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 guns to open 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.
The second gun chapter 10 decisive battle in the Mediterranean (3)
(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. The J Ι ng soldiers from the National Maritime Department arrived in taranto in advance to set up the framework of the Joint Fleet Command and held 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 made a long list of all qualified alternatives. The human imagination was endless, which made the Bulgarians take the command of the fleet from their river jǐng, but no one thought that after passing through Italy, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, a series of despicable and shameful black-box ā came to the conclusion, but it had been silent for several months.
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, the role played by the Germans in the political storm of the White Emperor William began to suffer from the public. Accuse him, but 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. However, there is no harvest of West Lime Ocean Fleet, and it is forced by him to suppress it, but the West Lime Mediterranean is mixed.
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 opening up the Mediterranean situation and attacking the French J and jīng forces.
In May 1916, the Imperial Army foiled the French in their attempt to launch an active defensive war on the outskirts of Paris, with the intention of spreading 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 start of the "total war" mode and enter the peak state, the German army’s Allied forces were still defeated in Paris. The French, British, Belgian and only one wing was left. The Ri army could rely on the city, with only a few ground strongholds and even the French themselves could not figure out the Paris Waterway System.