69novels Chapter 608
Chapter 608
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Prime Minister’s words made everyone silent!
What should they do?
How could they know what to do?
Now that Hans announced the captured Royal Oak battleship, the whole world knows that the British had lied before. Now I’m afraid no one will believe what they say!
Moreover, more terrible things are yet to come.
The failure of this naval battle will lead to a sharp decline in the global influence of the British. Their days will probably be even more difficult in the future!
“Prime Minister, I think the most urgent task right now is to immediately mobilize the whole country!”
The chief of staff of the British Army said to Prime Minister Lloyd George with a serious expression.
“We now not only need to concentrate all the resources of the country to build a stronger fleet, but also mobilize the people and factories of the country as soon as possible to expand the army according to wartime standards, expand the size of our army, and speed up the production of various weapons and equipment to meet the combat needs of the expanded army!”As soon as the chief of staff said this, it immediately attracted everyone’s attention.
“you mean……”
Prime Minister Lloyd George raised his eyebrows, frowned at the Chief of Staff and asked
“We lost five battleships and two aircraft carriers in this naval battle. The strength of the Royal Navy has been greatly damaged. I think the Hans will probably take this opportunity to attack our homeland, so we must prepare as soon as possible to prevent the worst situation from happening!”
The chief of staff expressed his concerns without any reservation.
His words made the senior government officials in the conference room nervous.
Everyone understood what he meant: Hans was going to attack the British homeland!
“Although we have lost a lot of warships, with the current strength of the Royal Navy, can’t we protect the security of our homeland?”
Prime Minister Lloyd George was still reluctant to accept this reality. After all, since the fall of the Napoleonic Empire, they have never felt a direct threat from the European continent to their homeland!
When Gaul was strong, it once built a very large navy. They joined forces with Banya and concentrated more than 40 large warships in the Mediterranean, wanting to challenge the position of the British Empire as the overlord of the sea.
As a result, under the leadership of the legendary Admiral Nelson, the British Navy defeated the Franco-Spanish coalition in the Battle of Trafalgar and burned the enemy’s navy, making Napoleon’s idea of the British homeland come to nothing. Since then, the British Empire has been invincible in the confrontation with Napoleon, and with many allies, it has dragged the Gauls to death!
After the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, the British Empire has become more and more important to the countries on the European continent. They have been guarding against possible new challengers, especially Is a challenger who can bring them threats.
And for more than 100 years, except for the Second Empire more than a decade ago, no one can threaten them, even the Second Empire, and they are strangled! The success of the European balance of power strategy and the two-power standard of the Royal Navy have made the British Empire very confident in their powerful navy. They firmly believe that no one can defeat them at sea. With the navy, they can deter the entire European continent!
And now, a naval battle has shaken their foundation?
Everyone, including Prime Minister Lloyd George, can’t accept it. In their opinion, although the Royal Navy has suffered heavy losses, they still have the strength to fight. Their remaining fleet is not weak. Even if they can’t gain an absolute advantage over Hans like before, they can still be on par with Hans and maintain a balance, so as not to be defeated by Hans all at once, which will lead to Hans landing on their homeland!
“”Mr.
Prime Minister, please forgive me for being frank.
Although our remaining navy is indeed strong on paper and is still one of the most powerful navies in the world, our opponents may be much stronger than we thought before!
Perhaps we have always underestimated their strength.
Therefore, it is difficult for us to gain control of the sea and restrict the enemy’s maritime operations at present!
” The expression of the Chief of Staff was extremely serious.
He carefully collected all the information about this naval battle, including the photos taken by reporters from the Port of Kiel and the telegrams sent back by the Royal Navy when it was attacked.
After careful study, he discovered an astonishing fact: the Royal Navy had almost no ability to fight back in front of the German army!
From the photos taken by reporters from the Port of Kiel, he did not see any scars on the German warships.
Not only were there no scars on the Bismarck and Tirpitz, but also on the eight Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers behind. No!
This means that the British Navy lost five battleships and two aircraft carriers, but did not cause any damage to the enemy, let alone sinking a battleship, not even a cruiser or a destroyer!
This shocked the British Navy’s chief of staff, and at the same time, he was extremely scared!
Hans must have been equipped with some secret weapons, otherwise, why did Hans’s fleet suffer almost no losses, while they were completely destroyed?
Before figuring out how the Hans did it, the chief of staff felt that the Royal Navy must have been very good. If the navy sees the German fleet at sea in the future, it is best not to provoke them, but to stay away from these dangerous guys!
However, the Royal Navy’s warships can evade, but their native British Isles cannot be moved, so Hans’ navy is bound to pose a threat to their homeland!
At that time, they can drive directly to the long coastline of the British Isles and launch crazy artillery bombardments on the inland of the British Isles, and chase and attack merchant ships and transport ships leaving the British Isles on the sea, cutting off the British Isles’ channels for obtaining supplies from the outside world. , put a rope around the neck of the British Empire and strangle them little by little!
For an island nation, once they lose control of the sea, it is almost their doom!
Therefore, the Chief of Staff felt that they should immediately carry out a comprehensive war mobilization from now on, the sooner the better, otherwise it would be too late!
In fact, when the senior government officials of the British Empire were secretly meeting internally, the strangling operation against the British Empire had already begun in the vast Atlantic Ocean!
The submarine force led by Navy Commander Dönitz personally was the one who carried out this task!
In mid-January 1928, the army dispatched 120 submarines to ambush outside the busiest shipping lane in the North Atlantic. Using wolf pack tactics, they sank and damaged more than 100 ships of all sizes in just one week, leaving only one in ten ships in and out of the port of the British Empire. Among the ten ships, less than one could dock smoothly!
This news shocked the entire British Empire and caused panic in the British Empire!
Along with the panic, prices in the British Empire soared and supplies were in short supply!