As a result, the much-anticipated negotiations in London were doomed to be fruitless, and Li Hui only learned about them when he received the telegram sent back by the delegation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

First of all, it is the commendation and commendation of the meritorious personnel who won several big victories in the past few years, and the rest is good to say, just follow the rules and regulations, the key is how to position the performance of the Chiyou in the Gulf of Mexico naval battle, which makes Li Hui quite hesitant.

From the perspective of expanding the results of the war, the surprise attack of the Chiyou undoubtedly played a decisive role, but from the perspective of the overall situation of the Sino-US war, these expanded results actually had no value, but brought some troubles, and it may not be cost-effective to increase the casualties of their own side for this reason. What's more serious is that Deng Shichang's approach is to act without a military order, and if he insists on going online, it is no problem to be sentenced to a felony. If such behavior is encouraged, it is unlikely that in the future, the Chinese army will also form a tradition of "going down and going up" similar to that of the Japanese army that invaded China in history.

However, Deng Shichang even put his own life into it, and with China's tradition of "the dead are the greatest", it would be too mean and unkind to continue to be unforgiving, and it would definitely affect the morale of the commanders and fighters of the navy. In the future, if the generals of the Chinese Navy become submissive and lose their due bravery and initiative, it will not be good, and it will also be a heavy blow to the martial folk customs that are still being cultivated in China......

"Zhengqing, Zhengqing, you really gave me a problem." , Li Hui rubbed his temples and sighed with a headache.

Fortunately, after carefully reading the Navy's report, Li Hui still noticed a very critical detail, that is, after the Chiyou left the queue without authorization to launch a surprise attack, Yang Yonglin did not send a telegram to stop Deng Shichang, and never did, and later ordered the main formation to also launch a surprise attack, so in fact, Deng Shichang did not strictly violate the military order, after all, as the captain and rear admiral of the capital ship, they already had considerable autonomy, and Yang Yonglin, as the commander, did not give the order to stop it, which was tantamount to acquiescence.

As a result, Li Hui finally designated Deng Shichang as the hero of the Gulf of Mexico naval battle, but only highlighted Yang Yonglin's cooperation in the propaganda, and it was clear that the latter hesitated for a while, but the official newspaper wrote that he decisively ordered to cooperate, and the nature of Deng Shichang's unauthorized actions was downplayed as much as possible.

It was not until many years later that the truth of this history was gradually excavated by later generations, and then a large number of literary and artistic works reflecting the early history of the Chinese People's Navy emerged, among the many artistic images they created, Deng Shichang, who had a clear image and heroic spirit, naturally became the audience's favorite figure, although there were also insiders who accused him of unorganized and undisciplined behavior, but he still could not suppress such a craze, the ordinary people do not know so much, like is like, in their eyes, Deng Shichang's flesh-and-blood image is much cuter than that of other generals......

Of course, these are the later words, even if Li Hui wants to get so far, he can't control it, he is now more concerned about the cause of Deng Shichang's death, "It's too dangerous to command in an open-air position, in fact, Zhengqing didn't die until that time, which is already a very fateful fate." But what they (the admirals) said is also reasonable, hiding in the command tower has a severely limited vision, and the command is greatly affected, but in my memory, during World War II, it is rare for the warship to sink but the command system hangs up? Yes, that's right, the commanders at that time should have stayed in the command tower, so how did they clearly understand the battle situation outside? Although radar existed during World War II, not every country had sufficiently advanced radar technology......"

"I remember, it's plotting, with plotting technology, you only need to transmit the information observed by the lookout back to the command tower, and the technicians in it will immediately plot the map accordingly, and then the commander will make decisions based on the plot, so that the commander of the ship does not have to risk being exposed, and the safety will be greatly improved. After the invention of the real-time automatic plotter, it will be more convenient......", thinking of these, Li Hui immediately asked the technical department to carry out research in this area, although this technology is not too easy to research, but there is no insurmountable technical threshold, the sooner you start research, the sooner you can come up with results.

The matter of the navy is only a secondary aspect that Li Hui pays attention to, because the navy is basically not needed in the next war, and the eight legendary-class battlecruisers have all been withdrawn to the main base in Qingdao, with their deterrence, forgive Britain for not daring to make a second, otherwise Li Hui will not mind taking Australia and New Zealand down, he has coveted Oceania for a long time, if it weren't for the strength in the last war, Australia and New Zealand should have been included in the Kolkata Treaty......

Of course, turning the other cheek with Britain is only Li Hui's worst plan, although relying on geographical advantages, especially the existence of the Rocky Mountain natural danger and the Yanping fortress, even if China is really the enemy of the entire West, it can at least be invincible, and can also grab Australia, New Zealand, and even India as trophies, but also because of the position, China has no way to really win the distant European powers, and it will inevitably lead to a long stalemate, which is certainly very unfavorable to China's economic development.

What Li Hui is more worried about is that the West will completely unite as one, and then share scientific and technological achievements with each other, which will greatly accelerate the speed of scientific and technological development in the West, coupled with the stimulation of war, the speed is only even more amazing than during the First World War in history. After all, China's foundation is too thin, even if it has the advantage of system technology, it is not sure of winning this competition, so Li Hui has been trying his best to avoid this day coming too soon. It is precisely because of this consideration that Li Hui, even if he knew in his heart that his efforts were in vain, made a high posture of welcoming Britain to mediate the war between the Three Kingdoms, in order to confuse the West.

As long as the other European powers, led by Britain, do not join the Triple War and turn it into a world war, and with the huge strategic advantage won by China by virtue of its brilliant victories over the past year, even if it continues to stalemate with the United States and Russia for a long time, the economic pressure will not be too great, and it will still be able to promote the process of domestic industrialization at a speed that greatly surpasses that of the Western powers. In the eyes of the European powers, who do not know the inside story, China must have paid a huge price in such a long-term war, and its national strength will be greatly damaged, so even if they finally cede a large area of land from the United States and Russia, they will not necessarily be unacceptable, at least they will not have to join in and fight China desperately for this reason.