Zhou Rui and Zhou Xiaorong pushed the door and walked into the conference room, Zhou Xiaorong immediately shouted: "Stand up!" ”

The more than 30 officers in the conference room immediately stood up in unison.

Zhou Rui walked to the main seat of the rectangular conference table, sat down and said with a smile: "All uncles and uncles sit down!" ”

After more than 30 officers sat down, Zhou Xiaorong said to Zhou Rui: "Major General, our Ganyang City Garrison Brigade, all the officers above the battalion level have arrived. ”

Zhou Rui looked around at the more than 30 regimental-level and battalion-level officers of the garrison brigade, and said with a slight sigh: "Uncles and uncles also know what the situation of our Zhou family is now.

To tell the truth, let me, a gentleman who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun, take control of the garrison brigade, and I myself am sincerely afraid, afraid that I will not do a good job, and I am afraid that our garrison brigade will be broken up. ”

Wang Biao's face was a little embarrassed, he knew that Zhou Rui heard his words just now.

"II...... Major General, my Wang Dabiao is just foolish, don't care. ”

"Hehe, Uncle Wang, in fact, you don't have to worry, there are so many uncles here, plus my father just can't get out of bed, his head is still good, and it is impossible for me to mess up our garrison brigade.

Uncle Wang, are you right? ”

"That's right! Right! The Major General is right! ”

Then Zhou Rui said with a smile: "There are a lot of people here, I don't know them yet, so let's introduce ourselves one by one, and everyone will report to me, the deputy brigade commander." ”

The Ganyang City Garrison Brigade has three infantry regiments, a fortress heavy artillery regiment, a heavy cavalry battalion, a guard battalion and a coastal defense fleet, of which the coastal defense fleet also belongs to the regimental level.

In the entire Fengwu lineage, Zhou Rui's father, Zhou Xiaozheng, can be regarded as a relatively strong military leader.

And there are many military leaders like Zhou Xiaozheng in Fengwu Town.

The other twenty-three feudal towns of the Han and Tang Empires are basically the same as Fengwu Town, and there are many large and small military leaders below the envoys of each section.

About half a year ago, the town of Fengwu and Zhenwei clashed over a newly discovered silver mine on the border, and as the two sides continued to increase their troops, the conflict turned into a war between the two feudal towns.

Zhou Xiaozheng was ordered to lead an infantry regiment, a heavy cavalry battalion and two companies of the guard battalion to participate in the battle, but in the battle of the Fengwu army attacking Jingyang City, Zhenwei Town, the participating troops of the Ganyang City Garrison Brigade were ambushed and surrounded by the Zhenwei army with superior forces.

Zhou Xiaozheng was seriously wounded, and his eldest son, Zhou Kang, was also killed in the battle.

After more than 30 officers introduced themselves one by one, Zhou Xiaorong reported to Zhou Rui: "Major General, at present, the personnel and weapons and equipment for the reconstruction of the First Advance Corps have all been equipped in place, and now I am the commander of the First Rank Corps.

The two companies of the guard battalion, which had been badly damaged, were also replenished, and only the heavy cavalry battalion was rebuilt, because there was no channel to purchase galloping horses, so the heavy cavalry battalion had not been rebuilt for the time being. ”

The Tempest Horse is a low-level fierce beast, and humans have now mastered the method of taming the Tempest Horse, and used the Tempest Horse as a mount to form a powerful Tempest Cavalry.

Originally, the heavy cavalry battalion of the garrison brigade of Ganyang City had more than 300 wind cavalry, and they were all dressed in leather armor made of fierce animal skins.

You must know that the skins of many fierce beasts can be bulletproof to a certain extent.

Zhou Rui nodded slightly, "Let's focus on the reconstruction of the first step corps, and the heavy cavalry battalion can be put aside first." ”

Zhou Rui knows very well that as the army's weapons and firepower become more and more powerful, although troops like the Wind Cavalry still have strong combat effectiveness on the battlefield, the input and output are already disproportionate, mainly tamed and good Wind Horses, and the price is too expensive.

Zhou Rui suddenly turned his head to Song Limin, the captain of the Dawn of the Coastal Defense Fleet, and asked, "Captain Song, I heard that the Coastal Defense Fleet intends to buy an armored cruiser?" ”

Song Limin, the captain of the light cruiser Shuguang, was dug up from the navy of Shuonan Town, Zhou Rui's father, Zhou Xiaozheng, who was the most powerful naval town among the twenty-four feudal towns in the Han and Tang Empires.

Because Zhou Xiaozheng can only be regarded as a half-understanding of the navy, although Zhou Xiaozheng has always served as the commander of the coastal defense fleet, the affairs of the coastal defense fleet are basically in charge of Song Limin.

When Song Limin heard Zhou Rui suddenly mention the purchase of armored cruisers, he couldn't help but say excitedly: "Major General, there is indeed such a thing!"

That armored cruiser was originally from the Flying Leopard Empire's navy, and the ship was less than three years old, and it was captured by the Red Tiger Empire's navy in the Ghost Sea Battle last year, and it was basically intact.

It has a full load displacement of 8400 tons, is equipped with 2 steam engines and 14 boilers, and has a maximum speed of 20 knots.

It has 2 twin 40x caliber 200 mm main guns, 6 40x caliber 150 mm secondary guns, 12 30 mm anti-aircraft guns, 20 13 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and 4 500 mm torpedo tubes.

The armor of the entire warship is also quite thick, with broadside armor belts ranging from 50 mm to 130 mm, main deck armor 50 mm, main turret armor 200 mm, and a full crew of 580 people.

If our coastal defense fleet can add such a warship, we won't even be able to defeat pirates! ”

The seven warships of the coastal defense fleet of Ganyang City are all second-hand warships bought by Zhou Rui's father, Zhou Xiaozheng, among which the largest warship is the light cruiser Shuguang with a full load displacement of 2,800 tons.

The Dawn was originally a warship of the Liang Yan Empire's navy, which is currently the most industrially developed country among human countries, and it is also the human country with the strongest naval strength.

Of course, the industry and navy of the Liang Yan Empire are still far behind the six major beast countries.

The Dawn is now a 15-year-old ship with extremely limited combat effectiveness, but the Dawn is the only warship that can be used by the Ganyang City Coastal Defense Fleet.

At present, the Dawn can be driven to about 14.5 knots at the earliest, and is equipped with two twin 30-caliber 180-mm main guns, 8 35-caliber 120-mm secondary guns, 4 30-mm anti-aircraft guns, 4 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 3 380-mm torpedo tubes, and a full crew of 256 people.

In addition, the coastal defense fleet of Ganyang City also has two offshore gunboats of the same type, the Golden Dragon and the Silver Dragon with a full load displacement of 680 tons, equipped with four 120-mm guns of 30 times caliber and three 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and a full crew of 60 people.

The remaining four warships, the Dongfeng, Nanfeng, Xifeng, and Beifeng, were all iron-ribbed wooden-hulled ships built by a shipyard in Shuonan Town, Han and Tang Empire.

The four iron-ribbed wood-hulled warships are all of the same type, with a full load displacement of 1250 tons, armed with 4 30-caliber 150-mm main guns, 6 70-mm secondary guns, 2 30-mm anti-aircraft guns, 2 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and a full crew of 138 people.

With these seven old ships of the coastal defense fleet of Ganyang City, it is true that even pirates can't be defeated.

In the last life, about half a year later, due to the city defense regiment of Ganyang City, a pirate leader was captured, and as a result, more than 20 pirate ships were attracted to invade Ganyang City.

Among the more than twenty pirate ships, several are second-hand warships, and even two old ironclad battleships.

Due to the order of Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, the coastal defense fleet of Ganyang City was forced to leave the port to meet the battle, and finally due to the huge difference in strength, the whole army was destroyed.

Originally, after Zhou Xiaozheng was seriously injured, the Zhou family was already greatly injured.

The destruction of the coastal defense fleet made the Zhou family fall further into the abyss.

If this only fleet in Ganyang City was still there, when Wei Jie began to deal with the Zhou family in the previous life, maybe the other families in Ganyang City would not dare to fall into the trap at all.

Even the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion would not sit idly by, after all, the coastal defense fleet of Ganyang City was one of the few maritime forces in the Fengwu army.

Zhou Xiaorong sighed at this time: "Major General, that armored cruiser is not bad, but unfortunately the asking price of the Red Tiger Empire's navy is too high, and it costs 2.2 million silver coins to bite it to death, and this price is not something we can afford at all." ”

Song Limin hurriedly said: "Major General, Deputy Brigade Commander, the coastal defense fleet can't always count on seven old ships.

Now the pirates in the waters around our Han and Tang Empires are becoming more and more rampant, especially the orcs in the pirates, and they can even buy second-hand warships from the navies of the six major orc countries.

Therefore, the coastal defense fleet must add new ships in order to have the strength to drive out the pirates who invaded Ganyang City. ”

The reason why Zhou Rui asked Song Limin about the purchase of the armored cruiser was that he wanted to pocket this armored cruiser.

Zhou Rui remembered that his second uncle Zhou Xiaorong had mentioned it to him, and he regretted very much that he did not grit his teeth and buy the armored cruiser with a full load displacement of 8,400 tons.

If the coastal defense fleet had this armored cruiser with quite good combat effectiveness, it might not have ended up in a completely annihilated army.

And Zhou Rui still remembered that the second uncle Zhou Xiaorong said that the destruction of the coastal defense fleet seems to have some conspiracies in it.

"With such a good performance, it would be a pity if our coastal defense fleet didn't buy it.

Where do the representatives of the Navy of the Red Tiger Empire live? ”