Chapter 531: Anak ng Silangan
With Pyongyang fallen and the southern Korean Peninsula within reach, the Empire of Japan began mass mobilization without hesitation.
What had started with a small number of active divisions, and fleets believing victory would be swift and decisive rapidly turned into a national project. Meanwhile, the United States began to fear that Japan might make a move on their Pacific territories.
In particular, the matter of the Philippines was a serious one. Since the Great War reached its height in 1915, and the flames of the anti-colonial sentiment were fanned by the German Reich, particularly in the region.
Armed groups had been gathering, training, and performing low scale urban attacks against U.S. Military presence across the Philippines.
An issue that was largely absent from the public eye, as these attacks occurred infrequently, and were not severe enough for Americans back home to become educated about, let alone press a resolution for.
But To the Hoover administration—already fumbling the economy, with the stock market in freefall and Bruno consolidating control over the last untouched sectors of American industry; the Philippines represented a looming catastrophe
The Philippines was a flashpoint of potentially catastrophic outcomes. And currently, those fears were about to be fully realized.
Largely armed with smuggled surplus from the Great War—Mosin-Nagants from Siberia, Arisakas off sunken freighters, and Mausers funneled through Indochina—the insurgents were ready.
And the world was about to remember the name they had once whispered in fear and reverence:
Anak ng Silangan.
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It was March of 1930, in the Luzon, Philippine Archipelago near Camp John Hay, an American Military Facility.