The end of the military era

It turned out that more than a month ago, the Lu family of Tongze City purchased four fury-class all-steel battleships from the Black Bear Empire that its navy was planning to seal up.

狂暴级是黑熊帝国建造的第一款全钢制战列舰，满载排水量11500吨，最高航速155节，装备了2座双联装35倍口径270毫米主炮，6门35倍口径170毫米副炮。

8门四十倍口径65毫米速射炮，8门30毫米高射炮，12挺13毫米高射机枪，4具420毫米鱼雷发射管。

The side armor belt is 110 mm to 185 mm, the main deck armor is 55 mm, the main turret armor is 270 mm, and the crew is full of 685 people.

At the beginning, the Black Bear Empire built ten fury-class all-steel battleships in one go. Except for two that sank in the war with the Bull Empire, the remaining eight fury-class all-steel battleships, the Navy Department of the Black Bear Empire planned to seal them all up.

However, the eight Furious-class all-steel battleships were later sold by the Navy Department of the Black Bear Empire.

The Lu family of Tongze City bought four of them at a high price of 1950 million silver coins.

As a result, the size of the Tongze fleet has expanded to five all-steel battleships, four iron-clad battleships, three armored cruisers, four destroyers, eight offshore gunboats, and six torpedo boats, with a total tonnage of more than 11 tons.

The Tongze Fleet of this size has become an important maritime force even in the entire Han and Tang Empires.

The other four fury-class all-steel battleships of the Black Bear Empire were recently bought by the Xiyun Fleet of the Liu family in Xiyun City, Fengwu Town.

As for why the Tongze Fleet came to the waters near Ganyang City and launched an attack on the Coastal Defense Fleet?

The intelligence department of Fengwu Jiedu Mansion is also unclear.

Looking at the information on the two pieces of paper in his hand, Zhou Rui frowned suddenly.

It was not the Tongze Fleet that made Zhou Rui frown. Even if the Tongze Fleet had added four Fury-class all-steel battleships, they would not be able to compare with Zhou's coastal defense fleet in terms of total tonnage.

What's more, the coastal defense fleet will soon add three more tough-class all-steel battleships and six Banshee-class ironclad battleships.

Among the many navies of the Han and Tang Empires, except perhaps the naval fleet of Shuonan Town, there was no fleet that could surpass the Zhou family's coastal defense fleet in terms of tonnage.

What really made Zhou Rui frown was that the Liu family's Xiyun Fleet actually bought four fury-class all-steel battleships at a high price!

Although Zhou Rui didn't care about the military affairs of the garrison brigade in his previous life, Zhou Rui can be sure that in his memory, the Liu family in his previous life never bought four fury-class all-steel battleships.

It seems that my own rebirth seems to have changed a lot of things, which made Zhou Rui feel a sense of inexplicable crisis.

Zhou Rui pondered for a while and said: "Fengwu Town and Zhenwei Town are still at war, so it is understandable for Zhenwei Army's Tongze Fleet to attack our coastal defense fleet."

Suddenly Zhou Rui's voice changed, and his tone became gloomy, "But the 249 brothers in our coastal defense fleet can't just die in vain.

I want the Lu family in Tongze City to repay this hatred twice as much! "

Song Limin stood up straight away, "Major General, give your order! The blood of our coastal defense fleet cannot be shed in vain!"

The other naval officers in the conference room were also furious at this time, and challenged Zhou Rui one after another.

Zhou Rui slowly stood up from his seat, "I order the coastal defense fleet to mobilize immediately!

Tomorrow morning, we will go to Tongze City! "

At this time, in the bridge of the all-steel battleship Jixiang, the flagship of the Tongze Fleet, Sun Fengan, the first officer, took a telegram and said to the captain Lu Mao: "Young Master, the Patriarch sent another telegram asking us to overcome Difficulties, return to Tongze Port as soon as possible."

The captain of the Auspicious Ship, Lu Mao, is the eldest son of Lu Junke, the current head of the Lu family in Tongze City, and the heir of the next head of the Lu family.

In addition, Lu Mao also served as the commander-in-chief of the Tongze Fleet.

Lu Mao looked a little annoyed at this time, "I originally wanted to intercept the four violent-class all-steel battleships purchased by the Liu family in Xiyun City, but in the end, by mistake, they fought against the Zhou family's coastal defense fleet in Ganyang City. one game."

It turned out that the Lu family in Tongze City had learned that their family's feud, the Xiyun Liu family, had bought the other four fury-class all-steel battleships of the Black Bear Empire.

Moreover, more than 2000 people were sent directly to an overseas naval base of the Black Bear Empire to receive four warships.

Immediately dispatched five all-steel battleships and three armored cruisers, ready to intercept halfway.

It would be best to capture the four fury-class all-steel battleships newly bought by Xiyun Liu's family. If they cannot be captured, they should be sunk as much as possible.

However, due to the weather, the five all-steel battleships and three armored cruisers of the Tongze Fleet deviated from the waterway and came to the waters near Ganyang City, where they encountered six warships from the Coastal Defense Fleet for sea training.

Because the Zhou family's coastal defense fleet and the Liu family's Xiyun fleet both carried the banner of the Fengwu Army.

The five all-steel battleships and three armored cruisers of the Tongze Fleet mistook the six warships of the Coastal Defense Fleet for the battleships of the Xiyun Fleet, so they launched the bombardment first.

When the two sides got closer, the Tongze Fleet realized that they had found the wrong opponent, but Lu Mao saw that it was a warship of the Ganyang City Coastal Defense Fleet, so he did not order to stop the bombardment.

Anyway, it's all Fengwu Army's fleet, so it's not wrong to fight.

It wasn't until Lu Mao found reinforcements from the coastal defense fleet of Ganyang City in the distance that Lu Mao gave the order to retreat.

In this encounter, although none of the Tongze Fleet was sunk, one main gun of a Furious-class all-steel battleship was destroyed.

A large hole was blown open in the side armor of a Fury-class all-steel battleship. Although the flooded cabin was sealed in time, the battleship did not sink, but because hundreds of tons of seawater entered, the battleship's highest The speed has dropped to less than 11 knots.

Sun Feng'an said with a wry smile: "Young master, we have sunk a cruiser of the Zhou family. The Zhou family will never let it go. We must return to Tongze Port as soon as possible to prevent the Zhou family's Ganyang fleet from attacking Tongze Port. revenge.

As for the four Berserkers newly bought by Xiyun Liu's family, we can only let them go for the time being. "

Lu Mao spread his hands, and said with some frustration: "I also want to rush back to Tongze Port as soon as possible, but now we don't even know where we are, so we can only sail in a general direction.

I hope that after dawn, we can find the correct route. "

Chapter 58 Extreme Joy Begets Sadness

On the morning of July 7, a large fleet sailed out of Ganyang Military Port.

In order to avenge the 249 officers and soldiers of the coastal defense fleet, the coastal defense fleet can be said to have exhausted its main force, dispatching a total of [-] warships.

These include the six all-steel battleships Zhenhai, Canghai, Jinghai, Weihai, Yanghai and Longhai of the first formation.

The four large armored cruisers of the second formation are Pinghai, Anhai, Tonghai and Jiehai.

As well as the three light cruisers Feiting, Feijie, and Feirong of the task force, and the two destroyers Kuaishun and Lishun.

Since the Coastal Defense Fleet is still in short supply, in order to staff the [-] warships, Zhou Rui even dispatched a group of people who had sailed to sea from the Second Infantry Regiment and the Third Infantry Regiment of the garrison brigade. soldiers, to fill some unskilled positions, such as shoveling coal into boilers.

Because it is not going to really attack Tongze City this time, there is no organized army unit, and they will go to sea with the coastal defense fleet.

According to the information currently held by the Zhou family, Tongze City is almost completely controlled by the Lu family. In addition to the Tongze Fleet, the Lu family also has an infantry division and an independent infantry brigade in Tongze City.

With the strength of the Zhou family's army, there is still no way to gnaw down the tough bone of Tongze City.

This time Zhou Ruili disregarded all opinions and boarded the flagship of the Coastal Defense Fleet, Zhenhai, and decided to go with him for revenge.

Regarding going to Tongze City, Zhou Rui was actually uneasy.

You must know that the Tongze Fleet of the Lu family in Tongze City is not a soft persimmon, not to mention that the port of Tongze City has built several forts and has many large-caliber coastal defense guns.

But Zhou Rui can't do it if he doesn't go, the lottery system just released a new mission for Zhou Rui not long ago: personally lead the fleet to revenge. (rewarded according to the results of revenge)