Samuel simply stated his inferences and plans, and attached detailed intelligence and data to support the key points, and he handed over the materials at hand to the staff officers to pass on. After the ten-minute presentation was completed, Samuel did not speak again, leaving time for the staff officers to digest and discuss. As an adviser, Harnick was also invited to this important pre-war meeting to answer some of the staff officers' questions, and for the first time in his life, he had been directly involved in such an important decision.

The staff officers of the 23rd Fleet sometimes made repeated calculations on key links, and sometimes exchanged words with their colleagues, and finally found that Samuel's reasoning was quite credible, so the interception plan also seemed feasible, although limited by the information at hand, many links were still risky, but on the whole it was more feasible than the plan advocated by both sides just now.

But not everyone liked the plan. Jellett had discussed the plan at length with his staff officers, and he was struck by the fact that his staff members respected it, although Samuel's speculation had an irreparable flaw, that is, all speculations were based on circumstantial evidence rather than direct evidence: he had no credible intelligence intelligence that the 31st Fleet was indeed located north of the Grey Leaf Forest at the time of the order.

But in any case, this is also much more reliable than judging the route of Kolbomac's march based on his character.

Many staff officers began to secretly accuse the intelligence services of dereliction of duty, and the large-scale material transfers in the territory of Dales should have been on the intelligence services' monitoring list, especially the transfer of the main fleet such as the 31st fleet, but now the intelligence services have not provided even the slightest clue. Although this is most likely due to the recent sabotage of Carlin's intelligence network by Falaise's intelligence services in the territory of Dareles, it may also be due to the fact that Falaise Navy intercepted the ships used to transmit information. But in the eyes of these staff officers, the intelligence services are derelict in their duties.

But not everyone's starting point is to hope that the operation will succeed in its goals.

For Jerrett, he could accept the failure of the mission because it was Samuel and not him Jerrett who was primarily responsible. He can also accept that the fleet will act according to his own plan, and then successfully achieve the goal. What he couldn't accept was that his plan was shelved and Samuel got the job done with his own. This will cause this military achievement to fall on Samuel's head, which is a serious departure from his father's original intention of arranging this mission.

Jerett's father, Garba Julius, the current emperor, hoped to use the defeat as an excuse to bring down Samuel and pave the way for further action.

It is well known that Carlin's army has long been the backyard of the children of the nobility, and has always taken on the character of a familial army, until the last century, when Carlin's officer posts were opened to the children of commoners. This concession was not suddenly discovered by the wealthy aristocrats, but because Carlin had not yet become the world hegemon in the last century, when international pressure was enormous, and the inefficient army of the family could no longer meet the needs of defending Carlin's interests.

After opening up to civilians, Carlin's army was bought from a familial to a semi-familial, and its efficiency was greatly improved, and in foreign wars, he frequently defeated opponents who had not yet completed military reforms, and finally pushed Carlin to the throne of world hegemon. But the reform of the Carlin army had side effects that many nobles did not want to see. The good children of commoners quickly occupied more than half of the officer positions, and as they gradually climbed to high positions, the aristocracy's voice in the military diminished. Since the international environment has not yet stabilized, the nobles can only forbear.

By this century, a new class had become rich through industrialization and had begun to unite with the civilian officers, and a clique was formed that frightened the emperor and the aristocracy. Fortunately, now that Carlin is firmly on the throne of the world hegemon, the emperor and the nobles can take back what belongs to them.

In order to control the situation, and in order to avoid panicking as much as possible, the royal family and nobles did not attack those civilian officers who were at the top of the army, but chose to take the rising star sacrifice flag like Samuel first.

The investigation into Samuel began half a year ago, but unfortunately, the secret investigation team did not find any evidence of corruption or malfeasance, and Samuel's personal wealth was indeed very large, but it was all from the legitimate distribution of the spoils of war. Samuel was not unapproachable, but he didn't have any lovers, so his attempt to bring Samuel down through a woman also failed.

The helpless royal family finally decided to bring down Samuel through military punishment, and this intelligence-poor interception operation was specially prepared for Samuel, as long as the interception failed, then whether it was due to the negligence of the intelligence department or not, it would give the royal family an excuse to deal with Samuel. And what's even better is that even if this interception fails, it will not affect the next decisive battle, and Carlin has already won the battle.

But the current situation is a little off from expectations, Samuel is likely to successfully complete the task, even if Jellett is reluctant, in his heart he still very much agrees with Samuel's judgment of the 31st fleet.

So he had to stop the plan as much as he could now.

"Admiral Samuel's inferences and plans are wonderful," he began by praising the plan, "but there is an insurmountable flaw in these inferences, that is, the lack of direct evidence to support them, and the evidence provided by Admiral Samuel is too circumstantial, so the risk of this plan is actually very large, and if the assumption that the 31st Fleet is located north of the Grey Leaf Forest at this time is not true, then this plan will cause us to miss the target." ”

The staff officer of the 23rd fleet immediately retorted: "Then may I ask Your Highness, do you have any better plans?!"

"I still think it's safer to intercept near Port Rinster. "Wherever the 31st Fleet is located, it needs supplies to get to the port of Würdik, and Kolbomak's solid personality means that he will definitely choose the port of Rünsterster for resupply. ”

Even if Samuel's judgment was right, Jellit would have had a chance to bump into the 31st fleet at Rönster Harbor, and if that was the case, then Samuel's decision was certainly wise, but Jellett's decision was also meritorious.

"So Your Highness thinks that the subjective judgment based on Kolbomac's character is more reliable than the conclusion drawn by General Samuel on circumstantial evidence?"

Jaylett had just thought about how to refute when he saw Samuel signal for both sides to be quiet.

In fact, Jerlett's speculation is very flawed, if the 31st Fleet is really located in the north of the Gray Leaf Forest, then it will be one more distance from Vundik than previously expected, which means that if it passes through the port of Rancester, then the 31st Fleet will not be able to reach the battlefield in time even if it maintains a speed of 30 knots throughout the whole process, and must maintain a speed of more than 32 knots, which means that when it reaches Vördijk, the number of warships that have broken down may be far more than 3.

But Samuel didn't directly refute Jellitt, he looked at Jellett with a smile, making the latter instantly feel that the little abacus in his heart was being seen through. Samuel paused for a moment and said:

"His Highness Jerlett's judgment does have a lot of merit, and we should not pay too much attention to its flaws, but also face up to its shining points. ”

"But I am the commander of the Hawa battle group, and I have decided to take my plan. ”

"But it would not be good if my plan caused the mission to fail, and thus added a disgraceful mark to His Highness Jerlett's resume. ”

"So I ask the clerk to record His Highness Jerett's plan in its entirety in the minutes of the meeting, and if the final action fails, this record can prove that His Highness Jerlett has worked hard for it", he smiled even brighter when he said this.

Jellitt felt a chill, the other party was not as kind as he said, he knew that the reason why the other party wanted to record his plan in detail was to use this meeting record to prove to the military how incompetent Jellett really was after the successful operation.

And now, he felt more and more that Samuel's plan was likely to succeed. It's a pity that in the face of Samuel's insidious counterattack, he didn't say anything, after all, he didn't stretch out his hand and didn't hit the smiling man, and in the face of Samuel's "kindness", he could only reply with a blushing face:

"Thank you"