Aboard the battlecruiser Blücher, Lieutenant General Otto Schniewind, commander of the German Navy Indian Ocean Fleet battleship formation, and Major General Abraham, the chief of staff, were drinking strong coffee. Because both men believed that the Island Nation Navy would appear in the near future, and with a high probability at night, they both had to force themselves to stay alert through the night.
Although the reversed circadian rhythm was taking a toll on their physical stamina, for young and robust men like them, this was nothing and would be adjusted soon enough. Their most fervent desire was undoubtedly to defeat the Island Nation Navy in battle and claim victory in the naval warfare.
The previous naval battle was undoubtedly a hard-to-accept outcome for the German Navy. Because while they had inflicted massive losses on the Island Nation Navy, their own casualties were not small either. Comparing the two sides, the German Navy had actually not gained much of an advantage. A number of German naval generals regarded this as a disgrace. You must know that before the outbreak of the war, they had simply not taken the Island Nation fleet seriously at all. Although the Island Nation Navy possessed a massive number of newly commissioned Capital Ships, the actual performance of those Capital Ships could not even compare to the old German Capital Ships. What was more, in terms of aircraft carriers, the German Navy held an absolute advantage. Both the performance of the aircraft carriers and the performance of the carrier-based aircraft were completely capable of crushing the Island Nation Navy.
In addition, the German Navy had a large number of bases in the Pacific Ocean and had deployed a vast quantity of land-based aircraft.
It was precisely because of this that they had been so full of