Shortly after the convoy carrying 300,000 Black Bear Imperial Army was attacked, hundreds of warships of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet suddenly appeared in the waters near Diric Harbor in the Kunclair Province of the Wild Bull Empire.

Diric Port is the largest port city in Kunclai Province, with a population of more than one million, and because hundreds of warships belonging to the combined fleet of the six navies are stationed in Direk Port, the Zhou family's army forces have not attacked Direk before.

The more than 100 warships of the combined fleet of the six navies include 4 all-main gun battleships, 2 battle cruisers, 4 all-steel battleships, 4 large armored cruisers, 8 light cruisers and 10 destroyers of the Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire.

As well as 4 all-main-gun battleships, 2 battlecruisers, 2 all-steel battleships, 2 large armored cruisers, 4 light cruisers, and 8 destroyers of the Royal Navy of the Red Tiger Empire.

In addition, there are 4 all-main gun battleships, 4 all-steel battleships, 6 large armored cruisers, 20 light cruisers, and 20 destroyers of the Royal Navy of the Barbarian Empire.

In addition to this, the Bruteox Navy has a garrison fleet of 10 destroyers, 30 torpedo boats, and 12 offshore gunboats in Port Direk.

Of course, the garrison fleet of Port Diric does not belong to the sequence of the combined fleet of the six navies.

The hundreds of warships that appeared in the waters near Port Dirick were the third, fourth, and twelfth formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

The 9 teams of the third formation have 73 German Bavarian-class battleships with full main guns.

The 9 teams of the fourth formation have 72 British Queen Elizabeth-class battleships with full main guns.

The 7 squadrons of the 12th Formation had 56 British Prestige-class battlecruisers under their jurisdiction.

In addition, these three main formations also have 24 large armored cruisers, 40 light cruisers and 48 destroyers under their jurisdiction.

Based on the comparison of forces here in Port Diric, the combined fleet of the six navies is at an absolute disadvantage.

"Bang-" De Direct, the commander of the 66th Army of the Royal Army of the Barbarian Bull Empire, slammed his fist on the desk in front of him, "These cowards!

Not to mention the navy of the Golden Lion Empire and the navy of the Red Tiger Empire for the time being, I didn't expect that the Royal Navy of our Barbarian Bull Empire would also abandon Direk City! ”

It turned out that after the three main formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet appeared in the waters near Diric Port, the naval fleets of the three countries stationed in Direk Port immediately chose to evacuate.

Even the 10 destroyers, 30 torpedo boats, and 12 offshore gunboats of the garrison fleet in Port Diric fled, leaving Direk City with only a hundred thousand army troops, mainly the 66th Army.

The deputy commander of the 66th Army, Cordy, said with a wry smile: "The Admiralty explained that because of the huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, the Golden Lion Navy, the Red Tiger Navy, and the Royal Navy of our Wild Bull Empire stationed in Diric Harbor had to choose to avoid their edge. ”

Commander Dellett slammed his fist on his desk again, "The Navy has fled, so what about our Army?"

Without the assistance of the navy, with our hundreds of thousands of patchwork army troops, how could we hold Diric City! ”

The Sixty-sixth Army was not originally stationed in Direk City, but retreated all the way here.

At present, there are about 60,000 troops left in the 66th Group Army, and the other more than 50,000 army units in Diric City are from six group armies and seven independent divisions.

In addition, there are more than 30,000 civilians who have been improvised in Direk City.

Originally, there were two security brigades in Direk City, with horses as officers and humans as soldiers, but these two security brigades had been forcibly disbanded by the commander of the 66th Army, Dellett.

Deputy Commander Cordy hesitated for a moment and said, "Commander, Kunklee Province and New Constance Province, there are only a few port cities left that have not been captured by the Zhou family's army.

It is clear that the Empire had been forced to abandon the provinces of Quenkle and New Consius.

These hundreds of thousands of army units in Direk City could not change the entire situation of the battle at all, and it was not surprising that they were abandoned. ”

Commander Delett's expression suddenly became a little frustrated, "Cordi, what should we do next?" You can't keep it! ”

"Commander, the imperial ** team that surrendered to the Zhou family army before can be described as millions.

Since you can't hold it at all, why bother to let hundreds of thousands of soldiers die in vain! ”

"What do you mean...... Surrender? ”

"I heard that there are 23 group armies in our Royal Army that surrendered to the Zhou Army, so it is not bad for our 66th Group Army.

Commander, it's not that we don't want to defend Direk City, it's that the Navy abandoned Direk City first. ”

After the evacuation of the three orc navies in Diric Harbor, the brute bull army of Direk City raised a white flag on the city walls.

Knowing that the main force of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet appeared in the port of Diric in Kunklai Province, the combined fleet of the six navies immediately began to assemble, and even some warships sent by the combined fleet of the six navies to the other two ports in Kunklai Province also withdrew one after another to join the main force of the combined fleet of the six navies.

Immediately, the barbarian bull army of these two port cities chose to surrender to the Zhou army, and the entire Kunkelai province has completely fallen under the control of the Zhou army.

At this time, there are only two port cities in New Kangsao Province that have not been captured by the Zhou army, but the three main formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, if they want to reach these two port cities in New Kangsao Province, must detour tens of thousands of kilometers, and need to bypass the remaining three provinces of the Manniu Empire and the coastal areas of the entire Red Tiger Empire.

However, the three main formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet were still in Port Diric, and the warships of the combined fleet of the six navies were evacuated from the two ports in the province of New Cons.

Even the two garrison fleets of the Barbarian Navy's two ports in the province of New Constance were withdrawn with them.

If you don't withdraw, you can't do it!

Xiang Tao knew that it was unrealistic to let the three main formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet go around tens of thousands of kilometers further, so he ordered several air regiments to bomb the enemy warships in the two ports of the New Constance Ao Province without interruption, and achieved very good results, and even blew up a battle cruiser of the Flying Leopard Navy.

After the navy withdrew, the barbarian bull army in the two port cities of New Constance Ao Province happily chose to surrender to the Zhou family's army, making the entire New Constance Ao Province also belong to the Zhou family.

After completely conquering the Kunclai Province and the New Constance Ao Province of the Wild Bull Empire, Zhou Rui immediately announced that the Kunclai Province would be renamed Queensland Town, and the New Concussion Ao Province would be renamed Connecticut Town.

And the town of Queensland and Kangzhou were incorporated into the jurisdiction of the southwest town of the Han and Tang Empires.

On August 20, 1545, the main force of the combined fleet of the six navies arrived in the waters near the port of Direk, only to find that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet had disappeared from the port of Direk.

On the bridge of the Golden Lion Empire's Royal Navy's Dragon Lion-class all-main gun battleship Oath, the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet of the six navies and the first vice minister of the Admiralty of the Golden Lion Empire, Raf, said to the commanders of the other five navies in a deep voice: "What should we do now? Let's talk about it! ”

The Second Vice Minister of the Red Tiger Empire's Navy, Boge, immediately said, "Obviously, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empires, which was originally stationed in Dirick Harbor, deliberately avoided the combined fleet of our six navies.

Now all we have to do is find out the traces of this human fleet! ”

The first vice minister of the navy of the Silver Wolf Empire, Yegor, followed and said: "The Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empires stationed in Diric Harbor is only a part of the entire Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, and of course they are not willing to fight a decisive battle with the main force of our six navies' combined fleet.

But this is a good opportunity for us, the combined fleet of the navies of our six countries, to weaken the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, and they must be found! ”

Raff nodded, "It is true that you can't just let go of this detachment of the enemy, if you can eliminate this detachment, the strength of the southwest coastal defense fleet of the Han and Tang Empires will be almost reduced by a small half." ”

At this time, the second vice minister of the navy of the Black Bear Empire, Murka, said: "What should I do here in Diric Harbor?" Is it possible to blow up Direk Harbor into ruins? ”

Larion, the naval minister of the Wild Bull Empire, hurriedly stopped: "Never!

There are millions of people in Direk City, including about 200,000 cattle people, and there must be no large-scale artillery bombardment of Direk Harbor! ”

Although Diric City is now occupied by the Zhou family's army, the Barbarian Bull Empire still regards Direk City as its own city, thinking that sooner or later Direk City, and even the four provinces occupied by the Zhou family, will all be recovered.

The Second Vice Minister of the Black Bear Empire's Navy, Murka, then shrugged his shoulders and did not speak again, and the commanders of other countries did not mention the shelling of the port of Direk again.

Raff, the first vice minister of the Admiralty of the Golden Lion Empire, said next: "Immediately form several reconnaissance fleets, and we must find out the detachment of the southwest coastal defense fleet of the Han and Tang Empires!" ”

At this time, the third, fourth, and twelfth formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, which the combined fleets of the six navies were looking for, had already embarked on the return route.

In the bridge of the third formation's flagship battleship Varzhan with all main guns, Liu Ergou, the commander of the third formation, held a telegram in his hand and said to the captain Wu Shaoli with a smile: "The transport fleet escorted by the fifth, sixth, and eleventh formations has arrived outside Xinying Port in Weizhou Town, and is undergoing demining.

The tasks of our third, fourth and twelfth formations have been completed. ”

It turned out that the third, fourth, and twelfth formations of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, in cooperation with the army to seize several port cities, were mainly to attract the attention of the combined fleets of the navies of the six countries.

In order to allow the transport fleet escorted by the other three main formations to arrive safely at Xinying Port in Weizhou Town.

This time, the convoy mainly transported fighters and tanks, including British Camel fighters for 10 air regiments and Italian CA.36 bombers for 7 air regiments.

There were more than 6,000 tanks, including some German Tiger heavy tanks and German No. 4 tanks.

The German Tiger heavy tank is still called the Tiger heavy tank by Zhou Rui, and the German No. 4 tank was renamed the Black Wolf Tank by Zhou Rui.

According to the scale of the guard division of the Zhou family's army, these more than 6,000 tanks can be expanded into six more guard divisions.

These fighters and tanks were all recently opened by Zhou Rui from the lottery system.

In addition, the lottery system gave 3 three-star lottery cards in June, July and August, and also opened 12 British Hood-class battlecruisers, 12 American Colorado-class battleships and 6 British Nelson-class battleships.

The British Nelson-class battleship has a full load displacement of 43,140 tons and a maximum speed of 23 knots.

It was equipped with 3 triple 45-caliber 406-mm main guns, 6 twin 152-mm secondary guns, 6 120-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 4 twin-mounted 100-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 6 eight-pack 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, and 2 620-mm torpedo tubes.

The broadside armor belt was up to 360 mm thick, the main deck armor was 160 mm, the main turret armor was 406 mm, and the crew was 1314 people.

At present, these 12 battlecruisers and 18 battleships with full main guns, Zhou Rui has not yet been extracted from the lottery system.

Captain Wu Shaoli also said with a smile: "Those orcs probably wouldn't have thought that our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet made such a big move this time, mainly so that the transport fleet could safely arrive at Xinying Port. ”

Liu Ergou said: "From the previous battles to capture the town of Queensland and the town of Connecticut, it can be seen that fighters and tanks play a huge role in the war.

After Xiang Tao has these extra fighters and tanks in his hands, maybe he can add a few new feudal towns to our Zhou family. ”

Captain Wu Shaoli immediately asked: "Liu Zhi, when will our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet start a decisive battle at sea with the combined fleet of the navies of the six countries?" ”

"What? Are you in a hurry? ”

"It's not too much to be in a hurry, but this decisive battle at sea has to be fought sooner or later.

According to the information obtained by the intelligence department, at present, the six orc countries have started the construction of a new batch of capital ships, and even the Barbarian Bull Empire has begun to build a large number of large docks on the side of the beast world, ready to be used to build capital ships.

Therefore, I feel that the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

After all, even if our Zhou family has six shipyards, it can't compete with the six beast countries at the same time. ”

Liu Ergou sighed and said: "The decisive battle at sea is not so easy to fight!"

Once our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet loses, the sea passage with the Western Continent will be completely cut off, so Dashuai and Song Zhi may still be hesitant about whether to conduct a decisive naval battle with the combined fleet of the six navies. ”

"Liu pointed out that the current strength of the combined fleet of the navy of the six countries is not much stronger than that of our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, not to mention that the navies of the six beast countries, once they are on the battlefield, may not be able to have one mind, and our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet should have a great chance of winning."

"Lao Wu, don't forget, the six beast nations have not incorporated all their warships into the sequence of the combined fleet of the six navies."