The end of the military era

However, for the Zhenwei Army, each division has a heavy artillery regiment equipped with 30 155mm howitzers, and each brigade has an artillery regiment equipped with 30 105mm howitzers.

就连每个步兵团和每个警卫团也下辖一个装备有30门75毫米野战炮的炮兵营，整个步兵师总计装备有30门155毫米榴弹炮、90门105毫米榴弹炮和300门75毫米野战炮。

Although Danyang Chang's and Eshuisha's troops besieging Jinshui City had some advantages in terms of strength, but facing the Zhenwu Army with an absolute superiority in firepower, that little advantage in strength was not worth mentioning at all.

In less than a day since the war started, the troops of Danyang Chang's family and Eshuisha's family were beaten to pieces and had to choose to retreat.

Standing on the wall of Jinshui City, Zhou Delong, the lord of the city, put down the binoculars in his hand, and asked his son Zhou Rulian in disbelief, "Danyang Chang's and Eshuisha's more than 20 troops were defeated like this?"

Zhou Rulian said with some emotion: "It's no wonder that the tens of thousands of troops of the Zhou family in Ganyang can take down a group army of the Silver Wolf Empire. The combat power is so powerful!"

Zhou Delong sighed, "It seems that our Jinshui Zhou family will no longer have to think about military power. With the attitude shown by the Ganyang Zhou family, we will not allow our Jinshui Zhou family to have military power again."

"Father, as the saying goes, those who understand the current affairs are the best.

I think our Jinshui Zhou family, it's better to hand over the military power in our hands directly, so as to avoid any disaster. "

"I really can't hesitate anymore, there are still some people in the family who can't see the reality clearly, and still have some illusions.

These people shouldn't give the Ganyang Zhou family an excuse to deal with our Jinshui Zhou family. "

Chapter 141

After the Zhenwei army broke the siege of Jinshui City, they were so unreasonable that they chased the troops of Danyang Chang's family and Eshuisha's family all the way. It took only half a month to recover Jinshui Zhou's family. 8 lost cities.

The armies of Danyang Chang family and Eshui Sha family had fought fiercely with Jinshui Zhou's army for several months before, and their ammunition consumption was huge. There were varying degrees of lack of ammunition.

This is also one of the important reasons why the Zhenwei Army has been so powerful all the way.

During this period, Danyang Chang's family and Eshuisha's family have been trying to negotiate a truce with Ganyang Zhou's family, but Ganyang Zhou's family has always ignored this.

From the lottery system, Zhou Rui received a new task of "capturing the southern province of the Bajin Empire". How could he let Danyang Chang's family and Eshuisha's family go.

When the troops of the Zhenwei Army began to attack the territory originally controlled by these two families.

Only then did the two families realize that the Ganyang Zhou family had their eyes on the entire southern province of the Bajin Empire.

The Bajin Empire has a land area of ​​about 400 square kilometers and has five provinces under its jurisdiction. Among them, the southern province occupies about 75 square kilometers, which is almost equivalent to a vassal town of the Han and Tang Empires.

Since the Bajin Empire was always a vassal state of the Han and Tang Empires, the people in the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire did not have much hostility towards the Zhenwei Army of the Han and Tang Empires.

In addition, the Ganyang Zhou family came from the Jinshui Zhou family in the southern province, so the people in the southern province of the Bajin Empire did not reject the Ganyang Zhou family.

Even many Danyang Chang family and E Shuisha family troops directly chose to surrender in the face of the powerful Zhenwei army.

Danyang Chang's family and Eshuisha's family tried to contact the major families in the other four provinces of the Bajin Empire to jointly resist the invasion of the Zhenwei Army of the Han and Tang Empires.

It's a pity that the families in the other four provinces of the Bajin Empire, after seeing the powerful fighting power displayed by the Zhenwei Army, only kept condemning the Zhenwei Army and the Ganyang Zhou family in the newspapers, but did not report to the southern provinces. Send reinforcements one at a time.

By mid-March of Tianyuan 1538, only Danyang City and Eshui City remained in the entire southern province, which had not yet been conquered by the Zhenwei Army. 3 cities in the southern province.

At this time, Zhou Rui had already transferred nine divisions of the Zhenwei Army to the southern province of the Bajin Empire. The descendants of Eshuisha's family formed 9 new infantry divisions.

The establishment of these 12 infantry divisions is the same as that of the Zhenwei Army's various infantry divisions, but they are not fully staffed for the time being, and some weapons and equipment are not fully equipped.

The southern province of the Bajin Empire had a population of about 2800 million, and Zhenwei Township had a population of about 2600 million.

Since the population of Zhenwei Town can form 18 infantry divisions, it should be no problem to form 12 infantry divisions with a strength of about 3.5 troops based on the population of the southern province of the Bajin Empire.

Zhou Rui is also planning to form several new infantry divisions in the southern provinces after the Danyang Chang family and the Eshuisha family are completely resolved.

In fact, even Danyang Chang's family and E Shuisha's family knew very well that at this time, their two families had no chance of turning the tables.

On March 3, the more than 20 defenders of Eshui City put down their weapons. After receiving some promises from the Ganyang Zhou family, the Eshui Sha family chose to surrender to the Ganyang Zhou family.

Eshui City, a city with a population of more than one million, was completely handed over to the Ganyang Zhou family.

So far, in the entire southern province of the Bajin Empire, only Danyang City has not yet fallen into the hands of the Ganyang Zhou family.

In the City Lord's Mansion of Danyang City, Chang Haozhao, the Patriarch of Danyang Chang Family, said to Danyang Fleet Commander Chang Haolin with a bitter face, "Now that the Sha Family has surrendered, only our Chang Family and Danyang City are left. "

Chang Haolin hesitated for a moment and said: "Brother, the sea has been completely blocked by the Ganyang Zhou family's fleet.

In addition, the villages and towns around Danyang City were also captured by the Zhou family's army in Ganyang, Danyang City can be said to have become an isolated city.

With the remaining 6 troops and the Danyang Fleet in our hands, we can't resist the opponent's attack at all.

Even if the Ganyang Zhou family chooses to besiege rather than attack, we will soon be defeated without a fight.

With the grain reserves in Danyang City, they can only last for a month at most. "

Chang Haozhao sighed and said, "Second brother, are you also persuading me to surrender to the Ganyang Zhou family?

But don't forget that the Zhou family in Ganyang comes from the Zhou family in Jinshui. Even if our Chang family chooses to surrender, it will be wiped out. "

"Brother, let's take a gamble!

Ganyang Zhou family sent someone to contact me, promising that as long as our Chang family surrenders, we will hand over Danyang City and Danyang Fleet completely.

The Zhou family in Ganyang not only promised to guarantee the personal safety of everyone in our Chang family, but also left a part of property to our Chang family to support our future livelihood. "

"Can the Ganyang Zhou family count on what they say?"

"Brother, man is a knife and I am a fish, so I can only gamble."

On March 3, the Danyang Chang family chose to surrender to the Ganyang Zhou family, and the four infantry divisions of the Zhenwei Army subsequently took over Danyang City.

The third formation of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet took over all warships of the Danyang Fleet, including the four fortress-class all-steel battleships.

Zhou Rui, who was far away in Ganyang City, immediately received a reminder from the lottery system. Congratulations to him for completing the task of "capturing the southern province of the Bajin Empire". Zhou Rui was rewarded with a four-star lottery card and 40 points.

40 points immediately changed Zhou Rui's level in the lottery system to: 330400

In this way, Zhou Rui will get a three-star lottery card from the lottery system in the early morning of the first day of every month.

Zhou Rui immediately used up the four-star lottery card obtained by completing the task, and issued a total of five rewards.

50 catties of gold bricks 12 pieces

1 arsenal

4 German Seydlitz-class battlecruisers

4 German König-class battleships

4 British Iron Duke-class battleships

According to the introduction of the lottery system, the arsenal opened this time is larger than the one opened by the previous lottery system.