In a dense forest in the southern mountains of the Bauhinia Province of the Silver Wolf Empire, the two teams of the Silver Wolf Column of the Rebels converged.

The Silver Wolf Empire covers an area of about 10 million square kilometers in this world, and is divided into seven provinces named after flowers.

They are Tulip Province, Bauhinia Province, Phalaenopsis Province, Violet Province, Calla Lily Province, Xiangxue Orchid Province, and Holy Wolf Flower Province.

Bauhinia Province is considered the southernmost province, and further south is the territory of the Barbarian Empire.

The second capital of the Silver Wolf Empire, Silver Light City, is located in the Holy Wolf Flower Province, and the Holy Wolf Flower is the national flower of the Silver Wolf Empire.

After Wei Zhao and Xiang Tao led the headquarters, the first division and the second division of the Silver Wolf Column to break through at night, relying on the complex terrain of the southern mountains of Bauhinia Province, they finally got rid of the pursuit of the Sixteenth Group Army of the Silver Wolf Empire.

And using the radio connection, he joined up with the 3 divisions and 4 independent brigades led by Li Dongbao, deputy commander-in-chief of the Silver Wolf Column, in this forest.

"Leopard, is your arm okay?" Xiang Tao saw that Li Dongbao's left arm was wrapped in a bandage, and asked with concern.

Li Dongbao moved his left arm, "It's not a big deal, it's just a little bit of skin."

However, this time the losses of the several troops I led were not small, and now the 3 divisions and 4 independent brigades combined, there are only more than 4,000 people left. ”

At this time, Wei Zhao, the commander-in-chief of the Silver Wolf Column, said with a wry smile: "The situation on our side is even worse, the two guard brigades of the headquarters, plus the first and second divisions, only have more than 2,000 people left.

In addition, the 9th, 10th, 12th, 8th and 9th Independent Brigades are currently uncontactable, and I feel that these five units may have been more than lucky. ”

Li Dongbao said with some emotion: "I didn't expect this defeat to be so miserable, more than 60,000 troops, I don't know how many are left."

To make matters worse, we had suffered heavy losses in all kinds of war materials we had stockpiled before, and now the coast was blocked by the army of the Silver Wolf Empire.

There is no way to transport the materials prepared by the marshal for our silver wolf column, and then our silver wolf column will have to live a hard life. ”

Wei Zhao patted Li Dongbao on the shoulder, "As long as we have confidence, no matter how difficult the days are, we can get through them."

I've been through more difficult situations before. ”

Xiang Tao suddenly said: "Commander, leopard, I have an idea.

According to the information sent by Fox Qi, the logistics supply base of the Sixteenth Group Army of the Silver Wolf Empire was placed in Peach Blossom Town, which was not far from the mountains.

Now the main force of the Sixteenth Army of the Silver Wolf Empire has entered the mountains, and only one infantry regiment of the Sixteenth Army is guarding Peach Blossom Town.

I think we can fight it completely, if we can defeat Peach Blossom Town, our Silver Wolf Column will not be short of supplies, and we can even replenish a batch of weapons and ammunition. ”

Xiang Tao's words made Li Dongbao's eyes light up, "This is a good idea."

Now we have more than 6,000 troops in our hands who can fight, as long as we can go around the mountains without knowing it and go straight to Peach Blossom Town, the chance of success is still quite large. ”

Wei Zhao hesitated a little, "We finally retreated into the mountains and got rid of the pursuers of the Sixteenth Army of the Silver Wolf Empire.

What if we go out of the mountains again and are entangled by the troops of the Sixteenth Army of the Silver Wolf Empire? ”

Xiang Tao said: "Commander, this mountainous area in the south of Bauhinia Province is sparsely populated, and we have been circling here, although it is safer, but it is difficult for us to replenish troops and supplies.

If you stay in the mountains for a long time, you will have to go hungry.

I feel that our Silver Wolf Column should change the tactics of guerrilla warfare, so that it can completely conduct guerrilla warfare in villages and towns between large cities.

In this way, it will be much easier to replenish troops and supplies. ”

"But if you conduct guerrilla warfare like that, you will be easily surrounded and suppressed by the army of the Silver Wolf Empire!"

"Commander, you can't have the best of both worlds, instead of starving in the mountains, it's better to go out and gamble.

Moreover, this time we did not aim to capture villages and towns, and with the information provided by Fox Qi, the army of the Silver Wolf Empire would not be so easy to encircle and suppress us. ”

"Bang-" Igna, the governor of the Silver Wolf Empire, slapped the table hard, and then questioned Luca, the deputy minister of the War Department, "Didn't the Sixteenth Army report that it had wiped out the main force of the human resistance army and was clearing the remnants of the human resistance army in the southern mountains?"

Why is it that even the logistics supply base is now given by the human resistance?

Do you know how passive this will make the Governor's Palace! ”

Luca's face was a little embarrassed, before the newspapers of the Silver Wolf Empire had hyped up the glorious results of the encirclement and suppression of the human resistance army, but he didn't expect that it would only be a few days before he was slapped in the face.

This time, not only was the logistics supply base of the 16th Army captured by the human resistance army, but an infantry regiment of the 16th Army guarding the logistics supply base was almost completely lost.

"Governor, the terrain in the mountainous area of Bauhinia Province is too complicated, which allowed the remnants of the human resistance army to evade the pursuit of the 16th Group Army and take the opportunity to leave the mountain area and sneak attack the logistics supply base of the 16th Group Army."

"I don't want to hear any reason!

I wonder now, can the Sixteenth Army wipe out the human resistance?

If not, let the 17th Army take over the 16th Army! ”

Mihalo, the commander of the Sixteenth Army of the Royal Army of the Silver Wolf Empire, is Luca's brother-in-law, and of course Luka has to help his brother-in-law and say something nice in front of Governor Igna.

"Don't worry, the Governor is just a little careless on the part of the Sixteenth Army this time, as long as the Sixteenth Army is given some more time, it will definitely be able to completely wipe out this human resistance army in our Silver Wolf Empire."

"Luka, for your sake, I can give the Sixteenth Army another chance.

If the 16th Army can't completely wipe out those human rebels within two months, let Mihalo resign on his own initiative! ”

When Zhou Rui received the good news from the Silver Wolf Column, he was accompanied by Kanghuai to inspect the Ganyang Shipyard.

After reading the telegram, Zhou Rui casually returned the telegram to Hu Yi, "Keep in touch with Hu Qi and see if there is a chance to send personnel and materials to the Silver Wolf Empire by sea."

Now that the Silver Wolf Column is in a difficult time, I have to give them some support as much as possible. ”

Fox nodded, "Great Marshal, we, the 'Ghost', are trying to establish a new secret sea passage to transport personnel and various combat materials to the Silver Wolf Column.

However, because the coast of the Silver Wolf Empire is in the stage of martial law, there is a little difficulty for the time being. ”

At this time, Kang Huai next to him said: "If we can really build the kind of warship that sails underwater, we may be able to solve the problem of building a supply channel for the silver wolf column." ”

Zhou Rui came to inspect the Ganyang Shipyard this time to study whether it was possible to build a warship that could sail underwater.

At present, the Ganyang shipyard has begun to try to build warships, and has laid keels in eight 15,000-ton docks, preparing to build eight large armored cruisers with a full load displacement of 12,000 tons.

This large armored cruiser built by Ganyang Shipyard is in many respects based on the German Scharnhorst-class armored cruiser, with a design speed of 22.5 knots.

It was armed with 8 40x caliber 200 mm main guns, 6 40x caliber 150 mm secondary guns, 12 30 mm anti-aircraft guns, 16 13 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 4 450 mm torpedo tubes.

The broadside armor belt is from 80 mm to 150 mm, the main deck armor is 60 mm, the main turret armor is 180 mm, and the full crew is designed for 800 people.

Originally, the Ganyang Shipyard built a warship for the first time, and it should not directly build a warship with such a large full load displacement, but the problem is that the smallest dock in the Ganyang Shipyard is 15,000 tons.

It is not very convenient to build a warship with a displacement of only two or three thousand tons with a dock of 15,000 tons.

Moreover, many of the shipbuilding technicians and shipbuilders recruited from the six beast countries have experience in building large warships, so with Zhou Rui's approval, the Ganyang Shipyard is ready to build 8 big guys at the same time when it builds warships for the first time.

As for the warship sailing underwater, it was proposed by a shipbuilder from the Silver Wolf Empire.

This shipbuilder originally worked in a shipyard in the Silver Wolf Empire, and designed and built a warship that could sail underwater, called a submarine.

The submarine has a full load displacement of about 300 tons and is equipped with torpedo tubes, although for a torpedo attack, the submarine needs to surface.

However, after this new warship was built, it did not get the green of the Royal Navy of the Silver Wolf Empire, and now the submarine built has been converted into an underwater sightseeing ship.

Zhou Rui was very interested in submarines, so he was ready to try to build a few at the Ganyang Shipyard.

Zhou Rui asked Kang Huai: "The kind of warship called a submarine that can sail underwater, the displacement should not be large, can we build the dock of Ganyang Shipyard?" ”

Kang Huai is the son-in-law of the housekeeper Zhou Fu, and has been assisting Zhou Fu in managing the Zhou family's industry.

Now Kanghuai was appointed by Zhou Rui as the head of the Ganyang New Industrial Zone, and the Ganyang Shipyard, located near the Ganyang Military Port, was also placed under the jurisdiction of the Ganyang New Industrial Zone.

"Dashuai, thanks to the commissioning of the steel plant, the Ganyang shipyard has been able to build a small dock independently.

So this time, in order to build this kind of warship for underwater navigation, Ganyang Shipyard plans to build four small docks of 1,000 tons first, and then use these four small docks to build four submarines. ”

"Are the plans for the submarine out?"

"It is still being designed and discussed, but the full load displacement of the submarine should be about 400 tons."

"By the way, how is the design of the all-main gun battleship?"

Although the Ganyang Shipyard had just begun to build the first batch of warships, Zhou Rui was already impatient to let the shipbuilding technicians design a full-gun battleship to be built at the Ganyang Shipyard.