On the 23rd, after Washington exchanged dozens of telegrams with Guangzhou, the complete plan for the Second Expeditionary Force of the Cadet Army and the "separate defense" of the US military stationed in the Philippines was finally finalized. On the same day, Guo Kui and Guo Da also
Huang Hua and the others led the troops directly under the headquarters and the First Expeditionary Division from Calatrava across the Strait of Tañon back to Toledo, and then headed eastward, starting a long journey to Mindanao that detoured around the Oriental Islands of the Philippines.
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According to the latest agreement between Washington and Guangzhou, Mindanao and several islands in the southeast will all be defended by the Second Expeditionary Army. Correspondingly, the Xuebing Army will temporarily gain the right to govern these areas.
He has the authority to mobilize all forces in these islands to serve the anti-Japanese war, including recruiting local people to supplement the troops. Because of this agreement, Huang Hua was much more convenient when mobilizing local Chinese to form militia forces. One after another student groups were recruited by him
Various pretexts were used in the large and medium-sized towns along the way. These people immediately became the bridge between the student army and the local government. With the help of the local Chinese, they began to form local militia forces. By the 30th, when Guo
When Kui and the others arrived at St. Francis, Huang Hua had already sent out more than 500 cadets, and there were already three militia armed forces gathered at the headquarters.
On the 21st, in the northwest peninsula of Mindanao, the Marine Corps under the Japanese Western Expedition Fleet Ryusei's aircraft carrier, led by a local armed force of the so-called "Mindan National Independence Brigade", attacked Zamboanga, Sibuco, and Sio
Kong's US-Philippine troops launched an encirclement and suppression operation,
After severely damaging the U.S. Far East Air Force and Mixed Fleet in the air battle of Tanhay and the naval battle of Negros Island, the Japanese Western Expedition Fleet had achieved comprehensive superiority. Therefore, Koizumi was no longer satisfied with just defeating the U.S. Army and occupying the Philippine Group.
Before the military operation, he held a military meeting, at which he proposed for the first time the idea that to fight a civilized war, we must not only conquer the Filipinos physically, but also conquer their hearts.
"We are 'liberators'. We are attacking the Philippines not to destroy, but to build. Gentlemen, please keep this in mind. Only in this way can we win the support of the Filipinos and truly make them available to us."
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Because of adhering to this strategic guiding ideology, the first thing the Japanese army started before starting military operations was a propaganda offensive. At about 8 o'clock in the morning that day, one after another Japanese aircraft carrying massive amounts of leaflets flew from the "Ryujo" aircraft carrier.
The flight deck soared into the sky, and soon the surrounding towns and villages in Siokon and Sibuco, including Zamboanga, were bombarded by such leaflets.
Tungawan, forty-five kilometers away from Ipil, was also an important area for Japanese leaflet air raids. Tungawan and the two nearby small mountain villages had a total of only more than 6,000 residents, but the Japanese army dispatched two bombers, dropping
He bought a hundred thousand leaflets, which benefited Xiao Anbao’s 14th Expeditionary Brigade trainees. Each of the brothers collected a bundle and kept it as tissue paper. In Wang Laohu’s words: “The little devil is really anxious for me to wait.
The reason is that I know that my brothers suffer from hemorrhoids more often, so I sprinkled so much toilet paper on purpose."
The leaflets were all written in English, and few of the officers and soldiers of the 14th Brigade could understand them, so they were used as papyrus. When these leaflets were handed over to Xiao Anbao, his eyes shrank for a while after reading them, and he immediately realized
Regarding the dangers of these leaflets, according to the order from the Second Expeditionary Army Headquarters conveyed by Huang Haifu, they were supposed to wait for the main force to find an opportunity to break out after thwarting the Japanese army's attempt to advance in depth. But now, because of these leaflets,
Smelling the danger, he did not dare to wait any longer. He summoned Wang Laohu and others. He first circulated the contents of the leaflet translated into Chinese to everyone, and then said solemnly: "The little Japs are becoming more and more treacherous.
This is a great trick to pull the trigger. The 61st Division is guarded by Sharp, so there will probably be no problems. But the 81st Division in Sibuco and the 101st Division in Siocon are hard to say. If these two divisions once
If we are controlled by the Japanese, it will be much more difficult for us to break through, and there may even be no place to hide. We can no longer wait for the main force to support us. Send me an order and the entire army will immediately assemble and march toward the northeast.
, take the mountain road to get closer to Ipil, and we will take the initiative to break out."
Xiao Anbao's vision was very accurate. At one and a half o'clock that afternoon, a regiment of Japanese soldiers marched from Yipil to Tungawan. They were still more than ten kilometers away from Tungawan. A company-sized company in Tungawan was The Philippine outposts surrendered to the Japanese, and then there were riots against the Americans in Siocon. The Filipino soldiers of the 101st Division launched a mutiny under the command of a regiment commander named Huang Yonghao, and unexpectedly killed the Americans. The division commander and about a regiment of Americans rounded up and handed over the unloading, and sent a message to the whole country, saying that they would respond to the Japanese call to start the national independence movement to expel the American colonialists, and called on other Filipino troops to also bravely Stand up and fight against the evil American colonialists in pursuit of national and national independence...
MacArthur had already had doubts about the Filipinos because of Koizumi Toshiichiro's speech. Now because of this speech, he couldn't believe the Filipinos even more. As a result, the war situation in the Philippines took a turn for the worse, and the U.S. military stationed in the Philippines suddenly fell into a huge crisis. ,
Guo Kui learned about the Siocon rebellion from the Americans later. Compared with the Americans who fell into a collective panic, he seemed very calm. He first gave orders to various ministries on what to do, and then gave orders to Huang Haifu and Hua Laifu. Get the secret message and ask them to strengthen their surveillance of the Philippine troops in the Capatagan area, and allow them to show their strength at the appropriate time, so as to prevent those hot-headed Filipinos from having any crooked ideas about the student army.
On the 22nd, the 81st Division in Sibuco experienced the same commotion as in Siocon. Because the Americans were already prepared, the 61st Division commanded by Sharp simply abandoned Zamboanga and gathered in Sibuco. The Filipinos This time the rebellion was extinguished. In a melee, the Philippine troops who led the rebel brigade were completely wiped out. The main perpetrator, a brigade commander named Josena and a group of his henchmen were killed. Sharp was temporarily stabilized. The situation in Sibuco, and just that afternoon, the Japanese first carried out a high-intensity bombing of Sibuco. Then, a regiment of Japanese troops took divisions and brigades of Philippine puppet troops and launched an attack on Sibuco. attack,
Although the rebellion of the 81st Division was thwarted by Sharp, the 61st Division and the 81st Division also suffered varying degrees of damage. If it were not for the fact that the terrain in the Sibuco area was easy to defend and difficult to attack, Du Dickson's troops of the 61st Division They grew up in the joint battle with the 14th Brigade. In fact, the Americans have lost the ability to resist stubbornly.
The battle of Sibuco was quite brutal, and the Americans rarely showed their bloody side. Sharp successively filled about three regiments of American troops into the front-line battlefield. With the help of about 5,000 Filipino troops, he was stunned. After repelling more than ten attacks by the Japanese and Filipino troops, at ten o'clock in the evening, just when the Japanese army wanted to continue the attack, the 14th Brigade's breakout operation began. This student army suddenly burst out of the night. It only took half an hour to defeat a large group of Japanese troops left behind in Ipil, and completely attracted the attention of the Japanese troops.