Xiao Jianfeng also sent a telegram to the northwest as soon as the battle ended, and in order to help him solve the problem, the strategic bomber group almost took off, and now it stays in the hangar, and then returns to the northwest in the next few days.

After settling the combined fleet of Britain and France in one fell swoop, it seems that the situation in East Asia and even in Asia has become cheerful, and the great cause of China's reunification no longer worries about the constraints of Britain and France, and Hong Kong, the concessions located in various parts of China, and even some actions in the Indochina Peninsula and Southeast Asia can be carried out smoothly. To this end, the General Staff has made numerous preparations, and now, it is to make these preparations a reality, and a series of almost, will be rolled out with it.

The war report was not only reported to the northwest, but also across the entire hemisphere, to Germany on the other side of the world, the Admiralty was jubilant, Schell's appearance was perfect and amazing, just 9 former dreadnoughts as sacrifices, the British and French maritime forces in Asia were swept away, which was very obvious for Germany and China, the strategic intention was very obvious, not only Borneo, but also other places, the Dutch could no longer resist the footsteps of the Chinese, even Malacca was very likely to go down.

When the news came back to Britain, it was a wail, they couldn't believe this fact, at first it was just some peripheral news, specious, and the reliability was very poor, but those who were lucky enough to escape the battleships that escaped their lives in the pit dug by the Northwest and Scheer fleets, after escaping the battlefield, ran back to Singapore without looking back, and replied to the British mainland as quickly as possible, and the news was confirmed.

The East Asian Fleet helped the Netherlands, the Admiralty and the Intelligence Service were aware. The small actions of the Northwest in Southeast Asia have not been clearly exposed. Everyone knew that they helped the Netherlands stabilize Southeast Asia. Adding blockage to the Chinese is an established strategy, especially at the moment when the Chinese are eyeing Hong Kong, give them some color.

When they set out on the expedition, everyone was full of confidence, and the combined fleets of Britain and France at that time could sweep almost the whole of East Asia, and they all guessed the beginning, but not the end, and a battle was fought. I don't know where the German fleet came out of nowhere, and the combined fleets of the two countries were all wrapped up at once, and the sea forces of Southeast Asia were empty.

In Pontianak and Singapore, there are still one or twenty warships, but these warships combined, they may not have a large displacement of one super dreadnought, and the combat effectiveness is even more different. The plan for intervention in Southeast Asia, which had been carefully prepared, all at once. If it is turned upside down, the situation in the whole of Asia will collapse, and a powerful task force will almost sweep the whole of Asia. Not to mention that Hong Kong can't hold it, even Malacca, even India will be a problem.

What to do. All the people who got the battle report panicked for a while. For the first time, Britain found itself full of holes. The destruction of a fleet affected the situation in Asia. The most important thing is that the capital ship, where did it come from, the news sent back, one is 6, the other is 3, the intelligence department spent a lot of effort, asked the surviving sailors in detail, let them recall as much as possible, and got a shocking answer, there are a total of 9 super dreadnought-class warships, as well as many heavy cruisers, mounted cruisers, destroyers and the like, in Asia is a huge warship, the total tonnage may exceed 500,000 tons.

500,000 tons, which was a few years ago, may be the world's top three displacement, even now, this tonnage is enough to make the first power of the Navy moved, the Admiralty thought that it was the home fleet and the fast fleet that were not well defended, so that the German home fleet ran to Asia, in this way, the German mainland is a little empty, maybe Britain can get a little cheap, the surviving highest-ranking officer, the captain of a light cruiser, the deputy captain of the cruiser formation Charlie, made everyone nervous.

Charlie, as a naval officer at the rank of colonel, is one of the few people who has come into contact with the photos and models of German battleships, although the internal structure, because of the secrecy, it is impossible to get it, and the appearance of this, as long as the battleship goes out, there is no way to Bomi, the intelligence department will first take photos, and then draw drawings for some major naval officers to see, mainly to identify the identity of the other party, and by the way, use different methods reasonably in the battle.

Unlike most of the German warships, it was just that it was not clear in the telegram that the officer's painting skills had a certain foundation, and this battle, for him, was deeply impressed, especially the cannon that sank an 8,000-ton patrol next to him, which was deeply memorable, as if engraved in his mind.

The detailed drawings will be shipped back to London after a month for archival study by the intelligence services. The approximate basic structure was transmitted back by telegram, as a naval officer, he did not understand shipbuilding, but the style of the armor belt, the appearance of the whole ship, the approximate width, length, and the number and location of the main guns could be transmitted by telegram.

The British Admiralty and the Naval Research Institute had been waiting for this information, and when the more detailed telegram came back, several senior warship designers began to draw and calculate on the drawings, and after some efforts, the rough renderings came out.

The size or something, are estimates, the estimated difference is not too big, when the data is listed, everyone is stunned, 15-inch naval guns, 10 guns, twin 5 batteries, knapsack design, there are 10 guns on the same side, the speed is extremely high, it is suspected that more than 24 knots, the size is also quite large, narrow-body hull. Rigid data, in front of senior designers, can be immediately reversed, and finally form a more rigorous number, but how to push back, this size, is difficult to achieve.

Whether the naval officer had misremembered, or whether their calculations were wrong, no one could answer. The Minister of the Navy was a little anxious, slapped the table, and asked them to calculate the highest and lowest according to what was possible, and when the results were in front of him, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, the full load displacement exceeded 42,000 tons, which was the lowest, 10 doors and 14 inches, reduced armor, and the speed was also maintained at about 23 knots, which was much smaller than the number burst by the officer, and the lowest was already more than 42,000 tons, and the highest, even reached 47,000 tons.

It can be said that basically all the battleships that Britain has built, and even the Queen Elizabeth class that is being built and has high hopes for the British, which is known as the perfect combination of speed and protection, and the perfect class battleship, compared to this ship, it is even a little inferior, and the full load displacement will not exceed 30,000 tons, which is a difference of more than 10,000 tons, which is naturally crushed.

How is this possible? Not only the Secretary of the Navy said this, but so did everyone who qualified to come here, including the senior designers. The chief battleship designer sighed and said, "If according to the officer, the minimum is also this number?" ”

What he is referring to is which one is the lowest, but he is more inclined to approach the 50,000-ton one, which one is the lowest, basically, a lot of data are fantasy, although it seems reasonable, but the designer knows very well that this is almost impossible to achieve, and then 50,000 tons, higher than the Queen Elizabeth level, but it is not particularly abrupt, basically an acceptable appearance

Out of self-esteem, he didn't say it, Britain's battleship strength has always been above Germany, and now Germany suddenly has such 9 first-class battleships, what the hell is going on.

"Could it be a fabrication?" An Admiralty official put forward such a possibility, but it was quickly vetoed, the fleet of the British and French forces, in less than one and a half hours, all sunk, this is a fact, if you want to make it up, you need to buy a fleet, whether it is the British army or the French army, involving tens of thousands of people, this is almost an impossible thing to do, and then the seats are high-ranking officials, I believe that even if the probability of the British Prime Minister being bought is 90%, but the possibility of buying a whole fleet of tens of thousands of people, this possibility is still almost none, there are too many people, It's too complicated, it's so difficult, and it doesn't make sense yet.

This proves that this thing really happened, and it can sink dozens of ships, including a large number of ships and former dreadnoughts, within an hour and a half, although the appearance of dreadnoughts has announced the complete withdrawal of the dreadnoughts, but it does not mean that the dreadnoughts can quickly sink the dreadnoughts, the dreadnoughts have improved the artillery structure and aiming, and the improvement of the armor is relatively limited, that is to say, the protection of the dreadnoughts is also about the same level, under the same number of circumstances, Victory is no problem, and it can be sunk slowly, but the speed is limited to one and a half hours, no matter how naval experts calculate, it will take at least 13-15 capital ships, and it is possible to act together with various other types of ships.

There are a lot of people who escaped, spread across 12 ships, and there are more than 1,000 people, and most of them don't remember much, but after summarizing the reports of so many people, especially some of the statements on the volume, the attack ships at that time were restored, and there were a total of 9 capital ships super dreadnought, more than a dozen heavy cruisers, and many cruisers and destroyers, I am afraid that there were not seventy or eighty ships.

It was a fully functional and large fleet, and most importantly, the appearance of all the warships in this fleet did not exist in the descriptions of German warships in British intelligence.

The meaning of this representation, not to mention the Minister of the Navy, is clear in his heart, anyone who knows something about the British and German naval backgrounds is clear, in 1914, the German side, battleships and battle cruisers combined, a total of 18 ships, the British side is 29 ships, 11 ships advantage, so that the British Navy pressed the German fleet in the Baltic Sea, the powerful German high seas fleet, just became an inland sea fleet, there was nothing to do at all,

But now, with the addition of such a fleet, Germany is only one ship behind Britain in terms of capital ships, and in terms of strength, there will even be a situation in which Germany has the upper hand, how did such a huge fleet be manufactured, and what means did Germany use to keep this secret? If you don't figure this out, the British will definitely have trouble sleeping. (To be continued.) )