In the office of Defense Minister Wu Peifu, Lin Daxin heard the colonel rushing in shouting loudly about the victory, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he asked urgently: "Did Sun Xitao send a telegram back?" ”

The colonel saluted Lin Daxin with a happy face, and then raised the telegram in his left hand and shook it and shouted: "Tell the emperor, General Sun Xitao, commander of the First Fleet, sent a telegram back, in the great battle in the Arabian Sea, the three aircraft carrier battle groups of our Imperial Chinese Navy have won a great victory, annihilating most of the second joint expeditionary fleet formed by the Entente, the Central Powers and the United States, and the remnants of the fleets of Russia, Italy, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Turkish Empire have surrendered to our Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire. The remnants of the British, American, German, and French fleets, because of the darkening of the sky, temporarily escaped the pursuit of our Imperial Chinese Navy. ”

Lin Daxin then took the telegram handed over by the colonel, glanced at it quickly, and then laughed and said to several other important ministers of the Chinese Empire: "Not bad, not bad! What a victory! Our Royal Navy's 3 aircraft carrier battle groups sank 3 super dreadnought battleships, 34 dreadnought battleships, 57 all-steel battleships, 20 ironclad battleships and hundreds of other types of warships of the second joint expeditionary fleet, and even more happily our Royal Navy 3 aircraft carrier battle groups also captured 2 super dreadnought battleships, 8 dreadnought battleships, 5 all-steel battleships, 10 large fast armored cruisers, 30 fast protection cruisers, 42 destroyers and 114 torpedo boats, Hahaha! This is an unprecedented victory! Hahaha! ”

Several other important ministers were also excited when they heard this, especially Jiang Hui, vice minister in charge of the Navy of the Ministry of National Defense, who shouted excitedly when he heard that 2 super dreadnought battleships and 8 dreadnought battleships had been captured: "My God! The warships captured in this naval battle are enough for our Royal Navy to form another main fleet! ”

Li Kun, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and Shen Peng, director of the Secret Bureau, heard the news of the great victory in the naval battle. They looked at each other for a moment, and their eyes showed a look of relief, in order for the Royal Navy's three aircraft carrier battle groups to attack the Arabian Sea and launch a surprise attack on the second joint expeditionary fleet, the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Secrecy Bureau had done a lot of work before, including exploring the route of the joint expeditionary fleet, keeping the whereabouts of the three aircraft carrier battle groups secret, and blocking all the information of the nine Emperor-class aircraft carriers. Now the second joint expeditionary fleet was hit hard by 3 aircraft carrier battle groups.

Although Defense Minister Wu Peifu also smiled, he still asked Lin Daxin very calmly: "Your Majesty, what is the loss of the three aircraft carrier battle groups?" ”

Lin Daxin handed the telegram in his hand to Wu Peifu and said with a smile: "In addition to the loss of carrier-based aircraft, the three aircraft carrier battle groups were a little bigger, 576 were destroyed, and the loss of the battleships was not large, only 1 Feng-class dreadnought battleship, 2 fast protection cruisers, 3 destroyers and 4 torpedo boats were sunk, and several super dreadnought battleships or dreadnought battleships were slightly damaged. ”

When the remnants of the navy of Britain, the United States, Germany, and France in the joint expeditionary fleet retreated, the carrier-based aircraft of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire had already lost nearly 500 aircraft. Subsequently, during the pursuit of more than three hours, nearly 80 carrier-based planes were shot down by the anti-aircraft fire of the warships of the four navies of Britain, the United States, Germany, and France; if it were not for the fact that many warships of the navies of Britain, the United States, Germany, and France were busy fleeing for their lives, the number of carrier-based aircraft of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire might have been more numerous during the more than three hours of pursuit.

Of the warships lost by the Imperial Chinese Navy, except for one phoenix-class dreadnought battleship that sank in battleship bombardment, the other warships were basically sunk when intercepting the naval assault fleets of Russia, Italy, Austria and Turkey.

Wu Peifu took the telegram and looked at it, and then handed it to Wang Yan, the prime minister of the cabinet. smiled and said to Lin Daxin: "Congratulations to the emperor, this big battle on the Arabian Sea." It has definitely dealt a heavy blow to the naval forces of the eight countries of the Entente, the Allies and the United States, and I believe that it is impossible for them to form a third joint expeditionary fleet to trouble our Royal Navy! ”

The telegram also listed data on the specific sinking and capture of battleships in eight countries, but there was no data on the sinking or capture of large fast armored cruisers, fast protection cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines of various countries.

Wang Yan quickly read the telegram and said with a smile: "With the victory in this naval battle, I estimate that many countries of the Entente and the Central Powers may not be able to fight, and even the United States, which has just joined the war. After losing so many capital battleships, I began to think about withdrawing from the war. ”

Then Wang Yan handed the telegram to Jiang Hui, vice minister of defense, and Jiang Hui quickly scanned the telegram and said with a smile: "The sinking of the Atlantic Fleet of the US Navy this time plus the capture of 2 super dreadnought battleships, 12 dreadnought battleships and 17 all-steel battleships by our Royal Navy, the main battleships of the entire US Navy Atlantic Fleet are left with 2 super dreadnought battleships, 4 dreadnought battleships and 3 all-steel battleships and escaped. If we can deal a heavy blow to the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, the Americans will come directly to us and prepare to withdraw from this war. ”

Lin Daxin said at this time: "Since the second joint expeditionary fleet has been defeated by the three aircraft carrier battle groups of our Royal Navy, then let's strike while the iron is hot, let the Fourth Fleet in the Ryukyu Islands, the Fifth Fleet at the Busan Naval Base, the Sixth Fleet at the Vladivostok Naval Base, the Hakodate Port Garrison Fleet at the Hakodate Naval Base, and the submarine force in the Bohai Bay immediately approach Japan's Tokyo Bay, and prepare to close the door and fight the dog after the US Navy's Pacific Fleet enters the Tokyo Bay. It's better to take a spoonful of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy and the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy! ”

After a pause, Lin Daxin said to Wu Peifu: "By the way, send a telegram to Sun Xitao to ask about the 500,000 British, French and German land forces that came with the second joint expeditionary fleet?" This should also be a great gift from the United Expeditionary Fleet! ”

When Lin Daxin and several important ministers of the Chinese Empire were cheering about the naval battle in the Arabian Sea, there were many people who were mournful about this naval battle.

At the British Prime Minister's official residence at 10 Downing Street in London, British Prime Minister Henry Campbell Banavin urgently summoned British War Secretary Henry Wiley, Admiral Fisher, and Foreign Minister Marquess Lansdownne to his office.

After the three British ministers hurried to the prime minister's office, Prime Minister Henry Campbell Banervan's words made the three British ministers suddenly look shocked. The second joint expeditionary fleet, which was huge, was once again defeated by the Chinese Imperial Navy, and this time the losses were even worse than the last joint expeditionary fleet formed by the Entente and the Central Powers, and the Russian navy, the Italian navy, the Austro-Hungarian navy, and the Ottoman Turkish navy were all wiped out, and all the remaining warships surrendered to the Chinese Imperial Navy. The navies of Britain, the United States, Germany, and France escaped with quite a number of warships, but the losses were very serious.

Take the British Navy as an example, according to the telegram forwarded back by Bridget, the commander-in-chief of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, the British Navy lost 3 super dreadnought battleships, 8 dreadnought battleships, 15 all-steel battleships, 6 ironclad battleships, 14 large fast armored cruisers, 34 fast protection cruisers, 44 destroyers, 40 torpedo boats and 15 submarines in this naval battle, and the losses are not enough to describe in a heavy word. Prime Minister Henry Campbell Banervin fainted the moment he received Bridget's telegram, and the British Navy had suffered huge losses in the last great battle between the United Expeditionary Fleet and the Imperial Chinese Navy. Combined with the losses in this naval battle, the strength of the British Navy will drop by several levels at once.

Moreover, Bridget emphasized that the failure of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet this time was entirely due to the fact that thousands of warplanes suddenly appeared in the Chinese Empire and took turns to bomb the navies of various countries of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, and ninety percent of the warships sunk by the navies of various countries were caused by the fighters of the Chinese Empire.

Admiral Fischer said with a look of disbelief: "This is impossible! According to the information we have synthesized from many aspects, it has been determined that the navy of the Chinese Empire has warships capable of carrying warplanes. The Chinese Empire called such warships aircraft carriers, and the Chinese Empire's navy currently has only 4 of them. How could there be thousands of fighters of the Chinese Empire in a naval battle for each fighter that could carry less than 100 planes! ”

Prime Minister Henry Campbell Banervin said with a wry smile: "Not only did Bridget claim in a telegram that he had been bombed by thousands of warplanes of the Chinese Empire, but the commander of the U.S. Navy Fleet, Sampson, the commander of the French Navy Fleet, François, and the commander of the German Navy Fleet, Tessim, all claimed in the telegram sent back to their home countries that they had been attacked by thousands of warplanes of the Chinese Empire. Commander of the Russian naval fleet Vladienovich, commander of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet Rustit and commander of the Ottoman Turkish naval fleet Ismail. Already made a prisoner of the Imperial Chinese Navy. ”

After speaking, Henry Campbell Bannavin handed several telegrams to three British ministers, and these telegrams were telegrams sent back by the commanders of the naval fleets of Britain, the United States, Germany, and France.

After reading it, British War Secretary Henry Wiley frowned and said: "There are still many warships of our Royal Navy of the British Empire that have surrendered to the Navy of the Chinese Empire. There was even 1 Orion-class super dreadnought battleship that was captured by the navy of the Chinese Empire, which is a great shame for our British Empire! Knowing this, Bridget should not have been allowed to be the commander of the British naval fleet again, and the commander-in-chief of the second Combined Expeditionary Fleet, for this was the third time he had buried a large fleet. ”

Admiral Fisher immediately retorted: "Bridget was chosen to continue to take on the important task at the beginning, but also because among our British Imperial Royal Navy, Bridget is the British admiral who knows the Chinese Imperial Navy best, and the warships of the joint expeditionary fleet have been replaced with new air defense weapons to deal with the bombing of the fighters of the Chinese Imperial aircraft carriers, but no one thought that the Chinese Imperial Navy has the ability to take out thousands of fighters at once, and put anyone in Bridget's position. It's not necessarily as good as Bridget does! ”

You must know that Britst was the fleet commander of the British Navy in the second joint expeditionary fleet, but Fisher's idea, Henry Willy attacked Bridget, the commander, definitely to hit Fisher in the face, and Fisher certainly would not pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Henry Willie snorted coldly and said: "I see that Bridget and the fleet commanders of the other three countries said that the navy of the Chinese Empire dispatched thousands of fighters in naval battles, which is a bit exaggerated, you must know that to transport thousands of fighters to the Arabian Sea, the navy of the Chinese Empire must have dozens of aircraft carriers, if the Chinese Imperial Navy really has dozens of aircraft carriers, such a big target, our British Empire's intelligence system will not have any clues and do not know." ”

Fisher snorted coldly and said: "Even if Bridget is exaggerating, but the navy of the Chinese Empire definitely does not only have 4 aircraft carriers, otherwise the joint expeditionary fleet will definitely not lose so badly this time!" ”

Those losses of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, compared to the losses of the navies of the countries of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, really embarrassed the navies of the United Expeditionary Fleet, the warships of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire sank in the naval battle, the only thing that could show it was 1 dreadnought battleship,

The Marquess of Lansdowne, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said at this time: "Now is not the time to hold accountable, what we have to study now is what to do next for the British Empire." ”

Prime Minister Henry Campbell Banervin sighed and said: "After our Royal Navy of the British Empire lost these warships this time, in terms of the main battleships, not counting the super dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers that are still under construction in the shipyard, our Royal Navy of the British Empire has 5 super dreadnought battleships, 12 dreadnought battleships and 14 all-steel battleships, and the strength has dropped by several levels. Go to Asia to find trouble with the Imperial Chinese Navy! ”

War Secretary Henry Wiley and Navy Secretary Fisher no longer fought at this time, and they all became sad, you must know that the British Navy has always been the hegemon of the world's navy before the rise of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, relying on the strength of the British Navy, Britain can become an empire on which the sun never sets, and colonies are all over the world, but now the strength of the British Navy has been weakened very seriously in the two expeditions, relying on the current strength of the British Navy, and even defending Britain's huge overseas colonies, are a little stretched. (To be continued.) )