Just because the wrong bread was served at the reception dinner, it eventually led to a change in the top management of the British Home Fleet. In the eyes of many British people, this was clearly the submission of the United Kingdom to southern Africa.
When has the Royal Navy ever experienced such injustice?
Has the United Kingdom reached the point where it would destroy the Great Wall to please southern Africa?
There was an uproar in public opinion for a while, and some retired admirals such as John Jellicoe, David Beatty, Roger Keyes and others criticized the British government, which put Neville under great pressure.
On February 25, a senior Royal Navy admiral who did not want to reveal his identity was interviewed by The Times, thus revealing a scandal that had been covered up by the British government and the Royal Navy for nearly 20 years.
This starts with the Battle of Jutland that broke out during World War I.
In the Battle of Jutland, John Jellicoe, then Commander of the British Home Fleet, and his Vice Admiral David Beatty led the Royal Navy against the German High Seas Fleet led by German Admiral Reinhard Scheer.
In terms of fleet strength, the British Royal Navy has an absolute advantage.
At that time, the Royal Navy had 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 armored cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers, 1 minelayer, and one aircraft carrier.
The High Seas Fleet led by Reinhard Scheer had only 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, and 61 lightning strike ships.
The result was surprising. The more powerful Royal Navy lost 3 battlecruisers, 3 armored cruisers and 8 destroyers in the Battle of Jutland, totaling 110,000 tons, and 6,000 people were killed.
The German High Seas Fleet only lost one pre-dreadnought, one battlecruiser, four light cruisers and five torpedo ships, totaling 60,000 tons, and 2,500 people were killed.
The Battle of Jutland can be said to be the biggest stain on John Jellicoe's career. After the war, the British government attributed most of the defeat to John Jellicoe's conservative prudence, believing that John Jellicoe did not
He bravely pursued the German High Seas Fleet, which resulted in the Royal Navy's losses being greater than those of the High Seas Fleet.
This conclusion was overturned in an interview with the anonymous senior general.
The reason why John Jellicoe gave up the pursuit was because the German High Seas Fleet ordered the destroyers to launch a large number of torpedoes as they retreated.
John Jellicoe gave up the pursuit in order not to cause greater losses.
Although this decision resulted in greater losses for the Royal Navy than for the High Seas Fleet.
However, after the Battle of Jutland, the German High Seas Fleet never made it out of the North Sea. Strategically, the Royal Navy had completed its planned plan. It would be unfair to blame all the reasons on John Jellicoe.
The real reason that caused the Royal Navy's losses to be greater than those of the High Seas Fleet was that David Beatty, who was hailed as a "hero" after the war, made a mistake in his command and was greedy for credit.
The British government and the Royal Navy wanted to cover up Britain's mistakes in warship design, so they used John Jellicoe as a scapegoat.
Both John Jellicoe and David Beatty are now retired, with David Beatty also being created 1st Earl of North Sea and Brooksby.
John Jellicoe was created Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa.
In Britain, various scandals involving nobles are always the biggest focus.
The interview quickly shifted public interest in One Bread.
The Times subsequently attempted to interview John Jellicoe.
The result was a direct rejection by John Jellicoe.
John Jellicoe's secretive attitude pushed the truth of the Battle of Jutland to a new level.
When The Times was making waves, the Madagascar was still docked at Portsmouth.
The hospitalization of Charles Forbes did not ease the relationship between the Home Fleet and "Madagascar". It was obvious that Charles Forbes was just a scapegoat. There was more than one person in the Royal Navy who was dissatisfied with southern Africa. Yang Smuts
You can bet that Charles Forbes doesn't even know about bread.
Normally, as the commander of the Home Fleet and Portsmouth Naval Station, Charles Forbes' work is also very busy, and it is impossible for him to have to deal with things like bread for the dinner.
Otherwise, Charles Forbes might be exhausted to death.
"You have to understand, this is the United Kingdom." Yang Smuts was very disappointed with the United Kingdom. Although Yang Smuts knew that the United Kingdom was in decline, Yang Smuts did not expect that Britain had fallen to such an extent.
"So what is the truth about the Battle of Jutland?" Li Ao doesn't care about Britain's internal affairs. As a southern African, he cares about what Britain is doing.
For Li Ao, the worse Britain is, the better.
Better to be hopelessly bad!
"The three battlecruisers lost in the Battle of Jutland were mainly due to the bombing of ammunition depots. The flagship of the High Seas Fleet, the Lützow, was hit by 24 shells during the naval battle. In the end, the Germans fired torpedoes and sunk them.
It." Yang Smozi's expression was indifferent. The Royal Navy had been resting on its laurels for too long, so it was not surprising that something like this happened.
"No wonder" Li Ao suddenly realized.
World War I can be said to be a watershed in the naval strength of various countries. Before the outbreak of the World War, the British Navy had a total tonnage of 2.71 million tons, the German Navy had a total tonnage of only 1.3 million tons, and the United States had a total tonnage of 985,000 tons. Both of them combined were inferior to the Royal Navy.
In the two years after the end of the World War, Britain destroyed 38 battleships, 2 battlecruisers, 87 light cruisers, 300 destroyers and torpedo boats, and 106 submarines.
Even so, the Royal Navy still has as many as 737 warships.
For comparison, Southern Africa has only 195 warships in total.
And most of them are pitiful treaty-type warships with small tonnage.
Of course, small tonnage does not mean low combat effectiveness.
Both the "Washington Naval Treaty" and the "London Naval Treaty" have loopholes. The standard displacement specified in the treaties includes ammunition, food, drinking water and other consumables.
Since it is a consumable, the quantity is definitely not fixed and can be increased or decreased at any time according to specific needs. Therefore, the Southern African Navy has objectively increased the upper limit of the standard displacement by artificially controlling the weight of consumables from the beginning.
Therefore, it is normal for a "Durban" class light cruiser with a standard displacement of 3,000 tons to have a full load displacement of 4,000 tons.
For a heavy cruiser with a standard displacement of no more than 10,000 tons, the fully loaded displacement can reach an insane 13,550 tons.
Don't underestimate these 3550 tons. If these 3550 tons are turned into armor and installed on key protective parts, the warship's survivability will be greatly improved, similar to the way the warship was sunk due to the explosion of the ammunition depot in the Battle of Jutland.
The chances will be greatly reduced.
"What's the wonder?" Yang Shimozi felt keenly that what Li Ao said might not be the same thing as what he wanted to convey.
"No wonder the Royal Navy has become like this, so shouldn't we be grateful? At least the Royal Navy did not poison the drinking water." Li Ao laughed. After "Madagascar" arrived in Portsmouth, the drinking water
All provided by the Royal Navy.
"Okay, as long as you are happy!" Yang Shimozi was speechless. The Royal Navy has not fallen to this level.
While the two were chatting, a British carrier-based aircraft taking off from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier "Elizabeth" passed over the "Madagascar" at low speed.
This behavior is a provocation to "Madagascar", and this situation has happened many times in the past two days.
"You are actually indifferent? This is not in line with your habits!" Yang Smozi was surprised. Southern Africans never admit defeat in such matters.
"Hahahaha, I've been waiting for your words!" Li Ao was not stupid, the foreign minister had already spoken, and he, the trainee captain, instantly felt confident.
"Wait, don't go too far." Yang Shimozi suddenly felt a little frightened.
"No, just wait and see" Li Ao sneered.
Less than five minutes after the order was issued, a latest "Sea Harrier" attack aircraft took off from the "Madagascar".
The "Sea Harrier" is not a fighter jet, but a torpedo bomber, which also belongs to the naval "Raptor" series.
If you use the "Goshawk" to deal with British carrier-based aircraft, it will be bullying.
Using "Sea Harrier" is actually also bullying.
The pilots of the British carrier-based aircraft probably did not expect that a fighter jet would take off from the "Madagascar".
After passing by the flight deck of the "Madagascar", it circled in the distance and flew back, probably trying to repeat the same trick.
The "Sea Harrier" climbed after taking off and still occupied a favorable position. Although the "Sea Harrier" was a torpedo bomber, it also had aviation machine guns on it and had some air attack capabilities.
The British carrier-based aircraft that flew back met with tragedy.
The moment they discovered the "Sea Harrier", the British pilots immediately became excited.
Two consecutive days of provocation finally had an effect. The British pilots will take this opportunity to conduct a real exercise with the Southern African pilots to see how powerful the legendary Southern African pilots are.
The most important thing in an aerial battle is to seize a favorable position, and then use dive to launch an attack on the enemy aircraft. Since you can't actually fight, during the exercise, the criterion is whether it bites the enemy aircraft. If it is locked by the enemy aircraft, then the aircraft can basically be judged.
was shot down.
So the British pilots also began to climb.
When the British pilot discovered the "Sea Harrier", the "Sea Harrier" had already occupied a favorable position and started to dive. At this time, he either chose the frontal hard steel, or lowered the nose of the aircraft to evade at low altitude, first avoiding the "Sea Harrier"'s dive.
British pilots chose hard steel for the front.
The "Sea Harrier" did not give in and continued to dive towards the British carrier-based aircraft.
The two planes were getting closer and closer. Yang Smozi, who was on the bridge of the "Madagascar", stood up subconsciously, put his hands on the command platform in front of him and stretched his neck to watch.
At the moment when the two planes were about to collide, the British pilot subconsciously lowered the nose of the plane and the two planes passed by each other.
The British pilot made a serious mistake. This is a military port and it is now full of various warships. The British pilot's skills were probably not up to par. He failed to pull up the plane in time. As a result, the plane's wing scraped the "Nelson"
The antenna of the USS battleship then spun and fell into the sea.
