Ultimate Weapon of Magic and Science

The Principality Navy is fed up with the Parsifal Fleet. Only by removing this spike that threatens the Principality’s transportation supply line can the Principality’s army continue to advance, and the war can return to the right track, and it ends as the Principality originally planned. .

Now that we are determined to eliminate the annoying flies, the Principality Navy is currently constrained by political requirements and its power is severely dispersed by various complex tasks, whether it is to actively attack the base of the enemy fleet in the hinterland of Lapland or in the theater It is unrealistic and unfeasible to organize a net-searching (the former will violate political taboos, the latter will be time-consuming and laborious, and the number of ships used for search and annihilation is too few and too weak. The Fleet eaten). Thinking about it, the only solution left to the Principality Navy was to use "camouflage-assisted cruisers".

When it comes to camouflage-assisted cruisers, it is generally subconscious to think of those assault ships improved by adding artillery and torpedo launchers to merchant ships. But in addition to those assault ships, there is also a camouflage auxiliary cruiser specifically used to deal with assault ships and even submarines, which is the famous "Q ship" in history.

The emergence of the Q ship is not a brain invention. It can be said that it is an inevitable product of the interaction between military technology and tactical progress and ancient rules of engagement.

According to the ancient rules of navigation and rules of engagement, an armed vessel launching an attack on an unarmed merchant ship without warning is a pirate act, and it is despised by the traditional morals of navies. In another world, until the First World War, there was no similar precedent for naval warfare and sea blockade. Whether it was the attack of the Japanese navy cruiser on the Chinese troop lift in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, or the Japanese-Russian war, the Russian Vladivostok squadron warned a series of attacks on the Japanese coast. And he issued a surrender request, and only opened fire after being rejected.

After World War I, as submarines and assault ships were successively thrown into the assault battle, and the British government ordered its merchant ships to abuse the neutral country flag to avoid danger, the anxious Germans directly ignored the previous rules of engagement and began to ignore them. The warning sank the Allied and Neutral ships. In order to eliminate the cunning attackers, the British thought of installing hidden cannons on merchant ships to ambush submarines and assault ships. This is the origin of the Q ship.

Facing the haunted Parsifal fleet, the Principality Army also thought of transforming the floating carrier into a camouflage auxiliary cruiser, as a bait to attract the Parsifal fleet, and then entangled with the enemy fleet, waiting for the main fleet to encircle and destroy the enemy. .

Is it familiar? In fact, this is basically the improvement and upgrade of the previous decoy battle. The core idea is exactly the same.

The navy of the Principality was painstaking for this operation, and officers at all levels since Major General Kolchak were also full of confidence in the battle. Now they are waiting for Parsifal to bite.

So will Parsifal be fooled?

Only one day later, Parsifal gave a clear answer-in the form of beating the face of the principality navy.

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"Major General, please think again..."

"I have considered very clearly, this is the necessary means to break the deadlock."

"But this is also a crazy gamble, putting yourself and the entire fleet at risk!"

"The misty battlefield is full of uncertainties, and even a delicate plan will become unrecognizable on the battlefield, so we have to take a risk this time and gamble."

Parsifal tasted his speech again, and a strange sense of disobedience came to mind.

The basic principle of war is to concentrate superior strength and resources, and crush opponents thoroughly. The so-called victory over less is a tactic based on luck and specific conditions-this is the basic teaching knowledge of the Imperial Military Academy and is also recognized by Parsifal Strategic and tactical principles. But as a rational officer who advocates that the army has no methods of warfare, and that gambling is unreasonable, he has fought all the battles with fewer wins and won the title of "Undefeated Magician". I really don't know if I should sigh the mockery of fate, or should I sigh the dissatisfaction of life?

Now in order to complete the mission and let this war end as soon as possible, he once again stood at the cusp of the storm and had to command a battle with fewer wins and more, to provoke and seduce the Major General Kolchak with gorgeous performances An opponent who has already suffered a bitter temptation gradually lures into a new trap.

This is not an easy task.

The last time the person always kept a high degree of vigilance on the spiritual level, not to mention Admiral Makarov as a backing, Kolchak has become more flexible in the choice of tactics. To make such a highly calm, daring, and experienced combatant be fooled twice in a row, it is clear that cleverness alone is not enough.

To let others jump into the trap willingly, temptation alone is not enough, there must be pressure to push from behind.

"Don’t you say in the proverb, "Don’t forget to put a gold coin after you’ve done the trap?" But for those with high vigilance and no shortage of money, one gold coin is not enough for them to take risks. In turn, If they are caught in a financial crisis and every copper plate is very important, then this gold coin is enough for them to risk their lives to make some attempts. And if they can’t even guarantee to eat, then they will ignore everything Jumped up."

This simple truth applies to anyone, including Kolchak and himself.

They all need to end this cat-and-mouse game as soon as possible, and point out a clear end to the deadlocked war. They also know that the other party has a similar mentality, so they dug a pit and placed a gold coin for the other party. .

Kolchak’s wishful calculation was to use Parsifal to try to attack the Yamaliza stronghold by combining the fleet and the commando. To this end, Parsifal had to carry out a series of harassment, which made the Principality’s army undefeated and thus created The loopholes in the entire defense system will eventually achieve the one-hit kill as before. So Kolchak adjusted the patrol fleet's activity rules, deliberately released some tempting bait, which Parsifal could not swallow at all, and sought to achieve a frontal fleet decisive battle to solve all the troubles in one go.

Parsifal was able to gain insight into Kolchak’s ideas, but he did face the pressure to start the second phase of the battle as soon as possible. The interaction of pressure and temptation easily caused people to “may be able to take the gold coins before triggering the trap” Fortunately, I did some stupid things that I couldn't imagine.

"At this time, following the opponent's design is completely unhelpful. What we need to consider is how to master the initiative and put pressure on the opponent to let the other party take action at the pace we set."

This is indeed the only optimal solution in the current environment, but...

"Don't hesitate to go to St. Petersburg for a long distance?"

Colonel Ramsey looked sad and desperate, as if he had seen an angry Principality warship encircling his own fleet, madly pouring artillery shells and anger. Instead of sinking their opponents at once, they concentrated their artillery fire on the superstructure and blocked the escape route until all the enemy ships with all the sailors turned into fireballs that fell from the sky and fell into the icy fjord...

The Principality Navy will do so.

Either the ambitions will win, or the flag will sink high into the sea, and no flowers will bloom on the tombs of the sailors, only the waves will rush over their heads.

This is the oath every sailor will read when he joins the army, and it will also be the epitaph that accompanies them until the end of their lives. Colonel Ramsey was a qualified naval officer, and under no circumstances would he abandon the sacred oath, even if he gave his life for it. But this does not mean that he needs to wait to practice the oath, and he dragged the entire fleet together to go crazy, dashed to the political center of the Principality, angered the entire Principality, and finally surrounded and annihilated by the enemy fleet with superior strength.

"What a pessimistic opinion, Colonel."

"It is the job of the small official to raise different opinions."

"That's right. But what I want to point out is that this time the raid was dominated by our army. The so-called Principality Army siege of our fleet is a small probability event."

"Advantage?"

"Intelligence advantage, psychological advantage, organizational structure advantage, information advantage, relative advantage in equipment, strategic and tactical application philosophy advantage, and the tendency of the international situation-with so many advantages, it is entirely possible to expect to achieve tactical goals and promote the overall strategy Towards a staged goal."

Parsifal looked out the porthole and said with a lazy and confident smile:

"I have never liked exaggerating words like'creating history', but this time I'm afraid we really have to leave a heavy stroke in history. Anyway, this is the first time since the war The scale of the task force launched an assault battle. Faced with this situation, the Principality's coping strategies are not many."

Fleet-scale surface warships are indeed uncommon. The achievements beyond the tactical level have a major impact on the overall strategy, and even the outcome of the war is unique.

There is no such case in the history of naval warfare in another world~www.readwn.com~Unrestricted submarine warfare implemented by Germany and the United States may achieve that effect, but those are the results of underwater wolves, not surface ships. Results. There is one case that is very close to that situation. In May 1941, if the German navy could wait for the completion of combat preparations for the Tirpitz, the Scharnhorst-class sister ship was repaired. The fleet of Bismarck-class battleships and two Scharnhorst-class battleships (in fact, it is best to add the "Lord Zeppelin" aircraft carrier, but this aircraft-based cruiser will have the fastest combat power at the end of 1941, plus Germany Air Force Commander Hermann Meyer's obstruction and lack of resources, this aircraft carrier will never have the opportunity to show its hand) The large-scale attack on the Atlantic will put the Royal Navy in an extremely difficult situation. In front of such a squadron of four battleships, any **** team has only torn pieces. Concentrating the battleships for search and hunting may be a solution, but in this way, the strength of the **** fleet has to be weakened. German cruisers, pocket battleships, camouflage attack ships, and submarines will unscrupulously hunt the merchant fleet. If this dilemma is allowed to continue to develop, it is likely that the United Kingdom, like Japan three years later, will be completely paralyzed by shipping, and the whole country will be in extreme hunger.

However, history did not eventually evolve into that. The German Navy finally sent a formation consisting of the battleship "Bismarck" and the "Prince Eugen" to break into the Atlantic. It also buried any possibility that the Bismarck and the German naval surface ship forces would challenge British sea power.

Now Parsifal will have to rely on the only small fleet in his hands to perform similar tasks. Turn impossible into possible, and let the entire Principality and Kolchak dance along his script.