Chapter 1750: Letter One

As Tirpitz expected, after he and the chief of the fleet’s chief of staff, Rear Admiral Trotta, returned to Brussels, the Kaiser did meet the two alone, and when the Kaiser heard that the High Seas Fleet was unable to attack, the Kaiser did indeed Thunder was furious. And after firing at Tirpitz for more than half an hour, he also saved some face for the marshal and expressed his willingness to give Tirpitz another half an hour. Only the Kaiser and the Minister of State for the Navy remained.

"Although the navy cannot completely solve this problem, we still have prepared a solution. It can effectively alleviate Germany's current material difficulties. And Crown Prince Ruprecht has also put forward his own suggestions, I hope you can read them." Tirpitz said.

"Hehe, Ruprecht should be watching my jokes in Ukraine right now?" The Kaiser smiled wryly, and now he suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness. Even though the Kaiser's military literacy was only five in combat effectiveness, he also felt the turmoil in the army after Xiao Moqi left his post.

The dissatisfaction of the commanders of the major armies caused by the adoption of Hindenburg's mobilization plan, and the refusal of the navy to attack happened one after another. He now misses the period two months ago. At that time, although Xiao Moqi's performance was mediocre, the operation of the entire German army was still very smooth. At that time, although Bavaria was extremely inflated, at least the cooperation between the two sides was greater than the confrontation! but now? Do not say worth mentioning!

When he saw Crown Prince Ruprecht's handwritten letter, the Kaiser's mood was very complicated. He now somewhat agrees with everything his grandfather has done, and is even a little fortunate that there is a Bavaria in the German Empire. And not just one Prussia. When the foundation of Prussia has been infiltrated by various forces and is riddled with holes, another kingdom has become its own help.

"After all, we are all kings, and we are still consistent in fundamental interests, unlike those political parties and capitalists, who are a group of hyenas chasing interests and never know how to be satisfied!" The Kaiser opened the envelope and began to carefully read this letter from Thousands of Miles. outside letters.

At this stage, Ruprecht really has no way to solve the North Sea blockade. Even if he recommands the High Seas Fleet, it will depend on the timing to challenge the British front that has been prepared for more than half a year. Therefore, the opinion put forward by the crown prince is how to smuggle through this blockade, not destroy it!

That's right, it's smuggling! Use high-speed transport ships, cooperate with intelligence, and then use the cover of bad weather and night to cross the blockade line at high speed, and then complete the transportation task. Is this plan feasible? Naturally it is feasible!

The maximum speed of high-speed cruise ships in this era is more than twice that of ordinary ships! The aviation power of the British is more about providing reconnaissance and location information than attacking. It is not that the various British aircraft cannot carry anti-ship weapons, but because if the British attack all ships sailing in the North Sea If so, then the United States will definitely not let it go! And if the Americans are forced to play at this time, the British will really die. Therefore, the British interception method is still aircraft detection, and then rely on auxiliary cruisers to track.

And to be honest, ships of this era may not be able to outrun lions and tigers, but it is normal to outrun the queen! Because after these cruise ships arrived in the North Sea, most of the fuel on board had been used up, and the speed was higher when the load was lightened. And because of being overweight, the queens did not exceed 25 knots in the highest record in the trial voyage!

And there is another point that needs to be explained, that is to say, the "long-distance running ability" between ships and warships is different. For any warship, whether it is a capital ship or a light cruiser, as long as you burn coal, manpower is the only way to add coal. Method.

However, some advanced ships are different. The huge hull and the lack of weapons allow these ships to have enough space to equip a kind of stuff called a chain furnace. The process of adding coal is mechanized. As for the battleship, why not install it? Because this thing is too big, too heavy.... The tonnage of battleships is all deducted, and the installation of boilers and turbines requires careful planning. How could it be possible to consider installing such things?

Of course, you want to say whether it is possible to intercept with a purely oil-burning light cruiser? This is theoretically possible. The speed of the current light cruiser is that of the Hong Kong journalists of this era. They run fast! But in reality, it is different. Let’s not talk about how many full-fuel light cruisers the British can find besides being assigned to the Grand Fleet, and let’s not mention that the British Grand Fleet is currently dying of fuel shortages. (There is more coal)

Even if a light cruiser intercepts a high-speed cruise ship at sea, the performance of the former may not be satisfactory! After all, you are in the North Sea. Let’s not talk about the visibility in bad weather. Even if you are lucky and the visibility is fine, the sea conditions in the North Sea may not allow the light cruiser to take full advantage of its speed. How can a light cruiser of several thousand tons Compared with ocean cruise ships of more than 20,000 tons, how about its seaworthiness?

Therefore, if the transportation is carried out by high-speed merchant ships, and with the support of the weather, the probability of breaking through the defense line is very high, and even if the breakthrough is unsuccessful, so what? Most of the ships were detained, and then the goods were bought by the British forcibly. The Germans were unlucky, so they went back and shipped it again...

And you want to say how many high-speed cruise ships are there now? Among other things, at least Germany and Austria-Hungary have 22 cruise ships stranded in the United States! And improvements have been made, these cruise ships can be worth hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies for a round trip! And the prince has already contacted the Americans, facing the British blockade. The Americans said they would do their best to use high-speed ships for transportation. After preparations some time ago, it will be put into use soon, and then relieve the current material supply pressure in Germany to a certain extent.

According to the information provided by the Meteorological Department, the weather in the North Sea will not be very good in the next month. Therefore, this means that the British aviation reconnaissance will be greatly reduced, and the transportation volume will recover to a greater extent. As long as Germany's interior is not too bad, it will be fine to get through this period.

In the second half of this letter, it is suggested that the Kaiser tighten up the control of domestic materials. In the letter, the prince directly listed the materials acquired by Germany since the start of the war and domestically produced materials. At the same time, he also roughly listed the loss of various materials, and repeatedly stated that the current shortage of materials in Germany is largely It is because of poor deployment, the British blockade factor and domestic factors each accounted for 50%.

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