At present, in addition to the 12 main formations, the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet also has a submarine formation, with 7 "Phantom" class submarines and 12 "Phantom 2" class submarines.

The "Phantom-2" class submarine was built on the basis of the "Phantom" class submarine, with a full load displacement of 650 tons on the water and 830 tons under the water, with 6 diesel engines installed, a maximum speed of 16 knots on the water, a maximum underwater speed of 9 knots, and a maximum depth of 60 meters.

Equipped with 4 450-mm torpedo tubes, it can carry 12 torpedoes and has a crew of 28 people.

After testing, the "Ghost 2" class submarine performed very well in all aspects, so before the third submarine of the Ganyang Shipyard was developed, Zhou Rui ordered the Ganyang Shipyard to increase the production of the "Ghost 2" class submarine.

At this time, among the 16 1,000-ton small docks that have been built at the Ganyang Shipyard, there are still 16 "Ghost 2" class submarines under construction in batches.

In addition, the large armored cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers independently built by the Ganyang Shipyard have all entered the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet or various garrison fleets for formal service.

More than 60 percent of the first four all-main gun battleships, designed and built entirely by the Ganyang Shipyard, have also been completed.

However, due to the technical strength of the Ganyang Shipyard, the first full-gun battleship was equipped with 6 twin-mounted 45 times caliber 305 mm main guns, with a full load displacement of 25,500 tons.

The performance of this all-main-gun battleship in all aspects can only be ranked behind among the all-main-gun battleships of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

Zhou Rui heard that Song Limin didn't take the navy of the Barbarian Bull Empire seriously, and couldn't help but joke: "Old Song, you have been getting more and more inflated recently.

Don't forget the navy of the Bull Empire, but it is equipped with a very large number of destroyers and torpedo boats. ”

Song Limin said with a smile: "My ability to expand is all due to the marshal, if it weren't for the marshal who added so many warships to our southwest coastal defense fleet, I think I wouldn't be able to swell."

Our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet has never fought with the navy of the Wild Bull Empire before, otherwise our Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet would let the navy of the Wild Bull Empire know how ridiculous the 'fish plan' they formulated. ”

"Old Song, what is your opinion on the second all-main gun battleship designed by Ganyang Shipyard?"

The second full-main gun battleship designed by Ganyang Shipyard is based on the American New Mexico-class all-main gun battleship, with a full load displacement of 33,200 tons and a maximum speed of 19 knots.

It is equipped with 4 triple 50x caliber 356 mm main guns, 20 120 mm secondary guns, 24 30 mm anti-aircraft guns, 24 13 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and 4 500 mm torpedo tubes.

The broadside armor belt was from 200 mm to 350 mm, the main deck armor was 90 mm, the main turret armor was 450 mm, and the crew was 1220 people.

Song Limin said: "I am very satisfied with the second all-main gun battleship designed by Ganyang Shipyard, I don't know if Ganyang Shipyard has any technical difficulties?

How many battleships of this all-main gun can be built at the same time? ”

Zhou Rui pondered for a while and said: "By building the first all-main gun battleship, Ganyang Shipyard has gained a certain amount of accumulation in technology.

Since the shipbuilding technicians of the Ganyang Shipyard dared to design a full-main gun battleship equipped with four triple 50 times the caliber of 356 mm main guns, they must have been able to overcome even some technical difficulties.

Now there are 8 40,000-ton floating docks at the Ganyang Shipyard, and I plan to vacate 4 of them for the construction of this new all-main gun battleship. ”

Eight 40,000-ton floating docks were all opened by Zhou Rui from the system, and there are 12 30,000-ton floating docks at the naval base on Crescent Island.

Its 30,000-ton floating dock can also build a full main gun battleship with a full load displacement of 33,200 tons, but the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet has 218 full-main gun battleships and 96 battle cruisers, and these large floating docks must provide maintenance for the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

Song Limin sighed and said: "Dashuai, our large shipyard is still too few, I don't know when the Jingsheng shipyard will be completed?" ”

Jingsheng Shipyard was ordered to be built by Zhou Rui, and the first phase of Jingsheng Shipyard built 12 40,000-ton docks and 12 35,000-ton docks.

According to Zhou Rui's plan, in the future, the Jingsheng Shipyard will mainly be used to build battleships and battlecruisers with full main guns.

The Ganyang Shipyard is mainly for the construction of large armored cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers and submarines, and the Ganyang Shipyard will also be the main maintenance base of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

Zhou Rui said: "Even if the construction of the 24 large docks in the first phase of Jingsheng Shipyard is completed, compared with the entire Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, the large docks are still seriously insufficient.

Now that we have been able to build large shipyards ourselves, we can choose a few suitable sites and build a few more shipyards.

With the current shipbuilding capacity of our Zhou family, compared to those few beast countries, the gap is really too big. ”

Then Zhou Rui turned his head and said to Zhou Xiaorong: "Second uncle, once the supply channel with the Silver Wolf Column is reopened, the Eight Front Armies will continue to draw troops and spare no effort to support the Silver Wolf Column. ”

The eight front armies mentioned by Zhou Rui refer to the Fengwu Army, the Zhenwei Army, the Kangyang Army, the Jinzhong Army, the Jin Eastern Army, the Southern Jin Army, the Western Jin Army and the Northern Jin Army.

Now these eight front armies have 15 infantry divisions and several garrison regiments, and Zhou Rui also assigned commanders to these eight front armies.

The commander of the Fengwu Army was concurrently served by Zhou Xiaorong, the commander of the Zhenwei Army was Song Shenghe, the commander of the Kangyang Army was Wang Biao, and the commander of the Jinzhong Army was Liu Mo.

The commander of the Eastern Jin Army was Huang Zhigang, the commander of the Southern Jin Army was Li Donghu, the commander of the Western Jin Army was Ma Tiezhu, and the commander of the Northern Jin Army was Guan Guoren.

Zhou Xiaorong nodded, "Don't worry, as long as the Silver Wolf Column needs it, there will be no problem for the Eight Front Army to support millions of people." ”

Zhou Rui then said: "I brought the three of you here today, mainly to discuss with you in which direction our Zhou family should expand next." ”

Today, the feudal towns in the Han and Tang Empires have been divided into eight major forces, and the Zhou family accounts for one of them.

In November last year, the imperial forbidden army, which had received the assistance of the Golden Lion Empire, annexed Pingyue Town in the northeast region in one fell swoop with lightning speed, making the imperial court of the Han and Tang Empires, in addition to the Tiansheng City area, also control Pushan Town and Pingyue Town, becoming one of the eight major forces.

Seeing that the imperial court of the Han and Tang Empires annexed Pingyue Town so quickly, Jinggu Town, Zhongfang Town and Yongwei Town in the northeast region immediately formed the Northeast Alliance with great fanfare, hoping to resist the invasion of the imperial court.

Originally, there was a Shuodong town in the northeast region, but when the Northeast Alliance was formed, because of the leadership problem, Shuodong Town did not join the Northeast Alliance.

However, Shuodong Town's own strength is too strong, and Shuodong Town has entered one of the eight major forces of the Han and Tang Empires with only one of its own feudal towns.

Of course, the Northeast Alliance was also included in the eight major forces of the Han and Tang Empires.

In addition, in order to guard against the Zhou family, the Southwest Alliance and the Northwest Alliance were formed, which also accounted for two seats of the eight major forces of the Han and Tang Empires.

After receiving the assistance of the Red Tiger Empire, Shi Desheng started the mode of crazy army expansion, and then began to confiscate the military power of various families in Shuonan Town with a tough attitude.

Now the military power in Shuonan Town has basically been taken back by Shuonan Jiedu Mansion.

Seeing that Shuonan Jiedu Mansion had taken back the military power of the entire Shuonan Army, the other five feudal towns in the six towns in the southeast were a little unable to sit still.

As a result, Lechang Town, Longnan Town, Anlu Town, Dongling Town and Puxing Town in the southeast region formed a southeast alliance against Shuonan Town.

The Southeast Alliance and Shuonan Town accounted for the last two seats of the eight major forces of the Han and Tang Empires.

Hu Yi then said in a deep voice: "Dashuai, if our Zhou family wants to continue to expand in the country, for the time being, there are only two options: the Southwest Alliance and the Northwest Alliance.

However, according to the information obtained by our 'ghost', it seems that some kind of agreement has been reached between the Southwest Alliance and the Northwest Alliance, maybe our Zhou family attacks one of them, and the other side will also choose to declare war on our Zhou family.

So I suggest that the Baji Empire be taken down first, and our 'ghost' has already completed the arrangement in the Baji Empire. ”

The Baji Empire is located to the west of the original Bajin Empire, adjacent to the current Jinxi Town and Jinbei Town, with an area of about 230 square kilometers.

After the disaster of the beast appeared, the generals who controlled the military power of the Baji Empire no longer obeyed the orders of the royal family of the Baji Empire and began to divide one side.

After more than 200 years of annexation and fighting, there are now only three big families left in the Baji Empire, forming a three-family situation, namely the Jingzhou Chengguan family, the Guling City Xia family and the Chong'an City Jiang family.

The three big families of the Baji Empire all want to eat the other two and unify the Baji Empire.

Just last year, a scuffle broke out among the three big families of the Baji Empire, and the combined armies of the three families suffered more than one million casualties.

After completely annexing the last two provinces of the Bajin Empire, Zhou Rui shifted his attention to the Baji Empire, so he ordered the "ghost" to spend money in the Baji Empire to buy off the generals of the three big families.

Zhou Rui asked Zhou Xiaorong, "Second uncle, what do you think?" ”

Zhou Xiaorong said slowly: "Now that our Zhou family is in the Han and Tang Empires, it can be said that they have become the target of public criticism.

I think that the time is not ripe enough to attack the Southwest Alliance or the Northwest Alliance, and the Baji Empire is a good choice.

Moreover, the armies of the three families of the Baji Empire suffered a lot of losses last year, and our Zhou family can just pick up a bargain. ”

Song Limin followed and said: "I also agree to take the Baji Empire first, if our Zhou family can take the Baji Empire, it is equivalent to adding 3 more feudal towns." ”