I Became a Plutocrat in World War I: Starting with Saving France Chapter 1024 1024: Germany's Chance Has Come!

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London War Building.

Telegrams requesting assistance were sent to Pri Minister George, everyone frowned at the current situation.

"These are almost the most ships we can deploy." Minister of the Navy Belfort said in distress:

"Brest direction 5 Dreadnoughts, Gibraltar direction 4, only 24 left for the North Sea."

"And the German High Seas Fleet has 22 Dreadnoughts."

"If we send more reinforcents, the North Sea will be at risk of being breached by the Germans!"

The command center fell into silence.

After a battle with the German fleet at Jutland, the British naval commanders generally understood the characteristics of German warships:

German warships generally have thicker main armor, making their battleships more resilient and having stronger survivability, often taking several hits yet still successfully leaving the battlefield.

In contrast, British battleships are inferior in both protection and cannon precision compared to German ones, but their strengths are speed and range.

More importantly, the British Army has overwhelming nurical superiority.

But now, the Royal Navy has divided itself into three: North Sea, Brest, Gibraltar.

Without the advantage of numbers, can the First Fleet stationed in the North Sea stave off the German High Seas Fleet?

However, ignoring the crisis at Brest and Gibraltar Strait is obviously not a wise choice either.

The aim of Britain in this battle is: One, to blockade the main force of the French fleet in the Gibraltar Strait, and Two, to capture Brest Port and to demonstrate its military might to the world.

If neither is achieved, it ans complete failure!

Pri Minister George turned his gaze to the Minister of Military Supplies, indicating how to handle this situation now and whether it is necessary to continue the fight?

"Gentlen." The Minister of Military Supplies appeared very calm:

"Think about the current situation of the Germans?"

"Their sailors have just mutinied, splintered, so commanders have betrayed, so have disobeyed orders."

"Do you think they can organize all their forces to launch an attack on us? Even if they brought all their warships over, can they have half the combat power they did before?"

The others were clearly not convinced, expressing opposition through silence.

Pri Minister George spoke their thoughts:

"Although your conjecture has a certain rationality."

"However, one common sense is that we cannot rely victory on the enemy's weakness and mistakes."

"This is dangerous and speculative, equivalent to giving fate to God!"

The Minister of Military Supplies raised an eyebrow: "You are right, Pri Minister, but do we have any other choice?"

This sentence made Pri Minister George choke.

Pri Minister George frowned unhappily, he found that the plan of the Minister of Military Supplies seed to always be like this: plunging into a beautiful vision, then being dragged along helplessly.

"Additionally." The Minister of Military Supplies added: "We can think from another angle."

He tapped his finger on the location of Brest Port:

"The French are laying mines outside Brest Port, which ans their warships are in a defensive state not ready to counterattack."

"Then, once the German High Seas Fleet launches an attack on us in the North Sea."

"We can imdiately bring the Second Fleet back to the North Sea for reinforcents."

Minister of the Navy Belfort showed support:

"Yes, the English Channel is only 560 kiloters, our fleet only needs a dozen hours to return to the North Sea."

"And by then, these returned fleets will appear behind the German High Seas Fleet."

"This is our advantage, the English Channel is in our hands!"

Trenchard asked:

"But have you considered this: the French Army might set a safe passage in the mines around Brest Port."

"If necessary, their fleet can leave port to launch an attack on us."

"By then, we will be in a dilemma, with threats from both ends!"

The Minister of the Navy imdiately dismissed this idea:

"There will be no problem, what we have to do is just lay a batch of mines before we leave."

"Then, the French safe passage will not be safe."

"They will have to spend so ti clearing these mines before counterattacking."

This is a common operation in naval warfare, the Minister of the Navy is well-versed.

Finally, a few people exchanged glances and gave the order for reinforcents.

...

The reinforcent fleet included 2 "Queen Elizabeth-class", with only the "Barham" left in the North Sea.

Additionally, there were 3 Dreadnoughts, 6 pre-Dreadnoughts, and 30 Destroyers.

Only 19 Dreadnoughts remained in the North Sea.

...

Belfort Castle, upon receiving intelligence that the Royal Navy was sending reinforcents towards the Atlantic, Shire was relieved.

Gibraltar, Brest, and the North Sea.

If any of these directions is feigned, it is undoubtedly the loudest Gibraltar direction.

The French diterranean fleet cannot assemble over a hundred ships and exert combat power.

A navy is not just about capturing ships and being able to operate them; to form combat power and make various parts work closely together and synchronize in battle, at least a few months of training is needed.

Therefore, the battleships, cruisers, and destroyers captured from the British forces are actually just a show, used to scare people by racking up numbers.

They are operated by French infantry holding guns to the heads of British prisoners.

And this is just to make the ships move, actually having no combat power.

In a real fight, even with much more numbers than the "Iron Duke," it still can't cross the Gibraltar Strait.

Their role is to draw more British warships out of the North Sea.

Shire looked up at the staff officer and ordered:

"Order General Pierre to have all aircraft carriers ready."

"Once British reinforcents pass through the English Channel, their aircraft must move!"

To deceive the British forces, aircraft carriers' planes had been taking off and landing on the deck.

But Shire is not anxious, carrier planes are fast and can fly to the target airport and complete deploynt in a few hours.

The only issue is long-term high-intensity flight operations followed by entering combat status.

Luckily, over the years Shire has emphasized pilot training, now part of the pilots have redundancy, waiting for rotation at the target airport.

Then Shire added another order: "Contact Eitzberger, tell them the British have been fooled, let them be ready!"

The German provisional governnt was still in a semi-chaotic state, the intelligence system not fully restored, unable to monitor the movents of the British fleet.

"Understood, General." The staff officer responded, and relayed the intelligence.

...

Eitzberger was anxiously waiting in Liège City.

"This is the mont that will decide the fate of Germany." He muttered to himself: "Victory or defeat depends on this battle!"

When Shire's telegram was delivered to him, he jumped up:

"Great, they actually moved another 5 ships."

"Imdiately inform Scheer, his opportunity has co."

"No, Germany's opportunity has co!"