"Wow! We have killed the 'Motherland' and 'Justice'! ”

The cheers of the officers and sailors on deck sounded very strange, and Lechelton couldn't help but smile on his face, and in front of the cannons, the so-called justice had indeed sunk to the bottom.

The appearance of Negovan's fleet made La Perel completely desperate, and he decided to abandon the three old former dreadnoughts, but during the breakout the engine room of the "Dido" was penetrated by a 330-mm miss, and the warship quickly stalled, and the French had no choice but to abandon it.

The three French dreadnoughts under the command of Vice Admiral Bliss put up a stubborn resistance, hindering the Austro-Hungarian fleet from pursuing their battleships. Lehydon ordered Negovan to lead the Second Battlefleet to continue the pursuit of La Perel, while he himself stayed behind to collect the few remaining "miscellaneous fish".

Bliss gave the order to abandon the ship after resisting for nearly an hour, by which time several old battleships were already in ruins, and all the main and secondary guns had been destroyed. These former dreadnoughts, though lacking in firepower, are also thick-skinned and stubbornly float on the surface.

The French opened the submarine intake valve before evacuating, and several battleships began to slowly capsize.

Lehedon ordered the destroyer fleet to search for the overboard crew and capture the French sailors and officers who had fled in dinghys. He limped in a dinghy to see the badly damaged Prinz Eugen, whose right knee was heavily bandaged due to a large piece of flesh, but fortunately did not hurt his bones.

Colonel Holty and several officers stood on the broadside deck to greet the fleet commander, and Helton Lechelton was shocked by what he saw from the gangway to the deck: "The Prinz Eugen" looked like a huge garbage dump, and there were still burning and smoking embers on the deck, and the sailors were clearing them one by one. The massive bridge had collapsed in half, and it looked like a pile of steel in ruins. The starboard side was even more riddled with holes, an armor-piercing shell fired by the French tore a large hole in the armor below the waterline, and two compartments had been filled with more than 1,200 tons of seawater.

The superstructure of the battleship and all the secondary guns were almost destroyed. The front chimney was half broken, the rear chimney that looked fairly intact was covered with holes of various shapes, large and small, with the No. 1 main turret being torn off a small half, and the rear turrets No. 3 and No. 4, although they looked fairly intact, had five barrels twisted and hanging low on the deck.

Only turret No. 2 is still in good condition, and thanks to the waterproof compartment design learned from the Germans, the "Prinz Eugen" is still floating on the water, and it still has three-quarters of the power.

Vice Admiral Negovan's fleet returned in vain, and the British battlecruisers "Indomitable" and "Indomitable" and two armored cruisers led by Admiral Milne saved La Perel's life. A fierce battle ensued near Cape Matapan, and as it was getting dark, the battle lasted just over half an hour, and Negovan sank a British armored cruiser, but there was no way to prevent the opponent from escaping. As night fell, the British and French fleets escaped Negovan's pursuit, and since it was dark, Negovan had no choice but to order the troops to be withdrawn.

In order to take care of the "Prince Eugen", whose speed had dropped to 15 knots, the entire fleet returned to Trieste at dusk on the third day. Helton Lee and the crew standing on the bridge and deck had already seen the bustling scene of the Navy Pier, where more than a dozen hot air balloons with streamers were hoisted.

The top officials of the empire, including Prime Minister Ticha, waited early on the scene, and an inspiring victory at sea made the entire empire feel extremely happy, and even the old emperor appeared again.

Although the battleships of the Imperial Navy were also scarred and covered with gunsmoke, with the huge record of sinking four battleships and one armored cruiser of the "Anglo-French Combined Fleet", it was naturally a "triumphant return" after a great victory. Since the Battle of Trafalgar, no one dared to challenge the hegemony of the British Empire on the seas, but the Austro-Hungarian fleet under Lee Hayden did so, and it was successful.

At the celebration ceremony in Trieste, the fact that the Austro-Hungarian Navy was mainly engaged in battles with the French fleet was ignored, deliberately exaggerating the elements of defeating the British. Although Negovan's fleet fought only a short and heavy artillery battle with the British, they sank one British battleship.

That was enough, the British Imperial Navy was defeated!

The sky-high guys at the Admiralty in London didn't know how angry they would be when they saw the news.

"Combined Forces" and "Prinz Eugen" have become the hottest topics at the moment, as the flagship of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet, the "United Forces" naturally bears more halo, and the "Prinz Eugen", which suffered heavy losses but struggled to return to port, has been promoted as a legend. The crew of the "Unsinkable Prince" became heroes, and Commodore Horthy was not only exceptionally promoted to vice admiral, but also received great honors.

Of course, some of them are Hungarians, and the Magyars naturally trumpet their heroes.

On the fifth day of his return, he ordered Vice Admiral Negovan to take another round around the Mediterranean with a slightly overhauled fleet, which frightened the French into halting their plans to withdraw from North Africa to the mainland.

Annoyed and enraged, the British sent four dreadnoughts and six old pre-dreadnoughts to strengthen the Mediterranean fleet, the French also sent four of their dreadnoughts, and the Anglo-French fleet concentrated on the island of Malta and blocked the Strait of Otranto.

The British brutally detained two newly-built Ottoman battleships after the war and refused to pay any compensation, which led the enraged Turks to join the Central Powers and extend the war beyond Europe. Litherdon was a little puzzled, could it be that in the eyes of the British, the Turks were not even as good as four million pounds?

Helden had always believed that the focus of the war was not on the French and German high seas fleets, and that whether Germany and Austria could gain an advantageous position in this war depended on the following three points: first, defeating the Russians and forcing them to withdraw from the war, second, being closely linked with the Ottoman Empire, and third, fighting for sea supremacy in the Mediterranean and control of the Suez Canal.

If you can do the above three things, you will have enough resources to be invincible in this war.

On the basis of the above view, the actions taken by Germany on the Western Front were a huge mistake, and eighty percent of their forces were trapped in France. And if you go on the defensive, maybe forty or fifty percent of your forces will be enough. If Germany had been able to devote 30 percent of its troops, or 600 to 700,000 men, to the Eastern Front, the war would have been easier.

At present, Austria-Hungary has borne most of the burden on the Eastern Front, but with the level of the Imperial Army, with 1.1 million men against a Russian army of nearly 1.7 million, the prospects are by no means optimistic.

The current focus of victory or defeat depends on the Eastern Front.

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