On November 9th, Major-General Moore led three warships of the British Second battle cruiser Sub-fleet, namely, the indefatigable, the New Zealand and the Australian, to sneak out of the heavily guarded Scarpa Bay at night. Naturally, the British stealth could not hide from German intelligence personnel and well-informed naval attaché s of neutral countries. A few days later, the Admiralty of the British Empire finally shyly admitted that the Second battle cruiser Sub-fleet had secretly left the base in Scarpa Bay. The British explained this as "routine combat cruises involving military secrets!"
On November 1st, the latest battle patrol of the German First Reconnaissance Fleet disappeared from Jed Bay anchorage. There were many rumors from the outside world. A spokesman for the Ocean Fleet Command categorically denied that the Devlinger was training at sea. However, according to the jumping of British spies, it was reliable that the Devlinger had to return to the factory for modification due to boiler design problems.
In order to confirm this news, British agents rushed to the Blom-Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, and it was no surprise that they got fuzzy photos of the dock modification of the Devlinger class patrol.
Since the end of the anticlimactic Helgolan Bay naval battle on March 23rd, it has been silent for a long time, and the North Sea has been noisy again. The major countries have smelled the plot of the coming war one after another, and their eyes are fixed on the rising ocean.
On November 14th, the decoy fleet, consisting of two patrol ships of the first reconnaissance fleet and a large armored ship, went out of Jed Bay for a routine "combat cruise". The cruise route to these three warships was not to report the patrol line of 1 nautical mile in Zhonghe Bay, but to patrol the sandbar in Dogel.
"These damn rabbits!"
Dark navy locks the knife-shaped eyebrows and shakes the telescope on the chest. The commander tower of the Mao Qi War Patrol pointed to the quiet North Sea and scolded the Second Reconnaissance Fleet and Hewan Patrol Fleet.
According to Wang Haidi’s plan, the decoy fleet led by him will cruise around the sandbar in Dogel under the pretext of chasing British fishing boats and merchant ships and approaching the British coastline to shell the ports where the British are weak in defense.
Obviously, Wang Haidi underestimated the imagination and ambition of the Hewan patrol fleet originally belonging to the Helgolan Bay Defense Command. According to the pre-war planning of the German Admiralty, the German patrol fleet mainly patrolled the 1-nautical-mile defense line of Helgolan Bay. However, since Wang Haidi came to the German Navy for the commander of Helgolan Bay Defense Command, the definition of 1-nautical-mile became wider and wider. Before the Battle of Hewan, the German light ship patrol line had openly approached the Dogel sandbar. After the Battle of Hull, the emperor ordered the main force of the ocean fleet not to attack, but the patrol line of the non-main
Since Wang Haidi’s decoy fleet went out to sea, not even a British patrol boat can be seen in the vast North Sea, let alone bold fishing boats and merchant otaku in the United States. The wind is rustling and the water is cold, and it has turned into an out-and-out monologue. Not only has there been no opponent, but even the audience. After thinking hard, Wang Haidi pulled the clothes of formation intelligence officers and communication officers and whispered for a long time.
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Chapter VI History of Tampering (5)
Scarpa Bay, Orkney Islands, at 3 a.m. on November 14th, 1914.
In the dead of night, the waves beat the Lion, and the tens of thousands of tons of steel monsters swayed gently. With the pure white moonlight in the northern hemisphere, the North Atlantic seemed to play a lullaby with all its might.
Due to the implementation of the wartime blackout, the Lion patrolled a dark battle, and the door of the command room at the back of the forecastle of the patrol island was closed. However, the sailors who were on night duty through the porthole and a thick curtain could vaguely see the bleak light.
Although the night was dark, David Betty still worked on a thick stack of German navy newspapers deciphered by the naval intelligence department. Betty reclined her chair with thick fingers and rhythmic rhythm, knocking on the cabin steel plate with bloodshot eyes and staring at a small rust spot on the top of the cabin. Repeat a sentence with loss.
"Dogel sandbar? What exactly does it stand for? ！”
Although the naval intelligence department invited linguists, mathematicians and technical experts to do their best, the cryptographers of the German navy still made slow progress. The naval intelligence department reported or lent it to Betty. The German naval intelligence is still vague and full of hesitation and speculation. However, the repeated appearance of place names in these newspapers made sensitive Betty aware of a little trick.
"Does Selim … you and I think alike?" Betty zoomed in on his flashes, knocked on the cabin steel plate, paused for a moment, and suddenly saw the clouds and fog.
"On the morning of November 14, 1914, the deputy commander, Major General Heidi Selim, led by the Mao Qi, The Von-de-Tann patrol and the large armored ship blucher formed a decoy fleet, which was handed over to us by the deputy commander to destroy the North Sea ocean and dare to hang the British rice flagship. Mao Qi and I were determined to carry out the deputy commander’s murderous combat instructions. However, from the narrow Helgolan Bay to the wide Dogel Shoal, except for neutral countries and Chinese merchant ships, we didn’t find any floating objects on the British island. At 7: 23, the deputy commander scolded the patrol fleet of Hewan and immediately forced it to be temporarily transferred. The intelligence officer and communication officer of the decoy fleet sent an absurd report to the military headquarters and then ordered the decoy fleet to turn to the farthest end of the target German naval patrol line. In the next five hours, we did something that no nation could accomplish for hundreds of years, which deserves my pride! "
-Excerpted from the log book of the captain of the Mao Qi War Patrol.
"My cruise fleet found three British mine-laying ships in the southern waters of the 1-mile defense line in Helgolan Bay, and our formation was determined to expel and destroy the British."
At 7: 39 on November 14th, 1914, the newspaper office of the General Staff of the German Navy received a letter from the patrol of the "Battle Cruise" Mao Qi. The reporter translated the chaotic chapter code combination and was immediately blinded by the bohemian newspaper.
"General West Lyme, even if the concept of stealing is your personality, it is your practice to act without authorization, but you can’t be arrogant …"
The reporter’s resentment attracted the attention of the intelligence staff on duty. The intelligence staff took the newspaper and flipped through it at random. It made the world shake, and the newspaper still felt jumpy after signing the name.
The staff on duty scratched their heads and grumbled as they walked towards the office of the Chief of Staff of the Navy with a newspaper. "Let’s Hewan patrol fleet already patrol the British coastline. Can this tight encirclement British mine-laying ship penetrate into the 1 nautical mile defense circle of Hewan in name only? Selim, if you want to stir up trouble, at least find a reliable reason! "
The intelligence staff was convinced that this newspaper full of loopholes would be mercilessly rejected by General Hertzendorf, the chief of staff of the Navy. The duty staff appreciated Wang Haidi’s advocacy of attacking. He was determined to help the otaku, but he didn’t wait for the intelligence staff on duty to tell the reasons why those fingers were wrapped around his stomach. Henin von Hertzendorf, the chief of staff of the Navy, was known for being calm and rational, and actually agreed to Wang Haidi’s request.
"It’s time for General Ingenohl to go out …" The staff on duty left the office with a face of surprise and returned to peace. General Hertzendorf opened the shutters and looked at William Charlottenburg Palace coldly.
On November 14th, 1914, 5 nautical miles northwest of Harwich Harbor, England.
British auxiliary warships and trawlers are setting up security nets outside Harwich Harbor. Chatham and Moore patrol around one left and one right lightly.
Since the outbreak of the war, frequent lightning strikes and submarine ambushes have made the British ports nervous. On November 1 ST, the battleship Bold sank in Willis Bay, which pushed this fear to a high level. The peak of the tide is the observation tower scattered along the long coastline of the British Island. Almost every day, observers report to the naval intelligence department that U-shaped submarines and even patrol ships on the west coast of Ireland often come to join in the fun, preventing German submarines from laying mines and pretending to lay mines. It has become a common practice to build a three-dimensional anti-submarine alert body composed of destroyers, lightning ships, trawlers, airships and anti-submarine nets from the northernmost Scarpa Bay fleet station and Sindiran Port in the northeast to Folkstone Military Port and Portsmouth Student Base in the south of the British Island.
The technical officer sent by the Admiralty instructed the lean and strong British sailors to hang the anti-submarine net with explosive barrels vertically against the cool sea breeze in the early morning of the North Sea. The diver was responsible for fixing the anti-submarine net. It took three days to lay the project, and the German U-submarine threatened like maggots. At 9 o’clock in the afternoon, the anti-submarine net in Harwich Port was laid, and the Harwich fleet finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Harwich harbor is safe …" The former commander of the second cruiser squadron, commander of the new Harwich fleet, Major General William J Napier, lightly patrolled the main deck of the flagship Chatham, and said to his staff that it was easy and enjoyable.
When Major General Napier was confident, he was angry, which was similar to cutting iron. The veterans who had participated in the naval battle in Helgolan Bay panicked and threw their heads in peace. The newly recruited recruits and Portsmouth newly graduated cadets were dumbfounded and looked up at the sky with cold hands and feet.
At 9: 17 p.m., a fire broke into the sea ten meters away from a trawler and burst out with dazzling light, deafening roar, noisy flying shrapnel and soaring water column!
The impact of the explosive force of the 50-ton trawler was instantly torn to pieces, and even a small piece of sampan didn’t come. The trawler was 30 meters away. The impact of the light patrol shell of the Mohr was violently shaken and stupefied. The new sailor was thrown out and disappeared in the whirlpool, hiding behind the machine gun shield. The veterans felt that there were several shrapnel rubbing their foreheads and dancing. They repeatedly hit the weak steel plate of the light patrol, screeching and grinning and disappearing into the flesh and blood.
"35 high-explosive bomb! That is the main ship of the Ocean Fleet! " Major General Napier’s face relaxed and freehand brushwork instantly solidified. He can no longer remember the ardent expectations given to him when the Admiralty was in danger. He can no longer remember the loss of backbone and the backbone of the sea. The soldiers of the Harriet Fleet looked forward to him. He can no longer remember his business spirit a few seconds ago. He felt that the second and last commander of the Harriet Fleet was as desperate as the tragedy of Brigadier General Reginald York Tyrwhitt.
The second round of 35 heavy artillery guns came one after another, cutting off all the buildings of a thousand-ton auxiliary warship, and so on, and the steel was distorted by the shell plastic to create strange shapes; The floating anchorage and the steel cable are fixed and braided to prevent the diving net from being hit by the metal storm generated by the high-explosive bomb, and the steel cable explosion tube can’t withstand the tension generated by the explosion and explode magnificently.
The boiling sea and bloodthirsty gas made Major General Napier come to his senses. He couldn’t wait for the evacuation instructions to inform the military headquarters of the German sneak attack and asked Lieutenant General David Betty’s first battle cruiser fleet to attack and let the Harridge port battery fire back to cover the retreat.
Harwich Harbor is located on the southeast coast of England (Alwell is across the river). It is an important military port in the southeast of England. Harwich Harbor has perfect defense facilities. A seven-story circular reinforced concrete fort built in 1543, four 35mm fortress guns, 234mm coastal defense guns and 15mm rapid-fire guns on both sides of the circular fort will be the biggest advantage of Harwich Harbor.
According to the Dogel sandbar ambush plan, the bait fleet led by Wang Haidi will raid the British coastline, stimulate the sensitive and fragile nerves of the British imperial people, and force the first battle cruiser sub-fleet to fight back and launch a small-scale harassment war around the British coastline, which obviously does not meet the psychological expectation of otaku, so Wang Haidi did something that no nation could accomplish for hundreds of years-"shelling the imperial soil and sending marines to land on the British island."
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