John Cleves anxiously paced back and forth on his bridge. He never expected his fleet to be discovered so quickly, nor did he expect that the Tang Army, despite being at a disadvantage in numbers, would dare to take the initiative to come here and seek a decisive battle.
This gave him a very bad feeling, and he began to doubt whether there was something wrong with the fleet's strategy for the decisive battle. The Great Tang Empire, which had always maintained a technological lead, might have come up with some kind of trump card to turn the tide of the battle.
From a strategic perspective, although his combined fleet was large and formidable, it could not afford to fail. Once the combined fleet suffered a heavy blow, the control of the southern sea area would change hands, and the sea routes between Dorne and Qin Country would be completely cut off.