C2738 Unidentified fleet (1/2)
After all, Prussia was a new industrial country, their foundation was far worse than France's. In order to prepare for this war, Prussia had exhausted almost all of his national power, so they managed to pull out an army that could compete with the French Army.
Prussia no longer had the money to invest in the navy. Even in such an important strategic location like the Eastern Frisian Islands, they did not have a single gun emplacement.
The limited cannons were concentrated in hamburger, Wilhelm military Hong Kong and other places, so the long coastline was completely unguarded!
Furthermore, Bismark's order to the navy this time was very simple. It was to guard and wait for reinforcements, and no naval vessel is allowed to take the initiative to fight the enemy, because the outcome of the battle will undoubtedly lead to death.
In order to preserve a bit of the future Imperial Navy Seeds, Bismark even left two troops on the west coast of Prussia. He was relying on the army to defend the long coastline.
It was because of the existence of this kind of perverse strategy of avoiding war in the Navy that Huo Fu's fleet ran rampant as if there was no one around.
The four important islands of Bolkum, Juste, Norderney, and Lange, almost without resistance, were easily overrun by the French, who were now ready to land from the Lower Saxon state across the islands and the continental straits.
However, Huo Fu's ambition was not only to get into battle with Bremei and the Hanover. These places did not have any political value, what he wanted was to get into the hamburger's free market.
By this time, the people on the Prussian coast had been awakened by the gunfire that had been going on for more than two hours. Numerous people had rushed to the coast and watched the war on the other side of the Strait in horror.
”My God! The French are coming... It's the French fleet. What should we do? ”
”Why didn't our fleet come out to fight? Don't the Port William have a few warships? ”
These simple farmers and fishermen would probably never know the difference between a pure Iron-armored Ship and a fake Iron-armored Ship with a wooden shell as its foundation.
These people did not understand the size of the battleships and the types of cannons. They did not even know that the navy required time and a huge amount of money to build it.
In this era, other than the British Royal Navy, France was the well-deserved second overlord!
”It's useless. The Port William's bell has already rung, and the military fort has entered its defensive state. ”None of our battleships went out, none of them went out …”
As the sea breeze grew stronger and colder, these pessimistic and helpless Prussians could only kneel on the ground and pray that these tigers and wolves of France would not land in their homeland.
At the same time, they were also begging God to help the Prussian Kingdom to survive this disaster!
Prussian Nation's self-confidence was still slowly building up. The Franco-Prussian War had not ended yet, and at this time, there were many people in Prussia who were still feeling apprehensive.
In fact, many of them were afraid of failure. They were afraid that Napoleon III would be like his uncle, jumping up and down in Berlin.
But no matter how uneasy they were, there was nothing they could do. Facing this war, there was nothing they could do!
Just as the French Landing forces was burning and looting the Eastern Frisian Islands s and slaughtering the garrison forces, the Captain s above the sea suddenly gave the order to stop the artillery bombardment. The six main battleships quickly changed their formation and flew towards the northwest, vigilantly aiming at the black shadow that was faintly approaching from the southwest.
This was the most classic T-shaped battle formation of the naval battles. Whoever could take the upper side of the T-shaped battle formation first would have a larger shooting range.