Zhou Rui, who has lived in another time and space for six years, knows that in the future naval war, aircraft carriers are the real sea hegemon, and at that time, all main gun battleships and battle cruisers will face the fate of being eliminated.

It's a pity that with the current aviation technology, it is too early for Zhou Rui to develop aircraft carriers, and for a long time to come, the protagonists of naval battles will still be all-main gun battleships and battle cruisers.

Because the armor of the battlecruiser is thinner than that of the battleship with all main guns, it suffers some losses in the duel with the battleship with all main guns, which can be fully reflected in the naval battle of Dragon Whale Island.

However, it cannot be denied that the tactical and strategic value brought by the high speed of the battlecruiser cannot be ignored.

The Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet is already preparing to dispatch a detachment of battle cruisers, mainly battle cruisers, to the coasts of various beast countries in the Western Continent to carry out a broken engagement.

Therefore, Zhou Rui is ready to invest heavily in building more all-main gun battleships and battle cruisers, and start a new shipbuilding competition with the six beast countries.

To start this ship-building competition, Zhou Rui has a deeper purpose, which is to use the ship-building competition to increase the financial deficit of the six beast countries.

The feudal towns that are now subordinate to the Zhou family have developed rapidly, which has made the financial revenue of the southwest town guard government rise steadily.

And because Zhou Rui controls many oil fields, mines and many other industries, such as Zhou's Bank, Zhou Rui's private income is much higher than that of the southwest town guard.

In addition, Zhou Rui can also get a large number of gold and silver bricks from the lottery system, which gives Zhou Rui the confidence to start this ship-building competition with the six beast countries at the same time with his own strength.

Zhou Rui was discussing with Kang Huai, the head of Zhou's industry, about building more 50,000-ton docks, when Zhou Xiaorong walked in with a telegram.

"Marshal, Xiang Tao sent a secret telegram, preparing to launch an attack on the Kunkei Province and the New Constance Province of the Barbarian Bull Empire at the same time in the early morning of the day after tomorrow!"

At present, the army of the Zhou family, in the border area of Jingzhou Town, Yuzhou Town, Lanzhou Town and the Silver Wolf Empire, has taken advantage of the complex terrain, spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and built three fortifications, forming a relatively complete border defense line, which can also be called the northern line.

In the border area where Weizhou Town, Kezhou Town and the Manniu Empire meet, the Zhou family's army also built a fortification, which can be called the southern front.

However, the fortifications built on the southern front were more to confuse the Barbarian Empire.

The border area at the junction of Weizhou Town, Kezhou Town and the Manniu Empire is mostly plain, which is not conducive to attack, so Xiang Tao and Zhou Rui decided to launch an active attack on the southern front, and the northern line is mainly defensive.

According to the geographical location of the six beast countries in the Western Continent, the southern front will face the Wild Bull Army and the Red Tiger Army, and the northern front will face the Silver Wolf Army, the Golden Lion Army, the Black Bear Army and the Flying Leopard Army.

The pressure on the northern front will be greater, and Zhou Rui and Xiang Tao both hope to use the fortifications on the northern front to resist the coalition forces of the four beast countries, while the southern front will be attacked instead of defended.

"Second uncle, has the Red Tiger army entered the territory of the Barbarian Bull Empire?" Zhou Rui asked Zhou Xiaorong in a deep voice.

Zhou Xiaorong shook his head, "Xiang Tao deliberately said on the telegram that the Red Tiger army has not yet entered the territory of the Barbarian Bull Empire. ”

Call back Xiang Tao and agree to his attack plan!

Remind him that once our army invades the Brute Bull Empire's Kunklai Province and New Constance Province, the Red Tiger Army may soon appear on the battlefield in Kunklai Province and New Constance Province.

In addition, the sea control is now on the side of the six orc countries, and perhaps the armies of the four orc countries in the north can also join the battlefield of Kunklai Province and New Constance Province by sea. ”

At about 5 o'clock in the morning on June 22, 1545, in the territory of Weizhou Town, a field airfield near the border defense line.

Wei Dacheng, the commander of the 17th Air Force Regiment of the Zhou family, said loudly to hundreds of crew members: "Brothers, today is the first time that our Zhou Air Force has shown its face!"

I won't say much more, and I hope that the brothers will all return safely! Boarding! ”

Originally, according to the design drawings provided by Zhou Rui, the Ganyang Aircraft Factory had designed a biplane fighter with good performance.

But before the Ganyang Aircraft Factory began mass production of this biplane fighter, Zhou Rui drove a fighter and a heavy bomber in the lottery system.

The fighter is a British camel fighter during World War I, with a length of 5.72 meters, a height of 2.59 meters, a maximum level flight speed of 185 kilometers per hour, a maximum ceiling of 5,800 meters, a endurance of 2.5 hours, equipped with 2 machine guns, and a 45.5 kg aerial bomb.

The heavy bomber was an Italian CA.36 bomber during World War I, with three engines, a length of 11.05 meters, a height of 3.7 meters, a maximum level flight speed of 137 kilometers per hour, a maximum range of 599 kilometers, a crew of 4 people, equipped with 2 machine guns, and could carry a total of 800 kg of aerial bombs.

The performance of the Camel fighter in all aspects was much stronger than that of the biplane fighter designed by the Ganyang Aircraft Factory, so the Ganyang Aircraft Factory, under the instruction of Zhou Rui, immediately began to imitate the British Camel fighter and the Italian CA.36 bomber, especially the engines of these two fighters.

Up to now, Zhou Rui has opened a total of 500 British camel fighters and 300 Italian CA.36 bombers from the lottery system, but because of the successful imitation of these two fighters by the Ganyang Aircraft Factory, the newly established Zhou Air Force now has more than 2,000 fighters.

This time, in order to hold on to the five feudal towns in the Western Continent, the Zhou family sent more than half of the fighters to the Western Continent by transport ship.

At present, the largest establishment of the Zhou family's air force is an air regiment, each air force regiment has three flight groups, each flight group is composed of three flight squadrons, each flight squadron has 12 combat aircraft, and the entire air force regiment has 108 fighters.

The 108 fighters under the 17th Air Regiment were all Italian CA.36 heavy bombers.

At around 6 a.m. on June 22, six air regiments of the Zhoujia Air Force equipped with camel fighters and five air regiments equipped with CA.36 heavy bombers suddenly launched an air attack on the Brute Niu army on the border of Kunklai Province and New Consao Province of the Manniu Empire.

"Boom-boom-"

One aerial bomb after another fell in the camp of the Manniu army, causing very heavy casualties to the Manniu army.

"Oh my God! What are those? How could those things fly in the sky? ”

"Run! Those things in the sky can drop bombs down there! ”

"Don't mess around! Don't mess around! Quick, set up the anti-aircraft machine gun, and shoot down all these things flying in the sky for Lao Tzu! ”

The Golden Lion Empire and the Red Tiger Empire, when they learned that the Zhou family had developed a fighter that could fly into the air, immediately invested a lot of money and began to develop a fighter.

Now the armies of the Golden Lion Empire and the Red Tiger Empire are equipped with fighters that can be used for combat and reconnaissance, but their performance is worse than the camel fighters and CA.36 heavy bombers equipped by the Zhou Air Force.

The Wild Bull Empire doesn't pay much attention to fighters, so many officers and soldiers in the Wild Bull Army have never even heard of such a thing as an airplane.

So much so that this air raid on the Wild Bull Army, in addition to bringing great casualties to the Wild Bull Army, the fear of the unknown also caused a lot of confusion in the Wild Bull Army.

Previously, in order to recapture the New Wilk Province occupied by the Zhou family, that is, Weizhou Town and Kezhou Town, the Manniu Empire had gathered 45 group armies, more than 100 independent divisions and more than 200 security brigades in the border area of Kunklai Province and New Consia Ao Province.

Each group army of the Manniu Empire has 4 infantry divisions, 1 baggage brigade, 2 heavy artillery regiments, and 1 guard regiment, with a strength of about 80,000 people, and all the officers and soldiers are Niu people.

The independent division of the Manniu Empire is composed of Niu people as officers and Ma people as soldiers, with a strength of about 15,000 people.

The security brigade of the Barbarian Bull Empire is composed of horse people as officers and humans as soldiers, with a strength of about 5,000 people.

In this way, the Wild Bull Army has gathered more than 6 million troops in the border area, and according to the troop dispatch agreement signed by the six beast countries, the Red Tiger Empire will send 5 million troops into the territory of the Wild Bull Empire to counterattack New Wilk Province with the Wild Bull Army.

As the air raids of the 11 air regiments began, Xiang Tao ordered 5 guard divisions, 100 infantry divisions, and more than 500 garrison regiments to launch an all-out attack on the border areas of Kunklai Province and New Consiao Province of the Manniu Empire.

At this time, the Jingzhou Army, the Yuzhou Army, the Lanzhou Army, the Weizhou Army, and the Kezhou Army each had only one guard division, and each guard division had thousands of tanks.

For this attack on the Barbarian Bull Empire, Xiang Tao transferred all 5 guard divisions to the southern front.

The 100 infantry divisions were mainly drawn from the Weizhou Army and the Kezhou Army, and only 26 infantry divisions were drawn from the Jingzhou Army, the Yuzhou Army, and the Lanzhou Army.

The more than 500 garrison regiments that participated in the offensive were completely drawn from the territory of Weizhou Town and Kezhou Town.

Because it was wartime, according to the rules of the Zhou family, the establishment of each garrison regiment of the army was expanded to more than 3,000 people.

The bewilderment tactics formulated by Xiang Tao were very successful, and the Barbarian Bull Empire did not expect that the Zhou family army would take the initiative to attack the provinces of Kunklai and New Consiao.

Coupled with the help of the Zhou Air Force, the war entered the rhythm of the Zhou Army from the very beginning, and the Brute Bull Army in the border area of Kunklai Province and New Constance Province was directly defeated and suffered a major rout.

In the Governor's Mansion in Detrika City, the second capital of the Barbarian Bull Empire, Governor Trofe slammed his fist on the desk, "Rubbish! It's all rubbish!

More than 6 million troops, who did not hold out even for a day, were already completely defeated!

Tonecchi, Vicazar, tell me, what is the reason for this?

Could it be that the combat effectiveness of our Royal Army of the Barbarian Empire has weakened to such a degree? ”

The Minister of War of the Wild Bull Empire, Tonecchi, and the First Deputy Minister of the War Department, Vikasa, glanced at each other, and both had a wry smile on their faces.

It's 10 p.m. on June 22.

In fact, only a dozen hours have passed since the start of the war, but the brute bull army in the border area of Kunklai Province and New Constance Province can be described as "defeated like a mountain".

War Minister Tonech hesitated for a moment and said: "Governor, this time, the Zhou family army of the Han and Tang Empires dispatched a large number of fighters, including bombers that can carry hundreds of kilograms of bombs.

Our Barbarian Empire didn't pay enough attention to the new weapon of fighter planes before, so that the troops on the front line were demoralized by the fighters of the Zhou family's army.

In addition, the Zhou army gathered millions of troops and a large number of large-caliber artillery and tanks, so that our royal army was caught off guard. ”

The First Deputy Minister of the War Department, Vikasa, then said: "Governor, our War Department has ordered all the troops on the front line to rely on the towns to block the Zhou army. ”

Governor Trofe gritted his teeth and said, "Let all the troops in the Kunclai Province and the New Constance Province stop the Zhou family army at all costs!"

According to the agreement signed with the other five Spirit Nations, our Barbarian Empire wants to recover the province of New Wilk.

If Kunklai Province and New Constance Province are captured by the Zhou Army, even if the last two provinces, and even New Wilk Province, are recovered by our Barbarian Bull Army, our Barbarian Bull Empire will lose face. ”

War Minister Tonech immediately patted his chest and said: "Governor, rest assured, our Royal Army was just caught off guard, as long as the Royal Army units in Kunclai Province and New Constance Province can stabilize their positions, they will definitely be able to block the advance of the Zhou Army." ”

Governor Trofe then asked, "What does the Red Tiger Empire say?" When will the army of the Red Tiger Empire enter the territory of our Barbarian Empire? ”

The First Deputy Minister of the War Department, Vikasa, replied: "The Red Tiger Empire has replied, and within three days, the first batch of 800,000 army troops of the Red Tiger Empire will enter the Feidata Province of our Barbarian Bull Empire.

And these 800,000 Red Tiger troops are willing to enter Kunklai Province and New Constance Province to cooperate with our Barbarian Bull Army to fight against the Zhou Army. ”

After the New Wilk Province was ceded to the Zhou family, there were only five provinces left in the Wild Bull Empire, namely the Kunclair Province, the New Constance Province, the Victoria Province, the Elaine Dennen Province, and the Fedata Province, with only about 8 million square kilometers of land area left.

Governor Trofe pondered for a moment and said, "Continue to contact the Red Tiger Empire, and let the Red Tiger Empire send more troops into the territory of our Barbarian Empire as soon as possible."

In addition, they also have to ask for help from the Golden Lion Empire, the Black Bear Empire, the Flying Leopard Empire, and the Silver Wolf Empire.

Although according to the provisions of the agreement, the land forces of these four spirit countries are responsible for the offensive on the northern front, but now there is an unexpected situation, and I hope that these four spirit countries can send troops to enter the territory of our Barbarian Bull Empire by boat to help in the war. ”

War Minister Tonech nodded, "What the Governor said is extremely true, I will have people send telegrams to the Golden Lion Empire, the Black Bear Empire, the Flying Leopard Empire, and the Silver Wolf Empire. ”