The Island Nation fleet's two Fusō-class battleships were also old ships that had been in service for over twenty years. During the last World War, when the German Expeditionary Fleet had beaten the Island Nation senseless, the two Fusō-class battleships were still under construction and had missed that naval battle. Of course, even if they had made it in time, they likely would have been sunk by the German fleet.
In 1933, the Island Nation Navy had modernized the Fusō-class battleships, strengthening their defenses, adding anti-aircraft weapons, and raising their displacement to nearly forty thousand tons. Their combat strength had improved considerably. However, unlike the German Navy's refits, the Island Nation Navy's upgrades had brought limited improvements and were simply no match for the German Navy. As a result, the two Fusō-class battleships had basically played no role in this battle.
Now they had been targeted by the German Navy Indian Ocean Fleet's battleship formation. Seven against two—the outcome was only too easy to imagine.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The German Navy's four Nassau-class battleships and three Blücher-class battleships opened fire. One 380mm Shell after another hurtled wildly toward the battleship Fuso.
The shells crashed into the sea, throwing up columns of water that shot into the sky.
"Bastards! What is going on? Why are there German warships here?" Captain Sato Tsutomu, captain of the battleship Fuso, stared wide-eyed at the German warships firing in the distance.
Their orders had been to withdraw from the battlefield as quickly as possible, so they had been retreating at top speed. Yet they had never expected to come under attack from the German fleet. They had assumed that the German fleet was pursuing other warships and would not discover them. After all, due to their slower speed, they had already fallen far behind the