Chapter 349: The U.S. Army in the Philippines in a Dilemma!
Subic Bay is located in the west-central part of the Philippine island of Luzon. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info is about 100 kilometers northwest of Manila and south of the South China Sea. The harbor is 14 kilometers long, 8-13 kilometers wide, and the water depth is 24-50 meters.
In 1901, the United States established a naval base in Subic Bay, which in turn established the Asian Detachment of the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy. After more than 30 years of development, the Subic Bay Naval Base has become the most important US military base in the Asia-Pacific region and a strong guarantee for the United States to exercise colonial rule over the Philippines.
Since Japan launched the South Pacific War, in order to prevent the possibility of Japanese troops landing in the Philippines at any time, MacArthur, the US Governor General in the Philippines, has expanded the Subic Bay Naval Base, and at the same time has invested a large amount of manpower, material, and financial resources in the Clark Air Force Base and Cavite Naval Base, and has built a large number of buildings, as if to build the Philippines into the strongest US military fortress in the Asia-Pacific region.
In order to keep the Philippines, the only overseas colony of the United States, both during the Roosevelt administration and Hoover, the new president of the United States, spared no effort to persuade Congress to increase Philippine defense financial allocations.
Today's Subic Bay has become a huge military camp fortress. All the buildings are prefabricated reinforced concrete, and many concrete roads can temporarily take off and land large military transport aircraft.
It can be said that the Subic Bay Naval Base, with its infrastructure construction and living facilities, is even more superior than the conditions and environment of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Medical care, commerce, transportation, life and entertainment and other related social service facilities can be seen everywhere, and social functions are basically sound.
But even so, Roscoe Henry Hillencottez still didn't want to come to this "ghost place". Because he understands that in the Philippines, the United States must not only defend against the Japanese, but also against those damned Filipino natives.
Due to the turmoil caused by the United States and the Communist Party, the indigenous Filipinos now have not only pro-Japanese elements, but also a large number of pro-Communist elements. According to Dulles's accurate information, the US Communist Party has grown up to 10,000 members of the US Communist Party in the Philippines and has also established a guerrilla force led by the US Communist Party.
Since 1899, there has been an uninterrupted contest between the United States and Filipino independence elements in the Philippines. Now, these damned Filipino elements not only have the support of Japan, but also collude with the US communists, which has made the pressure on the United States to fight against the Philippines unprecedentedly heavy.
Recently, various fleets of the Japanese Navy have been frequently mobilized, and the nearly 200,000 heavy troops assembled by the Japanese army in Kalimantan may launch a landing offensive on the Philippines at any time and anywhere.
Although the US Navy's Pacific Fleet has made Subic Bay the second main base of the fleet, and the US military has invested an unprecedented 300,000 troops in the Philippines, Hillencott is still not optimistic about whether the US military can keep the Philippines.
The Philippines is too far away from the U.S. mainland, and the current industrial and economic conditions of the Philippines are simply not enough to support the U.S. military to fight a long-lasting anti-landing defense war in the Philippines.
Once the US Pacific Fleet loses the decisive battle with the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, the Japanese Navy will be able to cut off the supply of foreign supplies to the Philippines and turn the Philippines into an isolated island.
As captain of the battleship USS Virginia for the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, Hillencott was well aware of the gap that currently existed between the US Navy and the Japanese Navy.
Modern naval naval warfare is no longer the previous mode of bombardment by giant ships and artillery, but has become a contest between aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft.
The mission of the Navy can only be to attack, attack, attack, and attack!
However, the main task of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the Philippines became defense. In Hillencott's opinion, the US Navy has lost strategically to the Japanese.
What's more, the three Yorktown-class aircraft carriers anchored in Subic Bay are simply no match for the Japanese Navy's Yamato-class heavy aircraft carriers. The only hope was that the land-based aircraft of the newly formed US Air Force would pose a threat to the Yamato-class aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy.
However, the Philippines is surrounded by sea on all sides, and on all sides it is at risk of being attacked by Japanese air forces from Taiwan, Vietnam, and Kalimantan.
If the United States wants to keep the Philippines, there is only one way, to cooperate with the Donghua Empire!
It's a pity that the young emperor of the Donghua Empire is too cunning, even if the United States agrees to transfer all of Mindanao to the Donghua Empire, Cheng Gong has no intention of being tempted at all.
If it weren't for the damn nigger riots in the South, the United States wouldn't be in the current dilemma in the Philippines. The Donghua Empire obviously saw clearly the major crisis facing the United States, so it put on the idea of handing over the entire Philippines to the Donghua Empire privately, or just watching the fire from across the strait.
Even if President Hoover dares to make this decision, the US Congress and the entire military and civilians will never agree to hand over the entire Philippines.
The once invincible British, who were once in decline, are in decline. Pressed and beaten by the German Nazi army, he can now only be trapped in the British Isles and struggle. If all the military supplies provided by the United States to Britain were transferred to the Philippines, Hillencott felt that the American army could hold out in the Philippines for at least a year.
For those led by the American Communist Party, Hillencott now has a deep hatred. These damn niggers not only disrupted American industrial production and disrupted the social order in the United States, but what is even more odious is that the armed forces they built up actually led to the outbreak of the Second Civil War in the United States. As a result, the United States is now in a difficult situation of internal and external difficulties.
What Hillencott hated most was that some of the Navy, Army, and Air Force secretly joined the Communist Party of the United States. Not only do these people not want to solve problems for the United States, but they follow the US communists to cause chaos in the United States, spread negative remarks in the military, and shake the morale of the military.
In extraordinary times, the army must remain pure!
Hillencott strongly agreed with and supported the secret telegram sent by President Hoover last night on the "military suppression."
If you go outside, you must first settle inside!
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In Manila at night, although the surrounding streets of the city's central business district are also full of flashy lights, they are more of a dull, oppressive, and tense atmosphere hidden in the darkness and silence.
The gloomy drizzle has cast a silky mist over the night at Manila North Railway Station.
The passenger train from Subic to Manila glides lazily on the tracks and slowly pulls into the station's platform three.
The green fast train with 32 carriages had just stopped, and the passengers in the carriages who had already packed up their salutes could not wait to pour into the platform from the exits of each carriage, making the originally quiet platform crowded and suddenly crowded and crowded.
At the entrance and exit of the station, all kinds of people who picked up the train stood in a dense area. All of them moved in unison, looking up hard into the tunnel of the station, trying to find their relatives and friends.
With the flow of people coming out of the sleeper car, Ozaki Hidemi tightened his straight suit, raised his hand to move his black top hat, and carried a brown suitcase in his right hand, slowly moving with the flow of passengers checking in the ticket.
Just a few steps out of the station ticket gate, a middle-aged man in a black suit and a black top hat, led two Philippine major officers in US military uniforms, who were thin but looked quite shrewd and capable, came out of the crowd and greeted Ozaki Shushi.
(To be continued.) )