Chapter 410: The Battle of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea
"Master, after our continuous interrogation, Dulead has explained everything clearly. What are you going to do next?" Tie Bing added to Li Ningyu when he walked out of the room.
"How is Duleazi doing now?" Li Ningyu did not respond to Tie Bing's words, but first asked the King of Hijaz who arrived in Riyadh with the army.
"Yesterday afternoon, we arranged for Dule'azi to meet with Dule'ad. He has already started dealing with matters in the Kingdom of Najd since last night!"
Hearing that Tiebing General Duleazi's current situation was downplayed, Li Ningyu changed the topic to another topic and said: "The things before us now are mainly two things. The first is to solve the transfer of power in the Kingdom of Najd;
Second, end the war on the border in Saudi Arabia! Let Al-Dulazi handle the handover issue of the Kingdom of Najd by himself. Now the internal war cannot break out for a while, but we are the only one who can end the war in Saudi Arabia!"
"Master, what do you mean?" Tie Bing didn't quite understand what Li Ningyu meant.
Immediately afterwards, Li Ningyu changed his tone and ordered: "To end the current battle, the primary enemy is the Ottoman Empire. Go and convey the order immediately. The Far East Navy and Army will launch a full-scale attack on the Ottoman Empire at 12:12 noon today."
Fight back, and at the same time delay the time by one hour, tell Germany and the UK that if they are willing to come together, I have no objection!".
"Yes!" After receiving the order, the Iron Soldier hurriedly left. It was now nine o'clock in the morning, and there were still three hours before twelve o'clock.
Today's Far East Navy is no longer the navy that fought against the Japanese combined fleet at sea for the first time ten years ago.
The current ship commanders of the Far East Navy Fleet are all naval officers who have experienced many naval battles, including defensive battles in the Somali waters, encounters with Italy in the Mediterranean, and even many naval battles in Asia.
, these naval officers are all involved, it can be said that the Far East Navy has become a mighty navy that has grown up in actual combat.
From March 1st to March 2nd, 1901, the Far East Navy Fleet and the Ottoman Navy Fleet launched two naval battles in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.
This was the second naval battle that broke out in the waters of the Middle East Peninsula between the Far East and the Ottomans after they declared war. Although this was not the largest naval battle in the naval battle, it was a glorious battle, because in this
During the war, both warring parties deployed all their main fleets in the area to launch a decisive naval battle.
In the end, the naval fleet led by the young commander Zheng Long of the Far East Naval Fleet directly engaged the Ottoman naval fleet, which was of equal strength, in an unprecedented fierce battle.
If compared in terms of tonnage, the total tonnage of the Far East Fleet is not as good as that of the Ottoman Navy Fleet. However, under the command of Deputy Captain Zheng Long, the Far East Fleet displayed the spirit of the Far East Legion, which directly caused the Ottoman Empire Navy Fleet to lose all its ships at sea and sink them.
More Ottoman ships directly achieved a huge tactical victory.
At the same time, the Far East Fleet, a naval fleet with a low total tonnage, successfully blocked all the ports of the Ottoman Empire in the Red Sea area. In the end, the Ottoman Empire did almost nothing in the later stages of the war. As a result, the Far East Navy not only achieved a tactical victory, but also
resulting in a strategic final victory.
As we all know, the entire main force of the Far East Navy is patrolling in Asian waters, so Zheng Long, the deputy captain of the Far East Fleet, adopted crucial tactical arrangements for naval battles.
Under normal circumstances, naval fleets usually advance in several parallel columns. This is an extremely maneuverable formation. Relatively speaking, several shorter columns will turn faster than a long snake formation. At the same time,
It can also place the flagship at the head of the column faster, and the command signal can be transmitted to the entire fleet through searchlights or semaphores.
In a long snake formation, it usually takes 10 minutes or more for the flagship at the head of the column to send out a series of signals before it is finally transmitted to the entire column and the ships behind it. This is because of the battleship chimney
The black smoke coming out of the ship made it difficult for sailors to distinguish the signals sent from behind, and each ship had to repeat the message to the ship behind it.
Therefore, the time wasted will be doubled. In several large-scale battles of the Far East Navy, the Far East Navy often lined up in parallel columns to advance in actual combat. In this way, the fleets would often line up in a column to face the enemy navy fleet before the exchange of fire.
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However, the leading ship of each column needs to lead the ships it leads to turn left or right in order to form a suitable battle formation.
In a naval battle, the fleets of both warring parties are traveling at the highest speed, so naval fleet commanders need to dispatch some small reconnaissance ships, usually composed of battlecruisers and cruisers, but this time Zheng Long made a change
, dispatch small torpedo ships and frigates to report the enemy's position, speed, course and other information.
This enabled the Far East Navy fleet to arrange the most advantageous battle formation as early as possible and directly use all its main forces to fight against the Ottoman Empire's fleet. At the same time, the Far East Navy's reconnaissance ships also tried their best to avoid being caught by the opponent's reconnaissance ships and obtain information about the Far East Navy fleet.
information.
After the two sides met for the first time in the waters of the Gulf of Aden, because they were both advancing at the highest speed, the timing was not grasped very well, resulting in a less than ideal battle situation. However, this was quickly changed by the advantages of the ships of the Far East Navy Fleet in terms of speed and firepower.
This has always been the main development direction of the Far East Navy.
After the Far East declared a full-scale war with the Ottoman Empire, although the Ottoman Empire thought about strengthening its navy, it saw that the number of its ships and displacement tonnage were still higher than those in the Far East, so the Ottoman Empire still relied on its old age, but they did not expect that,
Both in terms of artillery caliber and quantity, it is far inferior to that of the Far East.
Therefore, within two hours after the war began, the Far East Fleet relied on its ship firepower and speed advantages to fight against the Ottoman Navy. At the same time, deputy captain Zheng Long also sent a small team to implement a total naval blockade of the Red Sea area. This way
As a result, the capital ships of the Ottoman Empire moved back and forth between the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea like a watchdog, unable to break through the solid defense line established by the Far East Fleet.
At the same time, the main battleships led by Zheng Long were firmly focused on the Ottoman Empire's naval fleet. Although the Ottoman Empire had completely given up on developing its navy, they still had eleven 10,000-ton battleships, while the Far East Navy Fleet only had three Taishan-class ships.
battleship and two mini battleships, but under such a disparity in strength, the Far East Fleet launched a large-scale naval decisive battle against the Ottoman fleet.
It can be said that the Far East Fleet at that time was heroic and heroic. In the face of the Ottoman Navy fleet, which was stronger than itself, it still displayed the spirit of the Far East Legion.
This was enough for the Ottoman naval fleet to face reality and make a choice, either to do nothing to avoid the war and then be beaten, or to fight with the Far East Fleet.
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