On 29 July, the naval resistance fleet led by Li Guang returned to Shixiang Island. This four-month voyage yielded great economic gains and even greater prestige, and even for the soldiers, it was extremely close to actual combat training.

In August 1940, the naval forces of the Naval Resistance Army advanced by leaps and bounds.

The captured battleship Admiral Latorre of the Chilean Navy was officially named the Pacific, and the captured French battleship Strasbourg was officially named the Atlantic. In honor of the origin of these two battleships - one was captured in the Pacific Ocean and the other in the Atlantic. The other ships that you have or will own are as follows:

Two pickup air defense destroyers, another one is under construction.

Two gunboats, two torpedo boats.

Three Tengu-class destroyers under construction.

Two Pixiu-class submarines.

Two Fox-class submarines.

A Pixiu-3 supply submarine under construction.

Three Fox-class submarines under construction.

A light aircraft carrier USS Liberty under construction.

There is also a training submarine and a training cruiser.

The armed forces are not not strong, and they are not even weaker than the naval strength of a small country, but what makes Li Guang depressed is that in the foreseeable two or three months, let alone warships, even submarines may be difficult to participate in the war.

Needless to say, the battleship needs to be refitted, and the second is that the personnel are not complete, and even if the personnel are complete, they will not be able to go to the battlefield without half a year of training. The Pacific is better, it has been trained for several months under the leadership of Zheng Xuechang, and it has gradually become a little better, while the Atlantic, so far the personnel have not been gathered, so there is no need to think about the operation.

There are many problems in the submarine force, not only are the officers and men on Pixiu No. 1 and Pixiu No. 2 sick, but even eighty percent of the officers and men on the Pixiu are sick. Don't look at most of them are skin diseases, this kind of disease will not endanger people's lives for a while, but the recovery time is even longer than that of gunshot wounds.

You must know that the officers and men on these four submarines are the elite of the Maritime Resistance Force, and they are also the seeds of the submarine force of the Maritime Resistance Force. Seeing the fleet and fleet of little devils rampant in the South China Sea, Li Guang could not send a submarine attack.

What's more, a Pixiu-3 supply submarine and three Lixiu-class submarines will also be launched in October. The officers and men on these four submarines also need to be trained.

At present, the submarine tactics of the Maritime Resistance Force are becoming more and more perfect, and the training subjects are becoming more and more complex. Without a few months of actual operation, it is really not safe to go directly to the sea to fight.

Li Guang sometimes thinks it is very strange, when Pixiu No. 1 was launched, it can be said that training is fighting, and combat is also training. But at this stage, he was reluctant to take risks. In fact, it is not that Li Guang is unwilling to take risks, as the saying goes, money strengthens people's courage, and at the beginning of the year, Li Guang took great pains to build an army of this scale with an aircraft carrier, three pickup trucks, and two submarines, and finally raised start-up funds.

But this trip to Europe has been hugely rewarding. Not to mention the weapons and ammunition on the PC, in addition to recruitment, even if it is half sold and half given, it also gets five million dollars.

And the large amount of materials obtained from Dunkirk is definitely not less than 30 million US dollars if it is worth it. These things are very different from the materials on the PC, which are all advanced weapons. Li Guang still needs to repay the materials on the PC number with batteries, and the materials on the free wheel are real pure profits.

With this money and a few warships, Li Guang's mind was wild. The development of the Naval Resistance Army was immediately promoted by Li Guang by several levels.

Among them, the expansion plan of the submarine force is the most barbaric, and as the core combat force of the Naval Resistance Force, Li Guang decided to increase the scale of production. He set a goal of four to one year, to achieve one launch per month. In 42 years, it reached two ships per month. Four or three years, to the level of four ships per month.

Therefore, the current fixed facilities must be expanded. The submarine dockyard on Stone Statue Island began expansion work in August.

In the future, there will be more submarines, and there will definitely be more officers and men. Dozens of branches of the Navy on Stone Statue Island have schools, and the existing submarine officers and men are the best instructors.

After careful consideration, Li Guang decided to give the submarine unit a full rest, which would last for three months. It is said that it is a break and recuperation, but also for the training of the four submarine units that are about to be launched.

In the course of long-term operations, Li Guang realized that submarine warfare is really different from other branches of the armed forces. It can be said that the submarine unit of the Maritime Resistance Army has quite good psychological quality, but three or four fighters have suffered from mental problems during this long-term operation, and it is quite serious.

What could be more effective for a man than a beautiful woman and a good wine?

There is a small affiliated island not far from the stone statue island, and Li Guang has built a submariner recuperation base on this desert island. Could this be the case with so-called sabbatical therapy? Wine is easy to say, but beautiful women are also easy to say.

Poland is too backward, and the Jewish women rescued by Li Guang are still somewhat educated, but only more than 500 can be used in factories or commercial departments. Among them, Rajili is now Yuan Ran's secretary.

Li Guang is not a charity, even if he is charity, it is for the Chinese people, he has no obligation or responsibility to raise these women for nothing, so he allocated two or three hundred women to this desert island.

Li Guang's rules for the soldiers were very simple: free love, no violence, otherwise military law would be involved. (Whether there will be any deal in between, is not under Li Guang's control.) ）

For the sake of the mental health of the submariners, Li Guang also specially selected a few Polish women who could sing and dance to teach the submariners singing and dancing on the island, and also allocated funds to build a special dance hall. Ji Kelian, who has always loved to sing and dance, is very popular on the island, and is often surrounded by a flock of warblers and swallows.

Tikrian is very much in line with the aesthetic pursuits of these women, polite, handsome, outstanding in battle, and can quickly sing in Polish and dance in Polish style, such an officer is simply a template for Prince Charming.

Those who engage in music have advantages, Ren Tianyang expressed envy and jealousy for this.

Li Guang also gave a special lecture to the two commanders, saying that in short, he had the same purpose, and tried his best to absolutely not allow serious mental illness to occur. (In fact, it is quite difficult for submariners to completely avoid mental illness, and there is no way to completely solve it in modern times, and living in a confined environment for a long time has a great impact on people's psychology.) ）

It has been calculated that the expansion of the submarine force on such a scale will require an additional $3 million in 40 years. And four years of investment requires five million dollars. And this is just the hardware construction, plus the training and operation, the total cost is estimated to be at least $8 million per year.

Combined with the USS Liberty light aircraft carrier and the three Tengu-class destroyers, which cost $6 million, the total cost of rebuilding the two battleships is about $1 million. With a gentle pull of the abacus, the Navy's investment in equipment will take 40 years, and it will cost 10 million US dollars.

Please note that this equipment model does not include the funds required for shipboard weapons.

It is important to know that military spending and training costs have not yet been calculated. If you don't know that oil and salt are expensive, the navy of the current size needs 500,000 US dollars a month in military expenses, training, and maintenance costs. If you fight, the cost is even more terrible.

In short, Li Guang's scalp was a little numb when he looked at the bill, and within this year, that is, in 40 years, the navy would need to invest 13 million US dollars. Li Guangdu was a little skeptical that his military order was a little too big? However, Li Guang looked at his army expansion plan and found that it was really difficult to tailor the project.

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