"I ordered the production of two Scott destroyers!" Meng Xiang ordered.

Even he didn't expect the lion's big mouth to open 10 million marks, and the Germans agreed without hesitation. What he did not know was that the Germans valued not the destroyers themselves, but the fact that the destroyers could give a concrete idea of the technical level of the British.

Although they also have infiltration by intelligence organizations, they don't know much about the Scott destroyer. Now that you have the opportunity, why not give it a try? Anyway, I can't accept it, so I just don't buy it. If it is indeed Scott, not only can it be completely analyzed, but through modification, it can become an advanced ship.

The 2,077-ton Yuyun-class destroyers cost 10 million yuan, and at this time, the price ratio between the Yuan and the Mark was about 5 to 4. So the selling price of 10 million marks is not high at all. It's just that none of them thought that the production cost of each Meng Xiang would only cost more than 500,000 oceans, and they would almost make more than 10 million oceans as soon as they changed hands.

Meng Xiang happily kept his mouth shut, such a deal was too cost-effective. If there is an opportunity, the whole world will sell one round, and eight out of ten ships will be sold, which is faster than doing anything. However, the geographical location of the Nanyang sub-base has already been decided, and it is easy to be discovered if it is engaged in arms trading for a long time. The Nanyang sub-base, which is not strong in defense, cannot cope with the prying eyes of the outside world.

"A new sub-base?" Meng Xiang shook his head, because the news of the Germans' contact with the vanguard army was leaked by someone, and the blockade of the devils was strict again. I can only wait until the wind is a little quieter, and then start sneaking around. Before receiving the arms deal money from the Germans, Meng Xiang could not afford to open up another sub-base.

"Submarine!" Meng Xiang thought about it for a long time and couldn't help but think of this. Submarines produced by the Nanyang sub-base can freely enter the Pacific Ocean or the Indian Ocean, and when the time comes, they can make a lot of money by selling them casually.

When Meng Xiang was talking about submarines, the two Type 2B submarines of the Pioneer Army had already sailed to the vicinity of Tianjin Port.

Zhong Shuqian kept watching the periscope, he had not yet graduated from the sea school, and he had gone through a long voyage, and he was more familiar with the submarine operation.

When Qingdao Hai School was evacuated in November last year, eight students from three grades were retained by the Pioneers. He is also one of them.

At first, they could only practice their work under the leadership of Ryuuji and a dozen dragon warriors on the Dinghai, which had been converted into an American merchant ship. Because Qingdao was occupied by devils, they were all active in Tianjin, and they were constantly recruiting new sailors to join, and slowly there were more than 160 people on the Dinghai.

But more than a month ago, they were suddenly notified that they had returned from land to the territory of the Vanguard. Although he was a little reluctant to leave the Dinghai, what made him excited was that they had new torpedo boats, and there were eight of them.

Within half a month, some of them were selected again and began to work as submarines.

After more than 20 days of study, under the leadership of Long Si, they have become roughly familiar with the submarine's cooking.

"Let's go to the real fight!" The collective willingness of the 16 sailors made Meng Xiang agree after thinking about it, in order not to let the devil's attention focus on Shandong, the goal of this actual combat training was set in Tianjin. Considering the distance of this section, it can be regarded as a long-distance training.

"Discover the target! Discover the target! Please pay attention to Jing Ke and the number to leave! Xu Shengping, who was sitting next to the radio, heard the call of another reconnaissance plane flying in the sky. An airplane has a much greater chance of finding a target on the ocean than a submarine. Meng Xiang specially sent an FW190 modified reconnaissance plane to do a little air-submarine cooperation to help the submarine discover the enemy situation in time.

"Hurry up! Targeted! He jumped to his feet. The plane does not tell them the specifics of the target, they need to explore it on their own to enhance the effectiveness of the training. This is not a battle, it is mainly based on military training.

"The target has been discovered! Coordinate***. It is a merchant ship of about 1,000 tons. After several adjustments, Zhong Shuqian's Jing Ke was the first to discover the target.

"Maintain the depth, advance one!" Long Si, the supreme commander of the submarine force, personally sat on the Jing Ke and ordered directly.

"Torpedo Tube No. 1 ready!"

"Torpedo Tube No. 2 ready!"

"Left rudder 5 degrees. 80 cm up! ”

"The target has been locked!" Zhong Shuqian also shouted loudly, there was no vigilance, there were no escort ships, and the lonely merchant ships that were not at all on guard were coming to Jing Ke's mouth little by little.

"Keep course! Slow forward. Ryusi continued to order, and at this time the distance was already very close. The people on the ship can easily see it, but even if the cargo ship on the opposite side sees it, it can only obediently admit it.

"1000 meters from the target!"

"800 meters from the target!"

"Torpedo Tube No. 1 launched!"

With Ryusi's order, a white line shot out from the front of the submarine and headed straight for the merchant ship. Hitting these merchant ships with torpedoes was somewhat wasteful, but at this time for training. The navy of the vanguard army has a cheap supply of bases, so Meng Xiang's request is to make more contacts.

"Today's weather is good, Ming Zhu-kun!" Fujitano came to Akirumi Komatsu, who was standing on the deck, and stretched out.

"Yes, look at the seabirds in the distance, chasing our Akinaru Maru to feed again." Komatsu laughed in response.

"When the ship's stuff arrives in Shanghai, let's go and relax. The woman in Shina is in good shape. Don't worry about the money bags, with just those hundred boxes of opium, we've already earned enough this time. Fujita thought of the several trips he had in Tianjin, and the more respectful the attitude of the people of China towards the people of the empire became under the continuous expansion of the imperial [***] team.

"Huh!" He couldn't help but laugh when he thought about the woman who had made him linger for more than a month, crazy after smoking cigarettes.

"Fujita-kun, what do you think it is?" Komatsu asked, pointing to a white line that stretched to the right side of the boat.

"Where? That, ah, torpedo ......" Fujita couldn't help but howl, but his shouting didn't change anything, it was so close, there was nothing that couldn't be stopped.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the 553-mm torpedo not only broke a large hole in the right waterline of the Akinaru Maru, but also exploded inside the ship.

Within a few minutes, the Akinaru Maru, just a thin-skinned ordinary cargo ship, sank directly to the bottom of the sea.

"Whew!" There was a cheer from inside the submarine. The Jing Ke opened. Although it is only a civilian ship, at least it is also a cargo ship of devils.

"The first harvest was not bad!" Xu Shengping was excited but also slightly disappointed, but unfortunately it was not a warship.

"I don't know what the cargo is up there?" Zhong Shuqian kept guessing, looking through some wooden boxes floating there, it seemed that he was carrying a lot of goods.

Whether to choose to sink or capture, Meng Xiang also hesitated. But at this time, the fragile strength of the vanguard navy made him directly give the order to sink the enemy. What the Vanguard Navy needs is security and more practice attacks, not for cargo.

"Float. Lean in and take a look! Observing that there was no threat around, the Jing Ke floated up and approached the place where the cargo ship had sunk.

Wang Chusheng and the others scooped up a large wooden box, and when the sealed wooden box was opened and saw the neat row of opium, he couldn't help but scold: "You deserve it!" ”

The crew members who were about to leave the ship also floated, and four or five crew members walked out of the submarine cabin and cheered loudly at the Jing Ke. After all, this was the first victory of their vanguard naval wing.

The naval wing, which had just been established at the end of February, already had a torpedo boat group of eight S-7 torpedo boats, a submarine group with four Type 2B submarines, and a supply fleet with only three cargo ships, including the Dinghai.

But what most people don't know is that at the Nanyang sub-base, Meng Xiang has already begun to organize the Nanyang Fleet. Although there were only two S-7 torpedo boats at this time, it would soon be possible for the South Sea Fleet to become more powerful than the surrounding pirates, with the launch of a Koster destroyer and the formation of a new submarine force in the South Seas.

There were many ships coming in and out of the port of Tianjin, and the Jing Ke and the Yao Li were guarding several routes, and they succeeded in two days. Not only did it set a record, but it also surpassed the Jing Ke's more than 3,000 tons by virtue of the sinking tonnage of about 5,000 tons of four cargo ships.

"Gotta catch up with them!" The night did not affect the attack of the sea wolves, and the lights of the unsuspecting cargo ships were even more dazzling on the sea. Soon after, the Jing Ke encountered a ship of about 1,000 tons. Cargo ships under 1,000 tons, they don't think about it, that's not enough to waste torpedoes.

"Oops!" Xu Shengping couldn't help but whisper urgently.

The trajectory of that torpedo swept behind the cargo ship and disappeared into the vast sea.

"Torpedo Tube No. 1 launched!" Ryusi ordered again. There was a mistake in the operation of the No. 2 torpedo tube, which led to the failure of this attack.

The cargo ship was still unaware of its slow sailing, unaware of the fact that it had walked around the gates of hell. When the second torpedo pierced the dark and sunken sea, it could no longer save its fate from sinking.

"His grandmother's! No more torpedoes! Wang Chusheng, who was working on the No. 2 torpedo tube, couldn't help but scold. He made a mistake just now, and he couldn't help but waste one. The Type 5B submarine, armed with only 2 torpedoes, ran out of torpedoes, and only the 20-mm anti-aircraft gun remained.

"Call Dinghai! Let's go to the designated place on the 7th to replenish supplies. "Ryusi's command is clear-eyed, and after a long time of practice, his command is also much more flexible.

For this operation, the Dinghai was prepared early and waited in the waters near Tianjin, replenishing supplies for the two submarines at any time.

If he wants to leave the number, he will also leave with the Jing Ke, and he also needs to be resupplied with only one torpedo left, and in order to prevent accidents, he can't fire all the torpedoes.

"Enemy situation has been discovered!" At this time, the reconnaissance plane had already flown back, but the searchlight on the opposite side showed that there was a situation over there.

"Urgent dive!" The two submarines soon made an emergency dive. It's dangerous to be discovered. If it is an ordinary cargo ship, it will be spread out at most, but if it is a warship of devils, it may be a little dangerous to attack a weak submarine at this time.

Not long after, when the sea had submerged the lower part of the periscope, the ship was also nearby. The searchlight kept sweeping around.

"It's a devil's patrol boat! However, only a little more than a hundred tons of tonnage! It was armed with one 20 guns and two machine guns. Xu Shengping kept observing and reporting that the devil was also brightly lit and unguarded. Maybe it's a patrol, maybe it's a ship that has no news.

To Longkou and Yantai, which are close to each other, a thousand-ton cargo ship should have news back at this time. But there was no news on either side, so the owner of the ship with some energy notified the devil's patrol to help contact and find it.

"Such a small boat also makes us so aggrieved!" Wang Chusheng couldn't help but be annoyed, if it weren't for his own mistake, he would have hit the torpedo with one shot.

"Float up and sink it with anti-aircraft artillery!" Luo Fusheng next to him is a sailor recruited from a cargo ship, and he has made rapid progress by relying on his cleverness. But he really didn't understand some of the theories about naval warfare.

"That patrol boat is fast, and if it runs away, we're exposed. This kind of small boat is not as easy to fight as a big ship! It's not worth it to torpedo this little boat! Wang Chusheng regretted that although he said so, if he really came to command, he would definitely have to float, the two submarines were flanked, and under the rapid attack of the 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, the devil's patrol boat almost had to run. But at this time, the relatively conservative Long Si chose safety first.

The patrol boat drove less than five hundred meters from the submarine and kept moving into the distance. Waiting until they were far away, the submarine moved on.

"Go ahead, target supply point 7." Long Si's face was calm, and he continued to order.

When the submarine sailed to an uninhabited island not far from the coast, they spotted the Dinghai parked nearby.

"Over there!" They were also contacted by radio from Dinghai.

In the darkness of the night, under the faint light, supplies such as ammunition and fresh water and food were constantly transported from the Dinghai through ropeways and pulleys.

Although the Type 2B submarine has a water endurance of 3,100 nautical miles at 8 knots, there are other factors to consider, and the fuel is also insufficient. The hose for transporting oil was extended to the Type 2B submarine through one end of the Dinghai.

After this replenishment, the two submarines were returning after a day of practice. Only this time there was a chance to replenish, and the fuel load on the Type 2B submarine was fully filled with 21 tons.

"We received a message! The devil may have a troop carrier to Tianjin in the next two days, are you interested? Gong Shengxiang, the captain of the Dinghai, leaned over to Long Si's side and whispered.

"Does Commander Meng know?" Ryusi asked directly.

At this time, Meng Xiang was thinking about the matter of the Marine Corps.

Speaking of the Marine Corps, there have already been them in the country for a long time. In 1914, the formation of the first domestic marines on the basis of the Naval Guard began, with the establishment of two battalions. Until now, it has only slowly developed to the establishment of two brigades and four regiments. With the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, it was slowly transformed into the army.

It was only after the Battle of Nanjing that Meng Xiang came into contact with the soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Reading Brigade who were transferred to Zhejiang, among the wounded soldiers he received, and he learned so much about it. Among them was a company commander named Chen Jiahui, an overseas Chinese who had been in the U.S. Marine Corps. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he came to China in indignation and was placed in the 3rd regiment by acquaintances. It's a pity that the team was broken up in the Battle of Songhu, and when he was recuperating from his wounds in Nanjing, he was captured by the Yue army. Until he was rescued by the Vanguard Army, he stayed in the Vanguard Army.

He had a nimble brain, fought bravely, and soon rose to the rank of battalion commander. After the new formation, it is not surprising that he was promoted to the head of the regiment again.

It was in reference to his suggestion for the long coastline that Meng Xiang formed a new Marine Corps. Due to the limited conditions, only one brigade will be established for the time being, which is similar to that of the army, and the equipment is almost the same for the time being, but there is a lot more amphibious training on land and sea.

As for the weapon, Meng Xiang simply came to the doctrine of taking it. Since the US military weapons in history are not a big problem, we can learn from them. Of course, the weapons used by the Vanguard Army are also being used, and they can also be discovered in time during exploration experiments and problematic training.

The reason for the establishment of the Marine Corps, Meng Xiang's initial goal was to point to the north. Both the Beijing-Tianjin region and the Liaoning region can be landed on a large scale. In Meng Xiang's plan, it is time to train. In the short-term plan, one brigade is enough. Brigade Commander Meng Xiang still selected Zhao Junmai.

Although Zhao Junmai didn't come, he readily agreed. Zhao Junmai also studied military affairs in the United States, and also spent time in the tax police corps. Now he is in the establishment of the Hunan Finance Bureau, and has the support of his cousin, the Hunan warlord Zhao Hengti, and is in a high position. But when the people of the vanguard army were introduced by Wen Yingxing, they found him. Hearing that he could lead a German armament brigade to the front line to kill Yu Kou, he agreed without thinking about it for long. He was even happier when he heard that it was the formation of the Marine Corps. Studying in the United States, he naturally knows the status of the Marine Corps in the United States.

"There must be a Marine Corps over there, too! In the future, when you land on the island to fight, this is indispensable! And I heard that there are a lot of pirates over there, and they seem to be quite rich! Didn't the British make their fortune as pirates? The Navy of the Vanguard Army is also suitable for this path, isn't this just the right exercise for the Navy and the Marine Corps? Meng Xiang continued to ponder in his heart, and finally determined the training method of the Nanyang Detachment of the Marine Corps.