Chapter 1099： New officer takes office (1/2)

Chapter 1099

One month ago, a small conference room in the British Admiralty.

”Have you really decided? According to your plan, we will pay a lot of costs and take certain risks, and if something goes wrong, then Betty is your role model.” Jie who is in charge of the most powerful naval power on the planet Admiral Rico said to Lieutenant General Ivan Thomas who was sitting opposite.

The British navy also made some adjustments to the naval command team after the Thunder-Surbrus campaign ended. With such a big incident, it is necessary to find out a few problem characters. Betty is naturally the first to bear the brunt. As the top commander on the front line, he bears the responsibility for more than 50% of the defeat.

If you change to another person, you are lucky to be thrown directly to the edge of a certain world. For example, in history, Betty's deputy, Major General Moore, because of Betty's wrong order, this buddy was rushed to an idle fleet as commander, which is a kind of disguised exile. And like this time, the loss was so heavy that it was enough to throw Betty to the military court for trial. Send off 6 battleships of 1 dozen or more light cruisers and 2 dozen or more destroyers... This can't be said that there is no one in the future, but at least it is also unprecedented!

However, the final result of this buddy was demoted to major general, and then served as the commander of the battlecruiser squadron under Ivan Thomas, commanding the three battlecruisers Tiger, New Zealand and Australia. This is already considered to be against the sky, okay? At least give Betty a chance to start all over again.

As for why there is such a result, this can only be said to be the result of the game between the upper navy and the fleet. Sir Fisher and Churchill admire Betty very much, because in their eyes, there can be such a thing in the depressed Royal Navy. It is very rare for someone who dares to fight and fight fiercely is very rare. Fighting is risky, but if the officers and soldiers are held back because of the risk, it is not good. So they subjectively want to keep Betty.

And what about the fleet? Jericho is a responsible person. He knows that most people, including Major General Moore and Major General Hood, are actually not responsible, especially Major General Hood, who has done a good job strategically, but It just can't beat others, there is no way. So when the Admiralty promised not to hold other personnel accountable, Jericho also accepted the punishment of Betty. In fact, to be honest, Jericho did not like Betty, on the one hand because he was too aggressive to send Jerry Ke was frightened, and on the other hand it was because of his distrust of this man's character. But Betty has the ability after all, which deserves recognition.

Well, Betty, who has been demoted to major general, will definitely not be able to command the British Fast Fleet, so who will go? Sir Fisher, Churchill, and Jericho, the Royal Navy’s troika, rummaged through the entire roster of naval personnel and did not find a perfect candidate. Originally, Churchill planned to let Major General Hood come on board, but Fisher thought The fast fleet of the future will be dominated by fast battleships, and Major General Hood's specialty is a bit wrong. And Jericho also expressed the hope that a reliable person would stay by his side, but the motion was not passed.

Major General Moore was originally mixed with Betty, and his level is not bad. But the same professionalism is a bit wrong, and let him take care of Betty, the original boss is not good, after all, the two sides are very unhappy about the previous issue of responsibility. So from a personnel perspective, this is not good either.

So, in the end, Jericho made a proposal to let Evan Thomas be the commander of the fleet.