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Chapter 286
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“Haha, the British are really brave!”
Mainz soon received a call back from the British. In the call, the British thanked the Hans government for the invitation and hospitality, and said that they would bring the entire fleet to Wilhelmshaven, and asked Hans to be prepared to entertain them!
To be honest, Mainz was quite surprised to see that the other party insisted on sending the entire fleet regardless of the risks.
It has to be said that the British in this era are still very courageous, which is completely incomparable with the appeasement policy and the gradually declining Sunset Empire in later generations.
However, the British showed such courage and overall view, which does not seem to be harmful to Hans at present. Anyway, Hans is not going to fight with the British. The main imaginary enemy of the British is no longer Hans, but the Eagle Sauce in North America!
So after sighing, Mainz didn’t say anything.
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On January 8, 1924, the British fleet carefully sailed into the Wilhelmshaven Port of Hans.
Before entering Wilhelmshaven Port, the British people had prepared for a cold reception. After all, they knew their impression in the hearts of the Hans people very well. They came over, and the Hans people did not boo them, which was already a great honor. How could they send people to welcome them?
But the facts slapped them in the face!
The dock of Wilhelmshaven Port was almost crowded with people, and everyone gathered near the dock, looking in the direction of the British fleet!
“I didn’t expect that we are so popular here in Hans?”
“That’s right, I thought the Hans would welcome us with rotten eggs and vegetable leaves, but it seems that I was wrong!”
The officers and soldiers of the British Fleet were surprised and curious about the crowds of people at the port.
They didn’t expect the Hans to be so enthusiastic and come with so many people to welcome them!
However, the actual situation was completely different from what they thought!
“What’s going on? Why hasn’t it arrived yet?”
“Yes! It’s almost noon, why haven’t our warships arrived yet?”
“Hey, here they come, a warship is coming in!”
“Is that the ship in front the Bismarck or the Tirpitz? It looks so huge!”
“I don’t know. I haven’t been to Stettin either. I can only read about it in the newspapers. Wait a minute, I remember the newspapers said that the main guns of the Bismarck and Tirpitz were triple-mounted. Why is the main gun of this battleship dual-mounted?”
Someone in the crowd asked a question.
And this question quickly attracted everyone’s attention:”Damn, this is not our battleship. Look at the flag they are flying. It’s the Union Jack of the British Empire!”
Everyone took a closer look and, as expected, the national flag flying on the oncoming battleship was indeed the Union Jack of the British Empire!
“Damn, it was a false alarm, this isn’t our battleship!”
“These damn British soldiers, why didn’t they come here earlier? Why did they come here at this time? I think they did it on purpose, they appeared at this point on purpose to block us from seeing our own warships!”
At the port dock, the crowd of onlookers burst into dissatisfaction!
The reason they appeared here was to welcome Hans’ own warships, not to welcome the fleet that the sun never sets. For the fleet that the sun never sets, they were already giving face by not losing their heads and rotten eggs. How could they welcome them?
In fact, after Mainz’s order was issued, the two Bismarck-class battleships immediately set out from Kiel Port, crossed the Kiel Canal and arrived at the North Sea.
They entered Wilhelmshaven almost behind the fleet that the sun never sets!
The people of the Sun Never Sets only saw the huge waves of people on the Wilhelmshaven dock, but did not see the two steel monsters behind them that were like deep-sea beasts!
The people of the Sun Never Sets were only immersed in the illusion of being”warmly welcomed” by tens of thousands of Hans people at this time.
They did not realize that these Hans people were not here to welcome them, nor did they realize that there were two huge foreign warships following them all the way!
“Blow the whistle! Since the Hans are so friendly, we can’t be impolite!”
On the flagship of the British Fleet, the Hood, the fleet commander ordered the whistle to be blown, and then asked the soldiers to wear white sailor uniforms on the ship and line up on both sides of the battleship to show their respect to the Hans people who welcomed them at the port. This is a very old tradition of the navy!
However, the Hans people completely ignored the actions of the British Fleet. Whether it was their whistles or their fleet review, the Hans people didn’t even look at them!
As the distance got closer, the sailors on the British Fleet gradually saw the appearance of the people on the shore, and they were very curious about the reactions of these Hans people!
“Hey, why are the Hans not welcoming us even though we are about to dock?”
“That’s right, shouldn’t we put up a banner at this time with slogans like”Hans and the British Empire’s friendship will last forever” and”Warmly welcome the British Empire Fleet”?”
“Even if there is no such thing, there should at least be a military band, right? Did you see the military band at the port?”
The more the British Fleet looked, the more they felt that something was not right. The cold reaction of the Hans people on the opposite side was completely different from the enthusiasm they had shown before!
This even gave the officers and soldiers of the British Fleet an illusion: Could it be that they were dazzled before?
Woo!
Just when they were puzzled, a long whistle sounded behind their fleet, and the British soldiers on more than a dozen battleships turned their heads and looked back in unison. Then, two silver-white painted, magnificent super-large battleships appeared in their sight!
“What the hell is this!”
“When did this thing appear behind us?”
“Quick, quick, sound the battle alert, the Hans are about to launch a surprise attack on us!”
Seeing the two Hans battleships suddenly appearing behind them, the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers on the British Fleet had different reactions.
Some were shocked. They did not expect the Hans warships to suddenly appear in this way. This made them completely unprepared, so they were all stunned for a moment!
Another group of people felt a chill down their spines. Although this German fleet only had two battleships, they did not look easy to mess with. If these two battleships wanted to launch a surprise attack on them, they would have suffered a heavy blow!
Another group of people were very scared. They had doubts about whether to enter the Hans port for docking, fearing that Hans would come to kill them and wipe them out. In the port!
At this time, the two main battleships of the Hans suddenly appeared behind them, just blocking their retreat. In the eyes of the British Fleet, this behavior was no different from declaring war, so they immediately issued a battle order!
With the issuance of these orders, the entire British Fleet was in chaos. The battleships at the back accelerated forward in fear, and the battleships in the front clumsily wanted to turn around and fight the enemy. The different ideas before and after resulted in the fleet, which was originally quite neat, suddenly becoming a mess. The entire fleet looked like a group of headless flies running around.
This scene was seen by the Hans people who had been waiting on the shore for a long time, and they were naturally ridiculed!
“Haha, is this the mighty and arrogant Sun Never Sets Fleet? It looks like nothing more than this!”
“That’s right, they were so scared when they saw our warships. It seems that they are even less courageous than women!”
The people of Hans could not hear the ridicule of the people of the sun, but even if they heard it, they had no time to pay attention to it at this time!
“Hurry, hurry, hurry up!”
On almost every battleship that the sun never sets, the captains were urging their officers and soldiers to quickly enter combat readiness and prepare for battle!
In the process, the Bismarck and the Tirpitz also made corresponding preparations, and then watched the show on the side!
When the people of the sun never set were almost ready, the Bismarck sent a telegram:”A good dog does not block the road, are you going to stop or not? If not, please get out of the way quickly, we are in a hurry to go home for dinner!”_
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