The outcome of the Battle of Tunisia was unexpected, and the British fleet that suddenly joined the battlefield left the Italian fleet very wounded.

Although the Italian fleet fought very tenaciously, after the British battleships joined, it still fought against the British and French battleships. But the air strikes of the 4 British and French aircraft carriers let the commander of the Italian fleet, Campioni, know that he had lost the upper hand in this battle.

Especially after the Veneto, which was hit by several torpedoes dropped by an incoming carrier-based aircraft, Campioni knew that she had to retreat.

However, if they want to retreat, they will not leave anything behind, and the British and French fleets will not agree. So he had to make a difficult choice, so that after the Veneto, which was greatly reduced in speed after being hit by a torpedo, and the Empire, which had suffered heavy damage in the previous shelling, two ships were broken, he withdrew from the battlefield with the other warships.

Faced with the results that Italy was unwilling to leave behind, Darlan and Cunningham, who were good at calculations, decided to accept it as soon as they saw it. After getting the results of the two ships Veneto and the Empire, he also left the battlefield.

Of course, they were not without damage, just in the decoy formation released before, the Italian fleet ate the heavy cruisers Diprix and Ducina, and then a gun battle caused damage to all ships, especially the Italians' 406 caliber cannons, which were even more powerful. The Strasbourg was hit by a 406 shell and was broken.

In addition to this, Jean Barr and the Dunkirk were broken, and every battleship of the Anglo-French fleet was damaged. However, the most unfortunate of these was the British fleet's Warrior, which suffered misfortune as soon as it went online, and a 380mm shell from the Litorio broke its rudder. This caused the Warrior, which could not turn, to leave the formation straight and deflect towards the Italian fleet.

Needless to say, the consequences of deviating from the course during an artillery battle attracted more artillery fire.

If the carrier-based aircraft did not attack and cause confusion in the Italian formation, then the Warrior would most likely be the first to be sunk. However, even if the Warrior was saved, its condition was also worrying, mainly because the rudder was broken. It was impossible to turn, and given the danger here, it had to be sunk by Cunningham after ordering the crew to evacuate.

In the end, the naval battle ended with the loss of 1 battleship, 2 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, and more than a dozen other ships by Britain and France, and the result of sinking 2 Italian battleships, 1 heavy cruiser, 2 light cruisers, and more than a dozen other ships.

Although it looks like this naval battle, Italy lost only one more battleship than the British and French. But in fact, even if it is one for one, Italy loses. He can lose a new battleship and replace it with an old battleship, or one for two. More critically, the Italian fleet needed two or three months to repair after this battle.

Although the French fleet was the same, it also allowed France to achieve its goal, breaking the Italian blockade of Tunisia by land and sea, so that France could seize the time to withdraw the troops trapped in Tunis.

At the same time, this result was enough to make the British and French publicize it, and in France, various newspapers carried the news of the victory of the French fleet over the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean, which was very important for boosting the morale of the French people. At the same time, Darlan was boasted by the French up and down, saying that he was the first person in the French navy since the 18th century.

And Britain, across the sea, did the same thing, but the object of the boast was changed to lead the troops to support Cunningham, saying that the timing of his support was just right, and it dealt a heavy blow to the Italian fleet. At the same time, Cunningham was described as a model of shame and courage after the assault on Alexandria.

However, according to the grapevine, there are concerns within the administration about Cunningham's luck because the sortie lost the Warrior. Although the aftermath battle report also showed that there was no problem with its command at all, the Warrior became the only Allied battleship to be sunk in this naval battle, which has to be considered from a metaphysical point of view. But in the end, it was Prime Minister Winston Churchill who overrode the crowd and silenced all the strange voices.

The main reason for Churchill to do so was that at the moment the British army needed a victory too much to be inspired. Since the beginning of the war, Britain has not received any good news, and it has been terrible bad news. What allied Poland was defeated, the allied Greece was defeated, the Mediterranean fleet was heavily damaged, the Romanians landed in the Middle East, take a closer look at which news this reassured Britain.

If more bad news continues, the blow to public confidence will be too great. Although Churchill is also a master of propaganda, but at least there must be bright spots, it is impossible to be the selfless help of the British army, the Greek royal family and government successfully withdrew to London, such propaganda fools can not be fooled.

Therefore, there has not been much good news for Britain since the beginning of the war, and there is not a single good news worth writing about.

However, no matter how you look at it this time, it is good news worth vigorously publicizing, and it is still the news that the people are most concerned about in the navy, so there is no reason to let it go.

Compared with Britain and France's hype about their victory, Italy, as the defeated side, lost some face. Angry Mussolini dismissed Admiral Campioni, who commanded the battle, as soon as the fleet landed, for reasons needless to say, the loss of the naval battle and the loss of two battleships for Italy to give up the advantage, which was enough to remove him.

In fact, everyone knows that this incident is not his responsibility alone, and one of the reasons is that the intelligence services and the air force reconnaissance failed to detect the British fleet that followed closely behind. But now someone has to step up and take responsibility and soothe the anger in the hearts of the people, and there is no better person to do so than Campioni, the commander of the fleet, so he doesn't take the blame.

Moreover, the outcome of this naval battle also led to Italy's transformation from an advantage to a disadvantage in the western Mediterranean, which also made it more difficult for it to seize Algeria.

It can even be said that it has become very difficult for Italy to seize Tunisia, because Algeria is mostly mountainous, and the roads are mainly by the sea and flat. In the absence of an advantage in the Italian navy, the possibility of the army being engaged in a force struggle has been greatly reduced.

Because at least the French troops in Tunisia can now be withdrawn from the sea, which makes the Algerian army thicker.

And Italy was not the only country affected by this naval battle, and Germany and Romania, which were allies, also did not run.

The two countries also have great complaints about Italy's terrible naval battle.