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"These bastards are doing a great job"

"Yes, you see, this Li Xiuyan first used a quick assault to knock out the two reconnaissance cruisers that were in the way, and then crossed the strait, taking advantage of the lack of load and shallow draft, taking the shallow reef area of Gersham Island, and using the width to go around the side of the British"

Long Guozhang excitedly snatched Zhang Zuolin's pen, sketched a zigzag movement line on the wall chart, and continued to shout excitedly: "After looking at this again, he turned his disadvantage into an advantage, and took advantage of the shortcomings of the lack of angle when the three British capital ships were arrayed, hiding in a 15° angle, and forcibly making the British unable to exert all their firepower in five minutes."

"Look at it again, the Bai Qi was injured here, he saw that the situation was not good, and he got into the reef of Abu Sam Island, and deliberately waited for the two British battleships to chase after coming out, at this time, even if I was there, the speed did not dare to exceed 12 knots"

"This is small, I calculated this, and then turned around and accelerated the assault, dragged them in pursuit with four torpedoes, and then killed all the way out of the Strait of Hormuz from the side of the Qiangsheng"

Looking at the schematic diagram of the track that looked like a lasso was placed in the Strait of Hormuz, Long Guozhang shouted: "If you want it, you have to get it."

"Haha. 【 I want: super fast update ]"

Commander Long's wild laughter made everyone in the conference room of the General Staff bend the corners of their lips, this guy doesn't seem to know how to restrain himself, especially the army and air force, they can't get used to it, as if he played it, it's really contemptible

Only Duan Qirui, who was born in the army and didn't know much about naval warfare, took this opportunity to supplement his naval knowledge and asked: "So, if they bring enough torpedoes, wouldn't they be able to achieve great results?" ”

"You can't say that." With a smile in the corner of his eyes, Chen Ping explained: "The self-weight of the Lance-1 torpedo is 1,800 kilograms, and if it is calculated based on ten launch shells and ten spare bombs, the total importance is 36 tons, so their draft may not be able to drill into the shallow waters of Gesham Island, and there is no way to talk about a sneak attack." ”

"In a frontal assault, the two Nelson-class battleships and the cruiser Mighty have more than 66 secondary guns and rapid-fire guns, so even if they can rush to a distance of four thousand meters and fire torpedoes, they will lose at least one or two."

"It's a pity, if the Spear Type 3 is developed, with the British formation in the middle of the waterway, we can fan out fifty more 10,000 meters away, give him a heavenly shield, and at least two of them can be killed" Long Guozhang smacked his lips, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied with the results of the battle, because according to the local intelligence officer, he only saw the Qiangsheng catching fire and running aground, and the rest of the cruisers had almost no losses, and even the Careful Ship, which caught fire first and tilted, returned to the harbor.

And the 37th detachment was not without losses, although the Baiqi temporarily regained its speed of 25 knots and fled into the Indian Ocean together, but according to the telegram, the damage to the boiler compartment of the Baiqi was more serious than expected, and the overload during the escape caused the loss of another boiler, and at present it can only float at a speed of 12 knots.

The remaining four ships were also wounded, among which the Tiandan suffered heavy losses, and the No. 2 turret was pierced by a 127-mm shell, which detonated several pending shells in the turret, and the entire turret was torn off.

The remaining three ships also suffered varying degrees of damage, according to current statistics, a total of 47 sailors were killed, 37 were injured, 8 of them were seriously injured, and they were in urgent need of rescue.

Although the loss of the British fleet has not yet been obtained, it is initially estimated that at least 100 people died, and the Careful is estimated to be repaired and continued to be used, but the Qiangsheng is basically scrapped, and the British does not have such a large dock in the Indian Ocean that can repair a 14,000-ton warship, so it is also difficult to tow it back to the nearby Djibouti French repair station, and the Qiangsheng's too tall freeboard and hull have shown weakness, according to the traditions and habits of the British, this first-class armored cruiser is either towed back to India and changed to a nearshore defense gunboat, Or just give up. 【 I want: super fast update 】

Li Mo looked at Li Xiufeng, whose expression gradually calmed down, and smiled slightly: "Go and tell Fu Bo that the support fleet has found them." ”

The younger brother was fine, Li Xiufeng breathed a sigh of relief, and was also anxious to tell the news to Fu Bo, who was still anxious, so he hurriedly left the conference room of the General Staff.

Although Li Xiufeng was the royal chief, he was not a senior official of the General Staff after all, so after he left, Li Mo immediately turned the discussion of tactics to the crucial aftermath and asked, "Has the second batch of support fleets set off?" ”

"It's already set off, two Jilin-class and four Yangtze River-class, and twelve destroyers," Long Guozhang said immediately.

"Good guy, you guys are going to single-handedly take on the Indian fleet" Zhao Long narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Aren't you afraid that the Luzon old nest will be served to people?" Gapo also had six battleships and a large number of cruisers. ”

"Hmph, I wish he came." Long Guozhang picked up the baton, pointed to the map and said: "Two heavy cruisers and four light cruisers supported by the Third Fleet, four destroyers have arrived at the Linga Islands to set up defenses, in addition to ten destroyers and twelve submarines in the area of the Natuna Islands, and I have also sent two Jinghai-class ships into the Beibu Gulf to monitor the French fleet. ”

"The British Indian fleet has a total of six Nelson-class battleships and four Sovereign-class and six first-class armored cruisers, but they are all old models, and if he does not increase his troops from the Mediterranean, he may not be able to stabilize us"

"He's going to fight, I'm willing"

"Commander Long, you're going to be disappointed, you can't fight."

When Long Guozhang was hesitantly looking forward to a big battle, Foreign Minister Feng Qi had already pushed the door and walked in, raised the telegram in his hand, and said with a smile: "Wu Tingfang has called, the British Foreign Office has officially lodged a strong protest against the wounding of the Qiangsheng and the Careful by our Seventh Fleet, which resulted in the death of 121 sailors, and asks us to immediately negotiate on the issue of compensation."

"In addition, Wu Yingke also sent a telegram that the Bulgarian army had approached Istanbul, and the Ottomans could not hold on, and had sent a special envoy to Germany and Britain to seek the possibility of reconciliation."

"The Seventh Fleet?" For this title, Li Mo blinked, and couldn't help but think of the famous American fleet in the future, and said in surprise: "Do we have the Seventh Fleet?" ”

"I guess I made a mistake, I heard that the signal flag bearer on the Attentive is dead, so it's another sailor who took the Seventh Fleet." Feng Qi smiled and handed the telegram to Li Mo.

"Hehe, that's good, the British just gave us a quota for a fleet." Chen Ping also smiled dumbly and said, "By the way, the Ottoman Empire really can't hold on?" ”

"yes, didn't we sell them three battleships?" Tang Shaoyi also asked in surprise.

"It's useless, it's still the army that will solve the problem in the end of the war." Zhao Long squinted, deliberately glanced at the triumphant Long Guozhang, and said: "The naval artillery is powerful, but there is a limit, not to mention that the Ottoman Navy has been pinned down by Greece, and Italy has recently strengthened its patrols in the Mediterranean, and it is estimated that it is to avenge the two battleships."

"The news that Germany is speeding up six Bavaria-class battleships has now made Britain crazy, because they only have five Queen Elizabeth-class, not only did they not reach the two-to-one advantage of the same type, but they were surpassed by Germany, so the British Parliament is discussing another appropriation, and they can no longer afford to transfer troops to this side" Chen Ping lit a cigarette and smiled with satisfaction.

"Let's talk about it." Li Mo waved his hand to calm everyone down and asked, "What do we want now?" ”

"Sarawak" Long Guozhang was the first to say: "The old man is not pleasing to the eye there, let the British get out of the South Seas, so that we can completely unify Borneo"

"No, Sarawak is a containment for Britain, as long as it is in one day, the British Far East Fleet will not dare to go, and it must maintain a garrison of at least 30,000" Zhao Long disagreed with Long Guozhang's point of view, and said: "Maintaining the status of Sarawak can make Britain have to be distracted between Gapo and Sarawak, if we want to be there, then Britain will shrink all its forces back to Gapo and India"

"I think it's better to have money" Rong Kui smiled: "The Americans are making a fortune in Europe, and in the first half of this year alone, they provided billion-dollar loans to Britain and France, which is really profitable, so I think it's better to take the land directly, let Britain also find us for loans, take the opportunity to pry open their capital market, and don't let the United States be too comfortable to swallow the profits of the Entente."

"Lending to the UK? Isn't this a disguised help to the Entente? Air Force Commander Xue Muhua glanced at Li Mo and said, "Isn't the pressure on Germany suddenly increasing?" ”

"That's not necessarily, unless we can build the Baghdad Railway, we will never be able to really help Germany completely, so I think the speaker's plan is feasible, at present, through loans, a large amount of gold is being transferred to the United States, if we can't intervene, we will inevitably be left far behind economically by the United States in the future." After becoming the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Feng Qi's vision also became far away.

Everyone expressed their opinions in the conference room, and the arguments came and went, Li Mo remained silent, in fact, he already had his own thoughts in his heart, but he still didn't want to disturb everyone's train of thought, after all, what he thought was not necessarily right, so it was better to take this opportunity to listen to everyone's opinions first.

After seeing Li Mo not speaking for a long time, Chen Ping, who understood his thoughts, exchanged glances with Tang Shaoyi, and said with a smile: "I think it should be Kuwait."

"What"

Chen Ping's words made everyone's eyes widen, although Kuwait has abundant oil, but after all, it is too far away, and it is separated by the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, and there is such a natural danger as the Strait of Hormuz to defend, so the navy can play confrontation with Britain this time, but it is a different matter to really project power

"Just Kuwait." Hearing Chen Ping say what he thought, Li Mo didn't explain, and handed the telegram to Tang Shaoyi: "Shaochuan, you discuss the next things with everyone, let Zhang Zuolin go to negotiate the matter, and let him also exercise." ”

"Your Majesty, rest assured."

After Tang Shaoyi finished speaking, Li Mo turned his head to look at Chen Ping again: "Immediately bring Li Xiuyan and them back, and compile the tactics and strategies of this assault, and send them to each destroyer for study, so that everyone knows that if the destroyer is used well, it will not lose to the capital ship." ”

"In addition, this time we have exposed our power capabilities, and European countries will definitely take some action in this regard, so that both the Ministry of Intelligence and the National Security Service will widen their eyes and strengthen the protection of the domestic technical departments, especially the power system."

After Li Mo finished speaking, he stretched his waist and stood up with a smile: "I haven't slept all night, I'll go back and make up for sleep first, and you can continue to discuss." ”

"Sleep."

The black lines on the foreheads of several adults suddenly grew long, and the corners of their mouths were bent down and they held back a smile, until Li Mo's back disappeared outside the door, Long Guozhang burst out laughing and asked, "Yuanshou, have you discussed it with the emperor?" Kuwait, does it work?"

Chen Ping did not answer immediately, but walked to the map, grabbed a pen and drew a circle on Kuwait, and said: "Persia has always been very hostile to the Ottomans, so it gave the British air to take down this area and become the suzerainty of protection. ”

"Economically, let's not talk about it, from a geographical point of view, holding this place can not only support the Ottomans, but also block the strategic link between Europe and Asia, and even directly threaten India, Egypt and Baku, Russia."

Looking at the three rays of radiation that Chen Ping extended from Kuwait, Zhao Long lit a cigarette in confusion, shook his head as if to say that this could not be done at all, and said: "But Yuanshou, how can I see that Kuwait is important, and the UK can also see it?" How could he give up so easily? ”

"Hehe, the British and Kuwaiti chiefs signed a secret agreement, although the Ottomans also knew, but they never admitted it, and to this day they also think that Kuwait is just a region of Basra Province" Tang Shaoyi narrowed his eyes, and an expression like a profiteer appeared on his face, and said slowly: "Do you think it is necessary for us to get it from the British?" ”

"Grandma" Long Guozhang suddenly understood that Tang Shaoyi wanted to take the opportunity to use Britain as a reason to threaten the security of the Chinese Empire, pointing to the east and west, as long as Britain acquiesced in China's interests in Kuwait and Persia, then it was completely possible to directly negotiate with the Ottomans and bypass Britain

This treacherous and cunning Tang Shaoyi, why didn't he find out before?

Long Guozhang gave Tang Shaoyi a thumbs up, which caused a burst of snickerling laughter from everyone, and after Chen Pingguaner laughed a few times, he gradually became serious: "Zhao Long, order the 14th and 17th Infantry Divisions stationed in Guangxi to move towards the border between Vietnam and Burma."

"Order the 11th, 12th, and 23rd Infantry Divisions stationed in Hunan and northern Zhejiang to reinforce them"

"Order the 4th Marine Division in Luzon and the 2nd Division in Pontianak to be ready for battle"

"Order the 25th Mountain Division of Chengdu to be ready to march to ** at any time"

"Order the 3rd Cavalry Division to immediately set off for Ili"

"From this moment on, the navy, army and air force are all in the second level of combat readiness, and the soldiers on leave will immediately return to the camp to report." After Chen Ping gave a series of orders, he narrowed his eyes violently: "In addition, send someone to quietly spread the news of our transfer of troops to the southwest." ”

"Now that it's time to negotiate, it's time for the Army to move its hands and feet"

Looking at the map full of arrows drawn by Chen Ping in the blink of an eye, everyone was speechless, Tang Shaoyi couldn't cry or laugh, what kind of threat is this, the General Staff simply took out a certain deduction tactical map that had been prepared for a long time

He even believed that if Britain was unwilling to compromise this time, the General Staff would even be ready for a direct war

"These ruffians"

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PS: Take off your pants and ask for a ticket

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