"Sir Fisher, you told me that the Mediterranean Fleet does! Battleship and 3 battlecruisers. Together with the three battleships of the French, the entire combined fleet had 16 capital ships. And the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet consisted of only 8 battleships. Could it be that the combined fleet, with twice as many capital ships as the Chinese, could not beat them? Sir Fisher, you must give me an explanation! Prime Minister Asquith said angrily. Seeing that the war situation has developed in favor of Britain, I didn't expect that in just two months, Britain has once again planted a heel, which will have a great impact on the war situation and is also extremely unfavorable to Britain

"Your Excellency, the Chinese are too cunning, they have laid a trap in Sicily to lure the combined fleet into pursuit.

As a result, the combined fleet fell into the trap laid by the Chinese and suffered a crushing defeat. All the capital ships were either sunk or surrendered to the Chinese. Currently John. Admiral Jericho has already led the remaining battleships of the Combined Fleet to Gibraltar! "John. Sir Fisher explained.

"Wait, the trap of the Chinese? What's going on? Even if the Chinese used despicable means, with the strength of the combined fleet, they would not have lost so badly! Could it be that the Chinese secretly transferred the main naval forces deployed in the eastern Pacific to the Atlantic? Prime Minister Asquith asked. Although the British Navy defeated the German Navy, it once again defended its position as a maritime supremacy. However, the strength of the Chinese navy is also very strong, although the number of capital ships may not be as large as that of Germany, but the combat power is no worse than that of Germany, if the Chinese navy transfers the main force from the eastern Pacific to the Mediterranean, then Britain will be greatly threatened.

"No, Your Excellency, Prime Minister. The Chinese used planes in this naval battle. The Chinese deployed a large number of aircraft in Sicily, and as soon as the Combined Fleet approached Sicily, they used aircraft to launch an attack on the Combined Fleet, sinking five battleships and three battlecruisers, and damaging the other eight battleships. Finally, the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy arrived, and under the pressure of the Chinese fleet and aircraft, the remaining eight battleships all chose to surrender to the Chinese. "John. Sir Fisher explained.

"What? You say that the Chinese planes sank our capital ship? It's the kind of little toy that can fly into the sky. Is this kind of play that powerful? Prime Minister Asquith looked incredulous. But then I thought, John. Admiral Jericho has already sent a battle report, which must be true. In other words, the capital ship of the combined fleet was really sunk by those planes.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, we have all underestimated the power of aircraft. The Chinese loaded heavy bombs and torpedoes on these planes. Although our capital ship is strong, it is still unable to resist under the siege of hundreds of aircraft used by the Chinese. "John. Sir Fisher said.

"Hell!" Prime Minister Asquith scolded secretly. The loss of so many capital ships will make the strength of the British Navy drop a lot again. At the same time, the British wanted to march eastward, and the road was completely blocked.

"The Combined Fleet has already failed miserably, does the Admiralty have any new plans?" Prime Minister Asquith asked.

"The Admiralty will ask the shipyards to speed up the repair of those damaged battleships. In addition, we will step up the development of new aircraft that can compete with the Chinese. Not only fighters and bombers, but also fighters like the Chinese used to drop heavy bombs and torpedoes in naval battles were also developed. Otherwise, the gap between us and the Chinese will become wider and wider. The Chinese now have nearly 200,000 men and hundreds of aircraft deployed in Sicily, and they have turned Sicily into an important stronghold. In a short time, we do not have the strength to conquer Sicily. Therefore, our plans to attack east from the Mediterranean had to be shelved. "John. Sir Fisher said.

Prime Minister Asquith nodded, but his face was a little unpleasant. In the past few days, Britain has received information that the squadron has accelerated the movement of troops around India and the Indonesian archipelago in northern Australia. According to British intelligence, the Chinese will launch attacks on India and Australia within three months. The reason why Britain formed the Mediterranean Fleet and brought in the French Navy to form a combined fleet was, on the one hand, to regain control of the Mediterranean, and on the other hand, to threaten the Middle East region through guò, so that the Chinese would focus on the Middle East, so that the Chinese would not attack India and Australia. In this way, Britain could bring back more supplies from India and Australia, and at the same time, it would be possible to make preparations for war in India and Australia more complete. It was beneficial for these two important colonies to hold on, hold back the Chinese forces, and wait for the British to defeat the Germans and enter the village. However, the defeat of the Combined Fleet made this qiē a delusional hope that after the British navy's eastward advance was blocked, the Chinese could calmly launch an attack on India and Australia.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, I suspect that this qiē is a conspiracy of the Chinese." Seeing Prime Minister Asquith's face was not good-looking, John. Sir Fisher was afraid that His Excellency the Prime Minister would hold the Admiralty responsible, so he opened his mouth to deflect the conflict and exonerate the Navy.

"Oh? Why? Prime Minister Asquith asked in surprise. Exchanges between countries are already full of conspiracies, large and small, in order to gain more benefits. When they can't meet their own needs, they can even break out into war. And this world war, isn't it just that several powerful countries are fighting for the leadership of the world and winning more interests?

"Your Excellency, this is just a speculation on my part! Twenty years ago, the Chinese began to build the 'Zhonghua-class, battleships, and at that time experts from all over the world laughed at them, believing that they were whimsical. However, the Chinese successively built the 'Zhonghua-class' and 'Qin-class', battleships, and in the naval battle of the South China Sea, relying on these two battleships, they defeated the powerful British, French, and Russian combined fleets with dozens of capital ships. From that time on, countries around the world began to scramble to build new battleships. After that, the Chinese introduced faster battlecruisers, and countries began to compete. Finally, the tonnage and caliber of artillery of the battleships became larger and larger. And each new battleship costs a lot of resources and money. The role of the battlecruiser has proven that although this kind of battleship is fast, it is simply impossible to resist in the confrontation with the capital ship. And now, the Chinese have lightly sent our battleships to the bottom of the sea with planes. Isn't this qiē different from what happened in the South China Sea? 'The birth of the Zhonghua-class, the battleships, made all the old battleships of the world become scrap metal overnight. And now the Chinese are using planes again, proving that all capital ships are vulnerable! Therefore, I think that this qiē is a game that the Chinese have laid down twenty years ago, a conspiracy to consume Britain and the entire Western world. In order to seize world hegemony and make the East the leader of the world again! "John. Sir Fisher said.

Prime Minister Asquith's eyes were already wide, and his face was full of disbelief.

John. Sir Fisher's statement is too unbelievable, how is it possible that the Chinese were able to start laying out twenty years ago? Prime Minister Asquith prefers to believe that this qiē is all a coincidence. After all, the continuous development of science and technology will inevitably bring about great changes in the shape of warfare. It's just that the Chinese are much ahead of the British in these aspects. Therefore, he does not consider this qiē to be a conspiracy of the Chinese. If that's the case, it's terrible. This is not only a big trouble for Britain, but a disaster for the entire Western world! After all, the Chinese have almost counted the entire Western world in this way!

Prime Minister Asquith didn't know that John A. Sir Fisher's guess was not wrong, this qiē, as early as the era of western Sichuan, Wang Yuze had already begun to lay out. With the 'China class, the battleships set off the era of giant ship cannons and swept dozens of old battleships of the British out of the garbage heap. Now it is even more used to send the battleships that various countries have spent a lot of money to build to the bottom of the sea. And the reason why Wang Yuze did this is entirely because the Western world is too powerful, and if China wants to rise and regain the leadership of the world, it can only adopt such a method, and only in this way can it succeed in overtaking in the corner!

"Sir Fischer, this inference of yours is so astonishing that I find it hard to believe. I don't think the Chinese will look so far, this qiē is just a coincidence! Prime Minister Asquith said.

John. Sir Fisher nodded, he also hoped that this was just a coincidence, if it was really a conspiracy of the Chinese, then the Western world would be miserable.

"All right, Sir Fischer, let's get back to business! The Chinese now have aircraft as a weapon of naval warfare, which shows that our battleships seem to be outdated, should we stop the construction of battleships now and shift more energy to the development of aircraft? I think that with the scientific and technological background of our British Empire, it will not be much worse than the Chinese. It won't be long before we will be able to come up with planes that can match the Chinese! Prime Minister Asquith said. How to deal with the planes of the Chinese, this is the urgent matter!