Southern Africa began to focus on guiding public opinion a long time ago. While European countries were still using "demonization" to slander their opponents, the media in Southern Africa had already begun to write soft articles.
With many years of outstanding business performance, Times News Group has news branches in major European and American countries. Many of the more influential newspapers in European and American countries have either been acquired by Times News Group, or have Southern African capital participating in their holdings.
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In this way, the right to speak is in the hands of southern African capital to the greatest extent. Even when Roosevelt ran for the US president, he had to contact the Times News Group, hoping that the Times News Group could cooperate with Roosevelt's team in publicity.
Propaganda is definitely not free. The benefits the Roosevelt team received will naturally have to be repaid to the capital of Southern Africa. In the United States, this is not a collusion between officials and businessmen, but a transfer of legitimate interests.
Compared with Italy, which is still in the Axis camp, Southern Africa is undoubtedly righteous. After the Italians began to contact Southern Africa, the media controlled by capital in Southern Africa have begun to reduce negative reports on Italy and France.
Negative reports have quietly increased.
By August, the Japanese army had been routed thousands of miles away, and the Allied forces had invaded French Indochina. Saigon was inevitably threatened by war.
The French were very smart and declared Saigon early that it was an undefended city, hoping to complete a peaceful transition and avoid being destroyed by war.
Angel still wanted to save face for the French. As long as the Japanese troops withdrew from Saigon, the Allies did not need to launch an attack on Saigon.
The Japanese were not reconciled.
After the war broke out, Europeans who settled in French Indochina fled to Saigon one after another. Among the nearly 200,000 people in Saigon, the number of Europeans is about 30,000.
Yamashita regarded Saigon as the best battlefield against the Allies. The Allied armored forces would be restricted to the greatest extent in an urban environment. The Japanese army built numerous fortresses in Saigon City and placed air defense positions in wealthy areas with many Europeans.
Thirty thousand Europeans became hostages of the Japanese army. Yamashita publicly declared that if the Allies launched an attack on Saigon, they would drag everyone with them.
"Are there that many people left in Saigon?" MacArthur doubted the authenticity of this number.
Facing the powerful Angel, MacArthur finally recognized the reality.
Although the United States has been operating in the Philippines for decades, without Angel's cooperation, if the US military wants to regain the Philippines, it must be prepared to suffer at least 200,000 casualties.
The United States does not have a total of 200,000 troops in East Asia, and Washington's current strategy is to put Europe first and Asia first.
The battle in Mindoro finally ended after four months. In order to deal with the 20,000 Japanese troops, MacArthur increased his troops by 100,000. As early as June, the First Red Division and the Rainbow Division had to retreat to Coconut City to rest and recuperate due to heavy casualties.
While the First Red Division and the Rainbow Division were resting in Coconut City, scandals involving the U.S. military's violation of local women broke out many times. Some U.S. troops even smuggled military supplies out of the military camp and sold them for profit.
Coconut City was very disappointed with the discipline of the U.S. military and repeatedly expressed the hope that the U.S. military would leave Coconut City as soon as possible.
MacArthur took the initiative to contact Angel, hoping that the US military could go to the Lion City or Changi Naval Base to rest.
This request aroused strong opposition from Lion City, which would rather spend money to help the US military build camps in any area outside Lion City than agree to the US military stationing in Lion City.
Angel also disagrees with the US military stationing at Changi Naval Base.
But we can't ignore it, after all, the US military is also part of the Allied Forces.
In the end, many parties compromised, and East India offered an island closer to the Philippines for the use of the US military. The Lion City and the United States jointly funded the project, and the Southern African Construction Company was responsible for the construction. The First Red Division and the Rainbow Division finally found a place to stay.
The Japanese army and the Philippine slave army trapped on Mindoro Island were in a desperate situation. All air and sea channels were blocked by the Allied forces. MacArthur tried various tactics and finally decided to use heavy artillery and incendiary bombs to carve out a bloody path for the US military.
Mindoro was unlucky. After the battle, 80% of the island's forest was destroyed. Alcon Mountain, the highest on the island, was bombed into a barren mountain by the US military, and its height dropped by two meters. The island's specialty dwarf buffalo,
Only three survived the war.
In order to capture Mindoro Island, the US military suffered nearly 40,000 casualties, of which about 9,000 were killed.
All 20,000 Japanese soldiers on the island were killed in the battle, and it was not until two months later that two surviving Japanese soldiers were captured by the Allies.
The two Japanese soldiers had been hiding in Lake Naohan and had escaped capture by the Allied forces many times. Because they were too hungry to go ashore in search of food, they were captured by a U.S. military logistics unit.
This logistics force had just arrived in the Far East and had not participated in the previous battles. It was only then that the two Japanese soldiers were lucky enough to become prisoners.
At the end of the battle in Mindoro, the Southern African army had successfully recaptured Manila. The "Akagi" sunk in the Manila port had been completely destroyed by the Japanese army, leaving only the keel under the water.
"Canglong" was also actively destroyed by the Japanese army, and in the eyes of the Japanese army it had completely lost its repair value.
Even though the repair cost was higher than building a new ship, Angel decided to fish out the "Canglong" and repair it. After that, it would continue to serve. It would be best to station it in Japan so that the Japanese can see it every day.
"Only the Japanese know the specific data." An Qi didn't care how many Europeans there were in Saigon. Europeans had been domineering in Asia for too long. Even Yamashita Fengfumi believed that the hostages were safe.
Russians are also Europeans. Looking at the millions of casualties in a single battle on the Russian battlefield, are the French more noble than the Russians?
The 60,000 people who died in one day on the battlefield of the Somme were all Europeans, who were they superior to others?
Although Angel hates the Japanese very much, when it comes to treating Europeans, the Japanese have nothing to say.
White people are just ghosts in the eyes of the Japanese. During the Death March on the Bataan Peninsula, American prisoners were tortured and killed in various ways. This is definitely inhumane, but compared with countries that often kneel and lick in all kinds of ways, the Japanese at least
All are treated equally in this respect.
Third Brother: That’s right, it’s you who’s doing the fancy kneeling and licking me.
"Yamashita Fumi wanted to imitate Russia, turn Saigon into Moscow and Volgograd, and fight an urban war with us." MacArthur was still frightened. The Japanese, among other things, were as good as the crazy Maozi in terms of their fighting will.
"Haha, Yamashita Fengwen was dreaming." An Qi dismissed it.
The Russians won the battle to defend Moscow not by advanced weapons or fighting will, but by crazy reinforcements regardless of the consequences.
There are about 100,000 Japanese troops entrenched in Saigon. Although the number seems to be large, there are no reinforcements. Every death means one less, and every bullet fired means one less bullet. Why is Yamashita holding a diploma compared to a big beard?
To reinforce Volgograd, Russia only needs to cross a river.
If the Japanese wanted to reinforce Saigon, they would have to cross more than half of the Pacific Ocean.
"So when will we launch an attack?" MacArthur couldn't wait. He needed more victories to consolidate his position.
Escape from the Philippines is an indelible stain on MacArthur's military career. Many people in the United States now question whether MacArthur is still qualified to serve as the commander-in-chief of the US military in the Pacific Theater.
Gu Shen
The U.S. government's trust in MacArthur is no longer what it used to be. Last month, the United States divided the Pacific into two theaters. MacArthur served as the commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater, and the commander of the Central Pacific Theater was Nimitz. This appointment is very revealing.
"Why attack? Just surround Saigon and eat the Japanese alive -" An Qi sneered, not giving Yamashita Fengwen a chance for a decisive battle.
Even if the Allies could raze Saigon in a devastating way, An Qi was not willing to sacrifice the precious life of any soldier for this purpose.
Let’s not talk about the ongoing Battle of Volgograd.
In the Battle of Moscow, the German army had proved with a disastrous defeat that no matter how advanced the weapons, no matter how rich the combat experience of the soldiers, and no matter how many tanks there were, their role in urban warfare would be limited.
The urban terrain was too complex, and the Japanese went crazy. They packed themselves with explosives and rushed into the Allied troops. Even if the Allied troops were hiding in tanks, they could not completely avoid the damage of the shock wave.
So they simply laid siege instead of attacking. After running out of food, the Japanese army either surrendered or took the initiative to attack the Allied positions surrounding Saigon.
This is very cruel to the civilians of Saigon. Once the siege breaks out, the survival of the civilians will not be guaranteed. People will eat people when they are extremely hungry. They will eat them raw without having time to roast them.
"You don't consider the mood of the French?" MacArthur's eyes changed when he looked at Angel.
"If you want, you can send your troops to be the main attacker." An Qi said seriously, "Come, come, come, I'll give you guns and you'll fight." She said it more nicely than the Holy Mother. Why didn't the Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the strong fortress and determined to fight to the death not consider it?
French mood.
To put it bluntly, even if people really eat people, it was done by the Japanese, and the war was started by the Japanese. The Japanese are the culprits, and they should be held responsible.
An Qi's mission is to defeat the Japanese and use all means to defeat the Japanese. The soldiers under An Qi's command hope to win while saving their lives. If MacArthur wants to be struck by lightning, it is best to stay away from An Qi.
"I agree with your decision." MacArthur didn't want to take any responsibility. Even if it caused serious humanitarian consequences, the responsibility would still be Angel's.
Well, there is no such thing as humanitarianism these days. The nature of war, whether just or unjust, is to kill people.
To make this decision, we must bear tremendous moral pressure.
Edward Lloyd, the Free French liaison officer at Changi Naval Base, was very dissatisfied with Angel's decision.
Angel has a French Indochina force, consisting of two divisions.
French Indochina is still a French overseas territory. Both Free France and Vichy France insist that they are the only legal government of France. There are also Free French liaison officers in East Asia.
"What will happen to the French who are still in Saigon once a siege breaks out?" Edward Lloyd was extremely anxious. If a siege broke out, not even one out of ten Frenchmen in Saigon would survive after the war.
No, there is not one in a hundred.
"How about you go to Saigon and convince the Japanese to let the French leave Saigon, and then we start fighting again." Paul Jefferson, director of the Combat Staff Division of the Allied Forces Command, sneered. If Free France really wants to worry about the fate of the French in Saigon, then it will send troops
Go rescue the French people trapped in Saigon, don't be morally kidnapped here.
Some people in Free France still don't know enough about southern Africa.
Vichy France opened French Indochina to the Japanese and allowed Japanese troops to station in French Indochina. The management of French Indochina was still controlled by the French.
Some people in the Free France probably believed that after de Gaulle transferred French power in French Indochina to southern Africa, the Free France could still retain the right to manage French Indochina.
That's a piece of shit to transfer.
"The Japanese are unconvincing. The Allies are clearly capable of recapturing Saigon while ensuring the safety of ordinary people as much as possible. Why should they let ordinary people be put in great danger?" Edward Lloyd did not even notice his words.
Contradictory.
Of course, it's possible that he really thinks so.
"You mean, if we use the lives of soldiers to exchange for the safety of ordinary people, are our soldiers human beings?" Paul Jefferson was angry. Edward was also a soldier, but he could say such a thing. Human beings are really different.
"Isn't the mission of soldiers in southern Africa to protect ordinary people?" Edward muttered, obviously lacking in confidence.
"What the Southern African soldiers want to protect is the ordinary people of Southern Africa." Paul was indifferent. The safety of French people's lives has nothing to do with the Southern African soldiers. It is the task of the French military to protect the French.
Unfortunately, the French troops have stopped fighting.
If there are more indifferent words, Paul has not yet said it.
The war in the Far East broke out much earlier than the war in Europe.
For such a long time, as long as they had the basic ability to judge the current situation, they would have fled Saigon long ago. The Europeans who remained in Saigon were either unable to leave, or they still wanted to dominate the colonial natives and were unwilling to do so.
Give up your privileges.
The former is excusable, but the latter deserves to die.
Edward had nothing to say, and was completely lost when he left the coalition headquarters.
This is the consequence of lying down early.
Like the French, Yamashita Fengfumi did not expect that the Allied forces would not attack.
It's not like there's no offense at all.
Compared with the Japanese, the Allies have an absolute firepower advantage. The Indian Ocean theater troops are equipped with tens of thousands of heavy artillery, as well as countless small-caliber grenade launchers and mortars. Although the Allies do not engage in ground attacks, they do not have any firepower.
Stop, the daily consumption of artillery shells reaches 10,000 tons.
Angel is still very sensible and does not leave any excuse to the French.
Before the Allied bombardment, they would announce the location of the upcoming bombardment on the radio and remind the Japanese troops and ordinary people within the bombardment range to evacuate.
As for whether the Japanese troops and ordinary people within this area will evacuate, that is none of An Qi's business.
Angel mobilized about 1,500 large-caliber heavy artillery to conduct a grid bombardment of Saigon, striving to completely destroy all buildings in the area.
By destroying an area in one day like this, it wouldn't take long to eliminate the Japanese army in Saigon.
