.As soon as the fire broke out, the US battlefield commanders who were still skeptical about Cheng Jiaji's predictions were panicked. They asked the frontline troops to retreat, sent second-line armored troops to rescue, and asked the superior command to ask the Air Force to help, and asked them to send out one after another. What makes people laugh and cry is that it is at this point that General Doug's order to allow the US troops to retreat urgently into the city was conveyed to the first-level command of the US military division. Afterwards, it was found that Cheng Jiaji sent a secret telegram to the Allied Southwest Pacific Command.

He was delayed for a long time (at the beginning of receiving the telegram, an official in the Allied Command thought it was not worthy of alarmist comments from the Chinese, so he woke General Doug from his sleep. It was not until the US military front departments successively generated electricity, reflecting the situation that Cheng Jiaji warned them that the official saw that the matter was too big, so he submitted this large stack of related telegrams.). Of course, the US colonel also paid a heavy price for it. A month later, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison by the military court.

To be honest, the US colonel was a little unfairly in prison. In fact, the 48th Army took the lead, regardless of whether the US military could follow up in time, the fire in Manila was destined to be burned in advance. Of course, if the US military could prepare for a second earlier, it would be more calm to deal with it. But in the final analysis, the US military was the one who was the Chinese to take the blame for the Chinese. Moreover, the Americans were still mute and could not say that they had trouble! Cheng Jiaji was presumed, just because he used the name of changing defense when he mobilized the troops out of the city. When the fire broke out, the front-line troops of the 48th Army were still in front-line positions, and no one could tell the Chinese army about it!

At one o'clock in the morning, outside Manila.

Wang Jimin was right. The central area of ​​Manila is indeed a blessed land for fire attacks. Although there is no wind to borrow, it burned for more than an hour. The sea of ​​fire was already surging in the center of Manila. The fire not only ignites the night, but also turns Manila, which is in mid-winter, into the midsummer Sahara! Even the small hills where Cheng Jiaji is located, which is three kilometers away from the city, were not spared. None of the Chinese soldiers standing on the hills were sweating profusely by the high temperature!

Through the telescope, Cheng Jiaji, who was as deep as water, stared at Manila, showered in the fire and smoke.

The small black dots that moved, chased, entangled were allied officers and soldiers who were eager to escape from the dangerous place, and were Japanese generals who were determined to find a slaughter;

The huge highlight that came one after another was that the US pilots were diving bombing, hoping to blow up a way out for the ground forces in its own areas, which were deeply trapped in the sea of ​​fire;

The signal flares that were rising in the air were the officers and soldiers of the Allied Army that were about to be swallowed by flames and whine!

Although it is a little far apart, it is very ugly and real. But Cheng Jiaji empathizes with the breath of doomsday that is exhausted!

Qian Shen strode up the hill with a newspaper and walked behind Cheng Jiaji: "June! General Doug's electric power"

Cheng Jiaji said confidently without even returning to his head, "It was our army that sent an armored convoy to the city to save people!

Qian Shen had no words. Under this situation, silence itself is an answer.

"Send it, send more! But let the people who go there pay attention to their qualities and search on the edges!" This is not because Cheng Jiaji is willing to die and refuses to save him, but he is beyond his ability. If the troops sent into the city go too deep, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be burned to death by the Japanese army in the fire.

"How many of us are there in the city!" Cheng Jiaji asked nervously.

"Qian Shen reported in a low tone: "There are three companies in each division, and three squadrons of Hojo's troops. They were all trapped in the city because of the fire when retreating. Two of the six troops have lost contact. The scattered personnel fallen behind are still counting, with about 200 people. Another thirty-one armored personnel carrier team was unable to rush out. Wang Jingtao and the others were organizing responses and rescue based on the positions of the four company-level troops!"

Cheng Jiaji sighed so hard that he could hear it. He understood that the four company-level troops and armored vehicles could still pick up some of them, but the two hundred people who were behind were unable to rely on them at all.

Judging from the numbers alone, Cheng Jiaji seemed a little greedy and lacked this manpower. It was less than two percentage points of the troops that the Forty-Eighth Army safely withdrew from the city, and nearly half of them were Japanese. If the Central Plains had not changed the original plan at the last moment, it would not be surprising that the losses of the Forty-Eighth Army had been overturned a few more times!

"Jun Zun, things have come to this point, so you can let the lower level handle it. You should take a break, right?" He knew that in the past few hours, Cheng Jiaji spent only a lot more than a major battle, Qian Shen made an exception and said a long sentence that had nothing to do with official duties.

"Rest?!" Cheng Jiaji laughed in silence: "No need, I'll stand here and feel at ease!"

Qian Shen did not persuade him anymore. As Cheng Jiaji said, how many people can sleep inside and outside Manila tonight!

After rubbing the eye sockets that were numb by the telescope, Cheng Jiaji suddenly said: "Brother Wei Li, what are you thinking about at this moment?"

The chief's feelings were heard only in exchange for Qian Shen's coldness: "Is the idea of ​​a dying person important?!"

Cheng Jiaji sighed. Yes! With the temperament of the Central Plains, since he set up a situation of death together, he would not live in vain. From the battle of Qinjiang to the present, it has been more than four years. In the past four years, he has fought against the Central Plains three times, and they are always dangerous, and only those involved know the joys and sorrows. It can be said that if there were no more attacks from Cheng Jiaji, the rules of the Central Plains would be completely gone. On the contrary, the Central Plains were not the whetstone of Cheng Jiaji. Although Cheng Jiaji never regarded himself as a hero, and there was no boring passion that the stronger the opponent, the more excited the opponent, he thought that there would be no Central Plains in this world, and he would feel a little disappointed and lost in his heart, but it was inevitable.

Cheng Jiaji, who came back to his senses from his feelings, called Qian Shen, who was about to walk down the hill: "Brother Weili, please send me a message to Wen Lao Er, ask him to put a few more incense sticks for me, burn a few more paper money, and tell Zijun the news that the Central Plains will die!"

Qian Shen nodded and left.

If Cheng Jiaji and Qian Shen could know the right and wrong perception of Zhongyuan before death at this moment, 80% would comment: It’s a fool!

Not to mention, modern Japan advocated Western learning, imitated everywhere, and pursued the dominance of European powers. It had long been cut off its connection with the East Asian ideological system with Confucianism as the main body. Even if the Japanese cabinet and military department in the early stage of the Sino-Japanese War could clearly understand the huge support of respecting Confucius and respecting Confucianism to Japan's rule of China, it would not be possible to change the course. The long-term risks here are too great! From the past history, foreign races who confessed to being Chinese, respect Confucianism, and valued Confucianism, and valued Confucian scholars could always unify the Central Plains with weakness, but in the end they would always be softened and assimilated by Confucianism, which had super-lazy, resilience and vitality. With Japan's shallow cultural heritage, it is difficult to jump to this cycle rate!

Since he did not dare to take risks, Japan wanted to conquer China, so he had to occupy it first with force, and then use bayonets to force the Chinese to learn Japanese and use Japanese names. This path can be taken. However, with Japan's comprehensive national strength, this set of small countries such as Ryukyu can still make ends meet, but when the goal is replaced by a vast China, it will only be useless! From this, it can be seen that there is more than just a rule of the Central Plains. Japan's peeping of China is fundamentally an unrealistic fantasy!

Cheng Jiaji was standing there all night, and was summoned by General Doug, who was rushed to the night when it was dawn. The moment Cheng Jiaji walked down the hill, the north wind suddenly rose!

The fire in Manila lasted for two days and three nights. Although the wind god was late for one night, there were nearly 7,000 American officers and soldiers who remained in the broken walls and tiles of Manila forever by the fire. The 48th Army also lost nearly 1,000 troops. The burial of more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers and more than 150,000 Malani citizens were buried.

The disastrous number of casualties forced Roosevelt, who had just been elected President for the fourth time, to properly cover up the truth of the Manila fire, while asking the military to properly cover up the truth of the Manila fire, and to use his unprecedented personal influence in American history to ban all kinds of real news reports! All this was done by Roosevelt, with only one purpose, to avoid the excessive rebound of the American people, which would play a negative role in the United States' implementation of its established national policy to carry out the Pacific War to the end. Roosevelt's actions, in addition to the death dates of thousands of American soldiers who died in the Manila fire, were artificially divided into previous battles in the Battle of the Philippines, the letters of the US military had entered the homes of several divisions in the central area of ​​Manila. They were also issued strict prosecution by the US Post Office. If any content leaked the relevant facts were found, the letters were returned to the Military Law Office of the Force!

Fifty years later, once the presidential special order was declassified with the truth of the Manila incident, it was hailed by the American media as the first of several major mistakes in Roosevelt in his later years, causing widespread controversy in American society whether Roosevelt could be considered a dictator!

Of course these are all later stories. At that time, the government told Manila that only part of it was burned down, and the American people, who suffered minimal losses in the US soldiers, were cheering for the liberation of Manila, and were paying attention to the carefully rehearsed victory of the Philippine democratically elected government!

If you want the American people to be unsuspecting about the propaganda of the US government, the Philippines battle can only be accelerated, not slowed down. After all, victory after victory is the best anesthetic!

On the 24th, all Japanese troops in the suburbs of Manila were wiped out.

On the 25th, the 48th Army was ordered to march towards the Lubei Mountain Area.

On the 27th, the Sixth Army of the US Army launched a purge on the remaining Japanese troops on Leyte Island.

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