Super Emperor of the Late Qing Dynasty

You can search for the latest chapters in Baidu for "Super Emperors Search Novels of the Late Qing Dynasty (www.soxscc.com)"!The Battle of Verdun and the Battle of Jutland greatly affected the confidence of the Will Army.For the Will Army, it is impossible for their high seas fleet to open up the situation, and although land operations have a certain effect, they are not enough to reverse the situation.

So submarine warfare became the "last card".Some senior naval generals of the Will Army have always advocated unlimited submarine warfare.According to the exaggerated submarine record, they claimed that if an unrestricted submarine warfare was carried out, all the uploads of the country of John were sunk, their supplies were cut off, and John would be defeated within 6 months.

The senior leaders of the Will Army had always opposed unrestricted submarine warfare, but were moved by the simplicity of reality and gave up their original opinions. They would never care who the merchant ship was if they were unwilling to fail in the war. If the Qing upload continued in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic When he appeared, he would be sunk unceremoniously, so Wang Guangxu had his previous decision.

After the Will Army hoped to break the blockade of the John Navy through the Battle of Jutland, the resolution was passed at the subsequent Imperial Conference. At this time, the Qing Dynasty had begun to communicate with the Allied Powers. All uploads were made at the Suez Canal gate. The South docked, the price of materials was reduced by 10%, and the Allies naturally agreed with pleasure.

At the same time, the Will Army Navy issued an order.

"From June 10, 3908, unrestricted submarine warfare will begin in an all-round way."

Since then, the opposing parties have concentrated their forces and mobilized various means to launch a submarine and anti-submarine struggle, and the naval struggle has entered a new stage in a form that has never been seen before.

After the start of the full-scale unrestricted submarine warfare, the Will Army submarines unscrupulously attacked all ships. No matter what kind of flag these ships are flying, there are only ships of the opposing parties at sea. Anything sailing on the sea will inevitably be sunk. The submarine's activities are roughly in the vicinity of the North Sea John State and Gaulji waters, and the farthest is only the North Atlantic and Mediterranean areas.

Even if the Qing Dynasty provided drawings to improve the submarine of the Will Army, the submarine at this time was still not enough to bypass the Cape of Good Hope and enter Asanyang to attack the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, the Will Army has more than 150 submarines, of which 120 are combat formations. Their basic submarine tactics have not changed or improved much, that is, single-vessel cruises and formation cruises in the high seas area, and take them near ports and bases. Position method.The weapons used are torpedoes, mines and artillery.

At the same time, in order to cooperate with the submarine warfare, the surface ships of the State of Will also carried out repeated attacks to destroy the cruise force of the Allied Powers.I just didn't dare to fight a decisive battle with John the Navy.

Since John and other countries of the Allies underestimated the severity of unrestricted submarine warfare, the defense against submarine was still in the initial stage, and unrestricted submarine warfare immediately caused serious losses to the Allies.The losses of the merchant ships of the Allies increased from 300,000 tons in June to 400,000 tons in July, and then soared to 500,000 tons in August until 850,000 tons in September.Among the merchant ships in John Sea, an average of 1 in 4 ships was sunk.

In that year, the country’s submarines sank a total of 2,566 merchant ships from the Allied countries, with a registered gross tonnage of 4.6 million tons, of which three-fifths of the merchant ships of the Qing Dynasty auspicious country.The total tonnage of John's shipbuilding was only 2.7 million tons.The merchant ships of the Allies were sunk too quickly, and there was no time to replenish and replace them in time. If this continues, hunger and even submission will follow.

And Citi Merchant Marine also lost more than 2 million tons of merchant ships in the ocean. They warned the Army of Will on many occasions, but they did not change anything.

The atmosphere in the Prime Minister's office in John's City is a bit solemn.Make a novel www.zuoxs.com

"Everyone! If our strategy is not based on secured lines of communication. In this case, a fiasco is inevitable.

"And our current policy is directly leading to a disastrous defeat. If we are unwilling to consider this, then I firmly believe that the war will be defeated, and the people of the empire will starve to death."

Jelik said to many people present.

"Then Commander, do you have any good suggestions?"

Prime Minister Astairs regretted that he had been warned by Jerik once before, but at first they didn’t mean to be shocked. When the loss began to exceed 1 billion Geely pounds, they had no idea. If it goes on, not only will John's upload be lost, but their funds will also be consumed.

"I think the main force fleet continues to target the Will Army’s high seas fleet and knows no mines outside their naval base, and then converts a large number of small merchant ships and fishing boats into minesweepers and frigates, and sends more cruisers and destroyers to love you to escort and step up the construction of new ones. Anti-submarine ship."

Jellick was obviously prepared and told his thoughts.

"Your Excellency Commander, the mission of the navy is to defend the so-called "sea lanes." The escort system is a defensive measure. It must use offensive force and means to deal with submarines, and take active attacks instead of passive defenses."

Secretary of the Navy Phillando raised an objection.

"Mr. Ferrando, according to our calculations, the coal fleet that crossed the Gili Gili Strait suffered almost no loss due to the insistence of the Gauls to escort. Only 5 of the 2,600 coal fleets were sunk by submarines. , The loss rate was 0.19%, and the loss rate of ships sailing independently in the same waters was 25%. This data is enough to explain everything."

Jellick did not forcefully argue, but gave data...

Faced with such an answer, the senior management of John finally agreed to build more ships to escort, and their powerful shipbuilding capabilities began to operate at full capacity again, a large number of uploads and destroyers began to launch...

After the escort was fully implemented, in the first two of 3909, the losses of the Allied merchant ships dropped to 245,800 tons and 231,600 tons respectively.

Due to the blind optimism of the Will Army, they did not manufacture a large number of submarines at the beginning. When they realized that they wanted to manufacture in large quantities, the John Navy and the Midian Navy already had a large number of escorts, and the anti-submarine technology had developed to a stage, unlimited In the end, the submarine warfare did not complete the role of turning the situation around.

Although the Unrestricted Submarine War of the Will Army failed to win, it caused heavy losses and threats to the Allies after all.Throughout the war, the submarines sank 5,234 merchant ships by direct attack or deployment of mines, totaling 12,185,832 tons, sinking 10 battleships, 18 cruisers, 20 destroyers and 9 submarines.Submarine warfare and anti-submarine warfare have become a major issue of naval academics...