Another World: Naval Storm

Chapter 166 The Emperor's Smiling Face

"I'll be a horse every day in my next life. I'll sink nine battlecruisers of the Talen Empire and become the most powerful commander of the Drak Empire Navy. How glorious it is!" Leo felt sleepy after being overwhelmed by joy and sorrow, and fell asleep on the bed.

When Leo woke up naturally, the Emperor, Marshal Piltz, Admiral Leon, the Minister of the Navy and others were already waiting for him in the lounge. Marshal Piltz even winked at Leo mischievously.

"Your Majesty, please forgive my rudeness!" Leo stood up as quickly as possible and saluted everyone!

"General Leo, there is no need to apologize. It only takes a few moments. The royal family would like to thank you. You have brought a hearty victory to the Drake Empire and its allies. You are a hero of the Drake people." The most stubborn and paranoid emperor in the history of the Drake Empire had to say some beautiful political nonsense at this moment. "However, I hope that the Drake Navy will still inherit the tradition of the Drake people, that is, discipline and loyalty to the emperor!"

"Of course Your Majesty, the Navy is loyal to the Drake Empire and the Drake people!" Leo answered quickly and firmly.

"That's good. To congratulate you on your achievement, General Leo, on behalf of the empire, I will give you a few days off to spend some time with your family! You need to rest!" The emperor said kindly with a smile on his face.

From the moment the Talen Fleet sailed out of the naval port in April, the whole world keenly smelled the smell of gunpowder filling the sky over the North Sea. Everyone knew that a large-scale naval battle was about to break out between the world's first and second strongest navies.

The Grand Fleet is the most powerful existence on this planet, and it is controlled by the experienced and steady Jericho, the darling of the Royal Navy, Liam Taylor, while the Ocean Fleet has equally excellent commanders, Aperven and Leo are among the best. This naval battle is like a collision between Mars and the Earth, and it is out of control.

The best warships, the best commanders, in the North Sea in April, everyone was discussing what kind of drama the powerful fleets of the two nations would stage in the North Sea, and who would become the king of the North Sea, would it be the new powerful Drake Empire that would ascend the throne, or would Tarun, the king who dominated the four oceans, knock Drake off his horse and turn it into dust.

The Drake Empire's ally, the Iteli Kingdom, was no exception. They were particularly concerned about who would be the winner of this naval battle. The reason why the Iteli Kingdom joined the war was the king's decision against all odds.

But the Kingdom of Italia is a constitutional monarchy, and the king's power is not as great as imagined. Participating in the war was the king temporarily suppressing the cabinet and parliament, and Prime Minister Conte even resigned for this.

However, since joining the war, the conservatives, left-wing, pro-Tahrir and pro-French elements in the Kingdom of Itli have never stopped protesting at the King's Hotel in Rome, while the radicals, right-wing, pro-German and pro-Austrian elements will beat up the demonstrators whenever they have the chance. The domestic division is becoming more and more serious. The victory or failure of the Battle of Simbrica is related to whether the Kingdom of Itli will continue to bet on the Drake Empire. Although the Kingdom of Itli currently firmly supports the Drake Empire, sitting on the fence is the tradition of the Kingdom of Itli.

On the second day after Talen's First Battle Patrol Squadron went to sea, former Prime Minister Conte consulted the Naval General Staff and the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.

The General Staff of the Kingdom of Itli enumerated the disadvantages of the Ocean Fleet one by one, and the conservative Navy Commander-in-Chief also ridiculed the dirty secrets between the Emperor who regarded the Ocean Fleet as a forbidden delicacy and Leo, the best commander of the Ocean Fleet, and deduced from this that the Ocean Fleet might suffer a major defeat in the naval battle because of its inability to concentrate its strength.

The useless people in the navy talked nonsense, which made Conte misjudge the situation. He waited for the king to make a fool of himself. On the eastern front, the Russians were likely to take the key nodes and invade the territory of Hungri. The western front continued to be tense. Although the Tatar and French coalition forces were still in a stalemate with the Drak Empire, they at least withstood the attack of the Drak Army. The Ottomans did a good job, causing heavy losses to the Tatar and French coalition forces, but the Itelis still looked down on them.

The Allies and the Central Powers were evenly matched, but if the Talens were to completely defeat the Drakes in the North Sea, the defeat of the resource-poor Central Powers would be foreseeable.

"According to the kingdom's intelligence department, on April 4, the main naval forces of the Drak Empire and the Talen Kingdom encountered each other in the North Sea, and the two sides exchanged fire in succession in the Heligoland Bight, Simbrika and the Skagerrak Strait. In the end, the Talen Royal Navy suffered an unprecedented defeat, with six battleships sunk and another seven battleships severely damaged and had to be returned to the factory for overhaul!" But a piece of intelligence changed Conte's mentality of watching the joke and consolidated the king's authority.

When Conte received this information, he felt a chill all over his body. You know, with the naval strength of the Iteli Kingdom, they couldn't even go to the North Sea to commit fraud. The strength of the Iteli Kingdom's navy was simply not enough to dominate the ocean.

The strength displayed by the Ocean Fleet surprised everyone, although many people only looked at the results and not the details. The Leo Fleet entangled Liam's First Battlecruiser Fleet and dragged Jericho's large fleet into a miserable hell step by step.

Relying on its sophisticated warships and unparalleled courage, the Drak Empire Navy caused the Talen Royal Navy, which had colonized the globe and dominated the oceans for a hundred years without an opponent, to lose nearly a quarter of its battleships, and more than a third of its battleships were temporarily unable to fight.

This was a decisive naval battle, the best the world could expect from Talen, and it was also the case that the Royal Navy had no power to stop any action of the Drake Navy for at least a year.

This made King Vittorio Emanuele III of Itria very happy, as he knew that the policies he would implement would be less constrained in the future.

The emperor said some meaningless words again and left early soon, leaving time for Piltz and others.

The imperial guards rode tall horses to lead the way, and the emperor and his naval minister got into the luxuriously decorated cars that showed the royal style.

The long team marched along the avenue, and its destination was the palace, the headquarters of the German Emperor. Lately, the Emperor had been feeling insecure and had spent much less time outside than usual.

"In 1897, Leo was just a newly graduated naval recruit. If it weren't for Piltz's face, he would never have been promoted so quickly! Both he and Piltz have betrayed my trust!" The emperor said angrily, gripping the sword in front of him.

Listening to the sound of horse hooves outside the car window, the night scene made the emperor feel bleak. He opened the car window and took a deep breath. He frowned at the Minister of the Navy, Holding, and said, "Leo's battles in the Far East have earned him a lot of supporters in the navy. Then, he used one victory after another to convince most of the naval commanders and made many people his admirers. This is very detrimental to the rule of the royal family, especially since he is not loyal to the royal family. This is my empire, and we can no longer indulge him!"

"Yes, Your Majesty! Please rest assured that I will always be loyal to the Empire!" Navy Minister Holding immediately stated: "Your arrangements are proceeding in an orderly manner!"