The Italians need a powerful pre-dreadnought fleet to hold back this French quasi-dreadnought fleet. Three Dante-class ships are definitely not enough, and they will be directly washed on the deck. Plus 4 pisa-type armored cruisers are definitely not enough, even if the Italians

It still won't work to pull a few old Garibaldi-type armored cruisers up, but fortunately, Austrian

The Hungarian Empire also has three Dreadnoughts. No matter what, just pull them up first and make do with them! Tycho repeatedly emphasized that transferring the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s Dreadnoughts is one of the prerequisites for cooperation, otherwise there is no need to discuss anything! And even so, Tycho

There is no guarantee that the French fleet can be stopped. We can only kill the opponent's dreadnoughts as much as possible before the opponent breaks through.

Tycho pointed out in the article that the former dreadnought battleships of the Italian-Austrian fleet were cannon fodder, used to consume and delay the French navy's assault force and buy time for the main fleet. The most ideal situation is that the French did not attack the Italian-Austrian fleet after discovering it.

Choosing to break out at the moment or not decisively breaking out, instead of directly pulling out the entire pre-dreadnought fleet and forcing a gap. In this way, the Italian-Austrian combined fleet would have the opportunity to more calmly destroy the Dandong-class battleships and Guba-class battleships in the French fleet.

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The Italians also studied the data on the battles between the two fleets in several naval battles. Relatively speaking, Tycho was better than Thomas in battleship technology. After all, they started from the design institute. When one side has enough cannon fodder, the performance

It would be difficult to stop a good super-dreadnought if it wanted to leave, so Tycho meant that it would be enough if it could sink a few dreadnoughts. As for Brestani

They should not expect too much this time. Tycho only wanted to use this battle to establish the Allies' absolute superiority in the Mediterranean. As for destroying the opponent's Dreadnought, it would have to wait until both sides had almost exhausted their cruisers after a long naval battle.

If you are lucky enough, you can just severely damage it and then use torpedoes to deal with it. It is really difficult to destroy it with artillery shells.

As for the third type of warships, they are all kinds of torpedo boats and destroyers. These warships are pure cannon fodder. They are consumed quickly in naval battles and are not too slow to replenish. When they are hit, they are hit, and when they are gone, they are gone. But it cannot be

Just use them casually because they are cannon fodder. A good general must be able to make good use of everything at hand, from sophisticated super-dreadnoughts to various

Hundreds of tons of cannon fodder! In this regard, the Italians have regained some face. They have a destroyer of more than 700 tons, equipped with 4 102mm guns and 4 450 torpedo tubes (a total of 10 torpedoes) and have

With a speed of more than 30 knots, it is not at any disadvantage compared to French products in terms of quantity and performance.

Okay. In terms of this level of comparison, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is once again in trouble. There are only 6 700-ton destroyers that the Austro-Hungarian Empire can handle! Barely a detachment. The rest are a lot of 200-ton destroyers.

There were small boats on the left and right. But this time they came out without them at all! Therefore, Tycho once again requested that the destroyer fleet must be reorganized. And it must be under the command of the Italian Navy. The entire formation is divided into two parts, one is

One part is an old destroyer. These are used to seal the gap. They use their small bodies to buy ten or even a few minutes for the fleet! And the other part is nearly 20 700-ton ships that can escape

Destroyers with a speed of more than 30 knots. These destroyers are prepared for valuable targets, such as dreadnoughts and quasi-dreadnoughts. After damaging them, these high-speed torpedo boats will go up to make up for the damage!

Facing Tycho's fleet allocation plan, not only the Austrians were angry, but also Vice Admiral Spey felt that it was too much. The Italians concentrated all the forces they could collect in their hands except the battleships. And this behavior was extremely

Lieutenant General Pei couldn't refute. Tycho's words made sense. If they were separated, the final result might really be a defeat for both sides. Don't look at the Italian-Austrian fleet.

Dominate, but the advantage is limited, and they are two countries. The relationship between the two countries is not good! What Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire need is a battle to determine the outcome! It is not that both sides will lose, although Tycho's suggestion is very arbitrary. But after weighing

After repeated attempts, Count Spee still accepted the Italian's suggestion, so the power in Count Spee's hands was divided into a small half before he could use it!

Although the issue of fleet command authority has been solved, this is only the first step in a long march of thousands of miles. The remaining problem is the time for the fleet to converge and the battle to be launched. The Austro-Hungarian Empire hopes that the war will break out as early as possible. After all, in the Dardanelles

In the strait, what awaits the Austro-Hungarian navy can only be a lack of supplies. Because between the two sides

The land transportation between the two countries has not yet been opened, so large accessories such as artillery shells cannot be transported. The Austro-Hungarian fleet can only fight once. If they win, everything is easy to say. Once they lose, they can only wait for the Austro-Hungarian army to sweep the Balkans.

The transportation will be carried out after each country resolves the issue. By then, there is no telling how long it will take!

But the Italians seem to feel that they are not prepared enough, because in order to deal with the almost overwhelming French fleet, the Italians also have to mobilize in full force. This includes bringing along several old battleships that are more than 15 years old. These all need to be prepared.

Although Italian

Lee only has 3 Radez-class Dreadnoughts. But they are all relatively new, and in terms of ship condition, they are much better than the Dante-class. So all kinds of wrangling started again, and just like that, the two sides were wrangling for half a month! Finally!

The date is set around October 5, 1914!

Everything went according to plan. The German and Austrian fleets would converge 40km due south of Crete on the night of October 3, 1914. In order to prevent its whereabouts from being discovered, the Italian Navy began to send the fleet from Taranto to Pepe in batches.

The Lage Islands, Syracuse and other places were transferred, and it was decided that during the operation, the entire fleet would move towards the assembly area in multiple ways. After the rendezvous, the Kingdom of Italy would declare war on the Allies and launch an attack on the French fleet within two days!

Everything is going according to the plan of Germany, Italy and Austria. In order to support the battle of the Austro-Hungarian fleet, the German Far East Fleet even transported part of the ammunition stored in the Port of Fao to the Dardanelles Strait by land. Because it was already cruising at sea

The long-term Austro-Hungarian fleet supplement

Replenish supplies. And the Italians are also beginning to efficiently mobilize their fleet. In this dimension, stimulated by Italy's strong strength and ambition, combat preparations are still progressing vigorously. If nothing else, at least the fleet's attendance capability

Still quite high.

With the efforts of Italy, the three dreadnought Count Cavour-class battleships built during the Second Sino-Russian War have completed their final maintenance and overhaul. (This class is Count Cavour, Giulio Caesar

and Leonardo da Vinci.) And the four ships are equipped with 10 350mm cannons. They are called the most perfect and proudest ones in Duke Vittorio's life, and they are also the final ones.

The Calagiono-class battleships that were created in 2016 finally caught up with the battle that determined the fate of the country. These four battleships are Calagiono, Veneto, Roma and San Martin (well, the author here is the Italian Navy

I thought of a few names that are easier to remember. The names of some battleships of the Italian Navy are really difficult to remember. Please be considerate of the author and yourself.)

When Tycho's commander's flag was raised high from the Calagiono, it meant that Italy's participation in the war had become an irreversible process. Italy, which was known as spaghetti and poor people's imperialism by later generations, would finally be on this plane.

For their own benefit, they competed with the old powers such as Britain and France! The Italians thought they had chosen a good opportunity, an opportunity that could influence the entire war situation through victory in one battle.

Yes. And they did their best for this opportunity. The fleet was divided into 3 parts. The first part was 7 dreadnought and super-dreadnought battleships and the attached auxiliary battleships, which had already left Taranto in batches. The second part was the former

Dreadnoughts and other surface combatants will be distributed in various scattered ports. The third part is the submarine force cruising near the Pelag Islands. Their task is to take advantage of the situation and rob it.

In addition to the fleet currently being assembled, Tycho also ordered some camouflaged reconnaissance ships and notification ships to search for information on the Allied fleet in advance from the island of Malta in the west to the Daniel Strait in the east, especially their cruising routes and times.

The watch is the top priority. These reconnaissance warships do not know about the upcoming operation codenamed "Three-Headed Dog of Hell". They are just told to find out all the actions of the Allied Powers.

The three Allied Powers finally squatted in a trench. They perfected the confidentiality work as much as possible, thinking that everything was under control. But the tragedy is that the Allied Powers have discovered the unusual movements on the Italian side from some cables and other channels. And

We have already started making relevant plans!

What's even more tragic is that in the last time and space, the incident where the German Navy's code book was fished out by Russian frogmen was replicated in this dimension, but it was not the Russian frogmen who fished it out. Instead, the British Navy fished it out from the sunk Luftwaffe.

A safe was found in the wreckage of the battleship En, and the German Navy's code was found in it. Fortunately, the communication between Italy and Germany and Austria was not entirely based on the German Navy's code.

In order to ensure security, the Italian Navy also set up a set of codes for this operation and gave it to Count Spee. As a result, the communication between the Italian Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Fleet was closely related to the Allied Powers.

I don’t know, any cipher is definitely the most secure when it first comes out. Even if the top cryptologists in Britain and France were to decipher it, they would still need a lot of telegrams and some actions to prove it!

But unfortunately, there were a lot of telegram exchanges, but the Italian Navy used its own original telegrams for internal transfers. Before the whole operation started, there were almost no substantive transfers between the two sides. Therefore, for a long time, the British and French telegrams

Experts are at a loss to do anything about this! However, through many aspects of analysis, Britain and France have already felt that Italy will stand on their opposite side sooner or later. How to fight is a question!
Chapter completed!