Sending Them to Their Deaths (Please Vote)

"If the Navy went all out, would there really be no chance of victory at all?" Yamagata Aritomo spoke.

"Lord Yamagata, the German fleet's advantage is simply too great. Even if the Imperial Navy fought with everything it had, I'm afraid there would be little hope. If luck is on our side, we might be able to defeat the Germans. But the odds of that are no more than thirty percent," Admiral Yashiro Rokuro said.

Yamagata Aritomo could not help frowning. He knew that since the Navy was saying this, it was not because they feared death and wished to avoid battle, but because they truly did not stand much chance of winning. In that case, sending the Navy into battle would be no different from sending them to their deaths.

Although Yamagata Aritomo came from the Army, he also knew that building a powerful navy had not been easy for Island Nation. Before the First Sino-Japanese War, Emperor Meiji had even led by example, eating only two meals a day. The money saved had all gone toward building the Navy. Naturally, the other people of Island Nation had followed Emperor Meiji's example. It was precisely because the entire nation had pulled together that they had been able to defeat the outwardly strong but inwardly weak Qing China in the First Sino-Japanese War and achieve a great victory. From that point onward, Island Nation had embarked upon a road of rapid development.

Now, although Island Nation Navy had grown stronger, its enemy had become even stronger as well. The German Navy was the strongest in the world. Even a casually dispatched Expeditionary Fleet was more powerful than the entire Island Nation Navy combined. Such a gap in strength was enough to make everyone in Island Nation Navy despair.

"Gentlemen, tell