On the evening of September 29, in the bridge of the battleship Red Horned Eagle of the Third Fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire, First Officer Oss held a telegram in his hand and said to Captain Yelke: "The commander has sent a telegram to us to evacuate Xiangshi Island. ”

Yeerke, who was wearing the rank of brigadier general, twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, "It seems that that fat pig must have scavenged a lot of silver coins from the Zhou family in Jinshui City."

This is the end of the armed parade, send a telegram to the other ships! ”

First mate Oss hesitated, "General, why don't we just occupy Xiangshi Island?"

With the strength of the Third Fleet, it should be easy to capture Xiangshi Island. ”

Yelk stretched, "Os, the empire's territory in the New World is large enough, and those old men in the House of Parliament will not rashly provoke a war in order to occupy a small island, even if this war is easy to win." ”

"But general, this Ganyang Zhou family of the Han and Tang Empire has a very strong fleet, once the Ganyang Zhou family controls the strategic location of Xiangshi Island, it will be a threat to our Third Fleet."

"Threats? Hehe.

With some second-hand all-steel battleships bought, this Ganyang Zhou family is at most a trouble for the Third Fleet, which is equipped with seven all-main gun battleships, and it has not risen to the point of threat.

If the Empire intends to expand its sphere of influence in this sea area in the future, our Third Fleet can easily destroy this seemingly powerful human fleet. ”

Then Yelk instructed the first mate, Oss: "Call back to that fat pig, the Red Horned Eagle formation is about to return." ”

First mate Oss said helplessly: "General, I suggest that you better ease the relationship with the commander, otherwise your promotion report, the commander may not sign it." ”

Yelk smiled and said, "Os, you are still too young.

It was because I had a conflict with the fat pig that this promotion would be approved, and our commander, who was like a fat pig, didn't have a pig's brain. ”

On the morning of September 30, after the withdrawal of 12 warships of the Third Fleet of the Silver Wolf Imperial Navy, the Haiphong Fleet and the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 22nd Independent Brigade were immediately stationed in Xiangshi Harbor.

The whole receiving process was uneventful, and there were no other twists and turns.

Since the Bajin Empire was a vassal state of the Han and Tang Empires for nearly a thousand years, there was almost no difference between the two countries regardless of language, culture, and customs.

Therefore, the Bajin people on Xiangshi Island did not have any resistance to the Ganyang Zhou family taking over Xiangshi Island.

Among the 30 administrators drawn from Jingsheng City, the leader is Sun Anben, the brother-in-law of Peng Hongchao, the city lord of Jingsheng City, and Sun Anben will temporarily act as the city lord of Xiangshi City.

The Zhou family did not have any talents who could govern the place and handle government affairs before, and after the children of the Zhou family in Jinshui withdrew from Xiangshi City, Zhou Rui could only transfer personnel from the original administrative system of Jingsheng City to take over the government affairs and people's livelihood work in Xiangshi City.

Anyway, as long as Zhou Rui firmly controls the gun, these administrators who originally belonged to Zhenwei Town, even if they are a little careful, they can't set off too much storm.

Although he finally took over Xiangshi Port and Xiangshi City, Zhou Rui was not happy.

The Third Fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire Navy had previously blocked the Zhou family's move to take over Xiangshi Port, which could be regarded as a slap in the face of the Zhou family.

However, the Zhou family could only cover their swollen faces, and they didn't even dare to say a cruel word, and Zhou Rui even had the idea of giving up the island exchange agreement.

It's still not strong enough!

However, Zhou Rui looked at the eight newly opened warships in the lottery system, and his mood was a little better.

As long as this magical lottery system exists, you will be able to get this face back sooner or later.

After completing the task of "Quelling the Beast Tide", a three-star lottery card was used by Zhou Rui, and three rewards were issued.

50 kg gold bricks (20,000 pieces)

French Colbe-class battleships (4 ships)

Primary Fitness Enhancement Potion (15 bottles)

According to the introduction of the lottery system, the French Colbe-class battleship has a full load displacement of 26,000 tons and a maximum speed of 20 knots.

It was equipped with 6 twin 45x caliber 305 mm main guns, 22 55x caliber 138 mm secondary guns, 4 47 mm anti-aircraft guns, and 4 450 mm torpedo tubes.

The broadside armor belt was from 128 mm to 262 mm, the main deck armor was 25 mm, the main turret armor was 300 mm, and the crew was 1108 people.

A two-star lottery card given by the lottery system in October opened four more German York-class armored cruisers, making the number of York-class large armored cruisers in the coastal defense fleet about to rise to 10.

The four French Corbe-class battleships are obviously all-main-gun battleships, and their performance in all aspects can at least be among the best even compared with many all-main-gun battleships in various beast countries.

It's just that the French Corbe-class battleships, like other warships issued by the lottery system, have some weak anti-aircraft firepower.

You must know that on the sea, you will often be attacked by flying beasts, and if you don't have enough anti-aircraft firepower, it is likely to bring very large losses to warships and personnel, or even destroy ships.

At present, Zhou Rui has extracted 4 Moltke-class battlecruisers, 4 Invincible-class battlecruisers and 6 York-class armored cruisers on Crescent Island, and a batch of MG-34 general-purpose machine guns and several 30mm anti-aircraft guns will be added to enhance anti-aircraft firepower.

The reason why several 30mm anti-aircraft guns were added to each warship was to protect against adult dragons.

Adult dragons are all king-level fierce beasts, and the defensive power of that dragon skin, I am afraid that even with the powerful firepower of the MG-34 general-purpose machine gun, it may not be able to break the defense.

The 4 Kolbe-class battleships and 4 York-class armored cruisers reserved in the lottery system, Zhou Rui is not in a hurry to extract them for the time being.

After all, with the current situation of the coastal defense fleet, it is not known how long it will take to complete the 14 warships on Crescent Island.

The problem of insufficient personnel in the coastal defense fleet is definitely a hard wound for the current Zhou family.

In addition, there is another restrictive aspect of the warships extracted from the lottery system, which is the problem of shells.

Although these warships will carry a certain number of shells when they are extracted into the real world, these shells will eventually run out.

At present, the caliber of artillery of warships in various countries in the world is basically based on decimal millimeters, such as the caliber of the main gun is 300 mm, and the navies of various countries will choose the main guns with a caliber of 310 mm or 320 mm.

However, many of the warships in the lottery system have strange gun calibers, such as the all-main gun battleship just drawn, the main gun caliber is 305 mm, and the secondary gun caliber is 138 mm.

There are no shells of these two calibers sold all over the world, and once the shells carried by the four French Corbe-class battleships themselves are exhausted, they can only be turned into decorations.

In order to solve the problem of artillery shells being restricted, Zhou Rui sent people to contact whether there were any arsenals willing to produce special caliber artillery shells.

On the other hand, it is preparing to establish an artillery shell factory belonging to the Zhou family, which will be mainly used to produce large-caliber artillery shells for the coastal defense fleet.

On the morning of October 3, Zhou Xiaorong reported to Zhou Rui: "Major General, several orc arms dealers who had traded with our Zhou family before saw our order for special caliber shells, and they all rejected them. ”

Zhou Rui asked in a deep voice: "What about the order to buy machinery and equipment from the artillery shell factory?" ”

Zhou Xiaorong said with a wry smile: "Those beast arms dealers have the same caliber, saying that these machinery and equipment are prohibited from being exported by various beast countries.

It should be impossible to build a shell factory and count on importing machinery and equipment from the beast countries. ”

"Can't we pay a high price?"

"Those orc arms dealers all said that it was not a matter of money, it was that they were not capable of doing such a deal."