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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 1708 Reinforcements Arrive

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    The battlefield in Manila formed a kind of tug-of-war of offense and defense. The Fourteenth Army always put huge pressure on the US military. General Ito Genzaburo, the commander-in-chief of Japan's Southwest Pacific Expeditionary Force, very much wanted to see the battlefield situation. In this regard,  On different occasions, His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief praised the Commander of the 14th Army, Lieutenant General Haruta Yoshihiko, on many occasions, calling him a newly rising general of the Imperial Japanese Army.

    To be honest, General Ito was a little worried about whether Yoshihiko Haruta, a fierce general known for his bravery, could grasp the scale of the Manila battlefield. He was worried that he would become hot-tempered and hot-headed, and attack the U.S. defense line regardless of the casualties of soldiers.  , focused on breaking into Manila, thus scaring away MacArthur's reinforcements, then the gain outweighs the loss. The ultimate goal of the dispatched troops is the vast Australian continent!

    But after a few days of fighting in Manila, General Ito experienced an unexpected surprise. Yoshihiko Haruta, who advocated hand-to-hand charges and had a fierce fighting style, learned to use strategies and tactical skills, and the battle was fought vigorously. With 70,000 soldiers, he suppressed  MacArthur fought with more than 100,000 troops, and the results achieved made General Ito overjoyed.

    General Ito believed that if Yoshihiko Haruta continued to fight like this, Australia's British-Australian reinforcements would soon appear on Luzon Island, and MacArthur would desperately urge them, thus completing the base camp and bringing the main force of Australia's British-Australian troops to  Plans to move out of mainland Australia.

    General Ito no longer has to worry about the offensive and defensive battles of the Manila Defense Line. All his attention is on clearing the remnants of the US Third Army in the Calais Mountains.  The resistance of the remaining American soldiers far exceeded General Ito's expectations. With 90,000 troops, the remaining American soldiers of less than 20,000 were encircled and suppressed, but the fight was very difficult. Those damn American soldiers were not going to put down their weapons and raise their hands.  Surrender!

    ?Perhaps, after being in a desperate situation and knowing that there is no hope of survival.  On the contrary, it aroused the bloodiness in the hearts of the American soldiers. Every battle ended with his own soldiers paying heavy casualties and all the surrounded American soldiers dying. Of course, General Ito knew very well that even if  American soldiers laid down their weapons and surrendered.  It is also a dead end for those soldiers with red eyes under his command.  He took pleasure in torturing and killing American prisoners of war.

    Moreover, the methods are various. For example, two team captains bet who can peel off a complete human skin from a living American prisoner of war. The loser will have to wash the underwear of the winner for a month.  besides.  Several lieutenants tested their knife skills. They put a few layers of leaves under the necks of the American prisoners of war, cut off the heads of the American prisoners of war with one knife, and the one who chopped the fewest leaves was the winner, and the flower girl captured in the future.  It must be enjoyed by him first.

    There are countless examples of this. After listening to the report from Chief of Staff Major General Kawashima, General Ito originally wanted to order a ban on this practice.  Of course, it is definitely not because of humanitarianism or conscience. If it were not for his own identity, General Ito would definitely participate in this game, but he believes that the remaining soldiers of the US military resisted desperately and did not surrender.  , related to the torture and killing of prisoners of war by soldiers.

    Being able to end the Battle of Calais Mountains as quickly as possible with minimal casualties was the result that General Ito was happy to see. However, Chief of Staff Kawashima's understatement completely dispelled his idea. Chief of Staff Kawashima said so  Said: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, the bravest soldiers are often the most cruel soldiers. Do you want our soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army to be blamed because their bodies are spattered with the blood of the enemy?"

    General Ito believed deeply in what Chief of Staff Kawashima said. Therefore, the soldiers' torture and killing of American prisoners of war became a public entertainment item in the Japanese army on Luzon Island. The more American soldiers were beaten, the fewer American soldiers were killed. More than once,  Having witnessed similar tragedies with my own eyes or heard from my companions, I have long given up the idea of ??surrendering. Instead of surrendering to the Japanese and being tortured to death, it is better to grab a few Japanese on my back and be shot to death before I die.  , it¡¯s better than being tortured and killed!

    Therefore, the gunshots on the battlefield in the Calais Mountains continued day and night. Either the Japanese army surrounded a small group of American soldiers, or the American soldiers took advantage of the darkness to carry out sneak attacks on the Japanese search troops without hesitation until the evening of August 19th.  , as the last resisting U.S. Third Army soldiers were surrounded by Japanese troops more than ten times their own strength, they sacrificed dozens of lives for nearly a hundred Japanese soldiers.  The sound finally subsided.

    Night shrouded the Calais Mountains and when the sea breeze blew from the Pacific Ocean, Commander-in-Chief Ito received a report from the troops at the headquarters: "All the remaining American soldiers who resisted on the battlefield in the Calais Mountains have been wiped out by the Imperial Army.  "After all, all the suppression troops were mobilized at the Plogue Summit." In other words, more than 90,000 Japanese soldiers spent more than ten days combing through the Calais Mountains in detail.

    The Battle of Calais officially ended, and the U.S. Army Southwest Pacific Headquarters?The entire army below Major General Whiteman, the commander of the three armed forces, was wiped out. More than 80,000 people either died in battle or were captured and massacred by Japanese soldiers. None of them had a chance to survive. It is said that in the rainy season of Luzon Island the following year  After arriving, the vegetation in the Calais Mountains was extremely lush and almost growing wildly. The leaves of all the trees were so green that if they were accidentally broken, you would smell a faint smell of blood!

    After the war, the U.S. official war history compiled a special book on the Battle of Manila commanded by General MacArthur, calling this battle the battle situation of the U.S. Army in the Southwest Pacific. At a critical moment, General MacArthur in order to avoid the homeland  After being invaded by the Japanese army, it was an arduous battle against the Japanese army with inferior equipment and troops. In it, words such as commanding decisively, being fearless in the face of danger, and fighting bloody battles were often seen between the lines.

    As for the Battle of Calais Mountains, which was indispensable for the Battle of Manila and one of the most important battles, it was briefly mentioned. The Third Army of the U.S. Southwest Pacific Theater used inferior forces to fight against the superior Japanese army, and subsequently the remnants of the Third Army in Calais.  There is no mention of the fact that the mountainous area faced a crazy siege by the Japanese army and resisted for ** days, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese army.

    As for the name of the military commander, Major General Whiteman, I have searched through the history of the U.S. Pacific War and cannot find it. The final fate of more than 80,000 officers and soldiers of the U.S. Third Army in the Calais Mountains battlefield has been deliberately and artificially buried in the long river of history.  Among them, the American people have been left with a confusing historical blank.

    The Third Army of the U.S. Army paid the price of annihilation of more than 80,000 troops, paying for MacArthur's stupid strategic decisions and campaign command, which further enhanced his so-called halo of famous generals, and the historical truth was covered up.

    After solving the remaining US troops in the Calais Mountains, General Ito was as easy as taking off the shackles that were imprisoned on his body. In the direction of Manila, Haruta Yoshihiko fought vigorously and with great interest. He could free his hands and set his sights on bigger, more powerful forces.  The more important goal¡ª¡ªAustralia.

    What General Ito needs to do now is not to march directly to Manila, or to capture Manila immediately. He is waiting for the moment when MacArthur's reinforcements leave the Australian continent and land on Luzon Island. Then, the southwest Pacific of the Japanese Empire  The main force of the dispatched troops was the heaviest and most gorgeous blow to the Americans and British, and the entire Pacific Ocean was placed on the territory of the Japanese Empire. Of course, there was no damn China devil Tang Qiuli occupying the Indochina Peninsula.  It will be a very perfect and historically significant thing, and it will be recorded in the history of the Japanese Empire!

    Compared with General Ito's very happy mood, General MacArthur's mood was like the rainy weather for days, gloomy and depressing. The sound of gunfire in the Calais area subsided. A serious practical problem was placed in front of him. The end of Calais  The main force of the Japanese army in the Laishan District battle is about to pounce.

    If it were just an attack by the Japanese Fourteenth Army, MacArthur would have absolute confidence to hold on to Manila for a year or even longer. He even had a bold plan to wear down or drag down the Japanese Tenth Army on the Manila defense line.  However, it is absolutely impossible for the Fourth Army to fight the Japanese army for seven or eight days. The losses of the troops reached an astonishing number of more than 40,000 people. What is even more frightening is that the morale of the soldiers is gradually declining.

    If the main force of the Japanese army joins the Manila battlefield again, what awaits him and hundreds of thousands of American and Filipino soldiers will be a complete collapse of the entire battlefield. Therefore, General MacArthur is no more looking forward to the arrival of Australian reinforcements than now.

    The longing and waiting are both unsettling. On the evening of August 19, the Manila defense line withstood another fierce Japanese attack. General MacArthur, who went to the front line to supervise the battle, returned to the headquarters exhausted. Attendant  After serving dinner and looking at the sumptuous food on the table, His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief had no appetite at all. Over the past few days, His Excellency the General, who paid great attention to appearance and appearance, became much more haggard.

    Several thunders and annoying light rain began to fall again, adding to General MacArthur's inner depression. He waved his hand and asked the aide to take away the dinner. At this moment, the acting chief of staff, Colonel Kleist,  , rushed in wet, and shouted loudly from a long way away: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, good news! Good news! I just received a telegram, the first British-Australian army to reinforce the Luzon battlefield  The two leading divisions of the legion will be able to land in two hours!"

    "What?" General MacArthur suddenly stood up in disbelief, knocked over the dining table, and ignored the splash of a glass of white milk on his straight general uniform. He met Kleist with an agility that even young people could not match.  The colonel grabbed the telegram with trembling hands and looked greedy.

    At the same time, intelligence with the same content appeared in front of General Tang Qiuli, commander of the Japanese division, and General Ito Yanzaburo, commander-in-chief of Japan's Southwest Pacific Expeditionary Force.

    (To be continued)
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