The British spend a lot of money, and the French naturally reciprocate. Of course, this is the reason why the French face. Italy has sent 400,000 troops to the Alps and sent more than 100,000 troops across the sea to Libya. J Ο ng sharp North African garrison merged into the North African Legion and stormed the French "protected areas" Alia and Morocco, which even made Gaul roosters angry.
New hatred and old hatred are superimposed. It is rare for the French navy to set up a Dandong-class quasi-fear ship to protect their Mediterranean coastline. France is like a gambler who sends his main ship to the eastern Mediterranean in one breath, that is, four isolated battleships, three Spanish-class battleships and three Brittany-class battleships.
The French navy blocked the sea transportation line of the Italian North African Army Corps, which was equipped with "J and jīng Liang", but when these picky gourmets didn’t have artillery to fight the way forward, the Italian army collapsed.
More than 200,000 Italian troops were hastily armed by the French "protectorate" governor, and the third-line troops rushed out of Aliya like ducks and counterattacked into Libya.
The Italians panicked. According to the postwar spoils sharing agreement revised by the Allies in 1915, the Italian front is the colony. The Italians sent 400,000 poorly equipped troops to France, but at the same time they sent more than 100,000 Apennine Peninsula Army J Ο ng to North Africa. However, the Italian colonies not only expanded and seized from the Turks, Libya may lose all its places. Italy is already a country of shouting, beating and killing.
In the face of surging accusations, the Italian army shifted all the blame to the navy. It seems that no French navy can reach the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean in one breath.
After weighing the strength at hand, the Italian navy was embarrassed to find that the Mediterranean overlord, who had been clamoring for more than 20 years, could not beat the French. Even though the French had three Spanish-class battleships in their hands, they were equipped with 35 mm main guns and feared the ships. What’s more, the French also had four solitary-class and three Brittany-class.
"If the commander of the Mediterranean Joint Fleet can’t be Austrian and Turkish, it’s not appropriate, then choose German!"
The commander of the Italian navy has a frightening light in his eyes. It seems that it was not him who was frowning a minute ago.
"Heidi Selim is him!"
"Heidi west lime? ！”
Istanbul halls heard that Heidi Selim was recommended by Italy and Austro-Hungarian Empire to take the responsibility of Soloqin, commander of the Mediterranean Joint Fleet. At the first time, the Ensel office of the Turkish Big Three accidentally knocked over a set of beautiful workmanship J and jīng.
"I finally spent half a year inspecting the Mediterranean naval power. Bessiem did not accept the position of Minister of the Turkish Navy, but disappeared from the North Caucasus."
Ensel, that dominate of the Ottoman empire, who was younger than Heidi Selim, lean back on the carpeted chair and looked at the stunned naval command Soloqin and shook his head bitterly.
I’m really curious about what Selim has experienced in the past two years. I remember that in 1913, Selim was still a young man with poor words and resentment, but in 1916, Selim was smoother and more scheming than a veteran politician.
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(I’ve been alive for a long time, and I haven’t heard the code words. I’m rusty, and after watching the G League, hey, hey, enough blood! )
In July, the Mediterranean is like a huge cage of fire.
Apennine Peninsula, which is full of Mediterranean flavor, continues to be ruled by frightening heat waves. Shoe-shaped shoes in southeastern Italy have beautiful toe areas. The bay is about to lose its vitality. Even the new city of Taranto and the iron bridge of the old city have not seen the castle of Yosemite. Sailors with exotic accents have come to explore.
The taranto naval base in the military port area zhōng yāng stands the German Navy’s iron cross black hawk flag, the Italian Navy’s San Se flag, the Austro-Hungarian Red and White Navy flag, the Turkish Crescent flag and the Mediterranean Union Fleet’s dark blue Se flag. The soldiers on duty near the dock hang their heads and hold rifles to hide in the shade. They sleep and park their warships with their backs to the sun. The cold side deck, the auxiliary gun deck, the boat deck and the bridge deck are full of hammocks, and there are many J ? ng sailors playing ancient games. The side of their warships are covered with a piece.
"This is the twelfth joint fleet liaison meeting."
Thick conference room door panels can’t stop the huge noise and bottom line of the conference room. The Italian guard Albert turned his head and looked at the colorful Se navy flags outside the gallery of the building. ""
"It is said that this meeting was personally presided over by Heidi Selim, Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Fleet. I hope this beloved naval god of war can end this farce that lasted for more than a month and avoid the 13th liaison meeting …"
Liaison meeting is a by-product of the Mediterranean Joint Fleet. At the beginning of June 1916, the Allied Mediterranean Joint Fleet was established in three continents: Asia, Europe and Africa. Countries transferred J Ι ng soldiers from the National Maritime Department to taranto in advance to set up the framework of the Joint Fleet Command and called regular liaison meetings to discuss joint operations.
At the same time, this force comes from three naval powers in the Mediterranean, including ten battleships, one patrol, nine old battleships, nine cruisers and twenty-one destroyers, totaling fifty-six warships. The first commander and command of the luxury fleet finally settled.
The guy that the Allies regard as lucky and the Allies vilify as poor in every way is Heidi Selim!
In May, when it was learned that the Mediterranean powers had set up a joint Mediterranean fleet, it was a good thing that the media of neutral countries and allied countries published a long list of all qualified alternatives. The endless human imagination was very funny. The Bulgarians were prepared by their river jǐng as the commander of the fleet, but no one thought that after a series of despicable black boxes of Italy, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, they came to the conclusion that they had been silent for months. Heidi Selim.
After being surprised, the media people of neutral countries and allied countries can’t help but give thumbs up to the Mediterranean powers. It is well known that the Mediterranean powers covet the command of the joint fleet. Unfortunately, the Turks didn’t participate in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but the joint fleet was less powerful, but the Italians had obvious advantages over them. However, because of the erosion of the North African war, the Austrian pinched their feet.
After complicated calculations, it is found that the most suitable person to be the commander is the top three in the Mediterranean, but his personal prestige and resume are enough for Heidi Selim.
The news soon arrived in Heidi Selim, Germany. It was agreed to forget about the rivers and lakes, but it was always liked to remember the past. The Germans repeatedly appeared in the headlines.
The old photo of gray Se, the guy whose face is unforgettable to Rilman people, has not been lost. Many Germans who are familiar with him can still find the past from that face with a small beard and vicissitudes of life, but Heidi Selim is not the German naval hero who has won the sea again and again. There are no more rivers and lakes here in Germany, but the Mediterranean is full of his words to be continued.
William, the Kaiser, was in a state of panic. He timely showed his allies the emperor’s anger and concealed the emperor’s fear of being alone. Although he said that he despised Heidi Selim, William never doubted that Selim could command a bunch of Mediterranean scum to clean up the proud French navy.
At that time, the Germans had pulled out of the anger of the third naval political storm in 1915 and calmed down. The German nation was good at reasoning and thinking, which once again showed that the emperor and the ZHENG F ǔ party raided the society after the political storm. The right-wing leader of the YIN ZH ǔ party, Friedrich Albert, mysteriously disappeared, and the emperor navy would not be heard before. At last, William was accused by the public for his role in the political storm of the White Emperor. However, he can still hope that the ocean fleet will continue to win, so as to dispel the sea soul brand of West Lime on this land power. But now there is no harvest of West Lime Ocean Fleet, and he has forcibly suppressed it and swept the door, but the West Lime Mediterranean is flourishing.
The more the West Lyme Mediterranean behaved, the more it turned against him. William was stupid and riding a tiger was difficult. The emperor would never allow this scene to happen again.
In the morning, the corpse was lost in anger, but it was beyond William’s expectation that the industrial and commercial class and university supporters of the defiant ocean fleet West Lyme praised the allied ally Britain and SHEN WOO for blessing the Mediterranean Wuyun Changlong. On the side of the emperor, Falkenhayn, the chief of staff of the army, and Norman, the conservative leader of the Croatian landlord, also remained silent. erich ludendorff, the chief of staff of the Eastern High Command, also came out with the flag of little support for the Mediterranean powers, and decided to expect West Lyme to help the empire win the Paris War by fighting the Mediterranean situation and attacking the French J and jīng forces.
In May, 1916, the Imperial Army foiled the French’s attempt to show an active defensive war on the outskirts of Paris and spread the war to the capital of Paris.
The Italian army is turning over the Alps and attacking the French side. After that, the navy is restrained by the allied navy. The eastern Mediterranean cannot move and is forced to a desperate situation. last stand first called up all the people who can take up arms to defend France, and then brazenly declared Paris a war zone. France will never surrender.
Faced with the possibility of collapse at any time, France’s allies and allies of the Allies have poured too much money into gambling, and gamblers are in a state of madness. In just two months, Royal Navy warships and civilian ships sent millions of guns and nearly 10,000 guns to France, and more than one million soldiers have not been trained in the same ship. Ri has sent a division of troops and a large number of escort warships to Europe, and the Russians will transfer reinforcements from the North Caucasus to the western battlefield, and several Russian gray Se animals are shouting "Don’t fight Germany" with simple weapons. The slogan "The national ghost hits the Austro-Hungarian puppet troops" stormed the German-Austrian defense line. Part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, zhèng fǔ incarnation of the United States and Congress successively sent the high-voltage line of Monroe Doctrine to the allies to escort the merchant fleet of the allies to curb the increasingly fierce German submarine strangulation war.
Even if the Allies tried their best to face the "total war" mode and entered the peak state, the German army’s Allied forces were still defeated in Paris. The French, British, Belgian and only one wing left, the Ri army could rely on the city, only a few ground strongholds and even the French themselves could not figure out the Paris Waterway System.
The Paris War almost exhausted the empire’s strategic armament, and the production speed of materials was far behind the concept of "total war" in front-line astronomical figures. ludendorff was overwhelmed, and Falkenhayn transferred the director of military supplies to be responsible for the allocation of materials in the west. In view of the personal future tied up by the Paris War in ludendorff, the flag of the army generals was fresh against the emperor.
Not only was the German navy and army dissatisfied with the emperor’s intervention, but even relying on Germany to help Italy, Austria-Hungary and Turkey was dismissive of it. Italian Foreign Minister Sonnino, the Big Three of Turkey, Ensel advocated that Heidi Silem was appointed as the commander of the Mediterranean Joint Fleet by the Allied Mediterranean Tri-Powers at the same time.
"Although General Selim is fierce, he is not the God of Olympus after all." Belgunino shook his head and said, "We Austrians had a naval battle in Lisa, the Turks had an Italian-Turkish war, and Austria Turkey was entangled in the Balkans. It is hard to imagine that General Selim may not be able to cope with such a scene …"
The guards whispered to each other only through a wall. The words of the Italian guards clearly entered Wang Haidi’s ears by mistake after being translated by J Ο ng, a full-time translator of Wang Haidi.
Wang Haidi put her back against the Italian to decorate the luxury headquarters building gallery, and looked up and spit out a smoke turn, which made her face a little different. Se was noncommittal.
"Look, even the most ordinary soldiers in Italy can see that the Mediterranean Joint Fleet is in name only because we can’t even organize a decent formation training after all the main ships of the Joint Fleet arrive. Only the dying French dare to put their main ships into the crisis-ridden Eastern Mediterranean!" Gunther Gunther Lutjens, Wang Haidi’s new assistant, took out his watch and looked at it. When he urged Wang Haidi to go in, he would complain in German. "But even so, those guys who have national interests in their eyes will not make any concessions! Even if this meeting is presided over by you personally, the result is still not optimistic. "
With a cigarette in his hand, Wang Haidi was reluctant to move. He cocked his head and lowered his line and asked, "Gunther Lutjens, do you think I’m going to lose the Mediterranean?"
"I think it’s too inefficient to call all middle and senior officers to attend the naval liaison meeting. When more than 100 people attend the meeting to express their opinions and quarrel, how much time do we have left to decide?"
Gunther Gunther Lutjens looked evasive and didn’t want to answer Wang Haidi’s question directly until Wang Haidi pointed to his beating heart, Gunther Lutjens, who would not tell the truth.
"The army is about to win the battle of Paris, and the French surrender, that is, the Mediterranean powers no longer care whether the joint fleet can defeat the French navy in an upright manner, but hope that the joint fleet of the Mediterranean will force the French to surrender as soon as possible, and then their navy can divide up the ten capital ships of the French navy without risk."
Hai-di wang still expression gunther Gunther Lutjens paused and continued
"General, it was a wonderful decision to be the commander of the Mediterranean Joint Fleet before the Paris War, but when the victory of the Paris War is one step away, you will become the most unpopular person in the Mediterranean powers. This is a step … bad chess!"
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"General, it was a wonderful decision to be the commander of the Mediterranean Joint Fleet before the Paris War, but when the victory of the Paris War is one step away, you will become the most unpopular person in the Mediterranean powers. This is a step … bad chess!"
"rotten chess?" Wang Haidi replied, ha ha a smile and strode towards the conference room. "If even my assistant thinks so, there is no reason why we can’t win the Mediterranean war!"
(Gorgeous dividing line)
"The joint fleet flagship ownership problem?"
The conference room of Taranto Joint Fleet Command has been crowded with neon lights in Rome, and the Mediterranean powers have been tearing down the platform and cursing one after another, almost overturning the thick roof.
The last Italian naval intelligence staff in the gallery got up and said proudly, "That’s of course our battleship Gafur of the Royal Italian Navy. Is it because your Austrian navy looks ugly and short?"
"The most suitable flagship should be the Avas". Soloqin deliberately dragged a long tone to make others mistakenly say something fair. But after taking a breath, Soloqin hung three fuses, but he reached out and slammed on the conference table, staring at the red face. The Italian intelligence staff emphasized that "the Avas, a battle cruiser, is the best’ unsinkable’ sister ship of the joint fleet, and its protection is no less than that of the joint forces of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Asia of your Kayo Durio. ”“
Soloqin made a lot of speeches, but the officials who were able to enter the Mediterranean Joint Fleet Command were also veterans of their respective countries’ naval circles. Soloqin’s voice did not fall, and the commander of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, Anton Vonhaus, took over the conversation and laughed at the Turks.
"Marshal Hill, the founder of battle cruiser, defined this weapon as a reconnaissance outpost when dealing with armored cruisers and battle lines."
Anton von Hauser took a slightly provocative look at Soloqin. "The joint fleet lacks a modern cruiser, the Yavos, and the only battle cruiser in the joint fleet. We really shouldn’t put it in the battle line …"
House’s satire ended, and he seemed to be a bit overreaching, and the natives turned their eyes to Italy.
Before the formation of the joint fleet, the Italian navy had three fleets. The flagship A fleet of the battleship Gafur had six main ships in Italy. The B fleet included armored cruisers and old poor armored cruisers, and the combat effectiveness was the weakest. The C fleet was four Queen Elena ships, two Queen Margarita ships, two Shengbang naval generals and three former King umberto ships.
The Italian, the initiator of the joint fleet, was most enthusiastic about the construction of the joint fleet. They dissolved the A and C fleets and transferred six capital ships, four Queen Elena-class and two Queen Margarita-class pre-feared ships to the joint fleet.
However, the Italians are not completely wronged. Thanks to the Italian navy’s horribly slow ship construction cycle, four Queen Elena and two Queen Margarita were in the near future, which made the old battleships of the Joint Fleet face the old battleships of the British Mediterranean Fleet and still occupy the wind. However, in terms of cruisers, the Italians only sent three garibaldi-class cruisers that were once famous but now old.
Italy refused to send the latest cruisers, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was generous once, but the four Helgeland-class cruisers completed around 1914 were dome-armored cruisers, which were inferior to the Turks. They only had two cruisers, except the Mitiri (formerly the German Brawles cruiser), which had a certain fighting capacity. The American cruiser Mechtier had long been unbearable.
The joint fleet originally had nine cruisers, so that the cruisers had five dome-shaped cruisers. The state of service of other warships was worrying, which led to the lack of maneuverability and maritime reconnaissance ability of the joint fleet.
"I agree with General Anton von Hauser’s point of view …" The Italian navy commander, the old god, sighed anodynely.
Real Italians are also very wronged. France in Apennine Peninsula faces each other directly across the sea. What will Italy do to protect its west coast if it puts all its troops into the joint fleet?
"What a joke! The commander of Dogel Shazhou naval battle joint fleet, Heidi Silyma Voss, led another patrol and a large armored ship with the flagship of Mao Qi, which was twice as hard as the British patrol. The famous general hippel killed the Raytheon after a head-on confrontation with three British super-feared ships! "
General Soloqin got up and his face was full of anger.
"We Germans have long demonstrated that battle cruiser’s firepower and protection are not inferior to a national battleship in the world! If you are afraid that the Avos will steal your thunder, please don’t investigate the name! "
"Oh, that guy Soloqin finally remembers that he is … German!"
The Italians glanced at General Soloqin and snorted. Soloqin repeatedly haggled over the Turkish navy. Who could have imagined that he was a genuine moral citizen!
The farce was far from over, but the appearance of commander Heidi Selim made the meeting room a little quiet.
Although Wang Haidi doesn’t belong to the top three Mediterranean countries, his team and foundation are no longer here, but obviously there is a memory field where he said it doesn’t need to be turned over. Every naval officer can list the classic cases that have been studied by the naval academy in various ways. It doesn’t need to be deliberately announced and encouraged. Just a glimpse during the visit in 1915 can make naval officers piece together a gesture of I pull out my dagger, I peer four ways in vain Europa swordsman style.