The end of the military era

Today is May 1545, 5 in Tianyuan, and the commendation ceremony for the Longjing Island naval battle was held in this auditorium, so even Zhou Rui came to participate in person.

Qian Ronghua looked at Zhou Rui on the rostrum and was very excited. He had been notified that Zhou Rui would personally award him the military medal and bonus today.

Qian Ronghua was originally the third officer of the all-main gun battleship Wang Xing of the seventh formation. After the captain, first officer, and second officer of the Wang Xing were killed one after another, Qian Ronghua temporarily took the position of captain of the Wang Xing.

Under the command of Qian Ronghua, the full main gun battleship Wang Xing sank two full main gun battleships, a battle cruiser and a large armored cruiser of the Black Bear Navy in the following naval battle.

Later, in the pursuit battle, he sank a battlecruiser and an all-steel battleship of the Golden Lion Navy, and almost forced the surrender of two full-armor battleships of the Golden Lion Navy by himself. Hang up in general.

Therefore, Qian Ronghua will be awarded the First Class War Merit Medal of the Southwest Tutorial Mansion.

For the Zhou family's army, Zhou Rui designed the war merit medals into four levels, the highest being the special war merit medal, and the lowest being the third-level war merit medal.

Even Song Limin, the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, only won a first-class war merit medal this time.

There are only 36 special military merit medals issued this time, and the officers and soldiers who received the special military merit medals have all died heroically.

Song Limin, who presided over the commendation meeting, first announced the pension standards for the soldiers killed and disabled soldiers in the Longjing Island naval battle on behalf of the Southwest tutelary government.

Although the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet won the Longjing Island naval battle, its own losses were also very large, with more than 15 officers and soldiers killed or missing.

In fact, at this time, the pensions for the dead and disabled soldiers in the Longjing Island naval battle have already been distributed. According to the standard set by Zhou Rui, the pensions have been distributed to almost 5 million silver coins.

Moreover, the families of the dead soldiers and disabled soldiers can receive a subsidy every month in the future.

After Song Limin read out the pension standard, he made a summary of the Longjing Island naval battle, and then began to present awards to the representatives of the officers and soldiers for their meritorious service.

In the Longjing Island naval battle, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet had hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers who made meritorious service. Only more than 300 representatives of officers and soldiers who made meritorious service came to this commendation conference.

Qian Ronghua took the first-class war merit medal and a Zhou's bank gold ticket with a face value of 1000 gold coins awarded to him by Zhou Rui himself, and hurriedly saluted Zhou Rui again.

Zhou Rui smiled and said to Qian Ronghua: "Work hard, I am optimistic about you!"

In fact, Zhou Rui had said this a dozen times just now, and Zhou Rui didn't even remember Qian Ronghua's name, it was just a word of encouragement.

But Qian Ronghua was so excited that he even forgot what the occasion was, and shouted directly at Zhou Rui: "I am willing to die for the commander in chief!"

Zhou Rui patted Qian Ronghua on the shoulder approvingly, "I hope I can personally award you the military medal next time."

At the end of the commendation meeting, Song Limin announced the new establishment of the 12 main formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

Although the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet sank 112 battleships with full main guns and 42 battlecruisers during the Longjing Island naval battle, there were also some seriously injured battleships, which were no longer worth repairing because of the serious injuries and even the keel damage. , you can only choose to scrap.

However, Zhou Rui used the lottery system to add a large number of capital ships to the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet. In addition to capturing those capital ships from the three orc nations, the number of capital ships in the 12 main formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet actually rose instead of falling.

算上2月份、3月份、4月份和5月份抽奖系统白给的4张三星抽奖卡，开出的一些全主炮战列舰和战列巡洋舰。

周睿总计为西南海防舰队补充了32艘德国巴伐利亚级战列舰、32艘英国伊丽莎白女王级战列舰、36艘英国复仇级战列舰、36艘美国科罗拉多级战列舰、36艘英国声望级战列巡洋舰和36艘英国胡德级战列巡洋舰。

The Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet captured a total of 60 battleships with full main guns and 20 battlecruisers from the navies of the Golden Lion, Red Tiger, and Black Bear during the Longjing Island naval battle.

However, only 52 battleships with full main guns and 16 battlecruisers can be incorporated into the sequence of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet. The remaining 8 battleships with full main guns and 4 battlecruisers, because of damage to the hull structure, can only For scrapping.

After discussions between Zhou Rui and the senior officials of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, the new establishment of the 12 main formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet is as follows:

The first formation is divided into 9 teams, under its jurisdiction are 38 American Nevada-class battleships with full main guns and 36 American New Mexico-class battleships with full main guns.

The second formation is divided into 8 teams, under its jurisdiction are 40 American Tennessee-class battleships with full main guns, 14 Fuso-class battleships with full main guns from Dongying Kingdom, and 12 Ise-class battleships with full main guns from Dongying Kingdom.

The third formation is divided into 9 teams, under the jurisdiction of 73 German Bavarian-class battleships with full main guns.

The fourth formation is divided into 9 teams, under the jurisdiction of 72 British Queen Elizabeth-class battleships with full main guns.

The fifth formation is divided into 8 teams, 36 British revenge-class battleships and 36 American Colorado-class battleships.

第六编队分为5支战队，下辖20艘仙缘级字级全主炮战列舰、10艘德国国王级全主炮战列舰、10艘德国凯撒级全主炮战列舰、5艘法国科尔贝级全主炮战列舰。

第七编队分为5支战队，12艘“曙”字级全主炮战列舰、8艘英国户座级全主炮战列舰、6艘英国铁公爵级全主炮战列舰、14艘曾经缴获的全主炮战列舰。

The eighth formation is divided into 6 teams, under the jurisdiction of 52 battleships with full main guns captured in the Longjing Island naval battle.

The Ninth Formation is divided into 4 teams, under the jurisdiction of 36 British Hood-class battlecruisers.

第十编队分为8支战队，下辖24艘英国狮级战列巡洋舰、14艘德国塞德利茨级战列巡洋舰和12艘德国毛奇级战列巡洋舰和16艘缴获的战列巡洋舰。

Formation No.11 is divided into 6 teams, under the jurisdiction of 30 Dongying King Kong-class battlecruisers and 20 traditional-class battlecruisers.

The No.12 formation is divided into 7 teams, under the jurisdiction of 56 British prestige-class battlecruisers.

The number of battleships with full main guns in the entire Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet has become 494, and the number of battlecruisers has become 208.

The biggest feature of the new organization is that each team has at least 8 capital ships.

In addition, each main formation of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet will still be equipped with 24 large armored cruisers, 40 light cruisers and 48 destroyers.

After the commendation meeting, Zhou Rui came to Song Limin's office, "Old Song, is there any problem with the staffing of the new warship?"

Song Limin said: "Don't worry, Commander, the reserve personnel of our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet used to be as high as nearly one million, and all the officers and soldiers of the new warships have been fully equipped.

However, these officers and soldiers need to adapt for a period of time before these new warships can exert their due combat effectiveness. "

Zhou Rui said in a deep voice: "Hurry up and train, the six orc nations may not give us too much time."

"Marshal, haven't the six orc nations reached an agreement on the formation of a coalition?"

Zhou Rui shook his head, "According to the information we got, the six orc nations were all greedy, and they all hoped to take more things from our Zhou family, but they froze there."

Song Limin hesitated for a moment and said, "Commander, our Southwest Coast Defense Fleet is stronger than before.

If we can announce the real situation of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet to the outside world, will it make those six orc nations even more afraid?

Maybe"

Song Limin didn't finish his sentence, but Zhou Rui understood what Song Limin wanted to say.

Since the declaration of war with the six orc nations, although the newspapers of the Zhou family's various towns have always promoted the belief that the Zhou family's army will win.

However, the top management of the Zhou family, including Zhou Rui, are all under a lot of pressure. After all, this is a simultaneous declaration of war with six orc nations.

Zhou Rui pondered for a while and said: "There is no need, even if the six orc nations knew that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet had more than 100 more capital ships, they would never choose to compromise.

Why not hide these more than 100 capital ships, and give the navies of the six orc countries a big surprise in the future. "

Zhou Rui understood that the reason why the six orc nations declared war on the Zhou family was because the rise of the Zhou family violated the interests of the entire orc tribe.

The stronger the power displayed by the Zhou family, the more united the six orc nations will become. They will never choose to make peace without fighting just because the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet has more than 100 more capital ships.

Song Limin heard Zhou Rui say this, and did not continue this topic, "Marshal, the Liang Yan Navy has made it clear that until the end of this war, the two main fleets of the Liang Yan Navy are willing to accept the command of our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet. .”