431 Development and Warfare

In the 21st century, rubbing culture is popular, rubbing rice, rubbing cars, and rubbing nets. In this operation, the Haitang Kingdom got a higher level - the victory of the allies. In this regard, Li Guang felt that it was very cool.

What made Li Guang even more satisfied was that this action was suggested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which showed that the various departments of the Haitang Kingdom had considerable working capacity.

Although I don't know how much benefit I can get back, Li Guang is sure that no matter how little it is, it will definitely be able to make up for the cost of sending troops.

In addition, the appearance of the Naval Resistance Army in the European theater, whether it is actually a combat or not, is a gesture, not only to use the Haitang State to get some benefits from Italy, but also to pave the way for the future benefits from Germany.

The only thing that worries Li Guang is that the combat effectiveness of the two battalions of this fleet is acceptable, but in the navy, not only are the ships old, but most of the soldiers are novices. The only thing that reassured Li Guang was the PJP seaplane carrier, and almost half of the crew and pilots were veterans.

However, Foreign Minister Yen Huiqing has repeatedly assured that he will not directly participate in the war. Li Guang decided to believe the high-spirited old diplomat.

After sending away the "rubbing" fleet of the Naval Resistance Army, Li Guang once again began to gather people to brainstorm how to immigrate the natives on the islands around Datang Island.

You know, these islands became independent after World War II and became one country after another, such as Seychelles, Comoros, Mauritius, and Liuniwang.

The United States, Britain and other countries often played tricks after World War II. Occupy the moral high ground of the world under the slogan of national independence, and then encourage the division of the country. Among the leaders of the Haitang government, they have not yet seen this kind of trick, but Li Guang, as a traverser, will definitely not allow the Haitang Kingdom to suffer this kind of loss.

Well, in order to avoid this kind of thing from happening. What Li Guang has to do is to be neat and tidy, and never suffer from future troubles. Of course, this premise is that you can't engage in any genocide, and Li Guang really can't accept that thing. Li Guang's solution was to immigrate to Mozambique entirely.

Of course, at the same time of immigration, let these natives start to use Tang Yuan, so that Tang Yuan began to be promoted on the African continent, which is the most beneficial to the Haitang Kingdom.

Originally, there was a simpler way to transfer these natives to Mozambique, that is, the Naval Resistance Force directly sent troops to kill the Portuguese colonial authorities and occupy Mozambique. Do it. Li Guang was confident that the Portuguese in Mozambique totaled only 20,000, and the military strength was not even 3,000. How big is Mozambique? 800,000 square kilometers, so the Portuguese can't see it at all.

However, recently received information from Truman. So Li Guang had to be careful.

Let's put it this way, the Haitang Kingdom defeated France. Occupy Datang Island. The United States welcomes. After all, France held an important position in the Indian Ocean, which was not good for the Allies.

If the Haitang Kingdom took the opportunity to replace the position of the French colonizers on Datang Island, the United States would barely accept it. This was the practice of the colonial powers of the world before World War II.

However, the fact that the Haitang Kingdom regards Datang Island as its mainland means that the Haitang Kingdom will occupy this place forever. This was in conflict with Roosevelt's beliefs and contrary to the spirit of the Atlantic Charter. Therefore. For more than a year, Roosevelt suppressed the Haitang Kingdom in every way.

You must know that Haitang's record in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean is more brilliant than that of Australia and New Zealand. And the U.S. aid is not even a fraction of that of these two countries. The fighters and artillery of these two countries do not need to be requested at all, and the United States takes the initiative to send them to the door. And Haitang not only did not enjoy the treatment of giving it away for nothing, but was even restricted from purchasing many advanced weapons, so that ordinary commodities were even restricted.

Under such circumstances, of course, the Haitang State could not brazenly send troops to occupy Mozambique. In that case, it is difficult to say whether Roosevelt will send troops to deal with Haitang, and it will be even more difficult for Haitang to gain benefits after the victory of the Allies. Therefore, the Haitang State must adopt a roundabout method and gradually immigrate the indigenous people of the surrounding islands to Mozambique. Now the opportunity is just right, the Portuguese are pitifully few, and they don't even have ships, so they can't keep a close eye on thousands of kilometers of coastline.

As a leader, in fact, he only needs to grasp the direction, and Li Guang is becoming more and more proficient in this. Submit these ideas to the State Council for study one by one. The Government will be fully responsible for many matters relating to immigration.

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Beginning in July of '43, the 20 regiments of the Naval Resistance Army gradually completed their reorganization and training, and began to have combat effectiveness. As a matter of fact, the Maritime Resistance Army already had an establishment of 20 regiments at the end of 42, but the establishment and personnel did not mean that they could be put into combat. It takes time for the troops to run in and train, and hastily putting new recruits into the battlefield is completely out of line with Li Guang's habits.

Preparing for battle, this is Li Guang's creed, and this is the reason why the Naval Resistance Army has won victory after victory.

As the army gradually became combat-capable, Li Guang's focus began to shift to military affairs.

Look at the development of the war on a worldwide scale in the first half of the fourth and third years:

In the first half of the fourth year, the Soviet-German battlefield was completely different from history. In particular, the most famous battle of the Murmansk tank congress did not take place at all.

Since the German army occupied Leningrad in the north of the Soviet Union, the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield was extremely unfavorable for the Soviet Union. There was no reason why the Soviet Union did not shift the focus of the battlefield to the north.

Since Leningrad was occupied by the German army, a large number of German arms and materials have been transported from the Baltic to Leningrad. It is common sense that sea freight is more convenient than land transportation. It can be said that in the northern theater, the German army occupies a complete advantage, the logistics are worry-free, and the German army can increase troops by sea at any time, and it is really difficult for the German army to defeat the battle.

Stalin could easily see that allowing the Germans to expand in the north would not be long before they could once again form a two-front attack on Moscow. So the Soviet army took advantage of the fact that the German army had just occupied Leningrad and had not yet gained a firm foothold, so they launched a counterattack.

The Germans were somewhat ill-prepared due to the suddenness of the victory. For a time, there was a crisis that Leningrad was recaptured by Soviet troops again.

So the Germans increased their troops.

Then, the USSR was also increasing its troops.

If the Germans increased their troops, the Soviets could only increase their troops.

In the past six months, on hundreds of kilometers of fronts around Leningrad, the two sides have not stopped fighting for half a year.

In this meat grinder-like battle, both the German and Soviet armies. Filling up an infantry division is almost like a splash, and it will be quickly consumed. Three or two hundred tanks, which can't even last a week, will become a pile of scrap metal.

Against both sides, they want to accumulate strength to beat the opponent in one go, but the brutal war of attrition makes it impossible for both sides to gather enough strength.

In this way, in the Soviet-German northern theater, both sides were bogged down. It's a bad deal. For now, it seems that this kind of bad battle will continue.

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In the Mediterranean theater, the Allies have achieved absolute superiority and have begun to attack Sicily, and the next step will definitely be to land on the Italian mainland. As far as Li Guang knows, there is little historical knowledge. Italy's surrender was not far off.

On the Myanmar side, Britain has pushed again and again. There is no desire to counterattack Burma at all. Chairman Jiang was in a hurry, but he didn't have any way to do it. If the British army did not participate, the 50,000 naval resistance troops, plus several armies of the Chinese army, seemed to have a lot of troops, but Chairman Chiang was not sure of victory.

And. The more than 100,000 Chinese troops assembled in northern Burma and India were all descendants of Chairman Chiang.

The chairman of the NPC National Committee was frightened by the Burma fiasco in May '42, fearing that he would lose his capital, and he did not have the determination to fight to the death. It's just that the Naval Resistance Army and the Chinese Army work together. The chairman felt that the number of troops was insufficient.

Under the repeated urging of the Chinese side, the US military has also exerted constant pressure. In the end, the British reluctantly agreed, setting a date for a counteroffensive that was not very certain - October of the fourth and third years.

As for whether the British will continue to find excuses to delay when the time comes, Li Guang thinks it is very certain.

Just look at what the UK is doing. On the European battlefield, the Italian war situation was not important at all, and Churchill called it "a knife in the soft belly of the Axis powers". In fact, it was to let the German army and the Soviet army fight to the death and consume the strength of the two armies.

In Burma, it was almost impossible for the British to work for the interests of the Chinese army.

However, in any case, it is the obligation of the Maritime Resistance Army to assist the Chinese army in opening up the Yunnan-Burma Passage, and it is the responsibility of Haitang to the mother country. Therefore, after the naval resistance army had combat effectiveness, Li Guang once again began to dispatch troops to prepare for a counterattack on Burma.

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In the Pacific theater, for several months, the battle situation was not fierce.

The U.S. military did not rashly start island-hopping tactics, and in order to confuse the Japanese army, it was still entangled with the Japanese army in the Solomon Islands.

And in the battle on the island of New Guinea, MacArthur had the upper hand in all aspects. Mak was simply complacent, and his victory came with an unusually simple one.

The commander of the Japanese army, Lieutenant General Anda 23, seems to have only one tactic - attack. MacArthur was happy to be relaxed, and he always took a defensive position, just waiting for the little devils to collide with the US army's iron bucket defense, hit the head and bleed, and lost blood continuously, and then the US army could reap the victory.

There is a shortage of weapons, ammunition and food, but Anda Twenty-three has been continuously attacking, with a momentum of looking for death, which is very weird.

If the Japanese army hid in the mountains and dealt with the American army, it would be absolutely impossible for Marshal Mai to be so beautiful. But this is the case, and Li Guang can't find the reason.

In fact, these are not the focus of Li Guang's attention.

Li Guang is concerned about two things, the first is the life and death of Yamamoto Fifty-six. Li Guang couldn't remember exactly when Yamamoto 56's plane was shot down by the US military, but it must have been in the first half of '43. However, until July, Yamamoto was still alive and kicking. History has changed, and it's a bit of a surprise that Yamamoto Isoroku, who was supposed to see Amaterasu, didn't die. However, Li Guang believes that no matter whether Yamamoto Isoroku is finished or not, Japan's inevitable defeat is certain.

The second thing is when the U.S. military will start island hopping tactics.

Li Guang handed over the three major aircraft carrier technologies to the United States in March, and the glide take-off deck and the inclined deck could not be modified immediately, but the light-assisted landing system could be put into use immediately.

Three months is enough time for the US military to train ordinary pilots to become carrier-based aircraft pilots, and with a month of running-in tactical training, it will be possible to start island-hopping tactics in August.

Therefore, as soon as August passed, Li Guang paid more attention to the movements of the US troops in the Pacific theater.

August 7th.

The U.S. military finally launched the second step of the island-hopping tactic - attacking the Mariana Islands.

This was the largest military operation of the U.S. Navy since the outbreak of the Pacific War.

There are six regular aircraft carriers alone, of which five are large aircraft carriers and one is a light aircraft carrier.

Six battleships, with hundreds of other warships and landing craft.

The target of the US military is Saipan, a small island in the Mariana Islands.

As far as Li Guang knows, in another time and space, the US landing force also carried out a bloody and cruel battle of Saipan. At the same time as this battle, there was also a world-famous naval battle - the Battle of the Marianas. In this naval battle, there is an extremely famous word that is famous all over the world - Mariana beating turkey. In this naval battle, the US fighters completely had the advantage, and the Japanese Zero fighters were shot down one by one by the US fighters like turkeys.

On 10 August, after three days of artillery preparation, the US troops landed on Saipan and the land battle began.

The U.S. military's island-hopping strategy began. Li Guangxi.

Feel comfortable, this thing is simply manipulating the world war, it feels really cool. That night, Li Guang, who was not a good drinker, pulled Premier Yuan to have a drink with him and fell asleep peacefully. (To be continued......)