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As soon as the Second Ceylon Naval Battle ended, Li Guang immediately made adjustments to the strategic deployment of the Naval Resistance Army. It will not work without adjustment, there are no capital warships, the strength of the navy has been sharply reduced, and for at least two months, the battle in Ceylon has almost entirely relied on the army and air force.

The battleship Atlantic went to the west coast of the United States for maintenance, and Zheng Xuechang stayed in Tanggang to command all the naval forces of the Maritime Resistance Army, whether it was escort, combat, reconnaissance, or training. Although he did not have an official name, Li Guang actually intended to promote Zheng Xuechang to the commander of the future task force of the Naval Resistance Army.

The army was under the specific command of Bao Gang in battle. Li Guang threw himself into the intense work of dispatching troops, and he had to complete the work of increasing the number of troops of the Naval Resistance Army before the next reinforcement of the Japanese army arrived.

Yang Weiwu has not yet achieved complete victory in Madagascar, but he has already squeezed the remnants of the French army into the desert of northern Madagascar, and it will not be long before he can achieve complete victory.

However, time did not allow for the transfer of troops after Yang Weiwu's victory. On 2 August, 10,000 fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army boarded the ship and headed for Tang Harbor. There were a lot of weapons and ammunition with them, and the more special ones were 5,000 American-made M1 semi-automatic rifles, which are commonly known in China as the big eight guns.

Another weapon was the Soviet-made Bobosha submachine gun, but there were only a few of them, only two thousand. This is a gesture of goodwill by the Soviets to the Haitang State, although there are not many weapons, but you must know that now the Soviets and Germans are stumbling to the death in Stalingrad, and it is often a period when several soldiers share a gun. This Bobosha submachine gun is sturdy and reliable but not very accurate, but its 71-round drum is a guarantee of invincibility in close combat. In World War II, this submachine gun was a fairly classic infantry weapon, and it also had a great advantage - cheap. Compared with the American Thomson submachine gun, the cost is only a quarter to a fifth. This is one of the weapons that the Naval Resistance Force will purchase in large quantities in the future.

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So many troops were drawn at once. How else does Yang Weiwu fight? More importantly, with so many troops, it may be difficult to maintain even basic law and order in Madagascar. You must know that it is a large island of 5 or 600,000 square kilometers, and only 5 or 6,000 troops are almost like a drop in the ocean.

The Maritime Resistance Army is not yet at the point of exhaustion, and the battle situation is good, so Li Guang naturally would not make such an unwise order.

He has a source of troops.

Filling the gap in Madagascar was Su Qing's Burmese garrison. Isn't there only more than 2,000 people in Su Qing? After a brutal battle, there were only more than 1,600 troops. Even full mobilization doesn't do much.

There is no doubt that Su Qing is not supporting his more than 2,000 main forces, but more than 10,000 recruits.

For a couple of army officers under his command. Li Guang was very familiar with it, and after this period of time, he once again discovered another advantage of Su Qing in addition to training and fighting.

Su Qing was the most proficient of the three highest army officers in the Navy.

This is similar to Su Qing's mother, Su Mao, who can turn natives into Buddhists without understanding the language. And Su Qing easily subdued the Yunnan Local Security Corps sent to Myitkyina by Chairman Chiang.

In order to control Yunnan, the chairman of the committee played tricks and tricks. Standing on the moral high ground of national righteousness, it took more than two months. took out 40,000 local security regiments from the hands of Wang Longyun in Yunnan.

Outcome. These 40,000 people were swallowed by Su Qing in one bite.

Although the quality of the Yunnan army was somewhat insufficient, and the proportion of double-spearmen (rifles and smoking guns) was extremely high, the 40,000 people were also selected by Su Qing to have more than 10,000 qualified soldiers.

Now these soldiers have been sent to Calcutta by Su Qing in one go, and they will soon be transferred to Madagascar.

And those with poor physique were also repaired by Su Qing. will become a farmer of the Naval Resistance Army. As for the big smoker, Su Qing is now engaged in compulsory drug rehabilitation in Myitkyina.

It is not an easy task to integrate local troops, and the slightest carelessness will lead to rebellion and mutiny. But under Su Qing's means of using a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, the entire adaptation work was orderly. There was hardly any mess.

This is Su Qing's ability.

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In the adjustment of troop strength, Li Guang adopted the method of transferring troops without transferring generals. Yang Weiwu sent all the soldiers to Ceylon, and there was no change in the middle and lower ranks. In this way, the recruits of the Dian army were directly filled into the troops, and they immediately had considerable combat effectiveness. Of course, there is still a gap in combat effectiveness, and it is impossible to compare with the previous troops.

On the Tanggang side, the Naval Resistance Army did not disrupt the establishment, and directly expanded its troops according to the one-to-one or one-to-two configuration. In this way, there will be no confusion in the command system of the troops, and the combat effectiveness will be guaranteed.

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In the Naval Resistance Army, Su Qing was not the best commander among the three commanders Yang Weiwu and Bao Gang. However, Su Qing's ability in some aspects is incomparable to the other two officers in any case - such as the incorporation of the Dian Army Security Regiment.

As the saying goes, the son is Xiao's father, and the daughter is Xiao's mother. But in the Su family, Li Guang felt more and more that Su Zizi was like Mr. Su Maode, with a very developed business acumen. And Su Qing's level of ideological work is more like Su Mao's.

Su Qing was in Myitkyina, and there was one thing that he did very well, and almost the whole army praised him. There's no way not to praise it.

As the saying goes, after three years as a soldier, the sow races the sable.

The Maritime Resistance Army, the Haitang Kingdom, has a serious shortage of female comrades. Some time ago, the business group exchanged grain for tens of thousands of Indian women in Bangladesh, which slightly alleviated the gender inequality in Haitang Kingdom.

I don't know how Su Mao's operation is, anyway, these women now have a home.

And Su Qing's performance in this regard is very similar to Su Mao's, in Myanmar he easily recruited nearly 10,000 Burmese who were willing to immigrate to Madagascar, some of whom were overseas Chinese.

You know, these Burmese people are all women, marriageable women. The conditions given by Su Qing were very favorable, and the flatbread drawn was also very sweet. But in fact, the Haitang Kingdom did not spend anything on this.

Su Qing promised that as long as a Burmese woman marries a fighter of the Maritime Resistance Army, she can take a family with her, escape the war, and have a home in Madagascar, which is rich, beautiful and safe.

This business is simply unprofitable. not only solved the wife for the soldiers of the Naval Resistance Army. It also got a large number of laborers for the Haitang Kingdom. You must know that the soldiers of the Maritime Resistance Army will have a property of 30 acres of land and a cow. But the current situation is that even if the fields are cleared, there is no manpower to cultivate them.

For the Burmese people, raising a daughter is a money-losing goods, and now that they have such a good way out, they are enthusiastic.

Su Qing's simple hand made the soldiers applaud. Due to the difference in traditional concepts and aesthetics, Chinese people are somewhat resistant to Indian women, but Burmese women look exactly the same as Chinese. Even more watery, the warriors were easy to accept.

In addition, in India, Su Qing has a fairly good relationship with General Stilwell, a general of the US army. Originally, the Burmese allies suffered a crushing defeat in history, but now Su Qing has held Myitkyina. Tens of thousands of troops were saved, which also made General Stilwell, who commanded the battle, much better.

Stilwell cooperated with Chairman Chiang at this stage. Help China train its military. For example, the famous general Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang's troops. Su Qing took a ride and picked out more than 10,000 people among the tens of thousands of peasant soldiers sent by Xu Zhan to Yunnan and handed them over to the Americans for training. Su Qing is ambitious and plans to bring this number to 50,000 within the year. There's one thing, though. This recruit in training nominally belongs to the Chinese army, and secretly, Su Qing has already figured out how to operate.

Anyone who has watched Feng Xiaogang's movie "1942" knows it. There is a serious famine in the Central Plains now, and it is really easy for Xu Zhan to recruit agricultural soldiers. The only difficulty is that the distance is long, and it is almost impossible to rely on land transportation, and can only rely on air transportation, which is seriously lacking in capacity.

Although at first it was mainly from Henan to transport the victims, in reality, less than half of the victims were transported from Henan.

Transport and transport capacity severely constrains the progress of migration. But Kunming and Mianyang are now almost magnets for refugees, and landless peasants from Yunnan, Guichuan and Sichuan are moving to these two areas. These people make up the majority of immigrants.

Stilwell helped, and Chennault of the Flying Tigers was willing to take a shot (just expanded to the 23rd Air Force). The evacuation of the victims went smoothly, and the route was much safer than it was in history due to the occupation of Myitkyina by the Maritime Resistance Army. So now we can easily transport 20,000 or 30,000 people every month.

In any case, the U.S. military air force is responsible for transporting aid from India to China, and the monthly transportation volume of 5,000 tons requires 2,000 aircraft. The transportation capacity of the return trip was partially idle, and there was even a phenomenon of empty planes on the return trip.

Su Qing has done so many things in a few months. Moreover, immigration is the national policy of the Haitang Kingdom, so it is very important to ensure the safety of air transportation, so it is very necessary for Su Qing to continue to be in Myitkyina. This was also one of the reasons why Li Guang was unable to transfer Su Qing's main force to Ceylon.

There are always two sides to things, and the problem of lack of troops in Tanggang has been alleviated, but such an adjustment of the troops is not a small pressure for Yang Weiwu, and I am afraid that it will take a period of time to retrain the troops before launching a final offensive and completely clearing the remnants of the French army. Again lengthened the war in Madagascar. However, for the current scale of the Naval Resistance Army, this is already the most appropriate way to adjust, and Li Guang racked his brains for this.

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The fiasco of the Second Battle of Ceylon caused a stir within the Japanese army and navy. If you lose a battle, someone has to take responsibility. There is no need to think about it in the navy, Vice Admiral Fu Qi of Okawauchi was killed, and the responsibility naturally belongs to him.

As for the army, Lieutenant General Nishimura Takuma naturally became the person responsible, and the reasons were also sufficient, such as false reporting of battle results, unfavorable offensive, unfavorable intelligence gathering, and poor defense of Trincomalee.

As a result, the commander of the Japanese army in Ceylon, Takuma Nishimura, was removed from his post and transferred back to Japan, but he is still in Ceylon. Although the main warships of the Naval Resistance Army are missing, they still have the right to control the sea, and Nishimura ponders that even if he wants to leave, he can't leave.

Now the commander of the 21st Division, Lieutenant General Kuichi Tanaka, is the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Ceylon. Not only that, but Kuichi Tanaka, who had taken shit luck, actually became the commander of the 38th Army and was promoted.

However, Lieutenant General Tanaka Kuichi was not happy, and it took several days before the base camp promised to give Tanaka Kuichi support 6,000 recruits, as well as the 34th Independent Mixed Brigade and the 70th Independent Mixed Brigade. That's a lot, a whole 20,000 troops.

However, if we understand the nature of these two independent mixed brigades of the Japanese army, we will know why Lieutenant General Kuichi Tanaka, who had just been promoted, was unhappy.

These two independent mixed brigades and the 21 st independent mixed brigade are not the same concept at all, each brigade has only five infantry brigades plus some auxiliary units, with a total strength of only 6,000 or 7,000 troops.

The 38th Army of the Japanese Army in history was the unit in charge of Indochina. Together with the two divisions of the 39th Army (in charge of Thailand), they became known as the 18th Front. And the 38th Army, as the main force, actually has more than that. In addition to the 21st Division and these two independent mixed brigades, there are also the 37th Division, the 2nd Division, and the 22nd Division. Now the establishment has been significantly reduced, and the combat effectiveness is not at the same level.

From this, you can see the thinking of the Japanese Army. The first point is that the Japanese Army now has extreme distrust of the Japanese Navy, and in the eyes of the officers and men of the Japanese Army, getting on a ship of the Japanese Navy is tantamount to dying. Second, the senior officers of the army were reluctant to send the elite to Ceylon for consumption.

However, even such a garbage army, Kuichi Tanaka could not get it for a short time. Because the Japanese army and navy are still arguing, it will take time to raise ships, deploy warships, and collect aircraft.

As a last resort, Tanaka Kuichi took the initiative to retreat, and the main battlefield located in the north of Tanggang was unexpectedly calm for a short time. And the Maritime Resistance Army happened to be expanding its troops, and with the torrential rain, it was impossible to attack. There was an eerie silence on the battlefield of Ceylon. (To be continued......)