After Li Zhaoshui and the others received the telegram from the No. 1 battlecruiser, they laughed happily in the war room, this naval battle was relatively perfect, not only did they completely annihilate the British escort fleet and capture all the land forces, but now even their commander-in-chief was captured, and this war could be brought to a perfect end. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Zhaoshui began to give orders in succession:

Send 1 Lanfang-class battlecruiser, 1 Lanfang-class destroyer, and 10 Dolphin-1 torpedo boats to escort all surrendered merchant ships and surrendered British Navy officers and men to Padang Port, and let the 12th Division temporarily take care of these British officers and soldiers; Cargo ships carrying baggage will be escorted to Shangjing; After completing the mission, the convoy was on standby in Shangjing.

Lu Weimin, chief of the General Staff, telegraphed to the General Staff that after winning the naval battle, he could clean up the Dutch officers and soldiers on Sumatra.

Telegraphed to the submarine formation and returned to Sabang Port to rest and stand by.

After escorting all the captives away, Li Zhaoshui asked Zhang Wei: "Your Majesty, what should we do with these battleships that cannot be moved?" ”

"If you can move, you can drive all back to Shangjing, and if you can't move, sink all except for the battleship, this dilapidated battleship can be used by the Archipelago Military Region after repair, and I will buy 1 tugboat and tow it to Shangjing, which can be regarded as a demonstration of our achievements."

"Your Majesty is wise."

Li Zhaoshui gave Zhang Wei's order and asked them to sail all the ships that could be driven back to Shangjing.

Zhang Wei communicated with Xiao Yuer, according to the displacement of the battleship, to buy 1 tugboat.

It was very difficult for the tugboat to pull the battleship, and Li Zhaoshui suggested: "Your Majesty, let's tow this battleship to Sabang Port, the warship has too much water, and it is too laborious to tow it to Shangjing." ”

"There is no dock in Sabang Port, how can it be repaired?"

"Just buy a dock now, and in the future, it will be used as a military port, and it must be equipped with a dock."

"Alright then, the whole fleet will return to the port of Sabang."

"Deputy Chief of General Staff, you should take advantage of this time on the way to quickly count the results of this war, and we will hold a summary meeting after returning to Hong Kong."

"Yes, Your Majesty"

After arriving at the port of Sabang in the afternoon, the troops began to wash and rest, and the ships began to replenish fresh water and other supplies.

Beginning in the afternoon, the submarines returned one after another, and the distant ones will not return until tomorrow.

After dinner, Zhang Wei convened a meeting of officers at and above the rank of lieutenant colonel in Hong Kong to sum up the gains and losses of the war.

First of all, Li Zhaoshui announced the results of this war.

"Through the joint efforts of everyone, we have achieved brilliant results against the British, capturing 54,300 British Army, 154,000 servants, and 7,392 Navy.

At this time, thunderous applause rang out in the conference hall, which lasted for a long time.

Li Zhaoshui raised his hand and pressed it, everyone stopped applauding, and then Li Zhaoshui took out a piece of paper and read: "This time we sank 1 British battleship, captured 1 battleship, and 1 British self-sinking battleship; 4 light cruisers were sunk, 3 light cruisers were captured intact; sank 15 frigates; 23 destroyers were sunk, 7 destroyers were lightly wounded, and 5 destroyers were intact; 34 torpedo boats were sunk and 16 intact torpedo boats were captured; captured 380 large and small merchant ships; A batch of seized baggage has not yet been counted. ”

Everyone stood up excitedly, clapping and shouting, and it was quiet after 1 minute.

Li Zhaoshui said: "Next, I would like to invite Your Majesty to speak." “

Zhang Wei stood up, he was also very excited, the otaku in his previous life did not expect that when he returned to this era, he would have a chance to defeat the overlord of the sea, and it was a complete victory. After brewing his feelings for a while, he said: "First of all, congratulations to our Lanfang Kingdom for its most brilliant victory since the founding of the People's Republic of China, we have defeated the overlord of the sea, the battleship fleet of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, and captured more than 200,000 people, this is the result of everyone's joint efforts, your achievements will forever go down in history, you will be the witnesses and participants of the rise of our Chinese, history will not forget you, and all the Chinese in the world will not forget you." I will build a monument in the port of Sabang to commemorate forever what we have achieved today. The first merit of this war belonged to the submarine formation, which not only provided us with timely intelligence, but also damaged three British battleships in an ambush battle, which allowed us to win the greatest victory at the lowest cost. The honor belongs to you. “

Everyone began to slap again, and some people stood up to congratulate Lieutenant Colonel Liu Jianjun on his brilliant results.

"This time the submarine formation damaged 3 battleships, rendering them incapacitated; sinking of 3 light cruisers; sinking 7 frigates; A total of 17 destroyers were sunk; Sink 9 torpedo boats. However, your combat exploits will not be announced to the public for the time being, and everyone still has to keep it secret, and the submarine will be our secret weapon, and it will not appear in the official establishment of the Navy for the time being. “

"Yes, Your Majesty"

"It's not that I want to spoil everyone's interest tonight, but we are short on time, and we must let everyone grow as soon as possible, so that our fleet can mature as soon as possible. Let's not talk about the results today, only talk about the shortcomings, let's start with me, today's submarine ambush has achieved remarkable results, I am very satisfied, everyone is very happy, but there are still many shortcomings, for example, this time the choice is an ordinary torpedo, is the submarine's own torpedo, slow speed, big waves, loud noise, after the launch is easy to be found by the other party's observers, so that the other side has time to avoid and protect, this is my mistake, I should choose a better torpedo, the worst should choose an electric torpedo, In that case, the results of the submarine formation would have been even greater. Now, according to what you have seen and thought today, you will mention the current problems of our fleet. “

The captain of the No. 1 battlecruiser stood up and said: "I feel that the cooperation between our ships is unfamiliar, in order to take care of each other's face, for fear that others will misunderstand their own battle merits, after their own battleship has completed the task, they did not take the initiative to help the battleship that did not complete the task, this is a very bad performance, I feel that on the battlefield we should take victory as the principle, instead of giving up the opportunity to take the initiative to attack in order to take care of each other's face." “

Zhang Wei took over the topic and said: "The words of the captain of the public voyage are very representative, the promotion of the military rank in the future will completely depend on the merits of the war, how to improve without the merits, I don't believe that everyone is a humble gentleman, and I don't want to go to the next level; We are on the battlefield, we are fighting a life-and-death war, not playing at home, there are too many unknown factors in naval warfare, and the lucky element is also very large, in case in the battle, because the opponent did not sink the opponent in time, and let the opponent sink our battleship, who will bear this loss? Is face so valuable? We should be unanimous in our external affairs, and then the problem we deal with is a small problem, how to divide it is our internal problem, can't we even distinguish this priority? The next time something like this happened, both captains were laid off and went to the palace to clean the toilets for me. “

The captain of the torpedo boat detachment said: "Your Majesty, I feel that our fleet is not offensive enough, and today our torpedo boat detachment has no chance to fight. “

"Haha, I'll answer that question. First of all, affirm your self-motivation, which is good. Li Zhaoshui said: "Whether or not to send torpedo boats to attack or whether to engage in hand-to-hand combat is a decision made by the fleet commander in accordance with the situation on the battlefield; when we are sure of victory, when there is no need for hand-to-hand combat, the fleet commander will not send you to hand-to-hand combat, and you cannot make unnecessary sacrifices; your job is to protect the battleship and prevent the opponent's torpedo boats from attacking, and the fleet commander will issue different orders at different times, and this is decided according to the general environment, and it has nothing to do with whether or not it is offensive." Alright, next. “

At this time, the backstage staff officer sent Zhang Wei a telegram, and Zhang Wei read it and said, Okay, that's all for today, after everyone goes back, think about today's battle, whether there are any good suggestions, whether there are any defects, whether there are any places to continue to strengthen, everyone should write a summary, and hand it over to Chief of Staff Yang Yili tomorrow morning. I will read your summary in detail, what is well written, what is recommended to be adopted, all with rewards, and the meeting is dismissed. ”