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Chapter 900
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East, the capital of Jiaoben is shocked.
In the past few days, Jiaoben has been silent. There are very few pedestrians on the street. Occasionally, a few people passing by are in a hurry, with their heads down and hurrying on their way, without saying a word.
This is not only the case among the people, but also the government. It seems that the people of Jiaoben can’t speak overnight, and they have become dumb one by one! The main reason for this is the disastrous defeat four days ago!
The combined fleet, which has condensed the efforts of several generations of Jiaoben people, was completely destroyed in the Battle of Bermuda. This huge defeat made Jiaoben country gloomy. From the common people to the Prime Minister Tianhuang, everyone’s face was decadent and frustrated.
This is probably the first time that Jiaoben has suffered such a disastrous defeat since the Meiji Restoration! After the Meiji
Restoration, Jiaoben participated in four relatively large-scale wars, namely the Sino-Japanese War, the Eight-Power Allied Forces’ invasion of China, the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War!
In these four wars, the Japanese navy was fully deployed four times, and none of them were defeated, ending these wars with a complete victory!
In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese defeated the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty, a powerful rival in the Far East, thus establishing their position as regional hegemons.
In the Eight-Power Allied Forces’ invasion of China, the Japanese sent a large number of naval and troop transport ships to transport the army to land and participate in the war. In the
Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese navy fought the famous Battle of Tsushima in the history of naval warfare, which established the status of the Japanese navy as a world power.
In the First World War, the Japanese navy not only sent troops to expel the Far East Fleet of the Second Empire and seized strategic locations such as Jiaozhou Bay occupied by the German army, but also sent the navy into the Mediterranean and even the Atlantic to participate in the escort operations of the Allies when the situation in Europe was in a stalemate.
Due to the location of the Japanese navy, they must have a navy to go abroad, so their navy developed extremely rapidly after the Mingzhi Reform.
From 1874 to now, in more than 50 years, the Foot Basin Navy has grown from nothing to something, from weak to strong, from not being ranked in the world to the third in the world now. This huge progress not only makes the Foot Basin citizens feel proud and proud, but also the gradual growth of their navy has brought them huge benefits and benefits.
Whether it is the invasion and annexation of the Korean Peninsula, or the forcible occupation of the Celestial Empire’s Daiwan Island, and then the blockade of the Celestial Empire’s coastline, the invasion of the Celestial Empire, and the subsequent expansion in the Pacific Ocean, taking advantage of the opportunity of the US military’s focus on the mainland to occupy a large number of islands in the Pacific Ocean!
These are all achieved by relying on their own powerful navy. If there is no joint fleet to support them, the Foot Basin obviously does not have such capabilities!
Therefore, the Joint Fleet is of great significance to the Foot Basin, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the Optimus Prime of the Foot Basin!
However, this Optimus Prime collapsed in four days!
The failure of a naval battle turned the hard work of several generations of Foot Basin people into nothing!
Not only did they lose their fleet, but more than 50,000 soldiers died and disappeared, and the entire fleet was almost wiped out!
Such a huge blow made the Foot Basin wailing. Because the loss was too great, the Foot Basin people were unwilling to even discuss it, just like an ostrich burying its head in the sand. It seemed that as long as they didn’t discuss it, it didn’t exist!
But today, this situation has changed!
Although the Combined Fleet did not come back to life, they found another person who shared the same suffering!
Now, the Foot Basin people will not only feel miserable, they can also laugh at others!
“Your Majesty, the Pacific Fleet of the Eagle Sauce was completely annihilated by the German army in the Battle of Bermuda Islands. The entire fleet, from Halsey on down, was almost completely destroyed!”
Navy Minister Suzuki Kantaro said with gloating!
When the Combined Fleet was completely wiped out before, the Eagle Sauce and the British Empire mocked them a lot, especially the British
Empire who had a grudge against them! Although the British Empire’s navy suffered heavy losses in Europe, with only one in ten surviving, they had a large number of overseas colonies. Colonies like Southern Philippines, Australia and the Maple Leaf Country all had their own navies.
The British Empire used to ignore the navies of these countries. In their opinion, these countries put together were not the opponents of their Combined Fleet.
That’s why they laughed at the British Empire so unscrupulously, laughing at the ocean overlord that once dominated the world!
However, when their proud Combined Fleet sank to the bottom of the sea and became history, these second-rate and even As for the third-rate navy, the threat to them was immediately multiplied!
After the loss of the Combined Fleet, the navy of the foot basin has been reduced to the size of a near-shore navy.
In order to deter the Eagle Sauce and the British Empire, and to show their strength to the international community, when sending the Combined Fleet, the foot basin swelled up its face and sent almost all of its main battleships and cutting-edge battleships!
The result is that once the Combined Fleet was destroyed, the navy of the foot basin immediately regressed thirty years!
There are only some destroyers, cruisers and some old battleships left in their country, such as the old ships that participated in the Russo-Japanese War or even the Sino-Japanese War!
The performance of this kind of battleship is already lagging behind this era in all aspects. This kind of battleships in European countries were almost eliminated before and after World War I. Not many!
Even the defeated country Germany and Italy sank more than a dozen old battleships in the Atlantic in 1919.
For European countries, these battleships are just a burden and cannot form any combat effectiveness at all, so instead of preserving them, it is better to sell them as scrap metal or simply sink them! As for the foot basin, because of its relatively shallow financial resources and the scarcity of domestic steel, it is reluctant to dismantle or sink these battleships.
Moreover, most of these battleships are well-known meritorious battleships in the foot basin, so the Japanese army preserved these battleships after retirement, and prepared to slowly dismantle and recycle the steel on them to reduce losses!
At this time, when the Combined Fleet was completely destroyed, the foot basin immediately stopped the dismantling work and began to reconsider the use of These warships were prepared to use these old ships as a facade, at least to organize a fleet that could protect themselves.
However, how much effect these old ships could still play when facing the fleets of these colonies of the British Empire, I am afraid that the foot basin people dare not even think about it!
What’s more, their main opponent in the Pacific is not the British Empire, but the Eagle Sauce people on the other side!
If their combined fleet was completely destroyed, but the Eagle Sauce fleet was preserved, then let alone coveting Eagle Sauce’s Hawaii, even the islands they have occupied now may not be able to be saved!