In the few days after Li Guang arrived in Ceylon, he was actually in a pretty good mood. First of all, Ceylon's Maritime Resistance Army units are really fighting well. Li Guang originally thought that the crisis did not exist at all in the eyes of Bao Gang's army officers, and if it were not for the bad weather conditions, the naval resistance army could even carry out a large-scale counteroffensive.

Another reason is that the victory of the Naval Resistance Forces in Madagascar's electronic warfare, and the radio detector became famous in one fell swoop, cutting off the communication of the French army in Madagascar with the outside world.

In this electronic warfare, the strategic air force, which had just been created by the Naval Resistance Force, came to the fore. In recent times, fighting in Madagascar has become almost the home of the Air Force, and the Army has become an auxiliary force.

As soon as the twelve B17 bombers of the Air Force made a move, they first showed the domineering spirit of strategic bombers. Twelve B17 bombers can drop 100 tons of napalm or 100 tons of cluster bombs in just one wave. With almost no anti-aircraft firepower, the results were not too glorious.

The airborne troops under the Strategic Air Force, although up to now only one company of troops, have achieved extremely brilliant results in the first sortie. In a battle to clear the headquarters of the French army, the only airborne company of the Naval Resistance Army attacked with all its might, easily landed behind enemy lines, and neatly eliminated a French headquarters and wiped out more than 1,000 French troops and their colonial troops.

In the past half a month, because most of the actions of Lin Lili, chief of staff of the Ministry of Intelligence, have been kept secret, although the credit is significant, it is not famous. And Liu Guobang, the captain of the Air Force, was out of the limelight.

When Li Guang set up the Air Force, a branch of the armed forces independent of the army and navy, many army or navy officers were actually slandered. In the era of World War II, the United States, Japan, and Germany actually did not have a navy, land and air force, and the air force was only a vassal of the navy and army. And Li Guang raised Liu Guobang's air force to a position on a par with the army and navy. A lot of people are a little unimpressed.

However, Liu Guobang's record is too brilliant, you must know that this is still the stage when the pilot has just come into contact with the B17 bomber, and the pilot is not familiar with this bomber at all. Originally, 24 elite pilots of the Naval Resistance Force had been trained in the United States, and they had flown the B25 medium bombers of the US military and also used the B17 bombers. But it's not skilled at all.

At the beginning of the month, when the pilots were divided into three by Li Guang, these 24 pilots were divided into several by the naval aviation and the army aviation.

And that's not even counting the fact that the P40 fighter squadron belonging to the Strategic Air Force also has twenty-four fighters, which occupies several elite pilots.

Therefore. These twelve B17 bombers are actually difficult to muster even twelve captains, let alone twelve co-pilots.

However, advanced weapons are advanced weapons, and the piloting performance of the B17 is much better than that of the transport planes that the pilots of the Naval Resistance Force have flown before, and the level of the pilots has improved extremely quickly. From the beginning, only two or three fighters could attack. In just half a month, twelve fighters will be able to attack on all fronts.

And the level of bombing of bombers. It has also been far from the initial deviation from the goal. Reached the point of being able to cover the bombing.

Although these pilots are still difficult to carry out battlefield missions, they are enough for the French army, which has almost no air defense capabilities. The B17 has a large bomb load and uses a lot of napalm of the most brutal type. Twelve B17s may not seem like much, but a single delivery of nearly 100 tons of ammunition can directly form a hell of flames of several square kilometers. The last decades of the twentieth century. It is not for nothing that napalm is listed as a prohibited weapon. Its power is so powerful that it is not unusual for a wave of air strikes to destroy a village or town.

This effect is simply different from the previous fighters that supported the army's operations, and the bomb load of one B17 is more than that of thirty or forty P40 fighters.

Yang Weiwu has often sighed recently. The Strategic Air Force took the work of the Army. The biggest task of his army units now is not to fight, but to clean up the battlefield and collect prisoners. At this pace, Yang Weiwu's pressure is much less, and I am afraid that in less than 15 August, the Naval Resistance Army will be able to occupy all of Madagascar.

Gradually, the strategic air force began to play a leading role in Madagascar, and the army aviation also freed up its hands. On the 23rd, sixteen P40 fighters of the Army Aviation began to transfer to prepare for reinforcements in Ceylon.

The Maritime Resistance Force is now in dire need of aircraft carriers, and even the PC fast merchant ship, which is the most suitable for transporting aircraft, is not idle at all. As a last resort, these 16 fighters began the sixth-level long jump under the leadership of Tu Yuanchao, the captain of the Army Aviation Group. Fly from Madagascar to Kenya, Africa, and then hop and hop from Africa to the Middle East, from the Middle East to India, and then you can fly to Ceylon.

This transition process fully reflects the heritage of the British Empire, and the planes made a detour of thousands of kilometers, and all of them landed at the British colonial airport.

Envy, jealousy, hatred, all of them are.

Ideally, in four days these fighters arrived in Ceylon. It is also possible to reach Ceylon by the beginning of August at the latest. These fighters were accompanied by a transport plane of the Naval Resistance Army, on which were 30 telegraph operators and 30 radio detectors.

Radio detectors have played a huge role in the battlefield in Madagascar, and Li Guang expects that this technology can also make new achievements in the Ceylon battlefield.

Along with the good news, there is also some not-so-good news.

On the morning of the 23rd, Li Guang received a telegram. The Japanese fleet supporting Ceylon had been on the road from Singapore for four days.

This telegram was four days late, but Li Guang did not blame the Nanyang guerrillas in the slightest. Since the Japanese army occupied Singapore, in retaliation for the financial support of the Nanyang Chinese in the Chinese War of Resistance against China, the Japanese army massacred a large number of Chinese in Singapore, and more than 30,000 Chinese became unjust souls.

During the British colonial period, the British government had to rely on the contribution of the Chinese to the economy, and also used the indigenous Malayan to suppress the Chinese. However, after the Japanese occupation of Malaya, Japan supported the indigenous Malayans and began to suppress the Chinese in an all-round way. The survival of the Nanyang guerrillas was seriously threatened, not only from the Japanese army, but also from the indigenous Malayans.

Lin Lili's brother Lin Mousheng was killed in battle, and Lin Mouzhong led a guerrilla force of less than 200 people to fight the Japanese army in the Malayan Peninsula alone. Over the past six months, this guerrilla unit has failed again and again and replenished again and again, and the casualties have reached 200 percent, bringing the total number of casualties to more than 400. This shows the brutality of the battle.

In order to send this telegram, Lin Mouzhong's Nanyang guerrillas lost another radio station, and more than a dozen Chinese were killed.

The Naval Resistance Forces had radio detectors, and Little Japan had similar equipment. Because the radio detector used by the Naval Resistance Force uses the most advanced electronic components produced in the United States, its performance is one grade higher than that of the Japanese army. Although the Japanese army was equipped with radio detectors that were a little inferior in performance and much larger, they still had considerable search capabilities in Singapore, an important town completely occupied by the Japanese. In order to send this information, the Chinese guerrillas lost the last high-power radio.

The fact that the Naval Resistance Force was able to obtain this information should be said to have a considerable element of luck. After Lin Mouzhong lost a high-power radio, he knew the importance of this information, so he used a low-power radio station again.

Coincidentally, the third submarine team led by Quan Yonghai laid mines in the Strait of Malacca, and the submarine received this telegram by chance -- the Japanese reinforcement fleet left Singapore in the early morning of 19 July, and its course was unknown. The fleet had two heavy cruisers and more than a dozen other warships, and another ten or so merchant ships and tankers. Another: there are two large ships carrying more than thirty aircraft in Singapore. (To be continued......)