Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 1835 Countermeasures and Opportunities

On the 23rd, after Washington exchanged dozens of telegrams with Guangzhou frequently, a complete set of plans for the Second Army Expeditionary Army and the US military stationed in the Philippines were finally finalized.On the same day, Guo Kui, Guo Da, and Huang Hua led the troops directly under the headquarters and the First Expeditionary Division from Calatrava across the Strait of Tañon and returned to Toledo, and then headed eastward all the way to start In order to detour the eastern islands of the Philippines to the long march to Mindanao.

According to the latest agreement between Washington and Guangzhou, Mindanao and several islands in the southeast will be handed over to the second expeditionary army for defense. Correspondingly, the student army will temporarily obtain the right to govern these areas. It has the authority to mobilize all forces on these islands to serve the Anti-Japanese War, including recruiting locals to supplement troops.Because of this agreement, it was much more convenient for Huang Hua to mobilize the local Chinese to form a militia.One after another, the student groups were put down by him in various large and medium-sized towns. These people immediately became the bridge between the student army and the local government. With the help of the local Chinese, they began to form local militias. work.By the 30th, when Guo Kui and the others arrived in St. Francis, Huang Hua had already released more than [-] cadets, and there were already three militias organized into the headquarters.

On the 21st, in the northwest peninsula of Mindanao Island, the Marine Corps under the Ryujo aircraft carrier fleet of the Japanese Western Expeditionary Fleet, led by a so-called "Mindan National Independence Brigade" local armed forces, attacked the besieged Zamboanga, Sibuko, and Sio Kong's U.S.-Philippine troops launched an encirclement and suppression operation.

Since the US Far East Air Force and mixed fleet were severely damaged in the Tanhai air battle and the Negros Island naval battle, the Japanese-Western Expeditionary Fleet has achieved comprehensive advantages. Therefore, Koizumi is no longer satisfied with defeating the US military to occupy the Philippines.Before that campaign, he convened a military conference at which he introduced for the first time the idea that to fight a war of civilization one must conquer not only the bodies of the Filipinos but also their hearts ——"We are the 'liberators'. We attack the Philippines not to destroy, but to build! Gentlemen, please keep this in mind. Only in this way can we win the support of the Filipinos and truly make them fight for I use..."

Because of adhering to this strategic guiding ideology, before the Japanese army started military operations, the first thing they started was a propaganda offensive.At about [-] o'clock in the morning of that day, one Japanese plane after another took off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier "Ryujo" carrying a large amount of leaflets. Soon, Siokon, Sibuco, including Zamboanga, etc. The surrounding towns and villages have been bombed with such leaflets.

Tunggawan, 45 kilometers away from Ipil, is also an important area for Japanese leaflet air strikes.Tunggawan, together with two nearby small mountain villages, had a combined population of no more than 6000 people, but the Japanese army dispatched two bombers and dropped a total of 14 leaflets.These leaflets are cheap for Xiao Anbao's Expedition No. [-] Brigade students, the brothers all collect a bundle for use as straw paper, in Wang Huo's words: "The little devil is really anxious about what I am waiting for, knowing that brothers have to There are a lot of hemorrhoids, so I specially sprinkled so many toilet paper."

The leaflets were all written in English, and few officers and soldiers of the No.14 Brigade could understand them, so they were just used as papyrus.And these leaflets were handed over to Xiao Anbao, his eyes shrank after reading it, and he immediately realized the danger of these leaflets.According to the order of the Second Expeditionary Army Headquarters conveyed by Huang Haifu, they had to wait for the main force to find a chance to break through after defeating the Japanese army's attempt to advance in depth.But now, because he smelled danger from these leaflets, he didn't dare to wait any longer.Summoning Wang Huhu and others, he circulated the leaflet translated into Chinese to everyone, and then said solemnly: "The little devil is getting more and more treacherous, and this is a good way to play the bottom line! The 61st Division has With Sharp in town, it is estimated that there will be no problems, but it is difficult to say about the 81st Division in Sibuco and the 101st Division in Siokon. If these two divisions are controlled by the Japanese, then we will have to break out if we want to break out. It will be much more difficult, and there may even be no place to hide—we can no longer wait for the main force to come to support us, so pass my order, and the whole army will immediately assemble and march northeastward, approaching Ipil on the mountain road—let’s take the initiative to break through! "

Xiao Anbao's vision was very accurate. At 01:30 that afternoon, a regiment of devils marching from Ipil to Tungawan was still more than ten kilometers away from Tungawan. The size of a company in Tungawan The Filipino outpost surrendered to the Japanese.Then, there was a riot against the Americans in Siokon - the Filipino soldiers of the 101st Division launched a mutiny under the command of a regiment commander named Huang Yonghao, and the commander of the division and the Americans about the size of a regiment were taken by surprise. It was wrapped and unloaded, and the whole country was telegraphed, saying that they would respond to the call of the Japanese to start the national independence movement to expel the American imperialist colonists, and called on other Filipino troops to stand up bravely and fight against the evil American imperialist colonists. struggle for national and national independence...

MacArthur already had doubts about the Filipinos because of Koizumi Toshiichiro's speech, but now because of this call, he couldn't believe the Filipinos anymore. As a result, the situation in the Philippine war took a turn for the worse, and the US military stationed in the Philippines fell into a huge crisis. .

Guo Kui learned about Siokon's rebellion from the Americans a little later. Compared with the collective panic of the Americans, he seemed very calm. He first ordered the various ministries to do what they should do, and then gave Huang Haifu and Hua Laifu Send a secret message, let them strengthen the monitoring of the Filipino troops in the Capatagan area, and allow them to show their strength at an appropriate time, so as to prevent those hot-headed Filipinos from thinking about the student army.

On the 22nd, Sibuco's 81st Division, exactly the same commotion as Siokon occurred.And because the Americans were prepared, the 61st Division commanded by Sharp simply abandoned Zamboanga and assembled towards Sibuco, and the Filipino rebellion was extinguished this time.In a scuffle, the Filipino army of a rebel brigade was wiped out. The main perpetrator, a brigade commander named Josena, and his henchmen were killed. Sharp temporarily stabilized Sibuco's situation.And on this afternoon, the Japanese first carried out a high-intensity bombing of Sibuco, and then, a regiment of Japanese troops carried a division and a brigade of Filipino puppet troops to attack Sibuco.

Although the mutiny of the 81st Division was defeated by Sharp, both the 61st Division and the 81st Division also suffered damage to varying degrees.If it weren't for the fact that the terrain around Sibuko is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Dodison Division of the 61st Division has grown up in the joint operations with the No.14 Brigade, in fact, the Americans have lost the capital to resist.

The battle of Sibuco was quite tragic, and the Americans showed a bloody side in a rare way. Sharp successively filled about three regiments of American troops into the frontline battlefield. Repelled more than ten attacks by Japanese and Philippine troops.At ten o'clock in the evening, just when the Japanese army wanted to continue their offensive, the No. 5000 Brigade's breakout operation began.It took only half an hour for this student army that suddenly came out of the night to defeat a brigade of Japanese troops left behind by Ipil, and completely attracted the attention of the Japanese troops.

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