Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

Just when the ambassadors of the United Kingdom, Prussia, Tsarist Russia, and Austria-Hungary wanted to find out what was going on, and so their eyes were fixed on the smoking warship, they suddenly showed incredible looks. With the help of the high magnification of the telescope, he actually saw a fast moving underwater thing attacking from the right towards the Hague 5-class battleship on the left. The waves caused by the rapid movement of this thing rolled up, 20 Seconds, 10 seconds, 5 seconds. 1 second, and the next second the whole hull of the Hague battleship shook again, and then tilted slowly towards them. A minute and a half later, the entire ship was swallowed by the waves and sank below the water level.

That thing actually attacked the Hague fifth-class battleship from underwater?

What is so powerful?

The direction this thing "swam" just now was completely empty. Where did it come from?

Several people couldn't help but raise questions.

They were about to look at Yang. At that time, they all suddenly showed a look of shock, because at this time something slowly surfaced, wouldn't it? Was it the shark from before?

They couldn't help but feel weird. The shark actually fired something and killed a Dutch warship? Although it is only a level 5 sailing battleship, it is still a huge beast for sharks. What exactly does it use to do that.

At this moment, everyone including the British Ambassador to the Netherlands, Robert Robit, was secretly glad that he had not sent a telegram back so quickly, otherwise, it would have been a big embarrassment.

At this time, the shark seemed to swim over slowly and triumphantly.

When they swam to 300 meters away and stopped again, they slowly emerged and paid a quarter. To their surprise, there was a Dutch flag at the top?

There's a Dutch flag on the back of the shark? Isn't it incredible?

At this moment, Dutch Foreign Minister Jan Peter pointed at the "shark" that had surfaced more than half of the water and said: "This is the culprit for the silence of the Hague 5-class battleship just now."

Indeed it is!

Although Robit and others had already guessed it, Yang Peter's answer at this moment still shocked them.

The Netherlands used sharks to attack warships?

What kind of shark is this that is so powerful? There is a senior animal trainer in the Netherlands who can make sharks so obedient? But how are the cannonballs launched?

This series of questions all appeared in their minds.

Jan Peter "This is our latest naval weapon in the Netherlands. It is called a submarine. It is also the second naval branch of the Netherlands. It is a subsurface warship."

Neil, the Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the Netherlands, was surprised: "A warship under the water? A submarine? Isn't this the civilian submarine that has been reported in the United States and France before? But it doesn't mean that the submarine can only travel a few kilometers or even 20 kilometers at most. ?

But now it is more than 50 nautical miles away from the Amsterdam Port Terminal. "

Neil asked: "The Netherlands actually solved the problem of range, equipped it with weapons, and used only three shells to attack a level 5 warship against a silent submarine?"

Robbit's face became even more gloomy as he listened.

The Netherlands actually built an underwater submarine that can attack warships?

Moreover, several people were frightened just now.

In less than 10 minutes, a battleship sank in front of us. Robbit knew that this time, the British Empire was in trouble.

Several other people also looked at the British Ambassador to the Netherlands, Robbitt, and the Dutch Navy Minister, Jan Peter, with ill intentions. Needless to say, this "surprise" from the Netherlands was definitely a big deal for the UK.

The British Empire, the maritime hegemony known as the strongest navy, finally met its opponent.

On November 9, 1869, a piece of military news completely shocked the entire world, and was the starting point of a naval military revolution that completely changed the current situation.

It turned out that overseas, outside the port of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, the navies of the Netherlands, Denmark, Prussia, and Sweden were conducting a joint naval exercise among the three Nordic alliance partners. The British Empire, the Tsarist Russian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Prussia The attaché of the Ambassador to the Netherlands observed the entire process on board the first-class sailing battleship Holland, the flagship of the exercise.

But the appearance of a Dutch submarine broke everyone's surprise. After everyone knew what happened, the world's attention seemed to be shocked by this "unexpected surprise". Most of the eyes turned from the Franco-Prussian War to the Netherlands for the first time. During an exercise in the sea off the port of Amsterdam.

I even heard that in London, many reporters and government intelligence personnel have been working hard to collect intelligence on Dutch submarines for this purpose.

However, it all seemed that these actions were in vain the next day, because, under the command of Jan Peter, the Netherlands actually spent more than 20 of the same submarines on the water in the last day of exercises in Amsterdam Port.

Actually the group has fighting power?

After the news came out, the world was in a state of shock.

At this moment, everyone couldn't help but look at London, because Britain is currently the most powerful naval power, the rise of the Netherlands with a powerful navy, and the rise of the Netherlands with an epic secret weapon submarine, which has been a great influence on Britain for decades. It is a huge impact for the country that has occupied maritime hegemony for a long time. Will Britain accept that its position is challenged successfully? Will you agree with the status of the Netherlands after its rise? All this has everyone waiting to see how London will react.

British Empire, inside Buckingham Palace.

"I think the Netherlands and the British Empire are both maritime powers. The Netherlands and the UK both like to suppress and balance land powers on the Eurasian continent. At this point, the interests of the Netherlands and the UK are the same, so , the Netherlands hopes that the British Empire and the Netherlands will use this to start an alliance to maintain sea power and govern the world."

The words of King William IV of the Netherlands to her in Athens suddenly rang in her ears. Looking at the information about Dutch submarines in her hand, Queen Victoria suddenly felt dizzy.

"This William IV is indeed like a monkey spirit. He is very slippery. Perhaps it is time for Britain to start following the Netherlands in developing submarines."

On November 10, 1869, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, a think tank at the University of Oxford in the British Empire, recently published a report titled "Britain's Choice: A New Approach to Assessing the Dutch Navy's Warship Lead" in the European Times. made the above prediction.

As of January 1869, the Royal Netherlands Navy had 5 steam battleships (subject to actual combat deployment) and 6 steam battleships under construction.

At the same time, Dutch Minister of the Navy Jan Peter has publicly stated that the Kingdom of the Netherlands has more than 40 submarines of the same style used in the exercise, including 20 domestically and 20 in the Far East.

He also stated that the Netherlands will continue to increase the production of Dutch submarines in the future to use it to more beneficially maintain the territorial security of the Netherlands.