Chapter Nine: Wang Dong's Offer of Surrender!

And.

With the end of the fourfold enhancement effect.

Two hundred cruisers among them.

Were no longer capable of taking part in the battle.

Before Saito Ryutai could give the order.

Those cruisers had already withdrawn from the battle on their own and retreated to the rear!

Withdrawing was a wise move in itself.

But the key point was.

Although Saito Ryutai had intended to give the order, he had not yet done so!

In other words.

Those cruisers were fleeing in the face of the enemy!

This meant.

They had already lost the courage to face the Dark Peng!

Saito Ryutai had no time to get angry.

Because, in just a few hours of battle.

He had experienced the Dark Peng's formidable strength firsthand!

Its near-unanswerable conventional speed and defensive capabilities—at least the Oda Shogunate Third Main Fleet had no way of dealing with it.

As for firepower.

From beginning to end, the Dark Peng had used only one super main gun: the "Arid Desolator."

None of its other weapons had fired even once!

And that alone had been enough to handle the entire Oda Shogunate Third Main Fleet!

Never before had Saito Ryutai agreed so strongly with that saying.

When it came to battle, you could only know who was stronger after crossing swords in person.

If he had not fought Wang Dong himself.

Who could have imagined that the "Tiger of Black Stone," so impressive in the intelligence reports.

Was actually thousands of times stronger than the "Seven-Four-Seven" intelligence reports had claimed?

"Your Excellency, should we reprimand the cruisers that withdrew from battle early?"

The chief of staff asked quietly.

Saito Ryutai understood what he meant.

If they did not immediately make their position clear about this kind of "borderline" behavior.

In the time ahead.

As the