Before the outbreak of World War I, although Germany desperately strengthened its naval forces, and Wendehe, the earth's No. 1 "self-employed five marks", also tried very hard to strengthen Germany, but Britain's family background was too thick. By the time World War I broke out, the German navy, although much stronger than its contemporaries, still lagged behind Britain in terms of the number of ships and the tonnage of displacement.

In addition, Kaiser Wilhelm II had a more unusual brain, and he seemed to treat the fleet as a toy or a collectible rather than a weapon, so he never dared to send out the navy to fight the British. Thus, for two and a half years after the start of the war, Britain imposed a naval blockade on Germany by virtue of its naval superiority. The British Home Fleet squatted like a watchdog in Scarpa Bay, staring at the German High Seas Fleet, so that it was basically trapped in Wilhelmshaven and Bremerhaven as a house, becoming a veritable "survival fleet".

Compared with the original time and space, the German navy in this plane is much stronger, and under the stimulation of the "Fuxi-class" super dreadnoughts, the problem of their "big ships carrying small guns" has been improved a lot. They also introduced Skoda's 310 mm, 360 mm, 390 mm and other large-caliber naval gun technology, and replaced four Nassau-class and three Helgoland-class ships with 310 mm main guns. (There were 4 ships of the Helgoland class in the original space-time, and the Oldenburg was added in 1912, so there was no such ship in the plane, and the name was used for the Bavarian class.) ）

The next 4 Emperor class and 4 King class ships used the same 360 mm 45 times diameter main gun as the Fuxi class. In fact, the King-class battleships were built by Germany using the drawings of the Fuxi-class battleships bought from China. Originally, the Germans got the drawings and were going to make some major changes, but they found that the overall design was very perfect, and there was almost no change, so they simply used it directly, but made some changes in some details.

The 5 Bavaria-class battleships built later were also different from those of the original time and space. This is the product of proportional enlargement on the basis of the Fuxi class, the same four triple guns, but the caliber is increased to 390 mm, the armor is also increased in equal proportions, and the displacement is expanded to 40,000 tons.

Now the 21 battleships that have been put into service in Germany are all heavy guns of more than 300 mm, plus they have introduced new processes such as welding technology and sectional construction from China, as well as semi-automatic welding machines, large gantry cranes and other equipment, and the construction speed of warships has been greatly improved. None of the Bavaria-class of the original plane had been commissioned until the Battle of Jutland, while the Plane had completed all five, with the last of them, the Oldenburg, commissioned in August.

In addition, the battle cruisers have also been strengthened a lot, and the first von der Tann class and Moltke class that were built have no choice but to change. The main guns of the Seydlitz class have changed from the original five-seat twin-mounted 280 mm in time and space to the current five-seater twin-mounted 310 mm. The subsequent Derflinger-class battlecruisers were replaced with 360 mm guns, and the latest Mackensen-class was replaced with 390 mm guns with a displacement of 38,000 tons. In the history of the original plane, the Mackensen-class knew that the end of World War I had not completed one, while the main plane had completed all four, two of which had already been commissioned.

That is, now the German Navy has a total of 21 battleships and 9 battlecruisers, which alone is more numerous than in history, not to mention the improvement in quality.

In addition, light ships have also been strengthened, such as the "North Superior" heavy mine-mounted cruisers provided to them by President Wen, and they built two, of course, the name was not called "Northern Superior", but was renamed "Pilau class" (Pilau and Elbin). In exchange for the purchase of the German Pacific colonies, China also delivered 30 Type 901 submarines, 30 P-100 torpedo boats, and four Minestrike destroyers (a decelerated version of the Island Wind class) to Germany before the outbreak of the war. Although the speed of this island wind class was reduced to 35 knots, it was also quite an excellent destroyer in World War I, and Germany was very satisfied with it after getting it, and it also started to build 6 of them, called the 1914 class fleet mine strike ships.

Of course, the biggest change is the submarines, so far China has delivered 108 submarines to Germany, all of which are U-boats of the late World War II level. and the "powerful acid torpedo" that goes with these things, and the Germans regard this kind of torpedo as a key weapon.

Although their strength is much stronger than that of the original plane, there is still a gap compared to the United Kingdom. Because it is not only Germany that has strengthened, but the strength of the British Navy is also stronger than the original time and space, Germany has five battleships with 390 mm guns, which seems to be very hanging, but the British also have a large number of battleships with 381 mm guns, four Iron Duke-class, five Queen Elizabeth-class, and five revenge-class battleships.

So the Germans still didn't dare to move, and they were still the same as the original time and space, staying in the old nest as a squatting house. Today, however, the German Navy, which had been serving as the "Fleet of Deposits" since the beginning of the war, has finally moved.

As for the motive, it is not clear, it may be that the recent battle of the Black Sea, the great victory of the Turkish Navy gave them enough confidence, or the German naval boss was stimulated by the brilliant victory of the army's "Downpool Tank Armageddon", of course, it may also be that the nervous Wei Er's brain is hot again.

Anyway, for whatever reason, the "Cunzài Fleet" finally went to sea.

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Although the Anglo-German naval decisive battle in this plane still broke out in the North Sea near Jutland, Denmark, the script was different from the beginning. The first is that the lineups of both sides are much larger than the original plane, the British battlecruiser detachment has 9 battlecruisers, and the German reconnaissance detachment is also the same 9 battlecruisers, instead of the original space-time 6 against 5.

The process of the opening game is also different, the two forward fleets of the original time and space only discovered each other by accident, and almost passed by. At 6:10 a.m. on October 2, the forward fleets of Britain and Germany discovered their opponents almost simultaneously, thanks to the already widespread use of seaplanes, and now large warships of various countries are equipped with seaplanes, and the two major naval powers of Britain and Germany are naturally no exception.

As soon as it was dark, the two sides flew seaplanes to reconnoiter around. A seaplane released by the German battlecruiser Goeben spotted the British fleet in the northwest direction, and the planes of the British fleet did not find the German fleet, but a British plane that was searching everywhere found the German plane, so it followed its course and found the German fleet at once. (The Goeben did not go to the Mediterranean)

At this time, the two sides were less than 50 nautical miles apart. The British commander Betty and the German commander Hipper gave the order to accelerate the advance at the same time.

6：41。 Lookouts on both sides saw columns of smoke from the opposing fleets, which were now about 25 kilometers apart. The British fleet first turned eastward, ready to line out of battle, and the German fleet followed suit. Both sides are on the same course.

6：53。 The two fleets became two parallel lines at a distance of about 20 km, the German fleet opened fire first, and in less than half a minute the British fleet also began to return fire. Since the number of capital ships on both sides is the same, it becomes a one-on-one heads-up.

The British array was led by the flagship Lion, followed by HMS Royal Princess, HMS Queen Mary, HMS Tiger, HMS Indomitable, HMS New Zealand, HMS Invincible, HMS Indomitable and HMS Indomitable. The German array was led by the cutting-edge "Mackensen" and "Count Spee", the flagship "Lützov" was in third place, followed by the De Vorringel, Hindenburg, De Vorlinger, Cedritz, Moltke, Goeben, and von der Tann.

The two sides didn't say much, and just opened the flatten. The sea was suddenly filled with gunsmoke and the sound of cannons rumbled. More than a hundred heavy guns of more than 280 mm simultaneously sent warm greetings to the opponent.

Something went wrong in this one-on-one battle tour. Somehow, the British battlecruiser "Tiger" ignored the De Ringer opposite them, and instead targeted the light cruiser "Frankfurt", which was a few kilometers away. While the other eight teams were fighting each other, it bit the Frankfurt and bombarded it.

The Tiger Battlecruiser was the most powerful of the British Battlecruisers currently in service, and it was armed with four twin 381mm 45x guns. And the "Frankfurt", which unfortunately lay down on the gun, was only a 5200-ton light cruiser. The captain of the Frankfurt was about to cry, Nima, we are just a light cruiser, can we be greeted with eight 15-inch guns?

At 7:07, both sides achieved results. The "Lützov" hit the Queen Mary twice, the Lion hit the Mackensen once, the Mackensen hit the Lion twice, the Indomitable hit the Von de Tann once, and the Goeben hit the Indomitable three times.

German battleships had better ballistic computers and sights, and their guns were more accurate. Well, that ballistic computer is an electric computer bought from China, note, not an electronic computer, but a mechanical computer driven by an electric motor. Although this kind of thing is more bizarre, it is also much faster than the hand-cranked computers used in the UK.

7:10。 The Lion was hit by another shot, which knocked off the firing commander, and the shooting hit rate plummeted in an instant. Almost at the same time as the Lion's firing command was destroyed, the Goeben was so powerful that it hit the Indomitable three times, two of which hit the front main gun, and a few seconds later there was a big explosion, and the entire bow was blown up.

Seeing that the momentum was not good, the British commander Betty hurriedly ordered the light ships to come forward and launch a lightning strike. The movements of the British troops were soon discovered by German water reconnaissance planes, and the information they sent back soon reached Hipper, who issued the same order as a counterpart. At present, the German army is equipped with "powerful acid torpedoes", and people are not afraid to fight for lightning strikes.

7:14。 The German von der Tann was hit two shots, the superstructure was destroyed, the coal bunkers were ignited, a raging fire broke out, and the whole ship was surrounded by thick smoke and had to withdraw from the battle. But its final salvo before exiting the battle was like a divine help, hitting the Indomitable four rounds, one of which penetrated the rear main gun magazine. In an earth-shattering explosion, the Indomitable sank into the sea in two.

7:18。 The Royal Princess was shot on the foredeck, the motion mechanism of the two forward guns was jammed, and the starboard secondary guns were completely destroyed.

The Tiger, who had a bad eye, was even more unlucky, as it mislooked at the target, allowing its opponent to calmly mobilize eight 360mm guns to fire at it. It only woke up after being disposed of a rear cannon that it realized it had mistaken its target, but it was too late. Seizing the opportunity, the Deflinger slammed into it, hitting seven shells in a row. The British shipyard's cut corners in the armor design caused the consequences of the Yanzhòng, the starboard connection of the Tiger was opened with three large holes, and the last two were still water-in-water, destroying a large number of watertight structures, and after a large amount of water ingress, the Tiger appeared Yan zhòng tilted.

7:25。 The light ships of the two sides began to exchange ideas, because the maximum range of British torpedoes was only 7 km, and they were stopped by German light ships when they were still 12 km away from the German capital ship. However, before the exchange of fire, the German ships were 14 kilometers away from the British capital ships, and fired a torpedo salvo at the British battle line. The German light ships, which had run out of torpedoes, happened to go into battle lightly and fought with their British counterparts.

The British light ships were ordered to launch lightning strikes on the German capital ships, and because they were eager to complete the task, they seemed to be a little withdrawn in the face of their German counterparts.

Just when the light ships of the two sides were entangled, the British Invincible was out of luck. The Moltke on the opposite side continued to hit multiple 280mm shells, two of which hit the bridge, penetrating the armor and exploding, sinking the bridge into a sea of blood. Another shell penetrated the ammunition depot of the secondary gun, causing the internal ammunition to detonate, and the starboard side of the Invincible was blown in half, and at the same time caused a fire, billowing smoke covering the entire battleship, and the Invincible suddenly lost its combat effectiveness.

However, the British New Zealand did a good job, and it and the opposite Cedritz hit each other many times, and in the end it was the New Zealand that was stronger, although it was beaten all over its body, and even the front main turret was knocked out. But the Cedritz was even more unlucky, and before it could fire a few shots, a propeller and steering gear were blown off by a strange underwater bullet, and it spun directly around the water. The No. 1 turret also received a shot and was beaten dumb. The New Zealand took the opportunity to rain cannonballs on its opponents, turning the Cedritz into a flaming torch.

Now the British fleet's Indomitable and Indomitable have been blown up, and the Invincible and Tiger have been abolished, and the Lion is the firing command has been destroyed, and half of the combat effectiveness has been abolished. And the remaining five ships are not in good condition, and they are all shot in many places. Only two of the Germans were scrapped, and the remaining seven battle cruisers all retained considerable combat effectiveness.

Coupled with the fact that her light ships were unable to break through the opponent's defense, Betty was very anxious. But he firmly believed that the main force of the home fleet led by Jericho was about to arrive, so he continued to work hard to support it, trying to buy time for the main fleet.

But at this time, the torpedoes fired by German light ships arrived......