On the same day, Li Guang took the fleet and began his part-time career.

The British have a fairly complete set of plans for the logistics of the fleet, and the tactics of escorting ships are also very complete, in short, all aspects are quite thoughtful.

The strength of the naval resistance army was arranged in this way, and the army remained in Tanggang. Air Force, six transport planes have rushed to Myanmar's Yangon airport to transfer people from Kunming.

Six bombers (in fact, transport planes) were stationed at Yemeni airfield at the exit of the Gulf of Aden. Twelve fighter jets were similarly stationed.

After a day's resupply, on the 17th the battleship Pacific led five warships on a journey to escort the Arabian Sea.

The British side arranged Major Smith as a liaison officer, one was responsible for conveying the escort mission to the Naval Resistance Force, and the other was to coordinate the docking and stationing of the Naval Resistance Fleet and the Air Force airfield. Third, it is necessary to supervise the consumption of the Maritime Resistance Army.

The British gave a monthly military fee of 400,000 pounds plus fighters for the six warships of the Naval Resistance Army, and were also responsible for providing ammunition and fuel. In other words, the Navy can earn nearly $2 million a month, which is a good business from any point of view.

The ammunition for the main guns and secondary guns of the battleship Pacific has always been Li Guang's biggest headache. The only thing in the world that wants to buy ammunition of this caliber is the British Empire. The battleship Pacific was originally produced by the British Imperial Shipyard, and there were quite a few naval guns of this caliber in the British Navy, and according to Major Smith's assurance, the British army stockpiled three or four thousand shells of this kind in the port of Calcutta alone, including armor-piercing shells and high-explosive shells.

As the saying goes, there are still 3,000 nails when the ship is rotten, and the British reserves show this point, and the imperial country that has been arrogant for a century or two is really rich enough. These three or four thousand shells weighed three thousand tons and were worth six million dollars.

Smith was showing off the richness of the British Empire, but Li Guang was bent on taking these shells for himself. The battleship Pacific is nearly 30 years old, and its main guns are not young. The main gun is designed to last 200 rounds.

One of the characteristics of the naval gun is that its life is said to be 200 rounds, which refers to the state of the full charge. For example, the battleship Pacific, its main gun propellant is fully charged with three 35-kilogram kits, and in this state it has a life of 200 rounds. If it only contains two medicine packets, the life span will be more than tripled. With only one projectile pack, the barrel life can be increased by five or even ten times.

Because the battleships are basically full of charge in the battle at sea, all countries are very stingy with the use of the main guns of battleships. The battleship Pacific, which contributed a lot to the British Navy during World War I, and the Chilean Navy used it for 20 years, in fact, the life of the main guns was less than 80 rounds.

Even so, the battleship was enough to last many years. The battleships and cruisers of the navies of various countries rarely have scrapped main guns. The scrapping of battleships in World War II was almost always due to the sinking of battleships, and after World War II, the aging and dismantling of battleships.

The main gun with a life of 80 rounds is enough to fight several naval battles. The naval battle was fierce and brutal, but in reality the main guns could not fire a few rounds at all. In a naval battle, the battleship's main guns can fire dozens of rounds in a salvo, which is a very great attrition. It's fierce, it's a big battle.

Because of this, Smith believed that three or four thousand shells were enough for the Naval Resistance Army. According to common sense, the Naval Resistance Army is to earn military expenses, and it is absolutely reluctant to scrap the main artillery. You must know that the ten main guns on the battleship Pacific, once they are used up, are not something that can be bought by hundreds of thousands of pounds. Not to mention the fact that such barrels will no longer be produced even in the UK.

However, Li Guang's thinking is different, and in his opinion, no matter how perfect the training is, it will not be able to catch up with the live-fire training.

In Li Guang's heart, the status of battleships is far inferior to that of aircraft carriers, and his battleship is easy to come by, and it is not very distressing. Even if the main guns are scrapped, it is completely worth it to train a battlefleet with 100 shots. Of course, Li Guang will not deliberately use the main gun destructively. However, take the opportunity to get more shells to be worthy of Li Guang's part-time job.

Only then did the master know that oil and salt were expensive, and Li Guang's idea of fighting this batch of shells was urgent. Not only the navy, but also the naval resistance and air force are seriously lacking in anti-ship ammunition. The Air Force generally has torpedoes, high-explosive grenades, armor-piercing shells against battleships, and the most advanced ones have semi-armor-piercing shells. So far, the air force of the Naval Resistance Force has used high-explosive bombs against the ground. After hard work, the technicians used the main gun shells of the battleship Pacific to transform several high-explosive shells and several armor-piercing shells into dexterous bombs. It is powerful and effective.

But the number of reserve bombs of the battleship Pacific itself was not very large, and it did not dare to be rebuilt in large quantities.

This time, the bombers of the Naval Resistance Army carried less than 100 smart bombs, only 10 heavy bombs (the main gun shells of the battleship Pacific were refitted, and the weight of the 730-kilogram shells reached more than 900 kilograms after modification), and 10 medium bombs (German-made 280-caliber shells, more than 300 kilograms of shells, and the weight reached 450 kilograms after the transformation). THE MOST IS THE 203MM ARTILLERY SHELL MODIFIED 250 KG DEXTERITY BOMB,) THIS KIND OF ARTILLERY SHELL TRANSFORMATION INTO AERIAL BOMBS IS QUITE COMMON IN WORLD WAR II, SUCH AS JAPAN, BUT THE TRANSFORMATION INTO A SMART BOMB IS THE FIRST PART OF THE NAVAL RESISTANCE FORCE.

Of these 100 bombs, only half were armor-piercing, the rest were high-explosive grenades.

Therefore, when Li Guang replenished supplies, he filled the ammunition compartment and loaded 500 shells at one time. Ready to smuggle shells under the noses of several British liaison groups at Smith. The price of such an artillery shell is 1,500 US dollars, and the price of an armor-piercing shell is more than 2,000 US dollars, which is amazingly expensive.

It is said that the current economic situation of the Maritime Resistance Army is quite good, but the real situation is that Li Guang does not have much cash now. So I had to think about it and find a way to get some shells from the British.

Dumping the shells of the British, this matter has to be planned slowly. However, in the immediate escort mission, Li Guang and the officers and staff officers of the Naval Resistance Army must be serious. The Maritime Resistance Army has been building for a long time, but there are not many surface operations in the real sense, and even there are not many escort tasks, so it is extremely important to do the necessary homework.

The northern part of the Indian Ocean is divided into two parts by the triangular Indian subcontinent, the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. Ceylon is located at the southern end of the triangle of the Indian subcontinent, like a tear in the Indian subcontinent. Its location is right in the heart of the northern Indian Ocean.

At the beginning, the Naval Resistance Army made a deal with the British, and it was not unreasonable to value Ceylon. It is about 1,500 kilometers east of the Strait of Malacca and about 1,500 kilometers northeast of Yangon, Myanmar. To the west, it is less than 4,000 kilometers off the east coast of Africa.

It can be said that Ceylon is located at the choke point of the Indian Ocean and its strategic location is extremely important. If you get stuck here, you can split the Indian Ocean in half. By occupying this place, you can extend your influence to the entire Indian Ocean.

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