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Launching torpedo attacks with destroyers was already the Island Nation Navy's Combined Fleet's last resort. If even this failed to work, then defeating the German Expeditionary Fleet and winning would be utterly impossible.

Admiral Ijūin Gorō was especially despondent precisely because he had foreseen this outcome.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The German Expeditionary Fleet's Battlecruisers, Light Cruisers, and destroyers all opened fierce fire on the Island Nation Navy's destroyers. To ensure the safety of their own Capital Ships, they had to sink these assassin-like destroyers. Otherwise, the crisis would not be lifted.

Under the German Expeditionary Fleet's concentrated firepower, the Island Nation destroyers withdrawing from battle to reload their Torpedoes suffered appalling losses. Large numbers of destroyers were hit and set ablaze, or simply torn apart and sent to the bottom of the sea.

Before long, hardly any of the Island Nation Navy's Combined Fleet destroyers remained.

When the Combined Fleet departed Tokyo Bay, it had a total of thirty-nine destroyers. During its clash with the German Expeditionary Fleet's destroyers, one had been sunk and one heavily damaged. The remaining thirty-seven had all been dispatched in this torpedo attack. Yet after firing their first salvo of Torpedoes and safely withdrawing, only twelve remained. The other twenty-five destroyers had all been sunk by the German Expeditionary Fleet in the fierce battle.

Twelve remaining destroyers might have seemed like a fair number. But such a small force was clearly no longer enough to pose any threat to the German Expeditionary Fleet. Leaving aside anything else, the German Expeditionary Fleet's escort destroyers alone far outnumbered the Island Nation Navy's surviving destroyers. Together with seven still-combat-capable Light Cruisers, they were more than enough to provide airtight protection for the German Expeditionary Fleet's eight Battlecruisers. If the Island Nation Navy's destroyer squadron continued its attacks, there