London, United Kingdom.

Ever since the Prince of Wales was hit by a bomb and sunk by a submarine on its way back to port, Winston Churchill has been in a state of depression.

That morning, Cunningham, an old friend of Churchill who had been transferred back from the land of right and wrong in Alexandria, entered Churchill's office with a large envelope.

"This is a report from the Navy detailing the entire process from the attack on the Prince of Wales to silence."

"I don't want to read it, relay the key part to me, sir."

"The enemy's bombs were dropped at long intervals, and the Prince of Wales' receiver received a constant stream of high-intensity electromagnetic waves, presumably a weapon that used echoes for guidance. From the point of view of firing flares at the time of the attack, this weapon still needs to be visually calibrated, possibly to visually confirm the target and control the launcher to irradiate the target. However, when the fleet released smoke to block the visual detection of the German aircraft group in the air, the receivers of many ships received high-intensity electromagnetic waves that were continuously irradiated. It was at this time that the Prince of Wales was ordained. ”

"How many misses did they have before?"

"The number of bombs dropped that night may have exceeded 20, but the only confirmed hit was the one that hit the Prince of Wales." Cunningham put down the file, sat down across from Churchill, stared at Churchill and said, "But all the bombs were dropped beyond the effective height of our anti-aircraft guns, and the Navy considered the threat of this weapon to be quite great in that sense." ”

Churchill was silent, he was a former Admiralty, he knew a lot about naval warfare, and he wanted to use horizontal bombing to hit a maneuvering battleship at a safe height, Churchill knew very well how difficult it was, so the Germans' hit rate was not too bad.

"Damn the Germans, clean up these tricks." Churchill said indignantly, "Our fleet is cowering in the harbor and does not dare to come out at all, and it is all up to the air force to fight us." If I were a soldier of the surface ship unit of the German Navy, I would have died of shame a long time ago! ”

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At the same time, a large-scale fighting was going on in the officers' club at the Kiel military port of the German Navy.

The reason for this was the ridicule of the officers of the submarine forces who had sent duì in the club to "make a woman's skills ten thousand times stronger than those of naval warfare."

Since many of the submarine officers in the club had a total of more than 100,000 tons, the officers of the surface ships had no corresponding achievements to refute, so they had to speak with their fists.

The massive fighting did not end until the gendarmerie arrived.

**

Churchill grumbled and let out a long sigh.

"I never thought that the Royal Navy would lose a duel at sea, but now, they don't have a duel at sea with us at all, they attack us with planes and submarines, and these opponents who don't know what glory is, have disgraced the glory of the Royal Navy."

"I feel the same way." Cunningham sighed, "I've been in the Mediterranean Fleet for so long, I originally thought that I could at least make a few moves with the Italian and French fleets, but it turned out to be a trick, but it was a contest between a cruiser and a destroyer fleet, and the Grand Fleet had hardly ever been encountered. ”

Churchill snorted and shook his head.

"War has long been without glory, to be precise, since the invention and widespread use of machine guns, war has been the opposite of honor. Killing an enemy with a machine gun is not an honor, it is just a simple massacre. In the same way, it is an honor to win a naval battle with great skill, superb gunnery, and unparalleled courage, and even if it is an air attack, it can be counted as an honor to be able to dive into a battleship and achieve a hit in the face of the fierce fire of the fleet. But now the Germans have given up on this. Maybe one day in the future, war will become like this: at the push of a button, a weapon guided by a machine will destroy the enemy, and then the war will only be killing, killing efficiently, and there is nothing to praise it about. ”

After Churchill finished his tirade, he picked up the teacup and poured a sip of black tea with a very ungentlemanly manner, moistening his dry throat.

"So, sir, you and I should rejoice that we have at least experienced the last gentleman's war."

"In that gentleman's war," Cunning paused, his eyes fixed on Churchill, "but millions of people have died, and I will not rejoice in the war, Your Excellency." Of course, I do not rejoice in the war before me, because by now the number of people who have died in this war has probably exceeded the last gentleman's war of which you speak. ”

"Well, let's turn our attention back to the German bombs, sir. How many more of these bombs do you think the Germans have? ”

"I don't know," Cunningham shook his head, "that question would be more appropriate for Sir Cumming." All I know is that if the Germans had more than a thousand more of these bombs, we might have to consider withdrawing from Alexandria. In addition, I have instructed the Navy to immediately revise our transport and supply plans to ensure that all ship groups are covered by fighter planes. ”

Churchill nodded.

At this point Cunningham continued, "But the enemy's jets are going to be the biggest obstacle to this plan, and we can't withstand them, so I think we should speed up the deployment of jets to the front line." ”

"Our jet is still being tested and is not yet ready to be deployed." Churchill looked rather helpless, "But the American jets have been flying for some time, and they have promised to deploy jet forces to the European theater in the second half of this year." In this situation, we can only trust our allies. ”

Cunningham looked worried.

"I've heard some bad rumors," he said frowning at Churchill, "I've heard that there are people in the United States who are now inciting anti-war sentiments, and some state legislators have mentioned in their speeches at the state legislature election that the war should be stopped in order to win the votes of the masses." At times like these, if the United States withdraws from the war......"

"Don't worry about that," Churchill interrupted Cunningham, "even if the Americans withdraw from the war, don't worry, because our alliance with the United States does not stipulate that it will last only until the end of the war." And even if there is an end war, the Americans will need us, and they will not lose all of Europe to Lin Youde. On the contrary, at this time, the importance of our truce will be highlighted. ”

Churchill paused and continued in a very deep voice: "But if the war is stopped, the former British Empire will really not exist." ”