nashuaworldcup Chapter 184 The Royal Navy was deceived
Chapter 184 The Royal Navy was deceived
"The World War has been going on for three years! Haven't you seen clearly? The Talen Empire no longer has the strength to fight two against one! Maintaining a double numerical advantage over the Drakes is simply not worth the cost. The Battle of the North Sea proved that our battleships are not as good as we thought. It is very difficult to sink a Drake battleship, while the Drake battleships can easily damage or sink us. It is time for the Royal Navy to make a change. If it continues to guide and rebuild the fleet with the principle of two powers, the wealth accumulated in the Talen Empire's treasury for hundreds of years will be consumed. Even if we defeat the Drakes, the empire will collapse!" Major General Joshua's words were deafening.
"Major General Joshua, I partially agree with what you said, but unfortunately, we can't turn back! The Royal Navy is a giant ship, and it is not easy to adjust its direction!" Art is a cold-blooded man, but he is also pragmatic about his work. With his many years of experience, he may not be able to see the reason for the Royal Navy's failure, but the same thing goes, the Kingdom of Tarun has reached this point, and there is little room for change for Art to make.
"Don't rush to refute me! The Empire's technological accumulation is enough for us to design and build warships comparable to the Drak Empire's battleships, but so what? Do we still have time? The speed at which new warships are launched and put into service is far slower than warships launched and put into service with mature technology! Moreover, what about the dozen battleships in the Grand Fleet that have problems with their protection? Should we upgrade them all on the slipway or one by one? Are we going to weaken our own strength so that the Drak people can attack us?"
Rear Admiral Joshua wanted to refute the words of the Navy Minister, but after thinking carefully, he found that what Art said was true. How despairing! Can the Royal Navy only run on the wrong path?
Art took a sip of coffee and continued, "Gentlemen, the Allied maritime situation is as bad as it can be. In the Far East and the Bolivian Ocean, the Drakes still have three raiding ships and a battlecruiser. In German East and West Africa, a battlecruiser can make us run around in circles. In the Atlantic, countless Drakes' black fish are lurking, and no one knows when they will come out to bite us."
Jefferson personally marked the enemy and our own situation on the world map. The dense red dots of the enemy made the generals of the Royal Navy ashamed. Joshua sat down with a red face. He was too embarrassed to speak anymore. He had not finished speaking, which made them feel uneasy.
"In the Mediterranean, the Allies have one battlecruiser and four Combined Force-class battleships; in the North Sea, the Drakes have seventeen battleships and five battlecruisers! In their shipyards, they also have one Sachsen-class, four Byrd-class battleships, three Mackensen-class, and one Derfflinger-class battlecruiser, a total of nine battleships! Isn't that terrifying?" Art loudly informed them of the dire situation at sea.
"Perhaps you will naively believe that by August, all the warships that have been sent back to the factory for overhaul will be back in service, the strength of the Royal Navy will be restored to 8 ships, and several battleships on the slipway will be launched one after another. We are able to maintain the current situation!"
"If you think so, you are totally wrong. Hasn't the Battle of the North Sea knocked down your blind confidence? Huh?!" Art shouted angrily at everyone and then announced a bad news.
"According to the top-secret information obtained by our intelligence personnel lurking in the Kingdom of Itli, the Drakes are about to launch a new type of warship, and there may be three of them. Although the intelligence personnel have sent us the news of a new type of large light cruiser, I don't believe that a light cruiser would be top secret!" Art said self-deprecatingly.
"Indeed, Leo is good at deceiving us, and we have been fooled many times!" As an experienced officer, Major General Joshua clearly knew that the Grand Fleet was now seriously lacking in mobile forces and reconnaissance forces, and the First Battle Patrol Squadron could no longer stop any action of Drake's First Reconnaissance Fleet. Compared to the navy's high-ranking officers who were worried about the imbalance of power between the two sides, Joshua was more concerned about whether the three new warships would be incorporated into the sequence of Drake's First Reconnaissance Fleet.
"The information obtained by the Iteli people is not complete. Our intelligence personnel have worked hard and can only get a few words. The new battleship of the Drak people should be a battleship equipped with 420mm main guns or 380mm main guns and weighing about tons. In order to fool us, the Drak people actually called it a large light cruiser. They are taking us for fools!"
Art glanced at everyone with a cold gaze, and his voice rose several degrees again, shouting angrily: "So now is not the time to consider what route the Royal Navy will take. The Ocean Fleet may come to our door at any time, and our sea transportation lines may also be cut off by the Drakes. You all know the importance of transportation lines to the three islands of Talen! As a member of the Royal Navy, it is your responsibility to save Talen! From now on, in order to have the strength to defend our homeland and transportation lines, we will focus on building warships! The speed of shipbuilding must be faster than when we were in the military competition with the Drakes!"
The Iteli Kingdom's Foreign Minister Ciano only overheard some false news at the grand cocktail party, but the naive and imaginative Iteli Kingdom's naval attaché to Platinum hurried back to the embassy and wrote everything down on paper. The Iteli people certainly did not believe the Dela people's description of the new battleship as a large light cruiser. They described this unnamed battleship as a new battlecruiser and sent it back to their homeland overnight via encrypted code.
The Eteli Navy is very eager to study new technologies and tactics. Their designers have designed many warships with unique concepts, but the industry is not strong enough, so the Eteli warships are always inferior to those of Talen and Drake. When the intelligence was transmitted back to the mainland, the Eteli Navy studied it and believed that the intelligence was very valuable, so it was classified as top secret.
The top secrets of the Iteli people were information that others could easily obtain. Of course, it was not ruled out that the Iteli people had never thought of keeping this secret. In the shortest possible time, the Talen Navy Intelligence Department learned the information, and then the powerful countries such as the Fran Republic and the Yemelica Republic also knew the content. Instead, the people of Drak finally read the news from newspapers in several countries.
Of course, Emperor Draco eventually learned the news. He thought that this was a new shipbuilding plan that the navy had come up with with the huge funding, and he summoned the officials in charge of naval shipbuilding to the palace for questioning with great interest. Since the warship had not yet been launched, there must be a model, and the emperor's model room needed new warship models.