In this era, although the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire has demonstrated the powerful attack capability of aircraft carriers in the last war, there are still many people who still believe that the key to the final victory in naval battles should be battleships, and British Admiral Fisher is a supporter of battleship victory. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hearing the words of his sworn enemy, Air Force Minister Rossbered, Fisher immediately retorted: "Roseberry, you just need to manage your Air Force, and you don't understand the affairs of the navy, so don't talk nonsense, in the current naval war, as long as the appropriate configuration and corresponding principles of use are adopted, the battleship will still play an important role, and its importance will never be inferior to the aircraft carrier, or even higher than the aircraft carrier, which even the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire thinks so, Otherwise, the Imperial Chinese Navy would not have built so many super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers. ”

Air Force Minister Rossberry pouted and said: "The Chinese Empire can't always be right, they ......"

"Okay, don't quarrel as soon as you meet, now that our British Empire is facing the enemy of the Chinese Empire, we should be more sincere and united!" Prime Minister Herbert? Henry? Asquith suddenly interrupted Air Force Secretary Rossbered, who glared at Fisher and did not squeak again.

Prime Minister Herbert? Henry? Asquith turned to War Secretary Henry Willy and asked, "What is the situation in India?" You must know that if our British Empire breaks out into war with the Chinese Empire, India will bear the brunt of it, and it will inevitably be attacked by the Chinese Imperial Army, and India is too important to our British Empire, if there is no India, our British Empire will not be able to bear such a huge financial expenditure. ”

War Minister Henry Wiley first sighed, and then said with a wry smile: "Prime Minister, at present, our British Empire has a lot of land in India, including 300,000 regular troops transferred from the mainland, and nearly 3.5 million colonial troops composed of Indians, but the colonial army composed of Indians is much worse than the army of the Chinese Empire in terms of combat effectiveness. Hold off the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army. ”

Originally, British India included India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Burma in modern time and space, but after the defeat of the British Empire in the last war, Burma has become the Burma Province of the Chinese Empire, so the India that the British Empire now refers to only includes India, Bangladesh and Pakistan in modern time and space.

After the defeat of the last war, the British Empire clearly recognized the serious threat of the Chinese Empire to the British Empire, and India was next to the Chinese Empire, once the British Empire and the Chinese Empire broke out again, India's situation was very dangerous, so in the past few years, Britain has continued to increase the total strength of India, hoping to keep the most brilliant pearl in the crown of the British Empire after the outbreak of the next war.

At the same time, in order to expand its military strength on a large scale, and pay 20 million pounds of war reparations to the Chinese Empire every year, Britain also had to spend a lot of money to aid Russia, an ally of the Entente, free of charge, so the British government in the past two years, more crazy plundering of India's wealth and resources, otherwise the British government would not be able to take out so many pounds to compete with the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire.

The British army in India is very large, and the colonial army composed of Indians alone is nearly 3.5 million, but the combat effectiveness of these colonial troops is not flattering, which even the British themselves know.

The Indian soldiers in the colonial army have a weak will to fight, and more importantly, the colonial army lacks heavy weapons, and even a large part of the Indian soldiers are still equipped with old single-shot rifles, the British know that with such colonial troops, it is difficult to block the powerful army of the Chinese Empire, and all the regular troops of the British add up to only about 1 million, even if they are all sent to India, they cannot be the opponents of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, so the British are on the front line of India near the border of the Chinese Empire, Numerous fortresses were built.

Don't think about using the colonial army composed of Indians to fight positional warfare with the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, but if the colonial army is stationed in a fortress with amazing defense, the British think that the colonial army still has to fight, and there are still 300,000 regular troops composed entirely of British in India, and if war breaks out, the Chinese Empire does not want to occupy India easily.

Prime Minister Herbert? Henry? Asquith continued to the Minister of War Henry Wiley: "300,000 regular troops are still too little, it is better for the army to deploy more than 500,000 regular troops in India, and 3.5 million colonial troops are far from enough, the size of the army of the Chinese Empire has always been more than 7 million, and our strength in India must be strengthened." ”

War Secretary Henry Wiley smiled bitterly and said: "Now our domestic military resources in Britain are very tight, our army will try to expand a part of the regular army units, and strive to increase the number of regular troops in India to 500,000, as for the colonial army, as long as we can draw out enough British army officers and soldiers to serve as officers at all levels of the colonial army, it is not a problem to expand the colonial army by millions of colonies, but the combat effectiveness of the colonial army is really helpless. Even if we officers and men of the British Army serve as officers at all levels, they will not be able to improve their combat effectiveness. ”

Prime Minister Herbert? Henry? Asquith is well aware of the virtues of the Indians, equipped with British Army officers and soldiers to serve as officers at all levels of the colonial army, the Indian colonial army can also be regarded as an army, if there is no British army officers and soldiers, then the Indian colonial army is not even an army, it is likely that the battle has not yet begun, and the Indian colonial army without the British army officers and soldiers will be in chaos and turn into a big rout.

Prime Minister Herbert? Henry? Asquith then said to the Admiralty Fisher and the Air Force Rossberry: "The navy and air force also need to be strengthened in India, and if India is quickly captured by the Chinese Empire at the beginning of the war with the Chinese Empire, then our war with the British Empire will not need to continue." ”

Admiral Fisher pondered for a moment and said: "At present, the Indian fleet of our Royal Navy of the British Empire has 1 Orion-class super-class dreadnought battleship, 1 Dreadnought-class dreadnought-class battleship, 1 St. Vincent-class dreadnought-class dreadnought-class battleship, 2 Maber-class all-steel battleships, 2 Dreadnought-class all-steel battleships, 4 large fast armored cruisers, 10 fast protection cruisers, 12 destroyers, 24 torpedo boats and 8 submarines, and the home port of the Indian fleet has been chosen in the port of Mumbai. There is no problem in adding some warships to the Indian fleet, but India is too far away from our British mainland, and if war breaks out, the Indian fleet is likely to be surrounded and suppressed by the superior forces of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, as in the last war. ”

The terrain of the whole India is an inverted triangle, connecting the two sides of the ocean, one side is the Arabian Sea, the other side is the Bay of Bengal, but the British Indian fleet only dared to choose the home port on the Arabian Sea side, the Bay of Bengal side of the coastal sea supremacy, the British have completely ceded to the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, the British only on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, symbolically arranged some small patrol boats and small gunboats.

Prime Minister Herbert? Henry? Asquith also knew that in the last war, after a naval battle of Chittagong, the British and Indian fleets were completely annihilated, and if the war broke out, it was indeed very likely that as Fisher said, the Indian fleet would be encircled and suppressed by the superior forces of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire. Henry? Asquith nodded slowly and said, "Let's discuss the matter of increasing the navy's strength in India!" What about the Air Force? What about the Air Force? ”

Air Force Minister Rossberry immediately said: "Prime Minister, at present, our Air Force has a total of 620 Big Gull fighters, 160 Hellbird dive bombers and 120 Tornado horizontal bombers, these are the latest fighters of our British Imperial Royal Air Force, and in terms of performance, they are not weaker than the several fighters equipped by the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire in the last war, and even a few points stronger, but the fighters currently deployed by our Air Force in India are all old fighters before. There are a total of 320 old fighters and 140 old bombers. ”

The strength of the British intelligence system in the Chinese Empire is too weak, and the British still don't know that the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire has replaced the new fighters with better performance, but the latest fighters of the British are indeed very good in terms of performance, of course, compared with the new fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, there is still a big gap.

For example, the British Air Force's Big Gull fighter has a maximum take-off weight of 3,730 kilograms, a maximum level flight speed of 363 kilometers per hour, a range of 650 kilometers, a maximum flight altitude of 7,700 meters, and five 7.7 mm rapid-fire machine guns on board, as well as a 30 kg aerial bomb with a crew of 2 people.

The new Falcon fighter of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, with a maximum take-off weight of 4,100 kilograms, a maximum level flight speed of 510 kilometers per hour, a range of 980 kilometers, a maximum flight altitude of 11,000 meters, and two 20 mm cannons and two 12.7 mm rapid-fire machine guns on board, can also hang two 100 kg aerial bombs, and a crew of 1 person, completely destroying the British Air Force's Big Gull fighter in all aspects.

The British Air Force's Hellbird dive bombers and Tornado horizontal bombers are also quite different in performance compared with the Vulture dive bombers and Goshawk horizontal bombers newly equipped by the Royal Air Force of China.

Vulture dive bomber, with a maximum level flight speed of 420 kilometers per hour, a range of 1050 kilometers, a maximum flight altitude of 8100 meters, and an on-board armament of 2 37 mm cannons and 1 12.7 mm rapid-fire machine gun, can carry 2 tons of aerial bombs.

The Goshawk horizontal bomber has 4 engines, a maximum level flight speed of 412 kilometers per hour, a range of 4100 kilometers, a maximum flight altitude of 9300 meters, and the onboard armament is equipped with 5 rapid-fire machine guns of 12.7 mm, which can carry 5 tons of aerial bombs.

The British Air Force's Hellbird dive bombers carry only 500 kilograms of bomb, and the British Air Force's Tornado horizontal bombers can only carry 900 kilograms of aerial bombs.

Prime Minister Herbert? Henry? Asquith then said to Air Secretary Rossberry: "The production of new fighters in the Air Force must be accelerated, you must know that the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire had at least more than 3,000 fighters at the time of the last war, and now they must have more fighters, so our Royal Air Force of the British Empire must be expanded as soon as possible, and a certain number of new fighters must be deployed in India, relying only on those hundreds of old fighters and bombers, if the war breaks out, it will not play a big role at all." Without the support of the air force, it will be even more difficult for the army units in India to resist the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army. (To be continued.) )