Chapter 2504: Summary meeting after the war

Since the South China Fleet’s aid troops were killed in the posture of a fresh force, and Baipi had already been exhausted and nearly exhausted, and had not had time to supply and repair, it was a one-sided ending to the fresh force.

Eighty-four enemy battleships participated in the battle, and three were sunk. A full twenty-seven were captured. After this record was created, there was no new record to refresh it.

Spain and Portugal became big losers. Except for one or two escaped ships, the rest were captured or sunk. In particular, two of Spain’s four Tier 1 battleships were captured and two were maimed (these two escaped). After a catastrophe), the Portuguese navy lost its pants, and two first-class battleships were captured, including the commander Admiral Ermengad Asper!

Only a few battleships in Britain and the Netherlands were captured, so that conspiracy theories prevailed: "That is, the two Protestant countries, the British and Dutch, betrayed the Catholic countries. They colluded with the Chinese and ruined the Catholic fleets of Spain, Portugal, and France! "

The Catholic country and the Protestant country quarreled, resulting in a split. Even if both the Catholic country and the Protestant country were taken away by the South China Empire, the Catholic country still had a grudge, thinking that the Protestant country had not negotiated a deal with the Chinese...

"We have a hundred battleships participating in the battle, five were sunk, and 37 battleships have lost combat capability!" Admiral Cabot said bitterly.

Now all the senior generals and high-level ginsengers are gathered in the conference room of the "Shandong" for meetings, and the atmosphere on the scene is tense.

It is a fine tradition of the South China Army to hold a summary meeting after the war. It sums up good experience and finds out the reason for the failure, and will not commit it again in the future.

At the meeting, everyone said one thing, to find the root of the problem,

Everyone has a report of the previous war, which has just been printed!

One of the service ships of the South China Fleet carried printing tools and was able to print a large number of documents and reports.

Admiral Cabot gave a report. He told about the battle between him and Baipi. From the analysis of the enemy and our forces before the war, our fleet has 100 battleships, and there are only four first-class battleships. They are powerful!

The number of white-skin battleships on Yishang is 84, and they are the newly defeated divisions. Our army has the advantage and can be defeated by the white-skinned battleships.

1672 people were killed (including missing) and more than 5,800 injured!

Almost one-tenth of the dead and injured, a record.

This battle was very frustrating and frustrated. Everyone said that our Imperial Navy was the first class member of the South China Army. After fighting like this, we couldn't hold our heads up in front of the Army and Marines.

If it weren't for Mr. David to arrive in time and make a ruthless comeback, I'm afraid the South China Navy in this battle will be extremely depressed and must use a lot of blood to wash away the shame.

Admiral Cabot analyzed the reasons for the defeat. The fundamental reason was that he turned too fast when he sent the fleet to make a sharp turn, causing many battleships to encounter the impact of ocean currents and lose control.

He remorsefully said: "I am too eager to advance, in fact, with the strength of our one hundred battleships, to fight steadily and steadily, that is sure to win!"

"So, I have to take full responsibility for the reason for this defeat!" Admiral Cabot admitted frankly.

Then the officers spoke, and they all said that after carrying out the order of Admiral Cabot, the battleship was out of control after being hit by the ocean currents. This was the main reason!

This is not to put things down, but to restore the truth.

David first showed the local ocean current map, and the latest version of Sicily's surrounding sea area actually marked the ocean current!

When it comes to the strength of the South China Empire’s intelligence services, it is terrifying to list the ocean currents, monsoons, and the distribution of reefs in the surrounding waters of many important places.

However, the ocean current indicated on the sea area map is considered to be relatively mild, and the officers testified that the ocean current was so strong that they could not control the battleship.

It's a fact that the ocean current is too big!

Deng Guangming, chief engineer of the fleet, gave a technical explanation. He testified: "A sharp turn under such ocean currents will cause the battleship to lose control. It is obviously beyond the ability of our battleship to cope with the battleship that can prevent us such veterans from controlling the battleship!"

"The truth is clear, Admiral Cabot is determined to make a surprise attack, but unfortunately, bad luck!" Mr. David concluded.

Hearing what he said, Cabot secretly breathed a sigh of relief!

"The ancestors were right, good fortune, disasters; disasters, good fortunes. If it were not for the sacrifices made in the first half of this battle, we would not have crippled the Spanish fleet and the Portuguese fleet! And also severely damaged the United Kingdom. And the Dutch fleet, although they escaped a lot of ships, but I dare to say that their personnel suffered heavy casualties! Not to mention that the Spanish and Portuguese fleets were annihilated, and their personnel cannot be replenished!" Mr. David pointed out.

It is not easy to control sailing ships during the voyage. Most ocean-going warships are brig and three-masted sailboats, and there are many different types of sails on these warships. When a captain drives the warship at full speed, he needs to command many at once. The sails work at the same time: "I raise all the sails on the ship, including the main horizontal sail and its two attached sails, forward horizontal sail, diagonal sail, rear mast sail, etc.!" And these sails rest on countless boats. Sails rely on countless ropes, stringers, pulleys and masts to operate together. It is extremely complicated and cumbersome. Hundreds of "sailor knots" (knots) are used. Sailors must operate these tools in a timely and correct manner to enable the sails. Normal work, when the operation is wrong, the sail is likely to tear or fall off due to uneven magnesium stress. UU Reading www.uukanshu.cOM

Sailors who master normal operations are not easy to get on duty. They need long-term training. Once they are killed or injured and leave the battle position, they can be replenished if they don’t want to replenish personnel. Moreover, the training of gunners on the gun position is even more important. It's not easy, it's fed with silver. A cannon generally has seven gunners, each performing their duties. Whichever position lacks people or has inexperienced inferior hands, the gun speed will be greatly reduced!

The South China Navy has always attached great importance to the reserve replenishment of navy and sailors. Once they are short of personnel, they can quickly replenish them and are willing to invest funds in the armor of the sailors, which greatly weakens the lethality of the enemy's bullets.

This time the number of casualties reached one-tenth of the total force, but the white skin was even more miserable. Even the British and Dutch battleships that escaped safely had a casualty rate of more than 20%. The battleships of other countries were even more miserable, as high as eight. With a fatality rate of 90, it is no easy task to replenish personnel.

"Reject Baipi's request for redemption. Before the end of the European War, without special approval from His Majesty the Emperor and I, the captured crew members of Baipi will not be released!" Mr. David gave instructions.

"Next, let me make my opinion on how to deal with this battle!" Mr. David said, and all the officers straightened up and listened with sincerity.