The news reached the Navy, and the Navy was equally boiling.

However, the only regret that made the navy feel regretful was that it was not their East China Navy that defeated the combined fleet of the Navy, but the East China Air Force.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Combined Fleet has been destroyed, and now our East China Navy is the strongest navy in Asia. But what I want to say is that the glory does not belong to us, although our navy has achieved some results, but this time it has nothing to do with us, and even reconnaissance is done by the air force on its own. Xie Baozhang gave a speech on the radio, and he said to the navy in an impassioned voice: "But we don't have to be too entangled, although we have not won any glory today, but in the near future, our navy will definitely be able to obtain our glory, because we are going to the world." The premise is that we must work hard to improve our combat level, and among the three armed forces in East China, the army and air force have already risen to prominence, and now the worst is our navy, and you may think that we do not have warships. ”

Xie Baozhang changed his words and said: "Of course, this is indeed an objective reason. But I would like to tell you here that our East China Navy is also not short of warships, and our new warships will be able to build the first batch next year, and within five years our Navy will have a powerful main battle fleet. Do we have an excuse at this time? What we will do in the future is to train hard with one heart and one mind, and I believe that when the time comes, our navy will be able to keep up with the footsteps of the army and air force. Xie Baozhang encouraged the navy and said: "When the time comes, we will not only become the strongest in Asia, but also the strongest in the world!" ”

"The strongest in the world!"

This was a new goal, which was the strongest in Asia at the time, and at this time, because of the destruction of the Combined Fleet, this goal was achieved ahead of schedule.

So what about the next goal?

That's naturally the strongest in the world!

If this ideal had been echoed by all the people when the East China Navy had just been formed, it would have been a drum in their hearts, and it felt too unsound.

But nowadays, no one feels that this is an unreliable goal.

The army and the air force can grow rapidly, and so can the navy, although the navy is far from being as easy to build as the army and the air force.

But it's still the same sentence - it's man-made!

After Xie Baozhang's speech, the morale of the navy was high, and the trend of factional strife in the navy also began to decline, and the officers of the East China Navy were mainly from the Fujian family, and later joined the Cantonese officers, and the Fujian and Cantonese factions were the two main factions of the Qing Dynasty navy, basically more than 90% of the naval officers and soldiers came from these two provinces.

Therefore, the struggle between the Min and Cantonese families has a long history and has formed a habitual surname.

Now that the East China Navy is gradually changing to a multi-provincial system, both officers and sailors are no longer mainly from Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and sailors and officers from other provinces have also begun to appear in the navy.

This is also a way to dilute factional disputes, absorbing all the provinces into the navy, so that the power of each province is not too big, and there will not be too many factional disputes.

Factional strife is also a trend that Xia Jun named Xie Baozhang to rectify, and with the continuous strengthening of national consciousness in East China's political axe, coupled with the severe suppression of this phenomenon, the factional strife in the navy slowly began to disappear.

However, it will take some time to eliminate factional strife in the navy, especially in China, a country that speaks favorably, and many things are not so simple.

The officers and men of the navy then blockaded the Longkou line, and the Shandong and other gunboats had already sailed to the coastal area and could shell the Japanese troops on land at any time.

The base of the navy is located in Dalian, not far from the Lushun occupied by the Ben, but there is no plan to recover the Lushun for the time being, the Lushun fortress is well defended, and it is necessary to mobilize some heavy artillery to attack, and the attack on Lushun during the Russo-Russian War has paid huge casualties.

…… After the news of the destruction of the combined fleet of the East China Air Force was transmitted back to Hangzhou, the consulates of various countries in Hangzhou made frequent phone calls and received and received telegrams.

What these consulates have to figure out is whether this is true news or not.

If this news is true, then it means that the company will withdraw from the category of a naval power, and become a second-rate naval country, although the current naval strength of the city may have been reduced to the third rate, but after all, the book still has a foundation, they have their own shipbuilding industry, and they also have a lot of experience, although it may be that the air raid of the East China Air Force destroyed the essence of the navy, but there are still remnants of the essence.

As long as you give Yu Ben some time, it will be easy to restore the strength of the second-rate.

Of course, no matter whether the navy is reduced to a third-rate or a second-rate, it means that the situation in Asia will undergo tremendous changes, and China is very likely to rise.

In the past, the Western countries had balanced the situation in the Far East by making the East China political axe and the political axe of the country more important.

But now it's clear that it's going to be out of balance, and once it's out of balance, they may not even be a fart, because then the winning side won't have to be afraid of them anymore.

On the contrary, they need to worry, because their lack of code is no longer important, at this time, if the East China Political Axe defeats Yueben, then the East China Political Axe can take back their various privileges, abolish various treaties, and even compete with other countries for colonies in Asia, etc.

This is obviously something that other countries do not want to see, especially the United States, which in their view only helped East China to counter the original political axe.

Now, if Ben is defeated, who should the United States find to counter the political axe in East China?

At present, the East China Autonomous Axe is more than the original one, which makes the United States feel that its interests have been damaged, and this is mainly commercial interests, and the United States is a country controlled by businessmen, and their various political needs are done for these businessmen to be able to better carry out business activities.

The market competition between China and the United States is a normal competition, but the United States cannot compete with it, and since the market cannot compete, then it can militarily attack the political axe in East China, which is also the reason why the United States has changed its attitude before and supports the Shandong War.

Now that the combined fleet of the Navy's navy fails, the Sino-Chinese war in Shandong will become very unsuspenseful, because although the Chinese army is surrounded by 800,000 people, as long as the East China political axe is in demand, it can even mobilize tens of millions of people to go to the battlefield, and there is a steady stream of materials to the front line, while the Chinese army does not, and this is also the main reason why the Chinese army is doomed to failure.

Secondly, the situation of the Yue army is very bad, and the arrogant Yue Ben army insists on choosing to continue fighting against the East China Army in Shandong, just to be ashamed, but now it seems that it may be an extremely stupid decision, because the army has no way to retreat and fights against the sea!

After many inquiries, the consulates of various countries confirmed the correctness of this news, and the East China political axe has never exaggerated their achievements, and this is obviously the case.

The consuls of each country sent the situation home as quickly as possible, and each wrote an analysis of the situation to serve as a reference for their countries in dealing with the affairs of the Far East.

The consulate personnel of many countries generally believe that the East China political axe will win the Shandong War, the East China political axe will become the strongest force in the Far East, and China's international status will rise, while the international status of the East China will decline.

At least the status of a great power required by Ben when he entered the war was not his share, even if the Entente won the world war, how to give a country that was defeated by other countries a great power status?

Even if it is given, it is only an illusion, and no country will give it the actual treatment of a great power.

…… When the news of the defeat of the combined fleet of the Navy, the navy and the army were speechless for a long time, and Emperor Taisho looked even more incredulous.

Then, heaviness and mourning followed.

The capital ships of the Combined Fleet were all sunk, and this was a far greater blow to the political axe than anything else.

Without a navy, it would be trapped in this barren island country, and eventually be left behind by other countries with development, and it would never even turn over.

If the army is defeated, there is still a way, but if the navy is defeated, you will be an unprecedented huge blow to Yuben.

This time, the navy was defeated, and if the sunken ships were calculated in terms of money, it was built at a cost of nearly 800 million troops!

If you don't count those who invested in the early years, after all, the investment in the early years has already paid off, after all, after so many years, the money is still worth it.

Counting only those new ships, the company still lost nearly 500 million yuan, and more importantly, it lost its status as the number one naval power in Asia, and even lost a lot of naval essence.

It was said that if we wanted to rebuild the navy, it would not have been completed in a year or two.

According to intelligence, China is stepping up the construction of warships, and they are still very advanced warships, and it is obviously difficult to catch up in the short term at this time.

Under such circumstances, it seems that the political axe is at a loss.

At this time, the defeat of the navy dashed their original hopes of transporting supplies to Shandong at night, although they said that they had stored a lot of supplies in Shandong, but they would always run out.

At this time, it was basically difficult for the army to achieve victory in Shandong, and there was basically no possibility of victory.

"Even if we fail, we will drain the blood of the Shina people." The Young Zhuang faction of the Legion clamored that this viewpoint was supported by many of the Legionnaires.

In their view, defeat is not terrible, but the fear of defeat is.

Even if it is a defeat, it will inflict even heavier losses on the enemy.

At this time, the British political axe had the intention of intervening, and in their opinion, the defeat of Ben was inevitable at this time.

Shandong has 800,000 troops!

Now that they are members of the Entente, wouldn't it be better to transfer these 800,000 troops to the European theater if China and China were to reconcile?

As for the political axe in East China, the British thought that as long as they could afford to pay for it, and then let Yue Ben admit defeat, they would definitely accept it. Because giving money is equivalent to paying reparations, but this money can be paid by Britain, provided that the political axe will be transferred to Europe with 800,000 yuan.

This seems to be a solution that benefits all three parties!

(To be continued)