The British also know that the French can’t hold on to it, and the British are also nervous. British Prime Minister jǐng told the Russians that they must take action on the eastern front, otherwise they would stop all material assistance to Russia. The Foreign Minister rushed to the United States to seek new combat power. The War Department and the Admiralty joined hands to desperately send materials and troops to France to save France.

At the moment, the eyes of the world are focused on Paris, France, where the scenery has just been once again quiet in the Mediterranean, but the Mediterranean naval commanders are no longer lonely. They are planning a large-scale naval battle.
May 4, 1916: Golden Horn Bay in Turkey
Just returned from the sea, the ship’s patrol boiler flamed out, and the heavy anchor was put out from fore peak tank. The commander of the Turkish navy, Soloqin and Gunther Gunther Lutjens, boarded the deck and looked at the sailors’ sling and stabilizer cables to be put on the communication boat.
The boat landed steadily in the sea and splashed some waves. Soloqin was ready to board the boat. He was stopped by a Turkish navy hat machine official. "The general’s newspaper office received a report from the Golden Horn Bay base …"
"Oh, Italians propose to form a joint fleet of Mediterranean allies?"
Soloqin took the newspaper, glanced at it and handed it to Gunther Gunther Lutjens.
"Italians want to do a job in the Mediterranean. It’s a wonderful idea. It’s good to have four solitary-class, three Spanish-class and three Brittany-class battleships. But it’s not enough for the French to form a joint fleet with the allies in the Mediterranean."
Soloqin bowed his head and seriously thought about the feasibility of the scheme, but Gunther Gunther Lutjens made an inappropriate sound
"But since the commander has a joint fleet, who will command it?"
"Command?" Soloqin calmed down and his face was swept away with joy.
Soloqin never denied his vanity. Soloqin liked to be alone and felt that he was the commander-in-chief of the Turkish navy. Soloqin gladly took the job and did his duty. Even though Heidi Selim came to Soloqin, the Golden Horn of Turkey, she never thought of handing over the fleet command.
At present, Soloqin’s Turkish Admiralty is saying that he can’t beat the odds. He also won naval battles in Sochi, the hinterland of the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea, and Thessalonica, Greece. He is the commander of the allied fleet with the most practical experience in the Mediterranean.
But even so, Solochin doesn’t think he can take charge of the Mediterranean joint fleet. Only one Yavos patrol the empire in Turkey, and it is difficult to send his main fleet to join the Mediterranean battle group. Solochin’s cards are too few and too small.
"If you really want to form a joint Mediterranean fleet commander, you can be Italian!"
In the last few days of April, 1916, the construction period was more than four years. The second ship of Cayo Duilio class battleship, Andrea, was finally completed at Las Pecija Shipyard.
Taranto Port is equipped with four triple-mounted 35mm main guns Dante-class battleships, two triple-mounted and two double-mounted 32mm main guns Garfuer-class battleships, two triple-mounted and two double-mounted 32mm main guns Kayo Duilio-class battleships are quietly moored in the deep water area of the port, four Queen Elena-class two slightly old Margaritas, and in ancient times, two Shengbang naval generals and three King umberto-fearing ships are moored far away, and the steel smell on the other side makes the Italian navy feel confident and inflated.
Italy’s ambition for the Mediterranean has a long history. After the unification of the Italian kingdom, politicians in Apennine Peninsula have restored their ancestors’ glory. Although there is no direct origin in the present Italian kingdom and the ancient Roman Empire, it seems to them that the Mediterranean is destined to be a sea of Italians!
"But commander, according to the agreement reached by Germany and Austria-Hungary before the war, Austria-Hungary has command over the Mediterranean joint fleet …" The captain of the battleship Kayo Duilio shrank his head.
"Ollie?" The commander of the Italian navy snorted scornfully. "No, they have four capital ships and six capital ships. Italy will never accept the command of weak Ollie. Absolutely not!"
"We Austro-Hungarian Empire can’t agree that the Italians will be the commander of the Mediterranean Joint Fleet!" …,
The flagship joint force of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Navy in Prajun Port, Henggang zhōng yāng Red and White Se Navy Flag, clanked at the top of the main mast.
The high commander of the battleship, the high-ranking naval officers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the captain discussed the idea of the Italians throwing out to form a joint Mediterranean fleet.
"Italian navy milli war experience even if there is that is a failure experience! We can’t give the Austro-Hungarian nationals the command of those capable guys in the Italian Peninsula by cutting back on food and selling iron! "
As soon as Baron Anton von Hauser, Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, spoke, the captains became excited. They waved their arms and sprayed saliva to move out of the old battle of Lisa, which made Italy fall into the laughing stock of Europe, invaded Ethiopia, and today made Italians not slow down to the Italian-Turkish war to prove that the Apennine gourmet was born unfit for war.
The Austro-Hungarian captains have high-sounding reasons, but who knows that this is a fear of the Italian navy’s strength
Italians are somewhat similar to the Austro-Hungarian Empire in pursuing a sense of the Balkans while not giving up their dream of dominating the Mediterranean.
Italians compete for hegemony in the Mediterranean. Austria-Hungary is in a natural unfavorable geographical position, and financial constraints do not allow them to continue to build a new generation of capital ships. Italy has successively built three-stage six-ship-fearing foundations, and four construction equipment doors have been started. The standard displacement of the 15-inch main gun is 31,4 tons, and the maximum speed is 2. The water-saving line with main armor has reached the prehistoric example of an 11-inch caracciolo-class (arail-class) fast battleship.
The caracciolo, the first ship of this fast battleship, laid the keel on January 12, 1914. The Austro-Hungarian captains were worried that the Italians would gain the command of the Mediterranean Joint Fleet and further consolidate their sea superiority.
"Commander, what about the Germans?"
Joint strength battleship captain looked up and suddenly interjected.
"Soloqin that guy?" Anton von Hauser waved his hand dismissively and said, "No, the Turkish navy doesn’t have the strength to lead us."
"Commander, you misunderstood me. I said Heidi Selim."
The second gun chapter 10 decisive battle in the Mediterranean (2)
"The Russian firepower has increased again …"
The whole front line of the North Caucasus has been messed up. The Russians launched a prehistoric offensive in the mountainous area of the North Caucasus. The shells were in short supply. The Russian army seemed to get rich overnight. The shells rained down on the frontier positions of the Turkish army. The Russian gray Se cattle no longer continued the old line tactics, but launched a team attack under the cover of the terrain. In less than five days, the Russian line broke through the defense line of the Turkish army.
The front line was in an emergency. Liman Sanders, the supreme commander of the Turkish army in the North Caucasus, came to the front line at the first time.
Muddy water almost overflowed the calf trench, and Haidi followed Sanders to an artillery observation post on the front line.
Thanks to Russian politics, we have bought a lot of reliable information from the Russians. Recently, the intelligence shows that kolchak, commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, has come to the front line of the North Caucasus these days.
Lieman Saunders watched the Russian artillery attack into a sea of fire, and an imperceptible worry flashed across his forehead at the front line.
"kolchak has brought a lot of medium and small caliber machine guns to the Russian army, including 47mm Haqikai driver gun, five-tube Nordianfield machine gun, Wawasul muzzle gun, 4-pound and 2-pound Viavia sand gun, 12mm Armstrong speed shè gun and 37mm pop shell gun." "
"kolchak …" Wang Haidi murmured a word, and a Russian naval academy figure dressed in black Se and wrapped in a bloody bandage appeared unconsciously in my mind.
In 1915, kolchak, commander of the first mine team of the Russian Baltic Fleet, repeatedly carried out mine warfare to sink the old battleship of the Imperial Brunswick, which directly triggered the first German naval political storm.
In May 1915, kolchak officially took over the post of commander of the Black Sea Fleet. At the beginning, he actively prepared for regaining the morale of the army after the naval battle at Cape Sochi, alleviating the opposing feelings of officers and sailors, expelling and suppressing some sailors who were infiltrated by the Workers’ Party. From the first half of 1915, kolchak led the regrouping of the Black Sea Fleet’s light warships and launched a series of battles against the sea transportation lines of the Turkish army in the North Caucasus, which strongly supported the Russian army to stabilize the defense line in the North Caucasus.
"General Selim, the situation in the North Caucasus seems to be deadlocked, but it has actually fallen to the Russians!"
Saunders looked at Wang Haidi and seemed to have something to hide. He waved off the artillery observation post with only one German staff officer. Lyman Saunders hesitated for a moment and then spoke.
"The halls are increasingly dissatisfied with me and think that I can’t lead the North Caucasus regiment to completely defeat the Russian army. There is also news in Istanbul that I will be transferred to the Palestinian battlefield to command the defensive war there."
Saunders’ words are different from those of Wang Haidi, who doesn’t understand the army, because almost all the newspapers in Istanbul predicted that the Russian army had collapsed, Turkey occupied and owned the whole Caucasus, but the supreme commander of the Turkish army, the artillery observation post on the front line of the North Caucasus, told him that the war had completely collapsed.
"Self-expanding Turkish high-level officials don’t understand and don’t want to know the actual situation at the front line, but the fact is that our German instructors have trained the North Caucasus regiment J and jīng Rui to be exhausted, and the rest are temporarily recruited herders and farmers. In contrast, the Russians, although the Russian North Caucasus regiment has the same low combat effectiveness, have greatly liberated Russia from hoarding more and more troops on the southwest and northwest fronts. If there is no new combat power, we will be in big trouble …"
"What can I do for General Sanders?" …,
Wang Haidi listened carefully to the sound of small-caliber naval guns in Russian guns, seemingly inadvertently looked up and asked softly
"The army needs the navy to launch a strong action in the Mediterranean to deter the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and it is necessary to ensure that the sea transportation lines are unblocked." Liman Sanders struggled for a moment and finally made a difficult request. "I know that the Turkish navy is extremely short of warships and the old warships are either dismantled or have no ammunition, but the army still hopes to get some artillery from the navy, even some machine guns …"
"General Saunders, I am no longer a German admiral, and the Turkish navy and its commander Soloqin are not under my jurisdiction." Wang Haidi opened her hand and made a helpless expression.
The wooden Jew was a little dim. Haidi blinked cunningly at General Sanders and burst out laughing.
"But I have a way to get Russian troops to transfer reinforcements from the North Caucasus …"
"What way?" Saunders held Wang Haidi’s shoulder in the previous step and asked
"Destroy the French!" Wang Haidi’s convergence and creepy smile meet the sunshine in the North Caucasus.
(Gorgeous dividing line)
Due to geographical factors, historical reasons and practical interests, although Austria-Hungary Italy is an ally, the two countries are secretly hostile to each other
The Austro-Hungarian navy will never allow the Italians to be the commander of the Mediterranean joint fleet, nor will they look down on the sick man of Western Asia and the Turkish commander-in-chief of the Austro-Hungarian navy, Anton von Haus, who finally made a difficult decision in meditation, preferring to leave the eastern Mediterranean to the French rather than let Italy continue to expand their naval strength
Murderous words almost came out, but the captain of the battleship USS Allied Forces suddenly cut in.
"Commander, you misunderstood me. I said Heidi Selim."
The commander tower resounded with air-conditioning sounds. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is a music country. The captain of the Joint Force suggested that it is different from the most beautiful sounds on the streets of Vienna for musicians. It turns out that there may not be three allied countries, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, in the Mediterranean Sea. There is also a great god in this land rich in Uber and strangeness. Heidi Selim, former deputy commander of the ocean fleet and commander of the first reconnaissance fleet of the German Navy.
Heidi Selim is naturally the commander of the joint Mediterranean fleet for the top three Mediterranean allies.
The Germans have no direct conflict of interest with the top three Mediterranean navies, and the three countries do not need to worry that Selim will lead to a monopoly after he becomes commander in chief.
Furthermore, Heidi Selim’s command ability and strategic vision need to be questioned. The naval battles in Helgolan Bay, Dogel Shazhou Bay, Murderos Bay, Ri Deland and Portsmouth are the best warlords for this young general who is less than forty years old.
Finally, Heidi Selim knew the Mediterranean very well. As early as the end of 1912, he came to the chaotic Mediterranean to be a naval instructor. In 1915 and 1916, he inspected all the maritime powers in the Mediterranean except Italy, Austria-Hungary and Turkey. There is no need to worry about the water and soil that Selim will encounter.
"That’s him!"
"Heidi Selim is him!"
Italian naval commander fist smashed the console table in the conference room of taranto Naval Base Command.
The Austro-Hungarian navy can also refuse the temptation to defeat the French navy, but the Italian navy has no choice.