Another World: Naval Storm

Chapter 173 Meeting

Holding's speech made the naval officers sitting in the gallery glare in anger. He was exaggerating right from the start. He was trying to make things fatal and alienate himself from all the naval officers and soldiers.

"Holding may be the most unpopular Navy Minister in the history of the Drake Empire. His attack on General Leo is insane. The shadow he cast on the Drake Navy is even more unacceptable than the mistakes General Leo made. I feel like the looks in the eyes of the other senior Navy officers are enough to kill him!"

Antino, a reporter from the Kingdom of Itli, has a very good impression of Leo. Under the propaganda of other allied reporters, Leo Sevens and Liam Taylor were like knights representing fairness and justice in the Middle Ages, leading their respective knights to fight a fierce battle in the North Sea. In Antino's view, this so-called meeting was not necessary at all.

Holding's domineering attitude disgusted Antino, who sympathized with Leo, so he wrote down his true feelings and sent it back to the Kingdom of Iteli by telegram as soon as the meeting ended. This comment was reprinted and quoted crazily by the media around the world with a popularity that Antino did not expect.

"General Xilem, do you have anything else to say? I hope to tell the truth!" Holding asked somewhat complacently.

Before Leo came out of the corner of the conference room, a burst of neat footsteps came out from the door of the conference room. Admiral Bollinger pushed open the door of the conference room and greeted everyone.

"Sorry, I'm late!" Then he went to sit down at the seat of the senior naval officers.

Six rows of 6 middle and low-level officers marched into the conference room with unconcerned steps. The sound of their footsteps echoed in the ears of everyone in the conference room, and everyone's eyes were focused on this group of officers.

The Emperor almost stood up with excitement, and the Minister of the Navy, Holding, began to tremble. It was so scary.

These officers were mainly colonels and lieutenants. Nicholas and Alex were forced to stay in the Navy Department and wait for news.

All the reporters thought this was part of the plan and consumed film like crazy, capturing the heroic scenes of the Drake Navy.

Everyone stood with their hands behind their backs in the empty seats. No one sat down. There was a single chair in the open space in front of them. That was the seat where their beloved General Leo needed to make a statement, just like a criminal confessing his crime.

Leo shook his head and walked out from the corner of the conference room, standing without sitting down. "Salute!" The 90 officers behind him began to salute Leo as soon as he stood up, until he stood in front of the chair.

The simple action seemed to have a powerful momentum, and they were carrying the anger and sadness of hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers. Although Leo in front of them was just a poor man waiting for trial, the rest of the people had a strange feeling in their hearts. The man in front of them was more suitable to stand on the podium and talk, and more suitable to be the Minister of the Navy of this country than Holding. The ocean fleet should be led by Leo!

"First of all, I want to apologize to everyone!"

Leo was not wearing a vice admiral uniform, but a most ordinary low-level lieutenant uniform without epaulettes, which was issued to him when he first joined the army. The First Class Iron Cross Medal, which symbolizes the highest honor of a Drake soldier, was hung on his chest.

Everyone was intimidated by the momentum of the array of officers behind Leo. Before they could recover, Leo had already lowered his head and bowed to everyone present.

"Leo, sit down! This is not a trial!" Marshal Piltz stopped closing his eyes and looked at Leo and said slowly. Holding frowned and looked at Piltz. Although he was dissatisfied, he did not refute. The 91 pairs of eyes looking at him made him tremble.

"Yes, Marshal!" Leo sat down.

"Snap", "Snap", the 90 people behind him also sat down together, and everyone's eyelids twitched again.

"I was wrong, and I didn't tell the public after the war." Leo sat up and began to tell the story slowly.

"Before the Battle of the North Sea, I guessed that the Talens might conduct routine patrols in the North Sea after the four Queen-class battleships were commissioned, so I sent a reconnaissance team disguised as a trawler to the coastline of the Simbrica Peninsula and the Skagerrak Strait. In order to ensure concealment, I allowed them to fly the flag of the neutral Kingdom of Noah."

Everyone listened carefully to every word that came out of Leo's mouth. They were all impressed by him. It seemed like they were not here to listen to this. Did they get the wrong script?

The conference room became restless. Reporters were stunned by the news. Commanders and staff who did not know the situation were whispering to each other. Although the bigwigs in the political arena were still trying hard to maintain their image, their different expressions betrayed them.

"I have seriously violated the rules of engagement and offended the dignity of the Kingdom of Noah. I would like to apologize again to the government and people of the Kingdom of Noah. This is one of the several mistakes I have made."

"What does Leo, this bastard from the slums, want to do?" The emperor looked at Leo angrily with his scarlet eyes. The development of things was beyond his plan.

"When the Talen fast fleet passed through the coastline of Simbrica, one of our disguised reconnaissance fleets lost contact. After the naval battle, we learned some unacceptable news from the prisoners, but I couldn't accept the reality. I forced my staff officer to tamper with the list of casualties and put the officers and soldiers who died bravely in the battle into the list of missing! I failed those officers and soldiers who were loyal to the navy and the empire, and shattered the hopes of the families of those who died in battle!"

"Oh my God, the Talen people actually did such a thing!" The press box was filled with surprise.

"Fast Fleet? Isn't that Liam's First Battle Patrol Squadron? He and Leo are friends?"

"Humph, what's the big deal? You're just killing me!"

"The Talens did a lot of dirty things in the colonies, killing tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people!"

"The nature of a robber cannot be changed. Even if he pretends to be a gentleman, he is still a barbarian at heart!"

"I am the commander of another reconnaissance team. I can prove it! Our two fleets left the port together, and my comrades did not come back after the war!" Behind Leo, a captain stood up with tears in his eyes. "None of us thinks the general did anything wrong!"

"Damn it! How dare the Tarun people treat our people like this!" Lieutenant General Malawi slammed the table and stood up, while Marshal Piltz covered his forehead in front of him and said nothing.

Sweat dripped from the forehead of Antino, a reporter from the Kingdom of Itli. This era has gradually moved away from barbarism. In the age of white supremacy, human rights have begun to awaken in various countries. The Taren people's massacre of the Flemish and Ellis people has not yet been turned over. On the Western Front, they who like to play tricks were the first to use anti-human poison gas bombs in the Franco-French War and massacred prisoners in naval battles.