At about seven o'clock in the morning, in a mountain forest seven kilometers west of Ipil, Matsuoka sat down on the ground, fanning himself with an American wide-brimmed hat, and said to his adjutant Jiro Oba: "Thank you so much for today. I wonder how Kishimoto was able to come up with such a slogan at a critical moment, otherwise, we might really have to be enforced by the military's 'battlefield discipline' this time."
Jiro Oba said "Hai" and asked: "Sir, what should we do now?"
"Let's hide for a while and then we talk. Does any of you have anything to eat? I'm hungry."
A captain took out a ration bag and was about to hand it to him when suddenly the roar of fighter jet engines came from the north. Everyone turned to look. A few seconds later, a Japanese soldier shouted: "This is our fighter jet. This is our fighter jet." We are saved."
"Sir, let's send the signal."
Matsuoka also nodded with a smile on his face, and then, just as he was about to order his men to light a bonfire to send a signal, he heard a shout from the mountain forest to their left: "We are here..." and then a The fighter plane rushed down in that direction.
"Flying so low, are they here to rescue us?" said a Japanese soldier,
Just after he finished speaking, the sound of "U" sounded. Matsuoka and Oba looked at each other and their expressions changed.
There was a "rumbling" explosion, followed by the sound of machine gun fire. There was no suspense. The Japanese soldiers who had just called for help, including twenty or thirty companions around him, were killed by more than ten at once. Two people fell under the gunfire, "Ah." The survivor's liver and gallbladder were split, and then he screamed and ran away.
"What's going on?" Oba asked Matsuoka, his voice trembling.
Matsuoka's face turned pale, his mind was spinning rapidly, and then as if he finally figured out the reason, he gritted his teeth and said, "Ba Ge, Xue Bingjun is really a devil."
When Xiao Anbao asked the Japanese soldiers in Songgang Brigade to exchange military uniforms with the Americans, he asked them to take off their underwear together. At first, many Japanese soldiers thought that some of the officers in the cadet army liked that kind of style. , so although he was a little frightened, he did not think of anything else. Now, after being bombarded by his own fighter planes, Matsuoka finally figured out the mystery. It turned out that the Xue Bingjun did this to make them helpless. Take off your US military uniform,
The northwest peninsula of Mindanao is mountainous, with undulating hills and trees blocking the way. Even if they took off their military hats, the Japanese air force would not be able to identify their true identities at once. Furthermore, there are many American troops. If there are not many Filipinos, they might think they are seeing Filipinos.
So, when the little Japs from the Matsuoka Brigade saw their own fighter planes, they thought they were coming to rescue them and called out their directions. In the end, they were hit head-on, and many of them were even killed. After understanding what was going on, he became a victim of injustice because of his confusion.
Not all of the other Japanese soldiers in the Songgang Brigade could figure out the joints in just a moment like Songgang. Seeing their own fighter planes dropping bombs and strafing them, they were frightened and at the same time the atmosphere was bad. Many people When the Japanese plane swooped down on them, they did not run away immediately but pointed at the incoming enemy plane and shouted curses. Then, it was not until bombs and machine gun bullets fell on their heads that they realized the danger and tried to escape again. But it seems too late,
"These bastards from Kisarazu, are they crazy?"
"Run quickly, or you will be blown up if you don't."
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Faced with the air raids and bombings of their own aviation unit, the Japanese soldiers of the Matsuoka Brigade were furious. In the eyes of the Japanese soldiers of the Kisarazu Air Force, these Americans, and perhaps the Filipinos, were too stupid to start their own operations. When they dived to drop bombs, they actually dared to point fingers and shout at them. Could it be that they didn't want to die quickly enough?
Matsuoka Jiro and Oba Jiro were quick to see the opportunity, and the group of Japanese soldiers they led began to flee without saying a word, but they were lucky enough to escape.
Five minutes later, other Japanese soldiers finally discovered the mystery on the military uniforms, so the Japanese soldiers of the Kisarazu Air Force were stunned and dumbfounded. The Americans, no, maybe the Filipinos seemed to be frightened. He actually took off his military uniform, screamed and jumped at them naked,
"These perverts, what are they doing?"
"Could he be fooled by the Americans?"
"I thought it was possible."
"Hahaha……"
The Japanese airmen who participated in the attack chatted easily through the walkie-talkie while diving towards the target below. Under their unscrupulous attack, the Japanese soldiers of the Matsuoka Brigade finally realized that the situation was wrong and stopped trying in vain to prove their identity. He did something stupid and started his escape journey,
As the commander, Yamabekawa Sankey has not entered the battle for a long time. By the time he entered the battle, the surviving Japanese of the Matsuoka Brigade had already begun a collective escape. Therefore, until the end of this round of air raids, he had no choice but to watch the air raid. Although I was a little surprised to see a camouflage-colored figure, I didn't expect that the person they were chasing was one of their own.
Before eight o'clock, because the ammunition was almost exhausted, this wave of Kisarazu Air Force fighter planes began to return. When they came into the sight of Koizumi Toichiro who was standing on the island of the "Ryujo" aircraft carrier, Koizumi spoke through the intercom Ask Yamabe about the battle situation,
Yamabe reported truthfully, saying that they annihilated about 500 American and Filipino soldiers, but did not find the cadet army. "The combat effectiveness of the Americans and Filipinos is much worse than that of the cadet army. I estimate that the cadet army should We are already far away from Ipil. Your Excellency, I suggest that we expand the search scope." Finally, he suggested to Koizumi,
Koizumi approved,
So twenty minutes later, more than twenty fighter planes, led by Yamabe, once again took off from the deck of the "Ryujo" aircraft carrier. A greater crisis befell the remaining Japanese soldiers of the Matsuoka brigade, and At this time, Xiao Anbao, who planned this scene, and the US-Philippine coalition forces under his command had already arrived outside Naga Town.
Stationed in Naga is a joint Japanese-Philippine force. The commander is a major named Tsuchida Shushige. Under his command there is a brigade of Japanese troops plus a Philippine National Independence Regiment. The total number of troops is about 1,500. , different from Matsuoka's old style, Tsuchida Toshimo, as an officer of the Koizumi faction, was very strict. When the American-Philippine coalition forces appeared in the jungle outside Naga Town, Tsuchida was supervising his Japanese soldiers to do morning exercises.
After the troops entered the jungle and hid, Xiao Anbao, Sharp and others climbed to a high ground to conduct reconnaissance with binoculars. They found the Japanese soldiers doing morning exercises in the northwest of the town and the rebellious Filipino soldiers who were eating in the military camp in the south of the town. Xiao Anbao put down Telescope discussed with everyone: "The fact that the little Japanese still has the leisure and grace to do morning exercises shows that the Japanese army has not seen through our plan, so we will not alert them. We will go directly through the mountains and forests to the north."
"Why don't you continue to cheat the city?" Douglas asked,
Xiao Anbao shook his head and said: "Sooner or later, the Japanese army will see through our tricks in Ypil. By then, they will definitely expect that we want to break out from the southeast. If we capture Naya again, our whereabouts will be completely exposed. We will go from the north
Going around will have the effect of confusing them, so we decided to pass on the order and the whole army will sneak to the north first."