To be honest, Cheng Gong, like MacArthur, thought that the main battlefield of the Japanese army's campaign in the Philippines should be Palawan Island in the southwest of the Philippines. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because, strategically and tactically, Okamura Ninji could completely rely on Kalimantan as the front line of the attack, and with the cover of the Japanese navy, first take Palawan and its surrounding islands, and then wait for an opportunity to seek landing grounds on the central and southern islands of the Philippines.

Who would have thought that Okamura Ninji would take a risk, intending to capture Manila in one fell swoop, and win the battle with a certain victory, thus forcing the United States and the Philippines to surrender.

Obviously, Japan does not want to be at odds with the United States in the Philippines. Therefore, from the very beginning, the posture of encircling the southwest, south, and south was put on one side, which not only meant to let the US troops flee from the east to the Pacific Ocean, but also had the tactical intention of gathering and destroying the US troops stationed in the Philippines at sea.

The U.S. Navy does not seem to have any intention of fighting a decisive battle with the Japanese Navy as soon as the war begins, and the Japanese Navy seems to have this mentality. As a result, the US Navy's Pacific Fleet was heavily assembled, and the capital ships of the Japanese Navy's 2nd, 3rd, and 4th fleets were elusive.

It was not until the beach-grabbing landing battle in the northwest of the Philippines began that Cheng Gong discovered that the 14th Army of the little devils in Taiwan was still a new force in attacking the Philippines as in history, and Honma Masaharu was still the first senior Japanese army general to land in the Philippines.

This is really a Tibetan mastiff!

After learning that the 14th Army of the Japanese Army commanded by Masaharu Honma had successfully landed on the beach in North Luzon, Cheng Gong couldn't help but speak violently in front of Einstein, Tesla, and others in the laboratory.

The current focus of the Tianyan satellite system is to keep an eye on the every move of Japan's southern dispatch army, and Cheng Gong never thought about the fact that the Japanese army would take the lead in landing in North Luzon as the 14th Army under the command of Masaharu Honma as in history, and the front of the troops was directed at Manila.

Cheng Gong immediately mobilized a military reconnaissance satellite to the sky over North Luzon, and when he saw that the US troops in Manila were not retreating to Bataan in a panic, he relaxed his heart a little.

Judging from the deployment and mobilization routes of the US-Philippine forces in North Luzon, MacArthur obviously planned to take advantage of the terrain of the river network in North Luzon to delay the Japanese landing of heavy armored troops, and then wait for an opportunity to find fighters to encircle and annihilate the bold and reckless Japanese 14th Army in one fell swoop.

MacArthur's retreat must be cut off first, and MacArthur must be forced to fight to the death against the Japanese army in the Philippines!

After Cheng Gong made up his mind, he immediately handed over to the diplomatic department and issued a statement that the Donghua Empire strictly adhered to neutrality, and neither the Japanese nor the American army was allowed to set foot in the territorial waters and territorial territory of the Donghua Empire.

I won't let you Lao Mai take refuge in Australia with the remnants of the defeated army, see where you flee in this life!

This statement suddenly issued by the Donghua Empire was naturally highly praised by the Japanese government.

On the contrary, when MacArthur, who was preoccupied in the Manila Governor's Palace, learned the news, the two old eyebrows furrowed even deeper, and the melancholy in his eyes became even thicker.

MacArthur had thought that Japan's military operations against the Philippines would not have chosen the rainy season, at least after October. Who knew that these damn Japanese monkeys didn't play their cards according to common sense at all, and they disrupted MacArthur's overall deployment.

Although it is said that the US military has invested a large number of troops and war resources in the Philippines, MacArthur knows very well that the geography and terrain of the Philippines are not suitable for long-term defensive operations, and unless the Navy can defeat the Japanese Combined Fleet, no matter how much war resources the United States invests in the Philippines, it will not be able to hold the Philippines in the short term.

Military experts in the White House seem to have seen this strategic weakness and are sending people to seek a retreat for US troops in the Philippines.

However, this statement suddenly issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donghua Empire was obviously the final illusion of MacArthur.

Since it is no longer possible to retreat to the Donghua Empire to temporarily avoid the Japanese army, the only way to do this is to let go and fight the Japanese army in the Philippines to the end.

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Apari Defensive Position of the Combined Coalition Defensive Line.

In the gap between the gunfire, Bruce Willie took a cigarette thrown by Rodman, put it to his nose and sniffed hard.

"The Japanese monkey must be crazy this time!" Rodman scolded hatefully: "They chose to conduct a landing operation in this kind of ghost weather, did their commanders have their brains in water!" Fack! Shet! Do they really think that their combined fleet is invincible? Do you really think that our navy will not dare to fight them? ”

"Although we have more battleships than the Japanese Navy, one Yamato-class aircraft carrier of the Japanese Navy can top two or three of our Yorktown-class aircraft carriers." Bruce Willy's hand lit a cigarette trembled slightly, and he said worriedly: "Modern naval warfare is no longer the era of giant ships and artillery bombardment in World War I. ”

Rodman seemed to see Bruce Willy's nervousness and fear, crawled over with his head down, got closer, and grinned: "Willy, you can't be afraid of those Japanese monkeys, right?" No matter how strong the Japanese Navy was, it would be impossible for their warships to climb ashore. We will kill as many of their landing infantry as they come! ”

Looking at Rodman's thick, bloodthirsty lips, Bruce Willie couldn't help but secretly guess that the big black guy in front of him couldn't be a murderer.

In the previous battle, the MG42 general-purpose machine gun in this guy's hand was probably the most powerful basic support fire point in this position. And this big black man is also fateful, and the Japanese army's dense firepower coverage has not even broken a trace of his skin.

Bruce Willy took a deep puff of his cigarette, allowing the mellow aroma of nicotine to fill his lungs, and the brief anesthesia seemed to temporarily relieve the tension in his heart.

Before the smoke was finished, the terrible screech of 150mm heavy artillery shells could be heard in the sky.

"Shelling! Take cover! From the trenches came the loud shouts of Sergeant Major Longel. All the lieutenant commanders of Company D are dead, and only this veteran sergeant major is now qualified to command the remnants of less than thirty men left in the company.

Longel ran back and forth in the trench with his waist bent, telling the soldiers how to defend against artillery.

An experienced veteran is never afraid of enemy shelling, and they can tell the trajectory and landing point from the whistling of shells.

The spring thunder and rolling artillery fire continued to hammer the land, clusters of fireballs rose up, the red and black smoke covered the morning sun in the eastern sky, and the unique rotor sound wave frequency of helicopters was faintly heard in the distance, dozens of Mi-4 gunships pounced like noisy black crows, but the first to arrive was the AD-1 fighter-attack aircraft that the evil eagles in the air roared.

At least 20 AD-1 attack planes roared low over the line of defense with impunity, and rockets launched under the wings and swaying and falling cluster bombs once again ignited the US defense line into a sea of fire.

The Japanese attack planes ferociously threw the massively lethal anti-personnel bombs they had imported from the Donghua Empire. For a while, there were submunitions flying everywhere.

Dense explosions rang out one after another, and the earth shook, trembled, and trembled in the rolling thunder. Bloodthirsty demons flew in the firelight with a ghostly scream, spreading death......

(To be continued.) )