Before 1:00 AM, Zhang Guozhu had already received a message from Colonel Luo Dingbang, the commander of 42.3 Subsquad, from the "Jiangcheng" Light Cruiser.
Luo Dingbang was Zhang Guozhu's old subordinate.
Back then, when Zhang Guozhu was the captain of the "North River" Battlecruiser, Luo Dingbang was his second officer.
Over the subsequent twenty years, Luo Dingbang had constantly followed Zhang Guozhu, almost as his right-hand man.
When Zhang Guozhu took up the position of Fleet Commander of the Fourth Fleet, Luo Dingbang went on to become the Chief of Staff of the Special Mixed Fleet 42 and also served as the commander of the light cruiser subsquad.
It wasn't that Zhang Guozhu didn't want to assign him heavy cruisers; the four "Zizhou" class ships were temporarily incorporated into the Special Mixed Fleet 42.
