"Victory...... What?"

Listening to the laughter of the soldiers, Archon Leopold felt nothing but ridiculousness. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info is it really a win? The death toll is several times higher than that of the enemy. Tactical effectiveness is limited. The strategic effect is not at all.

Is this a victory?

It's ridiculous.

"In other words, in this way, we are doomed......"

In an instant, as if electricity was passing through his body, Archon Leopold thought of this possibility, and then was shocked.

"No, it can't be! I will never allow this to happen! There must be some, there must be something, something that can be ...... can solve this problem. Well, yes, it must be, there must be something comparable to the Russian Goths, after being thrown into battle, and then ...... Britons !!"

Something suddenly occurred to him. A force, a country, a country that can change the fighting power and the situation in this world.

That is, the Bretons.

"Hmph, hehehahaha...... The Britons. ”

There was too much hatred mixed in the tone, joy and helplessness. It's like rejecting a piece of coffee candy.

"The Britons. ”

“...... The Britons. ”

That is, at the same time that the consul Leopold rejected the term, Kaiser Wilhelm was also having a headache.

"Actually, at this time...... No, it should be said, it was really at this time. It's really those bastards, and the timing is really good. ”

He obtained information faster and earlier than the Archon Leopold.

"Your Majesty, you have to make a decision early!"

At William's side, the generals said so.

"It's a little bit harder...... But it will take at least a day for the news to arrive, and by the time we get here, I'm afraid it's already ...... It's a bit late. William groaned. Then the decision was made: "Go ahead." ”

“...... Go on?"

"Keep holding on. ”

"But, in that case—"

"It doesn't matter, the Imperial Navy has enough strength, enough troops, and enough courage to face any challenge. ”

William said.

"But—"

Hearing William say this, the generals around him were anxious-

If the Imperial Army is invincible, they all believe it, after all, they are also part of the army system.

As for the Navy......

Although the navy of the Reich is definitely quite a few in terms of numbers. And the war has been experienced many times. However, they are all the kind that are crushed by strength.

An opponent like Briton's sea supremacy level has never been encountered.

This was the luck of the Imperial Navy, and the misfortune of the Imperial Navy. At least for now, the vast majority of the generals did not believe that the Imperial Navy would be victorious. In fact, even the Imperial Navy itself is the same, although most of the officers and men are ready to sacrifice their lives to serve the country. However, it is said that this way can lead to victory or something. A little bit.

Until they saw the ironclad.

There were forty of them, all covered in iron-clad - not the kind with a layer of iron wrapped around the wooden-hulled ships, but pure ironclads in their entirety.

“...... What kind of monster is this?"

Not only the admirals of the Russian Gothic Empire, but also the Britons on the other side - a huge fleet of more than a hundred warships of various types, tens of thousands of admirals saw the monster at this moment.

Then, the nightmarish slaughter began.

No matter how hard they tried to bombard, they couldn't knock their armor flat. Your solid bullet will only smash a dent on it at most. What's even more excessive is that these bastards don't need to rely on the wind. They are more agile than any of your own sail battleships. At the same time, the Russian Gothic Empire warships, equipped with the latest guns and the use of new explosives, were also far superior to those of the Britons.

Such a war ended in a perfect defeat for the Britons.

A huge fleet of more than a hundred warships was crumbled in front of less than half of its own ironclad ships. After the battle, which lasted two hours, the Britons lost almost twenty ships, while the Russian Gothic Imperial army lost zero ships. There were only a few old paddle turbine sailboats, which had been damaged and the power system could not move forward.

For a period of time, these battleships became targets for attracting enemy fire. The arrogant Britons wanted to do: "At least defeat these enemies to prove that the kingdom is not without the power of a battle." "Such a sign.

However, after hundreds of shells and the entire hull was riddled with holes, the battleships still did not sink. After seeing that our fleet was about to fall into a situation where it was surrounded by the enemy, suffering heavy losses or even annihilation. The commander of the naval fleet on the Briton side gritted his teeth, and then gave the order. The whole army retreated. We can't continue to bleed anymore -

Of course, they can't just retreat to their own country in one go. If you are blocked in the military port, everything is over.

So, after gritting his teeth, he made a second surprising decision.

Disperse the breakout. He ordered his own fleet to disperse and break through.

This also meant that the world's largest battlefleet disappeared without a trace. It also means that the Russian Gothic Empire will have control of the sea for a period of time, and it will only be able to harass, or the so-called war to break diplomatic relations.

Just thinking about this situation makes you want to vomit blood. What is this kind of thing? What is it?! He is the most powerful in the world, and he is also the commander of the navy of the world's greatest Briton Empire. He led the world's most powerful navy.

Such a navy was defeated by the Imperials, who were far inferior to their own, and who looked down on themselves?! This is simply ......

"Bastard, is it possible that from today onwards, the Empire will lose its most powerful navy, but if it doesn't have the most powerful navy, then what will be left of the Empire?!

I'm afraid the empire won't have anything left. ”

I was very anxious and anxious.

Everyone in the world thinks that Briton is a powerful nation, and in fact the people of Briton themselves thought so before this. But with the Visigothic revolution, and the rise of the Russian Gothic Empire, all this has changed.

In the course of the fierce war between the Russian Gothic Empire and the Visigoths. Public opinion in the country, or the will of the upper echelons, has changed. The biggest change came from the head of the Continental faction, Lady Maria of the House of Normandy. The lady finally relented and adjusted the kingdom's strategy.

From that day on, the kingdom will be downgraded from a world-class power with both land and sea power to a sea power.

The kingdom no longer has the power to conquer the world. There is also no longer the ability to maintain too much territory on the mainland. This was true even if they were able to defeat both the Visigoths and the Russian Gothic Empire.

So the kingdom next positioned itself as an arbiter, a state that was detached from the Old World order.

In other words, the continental balance of power policy......

Of course, there is another prerequisite for maintaining the balance of power on the continent, that is, to tear apart the Russian Gothic Empire, which is now close to unifying the entire Old Continent.

Otherwise, even if you want to use any balance of power policy, you won't be able to use it, because there is no object to use it, right?

In other words, the empire must be destroyed, and even if it cannot be eliminated, the power of the empire must be suppressed.

That's the plan this time.

Lombardy had to become independent, and Asturias in the south had to restore the state. The Ottoman Empire, the dark elves that originally belonged to the enemy of humanity, will also be restored. Within the Ostrogothic Empire, there must be a large number of small states close to Briton.

Under these circumstances, the Russian Gothic Empire could at best retain the Kingdom of Wende and the Central and Northern Regions - preferably even these two territories were stripped away and trapped in the Slavic territories of the East, becoming a powerful but not very important political and diplomatic state in the Old World. In this way, such a pleasant situation is enough for the Briton people to be swept over and closed.

However, it's all over.

Finished in front of the mighty fleet of the Russian Gothic Empire.

The scattered fleeing fleet was partially defeated by the Empire's fleet and then sunk. Some of them fled to the various ports of Briton, where they cowered and did not dare to make any further moves.

Of course, there were also some cruisers that were faster and in better condition, escaping the pursuit of the Empire and fleeing to the Atlantic. In the following time, these warships, like their predecessors, began to do business without capital.

Or can it be called a battle to break the relationship?

Although before this, the emperor had been prepared for this way of fighting. The Empire has more fast cruisers, as well as more wood-hulled sailboats, which can provide protection for its own waterways as well as its ships. But that's just a possibility. More often than not, the defenseless goths, who are not very good at this style of fighting, are bitten hard.

The goths, who have become accustomed to the "calm sea", are doing very badly in this regard. At one point, the losses were so great that it was a little unacceptable.

But that's it, that's all.

In the final analysis, this kind of battle is a helpless choice for the weak against the strong. Having completely chosen this mode of fighting, it was tantamount to declaring that Breton had lost their supremacy of the sea.

And a Briton that has no sea supremacy, no superior navy, let alone being an arbiter or something, even it is difficult to maintain its own survival.

......

Of course, that's all for later. At least for now, until news of the naval battle arrived, the Bretons were confident. At the same time, after getting the news of the "departure of the Briton navy", the army of the Russian Gothic Empire was also in various ways.

There was another thing that made them uncomfortable as well. That was the speed of the alliance between the Visigoths and the Britons, unimaginably fast. It seems that this group of guys has really given up, forgotten their previous hatred, and is going to join forces and become enemies of the Empire.