"Troop carriers?" Meng Xiang was also stunned when he heard the news.

This kind of information is generally relatively top secret, but the devil has never encountered a threat in the waters of China, and there is some slackness in the personnel. When preparing supplies, Gong Shengxiang, the captain of the Dinghai, who was also replenishing supplies, noticed the abnormal movement, and after some understanding, he finally heard that the devil had a troop transport ship coming to Tianjin in the past few days.

"Is the message confirmed?" Meng Xiang asked again. Judging from the experience of sinking cargo ships several times, he was not at all wary of the existence of submarines in the waters around China. This couldn't help but make Meng Xiang pay attention to the troop transport ship in his heart. If you sink a troop carrier, then at least one brigade will be able to fight, and if you are lucky, three or five thousand people are possible. A superliner converted into a troop carrier like Queen Mary, carrying 15,000 people at a time, is no worse than a large-scale battle if it is sunk.

In Meng Xiang's vague memory, there are mainly two types of troop carriers for devils.

One category is specialized troop carriers, which are divided into first and second class. The first class transport ships are more than 1,000 tons and reach a speed of 22 knots, but only a very few; The second-class transport ship is less than 1,000 tons and can reach speeds of up to 16 knots.

But the number of such professional military troop carriers in the entire World War II is very small, and I don't know if there are any at this time, anyway, Meng Xiang searched through the brain, and the shipyard has no news about the devil transport ship available for construction. Most of the devils relied on large civilian ships that were recruited through specialized conscription bills.

Most of these large ships are between 5,000 and 15,000 tons, and their speeds are even slower, and even the speed of the Type 2B submarine is 13 knots on the water.

None of this is the main thing, submarines are easy against troop carriers, the main thing is escort ships.

However, the Devil's troop carriers have never been attacked in the waters of China, and most of the Central Navy in China has sunk by itself, and not many of the remaining ones have withdrawn to the Yangtze River. The British and American ships did not dare to attack easily, and there were practically no ships threatening them along the entire coast. Extrapolating from this, the escort ships of the devils will not be very strong, and they are a little careless, which creates conditions for the attack of submarines.

"This time, we must not let it go. If you sink a troop carrier, you will have at least a thousand devils killed, and there will be less harm. Meng Xiang decided in his heart, as for the revenge of the devil, let's talk about it until they find out. Even if the devil's powerful navy comes, those behemoths will never be able to climb ashore. Since the completion of the Nanyang sub-base, Meng Xiang is not very worried about the shipyard at Yangjiaogou, and it will only lose more than 2 million yuan if it is destroyed by the devils.

At the end of February, even with the special medicine of the vanguard army, Liu Xiang finally died. He has been set aside by Lao Jiang, and after Han Fuyu died, he had already sensed Lao Jiang's strong killing intent. In the end, under exhaustion, no matter how good the medicine is, it can't be cured.

His death, Meng Xiang didn't feel too much, at most he sighed at the departure of another hero. But after his death, it made other generals in Sichuan and Shu feel the crisis. As a result, the arms dealers in Wuhan saw a sharp increase in their sales, receiving orders of more than 8 million yuan in the first five days of March alone. Although the money has not yet arrived, Meng Xiang, who has money in his hands, is no longer entangled in the two million in the shipyard.

Even if the devils sent aircraft carriers over to fight on the home ground where anti-aircraft artillery positions were set up in many places, and the air force was getting bigger and bigger, they were not afraid of the devil's naval aviation at all. Moreover, because of the attack on the mainland, the oil depot was bombed, which greatly reduced the activity of his warships in recent times.

In so many cases, it would be too sorry for the troop carriers that don't fight the devils to deliver them to their mouths with great hospitality.

"The news is being confirmed, and it is already certain that within three days the enemy will have troop carriers arrive at the port of Tianjin. But the specifics are not yet known! Rat II replied.

"How's the radio signal over there at the North China Command? Did it mention anything? Meng Xiang couldn't help asking.

Last time, with the help of Zhi Brain's decipherment of the devil's code, Su Buqing finally determined part of the code of the North China devil after more than a month of research.

But with the readjustment of the devil's organization years ago, the password has been changed again. So I had to start all over again.

Taking advantage of this recruitment of people from the Jixia Academy and Shandong University, the vanguard army formed a mathematics group dedicated to cracking the code. Su Buqing led three mathematicians and fifteen students of the Department of Mathematics to carry out a large-scale decipherment of his own code.

With the prompts of the base's intelligent brain, and the foundation of Su Buqing's decipherment last time, the mathematics team has already made some preliminary results after half a month of decipherment research. At this time, it is being monitored every day and constantly making corrections.

"There is no specific information for the time being." This group is also rat two to manage.

With the expansion of the intelligence department, the scope of Rat Er's jurisdiction has also expanded.

His intelligence department is known to the outside world as the Fourth Section of the Military Staff of the Vanguard Army. Five teams have been set up, namely one group for domestic information, two groups for local information, three groups for international information, four groups for all kinds of information on the territory, and five groups for the provision of technology and equipment. The math group that cracked his code was one of the five groups.

"Then keep listening, they will have some clues."

"In addition, order the Jing Ke and the number to leave the number to lurk near the No. 3 supply point in the Miaodao Islands, and not to attack again for the time being, so as not to startle the snake." Meng Xiang was also a little worried when he said that the devils lost a 10,000-ton cargo ship two days ago, and they must have been alert, but they might not have thought that the vanguard army had submarines. There may still be a chance.

"Order Zhuzhu and Nie Zheng to also go to the vicinity of the No. 3 supply point on Temple Island, and wait for orders at any time!" Meng Xiang ordered again. This time, if the devil troop carrier comes, there must be escort ships, and with two submarines, it is still a little insufficient. The four submarines attacked together, even if there was no such thing as a troop carrier, it could be regarded as an opportunity to train troops.

"Strengthen aerial reconnaissance and order the radar station of the Zhaoyuan sub-base to monitor the passing ships within its jurisdiction throughout the night."

In order to guard against the threat of ships at sea, the vanguard army secretly built a radar station in the mountains near Penglai to observe the ships passing through the Miaodao Islands. Just to prevent the devil from hearing it, this radar station is not always on. At this time, for the sake of the troop carrier, Meng Xiang also risked being discovered by the devil and turned on the radar station around the clock.

A day later, Meng Xiang had just sent the Germans a message about trading near Carakron Island, when he saw Rat Er leading the intelligence staff officer Xiao Yi and coming to him with a file.

"There is already new information, this time it is the 16th Wing of the 38th Division that is being transported. The 16th Division had already arrived in Jinan at this time, because there were still some disputes in the distribution of interests in Nanjing, so the 16th Division left the brigade commander of the 30th Brigade, Jiro Yuhara, and led the 38th Wing to deal with related affairs. Because the war between the two Huai was tight, Yue Kou was anxious to open the passage from the north. The 10th Division, which had already moved south, was too weak by us and is currently being blocked in the Qufu area. The 16th Division intended to continue southward, which allowed the 38th Wing to return. Xiao Yat explained step by step, "At this time, there are three transport ships transporting the 38th Wing, all of which are requisitioned civilian ships. One is the Nagatsuru Maru of about 6,000 tons, the other is the Miyashin Maru of 5,000 tons, and the other is the Changxin of more than 3,000 tons. The escort was carried out by two destroyers, and it was initially judged that both were Muyue-class destroyers. As for the specific information, it is still being traced. They arrived at the Miaodao Islands around the early hours of the morning after tomorrow. ”

"Hmm." Meng Xiang nodded slightly, and glanced at the young major intelligence staff officer in front of him. This person, Rat Er has already inquired. Xiao Yat studied at the Whampoa Military Academy in 1927, but was expelled from school because he beat someone from the British Embassy while he was in school and offended a certain bigwig. The ability is good, and this time he is in charge of investigating the intelligence of his troop carrier is also very detailed.

"Not bad! You've done a great job! Meng Xiang smiled and nodded at him, which made Xiao Yi's heart excited. The hard work of searching for and probing information in the past few days has suddenly disappeared. After he was expelled from the Whampoa Military Academy, he was at home for less than ten years before the Anti-Japanese War broke out. I want to be a soldier, but because I offended a certain bigwig, I can only be a small soldier in a squad platoon. It doesn't matter, but the war in the Central Army is too aggrieved, and it is always defeated and retreated.

Ever since he heard about the deeds of the Vanguard, he threw himself off and came to the Vanguard. With the recommendation of his classmates, he took up the position of staff officer, and because of his excellent judgment and analysis ability, he was soon called to work in the intelligence department. This time, he was able to get Commander Meng's praise, and he was also inexplicably happy in his heart. He didn't just want to be promoted in the post of staff officer, what he hoped most was to lead an army to gallop across the field. Meng Xiang's appreciation may have brought him closer to this goal.

"In the early hours of the day after tomorrow, maybe we can move the blocking point forward. The night is even more conducive to the attack of submarines! After Xiao Yi left, Meng Xiang looked at the map for a long time before he said.