928. Screening prisoners of war
"Detachment leader, all six prisoner of war camps have been taken over, with a total number of more than 297,500 people."
Yang Manchu broke into Bai Shujie's office in a sweat, still with an assault rifle in his hand. Looking at the more than 200,000 people in the entire Rehe Front Army and the Flying Dragon Expeditionary Army, there are only five people like him.
Bai Shujie was scrutinizing the map, and was taken aback when he heard this: "How can there be so many people?" β
Knock knock, Yang Manchu grabbed Bai Shujie's teapot and poured it down, then sat on the chair and said, "Detachment leader, you don't know." The male lieutenant general who was killed by Liu Zhiliang and them is not small! β
"According to the results of our preliminary interrogation of the little devil commander Masaharu Honma, this Lieutenant General Kamimura served as the commander of the 64th Independent Infantry Regiment. In August last year (1941), he was promoted to lieutenant general. After the start of the Pacific War, on December 29 last year, he was appointed as the chief of intelligence for prisoners of war. β
"What Kamimura means is that all the prisoners of war from the Philippine battlefield, the Borneo battlefield, the Sumatra battlefield, and the Java battlefield are gathered and ready to be sent to Taiwan and the puppet Manchukuo for forced labor. It's a pity that their transport fleet is transporting people and supplies to the Burmese front, and it is not too late for the time being. β
"After preliminary classification, there are more than 45,900 American prisoners of war, more than 19,700 British prisoners of war, more than 72,500 Dutch prisoners of war, more than 17,700 East Indian prisoners of war, more than 72,400 Australian prisoners of war, and the rest are 69,300 Philippine prisoners of war."
Speaking of this, Yang Manchu shook his head: "I don't understand, there are only more than 230,000 people in the 16th Army of the Japanese Army. After the start of the battle, about 430 men of the Japanese 1st Parachute Brigade were airborne in Palembang, and then the main force of the 38th Division landed at three locations on Java Island, capturing more than 80,000 Allied troops and capturing 177 aircraft. β
"What kind of troops are these? Whether it was the Philippine battlefield, or the Sumatra, Java Island, and Borneo battlefields, the Japanese army did not have an advantage in the navy, air force, and army. There were also no American and British prisoners of war, who said that the Japanese army was unprecedentedly strong and could not resist at all. β
"Detachment leader, look at it, if you want to say that the little devil air force is powerful, right? Cavite and Novelleta were cleaned up here, and more than 472 planes were blown up! On the side of Java Island, the little devils captured 177 planes, and if you add the downed fighters, the Allied forces have more than 800 combat planes, which is twice as many as the little devils. β
"The number of battleships, cruisers, destroyers sunk by the Allies is more than the total number of imps. The final result was that the number of prisoners captured by the little devils, on average, was basically one prisoner captured by every Japanese soldier. I really don't understand what the point of such an army is. β
"To be honest, it's a blessing that there are thousands of islands in this hellish place, so the little devil wasted four months. If it were placed in our country, it would definitely not take 20 days for all of these so-called Allied soldiers to be captured! According to Masaharu Honma's confession, the total number of casualties of the little devils is about 38,000 people, which is not proportional! β
Bai Shujie nodded: "Because of this, we say how corrupt and incompetent the Qing Dynasty was!" If you think about it, it was such a group of allied troops who reached the Forbidden City in less than 30,000 people. β
"Do you know why the United States is in the Philippines? Because of the uneven distribution of spoils at that time, the American devils and Spain got into action, and as a result, Spain was defeated and lost, and the Philippines was ceded to the American devils. β
"The so-called allies are a bunch of people who eat people and don't spit out bones. Now they want to be saviors one by one, but they were beaten by the little devils and their noses and faces were swollen. To put it bluntly, they're all dog-eat-dog. To fight for each other is to rob other people's territory and plunder other people's resources. β
"That's why Lao Tzu is here to do it. No matter who he beats, Lao Tzu has no psychological burden at all. For us, these allied forces are all devils who invaded the mainland back then, and they add up to Eastern devils, Western devils and two devils. Their iron hooves have all set foot on our land, and they should all be cut down! β
Yang Manchu nodded: "However, these 300,000 people are a huge burden, and our food is not enough." What's next? β
Bai Shujie paced back and forth with his hands behind his back twice, and then said, "It should still be treated differently." First, all US prisoners of war were transferred out and a prisoner of war camp was specially arranged for unified management. The most important thing is that the American prisoner of war Wainwright and the British prisoner of war Persivana, these two people are generals, and each of them makes a suite. β
"Officers of the United States of America and above of the second lieutenant and the British army of major and above are all concentrated in the St. Augustine Church and guarded alone. The standard of living is slightly higher, and you can also give a certain amount of freedom of movement, as long as you don't come out. As for the rest of the prisoners of war, all of them participated in the labor of rebuilding Manila! β
"Tomorrow the first people from the headquarters will come, and the Ministry of Health should be the first to arrive. The prisoner of war camps were divided into 5,000 brigades, each of which was guarded by a machine gun company. β
"U.S. prisoners of war are temporarily not scheduled to participate in labor, and British prisoners of war are responsible for urban reconstruction and environmental tidying; Australian prisoners of war undertook the task of building roads and railways, and all East Indian and Filipino prisoners of war participated in the construction of fortifications, with 8 taels of food per person per day. β
"As for the source of food, you go to Shi Liancheng and see how he is doing in clearing out the collaborators. You sue him, all families with food at home have something to do with the little devils, otherwise they would have been robbed a long time ago! β
Bai Shujie is now concerned about the area where the future office of Manila will be located, the historical royal city of Manila has been completely destroyed in the war, but this time only two headquarters buildings have been destroyed, and the rest of the place is intact.
The 6,400-acre fortress of Intramuros Manila is surrounded by stone walls 2.44 meters thick and 6.7 meters high. Before the Spanish colonial forces were defeated by the United States, Intramuros was their administrative, military, and religious center in the Philippines.
The oldest and oldest universities, churches and convents in the Philippines are located in Intramuros. Among the most famous Catholic schools are the University of Santo Tomas, the Ateneo de Manila University, and the San Juan College in Reitland; Churches include Manila Cathedral and St. Augustine's Church.
The Spanish Governor's Palace in the Philippines was originally located in the Intramuros district, but an earthquake in the 19th century moved the Governor's Palace to the MalacaΓ±an Palace, the presidential palace of the Philippines.
Malaca Nan Palace, a spectacular palace on a street parallel to the Ba Sir River in Manila, is located on the north bank of the Ba Sir River. It is home to the president's office and residence building, the presidential administration building, gardens and the housing of the guard troops, where successive Philippine presidents have been in power.
After the little devils occupied the Philippines, because they wanted to prepare for the "Second Philippine Republic", they did not destroy this place, and now it has become the location of Bai Shujie's "Headquarters of the Third Division of the South China United Front", and Liu Zhiliang is sitting here.
Here in Manila, for some time to come, it will belong to the territory of the 1st Division of Shi Liancheng, and the royal city will be the future military, political, economic, and cultural center.
Bai Shujie was not prepared to stay here for long either, his target was Bandar Seri Begawan in Borneo (Kalimantan). In Southeast Asia, it ranks second only to Indonesia in terms of oil reserves and production.
Bandar Seri Begawan became a British colony in 1888 and was occupied by Japan in 1941.
In 1946, the shameless British army actually resumed control of Brunei, and Bai Shujie would never allow this kind of thing to happen again.
Borneo (Kalimantan) has a strange topography, with Mount Kinabalu, the highest peak in Southeast Asia, at 4,102 meters above sea level.
Throughout the island, there are mountains stretching out from the center to the outwards; The northeast is higher, and the terrain is gently undulating, the rainfall is abundant, and the large rivers that flow into the sea are mostly divided, and the forest cover rate is 80%. Agricultural products include rice, rubber, pepper, cereal, coconut, etc. The middle of the island is mountainous, surrounded by plains.
The southern part is very low-lying and has become a large wetland. Indonesia occupies a large area of this island, mainly in the southern region.
Of course, Bai Shujie is interested in the resources here, and at the same time, he also takes a fancy to the long history of Kalimantan, which is called "Boli", "Bo Ni", "Bo Ni", "Bo Ni" and so on.
The most important thing is that Kalimantan Island is located in the southern part of the Eurasian plate, the geology is relatively stable, and only the south coast has a seismic zone.
Another important factor is the abundance of mineral resources. In addition to the above oil and natural gas, there are also antimony, manganese, bauxite, chromium, titanium, uranium, cobalt and other military strategic rare metal ores. In particular, uranium ore, cobalt ore, titanium ore, and nickel ore are the scarce varieties that are most scarce in Bai Shujie's current development of missiles and rockets.
The Institute of Physics of the Feilong Research Institute proposed two years ago to strengthen research on "nuclear energy." Bai Shujie did not want to work hard and lose money in Pyongyang, so he did not set up a large-scale practical room, but only established a theoretical model for research.
The most important thing is that the Dutch, the British and the current little devils, they don't know that there are uranium mines here, or they don't know what uranium mines can do at all!
Bai Shujie airdropped the Second Regiment of the Marine Corps into it, and at the same time sent his other iron fist -- Wei Chong's Fourth Division and Zhao Dayong's First Artillery Division to form the "Westward Advance Corps" to Borneo, and at the same time reinforced one rocket artillery regiment and one missile regiment, in order to decide the victory or defeat in a battle.
Seeing that there was no major war in the Philippines, Bai Shujie finally called Shi Liancheng over to teach him face-to-face:
"While there is still time, you quickly order a battalion to escort a brigade of 5,000 Filipino prisoners, build a radar station on the top of Mount Plog, and at the same time erect a broadcast tower. As soon as those big sisters from the headquarters come over, if you don't take advantage of these things, you will look good at that time! β
"You have to remember that this radar station is related to the overall situation, and it bears the important task of early warning in the three directions of the entire southeast, south, south, and south, and it is a top-secret military base, and those prisoners will always guard this secret in the mountains."
"In order to prevent the enemy from bombing this radar station, a squadron of J-9 fighters in Novelletta is responsible for air patrols around Luzon in peacetime. You have to have another battalion stationed to make sure nothing goes wrong. β
"The royal city belongs to the core of Luzon, and now so many captives have to be used as much as possible, and all the drainage facilities and domestic sewage facilities have to be rebuilt. All underground box culverts were expanded to a diameter of 4 meters. β
"You grew up in the North, but you haven't seen a real storm yet. Typhoons are raging here, torrential rains are causing disasters, and flood control and drainage alms must be paid attention to and must be completed before the arrival of May. β
"Now, in addition to fighting wars, town building and restoring economic development are your next important tasks, which are more important than wars."
"The order of the eight military regulations and seven killings must be more strictly implemented here. For all resistance groups, there is no forgiveness, no pardon, and they will be killed, so that they will never have the idea of resisting. β
"Luzon Island will be handed over to you, the north is mainly to guard against the sudden attack of the little devils from the island of Taiwan, and the east is mainly to guard against the sudden appearance of the huge fleet of the little devils. 10 ghost submarines and 6 White Shark submarines, these are the spearheads of the depths of the sea, and they must be fully utilized. β
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.