Li Guang, who was out of danger, smiled all day long, couldn't be better in a better mood, and hummed a certain theme happily all day long:

"Happy people shouting ......".

It is estimated that the French navy has already turned the world upside down, and Li Guang sent a telegram to Premier Yuan Ye, who was far away in London. Although the battleship had no radar on board, the telegraph was powerful enough to contact London and Uruguay directly. It's much better than submarines and liberty ships, and it's really a battleship - a weapon of the country.

Mr. Yuan Ye is really busy, he is both the prime minister and the foreign minister of Haitang, and what is even more strange is that he is also a member of the Uruguayan parliament. For two days, Professor Yuan Ye didn't know what was going on on Li Guang's side, so he was stopped by several French diplomats in protest.

After Professor Yuan learned what had happened, he knew that the Naval Resistance Army had quietly made such an astonishing move. Since this is already the case, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and Foreign Minister Yuan began to talk to the French side.

However, within two days, the French left Professor Yuan and never mentioned the battleship again. There is news every day in the world, and this time the news is even more shocking - on June 22, the French surrendered.

Li Guang, who was a little more leisurely, took stock of the huge benefits of this trip to Europe, and his heart was simply happy.

Just by taking the battleship on which it was ridden, the value can make countries blush. This battleship, I dare not say anything else, is simply handy to deal with the heavy cruisers of the Yue army. After all, this battleship was designed to deal with German pocket battleships. No matter how powerful the little devil's heavy cruiser is, it will be for nothing to meet this battleship.

And what satisfied Li Guang most about this battleship was its speed. Such a behemoth, with a maximum speed of up to 30 knots, can be completely incorporated into the aircraft carrier formation planned by Li Guang.

Don't look at the fact that Li Guang is already preparing for the escort of aircraft carriers, but the shortage of money can only be to build three air defense destroyers first. The air defense effect of the pickup is good, but after all, the combat effectiveness of the ship is too weak, and it is too unsafe for an aircraft carrier formation to be escorted without a cruiser or destroyer.

The firepower of the captured Chilean battleships was not weak, but the maximum speed was only twenty-two knots, which was purely chicken ribs for an aircraft carrier formation pursuing high speed.

And this intact battleship is almost brand new, a new ship that has just been commissioned in 39 years. The Strasbourg battleship was a sister ship of the same class as the Dunkirk, but the Strasbourg battleship had much thicker waterline armor than the Dunkirk, reaching 283 mm, which was thicker than the captured Chilean battleships. The total displacement reached 37,500 tons, which is really powerful enough. Not only did Li Guang like it, but the soldiers of the Naval Resistance Army were stroking the brand-new cannons, and they were all smiling. Don't look at the soldiers on the battleship, most of them are in the army, and the love for this battleship during the voyage is no less than that of the navy soldiers. The deck is polished every day, and the main guns, secondary guns, and anti-aircraft guns are routinely cleaned every day. The French navy usually hated this kind of labor, but when they saw that the soldiers of the Naval Resistance Army cherished this battleship so much, their hearts were pantothenic.

Li Guang gained not only the hardware, but also some of the software carried on his ships. The battleship had hundreds of kilograms of detailed charts of the whole world stored on board. This alone is something that Li Guang can't buy with money.

An old power like France cannot be underestimated. If such a complete nautical chart is collected by the naval resistance army, I don't know how much effort and cost it will take.

When the Naval Resistance captured the Chilean battleship, the captured charts were only partially detailed charts of South America, which were not at all on the same level as the French charts.

From this battleship, Li Guang could see that France's technology was definitely not bad in terms of both the army and the navy. Naval technology is still superior to that of Germany. For example, the catapult, the Naval Resistance Army once got a German-made catapult, and it is also being copied.

However, from Li Guang's point of view, the structure and reliability of this group of catapults in France are above the German system. The rest of the battleship, including the high-pressure steam engine, was no worse than the American one. Even accessories such as shooting commanders, rangefinders, etc., are not inferior to German technology.

Over the past few years, Li Guang has become more and more profoundly aware of the industrial level of various countries in the world, and on the whole, the United States in this era has not technologically distanced the European powers.

Even in many aspects of the military industry, the United States is not advanced but backward. The technology of this era is more like the domestic TV at the beginning of the 21st century,So many manufacturers,It's hard to pick out a technology that is ahead of the curve。

The same is true in the world now, where several countries in the first echelon are not far apart in terms of their technological level.

Li Guang walked around the battleship when he had nothing to do, looking for areas for improvement on the battleship. First of all, the boiler, due to the lack of oil, France uses a kerosene mixed boiler, which is the same as the Chilean battleship, if it is converted into an oil-fired boiler, it will not cost much, and it can also improve the maximum endurance of the battleship. Of course, the cost of fuel consumption is several times higher.

Since the French had surrendered to Germany, Li Guang's robbery of the French was justified. Li Guang asked his staff officer Hu Bofeng to do ideological work on the French prisoners, and offered generous conditions to hire instructors from among these people.

As soon as they heard the bad news of the surrender, the French were immediately demented. Even the captain of the ship, Colonel Valjean, was demented for a long time and asked Li Guang for a bottle of wine, and the old man swallowed a bottle very depressed.

As soon as the Great War began, the French lost their allies and their enemies. The French don't like to fight, but after all, they are soldiers, and there are still some differences between the feelings of ordinary people, and the French prisoners are confused from top to bottom.

After the confusion, the French behaved realistically. The Naval Resistance Army easily recruited more than 20 officers and more than 30 technical officers in this batch of prisoners. Two of the French pilots were also willing to work for the Naval Resistance.

Li Guang was very happy, with these more than 20 officers, the speed at which the Naval Resistance Army could master this warship would be greatly accelerated. And more than 30 technical officers were put in the Uruguayan shipyard, and each of them could be the technical backbone.

In his spare time, Li Guang called out two French pilots to learn to fly seaplanes. Li Guang usually doesn't have many hobbies, and his favorite thing in this era is not drag racing, but also fine wine, but flying an airplane.

The battleship had a catapult and three seaplanes on board. Li Guang can fly a seaplane, but he has never experienced a catapult takeoff, and he has been learning with great interest for a while. It didn't take long to learn to take off from a battleship, and I had a lot of fun.

The French water reconnaissance planes are still biplanes, which are really backward enough, slightly better than the water reconnaissance planes in the world, but absolutely inferior to the German water reconnaissance planes.

The German-made water reconnaissance plane stolen by Yuan Ran had already been given to the Curtis Aircraft Company in the United States by Li Guang. The Naval Resistance Force ordered two batches of P40 fighters from Curtiss in a row, which can be regarded as a cooperative unit.

In return, the American company Curtis promised to help the Naval Resistance Force transform the P4O fighter for free. The Curtis Company originally also produced water reconnaissance planes, but the models were old, and getting this German-made water reconnaissance plane was a treasure. The German water reconnaissance plane, known as the best water reconnaissance aircraft in World War II, naturally has unique technology, and in fact the Germans have adopted quite a lot of new technologies on this fighter. Curtiss promised that the new water reconnaissance aircraft would first be supplied to the Naval Resistance Force after leaving the factory.

However, the creation of a new type of water reconnaissance aircraft is not a matter of a day and a half, and the Naval Resistance Army still purchased 12 old reconnaissance planes produced by the Curtis Company, which are also two-winged, and the surname can is not very good.

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