Lost and Spy

Chapter 1922 MacArthur
XNUM X Year X NUM X Month.

the Philippines.

After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 1941, 12, the remaining 17 B-17 bombers of the U.S. military withdrew to Australia. The Japanese army completely controlled the sea and air of the Philippines, and Manila was attacked by the Japanese army from north to south.

Fortunately, however, the U.S.-Philippines coalition forces encountered a Japanese commander who was not of high level.

On the 26th, MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of the US military stationed in the Philippines, led 7.95 US-Philippine coalition forces on Luzon Island to withdraw to the preset positions on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island, preparing for long-term resistance.

At that time, the highway out of Manila was crowded with various gun carts, trucks, bridge carts, and bullock carts.

However, the Japanese troops approaching Manila from the north and the south did not send bombers to intercept them. Commander Masahiro Honma just chased after them, but for some unknown reason, he completely forgot that he could have sent bombers to solve the problem.

And the important bridge from Manila to the Bataan Peninsula was also reserved by the Japanese army for the retreating US-Philippine coalition forces. MacArthur really deserved his life.

On January 1942, 1, after the Japanese army occupied Manila, they sent the main force to Indonesia and Burma. The remaining forces of the 2th Army began to clear Luzon Island. into defense.

As a result, Masahiro Honma aroused serious dissatisfaction with Hideki Tojo, the prime minister, and was almost dismissed.

However, at this time, the U.S.-Philippines coalition forces were at a dead end, and even used the Boy Scouts.

The defeat of the US military in the Philippines has been predictable.

At this time, MacArthur was in a state of despair.

A pistol was placed in front of him.

He picked it up, his hands trembling slightly.

He is a retired major general of the U.S. Army, Marshal of the Philippines, and Commander-in-Chief of the Philippine Army.

The Philippine Army was formed by him.

Just when he was ambitious and ready to flex his muscles, he encountered such a terrifying scene!
MacArthur was not reconciled.

However, he would rather die than fail and become a prisoner of the Japanese.

He stared blankly at the pistol, then slowly, slowly, stuffed the gun into his mouth.

His finger was on the trigger.

As long as you push it lightly, then everything is over.

Life or death, only a few tenths of a second of hesitation.

Outside the office, someone knocked on the door suddenly:
"Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief."

It was the voice of his adjutant.

MacArthur didn't really want to die, he immediately took the gun out of his mouth and put it on the desk:

"Come in."

His adjutant came in: "There is a man from New York, Peter Lin asking to see you."

"Who is he? I don't know, I'm busy."

At this time, MacArthur was in no mood to see anyone.

"It was introduced by Mr. Clinder Donkos. At the same time, he also had a letter of recommendation from Mr. Mathins, the Congressman."

"Oh, really?"

MacArthur hesitated for a moment: "Let him in."

Mr. Don Couse of New York is a well-known financier, and MacArthur hates him very well.

As for Congressman Ma Xinsi, a well-known member of Congress.

He doesn't know who Peter Lin is, but he must give the face of Mr. Donkose and Mr. Ma Xinsi.

After a while, the man named "Peter Lin" came in.

very young.

Young enough to make MacArthur feel envious.

This Peter Lin, of course, is Tian Qi.

"Mr. MacArthur."

As soon as he came in, Tian Qi said straight to the point: "It's from the US Intelligence Coordination Bureau."

From the Intelligence Coordination Bureau?
MacArthur was stunned, and before he had time to speak, Tian Qi took out two letters: "This is a letter from Mr. Donkos and Mr. Ma Xinsi."

MacArthur took it, and in Mr. Donkos's letter, he enthusiastically recommended "Peter Lin", saying that he was a "trustworthy friend".

As for the letter from Congressman Maxings, it is very simple, roughly meaning, dear Mark Arthur, please believe Lin, he is the one who can get you out of trouble.

At this moment, MacArthur's astonishment was hard to express in words.

Why do both Mr. Dunkose and Mr. Ma Xinsi admire the young man in front of him so much?
He was only from the Intelligence Coordination Bureau.

Even the Intelligence Coordination Bureau may now be disbanded.

Just by him?
Tian Qi's eyes fell on the pistol on the desk: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, do you want to commit suicide?"

"Me?" MacArthur sneered: "I am the commander-in-chief of the Philippines, and I must be responsible for the entire Philippines and all Americans here!"

you are lying!

In Tian Qi's mind, he remembered what Meng Shaoyuan said to himself before leaving China:

"You have to go to the Philippines quickly, otherwise, MacArthur, who is in a desperate situation, may really commit suicide!"

Meng Shaoyuan, everything counted.

This guy is really not human!

Tian Qi smiled: "It's nothing to be ashamed of. Suicide is at least better than being a Japanese captive."

"What do you want to say?" MacArthur was a little displeased.

"Currently, the U.S. military is fighting fiercely with the Japanese army on the Bataan Peninsula. Why not be optimistic." Tian Qi said calmly, "When I came here, I even saw many children carrying weapons to the front line.

How much longer do you think you can last, Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief?A month, or a day?Maybe when we are chatting here, the Japanese army is already less than ten kilometers away from your headquarters! "

Although this was an exaggerated threat, MacArthur, who knew the situation in the Philippines very well, knew that this was a true portrayal of the current embarrassing situation in the Philippines.

"I'm your friend, and I'm here to help you."

"Help me? What can you do for me?"

"Leave the Philippines."

"What." MacArthur was taken aback.

He was silent for a while, then shook his head: "I am a soldier, and I will never run away."

"Mr. MacArthur, this is not an escape!" Tian Qi emphasized his tone: "You and I both know that it is only a matter of time before the entire territory of the Philippines falls. If you stay here, there is only one dead end.

You can choose to kill yourself, or you can choose to go to a Japanese concentration camp and be humiliated, but what does that mean?Suicide, what about your family in the Philippines?Will they be infinitely humiliated at the hands of the Japanese, live, and end their own lives?It just means that you have failed, and you have lost the most important honor of a soldier.

You don't even have a chance for revenge. If one day, the war is over and you are released, everyone will point at you and say, look, this is the guy who failed! "

MacArthur's heart was struck.

failure!

Shameful failure!

"But if you are alive, there is still hope." Tian Qi continued: "You are on the battlefield, not in the Philippines, but in Australia."

"What? Australia?"

"Yes, as the commander of the Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Theater, commanding the Allied Forces to counterattack!"

"Who told you this?"

"No one told me, but we are working on it. Mr. MacArthur, trust me, I, can do this!"

(End of this chapter)