Chapter Seventy-Four: The Battle of the South China Sea Ends
After the British Far East Fleet raised the flag, the Huaxia Navy immediately nervously leaned on the flagship of the Far East Fleet, Sa Bingzhen looked at the 'Dreadnought' that was emitting black smoke and was very happy, he felt that the British must not be able to hold on, this is really surrender.
Soon the Huaxia warship arrived next to the 'Dreadnought', when the Huaxia Navy boarded the 'Dreadnought', the British troops on the 'Dreadnought' had already dropped their weapons on the deck, and the Huaxia Navy soldiers easily took control of the entire battleship, Winslow and others were detained in the flagship room by the Huaxia Navy soldiers, because there was Sa Bingzhen who instructed the soldiers to treat the British generals well, Winslow and the others were not mistreated, for Huaxia Winslow they were all big fish, and they would be used in future negotiations.
While receiving the warships of the British Far East Fleet to rescue the British soldiers who had fallen into the water, Sa Bingzhen ordered the soldiers not to miss a single British soldier, even if they were dead, they had to be fished up, and whether the British army found the submarine or not, they had to be sealed.
After a whole day of processing, the Chinese Navy finally got the battlefield right, captured a total of 3,000 British troops, sank two 'Old Man' battleships, three Sovereign-class 'Counterattack', 'Ramii' and 'Hood', one 'Invincible' class, five armored cruisers, heavy damage to the 'Dreadnought', 'Resolve' and 'Royal Oak', and some other old armored cruisers.
On the other hand, the Huaxia Navy lost five 'Orlando-class' and two 'Nelson-class' armored cruisers, one Invincible-class battlecruiser 'Qinhan', the Sovereign-class 'Pearl River' and 'Dreadnought' battleships 'Taiwan' and 'Hainan' were severely damaged, the 'Heilongjiang' and 'Xianyang' were slightly damaged, and fifteen new and old-fashioned armored cruisers.
The Chinese Navy immediately began to pull the battered warships back to the naval base in Hainan for emergency repairs, including the warships of the British Far East Fleet that were heavily damaged by the Huaxia Navy, and the submarine will escort these warships all the way back to the Hainan base. According to the Navy's estimates, the Intrepid could reach Hainan just before it sank, and if the Intrepid could stay, it would not only prove the failure of the British Far East Fleet, but also a great incentive for the Chinese people, and it would also be able to achieve a certain deterrent effect to the outside world and enhance the strength of the Chinese Navy.
This time the Huaxia Navy can be said to have won, although the Huaxia battleships had the advantage, but still suffered heavy losses, more than half of the warships were wounded, and some of the warships were even heavily damaged. In Sa Bingzhen's opinion, it was not easy to win this naval battle, after all, the naval soldiers in Huaxia were all new recruits, and most of them were engaged in naval battles for the first time, so he was still very pleased.
In the waters near the battlefield, the Huaxia Navy is conducting a dragnet search, and they can't leave out the British Navy soldiers who have fallen into the water, which is related to whether the submarine force will be exposed in advance, so they don't dare to take it lightly.
Just after the first battle between the Huaxia Fleet and the British Far East Fleet, Sa Bingzhen telegraphed the basic situation of the naval battle to Qin Yu, and he also specially indicated that the number of the British Far East Fleet was very different from Qin Yu's, and in order to reduce losses, he hoped to use submarines to assist.
Qin Yu, who was looking at the map of Bangladesh and northern Burma, suddenly received an urgent telegram from the herald, he frowned after reading it for a while, this is Sa Bingzhen's telegram, he didn't expect the British Far East Fleet to be so strong, as far as he knows, after Japan and Britain negotiated in 1905, Britain evacuated the large warships from the Far East, leaving only the Chinese fleet stationed in Hong Kong, so he dared to launch a naval battle with Britain in the Far East, it is really empiricism. He only now realizes that his arrival has changed history, and he is reassured that his appearance has not changed the general trend of the world. In order to maintain the only naval strength, Qin Yu immediately called back and allowed Sa Bingzhen to use the submarine force as he saw fit, but he must capture all the British troops, and he could not let the news of the submarine be exposed.
In the afternoon of the next day, Qin Yu received another battle report from the navy, the British Far East Fleet surrendered, and Sa Bingzhen used submarine forces, and even then the Huaxia Fleet lost a lot. After reading it, Qin Yu sighed, it seems that there is still such a huge gap between the navy of China and the navies of Britain and France, if it is really a century-old navy, the navy must invest more manpower and material resources.
After Qin Yu received the telegram of Sa Bingzhen's victory, he immediately asked the people below to prepare, because there were still a lot of things waiting for them to deal with, and this time Qin Yu wanted to take back a part of the British interests in China, but these had to be arranged and arranged.
Shortly after Qin Yu received the battle report, Britain also received the battle report of the Far East Fleet, but these two telegrams were completely opposite, Britain received a telegram from Vice Admiral Winslow surrendering, and Vice Admiral Winslow sent a telegram to the British government when he surrendered, no need to think about what everyone knew, in the telegram Winslow did not mention that something strange attacked the warship from the bottom of the sea, because he himself did not know what it was, and he was afraid that the British government would think that he was looking for a reason to delay and did not report it.
The British government was very silent after receiving the telegram, they also thought that the Far East Fleet might fail, but they did not expect that it would be defeated so quickly, and according to the telegram, the Chinese navy was also annihilated by many warships, and many were heavily damaged by the Far East Fleet.
The main figures of the British government are once again concentrated, they have to pay for the defeat of the war against China, and they have to discuss how to deal with China next, and they are now sweating profusely.
The British Prime Minister rubbed his temples with his hands with a headache and said: "I have an unshirkable responsibility for this defeat, but the most important thing for us now is to redeem the warriors of the empire, otherwise the relatives of those soldiers will kill us, and how to deal with China next, but unfortunately we can't transfer the home fleet to the Far East, otherwise I will let that hateful yellow monkey have no good fruit to eat." ”
War Secretary Visconte Hall was talking at this time, he was a little gloating now, Churchill had laughed at them before the army was not good, and as a result, Churchill's own navy was also defeated by the Chinese navy, and he was still scared at the beginning.
Churchill, the Minister of the Navy, was very embarrassed, in his cognition, the Imperial fleet was definitely able to defeat the Chinese garbage rookie navy lightly, but his Far East fleet was defeated by the Chinese navy, which would make the imperial navy a great shame. He said angrily: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, let's take a small part of the home fleet and go to the Far East, as long as we can defeat the Huaxia Navy, let Huaxia know that we are powerful, and if we add Japan, we will definitely win." ”
The prime minister shook his head and said: "We can't transfer the local fleet to the Far East, we also want them to deter the allied countries, now the situation in Europe is very tense, we can't take action to deal with Huaxia at all, as for Japan to go to France Huaxia is not the right time, Huaxia and Germany have a very close relationship, if you are not careful, it will cause international disputes, and you can also make the war come early." As for France, it is even more unacceptable, they have been watching our colonies in Indochina, and if they join, we may trigger a scuffle between Germany, Japan, Russia, and China, and Japan has not joined our camp so far. ”
At this time, the Minister of War Visconte Hall spoke, "Huaxia now has advanced warships and that kind of 'iron box', if we can obtain those technologies, the strength of the empire will be even higher, and we can also play a role in winning over Huaxia by ceding the interests of Huaxia, and now the rise of Huaxia has affected the situation in the Far East, we must not let Germany win over Huaxia, otherwise India will not be able to protect sooner or later." ”
Churchill nodded a little in agreement, and the prime minister sighed for a while when he heard it, the rise of China has basically become a foregone conclusion, and now only Japan and Russia can compare with China in the Far East.
In the end, they thought that the most important thing was how to explain to the people of the empire, and they decided to send people to negotiate with the Chinese government, hoping to save some face for Britain, and more to delay time to buy time for this government to deal with the attacks of political enemies, no one wanted to step down in disgrace, but to save face and get those advanced warships and mobile 'iron boxes' in China, as well as deal with the captured soldiers, maybe they could continue to govern.