Zhou Yongtao simply lacked experience.
He racked his brain thinking about how the Permanent Fleet could assault the Special Mixed Group, yet overlooked the essential question: what was the purpose of the Permanent Fleet heading their way?
To face death?
If Lan Yun had grown tired of living and wanted to commit seppuku or take poison, why bring an entire fleet and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers to die with him?
To annihilate the Special Mixed Group, which possessed four carriers, four Fast Battleships, and eight Heavy Cruisers among many other warships?
If that were possible, the disastrous defeat at Flame Sea would not have occurred.
To return and defend their homeland?
If they lost the Offshore Island and were strategically blockaded, even the well-organized Permanent Fleet before the outbreak of war could not defend Saiyi's national gate.
Thus, Lan Yun had only one goal: to help defend Liuhuang Island.
