69novels Chapter 584
Chapter 584
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British side had long been prepared for the possibility of the Third Reich Navy going out to sea.
In fact, before the German army defeated Gaul, the British Royal Navy had already set out to block Hans’s outlet to the sea in the North Atlantic, trying to block Hans’s navy in the port.
They had used this tactic once in World War I, and it didn’t take long, so this time it was just a piece of cake and very easy.
With the experience of blocking the high seas fleet in World War I, the Royal Navy concentrated its main fleet in the North Sea, usually mainly in the Gulf of Spaka, and dispatched some cruisers, destroyers and submarines to control the German routes and monitor the Germans’ every move at any time.
However, the North Sea is very large, and Hans has two outlets to the sea. One is in the west, that is, the area of Wilhelmshaven, which faces the British mainland and is very close to the British mainland. If Hans wants to go out to sea from here, they can immediately threaten the British mainland’s sea routes.
Therefore, the main forces of the Royal Navy were deployed here, and the main fleet was immediately sent to fight the enemy at the first sign of trouble. The second outlet of the German army is the outlet of the Baltic Sea, which is the border between Fairyland and Norway. Although the British Empire has been trying to control the waterway here and block the German army in the Baltic Sea, it takes a large number of warships to block it.
After their forces were dispersed by the German army in Wilhelmshaven, they could not completely block every outlet, so they bought merchant ships from Fairyland, Norway and Sweden, and installed their own intelligence system on merchant ships traveling to and from the North Sea, mainly to let them send telegrams to the British army immediately after discovering the German army, providing early warning, so that the Royal Navy, where the sun never sets, can immediately dispatch and hit the German army!
In general, the Royal Navy has achieved the extreme. The Third Reich’s navy was almost blocked due to its geographical disadvantages.
However, geographical disadvantages are sometimes not necessarily a bad thing.
The German coastline is divided into two parts, one is the nearby waters of Wilhelmshaven in the North Sea, and the other is the long coastline on the Baltic Sea.
During the Second Empire, when Emperor Wilhelm II developed the navy, he established shipyards on both sides and built warships separately.
The reason for this is also due to the different terrain of the two places.
The width of the coastline on the Wilhelmshaven side is very small, only a few hundred kilometers of coastline, so they are easily blockaded by the Royal Navy. Once the German army is concentrated here, it will be blocked by the enemy, and then the minelayers will be deployed to lay mines along the offshore. Then they will be locked in the port.
Therefore, the German army near Wilhelmshaven is in a very bad situation and may face direct attacks from the enemy.
In World War I, they only had to worry about the attacks of enemy ships on the surface and submarines of underwater enemies. In World War II, they even had to worry about being attacked by enemy aerial bombers. During World War II, the sister ship of the famous German battleship Bismarck, the Tirpitz, was sunk in the sea, and died very miserably.
In this case, although the Baltic Sea outlet is far away, the enemy has to take a long detour if they want to attack them, which makes the situation of the Baltic Fleet much safer. Moreover, Hans has a long coastline here, so there are more shipyards here. The main battleships launched by the German army in the later period were almost all launched here, such as the Kiel Shipyard and the Vulcan Shipyard, which are all large shipbuilding factories of the German Navy!
However, no matter what, these two places are separated and it is difficult to support each other. The British side does not have this problem at all, so they can concentrate their forces to deal with one place, annihilate the German army in one place, and then send out the whole army to find trouble in another place, which puts the German army in an extremely dangerous situation.
The Eagle Sauce also faced such a dilemma back then. Although they had the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, these two oceans served as their fortresses, leaving any enemy who attempted to attack them helpless.
However, there was South America and North America between the two oceans, and they could not support each other, so on paper the Eagle Sauce’s naval strength was very strong, but in fact their forces were scattered across the two oceans, and it would take at least several months to support each other. To bypass the entire South America, they might not even be able to find a place to resupply during this period.
In this case, although they had two fleets, they were facing a situation of fighting alone in their respective waters, and basically could not count on the assistance of friendly forces.
Whether it was the Atlantic Fleet or the Pacific Fleet, it would take at least three months to cross the entire South American continent and make a detour. After three months, when they arrived at the battlefield, I’m afraid it would be too late to collect the bodies of friendly forces!
Moreover, after a long journey of more than 20,000 kilometers and a tiring voyage of more than three months, it is hard to say how much combat effectiveness the reinforcements will have after they arrive. If one fleet is defeated, the fleet that comes to rescue will also be defeated, and the entire Eagle Sauce Navy will be buried here in one fell swoop!
This kind of thing has happened in history. During the Russo-Japanese War, the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Bear was besieged by the Japanese Combined Fleet in Port Arthur, and then had to ask Moscow for help. After receiving the telegram for help, the Tsar made a very stupid decision. He decided to send���The Baltic Fleet of the Bear was transferred to Asia to rescue the Pacific Fleet from crisis.
As a result, this fleet crossed 30,000 kilometers, traveled around half of the earth, and took several months to arrive at the battlefield.
The Pacific Fleet had already sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the Japanese army had already captured Port Arthur.
They could neither advance nor retreat, and could only force their way through the Tsushima Strait.
As a result, they were waiting for the Japanese army here and suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Tsushima!
In this war in 1905, the biggest loss for the Bear was not the hundreds of thousands of troops of the army, but the two main fleets of the navy.
The disastrous defeat of the Pacific Fleet and the Baltic Fleet resulted in the Bear having almost no navy available before World War I, which made them very passive when facing the German attack in World War I.
Although the Eagle Sauce and Hans did not experience such a disastrous defeat, both countries saw how dangerous it was to divide the two fleets in two seas and not be able to support each other in time, so they made the same decision at the same time.
The Eagle Sauce decided to dig the Panama Canal, and Hans decided to dig the Kiel Canal!
The latter is currently the most important guarantee for the Third Reich Navy to defeat the British Royal Navy! On December