When the fleet arrived in Uruguay, Li Guang led the fleet to sail into the Río de la Plata and walked around the shipyard. It's very arrogant.

Show off your might, the real show off your might. The battleship's giant cannon fired an unloaded salvo in front of the shipyard, which shook for tens of miles and shocked the entire city of Montevideo. When Li Guang disembarked, hundreds of Jewish women on the shore lined up and cheered, like stars holding the moon.

It is not without effect to show off your military might, and this move has greatly deterred the Uruguayan political axe and all forces in Uruguay.

However, the reaction of the people was not shocked, and even a little jubilant. These days, it is very tempting for the lack of entertainment for the Uruguayans, who are once again empty, arriving at the banks of the Río de la Plata to admire the majesty of the warships. In newspapers and radio, there seems to be a trend that the Navy's resistance forces and Uruguay are friendly forces, and there are even speculations and comments that the Navy's resistance forces are Uruguay's foreign aid.

There are a few people in Uruguay who still have malicious intentions towards the Chinese, and after the re-deterrence of this battleship, I am afraid that they will have to weigh what they want to do.

With two battleships, the Naval Resistance Force has truly become the leading big brother in the South American navy. This weight is not light, and it is very deterrent for South America and even for countries around the world. For Li Guang, it is even more unwise to make enemies in many ways, and it should be said that it is the best policy to suppress the black hands who plot against the Chinese by means of deterrence.

It was already mid-July, and the Oolong shipyard had again launched a destroyer USS Pickup. Li Guang brought several engineers from the ship design institute with him this time, and asked them to study the battleship and draw on its advantages to use in the design of the aircraft carrier. The second is to ask these engineers to upgrade and rebuild the battleship.

After nearly a month of familiarity with this warship, Li Guang had a very profound grasp of the advantages and disadvantages of this warship. In general, the armor protection is quite strong and the speed is good, but it does have shortcomings in terms of firepower.

First of all, the number of main guns is insufficient, which Li Guang cannot improve, one is that the improvement project is huge, and the other is that he can't get a 330mm main gun. In addition, the anti-aircraft firepower was insufficient, with only eight twin 37mm guns and two 130mm single-mounted high-level dual-purpose guns. Although there are many secondary guns, the twelve quadruple 130mm guns cannot be used against the air.

It can be said that the design thinking of this battleship has lagged behind, and in World War II the air defense of the battleship was a top priority. The design of the French battleship was completely different, and the devil was eager to pile cannons on the battleship, while the French deliberately reduced their firepower. And Li Guang's thinking was different, he paid the most attention to air defense.

Later, the plan was to remove the three secondary gun turrets and replace them with 24 twin three-inch anti-aircraft guns, and to add 16 37-mm anti-aircraft guns. This brought the anti-aircraft artillery fire to a total of fifty and one hundred guns. The anti-aircraft firepower was more powerful than that of a pickup destroyer, and it immediately jumped to the first place in the air defense of battleships in various countries around the world.

The French quadruple main gun and quadruple secondary artillery technology is quite advanced, unique in the world, even if it is a 130mm secondary gun, the French also use automatic ammunition feeding technology, quite advanced. These three brand-new turrets were dismantled, and Li Guang was reluctant to waste them.

Only the pickup destroyer technology in the oolong shipyard is relatively mature, and Li Guang, who has huge profits, is also loose in hand, and with a wave of his hand, he decided to build three more pickup destroyers. The main guns on each battleship used a set of quadruple 130mm guns. Later, these three destroyers were not called the pickup class, because the French quadruple turrets were so thick that the destroyers were thick in the middle, like a pot-bellied woman. The Big Belly was really ugly, and after several interpretations, it was finally called a Tengu-class destroyer. Tengu swallowed, the belly is naturally big, and the meaning is naturally for the little devil.

Although the firepower of the battleship was somewhat reduced, due to the removal of the three quadruple turrets, the weight of the hull was reduced by 1,200 tons. The designers designed several large oil storage compartments in the original space. In addition, the battleship was all changed to fuel burning, which greatly enhanced the endurance. From the original endurance of 7500 nautical miles/15 knots, 3600 nautical miles/31 knots, to the endurance of 10500 nautical miles/15 knots, 4500 nautical miles/31 knots. If we rush from Africa to Shixiang Island again, we can avoid intermediate replenishment, and we can also rush from Shixiang Island to the South China Sea without refueling on the way, which greatly improves the combat capability of this warship.

During the three-day supply break in Uruguay, Li Guang enjoyed the admiration and admiration of Sister Yuan. In a short period of three days, Li Guang determined the next plan for building ships.

The first item is three Tengu-class destroyers.

In the second, a Liberty ship was converted into a light aircraft carrier.

The first of these projects will not cost too much, as long as the destroyer has naval guns, anti-aircraft guns, torpedo launchers and other weapons and equipment, the part that spends the most money is actually on the engine, and the hull actually does not cost much. Ship design estimates that the hull plus power of each destroyer will cost no more than $400,000.

The second project was already quite urgent for Li Guang, who was anxious to form a combat strength for air support at sea. The full-fledged aircraft carrier under construction was supposed to be launched in a year and a half, but due to the turmoil in March, construction was delayed, and the keel was only laid in July. Li Guang estimated that it would be difficult for his aircraft carrier to catch up with the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Don't look at the first purpose of the Air Force of the Naval Resistance Army, which is an aircraft carrier, and the training also focuses on aircraft carrier operations, but without aircraft carriers, all training is just an approximation, and without real ship operations, the Air Force can only be a land-based air force.

Li Guang actually regretted a little at this time, he shouldn't have built a formal aircraft carrier in the first place, and if he had started to build a light aircraft carrier at the beginning, he would have almost been able to launch it now.

There is no regret medicine in the world, and people who travel through it are not exhausted. It was not too late to make amends, and Li Guang quickly made up his mind -- to start construction of a light aircraft carrier.

As Li Guang's understanding of the shipbuilding industry became deeper and deeper, he already knew how much a light aircraft carrier would cost.

The free wheel weighs more than 7,000 tons and carries more than 9,000 tons. The full load displacement is about 16,500 tons.

The Maritime Resistance Force's own ships have always been built according to the standards of civilian ships, and some additional budgets have been added to some measures that do not cost much, and then they will be used as warships. For example, the destroyer Pickup does not even have armor, but is actually a civilian ship with higher speed and higher strength.

The hull of the light aircraft carrier, named USS Liberty, itself was based on drawings of the Liberty wheel. It cost about a million dollars.

The aircraft carrier needs high-speed maneuvering, the power system and propulsion propeller increase the investment of one million US dollars, and the armor needs about 3,200 tons of armor according to the protection strength of the three-inch armor and the three-inch flight deck, and the raw materials plus labor are about 1 million US dollars.

In addition, the design of the anti-sinking closed compartment that Li Guang attaches the most importance to is increased to add a closed cabin and a closed cabin. According to the engineers' estimates, about 270 to 280 watertight cabins are arranged on the whole ship, and the steel plus the airtight doors of the airtight cabins and the internal facilities such as oil depots will increase the cost of only 500,000 US dollars.

In addition, there are auxiliary facilities such as electricity, pipe loss, fire prevention, communication, blocking cables, etc. It is estimated that less than $1 million will be invested.

In other words, this light aircraft carrier, with a total displacement of about 16,500 tons, costs only $4.5 million in addition to fighters and weapons systems.

If Li Guang's antiaircraft artillery system, radar, and other equipment are added, the cost may reach $8 million.

At the beginning, Li Guang did not think of building a light aircraft carrier, but after the cost-effective, he found that the cost of a light aircraft carrier was not proportional to the cost of a regular aircraft carrier at all.

The cost of the aircraft carrier's hull is about $4.5 million, and the cost of the regular aircraft carrier hull under construction is about $10 million. The amount of water discharged is twice as much, and the cost is about twice as much.

But the number of aircraft carried is more than three times worse. The regular aircraft carrier under construction is expected to carry 100 fighters of various types, but this light aircraft carrier can only carry more than 30 aircraft. The most important thing is the inefficiency of the take-off and landing of fighters. If the combat effectiveness is calculated by the same standard, this light aircraft carrier is at most a quarter of that of a regular aircraft carrier.

In addition, although the hull structure of this aircraft carrier is considered solid, it is still far inferior to the regular aircraft carriers under construction.

Therefore, in terms of economic investment, it is not cost-effective to build a light aircraft carrier, but in terms of time, it is a condition that the Naval Resistance Force cannot refuse. If this light aircraft carrier can be launched within half a year, then half a year of training will be just in time for the devils to launch the Pacific War.

In Li Guang's memory, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the Pacific Wars that he didn't know much about, and this was a great opportunity for Li Guang to speculate, and Li Guang definitely didn't want to miss the opportunity.

The shipbuilding capacity of the Oolong shipyard has basically reached the output of one free ship per month in 40 years, and the construction period is only four months.

For this oolong shipyard, Li Guangke has the most feelings. It has been a long time for this shipyard to develop.

If it were peaceful years, the Oolong shipyard would simply not have survived. Li Guangyi did not have much advanced technology, second, he did not have much capital, and third, all raw materials, including a screw, needed to be imported from the United States or other countries.

Such a cost is almost not competitive with countries such as Britain, France and the United States. In normal times, the net profit of European and American shipyards is only about 10 percent, but in the context of the world war, the net profit of the 4,000-ton cargo ship and the 9,000-ton free ship of the Oolong shipyard reached more than 50 percent. Without him, he just seized the good time.

In 40 years, the output of the oolong shipyard can reach more than 120,000 tons, and the shipbuilding capacity of the whole country is only 60,000 tons per month. The output of the Oolong shipyard is already equivalent to the shipbuilding volume of the whole country in two months. Of course, because the raw materials and accessories are purchased, it is not the same for the enhancement of national strength.