Chapter 225 The Arrogant British

After waking up, Charles was lucky to have his vacation again.

However, before he got up, there was a knock on the door outside the dormitory.

Charles thought there was some urgent military information in the headquarters, so he quickly got out of the warm bed, put on his infantry coat and went to open the door in slippers.

The person who appeared at the door surprised him. It was General Winter.

"Hello, Colonel!" General Winter smiled and shook hands with Charles. His hands were as cold as ice.

Charles saw that General Winter looked tired, and when he stepped aside to let him in, he asked curiously: "General, did you come to Paris on purpose? Just arrived?"

"Yes!" General Winter yawned, and while looking at Charles' dormitory, he answered: "I came to see you on purpose, Colonel!"

Charles, who was wearing a military uniform, paused for a moment, and then realized that it must be about the landing in the north and south. His purpose here should be the opposite of Albert I. He hoped that Charles would change his words.

Charles shivered from the cold, and before he could think about anything else, he quickly put on his military uniform and then his infantry coat again.

It seemed that the only thing in the military uniform that could keep warm was this coat.

The orderly Adrian thoughtfully brought hot coffee to the two of them, and took this opportunity to ask Charles: "Do you need breakfast, Colonel?"

Charles turned his eyes to General Winter, who raised the coffee in his hand and replied: "Thank you very much, I've already eaten it on the way, and this is enough!"

Charles believed this was true, this was the advantage of Western food, bread could be eaten anytime, anywhere, and it was no problem to eat it while walking.

Adrian understood and closed the door when he went out.

"So," Charles asked first, "Did Albert I's words work?"

Winter looked a little strange: "It should be your words that worked, Colonel. Originally, they preferred to land in the south, but because of your analysis and Albert I's lobbying, they are now beginning to carefully consider landing from the north."

"Because it is very tempting." Charles put on his boots hard and stomped his feet on the ground to make it more comfortable: "If we can land in the Netherlands, it will be better, safe and fast, and directly let the German army in Belgium be attacked from all sides..."

"But the Netherlands is a neutral country." General Winter interrupted Charles: "Doing so may push the Netherlands to the Allies!"

"You have done this before!" Charles said sarcastically, took a sip of coffee, and found that it was a little cold.

General Winter knew that Charles was referring to the Ottoman Empire, and replied helplessly: "Well, this is indeed our fault. We didn't expect things to develop to this point..."

"You should have thought about it." Charles was merciless: "Those two warships are just two insignificant data on the basis of dozens of battleships for you, but for the Ottoman Empire, it was mobilizing the people of the country to donate money to raise funds. If you had investigated these before the seizure, you would certainly have imagined how much public indignation this kind of robbery would arouse, and the public indignation would force the government to make a series of policies and propaganda that are unfavorable to the Allies!"

General Winter was ashamed beyond words.

Charles was right. The Minister of the Navy did not know anything when he decided to seize the warships. He simply said, "The war is coming, and we need these warships!".

Then he seized them without mentioning breach of contract, money, or compensation.

"The Minister of the Navy believes that we can win at a very small cost." General Winter turned the topic to the point: "He is the representative of the attack in the south."

Charles sat in a chair and looked at General Winter quietly. If he knew what Britain lost by detaining the two battleships, they might have directly put the Minister of the Navy in jail:

The detention of two battleships caused the Ottoman Empire to join the Allies from a neutral country.

The Ottoman Empire joined the Allies, and the route from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and then to Russia was blocked.

Russia eventually lost the Eastern Front due to insufficient supplies.

In other words, the impact of Britain's detention of two warships was not only the 250,000 people who died in the Dardanelles War and the 6 battleships sunk by mines and coastal defense guns, and the joining of several neutral countries including the Ottoman Empire to the enemy, but the most serious was the loss of the entire Eastern Front.

If the United States had not joined the war, the Allies might have lost the war.

The Minister of the Navy, who almost ruined World War I on his own, is now vigorously advocating fighting in the Dardanelles in the south.

General Winter stood in front of Charles' desk, pointing to the Dardanelles on the map: "The Minister of the Navy believes that as long as our fleet enters the Sea of ​​Marmara through here, we can set up naval guns under the city of Constantinople, and then the Ottoman Empire will surrender. So, the situation you said will not happen..."

Charles looked at General Winter, his eyes full of disbelief: "You mean, you can make the Ottoman Empire surrender with just a few warships of the navy?"

General Winter spread his hands and asked back: "Any questions?"

Charles said "huh" with disdain. He understood the mentality of the Minister of the Navy to detain the two warships.

The Minister of the Navy thought that the two warships were more important than the Ottoman Empire, and even only the two warships were needed to make the Ottoman Empire surrender. After weighing the pros and cons, of course, the warships were preferred to the Ottoman Empire.

Arrogant, stupid, and prejudiced British people!

"Please go back, General!" Charles issued an order to expel him.

There is no need to talk about this situation. In their eyes, the enemy is just an ant that can be easily crushed to death. Of course, there is no difficulty or danger. The strategic locations on the map are just waiting for their warships to occupy.

"No, no, Colonel." General Winter said: "I want to hear your opinion..."

"I stick to my point of view." Charles said firmly: "Landing in the north is obviously more suitable."

Charles originally set up a trap for the Germans and deliberately said the north, but now he thinks that landing in the north may not be a bad thing.

At least, landing from the north will attract the attention of the British. They know that they are facing a powerful opponent: Germany!

General Winter was silent for a while, looking at Charles and said: "You don't support opening a new front, right? You don't support landing on any side, so you said the north, you tried to prevent the landing operation."

Charles did not deny that he did have such an idea.

"But they will eventually choose to land on one side." General Winter was a little helpless: "This is Britain!"

Britain is a maritime power country. Their offensive tactics have always been coordinated between land and sea, just like the French always emphasize offensive tactics.

This is a combat experience that has been rooted in their minds for hundreds of years, and they will not give up until they try it.