The rescue of the "Connecticut" has evolved into an action of great political significance, and under the threat of force from the ocean empire, Chile's ports can only remain neutral, and they dare not take a step beyond the minepool, dare not accept the entry of US ships for repairs, and even cannot supply oil and water.

After staying for a few days, the Atlantic ship formation is not at ease to continue to stay in the Pacific waters, who knows when the expeditionary strike formation will be gathered?

Now the lineup of 4 battleships and two heavy cruisers is already a headache, and a few more battleships may not be able to bear it!

Now in the U.S. Navy, an atmosphere of fear of the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire is permeated from top to bottom, and the fermentation with time has not only not weakened, but has become more and more intense.

Therefore, after the state of the battleship "Connecticut" stabilized a little, the US Atlantic Fleet carefully towed it into the Strait of Magellan.

Be careful and cautious along the way, stop and go for more than half a month.

Unfortunately, on January 17, 1909, the battleship "Connecticut" capsized in the Strait of Magellan in a force 11 gale and sinked to the icy bottom of the sea more than 1,000 meters.

Such a result really made the Atlantic Fleet cry without tears.

At this point, the final results of the battle of the Magellan Strait in the second stage of the "Eastern Pacific Pursuit Battle" have only come out.

The "Three Marinda" warship formation sank one battleship, one large armored cruiser, lightly damaged two enemy battleships, and four cruisers.

As a result, the Royal Navy's "Mangu Tactics" became famous in World War I.

After the end of the second phase of naval warfare, the US Navy abolished the temporary establishment of the Great White Fleet, and all the remaining ships were included in the Atlantic Fleet sequence.

Think back to the beginning

The huge lineup of 16 post-90s battleships, more than 10 cruisers, 38 logistics supply ships, and 5 auxiliary ships (including hospital ships, repair ships, offshore engineering ships, etc.) of the Great White Fleet went to the port of San Francisco on the Pacific coast, and finally only three battleships and one cruiser came back, and two of the battleships were still wounded, which can be described as miserable and almost wiped out.

The Pacific Fleet, which originally belonged to the old ship concentration camp, was also wiped out in previous naval battles, most of the warships sank to the icy bottom of the sea, and a few were captured, turning into a member of the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire.

After the war, the US Atlantic Fleet had 8 battleships (3 Great White Fleet and 2 newly-built battleships), 24 cruisers, and a total of more than 100 mine-strike destroyers of various types with a displacement of 260 tons to more than 800 tons.

At the Hampton anchorage, there are two more battleships in outfitting that will join the Atlantic Fleet as soon as early March.

And in the shipyards along the Atlantic coast, 13 battleships were being built day and night, and President Roosevelt staged a final madness, approving the construction of more than 40 large cruisers in one fell swoop.

In time

There is hope that the U.S. Navy will quickly regain its former strength and be better than before.

For the most powerful industrial country in the world today, the construction of warships has never been a problem, nor is it a difficult problem to fund, the biggest problem is that the previous naval battles have lost too many experienced naval officers and sailors, the total number of more than 17,000 people (including thousands of prisoners), it is difficult to make up for it in a short time.

Now, the Atlantic Fleet faces an even bigger conundrum, and that is President Roosevelt and the next president.

According to President Roosevelt's signing of a formal order;

The main force of the Atlantic Fleet must hold on to the Argentine port of Buenos Aires, holding the vital Strait of Magellan in order to prevent the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire from easily occupying the area and threatening the vital cities and shipyards on the west coast of the United States.

In a word, reject the enemy thousands of miles away.

This may sound reasonable at first glance, but it is not.

To supply a strong warship to maintain a high level of combat effectiveness, it is necessary to have a high-level shipbuilding enterprise, a naval maintenance base, and the supply capacity of oil, water, coal, grain, vegetables and other professional materials, which is by no means supported by a city like Buenos Aires, which has almost no heavy industry.

The welding, riveting, machining equipment, cutting equipment, hoisting equipment, etc. required for the maintenance of ships are not available here, and there is no boiler production capacity and other professional equipment production capacity, so it is possible to berth for a short time but not for a long time.

It's okay for the machine shop here to repair farm tools, but where can you repair large warships?

Stick your fingers in and do the math;

It has been more than three months since the Atlantic Fleet went south in October, and many ships have been unable to sail normally due to various reasons such as maintenance parts and lack of special lubricants.

One battle plus two crossings of the Strait of Magellan, half of the ships were in trouble, and they urgently needed to return to the Hampton anchorage for repair and maintenance.

For example, there is a problem with the hydraulic bomb feeder of the main ship's gun, how to fix it here?

However, no matter how much the Atlantic Fleet pleaded and how the reasons were presented, President Roosevelt was adamant that not a single ship would be allowed to retreat and that it was necessary to stay at the forefront of the battle.

President Roosevelt did this, of course, out of political considerations, as well as out of his own unspeakable bitterness.

After the Battle of Magellan

Like grasping a life-saving straw, President Roosevelt's Republican Party almost went into battle with all its might, activated the public opinion machine, and rendered the return of the Great White Fleet to the tragic and magnificent.

Under the frenzied pursuit and interception of the Devil Corps of the Ocean Empire, the Great White Fleet can be said to have been bloody, tearful and painful all the way, and has always maintained its original intention, that is, its deep love for the country of America.

In particular, the battleship "Connecticut", the flagship of the Great White Fleet, is really a scarred veteran, and there are countless stories that can be sung and cried......

Anyway, the cowhide has been blown out.

President Roosevelt did this to salvage the credibility of the collapsed government and reserve the last bit of political capital for the Republican Party.

The story of the tragic return can't wait to be publicized, and who knows that the battleship Connecticut will sink in particular......

What the hell is this???

It is said that after receiving this news, President Roosevelt, in a fit of rage, picked up a chair in the Oval Office and smashed it on the table, resulting in two deaths, and the chair and the table were all destroyed!

His presidency runs until February 22, and until then, the Atlantic Fleet will never be allowed to retreat even a single step.

How will the next Democratic president, Woodrow Wilson, cope?

Then it's none of Roosevelt's business, the former president, after I die...... Who cares about his floods?

If the Atlantic Fleet withdraws to the Hampton anchorage, then it is completely foreseeable that the Royal Fleet of the Ocean Empire can follow all the way unimpeded, and if it is not possible to land on the east coast, wouldn't it be a complete calf?

President Roosevelt couldn't afford it, the Republican Party couldn't afford it, it was nothing short of political suicide.

In any case, the Atlantic Fleet must be nailed to Buenos Aires and defend this Atlantic front-line port.

Democratic President-elect Woodrow Wilson, who won the election, has strongly criticized the incumbent President Roosevelt on this issue, accusing him; Putting the Atlantic Fleet in an extremely dangerous situation is an extremely irresponsible, self-serving and despicable practice.

However, when asked by a New York Times reporter whether he would let the children of the Atlantic Fleet go home after he took office......

Woodrow Wilson's face changed suddenly, and he just didn't respond to the question head-on.

For President Roosevelt, allowing the Royal Fleet of the Ocean Empire to reach the gates of New York Harbor was a de facto political suicide.

What about Woodrow Wilson and his Democratic Party?

The poor Atlantic Fleet sailed south to Argentina with the ambition of serving the country, but was abandoned there as an outcast, and the hope of returning home became extremely slim.

Chile, South America

Port Aisen, which is more than 840 kilometers north of the Strait of Magellan

On a calm anchorage outside the harbor

The Royal Navy Expeditionary Strike Formation of the Ocean Empire has 10 warships quietly moored here, and now the lineup here has grown a lot, the Queensland formation arrived recently, accompanied by three battleships "Queensland", "Tasmania" and "Beilun", led by more than 10 cruisers to arrive, accompanied by more than 10 troop carriers and more than 20 cargo ships, carrying nearly 20,000 officers and soldiers of the "Shangri-La Field Infantry Division" and a large number of materials and equipment.

Vice Admiral Li Jie officially took over the command of the expeditionary strike formation, which brought together the main lineup of seven battleships and two heavy cruisers.

Only three days later, another battleship formation arrived, including the "Victoria", "New South Wales" and the completely captured US battleship "Kansas", and the accompanying six "Kazuki" class cruisers.

The trip also brought with them the personnel and equipment of a Tucker battalion and an infantry regiment of the East Kalimantan Infantry Division to join the expeditionary strike formation.

So far, the Royal Navy Expeditionary Strike Formation has brought together a strong lineup of 10 battleships, two heavy cruisers, and 37 cruisers of various types, and the smallest displacement is the 4,500-ton "Brave" class cruiser, which has a strong ocean-going combat capability.

The incomparably large hull of the British battlecruiser "Lion" is particularly conspicuous, and it is also anchored at the anchorage outside Port Eisen, which can be recognized at a glance from a great distance.

In the spacious officer's quarters

Rear Admiral Sherman and Captain Colonel Pete were drinking coffee while looking at the dense ocean Imperial Royal Navy Expeditionary Strike Fleet on the anchorage through the porthole, and sighed with emotion, revealing respect for strength between the lines.

"I like the mental outlook of these soldiers, they don't let go of the smallest details, and their shoes are shiny at all times, this is the first lesson taught to them by the British Royal Navy, obviously, the foreign country has learned very well." Major General Sherman made a pertinent assessment in the tone of an old father's kind view of his daughter leaving the cabinet.

Colonel Pitt is a senior officer of the 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron of the British Home Fleet, inheriting the title of Viscount Edford, and is a British nobleman who can sit on an equal footing with the Earl of Sherman, and the two are also friends in the army, and have a marriage history of more than 200 years if calculated by family.

The newly raised Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire was a topic of great interest to them, and in their spare time, making further deductions around the development of the war was a central topic for them to enjoy.

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