The end of the military era

That night, under the arrangement of Song Limin, dozens of warships of the coastal defense fleet left the port of Crescent Island and conducted another night exercise in the nearby waters.

And wait until after dawn, when dozens of warships of the coastal defense fleet return.

月牙岛的港口内，已经多出了6艘英国户座级战列舰、4艘德国毛奇级战列巡洋舰、12艘德国沙恩霍斯特级装甲巡洋舰、12艘德国威斯巴登级轻巡洋舰和24艘俄国无理级驱逐舰。

Although Song Limin knew in advance that Zhou Rui would add another batch of warships to the coastal defense fleet, Zhou Rui did not tell Song Limin the specific number.

Song Limin did not expect Zhou Rui to add 58 warships to the coastal defense fleet at once this time.

Song Limin's first reaction after seeing these 58 warships: We must continue to fill in the pits!

It seems that ever since Zhou Rui took office in the Zhou family, the "pit" of the coastal defense fleet regarding the lack of personnel has never been filled.

Every time the coastal defense fleet is about to recruit all the personnel, Zhou Rui will add a batch of warships to the coastal defense fleet. In the last two times, dozens of warships have been added to the coastal defense fleet at once.

Zhou Rui only left one sentence for Song Limin: "Old Song, all these warships are handed over to you."

Then Zhou Rui hurriedly left Crescent Island by boat, preparing to go to Linxing City to take up the post of Zhenwei Jiedushi.

After Zhou Rui left, Song Limin called together several formation commanders who were on Crescent Island at the time.

"Everyone, after 58 new warships joined our coastal defense fleet, I discussed with the major general and decided to reorganize our coastal defense fleet."

As soon as Song Limin finished speaking, Wang Hongchun, the commander of the Fifth Formation, said, "Song Zhi, Major General is about to become Zhenwei Jiedu Envoy, isn't our coastal defense fleet going to change its name?

I think it can be renamed Zhenwei Fleet! "

Song Limin said: "What the Major General means is that the name Haiphong Fleet remains unchanged. After all, our Zhou family has not withdrawn from Fengwu Town. If we add the word Zhenwei, it will inevitably make Fengwu Jiedu Mansion even more irritated.

However, the major general said that in the future, the prefix of our coastal defense fleet can add the six characters Northwest of the Han and Tang Empire. "

"The Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empires!

good!good!The name is loud enough! "Wang Hongchun said in agreement.

Then Song Limin took out a stack of papers and distributed them to several formation commanders, "This is the new formation of our Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

Take a look, do you have any comments?

If everyone has no opinion, our Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet will be reorganized according to the above. "

The reorganization plan put forward by Song Limin has actually been approved by Zhou Rui.

Next, the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet will be divided into five main formations, of which the first formation is dominated by eight British Huza-class battleships with full main guns, namely Ruixue, Ruifeng, Ruiyun, Ruifu and Ruiji. , Ruichang, Ruijia, Ruibang.

The commander of the first formation was concurrently held by Song Limin.

The second formation is mainly composed of 4 French Colbet-class battleships with full main guns and 4 British giant-class battleships with full main guns, which are Longjiang, Longwu, Longlin, Longsheng, Phoenix, and Fenghuang. Minghao, Fengyihao, Fenghehao.

The commander of the second formation is Wang Xue.

The third formation is dominated by six German Kaiser-class battleships, namely Tianxin, Tiangang, Tiangong, Tianguang, Tianjun, and Tianshu.

The commander of the third formation is Cai Ming'an.

The fourth formation is dominated by 8 Moltke-class battlecruisers and 4 British Invincible-class battlecruisers, namely Wusheng, Wugong, Wude, Wurui, Wuyao, Wurong, Wu Xian, Wuzhang, Yongsui, Yongwei, Yongxi, Yongan.

The commander of the fourth formation is Wang Hongchun.

The fifth formation is dominated by five all-steel battleships, namely Zhenhai, Canghai, Jinghai, Weihai, and Yanghai.

Hao Desheng was the commander of the fifth formation.

In order to protect capital ships in naval battles, the current 17 German Scharnhorst-class large armored cruisers, 18 German Wiesbaden-class light cruisers and 24 Russian unreasonable-class destroyers in the coastal defense fleet will all be allocated to five Formation.

In addition, in the new establishment of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, there will be several squadrons of different sizes.

Warships not included in the five main fleets, including some warships captured by the Tongze Fleet, will be organized into several squadrons and stationed in some ports all year round.

Regarding this new reorganization plan, several formation commanders have no objection. After all, the new reorganization plan has been approved by Zhou Rui, and they have to keep it even if they really have opinions.

Song Limin then said helplessly: "Next, let's study how to add personnel to the 58 new warships."

At this time, Wang Xue said with some emotion: "According to the speed at which the major general adds new warships to our coastal defense fleet, I feel that for our coastal defense fleet, it is not easy to fill the hole of lack of personnel."

Cai Mingan followed up and said, "This can be regarded as a happy distress.

However, there are thousands of naval officers and soldiers on the Tongze Fleet. I think most of them can be transferred to the new warship. "

Wang Hongchun said: "I suggest that our coastal defense fleet will recruit as many recruits as there are no shortages.

We have to plan ahead, otherwise the hole left by the major general for our coastal defense fleet may never be filled. "

At this time, in a restaurant inside the all-main-gun battleship Ruixue, Captain Liu Ergou was inviting an old acquaintance to dinner.

And this old acquaintance of Liu Ergou is Hu Wei, the fourth master under Cui He, the living king of hell, but now Hu Wei's name has changed to Zhu Shaoqing.

"Brother Zhu, I didn't expect that we still have such a fate. In the future, Brother Zhu will have to take care of me." Liu Ergou said with a smile while holding a wine glass.

After Zhu Shaoqing joined the Coastal Defense Fleet, his performance has been remarkable. He had already been promoted to the captain of the full main gun battleship Fengluan.

However, the full main gun battleship Fengluan was sunk in the Shark Island naval battle. Fortunately, when the full main gun battleship Fengluan sank, the officers and soldiers on board were given sufficient time to escape.

In the end, Zhu Shaoqing took almost two-thirds of the officers and soldiers on the Fengluan and successfully transferred to other warships.

After returning to Crescent Island, Zhu Shaoqing was appointed as the captain of the battleship Ruifeng with all main guns.

Although Liu Ergou and Zhu Shaoqing did not know the new reorganization plan of the coastal defense fleet, Ruixue and Ruifeng belonged to the same class of battleships with full main guns, and they would definitely be organized into the same formation.

Holding a wine glass, Zhu Shaoqing touched Liu Ergou, and said with emotion: "I never thought that you and I would be in this situation today.

But when it comes to taking care of me, it should be Brother Ergou who will take care of me more in the future.

Who doesn't know now, Brother Ergou is the first lieutenant of our coastal defense fleet! "

When Liu Ergou heard Zhu Shaoqing mentioning that he was the first lieutenant general of the Coastal Defense Fleet, he couldn't help showing a smug look on his face.

You must know that Zhou Rui was the first to say the title of "First Lieutenant of the Coastal Defense Fleet".

"Hehe, I'm not the first lieutenant general, I'm just lucky.

By the way, Brother Zhu, this time the major general has added 6 full main gun battleships of the same level as Ruixue and Ruifeng to our coastal defense fleet.

You said that our 8 battleships with full main guns of the same level will form a new formation? "

"I'm not sure about this, but I heard Song Zhi mention that our coastal defense fleet is going to undergo a new reorganization. After all, this time the major general has added 58 new warships to our coastal defense fleet."

"Brother Zhu, where do you think these new warships were built?"