The next day, after a 'voluntary' choice, everyone stayed in the First Fleet, and Lisa Gladini wanted to come over, but Xu Zhonglin stopped her. When the fleet was divided, Xu Zhonglin's second fleet was divided into thirty-six ships.

It looks quite good, the number of fleets mastered by one person accounts for a quarter of the strength of the entire Haomai Tesuk fleet, but when Xu Zhonglin got the list, he found that the combined tonnage of these ship girls is about the same as that of Annie alone, all of them are about 1,000 tons of destroyers!

Costa warmly hugged Xu Zhonglin's shoulders: "Haha, congratulations, Lieutenant Commander Xu, most of these shipwives have voluntarily applied to join your second fleet, and many of them are prototype ships, it seems that our top ten cutting-edge admirals have a good reputation." ”

Xu Zhonglin is very calm, as expected. And he is especially grateful to the designers of the other plane, who have always been obsessed with the large size of destroyers, even the smallest warships are generally more than 600 tons. He reckoned that Costa would not be able to find a smaller battleship, otherwise the Second Fleet would definitely be even more miserable.

Sure enough, when the Second Fleet was assembled, after everyone in the audience had finished introducing it, Xu Zhonglin had a new understanding of Costa's shamelessness, thirty-six ship girls, all of them were torpedo boats!

There is a difference between a torpedo boat and a destroyer, in this world both use a destroyer core, but the latter is undoubtedly more powerful than the former.

The goddess of wisdom laughed at herself: The tonnage is about the same as mine, even the equipment and functions are about the same, and the speed is several times faster than when I was back.

The soul girl also said: Thank you to the navy, the screening is still relatively strict, I have always been worried about not being able to enter the navy, and now it seems that this is a good thing.

Xu Zhonglin didn't want to say anything, he didn't expect these little guys to help him much, but seeing the high little heads and the expectant little eyes in the audience, he was a little soft-hearted: "Thank you for your trust, I will be your admiral from now on, my name is Xu Zhonglin, I believe some of you have heard of me, I have a nickname called' 'The Tattered King', is talking about these big sisters standing next to me, their largest tonnage was only 4,000 tons, but in just one year, they all became heavy cruisers, if these big sisters are not convincing, then, Barcelisa is a destroyer like you, but in just one year, she has eliminated an enemy with a tonnage ten times that of herself, I believe that as long as you work hard, you can do it. ”

A pair of small hands in the audience raised in unison and applauded desperately.

Yes, the military heart is available.

The first thing Xu Zhonglin had to do was to take the little guys back to Taranto to sign an ordinary contract. These little guys were all asked to take back the hull of the ship, and they were unified on the Anne, and while they were sailing, he found out the little cute creatures.

The result is not bad, at least Xu Zhonglin is more surprised, the little guys come from several levels, namely the one-star torpedo boat of the Kakusu, the Perseus-class torpedo boat, the Whirlwind-class torpedo boat, and the Aries class torpedo boat, which were built after the First World War in another world, air defense, anti-submarine, torpedo, and these little guys who should have a destroyer in other countries have them, but they are all relatively weak, and the speed is generally above 34 knots, which is already useful.

At night, Xu Zhonglin was lying on a table and kept writing and drawing, and a large number of ship girls surrounded him

"Admiral, what are you drawing?"

It was the Roman Luna who spoke, the largest of these little cute creatures, with a displacement of 2,200 tons, and a prototype ship mother. She is very tall, about the same size as Barcelisa, and she is also very mature in appearance, and of course very beautiful. She was originally a yacht, and later converted into a torpedo boat, designed by civilian standards, and her combat effectiveness can be imagined, but she is already the largest one in terms of displacement.

"I have a little relationship with the military department, and I want to take advantage of this opportunity to go back and contract with you, and ask for funds to help you renovate."

The little cute creatures were very moved and excited to see that the Admiral had not yet signed a contract and wanted to help him transform: "Is it modified like Sister Barcelissa?!" ”

Xu Zhonglin shook his head: "I guess not, I definitely can't apply for so much military spending, my idea is to help you improve the sonar, if possible, and then improve the deep-water bomb thrower, air defense weapons and torpedoes, depending on the situation." ”

The little ones were a little disappointed and a little relieved, and the Roman Moon God continued to ask: "Admiral, our sisters are relatively small in tonnage, and even if they are modified, they can't fit too many things, so why do you spend so much effort to help us refit? ”

"It's a little bit to be able to improve, even if everyone doesn't improve much, but there are so many of you, as long as you cooperate tacitly, you can also exert great combat effectiveness."

"Admiral, rest assured, we have been together for at least twenty years, and we have a very tacit understanding!"

This is the most satisfying point for Xu Zhonglin, if these little guys put aside the hull, they are indeed elite, and they are even better than or even better than the destroyer girls in Gibraltar, after all, these guys have been together for a longer time.

This is related to the reality of the two countries, Britain has many warships in the original world, so there are many ships in this world, and many of them are qualified to retire as reserves, while Italy does not have so many ships, so each ship has a much longer service time.

……

Xu Zhonglin signed an ordinary contract for the first time, and it felt a little similar to the secretary ship contract, the difference is that the contract of the secretary ship made him have a clearer perception of the inner world of the ship's mother, and he could perceive the most real feelings of each secretary ship at any time, and the other party could understand a rough idea of whether he was happy or sad. Ordinary contracts do not feel these things at all, and the two parties can only communicate with each other through contracts.

Contracting so many ship girls at once, the burden on Xu Zhonglin is very heavy, and there seem to be countless flies around him next to his head, and Sissi said that he needs to recuperate for a while now.

But he still managed to endure his discomfort and visited Garibaldi. Xu Zhonglin originally knew little about this person, only that Italy had an aircraft carrier called Garibaldi. This one in this world is clearly different.

Garibaldi is also a legendary shipwit, originally she was just a light cruiser, but over the years she has made great achievements, and now she is a powerful war cruiser. This ship's mother is relatively not very beautiful, but she feels very resolute and strong.

"I heard you've been assigned to Howmatsuke?"

"Yes!"

"I didn't do it."

"I know!"

"Now that you know, what is the matter with you coming to me this time?"

"I want to apply for a fund, I now have thirty-six ship girls under my command, all of them are torpedo boats, and they have never been transformed, and there have been a lot of tests on the Austro-Hungarian side recently, and I am afraid that they will suffer losses during the conflict, and I want to give them some limited transformation, so that the conflict will not suffer too much."

"Oh? All torpedo boats? Looks like you've been suffering a lot lately. ”

Xu Zhonglin's expression was very calm: "Yes, some people seek personal gain under the guise of punishing us 'North African factions'. ”

"Oh?" Garibaldi's eyes narrowed, stared at Xu Zhonglin carefully, and said slowly: "It seems that it is going to be rectified, the big war is about to begin, and military discipline needs to be emphasized." I'll allocate you some resources, but not too much, don't think about taking advantage of them. Okay, you go down, no matter what, you have to keep in mind your mission, and the most important thing is to do your job well, we will see it. ”

Hearing Garibaldi say this, someone was relieved, he would not be stupid enough to be corrupt, and he was already very happy to sue Costa for his black state quietly.