"Do you understand? When Vice Admiral Jeram and Rear Admiral Hood's fleet converged, our fleet successfully used the background cover to get close to the German fleet, and in the case of 8 to 7, we had the advantage of being the first move, and it was true that our fleet was still weaker than our opponents, but after a slight adjustment by the opponent, it took less than 45 minutes to take out three of our battleships, two of which were super dreadnought battlecruisers. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info to describe it by chopping melons and vegetables, it is not too much at all! Jericho didn't target anyone, subjectively, didn't intend to speak for Betty, and didn't intend to question Fisher about some of his practices. Just stating a fact.

"Thinking of the result of a draw between our most elite Queen Elizabeth-class battleships and the second-rate battleships of the Germans, I think that in the future, the warship design of the Royal Navy will be changed, and it will be overhauled!" Jericho stated his purpose.

"And what about your opinion?" Churchill asked.

"In a short time, it is too late to design a new battleship, we must make up for the lack of the fleet now, especially the fast battleships, I think the new prestige and counterattack are equipped with 15-inch guns, but the battleship with insufficient armor protection is not necessary, if we can, I think we should put all the other slipways, funds and manpower on the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, which is the only battleship we can compete with the German fleet at the moment." Jericho said.

As the commander of the Grand Fleet, Jericho knows that what is most needed at present is to solve the current crisis, not to hold him accountable, of course, as a commander who is supported by his subordinates, he also has a limit, Betty's own judgment is indeed wrong, and the division of troops is a black cauldron that cannot be erased, so if Betty is transferred to other unimportant positions, Jericho accepts this.

But others? Whether it is Betty's subordinate Rear Admiral Moore, or Lieutenant General Jeram or Major General Hood, they are not responsible, and if the Admiralty wants to let them take the blame, Jericho will definitely not agree! As a good boss, if you can't administer justice to your subordinates, what kind of boss should you be?

"The new queens are still some time away from service, probably more than half a year. The eighth Queen Elizabeth-class battleship may not be in service until 1 year later, and the vacuum of our forces is too long. It's just unbearable. Churchill said.

What Churchill said is not the vacuum period of the overall strength of the British Empire's Grand Fleet, although this time it was a little injured to be killed 6 capital ships at once, but it is not a pain in the bones for the huge battleship detachment of the Grand Fleet, in addition to the still huge number of battleships, the other three Revenge-class battleships equipped with 15-inch heavy guns are also stepping up their suits, the third will be in service next month, and the fifth will be in service in five months, if the High Seas Fleet and the Grand Fleet are dead, then there is no chance of victory.

Churchill was worried about the replenishment of fast warships, and the heavy losses of Betty's fleet had a great problem with the original strategy of the British Navy, and even if the four Queen Elizabeth-class battleships returned, plus the remaining two battlecruisers of the Tiger and Moore, it would still not be able to restore the original force deployment.

The original deployment was the Grand Fleet in the Shetland Islands in the north, Betty's battle cruisers in the middle, and the Channel Fleet and Harwich Fleet in the south. The three fleets would have formed a very tight blockade network, but now? The middle link is destroyed, and what if the queens return? The combination of 4 queens and 3 battlecruisers still could not defeat the German fleet of 6 Bavaria and 1 Helgeland ...... this time. The record may be better, but it doesn't ...... much use.

If the British fast battleships really wanted to suppress the most elite Bavarian detachment in Germany, there would be no 8 queens to talk about! But the problem now is that the British fleet replenishment speed has reached the limit, 3 Queen and 3 Vengeance-class ships are under construction, and the battleships that were originally intended to be sold to Chile have been collected into the Grand Fleet.

"I'll convince the Council to increase the appropriation in order to quickly complete the remaining Queen and Vengeance-class battleships, so what about the new first-tier ships? Do you have any suggestions? Churchill asked.

"Our battleships should use a new power system, compared with the small water-tube boilers used by the Germans, the efficiency of the **** furnace is too low, the same battle cruiser, the speed of both sides is almost a level, and we actually have hundreds of tons of power weight more than them." Jericho said.

"Although the small water-tube boiler is more efficient, it is more troublesome to maintain, our warships need to cruise around the world, unlike the Germans, they only use the North Sea, in fact, the Germans in the Indian Ocean Scharnhorst-class battleships also use ordinary boilers, not small water-tube boilers." Sir Fisher, who had been depressed, said.

Didn't the British have a small tube boiler? Maybe it was a late ship, but if you want to say that a first-rate power with a deep accumulation can't get the power system of the NB, it's impossible, and everything as complex as a steam turbine was first made by the British, then the American Parsons, and then the German Bremen. To say that the British couldn't make a suitable boiler is obvious nonsense.

In fact, if you look at the prestige, 42 boilers are only 90,000 horsepower, and Hood's 24 boilers have 150,000 horsepower. In addition, the full name of the German small water tube boiler is Schulz-Sannik Rovt type small water tube boiler, and Sannik Rovt is the ...... of the British company. So everyone understands .......

And Fisher's delay in letting the water-tube boiler on the ship, on the one hand, there are indeed cognitive problems, on the other hand, the water-tube boiler has to replace the water pipe frequently, this maintenance is too difficult, the German fleet nests in the North Sea all day long, and the speed of the former dreadnoughts in history does not drop much when the war starts, and the loss of the boiler is naturally not large, but what about the British? Battleships ran all over the world, concentrating on the North Sea to block the high seas fleet, that was a later thing, when Fisher came to power, Britain was still ready to engage various potential opponents, and naturally had to consider the reliability and stability of the power system.

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