Chapter 59: A Little Surprise

When the Pixiu sailed safely out of the South China Sea, Li Guang received a telegram. This is a telegram from Nauru Island, and the little devil actually found Nauru Island and asked to buy guano and ask Li Guang to make a decision.

At present, it is only the behavior of the merchants, not the army. The little devil moves so fast, and in the era when there was no Internet, he could find the source of guano so quickly.

It has been less than a year since Li Guang began to send guano to Guangxi in 38. Especially before the attack on Hainan Island, the guano business group was only dealing with Guangxi, and there should be no leakage of any news, after all, Nauru is called guano island to the outside world. The exact location of Guano Island is actually not even known to the Katsura family. Li Guang estimated that the news leaked after the guano business group diverted to Haiphong Port.

It's only a month or two after calculating the time, and my actions are really fast enough.

Li Guang thought for a while and ordered the Marines not to show their heads, and not to allow any of the prisoners to show up, and the pirate leader Juan came forward to sell guano normally.

Although leaking the news is a bad thing, it is a good thing for the little devil to send the merchant ship to the door. It's best for the devil to have a few hundred boats, so that Li Guang can easily attack without risk. At present, the navy does not have the courage to wander around the South Pacific, and the fleet without escort is simply a fat sheep.

But the first time the little devil bought guano was only a 1,000-ton dry bulk carrier, which was really not worth the trip to Pixiu. Li Guang decided to cast a long line to catch big fish.

Speculating on the time a little, it is estimated that it will be at least three months before the devil can make a large-scale purchase, and then the task can be completed by just relying on the pickup number.

Overall, however, the little devil's discovery of guano in Nauru poses a great threat to Li Guang's strategy. But for such low-value things, Li Guang didn't believe that the little devil would escort him. Although there are many warships, it is impossible to escort every route.

Guano, a low-value commodity, would cost a terrifying amount if it was added to the fleet escort, and it would definitely outweigh the losses for Yuben.

Li Guang's biggest concern is that now the little devil already knows that there is guano in Nauru. If the little devils occupy Nauru in the early days of the Pacific War and desperately transport guano, I am afraid that it will bring an increase to the food production of Yuben, and I am afraid that it will not be conducive to the war of resistance.

There are two sides to everything, although Li Guang's transportation of guano to China helped the Anti-Japanese War, but he was discovered by the little devil in advance, which was to help the book. Li Guang was very conflicted in his heart, if the supply of food in this area was sufficient in the later stage of World War II, would there be any changes in the war situation? If the war potential of the book is increased, then Li Guang will be a sinner of the country and the nation.

Is this how the butterfly effect is showing?

This is not something that Li Guang can control, but Li Guang has been paying more attention since this period, trying not to change history, if he is not careful, his good intentions may evolve into evil consequences?

In fact, Li Guang's butterfly instigated its wings, and there was another aspect to the change of the book. Historically, it is said that the warships built in 39 years were 320,000 tons, but at this time they reached 330,000 tons. In the past 39 years, the construction of civilian ships has become even more frenzied, and under the repeated stimulation of Li Guang's Pixiu attacks, a merchant ship with a displacement of nearly one million tons has been built in one year.

The construction of a large number of these warships and civilian ships has consumed the huge national strength of the country. But in the coming 40 years, the sea power will gradually increase. Although the attack of the Maritime Resistance Army caused losses to Yuben, there were too few submarines to offset the speed at which he built the ships.

Li Guang didn't know about the above changes, and at this moment, the course of the Pixiu was going straight to the Strait of Malacca. This is another purpose of the Pixiu's voyage this time.

As a Chinese, Li Guang, even if he is not a military expert, is fully aware of the important surname of the Strait of Malacca. The Strait of Malacca is bordered by Sumatra to the south and Malaysia to the north. It is the main route from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean. In later generations, China's oil imports were subject to this strait. Now both sides of Malacca belong to Malaya, a British colony.

Although I don't know the history of World War II, this is definitely the main road that Yumoto wants to occupy the most. And this narrow waterway is also the best place for submarine ambushes. Especially at the Indian Ocean outlet of the Strait of Malacca, where an attack on a merchant ship is simply the most ideal place. Not only is it easy to find the merchant ship, but it is also easy to break away after the attack.

The first purpose of the Pixiu to Malacca this time was not to attack the merchant ships, but to familiarize himself with the water conditions and seabed topography of Malacca. Li Guang did not dare to claim to have strategic vision, but Li Guang at least knew that he had occupied the whole of Southeast Asia in World War II, so there was no doubt that the warships and merchant ships of the Yue Dynasty had to pass through the Strait of Malacca.

Li Guang is now becoming more and more experienced in submarine attacks, and if he finds a suitable location for the attack, the attack will be twice as effective with half the effort. For the weak Maritime Resistance Army, it is a more suitable choice to attack the merchant ships near Panama in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean, but Midway Island is not very suitable, and the northern Pacific route is not ideal.

In the Strait of Malacca, where merchant ships can be found every day, and he has not yet dared enough to dispatch warships on the territory of the British Empire. If Xiao Yueben wanted to send warships to escort the ship, it would undoubtedly challenge the dignity of the British Empire, and a series of diplomatic disputes in the middle would be enough for the little devils to toss.

Another reason why Li Guang chose the Strait of Malacca as the location of the attack was that. After entering the 39th year, some new changes have taken place in the US policy toward the United States.

At the beginning of launching a full-scale war of aggression against China, Ben adopted a policy of avoiding as much as possible a head-on conflict with the great powers, and also claimed to guarantee respect for the rights and interests of a third country in China. This deception made Britain, the United States, and other countries, which did not want to fight in the first place, wishful thinking to maintain neutrality. Therefore, at this time, the United States is in the wait-and-see stage of its invasion of China. Moreover, the United States has important economic interests in the United States. From 1932 to 1939, US exports accounted for 7.3 to 9.9 percent of total US exports.

However, in the 39th century, the United States found that the situation was no longer under their control by political means, and it was impossible for them to give up their interests in China. The withdrawal of troops is even more impossible, and this has already affected the long-term interests of the Americans in China.

As a result, the United States no longer sells high-tech products or military-related products to the United States. Now it is said that the only things that can be bought from the United States are oil and scrap steel. Li Guang has the impression that the United States started a "moral embargo" against Yueben in 39. (In July 1939, the United States notified the abrogation of the "U.S.-American Trade Treaty", and from September onwards, the scope of the so-called "moral embargo" was gradually expanded by the United States until the entire scrap embargo was embargoed.) )

Under these circumstances, according to the Pixiu's operational cycle, it is obviously not the best choice to continue to attack the merchant ships in Panama now. At most, one round of attacks can be launched, and the trade between the United States will be cut off. The Maritime Resistance Force only has such a submarine that can run long distances, and it is really lacking in skills.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the Strait of Malacca will become the main battlefield of the Naval Resistance Force in the coming period.

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