"God, what's wrong? What about the Lion and Queen Mary? And the Indefatigable, have they all sunk? The battle between the two sides lasted just over an hour! Looking at the avant-garde fleet that was beaten and bruised, the officers and men in the Grand Fleet couldn't help but whisper, they had never thought that the British Royal Navy would be so wolfish and so unbearable! Long ago, when they first boarded the ship, they were instilled with the idea that the Royal Navy was unparalleled, and their minds were all about the glory of the Battle of Trafalgar and the glory of the British Imperial fleet! But now, they have found out that the Royal Navy is not invincible, and the so-called tradition cannot stop the shells!

"Looks like I had planned earlier." Jericho looked at the scarred battleship in the distance and sighed. Betty is absolutely responsible for this, but the Royal Admiralty and those shipyards are absolutely not inseparable! The ships they supplied were terrible! And cannonballs! Thomas had already raised the issue of the quality of shells like the Admiralty a long time ago, but it was all put on the shelf! The interests of the Admiralty and the arms dealers are already the second enemy in Jericho's heart! The first was the German High Seas Fleet, and the Italian Navy could only be ranked third! "Lead the team back and let Betty come and see me." In the end, Jericho squeezed out these words between his teeth!

Silence, when Betty was brought into Jericho's cabin, the two sat like this, Jericho looked at the chart in the distance and was silent, while Betty, who was once known as the most likely to take over as the commander of the Grand Fleet, bowed her head and said nothing, his hands kept clenching and loosening and clenching, and the muscles in her cheeks continued to twitch. "Relax. The war continues, but don't fall before the enemy. Jericho finally stood up and poured Betty a glass of wine. Delivered to him.

"But it's a good thing. We will soon be able to replenish the losses in this battle, and the two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships will be ready for service within two months, and we will negotiate with the Dutch government to merge the two fast battleships into the operational sequence of the British Royal Navy. The power of our fleet will not weaken, but will increase! Jericho looked at Betty, who was silent.

"Thomas will continue his mission in the Indian Ocean and may not be long before he returns to the Mediterranean. This time you are responsible, but the core of the problem is not you, the Admiralty has troughed the opponent. Technically, strategically, and otherwise. Jericho continued to comfort. There weren't many commanders in the British fleet who could lead a fast fleet, and there were only two of them at the moment, although Jericho was keen to have Thomas as his deputy. But he knows that in the future, the situation in the Mediterranean will be even more difficult, in the North Sea. Anyway, there is a large fleet that can crush the formation. In the Mediterranean, facing a formidable Allied fleet, the mistake of the Battle of Malta can be repeated if you are not careful. Betty, who was too bold, was clearly not fit to fight in such a disadvantaged situation.

The news of the defeat of the fast fleet finally reached the British Admiralty, when Churchill saw that Britain actually lost three battle cruisers in the First World War, he was a little afraid to imagine his ears, some time ago the British fleet was still pressing the Germans for a while, and now how to turn the opponent upside down? Churchill was a qualified politician, but he was definitely not a military strategist, let alone a technician. He could only know it from Guò Jericho's words. There was a problem with the battleships of the British Navy, which have not been completely changed until now!

It was a complete defeat. The impact and consequences were by no means confined to the battlefield, as the British began to re-examine their fleets, and resources that had already favored the army were diverted and redirected to the navy. "We can lose the war, we can even sacrifice France, but we can't lose the fleet." Churchill said this in his report to the government. "We only have the Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleships and the revenge-type battleships that can fight against the German fleet, and we need to continue to increase their number." "The production plan of the fast fleet had to be revised, and our battleships were made of cardboard as if they were made of cardboard!" All kinds of chatter, and this qiē pointed to the British Admiralty.

The government's reproaches and popular anger put the Royal Navy under great pressure, but the days still have to pass, and the war is not over yet, so we must think about how to fight the next war. Jericho, as the head of the Grand Fleet, is under a lot of pressure at this time! It's not just ships and confidence that have been lost in this engagement. At the same time, it had a profound effect on the entire situation of the war, and the British's plan to suppress the opposing fleet through the Guò fast fleet in order to free up their hands to support the Mediterranean Sea had been completely defeated. It's not that the Royal Navy really can't do anything with Hippel, at least in Jericho's opinion, although it was a miserable defeat this time, it was far from the broken Cheng Dù.

By the time the two Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleships were commissioned in a few months, and by the time the Dutch had been negotiated, an even more powerful fast fleet would appear in front of the Germans. It only takes three to four months! And in the second half of this year, more Queen-class battleships will also be commissioned, and then the Royal Navy's fast fleet will be able to take on a new look. The only problem is time!

"I'm afraid the Suez Canal will fall before June of this year, right?" Looking at the lifeline connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, Jericho couldn't help but shake his head. A full thirteen capital battleships, 10 of which are super dreadnoughts! This force is really terrifying, even if Thomas's fleet goes to the Mediterranean, the final result is still to be pressed by the opponent, the British Empire needs to at least send a super dreadnought squad and a dreadnought squad to the Mediterranean, so that it can achieve a slight advantage, and this is still an advantage on the field, what is the result of the real fight, Jericho is not sure, he only thought that there was a problem with the defense, this time it was a problem with the cannonballs, when a soldier had problems with his spear and shield, how could he fight? If the other party doesn't dare to fight, forget it, but Tycho doesn't seem to be such a person!

More importantly, Jericho did not believe that the Germans did not replenish new ships during this time! It's not that Jericho got any inside information. The fundamental reason is that the German Navy had some figures under construction on the slipway before the war, Jericho did not believe that the Kaiser would give up these steel behemoths that were almost completed, and according to estimates, Tong Guò used China to buy a large amount of materials before the war, and now the Germans' material reserves are still very sufficient, both in terms of material conditions and strategy, the Germans have no reason to give up! But what are the characteristics of these warships, when exactly will they be in service, and what their number will be, Jericho is not clear. And there is also a variable that if there are no British capital warships in the Indian Ocean, then the supplies of China can enter the Persian Gulf and then be transported to Europe through the Guò-Baghdad railway, and this is terrible, whether on the ground or at sea!

This is why he prefers to use fast fleets to suppress and deter opponents rather than really fight to the death with the German navy. It was for this reason that Jericho agreed to give Betty the Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleship. But now, seeing that the era of good hands is about to come and see, let Betty, the brute bull, give away some of it first! Jericho is angry in his heart!

Just when the British were being made to fly, the German navy and the top of the government were cheering! What even Wilhelm II didn't dare to think of has been realized today! And the boys of the High Seas Fleet did it so cleanly, letting thousands of British soldiers and about 80,000 tons of battleships sink into the North Sea in just over an hour! Wilhelm II also envisioned using a relatively intact high seas fleet to force Uncle Edward's to admit defeat after pushing France off land, but now it seems that the British navy is not so strong.

At this time, Tirpitz and others were considering how much benefit the navy could get this time, such as how much money it would get, how many new warships it could build, and so on. Historically, Germany tried to expand its fleet even when supplies were relatively scarce, and 15 years after the war began, Germany also started construction of a Saxony-class battleship (which can be regarded as a Bavarian equivalent) and as many as four Mackensen-type battlecruisers. Of course, due to resource problems, none of the five warships were completed, and only three of them were launched. And the pace of the German Navy in this plane is much earlier than that, and the steps taken are much larger. Before the start of the war, the construction of 4 Bismarck-class battleships was already under construction, and now, the contact with the outside world is about to be opened, and the German Admiralty believes that in this case, new warships can be considered!

But the German top of the hierarchy objected to Tirpitz's idea, because they knew that with the efficiency of German shipbuilders, it would take about two and a half years to complete a dreadnought in peacetime. And will the war last so long? Or can it last for such a long time, will it be due to the lack of resources in the later stage and the project will be aborted? Tens of thousands of tons of steel are not a small number in wartime. High-powered turbines, artillery, armor, and other things prevented Kaiser Wilhelm II from making up his mind. And in the face of reproaches from the top and the War Department, Tirpitz's answer was simple: "I don't know how long this war will last, the enemy is getting stronger every minute and every second, and we have no new replenishment." ”

The impact of the Battle of Dogal Sandbank on this world is profound, and both Super Leagues have learned something in this war, and they need to adjust their strategies to adapt to the new situation. The British, though battered, were still strong and would continue to do so when the formidable Queen Elizabeth-class battleships were commissioned. The German High Seas Fleet seemed to see hope of victory, but Tirpitz and Scheer and other high-ranking officials believed that this was only hope, and it was too difficult to defeat the British with the German fleet alone!

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