However, the Battle of Jutland the next day was spread by various countries in different versions for three months. Finally, as the First World entered its climax, the most reliable version appeared.
It turns out that before the Battle of Jutland, the strategy of the German Navy's High Seas Fleet was to follow Admiral Scheer's plan and launch an offensive surprise attack at any possible opportunity against the British naval fleet responsible for monitoring and blockading the German coast.
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And at the same time, the British mainland and the coast of Great Britain carried out surface channel mines and submarine sneak attacks, all for the purpose of killing the main fleet of the British Navy. Admiral Scheer of the German Navy also hoped that through the results of such actions, the battle of the German Navy would be reduced.
When the strength accumulated to the point where the navies of both sides were equal in strength, the German navy was assembled to try hard to find fighters that were unfavorable to the British navy and carry out a one-time large fleet naval battle.
However, although Admiral Scheer's combat plan of the German Navy seems to be impeccable, the secret of the German Navy's operation has been leaked. How could Li Ningyu, who is familiar with the history of world wars, not remember the Battle of Jutland?
Woolen cloth!
Therefore, the Far East Navy, which struck later, took advantage of the situation and attacked the British and German navies first. When they did not dare to attack easily, the Far East Navy stepped in to clean up the mess.
Therefore, before setting off, Li Ningyu found Liu Qinghui overnight, and after deliberation day and night, they finally formulated a plan to capture the German Navy Scheer and the British Navy Betty in one fell swoop.
From a certain perspective, the plan developed by Li Ningyu and Liu Qinghui seems to be exactly the same as the plan of Scheer of the German Navy. In the combat plan, Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Navy Liu Qinghui led three aircraft carrier battle groups from the northeast, northwest, and southwest to the Mediterranean Sea.
Then Far East Navy Vice Admiral Zheng Long led the Far East Fleet and the Southwest Aircraft Carrier Battle Group commanded by Far East Navy Vice Admiral Xiao Yu to blockade the entire Mediterranean region. Liu Qinghui then led the Northeast Aircraft Carrier Battle Group and secretly headed to the North Sea region of the Atlantic Ocean.
According to the plan, the Far East Navy would only arrive in the waters east of Norway and near the Jutland Peninsula in the afternoon of the same day after the German Navy's vanguard fleet to lure the enemy and the British fleet departing from Port Rosyth, Scotland, exchanged fire.
But first encountered the British naval fleet.
However, after the British Admiral Jellicoe personally led the main fleet of the British Navy from Scapavlo Port, it also arrived in the afternoon and met the German Navy's Betty Fleet in the waters 60 nautical miles northwest of Jutland.
, so the British Navy and the German Navy exchanged fire.
The Northeast Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Far East Navy led by Liu Qinghui immediately evacuated to a safe location, as if they were watching a show.
Sure enough, everything was as Li Ningyu remembered. Not long after the exchange of fire, the German Navy's decoy fleet took the initiative to show weakness and immediately led the opponent to the main force of the fleet, attracting them to the direction of the German Navy's High Seas Fleet. However, this also caused
The huge fleet of the British Navy Jellicoe finally appeared behind the German naval fleet.
After the full-scale naval battle broke out, the British Home Fleet naturally took advantage of its huge firepower and speed to attack. However, British Admiral Jellicoe believed that he was completely sure to annihilate the German High Seas Fleet that appeared in the expected sea area.
Who knew that it was because of these obvious problems with the British warships that it almost led to the defeat of the British Navy.
At the northernmost tip of Scotland in the British Empire, there is an archipelago called Orkney. It is a semi-enclosed body of water, bounded by the main island to the north, Hoy Island to the west, and South Lonarsay Island to the south. Therefore, it is separated from other nearby small islands.
The island forms a good natural bay, which is the famous Scapa Flow, a closed bay with three natural deep-water channels leading to the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.
In the early days of the First World War, this was an important naval base of the British Royal Navy. However, a heroic and tragic battle scene was staged in this famous bay. The protagonist of this tragedy was the British Royal Navy who dared to fight against the world-leading British Royal Navy.
The navy is comparable to that of the famous German High Seas Fleet, which competes for the world's maritime supremacy.
The German navy overall started relatively late, so the High Seas Fleet was founded at the end of the 19th century. However, from the day the High Seas Fleet was founded, it already had a tragic color, because at that time, the young Kaiser Wilhelm II was very
Wei Wei envied his grandmother Queen Victoria's magnificent Royal Navy.
Therefore, William II neither listened to the teachings of his maternal grandmother, Queen Victoria, nor ignored the strong opposition of the German Prime Minister Bismarck at the time. He even directly ignored the persuasion and warnings of his uncles and cousins across the strait. In the end, he started to fight with relatives of the British royal family.
Play a world naval arms race, and in the end it will rival and compete with the British Royal Navy!
Therefore, after the First World War began, the German naval fleet at that time already had thirty-one large battleships, thirteen main battlecruisers, and thirty-eight heavy cruisers.
The British Royal Navy has forty-three large battleships, twenty-four main battlecruisers, and seventy heavy cruisers. Therefore, the British and German naval forces are about three to two. From the data point of view, the German navy was at that time.
Ranking in the world, it has become a powerful navy second only to the British Royal Navy.
However, although the strength of the German navy is only two-thirds of the British navy, due to Germany's geographical location and other unfavorable factors, since the beginning of World War I, this magnificent blue high seas fleet has not been defeated by the powerful British navy.
They sank in Germany's own port and were driven back to their home harbor by the British Royal Navy. Only a very small number participated in the head-on confrontation between the British and German navies.
After the Far East Army Group issued a statement to control the North Sea, the High Seas Fleet, which no longer dared to take the initiative to fight, naturally wanted to sit back and watch the fight between tigers. However, they did not expect that the Far East Group would be the first to attack them.
After the Battle of Jutland on the first day, the High Seas Fleet all returned to German ports, and the British Home Fleet naturally blocked the entire port. According to German speculation, if the Far East Army wants to control the North Sea, it must destroy Germany's high seas.
fleet and the British Home Fleet, but if it attacks the German High Seas Fleet, it must first pass through the British Home Fleet.
So, while the German High Seas Fleet was waiting and the British Navy was on alert, the Far East Navy's Northeast Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, the three aircraft carriers Liaoning, Heilongjiang, and Jilin, all carried 173 bombers and air attack aircraft, and all took off. Their first
The first target is the German High Seas Fleet in its own port.