The Pixiu sailed through the Straits of Malacca several times in the following days, as if it were no one. This most important waterway connecting the Pacific and Indian Oceans is home to many merchant ships and warships from time to time. But here, neither the British nor the French warships were in the slightest wary of submarines. The Pixiu even fired several active sonars at a British heavy cruiser, but the other party did not respond.

On 25 April, there was another accident, and Li Guang received a telegram. He had to go back to Uruguay.

On this day, Li Guang officially appointed Ji Keliang as the captain of the Pixiu No. 1. And Ren Tianyang is the captain of the Pixiu II. Both received the rank of captain at the same time.

So far, in addition to Su Qing and Zheng Xuechang as captains, the Naval Resistance Army has added two captains again.

Immediately left Tikerian to continue drawing charts, waiting for an opportunity to attack merchant ships. Then Li Guang took Ren Tianyang and a few others to take the PJP to rush back to Shixiang Island and Uruguay.

Originally, it was more appropriate for Pixiu No. 1 to be assigned to Tianyang's command, but because there was only Ji Keliang, a mature sonar on Pixiu No. 1, he couldn't leave, so he could only temporarily aggrieve Ren Tianyang.

The Maritime Resistance Army is just such a submarine, and now there is no shortage of supplies and torpedoes, and it is impossible to return to the sea.

Before Li Guang left, he strictly ordered Ji Keliang not to launch an attack when the merchant ships were escorted. The Naval Resistance Army was still very weak and could not withstand losses. Quan Yonghai was promoted to the rank of first mate on Pixiu No. 1, with the rank of lieutenant, to assist Ji Keliang.

This time the situation was more serious, and Yuan Ran reported several situations in the telegram, all of which were very unfavorable to Li Guang.

The first thing happened was that Uruguay appeared in Uruguay, and he actually set up a legation in Uruguay. Previously, I said that I did not pay attention to this small South American country at all, and there were no diplomats here.

The second thing is that Laplace, the chairman of the guano business group, wants to change the direction of guano sales, hoping to turn the main direction of sales back to Uruguay and intends to do business with the company.

Third, the Uruguayan government issued a ban on Li Guang's shipyard, prohibiting Li Guang from continuing to produce torpedoes and warships. The pickup was not even allowed to enter Uruguay - you must know that the Soviet-made cannon purchased by the pickup truck, in addition to the 122mm howitzer and five 152 cannons left on the island of Statues, also carried a 152mm cannon. And the Uruguayan political axe used this cannon as an excuse to not allow pickup numbers to enter the country.

In these chaotic times, it was customary for merchant ships to have self-defense weapons, but the 152mm cannon was a weapon of this class that completely went beyond the concept of self-defense. In fact, even the 88mm anti-aircraft gun is already exceeded, but now there are not many people in the world who know the power of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun. Traditionally, the three-inch gun (76.2 mm caliber) was the upper limit of self-defense, and merchant ships equipped with this level of weapons generally did not suffer much trouble when entering the ports of other countries.

And because of Li Guang's commercial influence in Uruguay, there was not much trouble for the pickup to enter and leave Uruguay before.

The fourth thing is that the submarine under construction has also been disturbed now, but at this time, the Pixiu 2 has just laid the keel, and before the torpedo tubes and engines are installed, it is not clear what it is, and there is no secret leakage for the time being. But the project has been forced to slow down.

Li Guang didn't have to think about it, this must be a trick played by Xiao Yueben. Li Guang is considered influential in Uruguay.

But influence is still limited to the business world, and the political side is still very weak. Xiao said that he was using state diplomacy, and Li Guang was undoubtedly at a disadvantage in this regard.

These few things had a huge impact on Li Guang, and the torpedo could be moved to Shixiang Island for production, after all, it didn't require much equipment, and eighty percent of the parts were purchased. The impact is not huge.

However, it is difficult for the Baxia to install artillery on the Statue Island, according to the previous experience of the pickup truck unloading on the Statue Island, just unloading the 152mm cannon from the ship took two or three days - the crane capacity on the dock was not enough. B2 This 152 cannon, Li Guang only knew a name in later generations, and he didn't know what this cannon looked like, how did he know that this cannon turned out to be a kind of artillery that relied on tracks to walk, and the strange thing was that there were tracks but needed to be towed by a trailer. With the addition of a tracked running gear, the weight of this cannon is very impressive, with a total towing weight of 19.5 tons and a combat weight of 18.2 tons. Due to its weight, the Soviet Army did not like to use it very much, and in fact this gun was no longer produced in the Soviet Union before World War II. That's why Li Guang was able to buy it.

And the change in the direction of the commercial trade of the guano business group is absolutely not allowed by Li Guang. In 38 years, the commercial group only transported 500,000 tons of guano to Guangxi, but by 39 years, the number of ships had increased greatly, and nearly 200,000 tons could be transported in just one month. If it can be transported continuously for a year, then at least several provinces around Guangxi can use this natural fertilizer, and its effect is simply immeasurable. As for transporting guano to Yuben, don't even think about it, how could Li Guang use the fleet he built to help the enemy, but if he sank it, it would be really painful.

The only good news is that now Yuan Ran has purchased three American transport aircraft DC3, which is the predecessor of the famous American transport aircraft C47 in World War II. And the price is very satisfying to Li Guang, this kind of big guy with a self-weight of more than ten tons, is only 30,000 US dollars. Compared with the Soviet artillery, the price is indeed enough to cheat. However, it is customary for civilian products to be cheap. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, this aircraft was equipped with a lot of military equipment, and after the surname could be slightly improved, the price became about 100,000 US dollars.

One piece of information that accompanied the purchase of these three transport aircraft is that there is now an opportunity for the Maritime Resistance Forces to order American P40 fighters.

Li Guang has heard a lot of legends about this fighter, and according to the evaluation on the Internet, it is strong enough, but the surname can not be good. If the tactics are right, you can fight with the Zero fighters of the Japanese army.

The price of this fighter is now about 30,000 US dollars.

Don't look at the evaluation of this fighter in the history of World War II, but this thing is not something that Li Guang wants to buy. The reason why I was able to buy it was because of Yuan Ran's father, Professor Yuan Ye, who asked someone to help. And this person has a great reputation, whether it is this era or future generations - Dr. Hu Shi.

"A model of old morality in the new culture, and a model of new ideas in the old ethics" is how the chairman of the committee commented on Hu Shih. At a historical juncture in which the nation was in peril, Hu Shi, a university scholar, is now China's ambassador to the United States. The $25 million tung oil loan just approved by the United States to China is the credit of Hu Shih, and although the money is not much for China's War of Resistance, this loan is of great significance, and it is one of the signs that the United States has really begun to help China in the War of Resistance. Previously, due to the restrictions of the U.S. neutrality bill, China's purchases of U.S. supplies were all real money.

Although with this dollar loan, the Chinese side is not so extravagant to directly use this money to buy American fighters, artillery. After all, the country can still rely on cheap-cost Soviet-made fighters and ammunition to support itself, while other economic difficulties must be solved immediately.

The P40 fighter was designed to be sold by the United States, and it was only through Dr. Hu Shih's repeated activities that China was eligible to purchase it. But now Chairman Chiang has no money. Therefore, under the activities of Professor Yuan Ye, this qualification was transferred to Li Guang's head.

Don't look at whether the surname can be advanced, (this is not advanced compared to several advanced fighters in Europe, not worse than the current fighters in this book, but worse than the Zero fighter that will be in service in this book.) But Li Guangke really wanted to buy it, and he wanted it badly. In the thinking of people in the 21st century, aircraft and artillery are essential for war, and naval aircraft carriers are the king.

Li Guang's desire for fighters is not something that ordinary officers of the Naval Resistance Army can understand, but of course, Yuan Ran's sister is very clear.

Yuan Ran knows, so Professor Yuan Ye naturally knows.

However, Li Guang even thought about it, and he could only buy it by counting the banknotes in his pocket. Now the deal on the German side has been completed. I don't know if Huang Zhonghua is better at business than Zheng Xuechang, or if the Germans are already in urgent need of tungsten sand. In short, less than a week after Zheng Xuechang's return, Huang Zhonghua negotiated all the business.

The Germans now seem to have begun to sharpen their knives against pigs and sheep, and are also increasing their material reserves. Li Guang, who knew the hole cards, made a really good business this time, and the tungsten ore of 4 million oceans was sold for a good price of 5 million US dollars.

A shipload of rubber was sold for a whopping $500,000. These two transactions made Li Guang's financial situation surplus for the first time.

A surplus is a surplus, but it is far from abundant. First of all, the pressure of the $2 million loan is not small, and the dynamite money still owes the United States $1 million, which is a short-term high-interest loan that Li Guang obtained only when he mortgaged it with a patent.

Secondly, the purchase of five 2,500-horsepower diesel engines will account for a million dollars.

Germany was about to go to war, and there was no hope of buying periscopes and sonar from Germany, so Li Guangyi waved his hand and spent $200,000 to buy four sets of periscopes and ten sets of sonar.

And the main purpose of this trade, the purchase of artillery shell production lines, did not go well.

Equipment for the production of grenades was purchased, as was equipment for the manufacture of trigger fuses. But equipment for the production of anti-aircraft artillery shells and armor-piercing shells was difficult to obtain. In particular, the technology for the production of armor-piercing fuses and anti-aircraft artillery fuzes, which the Germans did not sell at all. The shells themselves are not very different, the key is in the fuse.

Li Guang had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, purchased heat treatment equipment and electroplating equipment for artillery barrels, and finally equipped the equipment for the production of artillery barrels.

But the Germans were willing to sell armor-piercing and anti-aircraft shells, and even had the most advanced tungsten-core armor-piercing shells. In desperation, Huang Zhonghua still bought 100,000 US dollars of shells.

It didn't cost much money, and the total cost of these supplies and equipment was less than half a million dollars. The Germans sell these things, and that's German arrogance. They always thought that a country like China could not produce precision gadgets at all, they did not know that Li Guang was from a large copycat country, and the reverse engineering ability of the Chinese was definitely not something that the Germans could imagine. Li Guang is fully confident that he will imitate these fuses and shells in the future.

In this way, it seems like a huge amount of money, but in the blink of an eye, only 1.5 million US dollars remained. The Baxia and Pixiu 2 also need follow-up funds of 7.8 million US dollars.

In the end, Li Guang could only flexibly dispose of six or seven hundred thousand US dollars.

Li Guang was much more careful with his money this time, and decided to buy only 12 P40 fighters and 3 transport planes. That's half a million dollars with accessories and pilot training. After sending the telegram, Li Guang felt that his plan was quite thorough.

When he arrived in Uruguay, he found that the plan was far from changing, and the dilemma was still there.

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