Fort Guard, the base camp of the Third Army-Navy Joint Wartime.

Major Masanobu Shi, Chief of the Operations Section of the Operations Department of the General Staff Headquarters, and Major Ishikawa, Chief of the First Section of the First Bureau of the Military Command Department, made a report to the base camp on "Actions to be Taken by the Federal Army and Navy in the Current Situation."

The first is to pile up a bunch of data tables.

According to the statistics of the Federation, the population of the countries of the South Seas is estimated as follows:

Myanmar 3.1 million; Siam 1.8 million;

1.2 million from the Gao Barbarian Tribes; Annan 4.7 million;

Malay 500,000; Sumatra, 2.4 million;

4 million on the island of Java; 670,000 indigenous people in Borneo

Sulawesi 1.2 million.

A total of about 23 million.

In most countries, water transport is highly developed, and logistics efficiency far exceeds that of land transport. There are many excellent sailors in Southeast Asia, and the civil shipbuilding industry is developed, and the Arakanese and Javanese can easily build large merchant ships with a load of 500 tons. Federal gold employed a large number of sailors and stimulated further development of the shipbuilding industry.

Most cities derive their wealth from trade, where food is fairly sourced from the market, and unlike parasitic political capitals, Southeast Asian capitals are mostly actual economic centers.

The external population provided the labor force for the early development of the Federation, and after the opening of the West Coast, the population markets of South India, Bengal, and Arakan were also opened to the Federation.

New Guinea, Bali, South India, Arakan, Maluku, Makassar, Chenla, Champa, Borneo were all part of the country with slave traders who procured for the Federation, and the system has worked very well until now.

Despite the rudimentary production techniques, rice is easier to create sellable surplus products than wheat and meat production.

The mountainous regions of Southeast Asia are overgrown with weeds and buffalo, ox farming ensures rapid production, and agriculture is not slow to develop as long as the federal supply of iron tools is ensured. A strong buffalo is worth 4 pesos in Manila and Zabala, 8 pesos in Banten and only 2 pesos in Java.

The global civilized world has suffered from the disasters brought about by the Xiaoice River, and Southeast Asia, due to its unique climate, has only occasional famine years, and there is no shortage of food overall.

Thanks to the abundant rice production, the people of Southeast Asia are nutritionally balanced and generally in good physical condition, with the average height of adult males being 160 cm, which is comparable to that of Europe. The Chinese have the highest genes in Asia, the short height of the Han people in the mainland is due to malnutrition for hundreds of years, there is an abundant supply of rice and fish in the South Seas, and the meat and oil are much more abundant than those in the mainland, the average height of the young generation of Chinese in the South Seas has exceeded 163, and the average height of the line infantry is 165.

Finally, there is the ability to transport important strategic materials and the ability to replenish the Tatars' financial, troop and munitions.

There are so many charts and data in the article that people are disgusted to look at.

"It is extremely dangerous to express an extremely difficult or even impossible actual judgment of national strength in numbers as the only condition for deciding a peace war......" Army Commander Holren frowned tightly, "My God, what the hell is this?" ”

"It is difficult to grasp the full picture, and the dynamic evolution of materials is extremely difficult to predict due to the influence of many factors......"

Admiral Sterling threw the report on the table and smiled wryly, "After making a lot of lists, two of the most elite staff officers of the Army and Navy told me that these forms are useless, right?" ”

As long as the average person sees a lot of chart data, the first thing they tend to believe is to believe it, what if they don't believe it? Otherwise, if you check them one by one, no one will have the leisure time, and you are not an expert in that field, so you can only listen to him.

Shimasanobu is half Japanese, and at this time, the heel of his shoe touched, and his waist was completed 90 degrees.

"Yes, Your Excellency. Under the current technical conditions, national strength is an unclear thing, in fact, it cannot determine the outcome of the war, if you look at the national strength, the Ming court will never lose to the Tatars. ”

Ishikawa added, "Masanobu-kun and I have studied in detail the materials we have on Nurhachi and Huang Taiji. It must be admitted that both Tatar leaders were winners in the dynastic game. ”

Hallren slapped the table and said, "So what do you mean?" ”

Shi Zhengxin's face tightened, and he said solemnly: "Your Excellency Commander, Ishikawa-kun has actually said what we mean. The vast ocean and the rich Central Plains are our casinos, and if we gamble on the fortunes of the country, and if we succeed, we are the masters of the world's largest population, and we can even imagine more ambitious goals. ”

Ishikawa stepped forward and said in an agitated tone, "This is our last chance until the Tatars rule firmly. ”

Shou Xuan just wanted to cover his face when he heard it, oh my God, what is the National Defense University teaching.

Holren: "Yes, you don't need to stress about this, we all know that the army has its own will, and this will is now to conquer the Tatars. What we want to know is, how exactly do we conquer it? ”

Shi Zhengxin shook his head and said, "Your Excellency, the history of human warfare for thousands of years tells us that no plan is infallible, because it is innate, it always has an unreliable element. ”

Ishikawa nodded, "Any battle plan is not sure about the development after the first encounter with the enemy's main force. Only a layman, in the course of the development of a campaign, would think that he would be able to systematically carry out the original plan, in all its details, up to its predetermined conclusion. ”

Oh God, all the generals in the base camp are about to be spit up by these two staff officers.

Shou Xuan struggled and asked, "Two majors, if I'm not mistaken, what you mean is that we don't need to make any long-term strategic plans at all. We gathered our fleet and land forces, landed in Chinese mainland, fought a large-scale battle with the Tatars, and then we talked about it. ”

Shi Zhengxin bowed again and said, "Your Excellency, your understanding is completely correct. ”

Ishikawa: "In the words of the soldiers, it's just that you don't care so much, just go up and fight." ”

"Good, very good." Shou Xuan slapped his face, "So, where is the battlefield?" What season to start the war? ”

Shi Zhengxin turned around and walked to the map, stretched out his index finger, and pointed to Guangzhou.

"The Army Operations Department and the First Bureau of the Navy agreed that the Pearl River Estuary was the most suitable battlefield. Our military should try to avoid uncontrollable factors, so typhoon periods are not advisable, and we recommend that combat operations be conducted in winter. ”

Ishikawa nodded violently, "After 12 years of unremitting exploration of the route by the Navy, we have completely mapped and mapped the Pole Waterway!" During the southwest monsoon season, the current that flows from the west at low tide and the current that flows from the southwest at high tide causes the current to flow from west to east at a speed of about 1.5 knots per hour and as high as 4.5 knots at the strongest, making the waterway difficult to navigate. However, during the northeast monsoon period and the southwest monsoon period, when the main channel of the Great West Channel was difficult to navigate, the Dangan Waterway opened a door, and the warships could point to Guangzhou through the Dangan Waterway through the Wailingding Island to the north and continue to sail along Lantau Island. ”

Sterling looked at the other generals and added: "Yes, the navy has fully mapped the coastal area east of Lantau and drawn a complete nautical chart. We can now make the full monsoon enter the Pearl River Estuary without any problems. The iron law of the monsoon that the Portuguese have not solved for more than 100 years has been broken by us. ”

War is never something that can be decided by a flash of inspiration, war depends on all the tiny technical work.

Between the islands of the Tangan Islands, there is an excellent waterway leading to Macao during the northeast monsoon, with a water depth of not less than 8 fathoms, and the bottom of the sea is silt.

The Navy's Map of Various Routes to Macao recorded the names of places in two scripts, accurately showing the shipping routes between Macao and Mirs Bay, with a focus on the coast, islands, water depths and seabed geology of the Pearl River Estuary.

Without this chart, the fleet would have been able to break into the Lingding Ocean only in a short window of time during the three months from June to August. With this chart, the route to Guangzhou is very safe, there is no danger, and there is no need for a pilot.

In the event of bad weather, the fleet can take shelter at Neilingding Island Bay, which is connected to the Lantau Waterway.

"Good."

The guards and generals really applauded this time.

"How many troops can the Army deploy?"

Shi Zhengxin: "The division headquarters and 4 infantry regiments of the 2nd Division of the Army stationed in Houjiangfu are all dispatched, the 1st Division of the mainland is dispatched 1 mixed brigade, plus the Qiongzhou Brigade on Hainan Island, we can dispatch 4 mixed brigades. ”

"As for the Taipei Brigade, the northeast monsoon season is just right for them to go south."

Ishikawa shook his head and said: "The specific time of landfall depends on the weather, and we can't tell Taipei the right time to go south now. So we don't recommend using the Taipei Brigade in the Guangzhou Raiders. ”

Shi Zhengxin: "Zheng Chenggong lost most of his army in Nanjing, and the Chinese army in Zhejiang was besieged by the Tatars, and the Taipei brigade should be used in Zhejiang to help and stabilize the Chinese front." ”

Shou Xiang looked around at the officers of the base camp, "If there is no disagreement, then it is decided, and the War Department and the First Bureau will make a specific mobilization and shipping plan as soon as possible." ”

Shi Zhengxin bowed for the third time and said, "Yes, Your Excellency, we would like to ask Your Excellency to name the project. ”

Shou Xian thought for a while, "The Guangzhou strategy is called infinite justice, and the Zhejiang strategy is called continuous freedom." ”