Chapter 903: The Tear of the British Admiralty 1
Betty's fleet was attacked, and the battlecruiser Queen Mary sank! The Celestial Princess sinks! General Betty's flagship Lion sinks! Betty's fleet has been shattered!
Lieutenant General Jeram and Major General Hood have converged! We have eight battleships! We sneaked up and launched a surprise attack! The Saxony is on fire! The Germans began to adjust their formation! We and the Germans are shooting at each other! The Erin and the Aess were sunk! The German fleet is killing and killing! The Indomitable was sunk! The Germans went beyond godlike killing!
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The whole course of the war was simply like this, from the first telegram after the two sides opened fire, the First Admiralty and the First Sea Minister did not receive a positive, positive war report! From the words of the telegram, both Churchill and Fisher could feel that in this battle, the British fleet was hanged and beaten, and ...... was hanged. This has not happened in a hundred years, when was the British Empire fleet beaten in a large-scale naval battle? There was no Crimean War, not in the Napoleonic era, I'm afraid it goes back to the Anglo-Dutch War, right?
The last time the Royal Navy's larger fleet was defeated was probably the Battle of Texel on August 21, 1673, right? This TM was more than 200 years ago, right? And that time was at most a failure, not a beating, and there is still an essential difference from this defeat. This time it was slaughtered, and there was no strength left to fight back. Fisher seemed to be in a trance and saw the Royal Navy ancestors who were already in heaven saying to themselves, "Cub, you are desperate for your performance!" ”
"What's going on?! The Royal Navy's most elite warships were harvested like straw by the opposing side! When he received the news of the defeat and retreat of the British fleet, Fisher, who was angry, slapped the telegram in his hand on the table, his face full of anger, helplessness and a trace of fear?
"A bunch of cowards! Betty, Jerram, Hood! They have betrayed the trust of the British Empire! They have tarnished the glory of the Royal Navy! They all deserve to be judged! Fisher made no secret of his indignation, and his high, aggressive words rang out in the Admiralty's offices.
"Immediately arrange people and block all news, we can't just let the media and the people know the news of the defeat of the Royal Navy! Also, contact Admiral Jericho immediately, we need all the parties involved in this battle to be present ....... To have a meeting, well, is to have a meeting. While Fisher was venting his anger, Churchill knew what he had to do...... He needs to wipe the butt of the British fleet now!
"Is it even hidden from His Excellency the Prime Minister?" The officer on the side asked.
"I can reveal some rumors, the result of the loss is to be determined, well, that's it, those people in the council, don't tell it for the time being." Churchill said calmly, it is not the first time that this kind of thing has been done to conceal failure, the last time Su Xiong directly killed two divisions of the Australian and New Zealand army, Churchill had already concealed it once. This time, people obviously have experience!
What's more, it's not just the navy that hides losses from the parliament and the people and exaggerates the warring states, the army is also doing it! As a politician, if you can't even hide it, then what kind of politician is you? Besides, confirming the results of the war is a very troublesome thing, and it is inevitable that some mistakes will be made, can it be called concealment? This is very normal, okay?
"No matter how big the problems are on the battlefield, we must at least ensure that there are no major fluctuations in our rear, and sometimes, gossip is more terrible than defeat on the battlefield." After the war, when the media interviewed Churchill, who was called an "expert on lying", the latter justified himself in this way. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.
"Sir Fischer, don't you think that the most important thing we need to do at the moment is to communicate with the admirals of the navy first, understand the reasons for the defeat of the battle, and then make amends? Mere indignation and condemnation will do nothing. After Fisher had almost finished venting, Churchill stepped forward and comforted.
In Britain, the First Admiralty was superior to the First Sea Lord, and when Churchill made this suggestion, Fisher could not refuse. And, as he said, the British Navy needs to reassess its opponents across the North Sea and develop a new strategy!
"Not only the commander of the fleet, but also the head of the intelligence department has to come over, the failure of this battle is not the problem of the fleet itself, it is the problem of the entire Royal Navy, the intelligence department, the fleet, and the command and decision-making organs are inseparable, I can responsibly say that the problems within the Navy are even greater than the external enemy!" Fisher's words have a proper meaning of "the enemy is in the Admiralty......
At this time, on the special train to London, Jericho and his fleet commanders were also preparing for the upcoming meeting. In addition to compiling the relevant information, the fleet commanders also began to discuss the reasons for this failure. And according to the nature of human beings, all the generals participating in the war have a common idea, the intelligence of the Admiralty is simply too pit, I don't know who the fleet commander is, forget it, after all, Prince Ruprecht doesn't seem to be very conspicuous in the navy, but even the size and formation of the fleet participating in the battle are wrong, this is appropriate, and half of the war has not been lost! And the other feeling is, you can't beat it, you can't beat it in all kinds of ways! Absolutely can't beat it!
"Do you feel that our shells hitting the German battleships are like stones hitting the walls, and the opponent's armor-piercing shells against us are like hot knives cutting butter?" Betty finally said a sentence that everyone agrees on, the biggest shock that this battle brought to the British can be summed up as a warship of more than 20,000 tons, go up to PK, and after ten minutes, there will be various explosions, and even Rear Admiral Moore said that the biggest reason why he can survive is because of two points, the first is naturally the almighty God bless. The second is that the artillery level of the opponent and the battleship that he caught correctly is ...... worse.
"Our lions and tigers have no role but speed, and Sir Fisher has played a great role in them." Betty continued. And after this sentence was spoken, although no one catered to it, it was because Fisher was in a high position, but in fact, what he said was indeed right, although the speed was fast, but the combat effectiveness was still poor.
"Okay, if there is anything to say at the venue, everyone pay attention to their words and deeds." Jericho interrupted. "Let's take a break."