After the news of the disastrous defeat of the combined expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers at the hands of the main fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire reached Europe, even Britain and Germany, which had exceptionally strong navies, were shocked by the losses of the two countries in this naval battle, and if nothing else, it was said that Britain and Germany had sunk 15 dreadnought battleships, which made these two countries with super navies unable to bear it.

As the two countries with the strongest navy among the Entente and the Allied Powers, they were somewhat unable to bear the losses of this decisive naval battle, not to mention the other five countries.

In the Elysée Palace in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, in the office of the French president, President Lubet said to the French Minister of the Admiralty Gomis and the Minister of War Jeannontro with a sad face: "In this naval battle, I did not expect that the combined expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers could be defeated in the hands of the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, resulting in a very large loss of our French Navy in this naval battle.

This time, the French Navy sent 6 Dreadnought-class battleships and 6 Provence-class dreadnought battleships, as well as 6 Republic-class all-steel battleships, 6 Liberty-class all-steel battleships and 4 Danton-class all-steel battleships, a total of 12 dreadnought battleships and 16 all-steel battleships to join the joint expeditionary fleet formed by the Entente and the Central Powers.

In addition, the French also joined the joint expeditionary fleet with 4 ironclad battleships, 10 large fast armored cruisers, 24 fast protection cruisers, 24 destroyers, 36 torpedo boats and 8 submarines, with a total displacement of 820,000 tons.

You must know that the French Navy has a total of 10 Lone class dreadnought battleships and 8 Provence-class dreadnought battleships. As well as 31 all-steel battleships, the French were able to come up with 12 dreadnought battleships and 16 all-steel battleships. It's quite hard, plus more than 100 warships of other types. This accounts for almost the bulk of their country's naval strength.

However, how many warships are left in the current joint expeditionary fleet, the French Navy?

3 Provence-class dreadnought battleships, 2 of which were seriously damaged, 2 Republic-class all-steel battleships, 2 Liberty-class all-steel battleships and 2 Dandong-class all-steel battleships, of which 1 Republic-class all-steel battleship and 1 Liberty-class all-steel battleship were seriously damaged.

6 large fast armored cruisers, 11 fast protection cruisers, 13 destroyers, 15 torpedo boats, many of which were also seriously damaged.

This is what the French Navy still has left in the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, and French President Lubet has just received a telegram from François, the commander of the French Navy's fleet, back to France, and he has fainted all of a sudden.

France has invested a lot of money in the development of its navy, which has been battered many times. Especially after the countries began to build dreadnought battleships, France invested heavily in the construction of a large number of dreadnought battleships, the French are still very ambitious for the development of the navy, at the beginning of the war has 18 dreadnought battleships into service with the French Navy, but now 9 ships have been sunk in the first war, half of the weight has been lost, put on whomever can not stand it.

And what worries President Lube is that if the Entente and the Central Powers lose the war. Then the fate waiting for him will not be good, the last French President Faure was defeated in the war between the Eight-Nation Alliance and Lin Daxin, which France joined, and Faure had to be under pressure from many parties. chose to resign, and the cabinet formed by Faure was dissolved, this time if the Entente and the Central Powers were defeated. Lubet's presidency must be difficult to secure.

The Minister of the Admiralty, Gomis, said with a wry smile: "No one thought that the Chinese Empire would be able to get bombers over the battlefield of naval battles, and our French Navy has many dreadnought battleships and all-steel battleships. It was sunk by the bombers of the Chinese Empire, if there were no bombers of the Chinese Empire. We should be celebrating with champagne now. ”

President Lubet sighed and said: "After this naval battle, our Entente and the Allies want to defeat the Chinese Empire at sea, it is impossible to achieve it in a short period of time, we can only hope that there will be a breakthrough in the Russian battlefield and change the situation of this war, but the navy should not relax, this war is likely to need to be a decisive battle at sea again, and then our French Navy must avenge the officers and soldiers who died in this naval battle, as well as the officers and soldiers killed in the previous wars, and defeat the navy of the Chinese Empire." ”

Gomis continued: "President, our French Navy will soon have six Provence-class dreadnought battleships completed, which can make up for some of the losses of our French Navy in this naval battle to a certain extent, as long as it is an engagement with the navy of the Chinese Empire, all the officers and men of our French Navy will definitely go all out to avenge the comrades who died before!" Our Navy also has 6 Frion-class super dreadnought battleships that have begun to be built in our shipyards in France, but unfortunately, if these 6 Fryon T-class super dreadnoughts are completed, it will take at least 2 years to catch up with this war with the Chinese Empire. ”

President Lubet nodded, fortunately, France invested a lot of money in the construction of dreadnought battleships, and only 14 Provence-class dreadnought battleships were built, of which 8 were built in the first batch, and 6 were added later.

Now these six Provence-class dreadnought battleships are about to enter service, which can be regarded as an encouragement to the French Navy, which has just suffered heavy losses.

President Lubet asked the Minister of War Jeannoncrow: "What is the situation in the Russian theater now?" It can now play a vital role in this war. ”

Jeannontro said: "After the start of the war, our French army has carried out a large-scale expansion, and now in addition to sending two batches of 1.8 million troops to Russia, our France still has nearly 1.5 million troops in the country and in the colonies, but the first troops to enter Russia lost 590,000 in the battle of Chelyabinsk, and now the remaining 410,000 troops are concentrated in the Russian city of Ufa, and the second batch of 800,000 troops." There are 700,000 people who will also be concentrated in Ufa City, and now most of these 700,000 have rushed to the area of Ufa City. Another 100,000 army units will guard the city of Samara on the Volga, that is, our French army will concentrate 1.11 million troops in the city of Ufa. Resist the offensive of the Chinese Imperial Army. ”

After a pause, Janenontro continued: "The Entente and other countries of the Central Powers have also sent a large number of troops to gather in Ufa City, and now the coalition troops of the countries in Ufa City have reached 5 million, and the final number will definitely exceed 6 million, if our France, Britain, and German technology integration plans can succeed, and before the Chinese Empire attacks Ufa City, new air defense weapons and new fighters will be created, and the battle of Ufa City will definitely become a turning point in this war. That is, new types of air defense weapons and new fighters have not been developed. With an army of more than 6 million, the Chinese Empire's army did not want to take the city of Ufa. ”

President Lubet pondered for a moment and said: "At present, our French finances are quite abundant, I will ask the Ministry of Finance to continue to allocate funds to the War Department, this war will continue to be fought in France no matter what, the expansion plan of the army should not be stopped, the army should be as many troops as possible, and at the same time, in order to make up for the loss of the navy, I will ask the Ministry of Finance to allocate another amount of funds to the navy, so that our French shipyards will increase the construction of 4 Frion super-dreadnought battleships." This allowed the number of Frionte-class super dreadnought battleships to reach 10, and at the same time added orders for some large fast armored cruisers, fast protection cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines to the shipyard, and instead of receiving information, the Chinese Empire began to build a warship called the battle cruiser. The Admiralty will also design our own French battlecruisers as soon as possible, and I will ask the Ministry of Finance to allocate another appropriation when the time comes. ”

Lubet thought very clearly, if this war was lost. He had nothing left, so he preferred to put money from the French treasury. All of them are invested in the army, that is, the newly built warships of the navy. Probably not in time for this war, he also allocated a lot of money to the Admiralty.

Who knows how long this war with the Chinese Empire will last, and if it turns into a protracted war, this batch of warships newly built by France will also be used.

France's financial situation has always been good, so Lubé also has the capital to squander, as long as France can win this war, France is not short of money.

Compared with the wealthy French, Italy, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Turks, after receiving the results of the naval battle, sighed and sighed, but did not have the abundant funds of the French, so that they could immediately build a large number of new warships to make up for the losses of this naval battle.

The Italian Navy originally had 4 Dante-class dreadnought battleships and 3 Count Cavour-class dreadnought battleships, as well as 16 dreadnought battleships, but this time it sank 3 Dante-class dreadnoughts and 7 all-steel battleships at once, making the Italian king Vittorio. Emanuele III was distressed.

Italy, which had no money, built these battleships almost to the point of smashing the pot and selling iron, and as a result, so many battleships were lost in this naval battle, which was really unacceptable to the Italians.

However, Italy is much stronger than the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, before the war, Italy had used the low-interest loan of 300 million German marks given by Germany to start building 6 Doria-class super dreadnought battleships, as well as a number of other types of warships, if these warships are completed, it will not only be enough to make up for the losses of the Italian Navy, but also make the strength of the Italian Navy to a higher level.

However, the low-interest loan of 300 million German marks has been almost used by Italy, in addition to the construction of these warships, and part of it has been used for the expansion of the Italian army, expanding the original 550,000 Italian army to 800,000.

Originally King Vittorio of Italy. Emmanuele III is also ready to invest a research and development fund in the Italian Air Force to develop more advanced fighters, but unfortunately the navy and the army have used up the low-interest loan of 300 million German marks, and now Italy has received heavy losses from the Italian Navy that joined the joint expeditionary fleet, and can only speed up the construction of those warships before, so that a large number of Italian warships, including 6 Doria-class super dreadnought battleships, can be completed as soon as possible, join the Italian Navy, and restore the strength of the Italian Navy.

The Austro-Hungarian Navy, this loss is definitely not as simple as breaking the bones, the original Austro-Hungarian Navy can handle the warships, there are only 2 Dante-class dreadnought battleships and 4 Austrian-class dreadnought battleships, as a result of this naval battle Austro-Hungarian joined the joint expeditionary fleet 2 Dante-class dreadnought battleships and 2 Austrian-class dreadnought battleships were sunk, the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz. Joseph I, after receiving a telegram from the commander of the fleet of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, Rustit, immediately wept bitterly, he was really sad.

The Austro-Hungarian navy has always been very weak, otherwise in the last war between the Eight-Nation Alliance and Lin Daxin, the Austro-Hungarian Navy would not have sent a soy sauce fleet to join the Eight-Nation Alliance's Combined Naval Fleet.

After the end of that war, Austria-Hungary invested a lot of money in the navy, much of it by Franz. Joseph I took it out of his own pocket and asked the navy not only to buy 2 Dante-class dreadnought battleships from Italy, but also to build 4 Austrian-class dreadnought battleships in the Austro-Crarian Empire's own shipyards, so that the total displacement of the Austro-Hungarian Navy suddenly rose to the ninth place in the world navy.

But at least two-thirds of the Austro-Hungarian navy was wiped out at once, and it was too ruthless. Can Joseph I not cry?

The navy of the Ottoman Turkish Empire also wants to cry without tears, and at present, the navy of the Ottoman Turkish Empire has only 2 Dante-class dreadnought battleships purchased from Italy, which is considered the most combat-effective warship, but this time the 2 dreadnought battleships were sunk in the naval battle, and even the fleet commander of the Ottoman Turkish Empire was killed, is there anything worse than this?

Fortunately, the Ottoman Turkish Empire ordered 2 Dante-class dreadnought battleships from Italy, so as not to make the Ottoman Turkish Empire's navy collapse, you must know that the Ottoman Turkish Empire's navy could originally rank thirteenth among the world's navies, mainly relying on 2 Dante-class dreadnought battleships.

Italy, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, knowing that in a short period of time, the Entente and the Central Powers would not be able to compete with the navy of the Chinese Empire, so they also set their sights on the city of Ufa in Russia, where the three countries had hundreds of thousands of army troops. (To be continued.) )