The end of the military era

Chapter 25 Task Refresh

In the bridge of the all-steel battleship Zhenhai, Song Limin put down the binoculars in his hand, and ordered in a deep voice to the first officer Song Sheng beside him: "Show the battle alarm!

Order the Jinghai, Pinghai, and Anhai to form a battle line formation with our Zhenhai, ready to seize the T prefix, and fight the three iron-clad battleships of the pirates first!

Order the Dawn to follow the battle line formation and act as a reserve team. "

Song Limin's face was a little solemn at this time. After all, the number of pirate ships combined far exceeded that of the coastal defense fleet.

Even if the two all-steel battleships and two large armored cruisers of the Coastal Defense Fleet are powerful, Song Limin is not fully sure that they can defeat more than 40 pirate ships.

The most important thing is that the coastal defense fleet has received these four warships for too short a time, and the Jinghai has only received it for less than a week.

Song Limin didn't know how much the four warships could fight.

Then Song Limin said to the first officer Song Sheng: "Send a report to the major general again, our coastal defense fleet is about to exchange fire with the pirates, and our coastal defense fleet will not retreat in this battle, and we will win the battle!"

Song Sheng, the chief mate of the Zhenhai, is Song Limin's own son, who is just 22 years old this year.

Song Sheng was able to become the first officer of the Zhenhai, not because Song Limin was nepotism, but because the coastal defense fleet was severely short of officers, and there were many young officers like Song Sheng who were exceptionally promoted from the former coastal defense fleet.

At this time Zhou Rui was sitting in the office of the garrison brigade headquarters, looking quite nervous.

Zhou Rui didn't care much about the five warships that the coastal defense fleet fought. Anyway, there is a lottery system. Even if all five warships are sunk, Zhou Rui will have a way to buy more warships for the coastal defense fleet in the future.

However, those experienced naval officers and soldiers of the coastal defense fleet cannot be recruited with money. Once the coastal defense fleet suffers too many casualties in the naval battle with pirates, it may not be possible for the coastal defense fleet to recover in a few years.

Seeing Zhou Rui's nervousness, Zhou Xiaorong said in a slightly relaxed tone: "Don't worry, major general, the coastal defense fleet has two all-steel battleships, even if they stand still in the sea, they can't be sunk by relying on those broken ships of the pirates.

The coastal defense fleet will definitely win this battle! "

Zhou Rui glanced at Zhou Xiaorong, and couldn't help being amused, "Second Uncle, it seems that you are more nervous than me, and you have taken all the documents backwards."

It was only then that Zhou Xiaorong realized that he had taken a piece of paper at some point in his hand, but he took it down.

Zhou Xiaorong hurriedly turned the document around, and then said with a wry smile: "Although I firmly believe that the coastal defense fleet can win, I still feel very worried.

According to the telegram sent back by the Zhenhai, the pirates gathered more than 40 ships this time, including three armored battleships, two armored cruisers, and four light cruisers.

Even if these nine warships are all old ships, they are still warships after all, and they still have certain combat effectiveness.

If the coastal defense fleet has enough manpower to allow the remaining six warships to participate in the battle, at least the difference in numbers will not be so large. "

Zhou Rui shook his head, "Second Uncle, in my opinion, even the Shuguang should not go into battle.

If the warship sinks, I can buy it again, but our Zhou family cannot afford to lose the experienced naval officers and soldiers of the Coastal Defense Fleet. "

Hearing this, Zhou Xiaorong nodded. He also agrees with Zhou Rui's words. The navy is different from the army. Training professional naval officers and soldiers is by no means a one-time thing.

Zhou Xiaorong then glanced at the document in his hand, and then changed the subject, "Major General, according to the reports sent by various recruiting points, the recruits recruited by our garrison brigade now, not counting the coastal defense fleet, have exceeded our original plan by nearly 2000 people.

Will you continue to let the recruiting points everywhere recruit? "

"Recruit! Now our Zhou family does not lack money to raise soldiers, as long as we can recruit recruits, of course, the more the better.

The four infantry regiments are full, and we can also form the fifth infantry regiment, and even the sixth infantry regiment, and the seventh infantry regiment. Only when we have soldiers in our hands can we have a strong waist these days. "

"But what about the establishment? The Fengwu Jiedu Mansion gave us the establishment of the garrison brigade. Excluding the coastal defense fleet, there are only three infantry regiments, one fort heavy artillery regiment, one heavy cavalry battalion and one guard battalion.

The previous expansion plan of our garrison brigade has been held accountable by the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, and the garrison brigade is required to reduce the number of officers and soldiers who are overstaffed. "

"Hehe." Zhou Rui smiled indifferently.

"Second Uncle, the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion only sent a few telegrams at most, look at the troops controlled by the other five families in Ganyang City, which one is not overstaffed.

At most, the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion stopped the military expenditure of the garrison brigade because of the overstaffing of our garrison brigade, but is our Zhou family still short of that little military expenditure?

Second Uncle, just listen to me, let the recruiting sites everywhere continue to recruit, as long as you pass the medical examination, you can "

As Zhou Rui was talking, he suddenly froze.

"Major General, what's the matter?"

"Oh, it's nothing, as long as you pass the medical examination, you can recruit as many as you can."

"Okay, but according to the expansion plan you made before, each infantry regiment will have an artillery battalion with 12 infantry guns, 3 infantry companies in five infantry battalions, and a regimental guard company. Each is equipped with [-] machine guns.

It turned out that our garrison brigade, not counting the fortress heavy artillery regiment, only had 8 65mm infantry guns and 12 machine guns in total.

所以我通过关系，从一名金狮帝国的军火商手里，花费了335万银币，购买了40门65毫米步兵炮和180挺机枪，还有2万枚65毫米炮弹和100万发11.5毫米机枪子弹。

In this way, the infantry artillery and machine guns of the four infantry regiments are equipped according to the standard.

The original rifles of our garrison brigade, plus the 1 repeating rifles you bought, are enough to equip four infantry regiments.

But if a new infantry regiment is formed, rifles, machine guns, infantry artillery, bullets, and grenades will all have to be purchased again. "

"Second uncle, if you don't have enough weapons, you can continue to buy them. Money is not a problem. I still have 4 pieces of 50-jin silver bricks in my material warehouse in the military port.

In addition, I will also contact the special channel where I bought the repeating rifle last time, and see if I can buy another batch of repeating rifles, bullets, and other weapons and ammunition. "

After speaking, Zhou Rui's eyes glanced at the virtual light screen in front of him.

Zhou Rui was in a daze just now because he found that the task bar of the lottery system had been refreshed again.

Mission: Defeat incoming pirates.Rewards based on achievements

When the coastal defense fleet of Ganyang City was about to start a battle with the joint fleet of four pirates, in a study of Cui's mansion, Cui Hong frowned at his eldest son Cui Tao and asked, "How did the Zhou family give the military port to you in the past few days?" Blocked, did the Zhou family get any rumors?"

Because Cui He didn't have a radio station in his hands, Cui Hong didn't know that a naval battle related to the fate of Ganyang City was about to break out.

Cui Tao said: "Father, after Jia An disappeared, the other eyeliners we planted inside the Zhou family are not high-ranking officials, and they can no longer accurately obtain some important news about the Zhou family.

As for why the Zhou family blocked the military port, the people below have not yet found out. "

"Jia An should have been exposed, and he may have been executed long ago. Regarding the Zhou family's intelligence, we have to strengthen it.

By the way, could the Zhou family do the bombing of the rifle production equipment and the bullet production line? "

Cui Tao hesitated and said, "Father, although I haven't found out who did it, I found out that the old man who bid with me to the end at the auction should be Shen Zhi's."

A cold light flashed in Cui Hong's eyes, "So, Shen Zhi is the most suspected?"

"The five families and Shen Zhi are all suspects. Since no clues were found from the scene of the explosion, it is still impossible to determine who the real culprit is.

But I think Shen Zhi is more suspicious. "

Cui Hong said viciously: "Our Cui family will destroy the other five families sooner or later, and drive the forces of Fengwu Jiedu Mansion out of Ganyang City!