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Albert learned that the main force of the High Seas Fleet had fled Wilhelmshaven in the early morning of the next day. The signal flag effectively cut off the connection between Wilhelmshaven and Berlin. The communication was not restored until the fleet bypassed Cape Grenin.
"The main fleet ran away?"
Albert's face was full of shock. In the Allied Armistice conditions, the High Seas Fleet was an inevitable one. According to the preliminary agreement, the High Seas Fleet should go to Scarpa Bay under the custody of the Royal Navy. Moreover, to prevent accidents, all artillery firing devices of the High Seas Fleet will be removed, the amount of sailors must be reduced to a minimum, and the fuel is almost only enough for one-way navigation.
If the High Seas Fleet was not under supervision, the Allies would never be assured to start peace talks like this. Now the people below actually told him that the main force of the High Seas Fleet had run away. Do you think Albert was anxious?
"Bastard, who gave them such courage and who gave the order!" Albert slapped the table angrily and asked a few completely meaningless questions.
Fortunately, this person has the qualities of a politician, so he quickly woke up and knew that it was meaningless to curse like a shrew. Albert, who forced himself to calm down, pondered for a moment and asked again: "How serious is the situation? How many ships have left the port?"
The list of ships leaving the port is quite long. Anyway, Albert's face looks a little ugly every time the secretary reads a name. Let's take a look at the important ones, two Bavarian-class battleships, four King-class battleships, two Deflinger-class battleships, one Seedritz-class battleships, one Moltke-class battleships, two Cologne-class light cruisers, four Collins reclass light cruisers, two Brummer-class light cruisers, and destroyers.
Anyway, these warships are the essence of the German Navy and are the main force. Without their high seas fleet, nearly half of the strength is basically removed.
"Send them a telegram immediately and order them to return to the military port immediately!" Albert said this almost gritted his teeth.
However, if his order works, the High Seas Fleet will not escape. Domannik scoffed at the Prime Minister's order and sent back a statement that had been drafted long ago.
In this statement, the officers led by Von Ruit refused to recognize the legitimacy of Albert's provisional government and refused to accept the result of William II's abdication. They regarded Albert as a traitor to the country and nation, and demanded that the people of the whole country take action immediately, overthrow the traitor's illegal regime, arrest him and hang him!
Such a statement naturally made Albert angry, but what does it matter if he was angry? The important thing was to eliminate the adverse results. After an emergency discussion at the cabinet, two decisions were made. First, continue to contact the rebellious officers and continue to do "ideological work" to strive for peaceful solutions; second, make the worst plan and immediately organize the remaining ships of the high seas fleet to intercept.
Albert said: "It is heartbreaking to have such an incident. A small group of conspirators with ulterior motives stole our fleet in an attempt to disrupt our pace of peace. I want to say that we will tell them with practical actions. This is a delusion!"
The applause rang out, but I just didn't know what to applaud. Isn't it all nonsense?
Of course, Albert is not only good at talking nonsense, he is also quite political. After the meeting, he immediately contacted the German government group, Hindenburg, the representative of the Junker landlord.
"Didn't you say the army is completely under control? Why does this happen!"
Hindenburg was a little disliked about Albert's question. In his opinion, Albert was just a political clown, but just a relatively less bad choice under the current bad situation. However, for the sake of the overall situation, he tried his best to restrain his anger and explained:
"According to my understanding, this is a private action taken by some officers. I will do my best to convince them!"
"Then you'd better get faster, we have limited time!"
After saying this, Albert hung up the phone angrily, making Hindenburg at the other end of the phone line very angry.
"The unreasonable harness worker, he thought he was talking to someone." Hindenburg vented his anger at Grena, cursing and chatting for a while before he lowered his head, "What the hell is going on? Did Scher and Hippel lose even this little control?"
"The situation across the country is in chaos," Grena replied embarrassedly.
Indeed, with the development of the revolution, there was no place for Germany to calm down. The rebellious navy was originally a severely affected area, and it would not be surprising that any chaos would occur again.
"Try to convince them as much as possible, now we can only surrender!" Hindenburg rubbed his big head and ordered weakly.
At this time, the rebellious fleet had arrived at the Strait of Rice. The officers who stayed on the flagship Baden had a heated discussion on where the future was. The officers who were immersed in the joy of a successful escape were optimistic about the future, and even felt that as long as they arrived in Szczechin, the pseudo-government in Berlin would collapse.
"General, call from Wilhelmshaven."
Von Ruitt took the telegram, glanced at it, frowned, and he handed the telegram to Domanick, while saying, "The situation is not good. Albert ordered us to be intercepted. The fleet has sailed to the Kiel Canal, and the fleet at Kiel Port is also going out to sea..."
The news surprised the rebel officers. They always thought that the officers who did not revolt with them would not adopt hostile strategies against them, nor would they accept the orders of the Albert pseudo-regime. At least they should remain neutral. Who thought that their actions were so decisive, would the German Navy have to fight with the same family?
For a moment, all eyes were aimed at Karpovich. As the initiator of the uprising, everyone wanted to hear what he had to say about it.
Karpovich calmed down and said calmly: "Not everyone can fight for Germany as much as we do. There are many cowards like Mesnier. So it's not surprising that they will succumb to the orders of the pseudo-government!"
To be honest, this answer was not satisfactory, and an officer immediately asked: "What should we do? Fight them and shoot the shells at our former comrades?"
Kalpovich shook his head and said, "Of course we can't do this. We can't fire our fleet. We are not traitors like Albert, and we can't attack our own people!"
This answer made the officers a little satisfied. If Kalpovich had just said that he had to destroy the fleet of the pseudo-government, he would definitely turn against him. They would never fire at their own people, never!
"Then will we surrender? Return to Wilhelmshaven?"
Karpovich would naturally strongly resist this opinion: "Isn't that a failure?"
As he said that, he pounded the table hard: "We must not surrender. Keep going to Szczecin, this is our only chance!"
He continued to take the hot streak and said, "I think from now on, we should not pay attention to the telegrams of Berlin's persuasion. We must firmly believe in it and never give up until we achieve our goal!"
Kalpovich's words restored the officers a little confidence, and the fleet continued to march south, and seemed to have no force to stop them from heading to Szczecin.
Karpovich was not happy at all about this. He could not know what was happening in Szczecin. Everything he described for the officers was false. There would be no response, and there would be no military coup against Berlin. After the fleet entered Szczecin, all lies would be exposed!
"Comrade Morigen, should you convey to me the final instructions of Comrade Andre and continue to drive in the direction of Shiczechin? Either we will be intercepted by the German fleet, or we will be locked in prison and interrogated after docking... No matter which one means the operation will fail!"
Karpovich was always puzzled. Why didn't Li Xiaofeng tell him the whole plan and send a woman to command remotely? Karpovich was so unfamiliar that he just felt that someone did not trust him completely.
Morrigan smiled and said, "The action will definitely succeed. You don't have to worry about being intercepted or driving towards Szczechin. Everything is ready!"
After saying that, she closed her eyes and stopped paying attention to Kalpovich, which made the future ace spy a little unhappy, but he couldn't do anything to a woman, so he could only walk out in a bad mood.
In fact, Li Xiaofeng in Berlin is even more nervous than Karpovich. He has sent out all the forces he can send out. If the action fails, it will be a waste of time.
"Call from Kiel!"
Burganing ran in excitedly, and from his expression, it could be seen that this was good news.
"The second squadron of Signal Flag called, and the operation was successful, successfully blocking the Kiel Canal, and the German fleet was stuck!"
After hearing this news, Li Xiaofeng breathed a sigh of relief. The Kiel Canal is much closer than the detour of Denmark. Once Albert wants to intercept the fleet, he will definitely use the canal. At the beginning, a fairy is ready to directly destroy the lock of the Kiel Canal.
However, he overestimated the combat capability of the signal flag and underestimated the Germans' attention to the Kiel Canal. After some field investigation, Li Xiaofeng was forced to give up this plan, but blocking the canal had to be done. After thinking about it, he could only attack the ship. If he could sink one or two ships navigating in the canal, the navigation of the canal would definitely be affected. If it was properly operated, it would not be impossible to completely block the canal.
However, how to sink a ship sailing on the canal is a big problem. When operating in Germany, the signal flag cannot carry heavy weapons such as cannons. Moreover, it is not particularly easy to sink a ship with artillery. It is very likely that the signal flag will be noticed just after the cannon is fired, and then the signal flag will be taken away in one fell swoop.
To this end, Li Xiaofeng used his brain to think of ways. He passed all the naval war weapons from cannons to torpedoes, and finally his eyes fell on the mines. Compared with other weapons, the mines did not seem to be amazing and had no technical content, but this thing really worked.
However, it is not particularly easy to lay a mine in the Kiel Canal. After all, the mine is also very large, and it is impossible for the German soldier to watch the signal flag pass the pass with the mine. Moreover, the type of mine must be reconsidered. It is definitely not possible to trigger the mine. The canal is only 44 meters wide and 11 meters deep. The round trigger mine can be found by throwing it inside. After careful consideration, Li Xiaofeng chose a magnetic bottom thunder. It sinks the bottom when thrown into the water, and it is basically impossible to find it. Moreover, the magnetic fuse also determines that ships in this day cannot defend at all.
When Karpovich incited the main force of the High Seas Fleet to escape from Wilhelmshaven, the Signal Flag Special Forces also took advantage of the night to throw mines from the bridge of the Kiel Canal into the bottom of the river. According to the unlocking time of the fuse, it is estimated that the High Seas Fleet will be the first to taste the power of magnetic mines.
"Very good!" Li Xiaofeng nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "Start the next step, let our people in Szczechin send a telegram and let the fleet turn to Danze!"
"Transfer to Danze?" Von Ruit asked the translator incredibly: "Szczechine really said that?"
"Yes, Captain. A large number of warships appeared in the direction of Szczechin, and the harbour has been blocked!"
This news made Feng Ruitt curse himself and said, "Damn it." The intercepting fleet was much faster than he thought, and he actually blocked Szechin first. What should I do?
"We can only go to Danze!" This is Calpovich's opinion.
To be honest, Kalpovich was also surprised by the result, because just a few minutes ago, Morrigan told him: "Your mission is to incite the fleet to turn to Danze." At first, he thought it was a fantasy. It would be difficult to fool these German men to Szechin. After all, Szechin is close to Berlin and can still be under the guise of overthrowing the pseudo-government. But what is the point of going Danze? How can you convince these German men to go Danze? Maybe, he would be cut by the angry German officials just after he made this opinion.
But now, the situation is completely different. It is no longer possible to go to Szczechin. Unless the Germans are willing to fight to the death with their former colleagues, or directly surrender, heading to Szczechin is a dead end. Since it is a dead end, it is natural to change the way Danze.
"I firmly object to going to Danze!"
Just as the officers were considering Calpovich's suggestion, a discord voice emerged. Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier, who was originally imprisoned, broke in and shouted: "The facts are already obvious. This action is simply a joke. Obeying Prime Minister Albert's orders is already the general trend. We cannot just act alone!"
Kalpovich was a little tired of it. Why did this guy come out again? He glanced at Von Ruit, hoping that the general would deal with this not-so-social subordinate immediately.
However, the general shook his head directly and refused seriously: "Although Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier disagrees with us, he is an officer of the Empire after all. Our actions are to safeguard the interests of the Empire, not to kill colleagues!"
Karpovich was powerless to complain. The German chivalry spirit is really unbearable!
After saying this, Von Ruitt glanced at Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier and asked in a heavy tone: "What do you think we should do?"
Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier took a deep breath: "We should drive towards Kiel right away..."
Kalpovich immediately interrupted him: "What else can you do besides surrender?"
Mesnier said without any concession: "This is not surrender, but obedience! We are soldiers, and the most basic creed is obedience!"
Kalpovich was about to refute, and Domannik inserted: "Survey towards Kiel for trial? Do you think this is a good advice?"
Mesnier frowned, looked at the dark faces of the officers around him, sighed and said, "We can contact General Hippel first, make our requests, and resolve differences through negotiations..."
Kalpovich quickly interrupted, "I firmly oppose this approach. What's the difference between this and direct surrender!" As he said that, he waved his arm heavily: "We should go to Danze and take further action depending on the situation!"
Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier looked at Kalpovich deeply and said gloomyly: "Sir Envoy, I really don't understand whether you are really stupid or fake! After the Jews in Konisburg launched an riot, But Ze was not safe. You insisted on letting the fleet go to an unsafe port. Do you want to hand the fleet over to the Jews?"
Karpovich instantly understood Li Xiaofeng's real intention. Lieutenant Colonel Mesnier said it was right at all, and someone was planning this. As the German uprising became more and more intense, the German team could not take care of Konisberg at all. The Jews easily expanded their territory in East Prussia. On the day of the uprising in Berlin, Dan Ze was already occupied by them.
Let me put it this way, as long as the main force of the High Seas Fleet enters Danze Port, you won’t think of leaving. Lieutenant General Basilev of the Baltic Fleet has received instructions from a certain immortal, and is happily waiting in Danze to pick up the ship!
"How can you be sure that Danze is not safe enough?" After Kalpovich understood the intention of a certain immortal, he immediately began to refute: "There is no evidence that Danze is not safe enough. Compared with the fact that Danze is not safe enough when he goes to Kiel to surrender, Danze is one hundred times safe!"
"That's not necessarily!"
A voice suddenly interrupted Karpovich. Major Schroeder hurried over and handed a telegram to Von Ruitt. After receiving the telegram and taking it, his face changed suddenly. When he looked up again, he was already murderous intent.
Karpovich's heart skipped a beat, and instinctively felt something was wrong. However, he forced himself to calm down and calmly faced Colonel Domanick's sacrificingly.
A moment later, Colonel Von Ruit spoke: "Empress, I just received an interesting information. It said that Danze had been occupied by Jewish rebels a day ago, and it was already the world of rebels... Can you tell me why you asked us to go there?"
Kalpovich asked calmly: "I didn't get this information. And how do you make sure that the information you got must be accurate?"
A murderous intent flashed across Von Ruit's face. He yelled with a angrily yelling: "Of course I can be sure that my brother is serving in Danze. He confirmed that Danze has fallen!" He roared: "Also, Major Schroeder specially called the Admiralty and the former Prime Minister at the request of Lieutenant Colonel Messnier. They unanimously denied the existence of you as a person! They also unanimously denied the existence of any officer group that Szechchen opposed the provisional government! Say! Who are you!" (To be continued...)
ps: I bowed to thank comrade Juventus and the brother who gave the mooncakes, because I couldn’t figure out how to see who gave it, so I could only express my gratitude in a general way!
Chapter completed!