All gods, the lord who started with the bright sword

Chapter 376, Emperor Mai is eyeing the Sichuan Army
In Australia, a country where there are more kangaroos than people.

An American jeep galloped across the wilderness, bringing up billows of smoke and dust.

In the back seat, a middle-aged man with a resolute face was smoking a wooden pipe, looking forward with absent-minded eyes.

American military uniform, lieutenant general rank.

At this moment, the one who appeared here with his iconic big pipe in his mouth was obviously MacArthur, commander of the Western Pacific Theater of Eagle Sauce.

His equal is Nimitz, commander of the Central Pacific Theater.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in the Central Pacific Theater, Nimitz commanded all important battles on the Pacific battlefield.

Including the Battle of Midway Island, the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Mariana, the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Battle of Okinawa... Japan was hit hard.

Nimitz is crucial to the development and growth of the Eagle Sauce Navy. With his efforts, the Eagle Sauce Navy has achieved explosive growth in strength.

Also due to Nimitz's efforts, the Eagle Sauce Navy avoided merging with the Army into one department.

Nimitz was later promoted to a five-star general and also participated in the Japanese surrender ceremony on behalf of Takachan.

To commemorate Nimitz's contribution, Eagle Sauce named a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier after him.

People have a heart for comparison, and MacArthur is not exempt.

The Battle of Midway took place in the past June.

Commander Nimitz, who is as famous as him, has made excellent achievements, but what about MacArthur?
It cannot be said that nothing was achieved, it can only be said that it was a complete failure.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippines.

Due to MacArthur's misjudgment and mishandling, most of the eagle sauce bombers and fighter jets stationed in the Philippines were destroyed, and the air defense capability was completely lost.

In addition, the U.S. and Philippine troops were limited in strength, inferior in equipment and lack of training, and could not withstand the Japanese attack.

The failed MacArthur almost committed suicide with the pistol left by his father.

In March, he left the famous "I'll come back" promise and took a torpedo boat to break through the Japanese blockade and go to Australia.

He was later appointed Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Theater.

After that, it became MacArthur's goal to return to the Bataan Peninsula to avenge his shame.

In fact he did that too.

For the next two years, he commanded Allied forces in bloody battles against the Japanese in New Guinea and the Philippines.

The famous leapfrog tactics were implemented continuously, and five or six amphibious landing operations were organized.

It greatly consumed the strength and resources of the Japanese army, and contributed to the collapse of the Japanese army.

At the end of [-], MacArthur was promoted to a five-star general of the army.

After the victory of the Allied Forces, he went to Japan to be the emperor's father, that is, the Supreme Emperor, and later participated in commanding the Korean War.

MacArthur's character is very stubborn, single-minded, paranoid, and stubborn ass can't be an exaggeration to describe him.

In [-], the battle to regain Bataan began. He ran to the front of the army in a jeep desperately, and was almost regarded as a Japanese and attacked by his own plane.

In order to wash away the humiliation of the year, when he counterattacked the Philippines, MacArthur took the torpedo boat and returned to Crecidor Island along the route when he left that year, liberating the Philippines.

This kind of person values ​​honor more than anything else.

In MacArthur's farewell speech to Congress, the most memorable sentence is: "Old soldiers never die, they only fade away."

However, the veterans who died in the Washington tragedy would not buy MacArthur's account.

Hawk Sauce According to an act of Congress passed in 1924, veterans who fought in World War I were not paid their retirement payments until 1945.

Who knows if they will change their minds by then?
Changing the policy every day and every year is not unique to any country, it is common.

Dissatisfied, the veterans began lobbying and agitation, demanding early retirement payments, and launched a petition campaign to march on Washington.

On May 1932, 5, veterans arrived in Washington and camped in an empty building on Pennsylvania Avenue.

MacArthur believed that the Reds had infiltrated the Veterans Organization and quickly took over command from leaders who were uninformed.

In his view, this march of veterans is the rabbit party who wants to instigate a revolution.

MacArthur also claimed that 90 percent of the petitioners were not veterans.

In fact, VA statistics show that 94 percent of these individuals have served in the military, 67 percent have served overseas, and 20 percent are disabled.

Afterwards, a conflict broke out between the police and veterans during a parade. The police opened fire on the veterans, killing two on the spot and injuring many others.

Hoover ordered Secretary of War Hurley to send troops.

Hurley ordered MacArthur to move Eagle Sauce troops into the chaotic scene to cooperate with the police in charge of the area.

Surround the affected area, disperse the perpetrators, give care and consideration to every woman and child in the affected area, and take all humanitarian measures consistent with this order.

The order was issued in that way. As for the failure of the following to implement the accident, it is not the responsibility of the Secretary of the Army.

MacArthur is one-sided and paranoid, doesn't his boss know?
Obviously knew it, but why sent him, maybe to better quell the incident? !

There is no way of knowing what the president and the Secretary of the Army think.

I only know that MacArthur commanded the troops and drove along Pennsylvania Avenue.

Leading the charge was the saber-wielding 3rd Cavalry, followed by infantry, engineers, and finally six tanks.

The cavalry first charged the crowd, including bystanders.

Immediately afterwards, the infantry threw tear gas bombs at the crowd.

The army behind was still pressing on, and continued to throw tear gas bombs, like driving a herd of cattle.

By 9 p.m., the fleeing veterans had withdrawn to their base camp across the Anacostia River.

MacArthur wanted to chase after him and let the troops cross the river to destroy the base camp of the veterans, but President Hoover ordered a ban on crossing the river.

But MacArthur, who is as stubborn as a donkey, doesn't care about that. He doesn't buy it when the president comes.

He ordered the erection of machine guns at the head of the 11th Street bridge, and then led a column of infantry across it.

On the other side, the troops divided into two groups, outflanked the veterans' camp, and threw tear gas. The suppressing troops lit all the huts in the camp with torches, and the flames burst into the sky.

During the ransack, a soldier bayonets a young boy through the leg while trying to rescue his beloved rabbit from a burning shed.

Two babies who were only a few months old were suffocated to death by the gas.

Those who didn't know it thought it was the German devils who landed across the Atlantic Ocean and came to Washington!
Do veterans never die?
They will be suppressed to death for receiving retirement money.

I don't know how MacArthur can say such a word without shame, is the retired blond hair of the World War II veteran?
When other people came to ask for it, he suppressed it again.

In addition, MacArthur was stubborn, had a bad temper, and was proud of his talents. He was not suppressed when he was young, and he would also like to thank his general father——Arthur MacArthur Jr.
This man fought in the Civil War and served as a second lieutenant in the Volunteer Corps.

His highest rank is lieutenant general, and his highest position is the first military governor of Yingjiang in the Philippines.

MacArthur later also became the governor of the Philippines, with the rank of lieutenant general, catching up with his father.

To be honest, MacArthur's ability to become a five-star general is due to the relationship left by his father.

Army Chief of Staff Leonard Wood, who was once a subordinate of MacArthur's father, had received help from MacArthur's father.

Because of his father's connections, it was smooth sailing for MacArthur at the Army Command.

It's always his turn to do a good job. His bad mouth offends people. For the sake of the chief of staff, no one will really care about him.

The lingering shadow left by his father's generation has no effect on MacArthur's current position.

The Japanese wouldn't just let him go just because he was the son of a hawk sauce guy, they wouldn't give him that face and just beat him to death.

MacArthur couldn't defeat the Japanese and come up with a convincing record, so he couldn't even think about taking another step.

And what he has to do is better and brighter than Nimitz.

The jeep drove into the barracks, and a colonel officer rushed up to meet him and handed him a telegram.

"It's from General Stilwell."

MacArthur took a sharp puff of his pipe. Is there any clue about that matter?
After glancing at it, he was immediately attracted by the content, and walked into the room while watching.

Stilwell, the advisor to the transportation captain, was promoted to lieutenant general this year and served as the chief of staff of the Huaxia theater, taking on the role of coordinator in commanding the expeditionary force.

Just now Stilwell served as the commander-in-chief of the China-Myanmar-India Theater, the deputy commander of the Allied Forces Command in Southeast Asia, the commander of the Indian Army, and the person in charge of allocating the aid supplies to China.

In Southeast Asia, it is a very important role.

Of course, it is still not as good as MacArthur, the lieutenant general's "power content" is still a little bit worse.

In the end, he was only promoted to a four-star general, one star behind MacArthur.

In terms of status, Stilwell can only be regarded as MacArthur's subordinate.

MacArthur originally didn't care about the war in Burma, which was too far away from the kangaroos, and he would not be able to fight it for a while.

But the sudden emergence of the Sichuan Army has firmly attracted MacArthur's attention.

Thirty bursts of automatic rifles, a rocket launcher that fires twelve shells at a time, infantry combat vehicles and tanks with better performance...

Soldiers are naturally eager for advanced weapons.

Since learning about the Sichuan Army, MacArthur asked Stilwell and also ordered the intelligence department to pay close attention to the investigation and send the information to him as soon as possible.

Another thing he paid close attention to was the frontal enemy, the Japanese army.

The Sichuan Army sent two battalions to defeat the Fifth Division, and MacArthur knew it immediately.

Needless to say, he was amazed by the fighting power of the Sichuan Army. He paid more attention to the weapon exposed in this battle-jet aircraft.

Not long ago, the intelligence department obtained a piece of data on a new type of aircraft installed by the Sichuan Army.

The flight speed of the J-[-] has more than doubled that of the current propeller aircraft.

Everyone is doubting its authenticity, including MacArthur himself, who is also skeptical, because the Sichuan Army has repeatedly appeared new weapons.

Otherwise, they would just take this information as a joke.

Once the Tengchong air battle was over, no one doubted the authenticity of this information.

MacArthur also paid special attention to it, because as a high-level executive of Eagle Sauce, he is qualified to understand the development process of Eagle Sauce's new jet fighter.

Eagle sauce fighters were used in actual combat in World War II are propeller fighters, but this does not mean that Eagle sauce does not have jet combat.

Eagle Sauce's research on jet aircraft is not too late, but the technology is not high.

At the same time, Britain and Germany successively developed axial flow engines and centrifugal engines.

The Germans came up with the famous Me262 fighter jet, and the Brits used it as the "Meteor" type, which has shot down many V1 missiles.

But Eagle Sauce fumbled for several years but failed to produce a suitable engine, so he had to ask the UK for help.

The United Kingdom needed the strong support of Eagle Sauce during World War II. Facing the request of Eagle Sauce, it could not refuse. On the contrary, it could use technology in exchange for bargaining chips.

With a mature engine, Eagle Sauce's jet fighter is progressing much faster,
A successful flight was carried out in January 41, and the prototype of the test flight was the prototype P-1 of the F-80.

The aircraft flew at a speed of 806 kilometers per hour, becoming the fastest flying aircraft in the eagle sauce, nearly 200 kilometers faster than the propeller aircraft.

The success of the P-80 made the military very excited. It was the critical time of World War II, and it was necessary to take advantage of the situation to gain a technological advantage and win. The Eagle Sauce Air Force immediately placed an order for 5000 aircraft.

However, the four-step process of ordering, delivery, service, and combat effectiveness takes a long time.

So far, not a single P-80 has been delivered.

The real first delivery is in four or five years.

Since the jet fighter was a cross-age design at that time, the high speed would have a great impact on the driving and control of the aircraft and the aiming of the machine gun.

Pilots need to spend a relatively long time for relevant training, and ground crews also need to learn maintenance from the beginning.

Therefore, the F-80 did not go to the front line until the end of World War II.

The reply MacArthur received from the mainland was similar to the actual situation. It is estimated that everything will go well, and the first batch of aircraft will be delivered by the end of April or April.

However, in terms of performance data, the delivered P-80 jet fighter still has a considerable gap with the J-[-] fighter that MacArthur saw.

MacArthur originally thought that the P-80 was already a jet, so it would be able to make a difference no matter what!

But reality gave him a slap in the face.

According to intelligence, the Sichuan Army's jet fighters dispatched hundreds of sorties in three days, sweeping the Japanese Air Force without a single defeat.

Those zero fighters that gave them headaches couldn't even do a decent counterattack.

Now the sky over Burma has been dominated by the Sichuan Army and the Japanese army lost more than 300 aircraft, completely losing air supremacy.

MacArthur estimated that when the P-80 encountered the J-[-], it cannot be said that it was powerless to fight back, and it might have been massacred one-sidedly.

As a blue-blooded aristocrat with the Stars and Stripes, MacArthur will never allow the Great America to fall too far behind potential enemies.

They must have the most advanced technology, whether it is stolen, robbed, or bought.

Of course, it would be best to buy a full set. With their manufacturing speed in the United States, it won't take long for them to dominate the airspace of the world.

Little Japan and little Germany all get out and get beaten.

The corners of MacArthur's mouth couldn't help but slightly curled up. When the telegram turned to the next page, a paragraph of text suddenly caught his attention.

(End of this chapter)