Leaving New Guinea, Li Guang went directly back to Datang Island.

And the First Task Force of the Maritime Resistance Army, under the leadership of Zheng Xuechang, began to attack frantically. Bombed all the way from Java, Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Burma along the way. The maneuverability advantage of aircraft carriers has finally been fully brought into play, setting off a whirlwind of Haitang in the Indian Ocean. Li Guang extravagantly used a cruiser as a supply ship, and the advantage was even more obvious, this cruiser Zhenwei, using its own high-speed advantage, constantly went back and forth between Tanggang and the fleet, completely ensuring the supply of the fleet, and the personnel were easier.

Originally, Zheng Xuechang went crazy for such a circle, and he should have prepared for the Battle of Ceylon. However, due to the planned Burma campaign, it was delayed by the British army under numerous pretexts, and it was not possible to enter the implementation stage for a long time. In addition, in order to gag the Americans, the British carried out a sitwe (west coast of Burma) landing. As a result, the landing location planned by the Maritime Resistance Army was leaked, and the little devils were prepared, and it took time to re-plan.

Burma was originally considered the territory of the British. It is a pity that the British are not in a hurry at all, while Chairman Chiang is in a hurry to open the Yunnan-Burma channel. Moreover, the current situation in Burma is that the Naval Resistance Army and the Chinese Army are in the north, and the British Army is in the northwest. Without the cooperation of the British army, it was somewhat difficult for the Chinese army and the naval resistance army to cooperate to drive the Japanese army out of Burma. The Japanese army deployed ten army divisions and one flying division in Burma. According to Chairman Chiang's calculations, one division of the Japanese army and the Chinese army needed the strength of one army to confront them. If the Naval Resistance Army sent 50,000 troops and took on two Japanese divisions alone, then the Chinese Army would have to use eight armies. This figure is really difficult for the chairman to draw. However, if you want the Naval Resistance Force to undertake more combat missions, it is not very realistic in the current situation. Due to the high proportion of new recruits in the army, the naval resistance army could not undertake an offensive in one direction on its own. So. Although Chairman Chiang was in a hurry, he could only secretly increase his troops and had to postpone the campaign plan. As a result, the Naval Resistance Army had to repeatedly change its plan and prepare to increase the size of its troops, and the offensive time was repeatedly postponed.

Under these circumstances, as a powerful mobile force, the First Task Force of the Maritime Resistance Force could not be idle, and it actually had a period of "free activity" for half a year.

There is not only one way to solve the problem of war, since it is not possible to win Burma in one go, then it will consume the strength of the Japanese army in Burma.

The main strike area of the Maritime Resistance Force is mainly on the coast of the Andaman Sea. It includes a vast area of the Malay Peninsula and Thailand, Myanmar. The first reason for striking these areas is to weaken the Japanese army by landing in Burma in the future. Second, there are Nanyang guerrillas on the Malayan Peninsula that are closely connected with the Maritime Resistance Army, and Burma has a special squad of the Maritime Resistance Army to provide intelligence support.

In the following six months. Task Force 1 spent almost no days in port and spent most of its time at sea. Fight. As a result of this period of fighting. For the sake of secrecy, and also to make it impossible for the Japanese to speculate on the movements of the naval resistance fleet. Zheng Xuechang used the method of rolling dice to determine the target of the attack, so the months-long battle is also known as the "dice whirlwind" in the history of warfare. As this whirlwind blows, the Indian Ocean becomes a stage for the Naval Resistance Army to perform alone. It was also during this period that Zheng Xuechang began to gain fame and became known throughout Southeast Asia. The No. 1 Task Force of the Maritime Resistance Force is becoming more and more famous in countries around the world.

In battle. The Maritime Resistance Army has been constantly running in, improving its tactics and equipment. Radar and communications equipment have been modified and gradually improved. In a few months. An invincible fleet is taking shape. The aircraft carrier tactics, which Li Guang named the small circle formation, are becoming more and more mature.

The half-year-long battle not only improved the technical and tactical level of the First Task Force, but also trained a large number of pilots, and a few months later, when the Maritime Resistance Army installed another aircraft carrier, it already had enough skilled pilots.

And the Japanese army was unlucky on this chain of islands.

What do you mean twice a day, with no holidays off? Shenma called early to ask for instructions and late report?

Under the leadership of Zheng Xuechang, the Naval Resistance Army Fleet did just that. As long as the weather permits, the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army will attack. Napalm, air explosive bombs, cluster bombs, these three kinds of bombs that can be produced by the Haitang State, almost like flowing water, exploded on the devil's head.

In such a battle, the consumption is amazing, and fortunately, Haitang Guo made two windfalls, one is the income from the film distribution, and the other is the income from the three major technologies of the aircraft carrier, otherwise it really can't support such consumption. At this stage, the battle of the First Task Force can be regarded as a kind of war of attrition, and originally, Li Guang was the most reluctant to fight this kind of battle. However, an army, especially a fleet centered on aircraft carriers, does not have enough experience to accumulate, and it is simply impossible to reach a fairly high level of operations. As for the army, although Li Guang has not put a lot of energy into it, due to intellectual reasons, Li Guang has a lot of insights into the army's tactics. For example, the German army's blitzkrieg, the Soviet army's great depth, and the U.S. army's ground-air coordinated advance. Under the guidance of advanced concepts, the development of the naval resistance army has been quite smooth, and its combat effectiveness has even exceeded Li Guang's expectations. However, Li Guang's understanding of naval tactics is not only that he is convinced that the aircraft carrier will become the king of naval warfare. Know some of the gear that is bound to shine, like radar. He really didn't understand the specific tactics, what he understood and learned was actually similar to the navies of various countries in this era. It is not possible to come up with some kind of breakthrough tactics that have been proven in war, tactics of epoch-making significance. However, the current small circle formation tactics of the Naval Resistance Army do not belong entirely to Li Guang's creation, but are tactics created by officers and men together. A new tactic that needs to be proven and constantly improved. And these improvements, in addition to being made behind closed doors, the main source can only be the battlefield, the ever-changing battlefield. It can be said that the First Task Force has been training its troops for the past six months, and it is also exploring and perfecting this small circle formation tactic. Li Guang is sure that once this tactic is really as he expected, then it will definitely not only play a role in World War II, but may become a tactic for the Haitang Kingdom to press the bottom of the box in the next ten or even twenty years. Therefore, despite the huge expenses and consumption, Li Guang still approved this battle plan. Military spending of up to $20 million may not be much to the United States. But for Haitang, 20 million US dollars is equivalent to a year's living expenses for existing citizens. It should be said. Li Guang really made a bloody investment.

While paying a huge amount of consumption, the results were also extraordinarily brilliant.

Only the Japanese army's aviation unit, almost one flying division was destroyed at the hands of Zheng Xuechang. Zheng Xuechang's elusive blow caused at least 100 Japanese fighters to be destroyed in vain on land airfields, while the other half were shot down in the air by the naval resistance army. In Burma, in particular, the Japanese army's Fifth Flying Division, which originally had more than 300 fighters of various types. Under the joint attack of the First Task Force and the Strategic Air Force of the Naval Resistance Army, it has already existed in name only. You must know that although the current bombers of the Strategic Air Force of the Naval Resistance Force are still the 12 B17s of the same treasure, the P40 fighters ordered at the beginning of 42 years were delayed by the United States for a year. Delivery is finalized. A total of 64 P40s are all equipped with rocket assistance, and the Japanese Army's one-type fighters, which are far inferior to the Navy's Zero fighters, are no match at all. In addition, the Navy has given the Air Force several radar early warning aircraft with slightly inferior performance, and the combat effectiveness has increased even more. After a long war of attrition, the 5th Flying Division of the Japanese Army. Even after many additions, hit to the end. The number of warplanes is still less than a hundred. And with the Naval Resistance Army, the more they fight, the more courageous they become. The little devil sadly found that Myanmar has become a bottomless pit, and how many fighters and pilots are filled in, the final outcome is the same - annihilation. Japan's fighter production capacity in four or three years is not low, and it is said that it has reached 500 per month. But where do you not need fighters on the battlefield, the devil finally sadly found that they really can't fill the hole in Myanmar. Later, the 5th Flying Division simply withdrew from Burma. Support the battlefield from a distance in Thailand. However, the B17 bombers of the Strategic Air Force of the Naval Resistance Force were still within the strike range and had to be withdrawn from the air force.

The Japanese Army, even more unlucky, lost more than two divisions without large-scale fighting in half a year. The Japanese Navy, on the other hand, lost more than 30 ships, including a light cruiser, and was almost wiped out of a base fleet (brigade level), and never set foot in the Indian Ocean again.

At the beginning of the period, the proportion of battle losses of the Naval Resistance Army was still somewhat high, but as the quality of the pilots became higher and higher, the exchange ratio between the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army and the Japanese fighters quickly dropped to less than 1:10. Among the naval pilots, more and more ace pilots have emerged, and in half a year, there have been sixteen ace pilots in the navy. And the number of ace pilots in the strategic air force is also quite large, and all six aces were born during this time period. It is a little regrettable that the army aviation, because it did not participate in this stage of the battle, there is still only one ace pilot - the captain Tu Yuanchao.

The small circle formation tactics of the Naval Resistance Army are becoming more and more mature, and the fleet itself is less and less threatened. The Japanese army did not want to counterattack without tricks, but after several air battles, the little devil found that the losses were getting more and more serious, so that the Japanese army felt that it could not be consumed, whether it was in the Burma battlefield or the Malayan battlefield. This is the first time that the Naval Resistance Army has really spent money on the devils in terms of materials, and Japan's weakness can be seen. In the end, even if the Japanese fighters discovered the naval resistance fleet, they had almost no chance to break through the defensive circle of the naval resistance army, so that the anti-aircraft artillery of the naval resistance army had no chance to fire at all except for training, and the gunners felt that heroes were useless. Later, the devils simply abandoned many airports and strategic points on the coast of the Malay Peninsula. In a purely beaten battle, no matter how tenacious the willpower is, it won't last long.

On the coast of the Indian Ocean, the six cities and ports where the Japanese army had gathered were almost wiped out, and one city after another, and the oil fields were burned to the ground. A large number of bridges and railway buildings were blown up by the Maritime Resistance Army, so that the little devils had to send supplies from these areas back to China, and they had to send materials from China to these areas for a lot of time. Of course, the attack of the Naval Resistance Army is also focused, and if it is a universal attack, the weak national strength of the Haitang State will not be able to support it at all. Although Li Guang knew that in later generations, the US military once defeated the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with zero casualties by relying only on air strikes. But in this day and age, such tactics can be imagined, but they cannot succeed.

Aircraft carriers are not only used for sea operations, but will also be used for land operations. In the 21st century, didn't the United States play like this when it fought Iraq and Afghanistan? Li Guang has learned and applied this point.

Operation Dice Whirlwind, causing many changes. A relatively obvious change is that the Japanese army's rule in Malaya was seriously weakened, giving the Nanyang guerrillas a chance to grow, and after many supplies from the Naval Resistance Army, the Nanyang guerrillas headed by Lin Lili, chief of staff of the Intelligence Section of the General Staff of the Naval Resistance Army, and Lin Mouzhong, the elder brother, grew to more than 1,000 people, becoming the largest resistance force on the Malayan Peninsula and an armed force composed of purely Chinese youth. And it was also during this period that a 20-year-old Singaporean young man named Lee Kuang Yao (homonym) came into Li Guang's sight. Li Guang is not sure whether this person is the future prime minister of Singapore. However, now this young man of Kanto descent is still only an intelligence liaison officer, and his ability is said to be good, but whether he can have dazzling achievements depends on his own efforts. (To be continued......)