Another World: Naval Storm

Chapter 114 Reconciliation

"Lieutenant General Liam, you don't have to wait any longer. The Prime Minister will not see you! It's getting late, you should go back!" Liam had been waiting for several hours, but Hochukis still did not summon her. Only the secretary came over occasionally to comfort her, but he was unmoved.

"Prime Minister, General Liam is still waiting outside the door!" The secretary had no choice but to report to Hoqiukis again.

"He hasn't left yet?" The whole office was filled with secondhand smoke. One could imagine how many cigars Hoqiukis had smoked.

"Let him in! I want to see how he explains it!" After crushing the last cigar in the ashtray, Hoqiukis stared at the door and ordered.

The secretary opened the door and motioned for Liam to come in, mouthing, "Be careful what you say!"

Liam stood still and saluted Hochukis first, "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I need to explain something to you!"

"Explain how you stabbed me in the back? How did you betray me? You should know that I am the Prime Minister. Without me, you are nothing!"

"I know, Lord. I have never forgotten your kindness!" Liam's rapid promotion was inseparable from Hoqiukis. Liam was able to take up the important position of commander of the First Battle Patrol Squadron with the help of Hoqiukis' activities.

"So you hang out with Fisher and Jericho?"

"My Lord, I just want to defeat the Drakes!"

"You could have waited a little longer. Sooner or later I would have made you the commander of the Ocean Fleet!"

"My Lord, the Royal Navy may suffer heavy losses at that time, and the Continental War will also require the support of the Royal Navy. As long as we deal with the Drake Navy earlier, you will not be blamed again!"

"Liam, sometimes you are very smart, and sometimes you are silly and cute!" Hochukis covered his head and looked at Liam. "Everyone in the royal family knows that you are mine, and you cooperated with Jericho without my consent. What do you think others will think?"

"My Lord, I believe you will understand me, that's why I came here!"

Hochukis pointed at Liam with a trembling finger. "You made me laugh!"

The secretary also looked helpless. It seemed that Liam was focusing all her attention on naval affairs and her political wisdom was even lower than that of Harden and Victor.

"My Lord, war is a contest between soldiers. It is related to the rise and fall of a country. It cannot tolerate any mistakes. And I am a soldier. I must fight for the opportunity!"

"Three battleships are nothing! If you tell me, I will find a way to transfer the newly launched battleships to you!"

"You've worked so hard!"

Hoqiukis looked into Liam's sincere eyes, and his anger gradually dissipated. Although he let Liam take the position at the beginning because he needed a nail in the navy, and he had a good relationship with Liam's father-in-law, he admired Liam as a person more.

"Alright, alright, just take the First Battle Patrol Squadron and risk your life! The battleship and intelligence are all yours!" Hoqiukis continued helplessly, "You haven't eaten yet, come home with me! Let's talk about your plan!"

"Yes, sir!" Liam smiled and held Hochukis's gentleman's hat for him attentively.

In the back seat of the car, Hoqiukis and Liam sat side by side.

"Is there anything else I don't know? Without special circumstances, Jericho will definitely not let you go!"

"Ten days ago, a Drake submarine was sunk by us. Fortunately, the sinking position was not deep, and we found the code book of the Drake Navy inside!"

"How dare you not report this to the Cabinet?"

"It's just a few days late. The cryptanalysts of the Admiralty have not yet completely deciphered it. Now we need your support to find more mathematicians, cryptanalysts, and linguists to carry out the deciphering work!"

"Not completely deciphered? That means we have mastered a small part of the code?" Hawkins grasped the key sharply.

"Yes, in the past two days, the Navy Intelligence Department has intercepted many telegrams from the Ocean Fleet, and the term "Ship Burial Bay" appears most frequently in them!"

"Could it be another trap?" Hoqiukis asked, tapping his knee with his fingers.

"We can't rule out this possibility, but the Drakes won't use a submarine as bait! If this situation is leaked, the morale of the Drake Navy will be destroyed!"

Hoqiukis did not comment. As the head of the government, he knew a lot of secrets, and Tarun had done a lot of dirty work like this.

With more than ten days left in 1916, Liam's First Battle Patrol Squadron had secretly left the Zilasawan base. As for the specific itinerary and combat objectives, the Tarun people said they had no need to tell others, not even their allies.

As for the Drakes, apart from the stalemate on the front line, the only big news was the newly launched Derfflinger-class battlecruiser. It was said that Leo had suggested to Admiral Apeven, commander of the Ocean Fleet, to assign the lead ship of the Derfflinger-class battlecruiser to the First Reconnaissance Fleet, but it seemed that the German Emperor personally rejected this proposal.

On December 12, a fleet consisting of three battlecruisers and one armored cruiser of the First Reconnaissance Fleet left the port for a combat cruise. However, this time they went a little far. They no longer took the normal patrol route near the Heligoland Bight, but cruised along the waters of the Burial Ship Bay.

"It seems that our actions are effective!" Along the way, they did not encounter a single Talen patrol ship in the vast North Sea, and the previously brave Talen fishing boats and transport ships were nowhere to be seen.

"Of course, the submarines that have been dispatched have already scouted the nearby waters. We haven't seen the Talen people in the area for a long time. It was during the mission to disrupt the trade that one of our submarines unfortunately sank in Shipwreck Bay!"

"Was it sunk by the Talens?"

"No news has been sent back! Although our submarines are very advanced, the sea is unpredictable and we may encounter other accidents!"

"This is the fate of the Navy!"

And the night before, Liam frowned in the command room of the Lion, the flagship of the 1st Battle Patrol Squadron.

"Ship Burial Bay~Ship Burial Bay? What does that mean?"

"General, we've cracked it!" Alex found Liam with a thick stack of telegrams cracked by the Navy Intelligence Department.

"Hurry, show it to me!" Liam flipped through the pages carefully.

"Interesting. Send out submarines to conduct advance reconnaissance and confirm the safety of the patrol route, and then dispatch the fleet? Too slow! Too slow! This action is not advisable!"

"Okay, okay, the intelligence shows that Leo is going to patrol the Ship Burial Bay area! We will also go to Ship Burial Bay tomorrow!"

"That's the third time I fight with Leo!" Alex said softly.

"The advantage is mine! Tomorrow is our chance!" He didn't know that there was a Baldy Jiang in another world who also liked to say "the advantage is mine", and after he said it, every battle would end in failure.