Chapter 110: I'll Be Back
To MacArthur's surprise, the reply from the US Department of Defense came more than 10 days later, and the content of the telegram made MacArthur even more furious: "Traitors, traitors, the members of Congress who are raised by bitches are a group of traitors who betray the United States for their own interests." ”
The content of the telegram reads: Congress has passed a bill that the United States will relinquish its ownership of the Philippines and allow the Filipino people to establish a free and democratic independent state.
In other words, Filipinos, don't you want to make trouble? Gotcha, our democratic Americans have flashed, I won't play with you anymore, you like to make trouble with yourself!
General MacArthur sent a series of telegrams to the U.S. Department of the Army at the Quartermaster Building in Washington, detailing the importance and necessity of the strategic location of the Philippines for the United States, but then a letter of transfer extinguished Arthur's enthusiasm, and he was transferred to Hawaii as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army in the Pacific, and the U.S. military was to be fully withdrawn from the Philippines.
Carrod, along with another legendary Rockefeller family in the United States, facilitated the U.S. withdrawal from the Philippines. The sheer hidden power of Freemasonry combined with the invincible capital of American society has created the greatest lie of the century: that the Philippines will become a quagmire in which to step in, and that the United States will be embroiled in the ongoing war in Asia. This is completely contrary to the isolationism that prevails in the United States and is not in the interests of the American people. The money of American taxpayers should not be spent on those yellow-skinned monkeys, and the American military should defend the safety, freedom, and property of the American people. The United States can completely stay out of the way, sit back and watch the disputes of the nations on the other side of the ocean, and prematurely participate in wars between other countries, which will not only be of no benefit to the United States, but will also affect the recovering US economy. "Leave those troubles to the yellow people themselves!" The bill, which was introduced by more than 100 Democratic congressmen, was passed by an overwhelming majority of votes in Congress, and many Republicans also voted in favor.
In a letter to MacArthur, President Roosevelt said: I agree with you that giving up the Philippines would cost us the initiative in the Pacific, but I can't stop Congress.
In March, the last U.S. troops will leave the Philippines, and MacArthur will leave with the ship, with many people seeing them off, including the Philippine president, who can finally officially exercise his rights. MacArthur, who was standing on the string of the boat and waving goodbye to his old friends, suddenly howled wolf: I will be back!
Mr. President was almost frightened, and muttered with teary eyes: "Don't come back!" "Who wants to be a puppet of a colonial ruler, but soon the president regretted it. When the U.S. military is there, he can still be a puppet president, MacArthur is gone, he ......
Three days later, before the celebrations of the victory of the independence revolution in various parts of the Philippines were over, and when MacArthur had not yet returned to Washington to report on his work, Hebar, the minister of colonies of the Han Empire and the governor of the Nanyang Colonial Region, announced that in view of the fact that the war was still raging in various parts of the Philippines after the withdrawal of US troops, and the lives and property of the Han people living in the Philippines could not be properly guaranteed, the Royal Marines of the Han Empire would intervene in the mediation work with the rebels in various places.
Bottom line: The Han Imperial Army wants to arm to protect overseas Chinese.
For a long time to come, the words "armed to protect overseas Chinese" became the best reason for the Han Empire to intervene in the affairs of other regions, and applied to almost every corner of the world - it was not too difficult to find a few Chinese in any place.
At the same time, after the telegram was sent by Hebar, the Northern Fleet battleship detachment led more than a dozen cruisers and destroyers to escort the 1st Brigade of the Royal Marine Corps from Manado Base and landed unhindered at Zamboanga, south of Mindanao.
The other battleship of the Northern Fleet, the Bongxian, escorted the Marine Jewish Brigade into Manila Bay on Luzon Island and shelled the positions of the Philippine government troops, more than a dozen warships lined up horizontally outside the mouth of the Bashi River in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and all the naval guns were aimed at the coastal fortifications of the Philippine army for an hour, and the dozens of old planes left by the Americans for the Philippine government troops did not play a big role, and more than a dozen destroyers and cruisers in the battlefleet were in a great way. The P-26 toy gun monoplane fighter really became a toy in the face of the dense anti-aircraft fire of the battleship squadron, and the result of the shooting down of more than 30 planes was nothing more than two destroyers being damaged, and the heavy cruiser Xingba, which showed its face more in the eyes of the navies of various countries, was more unlucky, a 50-kilogram bomb fell on its foredeck, the main gun was damaged, and the three gunners in the turret were killed and one wounded. The battleship Bongxian was also more "favored" because of its huge body, and the consequence of being hit by several aerial bombs was that a large piece of black was smeared on the paint of the left string, which was as ugly as a bald spot when viewed from a distance, and most of the other aerial bombs that fell on the deck were ejected, and even if they exploded, they did not cause much damage. However, the Fengxian's super powerful anti-aircraft firepower brought huge casualties to the Philippine Air Force, and the giant battleships with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons, such as Lu Bu in Renzhong and Chitu Zhu in Mazhong, joined forces and smashed into the enemy formation with their halberds, and were unstoppable. Of the more than 30 toy guns that were shot down, a small half should be recorded on the Bongxian.
The original intention of the Admiralty to use a small number of Philippine Air Force planes to test the fleet's air defense capability has yielded very good results. However, it has also exposed a lot of problems, when the Philippine Air Force has a small number of aircraft and limited performance, it can still bring some damage to the fleet, if the enemy has more and more advanced fighters, if the aircraft can carry more and heavier bombs, if the target that needs to be protected is an aircraft carrier that is more vulnerable, how much effect can its own anti-aircraft firepower play? It was only when such problems were reported to the Admiralty that naval officers really took into account His Majesty's "first to discover, first to attack" tactic. As His Majesty said, when bombarded by a large number of enemy fleets, no matter how dense the enemy's anti-aircraft fire is, there is no guarantee that the aircraft carrier will not be attacked, not to mention that the Japanese army still has many submarines, and the torpedoes launched by the Sea Wolves hidden under the water are even more difficult to defend against than the aerial bombs. Only by "discovering first" and dispatching carrier-based aircraft to attack in advance can the aircraft carrier battle group ensure the safety of its own fleet.
In the First Battle of Manila Bay Landings, the Royal Navy deliberately did not send aircraft carriers and land-based aircraft to test the fleet's air defense capabilities. This battle laid a theoretical foundation for the Royal Navy's theory of aircraft carrier success in the future, and the reconnaissance force in the aircraft carrier battle group was greatly enhanced. At the same time, after Zhong Yi learned of this, he also increased his research on shipborne radar and small airborne radar, which indirectly led to the early birth of early warning aircraft.