Chapter 136: Cape Verde

After confirming that the German submarine had left, the PC circled back again and circled the surface a few times to save a bunch of British Navy.

This time, the British didn't have to think about whether to escort the PC number, and in the blink of an eye, it became being escorted. The German submarine attack was very successful, and only more than 200 British soldiers survived.

The brutality of the naval battle was evident from this, and in the blink of an eye two battleships sank, killing more than a hundred people. And Li Guang also dangled a few times from the edge of death, if it weren't for the two British battleships blocking guns for the PC, then it would be difficult for a single person to survive on this ship at this time, you know, the bilge is loaded with five or six thousand tons of ammunition, which is not enough to show power in terms of volcanic description.

For a small country, the outcome of a naval battle can determine the fate of a country, and this was most vividly demonstrated in the battle between Statue Island and Chile. This is especially true for the current Naval Resistance Forces. As the supreme military commander of the Naval Resistance Army, Li Guang's understanding of this became more and more profound.

After the shock, Li Guang was still relatively happy, and the British Major Smith, who was very bullish just now, would only vomit and vomit when he sat on the deck......

Li Guang calmed down, and what he said just now was definitely false if he was not afraid. On the contrary, those women who didn't know the depth didn't take it seriously at all, and Rajili was even in the mood to burn Li Guang a cup of coffee.

After this frightening moment, the Maritime Resistance Force no longer dared to be careless, and immediately shrank the protective circle, and the four submarine divisions escorted the PC within two or three kilometers. For the sake of secrecy, the four submarines did not surface, and Li Guang did not want the British to discover their submarines. In addition, if the submarine of the Naval Resistance Army appeared, perhaps the British would suspect that the Naval Resistance Army had sunk the British warship, and the submarine had been sailing under the surface of the sea during the subsequent voyage in order to avoid the suspicion of being under the surface of the sea.

The merchant ship PC was so powerful that it maintained a speed of sixteen knots throughout the night in order to break through the sea near Iceland as soon as possible. This is difficult for either the PJP or the Liberty Ship to do, and Li Guang pondered whether the Maritime Resistance Army had to add a few high-speed merchant ships.

Li Guang now has a deep understanding of the cost of various types of ships, and the cost of the Liberty Ship is only less than $1 million, but it may cost more than $2.5 million to build a ship similar to the PC. It was difficult for Li Guang to withdraw the funds for a while, and it was difficult for the robbery to grab such an advanced freighter.

After a night of sailing, the PC finally broke out of the North Sea and into the North Atlantic. But as long as you don't cross Iceland, a PC number is still not safe.

The Germans launched the Battle of Norway, although still in the stage of strangulation between the two sides, but it had already weakened British control of the North Sea. And if the Germans win the Battle of Norway, then the North Sea will be under the control of German fighters. The British wanted to blockade the German navy, so they had to retreat to the sea near Iceland.

You know, the exit of the North Sea is actually between Britain and Norway, which is not very wide, and the British originally only had to control the ocean surface of two hundred nautical miles, and if they won this battle, the German navy would be able to enter the Norwegian Sea and then go south.

For the UK, the next blockade is between Iceland and the British Isles. The ocean there is 900 nautical miles, and even with a strong navy, it is difficult for the British Empire to completely blockade it.

This is also the reason why the Anglo-French forces are now fighting quite actively in Norway. Historically, Britain has never been able to truly blockade the ocean between the British Isles and Iceland, and it was only after the United States entered the war and occupied Iceland that the Allied control of this ocean was strengthened.

By the time the PC number entered the Norwegian Sea, the number of dangerous surnames had been greatly reduced. Neither German submarines nor British warships and planes could be tightly sealed, unless Li Guang's character was too poor and he was ambushed by submarines again.

Now Li Guangke has nearly 200 British troops as hostages, and even if the British fighters find the PC, they should not bomb it. Even if the British warships intercepted it, it could only be an escort act.

Li Guang is quite kind, and now the British side has also received reports from the remnants of the defeated generals. Li Guang made it very clear in the telegram that for the sake of the victory of the anti-fascists, the PC number was short on time, the task was heavy, and there was no time to turn the road to Britain, and the pick-up location might be somewhere in the South Atlantic. When the time is right, the Maritime Resistance Army will give a notice.

The British Admiralty almost tilted its nose, and it was clear that it could send people to it in a few hundred miles, but it wanted to make these naval officers and men run tens of thousands of kilometers.

Li Guang actually really didn't lie, it was indeed a time constraint.

The PC was already sailing at high speed after crossing Iceland, maintaining a high speed of 16 knots throughout the entire journey. However, Li Guang did not need this ship to reach Uruguay, he only needed to rush to Cape Verde in Africa.

Li Guang is really in a hurry, and it is already May 1, and it will take 10 days for the PC number to rush to Cape Verde. He remembered clearly that the Anglo-French army had actually been defeated on May 20, and was surrounded by German troops at Dunkirk. On 26 May, the retreat began.

Li Guangxin said, I'm easy. In order to save you foreign devils, not only did you delay the great cause of resisting the war, but you also had to be busy. This Rajili can burn coffee, but she can't pinch her shoulders and beat her back, which is far worse than Su Zizi.

Li Guang muttered to himself on the ship, besides, although the PC is not small, no matter how big the ship is, it is crowded with more than 1,000 people, and Li Guang wants to go to the submarine a little.

On May 10, 1940, Nazi Germany began its attack on Western Europe. At that time, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg had 147 divisions and more than 3 million troops, which were comparable to the strength of Germany.

The Germans did not attack the Maginot Line, they attacked Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg first, and crossed the river from Sedan into France, bypassing the Maginot Line. The iron heel of the German fascists soon set foot in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. After attracting most of the attention of the Anglo-French army, the German armored forces attacked from the Ardennes Forest, leaving the Anglo-French army immediately reduced to lambs to the slaughter.

On May 10, the PC finally arrived in Cape Verde. Here, British officers and soldiers and Jewish women saw an amazing scene. The second fleet of the Maritime Resistance Forces has been waiting in Cape Verde for a long time.

An unarmed destroyer quickly began to unload the anti-aircraft guns from the PC, and the installation began non-stop all night. The small tanks on the PC were also hoisted one by one onto a freewheel. This freeship is different from ordinary merchant ships, the lifeboats (landing craft) on it are simply huge, and the cranes are also very strong.

Five days, just five days. Not only the destroyers were equipped with weapons, but even the Liberty ship and three guano boats were equipped with several anti-aircraft guns.

During the five days of installing the weapons, the submarine went a little wrong. It's not a mechanical breakdown or a matter of provisions, it's personnel.

The two Pixiu submarines set out from December 39 to May 40 now, and they have been replenished many times in the middle, and there is no shortage of materials and ammunition, but the personnel are now seriously ill.

For half a year, the officers and men stayed on the submarine, and now almost all of them have physical problems of one kind or another, and even a few fighters are in extremely unstable mental condition.

When Li Guang saw the officers and men on the two Pixiu, he only muttered: "The brothers have suffered. ”

The officers and men on these two submarines have really suffered, and if these people are put on the street at this time, I am afraid that the streets will be cleaned up immediately.

Take Ji Keliang, the most handsome and clean-loving Pixiu No. 1 captain, for example, now his hair and beard are more than a foot long. He was wearing only a pair of big pants, and he smelled like stinky tofu.

The long-term life in the submarine has caused every officer and soldier to have skin diseases. The most serious is the itching of the submariner's pussy. At the beginning, Li Guang solved this problem with prickly heat powder, a baby product, but after a half-year submarine voyage, neither prickly heat powder nor sulfur soap was useless.

From Ji Keliang Ren Tianyang to ordinary soldiers, now all of them are pale, and their eye sockets are deep-set, like ghosts.

The crews of the two Pixiu submarines were already overdrawn in health and energy at this time, and they had to recuperate. If he persists, Li Guang is worried that his elite will collapse completely. Not only were these officers and men seriously physically damaged, but they were also in a trance. Ideological work is no longer necessary, and these submarine officers and men have fully proved their tenacity after half a year of submarine operations.

The task of this trip was not yet completed, and Li Guang finally made a ruthless decision to select the best personnel of the two submarines and form a new crew. Others find a hotel in Cape Verde to recuperate. The Pixiu No. 2 submarine left behind only six or seven people to hide near a deserted island.

These sick submariners were very blessed, and Li Guang arranged for two or three hundred beautiful women to take care of them. However, these remaining officers and soldiers are probably weak, and the ulceration of the crotch is not something that can be cured in a day or two. In addition, most of the women left behind were asked to stay by the fighters on the PC number, or they had a skill. What the so-called fighters asked to stay behind was, of course, the so-called famous flowers. Ji Keliang and Ren Tianyang, the two captains, were in extremely poor physical condition, although the two of them insisted on asking to go to sea, they were ordered by Li Guangqiang to stay and recuperate. The only beauty, who has been labeled by the warriors, Rajili has also been left in Cape Verde to manage these women.

On the 16th, the ships of the Maritime Resistance Army began to divide into two routes. Loaded with artillery shells, the PC went south along Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope, into the Indian Ocean, and headed straight for Rangoon, Burma.

In Cape Verde, Li Guang contacted Lin Lili from Singapore and asked her to tell Su Maode, who was trading in Kunming. Most of the cargo on the ship, except for some things that are necessary for the statues, is to be sold domestically. Seven hundred Jewish women were to be brought back to Uruguay.

Four merchant ships, one warship, and three submarines sailed non-stop to the French coast -- this time Li Guang's destination was the famous Dunkirk beach.

In order to maximize the benefits, Li Guang's plans are interlocking. As soon as it went to sea, the destroyer USS Pickup began training.

Although these soldiers are trained as artillerymen, they have not explored these anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and they still rely on this battleship to contribute at critical moments.

And the two young men of the armored company, Qin Zhan and Yuan Mao, were already familiar with the twenty-four small Polish tanks.

The huge artillery establishment on the island of the Stone Statue showed its effect at this moment. More than 100 anti-aircraft guns on the five ships were all manned by official gunners. Especially on the pickup destroyer, it was full of elite gunners of the Naval Resistance Force.

For this operation, Li Guang not only transferred the anti-aircraft gunners on the four battleships Baxia and Jianwei, but also the antiaircraft gunners on the battleships.

Although this sortie was not an operation, it was the largest military operation of the Naval Resistance Force. The total number of the crew plus the fighters exceeded one thousand two hundred.

The Naval Resistance Army dispatched such a large-scale operation to Dunkirk Beach to rescue the British and French forces, and it was just a matter of learning from Lei Feng to do good deeds, and Li Guang wanted to reap the benefits of this great retreat that had been preached for decades.

The Dunkirk retreat, boasted again and again by the Anglo-French forces in World War II, and tirelessly propagandized, was essentially a fiasco. In order to maintain morale, Britain had to carry forward the fine style of treating funerals as happy events. The British propaganda was so powerful that even Li Guang, a historical blindman, was deeply impressed by this retreat.

On May 21, 1940, the Germans approached the English Channel and besieged nearly 400,000 Anglo-French troops in a narrow strip of northern France, leaving only Dunkirk, a small port with only 10,000 inhabitants, as a sea retreat.

The Germans were approaching Dunkirk from the west, south, and east, and the nearest German tank was only 10 miles from the port, but on May 24, 1940, the Germans received an order from Hitler himself to halt their advance.

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