By mid-June 1907, China's ground forces in the North American theater had reached eight divisions, with a total strength of nearly 300,000, and they were all the trump cards of the elite. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info With China's current national strength, this is almost the limit of the strength it can invest in the North American battlefield, it is obvious that Li Hui wants to use the gap between the United States and the upgrade of weapons and tactics to create the greatest results possible, and these eight ace divisions did not disappoint him......

Although due to the terrain restrictions in the western part of the United States, it takes time to transfer troops from within the country, and the Chinese army did not advance much in the front during this period, but still killed and wounded more than 300,000 American troops (but the war of annihilation is more difficult than before, the proportion of prisoners killed is less than half, and the number of casualties on the Chinese side has also increased significantly compared with before, but Li Hui has long known that a big country like the United States cannot be defeated in waves, even if he regrets this, he is still psychologically acceptable.) And this does not include the results of the killing of militia guerrillas.

Speaking of militia guerrillas, it is true that they have caused a lot of trouble for the Chinese occupation forces since the beginning of the war, but after basically eliminating the American regular army in the northwest of the United States, the Chinese North Theater Command can free up more troops to deal with these rats in the rear, and their good days will come to an end. It is true that guerrilla warfare is very difficult to deal with if it is used well, but the foundation of guerrilla forces is built on the firm support of the local people, and Li Hui cannot quickly win the hearts and minds of the people, but as long as the people are lost, will he not be able to support them either?

In a densely populated region like East Asia, this is almost impossible to do, but in the northwest of the United States, there are only about 1 million people in the occupied territories, most of which are concentrated in a few cities such as Seattle and Portland, and the rural population (as long as you don't care about killing, the urban population is much easier to control than the rural population). How many can there be? As long as the Chinese army, which is responsible for defending the lines of communication, insists that "it is better to kill a thousand people by mistake than to spare one." The American guerrillas have no hole to exploit at all, because there will be no one to die, die! Sneak attacks are getting more and more difficult, not to mention, even if luck succeeds, it is at least a few to one exchange ratio, with the Chinese garrison more than the local rural population, and there is a steady stream of domestic replenishment, how long can such consumption fight?

However, the fighting will of the American peasants when defending their homeland and the excellent military quality brought by the long-term armed guns of the whole people (compared to the ordinary militia armament) also surprised Li Hui, less than two months after the start of the war, the number of American guerrillas eliminated by the Chinese army in North America actually reached more than 200,000, even if the part of the regular army that was dispersed and some of the people who were killed by mistake are deducted, the real guerrillas should not be less than 100,000, this ratio even makes Li Hui feel a little hairy," Sure enough, this war is truly endless, and it seems that it is not easy to snatch this chosen place! ”

After the suppression of these guerrillas, it will be difficult to find even many young and middle-aged farmers in the occupied areas, but this is not a big problem, because the military cantonment troops in the country have already begun to mobilize, and by the time the farms and pastures in the occupied areas are taken over, the guerrilla warfare on which the US government has high hopes will be fundamentally defeated.

In this process, it is impossible for the army not to do dirty work, which will inevitably have a negative impact on the mental health of officers and soldiers, but fortunately, there are still many biochemical soldiers in the army, and these tasks are left to them to complete last, and there is no big problem.

In addition to the consolidation of the rear and the direct destruction of the number of enemy forces, the most important achievement of the Chinese army during this period was actually to reverse the previous strategic posture that was actually more defensive (basically a preemptive strike, waiting for the US offensive to show flaws, and then making targeted counterattacks). Since the Western Front took Portland and a large area around it, forcing the remnants of the American army to retreat into the mountains and flee to San Francisco, the central front was already without an enemy, and the theater command could concentrate most of its forces on the Eastern Front, which immediately changed the balance of power between the two sides, and then the major counteroffensive began. Because this counteroffensive came very suddenly, the hundreds of thousands of American troops who were still desperately attacking at this time and wanted to open the railway line to recapture Missoula were caught off guard, and after losing more than 100,000 people in a short period of time, the whole line collapsed and fled eastward......

In addition to the army, the main force of the Chinese Navy's ocean fleet also wreaked havoc on the western coast of the United States, sinking and capturing nearly one million tons of merchant ships in a dozen days, completely blocking the sea traffic on the west coast of the United States, and almost achieving "no piece of the board to enter the sea", which made Theodore Roosevelt, who did not agree with the westward transfer of the main force of the navy and was worried about provoking China prematurely, regret it. He would rather have turned his face with China before then.

But now it's too late to regret it, unless the 12 batteries in Yanping Fortress are demolished, the capital ships of the U.S. Navy will never think of sailing to the west coast again. What the? You say bypassing Cape Horn? China's ocean fleet is not weak, and who knows if China, which has always liked to hide and tuck, will have a new capital ship already built? After bypassing Cape Horn for such a big circle, there are no military ports along the way that can provide the necessary maintenance for the 16,000-ton capital ships, and the US fleet will still have some strength left.

The U.S. Navy, which was holding its breath but had no way to think of it, could only sail its fleet to the coast of the Republic of Colombia to shell civilian ships to vent its anger, but this did not mean anything other than to make the Colombians lean more firmly towards China. Even the effect of the demonstration could not be achieved because the American fleet avoided the attack range of the Yanping fortress, and even had a certain counterproductive effect.

Not to mention that such a clear behavior of bullying the weak and fearing the hard has also had a great negative impact on the international image of the United States, and has greatly weakened the justice of this war against China, so President Theodore Roosevelt immediately ordered the Navy to stop doing such stupid things after calming down, and he pointed out that the Navy's current task is first of all to deter those countries that may fall into the ground, especially Mexico, a land neighbor with which the United States has formed many ties in history...... (To be continued.) )