The location of the shipyard was chosen as Dushan Village in Dushan Lake, which is much safer because it is a small island. For this reason, the people there were specially repatriated. exchanged the land of Han Jian that he had just received for the land of Dushan Village, plus the generous relocation fee and the threat of the devils in the lake, and finally all of them were successfully relocated, which made Meng Xiang, who was worried about the relocation problem, breathe a sigh of relief.

Because the shipyard is closer to the center of the Yanzhou sub-base, Meng Xiang assigned it to the Yanzhou sub-base.

As soon as the upgrade was completed, Meng Xiang began to produce pocket-sized LS-class torpedo boats.

The LS-class torpedo boat has a displacement of only 11.5 tons, a length of 12.5 meters, and a draft of only 0.8 meters, which is very suitable for lake and canal operation. Although it is small, it is not low, with a speed of 42.5 knots, and it can be equipped with two 450mm torpedo tubes fired at the stern, but Meng Xiang temporarily dismantled them. The draft in the lake is very shallow, and there are few boats of the devils, and torpedoes do not have much effect.

In previous deals with the Germans, however, the Germans were interested in this high-speed torpedo boat with a high power torpedo. This is very similar to a torpedo boat they are developing, and there is a lot to learn from. Anyway, the requirements made by Jian Er were very low, just in exchange for some printing equipment and technology. The Germans happily bought the torpedo boat home.

At the same time, the S-38 class torpedo boats were sold. This is the most S-class torpedo boat produced during World War II, reaching 91, and together with 81 S-100 class torpedo boats, it can be regarded as the king of German torpedo boats in World War II.

With a displacement of 115 tons, it is a heavily armed S-boat with one 20 mm MGC/38 gun on the fore deck and one 20 mm anti-aircraft gun on the aft deck, some of which have been converted to a 40 mm Bofors FLAK28 gun. Meng Xiang chose to use 40-mm anti-aircraft guns instead. Even with this weight, it still reaches a speed of 39.5 knots.

This weapon was very appetizing to the Germans, and Meng Xiang took the opportunity to raise the price, but the Germans agreed, and the annexation of Austria in March allowed them to see more opportunities.

Meng Xiang himself also produced 2 S-38 class, both of which were used for the Yellow River defense, and its 1.5-meter draft was no problem in the Yellow River. However, at the Nanyang sub-base, he produced four ships in one go. This fast torpedo boat is well suited to the multi-island environment there. Even in the LS class, he produced four of those with torpedo tubes.

The LS-class, which sailed in Weishan Lake, retained the 3 mine chutes in the stern, and installed a 20mm MGC/38 gun, which was enough to deal with the devil's boat. The LS-level 0.8-meter draft can be galloped in the canal, and the Yellow River and Laizhou Bay are also often walked around.

Meng Xiang produced 4 ships in one go, forming the Pioneer Army's inland river patrol brigade, which was specially used to solve the problem of defense of inland waters. Together with the two S-38 class and the cheaper S-7 type of capital ship produced earlier, a strong line of defense was formed to protect the canal and the Yellow River and Weishan Lake area.

Meng Xiang built two more air finger centers in Dongping and Jining, and only then did he feel more at ease about the defense of the Eastern Front.

This time the attack on the devil, he didn't expect it to be so smooth, the 108th and 109th divisions are all disabled troops, and the combined strength is about the same level as an old division, and even a little inferior because of the lack of artillery.

To deal with such a 108th division, more than 10,000 people of Hu Minghe's brigade are enough, and Huang Huamin's brigade has not been involved, and they are doing one thing that worries Meng Xiang even more at this time - suppressing bandits.

Because of the appearance of the vanguard army, Liu Heiqi, who was familiar with the situation in Lunan from the devil's faction, went directly to the Mengshan area where he had been rampant, instead of being mobilized to Ye County.

When Huang Huamin's brigade was preparing to march west to Zaozhuang, Liu Heiqi was instigated and rewarded by himself, and led more than 3,000 bandits to attack a quartermaster supply point of the vanguard army and killed more than 30 garrisons. This made Meng Xiang angry, and directly ordered Huang Huamin to suppress the bandits on the spot.

Shandong was famous for its bandits during the Republic of China, and the Shandong soldiers could fight and fight, and they were easy to manage, which made all the marshals of the early Republic of China compete to recruit troops in Shandong. As soon as those warlords were defeated, their subordinates were scattered, and they had no choice but to return to their hometowns, and they had been soldiers for a few years. As a result, a large number of bandits trained in modern militarization were created.

As soon as the anti-flag was erected, the people in destitute around them flocked to it. It was easy to form an army of bandits.

Various social reasons have caused endless troubles. In 1930, the number of bandits in the country exceeded 20 million, which made China known as a bandit country for more than ten years in the early Republic of China. Shandong bandit Sun Meiyao even kidnapped a group of foreigners as hostages, creating a carjacking in Lincheng that shook China and the world.

After Lao Han took charge of Shandong, he made a lot of hard efforts to suppress bandits internally, and most of the bandits in the territory were cleared up, and the public order in Shandong was stable for several years.

But with the pressure of the devils, bandits in various places sprouted again, and they each erected the banner of resisting the protection of the family and began to recruit troops. Meng Xiang also started by taking this path, but he turned over quickly, jumped the dragon gate with the gold-fingered carp, became a warlord on the ruling side, and became a bigger bandit leader.

For these mixed local forces, the vanguard army has been paying attention, but they are just busy dealing with devils, and they don't have so much energy to manage internally. However, with the expansion of the territory of the vanguard army, which has been extended to the bandits' nests in the area of Baoqinggu, in the face of the rampant bandits in Lunan, this problem has to be taken seriously.

"Let's hit a few of the uplifters first! The anger of the people was great. Meng Xiang directly took advantage of this to form Huang Huamin's brigade into a bandit suppression team.

Meng Xiang and bandits, there is no need to recruit and recruit, the number of recruiting points in various places is continuous, and the internal is already unstable, and recruiting these bandits is even more prone to chaos. The generous treatment of the vanguard army can directly lure those bandits to take the initiative to give up the promising job of robbery and go to the recruitment office to sign up, why bother. With the larger bandit armament of the Vanguard Army, in addition to the core strength of those small bandits, other blind followers know that it is a better way. Bandits in many places rob for a month, and they may not be able to grab 10 oceans per person. Sometimes hunger and cold are common, and it is even more normal to remind the gall to sleep unsteadily.

As long as you hit a few particularly eye-catching ones, after killing chickens and monkeys, it will be almost temporarily stable. Meng Xiang naturally had to deal with it thoroughly.

"Brigade Commander Huang, that is one of Liu Heiqi's old nests, and now that he is back again, he won't run too far." Liu Yaoting pointed to a mountain in the distance and said. He turned out to be the captain of Han Fuyu's spy team, and once chased Liu Heiqi all the way to Tianjin, and assassinated Liu Heiqi with Xu Yilong, the former instructor in Liu Heiqi's bandit team. At that time, Liu Heiqi's legs and mouth were shot, and 4 teeth were broken, but he didn't die.

This time, he was also worried about Liu Heiqi's retaliation, and actively cooperated with the vanguard army's banditry activities.

After Lao Han's death, the vanguard army has also been wooing him, as the captain of Lao Han's spy team, he is familiar with a lot of specific information in Shandong, and has a lot of secrets.

He had also been oscillating between the vanguard army and the central army, and knowing that Liu Heiqi had run back again, he made up his mind to throw himself on the side of the vanguard army, and he didn't even want the position of guerrilla commander that Li Zongren had given him. With the great god of the vanguard army pressing, he, the guerrilla commander, might as well lean against the big tree of the vanguard army.

"They're around here!" The dog next to him nodded, this time the bandits dispatched an army of dogs, and they have been following the bandits' trails to this place.

The staff officers next to him were already quickly formulating an offensive plan according to the surrounding geographical conditions.

"Attack!" Huang Huamin nodded in approval of the plan that was quickly formulated, and with an order, he began to attack the mountain according to the plan. Mountain attacks are not like ordinary warfare, and aircraft artillery play a limited role. In the mountains and forests in May, it is difficult to lock in the target.

The bandits are also familiar with the surrounding terrain, and as soon as they hide everywhere, the suppression of bandits by officers and soldiers becomes an empty talk.

But for the vanguard army, bandits will not work. In order to cooperate with the anti-bandit operations in the mountains, the vanguard army took the squad as the main search unit in this attack, and a squad of 15 people with two dogs scattered and searched all over the mountains and fields at a distance of several tens of meters from each other.

Followed by a reorganized company, armed with heavy weapons, blocked the intersections.

With the help of dogs, the bandits have nowhere to hide. The somi and machine guns in the hands of the vanguard army also directly blocked their breakthrough. The chain of blockade that is connected together is always continuous, suppressing the bandits' space for activity little by little. In the loudspeaker on the mountain, the shouts of only eliminating the first evil and not killing the gun continued, which accelerated the collapse of the bandit ranks.

After surrounding the hill where the bandits had gathered for three days, the vanguard army approached little by little without hurry, and forced into the bandits' lair. In the end, after killing more than 200 bandits and recalcitrant enemies, more than 3,000 bandits were captured.

"That's a lot of people!" Meng Xiang couldn't help but sigh that Liu Heiqi had raised three or four thousand people in just half a year, which also showed that the society in the base area was unstable.

"Separately, those who have no evil deeds will be assigned to a separate recruit corps, and those who have committed many crimes will be assigned to a labor camp. Those who murder and plunder are extremely bad, and they should be killed! Meng Xiang was unceremonious about this. In troubled times, it is impossible to scare those stubborn monkeys without thunder at this time.