The quarrel lasted for several hours, and Bai Zhizhan was shocked and shocked.

After the topic was opened, the officers attending the meeting had no worries, and poured out all the ideas that should be said and what should not be said, which was simply terrifying to death.

There is only one topic of quarrel: who defeated the Imperial Navy, or how did it fail?

Although Bai Zhizhan had long been dizzy from the noise, he was not confused, and he had long heard that the reason for the defeat was just to achieve the goal.

The purpose is very clear: who has the final say, that is, the actual control of the Imperial Navy.

In fact, since the birth of the Imperial Navy, the farce with the Imperial Navy as the stage starring the He family and the Liu family has been officially staged.

It's just that if it has anything to do with this war, it goes back more than ten years.

As mentioned earlier, before the Royal Navy designed and built the Dreadnought, the ship designers of the Imperial Navy came up with a similar idea, even surpassing the Dreadnought in some respects, and the Imperial Navy could have started an arms race ten years earlier. Unfortunately, the construction plan was shelved for ten years, and the Imperial Navy missed the perfect opportunity to lead the way in naval development.

So, whose fault is this?

At that time, it was the He family who strongly supported the construction of new capital ships, and it was the Liu family who vigorously opposed it.

The reason is also very simple, the He family dominates the construction and preparation system, and it must be the biggest beneficiary of the construction of new warships, and it can also take the opportunity to install its own people in the command and combat positions.

And that's just the beginning.

After this, the Imperial Navy repeatedly missed opportunities to crush other powers.

For example, with the launch of the "Dreadnought" and the full-scale start of the naval arms race, the Imperial Navy suppressed the construction plan of many new capital ships on the grounds that the new technology was not reliable enough, and still built more than a dozen former dreadnoughts in a step-by-step manner, wasting a lot of resources.

Crucially, time is wasted that is more valuable than resources.

After the outbreak of the Great War, these former dreadnoughts became useless decorations!

If there were more than a dozen dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts built ahead of schedule at the same time, then more than four years ago, that is, the year of the outbreak of the Great War, the alliance led by the Bran Kingdom, the Locke Republic and the Luosha Empire, would never dare to hope that they would be able to gain partial sea supremacy.

In the absence of any guarantee of partial sea power, the Bran Kingdom, which was founded on sea power, would never rashly start a war.

Without the Bran Kingdom, how would the other two powers have the courage to challenge the Liang Xia Empire?

To put it bluntly, if the Imperial Navy had maintained the two-power standard, the Great War might not have broken out.

Of course, there is not much point in arguing about this now.

In addition, what shocked Bai Zhizhan was not the internal contradictions of the Imperial Navy, after all, any officer who had been in the Naval Academy for a few years had heard of the grievances and hatreds of the two great families. If there is no contradiction between the two families and they have always coexisted in harmony, it would be a strange thing.

The real big news is the upcoming armistice.

Just a few days ago, Bai Zhizhan was still lamenting that the once invincible Hindan Empire would also be at the end of its rope and sign a surrender agreement that would lose power and humiliate the country.

Now, the same thing is happening to the Liang Xia Empire.

Although it is not a surrender agreement, the specific terms and details are not much different from the surrender agreement, except for the name.

To sum up, in fact, it is just one sentence.

The Liangxia Empire must unconditionally spit out all the resources and territories it has plundered around the world over the past half century.

In layman's terms, it means "once back to before the constitutional reform".

On the land battlefield, if the battle line was outside the borders of the Liang Xia Empire, the Liang Xia army had to withdraw to the pre-war position, that is, to retreat to the national border. If the battle line is within the territory of the Liangxia Empire, the status quo will be maintained, and after the armistice agreement is signed, separate negotiations will be held on specific issues.

What is more special is the Northeast Front.

Because the Narrowish Empire refused to budge, the Allies insisted that the Liangxia Empire compromise and accept the armistice conditions offered by the Narrowish Empire.

Recognize the Ice Storm Peninsula as an internationally administered area and negotiate after the armistice.

What is this?

Although the Ice Storm Peninsula is not a colony of the Empire, it is more like a subject country relying on the Empire, but it is simply not acceptable to cede it like this.

It's just that the attitude of the Narrow Imperial Kingdom is also very resolute.

The Imperial State of Narrow-mindedness sent troops to participate in the war, and millions of officers and soldiers were killed and wounded.

All the reforms carried out by the Narrow Empire over the decades, including the top-down reform movement, were without exception aimed at freeing the Liang Xia Empire from its control.

From a geopolitical point of view, landing on the Ice Storm Peninsula was actually the first step for the Sakuyi Imperial State to become a great power.

To put it bluntly, if you can't go ashore, even if you flutter into the sky, the Narrow-Sized Imperial Kingdom is just a small shrimp in the Guia Ocean.

Don't forget, in the ancient language, "Saji" is also called "Ezo", which refers to the barbarians who live on the islands and catch small shrimp and fish for a living.

For this reason, the alliance group promised to keep the status quo on the western front, and the Liangxia army did not have to withdraw.

On the southwest front, because the Liang Xia army has always been mainly defensive, there is no dispute, just maintain the current situation.

The key is actually disarmament, or limiting the size of the military.

In fact, this is also the first focus of the dispute between the two sides.

Because it was only an armistice, not a surrender, the Empire did not agree to unilateral disarmament at the beginning. However, no one can deny the fact that the empire has been defeated, and after the armistice, there will certainly be no need to continue to support as many as fifteen million officers and soldiers.

Disarmament is inevitable, but only to a limited extent and should not be a unilateral act.

In the end, it was still the Liangxia Empire that compromised.

According to the agreement, after the formal armistice, the Liangxia Empire gradually reduced the total strength of the army to less than 1.5 million in three stages and within three years, retaining no more than 3,000 heavy artillery, no more than 15,000 machine guns, and no more than 150,000 war horses.

In addition, the Liangxia Empire had to abolish the decades-old war mobilization system within half a year, the prelude to the first phase of disarmament operations. After the completion of the three-stage disarmament, the compulsory military service system will be abolished and a voluntary military service system based on conscription will be gradually established.

The key is that the Liangxia Empire must send troops to participate in the military operation against the Luosha Federation within three years!

To put it more bluntly, under the command of the allied group, he sent troops to attack the Luosha Federation and helped the allied group to extinguish the anti-imperialist movement ignited by the mutiny.

In fact, this is also the key reason why the alliance group allowed the Liangxia Imperial Army to retain 1.5 million troops.

If it is only to defend the homeland and suppress the turmoil in the country, it is enough to keep 500,000 troops.

As for sending troops to the Luosha Federation, the two sides hit it off, and there were basically no differences in other aspects except for the dispatch of troops and the way of command.

Fortunately, this very harsh armistice, which was similar to a defeat and surrender, did not target the navy, or did not include it.

Naval affairs, talk about it separately!