On the 4th day of January 42, after nearly half a month of sailing, the Maritime Resistance Army returned to Tang Port.

On the 8th, the Naval Resistance Army set out again.

On this expedition, there was an extra female soldier on the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon - Yuan Ran. Yuan Ran was dressed in a military uniform on the aircraft carrier, which was quite eye-catching. However, this is not Li Guang's use of his position, but Yuan Ran's role as the intelligence officer of this operation.

Don't look at the Yuan family's eldest Yuan Zi, who has been in the Naval Resistance Army for seven or eight months, at this time, Li Guang knew that Yuan Zi, the eldest son of the old Yuan family, had never seen this little sister in the past twenty years.

This time it turned out to be the first time that the brother and sister met, and the brother and sister met with a long sigh. Yuan Zi had a very bad impression of Li Guang, and he left England for more than 20 years because the old Professor Yuan abandoned his biological mother.

Li Guang is now stepping on two boats again. In Yuan Zi's mind, Li Guang was also a moral corrupter.

However, Li Guang still has great respect for this eldest brother who has a crippled arm, and Yuan Zi really can't find an opportunity to sneer at Li Guang.

What Li Guang lacked was only practical combat experience, but his knowledge of decades ahead of this era made it almost impossible for him to make a mistake in principle in the use of naval resistance forces, especially aircraft carriers. In this way, it is difficult for Yuan Zi to teach Li Guang a lesson even in terms of professional knowledge. The two in the army have a superior-subordinate relationship, and in private, this Colonel Yuan Zi (an officer recruited from outside by the Naval Resistance Army, the military rank is according to the original rank. Li Guang was not given any face, but this did not prevent the two from pouring their hearts and minds into this fleet.

The scale of the Naval Resistance Army's dispatch this time is even larger than the last gift-giving operation. The number of surface warships increased to fifteen.

Among them are the aircraft carrier USS Liberty Dragon, the USS PJP seaplane carrier, the battleship USS Atlantic. Three Tengu-class destroyers (just completed and launched), two pickup-class air defense destroyers, and one Tyrant-class torpedo boat. Six Ba Xia-class air defense destroyers (French destroyer modification. ）

After several months of intense construction, several destroyers purchased from Germany were largely completed, but now the problem is a serious lack of anti-aircraft artillery. The six Baxia-class air defense destroyers were only equipped with eight twin-mounted three-inch anti-aircraft guns, and they did not form a full combat effectiveness. Although the purpose of this expedition was to train the troops, although they brought these six air defense destroyers with them.

Not only that, but along with the fleet, there were also four submarines, which were the third submarine team under the command of Quan Yonghai.

The Naval Resistance Army was in full swing, but its target was not the South Asian battlefield east of Ceylon. The route of the fleet, the sword points to the southwest. In the Indian Ocean, the fleet rode the wind and waves towards the east coast of Africa.

The destination of the Maritime Resistance Army's troops this time is Madagascar. The aim of the battle was not just to defeat Vichy France in Madagascar, but to "occupy".

For this reason, the army of the Maritime Resistance Army dispatched a mixed regiment this time, and the regiment commander Yang Weiwu was dispatched.

The formation of this mixed group was a decision made by Li Guang after careful consideration and consideration of the geographical environment of Madagascar.

The mixed regiment was based on the original mountain regiment, a mountain infantry battalion was withdrawn, a field battalion, a jungle battalion, an amphibious battalion were added. In addition, an artillery battery was specially deployed. Together with the mountain regiment's own engineer and baggage battalions and firepower battalions, a total of eight battalions, the total strength of the army reached more than 7,300.

According to Yuan Ran's intelligence, the total number of French troops was only more than 3,000 people. Such a well-trained and well-equipped army was fully capable of defeating the French.

But the goal of the Naval Resistance Army this time was to occupy. Occupation meant not only defeating the adversary, but also exerting influence over all indigenous people throughout Madagascar, as well as being able to control all strategic points. This gives Madagascar complete control, whether it is the land, the people or the economy.

To this end, Li Guang also prepared a second echelon, a full eight companies of recruits, 2,000 people. The 2,000 troops had been trained for at least six months. Although Li Guang arranged the deployment of such a large number of troops, it was still not enough for a large island of more than 500,000 square kilometers.

However, Li Guang still has the third echelon to prepare, and there are still 5,000 people in the recruit camp, all of whom have undergone at least three months of recruit training.

For this battle, the Naval Resistance Army made full preparations. The mixed regiment led by Yang Weiwu, the first echelon of the army, alone occupied ten guano ships and one merchant ship with a displacement of 8,000 tons. Although Yang Weiwu's regiment is not a field regiment, it also owns 100 cars. Thanks to Hu Bofeng's special logistics raids on the Somali Peninsula, the number of horses in the army was even higher, reaching nearly 4,000. The total number of tank guns was also around fifty.

In addition, Li Guang prepared more than 10,000 tons of materials and ammunition for this military operation, including more than 2,000 tons of ammunition alone. This amount of ammunition was about the battle share of a division of the Japanese army, enough for Yang Weiwu's troops to use for three months. If you do the math, each soldier can divide almost two tons of supplies. If this standard is put in the domestic Chinese army, I am afraid that it can support three divisions for a year. Not only that, Li Guang also prepared 1,000 tons of napalm that had just been produced for this unit.

In the past four years, the army of the Naval Resistance Army has been training almost entirely except for participating in the Somali campaign. But participating in the Somali campaign is not the same as the battle for Madagascar.

Participating in the Somali campaign, Li Guang needs to explain the reasons to everyone. However, in the attack on Madagascar, Li Guang only pointed out at the pre-war meeting that this was a battle for the founding of the country.

All the officers immediately boiled, and the three main regiment commanders asked for battle. This is the dream of every soldier who has expanded his territory.

Soldiers, defend the homeland and the country. But the greater glory is to expand the territory.

For more than 100 years, China has been humiliated repeatedly, and it is already an extravagant hope that it will not lose its territory. Even the soldiers have lost their ambition to expand their territory. However, the thinking of traditional Chinese soldiers has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and when such an opportunity is presented in front of them, the eagerness shown by the three regiment commanders is like hot molten iron.

In the end, after some competition, this task fell into the hands of Yang Weiwu.

The task is in hand, and now Yang Weiwu and a cadre of officers have held back their strength to fight this battle well. In terms of qualifications and merits, Yang Weiwu did not have much advantage among the three regiment commanders, and the reason why he was able to get this task was because of Yang Weiwu's battle plan. The best part of it is not how to fight, but how to subdue the local natives.

Yang Weiwu was ahead of the other two regiment commanders in this point, and only then did he get this extremely glorious task.

This battle was not for the British, nor for the Americans, but really for the sake of the Naval Resistance Army, the Haitang Kingdom, and the expansion of China's living space.

This battle is of great significance, and if you win, the Naval Resistance Army will really have a piece of land that can be established if you occupy this place.

For the officers and soldiers, especially Yang Weiwu, he had a chance. The opportunity to become the first brigade commander of the Naval Resistance Army.

After taking Madagascar, Yang Weiwu will be the brigade commander and will become a colonel officer.

For a martial artist like Yang Weiwu, hanging a star on his body is the supreme glory. The colonel brigade commander is one step away from the general. In the minds of soldiers like Yang Weiwu, who have a strong psychology of ancient military generals, general is an incomparably glorious title, and this title has an incomparably attractive title to him.

Yang Weiwu's understanding of expanding China's living space proposed in the propaganda outline is actually to expand the territory and open up the territory, and he also publicized it to several officers under him.

For this battle, Yang Weiwu's mixed group fighters had a high fighting spirit, and Yang Weiwu's propaganda also had Yang's characteristics: "One knife and one shot, hit a big Tang Dynasty." Win a rich and prosperous descendant. ”

In order to cooperate with Yang Weiwu's military operations, the seaplane carrier PJP will also remain in Madagascar for a long time to come, under Yang Weiwu's command.

The ancients had, after the soldiers and horses, the grain and grass went first. Modern people know that fighting a war is about logistics. Li Guang made quite adequate preparations for this troop dispatch, both in terms of intelligence and logistics. But fighting a war is definitely not just about material, otherwise you can simply take out your family wealth and dry it, and judge whether you win or lose. If you want to achieve victory, you also need the officers and men of the Naval Resistance Army to fight hard and the commanders to strategize.

The Naval Resistance Army chose this time to send troops to attack Madagascar, which was entrenched by Vichy France, and this was the best time Li Guang could think of.

After two submarine resupply and raids, the British were already extremely dissatisfied with Vichy France's control of Madagascar, and perhaps wanted to send troops to control it.

Second, the Naval Resistance Force has just sent a generous gift to the United States, and Premier Yuan is still making a big deal of public opinion in the United States, so the Americans will not interfere immediately.

Third, the Maritime Resistance Army is also famous, after all, the merchant ships of the Maritime Resistance Army are also "threatened" by Japanese submarines in this sea area. The Navy's move was to eliminate the threat. This military action is good for both the merchant ships of the maritime resistance army and the merchant ships of Britain and the United States.

Fourth, and most importantly. Now the Japanese army is attacking cities in Southeast Asia, and neither Britain nor the United States has the energy to manage the naval resistance army, and they can't manage their own affairs.

Who knows, on the 15th of January, when the Naval Resistance Army was preparing to launch an offensive, more favorable news came from South America.

It's messed up, it's all messed up.

The Great War in South America broke out. First, Chile, Peru and Bolivia fought fiercely, but this time it was not on a small scale, but the two sides used more than 100,000 troops to fight fiercely. Then there was Argentina, which, for some reason, demanded that Britain return its territory, the Malvinas Islands, at this time, and although there was no war, the situation was tense.

History has completely changed, and the "Falklands War," which did not take place until the 80s of the 20 th century, may have broken out several decades earlier. This Malvinas Islands is very familiar to the Maritime Resistance Army. Both merchant ships and warships often take this route. It is the southernmost point of South America, and although it is not as important as the Panama Canal between South and North America, it is also a strategically important place in the context of world wars.

Originally, South America was the quietest region in World War II, but now not only Asia is fighting, but Europe and Africa are also fighting, and now South America has been added.

The reason for this is directly related to Germany and the Naval Resistance Army, as well as trade in South America. Although the countries of South America are rich, they have no industry, and their weapons and equipment are also very backward. After receiving tens of thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition sold by Germany, the two countries of Chile and Argentina began to be somewhat untouchable. Chile wants revenge, and Argentina is afraid that it will want to take advantage of the fire, seeing that Britain's military strength is tight.

Li Guang's assessment of Argentina is that the timing is much better than it was decades later.

Of course, the reason why the Naval Resistance Army chose to send troops to Madagascar is similar to that of Argentina, but the goals of the two sides are different, Argentina provokes the British Empire, and the Naval Resistance Army looks for the dying France.

Two of the top three countries in South America have already gone to war. Brazil, the largest country in China, is said to have thrown itself into the arms of the United States, which has gradually taken control of Brazil on the condition of helping Brazil build its steel industry. However, at the moment of the outbreak of the South American war, whether the Americans can stabilize Brazil also needs to draw a question mark.

As for Uruguay, it has always issued a declaration of neutrality for the first time.

History began to change, and until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Li Guang still thought that his strength was too small to change much history. Who knew that the change of history would only really explode at this time.

In fact, Li Guang didn't know that there was another huge change. On the Soviet-German battlefield, the German army stationed in Moscow, and has not been repulsed until now. This is very different from history, you must know that the German army under the city of Moscow only held out until the day before the Pearl Harbor incident, that is, December 7, and this time it was already the 15th of January, the German army was still fighting with the Soviet army under the city of Moscow, and millions of troops on both sides were fighting on the snow like meat grinders.

The reason for this is that there are three reasons, all of which are related to Li Guang.

The first point is that the No. 3 and No. 4 tanks of the German army have now all been modified with long-barreled main guns, although they cannot completely overwhelm the Soviet Union's cutting-edge tank T34 in terms of performance, but it is also not like the historical tank main gun It is difficult to penetrate the T34 tank armor of the Soviet Army. But numerically, the Germans had an absolute advantage.

The second point is the private trade of Li Guang and Claude. Half a million sheepskin coats and hats were sold by Claude to the Germans. Although these sheepskin coats were extremely poorly made, they had an excellent function of keeping out the cold, and they protected the combat effectiveness of the German army well in the severe cold of minus thirty or forty degrees. Claude was even promoted by Hitler to the rank of rear admiral of the German Navy, and he was promoted at a flying speed.

Thirdly, the encounter between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Arctic Ocean in September resulted in heavy losses for the Germans. It also made Germany pay attention to the Arctic Ocean route early, and although the Soviet and British escort forces were strengthened, the German submarines and fighters were not vegetarians. It was difficult for the Soviet army to obtain a large amount of external arms and ammunition support. Now an important route for the United States to support the Soviet Union is through the Mozambi Strait west of Madagascar, then into the Arabian Sea, through the Persian Gulf, and then sent to the Soviet Union by train. The capacity of trains is simply not comparable to that of sea transport, and the USSR is in an extremely difficult period.

And these are all changes that can be heard in the news in the newspapers. In essence, some changes are slowly changing the course of the world war.

Since he could hear the news of German submarine attacks on merchant ships almost every three or two days, Li Guang turned a blind eye to them. He didn't realize what had changed, but the German submarine threat to Britain was much greater than it had historically been. In the past 1941, the Naval Resistance Army sank about 350,000 tons of Japanese merchant ships.

But the Germans went so far as to sink more than 500 British merchant ships, with a total tonnage of nearly 2.5 million tons. That's nearly 20 percent higher than the historical figures. This was due to the fact that the Germans had increased the number of submarines they had built, and there was also the boost of batteries provided by Li Guang.

Historically, Britain's daily military expenditure for 41 years was 11 million pounds, equivalent to about 44 million US dollars. And due to the frenzied attacks of German submarines, this figure was close to 50 million dollars per day at the end of the year. And as German submarines began to be fully modified with snorkels, the threat of submarines to merchant ships was bound to increase greatly in the coming 42 years.

The arrival of Li Guang has disrupted the historical course of World War II, and it is already somewhat elusive how the world will change.

After several years of war, Li Guang is now mentally resolute, and he will feel uncomfortable for the great changes in history, but he will not be lost in the face of the great changes.

Madagascar must be captured in this battle, and this is the best time to do so, and it should not be missed.

It was also a crucial step in the Zero Plan, with a very clear purpose, to occupy, to take advantage of the chaos of the world war, to create an established fact.

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