Chapter 168 Battle of Madagascar 9

Soon the French expeditionary fleet reported its losses to the French government headquarters in Paris about the losses it had suffered from the submarine forces of the African People's Republic Navy. An angry voice shouted: "What, you said that when our navy went on another expedition against those chimpanzees, it was attacked by their submarine forces, and the ships were lost, including a heavy battleship, nine warships were sunk, and four warships were seriously injured and have been withdrawn from the battle, and another 1,880 were killed, 1,350 were wounded, and 453 were missing." This angry voice is the voice of the current French president, Albert Lebrun.

No wonder Albert Lebrun is so excited, France is now a democracy, and it will not be a trivial matter to let the common people and the opposition parties know that they have caused nearly 3,000 naval casualties to be missing. At that time, I am afraid that this responsibility will not be something that I, the president, can afford, and no one will be able to shoulder this responsibility. Now there are only two paths in front of him, one is to order the retreat of the navy. He took the blame and resigned to calm the people's anger. The other is to continue waging a war to cover up this mistake. It is clear that Albert Lebrun chose the latter.

This is a general who stepped forward and asked, "Your Excellency the President is to continue to let General Edmund advance, and Love is to order the withdrawal of troops." ”

"Retreat, can you retreat now? Why did we lose nearly 3,000 people in the battle without firing a single shot, and once we let the people know that we had to step down in disgrace. We can save the situation only by winning this war head-on. Otherwise, you, me, and him, Edmund, will have to go down into the wilderness. Do you wish. So we had to fight. Also, be sure to block the news first. Knowing that the results of the Navy are being announced. Albert Lebrun said weakly:

"Okay, I'll make arrangements, and I'll send a telegram to General Edmund asking them to take care to prevent the enemy's second sneak attack, and we can't afford to lose any more." The general said:

"It looks like the enemy is going to eat the island of Madagascar, and we should have been in this damned bandit country a long time ago, and at first we thought that they were just fighting with the British, standing by and watching, and as long as he didn't provoke us, I wouldn't provoke them. As a result, we were still wrong, and we were outrageously wrong. I knew that today I should have strangled him in the cradle with the British. Albert Lebrun said:

However, Albert Lebrun forgot that when the African People's Republic liberated Mozambique, the French had already reached out, and that there were still nearly 10,000 French soldiers in the prisoner-of-war camps of the African People's Republic to contribute to the modernization of Africa.

"President, you don't have to blame yourself, the main responsibility for this is not you, if you want to blame our intelligence department. Repeatedly carrying out intelligence work on this country will be defeated by the other side. I don't believe that the intelligence services of the other side are so difficult to deal with. They are fully responsible for the incident. The general said:

"Now is not the time to hold anyone responsible, but to look forward to the triumphant return of our navy, let me pray together, that God will favor us." Albert Lebrun says:

At a time when the French were having a headache over this matter, our hero submarine 078 was in the hands of Captain Beauwell. Sachs led the way back to a military dock in the African People's Republic. When they sailed into the docks, they were greeted with a welcome scene that was enough to leave them stunned.

In the military port, two extraditing patrol boats drove in front to clear the way for them, and the wharf was noisy with gongs and drums and flags. The majestic military music was about to pierce the sky, and the commander-in-chief of the navy, Alvis, led more than a dozen naval officers to greet them on the dock, and behind them were dozens of tall naval pacesetters. Sachs and dozens of submariners were speechless. Beauwell. Sachs knew that his credit would not be able to run away when he sent the results back to the base the day before yesterday, but he didn't expect the base to hold such a grand welcome ceremony.

"Sir, hurry up and let people line up." Carlisle, who was standing behind, stabbed Powell with his hand. Sachs's waist reminded.

Bowell who came back to his senses. Sachs hurriedly ordered everyone on the ship to line up on the docks, and soon Jarvis raised his hand and saluted from the head of the platoon to the back of the platoon, and finally came to Beauwell. Sachs came up and said in his sonorous voice, "Beauwell. Captain Saxophone, you are all good, I am proud and proud that our African People's Liberation Army Navy can produce such a heroic submarine, and the exploits of the officers and men of the 078 submarine will forever be remembered in the annals of the African People's Republic Navy. ”

"Good!" Jarvis said happily, "Take credit and not be proud, Beauwell. Captain Saxophone is a pillar of our navy. After speaking, Yalvis took a document from the confidential officer on the side, looked around at the officers and soldiers of the ship with bright eyes, and said loudly: "All the officers and soldiers of the 078 boat, this is the commendation order that the Navy Command has decided to give you today, I specially signed the order to give you a collective first-class merit, I hope you will continue to work hard and make new achievements!" With that, Jarvis solemnly handed over the commendation order to Beauwell. Saxophone in hand.

"Thank you, Commander, for cultivating!" Beauwell. Sachs received the commendation order with both hands, and then raised it above his head to all the officers and men, causing bursts of cheers, and the excited officers and soldiers sang the naval anthem one after another.

"Comrades, everyone go to deck, the last review is about to begin, and our valiant navy will never surrender to the enemy, nor will it beg for forgiveness from the enemy. The ship's flag was fluttering in the wind, and the huge iron anchor had been retracted. Mighty cannons ready to sparkle in the sun. Shells are whistling, black smoke is rising, and the anger of the heroic African People's Navy is burning. It is as terrible as hell, and it burns like a sea of fire. Cannons are roaring, shells are exploding. The day has come, comrades, and perhaps the last moment of life has come. Farewell, comrades, we have great leaders, tens of millions of compatriots. Banzai! Beneath your feet is the raging sea. None of us know tomorrow's outcome. Even if you are buried in the waves of the sea. The motherland will engrave our names and deeds in history. But we won't know where we're dying. We have no regrets. Set off to take the heroic sailors of the African People's Liberation Army. ”

While these submarine soldiers were cheering their victory, the surface fleet of the African People's Liberation Army Navy was ready to pull anchor and set sail. Prepare for a battle to the death with the French people.