The first twenty years, the fourth chapter, this is the best age and the worst (2)

At the end of January 1997, Kiel Fjord, Germany
Forty-one naval cadets at the pier of Kiel Naval Academy were uniformly dressed in military rank ribbons and stood in a phalanx at the pier.
Major-General Ernst von Reicher, with white hair, rarely wears his sword. His expression is dignified and solemn. He slightly turned around and took the second lieutenant’s rank epaulettes from the adjutant’s hand, and put them on Heidi Sillem’s shoulder at the end of the phalanx.
"Selim, I understand young people’s momentum, but everything can’t be biased. Yesterday, your speech was brilliant, but it was also full of loopholes …" President Lai Xie gave his brother one last piece of advice and then patted his chest.
The military orchestra played the imperial national anthem "Long live the winner’s crown", the imperial navy military song. 1 At that time, the honor guard raised the national flag and the navy flag. Everyone raised their right hands to the national flag and sang the military song.
When the music was over, President Reich made a final speech at the simple pier.
"In the summer of 1994, you left your hometown and came to Kiel Naval Academy, from basic military training to primary navigation training, from alternate officer training to ship practice. Before you knew it, you had spent more than a thousand days and nights training ships in the military academy. In these three years, you have learned the necessary knowledge to become an excellent naval officer. You have also put aside the differences between poverty and wealth, nobility and civilians and formed a deep friendship with each other …" President Reich took off his white gloves and took a step back, leaving the stage to eager young people. "Children, you have graduated!"
"Long live!" The students were forced not to wait to throw their military caps at the Tiankuang pier, and Wang Haidi was accidentally slipped away by her classmates. Playing acrobatics seemed to throw Oden and Lei Deer, and she watched the drama far away.
"Let me go! I’m afraid of heights and help!" Wang Haidi was once again thrown high into the dock, leaving only the young people to beg for mercy.
The dock was quiet again, and the sunset cloud enveloped the earth. At the beginning of the Kiel Hua Deng, the downtown pub was crowded with graduates who got drunk.
This is the last night of the naval cadet Kiel Naval Academy. They are about to go to their respective posts. Some of them will become captains of warships, gunners and torpedoes, while others will become staff officers of the fleet. They will play the last carnival or pay homage to the dead day, and they will always face the long night and sleep. All naval cadets can think of is getting drunk.
Lei Deer sat in the corner carefully and tasted the white wine wineries from Rhineland-Falc, etc. Auden faced the wave upon wave and handed the wine glasses. Yi Yiran was not afraid to say that Herman seemed to be going to drink all the wine from the pub owner. Wang Haidi wrote a dog tag on his chest with four characters "But get drunk", but he could not afford to be drunk.
"West Lyme, wake up. Your girlfriend is coming for you …"
It seems that someone shouted that he was drunk. Wang Haidi vaguely listened to it and struggled for a long time, but he couldn’t get up. "Nonsense, my little girlfriend is still in the 21st century …"
"Selim, you’re drunk!" There was a laugh and Wang Haidi also argued. At this moment, a pair of tender little hands wrapped around his waist as if to pull him up from the floor.
The girl’s bulging small chest and the soft touch of Wang Haidi’s chest make it difficult for otaku to breathe. The girl’s faint scent seems to be more attractive than the intoxicating wine aroma. man show otaku doesn’t know where to hold the girl tightly in his arms.
"Will you forgive me? I will never disappear again. I will never fantasize about crossing. I don’t want to save the world again. One day, we will go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a marriage certificate to keep the children together and live a good life …" Wang Haidi bit the girl’s earlobe and the sound became smaller and smaller until he couldn’t hear clearly.
Otaku fell asleep, cocked his head and fell asleep on the girl’s shoulder. Catherine rolled up her hair and pointed to hide in the corner. Lei Deer pleaded, "Can you help me? I want to send him to the hotel to sleep …"
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The Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany, is heavily guarded and brightly lit.
"The so-called asymmetric warfare refers to the wartime, war, war strength, technical level, means, style and tactics of both sides of unconventional warfare. Asymmetric asymmetric warfare includes two levels. One is similar to the weak victory in the Kani campaign, which is also the essence of asymmetric warfare; Another is similar to the Crimean War. In view of the poor and weak situation of the imperial navy, this level is not considered. "
"On January 13, 17, a Russian ship fired a torpedo at the 2-ton Inti Bach communication ship 6 meters away, which will sink. This is the first successful torpedo case in the history of naval warfare; On the night of February 17, 164, the "Henry" mine sank the North Army warship "Hausatonik", which was the first submarine to sink the warship. In 14 years, French officers Lunard and cribb built a "France" airship, which is the first airship in human history that can operate; On January 9, 19, Frenchman Clement Adel made a liftable aircraft. In the naval battle of Lisa in 166, the Austrian crossed the rubicon and defeated the Italians with a "V"-shaped cross-team, and the water collision angle and chaos were the key words for the Austrian to win. In the naval battle of the Yellow Sea in 193, the Qing fleet set up a "V" formation similar to the Austrian fleet against the column battle. The hero of this victory was column tactics. Cruisers and rapid-fire guns In the Pacific War of 179-13, the Chilean navy was far stronger than the Peruvian navy. They adopted a sea blockade war, while the Peruvian navy avoided a flexible sea guerrilla war before the naval battle. Although the Peruvians screwed up the performance, this kind of broken war is worth learning from. "
"Over the past few decades, new technologies have emerged in an endless stream, and the courage and strength are no longer enough. It has become the key to the success or failure of naval warfare by relying on new technologies and people’s rational use of technology, which also means that the weak side in the war can defeat the powerful enemy through asymmetric warfare."
"Italy, Austria, Spain and the Netherlands are rich in the North Atlantic. Our opponents are Britain, France and the United States. Britain and France have the strength of the sea. The total tonnage of our navy is even less than their head. It is rational and undesirable to challenge giants like Britain and France to do their best to develop the navy and then adopt the European medieval knight duel to choose the throne for each other. Maybe we will get unexpected surprises by adopting asymmetric warfare. Imagine that we have a small fleet with good quality, airships and aircraft to help us find the big fleet 2 before looking for their traces in the vast sea. We have advanced artillery and fire control systems that can fire outside the range of the British fleet and can accurately hit them; We have high-strength defensive armor and sealed cabin design, which will not sink us even if we are hit by enemy fire; We can help the high-speed cruiser to attack the British sea transportation line and cut off the British Isles. Its colonies want this cruiser to be able to beat the British protection cruiser and outrun the first-class battleships with tough firepower. A large number of submarines, torpedo boats and mines ambushed the British fleet in Helgolan Bay, and launched a group attack like wolves. Cheap torpedoes and mines destroyed the big fleet. Maybe one day, our aircraft can hang 500 kilograms of bombs to attack the British Portsmouth Port, Portland Bay and Orkney Islands over the horizon. Maybe one day, our ships can take this aircraft to make the aircraft gain a longer attack distance and even cross the ocean to directly attack the United States across the ocean! "
"Who wrote this paper?" Sitting on the sofa, Kaiser Wilhelm II became short of breath and clutched the document marked "second-class secret" with joy.
The 19th century is a decade of great naval knowledge development and explosion. Mahan’s "On the Sea" detonated the great powers’ maritime ambitions. The British, the world’s hegemon, could not wait to announce the "two strong standards". The United States, France and Russia followed suit and caught up. Even the poor, the weak and the Japanese were waiting for the opportunity.
To some extent, this hidden naval arms race benefits from the development of science and technology, such as pyrotechnics and high explosives, new gun doors and anti-recoil devices, steel armor and closed rotating batteries, water-tube boilers and three-expander machines, steam turbines, optical rangefinders and communication technologies. Although naval designers are keen on applying new technologies to warships, no one is sure about crossing the river.
And who is Wang Haidi? As a traveler, he has a clear idea of the future development direction of the navy. It took 196 years for Wang Haidi’s paper to make a big fuss about the fear of ships, 197 for battle cruiser, and 191 for aircraft carriers to make wolves widely in World War II.
If the knowledge explosion talks about these views in the 21st century, people will certainly turn their noses up at you. On the eve of Lebanon, these data indicators came out in 197, which is different from the emperor’s first wonder that William, who is determined to build an ocean fleet to replace the glory of the empire that never sets, will be so rude.
"A graduate of Heidi-West Lemkiel Naval Academy," replied Erpitz.
"Heidi Selim … This is a talent!" Wearing a marshal’s waist with a sword and white gloves in his hand, William II buried his head and said it again as if to keep the name in mind.
"Erpitz, what do you think?" The emperor calmly threw the document aside and turned to his secretary of the navy and asked
"Torpedoes, submarines, airships, these new weapons have indeed appeared, but the technology is quite immature. The aircraft made by the French mentioned in the paper is sorry, but I am ignorant. I have never heard that the tactics of attacking and defending the perfect battleship, the water wolves, and the torpedo aircraft ships that can carry machine guns and bombs are just Verne science fiction. Although it is full of flowers, it is full of mistakes …" Erpitz snorted and didn’t want to say another word.
Although Kaiser Wilhelm II has the problem of boasting about his success, his political wisdom is not bad at all. It is not difficult to see the true heart of his secretary of the navy by comparing the confidentiality level of On Asymmetric Warfare in Battleship Age and Erpitz’s incessant complaining about the emperor.
"Well, no, this science fiction novel," Kaiser Wilhelm locked the paper in a drawer and pointed to the wall calendar. "Alfred, I want to know if you are ready for the congressional hearing of the Naval Expansion Act …"
Liberal members of Congress take a negative attitude towards the Naval Expansion Act, which stipulates a seven-year naval budget, which makes it impossible for Congress to formally supervise the expenditure.
"Positions everything is under control …"
[Notes]
? 1 The German navy’s military songs are really missing. If anyone knows what to leave a message for, they will be very grateful …