malaria!
Meng Shaoyuan encountered a very powerful and terrifying enemy.
This enemy may even be invincible.
The quinine bought for three gold bars now seems not expensive at all.
Li Zhifeng's condition has stabilized.
But what happens next?
Someone will surely fall.
We must make amends before this happens, don't let such an unprepared thing happen again!
That’s right, it’s hard to find a cure in Manila right now.
However, what Meng Shaoyuan can be sure of is that medicines will definitely be found.
No matter how scarce any material is, it cannot be completely gone.
This is a law.
But, how to find a large amount of medicine reserves?
Not only for the present, but also for the future.
Just relying on Tanaka alone would definitely not be enough.
All Meng Shaoyuan could think about was this.
Even if he was notified by phone, when he arrived at the meeting at the Tenth Army Headquarters, he was still thinking about it.
In the headquarters, in addition to senior officers including Takuma Shintani, there is also a Japanese Army Major General.
However, Masaharu Honma was not seen.
"Let me introduce to you, this is His Excellency General Iwabuchi the Third." Shintani Takuma said: "Your Excellency, Commander Honma, in the name of the base camp, has other important responsibilities. From now on, the defense of Manila will be handled by Commander Iwabuchi. Your Excellency is responsible!"
Meng Shaoyuan knew what was going on as soon as he heard it.
If Shimo Fengwen is a warrior who is brave in battles, invulnerable and can be called a "Malay Tiger", and has rich combat experience, then Masaharu Honma is a diplomatic civilian commander who lacks rich combat experience.
After the Battle of the Philippines completely broke out, Masaharu Honma encountered his biggest combat opponent, the famous MacArthur. And Masaharu Honma was able to defeat him entirely due to her own luck.
During the sneak attack on the US military airport in the Philippines, they encountered heavy fog, and the Japanese aircraft had no choice but to return.
When the weather cleared up, the US military aircraft also took off. While refueling at the airport for their return flight, the Japanese army seized the opportunity to wildly drop bombs on the US military airport in the Philippines. The US military aircraft suffered heavy losses and lost their air combat capabilities.
When MacArthur submitted the defensive operation plan, he exaggerated the strength of the Japanese army, saying that the number of Japanese troops attacking the Philippine airport this time could be more than 100,000, while his own army only had more than 40,000 people. In fact, it was the opposite at that time, and the number of Japanese troops was only 40,000. More than ten thousand people.
The U.S. military was dubious about MacArthur's plan to defend the enemy. They believed that it was impossible to defeat the Japanese army with the size of MacArthur's army, so they approved MacArthur's retreat plan.
This resulted in Masaharu Honma's feat of defeating MacArthur.
Even so, among the top brass of the Japanese army, there are still a large number of officers who believe that Masaharu Honma is nothing more than a wimp who can write poetry and rely on flattery!
Especially in the treatment of US military prisoners of war.
Although he single-handedly led the horrific Bataan Death March, the vast majority of Japanese officers still believed that Masaharu Honma was too weak in treating American prisoners of war.
After the Battle of Laite Island broke out, senior Japanese military officials believed that if Laite Island was lost and the U.S. military continued to advance toward Manila, then the civilian-type Masaharu Honma would not be suitable to assume the important task of defending Manila.
In this way, Yamashita Tomofumi's subordinate Iwabuchi replaced Honma Masaharu three times.
This Iwabuchi has done three times, and he is not a good person.
Yamashita Fengfumi had no intention of sticking to Manila.
He did not want to defend this city, which had a population of more than one million and a large number of wooden and flammable houses. He originally ordered his subordinate Major General Iwabuchi to abandon the city and destroy all bridges and other infrastructure before the American troops appeared.
The problem is that Yamashita Fengwen protects the food. Iwabuchi is a war madman three times.
He decided to defend the city and fight to the last man.
He disobeyed Yamashita's orders and ordered the Manila naval garrison to enter the city. He found several very well defended strongholds, including the Intermuros Castle and its surrounding buildings. When he found any buildings of defensive value, such as bridges and Tunnels, he would build minefields, barbed wire, connecting ditches, large useless trucks and trams to serve as obstacles and traps, and he would also order some motley troops to enter the defensive zone.
Iwabuchi made up his mind three times to fight the US military in Manila to the end!
This will also lead to the future tragedy in Manila.
Now, Meng Shaoyuan finally faced this war madman head-on.
"Everyone, today is our first meeting." Iwabuchi opened his mouth three times and went straight to the point: "On Laite Island, my heroic imperial soldiers are fighting a bloody battle with the arrogant Americans, and they have achieved a major victory! "
Big win?
Who doesn’t know the fighting situation on Laite Island through various channels?
Iwabuchi said three times but no matter what they were thinking: "The base camp has formulated a complete combat strategy. After killing a large number of U.S. troops on Laite Island, it will lure the U.S. troops deep into the Philippines, and then completely encircle and annihilate them!"
Manila will likely face the offensive from the US military, and we will completely turn this place into a burial place for Americans! "
He issued his combat orders with high spirits.
He wants to turn the entire Manila into a huge war fortress.
In fact, to put it bluntly, he wants everyone to be buried here:
Broken jade!
Crazy, this is a crazy person.
Many people think so.
However, he is the new commander, and no one can refute his orders.
"Gendarmerie and intelligence agencies!"
After explaining the army's tasks, Iwabuchi directly named Meng Shaoyuan and Xilian Temple three times:
"While we are annihilating the Americans, the resistance elements in Manila will definitely carry out massive destruction. We must put an end to this situation!
I order that a comprehensive investigation be launched immediately in Manila to eliminate all dangers. All Filipinos who are suspected or may be suspected will be arrested directly! "
Sirian Temple said cautiously: "Your Majesty Commander, we have arrested a large number of prisoners some time ago, and according to the tasks you just deployed, a large number of buildings in Manila will be demolished.
So, there seems to be some problems with the prison. We don't have that many prisons to hold inmates. "
Iwabuchi looked at him coldly three times and said coldly: "Yes, the prison is full, but why must those enemies who attempt to fight against the empire be imprisoned?"
Xilian Temple was really shocked and immediately understood what the Commander meant.
He is going on a killing spree!
"I don't want to listen to your reasons." Iwabuchi stood up three times: "What I want is that in future wars, there will be no problems in our rear!"
"Hai!"
Everyone stood up and answered loudly.
This is a cold-blooded butcher.
Meng Shaoyuan glanced at Yanyuan three times. What kind of ending will such a cruel person face in the future?
