On the Chinese New Year's Eve of Tianyuan 1537, Zhou Rui spent time in the Zhou Mansion in Ganyang City.

Zhou Rui, the envoy of Zhenwei Festival, is actually a bit strange, and rarely stays in Linxing City, where Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion is located, and lives in Ganyang City most of the time.

Although Ganyang City has been monopolized by the Zhou family, Ganyang City still belongs to Fengwu Town in name after all.

A festival envoy who stays in another feudal town all the year round will inevitably cause controversy, especially with the help of some people, the outside world generally believes that Zhou Rui has a peep at the entire Fengwu Town.

This made Fengwu Jiedu very worried Shen Xiao, and in just half a year, Shen Xiao expanded the descendants of Fengwu Jiedu Mansion to 3 infantry divisions and 7 independent brigades as much as he could.

Among them, five independent brigades were newly formed, and the total strength of the Fengwu Jiedu Prefecture troops also reached 160,000.

And the various families in Fengwu Town, seeing Zhou Rui's vicious methods on Zhenwei Town's side, quickly secretly connected and formed a so-called anti-Zhou alliance to prevent the Zhou family's forces from expanding to Fengwu Town.

In August, Chu Yingying gave birth to a daughter for Zhou Rui, and Zhou Rui named her eldest daughter Zhou Yan.

And Liu Yiqiu also became pregnant soon after holding a wedding with Zhou Rui, according to the judgment of her mother Wen Yu, Liu Yiqiu should be pregnant with a son.

Zhou Rui actually doesn't care too much about giving birth to a daughter or a son.

However, Zhou Rui doesn't care, it doesn't mean that others don't care, after Liu Yiqiu became pregnant, Zhou Xiaorong sent a telegram directly to Zhou Rui, asking to strengthen the security forces around Liu Yiqiu to ensure the safety of Liu Yiqiu's mother and son.

Zhou Xiaozheng even transferred the three grandmaster-level masters Xiong San, Niu Heng, and Niu Zhang beside Zhou Rui to Liu Yiqiu's side to protect Liu Yiqiu's safety.

Coupled with Xiong Si, who had been in charge of protecting Liu Yiqiu before, the number of grandmaster-level masters around Liu Yiqiu suddenly increased to four.

If Liu Yiqiu can give birth to a son, it means that the Zhou family has a third-generation heir, and the huge family business of the Zhou family will not die out in the future.

After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Zhou Xiaozheng found Zhou Rui in the study, "What do you think about Fengwu Town?"

I heard that there are rumors about our Zhou family peeping into Fengwu Town outside. ”

"Dad, the 'ghost shadow' side has already begun to infiltrate the various forces on the side of Fengwu Town, once the time is ripe, I don't mind becoming the envoy of the two towns."

Zhou Xiaozheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Your series of actions on the side of Zhenwei Town have already made the various families on the side of Fengwu Town like frightened birds.

If you want to attack Fengwu Town's side, you must have enough certainty.

These families are all united, plus a Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, which is not so easy to deal with. ”

Zhou Rui nodded, "Dad, don't worry, with the current strength of our Zhou family, even if all the forces in Fengwu Town are united, our Zhou family will not be afraid at all."

Of course, I try to avoid that as much as possible. ”

"Then what do you think of the Jinshui Zhou family's request for help this time?"

The Jinshui Zhou family of the Bajin Empire, and their feud Danyang Chang family, were both in the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire, and each of these two families occupied about one-third of the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire.

At the beginning, the Jinshui Zhou family exchanged Xiangshi Island for five all-steel battleships of the coastal defense fleet, just to deal with the four fortress-class all-steel battleships purchased by the Danyang Changjia from the Golden Lion Empire.

However, the five all-steel battleships given to the Jinshui Zhou family by the coastal defense fleet are not far behind the fortress-class all-steel battleships in terms of performance.

At the beginning of September of the 1537 year of the Tian Yuan Dynasty, a naval battle broke out between the main naval fleet of the Changjia family in Danyang and the naval fleet of the Zhou family in Jinshui, near the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire.

As a result, the main force of the naval fleet of the Jinshui Zhou family was completely wiped out, and three of the five all-steel battleships exchanged for Xiangshi Island were sunk, and two were seriously injured and became trophies of the Danyang Changjia naval fleet.

Next, the Danyang Changjia took advantage of the great victory in the naval battle to unite the Eshui Sha family in the southern province of the Bajin Empire and launched a full-scale attack on the Jinshui Zhou family.

The Eshui Shajia was the last force in the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire, and also occupied about one-third of the territory of the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire.

By the end of December 1537, the 9 cities controlled by the Jinshui Zhou family had been captured by the Danyang Chang family and the Eshui Sha family, leaving only the base camp of the Jinshui Zhou family, Jinshui City.

Now the more than 200,000 allied forces of the Danyang Changjia and the Eshui Shajia, as well as the naval fleet of the Danyang Changjia, have surrounded the port city of Jinshui City.

In fact, as early as the beginning of October, the Jinshui Zhou family had already sent people to Ganyang City to ask Zhou Rui for help.

However, at that time, Zhou Rui was cleaning up those families in Zhenwei Town, where did he have the spare time to care about the life and death of the Jinshui Zhou family.

Now the Jinshui Zhou family can be said to be at a critical juncture of life and death, so they directly promised Zhou Rui that as long as Zhou Rui can send troops to relieve the siege of Jinshui City, the Jinshui Zhou family is willing to hand over Jinshui City, which has a population of more than one million, to the Ganyang Zhou family.

From then on, the Jinshui Zhou family was willing to become a vassal of the Ganyang Zhou family.

And just after the Jinshui Zhou family made a promise, the lottery system suddenly refreshed a new task: to seize the southern province of the Bajin Empire. (Reward 4-star raffle card, 40 points)

Zhou Rui is in the lottery system, and he can be upgraded to level 3 with only 10 points, so that he can get a three-star lottery card every month in the future.

But for most of the year, the lottery system has not been refreshed with new tasks, and this time the task of "seizing the southern province of the Bajin Empire", of course, Zhou Rui will not miss it.

"Dad, the Jinshui Zhou family even gave up Jinshui City this time, it seems that it has really reached the point of exhaustion.

I am ready to agree to the Jinshui Zhou family's request for help and send troops to the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire. ”

Zhou Xiaozheng sighed and said: "There is too much hatred between the Jinshui Zhou family and the Danyang Chang family.

Once the Danyang Chang family really laid down Jinshui City, the people of the Jinshui Zhou family would not have any way to survive at all.

If this were not the case, it would be impossible for the Jinshui Zhou family to agree to give up Jinshui City to our Ganyang Zhou family. ”

"Dad, don't worry, I will save the people of the Jinshui Zhou family."

"I'm actually not worried about this, with the strength of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet and the Zhenwei Army, it shouldn't be a problem to rescue Jinshui City.

What I'm worried about is whether the Jinshui Zhou family will keep their promise after they are no longer threatened with extermination?

If the Jinshui Zhou family goes back on their word, son, don't be too ruthless, after all, your father's name is also written into the genealogy of the Jinshui Zhou family. ”

When the time came to the early morning of January 1, 1538, the lottery system gave Zhou Rui a New Year's gift package in addition to a two-star lottery card for nothing, but this year's New Year's gift package only has a three-star lottery card.

From July to December, the lottery system gave Zhou Rui a total of six two-star lottery cards, and a total of 4 battlecruisers were opened, and the rest were gold bricks, silver bricks, and some army weapons and ammunition that had been issued before.

These 4 battle cruisers, known as the German Seydlitz class battle cruisers by the lottery system, have a full load displacement of 28,550 tons, have 2 steam engines, 27 boilers, and a maximum speed of 29.1 knots.

It is equipped with 5 twin 50x caliber 280 mm main guns, 5 twin 45x caliber 150 mm secondary guns, 12 45x caliber 88 mm anti-aircraft guns, and 4 500 mm torpedo tubes.

Broadside armor belts from 99 mm to 300 mm, armored deck 63 mm, main turret armor 249 mm, full crew 1068 people.

After Zhou Rui clicked on a two-star lottery card he had just gotten, he only got 60,000 silver bricks weighing 50 kilograms.

These 60,000 silver bricks are equivalent to 30 million silver coins, but Zhou Rui feels that his luck is not very good.

Zhou Rui rubbed his hands, used up the Samsung lottery card again, and then opened three rewards.

Russian Irrational-class destroyers (24 units)

German Wiesbaden-class light cruisers (12 ships)

German Seydlitz-class battlecruisers (4 units)

Seeing so many warships coming out at once, Zhou Rui finally felt comfortable.

Zhou Rui looked at the lottery system, and there were already 4 German King-class battleships, 4 British Iron Duke-class battleships, 8 Seydlitz-class battlecruisers, 2 British Invincible-class battlecruisers, 12 Wiesbaden-class light cruisers and 24 Reason-class destroyers.

Zhou Rui felt that it was time to add a batch of new warships to the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, but Song Limin told Zhou Rui that the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet had not only completed the reorganization of the five major formations and several sub-fleets, but also overstaffed many warships with some new troops.

I don't know if the recruits prepared by Song Limin are enough to fill this batch of new warships?