Previously, when White Butcher led the fleet in attacking the northern sea ports of the Barton Empire, the support fleets from the eastern and western seas had also arrived afterward, disrupting his original plan.
However, he had already confirmed this matter with Harar.
At the time, Harar had indeed immediately called for reinforcements after realizing something was wrong, but the two support fleets happened to arrive at the same time. It really had been nothing more than a coincidence.
As for this time... that might not be the case.
Judging by the timing, and with the experience of Harar's previous call for reinforcements, there was a high probability that the Barton Empire's fleet had already assembled long ago. They had simply been waiting here to spring a trap on him.
"What's the size of the fleet?"
"We've confirmed three large warships, accompanied by thirty fast ships!"
The number made White Butcher's eyelids twitch violently. Combined with the troops stationed in the northern sea, the enemy's total number of warships had exceeded fifty.
In terms of manpower, they had more than twice their numbers.
This was a truly grand-scale battle.
"How did we fail to discover them earlier?"
"They should have been hiding beyond the range of our detection."
The enemy knew that they possessed aerial units, so they could not have been completely unprepared. When the Wyvern Riders came to scout, their main search area had been the waters centered around the northern sea port.
The simplest way for the enemy to avoid the Wyvern Riders' reconnaissance was to hide farther away.
The advantage was that they had indeed succeeded. The disadvantage was that the greater distance made their reinforcements appear less timely.
If they had been discovered from the start, the Great Zhou fleet would have had ample time