Li Guang is very satisfied with the various changes in the world.

Li Guang was more satisfied with the development of the Haitang Kingdom. As a result of the war in Ceylon, the two aid supplies promised to the Soviet Union by Britain and the United States - 1,000 tons and 100 tons of graphite from Ceylon per month must not be delivered. The Haitang Kingdom easily topped this gap, and the Haianti Army looted a large amount of rubber in Ceylon, while other minerals in Madagascar are not clear now, but graphite ore is the world's first in both this era and later generations. The French colonial authorities had already been mining graphite, and Haitang just took it all by hand. Although the war is still going on, the Haitang Kingdom is already using its own resources to create profits.

That's where the interest lies. The export of these two materials, although the profits generated are simply not enough to fill the huge capital gap of the Haitang Kingdom, is an excellent start.

However, the Soviet Union is also poor now, there is a shortage of hard currency, almost all valuable minerals are in serious shortage, and the purchase of mortar shells and napalm, which are the largest in the Haitang Kingdom, is insufficient. The Soviet Union simply sent thousands of prisoners to pay for the goods, which provided a lot of useful supplements for the industrial workers that Haitang was seriously short of. Hai Tang Kingdom even unearthed several high-level technicians among this group of prisoners, which can be described as an unexpected gain.

Li Guang was worried that the start of trade between the Naval Resistance Army and the Soviet Union would affect the war situation between the Soviet Union and Germany. But taking into account the fact that the two countries had normal economic exchanges, the Soviet Union, although it received weapons and ammunition, paid for hard currency, and this did not increase the war potential of the Soviet Union. Moreover, Haitang's trade with the Soviet Union has just begun, and the volume of goods is not large, so it should be said that it does not have much impact. Li Guang was relieved.

When the time entered late August, the Naval Resistance Army once again ushered in a new round of challenges - the Japanese fleet once again reinforced Ceylon.

At the end of July, the Japanese reinforcements suffered a serious setback. Almost all of them were wiped out. The Japanese Navy and Army thus engaged in a dog-eat-dog war of words. The army and navy also found their own culprits.

After dog eats dog, the problem has to be solved. The navy wanted to find a way back and support the fight, but when it came to reinforcing the fleet, the navy suddenly became quieter.

As for the army, if it is sensible, the withdrawal of troops is actually a good choice. However, the Imperial Japanese Army had never lost, and naturally it could not be evacuated in Ceylon in such a gloomy manner, so it still had to fight.

This reason is actually similar to the reason why the Japanese army fought hard and the American army fought to the death in the Battle of Kuah Island.

Anyway. His Majesty the Emperor cannot watch two broken divisions, one large and one small, waiting to die in Ceylon. You must know that now the Naval Resistance Army has surpassed the Japanese army in terms of strength, and it has surpassed the Japanese army by several grades in terms of equipment. If it weren't for the bad weather and the torrential rain, the Maritime Resistance Army would have begun a full-scale counterattack by now. Maybe. The Japanese Navy and Army have already driven the devils out of the sea at the time of the fight.

However, the transfer of troops is not so simple.

On the side of the Japanese Army. I didn't expect the 8,000 people of the first reinforcement to be buried in such a daze. Therefore, there is no preparation for further reinforcements. It takes time to move troops, and ships are needed to transport personnel from Vietnam to Singapore or Java. It will take more time to mobilize fighters.

The Japanese Navy also needs to adjust its overall deployment, it needs to mobilize battleships, mobilize aircraft carriers, and so on. This time, the Japanese navy was afraid, and no general dared to lead so many warships to Ceylon to die. Actually, if the little devil is still the size of the fleet like Fu Qi Okawauchi this time. In fact, there is no way for the Naval Resistance Army, after all, without the main warship, it can only harass and contain the Japanese fleet, but it cannot cause any damage to it.

That's it. It was not until 20 August that the second batch of Japanese reinforcements set off. The Japanese fleet was really majestic this time, with two battleships, two light aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers, one seaplane carrier, four cruisers, more than a dozen destroyers, and more than a dozen small gunboats. More than twenty merchant ships and oil tankers. A total of fifty or sixty ships rushed straight to Tang Port.

Not to mention the many mines in the Strait of Malacca, the smoke alone made it impossible for the Japanese fleet to sail. In August, the indigenous Indonesians of Sumatra were in high spirits of burning mountains and setting fires, and the Strait of Malacca had begun to be shrouded in smoke all day long.

The Japanese fleet had just entered the Indian Ocean from the Sunda Strait, and the submarines already deployed by the Maritime Resistance Force had clearly obtained information about the reinforcements of the Japanese army.

However, no matter how accurate the intelligence was, the Naval Resistance Army had no powerful means of counterattack, no battleships, no aircraft carriers, and only a few submarines, and could not confront the huge fleet of the Japanese army at all.

On 29 August, a Japanese reinforcement fleet arrived at the Trincomalee military port.

On 4 September, the Japanese Navy and Army coordinated and began a counteroffensive against the Naval Resistance Army.

The Japanese attack was organized in an extremely hasty manner. Lieutenant General Kuichi Tanaka, who had just been promoted to the 38th Army of the Japanese Southern Army, was very dissatisfied, but in front of the Japanese Navy, he had to launch an attack for the sake of the so-called army face.

After the replenishment of the Japanese army in Ceylon, the strength of the Japanese army quickly increased to more than 30,000 people, one large, three small and four divisions. However, if you dig deeper, the combat effectiveness is definitely not comparable to the original two divisions, one large and one small.

On the 4th of September, heavy rain.

The Japanese fleet shelled an open field east of Mount Cutler. However, the large amount of artillery fire did not bring even the slightest casualties to the Navy, but only detonated a lot of mines laid by the Navy. You know, Mount Cutler was about twenty kilometers from the coast, and the Japanese fleet was shelling four or five kilometers beyond the coastline.

If the firing range of the Japanese naval guns is followed, it will still be able to hit the positions of the naval resistance army. However, the Japanese army did not train blind shooting at all, nor did they train much for ground strikes. The deviation of the impact point of the shells was too great, and some shells were able to deflect the target by one or two kilometers, and not only did they not bomb the positions of the anti-Japanese forces in the middle of the sea, but even some shells fell on the heads of the Japanese attacking troops.

But there was one point, the shells were fired from cruisers or destroyers, and the battleships did not fire a single shot.

For the little devil, Li Guang was a little incomprehensible. Battleships with great combat effectiveness, in the war, were practically useless. Naval warfare is reluctant to be used, and of course it is useless in the confrontation of aircraft carriers beyond visual range. Landing battles, and the battleships did not provide artillery support.

Battleships of the Japanese Navy, in the original time and space. It was not until the Battle of Kuah that fire was fired twice. The first time was the shelling of Christmas Island, more than 400 kilometers southeast of the Sunda Strait, and there were not a few artillery shots. First of all, the geographical location of Christmas Island is extremely important, and it is stuck at the exit of the Sunda Strait. And there is another product on Christmas Island - guano, the little devils now have small boats there to transport guano, and several have been sunk by submarine submarines of the Maritime Resistance Army. It was also this island that was occupied by the Japanese army, and the Naval Resistance Army now had to take a long detour if it entered the Pacific Ocean.

In fact, the little devils are reluctant to use battleships for only one reason - reluctantly. The consumption of battleship guns was terrifying. Not only in the consumption of ammunition, but also in the consumption of the barrel. Devil, a battleship can be used for decades, how can it be willing to be used to shoot at the shore and help the army?

There is only the Naval Resistance Army, because Li Guang regards battleships as outdated guys. That's why I'm not so stingy. In fact, in the years when naval thinking had not yet fully shifted to aircraft carriers as king. Both the American and British armies were quite stingy in the use of battleships.

September 5th. The devil's army could no longer fight, it was really difficult to organize an attack in the torrential rain, and the command system failed. The Japanese Navy had no choice but to turn around and shell the port of Tang.

The Japanese navy thought that it was quietly approaching Tang Harbor, and a sudden artillery attack would definitely destroy the shore artillery of the naval resistance army.

Stupid, the Japanese army has not been able to change its thinking until now. The concept of engaging in line-of-sight has been staying. They thought that in the heavy rain, the sea resistance army could not see themselves, and the assault could be achieved. However, if the commander of the surface ship had communicated with the Japanese submarine forces in a slightly deeper way, he would have known that the port of Tang was twenty kilometers away. That's a no-go zone for submarines. Submarines can't get in, and huge warships are naturally discovered early. In this area, the Maritime Resistance Force has set up a complete sonar monitoring network, not to mention submarines, and even small motorized boats cannot escape the ears of the Maritime Resistance Force's sonar soldiers.

The Japanese ships had not yet opened fire, and the counter-attack artillery fire of the naval resistance forces had already been sprayed.

For the artillery of the Naval Resistance Army, this is also the first time that "quasi-digital" artillery technology has been used in actual combat. Modern man, often inadvertently, creates tactics that go beyond the period of World War II.

Without a gun-sighting radar, the observation post's vision was impaired at night or in the rain, and the artillery could not aim and fire. Because of this problem, Li Guang came up with the tactic of using sonar to determine the position of the enemy ship and then indicating the target to the shore artillery.

The sonar network laid out by the Maritime Resistance Army outside Tanggang is all fixed, so the Maritime Resistance Army divides the sea area into a grid of 100 meters square, and the shore artillery calculates the firing elements according to the code number of the grid. However, limited to the accuracy of sonar and artillery, this tactic is still very immature.

In the course of this day's artillery battle, the naval resistance forces did not achieve any results, but the artillery's understanding of digital tactics deepened a lot. ON THE JAPANESE SIDE, BECAUSE THE BATTLESHIP WAS A MOBILE BATTERY AND ITS FIREPOWER WAS STRONG, IT HAD A CERTAIN ADVANTAGE IN BLIND SHOOTING, AND THE NAVAL RESISTANCE ARMY WAS DESTROYED BY A SOVIET-MADE 152MM SHORE GUN.

September 6th, light rain.

The Japanese fleet, perhaps thinking that it could break the naval common sense that "naval guns are inferior to shore artillery", went so far as to shell Tang Harbor again. In this day's artillery battle, the Japanese used the battleship's main guns.

The Tang Ganghai Anti-Japanese Army fought back. The coastal defense artillery group carefully managed by the Maritime Resistance Force performed excellently, and did not fall behind in the confrontation with the Japanese naval guns for a day. AMONG THEM, ESPECIALLY THE TWO 356MM NAVAL GUNS REMOVED FROM THE BATTLESHIP ATLANTIC, DURING THE BATTLE, MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED SHELLS WERE FIRED. During the battle, a Japanese destroyer did not know which nerve to send, and took advantage of its speed advantage to suddenly open fire on a coastline of less than three kilometers, but was sunk by the shore artillery group of the Naval Resistance Army in one shot.

Although the 356MM guns did not sink the Japanese battleship in this battle, they seriously damaged a heavy cruiser and a Japanese battleship. Although it is not a heavy injury, it must be repaired by returning to the dock before it can be used on the battlefield again.

However, the Naval Resistance Army also paid a considerable price, with nearly half of the shore artillery group destroyed and nearly 300 casualties.

At this point, the Japanese Navy no longer dared to be arrogant, and those who knew how to calculate the accounts a little bit understood that the naval guns against the shore guns, especially when the opponent had powerful battleship-level main guns, was definitely a loss-making deal. The Japanese naval fleet could not afford this extremely uneconomical ratio of battle losses, so it had to evacuate. IN FACT, THE COASTAL DEFENSE ARTILLERY OF THE SEA RESISTANCE ARMY IS ACTUALLY AT THE END OF ITS STRONG CROSSBOW, NOT ONLY SEVERAL HEAVY GUNS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED, BUT EVEN THE TWO 356MM GUNS OF THE MAIN FORCE ARE ON THE VERGE OF BEING SCRAPPED. The 30-year-old cannon was considered to have died after the end of the war, and later this great cannon was smelted into the furnace to produce cannonballs.

September 7, moderate rain.

Li Guang was still looking forward to giving the Japanese fleet a fatal blow after the rain stopped. Army aviation is combat-ready. Who knows, in the evening came the news that an Indian port had been attacked by a Japanese fleet. The devil left Ceylon like that.

Perhaps, the Japanese Navy was really unwilling to dispatch such a large fleet to return in vain, so it made a detour to Calcutta to carry out a retaliatory strike, and the naval guns and fighters were dispatched together, causing a lot of losses to the British army.

But the battle did not end there, at the last moment. The Japanese fleet again made a fatal mistake. The warships fought in the Bay of Bengal, but the huge merchant fleet returned home independently, escorted by only four destroyers and a few minesweepers.

On 16 September, the wolf pack tactics of the submarine unit of the Maritime Resistance Army were successful. The second submarine team and the third submarine team surrounded the Japanese fleet like hungry wolves.

The battle is over. Twenty-four Japanese merchant ships were sunk, and two warships were lost at sea. The huge fleet lost more than eighty percent. The submarine forces of the Maritime Resistance Army did not lose a single one. Not to mention the loss of a large number of merchant ships by the Japanese army. The saddest thing is that a group of devils wounded soldiers, some of them were poison gassed, some were burned by napalm, and some were wounded by gunshots on the battlefield. Lieutenant General Takuma Nishimura did not accompany the Japanese fleet due to his identity. Instead, he returned to the Navy warship and thus escaped. Otherwise, the submarine force of the Naval Resistance Force might have been able to capture a Japanese lieutenant general.

On 20 September, the Japanese fleet retreated into the Sunda Strait. This was the end of the Third Battle of Ceylon, which was not fierce.

Through this naval battle, the cunning British understood that the Japanese navy did not seem to have any interest in the Indian Ocean, otherwise why would such a large fleet not wander around the Arabian Sea? This shows that the Japanese army has no intention of controlling the Indian Ocean. An even more obvious move by the Japanese was that Trincomalee still had a few minesweepers and destroyers, although the original crew had been almost completely dead in the last poison gas explosion. This time, the Japanese fleet returned to the division, and none of them remained, and all of them were brought back to the South China Sea.

In fact, Li Guang also feels this way.

But the reality is too contradictory. On the one hand, the Japanese Army held on to Ceylon, and on the other hand, the Japanese Navy lacked interest in the Indian Ocean. Whether the devils will really turn their strategic direction to the Indian Ocean with all their might, no one can be sure.

In the second half of '42, the small army of the Naval Resistance Army already had the strength to leverage the world war situation. In a microsecond situation, the Allied countries are now more or less in demand for Haitang.

Although not intentionally, objectively, the fighting of the Naval Resistance Forces in Ceylon has reduced the pressure on the US military to some extent. For this reason, Admiral Nimitz, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, sent a telegram, hoping that the naval resistance forces would intensify their offensive and disperse the pressure on the US military.

This thing is definitely not in the interests of the Naval Resistance Force. Not to mention that the Naval Resistance Army is now unable to counterattack on a large scale due to weather conditions. Even if the conditions for a counteroffensive are met, it is impossible for Li Guang to attack with all his might. The Naval Resistance Army has so many troops, and the current 30,000 troops of the Japanese Army can easily deal with it, but if the Japanese army increases its troops by a few divisions and regiments again, it will not be within the reach of the Naval Resistance Army.

What's more, the current United States not only does not aid Haitang, but even restricts Haitang's purchase of arms. Li Guang called back, saying that the Naval Resistance Army would do its best. At the end, he asked Admiral Nimitz when the light aircraft carrier promised by the United States to be delivered during the Battle of Midway.

In September, after the Japanese Navy completed reinforcements, especially when the Navy of the Naval Resistance Army barely showed its head, the Naval Resistance Army showed serious weakness. The Japanese Navy once again began to devote its energies to the hot New Guinea and Kuah Islands.

For quite some time, the Japanese Navy seemed to have forgotten that there was still a battlefield in the Indian Ocean. One of the naval resistance forces did not show the ability to eat the 30,000 troops of the Japanese army in one bite. Second, in the Central and South Pacific theaters, the battle between the Japanese and American armies is even more intense, and who cares about this small place in Ceylon. Thirdly, Ceylon's proceeds belonged to the Army on the terms negotiated between the Japanese Navy and the Army. In addition, the aircraft carrier that Germany promised to Japan had sunk in the Arctic Ocean, so there was no reason for the Japanese Navy to devote its forces to the Indian Ocean. (To be continued......)

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