Chapter Eighty-Eight: Complicated

With the rapid development of the Maritime Resistance Army, the two 10,000-ton ships and one 2,000-ton ship on Shixiang Island were obviously nervous. Su Maode left for Myanmar in early September, and business was as normal as the previous two times.

And with the ship were thirty-six veterans provided by the Maritime Resistance Army for Xu Zhan. This time, more than 30 veterans specially brought 30 Soviet-made anti-tank guns for Xu Zhan.

The problem that arose was that Xu Zhan recruited 5,000 recruits for Li Guang, and with the families of these people, there were 20,000 people, and now some of them had arrived in Burma and were preparing to board the ship.

This news caught Li Guang off guard. He had no idea that there would be so many people. To be a soldier is to fight, and to fight is to die. And Xu Zhan's recruitment is simply too easy. Li Guang promised to recruit a recruit and give him a settling-in allowance of 20 yuan. But the problem is that Xu Zhan didn't ask for these settling-in fees at all.

From Henan to Burma, these people all walked for at least three or four months, and the food, drink, clothing, and accommodation along the way were extremely complicated. Li Guangzhen couldn't imagine how Xu Zhan did it. Later, Li Guang learned that these people relied on begging all the way for thousands of miles, and there were no longer a few people who died along the way. The country's economy has become so bad that it is impossible to put it into words. Li Guang originally thought that the great famine in the Central Plains would be 42 years, but in fact, a serious famine had begun to appear in the Central Plains.

The suffering caused by the breach of the Yellow River was not temporary, but gradually manifested. The Yellow Flood Zone has destroyed the already weak ecological environment. Originally, only 1 million people's homes were directly destroyed in the Yellow Flood Area. But the survival needs of these 100,000 people have plunged several times the number of people directly affected by the disaster into starvation. It was like a chain reaction, which caused more and more people to fall into famine.

How Xu Zhan did it, Li Guang didn't know. But the freighter that Summodus was carrying could not have carried so many men, women, and children anyway. The JPJ must be sent to run at least twice. Although this kind of thing is not as good as a passenger ship or a mail ship, the JPJ is undoubtedly more suitable than a dry bulk carrier, after all, it has three decks.

The PJP, which had just returned from Germany, unloaded its cargo and headed straight for Myanmar.

However, Huang Zhonghua finally stepped down and was appointed by Li Guang as the captain of the second ship, with the well-known rank of lieutenant.

Now there are three or four candidates for the position of captain of the PJP on Shixiang Island, and for Li Guang, the role of the guano business group is to supply guano for Guangxi, the second is to train crews for the Maritime Resistance Army, and the third is to make money. There are many crew members under Li Guang now, and there are only a few who can read Li as captains.

For Xu Zhan to provide so many people, Li Guang began to panic again. His heart, which had just relaxed a little, came up again. Previously, there were only four or five thousand people on the stone statue island, plus the soldiers, and if the army and division went on an expedition, then Li Guang could still evacuate in pain. If it is twenty or thirty thousand, then Li Guangzhen is not sure to evacuate in time.

By November, the three-month recruit training was over. But there is more recruit training to face soon.

Li Guang was urged to do things one by one. In order to cope with the subsequent training of five thousand recruits. Li Guang assigned six platoon commanders and 160 squad leaders one by one according to their specialties.

The more than 900 recruits were also divided into several branches by Li Guang according to their physical strength and talent, and they were trained in different specialties.

Su Qing's training method is to train soldiers to be all-round as much as possible. But Li Guang didn't have time, and he trained all the recruits separately according to the small arms. Each soldier learns only one weapon. In this way, the management is much easier.

Among them, riflemen, light machine gunners, heavy machine gunners, light mortars, heavy mortars, infantry guns are all ten squads (ten people per squad). Only three squad leaders are assigned to each branch for intensive training. And with so many soldiers, Li Guang only arranged a platoon commander to manage them. Li Guang's requirement is that all of them must pass the assessment within three months.

In terms of technical arms, Qin Zhan led 120 people to continue to drive tractors to repair fortifications, embankments and roads.

In terms of artillery, Li Guang singled out a platoon commander with the best artillery skills and led 120 people to train the use of 122mm howitzers and 152mm cannons. However, this platoon commander did not have much experience in the use of heavy artillery, and could only train soldiers to do it, as for specific ranging, ballistic calculations and artillery tactics, he was beyond his power.

Naval training was also confined to a limited number of subjects, and training began by branching the arms.

After three months of training, the Air Force basically singled out thirty fighter pilots, thirty transport pilots. Now transport pilots are training to control dexterous bombs. Fighter pilots also began to enter theoretical studies.

On the army side, the three platoon commanders and more than 40 veterans on whom Li Guang relied are now summing up the training they had conducted some time ago and are preparing to draw up a training program for new recruits. With this syllabus, the training of recruits in the future will become something procedural. This is also in preparation for the upcoming arrival of five thousand recruits. Without a complete set of training plans, managing these 5,000 people will definitely be chaotic.

In any case, the Naval Resistance Force is now considered to have embarked on a regular stage and has entered a cycle of good surnames, and although it does not yet possess large-scale combat capability, Li Guang is now confident that its combat effectiveness will rise to a higher level in half a year.

Li Guang originally believed that the navy had the most adequate troops, but after the decision was made to build two medium-sized submarines, the navy immediately experienced a shortage of reserves. Not to mention the light cruisers that were ready to be built after the Pixiu II was built.

In the past, Li Guang's strength was weak, and he personally liked to take risks, and every time the Naval Resistance Army went to sea, he wanted to lead the troops himself. Now Li Guang has gradually begun to realize that the Naval Resistance Force has developed to this point, and his opportunities to attack with submarines are probably becoming fewer and fewer, and his core task is not to command specific battles, but to integrate the forces in his hands and give full play to the limited forces.

In fact, Professor Yuan Ye took the initiative to go to the United States to solve some thorny problems, and there was Professor Yuan's covert persuasion, hoping that Li Guang would stay on Shixiang Island to integrate the strength of the whole army.

On 7 November, the Pixiu submarine sent back a piece of information that the army had transported troops to Hainan Island on a large scale. This was the first piece of information that Su Qing's Hainan guerrillas obtained.

Li Guang immediately realized that this was probably the battle in history in which the army attacked Guangxi, and the Battle of Guinan was about to begin. Immediately ordered Ren Tianyang to contact the Gui Department and remind him to get ready.

Ren Tianyang led the Pixiu to escort the PJP through the Strait of Malacca in early September, and has been attacking merchant ships at the western exit of the Strait of Malacca, that is, the Indian Ocean exit.

On 10 October, the Pixiu sank five British and French merchant ships in the Strait of Malacca, causing the Strait of Malacca to be cut off for more than a week.

This attack was brilliantly successful, but Li Guangke did not dare to hype it up, and this credit was even on the head of the German submarines, anyway, the German submarines are now attacking everywhere, and the ghost knows whether they will run to the Indian Ocean to make a fire. No one received any reward for this victory until after the war, the Germans really didn't do it, and the naval resistance army didn't dare to say it. Like countless historical mysteries, they gradually fade away until no one mentions them.

Ren Tianyang's explanation for this is that he beat the rabbit with grass and piggyback. It was clear that it was aiming at three merchant ships, but the torpedo missed, and the piggyback hit two British and French merchant ships behind the merchant ships. This time, the tactics of playing torpedo arrows were out of order, and several precious torpedoes were wasted.

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