Chapter 170: The Gibraltar Incident

The fleets of the four countries, the Strait of Gibraltar, Europa, the United Kingdom, the Galle Empire, and the Oceanic Republic, had gathered here, and now, as the people at the Habsburg United Nations conference had lost contact, relations between the four countries were becoming increasingly strained.

However, it is not so much that relations between the four countries are strained, but rather that Europa is now very panicked, because the United Nations conference is held within their own countries, and once Habsburg loses contact, Europa becomes a public enemy of the whole world. As the founding members of the Ocean Alliance, the United Kingdom, the Galle Empire, and the Ocean Republic have already begun to conduct joint military exercises, and the purpose is self-evident.

Europa, on the other hand, was subjected to military exercises on their doorstep by other countries, although they would love to forcibly expel them by force. But in the face of the mixed fleet of the world's top three navies, Europa really doesn't think that he can win this expulsion war, and maybe they will take the opportunity to retaliate.

So far, Europa's access to the Strait of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean has been blocked, and only the export from the Red Sea Strait can still be used, and because of this, Europa's export trade will be hit for some time.

"I can't stand it! That group of people from the Great Ocean Alliance rely on their powerful army to conduct military exercises with us all day long, don't stop me, I want to go over......" "I want to go to your side, now there is no news from the headquarters at all, and I don't know what those people in the Great Ocean Alliance are crazy about!" "Because the headquarters in the United Kingdom on the way to Habsburg has been blown up by Europa's own anti-aircraft missiles, so that up to now, the headquarters in Brussels and the garrison in the Strait of Gibraltar have not been able to communicate directly, and not only that, because the Ocean Alliance fleet is close to the waters of Europa, the Strait of Gibraltar Fleet has already left the port in advance to prepare to meet the enemy, and it is already very difficult to contact1.

"You can't let them do this, maybe our headquarters has already been by them." "Don't panic, if the command is targeted by them, they won't just conduct military exercises with us." The person who said this was the Supreme Commander of the Europa Fleet, Admiral Vernave, who was also one of the more powerful people in the more famous families in Europa.

However, on such a night, he couldn't help but think of the battle 20 years ago. The same night in the English Channel, the same war 20 years ago, the pinnacle of the war that directly decided the fate of the war at sea between Europa and the United Kingdom began in the night. In the same way, without stars and in a dark night, will the Ocean Alliance take advantage of this night to attack the Europa fleet? Admiral Werneuf began to be a little scared about the matter. After all, in the case of the Port of Canada, the United Kingdom and the Galle Empire also launched a near-devastating battle against the UAE without warning, and the reason behind me is that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the United Kingdom was affected by a war against Israel launched by the UAE. And now, the Ocean Alliance's actions are somewhat similar to those of the United States incident a decade ago.

However, before they could actually receive instructions from the Commander-in-Chief, the War of the Straits that came to be known as the Strait of Gibraltar Incident, which was initiated by the Alliance, which had the strongest fleet, had already begun to warm up.

"The plane has been successfully loaded with torpedoes, the main guns have locked onto the flagship of the Europa fleet, and the commander of the Ocean Alliance fleet has been asked for instructions!" A little further away from the Strait of Gibraltar, the combined fleet of the Ocean Alliance had begun to warm up for war, and they were ready to fight a war for which there was a reason. At the same time, the loss of news of the high-level leaders of the countries participating in the United Nations conference is the best excuse for them to go to war, and in this regard, this is qualified to say this, presumably the United Kingdom and the Galle Empire, the successors of their kingdoms are in this United Nations conference, as for the Ocean Republic, although their political system is dualistic, that is, the president and the prime minister are respectively borne by the Melbourne family and the Canberra family, but they can lose a successor who may become the president or prime minister of their own country in the future, This is also not going to be accepted by this country.

"Understood! United Kingdom fleet! "The fleet is ready! Commander-in-Chief of the fleet! "This time the United Kingdom does not exist in the fleet as a subject, but as a form of auxiliary." Oceanic Republic Fleet! "The Ocean Republic is ready!" That's right, in the naval war, there is no one who has the most say in the Galle Empire, and this time it is also a war led by the Galle Empire, after all, all the future successors of the Galle Empire are in the meeting.

"The plane takes off! The main gun opened fire as soon as it saw the fire from the opposite side. The distance between us and them is only ten kilometers, and since they are brightly lit, then we don't need to be polite. "In a war at sea, nothing is easier to expose itself than the lights of a ship, and during World War II, the Helena of the United States and the Hiei, a battlecruiser of Yamato, a former member of the Eastern Alliance, were discovered by turning on their searchlights. It was also because of that war that both battleships were sunk because of it.

The bombers on the aircraft carrier all rose into the air, after all, at present, bombers and torpedo planes are no longer distinguishable from each other. This time, there were already three battleships participating in the battle, although there were not many aircraft carriers, but there were at least four, plus the expulsion of light and heavy cruisers, the total number of battleships put into the battle this time had reached 50, which was completely in line with the scale of a medium-level battle.

Ten kilometers is not two minutes for the current military aircraft, and when the distant fire appears, the flare shells dropped at the same time as the torpedo completely reveal the position of the Europa fleet. At this time, there was no need to give an order, and the guns of the three battleships directly fired in unison, and a war was directly started.

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Historically, the Hiei was actually damaged by its own destroyer the next day due to the loss of power due to searchlights.