Thanks to White Butcher's command, the initiative in the entire operation was still in their hands.
So even in their current predicament, where they had been pursued by the enemy for such a long time, he still had room to maneuver.
The fleet had yet to move, but the aerial bombing force had already charged into the battlefield!
This was already standard procedure for their Great Zhou fleet.
Against targets that were too far away, having wyverns carry barrels of explosives over for bombing did indeed greatly increase the wyverns' physical exertion, but that did not mean they could not carry out the bombing!
The prolonged chase at sea had left the soldiers of the Barton Navy somewhat numb, until that explosion rang out!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!"
However, faced with the bombing of their Great Zhou aerial bombing force, no amount of shouting "enemy attack" would help.
They lacked the means to neutralize this kind of attack.
In the end, the only thing they could do was...
"Fall back! The entire fleet, fall back! Open up the distance from the enemy fleet!!"
It turned out that the distance they had been maintaining was already within the Great Zhou fleet's bombing range!
For a moment, they had no idea why the Great Zhou fleet had not attacked earlier.
The unexpected turn of events made the officers, including the Governor of the North Sea, look rather grim.
The only thing they could hope for now was that, after opening up the distance even further, they could escape the enemy's bombing range.
At the same time, the sudden offensive by the Great Zhou fleet caused a new question to surface in the Governor of the North Sea's mind.
*The enemy fleet has been retreating this whole time. Why did it suddenly launch