The happy time was short-lived after all, and the next day, the last day of October, Yang Zhen ordered Zhou Changfeng and Yan Chenwu to accompany them to the Dadu Governor's Mansion.

"What's going on this time? Do I need to bring something? Yan Chenwu asked puzzled.

"Wargame deduction." Yang Zhen replied very succinctly.

A few people then set off by car from the naval office where the study class was located, and arrived in a short time.

If in many respects the military offices still have an antique feel, the Metropolitan Governor's Office is much more "modern" – a rectangular, six-storey high, reinforced concrete frame structure, a double-pitched roof with a small, almost horizontal inclination, and metal tiles made of galvanized steel.

Of course, there is no lack of Chinese style and summer charm in many details, such as the volcanic wall of the eaves, and the window lattices of Chinese back grain and swastika pattern.

Crossing the threshold, taking the elevator to the third floor, a few people turned left and right and stepped into a spacious hall.

In the middle was a large long table, about a few meters long and wide, on which was placed a sand table, around which six or seven staff officers were fiddling, and two colonels and a brigadier general were discussing.

This wargame could not be deduced by the circumference of the wind, the huge sand table is 1:1.5 million in the Nanyang region, very detailed, the terrain is undulating and other aspects are very exquisite.

“…… I'm almost forgetting, how many times is this this year? ”

"I don't remember, four or five times, right? It's a lot of trouble to count. ”

The two staff officers muttered while holding six small boxes, and when they opened them, they could see small blue and red pennants inside, as well as some small square squares.

Yang Zhen looked at Zhou Changfeng and Yan Chenwu, stroked his beard and smiled: "How?" See you for the first time, right? This is the most complete strategic deduction of our country's DPRK, such a campaign-level sand table... There are more than a dozen of them. ”

Military operations over a vast area must be at the campaign level, and in addition to the Nanyang region, the staff office of the Metropolitan Governor's Office also has local, Siberian, Central Asian, Dongying Islands, and so on.

There are both campaign-level and tactical levels, which are mainly aimed at some key strategic points or cities, such as Singapore, Old Port, Shanghai, Batavia, Pearl Harbor, and San Francisco.

Yang Zhen waved his hand and ordered: "Withdraw, change to the Bataan fortress area." ”

"Yes." The surrounding staff officers all responded in unison.

After a while, after several people worked together to remove the huge sand table, a new sand table was moved to the table.

This is about the fortified areas of Bataan and Corregido, which are important U.S. bases in the Philippines.

The Bataan Peninsula is located southwest of Luzon Island, and the Port of Manila is located in the eastern part of the bay, and the control of this area will determine whether the Port of Manila can be used as an important site to protect the northeastern flank of the Dutch East Indus that will be captured in the future.

Obviously, such an important strategic point cannot be ignored by the Americans.

The fortress of Bataan was actually a preset defensive line consisting of a small number of permanent fortifications and a large number of semi-permanent fortifications, which could accommodate a large number of troops to be stationed here for a long time in wartime, while continuing to excavate and lay out new field fortifications for defense in depth.

The Corregidor Fortress is more in line with the preconceived impression of the word "fortress", it is built on the basis of an island, about 5.6 km long and 2.4 km wide, located at the entrance to Manila Bay, across the sea from the Bataan Peninsula.

Such a geographical location determines that it must be a battleground for soldiers.

The Americans dug a large number of underground tunnels on Corregidor Island, and built many high-powered shore defense artillery positions along the coastline, as well as a large number of reinforced concrete permanent fortifications and strong support points.

【Corregidor Fortress】

At this time, a small staff officer of the major came over with a baton and introduced:

"Look, there's a shore defense artillery regiment, an anti-aircraft artillery regiment, and a number of colonial garrisons stationed on this island. However, in wartime, I am afraid that it will not be long before a heavy army can be gathered here. ”

"In the subsequent deductions, we assumed that it added two more regimental infantry units, for a total of 6,000 troops excluding artillery. The firepower was configured into 20 preset artillery positions, 24 75mm field guns, 18 155mm howitzers, and 16 305mm shore defense guns. ”

"The island has a well-equipped logistical supply, which can hoard a large amount of supplies, and at the same time has a hospital, a power plant, a freshwater factory, an ice cream factory, a soda factory, a cinema, a golf course, a church, etc., which can be said to have excellent support capabilities and can maintain morale for a long time."

Ice cream factory? Soda factory? Cinema? Golf course?

Co-authoring is going on vacation, huh?

But considering that the Americans did it, everything seems to make sense again.

Zhou Changfeng complained in his heart, and then noticed that there was a strange "island" under this sand table, so he pointed to it and asked, "What is this?" ”

The little staff officer smiled and arched his hand: "Sir Zhou, you are from the army, you may not have heard of it, but Sir Yan, you should know very well, right?" ”

Yan Chenwu nodded, glanced at Zhou Changfeng, and then said lightly:

"Eighteen miles south of Cordido Island, it's called Fort Drum, which was originally a small reef island that the Americans razed to the ground by blasting and excavating to build a large fort in order to strengthen their control over Manila Bay."

"The fortress resembles a battleship, a little over a hundred meters long, about forty meters wide, and ten meters high. The reinforced concrete on the sides is up to 11 meters thick, and the top is six meters thick, and in some places steel plates are sandwiched for additional reinforcement. ”

"The firepower configuration is two battleship turrets, twin 356mm, this gun is similar to that of Nevada-class battleships, but it is actually a shore defense gun; And then there were four 155mm field guns, four anti-aircraft guns, a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns. ”

【Fort Drum】

After he finished speaking, Yang Zhen, who had been silent, spoke, "Fort Drum holds Manila Bay, if you can't take it, Manila Port is useless." ”

When Yan Chenwu had just introduced, Zhou Changfeng had already recalled this ghost thing.

Needless to say, it's just a serious cement battleship, unsinkable.

In history, during the months-long siege, the more than 200 defenders suffered almost no casualties, and finally surrendered on their own initiative because there were no reinforcements from outside.

They fought all the time, and when Fort Korrogido was landed, the cement battleship provided long-range support with ferocious firepower, damaging and sinking a large number of landing craft and troop carriers.

Feng Shui took turns, and at the end of the war, the American troops who had counterattacked here were also troubled by this problem, and finally sent a task force to land, poured thousands of gallons of gasoline into it through the vents, and burned it.

"This time we assume that the Bataan fort area has been captured, and you take on the attacking side and launch an offensive against the island of Korrogido." Yang Zhen raised his hand and looked at his watch, and said in a deep voice: "Give you a morning to discuss and plan, and start deducing from time to time." ”

(End of chapter)