Both sides had their own needs, so it was not difficult for Li Guang and MacArthur to reach a gentleman's agreement. However, MacArthur's fulfillment of his promises to the Haitang Kingdom will take time, and it will take time for his activities within the U.S. government, and with the bombing of the Panama Canal, it will take time for the United States to raise the supplies it needs for the next campaign.

And Li Guang's side is a lot of things, so the naval resistance army did not stay in Australia for too long, but continued to sail back to the Indian Ocean.

In fact, Li Guang's return journey was not too hurried.

On the way, Li Guang also inspected a newly occupied "territory" of the Haitang Kingdom -- Christmas Island, which is located more than 400 kilometers south of the Sunda Strait. After more than a year of harassment and attack by the Maritime Resistance Army, the Japanese army took the initiative to withdraw from the blockade.

It is impossible for the little devils not to retreat, and the submarine fleet of the Maritime Resistance Army will wander around here almost every time it goes to sea, and the surface ship units will even have routine strike actions. In addition, for more than half a year, the Japanese fleet almost did not dare to send troops to the Indian Ocean, and strategically the devil navy was no longer arrogant and began to shrink its forces early. As a result, the Japanese army went out of the base in the Indian Ocean, but became a lone army. Under such circumstances, the Japanese army lost the significance of being stationed here, so it secretly withdrew one dark night.

Almost without firing a single shot, the Naval Resistance Army easily took over this small island with an extremely important strategic location. The Sunda Strait has since been placed under the blockade of the Maritime Resistance Force.

Although the island is located in the Indian Ocean, close to Sumatra, it is not part of Indonesia, and the island was owned by British merchants before the war. Historically, it belonged to Singapore after the war and was later sold to Australia.

Now that it has fallen into the hands of the Naval Resistance Army, and it has been taken from the Japanese army, although the British are shameless, they are not thick enough to ask for it immediately.

Li Guang learned about the situation on Christmas Island. quickly made a judgment: this island, now and in the future, will definitely belong to Datang. The conditions here are really unique - seventy percent of the inhabitants of this small island are Chinese who have gone to Nanyang to seek a living, and some have lived here for hundreds of years.

Due to its geographical location, the direct annexation of the Haitang State may cause disputes, but it is not difficult for the Maritime Resistance Army to adopt less radical measures and gradually form a de facto occupation. And what Haitang has to do is to occupy it now, and at the right time, it is not a delusion to strengthen the intensity of immigration.

The significance of Christmas Island to the Haitang Kingdom at the moment. It's not just about capturing a base to blockade the Sunda Strait. More importantly, this Christmas Island is also a guano island, although the reserves of guano are not as good as those in Nauru, but the supply of Haitang National Football is sufficient, which has an immeasurable role in the improvement of agricultural production.

On 10 October, Li Guangcai returned to Tanggang. After a two-day break, he took a Katerina seaplane across the Arabian Sea and returned to Datang Island.

Why is this so? The reason: the Chinese army is advancing too slowly in the northeast of Burma. Since the Chinese army launched a counteroffensive, it has crossed the Nu River. It's been more than a month. It was less than thirty kilometers to advance. It is still far from the conditions for the Naval Resistance Army to send troops.

Chairman Chiang's style, Li Guang actually did not dare to compliment.

The first battle of the Chinese counteroffensive. One Dian army, three divisions were pushed up.

The excuse is easy to find, the Dian army is suitable for the climate of Burma. But the problem is that the Dian army is almost entirely light weapons. A division did not even have a few mortars. In addition, the proportion of double-spearmen (smoking guns) in the army is extremely high, and the soldiers can hardly eat enough in peacetime, and their combat effectiveness is almost unusual.

Take the miscellaneous army to fight attrition and eliminate dissidents. Chairman Chiang played a good game.

The Naval Resistance Army did not hide any personal interests. Not only the strategic air force was dispatched, but even the army aviation joined in the support.

After more than a month of fighting, the air support of the Naval Resistance Army squandered more than 400 tons of ammunition.

However, there was no organic cooperation between the army and the air force, and on many occasions there were warplanes that returned without success, with poor results and heavy casualties among ground troops. High-tech weapons and modern tactics are absolutely not just equipped with equipment, but require long-term and arduous training before they can give full play to their combat effectiveness. The Yunnan army lacked even basic means of communication and communication, and the naval resistance army had no way to start supporting it.

In just over a month, the Dian army lost more than 7,000 casualties, and only one or two thousand Japanese troops were destroyed. You must know that these more than 7,000 people were killed in battle, not casualties. Such a number of battle losses means that the Dian army is finished with no combat effectiveness.

In the face of such a battle situation, Li Guang could not intervene, but could only sigh sadly. In the eyes of a certain Chinese army general, the casualty ratio of one to five is normal.

At such a speed of advancement, the Chinese army wants to advance 300 kilometers, and it is afraid that it will not take half a year. What's more, after communicating with MacArthur, Li Guang saw another possibility. Therefore, now that the Naval Resistance Army is not in a hurry, maybe the strategic direction may be shifted.

In addition, the British troops stationed in India still refused to launch a counterattack, and the chairman of the committee had no choice but to do so. Historically, the Chinese army's counterattack on Burma was in May 44, and due to the existence of the Naval Resistance Army, the counteroffensive was advanced. However, because the British army received less American aid than in the same period in history, and the Shanghai Tang Kingdom inadvertently dug a lot of corners by commercial means and purchased a lot of supplies from India, the British army was slightly weak, and it was almost impossible to send troops. Of course, the so-called weakness of the British army was, in the eyes of Li Guang and Chairman Chiang, purely a pretext. You must know that in India, the British army has three group armies, including the 14th Army, the largest group army in the history of World War II. Although this group army has not yet reached its most powerful state, the size of one million men, at this time there are already more than 500,000 troops.

Li Guang, who is not familiar with history, is not clear that the British counteroffensive in history actually began almost four or five years ago. The chairman of the committee saw that the British army was strong (in fact, mainly Indian soldiers) and was full of expectations for this, and with the full assistance of the naval resistance army, he hoped to open the Yunnan-Burma passage as soon as possible.

However, looking at the current situation of the war, it will not be the turn of the Naval Resistance Army to go into battle for a while. Therefore, after arranging some military affairs, Li Guang returned to Datang Island.

However, the Naval Resistance Army is not without nothing to do, three mountain regiments and one jungle regiment, plus the Black Kunlun Battalion, the Blue Kunlun Battalion of nearly 30,000 troops now occupy the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The Andaman Islands' strategic location seals off the Indian Ocean outlet from the Strait of Malacca and keeps the Malay Peninsula under surveillance.

India says it belongs to India, Myanmar says it belongs to Myanmar, Malaya says it belongs to Malaya, and Indonesia says it belongs to him. But this is all history, and it was the British who really controlled it before the war.

However, soon after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese devils occupied the area. With the great victory of the Naval Resistance Army in the Battle of Ceylon, the Japanese withdrew from the Andaman Islands.

This place is close to Burma, so it became the advance base of the Naval Resistance Army, and later became the territory of the Haitang Kingdom.

It's as simple as that, the British really didn't protest and didn't even send anyone to the Andaman Islands to declare their presence for months.

Li Guang estimated that disputes in the future would be indispensable, but as long as the price was not high, he would not refuse tens of thousands of square kilometers of islands and a broader maritime territory.

After occupying this archipelago, Li Guang also guessed a little bit about the reason why some British people did not pay attention to this place - poverty. The island is small, produces little and is still in a pristine state, and according to the economic technology of the Second World War, it is a loss to occupy it.

And there is also a specialty here - cannibals. This small, barely human-like animal is quite savage and ferocious. Now the mountain troops and jungle troops of the Navy Resistance Army are training with this group, and they have an action code name - fighting monsters. It is estimated that after some time, the Andaman Islands will be "clean".

You must know that the general of the Naval Resistance Army is Major General Yang Weiwu, commander of the second column. Think about the means he used to occupy Datang Island in the first place, and you can know what the concept of cleanliness is.

In fact, this kind of backcountry was not uncommon in the era of World War II without imperial occupation. For example, the western part of the island of New Guinea is actually said to have a master, but in fact the owner does not attach importance to it, and it is almost the same as if there was no colonization. After the war, Australia was afraid of trouble, so it didn't want it there, and simply gave it to Indonesia.

Many islands in the Indian Ocean easily became the territory of the Haitang Kingdom, in fact, this is also the reason. Those islands, apart from catching a pitiful few fish, could not provide economic support for the colonial overlords, and even the cost of occupation could not be guaranteed.

With a 21 st century vision, Li Guang naturally would not have made such a mistake, but it was not very cost-effective to develop the economy here, so the Andaman Islands became a training base for the naval resistance army.

The Andaman Islands and Christmas Island were easily taken by the Naval Resistance Army, and it was not so convenient for the Japanese army to leave the Indian Ocean, the two most important straits were blocked, and strategically the Japanese army was forced to go on the defensive.

Both Li Guang and Premier Yuan were cautious about territorial expansion, but this impulse for expansion inadvertently grew and grew in the hearts of the people of Haitang and Tang Dynasty. The ambition of the Haitang soldiers to expand the territory is constantly expanding. Like the Andaman Islands, the Maritime Resistance Army was originally only used as a base for advancement, but now both the military and government officials are simply operating their own territory, and they have regarded this place as the territory of the Haitang Kingdom from the heart.

In fact, if this kind of land is acquired at almost no cost, it is too pedantic and sorry for one's "conscience" if it is handed over.

Although Li Guang, a person who travels through the country, constantly admonishes himself not to be too greedy, he can't resist the temptation of territorial expansion. Getting an extra piece of land, Li Guang was excited. I usually repeatedly admonish myself to be cautious and not greedy, but at that moment, I can't remember it at all. Only when the military expenditure was allocated did Li Guang bare his teeth.

Occupying more land is definitely a good thing, but for the current economy of Haitang Kingdom, the pressure is huge. For the military strength of the Haitang Kingdom, it is also a lot of pressure. And maybe it will interfere with the main direction of expansion of the Haitang Kingdom - Africa.

However, even so, Li Guang will, as always, warn himself to be cautious while expanding the occupation. (To be continued......)