Chapter 354: Bloody Southeast Asia
At the beginning of the Fourth Theater of Operations' capture of Iwo Jima, the Second Theater of Operations in the Western Pacific also launched attacks on the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies.
The landing operation in the Philippines made Yamashita choose to temporarily avoid the edge, withdraw from the coastal areas, abandon the city, and turn to Philippine guerrilla tactics for the first time.
On the day of the landing, the three main forces of the Second Theater of Operations landed at different locations in the Philippines.
The 11th Marine Division, which belonged to the 2nd Theater of Operations, landed at San Antonio in western Luzon, captured the San Marcelino airfield, Subic Naval Base, and blockaded the Bataan Peninsula to prevent the Japanese retreat route in the direction of the Bataan Peninsula.
On the other side, the 3rd Airborne Division, which belongs to the 2nd Theater of Operations, and a parachute regiment landed at Nasugbu in southern Luzon and advanced towards Manila, while two infantry brigades landed and headed north towards the Tagai Ridge.
The rest were sporadic operations by special forces, assisting three forces in different directions to quickly capture bridges and communication arteries in the Philippines.
At this moment, the Philippines is already in a mess, the Japanese have abandoned the big cities, and also looted a large number of materials to evacuate, in the cities where the Red Guard Corps arrived, are hungry Filipinos, and in the cities, there are many corpses that have not been cleaned.
However, when the Red Guard Corps landed, they were faced with not only the Japanese, but also the Filipino guerrillas.
These Philippine guerrillas were originally armed to resist Japanese aggression, and they had always been funded by the Americans, but when the United States was destroyed, they were left to fend for themselves in the Philippines.
Instead of being grateful, they took the initiative to attack, and a war broke out between the three camps in the Philippines.
Within three days of the battle, Yamashita's command was terminated, and Yamashita's head hung high in the center of Manila.
The details of the war in the Philippines are difficult to know, but it is known that when Japan was completely defeated, the population of the Philippines was less than one-tenth of its original size.
The guilt of the Holocaust was placed on the heads of the Japanese, and history has always been written by the victors.
During the Philippine War, a large number of chemical weapons were used to eliminate the guerrillas, resulting in a terrible outbreak of infectious diseases in the Philippines from the beginning to the end of the war.
Interestingly, however, this outbreak of infectious disease is only spread among the Japanese and Filipino races.
The same was true of the Dutch East Indies, which was separated from the Philippines, and at the time of the landing in the Philippines, the Second Theater of Operations also landed in Indonesia at the same time.
When the Philippines gradually fell, the situation in the Dutch East Indies was the same, there were not many firearms and weapons used in the war, and the main task of the Red Police Corps that landed in the Dutch East Indies was to collect the corpses.
With airborne viruses, once the human body is successfully infected, it lasts between three hours and three days to die.
Because of the death of the virus, there is no change in the appearance of the person, and the virus directly causes the patient's heart to fail until it stops beating.
The process is very rapid, and the patient is usually asleep and cannot wake up permanently.
Generally, when people are discovered, their bodies are cold.
This kind of airborne virus is very targeted, and the soldiers of the Red Guard Corps who collect the corpses do not even need gas masks, nor do they need chemical protective clothing and gloves, and they can directly touch the corpses of infected people, and they are completely fine.
And the Chinese living in this area have nothing to do, and some smaller races are also completely immune to the virus.
This is because the viruses that are circulating are all viruses that specifically target ethnic genes.
A product of the Red Guard Radiation Engineers, a targeted virus that has been thoroughly studied for a long time, and this virus is able to be selective according to the DNA of different races. Infection is a virus that can be controlled and has a very short lifespan.
The virus does not survive in the air for more than seven days before it dies on its own.
After the human body, after the human body dies, it will also die.
It is a virus developed specifically for many races in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, and there are also viruses that specifically target the Yamato ethnic group in Japan.
Between each race, DNA has some fixed commonalities, and these commonalities have become the points of viral coverage.
After this war, the second theater also had the name of the Devil's Theater, which of course was an internal appellation.
The outside world only knows that at the time of this war, the terrible virus plague broke out in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, because of the war, the patients could not be treated, and the virus was very terrible, and a large number of patients died in a short period of time.
Eventually, the war ended before it even began, and the outside world looked at the Red Guard with sympathy.
Because of the news obtained by the outside world, in the second war zone of the Red Alert Empire, there are also more than 100,000 elite troops who died due to virus infection, and if it were not for the development of medical treatment and timely containment of the disease, more people would have died because of this.
A large number of corpses were burned locally, and it is said that the smoke from the burning made the sky full of haze this month.
No one felt that the Second Theater of Operations of the Red Alert Empire, with such heavy casualties, had won the battle between the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies.
You know, even if it is to capture the United States, the number of casualties announced by the Red Alert Empire to the outside world is a little more than this.
From the outbreak of the Pacific War to the present, the Red Alert Empire has announced that the number of dead is only a few thousand.
More than 100,000 people were killed in battle at once, which was an unprecedented price for the Red Alert Empire.
Japan was full of celebratory news, and even told the country that the Red Alert Empire had paid for the loss of more than 100,000 elite troops when it captured the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies.
The only regrettable thing is that this price was achieved at the expense of all Japanese troops in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies.
Just when the outside world thought that the Second Theater was unable to continue the attack, the Second Theater landed on the Southeast Asian battlefield.
The Japanese Southern Army in Southeast Asia had not yet fully reacted and paid a heavy price in casualties.
The headquarters of the Japanese Southern Army was destroyed by missiles, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, Terauchi Shouichi, was directly killed, and all the headquarters of the Southern Army at and above the wing level were also devastated.
By the time the main battle tanks of the Second Theater landed in Southeast Asia, the Japanese army had already been in disarray, fighting on its own, and there was no order.