Chapter 153: Escape

After Li Guang was rescued, he quickly figured out the situation and said with great joy: "Change the plan, this battleship is ours." ”

Ji Keliang and Huang Zhonghua did not think about capturing this battleship, but there were many difficulties. The minimum conditions are not met, and it is difficult to drive this unfamiliar battleship away. Li Guang is not a person who can admit that he has suffered a loss, he has already thought about how to retaliate against the French army for a day and a night.

In the captain's room, Li Guang didn't seem to be in a hurry at all. In front of him stood the French captain Ran. Colonel Agen.

Tender. Colonel Agen was still waving his arms in nervous protest when he was taken to the bridge. Hu Bofeng stood behind Li Guang and translated for Li Guang: "This guy is protesting against our seizure of ships, saying that we have no gentlemanly manners, and warships should be weapons for winning at sea." ”

Li Guang looked at the fifty-year-old legal officer in front of him, and laughed in his heart, is it more gentlemanly to have a face-to-face duel?

"Mr. Colonel, do you smoke?" Li Guang took out the cigarette case from the table and said. The cigarette case on the table was quite exquisite, containing twelve coarse cigars, incomparably delicate knives and luxurious lighters, which Li Guang liked very much. This thing must have belonged to the colonel in front of him, but Li Guang didn't have the slightest awareness of taking other people's belongings, took a deep breath of the fragrant cigar, raised his head and spit out a column of smoke, which was very refreshing.

Tender. Colonel Agen doesn't want a cigar, Li Guangle saves one, and good things can't be wasted. "Tell him." ”

Hu Bofeng, a staff officer and translator, began to look towards Ran. Colonel Agen made a speech.

There is only one content, Captain Ran. Agen must send the Maritime Resistance Army away from Cape Verde.

"I protest, you are ......"

"In an hour, I'm going to see the battleship lift anchor and start leaving port. Otherwise, kill a crew member every more than one minute. ”

Li Guang casually grabbed an antique alarm clock from the table and stuffed it into Ran. Captain Agen in his arms.

Ji Kelian's estimate was wrong, and the full strength of this battleship was not 1,170 men, but 1,480. The Navy's resistance forces captured a full 500 prisoners. If it was only 500 people, it would definitely not be enough to fight, but there was no problem in starting this battleship.

Colonel Valjean looked at the French officers and soldiers on deck, shook his head, and sighed. Li Guang's negotiation tactics were the same as those of the French, and he did not give a chance to argue at all.

On the foredeck of the battleship, a group of French troops were occupied by black pressure, and more than 50 people of the naval resistance army were waiting with submachine guns.

Li Guang was depressed for more than a day, and only then did he raise his eyebrows a little at this moment. He was not afraid that the French would not agree, and even if the French did not agree, there would not be much danger to the Naval Resistance Army, and there were more than 500 French hostages here. In fact, the entire port town was hostage to the Naval Resistance Army, and the battleships could easily destroy this port town.

Tender. Agen had never been in contact with the Orientals, and he did not know whether Li Guang's order was intimidation or whether he would actually kill the prisoners. He didn't think long, less than two minutes, and gave in.

The French did not look at the incomplete structure, but also moved quickly, and in less than half an hour, the boiler had been pressurized, and the battleship had anchored and left port.

For a few hours, Li Guang was not idle, and gave several orders in a row. Rajili and hundreds of other women were quickly transferred to the battleship. All this operation was nothing short of swaggering, but not a single police officer intervened.

Li Guang smiled at Ran. Colonel Agen said, "In order to celebrate the cooperation between your and our armies, I invite you and your men to watch a fireworks. ”

Immediately, Li Guang gave an order to the walkie-talkie.

When the battleship sailed into the harbor channel, three explosions occurred in succession.

Captain Valjean looked at the fire rising in the distance, and he knew that the three French warships docked at another pier in the harbor were finished. If he said that he was seized by the Naval Resistance Army by "despicable" means, he was still very angry in his heart, but at this moment, he was awe-inspiring in his heart, the submarine of the Maritime Resistance Army was ambushed in the port early, and the French army knew nothing.

Li Guang was reluctant to kill more, but he was also unwilling to cheapen the French. Each French warship was given only one torpedo, and the bombing position was the tail of the ship, which was not a woman's kindness, but in the face of the same allies. Of course, the real goal is to get rid of worries.

In fact, whether Li Guang bombed or not had nothing to do with the war situation, and this French army was not able to really join the Allied forces in the end.

With three violent explosions, the city of Mindelo was in chaos.

Ten minutes later, the battleship rushed out of the harbor like a beast in the dark night. By this time, the French batteries on the shore had not fired a single shot.

The battleship had sailed into the ocean, like a dragon out of danger, and Li Guang stood in the bridge and whistled happily.

Tikrian reported: "The telegram has been sent. ”

The battleship "Slatsburg" was intact at this time, and the French surrendered without even having time to destroy the codebook. With such a good opportunity, Li Guang naturally will not miss it. Under duress, two telegraph operators of the French army obediently sent a telegram.

The telegram was sent to the three French destroyers escorting the Liberty and Guano ships on the sea. In the telegram, Li Guang ordered: "Give up escorting Chinese merchant ships and do not open fire, so as not to cause international disputes." As soon as the telegram was received, all communication facilities were shut down, and immediately returned to the Mediterranean, where he was on the coast of Benissaf. Communication equipment is not allowed to be turned on for two weeks. ”

Li Guang only knew that the French army was going back to Port Oran, but in fact he did not know where Benissaf was, he just randomly found a spot on the nautical chart and drew a small circle with a pencil on the African coastline. This location is not far from the Oran military port, which should not cause confusion among the French army.

Three French destroyers escorted the Naval Resistance Army for nearly two days, and Li Guang was ready to toss the French Army for two weeks. At the end of the telegram was also a time stated, and radio silence must be maintained for two weeks, which was strictly observed. In the war, radio silence was a common method, but most of them did not send telegrams, and the reception of telegrams was guaranteed to be unimpeded, and Li Guang simply ordered the three French destroyers to shut down all communication facilities.

Of course, the telegram was signed by Ran. Colonel Agen.

In the following two weeks, the French army lost three destroyers in a daze, which made the French army nervous.

After leaving the port, Li Guang ignored the chaos in Cape Verde and commanded the warship to sail quickly westward.

The sky was gradually brightening, and the battleship "Slatsburg" had already received the guano ship.

It is located 100 nautical miles from Cape Verde. Seeing that the guano boat was intact, Li Guang breathed a sigh of relief.

However, this is not the time to be completely relieved, and this kind of shore-based reconnaissance aircraft from France can easily search for the Maritime Resistance Army.

The guano ship was so slow that even one more day would only be sixty or seventy nautical miles west. It is still not possible to detach from the search range of the French shore-based reconnaissance aircraft. Especially since the free wheel was still fifty nautical miles away and did not keep up with the home team.

In this case, Li Guang's first solution was to transfer the soldiers on the two merchant ships to the battleship. (The pickup number has already merged with the Liberty Wheel to pick up people.) )

Last night, Li Guang encountered a difficult problem when he gave the order. In Dunkirk he had hoped that he would not be confronted with the choice of abandoning a part of his brothers for the sake of the whole army.

He didn't expect to encounter such a problem so quickly, although it didn't seem to be as cruel as Dunkirk. But he knew that the quality of his orders was the same as that of the commander of the Anglo-French army.

Last night, Li Guang ordered the two merchant ships to separate, and the guano ships were fully capable of running at a speed of twelve to thirteen knots due to the lack of supplies and ammunition they were loaded. The free wheels were seriously overloaded and could only run at a speed of less than ten knots, and the economic speed was only five or six knots.

The situation is clear that it is safe to escape from the range of the French shore-based reconnaissance plane as soon as possible, and Li Guang's decision is correct in every respect. But psychologically, Li Guang was very entangled in giving such an order.

The battleship slowed down and continued to move forward with the guano ship, but Li Guang's heart was not relaxed for a moment. As the military commander of an army, every order given is closely related to life. When he was a teenager, Li Guang once admired the famous generals in history, and when he really presided over the Naval Resistance Army, he realized that the general was not so easy to be.

By noon, all the fighters on the guano ship and the Liberty ship had been transferred to the battleship. At this point, Li Guang still did not dare to continue waiting for the free wheel. Guano ships and battleships quickly moved westward.

In Li Guang's fear, time passed minute by minute, the sky gradually darkened, Li Guang received a telegram that the pickup truck had received the liberty ship again after sending it away, and now he was escorting the liberty ship to the west with three submarines.

When the battleship ushered in another round of popularity, Li Guang finally saw the free ship on the sea.

Due to the lack of supplies and ammunition on the guano boat, most of the fighters were on this ship, and by noon, all the fighters had been transferred to the guano ship, and a group of women were transferred to the guano ship by Li Guang.

The guano boat can continue to Uruguay and run to the island of the Statues. But the battleship had to continue to wait for the arrival of the guano ship.

At this time, there were more than 800 fighters of the Naval Resistance Army on the battleship, and almost all of them had considerable manpower.

A behemoth like a battleship, if it was just to sail in the sea, only a hundred people were needed. Of course, this is just sailing, but if you need to enter the port, berth, broadside and other difficult actions, the rookies of the Maritime Resistance Army will definitely not be able to play.

If you fight, it will be difficult to exert your main combat strength without the coordination of seven or eight hundred people, and if you want to exert full combat effectiveness, it is indispensable to have a full formation.

The control of the battleship is extremely complicated, and more than a thousand people are really not small, but if there is a real battle, even the chef will be in charge of the anti-aircraft artillery.

Its two most terrifying main turrets are extremely powerful, and it is difficult to come in handy for the time being when they fall into the hands of the Naval Resistance Army, and it is not possible to do it in a day or two just by being familiar with it.

Despite this, that difficulty, the battleship had regained a little combat effectiveness at this time. The main artillery can't be played, and the secondary artillery and anti-aircraft guns can't help the gunners of the Naval Resistance Army.

The naval battle was wonderful, and in Li Guang's view, it was full of crises. But the whole army escaped the French threat unscathed.

It's not that Li Guang has a high level, it can only be said that he is lucky.

The battleships escaped from the port of Mindelo, and the French army was in disarray, three small warships were bombed, and most of the people were busy saving people.

Three hundred kilometers away in the port of Dakar, the French warships were not slow to sortie.

Not only that, but the French Air Force in Dakar took off early in the morning to search for battleships, but unfortunately, they were the first to search in the direction of the south, and as a result, they missed the best opportunity to search for battleships. This cannot be blamed on the French, it is clear that the sneak attack is a group of Chinese, according to the normal route must be to the south around the Cape of Good Hope, and then enter the Indian Ocean and rush to China.

The French who were attacked did not understand at all that the base of the Naval Resistance Force was actually in the South Pacific, and many fighters and reconnaissance planes were dispatched, but the direction was wrong, and naturally nothing was found.

In addition, Li Guang's judgment was not without errors, he thought that the search radius of the French planes was at least 200 nautical miles, but in fact the search radius of the French fighters was indeed more than 200 nautical miles.

But Li Guang thinks that the center of the search circle is Cape Verde, but in fact the French Air Force took off from Dakar, not Cape Verde. The Maritime Resistance Army knew that there was an airport in Cape Verde. It is not clear that it is only a civilian airport and there are no French warplanes.

In other words, in fact, as early as yesterday, the Naval Resistance Force was completely out of the danger zone.

It is impossible for both sides of the war to have all the information of the opponent, and the generals rely on the information they have to make decisions. Incomplete intelligence, even if correct, does not guarantee that every step of the command given in battle is correct.

The topic that the generals have to do is not one plus one equals two. Rather, 1+x+x=? Li Guang felt this more and more deeply.

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