Chapter 240: Bombing Washington
Suddenly, there was a whining sound in the sky outside, followed by a continuous loud rumble of explosions, a huge shock wave shattering the glass windows of Capitol Hill, and some lawmakers who stood up were knocked to the ground like dogs eating.
Harrison and the lawmakers didn't know what was going on, and their faces turned pale with fright.
At this time, a guard outside the door rushed in in a panic and shouted: "Not good! The sky, the sky flew bombs......"
The explosions sounded one after another, and the usually polite parliamentarians could no longer care about any decency, and poured out like dogs fighting for, and the young ones were fine, but the old and frail ones were squeezed to the ground, and they were stepped on a few times by the people behind them, and they died like this.
The 56-year-old President of the United States, Harrison, who is still in good health, rushed out in one breath and ran to the lawn of Capitol Hill, only to see that the sky over Washington was covered with black airships, which were dropping strings of black bombs at the White House like.
Countless bombs kicked up flames and dust, and the tiny White House was torn apart in the explosion.
There was also an airship in the air flying towards Capitol Hill, and Harrison howled with tears in his eyes: "The airship is coming here to bomb, evacuate quickly!" ”
Suddenly, Capitol Hill was filled with heart-rending and frightened screams, and everyone was afraid that they would go slow and be bombed by the Chinese army.
Sure enough, a group of airships of the Huaxia Army flew to Capitol Hill and dropped dozens of 100-kilogram bombs attacking the land, which was blown into ruins in just a few minutes.
After the bombardment, the airship dropped a cloud of paper and slowly disappeared into the eastern sky.
At this time, someone dared to come out and pick up the pieces of paper dropped by the take-off boat, and the pieces of paper in between read:
"The Huaxia Association told the people of the United States that the Chinese Association was very kind to the United States when the United States was in difficulty, and proposed a product purchase order of 100 million yuan to the United States to help the people of the United States tide over the economic difficulties. However, the Congress and the president of the United States ordered the navy and army to attack the fleet of the Huaxia Guild in an attempt to seize the Atlantic colony and the Panama Canal, which the Huaxia Guild had bought from Spain. This treacherous behavior led to a strong counterattack by the Huaxia Army, which had no ambitions for the territory of the United States. But the large-scale self-defense retaliation will continue until the US government admits its mistake and apologizes......"
The bombing of Washington, the capital of the United States, was Hu Zhen's plan, one was to strike at the political center of the United States, and the other was to force the United States to hurry up to the negotiating table to negotiate and compensate the Huaxia Army.
After all, the strategic focus of Hu Zhen and the Huaxia Guild is still in the Asia-Pacific region. For the Atlantic region of the United States, there is not much energy to put here for a long time.
Finally, many people in the United States learned the ins and outs of the matter through the propaganda leaflets thrown by the airships of the Huaxia Army, and some civil voices began to appear asking the United States government to quickly negotiate with the Huaxia Association and apologize to it. Let its troops withdraw from the territory of the United States.
However, the politics of the United States at this time. The elites were all confused by the ghosts, and the Huaxia Army dispatched 60 airships to bomb Washington, but in fact, not many people were killed, but it aroused the anger in the hearts of the parliamentarians, and almost all of them were bent on fighting to the death with the Huaxia Army.
After the Chinese army's airship flew away, a decree authorizing President Harrison to carry out national war mobilization was passed within a few minutes.
Harrison immediately declared a state of emergency in the United States, and the national guards of each state assembled in the New York war zone, and the states immediately mobilized to call for school-age youth. All industrial resources are under military control, and everything is for the needs of war.
Harrison optimistically estimated that at a time of national crisis, the people's patriotic enthusiasm was aroused, and within a month, an army of one million people could be gathered, armed with the country's powerful industrial strength, and tens of thousands of yellow-skinned monkeys could be driven out of the sea.
Politics of the United States. The elite thinks too simply, war is not a game of children's stacking blocks, and simple people can win battles with more people.
When the people of the United States were obsessed, Hu Zhen was determined to teach the people of the United States another big lesson. Ordered Ouyang Yu to command the army to go out of Philadelphia and capture Philadelphia in one fell swoop, and the naval fleet assembled in the sea near the Delaware Peninsula after completing the operation of sweeping the coast of the United States. Sent Marines to capture Kiptopek, and along the railroad line to capture Salisbury, Annapolis, Dover and other Delaware Peninsula towns, and joined forces with the main army in Philadelphia.
In a panic in Washington, President Harrison demanded that the U.S. government headquarters and Congress be temporarily relocated to Pittsburgh.
However, when the people of the United States were moving, Hu Zhen deciphered Harrison's relocation plan and accurate time through the cable telegraph network of the United States, and ordered Colonel Du Ligao to lead the airship troops to make a large-scale sortie. Bombing the capital of the Mi people and Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh was unsafe, and Harrison had to ask to move to St. Louis on the Mississippi River.
However, the airships of the Huaxia Army still followed the pursuit to St. Louis, and finally the government of the United States had to disperse and move to a small city, Peoria.
Of course, Hu Zhen also had the information of Peoria, but he ordered to give up the bombing of Peoria, he had a consideration, he could not let the Mi government continue to move westward, which affected the development and growth of the young Indian forces in the west, and he also looked forward to the independent establishment of the Indians, which could bring endless trouble to the Mi country in the future, so he gave up the use of airship bombing to force the Mi government to continue to move west.
When the airships of the Huaxia Army bombed the westward migration of the Mi Guozheng many times, the large army of the Mi Army gradually gathered, and the number of airships of the Huaxia Army was limited after all, and it could not prevent the large-scale concentration of the ground forces of the Mi Army.
In less than a month, 520,000 troops with the main force of 80,000 army as the core were assembled around Philadelphia, including 250,000 National Guards and 190,000 militia temporarily assembled.
On paper, 520,000 troops are a spectacular number, and almost all normal people would think that 510,000 troops can completely defeat the Huaxia Army, which has only 70,000 troops after increasing its troops.
In fact, the Huaxia Army also faced many tests:
1. The supply of the Huaxia Army should cross the entire Pacific Ocean, detour through Cape Horn at 55 degrees south latitude, and then advance north to the United States at 40 degrees north latitude, with a chain of nearly 20,000 kilometers.
2. The early battles of the Huaxia Army took place in the jungle area near the equator, but now it has to fight in the warm and cold zone of 40 degrees north latitude, and it is now early winter, and it is a question whether the artillery rifles made in this tropical area can still be fired.
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