After suffering a crushing defeat at the Sea of Japan, it was known that the overseas colonies could not be saved, and the Japanese headquarters issued a death order to the defenders of the islands, demanding that they must defend all the islands and not lose an inch of land.

In charge of guarding the Philippines was Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, who was also a staunch militarist, who had commanded the Japanese army to carry out a large-scale naval and air offensive a year earlier, driving MacArthur out of the Philippines, and then he led more than 200,000 Japanese troops to stay in the Philippines.

Defeating the Americans was not what Honma Masaharu wanted most, in his heart he most wanted to defeat the Chinese army, he often said that he would wash away the shame of the Sino-Japanese war, and after occupying the Philippines, he often looked in the direction of Taiwan and warned his subordinates to always take the recapture of Taiwan as the highest goal. The Imperial Army once occupied Taiwan and then lost it, and the true Imperial Warriors should take Taiwan back again and present it as a gift to His Majesty the Emperor.

Honma Masaharu's dream did not last long, the Japanese Navy suffered a crushing defeat, he no longer had any hope of attacking the Chinese mainland, but had to think about how to hold the Philippines, Honma Masaharu also knew that it was unrealistic to hold the beach after losing the sea control, he took the initiative to deploy the firepower backwards, and appropriately abandoned the tidal flat position.

Although Luzon Island is not a small island, there are not many areas suitable for landing, especially some areas are densely forested, and after landing on the island, you have to play hide and seek with the Japanese. The Chinese army, which was not familiar with the terrain, was vulnerable to losses. Therefore, China chose the landing site in Subic Bay, southwest of Luzon.

Chinese bombers and naval aviation bombed the area intensively, destroying everything that could be seen from the shore. After the official landing began, the tank landing ship quickly approached the beachhead, and then opened the front hatch, and the landing craft inside quickly sorted, loaded with soldiers and tanks, and rushed to the beachhead.

Tank landing ships were already armed with one hundred and seven-mm rocket artillery on them. These rocket launchers are all modifications. The range is longer. More powerful, good for covering landings. Especially when it was launched, the fire was so bright that it was like pouring rain. Mercilessly smashed into the Japanese hidden fortifications on the shore.

The pursuit of rocket artillery is to deliver a large amount of fire quickly, and the beachhead is instantly smashed into sand and gravel, and this large area of coverage has a good effect, that is, even if the Japanese fortifications are not destroyed. They were also unable to open fire to stop the attack.

The landing craft took advantage of this opportunity to quickly land on the beach, the soldiers successfully landed on the beach, and armored vehicles and tanks were also brought up, and with these heavy equipment, it became much easier to develop in depth.

The Marines drove the tanks roaring inland, and at the same time, the Chinese naval ships also began to shell the shore on a large scale, and the naval artillery and power were definitely not comparable to the army artillery, and every heavy artillery shell that fell on the Japanese position would kick up more than 10 meters of sand, causing a large crater with a radius of more than 100 meters. After the shelling, all life in the surrounding area will be lost.

After the landing ground was opened up. There were more and more follow-up troops, and within a day China had 30,000 soldiers and 50,000 tons of supplies sent to the shores of Subic Bay. With these supplies, the Chinese army steadily advanced inland, and the Japanese resistance became more and more intense.

The Japanese have the ability to be rats, they are good at using the terrain to build all kinds of hidden fortifications, it is actually very difficult to deal with, and these troops stationed overseas are the elite forces of Japan, they know that they are already the turtle in the urn, but they still fight to the death. They don't take other people's lives seriously, and they don't take their own lives seriously.

Just as the Chinese army was attacking, thousands of Filipinos dressed as natives suddenly appeared, and the Japanese drove these people towards the Chinese army as if they were driving cattle. This practice of using refugees as meat shields has made the Chinese military hesitate slightly.

They couldn't figure out what the use of the Japanese in doing this, and just after hesitation, several people had already approached the Chinese army. Suddenly, two of them rushed out of the ranks of refugees at an extraordinary speed and pounced on the Chinese troops.

I heard a shocking bang, that person had completely disappeared, and at the same time four Chinese soldiers were killed, as well as an armored car, and the Chinese soldiers were instantly clear when they saw this scene. The Japanese were so inhumane that they mixed human bullets with refugees and used them to attack the Chinese army.

The Chinese troops, who came to their senses, were not polite anymore, they opened fire with all their firepower, and anyone who dared to approach, whether refugees or Japanese, as long as they were alive, were killed.

More than 1,000 refugees were quickly killed, but a few crazy Japanese bombs saw that they could not get close to the Chinese army, so they frantically detonated the bombs on their bodies, pulling the surrounding refugees to die together, this madness shocked all the Chinese troops, and they faced an opponent who was not a human at all, but a bunch of brutes.

In fact, at this time, an even more crazy scene was being staged in the waters of the Philippines, that is, suicide attacks.

So-called suicide attacks are not uncommon in warfare, but they are only sporadic. During the last Sino-Japanese war, China trained a group of North Korean pilots to attack Japanese naval bases, and the results were unexpected, but that time it was only a few dozen.

Now China is facing hundreds of suicide planes that are frantically ramming into the Chinese aircraft carrier, which is Japan's long-brewing kamikaze attack.

The failure of the Ryukyus and the death of a large number of elite pilots made Japan's air power thin in an instant, and with those rookie pilots, they didn't want to compete with China's elite air power.

Japan selected a large number of fanatical young people from the mainland, taught them only a simple take-off and landing, and then brainwashed them uninterruptedly, telling them to sacrifice and dedicate themselves for the glory of the emperor and for the future of Japan.

In some overseas territories, the Japanese also recruited suicide pilots from the diaspora, trained them to be crazy tools, and named the teams of such suicide attacks kamikaze.

In fact, the Japanese also know that after the fiasco at sea, China and the United States are like two big pincers that are pinching Japan's neck, and sooner or later these two countries will be able to pinch Japan to death, and Japan's hope of victory is no longer great. But these Japanese elites were not willing to accept the fate of defeat, they still wanted to die and struggle, so they took out such a weapon as a kamikaze agent.

More than 100 kamikaze planes set off from their bases on Luzon Island like a swarm of flies and killed the Chinese fleet, and China has always cared little about Japan's air power, even when Japan was in its heyday, the air force had no way to compete with China, and now with a bunch of fledgling rookies, do they still want to compete with China.

Soon the Chinese interceptor aircraft had collided with the Japanese group, and the Japanese Zero aircraft was not bad at the time of the war, and it could be called the world's top aircraft, but the war had broken out for more than two years, and all countries had developed more powerful aircraft, and these Zero aircraft were already somewhat backward.

What disappointed the Chinese pilots even more was that these Japanese pilots did not seem to understand air combat at all, had no formation, did not cooperate, and did not even know how to compare attacks.

More than 20 planes were shot down as soon as they met, and at this time the Chinese pilots finally discovered something unusual: most of the Japanese planes did not carry ammunition, but after being hit and exploded, there was a violent explosion.

Some people who reacted quickly quickly thought that the Japanese planes were filled with explosives, and after coming to this conclusion, everyone shuddered that these planes were Japanese suicide planes.

Qiao Yu had a premonition that Japan would definitely use suicide attacks when necessary, so he had already informed the Chinese army to pay attention to it, and these pilots had been told, and now after seeing this situation, everyone knew that the Japanese suicide planes had finally been used.

This kind of desperate fighting is indeed a great threat to warships, a kamikaze plane can be loaded with half a ton of explosives, which is far more than all the bombshells, once hit by this kind of aircraft on the warship, it is absolutely either dead or injured, and there is absolutely no possibility of survival.

Therefore, the Chinese pilots also tried their best to attack these planes, and one after another Japanese kamikaze planes were shot down into the sea, because the cabin of the kamikaze planes would be welded to death after the pilots entered, and they were not given a chance to escape at all, so these pilots ignored all of them and became extremely fanatical.

Death was their best destination, and after an encounter, more than a dozen planes broke through the interception of the Chinese carrier-based aircraft and killed the aircraft carrier formation, at which time the frigates played a role, and the intensive firepower shot down most of the Japanese planes.

However, as a result of this attack for the first time, two kamikaze planes also broke through the barrier, one crashed into an escort aircraft carrier and the other crashed into a supply ship.

Immediately, both ships were badly damaged and had to withdraw from the naval battle, but this damage was basically an itch for the Chinese Navy. A steady stream of supplies and personnel is still rapidly landing on Luzon, and China's air power has focused its bombing efforts on Manila.

Hundreds of bombers carrying napalm flew over Manila's head, and soon the city was in flames, and countless Japanese expatriates and local natives were in despair, and they finally tasted war.

The news of Japan's use of suicide planes also quickly spread to Beijing, and Qiao Yu in the base camp was very happy when he saw the news, which means that the Japanese have reached the end of the mountain! (To be continued.) )