Chapter 600: The Military Flag Over Manila (Part 2)
Lu Guoren decided to block the Japanese army in Manila. MacArthur was not clear. Most Filipinos in Manila didn't know. Most overseas Chinese had already withdrawn from the city early when they saw the Chinese army preparing to start a war, for fear that the fire in the city gate would cause harm to the fish. However, the Filipinos didn't care about those, and even their own Filipino soldiers did not mobilize residents to retreat to Manila. Lu Guoren asked and found out that the Filipinos had a very strong sense of regionality, and most of the people living in Manila were rich Filipinos and colonial officials who served the Americans. Their lives and deaths of these Filipino soldiers didn't care at all, and they wanted them to die?
Only then did Lu Guoren realize that no wonder his brother-in-law Gao Fei looked down on the group of monkeys in Southeast Asia. These monkeys are not only lazy but also very good at doing things. However, it is good to use them at the right time. For example, turning Manila into a big battlefield, you will never be able to do it without these monkeys.
The Japanese army was sieging the city on three sides of Manila, and the Philippine troops under Lu Guoren were actually executing the Filipinos in large numbers? Lu Guoren asked after asking, he found out that most of these people were wealthy businessmen and officials. Because the Americans announced Manila as an unguarded city when they retreated, these officials believed that neither the Chinese army nor the Philippine army could resist here. In the eyes of officials, the Japanese replaced the Americans just to change to a tax-collecting owner, from saluting the American flag to saluting the Japanese flag.
So, these officials came to the door, and as a result, most of the Filipino soldiers were poor, and they were most disgusted like these corrupt officials who admired foreign countries. These guys came to the door with a machete. They originally killed them with machetes, but later they used guns to rob the officials' homes. Lu Guoren pretended to be invisible to the matter of murder and traitors. This belongs to the Filipinos' own business. As long as they obey their orders to resist the Japanese here, the rest of Lu Guoren was really too lazy to care. Faced with the Japanese troops slowly pressing up in three aspects, Lu Guoren ordered the troops to use firepower to lure the Japanese into the trap area of pre-set mines and shells.
While listening to the guns and cannons attacking Manila City, Honma Masaharu looked at the map. The information Honma Masaharu obtained was that there were about 30,000 US-Philippine coalition forces on the Bataan Peninsula. The Bataan Peninsula is a small peninsula that only a few dozen kilometers. How many troops can the Americans concentrate here? Perhaps there are only 20,000 Americans, and they cannot miss the great opportunity to pursue the US military because of attacking Manila. Honma Masaharu also realized the mistake of his previous tactical lies. The blood sacrifice of the mountains and rivers of the Anti-Japanese War 600
So, Masaharu Honma handed over the task of capturing Manila City to Yoshihiro Tobashi's 48th Division, and ordered him to eliminate the resistance of the remaining enemies within 24 hours and join the combat sequence of attacking the US military fortress of Bataan.
Yuyi Tobashi didn't have a map about Manila in his hand? The map used for combat command turned out to be a local tourist map from ten years ago, but this did not affect Yuyi Tobashi's mood. The richest people in the Philippines are concentrated in Manila. It seems that they are lucky and it is time to get rich again. After that, they have to carefully select a batch of valuables and send them back to the home of the local Chief Masaharu Honma.
The Japanese army's attack seemed very organized, or it used the rare Xu Jin tactics. Lu Guoren didn't know who his opponent was at this moment, and Yuyi Tobashi didn't know what Manila was waiting for him! However, Yuyi Tobashi knew that the main force of the US military had retreated from the Batan Peninsula, and the only one who stayed in Manila was a ridiculous clown with a mantis armed mantis chariot. It was a foregone conclusion that the Imperial Japanese Imperial Army swept Southeast Asia, and cut off the last transportation line for international aid to China. Then it seemed that it would be not far from solving the China Incident.
Yuyi Tohashi was enjoying a rare coolness in the tent under the shade of the tree, especially when Aiden Gunda actually brought him cold beer? The Americans were so wealthy, and there were cold beer in the refrigerator they discarded? Can such troops really fight? The US and Philippine troops who have been captured these days have obtained a large amount of supplies to Yuyi Tohashi were fighting spirit. The US military is really vulnerable. What kind of scene would it be if they attacked the US mainland?
Tuhashi Yongyi was drinking beer and dreaming of not being close to him. Lu Guoren was guarding the command center on the bell tower under the scorching sun. This was the few commanding heights in Manila City that could overlook the whole city. Lu Guoren guarded the radio and took the risk to set up the command center here. The Japanese army attacked Manila City from east, west and south. As soon as they entered the city, they enjoyed the power of roadside bombs. The 105-mm grenade and 155-mm grenade made into smoke columns of roadside bombs. The smoke rising from the air rose for dozens of meters. The ground was in a mess. The flying gravel and wood chips were mixed with the organs and broken limbs of the human body fell from the sky, scattered nearby like rain.
The Japanese army, which was slightly far away, was almost unable to get up by the air waves. The large amount of abdominal bleeding caused these Japanese soldiers to die in just a few minutes. This was just one group of more than 2,000 thunderbolt roadside bombs. As the Japanese army continued to divide their troops into the city, the explosions kept ringing one after another. As soon as the Japanese army took action, they would trigger unexpected bombs.
In the houses on both sides of the street, there are many types of landmines buried randomly on the roads and roadsides. In the entire Manila City, a group of mines and explosives were buried in almost all commercial areas, transportation roads and even rivers. The Japanese army attacking Manila was struggling and storming, and the wind was shaking and storming. The engineers walking at the forefront of the marching team were often the main targets of sniping. The Japanese troops who lost the engineers could only move forward at a speed, and use the method of clearing away explosives in groups and areas, and use artillery bombardment in areas with dense explosives. Despite this, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties.
When Tobashi Yongyi learned that the troops were blocked by the enemy's dense landmines, he immediately issued an order to capture the Filipinos inside and outside the city, and drive them away from the human body to clear mines in batches. After the explosions, the streets were full of broken corpses and howling wounded people. The Japanese army used bayonets to drive away the next group of crying Filipinos to clear mines for them.
Chapter completed!