264 Shrinking the front
Li Guang was once complacent about his foresight, and since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, every military operation of the Naval Resistance Force has been extremely smooth.
But when the war began, he once again found that the Maritime Resistance Army was still too weak. However, the scope that the existing naval resistance force needs to protect is too wide, and its strength is stretched. But the problem is that the current fleet tasks, which are all necessary.
If the Japanese army takes the Strait of Malacca and enters the Indian Ocean, the naval resistance force will appear to be even more strained. For a long time, Li Guang and Yuan Ye have been unconsciously a little carried away because of the smooth development of the Maritime Resistance Army. Li Guang once laughed at the arrogance of the Japanese invaders, but the Naval Resistance Army actually made the same mistake, and the smooth development of the past few years also made the front of the Naval Resistance Army too long.
At this moment, the Naval Resistance Army is weak everywhere.
In Uruguay, there is no longer a real military presence of the Naval Resistance Army. Although the war in South America is still confined to Peru, Bolivia and Chile, it is impossible to say that one day the war will escalate.
Stone Statue Island and Zangjin Island, as well as Paradise Island. The defense forces of the three places are really not very strong. Due to the war in South America, the air routes of the Naval Resistance Force have been affected, and Zangjin Island has been forced to abandon. As for Paradise Island, the Maritime Resistance Army has only deployed a company of regular troops on the island to ensure that there is no problem with domination, but if the enemy attacks, it can only go into the mountains to fight guerrillas and delay time.
The most important of all, the Stone Statue Island, is now quite weak. There were only one or two companies of the regular army, and the rest were recruits of various technical branches. If the Japanese army really attacks Shixiang Island, then the Naval Resistance Army is afraid that it will really hurt its muscles and bones, and Shixiang Island is the foundation of the Maritime Resistance Army, with submarine docks, torpedo factories, and tank factories. Artillery factories, explosives factories, food factories.
The most secret uranium ore beneficiation base has so far only been a company of infantry.
Although Madagascar has an army of more than 10,000 troops, it is still seriously insufficient in the face of a large island of 580,000 square kilometers.
In Tanggang, the strength of the naval resistance army is not small, but in the face of an unknown number of enemies, how many troops are not enough.
There is a give-and-take, and the Naval Resistance Army can't afford to look at it at all. Li Guangna made up his mind and decided to make every effort to secure two priorities - Madagascar and Tang Port.
The Japanese are desperately expanding, while the Naval Resistance Army is shrinking.
With the issuance of the order, the General Staff of the Naval Resistance Army and the National Development and Reform Commission began to formulate a transfer plan. Li Guang demanded that the situation not affect production as much as possible. Transfer as soon as possible. He had a strong premonition in his heart that Chile or the Japanese army would never sit idly by and watch the safe and steady production of weapons and ammunition on the island.
Besides. The natural conditions of the Stone Statue Island are indeed too poor. There is not even the most basic coal, and almost all supplies need to be purchased from South America, which is now plagued by wars and is becoming more and more difficult to replenish. It's definitely not the best base in the long run.
When the plan made by the General Staff and the National Development and Reform Commission was brought to Li Guang's eyes, Li Guang found out. If production is not affected, it will take at least a year to transfer the industry of Statue Island.
A year is too long, what will change in between. Immortals are also difficult to judge. The Japanese are now busy storming the city, and once they have their hands freed, they can send an aircraft carrier formation to inflict heavy damage on the island. The geographical location of the stone statue island is too independent, and once it faces the attack of the Japanese army, it will definitely be a lonely battle.
This is the biggest flaw in the Naval Resistance Force, and it must be made disappear before the Japanese or Chilean Navy attack.
In half a year, Li Guang ordered that all the properties of the Statue Island must be transferred to Madagascar within half a year.
Some things are easy to say, but they are extremely difficult to do. Li Guang's order was stained with countless blood in the next six months. In order to achieve the goal of transferring within six months, countless Malagasy indigenous captives were forced to meet the deadlines, day and night, whether in torrential rain or under the scorching sun.
To be honest, this kind of order is a powerful torture for Li Guang's heart, which is really not in line with Li Guang's moral concept. Li Guangming knew what it meant for him to give such an order, but he still did not hesitate to give it.
In war, it is pedantic to talk about morality. As long as it is not Chinese who die, Li Guang does not mind being infamous on his back.
After World War II, there were countless materials or books that publicized the achievements of the Allied forces, but very few people mentioned the sacrifice of black people in Africa in this war, and the number of black people who were sent to the battlefield by the Allies as cannon fodder was a huge number, but no one was willing to write a little pen for the black people. The blood of these blacks was selectively forgotten by the British, the Americans, consciously or unconsciously. In the war on the Somali Peninsula, the Italians used black units, and the British also used black units. But as far as Li Guang knows, once blacks are captured, they are often brutally killed by people of the same skin color as them. Although the whites are not directly involved in this behavior on the surface, the whites will not stop this behavior at all, and even encourage it. All post-war white records occasionally mention the exploits and contributions of blacks, but they invariably do not mention the whereabouts of black prisoners of war, whether Axis or Allied.
This order, in fact, also has a gambling component, you must know that the Naval Resistance Force has not been able to occupy Madagascar at the moment. But if you don't gamble, is there any other way for the Maritime Resistance Army?
Li Guang was busy arranging the army or other affairs in Tang Port, and the situation in Malaya had seriously deteriorated.
The strategy and tactics of the Japanese devils, as well as the combat experience of the troops, far surpassed the British army in combat effectiveness. Tactically, the commander of the Japanese army, Yamashita Fumi, adopted a style of play called the "scorpion tactic", attacking with light tanks head-on, while his infantry was equipped with a large number of bicycles to weave through the mountain roads of Malaya and attack the rear of the British army. The Japanese army fought bravely and flexibly, and the British army had no means to deal with this tactic of the Japanese devils, so that they were defeated again and again.
At this stage, the cooperation between the Naval Resistance Force and the British Army was the most harmonious. The aim of both sides was also to delay the Japanese offensive. The British army was trying in vain to keep Malaya and Singapore, and once Singapore was lost, the Far Eastern bridgehead that the British Empire had been operating for hundreds of years would no longer exist, and Britain, who had always fantasized about the glory of the empire on which the sun never set, could not accept this result. Without Singapore, Britain would have lost influence in Asia, and within the British Empire, it was seen as a symbol of the decline of the empire on which the sun never set.
By delaying the Japanese offensive, the Naval Resistance Army was able to transfer more Chinese immigrants and withdraw more Chinese from Malaya.
This evacuation operation, unlike Dunkirk, rescued the descendants of Yan and Huang, Chinese comrades. The significance of this operation was very clear to the Maritime Resistance Force, and the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier formation, under the command of Huang Zhonghua, was quite flexible and proactive.
The Malayan Peninsula is more than 2,000 kilometers long from north to south, and its narrowest point is just over 100 kilometers.
The Liberty Dragon's chosen area of operation was the western side of the Malay Peninsula. In this area, a chain of islands stretching from the western edge of Myanmar into the sea, dividing the Bay of Bengal into the Andaman Sea, which is shaped like an embrace.
The aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon operates in the Andaman Sea, and the range of fighter radiation can cross Malaya in many areas, and the strike range of one aircraft carrier can cover almost half of the Malayan peninsula.
Lieutenant Colonel Smith served as a liaison officer between the British Army and the Naval Resistance Army, and was responsible for providing intelligence. In fact, this information was provided on the face, and most of the time it was a telegram from the British army asking for help. The combat mission of the Liberty Dragon is not only to provide air support for the British army, the naval resistance army also has intelligence sources in Malaya, and the guerrillas of the Lin brothers and sisters will also provide intelligence for the naval resistance army to strike targets.
But most of the time, the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier of the Naval Resistance Army struck the Japanese mainly in the rear of the Japanese army, and its main purpose was to prevent the Japanese from setting up airfields on the Malayan Peninsula. At this time, the Japanese airfield was mainly set up in Vietnam, not to mention that the Japanese fighters had a long enough range, but it was impossible to really cross the Malay Peninsula and pose a threat to the Liberty Dragon of the Naval Resistance Army. Generally speaking, the current situation of the Liberty Dragon is that only I will fight you, and it is very difficult for the Japanese army to fight the Liberty Dragon. (To be continued......)