"Damn Japanese monkeys! It is unforgivable that they are not satisfied with robbing the colonies of the British and French, and they dare to attack the Philippines! ”

Bruce Willie half-crouched in the foxhole, looking sideways at the machine gunner Rodman not far away, the big black man seemed exceptionally calm on the battlefield, using the MG42 general-purpose machine gun in his hand to fire intermittently short bursts, constantly asking for the life of the Japanese monkey in front. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A Japanese soldier bent over and quickly rushed in the direction of the foxhole that Bruce Willy had built.

"It's a very old tactical move." Bruce Willie muttered to himself, exhaled deeply, and gently pulled the safety of the M14 assault rifle in his hand to a single shot with his thumb, and then slowly aimed at the Japanese soldier who was bending over to find cover, as he usually trained to shoot targets, with his index finger slightly hooked.

"Phew!" With a bang, Bruce Willy's shoulder shook slightly, and a 7.62 steel tip bullet spun at high speed and drilled into the Japanese soldier's body, followed by a second pointed projectile that lifted off the Japanese soldier's helmet and completely knocked open the skull of this guy, scarlet blood mixed with white brain pulp splashed out, and the two-mm thick Type 98 nickel alloy steel helmet bone rolled to the side.

Looking at the corpse that fell like a stake, a sinister smile appeared on the corner of Bruce Willy's mouth, "It's your mistake to come here!" ”

Everything is so natural. When he first left the company three months ago, Bruce Willie only scored 30 rings in his first rifle standing shooting training, and he was thrown home in disgrace. And now, he has become a sharpshooter in the company, and according to the sergeant major, he has a unique shooting talent.

Under the suppression of superior firepower, the Japanese soldiers fully displayed their bushido spirit, and the Type 98 semi-automatic rifles and 50mm grenadiers frantically poured death bullets into the American defensive positions.

The Japanese probably did not expect that there would be such stubborn resistance on this line of defense on the verge of collapse, and even let them run into blood.

The 150mm howitzer fire was called in the blink of an eye, along with the AD-1 attack aircraft and more than 30 Mi-4 armed attack helicopters that took off from the aircraft carrier.

The heavy artillery fire covered the bombardment again and again, and the flames caused by the explosion rose into the sky, and the mud set off was all over Bruce Willy.

The endless shelling turned the entire coast into a burning dragon. There are fierce battles everywhere.

"Angel! Angel! I'm a birdie, call for artillery support! Call for artillery support! ”

Listening to the constant sound of the radio shouting in the Indian native language calling for long-range artillery support, MacArthur's face was blue, and his heart contracted as the heavy bombardment of the earth shook with the heavy bombardment of the artillery. Countless excellent fighters are burning their young lives for the honor of America under the fire of the enemy on the front.

The Japanese army's surprise attack on the Subic Bay military port three days ago was actually a containment feint, which led to a miscalculation of the Japanese landing plan by MacArthur and his staff. Because no one expected that the Japanese army would choose to land on the beach in the Yen Yain Bay in the northwest.

So when the 14th Army, under the command of Masaharu Honma, secretly boarded from Taiwan, put in heavy armored forces at the landing ground, the defense situation in the northwest of the Philippines was already in a mess. The Japanese army's ferocious left hook has been swung fiercely, aiming directly at the port town of Apari in the north of Manila.

The troops of North Luzon under the command of Major General Wainwright are using their flesh and blood to block the death footsteps of the Japanese mechanized troops paved with steel and flames at any cost, and they have already suffered heavy casualties.

MacArthur received an order from the White House to hold Manila, and he had ordered the 5th Marine Division, which had rushed north, to immediately cooperate with the local forces to organize a defensive line on the spot and be sure to stand by for reinforcements. Waiting for reinforcements from the three heavily armored mechanized divisions to come from the east and south, they encircled and annihilated the landing Japanese army.

"Be sure to stick to it" is simple to say, but in fact it is such a heavy four words. MacArthur: He was well aware of the weight of the responsibility on his shoulders. Solid Manila, political significance is more important than military significance. President Hoover would never allow Manila to be conquered by the Japanese so easily.

The White House's order was very clear: even if the Philippines could not be saved, MacArthur must lead the US-Philippine forces to hold out in the Philippines for at least a year, waiting for reinforcements to be shipped from the US mainland.

The United States has committed the entire Pacific Fleet and more than 200,000 army and air forces in the Philippines. If MacArthur dared to abandon Manila easily, the White House would definitely remove him from his post and send him to court-martial.

The Japanese army really didn't play their cards according to common sense. The decisive battle between the Pacific Fleet and the Japanese Combined Fleet had not yet begun, and the ownership of sea supremacy was still unknown. Could it be that the Japanese Navy did not take the US Navy seriously at all?

MacArthur always thought that his opponent was the Japanese Southern Dispatch Force commanded by Okamura Ninji, and he never thought that the Taiwanese Japanese army under the command of Honma Masaharu would be the vanguard of the Philippine landing.

At the same time as the night raid bombardment of Subic Bay, the Japanese air force and naval aviation also carried out a large-scale bombing of Clark Air Base and Krabi Naval Base. Two consecutive days of aerial bombardment destroyed nearly half of the heavy bombers and two-thirds of the fighters of the US military on land. Create favorable conditions for the Japanese 14th Army's beach-grabbing landing operations.

Located at the mouth of the Cagayan River, Apari is the gateway to shipping in the northern Philippines and a typhoon-sheltered port. The geographical characteristics of the plains and water towns here make it very unsuitable as an ideal location for defensive operations. The fortifications built were almost all muddy water and mud, and they were a mess.

The only advantage was probably that the criss-crossing ditches made it extremely difficult for the Japanese heavy armored forces to advance. If this were not the case, Apari would have fallen into the hands of the Japanese long ago before the 5th Marine Division to the north had established a defensive line.

Thinking of this, MacArthur couldn't help but feel a little relaxed. The strategic plan of the Japanese army was indeed unexpected and very successful, but tactically it was not flattering. Since they have chosen Apari as the landing ground, let's slowly spend it here with Lao Tzu!

The armored operations in the coastal areas ahead were quite impressive. Both sides committed their elite armoured forces in the only area suitable for armoured group operations. MacArthur also made a limited contribution to one of his armored regiments, which was coordinated with the armored forces of the Northern Luzon Army to carry out counter-assaults.

Unlike the Northern Luzon troops commanded by Major General Wainwright, the armored regiment that MacArthur put into operation was equipped with the latest M48 heavy tanks imported from the United States from the Donghua Empire, although it was superior to the M4 tanks of other units in all aspects, but the shortcomings of its bulkiness allowed MacArthur to briefly put these bulky guys into counter-assault operations.

By the time dawn came, the entire defense line was already in disarray. The junction of the defensive positions of many US troops was broken through by the penetrating strikes of the Japanese heavy armored units, and fierce exchanges of fire were still going on in many defensive areas.

In the blue sky, the muffled roar of the powerful eighteen-cylinder piston engine of the AD-1 attack aircraft sounded again.

The wreckage of the flaming armored vehicles on the ground tells people that this is a battlefield, a Shura purgatory full of killings and blood.

(To be continued.) )