Leave None Behind (Bonus Chapter for 3,100 Votes)

"General, the Island Nation destroyers have withdrawn! They must have given up." Rear Admiral Mauff smiled. The heart he had been holding in his throat finally settled back into his stomach.

When the Island Nation Navy's destroyers launched their fierce torpedo attack, they had undoubtedly posed a grave threat to the German Expeditionary Fleet. Those 450mm Medium Torpedoes could have dealt a fatal blow to every one of their battlecruisers. Fortunately, they had weathered this calamity. Only the battlecruiser Moltke had been damaged, and it was not seriously damaged—merely lightly wounded. Such losses were entirely within acceptable limits.

While countering the Island Nation's torpedo attack, they had likewise inflicted tremendous losses upon the Island Nation Navy's destroyer flotilla, sinking more than twenty destroyers outright. This was what had forced the Island Nation Navy to abandon any further torpedo attacks.

"I was hoping they would keep launching torpedo attacks. That way, we could wipe out all their destroyers. Without those destroyers, we could attack the Island Nation's remaining warships without worry. Otherwise, we would always have to guard against those destroyers striking amid the chaos." Vice Admiral Spee said.

"Yes, General. But the Island Nation people are no fools. They naturally realized that their torpedo attacks would achieve nothing, so they had no choice but to give up." Rear Admiral Mauff said.

"General, the Island Nation Navy has begun to withdraw!" a staff officer suddenly reported.

Vice Admiral Spee and Rear Admiral Mauff immediately raised their binoculars. They could clearly see that the Island Nation Navy was retreating.

"The Island Nation commander is quite a decisive man. Knowing he cannot win, he retreats at once—clean and neat, without dragging mud and water." Vice Admiral Spee said.

"Yes, General. A commander like that is highly capable. But unfortunately, we will not let