Now, as the highest-ranking officer of the anti-Japanese naval forces, Li Guang must guard Shixiang Island. He has a host of miscellaneous tasks to handle. On August 10th, a few days after the fleet departed, a 10,000-ton cargo ship returning from China docked. As the crew disembarked, Li Guang discovered that there were not the expected few hundred people, but over two thousand. The people on the ship were divided into four categories. The first group consisted of 300 new recruits and 60 professional recruits that Qin Zhan and sonar operator Xue Dingyi brought back from Xu Zhan. However, they were accompanied by more than 1,000 civilians. The second category consisted of 100 new recruits brought from Nauru Island, but the number has now changed to over 200. There are also 600 to 700 C

