"That's enough, now is not the time to hold accountable, and it's the right way to come up with countermeasures."

Gu Yingyang, the chief of the Imperial General Staff, who was sitting at the head of the long table, finally interrupted the dispute between Rear Admiral Ye Fei, chief of staff of the Combined Fleet, and Vice Admiral Su Mengxin, chief of the Intelligence Division of the General Staff.

Ye Fei glanced at Admiral Yan Fu, Minister of the Navy and Acting Chief of Staff of the National Defense Headquarters, who was silent beside him, grabbed his right hand into the air, and sneered: "The countermeasure is very simple: the main force of our East Asian Combined Fleet immediately rushes back to the Pacific Ocean and destroys the British and American Combined Fleet in one fell swoop with overwhelming superiority!" If we had moved a month ago, we wouldn't have done what we do today! ”

Su Mengxin sneered and continued to-for-tat: "If the main force of Yuan Feng's theater fleet stayed in Truk honestly, this kind of thing would never happen today." As for the main forces of the Combined Fleet, the first stage of the Gulf of Aden campaign has not yet been completed. Captured British Aden and French Somalia, and in the second stage, he also took the whole of Italian East Africa and British Somalia. By the time the battle of the Gulf of Aden is completed, according to the previous agreement, the navy will also sweep the Red Sea and the coast of East Africa, destroy as much as possible all the available naval bases of the Entente, and the ships in the middle will also return to China in batches for maintenance and modification - they should not be able to leave within the year. ”

Ye Fei almost slapped the table: "I can't wait for next year, I must transfer back before October!" After this battle, our army has only three usable capital ships left in the entire Pacific direction! But you have to face at least nine capital ships of the enemy, plus three aircraft carriers! With such a huge disparity in strength, and the naval and air deployment of our army in the Central Pacific, once the enemy forces turn to attack the islands of the Central Pacific, or even dare to counterattack Hawaii, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

This time it was Su Mengxin's turn to sneer: "I remember that before the first Battle of Solomon, under the command of the fleet of the Southeast Theater of Operations, there were six Jīng sharp capital ships, plus two fleet aircraft carriers. It's really embarrassing. ”

Ye Fei suddenly clenched his fists and glared angrily: "This is all thanks to the army's blind tossing in the Indian Ocean!" As soon as Turkey surrendered, the line of communication between the Indian Ocean and Germany had come to naught, and the army would have to rely on the Persian Gulf to do something, and it would have to pull the navy to engage in some East African strategy, watching the enemy rampaging in the Pacific Ocean! If it weren't for the Navy's determination to attack the enemy head-on, I don't know how many army garrisons would have repeated the tragedy of Lae! It's good now. If there is a loss, it is to blame that the navy is unwilling to keep its head in obscurity - if the navy learns to keep its head in obscurity. At present, the millions of officers and men of the army who are completely dependent on sea supplies are afraid that they will not even have time to cry! ”

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting hotter and hotter, Lieutenant General Su Sanling, chief of the Operations Division of the General Staff and acting minister of the Army of the National Defense Headquarters, also jumped out to make a round: "Haven't the plans for the transfer of troops from the Indian Ocean been agreed upon before? After the disbandment of the United Air Force in Turkey, the Third Air Fleet, which has been restored, is being transferred to the southeastern theater in batches. After the completion of the first phase of the Gulf of Aden campaign, two Longwei-class warships and three Yuezi warships will be immediately transferred to the southeast theater. In addition, two converted support aircraft carriers, scheduled for commissioning in September. As soon as the carrier-based aircraft unit is fully equipped, it will also be dispatched to the southeastern theater of operations. The aircraft carrier of the Saker fleet, which is scheduled to be repaired and refitted in October, is also likely to be equipped with the Pacific Ocean ...... after the resolution of the expanded meeting of the base camp."

"Not enough, it's not enough! Knowing that the enemy in the Pacific has shown such a formidable fighting force, you have to detain the main forces of the Combined Fleet in the Indian Ocean and waste time fighting for the already meaningless lines of communication in the Indian Ocean. The Combined Fleet was used to fight a decisive battle of the fleet. It was a dignified battle like the naval battle in the South China Sea and the naval battle in the Bay of Bengal, not for landing support and ship group escort -- this kind of trivial was enough to hand over the second- and third-rate warships of the theater fleet! ”

Ye Fei took a breath, and his tone was even tougher.

"At present, our most dangerous enemy is the British-American-Australian Combined Fleet, and the first task of our East Asian Combined Fleet is to fight a decisive battle with it and regain sea supremacy in the Pacific Ocean. And not like it is now. On the one hand, let the main forces of the Combined Fleet dangle in the Indian Ocean and do nothing; On the other hand, the precious forces of the Combined Fleet were put into the Australian battlefield in small batches and small batches, becoming the target of the superior enemy's experience and confidence! ”

Gu Yingyang frowned and listened, and gave Su Mengxin a look diagonally opposite, and Su Mengxin, who was already ready to go, immediately put on a black face: "The decisive battle of the fleet can be fought if you want to?" Your army is overwhelmed, and the enemy will not avoid the battle? Besides, the Entente also had a sizable Anglo-French combined fleet in the Mediterranean. As soon as you throw your hands away, what will happen to the army in the Indian Ocean? In the final analysis, the annual general strategy of defending the east and advancing westward was decided at the Imperial Council, and the general strategy remained unchanged, the Indian Ocean line of communication operations must be firmly advanced, and the Pacific side can only continue to maintain its obscurity -- the navy should stop messing around! ”

Ye Fei was obviously angered by Su Mengxin's words, and his face darkened: "Since this is the case, I will bring this matter to the imperial front, and respectfully ask the Holy Judge!" ”

Gu Ying snorted, stretched out his hand to clean up the documents on the table: "I think let's discuss it here today, the most important thing at the moment is to ensure the safe retreat of the rest of the theater task force, and the specific command will be handed over to the front theater, and the base camp will provide intelligence support at any time and deploy reinforcements in a timely manner." As for the matter proposed by the navy to play the Imperial Palace, it is customary to hold an enlarged meeting of the base camp first, and then discuss it before it can be determined whether it is necessary to disturb the Holy Driver—well, let's dismiss it first if there is nothing to do. ”

Without waiting for everyone to get up, Gu Yingyang picked up the briefcase and walked out of the hallway, and then turned around and instructed the accompanying secretary: "Call Yuehuadian." ”

……

On the west shore of the Middle Sea, the Empress Bedroom Yuehua Palace.

The bright moon hangs high, the willows hang low, and the midsummer night breeze is cool and hot.

On a waterfront pavilion on the east side of the palace, the empress Liu Qianhua, dressed in light spinning silk pajamas, is gently shaking a fan, leaning on the couch and contemplating, the moonlight is transparent, and the graceful curves under the clothes are almost unobstructed.

Pan Guochen, the military attache of the attendant, had been standing like a stake behind the couch for a while, and at this moment, he clenched his fists, reached out and pinched his thighs, and then made up his mind to speak: "Your Majesty, there are some things I don't understand......

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ps: At this moment, he clenched his fists, reached out and touched her thighs, and then made up his mind to speak: "Your Majesty, I can't get up......"