At present, the most troublesome thing for Li Guang is the officers and men of the submarine unit. The submarine force was divided into sixty college students, which is said to be not a small number. But if you look at the rate of expansion of the submarine force, you know that this number is far from enough.

In April, the Maritime Resistance Force again commissioned three Lixi-class submarines and one supply submarine. There are enough people at the moment, but the problem is that six more submarines are expected to enter service this year.

This requires a constant stream of manpower. Submarines have one characteristic, an establishment of thirty or forty people, and the high-tech arms need no less than a destroyer of one hundred and fifty people, or even more.

Unable to recruit qualified and highly educated personnel, the Naval Resistance Army had no choice but to train itself. Ji Kelian was damaged by two Pixiu submarines and is now on a teaching mission on Shixiang Island.

In April, the number of combat submarines of the Maritime Resistance Force reached 12 (two Pixiu submarines were being renovated), and 10 of them were actually capable of fighting.

After the adjustment, a total of ten submarines were assigned to the second submarine fleet. Due to the large number of new recruits, the combat effectiveness of the troops has seriously declined, and the combat environment in the South China Sea basin is much more dangerous than that in the Pacific Ocean.

Originally, Ren Tianyang was depressed and thought that it would be difficult to make new contributions to such a task, and it would be difficult to catch up with Ji Keliang in any case. But who knows, since March, Japanese submarines have frequently appeared around Tang Port, and Ren Tianyang has been challenged and began to lead this rookie submarine force to strangle Japanese submarines.

It should be noted that the submarine designers of the Stone Statue Island developed a new variety. Actually, it's not a new model. Rather, the supply submarine was groped and finally finalized. This submarine, simply put, is the shape of the Foxy class (underwater displacement of 1,200 tons), the strength of the shell at a depth of 35 meters, the power of the Fox-class submarine, and the battery of the German submarine (the battery is few, only a hundred tons. ）

The reason is that after building a Pixiu-class supply submarine, the designers found that the cost performance was not suitable. After careful calculations, they designed a submarine specifically for resupply. The performance of this submarine is not worth mentioning, nor is the combat effectiveness, but there are two maximum advantages.

First, the cost is low. A submarine costs less than $300,000.

Second, there are many loads. It is simply amazing that a submarine with an underwater displacement of only 1,200 tons can carry 500 tons of cargo.

However, from these two parameters, it can also be seen that the simplicity of this submarine can also be seen. To be honest, this kind of submarine is very inconsistent with Li Guang's thinking of attaching importance to the casualty rate. However, this plan was enthusiastically endorsed by the military and business groups.

The reason for the military's approval lies in the fact that such submarines do not take up combat duty most of the time and can train recruits by the way. Many of the recruits on surface ships interned at the Sumoud Business Group, or at the Guano Business Group, and more often on fishing vessels. These internship environments have provided a steady stream of soldiers for the Naval Resistance Force. Submarines, in contrast, are not so convenient. You must know that there is only an old submarine on Stone Statue Island as a training boat, and this boat also has to undertake patrol tasks, which is really lacking in training means. According to Ji Keliang's estimate, if there are no more ways to train new soldiers, the submarine force of the Maritime Resistance Force will not be able to increase its combat effectiveness with the increase of submarines. And with the increase in submarines, the combat effectiveness will continue to decline. And this is also in the case of submarines without battle damage, if there is battle damage, then the proportion of recruits in the army will increase even more alarmingly, and the decline in combat effectiveness will be faster.

Although submarine training is a very good plan, it is a very good plan to use the old to lead the new. But if these recruits have long-term practical experience, they will mature faster, even if they do not have front-line combat experience.

The reason for the favor of the business group is that such submarines can transport supplies off the coast of Chinese mainland. You must know that it is impossible for the Japanese devils to occupy all the thousands of kilometers of coastline, there are many coastal areas that the Japanese devils have never even visited, and some cities and towns have only been occupied for a short time. Such submarines have great prospects in these areas. Merchants will settle accounts, and they will come to the conclusion that such a submarine would transport valuable supplies, such as bullets and shells. One or two trips will recoup the cost of this submarine.

The domestic import route is from Yangon to Kunming, and then to the interior of China or the southeast coast. This is a big circle, and this land passage for the transportation of materials is thousands of kilometers long. After such a toss, the tofu was sold for the price of meat. Therefore, the use of submarine transport, especially professionally designed transport submarines, is promising.

Because of the requirements of the merchants, this submarine has developed quite a few models, some of which are specialized in transporting diesel, gasoline, dry bulk cargo, and even personnel. Some submarines were armed with torpedoes, some had only one or two heavy machine guns, and some had no weapons at all, with only a bomb installed in the bilge.

Since commercial submarines do not involve any advanced military technology, and even the connected trachea has been eliminated, Li Guang has granted permission to Sumod's commercial group to procure them.

The manufacture of this kind of submarine is much easier than that of combat submarines, and the construction speed is like an assembly line after the scale is large.

The mass production of the Yakini class transport and supply submarines has made the name of the Yakini class submarine of the Maritime Resistance Force be replaced by the name of the cargo submarine, which is widely spread among the people, and many people do not even know that the Yakini class submarine has a real combat submarine. In addition to the two submarines of the military's Yakini class, there is also a very special design, a professional mine-laying submarine. Because it rarely undertakes attack missions, it is even regarded as a transport submarine by the people.

With the arrival of this group of college students, for Li Guang, the General Staff Department has been enriched. In the past, there was a serious shortage of personnel in the General Staff, and many times Li Guang had to join in the heavy calculation work.

At present, the general staff department not only has staff subdivisions of various arms of the armed forces, but also intelligence staff departments, logistics staff departments, communications staff departments, equipment staff departments, meteorological staff departments, geographical staff departments, air defense staff departments, and anti-submarine staff departments. A large structure of the General Staff has gradually taken shape. Li Guang called it the Joint Staff.

However, the current staff department has the appearance of a real military organization, in addition to the student staff officers of various majors, there are also many Whampoa students. However, by this time, the candidate for the chief of the General Staff had still not been found. Li Guang had no choice but to serve part-time as chief of the General Staff.

When Premier Yuan Ye learned that the military had set up such a general staff, he immediately had a smart mind and set up a similar agency within the government. The content of the work is very similar to that of the later National Development and Reform Commission. The name is also spoofed by Li Guang, called the Development and Reform Commission, this committee has no administrative power, only planning power. Like the general staff of the Naval Resistance Army, it has the responsibility of planning, but it cannot directly command the army to fight.

It is worth mentioning that Hu Bofeng, a special logistics staff officer, has now been promoted and has become the chief of special logistics staff. Specialized in his logistical work, such as looting, selling supplies, and squeezing prisoners.

Hu Bofeng has shown an extraordinary love for this work. Li Guang was a little speechless about this Chief of Staff Hu, obviously a well-educated young man, but he preferred to do something darker. He took a few staff officers with him and carried out the work in an orderly manner.

For example, the arrangement of the captives. After groping, the work of the captives was finalized. The blacks basically built roads and fortifications, dug coal and burned bricks, and cultivated wasteland. In order to maximize the profits, the Italian captives were allowed to write letters to their families, and as long as they were willing to pay the ransom, the Naval Resistance Army would let them go. No ransom? Then let's continue digging coal until the day there is an accident. With these more than 30,000 captives, Tanggang is almost the same day by day, and the speed of development is simply changing with each passing day.

Although Li Guang no longer directly manages civil affairs, Li Guang is still very pleased with the development of Tanggang. Li Guang was most satisfied with the production of shells and shells, and after the Jews became involved with the Navy, they quickly invested in several production lines of shells in Tanggang, and now they have begun to produce bullets and shells.

And Su Maode's business group and the Chinese in Southeast Asia are more active, in this era, no matter which country, arms are a profiteering product. The problem for businessmen is not money, nor technology, but access. Not every businessman is qualified to produce weapons and ammunition, even the United States.

But in Tanggang, there was no access at all, and the government was making every effort to encourage businessmen to invest in the project, and anyone could produce munitions, and the government did not collect excise taxes in the first year, let alone customs duties. Later, the arms industry was also the same as ordinary industry and commerce, with a low tax of only 30 taxes and 1 tax. It is only when the Naval Resistance Army orders arms that it asks for a certain percentage of discounts.

This kind of tax policy on arms is difficult for any country to achieve. In all countries, taxes on arms are quite high.

Li Guang was deeply touched by the power of the policy. Think about China's reform and opening up, to put it bluntly, it is the loosening of policy restrictions on industry and commerce. Just by loosening the restrictions a little, China's economy has exploded with great vitality. Tanggang's policy on the arms industry is no longer loosened, but supported, and I believe that both American and European businessmen will see it.

There is already a Belgian businessman who has invested in the port of Don and is building a factory for the production of pistols. If there is any reason, in addition to the policy of Tang Port, there is also the most important reason - the naval resistance army once rescued some officers and soldiers of the Belgian army in Dunkirk.

Low taxes, on the surface, are a loss for the government, but once a virtuous circle is formed, the entire economy will snowball rapidly, thus forming a trend. Even low taxes can bring amazing benefits to the government, but it will take time. In fact, even if it cannot bring direct benefits to the Naval Resistance Army, guarding the ammunition factory can increase the combat effectiveness of the Naval Resistance Army and increase the combat effectiveness of China.

Tang Port now has 50,000 people, and at least 30,000 directly and indirectly serve the arms industry. These industries have attracted at least $5 million in investment to Tanggang, and will become even larger over time. It is also an extremely important part of the war potential of the Naval Resistance Army, which has become a hot spot for investment in Southeast Asia.

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