Chapter 65: Challenge the Absolute Defense Circle (10)
The two Allied lieutenant generals had a certain idea, and the broadcast immediately changed its tone. In a short while, it caused a strong response among the four thousand Japanese soldiers and civilians on the cliff.
After a loud noise, the division rose from thoughts and language to the height of behavior. In sharp contrast to the hundreds of Japanese officers and non-commissioned officers who were mostly Japanese officers and non-commissioned officers, more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians walked down the cliff together. These Japanese soldiers and civilians who chose to continue to survive took off the cliff together, and rushed to discard the guns and sticks in their hands, and then crawled on the ground to surrender. The Japanese were so aware of their identities and understanding the rules that the US military officers and soldiers were inexplicably at a loss. They really could not associate the many Japanese who were as tame as lambs who had been kneeling in front of them with the tenacious resistance they had encountered since they came to the island and the large-scale suicides that they had committed.
The more than a hundred Chinese soldiers present who knew that succumbing to the strong was the nature of the Japanese nation, all stood proudly in the posture of a conqueror.
At this moment, Cheng Jiaji was thinking about another question: "The Japanese Peace Army did not shoot a single shot in this battle, but got thousands of new recruits out of thin air. If this continues, it is inevitable that the tail will be too big. It is time to pull Hojo and Nakamura out to exercise!
After resolving the "humanitarian crisis" of Mapijiao, the Allied North Landing Formation, which had basically no war, immediately moved to rest on the spot.
On June 3, the Allied forces launched an attack on Guam.
Before the war, the US military was immersed in optimism. It is no wonder that the Japanese army supported Saipan, the strongest fortress in the Central Ocean for ten days, with only 60% of the defensive forces of Saipan, and the terrain was far less than that of Guam, the former, and it was not easy to capture.
With this background, it is no surprise that Cheng Jiaji and others proposed the date of postponement of attack on Guam, extending the time for sea and air firepower preparation. It will be left to the shelves by the Southwest Pacific Allied Command.
At the beginning of the war, the Japanese defenders, who were drawn from the Kwantung Army sequence as the backbone. They gave the US Marine Brigade a blow at the beach in Agat, southern Guam. Within less than half an hour, twenty-four tracked personnel carriers in the US military were killed.
The US military went ashore from other beaches, and also took the artillery positions built by the Japanese army with the reverse slope, and always had firepower points and strong support points to prevent the firepower.
The slow-moving battle situation forced General Doug to bring the 77th Division of the US Army, which served as the general preparation for the battle, on the fourth day of the battle, to the battlefield, thus causing the total strength of the US military to be invested in the Guam combat field to reach 70,000. Of course, the sea and air forces supporting these ground forces were greatly strengthened.
Faced with the sudden increase in pressure, the Japanese army could not support the ground, and had to retreat step by step.
On the 22nd, the US military captured the last position of the Japanese army. Lieutenant General, the commander of the 31st Army, was also shot dead at the same time.
On the same day, Lieutenant General Geiger, commander-in-chief of the Allied Southern Landing Formation, announced to the reporter of the follow-up army that the organized resistance of the Japanese army in Guam had been completely eliminated.
During the 20-day battle of Guam, the US military alone had 3,800 casualties, far exceeding the total number of Allied officers and soldiers killed on Saipan.
In short, the US military made up for the tuition fees that had to be paid in Saipan in history on Guam.
With this bloody lesson in front, when the northern landing formation attacked Tinian Island, the firepower was prepared a little too well. Two weeks of crazy artillery and saturated bombings turned almost every inch of the land on the island. In order to be foolproof, the US military even used napalm bombs. Given that there were only 8,000 Japanese troops on Tinian Island and the area of the island was only more than 50 square kilometers, Lieutenant General Turner made a decision to limit the size of the troops on the island. However, when the task was assigned, the task force that made great contributions in the battle of Saipan was all incorporated into the standby force. Cheng Jiaji just smiled at Lieutenant General Turner's considerate. He still looked down on Tinian's ripe peach, so what's wrong with letting the US military eat alone this time!
On June 29, the Allied forces conquered Tinian Island, which meant the end of the victory of the Battle of Mariana Islands.
The Japanese may not care about the destruction of just 70% of the army, but the Tokyo Base Camp repeatedly emphasized that the complete collapse of the "absolute defense circle" must be ensured greatly exacerbated the turmoil in Japan and directly led to the resignation of the Tojo Hideki Cabinet on July 18th! This was also from the moment that the ominous clouds completely enveloped the Japanese archipelago. Even the Japanese political veterans, the culprit of the invading war of China, the notorious Konoe Fumi (who served as the Prime Minister of Japan three times during the war.), all privately admitted that Japan, which had lost the war with a huge hole in the Mariana Islands!
At the same time, the US military, which should have been cheerful, had a major difference in where the sword was pointed to. Those who wanted to land directly on Japan through the Ogasawara Islands were mostly battlefield commanders with lower ranks; General Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Taiping Fleet, advocated continuing to carry forward the island-hopping tactics to attack Taiwan. It is worth mentioning that the US Army Chief of Staff General Marshall and Navy Minister of Operations also favored this proposal; and Admiral Doug, the inventor of the island-hopping tactics, picked up the "island-by-issue" tactics that the US military had long abandoned and proposed to attack the Philippines nearby.
The first proposal was quickly denied, but the latter two proposals were stalemate for a long time.
After the struggle for power, the US military bosses who were in power actually took over in person.
Admiral Marshall advised General Doug not to act emotionally and not to put his personal commitments when he withdrew from the Philippines two years ago on national interests.
General Doug insisted that it was just for the sake of the United States' reputation and influence in the Far East, and that the United States also took moral responsibility for the 17 million pro-Western Filipino people and tens of thousands of American prisoners of war who were still detained on the Bataan Peninsula.
On July 21, President Roosevelt of the United States went to Hawaii in person to listen to the opinions of both sides of the dispute. At this time, the US election was approaching. In order to win over Doug, a national hero who was deeply loved by the American people, and to win more votes, Roosevelt finally supported General Doug.
Due to the unique transparency of American society, the Philippines' war was imminent. On the 26th of that month, the reporters exposed it. Cheng Jiaji, who was overjoyed after hearing the news, immediately ordered the flower picking operation to be launched. In an instant, a large number of capable personnel from Longya and overseas intelligence websites. With the response of the lurking personnel who had already gained a foothold in the local area, they rushed into Luzon Island and Manila like a tide.
Cheng Jiaji has always been very wealthy and was willing to invest so much money, of course, it was not to contact the resistance soldiers and stand up for the Allied Philippine offensive. To be honest, he did not have the internationalist awareness either!
When it comes to picking flowers, there must be flowers to pick them.
In Japan, where there are so many companies in Japan, the Yamayuri Chamber of Commerce is a nameless person. In the eyes of outsiders, this business project of a trading company with branches in various occupied areas is just a local specialty to be transported back to Japan. This is a normal business activity. Compared with those Japanese-funded enterprises that were heavily in debt during the war, they would maliciously lower the price during the acquisition. They had almost no bad record, and could also pay the corresponding wages to the porters they hired in the local area on time. They were simply as holy as an angel!
But although these clever disguises can deceive the world, they can't hide them from Cheng Jiaji, who has read the books of heaven.
This Japanese trading company seems to be a real estate agent. In fact, it is the royal family's royal plundering valuables from Asian countries that were trampled by the Japanese army's iron hooves. The highest person in charge of this business was Prince Takeda Miyaki Hirohito, the cousin of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito. This time, Cheng Jiaji was nailed to the underground vault that "Yama Lily" would set up in Luzon Island, Philippines. Cheng Jiaji didn't know the specific amount of this batch of gold and silver jewelry. He only knew that the transportation wheel of "Ahamamaru" in Japan, which was sunk by US warships in 1942, contained forty tons of gold and twelve tons of platinum.
150,000 carats of industrial diamonds. The goods on the "Awamaru" are only a small part of the valuables plundered by the Japanese army in Southeast Asian countries. Many of them are buried in these 175 royal treasure sites respectively! Moreover, after occupying the Philippines, the US intelligence agencies took all their mobile phones and tried their best to find some of the gold nuggets, but some of them are worth billions. This is only one-tenth of the wealth that the US military transported back from Asia after the war (a large part of which originally belonged to China).
This kind of civilized plundering from robbery may be the essence of the morality that the Americans always say?!
In the Philippines, which was still under the control of the Japanese army, Cheng Jiaji did not have that big appetite or that much energy. But when he thought, he would be sure to take advantage of the chaos of war and get a piece of it! And whether to give Americans the opportunity to get clues depends on Cheng Jiaji's unhappiness. After all, the name and identity of the person who informed the Americans were also in Cheng Jiaji's mind.
One night in late August, war approached Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
In this city that was once ruled by the Spanish for three hundred years, ancient buildings in the Southern European style abound. The most representative one is the Spanish royal city that has been the political core of the Philippines for those three hundred years.
Since the Japanese became the owner of Manila, this castle-style building built in the 16th century has become a high-end hotel for Japanese politicians, officers and wealthy businessmen. Of course, there are also few good Filipino native dogs in and out.
The door was closed, in a luxurious suite on the third floor of the Spanish Royal City.
"Is there any news about Saint Romana?" A kimono woman with a beautiful appearance could only be considered pretty, but her eyebrows were filled with charming charm, and asked in a soft voice in fluent Japanese.
"There are people watching the big caves over there, and no signs of anyone transporting bulk goods in it. A fat man dressed in a wealthy Japanese businessman in his thirties replied in a gentle voice.
"Send more staff, that's the place mentioned above!"
"Hayi!" the fat man replied sternly.
"Don't be old, Hayi, I'll be annoyed when I listen to Hayi! Besides, you are my man now, and there are men who say yes to women among the Japanese." The kimono woman frowned and scolded.
Although the fat man was shocked by the other party's warm words and expression, he really did not dare to offend the mistress's close friend. He had to suppress his arduous desire while reprimanding his smile.
"Have Major Kojima and Prince Takeda joined forces?" the woman asked again.
"Our people have met Kojima in the Officers' Club as a smuggling merchant, but this person is very vigilant, afraid that he will not become friends for a while. Prince Takeda stayed in a quiet place and could not find a chance to get close to him for a while." The fat man replied cautiously.
"I am not easy to start, so I start around him. Isn't the family in Manila? You are also a veteran, what should I do? Do you still need me to teach you! I don't believe that an adjutant of the commander of the front army can have the Taoist practice of cutting off the six desires and extinguishing the seven emotions!" The unreliable order from the woman's coquettishness: "You must hurry up on Takeda. He is not only the nephew of the Japanese Emperor, but also one of the heads of the royal treasure. If you can hold him at hand, we can achieve twice the result with half the effort." She paused: "If necessary, I will do it myself!
The fat man nodded in panic.
The man and woman who stated on the hotel's passenger registration form are Osaka's wealthy businessman Hiroshi Mitsui and his wife, namely Tian Jiafu, who has been working hard on overseas intelligence networks in recent years, and Li Yanfei, who has been promoted to deputy leader of the Longyapu Prison Group.
As for Saint Romana, which has nothing to do with the Japanese royal treasure, it is Cheng Jiaji's memory. The Japanese army has another place to seek wealth and stability, and it is another golden harvest for the US army in the Philippines.
In the early morning, the door of the Mitsui couple was knocked. When they heard this specific knocking frequency, they were sleeping in great pain (the beauty was on the side, but she had to be unreasonable.) Tian Jiafu hurriedly got up and reached out to grop at the door.
Under the desk lamp, as soon as I unfolded this small finger-wide note that had just been stuffed into the crack of the door, Li Yanfei's pretty face, which was always smiling, suddenly became much more serious!
There is only one line of words on the note: "The Philippine Front's new chief of staff, the first lieutenant general, will arrive in Manila in three days."
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