The end of the military era

It includes four German Mauser 98k rifle production lines, two Huaxia Type 54 pistol production lines, two Czech ZB26 light machine gun production lines, and two German MG34 general-purpose machine gun production lines.

一条法国1897式75野战炮的生产线、一条法国施耐德1913年式105毫米榴弹炮的生产线、一条法国施耐德1929年式155毫米榴弹炮的生产线。

Four production lines for 7.9257mm rifle bullets and two production lines for 7.6225mm pistol bullets.

A production line for 75mm shells, a production line for 105mm shells, and a production line for 155mm shells.

Anyway, the arsenal under construction in Ganyang New Industrial Zone has a very large factory area. Zhou Rui decided to extract all these production lines and merge the two arsenals opened by the lottery system into one.

With the production capacity of these production lines, after the arsenal is put into production, even if the lottery system can no longer produce the army's weapons and ammunition, the Zhou family's army should not be short of weapons and ammunition.

Seeing the launch of 8 more battleships with full main guns and 4 battlecruisers, Zhou Rui couldn't help thinking of the bitter face of Song Limin, the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

At the end of January in Tianyuan 1538, Zhou Rui found an opportunity to visit the Crescent Island Naval Base.

When Zhou Rui left, there were 8 more battleships with full main guns, 10 battlecruisers, 12 light cruisers and 24 destroyers in the port of Crescent Island Naval Base.

Song Limin saw dozens of new warships in the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, and his mood could be described as mixed with sadness and joy.

Hi, of course, with the addition of these new warships, the strength of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet has increased a lot.

Sadness is for my own hair.

Due to lack of rest every day, Song Limin's hair has become thinner and thinner, and the front is now bald.

The Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet has added so many new warships at once. As the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, Song Limin will have to stay up all night, and his hair must be killed in battle.

In February and March, the two-star lottery cards given out for free by the lottery system gave out some army weapons and ammunition, but not warships.

But even if the newly launched 8 full main gun battleships and 4 battlecruisers are enough to make Song Limin's head even more bald.

After the southern province of the Bajin Empire was completely occupied by the Zhou family, the southern province of the Bajin Empire is still called this.

However, within the Zhou family, the southern province of the Ba-Jin Empire is called Jinnan Town, which is equivalent to the addition of an additional feudal town to the Zhou family.

The name of this Jinnan town was given by Zhou Rui. "Jin" refers to the Bajin Empire, and "South" refers to the southern province.

Zhou Rui also decided to form 6 new infantry divisions in Jinnan Town, and the surrendered troops from Danyang City and Eshui City will be filled into these 6 new infantry divisions.

In this way, the Jinnan Army belonging to Jinnan Town will also have 18 infantry divisions under its jurisdiction.

After the reorganization of the 18 infantry divisions of the Jinnan Army is completed, the strength of the Jinnan Army plus the Zhenwei Army will reach 126 million, and the total strength of the entire Zhou Family Army will exceed 130 million.

With the strength of Zhou's army exceeding 130 million, even if an all-out war with the Silver Wolf Empire started, Zhou Rui would dare to try.

What's more, Zhou Rui still has a card in his hand to bomb the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

After Zhou Rui handed over the 8 all-main gun battleships and 4 battlecruisers drawn out by the four-star lottery card to the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

The number of capital ships of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet has reached 73, including 38 all-main-gun battleships, 26 battlecruisers, and 9 all-steel battleships.

Among the 9 all-steel battleships, there are 4 fortress-class all-steel battleships captured from the Danyang Fleet.

With the current strength of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, even if the Silver Wolf Empire brought together six main fleets from the two worlds, the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet would still be able to fight.

Chapter 142

Early in the morning on May 1538, 5, the Zhou Mansion in Ganyang City had already begun to decorate with lanterns and festoons. Today is the full moon day of Zhou Rui's eldest son, Zhou Jun.

Liu Yiqiu lived up to everyone's expectations and finally gave birth to the third generation of heirs for the Zhou family in Ganyang.

For this reason, Zhou Xiaorong, who has always been stingy, suggested that Zhou Rui give all the officers and soldiers of the Zhou family army and all the civil servants affiliated to the Zhou family an extra month's military salary or monthly salary as a celebration.

Zhou Rui waved his hand and decided to give everyone an additional three months of military pay or monthly salary.

The extra two months of military salary or monthly salary was reissued for the birth of daughter Zhou Yan, and it was to celebrate that the southern province of the Bajin Empire had become the Jinnan Town of the Zhou family.

Maybe because of his son's joy, Zhou Rui got a three-star lottery card for nothing in April, and a three-star lottery card that was given out by the lottery system in May in the early hours of this morning.

A large amount of army weapons, equipment and ammunition have been issued, which is enough for Zhou Rui to form a new army in accordance with the standards of the Zhou family army.

However, Zhou Rui's joy did not last until noon, when the news brought by Hu Yi completely wiped him out.

News came from the Silver Wolf Empire. The newspaper with the largest circulation in the Silver Wolf Empire published an article called "New Maritime Forces", and the new forces mentioned in the chapter referred to the Zhou family's Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

What spoiled Zhou Rui's good mood was that this chapter exposed the Crescent Island naval base that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet had been hiding all along, and pointed out with certainty that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet still had many cutting-edge warships at the Crescent Island naval base, and did not participate in the Shark Island naval battle.

This chapter also reveals that the current naval fleet under the command of Zhenwei Jiedu of the Han and Tang Empires, the total number of all main gun battleships and battlecruisers has reached 34, which is enough to deal with the Royal Navy of the Silver Wolf Empire, and even The navies of the other five major Eldar nations pose a very big threat.

Zhou Rui asked Hu Yi in a deep voice: "Can you find out about Crescent Island, how did you reveal it?

Since the newspapers of the Silver Wolf Empire said that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet has a total of 34 main gun battleships and battlecruisers, the suspicion can be placed on the naval officers and soldiers who left Crescent Island before February. "

Before February, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet had 2 all-main-gun battleships and 22 battlecruisers, a total of 12 ships.

However, Zhou Rui added two batches of new warships to the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet in a row, which made the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet reorganize the sixth, seventh, and eighth formations.

The sixth formation is dominated by 8 German König-class battleships with full main guns, namely the Gale, the Fire, the Thunder, the Electric, the Rain, the Earth, the Gang, and the Wood.

Hao Desheng, the commander of the fifth formation, was changed to the commander of the sixth formation, and Xue Tai took over the position of commander of the fifth formation.

The seventh formation is dominated by 8 British Iron Duke-class battleships with full main guns, namely Yaoyue, Yaori, Yaoxing, Yaochen, Yaoling, Yaoliu, Yaoying and Yaojing .

The commander of the seventh formation is Liu Tiecheng.

The eighth formation is dominated by 12 German Seydlitz-class battlecruisers, namely Fei Ting, Fei Jie, Fei Shun, Fit, Fei Xuan, Fei Yang, Fei Teng, Fei Yue, Fei Chi, Flying number, flying number, flying number.

Shi Shishan served as the commander of the eighth formation.

The other two British Invincible-class battlecruisers Yongning and Yonghui directly joined the fourth formation, increasing the number of Invincible-class battlecruisers in the fourth formation to six.

Xue Tai, Liu Tiecheng, and Shi Shan are all veterans of the Ganyang City Coastal Defense Fleet. Before being reorganized into the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, the three of them had already become formation commanders.

如今西南海防舰队的八大编队加起来，已经拥有38艘全主炮战列舰和26艘战列巡洋舰，以及9艘全钢制战列舰、17艘大型装甲巡洋舰、30艘轻巡洋舰和48艘驱逐舰。

Hu Yi smiled wryly and said: "Commander, even before February, a large number of warships were transferred from Crescent Island to other ports for garrison, and there may be 2 to 4 naval officers and soldiers who need to be investigated.

If we investigate the people who have been in close contact with these [-] to [-] naval officers and soldiers, the number may have to be increased by ten times, so "

Before Hu Yi finished speaking, Zhou Rui waved his hand, "Forget it, anyway, the matter of Crescent Island will be exposed sooner or later. There is no need for Ghosting to continue to investigate this matter."

Then Zhou Rui sighed, "After Crescent Island was exposed, some orc nations should no longer just ignore the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, and even our Zhou family."

Zhou Rui’s estimate was correct. Not long after the news about the Crescent Island Naval Base was reported in the Silver Wolf Empire’s newspaper, the Red Tiger Empire announced that it would send another 6 battleships with full main guns, 6 large armored cruisers, and 10 warships to Fengsha Island. light cruisers and 10 destroyers to enhance the strength of the Fifth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire.

Obviously, the Red Tiger Empire sent additional warships to Fengsha Island this time, targeting the Zhou family's Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

In fact, after the end of the Shark Island naval battle, the Red Tiger Empire had already dispatched a batch of warships to Fengsha Island. If the addition of this batch of warships was added this time, the Fifth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire was only the number of battleships with full main guns. The number has reached 14.