Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1038 Casablanca

Mike Arthur smiled disapprovingly, "I heard that the two Chinese fleets are about to return, and their military strength in Hawaii will be weakened. I really don't understand why the idiots in the navy don't take this opportunity to counterattack Hawaii and take back the United States. Lost land!"

"Maybe I'm afraid of being beaten by the Chinese," Mitchell suddenly narrowed his eyes, and said to Mike Arthur meaningfully: "Do you think that even if our main naval force is all out, we can defeat the Chinese fleet? China, it's terrible, just relying on a Pacific Fleet to make the great Uncle Sam fail one after another, we must not forget that China's most powerful fleet is not the Pacific but the Atlantic Fleet, and that fleet is waiting in the Arabian Sea Looking at Europe, when the US-China war broke out, they didn’t even bring in a single warship.”

Mike Arthur sneered: "No matter how powerful a warship is, it can only be the overlord of the sea. The final decision of the war rests with the army. I believe we are ready to teach the Chinese a lesson!"

On March 1920, 3, outside the most luxurious Garcia Hotel in Casablanca on the seashore, there was a scene like an enemy: a cordon of sandbags and barbed wire, armored vehicles with machine guns, gendarmerie with dogs, Mobile anti-aircraft guns mounted on trucks, and ships cruising back and forth on the sea.

With such a big fight, there must be something unusual here.

That's right, on this day, the leaders or representatives of the European and American allies will gather together to discuss how to deal with the "evil alliance" formed by the Commonwealth of China, Germany, and Italy and the future distribution of world interests.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Sir John Fisher, one of his most powerful cabinet ministers, got out of the car first, and under the protection of MI[-] bodyguards, they stepped proudly into the magnificent main hall of the Garcia Hotel.

The most proud is the youngest cabinet minister in the history of the British Empire, Sir Fisher, who was only 33 years old when he joined the cabinet and is now 41 years old.Just yesterday, he personally signed and published a Royal Navy battle report. The Royal Navy aircraft carrier force raided the port of Kiel with a large formation carrier-based aircraft group. The Navy's dreadnought battleships destroyed and shot down 40 German aircraft. None damaged.

This explosive news quickly spread across the world through radio waves, and it is bound to greatly boost the momentum of the European and American sides and severely damage the morale of the "evil alliance".

After the Second World War, the two major economies of Germany and Italy were infiltrated and controlled by China year after year and day after day. It sounds good to say that they are allies. In fact, many countries think that these two great European countries in history The country has become a puppet of China. After China launched the world-renowned expansion plan in Asia, the two countries played an important role as bridgeheads to restrain the British and French countries in Europe, and served as China's strategic supply base, providing a large number of military After the Sino-US war broke out, the Chinese navy was invincible. It not only launched an unprecedented attack on the US military in the Pacific region, but also severely defeated the Far East United Fleet composed of Britain, France and other countries. Britain, France and other countries became actual military opponents with China. Italy and the two countries have also become their biggest thorns in Europe.

The warships of the two sides were frequently mobilized and entered a state of war one after another. Just yesterday, the British Royal Navy launched a sudden military raid on the German Navy, and finally washed away the shame of being defeated by China from the Germans.

Although the German side soon released its own battle report, claiming that it had "thwarted" the Royal Navy's air attack and shot down 54 British aircraft. It only sank two old battleships and damaged two old battleships, and lost more than 20 aircraft. Knowing that British newspapers will publish photos of the battlefield taken from the air at the end of the attack, readers will easily see that the German battle report is just taking off their pants and farting, deceiving themselves and others.

In fact, from the perspective of Zhuge Liang in hindsight, it cannot be said that there is no water in the Royal Navy's battle reports.

According to the German Navy’s internal report published after the war, the details of the German Navy’s losses on the day of the attack are as follows: No. 8 Battleship Squadron 1 Squadron, No. 22 ship "Ostfriesland" was hit by a mine on the port side and sank; The mine in the "Folgolan" was tilted at 7 degrees, and the boiler was severely damaged; the mine body in the "Goldenburg" was flooded; the mine in the "Vincent" had more water in it, and it was severely damaged; The mine furnace compartment of the "Yinlan" flooded and was severely damaged; the deck of the "Nassau" was flooded and sat on the bottom;The [-]th Squadron of the [-]rd Battleship Squadron, the starboard side of the "King Albert" was heavily tilted by ten degrees and flooded; the deck of the "Louis Pod Regent" was flooded and sat on the bottom.

Ten battleships were hit by a total of 36 torpedoes, 4 were capsized and bottomed, 1 battlecruiser "Derfflinger" in the dock was severely damaged, and [-] battleship "Crown Prince" still on the berth was hit by multiple bombs. The bomb hit and caught fire. Although no muscle was injured, the construction period had to be delayed by more than three months.

飞机的损失为：基尔基地航空队27架飞机被击毁在地面，海德基地航空队25架战斗机中12架报废；韦斯特兰基地航空队的20架机中3架被击落、2架降落时坠毁。

From this point of view, although there is water, compared with the soaked sponge in Germany, the internal report is much more objective.

It is reasonable to speculate that when the battle came to an end, under the threat of German fighter jets rushing around for reinforcements, it should be reasonable for the panicked British pilots to regard the enemy ship that had been swaying or the deck was close to the waterline as "sunken".

至于英国方面宣称地“仅损失少数飞机”，大舰队司令官杰利科上将提交给费希尔的战役报告中详细罗列了以下数字：第一攻击波：出动9航着舰69架，补充攻击波：出动2航回收9架。第二攻击波：出动8航着舰4队附近着水5架。返航着舰或回收舰队附近着水9架，战斗机击机斗损失、故障损失、迫降敌境或中立国合计8架，攻击机和水上轰炸机6架，自然损失率达40.00%三，失踪飞行员自然损失率达40.00%八。

If it is said that 50.00% can be called a "majority", under this strict definition, it is reasonable to call such a loss a "minority", but it is a serious tendency to play on words if you have to add "natural" in front , You can’t say he’s a liar, it’s just that he’s a little unkind. In fact, this level of unkindness in war is so kind that it can’t be any more kind.

A neutral country newspaper wrote: "Two months after the Pearl Harbor incident shocked the world, the German Empire, the most important ally of the Chinese Empire, was used by the enemy British in a similar way, and the conditions were even more difficult in various aspects. Under such circumstances, a sufficiently brilliant result has been achieved, which makes people laugh and cry."

"Fisher, we seem to have come early?" Churchill pulled Fisher out of his memory at once.

"Yes, sir, but isn't that a matter of course?"

"Really?" Churchill blinked, pretending not to understand.

"Because we are the de facto host." Fisher shrugged easily.

Churchill exaggeratedly raised his index finger to his mouth, "Don't let the French hear this."

"What about the Americans?"

"It's okay, anyway, it's not Americans who cook for us." Churchill said with a playful smile.

Fisher shrank his neck and spread his hands: "If our merchant ships continue to suffer losses in the Pacific Ocean like the previous two months, if we lose the food sources in India and Australia, one day we will have to rely on the Americans for food. for a living."

Since China announced the launch of unrestricted submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean, Britain and France have lost 20 tons of merchant ships this month alone, including being sunk by enemy submarines and surface ships and sinking by mines. It is estimated that the total loss has further increased. , and a considerable number of ships were damaged and urgently needed to be repaired.In the past two months, 20 of the merchant ships in each port of the United Kingdom could no longer return, and at the same time lost the precious materials carried by these ships. Demand for various strategic materials.The British leadership, including Churchill, felt great pressure.

In addition to hoping that the U.S. Merchant Marine Fleet, the second largest in the world in terms of gross tonnage, can replace the lost shipping capacity of the British side as soon as possible, Churchill plans to urge the U.S. to send small ships to assist the U.K. in anti-submarine warfare at this meeting. Not only that, he also fought The idea of ​​an American battleship.

After the South China Sea War, Britain and France lost their sea dominance in the South Pacific and even the Indian Ocean. In front of Australia's advancing dragon army, India has long been included in the Great Federation of China. One of the keys to prosperity, the rich resources of the two places are even more indispensable in this war that has clearly shown the tendency of protracted war.

Churchill understood that defending or capturing two important points in opposite directions at the same time was far beyond the capabilities of the British Empire, especially after the combined Far East Fleet with the British Navy at its core was severely damaged.

Although 15 dreadnought battleships of the German Atlantic Fleet were sunk and damaged through the miraculous aerial attack, and 2 dreadnoughts under construction were also damaged, but with Germany's ship repair capabilities, it is estimated that the port will be severely damaged within half a year. Of the 4 battleships that were sunk, the 6 that were sitting on the bottom may be recovered and repaired within a year. According to the German shipbuilding information collected from various sources, it is estimated that 4 battleships and 2 battleships will be completed within the year. battlecruisers, which means that the German Atlantic Fleet can be restored to the level of 3 dreadnought battleships and 15 battlecruisers within the year.

On this premise, the British Atlantic Fleet currently has 27 dreadnought battleships, and at least one battle cruiser and four battleships must be drawn from other theaters to ensure a "sufficient" advantage over the German Atlantic Fleet.Even with the addition of the forces of France and the Netherlands, the expected basic force in the Pacific is not what it used to be. Compared with the strong lineup of China's Pacific Fleet, the chances of winning are obviously slim.

But if the U.S. Navy joins in.

(End of this chapter)