Chapter 161: The World's Strongest Navy
Fan Yize announced the news of the declaration of war on Britain to all radio stations around the world that could receive the telegram in clear code, as well as to all countries at the same time.
As soon as this news came out, there was an immediate global uproar.
Before that, no one could have predicted that the war would break out like this, and it would be a war for Fan Yize, an upstart, to challenge the old super empire.
The war with Russia was far from over, and Fan Yize challenged Britain in the British Indian Ocean.
This made many countries almost think that Fan Yize was crazy, but when the latest news came out, many countries were stupid.
The British Far East Fleet, which had been newly formed, was completely wiped out by the British Indian Ocean Fleet under Fan Yize.
As soon as this news came out, almost all naval powers could not sit still again.
Follow-up news emerges one after another, and the British Indian Ocean Fleet under Fan Yize has hundreds of warships, including six dreadnought first-class battleships that are regarded as the first generation of super-dreadnought warships in the world.
Moreover, immediately after the elimination of the Far East Fleet, Fan Yize's army had successfully landed in Bengal Province and was attacking Calcutta, and the British Governor of British India, Count Kinimund, had withdrawn from Calcutta and fled to New Delhi.
The army and navy under Fan Yize still showed unrivaled strength.
The Far East Fleet was destroyed, and on the land battlefield, the performance of the British Army and the British Indian Colonial Army can be described as a thousand miles away.
The outside world does not know the details of the battle, everyone only knows that the army under Fan Yize took less than two days from landing to attacking Calcutta, while the British army and the colonial army of Bengal Province were wiped out by thousands, and twenty or thirty thousand were taken prisoner.
In Southeast Asia, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur were also invaded by Fan Yize, a British former dreadnought battleship was forced to sink into port, and the Malaysian governor was captured in battle.
In the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, the British Navy in the Pacific Ocean was also attacked by surprise, and in the Far East and the Pacific Ocean, the British were practically devoid of combat effectiveness, except for a few wounded destroyers.
When the British defenders of Australia had just issued a desire to live and die with Australia, the port of Darwin had been forcibly captured by the Red Police.
War on three sides, in just two or three days, the international situation became unknown to everyone.
Fan Yize went to war on all sides, threatening the rule of Britain's overseas colonies in an all-out way.
The British cabinet declared war on Fan Yize and began to mobilize materials to prepare for a big fight with Fan Yize.
However, after Britain declared war, the British Navy's Red Sea Fleet, which vowed to wash away its shame, had just left the Persian Gulf when it encountered the British Indian Ocean Fleet, and the two sides simply made contact, two battleships of the British Red Sea Fleet were injured and fled, and the Red Sea Fleet lost several ironclads and a cruiser.
The British Red Sea Fleet, which thought it could evade the enemy and temporarily hide in the Red Sea, was directly blocked in the Red Sea by the British Indian Ocean, and in the end it could only hide in the port and did not dare to come out again.
This result meant that Britain had lost not only its naval dominance over the western Pacific region, but also its naval dominance over the British Indian Ocean.
Moreover, the British fleet has been unable to enter the Red Sea through the Suez Canal, because the fleet of other people is blocked at the exit of the Red Sea through the Suez Canal.
This made the British fleet, which was hastily prepared, completely lose the ability and confidence to fight a decisive battle.
For this reason, the British could only speed up the construction of new warships, and called on all colonies and defenders to resolutely resist Fan Yize's invasion.
Everyone knows that without the Far East Fleet, the Suez Canal was blocked, and the British were currently unable to resist the Dreadnought First Class battleships, and in the next year or two, Britain had largely lost the ability to regain British supremacy in the Indian Ocean, let alone the Pacific.
Britain's position as the world hegemon is no longer crumbling, it is already falling.
And until this time, the Germans also exposed an inside story that shocked the whole world: Fan Yize's navy has at least 20 super dreadnought battleships, even if they are all warships of the same class, but they are in the leading position in the world. In addition, the total tonnage of the Navy's warships has exceeded 2 million tons, and the fleet has at least 15 million tons of maritime cargo transportation capacity.
As soon as this news came out, almost all countries gasped, and Britain's most powerful navy in the world officially stepped down from the altar on this day, and the eliminated Far East Fleet caused Britain to lose more than 300,000 tons of warship tonnage.
The 20 super dreadnoughts owned by Fan Yize, coupled with the huge total tonnage of the navy, have established the title of the strongest navy in the world in one fell swoop.
What really shocked the world the most was that all the warships in the fleet under Fan Yize were new-style warships, not those old ships, which came out to shake their majesty.
With such a powerful force, the whole world also understood the defeat of the British Far East Fleet again, and no one laughed at the British Navy anymore, some only had a deep fear of Fan Yize.
Silently, if it weren't for the exposure of the Germans, no one would know that the navy under Fan Yize was already so terrible.
At the end of the Japanese War, the whole world only knew that Fan Yize's navy had eight battleships, but that was all.
But no one expected that when the global naval competition was intensifying, the number of main warships of the navy under Fan Yize's command had reached an astonishing twenty.
This is already more than most of the battleships of most European countries combined, and Britain has only built a dozen dreadnoughts so far, and there is not a single super-dreadnought in service so far.
On the other hand, twenty powerful battleships are all super dreadnought, both in quantity and quality, they are completely incomparable.
For a time, the whole British people were also panicked, and stopped the plan to form an ocean-going fleet to fight for control of the British Indian Ocean, and even some pro-peace factions put forward a proposal for peace talks with Fan Yize.
However, there was very little talk of peace talks within Britain, how could Britain tolerate the loss of British India and Australia, let alone a large area of colonies in Southeast Asia.
Britain has also launched an all-out diplomatic offensive to this end, sending several cabinet ministers to France, Russia, the United States, and Germany, and constantly promoting Fan Yize's threat to the global situation around the world.
In just a few days, Fan Yize has been molded into a super demon king, and he is a person with boundless desire for territory. and a tyrant who tries to rule the globe.
However, the British propaganda can only play a role in paving the way for diplomatic action.