Li Guang was originally going to Uruguay in the next two days, but the Pixiu No. 2 was launched on 1 December and is now undergoing secret sea trials. However, due to weather conditions, the C47 could not take off, so the trip had to be postponed. Taking advantage of the windy wind, Li Guang went up the mountain to observe the training of a bombing team to see how well the bombs were controlled in windy weather. Overall, the effect is about the same.

The Pixiu No. 2, led by Ji Keliang, had been tested for 10 days, and only quietly returned to the dock for repairs two or three times, which was much better than the situation of the Pixiu No. 1, which was returned to the factory for repairs more than 10 times.

According to Ji Kelian's report, there should be no problem in completing the various tests of the submarine in a few days.

By the time Li Guang descended the mountain, it was already early in the afternoon, and he received a telegram from Ji Keliang. Pixiu II watched a fierce naval battle during sea trials - three British cruisers against a German heavy cruiser. (It's actually a pocket battleship, and the model is not clear to Tiklian).

As a result, one British cruiser was damaged and withdrew from the battle, while the German ship was wounded and was followed by two British ships. It has been driven towards Uruguay.

Tikerian is now in the mood of watching the excitement, and is following the British fleet, and by the way, he is also testing the anti-submarine capabilities of the British battleships. However, Ji Keliang was very careful and did not follow very closely.

This news did not cause much concern to Li Guang, as German submarines had recently begun to make active sorties in the Atlantic, and news of the sinking of British merchant ships came from time to time. Li Guang still has some knowledge of the history of China's resistance to the Chinese war, and very little knowledge of the naval battle between Germany and Britain, and only knows a limited number of major events or some interesting anecdotes.

In the middle of the night, Li Guang received a telegram again. This time it was sent by Yuan Ran, and a German pocket battleship entered the La Plata River in the evening, and at midnight it actually entered Li Guang's shipyard to request repairs. Yuan Ran specifically pointed out in the telegram that this battleship was extremely advanced.

Li Guang immediately became interested, and in recent times, there have often been British and even French warships entering Uruguay, and some of them have been repaired and maintained in shipyards. Every time a warship arrived, Li Guang would take his subordinate Zheng Xuechang and a few other officers to observe and study, and several engineers from the ship design institute would also disguise themselves as workers to go on the ship to study and take a lot of photos.

But no very advanced warships have been found before, Yuan Ran manages all of Li Guang's industries in Uruguay, and now he has quite a lot of insight into the ship industry.

On the morning of the 14th, Li Guang ordered all the people and horses, and took Ren Tianyang, who had just returned to Hong Kong, and more than 30 people took the C47 to Uruguay.

Advanced warships are not easy to see, and naval battles are even less easy to see. According to a telegram from Tikryan in the morning, two British battleships were patrolling the mouth of the Río de la Plata like dogs. Pixiu 2 could not return to the shipyard.

The Río de la Plata is very wide, tens of kilometers long, but there are only three deep-water channels, two of which are suitable for the Pixiu to enter and exit. After all, the huge hull of the Pixiu and the tower are more than ten meters high. But now these two rivers are watched by British warships. Ji Kelian couldn't reveal his secret, so he had to continue watching the play from a distance.

The information sent by Ji Kelian made Li Guang even more excited, it seems that after the German battleship is repaired, I am afraid that it will have to fight with the British, this is a good opportunity, you can observe the naval battle at close range, for the rookie naval resistance army, this kind of on-site teaching is really to step on the iron shoes and find nowhere to find.

In the afternoon, the plane arrived at Robinson Island, then refueled and took off again, and in the evening Li Guang and his entourage entered the shipyard.

The atmosphere in the shipyard was very different from usual, surrounded by Uruguayan military police with loaded guns. When Li Guang entered the shipyard office, he found that in the general manager's office, there was a three-way meeting.

Yuan Ran is not a party here, and he is looking at the three-party argument present with a smile.

Among the three parties present, the presiding party was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, on the one hand was the British Minister to Uruguay Drake, on the other side was the captain of the German [***] ship Langesdorff and the German Minister to Argentina Mokdore.

Don't look at Li Guang's territory, but now Li Guang is a soy sauce character. On the side, Yuan Ran quietly introduced the situation, and it turned out that this battleship was a new German battleship, the Count Speer pocket battleship.

Speaking of this battleship, it is actually a masterpiece of the Germans who were limited in the number and displacement of battleships after their defeat in World War I, and then opportunistically.

Germany was a defeated country in World War I, and the number of tonnage of warships was severely limited by the victorious countries led by Britain. As a result, in order to have powerful warships, the Germans tried to find a breakthrough in technology.

In order to meet the limitation of 10,000 tons of displacement, the Germans used eight high-power diesel engines as power on this pocket battleship, and the model was exactly the same as the four purchased by Li Guang. This allows the ship to carry less fuel without sacrificing endurance.

To reduce weight, both the armor and the hull were welded. Originally, according to the treaty, heavy cruisers could only be equipped with 203mm naval guns, but later the British gave Germany a little relaxation and allowed them to install naval guns of less than 280mm caliber. As a result, the Germans also pushed the cannon to the limit, using a 279mm triple cannon with a total of two main turrets. This was much more powerful than the Anglo-French heavy cruisers, which had only 203mm guns.

Not only that, the Germans almost did the extreme of this battleship in the limited displacement limit, and a variety of new technologies were applied to this battleship. It is no exaggeration to say that this battleship is the essence of German industry.

However, in the end, the battleship had exceeded the limit of 10,000 tons of displacement, reaching more than 13,000 tons, and the full load displacement was more than 16,000 tons.

The Germans had been preparing for an attack on Poland for a long time, and the battleship had sailed into the South Pacific before Germany had launched a ground attack on Poland, and at the beginning of the war it had continuously attacked British merchant ships, and had sunk nine ships so far, with a displacement of about 1,000 tons.

According to Tikerian's report, yesterday morning the British battleships surrounded the pocket battleship on the sea 140 nautical miles from Uruguay, and fought three against one, with two engines fighting for more than an hour.

As soon as the German warship sailed into the Río de la Plata, the German ambassador to Buenos Aires on the other side of the Río de la Plata immediately contacted Arthur, the director of the shipyard. Request for repair of the battleship.

Of course, the German minister knew about Li Guang's shipyard, not to mention Uruguay, which was the best and largest shipyard in several surrounding countries, and some time ago he had negotiated with Yuan Ran about the business of diesel engines and free wheels.

As Yuan Ran and the factory director Arthur, they naturally have a business, and they must take it. So repairs to the battleship began in the early hours of the morning. However, the injuries of the battleship were not light, and they could not be repaired in a day and a half. Li Guang entered the factory, and at this time, more than 30 officers of the Naval Resistance Army under his command naturally pretended to be workers and began to observe the warship.

Now the focus of the three-way argument is that Britain has moved out of international law, and warships of belligerents entering neutral countries should be disarmed within 24 hours.

The Germans, on the other hand, argued that, according to custom, if the ship was badly damaged, it could be repaired and then fought.

The British minister argued that the German ships were still able to move and that the damage was not serious.

However, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay was in a state of mud and said that he would simply find a few experts to evaluate it.

The so-called experts are two belligerents, and they can find personnel from several ship repair factories to take a look at them casually. Don't look at the Uruguayans are quite emotionally close to the Germans, but they don't even have an official embassy, so naturally they are not as active as the British minister who has a legation in Uruguay, and the Uruguayan embassy has obviously done a lot of work, and as a result, several experts called the beast were found, stating that the battleship was badly damaged, but it only took three days to repair.

As a result, the Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs came to the conclusion that the battleship needed to be repaired, and the German battleship was allowed to stay in Uruguay for another two days, that is, until the evening of the 16th.

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