If the army is the winner of this dangerous game, the imperial navy may not lose anything. In the third year of the war, no one will think that the army is tired. The army has the ability to thoroughly clean up the French counterattack against Britain. The navy is the only effective means to win the empire. Even worse, the Taiwan army needs naval support to deal with the conservative counterattack.
If the conservatives win this dangerous game, the navy will probably get more support from the army. There is no reason to believe that the unruly army is used to guarding itself and indifferent to politics. The navy is more trustworthy than the Eastern Army.
That is to say, the navy will not be the last loser if the flag of Berlin changes. This is not only Wang Haidi’s confidence in his strategic vision, but also his confidence in the navy’s three-year bloody battle
"Lei Deer’s sinking of the British Isles is more affordable than any political exchange. Besides, there are general Erpitz and Mr. Wolfgang Karp in our parliament …" Sealem is holding a thick stack of information and walking around the chart room of the base headquarters angrily. Two small bottles of rum in his trouser pocket are colliding from time to time, which stimulates the fragile nerves of the staff officers who are instructed not to drink in the chart room. "There is also general Hoffman on the eastern front who hasn’t come to me yet. I have a big plan here!"
Lei Deer couldn’t help rolling his eyes at his old friend who was addicted to alcohol until General Hoffman opened the door in an army uniform.
"Selim, I have a big plan here, too!"
****
"We met the German new battle cruiser, which rushed at us through the smoke at a speed of more than 26 knots and fired at us at a distance of 17 yards … A shell hit the front of turret A and went in. I never saw anyone come out of the turret alive again."
-Excerpted from the memoir "Sight from the Mast" by the former lookout of the Queen Elizabeth, Ethel Croswell.
After the naval battle in the Orkney Islands, the back was interrupted, and the Royal Navy was disorganized and distracted, so it had to adopt a face contraction strategy.
The British first deployed them to the north of France. At present, their main functions are to defend France’s zhèng fǔ incarnation and to crush the mutiny J Ο ng sharp army back to the British Isles to guard the eastern coastline of the British Isles and suppress Ireland. After the movement, the big fleet was deployed with only a dozen capital ships on the North Atlantic side of the British Isles, and the east coast of the doorway was handed over to the pocket army-the dying British Empire was no more than the Germans copied the action of attacking British soil in the naval battle of Shazhou, Dogel, and Portsmouth. They were more eager to make the weak big fleet guard the long sea transportation line of the empire, and finally trapped the ocean fleet at its peak. The British ignored the Dutch, Russian and Nordic countries’ opposition to direct mines and submarines blocked the shetland islands international waterway in the Orkney Islands.
However, mines and submarines are not enough to hinder the German navy from entering and leaving the North Atlantic. At the end of July, when the Germans were caught in an inexplicable anxiety and mania due to the upcoming parliamentary election, half a J and jīng sharp army division and navy were transferred from the Eastern Army. A marine corps with a total of more than 16,000 officers and men, the Imperial Navy, a total of 24 battleships, seven battle cruiser, 12 light cruisers and 24 destroyers covered the Shetland Islands.
Before the outbreak of the First World War, the British will set up a large fleet base in the Orkney Islands on the south side of Shetland Islands, and put in a lot of J and jīng forces. When the Orkney Islands are strategically contracted after the naval battle, the British have to give up Scarpa Bay, and most of the warships here will be scattered in Firth Bay and the north Atlantic coast of Scotland.
The first step of the plan of losing the Orkney Islands to cover the German sea lions was extremely smooth, and almost a small number of British soldiers in Shetland Islands were dispersed without bloodshed. After that, the Germans planted the Iron Cross flag on the main island of Shetland Islands and declared all the Shetland Islands.
The occupation of Shetland Islands became a great victory in the history of German war. It was not only the biggest landing war in Germany’s history, but also gave Germany a strategic fulcrum that could support the ocean fleet to enter and leave the North Sea, so that the British concept of long-distance blockade was completely bankrupt. Finally, Germany successfully included Shetland Islands, a strategically important overseas enclave, into the empire’s bloated map through the Treaty of Amsterdam. Even though the British negotiated in Amsterdam in 1991 to throw out the plan of "Shetland Islands leaving the Commonwealth and accepting international trusteeship", it failed to recover Shetland.
The occupation of Shetland Islands is only the first step. The Germans will turn Shetland Islands into an unsinkable replenishment point for the ocean fleet. First, relying on Shetland Islands, they will continue to attack and mine the British international waterway, and then they will send teams including battle cruiser Breakers and Water Wolves to repeatedly disturb the British main channel off the sea.
German efforts alone in the third week of July, the British lost more than 20 10,000-ton ocean-going freighters.
In the face of the arrogant Germans, the British Admiralty also planned several times to encircle the German war patrol sea operations, but the Royal Navy failed to pull its opponents to the North Atlantic.
On July 23, 1917, in a classic small-scale battle patrol, three British Queen magic change-class war patrols encountered three German mackensen-class war cruises. After a steel battle, the British lost the Queen Elizabeth and retreated to the Irish Sea.
At the beginning of the month, the German navy threatened the Orkney Islands and tried to make the British people’s huge investment in the desolate Orkney Islands become bloody. At the same time, they reluctantly sent the third and fourth waves of aid to Europe, with a total of 100,000 troops. The American zhèng fǔ incarnation could not bear the huge loss of sea transportation and had to stop being transfused by the French again.
In the face of constantly transferring the army back to Britain, flagrantly stopping reinforcements to France and the United States, and occupying Paris regardless of the security of peacekeeping, the rebels in Paris are isolated to help the French, and a small number of French guerrillas and militiamen are constantly defeating the Italian regular army in the southeast battlefield, chatting and comforting themselves and waiting for the German army to attack on the western front.
The French waited from the end of the naval battle in the Orkney Islands until June, and the tail started to flow in July until the storm in the month. But in fact, in the eyes of the French, the German army on the western front was secretly marching northward.
In the ludendorff plan, this army was awarded the mastery of Paris to eliminate some "threats" and "tampering" with the conservative forces in the parliamentary elections, and then continued to March northward to thoroughly wipe out the rebels of the Workers’ Party in northern Germany by means of thunder.
"Germany needs to win. It is the duty of the army to be responsible for the empire! The force that hinder that army from continue to advance must be swept into the garbage dump of history! " In the dark room, ludendorff, a conservative force in the city, has just been given the title of "catching the enemy and foreign spy forces" by the army.
With the first shot and Berlin citizens screaming, William Groel came in and trembled.
"The general election results have come out. The winner is not our motherland party but the Albert social ín zhǔ party!"
The second gun Chapter 13 mutiny (6)
(ludendorff copied a hundred words in that paragraph and thought Baidu Encyclopedia was quite fun to write, so he took it for granted.)
Paris Square, right in front of the Adelong Hotel, came to Berlin one after another. Citizens cheered and lonely guns were located in a slant hall on the second floor of the hotel. German political giants did not stir up a frown, but soon they restored calm. They held high the goblet filled with white wine and tried to keep the atmosphere from being warm. The reception continued.
"The parliamentary election is finally over …" Former Imperial Navy Minister Erpitz dressed in suits and suits, imperial politicians and diplomats, and some frustrated army veterans were able to handle it with the noise and abrupt guns in the Paris Square. Erpitz raised his glass and joked to the current army minister Hindenburg through two or three heads. "ludendorff’s single-handedly supporting Groel should have been sworn in as the prime minister of the empire in the summer of Congress. Marshal Empire is now a young man. It’s time for us dying old guys to make a curtain call."
"Are you? Compared with Marshal, you are insincere, please forgive me for being blunt … "Marshal Hindenburg, who is bloated, didn’t realize that Erpitz’s meaningful sigh gave up the parliamentary election and turned to promote the grand alliance of almost all the forces opposed to ludendorff in the empire. Hindenburg’s face flashed at this moment, which was not his age. J Ο ng half-jokingly said to Erpitz," I think this is a farce for young people, which is not in line with German national interests, just as you chose to attend this banquet that symbolizes peace and forever. Let’s have a toast to Marshal! "
Marshal Hindenburg gently shook the goblet of red wine and clinked it every other time. Then he looked up slightly and tasted the fierce white wine from Falc, Rhineland.
"Then … let’s be happy together." Erpitz looked at the theory that neither age nor political sense of smell is suitable for a first-class political figure, Hindenburg, and relished his uncanny speech. He couldn’t help but feel a little depressed.
Hindenburg obviously misunderstood Erpitz’s real intention to attend a peace reception hosted by Prince Hindenburg and Prince Max of Hardelin.
Just as Karp, another political leader of the Right-wing Motherland Party, at the moment, said that the right-wing Motherland Party never announced that it would boycott this parliamentary election because of its own strength and imperial political map, and it never really announced that it supported this parliamentary election because of the legacy left by the old Prime Minister Bateman Hollwich, which is not a huge political legacy.
Repeatedly defeated the Royal Navy, opened up the imperial sea transportation line, cut off the participation in the war, and the United States supported the European process, threatening the American soil. In the imperial war of 1917, the navy did not need to go shirtless like the previous three naval political storms. The navy Erpitz and Karp founded the right-wing motherland party, and they needed to secretly merge the two factions before they fought to the death, kicking the navy out and keeping a certain degree of patience. Waiting for the strength, the navy barely won the battle and extended an olive branch to the unstable position.
In Erpitz’s calculation, the Diaoyutai navy can easily replace the losers in the struggle for profits, and there is a good chance that conservatives and radicals will win the imperial high office after fighting each other, even if the navy is not born to be in charge of politics
Moreover, the right-wing motherland party is not exactly the same as the navy. To be exact, the right-wing motherland party has inherited Erpitz’s selfishness and supported the West Lyme party at the political level, just as Groel and ludendorff founded the left-wing motherland party, which was born out of the army, but it was actually a great tool for ludendorff to seize the emperor.
"Marshal situation is not good …"
Just as Erpitz was tasting white wine with his glass, Hindenburg’s assistant hurried in and whispered to the Secretary of the Army.
Through three or two people’s heads, Erpitz vaguely heard the key words of "Left-wing Motherland Party", "Failure", "Albert" and "Social í n zh incarnation Party", which sounded chilling.
Assistant haven’t say that finish marshal Hindenburg already face se pale old guy to be automatically lifted guard zhengf incarnation as prime minister Hardelin, regent status in jeopardy prince marx hurried towards the depths of the slant hall.
At this time, Kuelman, an ally of the right-wing Motherland Party and foreign minister of the Empire, came over and gently touched Erpitz with his glass hand toward Hindenburg. They hurried away from the back and Nunu mouth and asked, "They seem to be in big trouble …"
"It’s really a big trouble …" Erpitz nodded and gently shook the goblet in his hand for a long time before adding, "Kuelman, you have to adapt to the fact that the navy and army share the highest power of the empire. Maybe this is not in line with the imperial system, but we don’t choose."
Kuelman was shocked for a moment and immediately responded that the two prime ministers were suppressed by the empire after the resignation of Prime Minister Bateman. The enemy of the foreign minister hosted a wine meeting, and Lu Xi Se had scruples and laughed. "Welcome!"
****
"No, it’s impossible!"
The glass of the console table was knocked to the floor and smashed to pieces. Anger, doubt, loss and despair flooded into ludendorff’s mind, making a general who was in his prime collapse directly. The emperor needed the director to hold the chair back and unconsciously stepped back. He sat down on the sofa and covered his hair with pain and growled in a low voice. "Unless Hindenburg abandoned his faith in principle, Albert, these reactionaries colluded together and were determined to knock me down!"
The usual energetic munitions director has never been so restless as he is now. ludendorff shouted all his hands to his office, blaming one person except him for the "blatant" theft of government by the social ín zhǔ party. ludendorff made a long and fierce speech, and his department was very reluctant to sit. In the end, ludendorff collapsed to the floor because of excitement.
"What should we do if the general picks us up?" A house full of generals is silent, and Major General William Groel dares to interrupt ludendorff’s thinking at this time and shrink his head to ask about the strategy to break the situation.
"What should I do? ！” Ludendorff got up from the floor with a strange call and beheaded the generals with his arms crossed. "Find a social reason, such as Party fraud, and declare this congressional election effective to ban the society. Party, the army ín zhǔ western front marched northward in batches to suppress Albert’s rebellion, and the surrounding areas of Berlin entered a state of martial law. The Supreme Command will re-select Groel at an optional time. You can list some charges casually, cooperate with the Berlin garrison, gendarmerie and army jǐng to take the opportunity to clean out some hateful old people and give the navy the most profit. The army needs naval support now!"
****
Emperor * * needs the Director-General to further escalate the action of sweeping conservatives by the Berlin garrison controlled by ludendorff.
Immediately after the election, some peripheral organizations that supported the conservative forces of Prince Hindenburg and Prince Max of Hardelin were suppressed by the imperial army, and the scope was quickly expanded after the cleaning order was issued in ludendorff. The announcement of "Election Effectiveness, Military Control in Berlin" by the Supreme Command of the Party in Berlin celebrated the election victory ín zhǔ streets of Berlin angered the Party in society, so a parade was held in Paris Square and Pushu Street, where people opposed Maxim’s machine guns and the secret armed forces of the Party opposed the hot scene of the Berlin garrison.
The fierce resistance of the social ín zhǔ party and the Croatian landlords touched the army’s high tension, and the purpose of cleaning up the political enemies was intertwined with the Berlin civil uprising, so the situation in the German capital became out of control again.
I feel betrayed and fooled by the Berlin garrison officers and soldiers, aiming their guns at them and daring to slander and slander them. It’s just complaining about the poor army. In the end, even some respected politicians played an important role in the third naval political storm. Norman, the conservative leader of the imperial landlord, was shot dead by the army in a private villa.
The host and participants of the big peace reception outside the gun in Adelong Hotel were in a mess. Erpitz looked at the smugness a few hours ago and now he has become the six gods. Marshal Hindenburg couldn’t help shaking his head contemptuously.
Although ludendorff is the first real person in the army and the highest commander of the Berlin garrison, Hindenburg is the nominal supreme leader of the army after all. Even if ludendorff is domineering, he can’t shield his army alliance.
After the parliamentary election, the streets of Berlin came to the gun for the first time to prove that ludendorff had planned for the conservatives, and it was unreasonable for Hindenburg, the chief of staff of the Army, to know that the conservatives did not lose their politics.
"It’s time for Mr. K to leave." Erpitz ignored Prince Marx’s efforts to retain him and turned to K and joked. "General ludendorff is too busy dealing with conservatives and social parties to pay attention to us little fish and shrimp ín zhǔ sea!"
With a faint professional smile on his face, K leaned down to pull the main entrance of the reception hall to invite Erpitz.
White Se main entrance with flashy breath was just pulled by K with a crisp gun, and K was stunned to see that Erpitz covered his bleeding chest and fell to the floor softly, and then a group of army soldiers broke into the reception hall stiffly. The first lieutenant of the army with a armed belt blew his pistol and the smoke god Se was cold. "Gentlemen, you are under arrest!" to be continued
The second gun Chapter 13 mutiny (7) 【 irrigation 】
Albert’s victory ín zhǔ parliamentary election in June was castrated by ludendorff’s order, and the party took out its decades-long history in Germany and beat the left-wing motherland party dominated by ludendorff and Groel with a layer of coat to form a cabinet.
Before the parliamentary election, the Schleswig uprising was launched and swept through the northwestern States of the empire, principality, waiting countries and the city of Ziyó u. It seems that the Y? ín zhǔ incarnation party has actually gone to a political dead end. The Workers’ Party’s attack on the city in the north corresponds to the brilliant victory of the imperial conservative forces in the non-rebel area, the Canadian navy and the Orkney Islands offshore. The reactionary forces of the mutiny empire in Paris, France on the eastern front, Russia on the western front and France are no longer restrained by external forces. Therefore, the Yen zhèng fǔ party has neither the strength to continue in the south, and no one can help it, including the naval emperor, the consortium and the industrial trust, to hate and resist in every way, so that the political dialogue can be gradually weakened in a stalemate.