The Manila battlefield has formed a kind of tug-of-war of attack and defense, and the 14th Army has always put tremendous pressure on the US military, and the battlefield situation that General Ito Yanzaburo, commander-in-chief of Japan's Southwest Pacific Dispatch Army, very much hopes to see, has appeared.

To tell the truth, for Yoshihiko Haruta, a fierce general known for his bravery, whether he can grasp the scale of the Manila battlefield, the original General Ito is really a little uneasy, worried that he will have a temper and be hot-headed, regardless of the casualties of the soldiers, storm the US defense line, and concentrate on entering the city of Manila, thus scaring away MacArthur's reinforcements, then the gains outweigh the losses, and the ultimate goal of the dispatch army is the vast Australian continent!

However, after a few days of fighting in Manila, General Ito experienced an unexpected surprise, and Yoshihiko Harata, who admired white-knuckle charging and commanded a fierce combat style, learned to use strategy and tactical skills, and fought with great success, with 70,000 troops, pressing MacArthur's hundreds of thousands of troops, and the results achieved simply made General Ito overjoyed.

Admiral Ito believed that if Yoshihiko Haruta continued to fight like this, Australia's British and Australian reinforcements would soon appear on Luzon Island, and MacArthur would desperately urge them, and he would complete the base camp and transfer the main force of the British and Australian forces in Australia out of the Australian mainland.

In the offensive and defensive battle of the Manila defensive line, General Ito did not have to worry about it, and all his attention was on clearing out the remnants of the US Third Army in the Calais Mountains, but the will to resist of the remnants of the US army far exceeded General Ito's expectations, and with 90,000 troops, he encircled and suppressed less than 20,000 remnants of the US army. But it was very hard, and those damned American soldiers were not going to lay down their arms and surrender with their hands raised!

Perhaps, after being in a desperate situation and knowing that there was no hope of survival, it aroused the bloody nature in the hearts of American soldiers, and every time they fought, they paid a large number of casualties with their own soldiers. The encircled American soldiers were all killed in battle, and of course, General Ito knew very well in his heart that even the American soldiers laid down their arms and surrendered. It's also a dead end, those red-eyed soldiers under his own command. It is a pleasure to torture and kill American prisoners of war.

And. There are many tricks, for example, two squad leaders bet on who can peel off a complete human skin from a living American prisoner of war, and bet on the one who loses. I had to wash the underwear of the winning one for a month, and several lieutenants tried their knife skills under the necks of American prisoners of war. After putting on a few layers of leaves, going down with a knife, and cutting off the heads of American prisoners of war, the one with the least leaves is the winner, and the flower girl caught later will be enjoyed by him first.

After listening to the report of the chief of staff, Major General Kawashima, Admiral Ito originally wanted to order a ban on this practice, of course, not because of humanitarianism or conscience, if it were not for his identity, Admiral Ito would definitely participate in this kind of game, but he believed that the reason why the remnants of the American army resisted desperately and did not surrender was related to the soldiers' torture and killing of prisoners of war.

It was a result that Admiral Ito was happy to see to end the battle in the mountains of Calais with the fastest speed and the smallest casualties, but Chief of Staff Kawashima's understatement completely dispelled his idea, and Chief of Staff Kawashima said: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, the bravest soldiers are often the most brutal soldiers, do you want our soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army to be blamed for being splattered with the blood of the enemy?" ”

For the words of Chief of Staff Kawashima, General Ito deeply agreed, therefore, the soldiers' abuse and killing of American prisoners of war in the Japanese army on Luzon Island, has become an open entertainment project, the more and more the American soldiers who fight less and less, more than once witnessed or heard similar tragedies from their companions, they have long broken off the idea of disarming and surrendering, rather than surrendering to the Japanese and being tortured to death, it is better to pull a few Japanese on their backs and be shot to death before they die!

Therefore, the gunfire on the battlefield in the Calais Mountains rang out day and night, and either the Japanese army surrounded a small group of US soldiers, or the US soldiers took advantage of the darkness of the night to carry out a sneak attack on the Japanese search troops without hesitation, until the evening of 19 August, with the last resistance of the US Third Army soldiers, was surrounded by Japanese troops more than ten times their own strength in a Jedi place, and after exchanging dozens of lives for nearly 100 Japanese soldiers, the gunfire and shouting of killing were completely subsided.

When night shrouded the Calais Mountains and the Pacific Ocean was blowing, Commander-in-Chief Ito received a report from the troops in his headquarters, "All the remnants of the American army who were stubbornly resisting on the battlefield in the Calais Mountains have been wiped out by the Imperial Army, and the various clearance units are in the Plogue Summit," that is, more than 90,000 Japanese soldiers spent more than ten days carefully combing through the Calais Mountains.

The Battle of Calais Mountains officially ended, the Third Army Commander of the US Southwest Pacific Headquarters, Major General Whiteman, was wiped out, more than 80,000 people were either killed in battle, or were captured, they were tortured and killed by Japanese soldiers, and there was no luck, it is said that in the second year, after the arrival of the rainy season on Luzon, the vegetation in the Calais Mountains was unusually lush, almost growing wildly, and the leaves of all trees were green and purple, and if they were accidentally broken, they would smell a faint smell of blood!

After the end of the war, in the war history compiled by the United States, the Great Book wrote about the Battle of Manila commanded by General MacArthur, saying that this battle was a situation in which the American army was in the southwest Pacific, and at a moment of crisis, General MacArthur confronted the Japanese army head-on with inferior equipment and troops in order to avoid the invasion of the Japanese army.

As for the Battle of Calais, which was indispensable to the Manila campaign and one of the most important battles, it was mentioned in one passing that the Third Army of the US Southwest Pacific Theater used inferior forces to confront the superior Japanese army, and the remnants of the Third Army later faced the Japanese army's frantic encirclement and suppression in the Calais Mountains, and the stubborn resistance that lasted for eight or nine days, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese army, was not mentioned at all.

As for the name of the army commander, Major General Whiteman, I have searched through the history of the US Pacific War, but I have not been able to find out that the final fate of more than 80,000 officers and men of the US Third Army in the Calais Mountain Battlefield has been consciously and artificially submerged in the long river of history, leaving a confusing historical blank for the American people.

At the cost of the annihilation of more than 80,000 troops, the Third Army of the US Army paid for MacArthur's stupid strategic decisions and campaign command, and even more of his so-called halo of famous generals, and the historical truth was concealed.

Dealing with the remnants of the American troops in the Calais mountains, Admiral Ito was as easy as shedding the shackles that had been imprisoned on his body, and in the direction of Manila, Yoshihiko Haruta's guy was fighting vigorously and with great interest, and he could free up his hands and set his sights on a larger and more important target - Australia.

What Admiral Ito needs to do now is not to take Manila directly, or to capture Manila immediately, he is waiting, waiting for MacArthur's reinforcements, the moment when he leaves the Australian mainland and lands on Luzon, and then, the main force of the Southwest Pacific Dispatch Army of the Empire of Japan, the heaviest and most gorgeous blow to the Americans and the British, then the entire Pacific Ocean will be placed on the territory of the Great Japanese Empire, of course, there is no damn devil Tang Qiuli, occupying the Indochina Peninsula, It would be a perfect and historic event that would go down in the annals of the Great Japanese Empire!

Compared with General Ito's very happy mood, General MacArthur's mood was like a rainy weather for several days, dark and depressing, the sound of gunfire in the Calais area subsided, a serious practical problem, in front of him, the main force of the Japanese army that ended the battle in the Calais mountains, was about to pounce.

If it was only the attack of the Japanese Fourteenth Army, MacArthur was absolutely confident that he would hold on to Manila for a year or even longer, and he even had a bold plan to drag down or kill the Japanese Fourteenth Army on the Manila Line, however, it was absolutely impossible now, and in the fierce battle with the Japanese army for seven or eight days, the losses of the troops reached an astonishing 40,000 people, and what was even more terrible was that the morale of the soldiers was declining day by day.

If the main force of the Japanese army joins the Manila battlefield again, what awaits him and more than 100,000 American and Philippine soldiers can only be the failure of the collapse of the whole front, so General MacArthur is not more looking forward to the arrival of Australian reinforcements than now.

On the evening of 19 August, the Manila Line withstood the ferocious attack of the Japanese army, and General MacArthur, who had been at the front line to supervise the battle, returned to the headquarters exhausted, and the attendants put dinner on the table, looking at the sumptuous food on the table, but His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief had no appetite at all.

A few heavy thunders, annoying light rain, began to rain again, adding to the depression in General MacArthur's heart, he waved his hand, asked the attendant to take the dinner, at this moment, the acting chief of staff, Colonel Kleist, wet and far away, shouted loudly: "Your Excellency, good news! Good news! I have just received a telegram that two divisions of the vanguard of the First Army of the British and Australian Army, which are reinforcing the Luzon battlefield, will be able to land in two hours! ”

"What?" General MacArthur abruptly got up in disbelief, knocked over the table, a glass of white milk, splashed on his straight general's uniform, and with an agility that even a young man could not match, he met Colonel Kleist, and snatched the telegram, trembling his hands, looking greedily.

At the same time, information of the same content appeared in front of General Tang Qiuli, commander of the independent division, and General Ito Yanzaburo, commander-in-chief of Japan's Southwest Pacific Dispatch Army.

(To be continued) (To be continued.) )