Chapter 266 Naval Arms Race 1

The matter of the two aircraft carriers and two large battleships built by Li Puyu did not take any secret measures in the first place, and it was announced to the public with great fanfare. r?a?n?? E n 'o?rg But countries still didn't know about it before, and everyone agreed that it must be Li Puyu's excellent work of secrecy before, and it was not until today that it appeared in the waters of African countries and was known to the world.

The sudden addition of two aircraft carriers and two two battleships in the African People's Republic is not too great for those countries that have no interest disputes with Li Puyu, and the Soviet Union, the United States, Germany and other countries are only slightly amazed, and there must be no colonies in these countries that can cause Li Puyu's scheme, and a few more capital warships in the African People's Republic are nothing to them.

But the sudden extra four warships in Africa stimulated the nerves of the British and French, France is okay, although the French government was shocked after hearing the news, but there was no too violent reaction, France no longer has a fleet in Africa at this time, there is only one battle cruiser and some ships such as small-tonnage destroyers in Mauritius, anyway, it is now not dealing with this country in Africa, and it can't be beaten, so these ships are huddled in the port of Mauritius, and they will not be attacked by the African fleet.

However, the British are extremely sensitive to this matter, for no other reason, just because Britain is not far from the African continent, and Britain is a maritime country, and the navy is known as the world's first, and the army is known as the world's third largest scale.

Now Africa, a black country, has suddenly added four large warships, and the two aircraft carriers in these four are harmless, but those two battleships of more than 60,000 tons must pay attention to themselves, and once they are commissioned, they will be the most advanced battleships in the world. A gun of 460 mm caliber was enough to penetrate the armor of all the battleships of the British Empire. Coupled with the capital warships before him, the size of the African fleet is incomparable.

And now the most advanced battleship of the British Empire is the Nelson-class battleship that has just begun to be designed and built, but the battleships of this class are not so inferior to the African-class battleships of the Africans in terms of tonnage and firepower. Although the British Empire now had dozens of battleships of various types, most of them were already old warships. There is too much difference in terms of firepower and protection. The Revenge-class battleship can be said to be the most advanced first-class battleship in the British Empire at present, but the full load displacement is only 31,500 tons. And the caliber of the main gun is only 380 mm, and its own armor is not as good as the opponent's African-class battleships, once the fight starts, their own revenge-class battleships can only be abused, as for those auxiliary warships, such as destroyers, those destroyers built by the Africans themselves are much higher than the destroyers of the British Empire in terms of performance and combat capabilities, and are more advanced than any country in the world. This is something that the British have only learned about recently, because it is unlikely that this kind of secrecy will remain a secret for long.

In terms of ship performance and combat capabilities. The Royal Fleet is already far behind, and the only thing that the British Navy still has an advantage in is the size of the navy and the number of ships, which the African Navy of this emerging country cannot match.

June 15, London, England, Admiralty, Office of Secretary of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, Cabinet.

Due to the defeat of the British Royal Navy in the war against Africa, the former Admiral Secretary was forced to resign, and the position of Admiral Chancellor has been vacant, because the position of Admiral Chancellor at this time belongs to a hot potato, and the British Prime Minister in order to ensure the development and operation of the Navy will not be chaotic. The British Prime Minister had no choice but to promote Churchill, a hawk, to the post of Admiralty Secretary in advance. Hoping to rely on his tough attitude was the rapid recovery of the morale of the Navy, so Churchill. Winston became Lord of the Navy ahead of schedule.

As soon as Churchill took over the post of British Admiralty, he immediately showed his style of doing things, first appointing Andrew Murphy Murphy. Brown. Cunningham was the deputy chief of staff of the Navy. Brown. As soon as Cunningham took office, he began to reorganize the British Imperial Navy in the hope of restoring naval authority, and then Churchill used various connections to promote a large number of naval hawks to key positions in the navy, and expelled some moderates from the navy in the name of Nove, despite the advice of the prime minister and other government officials.

Churchill in his sixties. Winston, dressed in a worthwhile suit, took the information from the secretary and read it, and was furious. Slapping the table and standing up, he said angrily: "A group of bastards, these chimpanzees are really cunning, they actually secretly built such a large battleship behind the back of the British Empire, shameless and hateful. Our intelligence services are also bastards, and they didn't know anything before that. ”

"Yes!" The secretary trembled with fright when he saw Churchill's anger.

Churchill continued: "Also, why did the Africans not know until they had launched the four warships when they first built them? What does our naval intelligence do to eat, it's a bunch of rice buckets and waste, and I'm so angry! ”

"Yes!" The secretary on the side was so frightened that he was about to pee.

Churchill was greatly annoyed, and after another fire, he took a breath and put his pipe in his mouth and smoked it, and after a while, he found that his secretary actually had cigarettes made in Africa, and scolded: "Bastard, don't smoke African chimpanzee cigarettes, those chimpanzees really have no conscience at all, and will only produce such well-packaged cigarettes to make money from our British Empire." ”

The secretary almost couldn't hold back, quickly clamped his legs, and said, "Yes!" Be! The subordinates are going to throw it away. ”

Secretary Churchill wanted to throw away the cigarettes on his body, but he was reluctant, this cigarette was too expensive, and it was a pity to lose it, but thinking about the hatefulness of those black Africans, the cigarettes produced were indeed not comparable to domestic cigarettes, and the secretary secretly transferred the cigarettes to his underwear pocket. At this time, Churchill waved his hand to him and said, "Go and prepare, I am going to meet the Prime Minister!" ”

"Yes!" The secretary breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly ran out to solve the physiological needs.

Half an hour later, Churchill met Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

Chamberlain looked at Churchill with a puzzled look and asked, "Mr. Churchill, you are not in the Admiralty to rectify and restore the reputation of the Navy, do you have something to do with me?" ”