While giving his answer, Charlie kept secretly observing White Butcher's expression, wanting to see how Colonel White Butcher before him would react after learning the scale of the North Sea Fleet.
Yet White Butcher remained expressionless throughout, as though it were nothing worth making a fuss over. While this greatly disappointed Charlie, it also left him feeling somewhat uneasy.
Could it be that this Great Zhou fleet is even larger than our Barton Empire's?
From White Butcher's perspective, the size of the North Sea Fleet—or rather, the size of the Barton Empire's fleet—had indeed exceeded his expectations, but it had not yet reached the point of making him lose his composure.
At the very least, he could still control his facial expression.
At the same time, as a top-tier commander, White Butcher possessed an extremely keen instinct for strategic planning.
The reason the Barton Empire's fleet was so enormous was that the empire itself was composed of an archipelago. Vast stretches of sea surrounded its territory, and even existed within it.
This kind of terrain meant that the demand for army units was not particularly high. By comparison, their need for naval forces was tremendous. After all, their daily patrols and the defense of their territory required a large number of ships, to say nothing of when war broke out.
Even if they occasionally needed to conduct island-landing operations, they could deal with them using units similar to the Marine Corps.
Under these circumstances, White Butcher estimated that the other side possessed more than a hundred warships across the entire country. But that did not mean all one hundred-plus warships would come charging over to attack them in one fell swoop.
People often got one thing wrong. They thought that if a country had an army of a hundred thousand,