On December 7, after Churchill sat on the prime minister's throne and gave a morale-boosting speech to the people, the second thing he did was to gather people from the intelligence and scientific departments to confirm whether the Shane-class battleships were battleships or battlecruisers.

For the intelligence services of the British Empire, it was their biggest mistake to actually treat a battleship as a battlecruiser.

Just like after the Battle of Jutland in World War I, in order to shirk its own violation of safety operating procedures in battle, the navy piled up a large number of open cartridges in the turret, and the three battle cruisers were easily sunk by the opponent, putting the blame for the huge losses on the head of the design department. The blame for the defeat in the Norwegian naval battle was the intelligence services.

Of course, the people of MI5 were unwilling to bear this black pot for the navy, so they took out the information they had collected back then and turned it out, which clearly stated that the two warships were battleships, and the thickness and speed of the armor proved that he was a battleship, and the information handed in repeatedly showed that they were battleships. It's just that the Navy doesn't believe it, and according to past experience, they think that a warship in the early 40,000s cannot be a battleship.

"It was the Navy itself that insisted that they were battle cruisers and not battleships. And when you asked Congress to increase the budget for building ships, didn't you also keep saying that those two warships were battleships? Why don't you admit it now? ”

Seeing that the dirty water could no longer be splashed on the head of the intelligence department, the navy pointed the finger at the designers of the scientific research department, believing that they had given the navy the wrong reference advice back then.

Bureaucracy, shirking responsibility when something happens, in any era, no country is an exception. After the new Prime Minister Winston Churchill was anxious to listen to the direction of each of the five major boards, and scolded the people of the Navy, the intelligence department, and the Ministry of Science and Technology, he still had to do the right thing. 、

He called the head of MI5 on the German side, Victor. Rothschild asked carefully: "Regarding those two warships, there were many mythical rumors in Germany in the past, can you collect them all for me?" ”

Victor asked, "Do you want to ask about the legends about the gods that have happened in Germany in the past few years?" ”

Sitting at the large square table for the Prime Minister, Churchill took the cigar but did not light it, he nodded and said:

"The Germans have fooled us about the intelligence of those two warships. They deliberately hide the real number in a bunch of neurological and exaggerated rumors. This little trick actually teased us all. The biggest mistake of our people in the scientific research and intelligence departments is to look at things from the old point of view. ”

"You mean to say"

"The Germans must have made a revolutionary technological breakthrough in shipbuilding technology."

Speaking of shipbuilding technology, Churchill suddenly remembered radar again. After China's defeat in the 1936 Intervention War, the British government, which had learned from the pain, believed that the cause of the defeat was the development of a new radar in Germany. Since then, the British government has increased its investment in radar technology research and has cooperated with the United States in technology exchanges. In the past few years, British intelligence services have noticed that many British experts in electronic technology have died due to various "accidents" in recent years.

After talking about science and technology, Churchill drove the people from the scientific department away, leaving the head of MI5 to speak alone. Churchill asked about the spread of Sephirothism in England. (To be continued......)