On 3 October, the fleet of the Maritime Resistance Army embarked on a mighty journey.

Li Guang looked at the fleet he had built with his own hands, and was very proud.

The main combat strength of the navy is one battleship Pacific and two pickup air defense destroyers, one Jianxi and one Dominator. Four submarines. A seaplane carrier PC and supply vessel. In addition to this, there is a five-thousand-ton tanker.

In addition, there were 14 freighters accompanying the ship, including guano ships and free ships.

The freighter was loaded with either people or cargo, and the deck was densely packed with transport planes and fighter jets.

The Pacific horn whistled for a long time, and Li Guang glanced back at the stone statue island. From now on, the island will be the weapons production base and training base of the technical arms of the Maritime Resistance Force.

In order to send troops this time, the arrangement of the Naval Resistance Army is also considered to be thorough. The islands of Stone Statue and Zangjin, as well as the Polynesian Islands and Nauru III, remained with a five-company island battalion. The garrison commander is Major Cheng Zhongying.

Although it is a five-company system, the establishment is actually incomplete, and it still needs to be supplemented by considerable troops. However, if there is a battle, Cheng Zhongying's combat effectiveness is definitely quite a lot, and the recruits of various subjects plus the artillery left behind are more than 5,000 people.

On the naval side, Huang Zhonghua, acting captain of the battleship Atlantic, remained on the island of Shixiang, and on the air force side, Yuan Yin, the squadron leader of the air force, stayed behind.

Cheng Zhongying, as the commander of the garrison of Shixiang Island, is responsible for commanding the navy, land and air forces, and from then on he must not only take on the task of artillery training, but also take on the security guard of the four islands, which can be described as a heavy responsibility.

Professor Yuen has a much bigger workload, and he has already gone to Ceylon and the UK in advance to hand over the port. In addition, he was responsible for all the administrative diplomacy of the Haitang Kingdom, and Li Guang officially entrusted all the military industry to Professor Yuan, and the administrative diplomacy and even trade had to be worried and laborious by this old gentleman, in fact, just the fatigue and travel on the road was enough for Professor Yuan to suffer.

The Naval Resistance Army's fleet is not just a navy.

The strength of the army was as follows: one main field battalion, one armored battalion, one mixed artillery battalion, one jungle battalion (only one company for the time being), one mountain battalion (one company for the time being), and two island companies. Together with the field hospital, the engineer baggage battalion totaled nearly 6,000 people. This is the most essential part of the army of the Naval Resistance Army.

The Air Force dispatched a bomber squad -- 12 transport planes, a fighter squadron of 12 fighters, and a seaplane carrier with 12 water reconnaissance planes. The total number of pilots plus ground maintenance personnel is nearly 1,000.

Compared with the other two branches of the armed forces, the land force of the Naval Resistance Army is the most distinctive, and to put it bluntly, there is only one point -- the equipment is too strong, and the strength and transportation capacity are seriously insufficient. As long as the number of troops keeps up, this army can be doubled in size in a few months, and only then can it truly give full play to its combat capability. With the current equipment, the troops are simply not able to fight a war of movement.

JUST TAKE THE MIXED ARTILLERY BATTALION, A 76MM INFANTRY ARTILLERY BATTERY, AN 85MM ARTILLERY BATTERY, A 105MM CANNON BATTERY, A 152 HOWITZER BATTERY, AND A 155 CANNON BATTERY. Each company has 16 or 32 guns, and this kind of armament is at least a battalion in any country. With a total of six companies and one hundred and twenty-eight guns, such a force is a brigade or division configuration even in Europe. Without such a high configuration, the supply of ammunition and the transfer of troops simply could not have been completed.

In order for such a mixed artillery battalion to be combat-effective, it must be expanded into at least a regiment of 3,500 men. However, the advantage of this mixed artillery regiment also lies in this, this artillery battalion has a complete set of core troops such as gunners, observers, rangefinders, and automobiles, and only needs to supplement ordinary soldiers.

The same is true of armored battalions, a full sixty-four tanks of various types, which is simply the configuration of lightly armored divisions of some countries. However, there were only five companies in the Naval Resistance Army, totaling more than 1,300 people, of which only one was a heavy engineer company. There is no doubt that it is also necessary to deploy a considerable number of auxiliary troops.

The field battalion is fully manned and initially has combat effectiveness. The mountain and jungle battalions had only one company. If we talk about the difference between a mountain battalion and a jungle battalion and a field battalion, in addition to the targeted operation, the most obvious thing is the difference in equipment. THE MOST OBVIOUS OF THE HEAVY WEAPONS OF THE MOUNTAIN BATTALION IS THAT THERE ARE NO 76MM INFANTRY GUNS AND HEAVY MORTARS, ONLY IMITATION JAPANESE 70MM INFANTRY GUNS AND 60MM MORTARS 80MM MATARS. THE JUNGLE BATTALION USES 60MM MORTARS AS HEAVY FIREPOWER, BUT THE JUNGLE BATTALION HAS A VERY ADVANCED EQUIPMENT - A FRENCH SUBMACHINE GUN.

Of the two island companies, only one was to follow the army to Ceylon, and the other was appointed to another position.

If, in accordance with the treaty with Britain and France, the Maritime Resistance Forces were to take over the Polynesian Islands and the port of Hambantota in Ceylon on 1 October.

However, it was not easy for the army to be dispatched, and only Professor Yuan led a group of men and horses to Hambantota to hand over. Before the Naval Resistance Army set out, Professor Yuan happened to have a good handover with the British. It should be pointed out that Su Mao went to Ceylon a few days ago with Professor Yuan, and Li Guang was a little worried about this, his mother-in-law was a very powerful character.

In addition, there are several reasons why the troops were sent a little late. The first point was that the battleship Pacific was to be retrofitted with German-made rangefinders, firing commanders, and anti-aircraft guns. It will take time for the officers and men to become familiar with the new equipment of this battleship.

Second, the two Pickup air defense destroyers were officially installed with anti-aircraft guns, and it also took time to become proficient. And this installation of anti-aircraft guns, the workload is extremely large, and some of the single-mounted anti-aircraft guns have been converted into duplexes. Even so, the two air defense destroyers did not meet the design requirements, because although there were a lot of anti-aircraft guns obtained during the trip to Europe, once planned, it was found that they were still not sufficient. The artillery factory of the Naval Resistance Army has just begun to manufacture antiaircraft artillery, and it will take time to deploy troops.

The third is to wait for the latest finalized electric lightning to leave the factory. After several times of learning from each other's strengths, the lightning mine of the Maritime Resistance Army was finally finalized. Whether it is power, performance, or reliability, the torpedoes of the Maritime Resistance Army are one level higher than those of France, Britain, and Germany. However, the thermodynamic torpedo has not been finalized so far and is still in the process of being perfected.

The last reason, inspired by the armed German merchant ships, the merchant ship PC was simply modified and equipped with two aircraft catapults. Carrying twelve water fighters. However, the seaplane carriers of the Maritime Resistance Army are a bit shabby, only the deck and cabins have been modified, not even armor, and the power is still coal-fired boilers. There was no main gun, only more than twenty anti-aircraft guns were equipped as anti-aircraft weapons. But this is also the only merchant ship that the Maritime Resistance Force can handle, after all, only the PC has a speed of up to twenty-three knots. The Naval Resistance Army is short of money, so it can only be like this. However, in addition to the anti-sinking ability, this battleship is inferior to the armed forces, after all, it has a total displacement of nearly 15,000 tons, which is large enough, but it has most of the functions of a seaplane carrier, which is a very good supplement for the naval resistance forces that lack aircraft carriers.

Every Chinese in the fleet has a feeling of going home. Although Ceylon is still not the Motherland, it is close to the Motherland. This feeling of coming home stirred the hearts of every soldier, every worker.

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