On the afternoon of the 24th, Zhang Wei laid down three divisions of the Wehrmacht in Little Rock, Arkansas, and arranged for a senior staff officer to be responsible for commanding these three divisions, one of which went to the west bank of the Mississippi River to deploy defenses, mainly to block the American troops coming from the direction of Memphis, Tennessee. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Subsequently, in the evening, one defense division was deployed in Shreveport, Louisiana, which completely cut off the eastward escape route of the US troops stationed in Texas, and the other defense division was deployed in Xi'an, Mississippi, mainly to block the US troops from the east to the middle.

At night, Zhang Wei easily occupied Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and Abilene, Texas, and completed the encirclement of the American troops stationed in Dallas and Fort Worth, and all retreat routes were cut off.

In this era, all the oil fields in Texas were in Fort Worth, which was the largest oil field in the United States, and the Rockefeller family controlled more than 95% of the production and played a very important role in the American economy, so all the US troops stationed in Texas were stationed in Fort Worth and Dallas to protect the Fort Worth oil fields. Because of the oil fields, Dallas has grown to become the largest city in Texas.

The army stationed at Fort Worth had 4 army divisions, 1 black cavalry division and 1 heavy artillery brigade, plus other baggage regiments and engineer regiments, a total of about 65,000 men, and the commander-in-chief of the troops was Major General John Pershing.

Major General John Pershing was highly appreciated by President Roosevelt, who once raised him to a four-rank rank, which caused a lot of controversy at the time, and of course, the influence of his father-in-law, Senator Francis Warren, for his behind-the-scenes activities.

The U.S. mainland is separated from other continents in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and no one thinks that the U.S. mainland will be attacked by other countries, so the U.S. Army is very small, and if it weren't for the economic crisis and the strong military pressure of the Xia Empire, the U.S. Army would not have expanded from 130,000 to 500,000; Even the original army of 130,000 people still has to be stationed in the Philippines and other colonies, and the number of land forces stationed on the mainland is very small, most of them are stationed in the developed areas of the eastern coast, which is the center of politics, economy, finance, industry and commerce, culture and education in the United States, and is the most important region of the United States.

After the United States expanded the army to 500,000, Major General John Pershing was responsible for training the 2nd Army stationed in Texas.

Unexpectedly, before the troops were fully trained, the army of the Xia Empire would reach the mainland of the United States.

On the 22nd and 23rd, the Xia Emperor ** team landed on the mainland of the United States, which shocked the whole United States, and President Roosevelt announced that he would urgently notify Congress to expand the army; The existing armies were all transferred westward to prepare for the offensive of the Xia Imperial Army; The 2nd Army had received orders to garrison New Mexico; Unexpectedly, on the 24th, the troops of the Xia Empire appeared in Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri, and the War Department urgently sent a telegram asking them to stop going to New Mexico and prepare to meet the Xia Empire's army with all their might, defend Fort Worth, and defend Texas.

If Texas is occupied by the Xia Empire, then the post-war situation is to defeat the Xia Empire, and the War Department and the current president will be blamed and even impeached by these big plutocrats, so Texas must be defended and the Fort Worth oil field must be defended.

John Pershing received a telegram from the War Department that the Xia Empire's troops appeared in the central and western parts of the United States, and according to normal military common sense, the troops should be withdrawn eastward at this time, and joined with other troops, rather than holding Fort Worth alone; Moreover, Fort Worth was full of oil wells, and if there was a war and artillery fire, it would be easy to set these wells on fire and cause a fire in the oil field, and that would not be something he could afford to pershing.

Therefore, John Pershing took the initiative to evacuate Fort Worth and Dallas, not wanting to use it as a battlefield, but to transfer all his troops to the triangle of Frisco, McKinney and Plano, north of Dallas, where the east and west sides were flanked by lakes, and the army could not pass, as long as the southern sides were defended, and there were many swamps on the north and south sides, and only a few major roads could be passed.

From a military point of view, John Pershing is worthy of being a famous general in history, and the battlefield he chose was an ideal place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack in this era, and it was difficult for the Xia Empire to occupy it with several times the number of troops, and the area where the ground could pass and fight was too narrow, and no matter how many troops there were, it was useless, and the troops could not be used.

John Pershing transferred all the oil workers in the oil fields to a new military base for the construction of defense facilities; There were not so many reinforced concrete to build permanent fortifications, besides, there was no time, John Pershing had to build civil forts and dig a large number of tunnels based on the experience of the Russo-Japanese War and the war between the Xia Empire and Japan.

The Xia Empire came from afar, and it was certainly not possible to carry heavy artillery, and John Pershing believed that his heavy artillery brigade was not something that the Xia Empire could afford.

On the evening of the 24th, telegrams were sent one after another, the situation was very unoptimistic, a large number of Xia Imperial troops appeared in the east and south of Dallas City, and now they were surrounded by Xia Imperial troops, and they had been surrounded and became a lone army.

On the 25th, the troops of the Xia Empire advanced on all sides towards the city of Dallas, gradually narrowing the encirclement. John Pershing led his troops to continue the construction of civil fortifications, digging a large number of trenches, dumping a large amount of crude oil into the trenches, pulling up several barbed wire fences in front of the trenches, and laying a large number of mines in front of the barbed wire, and building a total of four lines of defense, each with a large number of machine-gun forts.

These machine gun forts are to learn the Japanese method, digging basements, food and fuel are stored in the basement, the upper part is the conference room and rest room, and the upper part is the combat part, and the top is multi-layer logs and sand up to several meters thick, which can fully withstand the bombardment of 75mm mountain guns or field artillery.

After two days of hard work by more than 200,000 oil workers and more than 60,000 officers and men, the entire base was basically formed on the evening of the 25th.

The War Department was very satisfied with John Pershing's approach, and the Rockefeller plutocracy felt that John Pershing's actions were impeccable, and if they insisted on Fort Worth and caused a fire in the oil field, then their plutocracy would be finished, which was a more ideal approach.

On the 26th, the army of the Xia Empire has occupied the southern city of Fort Worth and Dallas City, the Xia Emperor's ** team in the west has 1 defense division has been stationed in Denton City, the main force of the Xia Empire in the north has arrived in Sherman City, and the forward troops have begun to deploy on the front line of Selena and Anna.

The President of the United States and the War Department, as well as all the cabinet ministers and the major plutocrats, all quietly waited for the coming of war, which was a crucial battle to determine the future fate of the United States.

This was the first head-on battle between the Xia Empire and the American ** team, which attracted the attention of the world's leading politicians. (To be continued.) )