The end of the military era

After seeing off the two infantry regiments, Zhou Rui was planning to go to the Nine Stars Hotel to have dinner with Chu Yingying, Zhao Yan, Annie and Aisha.

Thanks to Chu Yingying and Zhao Yan's intentional flattery, the relationship between Annie and Elsa, Chu Yingying and Zhao Yan is now very good.

In the past few days, Annie and Aisha even stayed directly at the Nine Stars Hotel. They would accompany Chu Yingying and Zhao Yan to film during the day, and the four girls set up a mahjong table at night.

This kind of entertainment, which has been passed down for thousands of years in the Han and Tang Empires, has already spread all over the world. Even many orcs in various countries are very obsessed with playing mahjong.

However, before Zhou Rui left the barracks of the garrison brigade, he received an urgent report that several warships of the coastal defense fleet that went out to sea for training today were attacked by an unknown fleet.

After Zhou Rui learned of this situation, he hurriedly led people to the brigade headquarters building, where the headquarters of the Coastal Defense Fleet is currently located.

After seeing Song Limin, the deputy commander-in-chief of the coastal defense fleet, Zhou Rui asked anxiously, "Old Song, what's going on? Who attacked our coastal defense fleet?"

Song Limin said in a deep voice: "Major General, it has been confirmed that it is the Tongze Fleet of the Lu family in Tongze City, Zhenwei Town, that launched an attack on our coastal defense fleet."

Before the Zhenwei Navy Fleet purchased the two all-steel battleships and the two large armored cruisers, the most powerful and largest navy in Zhenwei Town was not the Zhenwei Navy Fleet, but Tongze of the Lu family in Tongze City. fleet.

Of course, there are only five iron-ribbed wood-hull warships and two offshore gunboats left in the Zhenwei Navy fleet, and its strength is no longer comparable to that of the Tongze fleet.

Hearing that the enemy was the Tongze Fleet, Zhou Rui immediately frowned, "Why did the Lu family's Tongze Fleet appear in the waters near Ganyang City?"

Ganyang City, as the largest port city in the western part of the Han and Tang Empires, merchants from the six major orc countries owned a large number of industries in Ganyang City.

So this time when Fengwu Town and Zhenwei Town fought, the six major orc nations warned Zhenwei Jiedushi not to allow any form of attack on Ganyang City.

Zhou Rui didn't think that the Lu family's Tongze Fleet would dare to attack Ganyang City at the risk of offending the six orc nations.

What's more, the scale of Ganyang City's coastal defense fleet should far exceed that of the Lu family's Tongze fleet. At this time, the Lu family's Tongze fleet came to the door, isn't it courting death?

Song Limin shook his head, "I still don't know the opponent's purpose. According to the Long Hai's report, the Lu family's Tongze Fleet is much stronger than what we know, and five all-steel battleships appeared at the same time! "

Three days ago, Zhou Rui purchased a tornado-class all-steel battleship, a blizzard-class all-steel battleship, three ice-bound light cruisers, two summer-class destroyers and more than 200 ships from the Sixth Fleet of the Red Tiger Empire Navy. The artillery shells attached to the ten thousand silver coins have already arrived at the military port of Ganyang City.

This tornado-class all-steel battleship was named Longhai by Zhou Rui, and this blizzard-class all-steel battleship was named Canghai by Zhou Rui.

Both Long Hai and Cang Hai were incorporated into the battleship formation of the Coastal Defense Fleet, also known as the first formation.

Song Limin's son, Song Shengwen, was appointed by Zhou Rui as the captain of the Longhai, and Wang Xin, the son of Jinghai's captain Wang Hongchun, was also promoted by Zhou Rui to become the captain of the Canghai.

The three Frozen-class light cruisers were named Feiting, Feijie, and Feirong, and the two Xiatian-class destroyers were named Kuaishun and Lishun. The captains of these five warships were former coastal defense First or second mate of the fleet.

After Zhou Rui and Song Limin, three Frozen-class light cruisers and two Xiatian-class destroyers were temporarily organized into a special mixed formation of the Coastal Defense Fleet. As a result, the Coastal Defense Fleet now has five formations.

Cao Hui, the captain of the Fei Ting, will also serve as the commander of the task force.

"Five all-steel battleships?

Isn't the Lu family's Tongze fleet only one all-steel battleship purchased from the Liangyan Empire?

Where did the other four all-steel battleships come from?

What other warships are accompanying the Long Hai? "

Song Limin shook his head solemnly and said, "For the time being, I don't know where the four extra all-steel battleships in the Tongze Fleet came from.

Today, the Cang Hai and all four warships of the third formation are also going out to sea for training with the Long Hai. "

Zhou Rui couldn't help feeling tense when he heard this. In order to receive the newly purchased two all-steel battleships, three light cruisers and two destroyers, most of the officers and men of the third formation's two iron-clad battleships and two old-fashioned armored cruisers were transferred. gone.

Most of the two ironclad battleships and two old-fashioned armored cruisers in the third formation are recruits who have just been recruited, which makes the four warships that were not strong in combat even weaker.

In this encounter with the Tongze Fleet, I don't know if these four old ships can hold on?

"Old Song, how is the situation over there?"

"Longhai and Canghai have already exchanged fire with each other, and the specific battle situation has not been reported yet.

I just ordered the two all-steel battleships Weihai and Yanghai, as well as the four armored cruisers of the second formation, to rush over to support them. "

In the middle of the night of July 7, in a meeting room of the Garrison Brigade Headquarters building, the atmosphere was a bit depressing.

Zhou Rui said sadly: "The pension of the fallen soldiers must be sent to the family members in time, and there must be no deduction."

During the naval battle with the Tongze Fleet during the day, the old armored cruiser Bravery of the third formation of the Coastal Defense Fleet was sunk. Of the nearly 300 officers and soldiers on board the Bravery, less than 100 were rescued in the end, and the remaining 196 people were all buried in the sea.

The old-fashioned armored cruiser Ruian was also seriously injured and was barely towed back to the wharf of Ganyang Military Port.

Thirty-two officers and soldiers on the Ryan were also killed.

The all-steel battleship Longhai, the all-steel battleship Canghai, the iron-clad battleship General and the iron-clad battleship Mengjiang also suffered some minor injuries in the naval battle. A total of 21 officers and soldiers of the four ships were killed in battle.

However, the Weihai, Yanghai, and four large armored cruisers that rushed to support later, had not yet participated in the battle, and the Tongze Fleet voluntarily withdrew.

Considering that the enemy's situation is unknown, the coastal defense fleet did not dare to pursue it.

Song Limin said sadly: "Don't worry, Major General, if someone dares to covet the pensions of the soldiers who died in battle, the Major General may only ask me!"

As soon as Song Limin finished speaking, Zhou Xiaorong hurried into the meeting room, "Young General, there is news from Shen Zhi!"

Chapter 57 Mistakes

After the six warships of the Coastal Defense Fleet were attacked by the Tongze Fleet in Zhenwei Town during training, Zhou Rui quickly reported the incident to Fengwu Jiedu Mansion.

At the same time, he called Shen Zhi, the commander of the third division, about this matter.

Zhou Rui hoped that Shen Zhi could help, and asked him to urge Fengwu Jiedu Mansion to find out why the Tongze Fleet appeared in the waters near Ganyang City as soon as possible.

When Shen Zhi learned that the Haiphong Fleet was attacked by the Tongze Fleet, he was taken aback.

Could it be that the Zhenwei army wants to jump over the wall in a hurry and attack Ganyang City?

You must know that Ganyang City, as the most populous city in Fengwu Town, is also the most economically developed city.

At least 40.00% of Fengwu Town's tax revenue comes from Ganyang City, of which Ganyang Mingang's tax revenue accounts for more than 30.00%.

Ganyang City is the pocketbook of Fengwu Town, once something happens to Ganyang City, it may even shake the foundation of Fengwu Town.

Shen Zhi then directly sent a telegram to his father Fengwu Jiedu Envoy Shen Xiao, hoping that Fengwu Jiedu Mansion would find out as soon as possible whether Zhenwei Army had any intention of attacking Ganyang City?

Zhou Rui asked Zhou Xiaorong in a deep voice: "Second Uncle, what did Shen Zhi say?"

With a dark face, Zhou Xiaorong handed Zhou Rui two pieces of paper, "Fengwu Jiedu Mansion is too irresponsible. The intelligence department of Fengwu Jiedu Mansion learned about the purchase of the Tongze Fleet more than a month ago. Enter the information of four all-steel battleships.

As a result, due to human negligence, the intelligence department of Fengwu Jiedu Mansion did not report such important information to our Zhou family!

In addition, Shen Zhi also learned from the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion that the Liu family's Xiyun Fleet also bought four all-steel battleships at a high price. "

Zhou Rui took the two pieces of paper and quickly flipped through them.