On the 23rd, after Washington exchanged dozens of telegrams with Guangzhou, the complete plan for the "separate defense" of the Second Expeditionary Force of the Cadet Forces and the US Army in the Philippines was finally finalized. On the day of the flight, Guo Kui and Guo Da returned
With Huang Hua, they led the troops directly under the headquarters and the 1st Expeditionary Division from Calatrava across the Strait of Tañon and returned to Toledo, and then headed eastward, starting a circuitous route to the Oriental Islands of the Philippines to Mindanao.
Long march.
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 big towns along the way, and these people immediately became the bridge between the Xuebing Army and the local government. With the help of the local Chinese, they began to form local militia forces. By the 30th, when Guo Kui
When they arrived at St. Francis, Huang Hua had already sent out more than 500 students, 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.
Since the air battle at Tanhay and the naval battle at Negros Island severely damaged the U.S. Far East Air Force and mixed fleet, the Japanese Western Expedition Fleet has achieved comprehensive superiority. Therefore, Koizumi is no longer satisfied with just defeating the U.S. military and occupying the Philippine Group. This military
Before the action, 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 from above, but also conquer their hearts - "We
We are the 'liberators'. We are attacking the Philippines not for destruction, but for construction! Gentlemen, please keep this in mind. Only in this way can we win the support of the Filipinos and truly make them available to me...
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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 around 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 flyers soared into the sky, and soon the surrounding towns and villages in Siokon, Sibuco, and Zamboanga were bombed by such leaflets.
Tungawan, forty-five kilometers away from Ipil, was also an important area for Japanese leaflet air raids. Tungawan and two nearby small mountain villages had a combined population of only more than 6,000 residents, but the Japanese army dispatched two bombers, dropping
He bought a hundred thousand leaflets. These leaflets gave Xiao Anbao’s 14th Expeditionary Brigade an advantage. The brothers all 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 officers and soldiers of the 14th Brigade could understand them, so they were used as papyrus. When these leaflets were handed to Xiao Anbao, his eyes shrank for a while after reading them, and he immediately realized
The dangers of these leaflets were revealed. According to the order from the Second Expeditionary Army Headquarters conveyed by Huang Haifu, they were supposed to wait for the main force to defeat the Japanese army's attempt to advance in depth before finding an opportunity to break through. But now, because of the smell of these leaflets,
He didn't dare to wait any longer because he smelled of danger. He summoned Wang Laohu and others, and he first circulated the translated leaflet to everyone, and then said solemnly: "The little devil is becoming more and more cunning. This trick
What a great way 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 are once captured by the Japanese
If we are controlled by others, 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.
The mountain road is close to Ipil—let’s 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. Then, riots against the Americans occurred in Siocon. The Filipino soldiers of the 101st Division launched a mutiny under the command of a regiment commander named Huang Yonghao, and unexpectedly attacked 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.
Send secret messages and ask them to strengthen their surveillance of the Filipino troops in the Capatagan area, and allow them to demonstrate 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 a rebel brigade were completely wiped out. The main culprit was a brigade commander named Josena and a group of his henchmen. Sharp was temporarily stabilized.
The situation in Sibuco. On this 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 mutiny 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 fighting together with the 14th Brigade. In fact, the Americans had 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.
Repulsed 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 emerged from the night with only
It took half an hour to defeat a large group of Japanese troops left behind in Yipil, and completely attracted the attention of the Japanese troops.