Chapter 29, Confused Battle
The intelligence chief, Morka, reported to Ferdinand: "Your Majesty, the plan of the United States has been completed, this time we are operating with the French, there are people in the US government who have accepted our goodwill and have begun to promote this plan, they have asked us not to hold them accountable after the war, and to ensure their safety, we have agreed!" ”
"Goodwill" is, of course, money, the capitalists in the United States are rich, and the politicians in the United States will become rich after retirement, but during their tenure, they are basically poor!
Although their status is very high and their power is great, it is still not so easy to embezzle and accept bribes, and there are too many eyes staring at them.
Now, the U.S. government is about to hit the streets, and at the last moment to make a fortune and leave, everyone naturally has no pressure!
Ferdinand smiled and said, "Well, you have done a good job this time, as long as we can achieve our goal, it doesn't matter if we let go of President Wilson!"
What is the reaction of the states on the East Coast of the United States? Did the British get them done? ”
Molka thought for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the British have a great influence in the eastern states, and now that the representatives of the British have appeared in the local high society, they should have achieved some results, but the state legislatures are still arguing!" ”
Ferdinand said calmly: "The British have been operating in the United States for hundreds of years, but they have supported many younger brothers, although these younger brothers became traitors some time ago, but their influence is still not small. It is only a matter of time before we are persuaded to defect to these people, and we cannot compare with this aspect!
In terms of influence in American society, not only are we inferior to the British, but even small countries such as the Netherlands, Portugal, and Switzerland have much greater influence among the American people than we do!
So your task this time is very heavy, and we are already behind in this round of competition! By the way, has the distribution of the Slavic peoples in the United States been clarified? ”
Molka thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, it has been figured out that the distribution of the Slavic nation in the United States is mainly concentrated in Arisica, California, Washington, Oregon, and Chicago.
Due to the small number of Slavic peoples, the Slavic peoples in other regions except Ariskaya do not have an advantage, and their influence in the United States is small!
And among these Slavic peoples, the largest number is still Poles, and the total population of all Slavic peoples in the United States will not exceed three million! ”
Ferdinand frowned, although he knew all these things, if it weren't for the rise of Bulgaria, which cut off Eastern European immigrants, this proportion is estimated to be even higher now.
Obviously, the original plan had to be revised, and with such a small population and such a scattered distribution, it was unrealistic to want to gather them all together to form a kingdom, unless it was the kingdom of Arisca!
In that case, Ferdinand will lose a lot, don't look at what later generations say about how rich the resources of Arisica are, it is not compared with other states in the United States, the gap between the two sides is too big, and the chosen country is a country that lacks almost nothing!
It's not too late to find out, Ferdinand can still rearrange it, if he waits until the end to start planning, it will be really too late!
Ferdinand thought for a moment and said, "Next, give me a focus on California and Texas to increase our intelligence capabilities on the ground, and I'm sure there will be people working with us now!" ”
"Yes!" Molka replied without hesitation
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On March 15, 1921, the Allied Forward Force arrived in Idaho, the heart of the Great Northwest of the Pacific Ocean, and the U.S. Army was also in full swing.
For the U.S. government, it really can't retreat, even if it wants to lure the enemy deeper, it can't go deeper, otherwise they can surrender directly!
The forward force of the coalition forces was the Japanese Second Army, commanded by Kojiro Uchiyama (a Japanese army general and the first general to graduate from a land university).
In this war, the Japanese showed particularly enthusiasm, especially after fighting with the American army, they put aside all worries and took the initiative to take over the errand of the forward.
As the saying goes, no profit can not be early, and the Japanese army is so active, of course, it is also for the sake of profit! As a forward force, there are naturally benefits, such as when looting, you can always grab the most lucrative loot.
In the eyes of the Japanese, the United States is so rich that the harvest of robbing a small town is greater than the harvest of conquering a county town in the First Sino-Japanese War, and if you can rob a city, the harvest will be even greater!
Compared with the rich harvest of robbery, the casualties of the forward troops are not worth mentioning, anyway, the lives of the Japanese are not worth much!
The Japanese soldiers were not picky about what they ate, used, and dressed, and even the tables, chairs, benches, sheets, and quilt covers also appeared in the trophies of the Japanese army.
The European countries expressed serious contempt for the hungry plundering of Japanese soldiers. Since the Japanese army wants to play the vanguard, it is good to fulfill them, and the lives of soldiers of all countries are precious!
After fighting all the way, the self-confidence of the Japanese army swelled to the limit, and Uchiyama Kojiro didn't care about waiting for the main force behind, so he directly launched an attack on the American army on the opposite side.
According to the usual practice, these American troops relied on the trenches to resist for a period of time, and then they were deterred by their "toughness", and the last one either surrendered or fled, and they could continue to loot again!
At this time, the commander of the US army, Pershing, had already arrived at the front line and was arranging a pocket formation waiting for the enemy to drill, and his nervousness disappeared when he saw that the Japanese were the first to take the bait.
Just as the Japanese look down on the combat effectiveness of the American army, the Americans in this era look down on the Japanese even more, not only the commanders, but also the soldiers, which is a kind of contempt from the bones!
Pershing's nickname is "Pan Busheng", this is after the outbreak of the war, his enemies at home gave it, mainly in this war, the American army was defeated all the way, and did not win!
Now his opportunity has come, although he has not officially fought with the coalition forces, but the combat effectiveness of the countries in the coalition forces, the US military is also divided into three, six, nine and so on.
Of course, the strongest combat effectiveness is now the French army, the largest army power, followed by Bulgaria, the armies of European countries, the armies of American countries, and finally the armies of Asian countries.
The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was so bottom, this is all the fault of the world war, the US Military Observer Mission happened to see the Japanese army on the battlefield on the Western Front, giving the Germans flowers and giving heads, without any opportunity to perform, and the European expeditionary force sent by Japan was finished in less than a week!
Then, the Americans wrote comments on the Japanese army: backward tactics, rigid thinking, third-rate command ability of officers, third-rate weapons and equipment, and the overall evaluation is a third-rate army.
Well, perhaps because of this era, the idea of white superiority made the Military Observer Group ignore all the advantages of the Japanese army; Or it is simply to see that the Japanese are unhappy and deliberately lower their evaluation.
In short, the Americans have a very low evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, and this concept also affects the judgment of the top level of the US military, such as the current Pershing, he thinks that the Japanese army in front of him is not to worry!
The reason for this conclusion is that the commander is a fool, he doesn't even know how many enemies there are, so he stupidly launched an attack, and if he tightens his pockets now, these hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops will be finished!
The battle began, the equipment of the Japanese army was backward, the equipment of the Americans was not good, and it took time for planes, tanks, and artillery, and the torrent of steel could not be seen.
In just a few months, the Americans produced more than 8,000 artillery pieces, more than 3,000 aircraft, and more than 2,000 tanks, but unfortunately many of these equipment were intercepted by various states, and only half of them fell into the hands of the US Army.
Even with this half of the equipment, plus the equipment of the US military itself, as well as the weapons and equipment that various countries did not fulfill in the world war, the US military is no longer lagging behind in terms of firepower.
This refers to the total firepower, if the average to the troops, the two sides are incomparable, this is also clear to the Americans, so heavy firepower is used intensively, and these Japanese Army VI is the first landing force to enjoy this treatment.
Don't look at the coalition army's plan to send more than 2.5 million troops, in fact, it is necessary to deduct the 200,000 troops of the navy first, it is impossible for them to go to land!
Of the remaining 2.3 million troops, the air force occupies more than 100,000, and the total strength of the coalition army is more than 2.2 million, including the more than 300,000 troops secretly sent to Canada and Colombia by Britain, France, and Bulgaria in the early stage.
The final landing force is only 1.9 million troops, and it is still divided into two, and the coalition landing force on this side of the Pacific is actually less than a million people!
That's why the Americans dare to fight them in a decisive battle, and how many ants still bite the elephant to death? With the superiority of troops, the US Army can still fight.
If it weren't for the fact that the states within the United States were frightened by the news of a joint attack by the whole world, with their full support, the United States would not have been able to destroy the United States with such a small number of troops!
An operational staff officer reported to Kojiro Uchiyama: "Your Excellency, the front-line troops have called, saying that the enemy's artillery fire is too fierce, and we are so suppressed that we can't raise our heads, and they ask for fire support!" ”
Uchiyama Kojiro's face sank, he knew that this was the main force that had encountered the Americans, but he didn't panic at all, the battle in front of him told him that a Japanese wing could chase and beat an American division, and he now has a group army, and he didn't dare to say that he was not afraid to face 1.8 million American troops!
It was this misunderstanding that Uchiyama Kojiro made a wrong decision, only to see him pause, and then said indifferently: "Order the troops on the front line to hold on to me, and launch a counteroffensive at night!" ”
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