In an office in the Governor's Mansion of Silver Light City of the Silver Wolf Empire, Deputy Minister of the Navy Yegor and Deputy Minister of War Luka both stood at their desks with their heads drooped with a dejected expression.

And Governor Igna, who was sitting behind his desk, had a hideous expression at this time, and was angry at Yegor and Luca.

"2 group armies, 4 infantry divisions, and 6 independent divisions were completely annihilated by the human resistance army on our own territory of the Silver Wolf Empire!

What a shame! It's a shame!

The Royal Navy fought against 10 capital ships of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empires with 24 capital ships, but only to be sunk 3 battleships with full main guns, 5 all-steel battleships, 3 large armored cruisers, 4 light cruisers and 3 destroyers!

Is this still the Royal Navy, which the Empire is proud of?

The face of the empire has been disgraced by you! ”

At the end of the Battle of Hornhorn Bay, the Silver Wolf Empire's navy had 1 large armored cruiser and 1 light cruiser, but they were all abandoned during the retreat because they were too badly wounded.

And giving up means sinking, so the losses counted by the Silver Wolf Empire are two more warships than those of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet.

Although it also sank 2 battlecruisers of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, its own 3 battleships with full main guns and 5 all-steel battleships were sunk, and the navy of the Silver Wolf Empire experienced another fiasco.

As for the remnants of the besieged 16th Army and the remnants of the 22nd Army, they were still not rescued in the end, and were almost completely wiped out by the silver wolf column of the rebels, and only a few wolf officers and soldiers took advantage of the chaos to break through.

The commander of the 16th Army, Jisla, and the commander of the 22nd Army, Volko, were very heroic, and in order to avoid being captured, both commanders finally committed suicide with their guns drawn.

Vice Minister of the Navy Yegor muttered in his heart, although the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empires only had 10 capital ships, it had 6 battleships with full main guns like turtle shells.

The key is that the 6 all-main gun battleships of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empires are not only resistant to beating, but also quite terrifying in firepower, and it can be said that the 12 all-main gun battleships of the Royal Navy of the Silver Wolf Empire participated in the battle in all aspects.

The biggest reason why the two interception fleets of the Royal Navy of the Silver Wolf Empire suffered a crushing defeat was due to the opponent's six all-main gun battleships.

However, Yegor knew that Governor Igna was on fire, and it was useless for him to explain at this time, so he said with a wry smile: "The Governor is angry, our Admiralty will immediately dispatch more warships, and we will definitely cut off the sea transportation channel of the human rebels." ”

Luca, the deputy minister of the War Department, hurriedly followed: "Governor, our War Department is also preparing to deploy more troops to launch a new round of attacks against the human resistance forces in the Bauhinia Province, Tulip Province and Phalaenopsis Province. ”

Although the attacking troops of the Silver Wolf Empire entering Tulip Province and Phalaenopsis Province were not as miserable as those entering Bauhinia Province, they also suffered a lot of losses and did not achieve too significant results.

Governor Igna gritted his teeth and said, "This time I will mobilize a million troops to completely destroy the human resistance in our Silver Wolf Empire!" ”

As soon as Governor Igna's words fell, Krisha, the deputy minister of the Silver Wolf Emperor's ** Intelligence Department, pushed the door and walked in, "Governor, the big thing is not good, the Flying Leopard Empire is ready to tear up the armistice agreement and declare war on our Silver Wolf Empire!" ”

It turned out that the Flying Leopard Empire learned that the Silver Wolf Empire was wiped out by hundreds of thousands of elite troops at once by the human resistance forces in the territory, and the navy of the Silver Wolf Empire was taught a lesson by the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet of the Han and Tang Empires in the Battle of Niujiao Bay, and couldn't help but be a little nervous.

On November 20 last year, although the Flying Leopard Empire signed an armistice agreement with the Silver Wolf Empire, to be honest, the rulers of the Flying Leopard Empire were not reconciled, after all, they lost so much, but they didn't even get any benefits.

Governor Igna took a piece of paper handed over by Krisha, and after reading it quickly, he said with a very ugly face: "The Royal Army and the Royal Navy will immediately enter the first level of preparation.

As for the Human Resistance...... Let's let it go first, and teach those untrustworthy leopard people a lesson first! ”

The Flying Leopard Empire did not give the Silver Wolf Empire much time to prepare, and on December 24, 1539, the Flying Leopard Empire announced that it had torn up the armistice agreement signed with the Silver Wolf Empire and officially declared war on the Silver Wolf Empire.

Immediately afterwards, the Silver Wolf Empire also announced to the outside world that it was once again in a war relationship with the Flying Leopard Empire.

When the Silver Wolf Column learned that the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire had declared war on each other again, they immediately began to attack cities in Bauhinia Province, Tulip Province, and Phalaenopsis Province, hoping to take advantage of this opportunity to expand the control area of the Silver Wolf Column in the above three provinces.

And when the various units of the Silver Wolf Column began to attack the city, some people were ready to pull the hind legs of the Silver Wolf Column.

At the headquarters of the Silver Wolf Column located in the mountainous area, Li Dongbao, deputy commander of the Silver Wolf Column, slapped his pistol on the table, "The division commanders of the Second Front Army's Second and Third Divisions, as well as the division commanders of the Second and Third Divisions of the Third Front Army, are all decided by the marshal himself!"

Since it is the appointment of the marshal, it cannot be changed.

I want to see, who dares to change the appointment of the marshal today, then don't blame Lao Tzu for turning his face and being ruthless! ”

Since a large amount of weapons and equipment and 40,000 officers and soldiers of the Zhou family army were sent over, the headquarters of the Silver Wolf Column decided to set up two new infantry divisions each of the Second Front Army in Tulip Province and the Third Front Army in Phalaenopsis Province.

In this way, with the addition of the 8 infantry divisions of the First Front Army, the Silver Wolf Column will have 14 infantry divisions, all of which are equipped with the standard weapons of the Zhou Army.

Originally, the division commanders of these four new infantry divisions had already been appointed by Zhou Rui, and they were deputy division commanders or brigade commanders who were drawn from several feudal towns of the Zhou family's army.

Unexpectedly, Wei Zhao, the commander-in-chief of the Silver Wolf Column, and Yang Qingwen, the chief of the general staff of the rebel army, wanted to change Zhou Rui's appointment and elect four of Wei Zhao's henchmen to serve as the division commanders of these four infantry divisions.

Yang Qingwen, chief of the general staff of the rebel army, snorted coldly and said: "Deputy Commander Li, you'd better make it clear that the Silver Wolf Column is subordinate to the general headquarters of the rebel army, but it is not the private army of the Zhou family of the Han and Tang Empires.

Moreover, these four appointments were proposed by Commander Wei and approved by the General Headquarters of the Resistance Army, could it be that Deputy Commander Li wanted to disobey the military orders of the General Headquarters of the Resistance Army? ”

Li Dongbao pursed his lips disdainfully, "Commander, what do you say?"

Don't forget, our Silver Wolf Column can have today, but it all relies on the support of the commander. ”

Wei Zhao said with a little embarrassment: "I have always been grateful to the commander, but I think we had better think about the selection of the four new division commanders."

After all, the four new division commanders appointed by the marshal were not from our Silver Wolf Column at all before, and it was inevitable that some officers and soldiers would have ideas. ”

Wei Zhao's words made a cold light flash in Li Dongbao's eyes, "Commander Wei, you keep saying that you are grateful to the big handsome, but if you do this, it is tantamount to betraying the big handsome and betraying our Zhou family!" ”

Wei Zhao's expression also turned cold all of a sudden, "Deputy Commander Li, don't forget, I am the commander-in-chief of the Silver Wolf Column." ”

Then Yang Qingwen, chief of the general staff of the rebel army, suddenly shouted: "Come on, take down Li Dongbao who disobeyed the military order!" ”

It turned out that Yang Qingwen had asked Wei Zhao to secretly transfer a battalion of the guard brigade, and as soon as Yang Qingwen's words fell, a large number of officers and soldiers of the guard brigade with weapons in their hands rushed into the conference room and aimed their guns at Li Dongbao and several guards beside Li Dongbao.

Li Dongbao didn't seem to be surprised by this, and said to Wei Zhao with a sneer: "It seems that Commander Wei has been prepared for a long time, so he wants to launch a brutal purge operation in our Silver Wolf Column, just like the Flying Leopard Column." ”

Wei Zhao said expressionlessly: "I don't want to purge anyone."

However, in the future, some positions of each infantry division and each independent brigade of our Silver Wolf Column will have big changes. ”

Li Dongbao suddenly sighed, "It's still the seventh person who understands it, Commander Wei, you don't have a chance." ”

At this time, a person walked in from outside the door of the conference room, "Commander Wei, Chief of General Staff Yang, you are inevitably too contemptuous of our Zhou family."

The current Silver Wolf Column is not the Flying Leopard Column of the Flying Leopard Empire. ”

As this person walked into the conference room, the muzzles of the officers and soldiers of the guard brigade immediately turned to Wei Zhao, Yang Qingwen, and the adjutants and guards beside the two.

And the person who walked in was none other than Hu Qi, the director of the Intelligence Department of the Silver Wolf Column.

The Silver Wolf Column did carry out a cleansing of the interior next, but the targets were some of the henchmen of the commander-in-chief Wei Zhao.

As for the guard brigade subordinate to the headquarters of the Silver Wolf Column, relying on the role of the "ghost" money ability, from top to bottom, they have already secretly taken refuge in the Zhou family.

Soon the Silver Wolf Column sent a telegram to the General Headquarters of the Rebels, stating that in a surprise attack by the Silver Wolf Emperor's ** team, Wei Zhao, commander-in-chief of the Silver Wolf Column, and Yang Qingwen, chief of the general staff of the rebels, died heroically one after another.

After the unanimous decision of the top management of the Silver Wolf Column, Xiang Tao, deputy commander of the Silver Wolf Column, took over the post of commander-in-chief of the Silver Wolf Column.

The general headquarters of the rebel army knew what was going on, but now that the entire silver wolf column was firmly controlled by the Zhou family of the Han and Tang Empires, even if they knew, what could they do, so they could only pinch their noses and admit it.

In the early morning of January 1, 1540, the lottery system not only gave Zhou Rui a three-star lottery card in January, but also gave Zhou Rui a New Year's gift package.

And this year's New Year's gift package is a four-star raffle card.

After the two lottery cards were used by Zhou Rui, a large number of weapons and equipment of the army were opened, as well as many warships of the navy.

However, the weapons and equipment of the army and the warships of the navy are no strangers to Zhou Rui, and they have all been driven before.

Together with the warships that had been driven out in the previous months, at this time the lottery system had already reserved 30 battleships with full main guns, 16 battle cruisers, 40 large armored cruisers, 40 light cruisers and 72 destroyers.

Among them, there are 30 all-main gun battleships, including 6 American New Mexico-class battleships, 6 American Tennessee-class battleships, 6 American Nevada-class battleships, 6 Toeikuni Fuso-class battleships, and 6 Toeikuni Ise-class battleships.

The reserve of 16 battlecruisers, including 8 British Lion-class battlecruisers and 8 Kongo-class battlecruisers of the Eastern Ying Kingdom.

Zhou Rui knew that the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet would have to undergo a new reorganization next.

It's not that Zhou Rui doesn't understand Song Limin, the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, it's that there are too many enemies in the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, and Zhou Rui can only enhance the strength of the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet as much as possible.

It seems that Song Limin will be busy again in the future, and he may have to lose a lot of hair.

On the morning of January 6, Hu Yi handed over a piece of information to Zhou Rui, "Dashuai, this is evidence of collusion between the major families of the Kyoto Province and the Northern Province of the Bajin Empire in collusion with the Silver Wolf Empire. ”

Zhou Rui took a cursory look, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, "You can't live if you do your own evil."

Now the other four feudal towns in the southwest have secretly united to resist the expansion of our Zhou family, and it just so happens that these families of the Bajin Empire have sent them to the door, and it seems that our Zhou family can increase the territory of two more feudal towns. ”

The fox nodded, "Great Shuai, now that the Silver Wolf Empire is too busy to take care of itself, it simply doesn't have the energy to pay attention to these families in the Kyoto Province and the Northern Province of the Bajin Empire.

With the strength of the Eastern Jin Army, the Southern Jin Army, and the Western Jin Army, it should not be difficult to annex the last two provinces of the Bajin Empire. ”

"Is there any new news about this war between the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire?"

"According to the information that our 'ghost' has, the navy of the Silver Wolf Empire and the navy of the Flying Leopard Empire are all converging, and it is very likely that a decisive battle at sea will break out between the two sides.

And the location of this decisive battle at sea is likely to be in the waters near the island of Barra.

The armies of both sides are also converging in the border areas of the two countries, and it can be said that a major war is on the verge of breaking out. ”

Although the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire have declared war on each other for more than ten days, the battle between the two ** teams has not really begun.

Zhou Rui nodded, "The outbreak of war between the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire is a good opportunity for the Silver Wolf Column to develop and grow.

Now that the hidden dangers have been completely solved within the Silver Wolf Column, the next step is to increase support for the Silver Wolf Column.

By the way, the murderer behind the assassination of Yiqiu, how is the investigation? ”

Hu Yi hesitated for a moment and said, "So far, I haven't found any useful clues.

However, we found a group of suspicious orcs at the Nine Star Hotel. ”

"Suspicious orcs?"

"There are a total of 10 lion people, 9 tiger people and 8 wolf people, and it is certain that these 27 beast people are all masters, and their cultivation is very high.

Dashuai, I suspect that these orc masters have come to Ganyang City, and it is likely that they want to assassinate you. ”

Zhou Rui said indifferently: "Since it is suspicious, then don't have any scruples, arrest them all first."

Although Ganyang City welcomes orcs from all over the world to do business, it does not welcome orcs with ill intentions. ”