The end of the military era

In addition, there are 12 full main gun battleships, 16 large armored cruisers, 32 light cruisers, and 28 destroyers. The strength is not weaker than the four main fleets of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire.

The Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire has a total of six main fleets in this world, of which the Fifth Fleet and the Sixth Fleet are stationed on islands off the coast of the Han and Tang Empires, and their strength is much weaker than the other four main fleets.

In order to deal with the threat posed by the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, the Red Tiger Empire not only added many warships to the Fifth Fleet, but also added many warships to the Sixth Fleet stationed on Yumen Island.

Yumen Island is one of the six towns in the southeast of the Han and Tang Empires, an island off the coast of Shuonan Town, with an area of ​​about 335 square kilometers. It was occupied by the Chihu Empire more than 60 years ago and a naval base was built.

What made Zhou Rui feel that the storm was coming was that the Red Tiger Empire actually leased an island with an area of ​​about 130 square kilometers along the coast of Boting Town of the Han and Tang Empire to the Golden Lion Empire for 99 years.

And this island called Gaosnail Island originally belonged to the jurisdiction of the Fifth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire. There was also a pier built on the island, which can be regarded as a sub-base of the Fifth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire.

You must know that the Red Tiger Empire has always regarded the southwestern and southeastern coastal regions of the Han and Tang Empires as its sphere of influence, and for this reason, a war broke out with the Silver Wolf Empire.

This time the Red Tiger Empire was able to lease the Gaosnail Island off the coast of Boting Town to the Golden Lion Empire. It must have reached some kind of secret agreement with the Golden Lion Empire against the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

It is definitely not good news for the Zhou family's southwest coastal defense fleet that the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire entered the southwestern coastal area of ​​the Han and Tang Empire.

In a small building near the pier of Fengsha Island, Flasso, the logistics chief of the Fifth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire, was entertaining Grideye, the logistics chief of the Sixth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire.

Grideye touched the wine glass with Frasso, then took a sip of the wine in the glass, nodded and said: "It's the Golden Noble Ice Wine produced by the Golden Lion Empire. It tastes sweeter and more mellow. Compared with ours Several famous ice wines from the Red Tiger Empire taste better."

Fraso said with a smile: "The last time I went to Ganyang City, Zhou Rui gave me a dozen boxes of this brand of ice wine.

I still have a lot left in my hand. When you leave, you can take two boxes back to Gaosnail Island. "

Hearing Fraso mention Zhou Rui, Grideye said with some emotion: "I never thought that Zhou Rui could build such an astonishingly large naval fleet.

It even forced the Governor's Mansion to introduce the power of the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire to the southwestern coast of the Han and Tang Empires. "

Fraso frowned at this moment and said, "It's easier to ask God than to send God away.

Even if the naval fleet in Zhou Rui's hands has many battleships with full main guns and many new-style battlecruisers, with the strength of our Royal Navy, we can completely wipe out this human naval fleet. "

"Frasso, there is one thing you don't know yet, do you?"

"whats the matter?"

"The Flying Leopard Empire is discussing the formation of a military alliance with the Black Bear Empire, and the Silver Wolf Empire is also discussing the formation of a military alliance with the Bull Empire."

"Could it be that the Flying Leopard Empire and the Silver Wolf Empire want to draw the Black Bear Empire and the Bull Empire into this war?"

"Regardless of whether the Black Bear Empire and the Bull Empire will join the war between the Flying Leopard Empire and the Silver Wolf Empire, once any two Spirit Race countries form a military alliance, it will not be good news for our Red Tiger Empire .

The purpose of leasing Gaosnail Island to the Golden Lion Empire this time is not only to use the power of the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire to deal with the human naval fleet in Zhou Rui's hands, but also to show goodwill to the potential ally of the Golden Lion Empire. inside.

In addition, the strength of the human navy fleet is quite impressive. If we can defeat them with the strength of our Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire alone, our Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire will have to pay a considerable price.

Introducing the power of the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire to the southwestern coast of the Han and Tang Empires can also share risks. "

Fraso immediately shrugged and said, "Forget it, let's not mention these.

Let the big guys above consider these big things!

Come on, let's continue drinking. "

Grideye clinked wine glasses with Frasso again, "Actually, I have a good impression of Zhou Rui, but it's a pity that we won't be able to be friends in the future."

When Grideye said this, he didn't notice that Flasso's eyes suddenly dodged for a moment, but Frasso quickly returned to normal, and continued to talk with Grideye.

Chapter 143 Suspect

The Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire has seven main fleets in this world. However, in order to rent Gaosnail Island from the Red Tiger Empire, the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire specially established a new main fleet. The Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire Eighth Fleet.

The Golden Lion Empire deserves to be the world's most powerful navy. It didn't even transfer any warships from the world's seven main fleets. It directly transferred a batch of warships from the other side of the different time and space node, and formed the Eighth Fleet. stand up.

另外金狮帝国还把刚刚建造出来不久的8艘战列巡洋舰，也调入了第八舰队，使得金狮帝国皇家海军第八舰队总计拥有了16艘全主炮战列舰、8艘战列巡洋舰、16艘全钢制战列舰、24艘大型装甲巡洋舰、48艘轻巡洋舰和48艘驱逐舰。

The battlecruiser just built by the Golden Lion Empire was named the Agile Class by the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire. It has a full load displacement of 27000 tons and a maximum speed of 25 knots.

装备了4座双联装45倍口径330毫米主炮，16门五十倍口径160毫米副炮，24门30毫米高射炮，24挺13毫米高射机枪，4具550毫米鱼雷发射管。

The side armor belt is 100 mm to 220 mm, the main deck armor is 60 mm, the main turret armor is 220 mm, and the crew is full of 1080 people.

The Agility-class battlecruiser is the first battlecruiser built by the Golden Lion Empire, and it can only be regarded as a product for testing the waters.

However, just to test the waters, the Golden Lion Empire built 12 agile-class battlecruisers at the same time.

According to the Minister of the Navy of the Golden Lion Empire, Dennis, the Golden Lion Empire is not afraid of building warships with poor performance. If the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire thinks that the agile-class battlecruiser has too many shortcomings, it will provide the Royal Navy with 12 target ships. Boat.

There is not only one Zhou Rui who is rich and powerful in the world.

In terms of building warships, the Golden Lion Empire can always be linked to the words "wealthy and powerful".

Sometimes, for a capital ship, the Golden Lion Empire would build more than 30 ships in two worlds at the same time, and this is not an isolated phenomenon, it is almost the normal state of the Golden Lion Empire.

After the Golden Lion Empire and the Red Tiger Empire signed an agreement to lease Gaosnail Island, the Eighth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire soon stationed at Gaosnail Island, and began to build a large-scale construction project on Gaosnail Island, preparing to turn Gaosnail Island into a golden island. The home port of the Eighth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Lion Empire.

With the arrival of the Eighth Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire, the pressure on the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet has increased sharply.

Now the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet needs to face the [-]th Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire on Gaowo Island, the [-]th Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire on Fengsha Island, and the [-]rd Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Silver Wolf Empire on Pusa Island. Surrounded by enemies.

On the morning of June 1538, 6, Song Limin, the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, accompanied Zhou Rui to visit the Southwest Naval Military Academy of the Han and Tang Empire that had just been built in Jingsheng City.

Standing in front of a six-story building, Song Limin introduced to Zhou Rui: "Marshal, the Southwest Naval Military Academy will directly convert more than 2000 students from the new crash course of the Naval Academy into the first batch of military students.

Next, the first batch of military students will receive a two-year professional study at the Southwest Naval Military Academy.

However, in order to deal with the current shortage of grass-roots officers in the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, the first batch of cadets may be sent to various warships for internships in a few months. "

Zhou Rui said in a deep voice: "Old Song, I need the Southwest Naval Military Academy to continuously provide officers for the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, and the enrollment of the second batch of military academy students should also be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

In addition, it is necessary to formulate a subsidy standard for military students, which can be higher than that of the Southwest Army Military Academy. "

As early as the end of last year, the Zhou family's Southwest Army Military Academy had already been established in Linxing City.

In order to solve the shortage of officers in the Zhenwei Army and the Jinnan Army, the first period of the Southwest Army Military Academy was even shortened to half a year.

Today, more than 3000 cadets of the first phase of the Southwest Army Military Academy have obtained certificates of completion and have been assigned to the Zhenwei Army or the Jinnan Army.

"Marshal, since the Southwest Army Military Academy has set the subsidy for cadets as the standard for second lieutenant officers.

Then our Southwest Naval Military Academy will set the subsidy for military cadets as the standard for second lieutenant officers of our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet! "

The second lieutenant of the Zhou family army usually holds the position of platoon leader or deputy platoon leader.

Zhou Rui nodded, "Old Song, you can make up your own mind about the subsidy standard, and make an application report later and give it to me."

"Yes, sir."