Until noon, Spur barely recovered his breath, or rather, gathered a bit of his spirits.
His first command afterward was to have the fleet turn back towards Aus.
By evening, as night was about to fall, he finally sent a telegram to Nizi reporting the fleet's movements, no longer proceeding to Transfer Island to seek a decisive battle with the Liangxia Fleet.
Clearly, Spur was also worried about a sudden attack.
Theoretically, the possibility of the Liangxia Fleet sneaking up on the Newland Fleet from the Southwest East Ocean was nearly zero. It wasn't that the Liangxia Fleet lacked the capability for a sneak attack, nor that the commanding officers lacked courage, but simply that it was impracticable, as many islands in the Southwest East Ocean had Newland Navy patrol aircraft. Not to mention a large-scale fleet, even a single submarine might hardly reach the vicinity of Samoa Islands undetected.
