"Your Majesty, this is the latest report sent back by Colonel White Butcher of the frontline fleet!"
By the time Zhou Xu received the latest report from White Butcher, it was already late winter.
After reading through it, all he could say was that the situation had truly exceeded his expectations somewhat. There was even a major piece of gossip in it, making Zhou Xu feel as though he were reading entertainment news.
As he read White Butcher's report, Zhou Xu remained in a rather good mood the entire time.
Through White Butcher, Zhou Xu had truly experienced the benefits of having a capable subordinate.
From the outbreak of the war with the Barton Empire until now, he had basically not needed to worry about the matter at all.
The only things he needed to do were read the reports sent back by the other side, approve some applications for supplies, equipment, and troop transfers, and deal with the prisoners of war and spoils White Butcher sent back.
In Zhou Xu's view, the number of prisoners of war was not particularly large. That bit of labor could simply be assigned to Volcano Island.
After all, compared with land warfare, naval warfare involved a limited number of troops. At this stage, the main cost of naval warfare lay in the warships.
Under such circumstances, the losses of warships would naturally be relatively high.
Take the battle described in White Butcher's report. Although they had seized the upper hand in the overall situation by relying on the advantage of Ironclad Ship 001, Ironclad Ship 001 could not engage dozens of Barton warships at the same time.
Thus, in the latest naval battle, six fast ships of their Great Zhou fleet had still sustained severe damage. Large amounts of seawater flooded into their