The end of the military era

Even the so-called elite Second Mixed Brigade had defected to the enemy. How could the four infantry regiments dare to stay here? They hurriedly packed their bags and retreated to their respective cities.

Xu Lihai asked for a galloping horse, and hurried back to Linxing city.

After Xu Wanpeng, the governor of Zhenwei Jiedu, slapped Xu Lihai hard, he cursed angrily: "You trash, a mixed brigade of more than 7000 people, didn't even splash a little water, and you were killed by the Fengwu Town!" The Zhou family has been incorporated!

How did you lead the troops all these years, brigade commander! "

Xu Lihai was slapped across the face by Xu Wanpeng, but he felt more at ease in his heart.

Xu Lihai knew his uncle Xu Wanpeng's temper very well. If someone made a mistake and Xu Wanpeng beat and scolded him, then basically the major incident would be reduced to a minor one.

Once Xu Wanpeng doesn't beat or scold, then something bad will happen and people will die!

"Uncle, it's all my fault, no matter how you punish me, I admit it!"

At this time, Xu Wanpeng's eldest son, Xu Lijiang, asked: "Father commander, are you still mobilizing troops to counterattack Jingsheng City?"

Xu Wanpeng gritted his teeth and said, "Let that Zhou family in Fengwu Town be rampant for a while, and then settle accounts with that Zhou family when the commander-in-chief is free!

Recapturing Jingyang City is the most important thing now! "

Chapter 68 Jinshui Zhou's House

Zhou Rui was very happy. He did not expect that the plan to buy high-level officers of the Zhenwei Army Second Mixed Brigade would go so smoothly. In this way, the Zhenwei Army Second Mixed Brigade was almost completely annexed by the Zhou family.

Li Zhikui, Hu Wei, Liu Hengsheng, Yuan Wei, and Song Lei, as well as the five former deputy officers of the Second Mixed Brigade of the Zhenwei Army who also received money, expressed their interest in not wanting to stay in the army any longer. .

So they took the gold coupons and bricks given by the Zhou family, and left Jingsheng City by boat with their families. Most of them would go to Ganyang City to settle down.

Because of the incorporation of three infantry regiments, a heavy cavalry battalion and a guard battalion from the Zhenwei Army's second mixed brigade.

Zhou Rui changed the original expansion plan. In addition to forming the No. 20 Second Independent Brigade Third Infantry Regiment, the formation of the No. 20 Second Independent Brigade Fourth Infantry Regiment was also put on the agenda.

No. 20 Second Independent Brigade Fourth Infantry Regiment, under the suggestion of his second uncle Zhou Xiaorong, Zhou Rui handed it over to Hou Lian, the former company commander of the guard battalion of the garrison brigade who had just recovered from serious injuries.

Back then outside Jingyang City, after Zhou Xiaozheng was seriously injured, it was Hou Lian who rushed to the front with his people and forced a hole in the Zhenwei Army's encirclement to allow Ma Tiezhu to escape with Zhou Xiaozheng on his back .

However, Hou Lian was seriously injured because of this, and after being carried back to Ganyang City by his guards, he has been recuperating in a hospital in Ganyang City for the past few months.

Zhou Xiaorong recommended Hou Lian not only because Hou Lian was brave in battle and loyal to the Zhou family, but also because Hou Lian, who was just 30 years old this year, had received systematic military training at an army academy in Shuodong Town.

It's just that the Army Academy in Shuodong Town is much less famous than Shuonan Army Academy.

Since Zhou Rui didn't care much about the garrison brigade in his previous life, he only knew some regiment and battalion commanders. Zhou Rui had no impression of Hou Lian at all, and he didn't know what happened to Hou Lian.

But Zhou Rui still believed in the vision of his second uncle Zhou Xiaorong, not to mention that Hou Lian had saved his father Zhou Xiaozheng's life, presumably in the last life, Hou Lian might have died in battle in Ganyang City with a high probability.

Hou Lian then followed Zhou Rui's order to form the Fourth Infantry Regiment of the No.20 Second Independent Brigade directly in Ganyang City.

In order for Zhou Rui to integrate the thousands of veterans of the Zhenwei Army’s Second Mixed Brigade into the Zhou family’s garrison brigade and the No.20 Second Independent Brigade, in addition to the No. The remaining troops of the two brigades underwent a large-scale reorganization.

At the beginning of September in 1536, the Zhou family's garrison brigade and the No.9 Second Independent Brigade, not only the seven infantry regiments under its jurisdiction, basically completed the reorganization of personnel.

The Ganyang City Fortress Heavy Artillery Regiment and Guard Battalion affiliated to the garrison brigade, the Jingshengcheng Coastal Defense Battalion and Heavy Cavalry Battalion affiliated to the No. 20 Second Independent Brigade, and the city defense battalion responsible for public security in Jingsheng City are also fully staffed.

On the morning of September 9, Zhou Rui stood on the deck of the all-steel battleship Jinghai, looked at the endless sea, turned to Wang Hongchun, the captain of the Jinghai, and asked, "Old Wang, how long will it take to arrive?" Ganyang City?"

"Major General, in about three hours, the fleet will definitely be able to return to the naval port before one o'clock in the afternoon."

This time Zhou Rui returned to Ganyang City. In addition to the all-steel battleship Jinghai, the all-steel battleship Weihai and two large armored cruisers Tonghai and Jiehai participated in the escort.

"Old Wang, what do you think of the Jinshui Zhou family in the Bajin Empire?"

Wang Hongchun said angrily: "Lieutenant general, although the general was born in the Jinshui Zhou family of the Bajin Empire, our Ganyang Zhou family has the current situation, but it has nothing to do with the Jinshui Zhou family of the Bajin Empire.

Why did the Jinshui Zhou family of the Bajin Empire buy six battleships from our Ganyang Zhou family with a single word! "

The reason why Zhou Rui returned to Ganyang City at this time was because, on the one hand, it was getting closer and closer to the time when the beast horde broke out at the different time and space node in Panlong Mountain.

Zhou Rui had to return to Ganyang City to take command in person. After all, apart from Zhou Rui, the rest of the Zhou family didn't even know that the beast tide that hadn't erupted for several years would be encountered by the Zhou family's rotating troops stationed at different time and space nodes.

On the other hand, it was because the Jinshui Zhou family of the Bajin Empire sent people to Ganyang City to buy the six all-steel battleships of the first formation of the Coastal Defense Fleet.

You must know that the six all-steel battleships in the first formation of the Coastal Defense Fleet can be regarded as the six most powerful warships in the current sequence of the Coastal Defense Fleet.

The reason why the Jinshui Zhou family of the Bajin Empire was so powerful was that Zhou Rui's father came from the Jinshui Zhou family of the Bajin Empire.

Zhou Xiaozheng never mentioned the Jinshui Zhou family of the Bajin Empire to Zhou Rui. In his last life, until Zhou Rui was shot dead by the Lion Clan, he didn't know that he could still be related to the Jinshui Zhou family of the Bajin Empire.

The Bajin Empire is located in the northwest of the Han and Tang Empires, with a land area of ​​about 400 square kilometers.

Before the emergence of different time and space nodes, the Bajin Empire was a vassal state of the Han and Tang Empires, and the new emperor of the Bajin Empire needed an edict issued by the emperor of the Han and Tang Empires.

Later, because of the disaster of fierce beasts, the territory of the Bajin Empire was like the Han and Tang Empires, and the generals who controlled the military power all separated one side after another.

It's just that the royal family of the Bajin Empire was even more miserable. In the end, they didn't even keep their capital, and could only be exiled to Tiansheng City, the capital of the Han and Tang Empires.

The Bajin Empire has a total of five provinces, namely Eastern Province, Southern Province, Western Province, Northern Province, and Kyoto Province. At present, each province has several separatist forces.

The Jinshui Zhou family of the Bajin Empire is a large family that has been entrenched in the southern province for hundreds of years, and now controls almost one-third of the southern province.

Zhou Xiaozheng sent a telegram to Zhou Rui, roughly explaining his relationship with Jinshui Zhou's family.

Zhou Xiaozheng can be regarded as a collateral descendant of the Jinshui Zhou family, and has been related to the head of the Jinshui Zhou family for five years. However, Zhou Xiaozheng's name has also been included in the family tree of the Jinshui Zhou family.

When Zhou Xiaozheng was 17 years old, his parents died of a plague, so he took his cousin Zhou Xiaorong, who also lost his parents in the plague, to leave his hometown and come to the Han and Tang Empires. In Ganyang City, the banner of the Zhou family in Ganyang was broken out.

Zhou Rui smiled slightly, "Old Wang, there is no way, there are always some self-righteous guys in the world."

Wang Hongchun still said indignantly: "If you want me to say, just drive out the Jinshui Zhou family and it's over. There is no need for the major general to go back."

"Second uncle sent me a telegram, saying that the people sent by Jinshui Zhou's family had been kind to my grandfather and my father, so my father asked me to go back and sing my face."

Zhou Rui then changed the topic, "Old Wang, the six fury-class all-steel battleships that the third formation is undergoing maintenance on Fengsha Island, although the Weiwu and Weiji will be exchanged with Xiyun Liu's for Xiwei island.

But the third formation will still have Weijia, Weiyi, Weibing, and Weiding left. I want to transfer you to the third formation as the commander. Would you like it? "

When Wang Hongchun heard it, his head shook like a rattle, "Major General, I won't go to the third formation!

I already have a relationship with Jinghai, you can't separate us! "

Wang Hongchun thought to himself: The formation commander has a use!

If there was a real fight, it would be no problem for the Jinghai to single out the four fury-class all-steel battleships of the third formation.

I, Wang Hongchun, will never leave the Jinghai in my life!

Zhou Rui knew why Wang Hongchun was unwilling to go to the third formation.