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Soon, the American GI found a pistol in his shoes, clothes discarded at the scene. This is an American pistol. As with the camera, the traces are worn off. The pistol is powerful, accurate and reliable at a range of twenty meters.

They also found a wooden pipe wrapped in clothes, someone with experience in the jungle, and soon concluded that the pipe was a blowpipe, used to kill, and that a trained person could hit the prey at a distance of twenty or thirty meters, and that the poisonous needle blown out of the blowpipe would kill the prey.

The American GIs began a city-wide manhunt, arresting all Japanese and locals who were reported to have ties to Japan. Immediately, they interrogated everyone they caught, and a beautiful woman was also caught. One detail she confessed caught the attention of U.S. military intelligence officers: Someone paid them to come to the party, and gave them cosmetics, nylon socks, and dollars, two dollars each.

The appearance of the beauties quickly ruled out suspicions, the landowners of the Philippines wanted to curry favor with the Americans, and the beauties had to do business. Normal.

During the crackdown, there was a phenomenon that many local chaebols were reported that they had ties to Japan. Later, these plutocrats could not be trusted by the Americans, and although they were released, life was very difficult, and their wealth was quickly lost.

Then, some clues at the scene also led the direction of suspicion to the US military: Could it be that the Americans themselves did it? It must be the Japanese, the Japanese are too cunning.

This shows that there are still many Japanese spies in Manila.

On March 26, 1945, an explosive news spread around the world that General MacArthur had been assassinated by a Japanese spy hiding in a press conference after the conquest of Manila. Although the general's injuries were not serious, they caused a heart attack and died. The Assassins have captured one so far, and we are in the process of arresting their comrades.

On the day of the assassination, the assassination journalist Gonzalez committed suicide in the detention center. The so-called detention center is a soldier's confinement room on a warship, and after he was detained, he was interrogated three times. Some torture was used during the third interrogation. During the night, the man committed suicide. Some people suspected that he was the murderer, but because only American soldiers had contact with him, the suspicion of killing was quickly ruled out.

The reaction of the Americans was huge.

The U.S. Presidential Office and Congress issued statements condemning the despicable and cowardly actions of the Japanese. Flags were lowered at half-mast on some important occasions to mourn.

The military also issued a statement, and the Pacific Theater Command, in particular, issued a strong-worded statement resolutely carrying out the war against Japan to the end.

Soon, the White House appointed General Nimitz as commander to command combat operations in the Pacific theater of operations. The pace of the American offensive in the Philippines has not changed at all.

The majority of the people in the United States are filled with righteous indignation, and even more people are pessimistic about the development of the Pacific theater. Anti-war activists took advantage of this to demand the withdrawal of troops. In a few cities, people have already taken to the streets.

China's response has also been strong.

Chongqing's Mai Shuai and Mai Shuai published many articles, and the official also issued a condemnation announcement.

Yan'an issued a statement of condemnation and issued an order to strictly require local officials to strengthen their vigilance to prevent the assassination of Japanese lone wolves.

The response in Europe has been significant. The allies made statements of condemnation and several years almost simultaneously. The vast European theater of war was progressing slowly, and the military and civilians heard the news and became even more negative about the development of the war situation.

Germany, on the other hand, was very positive and excited about the response, with some celebrating and others appreciating the actions of the Japanese. Some people even advocated that we should also learn from the Japanese warriors and assassinate some generals.

Japan's response was the most peculiar.

First of all, they are not convinced, and the official does not make any comments. Some people even jumped out to deny it, of course, this is a personal statement. Soon, however, the Japanese government received more and more detailed information, which invariably stated that the assassins had used a stupid double to carry out the assassination plan.

The Japanese began to turn from disbelief to half-belief. It wasn't until two days later that the news of MacArthur's assassination turned out to be true and the Japanese believed it. At this time, the Japanese still did not make a statement admitting the assassination, but the people had already begun to celebrate.

Who did it?

Debates began within Japan. The Japanese Navy thought it was the Army that did it, and the Army thought it was the Navy who did it.

However, the base camp of the Japanese army felt that it was done by civilian people, because they were confident that they had mastered the navy and army, and it was not the military that did it, but only the possibility that civilian people did it. Soon, the Black Dragon Society and the Black Ocean Society quickly finished the investigation, and they all said that they didn't do it by their own people.

Then it could be an individual independent event. Strangely, such a big plan as the assassination of MacArthur could not have been accomplished without an organization and without the cooperation of many people.

All Japanese believe that it was done by Japanese samurai.

However, some speculate that it was the remaining Japanese naval officers and soldiers who fought in the defense of Manila. Once this point of view was put forward, it was recognized by many people, especially the navy, who preferred to believe that it was the navy that did it.

Although there are many suspicions, the whole of Japan is very excited, as if they have taken doping, and some people even think that the future of Japan's war with the United States is not so pessimistic.

The excitement of Japanese public opinion, in turn, strengthened the judgment of the Americans that MacArthur was killed by Japanese spies.

The momentum of the American offensive was not affected at all, and Nimitz took over MacArthur's duties, completely dominating the battle, and the offensive continued. Despite the stronger resistance of the Japanese, the offensive posture remained unchanged.

On the morning of March 27, 1945. Manila.

The city of Manila was almost razed to the ground, and the ruins of the war were left behind. The suburbs are relatively much better, many farms, estates, and the countryside is better preserved. The big farmer's villas in the suburbs are well preserved.

Several jeeps and a truck drove up to a manor house on the outskirts. It was a European-style manor with a main building, a garden, a place for servants to work in the distance, a house to live in, a warehouse for storing goods, and so on.

It was an estate of the J.P. Laurel family. The American troops broke into the manor and quickly occupied all the places, and within half an hour, a large group of stewards, servants, peasants, and so on in the manor were gathered. Without saying a word, the American GIs arrested all of them and escorted them to a makeshift prison in the barracks.

J.P. Laurel is the former Secretary of Justice of the Philippines. After the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the Philippines declared independence under the leadership of the Japanese, and J.P. Laurel became president. Japan ruled the Philippines harshly, monopolizing public industries such as public transportation and mining, forcing farmers to grow cotton and forcibly expropriating grain. Filipinos are hungry.

The J.P. Laurel family retreated with the Japanese army. The rest of the puppet government also retreated.

The homes of all important members of the Philippine puppet government were searched, and the members of the puppet government and important members of their families had already fled with the Japanese army, and all the people who were caught were small people.

To be sure, these people's land and possessions will not be saved. Members of the government who have just returned are eyeing the property of these people.

The U.S. military searched for Manila and arrested hundreds of people, and a U.S. military reporter was in charge of filming the warm welcome of the people, and coincidentally, there were many scenes of Filipinos approaching MacArthur in his photos, and one of them had Gonzalez.

The intelligence services took all his photographs, carefully studied them, studied the angles of possible shots, found two dozen people. Among these two dozen people, a few were beautiful women who had been summoned to pull banners, a few were journalists, and a few were ordinary people, and four or five of them had unclear faces.

Of the four or five unrecognizable men, two were strange, wearing hats and faces of strange shapes, but their eyes were sharp.

Later, experts analyzed that their faces were deformed, and it should be that there was something in the cheeks and mouth.

In the end, these people were not caught. Soon, the clear-faced people in the photographs were almost arrested, and the interrogation easily ruled out the possibility of their assassination. When they were asked to remember if they had seen anyone who could do it, several of them mentioned two unrecognizable people, very slippery, squeezing through the crowd, walking very fast.

These two are suspects, and the arresters should identify these onlookers to see if they are these two suspects.

The investigation also found that the camera was made in Europe, and because it was easy to modify, some people had modified it with assassination tools, and even small pistols could be hidden inside. Other details are unclear, as the camera was sent to Europe to investigate.

The pistol found at the scene was a U.S. military standard equipment. Because the number was smoothed out, it was impossible to continue the search, and the clue was interrupted.

A strange thing was also found at the scene, the person who found this thing did not know what it was, there was an interpreter who was a local, and knew that it was a blowpipe, which could spew out poisonous hard thorns, which was originally a weapon used by hunters to shoot their prey in the jungle, and now, this is an assassination weapon.

Two weapons were found, further indicating that the two men were Assassins. They have experience in jungle life hunting and have the ability to get guns. There are many people who meet this condition, and if they are Japanese, there must be indigenous people who help them.

The investigation surrounding this assassination weapon soon ran out of steam. Where to check? The weapon is a standard weapon of the US military, which is powerful, and it has been lost a lot in the previous stage of the campaign. The blowpipe is even more difficult to check.

The investigation of beautiful women was difficult at first, but soon there was a breakthrough. The person who gave the beauty money and cosmetics is said to be a member of a large Filipino family, and there is no suspicion.

Soon, there were rumors that several large families working with Japan had jointly planned the assassination. For a time, several big families who were close to the Japanese were silent, and they all relied on their relationships to find the US military and clear themselves.

However, there are constant news in a newspaper that puts several large Filipino families on trial. The US military did not immediately liquidate these large families, but the people of the government-in-exile began to liquidate. The people in exile are also big families, and they have a bad relationship with the Japanese, and during the Japanese rule, the family suffered huge losses, and now that the opportunity has come, how can they let it go?

That's all for later.