General Werneuve was very thoughtful, but in this moment of panic, Vice Admiral Wernave's order was not carried out, and the officers and men on the ship only opened the sea valve of the "Crown Prince Frank", but did not bother to set a fuse for the ammunition depot and hurriedly escaped.

Soon after, the Far East Navy, which caught up with the Far East Navy, found that the abandoned "Crown Prince Frank" was slowly sinking, and immediately boarded the ship to inspect it, and closed the sea valve in time to save this precious trophy. The delay in rescuing and taking over the empty ship allowed the Imperial fleet to escape from pursuit and escape back to Marina Naval Base four days later.

It was during the capture of the "Crown Prince Frank" by the Far Eastern Navy that there was a small episode that few people know about.

The commander of the Sea Blue Navy, who was ordered to garrison Coral Harbor, learned that the Far East Fleet had captured the "Crown Prince Frank" and was about to tow away the new magic guide battleship, and he could not help but be greedy, and immediately sent a messenger to the Far East flagship "Sea Palace" on a vulture horse, to lodge a solemn protest to the commander of the Far East Navy, and at the same time stated the following position:

Since the "Crown Prince Frank" lost power in the territorial waters of Hailan, then, according to international principles, the Hailan government should take over the warship. The Far Easterners' act of forcibly taking away the "Crown Prince Frank" was neither legal nor unreasonable, and seriously violated the interests of the Hailan government, so a solemn warning was issued and ordered by the Far East Navy to immediately hand over the "Crown Prince Frank" to the Coral Harbor Garrison Navy, and if the above warnings were ignored, the local garrison would not rule out the use of force to recapture the "Crown Prince Frank."

Prudent assessment of the situation, never take a stand easily, when others are fighting to the death, keep yourself neutral and bet on both sides, and always keep the room to change the court, so that you have the right to participate in the fruits of victory when the smoke settles - this is not a shameful behavior in the traditional cultural background of La Mer, but a commendable act of wit, a kind of "La Mer-style wisdom" with a long history. Or to put it in an ironic parable – it's a kind of "bat intelligence".

It was against the cultural and historical background of the sea blue mentioned above that the Commander of the Coral Harbor Navy considered his request reasonable. However, just when he thought he had a plan, he unexpectedly received a magical text message from Lord Parini, the foreign minister of the sea blue, and was scolded by this good old man who had always been smiling.

"Please, my friend, think about it with your rusty head! On what basis did the Far Eastern Navy defeat the Imperial fleet, which was far more powerful than itself on paper? Are you trying to repeat the mistake made by Charles Lucien not long ago? ”

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Lord Parini's warning was justified: the Far Eastern Navy had completely defeated the Imperial Naval Fleet, which seemed to be several times more powerful than them, in just one afternoon, and it must have possessed some kind of secret weapon that is not yet known, and the total tonnage of these warships under his command was far inferior to that of the Imperial Fleet, so where did he have the confidence to snatch the fruits of victory from the Far Easterners?

Thinking of this, the admiral with the "wisdom of the sea blue" repented, and hurriedly sent an envoy to the "Sea Palace" on a vulture horse to meet the Far East regent Roland Kolas, warmly congratulate the Far East Fleet on defeating the imperial invaders and achieving a great victory in the Golden Horn, and reaffirm the friendly relations between the Far East and the sea blue...... As for the ultimatum just now? Sorry, that's a misunderstanding, it's a pure misunderstanding! Your Royal Highness the Regent, don't take it to heart!

……

The Far Eastern Fleet stopped in the Gulf of Bologna for two hours, then turned around and returned the captured Crown Prince Frank by the flagship "Sea Palace".

After a quiet night's voyage, at nine o'clock in the morning of May 5, the triumphant fleet appeared in the bay of Parnia, where it was warmly welcomed by the local inhabitants who spontaneously arrived to greet them. The cheers soared into the sky, and the echoes lingered.

Roland stood on the terrace of the towering bridge of the "Sea Palace", overlooking the bustling crowd of welcomes on the pier, waving to the citizens of Parnia who had survived the disaster, which drew a wave of mountain shouts.

Roland's gaze shifted from the welcoming crowd to the distant shore defense position, the traces of the war had not yet been cleared, and the ruins everywhere were shocking. The tide washed the bodies of officers and soldiers killed on both sides of the naval battle onto the beachhead and hung on the breakwater, on the barbed wire. Most of the corpses were covered in mud and sand, and the exposed skin was swollen and white by the tide. From the posture of these corpses, it is not difficult for Roland to imagine what it was like when they were dying and struggling at the last moment of their lives.

The fallen soldiers had been lying on the beach for two days and two nights, the mud and sand blurring the outlines of their bodies, as if nature was taking them back into its arms.

……

The vigorous Battle of the Golden Horn came to an end, and the outcome of the war surprised all those who were not optimistic about the Far East Navy in advance, and even Roland, who had witnessed the naval battle all the way, was in disbelief when he got Helena's statistics on the battle losses of both sides.

From the time the Imperial fleet entered the Golden Horn on 27 April to the time the Imperial fleet fled from the Golden Horn on 4 May, the total number of casualties among the officers and men of the Imperial Navy exceeded 10,000 in just one week. A total of 13 destroyers and 7 frigates were sunk, and the main ships lost included three cruisers and two battleships, of which the "Tiger", "Dreadnought" and "Frank Crown Prince" were captured by the Far Easterners, and only a third of the remaining fleet was compared to when it set sail.

In contrast, the losses on the Far Eastern side were insignificant, and even counting the officers and men killed in the Palnia shore defense positions, the total number of casualties did not exceed four thousand, less than half of the casualties of the Imperial Navy. The losses were even smaller, with only one light cruiser and two destroyers belonging to the Parnia fleet sunk, and the three main ships - the "Sea Palace", "Yanbo" and "Vijees" - were lucky to survive the battlefield, thanks to the submarine squadron led by Viktoria.

At least two-thirds of all the ships lost by the Imperial Navy were sunk by magic torpedoes fired by the 1st Submarines Squadron of the Far Eastern Navy. Just as Viktoria had predicted, the new weapon of the magic torpedo became the real protagonist of the Battle of the Golden Horn, playing a key role and achieving brilliant results, dwarfing the heavy artillery and aviation of the warring ships.

A new page has been turned in the history of war in the world of Vares.

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