On February 26, 1946, a nationwide uprising broke out in the Philippines. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info25 million Filipinos unite to resist the brutal rule of the Japanese occupation forces and their puppet regime. In Luzon, Samar, Leyte, Panay, Palawan, Mindanao, and Mindoro, the insurgents seized towns, prisons, barracks, and ports with weapons secretly supported by the U.S. government or guns seized from the Japanese army and puppet government forces. In just two days, more than three-quarters of the Philippines was under the control of the rebels, and Japanese and puppet government forces were forced to retreat to several important cities, including Manila, to wait for reinforcements.

With the fierce combat strength and fanatical spirit of the Japanese army, the Filipinos were able to achieve such a result, which greatly surprised the outside world. Of course, this is not only due to the courage of the Filipino insurgents and the general public, but also the covert support and long-term planning of the US government.

For the Filipinos, both the United States and Japan are foreign invaders, and their purpose is to plunder resources from the Philippines, but the difference is that from the full occupation of the Philippines in 1901 to the defeat and withdrawal of the Japanese army in 1933, the United States ruled the Philippines for more than 30 years, adopting a neocolonial policy different from that of the old colonizers, that is, comprehensively introducing the American-style bourgeois political, judicial and educational systems, cultivating the local landlord bourgeois pro-American clique in the Philippines, and gradually expanding the latter's power to participate in politics. In the economy, the Philippines has been dependent on the US market and has become the source of raw materials and a commodity market for US capital, and has maintained control over the Philippines in an indirect and gentle way -- before the outbreak of World War II, the US Government had already granted Filipinos a high degree of autonomy, and the Philippine Autonomy Act was gradually maturing, which gave every Filipino the hope of complete independence.

After Japan entered the war, the Japanese army swept through Southeast Asia in just a few months, nominally driving out the Americans as the liberators of Asia, but bringing the old colonial system back to the Philippines. The puppet government supported by the Japanese government is completely subordinate to the military governors appointed by Japan in the Philippines, and the two military governors appointed by Japan before and after are ruthless, and the Japanese enterprises and Japanese businessmen who enter the Philippines rely on the support of the occupation forces to forcibly control the Philippine market and wantonly plunder the resources of the Philippines, and their actions not only greatly damage the interests of the Filipino people, but also make the landlords and bourgeoisie of the Philippines suffer greatly. It was they who contacted the U.S. government through secret channels, hoping to use the Americans' power to drive out the Japanese.

During the Sino-Soviet War, Japan turned to wartime surprise production, and the expropriation of occupied areas and colonies intensified, and uprisings broke out in various parts of South Asia, and all walks of life in the Philippines were also actively planning rebellions, and with the secret help and instigation of the Americans, a national resistance coalition was established. Under the leadership of the Resistance League, thousands of Filipino youths traveled to Hawaii to receive systematic military training, and then returned home with the combat skills they had learned to teach tens of thousands of resisters. By the time of the uprising, there were more than 200 secret training camps across the country, exposing hundreds of thousands of Filipinos, including many women, to the most basic combat techniques.

After the Tokyo explosion, Japan fell into the weakest and chaotic period in recent years, and this was undoubtedly the perfect opportunity for the Filipinos to stage a major uprising. Relying on the comprehensive intelligence collected over a long period of time, the U.S. Army General Staff tailored an overall combat plan for the Philippine Resistance Alliance, and urgently dispatched dozens of liaison officers and a number of elite commandos. With the help of the Americans, the Filipino rebels on Leyte Island not only succeeded in raiding the Japanese garrison and seizing more than half of the island's arsenal, but also slaughtered all the Japanese soldiers who fled on the island in a very short period of time, and established the Philippine Provisional Government in Tucker Lobhan, the largest city on the island, which greatly boosted the morale of the Filipino people......

When the Philippine uprising broke out, there were only more than 40,000 regular Japanese troops stationed in the Philippines, and although they were able to mobilize 100,000 puppet government soldiers and a large number of police to help in the war, the latter two were basically ineffective, and many even defected. After a week of fighting, the Japanese army not only failed to extinguish the raging flames of the Philippine uprising, but instead lost thousands of men and horses, if the situation continued to develop, the Filipinos would be able to drive out the Japanese by relying on their own strength, but behind the Japanese troops stationed in the Philippines was Japan that was close to its peak of strength, and they had nearly two million well-trained active-duty soldiers and the world's top three naval and air force units. The Japanese side still quickly assembled reinforcements -- military and political officials with a little insight knew very well that once the Philippines, a strategic point connecting Southeast Asia and South Asia, was lost, Japan's strategic layout in the Asia-Pacific region would immediately fall into an extremely passive state.

Before the Japanese reinforcements from Malaya and Burma had boarded the ships, the US intelligence services already knew the details of the size and number of these reinforcements, and they also knew that it would be difficult for the Filipino rebels to resist the elite divisions of the Japanese army, and to make matters worse, the Japanese Navy's Southeast Front Fleet had already sent a number of additional warships to Manila. The Philippines is an archipelago country, and its economy and people's livelihood are inseparable from the sea, and if the Japanese army has always firmly grasped the control of the sea, the Filipino rebels scattered on the islands can only fight on their own, and finally they are broken one by one by the concentrated forces of the Japanese army......

On the afternoon of March 27, 1946, in the western Pacific Ocean, 1,300 kilometers east of Manila.

A blue-fuselage, silver-gray wing, the IR-39T, painted almost indistinguishable from that of the U.S. Naval Aviation, landed smoothly aboard the USS Enterprise, the new generation of the U.S. Navy's carrier-based fighter pilot, and was piloted by the Irish Navy's active pilot, Second Lieutenant Jon Bradley. Although the operational standards, technical regulations, and other details of the aviation of the US and Irish navies are different, based on the long-term close cooperation, the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft of the two sides have basically mastered the skills of taking off and landing normally on each other's aircraft carriers, which is of great significance for the two sides to conduct joint military operations.

After landing, Second Lieutenant Bradley unbuckled his seat and left the cockpit, meeting an American officer directly on the flight deck, and receiving a black briefcase from the other. At the same time, the flight crew of the Enterprise quickly pushed the IR-39T into the take-off area, and the huge carrier adjusted its course, allowing the Irish fighter to take off against the wind.

Armed with a black briefcase containing a top-secret battle plan, Second Lieutenant Bradley flew away from the Enterprise and, after a few minutes of circling and adjustment, finally landed on the Irish Navy aircraft carrier St. Patrick, a few nautical miles away. Despite the fact that this is an "old ship" that has been in service for almost a decade, this Winner-class aircraft carrier has adopted a number of advanced technologies, some of which are still leading the world to this day, so no one dares to underestimate its combat capabilities!

As the second-generation standard aircraft carrier of the Western Allies, the Winner class built a total of 18 ships, of which 12 were built in Germany and 6 in Ireland, and the equipment situation was 12 in Germany, 3 in Ireland, 1 in Spain, and 2 for the Japanese Navy. The standard displacement of this type of aircraft carrier is 30,350 tons, can carry 78-84 carrier-based aircraft, except for the two export models sold to Japan, the rest are equipped with the Irish MC-V fire control radar commander or the same efficiency of the German Lorentz-IV radar, the air defense efficiency has been qualitatively improved compared with the previous aircraft carriers, and with the first radar early warning aircraft IA-40 on board, the defense radius and command accuracy of the Winner class has jumped to a new level!

In this area, not far from the Philippine Islands, the U.S. Navy has assembled 8 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 17 light and heavy cruisers, 44 destroyers, and 14 auxiliary ships, as well as 1 capital aircraft carrier, 1 light cruiser, 5 destroyers, and 2 special supply ships of the Irish Navy. Just like the Lend-Lease model during World War II, these Irish ships and all their crews are "paid services" -- although the cost paid by the U.S. government for this can be used to maintain at least twice the size of its own ships, but the Irish Navy's strong combat capability and advanced military technology undoubtedly make the U.S. military very much appreciated, as for the Irish Navy repeatedly playing the role of the strongest mercenaries, not only to expand its international influence, but also to keep its own army alive in actual combat, And soldiers like Second Lieutenant Bradley, who voluntarily accepted the expatriate assignment, came here not only for the appearance fee of the American side, but like most of their companions, they came with reality and dreams - the reality is that when Ireland has not participated in the war for many years, the normal promotion in the army is relatively slow, and participating in the war as a special mercenary is a shortcut to accumulating military merits and improving seniority......

After World War II, the military and political mechanism of the United States quietly underwent many changes, but under the constraints of the Constitution, they could not sneak attack the enemy in an undeclared way like Japan, and before using force, they had to submit an ultimatum to the other side, asking them to accept a certain request of the US government, or let the other side attack themselves first, and then make a strong counterattack, just like the Spanish-American War. This time, the U.S. government chose the first option, and they issued an ultimatum to Japan demanding that the Japanese army stop its "massacre" in the Philippines and accept the Filipino demands for autonomy. As expected by the U.S. side, Nagano's cabinet coldly and arrogantly rejected the U.S. ultimatum, warning the U.S. government not to try to blackmail Japan with atomic bombs, and that Japan's nuclear program is no slower than that of the United States, and that Japan would have become the third country in the world to possess nuclear weapons had it not been for an accident in transit of their test products. If the United States dares to use atomic bombs against Japan, Japan will retaliate with more atomic bombs.

From the standpoint of the Americans, declaring war on Japan was undoubtedly a game of truth about the Tokyo nuclear explosion, and after the German top level clearly expressed their support, Ireland even sent a task force to join the firing line, and the US Government had sufficient confidence, and the new President Truman won full applause with an impassioned speech to Congress, and successfully obtained the congressional authorization for war. As a result, the Americans launched a war against Japan with the long-cherished desire to break the shadow of defeat, regain hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region, and then compete for world dominance!

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