Iron Blood Germany: Rise of the Kaiser's Son
Chapter 1299

A Rare Opportunity

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On board the German Navy Pacific Fleet's flagship, the aircraft carrier Aries, Fleet Commander Admiral Konrad Albrecht, Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Oskar Kummetz, Aircraft Carrier Formation Commander Lieutenant General Wilhelm Canaris, and the others had not rested all night, yet they remained in high spirits. For senior generals like them, going without sleep for one night amid a fierce war was nothing.

"General, General Theodor Bürchadi has sent a telegram. They were attacked by nearly two hundred Island Nation carrier-based aircraft. Our escort fighters shot down the vast majority of them. But the remaining Island Nation aircraft were utterly insane—they flew straight into our Capital Ships. Under the Island Nation's mad tactics, the battleship Crown Prince has been severely damaged," Lieutenant General Oskar Kummetz reported.

"God! It seems His Majesty the Emperor was right. The Island Nation truly is an incredibly insane people. They could even employ such suicidal attacks. They simply did not treat human lives as lives at all," Admiral Konrad Albrecht sighed.

Before the war broke out, the German Emperor Oscar had already warned both the German Navy and the Army. They had to be especially vigilant when facing the Island Nation. Their weapons and equipment might not have been the finest, and their tactics might have been backward, but their fearless, death-defying way of fighting had to be taken seriously. Tactics that did not even regard their own lives as worthwhile posed an enormous threat to any nation's military. In another time and space, when the Island Nation's Army attacked the Philippines, had they not routed more than a hundred thousand American troops with only tens of thousands of men? American weapons and equipment were far stronger than those of the Island Nation's Army. The reason the Island Nation had won was precisely their death-defying

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