Chapter 100 Belly lawsuit

The Japanese army is still vacillating, and the US military has advanced rapidly to the inland of Wright Island. On October 21, the day Muto asked where Wright Island was, the "Poplar Troops" occupied Durag Airport, and most of Tacloban, the capital of Wright Island, was also liberated. There are countless small swamps around Durag Airport. Thick silt is deposited on the plain, and the drainage system is not good. Even after the occupation, it cannot be put into use immediately.MacArthur was well aware of the importance of the airport, so he ordered the engineers to fully repair the airport, and at the same time recruited Filipinos on the island to assist in order to speed up the progress of the project.

On October 22, Yamashita was still not ready to transfer troops to Wright Island, but he suddenly received an order from the temple.In this order, Terauchi claimed that the good opportunity to annihilate the U.S. military had arrived, and asked the 14th Army to join hands with naval and air forces to eliminate the U.S. landing forces on Wright Island with superior forces as much as possible. It was only then that Yamashita realized that Kaizaki had just announced the temple's will yesterday. The "good opportunity" mentioned by the temple was actually fooled by the navy.After realizing that the "second Pearl Harbor" was purely fabricated, the commander of the United Fleet, Toyota, quickly revised the previous "results of battle" and changed it to "destroy up to four US ships and not sink a single aircraft carrier."

This is the closest set of data to the facts, but this set of data has not been reported to the Army—the reason is not difficult to understand. Let the army understand so clearly? As a result, Temple thought that the U.S. fleet had been severely damaged, and it was only its remnant troops that had invaded Wright Gulf.As a remnant force, the number of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft that can be used for combat is bound to be limited. In other words, although the US military has landed on Wright Island, it lacks strong naval and air support. Born in a noble family in the temple, he has always been proud and arrogant, with a personality like iron and stone.Think about it, the United Fleet, which used to be known as brave and invincible, is now shaped like a seedling, but Toyota is still screaming and killing, and it is so stubborn, how can my temple be willing to stay behind?

Yamashita didn't know much about the belly lawsuit in the temple. He only felt that without mental preparation and no battle plan in advance, it would be very difficult for the "Decisive Battle of Wright" to win by simply relying on additional troops.After the defeat of Wright Island, Luzon Island is also difficult to keep when its strength has been completely consumed. Seeing Yamashita's sad face, Muto suggested sending someone to the Southern Army General Headquarters to confirm it, and see if the temple could be revoked by the way. Major General Toshio Nishimura, the deputy chief of staff, went to the General Headquarters of the Southern Army.After learning about Xi Cun's intention to come, the temple was furious, and the boy's face that was shining brightly red stretched his face: "Anyway, just do what you are asked to do!"

Some people may not have the ability to make a dime outside, but they have a majesty at home that even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can't match. This is the kind of person in the temple.The matter has come to this point, and Yamashita had no choice but to accept it against his will. He issued an order to the 35th Army to assemble on Wright Island.The 35th Army is a relatively concentrated strategic unit, and the 16th Division stationed on Wright Island is also among them. In order to fill in the loopholes after the deployment of troops, Yamashita reported to the General Headquarters of the Southern Army, hoping to request the General Staff to allocate additional aircraft and ships, and to reinforce three divisions to Luzon Island, but the last of these requests was not answered or met. The reason is that the temple did not report it at all.

In the Japanese Army, there has long been a habit of thinking that front-line commanders should be satisfied with the strength given by their superiors, and asking for additional reinforcements will be considered not brave and resolute enough.What's more, facing the headquarters of the general staff, the temple wished that the world might be halfway down, and why would it be willing to do things that made him feel ashamed. A stubborn person like Si Nei can sometimes be as stupid as a donkey.He was unwilling to invest additional costs, but his ambitions were as big as they were. Under such circumstances, he actually imagined that the 35th Army would not go to Wright Island, and that it would win a big victory if it did, until MacArthur was captured alive and forced the "remnants of the U.S. Army" until surrender.

The reality of the battlefield is naturally very different.As soon as the assembly order under the mountain was issued, the 16th Division headquartered in Tacloban was defeated. Although the 16th Division was MacArthur's old opponent when he was in the Philippines, the veterans of this division had been transferred to the point of departure, and most of the recruits were recruited from the Kyoto and Osaka areas. .Like his soldiers, Lieutenant General Makino Shiro, the head of the division, has just been replaced, and he also doesn't have much actual combat experience.When the U.S. fleet entered Wright Gulf and was preparing to land, Makino also reported that the U.S. ships might have come to escape the typhoon.After the "Poplar Troops" landed and advanced in depth, he was still ignorant of the details of the progress of the battle. Due to the loss of command and lack of precautions, most of the frontier troops of the Japanese army were fragmented, and only a small group of troops remained with the division headquarters. connect.

On October 23, Tatsunosuke Suzuki, the captain of the 33rd Regiment, burned down the military flag, and led more than 40 remaining soldiers of the Regiment to carry out a suicide charge, all of whom died in front of the battle.The remaining remnants of the division, led by the head of the Makino division, escaped from Tacloban. Tacloban is completely controlled by the US military.At 3 o'clock in the afternoon that day, MacArthur and President Osmina boarded the steps in front of the Provincial Capitol building side by side. Behind them were officials from the Philippine government-in-exile and senior generals under MacArthur.

MacArthur announced the official reset of the Philippine government headed by Osmina, and assured that the US military would soon recover other Philippine islands.Every time he said a word, the crowd gathered in front of the building cheered enthusiastically, and the audience on and off the stage was filled with a long-lost sense of joy and pride. MacArthur believed that victory was in sight, but his opponents did not agree with this. Yamashita publicly threatened: "At the negotiation meeting for the surrender of Singapore, I said to the British commander 'Yes (yes), or No (no)', now I would like to ask the same question of MacArthur."