After holding the burial ceremony of the fallen soldiers of the Zhou family, Zhou Rui took the time to go to Crescent Island.

When Zhou Rui arrived on Crescent Island, it was already the afternoon of April 1, and a two-star lottery card given by the lottery system in April was used by Zhou Rui to drive two British Orion-class battleships.

With the addition of the 2 Orion-class ships that have already been extracted, the coastal defense fleet will have 8 full-main gun battleships equipped with 343 mm main guns.

In the evening of the same day, under Song Limin's arrangement, dozens of warships of the coastal defense fleet left the port of Crescent Island and conducted another night exercise in the nearby waters.

And when it was time for dozens of warships of the coastal defense fleet to return after dawn.

In the harbor of Crescent Island, there are already 6 British Orion-class battleships, 4 German Moltke-class battlecruisers, 12 German Scharnhorst-class armored cruisers, 12 German Wiesbaden-class light cruisers, and 24 Russian Unreasonable-class destroyers.

Although Song Limin knew in advance that Zhou Rui was going to add a batch of warships to the coastal defense fleet, Zhou Rui did not tell Song Limin the specific number.

Song Limin didn't expect that this time, Zhou Rui would add 58 warships to the coastal defense fleet at one time.

Song Limin's first reaction after seeing these 58 warships: I have to continue to fill the pits!

Since Zhou Rui took the throne in the Zhou family, the "hole" of the coastal defense fleet regarding the lack of personnel seems to have never been filled.

Every time the coastal defense fleet just wants to recruit all personnel, Zhou Rui will add a batch of warships to the coastal defense fleet, and the last two times have added dozens of warships to the coastal defense fleet at once.

Zhou Rui only left one sentence for Song Limin: "Old Song, these new warships are handed over to you." ”

Then Zhou Rui hurriedly left Crescent Island by boat, preparing to rush to Linxing City and take up the post of Zhenwei Jiedu envoy.

After Zhou Rui left, Song Limin gathered several formation commanders who were on Crescent Island at this time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, after the new 58 warships joined our coastal defense fleet, I discussed it with the major general and decided to reorganize our coastal defense fleet."

As soon as Song Limin's words fell, Wang Hongchun, the commander of the fifth formation, spoke: "Song Zhi, the major general is about to become the envoy of Zhenwei Festival, won't our coastal defense fleet change its name?"

I think I can change the name to Zhenwei Fleet! ”

Song Limin said: "The meaning of the major general, the name of the coastal defense fleet remains the same, after all, our Zhou family has not withdrawn from Fengwu Town, if the word 'Zhenwei' is added, it will inevitably make Fengwu Jiedu Mansion more stimulated."

However, the major general said that in the future, the prefix of our coastal defense fleet can be added with the words 'northwest of the Han and Tang Empires'. ”

"The Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empires!

Not bad! Not bad! The name is loud enough! Wang Hongchun said approvingly.

Then Song Limin took out a stack of papers and distributed it to several formation commanders, "This is the new establishment of our Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

Let's take a look, do you have any comments?

If everyone has no opinions, our Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet will be reorganized according to what is written above. ”

The reorganization plan that Song Limin took out has actually been approved by Zhou Rui.

Next, the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet will be divided into five main formations, of which the first formation is dominated by 8 British Orion-class all-main gun battleships, namely Ruixue, Ruifeng, Ruiyun, Ruifu, Ruiji, Ruichang, Ruijia, and Ruibang.

The commander of the first formation was concurrently held by Song Limin.

The second formation is dominated by 4 French Colbe-class all-main gun battleships and 4 British giant-class all-main gun battleships, namely Longjiang, Longwu, Longscale, Longsheng, Phoenix, Fengming, Fengyi, and Fenghe.

The commander of the second formation was Wang Xuewen.

The third formation is dominated by 6 German Caesar-class battleships, namely Tianxin, Tiangang, Tiangong, Tianguang, Tianjun, and Tianshu.

The commander of the third formation was Cai Ming'an.

The fourth formation consisted of 8 Moltke-class battlecruisers and 4 British Invincible-class battlecruisers, namely Wusheng, Wugong, Wude, Wurui, Wuyao, Wurong, Wuxian, Wuzhang, Yongsui, Yongwei, Yongxi, and Yong'an.

The commander of the fourth formation was Wang Hongchun.

The fifth formation consisted mainly of five all-steel battleships, namely Zhenhai, Canghai, Jinghai, Weihai, and Yanghai.

The commander of the fifth formation was Hao Desheng.

In order to protect the capital ships in a naval battle, the 17 German Scharnhorst-class large armored cruisers, 18 German Wiesbaden-class light cruisers, and 24 Russian unreasonable-class destroyers of the coastal defense fleet will all be assigned to five formations.

In addition, in the new establishment of the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet, there will be several sub-fleets of different sizes.

Warships that have not been incorporated into the five main formations, including some warships of the captured Tongze fleet, will be incorporated into several sub-fleets and stationed in some ports all year round.

Several formation commanders have no opinion on this new reorganization plan, after all, the new reorganization plan has been approved by Zhou Rui, and even if they really have opinions, they have to keep it.

Song Limin then said helplessly: "Next, let's study the issue of how to replenish the personnel of the 58 new warships." ”

At this time, Wang Xuewen said with some emotion: "According to the speed at which the major general adds new warships to our coastal defense fleet, I feel that for our coastal defense fleet, it is not easy to fill this 'hole' that lacks personnel. ”

Cai Ming'an followed and said: "This can be regarded as a happy distress.

However, there are several thousand naval officers and sailors on the side of the Tongze fleet, and I think most of them can be transferred to the new warships. ”

Wang Hongchun said: "I suggest that our coastal defense fleet recruit troops next, and recruit as many new soldiers as we can't shortage.

We have to measure it in advance, otherwise the 'hole' left by the major general for our coastal defense fleet may not be filled. ”

At this time, in a restaurant on the Ruixue battleship, Captain Liu Ergou was inviting an old acquaintance to dinner.

And this old acquaintance of Liu Ergou is Hu Wei, the fourth master under the original living Hades King Cui He, but now Hu Wei's name has become Zhu Shaoqing.

"Brother Zhu, I didn't expect that we would have such a fate, and Brother Zhu will have to take care of my brother and me in the future." Liu Ergou said with a smile while holding a wine glass.

After Zhu Shaoqing joined the coastal defense fleet, his performance has been remarkable, and he was originally promoted to the captain of the Fengluan all-main gun battleship.

However, the Fengluan all-main gun battleship was sunk in the naval battle of Shark Island, but fortunately, when the Fengluan all-main gun battleship sank, the officers and men on the ship were given plenty of time to escape.

In the end, Zhu Shaoqing took almost two-thirds of the officers and men on the Fengluan and successfully transferred to other warships.

After returning to Crescent Island, Zhu Shaoqing was appointed as the captain of the Ruifeng all-main gun battleship.

Although Liu Ergou and Zhu Shaoqing did not know the new reorganization plan of the coastal defense fleet, the Ruixue and Ruifeng belonged to the same class of all-main gun battleships and would definitely be incorporated into the same formation.

Zhu Shaoqing touched Liu Ergou with a wine glass, and couldn't help but sigh: "I really didn't expect that you and I would be in this situation today."

But when it comes to taking care of me, it should be the second dog brother who will take care of me more in the future.

Now who doesn't know, Brother Ergou is the first vice admiral of our coastal defense fleet! ”

Liu Ergou heard Zhu Shaoqing mention that he was the first vice admiral of the coastal defense fleet, and he couldn't help but show a smug look on his face.

You must know that the title of "First Vice Admiral of the Coastal Defense Fleet" was the first to be said by Zhou Rui.

"Hehe, where am I the first lieutenant general, it's just a little luckier.

By the way, Brother Zhu, this time the Major General has added 6 all-main gun battleships of the same level as Ruixue and Ruifeng to our coastal defense fleet.

Do you say that our 8 battleships of the same class with all main guns will be newly organized into a formation? ”

"I don't know about this, but I heard Song Zhi mention it, it seems that our coastal defense fleet is going to carry out a new reorganization, after all, this time the major general added 58 new warships to our coastal defense fleet at once."

"Brother Zhu, where did you say these new warships were built?"

"Brother Ergou, since there are some things that have not been mentioned above, it is better for us not to inquire, especially people from a background like you and me."

Liu Ergou patted his head, "Look at me, drink some wine, there is no door on your mouth."

I heard that Brother Zhu, Song Zhi and Wang Zhi are classmates of the same phase of the Shuonan Naval Academy? ”

The king that Liu Ergou said is Wang Hongchun.

Zhu Shaoqing nodded, "We are indeed classmates from the same phase of the Shuonan Naval Academy. ”

"Then Brother Zhu's ability is definitely not bad, I have something that the navy doesn't understand in the future, so I'll ask Brother Zhu for advice."

"There is absolutely no problem, if there is anything you don't understand, you can just come and ask me."

"Brother Zhu, you said that with the current scale of our coastal defense fleet, can it be comparable to the navy of the six major beast empires?"

"If it is a few naval powers among the six major beast countries, our coastal defense fleet should still have a big gap with it.

But if compared with the navy of the Black Bear Empire or the navy of the Brute Bull Empire, our coastal defense fleet may be superior in terms of scale.

Of course, there are still many problems in our coastal defense fleet, such as a serious shortage of personnel and insufficient training. ”

Liu Ergou then said: "In fact, these problems are all because the speed at which the major general added new warships to our coastal defense fleet is too fast.

If we continue at this rate, I think sooner or later our coastal defense fleet will become the largest navy in the world. ”

Zhu Shaoqing hesitated, "I really haven't thought about this problem, but if there is really that day, maybe even the six towns in the northwest may not be able to accommodate our Zhou family." ”