"Your Highness, this is General Crook's telegram." At this time, Crown Prince Ruprecht, who had already gone to Emperor William's port, couldn't help but shake his head as he looked at the telegram sent from the Western Front.

"Can you disclose it easily?" asked Schell, who was beside him.

"The Army said that if I agree, in ten days they can solve the entire British expeditionary force," Ruprecht said.

"Are you now shaken by the decision to continue to retain the British Expeditionary Force? I think it's not worth the loss?" General Schell asked tentatively.

"Something." Ruprechite nodded and said, "Originally, in addition to not wanting the British to resist too fiercely, we also used this as bait to attract the British fleet. But now it seems that the morale of the British has also collapsed. Yesterday, the three reorganized divisions surrendered. Jericho is really calm. The large fleet in his hand is still not being transferred significantly. In this case, why do we still have to leave the British expeditionary force?"

"In addition, are you a little dissatisfied with the fact that Earl Spee led the former Fearless Battleship into the Dover Strait two days ago and was ambushed by a submarine?" General Schell said carefully. It has been 8 days since Earl Spee commanded the German Strait fleet to enter the Dover Strait for the first time. During this period, the German fleet's night operations have successfully curbed the evacuation of the British Army. From this perspective, the Earl's action was relatively successful, but due to the night operations two days ago, a Caesar-class battleship was ambushed by a submarine, and the other three destroyers seemed to have been hit by a light cruiser. Another light cruiser was injured, which was also suspected to have touched a lightning. This made the current operation somewhat embarrassed.

Therefore, the top leaders of the German military have now begun to consider whether to continue to carry out this blockade mission. After all, the first goal of the entire maritime battle is to ensure that the British Expeditionary Force cannot evacuate, which can be done because the army can quickly eat the entire British Expeditionary Force. The second goal is to use this as bait to see if the British fleet comes out, and Jericho is very stable as a result.

Well, the problem now is that since both targets are already like this, then when the British Army is doomed to be destroyed and when the British fleet is not fooled, Earl Spey's actions seem to have become meaningless.

"The army's battle went smoothly, which was somewhat beyond my expectations. As for Earl Spee? I didn't mean to blame him. In the dark, entering the strait that the other party had been operating for a long time was already full of crisis. In this case, it was normal to have some losses." Ruprecht said.

"We have done deductions before. Over time, the British submarine ambush circles and minefields in the Straits will become more and more perfect. This is expected. Some people within the Navy also believe that continuing the night operation will not be of great significance, but I think that whether Jericho and the British top leaders are aware of our plan, they must send the main fleet to fight before the final moment comes. We must have confidence in the remaining nearly one million British troops, and they will convince the British government." Ruprecht said with a smile.

The crown prince really didn't care much about this loss. Referring to the situations encountered by the German fleet in history when they attacked the Gulf of Riga twice, Earl Spee's actions were perfect. When the German high seas fleet had an absolute advantage, when they attacked the Gulf of Riga twice, the battlecruiser Moltke was once attacked by submarines, and the battleships of the Bavarian battleships and the Battleships of the General Election Dihou were hit by mines. As for the destroyers, transport ships, and light cruisers of the mines were more than ten. And this was because the Russian army was almost collapsed when the second attack on the Gulf of Riga.

What's more, the loss is the former dreadnought, which has not had a great impact on the new battle plan that Ruprecht is about to begin, because until now, Ruprecht has not decided whether to bring these quasi-fairy. After all, these ships have some drag speed, and the 12-inch l40 artillery is not enough. Up to now, Ruprecht has only two reasons for Earl Spee to continue to operate, that is, he wants to see if he can catch some British battleships. Another reason is to see how the British's new armor-piercing bombs are lethal to the German fleet! It sounds very terrifying, right? But it is indeed necessary!

In fact, whether it was the Battle of Jutland in history or the several naval decisive battles in this plane, half of the reasons why the British fleet performed so poorly was due to the lack of penetration of shells. To put it bluntly, if the Battle of British battleships in history changed fire prevention and had new and reliable armor-piercing bombs, it is hard to say whether Betty's lion has an advantage in fighting Deflinger, but if he killed a battle cruiser like Moltke, there was no problem at all!

In this plane, the defense level of the Bavarian-class fast battleship is indeed super specifications. The 70mm outer armor plate, 280mm main armor plus 18 degrees inclination, this defense system is enough to make the Queen-class battleship equipped with a new armor-piercing bomb desperate. The downward extension of the main armor belt is enough to make the British have no idea of ​​being shot in the water. Overall, at normal combat distances, the Bavarian-class battleship can ensure that its core area will not be penetrated by any guns from the British fleet.

As for the Helgolan-class battleship? The 60+250mm and 18-degree tilt armored belts are not a big deal to defend against 15-inch naval guns, but whether the 350mm armored belt at the front of the turret is enough depends on the situation... After all, in history, when the British tested the 15-inch naval guns in real-fire, they broke through the 350mm armored belts of the German battleships. In other words, the defense of the Helgolan-class battleships is not so reliable.

As for the more advanced dreadnoughts and battlecruisers, they are very dangerous when facing 15-inch naval guns. Even the British 13.5-inch naval guns are also threatening. As for those quasi-defying ships, they may not be able to face the fearless 12-inch naval guns. After all, the quasi-defying ships did not use the double-layer side armored quilt-off cap design. Moreover, the Krupp steel armor at that time was different from the secondary hardened armor used by the dreadnought later!

Although the fire protection of German main ships is better, if the shells directly penetrate the core compartment, or directly penetrate the turret and detonate the ammunition depot placed in the tail compartment, there is still no way. Therefore, Ruprecht is very sensitive to penetration depth.

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