The connection between the stone statue island and the country is extremely inconvenient. There was no way to reply directly to the telegram, it was too far away. Don't look at the high-power telegraph, in this era, it can nominally spread tens of thousands of kilometers, but the earth is not a plane but a sphere, in fact, three or five thousand kilometers is already very unstable.

This has caused great inconvenience in connecting the stone statue island with Chinese mainland, which is 18,000 kilometers away. It is normal for the Pixiu submarine to have no contact with the Stone Statue Island for ten days and a half.

By November, the Maritime Resistance Force had established a liaison point and an intelligence station in the Strait of Malacca. This intelligence station was run by Lin Lili alone, and the reason why Lin Lili was sent to be in charge of intelligence transmission in Singapore was that Lin Lili was proficient in intelligence work, second, she was proficient in English and Malaya, and it was easy to find a suitable job cover in Singapore, and third, she had the help of her cousin.

Communications are indeed a big problem for the Maritime Resistance Force, and simply setting up an intelligence relay in Singapore is simply not enough. It would be more logical to have a few relay sites in the Pacific Ocean.

Originally, a transit station was established on the island of Nauru, but it was temporarily cancelled due to the withdrawal of troops. Moreover, the location of Nauru Island itself is not ideal, and it is too far away from the Stone Statue Island. In the planning of the communication system of the Maritime Resistance Army, the French Polynesian Islands, which are more than 2,000 kilometers west of the Stone Statue Island, are a good transit point.

Moreover, at this time, Polynesia was still a French colony, and it actually didn't cost much to buy an island if you paid for it, but it was extremely troublesome to do it in the middle.

It is difficult to negotiate with France, so you have to settle for the next best thing. After the start of the European war, Li Guang sent a team to Tonga, an island nation in the South Pacific, to set up a relay station.

The reason why he chose this place was because Li Guang knew that he had occupied Nauru in World War II, and at that time, without the intelligence transfer station, Shixiang Island would have no idea about the war situation, and the naval resistance army's operations in the South China Sea would also be cut off.

Although from the map, the Kingdom of Tonga does not fit. It was still too far from the Statue Island, and if a stopover point could be obtained in French Polynesia, the telegraph exchange would be more secure.

But Tonga has two advantages, the first is that there is no interference with the high-power radio station here, which is much easier than setting up an intelligence relay station in Australia or New Zealand.

Second, Li Guang has the impression that Tonga was not occupied by the Chinese army in World War II.

When the time came to the beginning of the 40s, Li Guang knew that there was an even greater benefit. Tonga was still in a semi-primitive society at this time, and Yuan Chou actually bought an island from the Queen of Tonga for a paltry price of five hundred pounds. It is also the fourth largest island in Tonga, covering more than 10 square kilometers.

The Queen of Tonga is not an uninformed person, on the contrary, she is quite long-sighted, she sent her son to Australia to study, but there is no money. A kingdom without money is a joke in the 21st century, but in this era it is not, there are no minerals, there are no foreign exchange materials, and it is true that there are no pounds or dollars for trade.

In fact, many island countries in the South Pacific can buy islands until the 21st century, but it is impossible to have sovereignty, but there is a complete possibility of sovereignty in this era. Yuan Chou is also the second son of Yuan Ye and the second brother of Yuan Ran. In Li Guang's eyes, this family is a demon, and they are all talents.

Yuan Ran's language ability has already amazed Li Guang, whether it is Spanish, German, French, or Italian, he is fluent, and Yuan Ran, the second brother, can communicate with the Tongan natives normally for a month, and even talk about business, which is incredible.

The Tonga base began to take shape in the early 40s, where Yuan Chou not only began trading with Australia, but also took in many Chinese refugees and built a port for naval supplies. It has played a great role in the development of the Naval Resistance Army. Tonga is extremely important to the Maritime Resistance Force, about the same distance from Stone Statue Island and Chinese mainland, and can provide support for submarine and warships of the Maritime Resistance Army. For Li Guang, Tonga is an overseas base. At least the sortie route of the Naval Resistance Army can be shortened by half.

It will take time to become a naval base, but at the end of November, the telegraph relay function was activated. Moreover, he also took on 2,000 refugees for Shixiang Island, as long as he added some funds, Yuan Chou was sure that these people would live and work in peace and contentment.

In order to ensure the life and construction of the Tonga base, Li Guang invested 100,000 US dollars to convert a 4,000-ton dry bulk carrier, which was specially used for the Tonga base. It only costs $100,000 to build a dry bulk carrier, but it takes $100,000 to renovate it to be close to the PJP and transport all kinds of goods and people, which is really enough to spend money. After all, dry bulk carriers lack anti-sinking facilities such as watertight cabins, and it is too unsafe to transport valuable goods and people. In order to make the Tonga base effective, the investment is worth it.

In fact, the small island purchased by the Maritime Resistance Force in Tonga is more suitable as an industrial base than the Stone Statue Island, which is not far from Australia and New Zealand, and many industrial materials are easy to buy. However, the Maritime Resistance Force does not have such a good appetite for the time being, and Li Guang is already quite satisfied with being able to build this small island into a submarine base.

With the role of the Tonga base, Li Guang began to covet the French Polynesian islands, which are halfway between Tonga and the Gardon Island, and if a base can be set up and an airport can be built, then the airplane's route will fly from Uruguay through Robinson Island to the Statue Island, then to Polynesia, then to Tonga, and then to Australia.

And Australia can fly direct to India and then to China. In this case, it will only take four or five days at most to communicate with the country. Instead of taking a month like the current one. And unlike now, when you need to send a telegram, you need to look at the weather, and when the weather is bad, it is difficult to even send the telegram in time.

After Lin Lili arrived in Singapore, the first piece of information she sent back was that the iron ore transport freighter in the Ganu state of Aden, Malaya went to sea. With accurate intelligence support, the Pixiu submarine easily sank the merchant ship.

The Lin family has a wide range of social connections, and the information they can obtain will naturally not be less, which is undoubtedly of great help to the attack of the Pixiu. It was often Lin Lili's cousin Lin Mousheng who could get information about the merchant ships in all the ports of Malaya with a round of phone calls, and later, in order to keep it secret, Lin Mousheng simply hired more than a dozen Chinese young people to distribute them in various ports, paying attention to the movements of the merchant ships in this country all the time.

In this way, the Pixiu submarine's sortie is simply like a fish in water, and it will not fail every time. During the time period when the Pixiu was cruising in Malacca, the merchant ships of the Ayato were attacked one after another, and the commercial exchanges between Malaya and the Legon came to a standstill.

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