PS: Today's first chapter......

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October 1, 1916.

On the very day when China celebrated the sixth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a new movement in the European theater.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wen Desi, who was still participating in a mass event in Zhonghuamen Square, received urgent information. This morning, the "Taibai-2" reconnaissance satellite photographed that the main fleets of Britain and Germany had moved, and after combining it with intelligence from other channels, the Third Department of the General Staff (Intelligence Department) judged that a naval battle of unprecedented scale would break out between the two sides!

After receiving the report, General Wen and other high-level officials ordered the mobilization of three unmanned exploration aircraft to monitor the movements of the two sides, and ordered the 18th Submarine Detachment, which was conducting combat readiness patrols in the Beihai area, to rush to monitor.

As for why China's submarine forces went to the North Sea to carry out combat readiness patrols, what is there to wonder about? The British and French imperialist warships are still running all over the world, and the monks can touch them, but I can't touch them? How can there be such a reason in the world?

Uh, well, to be honest, these Chinese submarines were all recruited by gold, and the navy made a lot of money by attacking the gold ships of the British Empire several times before. After eating the marrow, there has never been a shortage of Chinese submarines around the British Empire, and there are two submarine detachments hanging around the British Island at any time.

Whether it is Premier Zhang of the State Council or Commander-in-Chief Wang of the Navy, they are all looking forward to making a few more big votes, who told me that Britain occupies two-thirds of the gold of the whole earth, who will not rob him?

The 18th Submarine Detachment is equipped with the latest Type 904 "Sea Lion-class" submarines, which are an enhanced and enlarged version of the Seal class, which can be said to be specially designed for robbing cattle and transporting gold ships. It is currently the largest attack submarine in the world, with an underwater displacement of 3,300 tons, equipped with eight 550-mm torpedo tubes, arranged in the front six and two in the rear, and equipped with 32 torpedoes. In addition, on the deck there is a 100-mm naval gun and a 40-mm gun. The power system still adopts the traditional diesel-electric power, with a top speed of 12 knots on the water and 22 knots underwater, which is slower than the first two submarines, but it increases the fuel tank and battery pack, and the endurance has been greatly improved, with a cruising range of 15,000 nautical miles/8 knots on the water or snorkel, 400 nautical miles/6 knots for underwater diving, and 16 knots/22 knots for underwater speed. Self-sustaining up to 60 days.

Coupled with the Manatee-class supply submarines and the surface camouflage supply fleet, they can stay in the Atlantic for long periods of time. A large part of the gold ships lost by Britain were buried in the mouths of these vicious sea lions.

However, at present, only four of these "Sea Lion-class" submarines are in service, which is the result of the shipyard working overtime at a wartime pace. All four Sea Lions are currently in the 18th Submarine Detachment, with two Manatee-class supply/transport submarines provisionally deployed.

At six o'clock in the morning London time, there were several pieces of wood the size of a basin floating on the sea outside Scarpa's Bay, which looked mottled in appearance, and I don't know how long they had been floating on the sea. There is so much of this garbage on the surface of the sea that no one will pay attention to it. But these pieces of wood are different, they are just deliberately made to look like pieces of wood, and their real identity is a submarine communication buoy.

At this time, a large fleet was sailing out of Scarpa Bay. Suddenly, an invisible radio wave crossed the space and was transmitted from an unmanned exploration aircraft at an altitude of 30,000 meters to the communication buoy on the sea surface, and soon they disappeared into the waves without a sound. A few minutes later, not far from the surface of the sea where they had disappeared, several periscopes crept out of the sea.

"Lion, Royal Princess, Queen Mary, Tiger, New Zealand, Indefatigable......" Colonel Han Fengyu lay in front of the periscope, carefully identifying these warships. “...... Good guys, all nine battlecruisers were dispatched. That's right, it was the British battlecruiser detachment......"

The nine battle cruisers that appeared on the sea were already the entire family of the British Royal Navy, and originally they had ten battle cruisers, but in the first half of the year they transferred the "Australia" to the Australian fleet and became the ships of the Australian Navy.

As the commander of the detachment with the largest number of sunk submarines in the Chinese Navy's submarine force so far, Han Fengyu was promoted to colonel last year and transferred to the 18th submarine detachment, which is equipped with the latest submarines. But he was not too satisfied, because his "gold" results could only rank second, and the first place in "gold" was Colonel Huo Bin's livestock.

"Damn, Huo Bin's guy is completely* lucky, he actually ran into 1,400 tons of gold and 2,800 tons of silver for the first time. Later, the British learned to be obedient, and all of them were scattered and transported, and each time they were hundreds of tons and hundreds of tons, and they never encountered such a good thing of thousands of tons at a time! These British who slammed the door were really timid enough, would you die if you transported a little more gold at a time? Uncle Han, it is not easy for me to sleep in the sea in such a campy manner......

Han Fengyu complained fiercely in his heart about the opium cow's petty family, but still turned his attention to the fleet in front of him.

"Detachment leader, do we want to mess with him? Anyway, they don't know that we did it......" The captain of the boat, Major Yan Daoren, said demagogically beside him, this guy also stared at the British fleet with green eyes and swallowed saliva. Although he is also an old qualified captain, whether it is command or technology, he is in the front, but his character is not very good, so far he has only harvested a destroyer in the naval battle of the Diaoyu Islands, and now is the time of hunger and thirst, watching so many "results" in front of him float by, it is really itching.

", don't tempt me! Do you know that I can't withstand the temptation!" Han Fengyu glared at him, and reprimanded angrily: "Now there is no order to attack from above, you can only stare at it and not be allowed to do it!"

Yan Daoren said unrelentingly: "Just see how uncomfortable it is not to eat, why don't you ask for instructions from above......"

Han Fengyu glanced at him, "You kid has bad intentions, do you want me to be trained?" Come on, you just stare here, I'll make up for sleep." As he spoke, he yawned and said, "Damn, I was released by the Englishman last night, and I stayed all night ......"

At this time, the listener suddenly said: "Detachment leader, an unknown submarine has been found, the azimuth is 272, the distance is 36000, and the water depth is 70 ......."

As soon as he heard this, Han Fengyu's spirit came, and he immediately turned around and came to the listener. I saw 10 obvious bright spots on the display of the underwater passive sonar, all of which were 36 kilometers east of the boat. Two of the highlights are moving south, while the other eight are heading towards Scapa Bay.

"They had two detachments of British battlecruisers following them, and the other eight were moving towards Scapa Bay. If their course does not change, they will pass through Guò about 6,000 meters northeast of the boat......" the sonar chief reported.

"It must be a German submarine!" Yan Daoren also came over.

At this time, the sonar non-commissioned officer next to him also finished the voiceprint comparison and said: "Report, after voiceprint comparison, it can be confirmed that these ten submarines are all Type 901 sold by China to Germany, and the production number is ......."

"Damn, it's a German submarine, it looks like they're planning to ...... a shot" Han Fengyu touched his chin and said, "Okay, let's continue to monitor and see what the Germans want to do......"

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Hankyung, presidential palace.

At this time, Wen Desi was holding a cup of Pu'er tea and sitting in front of the screen with a group of senior generals watching the video from the scene.

He smiled and said to Gu Xiaolu: "Hehe, it seems that although the Battle of Jutland has been postponed for a few months, it has not disappeared yet. A battle without the Battle of Jutland would not be complete......"

"Yes......" Gu Xiaolu smiled and nodded. Now she now has a big belly, and her face is full of maternal radiance. In August, she had temporarily resigned from her job as secretary general and was able to raise her baby at home.

Pregnant women are easy to get tired, and after watching the live broadcast with Wen Desi for a while, Gu Xiaolu fell a little sleepy. Wen Desi hurriedly said: "Xiaolu, you have to pay attention to your body now. Xiaoyuan, help your sister go back to rest......"

After Gu Xiaolu left, the commander-in-chief of the navy, Wang Tiezhu, asked, "Mr. Wen, Gu Mi's due date is December, right?"

"yes, I didn't expect to be a father too. Well, it's been checked, it's a kid......" Wen Deji smiled a little smugly.

"That's a good thing. How many people are looking forward to Ling Lang's birth now, you don't know, many people are praying for Gu Mi, not to mention the rest, we have a lot of people in the navy. The Mazu temples next to military ports such as Zhoushan, Shanghai, Qingdao, and Fangcheng are full of flower baskets for blessings......"

"......" Wen De was embarrassed, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Hey, this is true, what does it matter to them that I give birth to a son?"

Although the CSD is a materialist party, it also advocates that its members do not believe in religion. However, in practice, it is not completely forbidden for members of the organization to come into contact with religion, but only that those dangerous foreign religions are particularly excluded, and it is absolutely forbidden for members of the organization to come into contact with them. However, Buddhism and Taoism are not forbidden to moderate and progressive religions that originate from or have been localized, as well as positive traditional beliefs such as Mazu, but the government has openly adopted an attitude of not supporting or encouraging them.

As a matter of fact, the army, especially the navy, is particularly superstitious, especially the indigenous officers and soldiers of the original plane, and if they do not give them a positive and controllable spiritual dependence, they will be taken advantage of by some bad things such as cults. Therefore, Wen Desi asked the General Administration of Religion to come forward, and next to the major military bases, he set up some religious places in his hands, especially the idols promoted were all local gods, and the foreign ones were also wooden. That's right, it's a double standard, and a ruler who doesn't play double standards is not a qualified ruler. However, Mr. Wen has always had this attitude towards this kind of thing, and he is not an internationalist, let alone a second-year teenager who thinks he is fair and just.

For example, in the navy, the belief in Mazu accounts for at least 95 percent of the total number of believers, and the officers and men of the navy visit Mazu publicly, and the political cadres do not see it. This is undoubtedly biased for Taoism, but it is also normal. Because Taoism is a native religion on the one hand, the three views of the doctrine are in line with the moral outlook of the Chinese. On the other hand, the current Taoism has all been transformed, and now all the people in charge of Taoism have been replaced by the people trained by the Science and Technology Socialist Party, and the teachings have also become content that meets the standards of the new era. Of course, this is not only the case with Taoism, but also with all religions in China, and they are even more strict with those who come from abroad, and they will be punished if they have the chance. Think it's unfair? Then get out, go and don't send it. That's the rule here, don't come if you don't like it.

Although Mr. Wen himself doesn't believe this, he still has some secret feelings about his subordinates' behavior of praying for his wife and son. This shows that everyone supports him, and he is not the kind of awkward, and he will naturally not forcibly prohibit this kind of spontaneous behavior, but just pretend not to know, and do not encourage or support it. Besides, this kind of thing is forbidden and cannot be forbidden, for example, a certain leader of the original time and space opposed superstition for a lifetime, and as a result, only ten years after his death, he became the god of transportation and roads...... In the foreseeable future, if Wen Deji doesn't pump water into his own brain, his reputation among the people will definitely be higher than that one, and it is almost a sure thing to become a god.

As for the hope that he will have a son, this is also based on the traditional Chinese view. In the eyes of the Chinese, a ruler, especially a very popular ruler, will feel uneasy in his heart if he has no descendants.

Wen Deji suddenly thought of something, and said with a strange expression: "However, if I remember correctly, isn't Mazu the god of the sea?

Wang Tiehammer smiled and said: "Mr. Wen, the sea god is only one of the priesthoods of Mazu, he is not only the goddess of the sea, but also the priesthood of peace, protection, and disaster refuge. In addition, because many members of the navy's family have also failed to him, he has recently become the patron saint of families, pregnant women, and children. There are also signs of expansion into areas such as luck, life, and fisheries. Well, in addition, because there are many officers and soldiers of the Navy and the Coast Guard, there are also ...... involved in naval warfare and legal fields."

Mr. Wen was stunned for a moment: "Well, it seems that Comrade Mazu's business ability is quite good......

After laughing with everyone for a while, Wen Deji turned back to the topic and said to Wang Tiehammer: "Old Wang, what do you think will be the result of this battle of Jutland?"

"Well......" said after a moment of silence "I don't think there will be a real victor between them, and this battle will probably end in a crushing victory for Germany." While Germany, with our support, has a stronger navy than it was historically, Britain is also stronger. Germany does not have much of an advantage over the two. The most important thing is that the German Navy is inferior to the British in terms of suzhì and experience, so they will win because of the equipment factor, but the losses will also be quite huge, and I am afraid that they will lose their combat effectiveness for a long time. ”

Wen Desi shook his head and said, "This is not good, we have to find a way to make it easier for Germany to win, at least the losses should not be too large, and we must ensure that they can attack the British mainland." If we can't bring the war to the Isles of Britain, won't we be working in vain?"