The end of the military era

In addition, more than 500 officers and soldiers drawn from the third infantry regiment of the garrison brigade will form an independent battalion to be stationed on Xiwei Island.

Because of the lack of fresh water resources on Xiwei Island, there are still about 3000 islanders living on the island, so it is impossible for the Zhou family to deploy too many army troops and warships on Xiwei Island.

With too many troops stationed, fresh water must be transported to Xiwei Island from other places.

In the early morning of the next day, except for the Zhenwu and Zhenji, the other eight warships of the Coastal Defense Fleet left Xiwei Island and continued to sail westward.

In the evening of the same day, eight warships of the coastal defense fleet arrived at a small island about 220 kilometers away from Xiwei Island.

This small island was originally the lair of the living pirate King Cui He. After Cui He died, the remaining pirate ships under his command were basically annexed by another pirate leader, Gui Jianchou, and this small island fell into the The ghost sees the hand of sorrow.

Gui Jianchou saw that the terrain of this small island was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he moved his old nest directly to this small island.

Zhou Rui once heard Zhu Shaoqing, the captain of the Jiehai armored cruiser, who was also Hu Wei, the former third head of the Living King Cuihe, mention this small island.

According to Zhu Shaoqing, the area of ​​this small island is less than 10 square kilometers. Although it is small in size, it has a natural deep-water port, which can even berth dozens of [-]-ton giant ships at the same time.

And the three sides of this deep-water port are surrounded by towering rocky peaks in a crescent shape, forming a natural barrier for the port waters, and the only exit is less than 300 meters wide.

If forts can be built on the rocky peaks on both sides of the exit, then the deep-water port of this small island will immediately become a naval base that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

However, this small island is a bit far from Ganyang City, Zhou Rui has never considered occupying this small island before.

Now that Zhou Rui was about to extract the warships in the lottery system, he couldn't help thinking of the small island that Zhu Shaoqing had mentioned.

The eight warships of the Coastal Defense Fleet suddenly appeared outside the small island, scaring Gui Jianshou so much that he almost peed his pants.

Although Gui Jianchou has more than 20 pirate ships, most of them are armed merchant ships transformed from freighters. Even if there are a few second-hand warships, they are all old ships with poor combat effectiveness. compared to the fleet.

Although Gui Jianchou has been nesting on this small island, Gui Jianchou has heard about what the Zhou family in Ganyang has done in the past few months.

The question is, why did the Ganyang Zhou family come all the way here?

To the current Ganyang Zhou family, I am like an ant. The Ganyang Zhou family can crush me to death with a little finger. Is it a crime to mobilize the crowd like this?

Soon the Coastal Defense Fleet sent a letter to the island, Gui Jianchou opened it, and was immediately annoyed.

This letter was written by Zhou Rui himself, which means that the Zhou family in Ganyang has taken a fancy to this small island, and they will give Gui Jianchou one night, so that Gui Jianchou will take people to leave immediately.

Otherwise, the Ganyang Zhou family's naval and land forces will attack this small island early in the morning.

A confidant then cautiously asked Gui Jianchou: "What should we do, master?"

Gui Jianchou said angrily: "The Zhou family in Ganyang is really deceiving people too much. They told me to evacuate overnight. Do I have to evacuate overnight?"

The confidant immediately said in horror: "Master, please don't!"

The confidant hadn't finished speaking when he was interrupted by Gui Jianchou, "Tell the brothers, move quickly, and we will leave in the middle of the night!"

"Uh, I see, the head of the family!"

Chapter 76 Insider House

Gui Jianchou was actually very worried, whether the eight warships of Ganyang Zhou's family would launch an attack while the pirate ships under him were evacuating.

It wasn't until Gui Jianchou took more than 20 pirate ships and was more than 20 kilometers away from the island that Gui Jianchou let go of his heart.

On the bridge of Gui Jianchou's flagship armored battleship, a confidant asked Gui Jianchou, "Master, where are we going next?"

Ghost said in a sad voice: "Let's go to the isolated island more than 100 kilometers south of Xiangshi Island!

The Zhou family in Ganyang seized Jingsheng City and occupied Xiwei Island. It will be difficult to make a living in this sea area in the future.

Since we can't afford to offend them, we can only hide farther away. Let's go to the sea area of ​​the Bajin Empire to reopen, and we will still eat meat and drink in big bowls. "

After Gui Jianchou tactfully ran overnight, eight warships from the Coastal Defense Fleet entered the port of this small island early the next morning.

Zhou Rui was very satisfied with the terrain of the port of this small island. According to Zhou Rui's order that night, the eight warships of the coastal defense fleet left the port again, and conducted a night combat readiness exercise in the sea area about 30 kilometers north of the small island. .

When it was dawn and the coastal defense fleet returned to the port of the small island, there were already fourteen extra giant ships on the berths of the port.

On the bridge of a German Moltke-class battlecruiser, Song Limin excitedly said to Zhou Rui: "Major General, the markings and operating manuals of these warships are all written by our Han and Tang Empire.

In this way, the fourteen warships can form combat effectiveness faster! "

After the 4 German Moltke-class battlecruisers, 4 British Invincible-class battlecruisers and 6 German York-class armored cruisers were extracted, like the army weapons produced by the lottery system, all the markings and operating manuals were Chinese. The characters of the Tang Empire.

Although Song Limin was very puzzled about the fourteen warships that appeared out of thin air overnight, he knew what to ask and what not to ask.

Since Zhou Rui was unwilling to explain too much, Song Limin consciously suppressed his doubts in his heart.

For Song Limin, the most important thing is that the coastal defense fleet has added [-] new cutting-edge warships.

"Old Song, the reason why I chose to hand over fourteen warships here is because I am worried that these fourteen warships will attract the attention of six orc nations and cause trouble for our Zhou family.

Especially the eight battlecruisers that have the powerful firepower of a battleship with all main guns and the high mobility of an armored cruiser. "

Song Limin said disapprovingly: "Young General, there is no need to worry too much.

Even if these fourteen warships are exposed, there is no need for our Zhou family to explain their origins to outsiders.

What's more, with these eight battlecruisers, the strength of our coastal defense fleet has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Even in the face of the Fifth Fleet of the Red Tiger Empire Navy stationed on Fengsha Island, our coastal defense fleet no longer needs to be afraid.

You must know that the Fifth Fleet of the Red Tiger Empire Navy is only equipped with three battleships with full main guns, while our coastal defense fleet now has eight ships!

As long as we don't take the initiative to disclose to the public, just looking at the appearance of the eight battlecruisers, the outside world should think that they are eight battleships with full main guns! "

Zhou Rui's eyes lit up, "Indeed, just looking at the appearance, isn't this just eight battleships with full main guns.

If the coastal defense fleet had eight battleships with full main guns, no matter which orc country's navy would have to think carefully before provoking our Zhou family. "

"What the Major General said is absolutely true!

These days, as long as the strength is strong enough, even the six great orc empires have to avoid their edge, such as the navy of the Liangyan Empire. "

The land area of ​​the Liangyan Empire is about 318 million square kilometers. It is one of the few human countries where the royal family can still control the whole country.

Regardless of the land area of ​​the Liangyan Empire, which is less than one-fifth of the Han and Tang Empires, the Liangyan Empire is the most developed country in industry and technology among human countries.

In recent years, the navy of the Liangyan Empire has been dubbed the strongest navy of mankind.

Just a few months ago, the first all-main-gun battleship independently built by the Liangyan Empire had officially entered the service of the Liangyan Empire's navy, and three all-main-gun battleships were in service at the same time.

Perhaps the navy of any orc nation is stronger than the navy of the Liangyan Empire, but due to the many conflicts among the six orc nations, no one is willing to take the initiative to provoke the Liangyan Empire, lest their own naval strength be damaged , let the hostile orc nation take advantage of it.

Hearing Song Limin's words, Zhou Rui felt much more at ease, "Old Song, next I need a coastal defense fleet, and I will secretly deploy personnel to enter this small island, so that these eight battlecruisers and six large armored cruisers can be dispatched as soon as possible. Form combat power.