Chapter 3356 The Third Person

Okajima Domoto is dead.

Sergeant Kato was also beaten to death by the soldiers.

However, their deaths resulted in the surrender of one hundred and fifty Japanese soldiers who had resisted for a long time in this tunnel.

There were many factors that prompted their surrender.

For example, food is cut off, and there are heavy casualties.

But it was the US military's leaflets persuading them to surrender that finally made them decide.

Especially, that photo on the flyer!

He lowered his once high head, raised his hands above his head, and respectfully handed the command sword to his enemy, Major General Nobuhiro Kitazawa!

This photo was really shocking to the Japanese soldiers in desperate situation.

In fact, they already knew that they were just making a last ditch effort.

But they still don't want to believe it.

However, this photo completely shattered their last illusion.

End it.

Let it all end.

Not just here.

Similar leaflets appeared everywhere on various battlefields in the Philippines.

More and more Japanese troops stopped resisting.

Of course, the war is far from over here.

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"Hey, Chief Peter, why do you have time to come here to inspect the work?"

As soon as he saw Tian Qi, Meng Shaoyuan said with a somewhat joking tone.

"Come to congratulate Colonel Charles on becoming the King of Manila." Tian Qi also said mockingly: "You are always here to do whatever you want, and you are arrogant. Am I not just here to flatter you? I will ask you to take good care of me in the future.

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"Get lost."

Meng Shaoyuan smiled and said, "What on earth is going on?"

"Two things." Tian Qi put away his smile and said, "I was ordered to pick up a major from the Strategic Intelligence Service, Jonathan Teach."

"Who?" Meng Shaoyuan asked smoothly.

"Before, I stayed with the Philippine guerrillas."

Tian Qi said: "He is responsible for commanding the guerrillas to fight the Japanese army. Three days ago, he suddenly used a secret radio to contact us, demanding that the mission be ended immediately, and that he had important intelligence reports. I am the person in charge of the Southwest Pacific Theater of the Bureau of Strategic Intelligence.

I agreed to his request. But I don’t know yet what important information he has.

We made an appointment with him to meet in Manila, and I happened to have another mission, so I decided to come and meet him in person."

Jonathan Teach?

Meng Shaoyuan thought for a long time, but could not retrieve any information about this person from his mind.

He was probably an inconspicuous intelligence agent.

"Where was he before?"

Out of the conditioned reflex of his long career as an agent, Meng Shaoyuan asked one more question.

"He and the guerrillas were operating in the Santa Romana area of ​​the Philippines."

Tian Qi pointed on the map: "At present, the resistance of the Japanese army here is still very tenacious. The main task of the guerrillas here is to monitor the Japanese army and provide intelligence to the US military in a timely manner.

Jonathan got in touch with the guerrillas in the area two months ago. As for why he suddenly came back now, I'm afraid he really got some valuable clues, right?"

Santa Romana?

Meng Shaoyuan still had no impression.

Logically speaking, it's not right.

If Jonathan arrived in the Philippines two months ago, it was still full of dangers, but is it not the case now?

In the Philippines now, the US military is advancing steadily, and victory is in sight.

These guerrillas do not have to undertake combat missions, and Jonathan does not have to directly enter the battlefield. The risk factor is almost negligible.

And in this case, staying in command of the guerrillas in order to gain greater merit after the war is what most people will do, right?

As for important information?

Now the Japanese intelligence system in the Philippines has been completely destroyed, and there is no such thing as monitoring.

Is there anything he can't say on the radio?

Do you have to come back?

Due to professional sensitivity, Meng Shaoyuan was certain that Jonathan must have some secret.

Wait.

Meng Shaoyuan suddenly thought of something.

Japan’s Hidden Treasures in the Philippines!

But after the war, there were three important people who really knew the specific locations of some of the treasures.

After the US military landed on Luzon Island, the Mountain Lily Society began to blow up a large number of treasure tunnels.

This is the mission of the Mountain Lily Society.

The Mountain Lily Society has always been a mysterious organization led by Prince Hengde himself.

Moreover, in order to ensure secrecy, the members of the Yama Lily Society who are responsible for burying treasures in various places in the Philippines have never had any contact with each other, and they do not even know who the person in charge of a certain place is.

At the beginning, Meng Shaoyuan sneaked into Manila as "Shibu Taniguchi" and took advantage of this loophole.

But in the Philippines, there is more than just one "Taniguchi Shibu".

There are many more people in charge.

For example, Takeda, the nephew of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, is also in the Philippines.

The last treasure tunnel that the Yamayuri Society blew up in the Philippines was Tunnel No. 8.

Located deep in the mountains of Luzon Island.

After placing boxes of gold into a tunnel more than 60 meters deep, members of the Mountain Lily Society, hired Filipino engineers and workers "said goodbye" to the gold and held a grand ceremony.

After the ceremony, Yamashita Tomofumi and members of the Japanese royal family entertained these engineers and workers in the tunnel.

When these engineers and workers got drunk, the "Shan Lily Club" used explosives to blow up the tunnel and buried the gold and the local people in the tunnel!

The Japanese thought they were able to do so without being noticed, but they never expected that one person would be missed despite being so careful.

This man is Ben Walmorris, the valet of Takeda, the nephew of Emperor Hirohito.

After the farewell ceremony, Takeda left early because of physical discomfort, and his servant Ben Wall Morris also left with him.

The "Yamayuri Club" killed all the locals involved in the plan, but they forgot that Prince Takeda's servants were also locals.

By the time they remembered, the horrified Ben Wall Morris had already fled.

In order to hunt down Benvol Morris, Yamashita Fengfumi searched everywhere in the Philippines and killed innocent people indiscriminately.

Unfortunately, they failed to find Ben Wall Morris in the end.

On September 2, 1945, after the Japanese Emperor announced "unconditional surrender," Yamashita was desperate and surrendered to the U.S. military stationed in the Philippines.

Immediately, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Steyer ordered the establishment of an "independent committee" to conduct a secret interrogation of Yamashita Fengfumi in advance.

During the interrogation, Yamashita neither admitted to presiding over and planning the "Manila Massacre" nor to plundering a large amount of wealth in Southeast Asia.

Not only that, he also requested "habeas corpus" from the Supreme Court of the Philippines, believing that the trial by the US military was illegal.

According to normal procedures, Yamashita Tombumi should be tried by a military court, which is composed of judges jointly appointed by the victorious countries.

From this point of view, Steyer's approach is indeed unreasonable and illegal.

Unfortunately, the Philippines did not realize that there was something fishy at the time and rejected Yamashita's application.

The first people to react were the British. They strongly demanded that Yamashita Fengfumi be sent to a military court for trial, and they also enlisted China to put pressure on him.

Steyer did not agree, but gave in and agreed to a public trial of Yamashita Fumi and assigned six military lawyers to defend him.

Unexpectedly, Yamashita Fengfumi once again refused to plead guilty and filed an application for "habeas corpus" with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Yamashita's "struggle" was in vain. The U.S. federal government also rejected his application and stated that the "independent commission" established by Steyer on MacArthur's orders was legal and had the right to try Yamashita.

Yamashita Tomofumi's crime is divided into multiple components!
To be continued...