On February 26, 1946, a nationwide uprising broke out in the Philippines. 25 million Filipinos joined forces to resist the brutal rule of the Japanese occupation forces and their puppet regimes. On Luzon, Sama, Leyte, Panay Island, Palawan, Mindanao, and Mindoulo, the rebels captured towns, prisons, barracks, ports, and ambushed everywhere, making it difficult for the Japanese and puppet government troops to take care of the head and tail. In just two days, more than three-quarters of the Philippines were controlled by the uprising armed forces, and the Japanese and puppet government troops were forced to shrink in several important cities such as Manila to defend and wait for assistance.

With the strong combat power and fanatical spirit of the Japanese army, the Filipinos were greatly surprised by the outside world. Of course, this was not only due to the bravery and fearlessness of the Philippine uprisingers and the general public, but the secret support and long-term planning of the US government played a key role.

For the Filipinos, the United States and Japan are both foreign invaders, and their purpose is to plunder resources from the Philippines. However, the difference is that the United States, from the comprehensive occupation of the Philippines in 1901 to the defeat of the Japanese army in 1933, was to ruling the Philippines for more than 30 years, adopted a new colonial policy different from the old colonists, that is, to comprehensively introduce American-style bourgeois politics, judicial and educational systems in politics, cultivate local landlord bourgeois pro-American groups in the Philippines, and gradually expand.

The latter has the power to participate in politics, and uses different ways of free trade and restricting trade economically, and uses tariffs and foreign trade as leverage to make the Philippines depend on the US market and become the raw material origin and commodity market for US capital. It maintains control over the Philippines in an indirect and gentle way. Before the outbreak of World War II, the US government had given Filipinos a high degree of autonomy, and the Philippines Autonomy Act gradually matured, which made every Filipino see the hope of complete autonomy.

After Japan joined the war, the Japanese army swept across Southeast Asia in just a few months. They nominally drove away the Americans as Asian liberators, but brought the old colonial system back to the Philippines. The hypocritical cloak could not conceal the essence of their levy. The puppet government supported by the Japanese government was completely obeyed the Japanese military governors stationed in the Philippines. The two military governors appointed by Japan were both cruel and ruthless. Japanese companies and businessmen entering the Philippines relied on the support of the occupying forces to forcibly control the Philippine market and plunder the resources of the Philippines. Their behavior not only greatly harmed the interests of the Filipino people, but also caused great harm to the landlord bourgeoisie in the Philippines. It was they who contacted the US government through secret channels, hoping to use the Americans to drive away the Japanese.

During the Japanese-Soviet War, Japan entered the wartime assault production, and the levy and taxation of occupied areas and colonies became even more severe. Uprisings broke out in various parts of South Asia. All sectors of the Philippines were also actively planning resistance operations, and with the secret help and instigation of the Americans, a nationwide resistance alliance was established. Under the leadership of the resistance alliance, thousands of Filipino youth went to Hawaii for systematic military training, and then returned to the country with the combat skills they learned to teach them to tens of thousands of resisters. Before the outbreak of the uprising, there were more than 200 secret training camps across the Philippines, allowing hundreds of thousands of Filipinos, including many women, to contact and master the most basic combat skills.

After the Tokyo explosion, Japan fell into the weakest and most chaotic period in recent years, which was undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for the Filipinos to hold a major uprising. Relying on the comprehensive intelligence collected from long-term collection, the US Army General Staff tailored the overall combat plan for the Philippine Rebel Alliance, and urgently dispatched dozens of liaison officers and several elite commandos. With the help of the Americans, the Philippine uprising armed forces on Leyte Island not only successfully attacked the Japanese base and seized more than half of the arsenal on the island, but also killed all the Japanese soldiers fleeing everywhere on the island in a very short time. In the island's largest city, Tucker, set off a stint in the Philippines, which greatly encouraged the morale of the Filipino people.

When the Philippine uprising broke out, there were only more than 40,000 regular Japanese troops stationed in the Philippines. Although they were able to mobilize 100,000 puppet government soldiers and a large number of police officers to assist in the war, the latter two were basically ineffective, and many even turned against each other. After a week of combat, the Japanese army not only failed to extinguish the raging fire of the Philippine uprising, but instead lost thousands of troops. If the situation continued, the Filipinos could drive away the Japanese by relying on their own strength, but behind the Japanese troops stationed in the Philippines were

Japan, which is close to its peak, has nearly two million trained active-duty soldiers and the top three naval and air force troops in the world. Even though the Nagano Cabinet is overwhelmed by the aftermath of the Tokyo explosion, the temporary base camp and various "princes" have disliked each other, the Japanese side quickly assembled reinforcements. Military and political officials with little knowledge clearly know that once the Philippines, a strategic location connecting Southeast Asia and South Asia, Japan's strategic layout in the Asia-Pacific will immediately fall into an extreme passive state.

The reinforcements sent by the Japanese army from Malaya and Myanmar have not yet boarded the ship. The US intelligence department has already grasped the scale and number of these reinforcements and other details. It is also known that it is difficult to fight against the elite divisions of the Japanese army with the power of the Philippine uprising. What's worse is that the Japanese Navy's southeast fleet has added several warships to Manila. The Philippines is an archipelago, and its economy and people's livelihood are inseparable from the sea. If the Japanese army has always firmly grasped the sea control power, the Philippine uprisingers who scattered the islands will have to fight on their own and are eventually defeated one by one by one by the Japanese army.

On the afternoon of March 27, 1946, the Western Pacific Ocean was 1,300 kilometers east of Manila.

A blue fuselage and silver-gray wing painted with silver-gray wings are almost the same as that of the US Navy's Air Force, 39 landed smoothly on the new generation of the US Navy's "Enterprise" aircraft carrier. The one who flew this love-made carrier-based fighter was Lieutenant Jon Bradley, an active pilot of the Irish Navy. Although the air operation standards, technical regulations and other details of the US and Irish Navy are different, based on a long-term close cooperative relationship, the carrier-based aircraft pilots of both sides have basically mastered the skills of normal take-off and landing on the other side's aircraft carrier, which is of great significance to the joint military operations of both sides.

After landing, Ensign Bradley untied his safety strap and left the cockpit, and directly met a US officer on the flight deck, and took a black briefcase from the other party. At the same time, the flight service personnel of the "Enterprise" quickly pushed the 39 into the takeoff area, and the huge aircraft carrier adjusted its course, allowing the Irish fighter to take off in a state of anti-wind.

With a black briefcase equipped with a top-secret combat plan, Lieutenant Bradley flew away from the Enterprise. After a few minutes of hovering and adjustment, he finally landed on the Irish Navy aircraft carrier "St. Patrick", a few nautical miles away. Although this is an "old ship" that has been in service for nearly ten years, this winner-class aircraft carrier uses a number of advanced technologies, and some are still in the world's leading position so far, so no one dares to underestimate its combat capabilities!

As the second-generation standard aircraft carrier of Western allies, the Winner class has built a total of 18 ships, of which 12 are built in Germany and 6 are built in Ireland. The equipment is 12 German, 3 Ireland, 1 Spanish, and 2 Japanese Navy has also obtained 2 ships. The standard displacement of this type of aircraft carrier is 30,350 tons and can carry 7,884 carrier-based aircraft. In addition to the two exported models sold to Japan, the rest are equipped with Irish fire control radar commanders or German-made Lorentz radars with the same efficiency. The air defense efficiency has been qualitatively improved compared with previous aircraft carriers. With the first radar early warning aircraft 40 boarding the ship, the Winner class's defense radius and command accuracy have jumped to a new level!

In this waters not far from the Philippine Islands, the US Navy has assembled 8 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 17 light cruisers, 44 destroyers and 14 auxiliary ships, and also one main aircraft carrier of the Irish Navy, one light cruiser, five destroyers and two dedicated supply ships to help. Just like the leased loan model during World War II, these Irish ships and all crew members are "paid services". Although the fees paid by the US government for this can be used to maintain at least twice the size of its own ships, the Irish Navy's strong combat capabilities and advanced military technology undoubtedly greatly appreciated the US side.

It is said that the Irish Navy has repeatedly played the role of the strongest mercenary, not only to expand its international influence, but also to keep its own army alive in actual combat. Soldiers like Lieutenant Bradley who voluntarily accepted foreign troops from thousands of miles to come here, not just for the appearance fee of the US side. Like most of their companions, they came with reality and dreams. Reality is that when Ireland has not participated in the war for many years, the normal promotion in the army is relatively slow. Participating in the war as a special mercenary is a shortcut to accumulating military achievements and improving qualifications. Dreams are to dominate the battlefield, killing enemies is like picking up grass, and becoming a world-renowned hero that is highly anticipated.

After World War II, the US military and political mechanisms quietly changed a lot, but under the constraints of the Constitution, they could not attack the enemy in a way that was undeclared by Japan. Before using force, they had to submit a certificate to the other party, asking them to accept a request from the US government, or let the other party attack themselves first, and then launch a strong counterattack, just like the Spanish-American War. This time, the US government chose the first method, and they issued an ultimatum to Japan, demanding that the Japanese army stop "slaughtering" in the Philippines.

"Killing" accepts the demand for autonomy put forward by the Filipinos. As the US expected, Nagano's cabinet arrogantly rejected the US ultimatum, warning the US government not to try to threaten Japan with atomic bombs. The development speed of Japan's nuclear project is no slower than that of the United States. If their test items were not accidental during the transshipment, then Japan would have become the third country in the world to have nuclear weapons. If the United States dared to use atomic bombs on Japan, Japan would use more atomic bombs to hit the United States.

From the American standpoint, declaring war on Japan is undoubtedly a game of the truth about the Tokyo nuclear explosion. When the German senior executives clearly expressed their support, Ireland sent a task force to join the front line. The US government had sufficient confidence. The new President Truman won applause with his passionate Congressional speech and successfully obtained the Congress' war authorization. Therefore, the Americans launched a war against Japan with their long-cherished wish to break the shadow of defeat and re-dominate the Asia-Pacific and then fight for the world!
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