swords to shells
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
THE U-BOAT DOMINATION OF THE NORTH SEA.1914
On august 6,1914,a team of U-Boats were attacking a british warship station,one of the U-9,s engines broke down so it had to return to base.the U-15 fired a torpedo at the HMS Monarch,it missed by an inch leaving a scratch on it the torpedo just made the ships on guard from hitting a countryside cliff that fell into the water and britian lost a peice of land(this was worth it becuase a wanted man was on the cliff)his fate was one of the worst ever,he fell into 25 feet of water(he was a bad swimmer.)the cliffs huge rocks crushed him and a second torpedo destroyed the huge 43 ton boulders and him.the U-15 later headed toward the HMS Birmingham,but the ship sighted it and rammed into nothing.on the 5 day of september revenge happened against the british for U-15 incident,they had one of their best U-boat captains,Otto Hersing,was sent and did sink the HMS Pathfinder,it sank very quick becuase the toroedo hit the ammunittion storage triggering a chain reaction breaking open the bottom of the ship,so much water got in so quick water burst through the deck one sent a turret flying in the air and all its shells fell and destroyed the rest of the ship.the british recieved a surprise attack by U-boats that sunk the HMS Hogue,HMS Aboukir,and HMS Cressy.the british were shocked when a U-boat sank the HMS Hawke.the british royal navy lost 10 cruisers by the end of 1914,the final and tenth cruiser when U-boats sank the HMS Formidable,but the Second Reich still lost.
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Battle Of Mingtiao
the battle of Mingtiao was in 1600bc between the Xia dynasty and the Shang tribe of china Jie of Xia made the civalization weaker by ordering his palace bigger using up half his resources for houses and weapons,he ordered the houses made into furniture in his palace and had the houses replaced by holes in the ground,he replaced the Legions clubs with daggers,and replaced thescouts daggers with clubs.Then out of nowhere the Shang attacked and battered the city of Mingtiao but Jie of Xia thought he was so clever and powerful he thought he could make allyship with th yellow emperor and crush the SHANG tribe,Execute king Tang of the shang tribe,destroy the remains of Chi you and the yan emperors land,and defeat the yellow emperor and then have control of much of China.what happened was the exact opposite,Jie of Xia,s forces in the first fight he lost all his catapults to the shangs infantry.he lost 67 outta 104 cavalry,and 400 outta 10000 infantry.he had learned the Shangs low amount of armed forces fought brutally,his were large,but fought like they were 167 years old.causing there defenses to be as tough as kittens with big claws.By the time Jie of Xia was thinking of fleeing his Dynasty.the Shang fired a huge oil bomb and blew Mingtiao to a black wasteland,Jie of Xie was found by his people and hung by a meathook and knifes were shoved into the mans stomach who had made their great civilization collapse and brought misery and thrown away thousands of lives.the shang were now even more powerful than before and had defeated Xians forever and they would never rebuild again.
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
The Battle of Uruk
The battle of Uruk was an akkadian conquest in 2271bc against the sumerians,the first real civilization in history,built in 4372bc.but the year the attack happened the civilization collapsed like a tower of blocks kicked by boy.the akkadian leader sumar the great had planned and succesfeley made piking rush,he sent an army of pikeman and destroyed all their catapults and slayed 50 outta 100 cavalry.he then used his own cavalryto harass the infantry and trowhing their attack off track and sent it toward kuwait causing kuwait to fling a huge oil bomb at the sumerian lines trowing them into uruk,then the catapults harassed everything else left Lugal-Zage-si the sumerian leader had luanched a flaming boulder at the enemy and caught the catapults on fire the battle was ended by the capture of the Anu district III compound,the remains was nothing but the northeast corner.now Lugal-Zage-Si knew he was defeaten.
the battle of Zhuolu
the battle of zhuolu in 2500BC was another yellow emperor conquest but this time was control of the country of Hebei.chinas neighbors and tribes had dug in defenses since they had heard about the flame emperor in Banquan. But CHI YOU was crazy he thought he could overthrow all of china with only 25,000 men and 50 cavalry,and 5 catapults,while the only yellow emperor had 100,000,000 men 10,000 cavalry,and 5,000 catapults!in the battle he lost 8,000 outta 25,000 of his men.The yellow emperors armies destroyed their trade center,animal stable,and lumber center making the catapults unbuildable,no horses for cavalry,and no weapons or food for men.the day the yellow emperor had surrounded zhuolu he stood on the city halls highest porch and looked upon the remains of zhuolu.his sights were horrible,any person that was a solider of Chi you was either dead,had a cut open stomach,had no head,or was completely stained red by Blood.Chi You now knew he could never overthrow china because most territory now belonged to china,he was making a last stand agianst the yellow emperor,but now he was killing whoever was a yellow emperor sided hebein,a hebien who had attacked him,hebein assassins,and people trying to escape Hebei.But soon the yellow emperor had surrounded Hebei.he ended up fleeing to north korea with his remaining 49 followers his civilians had even chased him out of Hebei with axes and spears and had killed 45 followersthe yellow emperor was now stronger than before.
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Battle of Banquan
the battle of Banquan was in 2500 BC between the Chinese yellow emperor and the flame emperor(also the yan emperor).The Flame emperor had flaming explosive catapult ammo and the Yellow emperor had over 100,000,000 men all heavily armed with light steel shields and spiked clubs.the huge yellow army first took control of banquans surroundings then stormed the city the flame emperor built up stiff resistance with archer towers,sheild walls of hundreds of sheilds connected together to form a wall,and had troops treathened by flaming exploding boulders.the archer towers were crushed by the yellow emperors dragon rush where 1000 men would rush toward a building and destroy everything inside the building and then brought it down with catapults.the Infantry took weeks to destroy but all 9000 men were killed by the yellow emperors force.the catapults were simpily burned to ashes,two weeks later the flame emperor surrendered to the yellow emperor who now had control of the county of Banquan.
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