The U.S. military was busy working in the Pacific, and a fierce battle might break out at any moment. As a member of the allies (in fact, the United States and Britain have not officially recognized it), Haitang also strongly supported the US military. In the speech of Wang Shi, the minister of the Haitang Kingdom to the United States, that is: the Haitang Kingdom has shown an extremely noble spirit of internationalism, specializing in benefiting others, not self-interest, and the angels are not enough to describe its kindness, perhaps its nobility has been infinitely close to God.

On the second day of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Haitang sent all six large oil tankers carrying nearly 30,000 tons of heavy oil to the Pacific theater. This is enough for the US Pacific Fleet to deal with it for three to five days. Li Guang also dispatched two subordinate torpedo boats and two submarines to escort the convoy in the midst of his modest troops. However, after these convoys arrived in Australia, they were escorted by the US fleet, so there should be no safety problems.

As for Haitang's own oil supply, there are no large ships, and there are almost more than 100 small 400-ton oil tankers produced by the Vladivostok shipyard, which can basically meet the needs of Haitang.

Li Guang was not idle, and said: Brother is very busy. The Haitang Kingdom and the Maritime Resistance Army still have countless things to deal with.

Recently, another technological innovation of the Naval Resistance Force has been completed. This is the brainchild of Quan Yonghai of the Third Submarine Team of the Maritime Resistance Army -- the submarine carries an airplane.

When Li Guang heard Quan Yonghai's idea, he almost spitted. He had never heard of anything like it, neither in this era nor on another plane. This idea seems a bit sci-fi?

However, after looking at the plan of Quan Yonghai and the technicians, Li Guang had to admit that it seemed to be really feasible.

In fact, the plan is very simple, add a large box behind the submarine's watchtower, and place the aircraft inside.

The plane took off the propellers and folded the wings. Storage is not difficult. In particular, the fighters of the Maritime Resistance Force now have rocket-booster devices, and there is no need for a complex structure and a huge catapult, and the aircraft can take off on the sea surface.

None of these transformations have stumped the technicians of the Maritime Resistance Army. On the contrary, there are some seemingly simple problems, which add a lot of difficulty. For example, the hatch of the aircraft is so large that it is very difficult to solve the sealing problem. Technicians spend a lot of money and toss for a long time. Finally solved the problem.

(Note: In World War II, Japan had one of the largest submarines that could carry aircraft.) )

Li Guang tossed so much, what is the purpose of transforming the four submarines?

Set.

There is no better poison than food.

Since the last time the Naval Resistance Army burned Tokyo, Li Guang burst out with an idea. Burning rice fields in Japan. The cost of dispatching aircraft carriers to set fire to rice paddies is really high. The submarine set fire. Best value for money.

Late August to early September. It is the rice harvest season in Japan. Of course, it is also the best time to set fires.

On the island of Saipan, the U.S. and Japanese forces are fighting fiercely. However, Japan itself has ushered in inexplicable fires one after another.

Of course, there are Japanese troops stationed everywhere on the four islands of Japan, but it is impossible for antiaircraft artillery to be deployed everywhere, and it is even more impossible for aircraft and radars to be deployed everywhere. Especially in the countryside, which has no strategic value, not even tactical value, not to mention anti-aircraft artillery and aircraft, and there are not even a few rifles.

Four submarines of the third submarine team of the Maritime Resistance Army. Four planes, in this harvest season, launched one crazy sneak attack after another.

This kind of sneak attack is really not very difficult, and the Japanese army has not yet had enough troops and equipment to be able to deploy in the countryside. Moreover, it was purely to bully the Japanese army that there were not a few night fighters, in fact, the Japanese army had night fighters in vain, and the night fighters of this era, that is, they could fly at night, and it was really difficult to fight in the air. Therefore, the combat mission of the Maritime Resistance Force is really not very dangerous, in short, as long as the weather is good, the fighters will be dispatched every night, and the big guys will sink to the bottom of the sea to sleep during the day.

This kind of napalm that can be burned on the water surface is too powerful, and it is really not too simple to casually throw down some small incendiary bombs and casually burn a thousand 800 acres of farmland.

During the rice harvest season in Japan, the Navy's resistance army paid the price of two planes and burned 10,000 acres of Japanese rice. It dealt a heavy blow to Japan's grain and directly affected the food rations of millions of Japanese civilians.

What Li Guang didn't expect was that the action of the Naval Resistance Army was like opening Pandora's box. The little devil suffered a big loss, his eyes were red, and he naturally wanted to take revenge like crazy.

However, the devil did not expect that the Naval Resistance Army had such capabilities, and thought it was a US military plane. So the target of retaliation is the United States, and Canada is also piggybacking.

In October, the Japanese army dispatched two seaplane carriers to the west coast of the United States, carrying out hundreds of sorties to burn farmland in the grain-producing areas of the United States and Canada.

The devils are doing the same, and the areas attacked are all weak areas of the US military's defenses, and the sneak attacks have been successful one after another.

As a result, the U.S. military was also furious, so they dispatched a large number of military forces to search and arrest. In the end, the two seaplane carriers and dozens of planes of the Japanese army were all destroyed, but the damage caused to the United States and Canada was even more serious, tens of millions of acres of farmland were burned, and the output of autumn crops was seriously reduced by more than one million tons.

At the beginning, the Maritime Resistance Army set fire to the island of Sumatra, which caused the indigenous people of Indonesia to burn the mountain. Li Guang once lamented that arson is an infectious disease.

It now appears that arson is a worldwide infectious disease. It was the harvest season for grain, and the Germans set fire to the Soviet battlefield everywhere, burning countless amounts of wheat. The Soviet counterattack and the setting of fires in German-controlled areas at any cost also caused a massive reduction in grain production.

In South America, Peru and Bolivia somehow learned about this trick, and it happened that Peru had incendiary bombs sold by Haitang, and Chile fell into bad luck.

At the end of the year, countries around the world found that the effect of burning farmland was even more terrible than that of war, and no one could afford such losses. Therefore, after consultation, the Axis and the allies agreed under the banner of humanitarianism that neither of them should intentionally burn each other's farmland. This is also a humanitarian miracle in war.

However, the damage has already been done, and the consequences are serious, serious.

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The battle in the Pacific, Li Guang can only watch the drama for the time being. However, the war in Burma had gradually begun, and Li Guang arrived at Tang Port in Ceylon on August 10 and began to make meticulous preparations before the war.

In the north of Burma, the Chinese army and the naval resistance army had two lines of attack. Due to the terrain constraints of Burma, in fact these two lines of attack. The two battlefields exist almost independently.

Due to the presence of the Maritime Resistance Forces, the situation in Myanmar is very different from history. According to the battle plan of the Allies:

The first step of the campaign: the battlefield on the Western Front, that is, in the direction of Myitkyina, the Naval Resistance Army and the Chinese Army needed to advance more than 100 kilometers to the south. On the Eastern Front, the Chinese army needed to advance about 300 kilometers to the south.

At this point, the two armies can converge.

The second phase of the campaign: the large armies converging in northern Burma will take the route from north to south to kill Rangoon.

The main force of the Naval Resistance Army will land on the southern coast of Burma after the two armies in the north converge, thus forming a situation of a flank attack on the Japanese army in Burma from the north and south.

Originally, in the battle plan, the British army was supposed to undertake an attack from the direction of India to Burma. The task of compressing the area controlled by the Japanese army, but it was extremely unlikely that the British army would send troops, and Li Guang hardly hoped for it.

On 15 August, the same day as the Japanese attack on the Panama Canal, the Chinese army's counterattack on Burma entered the first phase.

Due to the northeast direction of the Chinese army in Burma. The forward position of the army of the Eastern Front lagged far behind the army of the Western Front. Therefore, at the urging of General Stilwell, deputy commander of the Allied High Command in Southeast Asia. The Chinese army on the eastern front took the lead in launching the Burma counteroffensive campaign -- more than 100,000 Chinese troops forcibly crossed the Nu River. Take the first step in a counteroffensive.

It was completely different from the historical Burma counterattack, and in addition to a few descendants of Chairman Chiang, the Chinese army participating in the war also had several miscellaneous armies. These miscellaneous armies have one thing in common, and they have something to do with the Naval Resistance Army.

The first, the Dian Army.

The Maritime Resistance Army and the Yunnan warlord Long Yun did not have much contact. But. In 42, Chairman Chiang sent more than 40,000 Yunnan security regiments to Su Qing, commander of the third column of the Maritime Resistance Army, of which more than 10,000 were of good quality and were absorbed by the Naval Resistance Army.

Actually, the Naval Resistance Army. Especially in the army, 10% of the soldiers are from the Dian army. The so-called fellow sees the fellow, with tears in his eyes, and there is always a bit of incense.

The second, the Sichuan Army.

The largest proportion of immigrants from the Haitang Kingdom came from Yunnan, Guichuan, and the proportion of Sichuan people in the Haianti Army was naturally not low.

The third branch. Northwest Army. Liu Ruming, the commander of this unit, is the father of Colonel Liu Guobang, captain of the Strategic Air Force of the Naval Resistance Army. The relationship is naturally deep.

The fourth, the Yu army. This unit has the deepest relationship with the Naval Resistance Army, and the brigade commander Xu Zhan has been familiar with Li Guang since 37 years. It can be said that this force completely relied on the Naval Resistance Army to survive. And many middle- and lower-level officers in the Naval Resistance Army have fought in turns in Xu Zhan's troops, and the relationship is naturally not shallow. However, although Xu Zhan is a brigade commander, his strength is not a lot at all, a full 16,000.

Chairman Chiang was really calculating, and he was worried that the Naval Resistance Army would not do his best in the Burmese counteroffensive, and even sent several miscellaneous armies that had the closest relationship with the Naval Resistance Army to the Burmese battlefield. In fact, the Maritime Resistance Army also has a unit with good relations, that is, the Gui Army in Guangxi. However, Guijun is a little self-contained, and Chairman Chiang is not so easy to appoint. I am afraid that these units are a rather unsightly type in the eyes of the chairman.

Li Guang doubted that even if these troops had finished the Burma campaign, it was a question of whether they would be able to return to their old nests. Especially in the Yunnan army, you must know that Chairman Jiang is very tired of Wang Longyun of Yunnan, and he has long wanted to completely grasp Yunnan in his hands.

As news from the front continued to come, a drawback of the Chinese army emerged -- most of the Chinese army did not know how to coordinate infantry and artillery, and air and ground coordination. Soldiers and junior officers did not know when to call for artillery support or when to call for air support from warplanes. In their military concept, artillery and air support are both pre-war fire preparations, and in the course of the battle, these things do not play a role.

Li Guang lamented that after so many years of fighting, the Chinese army has not improved its tactics. In fact, this cannot be blamed on the Chinese army, the country is poor and the people are poor, and it is already an extremely difficult thing for the troops to have enough to eat, and almost all the Chinese troops have no chance to practice infantry and artillery coordination, let alone air-ground coordination. This kind of tactical exercise did not even give a chance to Chairman Chiang's descendants. Exercises cost money, and China is short of money, and this is the fundamental reason.

Other troops can ignore it, but Xu Zhan's troops can't ignore it. The command level of the Naval Resistance Army is relatively regional. At present, Guangxi officers account for more than half of the regimental-level and battalion-level officers, while the proportion of officers at the battalion and company levels is higher in Henan and Hubei, and most of these officers are from Xu Zhan's troops, or have participated in Xu Zhan's troops, and even their fathers and brothers are still in Xu Zhan's army. The history of the development of the Naval Resistance Force has determined the source of such regional officers.

After consulting with Xu Zhan, Su Qing sent 1,000 officers and soldiers to dismantle and enter Xu Zhan's troops on the spot. Although it is impossible to immediately reach the level of the Naval Resistance Army, it can ensure that the infantry and artillery coordination and air-ground coordination capabilities of Xu Zhan's independent brigade will be greatly improved to a higher level.

For Xu Zhan's troops, there is nothing wrong with the behavior of the Naval Resistance Army, after all, the relationship and relationship between the two armies are very good. Moreover, Xu Zhan also had the intention of switching to Li Guang, and he had an attitude of expectation that the troops would be absorbed by the Naval Resistance Army. Moreover, in Chairman Jiang's mind, Xu Zhan's independent brigade is an independent force cultivated by the Haitang State in China, and in addition, Xu Zhan's department is located in the Central Plains, and has a good relationship with the Gui family. The chairman of the committee was very taboo because of this, and he had long wanted to send Xu Zhan abroad.

However, with regard to other miscellaneous troops, the Naval Resistance Army cannot extend its hand in this way, because it is misunderstood that it will be troublesome to want to annex the army, and although the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee has opinions on these miscellaneous troops, if the Naval Resistance Army annexes them, the chairman will certainly not be in a good mood. Under the current situation, the immigrants of the Haitang State are indispensable to the assistance of the chairman of the committee, and the relationship still needs to be maintained.

Later, Liu Ruming, the head of the Northwest Army, asked for more than 100 officers and soldiers of the Maritime Resistance Army. The old army leader is shrewd, and when the war is tight, his son Liu Guobang's air force will naturally tilt. With such more than 100 communications troops, battlefield liaison is basically sufficient. Moreover, it is impossible for these more than 100 signal troops to form control over his troops.

After three days of fierce fighting, the Chinese army successfully crossed the Nu River, and the air power of the naval resistance army was displayed, and Wei Lihuang, commander of the Chinese expeditionary force, sent telegrams again and again to express his gratitude.

With regard to the Burma campaign, neither Li Guang nor the officers and men of the Navy's resistance hid their secrets, and the navy, army, and air forces went all out to attack. The Air Force has invested not only in the strategic air force, but also in the army air force, with a total of more than 150 warplanes, and has absolute air supremacy in northern Burma.

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Fierce fighting is raging in northern Myanmar. Li Guang looked at the progress of the Chinese army, and it would take almost half a month to gain a firm foothold on the west bank of the Nujiang River. The Chinese army was able to transport troops and supplies across the Nu River in half a month, which was already quite a difficult task. It is still difficult to judge whether the Chinese army will be able to advance two to three hundred kilometers and accomplish the set goal before the end of the rainy season in Myanmar in October.

Everything is prepared, and the Naval Resistance Army is also adjusting its army step by step. At the beginning, Li Guang promised Chairman Chiang to send 50,000 troops, but in fact, the Naval Resistance Army prepared a full 80,000 troops for the Burma campaign.

In northern Burma, Su Qing had three regiments of the army, plus the air force, almost 20,000 troops.

In Tanggang, the Naval Resistance Army prepared a full seven army regiments and three servant armies. One of them, the Black Kunlun battalion, 6,000 troops, was led by Mole. The second is the Blue Kunlun Battalion, with 6,000 troops, and the leader is Gaobi. Third, the Burmese friendly army, 6,000 troops, led by Wu Chao. Together with the naval strength, nearly 60,000 horses, it is the southern cluster of the Naval Resistance Army. The commander of the second column, Major General Yang Weiwu, and the chief of staff, Colonel She Jinsong, were commanders.

Mao Taizu famously said: Don't fight unprepared battles. Li Guang is highly respected.

The Navy's resistance to the armed forces entered a state of imminent battle more than a month ahead of schedule, with complete weapons and ammunition, strong soldiers and horses, and high morale. (To be continued......)