afterglow

Chapter 130

After all, the happy time is short-lived. On the next day, which is the last day of October, Yang Zhen ordered Zhou Changfeng and Yan Chenwu to go to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion with them.

"What's the matter this time? Do I need to bring anything?" Yan Chenwu asked puzzled.

"War chess deduction." Yang Zhen answered very concisely.

A few people immediately set off from the naval office where the training class was located, and arrived in a while.

If the official office of the Ministry of Military Affairs still has an antique flavor in many aspects, then the official office of the Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion is much more “modernized”—a rectangular parallelepiped, six stories high, with a reinforced concrete frame structure, and a double-slope roof with a small inclination angle, almost Horizontal, using metal tiles made of galvanized steel sheets.

Of course, there are many details with Chinese style and summer charm, such as the volcanic wall of the eaves, and the window lattice with Chinese pattern and swastika pattern.

After crossing the threshold and taking the elevator up to the third floor, several people turned left and right and entered a spacious hall.

In the middle is a large long table, about a few meters long and wide, with a sand table on it, and six or seven staff officers are playing around it, while two colonels and a brigadier general are discussing.

The war game deduction this time did not meet Zhou Changfeng's expectations. The huge sand table was set in the Nanyang region at a scale of 1:150 million. It was very detailed, and the terrain was very delicate.

"...I almost forgot, how many times is this this year?"

"I don't remember either, four or five times, right? It's really troublesome to count the statistics."

The two staff officers walked over with six small boxes while muttering. When they were opened, they could see small blue and red pennant flags and some small square squares inside.

Yang Zhen looked at Zhou Changfeng and Yan Chenwu, stroked his beard and smiled and said, "How is it? See you for the first time? This is the most complete strategic deduction place in our country. There are more than a dozen such battle-level sand tables in total."

Military operations against a vast area must be at the campaign level. In addition to the Nanyang region, the General Staff Office of the Metropolitan Government also has local, Siberian, Central Asian, and Japanese islands.

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

Yang Zhen waved his hand and ordered: "Remove and replace the one from the Bataan Fortress."

"Yes." The surrounding staff 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 Forts of Bataan and Corregidor, which are important US bases in the Philippines.

The Bataan Peninsula is located in the southwest of Luzon Island, and the Port of Manila is in the east of the Gulf. Whether the control of this place determines whether the Port of Manila can be used as an important location, and then used as a barrier to protect the Dutch East Indus captured in the future. northeast flank.

Obviously, it is impossible for the Americans to ignore such an important strategic location.

Bataan Fort is actually a pre-set defense line consisting of a small number of permanent fortifications and a large number of semi-permanent fortifications. During wartime, a large number of troops can be stationed here for a long time, while continuing to excavate and arrange new field fortifications for in-depth defense.

The Corregidor Fortress is more in line with the term "fortress" in the inherent impression. It was built on the basis of an island, about 5.6㎞ long and 2.4㎞ wide. It is located at the entrance of Manila Bay and Bataan Peninsula. Facing each other across the sea.

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

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

【Coregidor Fortress】

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

"Look, there is a coastal defense artillery regiment, an anti-aircraft artillery regiment, and some colonial garrison units permanently stationed on this island. But in time of war, I'm afraid it won't take long for this place to be heavily populated."

"In the subsequent deduction, we assume that it has added two regiment-level infantry units, a total of 24 troops excluding artillery. The firepower configuration is 75 preset artillery positions, 155 305mm field guns, [-] Eight [-]mm howitzers and sixteen [-]mm coastal defense guns."

"The island has a complete logistics supply and can store a large amount of supplies. At the same time, there are hospitals, power plants, fresh water plants, ice cream factories, soda factories, movie theaters, golf course churches, etc., which can be said to have excellent support capabilities and can be maintained for a long time. Morale."

Ice cream factory?Soda factory?Cinema?golf course?
Is the co-author going on vacation?

However, considering that it was done by the Americans, everything seems to make sense again.

Zhou Changfeng complained in his heart, and then noticed a strange "island" under the sand table, and pointed to it and asked, "What is this?"

The little staff officer smiled, cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Zhou, you are from the army, so you may not have heard of it, but Mr. Yan, you should be very clear about it, right?"

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

"This is eighteen miles south of Corogidor Island. It is called 'Fort Drum'. It used to be a small reef island. In order to strengthen the control of Manila Bay, the Americans destroyed the entire island by blasting and digging. to level ground, and to build large forts on it."

"The shape of this fortress is very similar to a battleship. It is over 100 meters long, 40 meters wide, and 11 meters high. The reinforced concrete on the side is [-] meters thick, and the top is six meters thick. In some places, steel plates are sandwiched for additional reinforcement."

"The firepower configuration is two battleship turrets, double-mounted 356mm. This gun is similar to the Nevada-class battleship, but it is actually a coastal defense gun; then there are four 155mm field guns, four anti-aircraft guns, and more than a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns. .”

【Fort Drum】

After he finished speaking, Yang Zhen, who had been silent all the time, said, "Fort Drum guards Manila Bay. If you can't take it, Manila Port is useless."

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

There is no need to say anything about the "title", it is a serious cement battleship that will never sink.

Historically, during the months-long siege, there were almost no casualties among the more than [-] defenders. In the end, they voluntarily surrendered because there were no reinforcements from outside.

During this period they have been fighting, and when the Corojido fortress 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 U.S. military that had counterattacked so far was also having a headache in order to solve this thing. Finally, it sent a contingent to land, poured thousands of gallons of gasoline into it through the vents, and set it on fire.

"This time, it is assumed that the Bataan fortress area has been captured. You play the offensive side and launch an offensive against Corogidor Island." Yang Zhen raised his hand and glanced at his watch, and said in a deep voice, "Let's discuss peace in the morning." Plan, start to deduce in the future."

(End of this chapter)