The confluence of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, compared to other straits, here is relatively wide, almost impossible to blockade, Cheng Biguang Department day and night, it took a day and a night to arrive here, the news about this battle, spread, although Cheng Department has killed most of the surviving US troops, but here is only a few dozen nautical miles away from Panama, those who fled everywhere, survived 17 warships, two of them are facing the direction of Panama, they brought comprehensive news of this battle.

The U.S. Admiralty has been waiting for the news of the victory of the Mayo Division, although there are still some young officers who are a little worried, but more worried about the loss of the Mayo troops, in case the battle sinks a few battleships, it will have an impact on the next war situation, after all, the Entente is currently at a disadvantage, and the high seas fleet may not be strong under the premise of establishing the emperor-class as the main force, but 9 cutting-edge warships are gathered together, far stronger than ordinary capital ships, and Britain can promise 12 warships to come back, It's already a huge pay, and if they lose any of them here, the disadvantage will be even greater.

But no one expected that at around 10 o'clock, they received bad news that 12 battleships, including Mayo's flagship, and most of the battleships, were all annihilated in the Caribbean by 4 Emperor-class ships.

This news was like an earth-shattering shock, blowing up the US Admiralty all over again, when everyone received this telegram for the first time, they almost didn't believe it was true, even if they were pessimistic, they would not have thought that there would be such a result, the emperor level has shown strong strength, Mayo should know, but why, Mayo still failed, such an overwhelming advantage, even if it is a sneak attack by the other party, it is impossible to have such a result?

Fortunately, through the cable telegraph, it was possible to communicate for a long time and in a large area, and the commander of the patrol ship escaped to Panama, and he was almost the largest officer below Mayo, and when he fled, he restored the entire battle situation almost according to the messages exchanged between each other and his personal experience.

Only the real battle situation is the only possibility of victory, the previous data on the emperor level, strengthen it a little more, and bring the opponent's attack on the land into the attack on the sea, so as to be able to explain the current situation, his interpretation is a bit excessive, almost restoring this wonderful war.

The front is his personal experience, and write it down, the Admiralty has some understanding of the range of the emperor-class, but the accurate range of 20 kilometers is too shocking, no one believes it, maybe it is just for a fixed target, for a target in motion, this distance accuracy will definitely not be large, showing a slap in the face to all conservative naval officers, the fantasy class in the past battles, did not fully show his power, this power, was borne by Mayo, And the price is that out of 137 ships, only 17 run, and these 17 ships are basically ships of more than 10,000 tons, but after this war, the Americans understand that these ships are even inferior to those cutting-edge light cruisers and destroyers, they have fallen behind.

With the help of the island, the other party laid a trap, and then Mayo plunged headlong, this is a point of no return, the first loss is the capital ship, and then the division of troops became the worst decision, not only did not achieve the result, but fell into the hands of the other party, 4 emperor-class, at an incredible speed, from two directions, killed nearly 90 fast warships, the opponent's emperor-class range advantage, played to the fullest, starting from 15 kilometers, all the way to 5 kilometers, 10 kilometers of distance, almost passively beaten, The 15-inch naval guns, which have huge lethality for 10,000-ton giant ships, have become a nightmare for these light ships, and in less than 1 hour, all the light ships have been sent to the bottom of the sea, and in the middle, the main fleet has done nothing in the movement of the other party.

Next, everything is doomed, after losing all the fast warships, the US military is completely inferior in speed, the other side doesn't know what's wrong, even in a dispersed state, it can maintain considerable accuracy, but this is indeed the key to the failure of the Mayo Department, without the fast warship containment, the other side can calmly maintain a certain distance, range and speed advantage, so that no matter how many warships, there is no way to put into it.

Experienced naval officers basically saw that in this battle, Mayo did not make mistakes, and the reason why the later evaluation errors were based on the advantages of the other party, before that, Mayo did not know that the other party had such a strong ability, even if they passed, they would make the same mistakes as Mayo, this was a complete defeat.

After analyzing the results, especially the losses, in one night, all the senior officers of the Admiralty basically spent a sleepless night, and even the same analysis lasted for several days, and the final result was that the battleship originally scheduled to be built in 1916 had been considered out of date, and if there was no battleship of the same level as the Emperor class, at least it must be able to achieve the effect of the Emperor class in terms of firepower and speed, otherwise, it would be a joke, a joke of being beaten by the Emperor class.

A battleship from a few years ago, to now, the United States, which has absorbed the technology of British battleships, cannot even imitate it, which is a great irony for the scientific and technological level of the United States, and the saying that if you are backward, you will be beaten, is correct, and the United States has tasted this bitter fruit.

But 2 days later, when the search fleet sent back their search results, the entire U.S. Navy Department was stunned again, the entire Mayo Department, 137 warships, of which the standard configuration of light cruisers is about 350 people, destroyers are 150 people, and the personnel of patrol and battleships are more than 1,000 people, and the entire fleet, more than 60,000 people, 17,000 people died in battle, all of them did not even react, were sunk quickly, and where to find the bodies, but the survivors were rescued, but it was only 2,300 people, Nearly 40,000 people are still missing.

This is completely different from what the US military expected, and the United States still thinks that At least 15,000 to 25,000 survivors can be rescued, which is also often seen in naval battles, but there are only so many more than 2,000 people, a strengthened fleet, and more than 60,000 skilled navies, which have been annihilated, you know, there are almost 7,000 British navy, it is Britain who knows the current situation of the United States, in order to allow the United States to give full play to the power of battleships, special support, now the survivors of the British army are only 52 people, how can this be explained.

In the next week, the search for survivors has become the main thing, the sea is vast, the first three days are the golden time, once found, there is still a possibility, after 3 days, it is the corpse, and it is useless to find it.

The secretary of the Navy realized the seriousness of the problem, although in the past year or so, along with the United States' participation in the war situation of the Entente powers, the navy's losses have always been there, but under the premise that the navy did not carry out a strategic decisive battle, the number of losses is not large, that is, the escort warships have lost a little, and this loss is in the form of several thousand people every year.

However, since the submarine operation at the end of last year, the enemy's submarines have dealt a devastating blow to the merchant shipping routes in the North Atlantic, and they have not let go of all the escort warships, sinking more than 200 warships of all sizes, but fortunately, most of them are light ships, but the losses of the navy are also more than 40,000, and now, it is close to 50,000 losses, plus the losses when attacking ports, in just half a year, the US Navy has lost more than 120,000 skilled navies.

What is this concept, take the rated personnel of a battleship, between 1300 and 1800 people, this is the total number of personnel needed for almost 60 battleships.

The United States does not have a naval tradition, the tradition is quite far-reaching, the United States merchant fleet and fishing boats provide the navy with enough scope for recruitment, but the United States' human resources are not endless, at least the number of skilled naval personnel that can be provided every year will not exceed 40,000, even if the Americans pull out the seedlings to help them, to make up for the loss of naval personnel from last year to the present, the United States will have two to three years, in the meantime, even if the United States has a strong industry and provides enough warships, there are not so many people to drive them.

In 1916, the United States began to build a naval training school and a naval academy on a large scale, and in just two years, the United States completed the seamless docking of naval expansion.

China does not know this, even if it knows, it will not care, the same thing, China has been doing it three years ago, although China has no naval tradition, but with huge human resources and regardless of the cost of investment, China has completed the preparation for naval expansion, for China, the problem that plagues the navy, will be completely solved at the end of 1916, and then, China will continue to usher in a steady stream of naval expansion.

The combination of fantasy-level anti-sky radar and reconnaissance aircraft can find a way out from the middle, even if the United States goes all out to blockade, not to mention that the other party has completely relaxed, and they have left without danger.

Crossing the Caribbean Sea, entering the Atlantic, in a certain sense, has entered the South American region, although it is the sphere of influence of the United States, but it is not the point, especially now, after the Americans really realize the strength of the fantasy class, they dare to increase activities in the Caribbean after they have determined that the fantasy class has left the Caribbean Sea, and even this is only in the vicinity of Panama and the northern region, and they do not dare to approach the south at all, and the fantasy class uses its real strength to prove that even if there are only 4 ships, it is terrifying, It is this horror that guarantees the unscathed departure of the fantasy class. (To be continued.) )