The end of the military era

The owner of Jinshui City, Zhou Delong, is the current head of the Jinshui Zhou family. He is 48 years old this year. According to his seniority, he is of the same generation as Zhou Rui's father and second uncle.

It's just that the second letter in the names of the collateral descendants of Jinshui Zhou's family and the direct descendants are different.

Zhou Rulian replied: "Father, the seventh uncle's telegram said that the Ganyang Zhou family is gathering troops and recruiting transport ships, and they will leave in a few days."

The seventh uncle mentioned by Zhou Rulian refers to Zhou Jingtong.

Since Zhou Jingtong and the Ganyang Zhou family reached an agreement to exchange Xiangshi Island for multiple warships last time, the Jinshui Zhou family still sent Zhou Jingtong to Ganyang City to ask for help from the Ganyang Zhou family.

Zhou Delong said anxiously: "Why does it take a few more days!

Now Danyang Chang's and Eshuisha's armies are about to enter Jinshui City! "

Zhou Rulian said with a wry smile: "The Ganyang Zhou family had no plan to rescue Jinshui City before.

If our Jinshui Zhou family was not willing to hand over Jinshui City, presumably even if our Jinshui Zhou family was wiped out, the Ganyang Zhou family would not have sent a fleet.

Therefore, it will take some time for the Zhou family in Ganyang to assemble their troops. "

Zhou Delong shook his head helplessly, "How is the situation outside the city now?"

"At present, the defense lines in three directions outside the city have temporarily blocked the attacks of their two armies.

However, the losses of several divisions outside the city were very large. Because of insufficient weapons and ammunition, many recruits who were recruited could only be allocated two grenades.

To make matters worse, due to low morale, there were a large number of deserters in several divisions, and it was impossible to catch them.

The defense line outside the city may not last long. "

"How many people are there in the first division and the second division?"

The Jinshui Zhou family originally had an army of 12 divisions, of which the first division and the second division were the two most elite units of the Jinshui Zhou family. Around 2 people.

Now the two ace divisions of the Jinshui Zhou family have suffered heavy losses on the battlefield, and 2 of the other 10 ordinary divisions have been wiped out, and the remaining 4 ordinary divisions have also suffered great losses.

At this time, on the defense lines in three directions outside Jinshui City, there are two ordinary divisions of Jinshui Zhou's family, and they are doing their best to resist the attacks of Danyang Chang's family and Eshuisha's family.

The first division and the second division shrank to the city of Jinshui.

"The first division has recovered to more than [-] people, and the second division has recovered to more than [-] people, but the recruits who have been recruited also have problems of lack of weapons and low morale.

If the few divisions outside the city can't resist the armies of their two families, relying on the first and second divisions to defend Jinshui City, it would be good if they can last for three or four days at most. "

Zhou Delong sighed, "If it weren't for the fact that our Jinshui Zhou family has no chance of making a comeback, how could I be willing to hand over Jinshui City to the Ganyang Zhou family.

Now we can only hope that the Ganyang Zhou family's fleet can arrive as soon as possible. "

"Father, can the first division or the second division be transferred to strengthen the battlefield outside the city?

This should buy you some more time. "

"It's better to keep the first division and the second division as much as possible. After Jinshui City is transferred to Ganyang Zhou's family, our Jinshui Zhou family has to rely on these two divisions to try to regain a city!"

On the afternoon of January 1538, 1, on the bridge of the flagship of the Danyang Fleet, Chang Haolin, the commander of the Danyang Fleet, frowned as he read a telegram in his hand.

Lixiao is one of the four fortress-class all-steel battleships purchased by the Danyang Chang family from the Golden Lion Empire. It has a full-load displacement of 14500 tons and a maximum speed of 16.5 knots.

Chang Haolin, the commander of the Danyang fleet, is the younger brother of Chang Haozhao, the current head of the Danyang Chang family.

Chang Haolin put the telegram on the table beside him, sighed to Zhang Zhichao, the captain of the Lixiao, and said, "I didn't expect the worst result."

Zhang Zhichao was also frowning at this time, he had already read the contents of the telegram, "General, what shall we do next?

Although our Danyang fleet has 4 all-steel battleships, 2 iron-clad battleships, 2 armored cruisers, and 4 light cruisers, it is nothing compared to the Ganyang Zhou family's fleet.

The Zhou family's navy in Ganyang has 20 battleships with all main guns alone, which makes people feel a little desperate when they hear it. "

In the battle of Shark Island, the coastal defense fleet participated in the battle with a total of 25 full-armor battleships and battlecruisers, of which 4 full-armor battleships and 1 battlecruiser were sunk in the naval battle.

Since the Crescent Island naval base of the Coastal Defense Fleet has never been exposed, most of Zhou Rui's newly added warships to the Coastal Defense Fleet have been staying on Crescent Island.

Therefore, the outside world generally believes that the Zhou family's coastal defense fleet currently has 20 battleships with full main guns.

Chang Haolin said decisively: "We will withdraw to Danyang City immediately. Once the Ganyang Zhou family's fleet comes over, it will be difficult for us to leave. After all, the strength gap between the two sides is too great."

"What about Jinshui City? Are you still fighting?"

"The head of the family has considered the situation where the Ganyang Zhou family intervenes, and there should be a way to deal with it."

Two days later in the morning, an unusually large fleet arrived outside Jinshui Port.

This huge fleet is composed of the entire third formation of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, part of the fourth formation, and hundreds of transport ships.

In addition to the six German Kaiser-class all-main gun battleships Tianxin, Tiangang, Tiangong, Tianguang, Tianjun, and Tianshu, the third formation also has three German Scharnhorst-class large armored cruisers, 6 German Wiesbaden-class light cruisers and 3 Russian Irrational-class destroyers.

Part of the fourth formation, including 4 British Invincible-class battlecruisers Yongsui, Yongwei, Yongxi, and Yongan.

In addition to carrying the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth divisions of the Zhenwei Army, hundreds of transport ships also carried a large amount of combat materials.

Cai Mingan, the commander of the third formation of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, was not surprised to find that Danyang Chang's fleet had withdrawn from Jinshui Port.

This time the Ganyang Zhou family sent troops to rescue Jinshui City, and they did not cover up to the outside world. Presumably the Danyang Chang family should have heard the news.

If they leave their family's Danyang Fleet here again, it will basically be the same as waiting to die here.

Cai Mingan turned his head and said to Song Sheng, the captain of the Tianxin, "Send a report to the army and let them land immediately, first take down the four forts in Jinshui Port!"

Song Sheng, the captain of the Tianxin, is the son of Song Limin, the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

"Yes, Cai Zhi."

The Sixth Division of the Zhenwei Army immediately landed at Jinshui Port. The Jinshui Zhou family cooperated very well with the Zhenwei Army's landing. Even the Zhenwei Army asked to take over the four forts, and the Jinshui Zhou family readily let them out.

As of yesterday afternoon, the Jinshui Zhou family's positions outside Jinshui City had all been lost. The troops of the six divisions outside the city had less than 8000 troops that finally retreated into Jinshui City.

If the reinforcements from the Zhou family in Ganyang did not come, Jinshui City would not be able to hold out for a few days under the siege of the Chang family in Danyang and the Sha family in Eshui.

After taking control of Jinshui Port, the transport ships carrying the Zhenwei Army began to dock in batches. At 14 o'clock in the afternoon, about [-] officers and soldiers from the four infantry divisions of the Zhenwei Army entered Jinshui City.

That is, on January 1, negotiators from Danyang Chang's family and Eshui Sha's family entered Jinshui City, hoping to hold peace talks with Ganyang Zhou's family and Jinshui Zhou's family.

It's a pity that Zhou Rui sent the Zhenwei Army this time, not for peace talks, so the two sides wrangled for two days, but failed to reach any consensus.

At 1:13 a.m. on January [-], the seventh, eighth, and ninth divisions of the Zhenwei Army attacked the troops of Danyang Changjia and Eshuishajia from the east, west, and north respectively. Launched a counterattack.

As soon as the battle started, the armies of the two families were almost crushed by the Zhenwei Army's artillery.

You must know that the armies of these two families are only equipped with a small number of 70mm infantry guns, and there may be more than 100 in total.