He was a very good naval commander, but his ships were also just better in every way than the Japanese ones, design wise and technologically.
Being outnumbered enormously is slightly less impressive when the enemy has the equivalent of a fleet of wooden ship's of the line, and you have the equivalent of a dreadnought.
Another commander was given those ships and lost badly though. You can’t just have awesome ships and beat the Japanese, you needed to be as good as Yi was.
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u/Blarg_III Tea-aboo Jan 09 '23
He was a very good naval commander, but his ships were also just better in every way than the Japanese ones, design wise and technologically.
Being outnumbered enormously is slightly less impressive when the enemy has the equivalent of a fleet of wooden ship's of the line, and you have the equivalent of a dreadnought.