In the South China Sea, a massive fleet was cruising along Borneo's northern coastline. This huge fleet comprised dozens of warships of all sizes. At its core were five enormous Capital Ships: two Derfflinger-class battlecruisers transferred from the German Navy Pacific Fleet, and three Blücher-class battlecruisers transferred from the Indian Ocean Fleet.
Around them sailed cruisers and destroyers. There were no small number of heavy cruisers and Light Cruisers, with nearly more than half the cruisers from the Pacific Fleet's and Indian Ocean Fleet's Battleship formations having been transferred over. This brought the number of heavy cruisers in the fleet to twelve, while the number of Light Cruisers reached as many as twenty. There were also more than thirty destroyers.
The reason for equipping the fleet with so many medium and small warships was, on one hand, air defense, and on the other, torpedo defense. Although the Island Nation Navy's losses in the previous naval battle had been greater than the German Navy's, the four aircraft carriers of the Island Nation Navy's 1st Carrier Squadron had not been damaged. After replenishing their carrier-based aircraft and pilots, they still posed an enormous threat to the German Navy. At the same time, the torpedo attacks launched by Island Nation Navy destroyers remained enough to make one's heart quail. In particular, according to German intelligence, the Type 93 torpedoes—the Long Spear torpedoes—being deployed on a large scale by the Island Nation Navy possessed astonishing power, forcing the German Navy to make preparations in this regard. After all, a Torpedo with a caliber of 610 millimeters would obviously have terrifying destructive power.
More than a hundred kilometers behind this massive fleet was a battle group formed by two aircraft carriers from the German Navy Pacific Fleet. Their mission was naturally to guard against the