers, and a detachment of German battle cruisers was stationed in the Gulf of Yard, 50 nautical miles away.

Both the British and German navies wanted to fall into their trap, and if Territ did not have reinforcements that he had never dreamed of, the situation could be very dangerous for him.

Case's plan seemed to be executing smoothly, and his three decoy submarines surfaced west of Heligoland.

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