Rise of Australia

Chapter 438 Exchange Bait and Encounter

The two options gave Admiral Reinhard a headache. After thinking for a long time, Admiral Reinhard finally chose the first plan, which was to kill the main force of the Royal Navy's local fleet as much as possible.

If it is a head-on confrontation, the High Seas Fleet does not have much chance of winning.Therefore, Reinhard planned a strategy to use a small part of the high seas fleet to lure part of the Royal Navy to dispatch, and to destroy the Royal Navy's local fleet one by one by saving Grandpa with the gourd baby.

As long as the time is right, the High Seas Fleet will dispatch all of them to fight to the death with the Royal Navy.By that time, part of the main force of the Royal Navy has been sunk, and the High Seas Fleet will have a greater chance of winning.

I have to admit that while the wheel of history is moving slowly, it also affects all the characters of this era.

Even if the current development of World War I is completely different from history, most of the Allied countries have already withdrawn from the war, and only Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire are still persisting.

But Admiral Reinhard still chose the same method as in history, using tactics to defeat the Royal Navy one by one as much as possible.

The battlecruiser detachment led by General Helhow was responsible for the bait, consisting of four battlecruisers, eight cruisers and four submarines.

But on the surface, this fleet only has four battlecruisers and eight cruisers, and four submarines are hidden under the sea, ready to support the fleet at any time, or to give the enemy's main warship a fatal blow.

The warship ratio of a battlecruiser has also been carefully considered. If it is too many, it may attract the main force of the enemy, and if it is too small, it will not achieve the effect.

On the afternoon of May 1916, 5, this battlecruiser unit set off from the port with great fanfare, completely different from the low-key of the German Navy in the past.

Contrary to this high-profile fleet, the main force of the High Seas Fleet also set sail after more than three hours, but maintained a very strict radio silence throughout the entire process, and only communicated with semaphore between warships.

In Port Wilhelm, the soldiers on the port still use the call sign of the flagship of the High Seas Fleet, Frederick the Great, to create the illusion that the main fleet, including the flagship, is still in the port.

Although today is a good day, Admiral Reinhard's complexion has not been very good, and the worry on his face can be seen at any time.

"Your Excellency, will those cunning Brits really be fooled?" Admiral Reinhard's main assistant, the Chief of Staff of the High Seas Fleet, asked with a worried expression.

"Maybe only God knows. You know, if we encounter a British reconnaissance plane, maybe we are the prey of the British." Admiral Reinhard sighed and said to his chief of staff helplessly .

At present, German aircraft cannot fly as far as British aircraft. In addition, the performance of German aircraft is far behind that of British aircraft, resulting in Germany having no initiative in the sky.

Once the British reconnaissance aircraft discovered the main force of the High Seas Fleet, what awaited Admiral Reinhard was the encirclement and siege of the main force of the Royal Fleet.

If you really wait until that time, I am afraid that Admiral Reinhard will only have the determination to exchange as many main forces of the British fleet as possible.

Hearing Admiral Reinhard's answer, the chief of staff of the High Seas Fleet not only did not calm down, but even became more and more intense.

"Well, maybe we have to resign ourselves to fate. May God bless us and Germany." The chief of staff of the fleet sighed and prayed to the sky.

Although technology has developed to the present, many people have turned into atheists, or worship God less crazy.

But the worship of God for thousands of years has led Europeans to have a habit of always praying for God's blessing involuntarily when everything is powerless.

Although God has never been efficacious, at least Europeans can find a little spiritual comfort from prayer, and at least they can deceive themselves.

Admiral Reinhard's strategy is a gamble with the entire High Seas Fleet as a bet. If the gamble wins, Germany will get a chance.If the bet fails, if it will fall into a more irreversible situation, it will be even more impossible to turn against the wind in the war.

In the prayers of Reinhard and the chief of staff, the British reconnaissance plane spotted the leading German battlecruiser fleet.

It is difficult to see the German fleet in the Atlantic Ocean, because the German fleet generally adopted tactics of retreating before.

The discovery of the German fleet this time made the British scouts attach great importance. After counting the number of the German fleet, the scouts decided to return immediately and report the discovery to the headquarters.

The main force of the German fleet, tens of nautical miles away, was not spotted by British aircraft, which is good news for the Germans.

But the bad news is that General Jericho, the commander of the British Atlantic Fleet, attached great importance to this intelligence. He decided to lay a net to lure the German battlecruiser fleet deep and completely wipe out the fleet.

At 08:30 in the evening, General Jericho personally led a large main force fleet consisting of 24 battleships, 2 super dreadnoughts, 3 battlecruisers, 17 cruisers, 44 destroyers and several small warships, and slowly left Scapa Flow.

On the other side, a decoy fleet consisting of two battleships, two battlecruisers and seven cruisers also set off from another port to the location where the enemy army was reported by the Air Force.

A German submarine hidden outside the British port reported the dispatch of the British fleet to the headquarters, and the British Air Force also mastered the situation of the German battlecruiser detachment.

This led to a strange phenomenon. Both sides thought that their seduction tactics had succeeded, but they didn't know that the other party's fleet had already been dispatched.

It was not a war of small-scale destruction through decoys as expected by the commanders of both sides. This was a large-scale naval battle that almost involved the main forces of both navies.

The first thing they encountered was the bait of both sides, two small fleets.

In order to lure the German fleet to take the bait, the British deliberately dispatched only two battleships and two battlecruisers as the main warships.

The German fleet has four battlecruisers as the main warships, and there is one more cruiser.

The British officer boldly concluded that the Germans should not miss the opportunity of such a close match.

After the bait fleets of the two sides met, the funniest scene in this naval battle was born.

Under the orders of their respective commanders, the two fleets hurriedly engaged in a small-scale naval battle, and they all retreated back pretending to be invincible.

The commanders of both sides saw that it was okay, but in order to prevent the prey from escaping, they had to catch up and provoke.

The two decoy fleets stalemate for more than half an hour, but did not cause too many casualties to the enemy.

After all, everyone is a decoy fleet, the main function is to lure the enemy to chase them, so as to realize the plan to encircle the enemy.

If the firepower is too strong and causes too much damage to the enemy, then the lure plan will naturally not succeed.

These two decoy fleets have been in a stalemate for a long time, and even in the end, they have already sold each other's flaws.

But the enemy just didn't take the bait in a daze. Although he didn't intend to retreat, he just refused to take a step forward.

At first, the commanders of both sides didn't care about it, they just thought it was the other side's caution.But when one's own side has already made many loopholes, and even almost stood still and let the opponent destroy it, the enemy didn't make any moves to pursue it, which made people a little surprised.

The commanders of both sides couldn't help but have a terrible idea in their minds. Could the other party be a bait?

After having such an idea, the commanders of the two fleets saw the enemy getting more and more displeased, and even some strange actions of the enemy had a good explanation.

Of course, after having such an idea, the first reaction of the commanders on both sides was to immediately report to the main force of the navy.

If the opponent is really a bait, it also means that the opponent's main warship must be nearby.

In the face of large-scale naval battles that may break out at any time, even the British Empire, which has sufficient advantages in its hands, has to be cautious.

Although the commanders of both sides immediately reported their doubts to the main fleet, the bad news is that the two decoy fleets have been in a stalemate for too long, long enough for the main fleet to outflank the enemy.

When the main force of the High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy received this news, the High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy were about to meet.

If this were a car on land, the U-turn would probably be quick.But it is a pity that this is a warship on the sea, and it is a fleet composed of many super large warships.

It is impossible without enough time for such a complete warship to complete a U-turn.

About 20 minutes later, the Royal Fleet and the High Seas Fleet could already see the outlines of each other's warships, which also shocked the commander-in-chief of the Royal Fleet Jericho and the Commander-in-Chief of the High Seas Fleet Reinhard.

The result that Admiral Reinhard least wanted to see still happened. The main force of the High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy met. This head-on confrontation that Admiral Reinhard did not want to see was about to be staged.

"Set up the formation and attack immediately!"

This was the order issued by the commanders of both sides immediately.

In a matter of minutes, the enemy will be within range of one's own fleet.But this also means that he will also enter the enemy's range.

For naval battles, whoever can have the fastest response, who can seize the opportunity, may gain a certain advantage in naval battles.

Admiral Reinhard also understood that he had no way out now.But there is another good news. The High Seas Fleet has dispatched more than a dozen submarines this time, and these submarines seem to have not been discovered by the British fleet.

If these submarines can be allowed to launch a sneak attack when the naval battle is the most intense, it may play a vital role.

Therefore, Admiral Reinhard did not summon and order the submarines to operate, but let them lurk underwater, waiting for the best time to attack.

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