In a heavily guarded concrete and steel building in Pontianak, Koizumi listened to a report from a colonel. His face, which had no expression at all, seemed to have suddenly appeared frost. His face became more and more gloomy, until it was almost dripping with water.
Come. As the war situation worsens, as resources become scarce, and as the two major allies, the United States and Britain, become increasingly unreliable, the shortcomings of overseas colonial operations are being exposed more and more quickly.
Among them, the biggest problem for Koizumi Toshiichiro was the relationship between the Japanese army and the US military in the Pacific.
In order to fight against the increasingly large China, Koizumi Minichiro had no choice but to adopt a policy of all-people soldiers in the colonies. In this way, of course, he successfully naturalized more and more indigenous people, turning them into black and yellow
Although they appear Japanese in appearance, they have successfully aroused the national independence consciousness of many local indigenous leaders. Gu Lianyun and the Southeast Asian Anti-colonial Alliance she created are not vegetarians. In addition, Wang Mingcheng and Jiang Yi
Ge secretly opened the door to convenience. As a result, the ethnic independence armed movements of Southeast Asian indigenous people became more and more frequent and larger in scale. Gradually, various guerrilla groups appeared. This made Koizumi Minichiro particularly worried.
Yes, because of the presence of the US military in the Pacific, these indigenous guerrillas have the means to carry out political and diplomatic resistance in addition to pure resistance, such as secretly colluding with the US military, or exchanging food for weapons from the Americans.
equipment.
"Let General Sasaki come, I need him to explain to me face to face!" Said these words in a voice without any emotion, Koizumi Minichiro sat down.
Mindanao Island, General Santos City. A month ago, this place became the base camp of the Koken First Division, the Eastern Front of the Japanese Southeast Asian Army. In order to deal with the new situation, that is, with the addition of more and more naturalized indigenous troops, Koizumi
The Japanese army in Southeast Asia was reorganized again, and more than three million troops were reorganized into the Eastern Front Army, the Southern Front Army, and the base camp. As Gu Xianyi had not experienced the Battle of Kambang and the Battle of Singapore, it was logical that he was promoted to another level.
He became the senior general of the Japanese Army in Southeast Asia after Koizumi and was in charge of the Eastern Front.
According to the previous agreement reached between the United States and Japan, the Philippines had been handed over to the Americans by Koizumi to serve as a forward base for the Americans to launch the Taiwan Campaign. However, as the U.S. Pacific Fleet became an offshore force due to supply problems, the Pacific Fleet
The US military has also lost the ability to obtain supplies from the mainland. In fact, the US military has no capital to launch a Taiwan offensive, and has begun to rely more and more on local supplies.
The Americans began to regard the Philippines as a real supply place. However, with the implementation of Koizumi's policy of all-people soldiers, the original feeding areas of the Eastern Front Army were no longer enough to meet their logistical needs. At Kokenichi's strong request, Koizumi
He had to ask Eisenhower to hand over Mindanao to Gu Xianyi to expand his dining area.
During this period, Eisenhower made a fatal mistake. That is, because he misjudged the situation of the Taisei Revolution and believed that the government was capable of quickly quelling the rebellion, he did not mind giving up Mindanao to the Japanese. The result was that when he realized
Without Mindanao, he would not be able to feed more than 300,000 US military officers and soldiers. Gu Xianyi had successfully entered Chiang Kai-shek's military city in San Santos and turned Mindanao into the largest feeding place for the Eastern Front.
Because of the war (the earlier Philippine War between the United States, Japan, and China), Filipinos migrated to the southwest, making Mindanao the most densely populated area in the Philippines. In the old agricultural society that relied heavily on manpower, especially in the
In the sparse Southeast Asia, population density directly determines the local food crop output. As a result, Mindanao's strategic position suddenly became important and became a favorite in the eyes of the US and Japanese armies.
The Pacific U.S. military also has a garrison in Mindanao, which was initially an armored division. Eisenhower left an armored division in Mindanao with the original purpose of ensuring a retreat. But now, when the United States and Japan begin to compete for the right to eat in Mindanao, this armored division
It became Eisenhower's vanguard force.
When the U.S. military first arrived in the Philippine Islands, Kenichi Koru and Shota Sasaki caused a lot of trouble for the U.S. military, which caused constant friction between the middle and lower levels of the U.S. and Japanese armies, severely restricting exchanges between the two militaries. Even after they withdrew from the Philippines,
After that, Gu Xianyi did not give up monitoring the US military. He was able to enter Mindanao with lightning speed and capture General Santos City, relying on his grasp of the dynamics of the US military. Therefore, Eisenhower's order to "capture Mindanao"
Just after the order was issued, he took the first step and surrounded the US 13th Cavalry Division (Armored Force) stationed in Butuan. Not only that, he also directly broke into the US military under the pretext of receiving reports from local residents and arresting criminals.
camp, and after successfully intensifying the conflict, all members of the 13th Cavalry Division were forcibly disarmed.
Kokenichi's move naturally aroused Eisenhower's extreme indignation. The old American man was very smart and knew that he needed to rely on the Japanese in Southeast Asia. Therefore, he did not take military action immediately. Instead, he directly sent a telegram to Koizumi Minichiro and said in
The telegram threatened that if Mr. Koizumi could not give justice to the US military in the Pacific, then they would not rule out seeking justice on their own and even withdrawing to Australia.
Of course, Koizumi Toshiichiro did not dare to let the Americans withdraw to Australia, because he also expected the U.S.-British coalition forces in the Philippines to help him attract the attention of the Chinese Pacific Fleet and help him block the Chinese army that might launch an attack from the east.
When Kenichi Koizumi received the telegram from Koizumi Minichiro, he was meeting an emissary sent by Shota Sasaki in a European-style castle building in the center of General Santos City.
With the full launch of the plan to steal the sky, due to the needs of the post-war Japan policy, Kenichi Koru and Shota Sasaki, who have successfully ascended to high positions in the military, naturally have greater "value". And if they want them to succeed after the war,
Successfully ascending to a high position in Japanese politics, preventing them from becoming war criminals, and cleaning them up became the purpose of the question. It was for this purpose that Ouyang Yun gave instructions to let Kenichi Kouru and Shota Sasaki know the identities of each other's comrades.
, and through Ryoko Takahashi, they got in touch with the underground organization of the Japanese Anti-War League in the Japanese army in Southeast Asia. At this moment, the Japanese Army Major serving as Shota Sasaki’s special envoy was a section chief of the underground organization of the Anti-War League.