Clay figurines are all three-pointed, let alone a huge country like Southern Africa, which is thriving.

After all, the United States is not the future world policeman, not to mention the whole world, and in Southeast Asia, which is already regarded by the United States as its own land, the United States will face the joint exclusion of Britain and France, as well as Japan's strong challenge.

What's more, there are loyal little brothers like the East Indies, who have the support of southern Africa behind them and are ready to jump out and stab the United States at any time.

It can be said that the situation facing the United States is far worse than the Americans expected.

Just as Leonard Wood released some of the detainees, MacArthur's Filipino Servant Army was completely trapped in Dini.

At the cost of thousands of men, MacArthur's army of servants finally captured Deeney and gained a relatively stable base from which to advance.

MacArthur finally did not lose his mind, and did not order Deeney's servants to attack rashly, but spent nearly a week gathering troops and supplies to Deaney, and sending reconnaissance troops to reconnoiter the hinterland of Palawan.

The work did not go well, the terrain of Palawan was complicated, the Free Army soldiers were good at camouflage and concealment, sometimes the servant soldiers passed by and could not be detected, and at the worst time, MacArthur lost more than a dozen scouts in one day, some of which went without returning.

The Free Army would not allow the Servants to accumulate strength and harass and attack Deeni day and night, and the Dieni Servants were so distraught that people were killed by bullets flying from nowhere almost every day, or were awakened in their sleep by violent explosions.

"Let them fight, I'll see how many shells they can have." MacArthur gritted his teeth, and now he had transferred his headquarters from the heavy cruiser USS Victory to the small town of Diney and finally set foot on Palawan.

"It's hard, we picked up a shell that didn't explode—" David Andrewson was not sad or happy, and just yesterday, MacArthur received another order from Leonard Wood to retreat, but MacArthur still ignored it.

If MacArthur had been ordered to retreat, then MacArthur's military career would have been cast a stain that could not be washed away, something MacArthur could not accept under any circumstances.

It is a joke that the commander-in-chief of the Manila garrison could not even eliminate a group of rebels.

"How could it be that we picked it up—we captured it—" MacArthur corrected David Andrewson's miswording, and in MacArthur's report to Leonard Wood, the First Division had killed thousands of Palawan rebels, and as long as Leonard Wood gave MacArthur some more reinforcements, MacArthur would destroy the Palawan rebels in the shortest possible time.

"Well—we seized it, and I think you need to take a look." David Andrewson doesn't argue that MacArthur is what he says.

Strictly speaking, what the servants picked up - "captured" was not an actual shell, but a huge bag of explosives wrapped in oil.

"We've measured it, it's about ten kilograms, and it's all gunpowder, and it's not a high-performance military explosive, but it's still very powerful — I suspect that the Palawan rebels made it themselves, which means that the Palawan rebels already have the ability to make weapons." David Andrewson has a heavy heart, and this is definitely not good news for the Philippine colonial government.

The reason why Leonard Wood ordered the blockade of the waters around Palawan Island was to cut off the Palawan rebels from external assistance and trap the Palawan rebels on Palawan Island.

Now that the rebels have the ability to make explosives, the chances of trapping the Palawan rebels are becoming increasingly slim.

"The rebels made it themselves?" MacArthur doubted that the rebels possessed the ability to make explosives.

It is not difficult to make explosives, it is not easy to say that it is not easy, one and that, two and three, according to this ratio, and some other raw materials are added to blend, it is black powder with good performance.

"Yes, we analyzed the raw materials of the explosives, and found that the formula is not complicated, the power of this gunpowder is not great, but the Palawan rebels have obviously found a very suitable way to use it, such an explosive bag, the killing range can reach about fifty meters, yesterday an explosive bag exploded near a tent, as a result, a squad resting in the tent was all killed, they did not have any injuries on the surface, the autopsy found that the internal organs had been shattered, if the rebels had a large amount of this explosive, Then it is almost impossible for us to destroy the rebels in a short time. David Andrewson's expression was solemn, such a bag of explosives should actually be buried in the path of the servant army's advance.

Think about it, a group of servant officers and soldiers were advancing in the dense forest between the mountains, and suddenly a violent explosion occurred on the cliff next to the road, and the entire cliff collapsed, and the servant army under the cliff was buried alive-

That scene!

The casualties are secondary, mainly psychological deterrence, and they are suddenly buried alive while walking, which is simply terrifying.

"David, don't say these discouraged words, we must destroy the rebels now, there is no way back." MacArthur lowered his voice, he and David Andrewson were actually grasshoppers on a rope, and if they failed, neither of them could escape the accountability of the War Department.

"How to exterminate these Filipinos?" David Andrewson sneered and looked at the Filipino soldiers around him with disdain.

It can't be blamed that David Andrewson looks down on these servant armies, these servant armies are indeed not like words, just under the noses of MacArthur and David Andrewson, some people are chatting together, some are gambling, some are gulping and drinking, and some people are walking well and suddenly stumbling.

This Nima—

MacArthur's face suddenly turned black as the bottom of a pot.

On the battlefield, in order to escape the battle, some people can use any trick, the foot is nothing, and it is not uncommon to stab themselves in the thigh with a bayonet.

"If you can't destroy the rebels, then let them die-" MacArthur was cold, the rebels didn't die, it was these servants who died, there was no third option.

On January 10, after a 10-day sea voyage, a southern African delegation led by Philip arrived in the United States.

The United States still attaches great importance to southern Africa, and President Hoover personally went to New York to greet Philip, and the two had a brief exchange on some recent events on the train to Washington, and reached a certain consensus.

"I have sent a telegram to Leonard Wood, asking him to immediately release the impounded migrant boat, there may be some misunderstanding, I hope Your Excellency the Prime Minister can understand." Hoover was slightly disappointed, he actually wanted to see Roque more.

"Of course, we have a wide range of common interests in the Far East, and we have reached a broad consensus on this when Mr. Secretary of State was in Southern Africa, and in the Far East, Southern Africa and the United States can cooperate more closely." Philip was cunning and cunning, and the information revealed in his words surprised Hoover.

The importance of the Far East to Southern Africa needs not be emphasized, as it needs a steady supply of fresh immigrants from the Far East, as well as a broader market for its goods.

The problem now is that the Far East has in fact been divided into spheres of influence by various countries, and Britain, France, and the United States, plus southern Africa and Japan, have intricate spheres of influence in East Asia, and their interests are constantly entangled, which is very unfavorable to both southern Africa and the United States.

"Yes, in the Far East, the interests of our United States and Southern Africa are identical—" Hoover also said very vaguely, and some things could not be said too clearly, such as the blockade of the South Asian subcontinent by Britain and France, which the United States has always wanted to break.

The South Asian subcontinent is the British Malaya and the French East Indies, the current Far East is actually quite complete, the Philippines is a colony of the United States, the East Indies is an ally of Southern Africa, the South Asian subcontinent is divided by Britain and France, and Northeast Asia is covered by Japan.

Compared with the United States, Southern Africa does not have much idea about the subcontinent, but if the United States can break the monopoly of Britain and France on the market of the South Asian subcontinent, Southern Africa will be happy to see it.

However, Hoover's invitation to Philip to visit the United States was not to resolve the dispute between southern Africa and the United States in the Far East, but to divide the sphere of influence between southern Africa and the United States in Africa and South America.

It sounds a bit arrogant, right, how could there be such a thing as dividing spheres of influence without the participation of Britain and France.

Actually, you don't really need to.

In his talks with Philip the next day, Hoover promised as soon as he came up that he was willing to cancel the construction of a military base in Liberia.

Of course, in return, Hoover also hoped that southern Africa would withdraw all military personnel in the Bahamas, as well as reduce the garrison in Halifax.

As for the purchase of commercial assets by southern African enterprises in South America, it is also a commercial act, and the US government does not interfere.

However, the U.S. government also does not want southern Africa to continue to expand its influence in South America, in other words, it is okay to do business, but not to do anything else.

Southern Africa also has a bad track record in this regard, and Hoover himself was even a victim.

Or the beneficiary, this question is not clear in three sentences or two sentences.

Philip agreed with Hoover's proposal that if the U.S. government canceled its military base in Liberia, southern Africa would withdraw its troops in the Bahamas and reduce its presence in Halifax accordingly.

Like Africa, South America is also rich in resources and has great potential, and it is not something that any one country can swallow in one bite at all, and the Americans have been shouting for so many years that "America is the America of Americans", but in fact South America is still a plate of scattered sand, and it has not really become the America of the United States as the Americans imagined.

Unfortunately, Hoover was very adamant about South America and did not agree to Philip's proposal.

This is also normal, where there is cooperation, there are differences, and it cannot be smooth sailing.