After the Zhenwei army relieved the siege of Jinshui City, it was unforgiving, and almost all the way to the army of the Danyang Chang family and the Eshui Sha family, and it only took half a month to recover the 8 cities lost by the Jinshui Zhou family.

Previously, the armies of the Danyang Chang family and the Eshui Sha family had been fighting fiercely with the army of the Jinshui Zhou family for several months, and their ammunition consumption was huge.

This is also one of the important reasons why Zhenwei Army can be so strong all the way.

During this period, the Danyang Chang family and the Eshui Sha family have been trying to negotiate an armistice with the Ganyang Zhou family, but unfortunately the Ganyang Zhou family has always ignored this.

Zhou Rui received the new task of "seizing the southern province of the Bajin Empire" from the lottery system, where would he let go of the Danyang Chang family and the Eshui Sha family.

When the troops of the Zhenwei Army began to attack the territory originally controlled by the two families.

Only then did these two families react, it turned out that the Ganyang Zhou family was eyeing the entire southern province of the Bajin Empire.

The Bajin Empire had a land area of about 400 square kilometers and five provinces, of which the southern provinces occupied about 750,000 square kilometers, an area almost equivalent to a feudal town in the Han and Tang Empires.

Since the Bajin Empire was always a vassal state of the Han and Tang Empires, the people of the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire did not have much hostility towards the Zhenwei army of the Han and Tang Empires.

In addition, the Ganyang Zhou family came from the Jinshui Zhou family in the southern provinces, so that the people of the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire did not reject the Ganyang Zhou family.

Even many of the armies of the Danyang Chang family and the Eshui Sha family, in the face of the powerful Zhenwei army, directly chose to surrender.

The Danyang Chang family and the Eshui Sha family tried to contact the major families of the other four provinces of the Bajin Empire to jointly resist the invasion of the Zhenwei army of the Han and Tang Empires.

It's a pity that those families in the other four provinces of the Bajin Empire, after seeing the strong combat effectiveness displayed by the Zhenwei army, only kept condemning the Zhenwei army and the Ganyang Zhou family in the newspapers, but did not send a single reinforcement to the southern provinces.

By the middle of March of Tianyuan 1538, only Danyang City and Eshui City remained in the entire southern province, which had not yet been conquered by the Zhenwei army, including the cities controlled by the original Jinshui Zhou family, and the Zhenwei army had controlled a total of 25 cities in the southern province.

At this time, Zhou Rui had already transferred 9 divisions of the Zhenwei Army to the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire, and also transferred officers and veterans from the Zhenwei Army, plus the remnants of the Jinshui Zhou family, as well as the surrender of the Danyang Changjia and the Eshui Shajia family, and formed 12 new infantry divisions.

The establishment of these 12 infantry divisions is the same as that of the various infantry divisions of the Zhenwei Army, but they are not fully equipped for the time being, and some weapons and equipment are not fully equipped.

The southern provinces of the Bajin Empire had a population of about 28 million, and the town of Zhenwei had a population of about 26 million.

Since the population of Zhenwei Town can form 18 infantry divisions, it should be no problem for the population of the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire to form 12 infantry divisions with a strength of about 35,000 people.

Zhou Rui also planned to form several new infantry divisions in the southern provinces after completely solving the Danyang Changjia and Eshui Shajia.

In fact, even the Danyang Chang family and the Eshui Sha family are very clear that at this time, the two families have no chance of turning around.

On March 20, the more than 70,000 defenders of Eshui City laid down their weapons, and the Eshui Sha family chose to surrender to the Ganyang Zhou family after receiving some promises from the Ganyang Zhou family.

Eshui City, a city with a population of more than one million, was completely handed over to the Zhou family in Ganyang.

At this point, in the southern provinces of the entire Bajin Empire, only Danyang City was left and had not fallen into the hands of the Ganyang Zhou family.

In the City Lord's Mansion of Danyang City, Chang Haozhao, the head of the Danyang Chang family, said to Chang Haolin, the commander of the Danyang fleet, with a bitter face: "Now that the Sha family has surrendered, only our Chang family and Danyang City are left. ”

Chang Haolin hesitated for a moment and said, "Big brother, the sea has been completely blocked by the fleet of the Ganyang Zhou family.

In addition, the villages and towns around Danyang City were also captured by the army of the Zhou family in Ganyang, and Danyang City can be said to have become an isolated city.

With the remaining more than 60,000 army and Danyang fleet in our hands, we can't resist the opponent's attack at all.

Even if the Ganyang Zhou family chooses to besiege but not attack, it can quickly defeat us without a fight.

With the grain reserves of Danyang City, it can only last for a month at most. ”

Chang Haozhao sighed and said, "Second brother, do you also persuade me to surrender to the Ganyang Zhou family?"

But don't forget, the Ganyang Zhou family is from the Jinshui Zhou family, even if our Chang family chooses to surrender, we will be exterminated if we don't get it right. ”

"Big brother, why don't you bet once!

The Zhou family in Ganyang sent someone to contact me, promising that as long as our Chang family surrendered, Danyang City and the Danyang fleet would be handed over completely.

The Ganyang Zhou family not only promised to ensure the personal safety of all our Chang family, but also left a part of the industry for our Chang family to maintain their livelihood in the future. ”

"Can the Zhou family in Ganyang count when they speak?"

"Big brother, people are swordsmen, and I am fish and meat, so I can only gamble."

On March 23, the Changjia of Danyang chose to surrender to the Zhou family of Ganyang, and the four infantry divisions of the Zhenwei Army then took over the city of Danyang.

The third formation of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet took over all the warships of the Danyang Fleet, including four fortress-class all-steel battleships.

Zhou Rui, who was far away in Ganyang City, immediately received a prompt from the lottery system, congratulating him on completing the task of "seizing the southern province of the Bajin Empire", and rewarded Zhou Rui with a four-star lottery card and 40 points.

40 points immediately made Zhou Rui's level in the lottery system become: 3 (30/400)

In this way, in the early morning of the first day of every month in the future, Zhou Rui will get a three-star lottery card from the lottery system.

The four-star lottery card obtained by completing the task was immediately used by Zhou Rui, and a total of five rewards were issued.

50 kg gold bricks (120,000 pieces)

Arsenal (1)

German Seydlitz-class battlecruisers (4 units)

German King-class battleships (4 ships)

British Iron Duke-class battleships (4 ships)

According to the introduction of the lottery system, the arsenal opened this time is larger than the arsenal opened by the previous lottery system.

It includes four production lines of German Mauser 98K rifles, two production lines of Huaxia Type 54 pistols, two production lines of Czech ZB-26 light machine guns, and two production lines of German-34 general-purpose machine guns.

A production line for the French Type 1897 75 field gun, a production line for the French Schneider 1913 105mm howitzer, and a French Schneider 1929 155mm howitzer.

Four lines for 7.92x57 mm rifle cartridges and two lines for 7.62x25 mm pistol cartridges.

A line for 75-mm shells, a line for 105-mm shells, a line for 155-mm shells.

Anyway, the arsenal under construction in Ganyang New Industrial Zone is very large, and Zhou Rui decided to extract these production lines and merge the two arsenals opened by the lottery system.

With the production capacity of these production lines, after the arsenal is put into operation, even if the lottery system can no longer open the army's weapons and ammunition, the Zhou family's army troops should not be short of weapons and ammunition.

Seeing that 8 full-main gun battleships and 4 battlecruisers were driven out, Zhou Rui couldn't help but think of the bitter face of Song Limin, commander-in-chief of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

At the end of January 1538, Zhou Rui found an opportunity to go to the Crescent Island Naval Base.

When Zhou Rui left, there were 8 more battleships, 10 battle cruisers, 12 light cruisers, and 24 destroyers in the harbor of the Crescent Island Naval Base.

Song Limin saw that dozens of new warships had come out of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, and his mood could be described as a mixture of joy and sorrow.

Hey, of course, with the addition of these new warships, the strength of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet has increased a lot.

Sadness is for your own hair.

Because of the lack of rest every day, Song Limin's hair has become thinner and thinner, and he is now bald in front of him.

The Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet has added so many new warships at once, as the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, Song Limin will have to continue to stay up late, and his hair must have killed a lot.

In February and March, the two-star lottery cards given by the lottery system were issued with some weapons and ammunition from the army, but not from warships.

But even the newly opened 8 all-main gun battleships and 4 battle cruisers are enough to make Song Limin's head even balder.

After the southern province of the Bajin Empire was completely occupied by the Zhou family, the southern province of the Bajin Empire was still called this to the outside world.

However, within the Zhou family, the southern province of the Bajin Empire was called Jinnan Town, which was equivalent to another feudal town in the Zhou family.

The name of this town in Jinnan was given by Zhou Rui, "Jin" refers to the Bajin Empire, and "Nan" refers to the southern provinces.

Zhou Rui also decided to set up 6 new infantry divisions in Jinnan Town, and the surrendered troops of Danyang City and Eshui City will be filled into these 6 new infantry divisions.

In this way, the Jinnan Army, which belongs to Jinnan Town, will also have 18 infantry divisions under its jurisdiction.

After the 18 infantry divisions of the Jinnan Army are reorganized, the strength of the Jinnan Army plus the Zhenwei Army will be as high as 1.26 million, and the total strength of the entire Zhou Army will exceed 1.3 million.

With the strength of more than 1.3 million troops of the Zhou family, even if a full-scale war with the Silver Wolf Empire was launched, Zhou Rui would dare to give it a try.

What's more, Zhou Rui still has a king bomb in his hand - the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

Zhou Rui delivered the 8 all-main gun battleships and 4 battle cruisers from the four-star lottery card to the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

The number of capital ships of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet has reached 73, including 38 battleships with full main guns, 26 battlecruisers and 9 all-steel battleships.

Among the 9 all-steel battleships, there were 4 fortress-class all-steel battleships captured from the Danyang fleet.

With the current strength of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, even if the Silver Wolf Empire gathers the six main fleets of the two worlds together, the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet will have the strength to fight.