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A train roared towards the station, and before entering the station, the uniformed railroad personnel working on the Pacific Railroad raised their flags from afar. The train let out a long hiss. Slowing down with a large amount of white gas. Begin preparations to enter a dedicated military station in Lancaster County.

The train was an armored train, a special train built for Mathilde and Jujuan at the China Railway Machinery Company's factory in Los Angeles. Two steam locomotives in tandem in the bow of eight carriages with armor plates were hung. With the exception of the two middle carriages, which belonged to Mathilde and Juan, were not equipped with weapons. Outside the other six carriages, there were 40mm machine guns and Type 73 machine guns sticking out everywhere. This train was specially used by the King of Donghua and the Empress of Mexico when they visited the front line during the war, but Jujuan did not take it once, but allocated this train to the Donghua Cabinet for use. In his opinion, he is a great soldier, how can he hide in the ironclad train and go to the front? Such vehicles should be used by the civilian officials of the Cabinet.

On the special military station in Lancaster County, Lieutenant General Yang Xien, chief of staff of the Donghua Army, was already waiting there. The general, who was considered an old man in the Donghua Army (compared to the large number of young generals in the Donghua Army), waited at the station with a respectful expression, and the attachés and guards who followed him were all standing upright with the most standard standards. Watch as the train slowly slides into the station. The car slowly stopped, and the escalator was quickly lowered. In a cloud of steam. I saw an elderly soldier wearing the gray marshal's uniform of the Ming army on crutches. Limped somewhat. Streamed down after him. It is a large group of elite officers from the General Staff of the Ming Army with their nostrils facing the sky. Unlike the young staff officers of Donghua, these staff officers of the Ming Dynasty are all uncles in their thirties and almost forty. All of them are the elite of the army who are experienced and have received a good military education. Many of them received military education from an early age, graduated with honors from the Army Military Academy and the Army University, and served as commanders of units below the battalion level and staff officers of divisions, military headquarters, and general headquarters, and some also served as instructors at the Army Military Academy and Army University. He is extremely familiar with all kinds of affairs in the army.

And the marshal who led these elite staff officers of the Ming Dynasty was Han Sihan, the "No. 1 General of the Ming Dynasty" who followed Zhu Jishi to North America. He arrived at the Lancastrian Command, which was almost at the forefront, to serve as Chief of Staff for King Jujuan, and the elite officers of the Ming Dynasty that he brought with him would form a staff for Jujuan to use. The army generals and staff officers of Donghua are too young, although they do not lack courage and courage. But there was little experience in commanding large legions. There have been a lot of omissions during this time, which is why Jujuan is determined to let the elite staff officers of the Ming Dynasty replace them. Lieutenant General Yang Xi'en came to greet Han Si, an old-timer, as the king's representative, and his position will also be adjusted to the deputy chief of general staff of the Donghua Army after Han Si's arrival, becoming Han Si's assistant.

Han Si glanced around at the station, but didn't see anyone he knew. Except for Yang Xien, the eldest son of Yang Xiuqing, they once met in Yingtianfu, when Yang Xien was the chief representative of the Military Department of the Donghua Army Department in Daming. Han Si enthusiastically stretched out his hand towards Yang Xien. However, Yang Xien didn't dare to stretch out his hand so aggressively, and first snapped a stand, and then reached out to shake Han Si tightly.

However, Han Si was not in the mood to greet him now, and asked as soon as he opened his mouth, "How is the situation on the front line?" Are the U.S. forces on the Missouri River still storming? What about the Kansas City area? He went on to explain: "The Missouri River seems to have formed a stalemate. The longer it drags on, the more difficult it will be to break through. So I'm worried that the Americans will shift the focus of their attacks to the Kansas City area...... Where are we well deployed? ”

Yang Xien diligently led Han Sichao to the carriage waiting outside the station, and said with a wry smile: "The Missouri River line is too hard. It's a bit unexpected! The casualties of all units were heavy. Although the losses of the U.S. army are at least twice as high as ours, our Donghua is not the Ming Dynasty after all. Our population is only 18 million ...... This number still includes white citizens. I am afraid that the combat strength that we can really mobilize will not exceed 4 million people (in fact, it is already a lot, because Donghua is a country of immigrants and the founding time is short, so the population is mostly young and middle-aged men, and the mobilization ability is therefore stronger, and it seems that it also exceeds the expectations of the American Empire), and if it is more, I am afraid that it will affect the most basic industrial and agricultural production.

Now there are tens of thousands of casualties a day, which is a bit unbearable. As for the area around Kansas City, there is a defense, the army of the Confederate State has not fought in the past ten years, and they are mainly based on the state militia, and the equipment and training are not good, and it is difficult to form a strong combat force without more than six months of training and supplementary equipment. If Thomas. Jackson insisted on driving the Allied Army to attack, and at most he could only exert one-half of the combat effectiveness of the Donghua Army. In a defensive battle, I will suffer at least three times as many casualties as mine. ”

Yang Xien's face was not good-looking when he spoke, and now it was just the army of the American Empire that made Donghua a little difficult to deal with. Once the Allied Nation's army of at least 1 million is armed and trained, the Donghua Army will really be overwhelmed.

When the two were about to get into the carriage, Han Si noticed that many Donghua children were lining up to board the train to the west organized by some young female teachers—Donghua was evacuating the Chinese in Nebraska! It seems that King Jujuan has prepared for the worst. But this is also good, after the evacuation of the Chinese here, the army can move freely, and no longer have to defend the Missouri River. As long as the troops were able to retreat to the Rocky Mountains, hold on to the danger or maneuver in the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains, the casualties could still be minimized.

At this time, Jujuan, who was at the Lancaster headquarters, was not ready to give up Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, as Han Si imagined. These three states are agricultural states! More than 100 million mu of cultivated land has been developed, and a large amount of cotton and wheat have already been sown, and the current growth is very good; as long as it survives until the autumn harvest season, the Donghua Army, which is fighting on the battlefield in central North America, will not have to worry about the grain problem for at least a few years.

And now the overall situation is still stable, and the offensive of the US troops on the Missouri River line has slowed down. It seems that they can hardly afford to lose 20,000 casualties a day. As for the area around Kansas City, it was relatively quiet, and the Union army did not take any active action, and Chen Yucheng's 200,000 troops should be enough to deal with it. Zhu Xingyi also came up with 250,000 troops from the Sixth Group Army, these troops are the elite of the three ** teams of China, Japan, and North Korea, and their training and equipment are still guaranteed, and their combat effectiveness should not be under the elite divisions of Donghua.

Therefore, Jujuan still has the capital to fight this costly war of attrition - he believes that Lao Mei's life is also sad, and now he is competing with his will, and whoever can't bear it first will lose this game. After this battle is over, there will always be a few months of recuperation, so that time will have to consolidate the defense of the Missouri River Line.

The only thing that worries him now is that the US military is carrying out large-scale maneuvers! The railroad network in North America was so convenient that the military could use the railroad to carry out a wide range of maneuvers that were unimaginable for armies that relied on foot and war horses to march in the past. In other words, the direction that Americans may take is not necessarily Missouri, but can go straight to the rear of Donghua from Texas in the south and South Dakota in the north at the same time!

Looking at the map, isn't Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, which are now occupied by the East China Army, a huge salient? If you are William. Sherman's words would most likely have launched such a big detour as the closing battle of 1875. And how do you deal with it? (To be continued.) )