As a confidant and loyal follower of Major Gorchak, "not fighting back" was definitely not Colonel Felksam's creed. What's more, for a dignified battleship to be hoisted and whipped by a destroyer's small water gun, no matter how you think about it, it is a huge humiliation.
In order not to become the culprit of defeat, and more importantly, to preserve the honor of the Duchy Navy, Colonel Felksam took the risk.
As the "Bersing" and "Erlmran" were preparing for a new round of salvo, Colonel Felksam ordered a signal flag: "All units raise the bows by twenty degrees, shift from course 203 through 153 compass points, and turn to course 50."
Both the critics of the time and historians of later generations have only one evaluation of this order — bold and crazy, but from a technical perspective, not wrong.
