Not to mention what plans the Japanese have, the plan made by the General Staff of the Naval Resistance Army has been careful enough under the existing conditions.

First of all, except for a few days when the Naval Resistance Army first arrived in Ceylon, the warships of the Maritime Resistance Army did not anchor at Tang Port at all. Before the perimeter anti-submarine net, artillery battery, and special wharf were built, Li Guang only ordered the battleship to show off its military might in Tanggang and then left, and he would never moor the battleship in Tanggang.

Li Guang likes to use submarines the most, and he will definitely not do it if he sets up his fleet in an unprotected port.

In fact, Li Guang's requirements for the protection of Tang Port are quite high. One of the more special defensive measures is that by taking advantage of its own technological superiority, the Maritime Resistance Force has specially designed an underwater listening system.

Moreover, the construction speed of the airport is also accelerating, and compared with the stone statue island, which is only more than 100 square kilometers, Tanggang has much better natural geographical conditions. This time, Li Guang put forward a new proposal for the construction of the airport, in addition to a formal airport, the construction of several highways planned in the area under its jurisdiction is also quite distinctive, and a total of five sections of roads can undertake the task of a temporary airport.

In short, Li Guang would never have anchored his fleet in Tanggang until these air defense and submarine defense facilities were complete.

Anyway, in the Indian Ocean, Britain has several military ports, and as long as the Japanese do not start to attack Britain and the United States in advance, the security of the naval resistance forces will not be a big problem. Britain's largest military port in the Indian Ocean was Calcutta, India, then Trincomalee in Ceylon, and then a military port in Africa. All three ports were bases for the British Navy, large enough for the Maritime Resistance to anchor. Other anchorages, large and small, are dotted around.

Of all the British overseas colonies, the most important is India, and the de facto owner of the Indian Ocean is Britain. In this region, even the United States will find it difficult to intervene. However, the current British Empire has shown a situation of declining rivers, and even if it survives World War II, it is difficult to maintain the situation that the sun never sets on the empire.

Recently, Major Smith told Li Guang a story that could be used as a reference for the air defense of the Naval Resistance Force in Tang Harbor and Shixiang Island. Joint operations between armies can inadvertently absorb many ingenious tactics.

In order to defend the 165-kilometer-long Suez Canal, Britain hired a magician to design a light air defense system. Light air defense is not uncommon, and the pickup-class destroyers of the Maritime Resistance Force use light air defense. But the use of searchlights by the British this time was quite ingenious. The core of the project is to use a searchlight and dozens of large mirrors (tin plates) to build light curtains on both sides of the Suez Canal using the principle of light refraction. When the light curtain is opened when the German or Italian planes bomb, and the pilots can't see the ground clearly, then there is no way to talk about bombing.

After understanding this principle, Li Guang found that this defensive measure was really beneficial and cost-effective, and immediately ordered the General Staff to design the light curtain system of the entire Tang Port and Shixiang Island, and the light curtain system of the destroyer Pickup was also in the plan. Anyway, it doesn't cost much, the overall cost of the light curtain air defense system in the entire Tang Port is not as high as a few anti-aircraft guns, and after purchasing tin plates from the United States, construction can start soon.

On 26 November, the British Empire deployed troops from all over the world, amassing 26,000 troops in Kenya to launch an attack on the Italian army, regain control of the east coast of Africa, and eliminate the threat of the Red Sea shipping lanes.

For more than a month, the Maritime Resistance Force has overfulfilled its escort mission. In fact, in a series of battles, the combat effectiveness of the Italian defenders has been weakened a lot.

The air force of the Naval Resistance Army is far from being powerful, but Liu Gensheng, the leader of the fighter squad, is naturally interested in sneak attacks, and he ponders sneak attack tactics all day long.

In a recent attack, the bomber squad also excelled, rushing nearly 1,000 kilometers without fighter escort, destroying the Italian air base in Eritrea.

In this way, the last threat of the Italian Air Force was also weakened.

Of course, the consumption of ammunition was also relatively large, and the British were a little depressed, but for the sake of the glorious results of the battle, they still allocated a thousand aerial bombs. Among them are the 250-kilogram armor-piercing bombs and the 250-pound armor-piercing bombs that the Naval Resistance Force values the most.

In fact, the most bombs consumed by the Navy and Air Force were mortar shells, and the price gap between the two was more than doubled.

Although the consumption is a little larger, but when the sun never sets on the empire, how can the British think that someone will help fight the war. No, Smith is talking about business with Li Guang again.

This time, the British offered to ask the Naval Resistance Army to provide air support for the British ground battle. If they were willing to send infantry, the British would have been more welcome.

Provide air support, Li Guang can agree. The British provided a monthly military budget of £30,000 per fighter for twelve fighters and twelve seaplanes and six transport planes for the Naval Resistance Force, and the fuel and ammunition were fully satisfied. It can be said that these 30 fighters can easily earn four or five fighters a month by working part-time, and this kind of business is completely worthwhile.

However, the difficulty of supporting ground combat is different from that of escort combat, and the initiative in escort combat is completely in the hands of the navy and air force itself.

To support ground operations, it is certainly necessary to dispatch fighter planes according to the actual needs of the battle. The so-called practical needs must be that the war situation is tight, and even with the confrontation of the Italian Air Force, the danger is much greater.

LI GUANG DECIDED THAT HE COULD TALK TO THE BRITISH ABOUT THE CONDITIONS, SUCH AS MAKING SOME 330MM CANNON SHELLS.

Maintaining a navy is extremely difficult, and some supplies can be obtained through trade, but some supplies are simply not something that money can solve. For example, there were not many shells on the battleship Atlantic, less than 100 rounds per gun, which looked like a lot, and if the training was open, it would obviously not be enough. And Li Guang and the Germans are doing business to buy this kind of shells, and if they can arrive, it will be in the second half of next year.

Plus that kind of shell can be used to transform into a dexterous bomb, and it can also be transformed into an aerial bomb. The Naval Resistance Army is urgently needed.

The British did not have such shells, but as far as Li Guang knew, there were many such shells on the French warships detained by the British. (YUAN RAN SALVAGED A SHIPWRECK FOR VICHY FRANCE'S NAVY IN AFRICA AND GOT SOME 330MM SHELLS.) ）

This matter, judging from the process of Smith's negotiations, was not easy, and the British had no way to reopen a shell production line for several warships. EVENTUALLY, SMITH CONTACTED THE BRITISH NAVAL COMMAND WITH A DESIRE TO SWITCH TO 342MM SHELLS. The caliber is a little worse, but it is not a big problem for the Naval Resistance Force.

If it was a shell for the naval guns of the battleship Atlantic, it would definitely not work. As a smart bomb or an aerial bomb, there is no problem at all.

In the end, the two sides reached an agreement that for every ton of bombs consumed by the Navy Air Force, the British were responsible for countering it with 342MM shells of the same weight, or 250KG aerial bombs and 250 pounds of aerial bombs. Li Guangxi said that the Naval Resistance Army lacked a lot of artillery shells, and the only thing that was not lacking was mortar shells. On two occasions, 15,000 tons of mortar shells were brought back from Germany and sold to some of them in China, and the current stock is still 8,000 or 9,000 tons.

In order to consume more mortar shells, Li Guang immediately recalled six transport planes that were picking up and dropping off personnel in Burma.

For more than a month, the work of these six transport aircraft has been fruitful. More than 2,000 recruits recruited by the Maritime Resistance Army in Kunming, as well as more than 2,000 family members of the Maritime Resistance Army, have been transported to Yangon.

Not only that, but these six transport planes also made several domestic long-distance trips and brought in thousands of recruits from the Fifth War Zone.

This airlift broke one of Li Guang's concepts. In the past, Mr. Li Guang believed that the cost of air transportation was higher than that of land transportation. But in this era, China's road conditions, transportation conditions determine that the cost of land transportation is definitely not low, while the cost of air transportation is not high.

Of course, air freight can only transport people or valuable materials, and low-cost materials plus freight will become sky-high. Because there is a railway and highway from Yangon to Kunming, Myanmar, the cost of land transportation is much lower than that of an airplane, but there is no train from Henan, Hubei, Anhui to Kunming, and the land freight is quite frightening, and it is only higher than that of an airplane.

According to the cost accounting of several long-distance transportation, it costs only ten dollars to transport one person from Henan, and of course the conditions are not good, and forty or fifty people are crammed into one plane.

If the weather conditions are good, in another month, the Navy will be able to transport all 10,000 recruits to Burma. However, since there is a good opportunity to make money, the transportation of recruits can be put on hold.

So from the end of November, the bomber squad and fighter squad of the Naval Resistance Army began a diligent part-time job.

The level of diligence makes employers like the British Empire feel embarrassed. As long as the weather is suitable, the air force of the Naval Resistance Army will not rest. In good weather, the Air Force can consume 50 or 60 tons of ammunition and more than 10 tons of gasoline every day. It was like drinking cannonballs, and for a while, the British logistics department in Yemen began to complain.

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