If the Heavenly Punishment Column continues to the east, it will be able to enter the hinterland of the United States, and the destructive power will be known if you think about it; And if they quickly move south along the railroad and outflank the US troops protecting the road, the consequences will be even more serious, if the US troops divide their forces to block it, then they may not be able to block the frontal enemy, resulting in the South Pacific Railway being cut off, and if they can't divide enough troops to let the Heavenly Punishment Column complete the outflanking, then the 700,000 US troops protecting the road, and even the heavy military groups on the west coast of the United States, will be caught in a huge encirclement network, once the more than one million US troops are completely annihilated, Theodore Roosevelt will have a very hard background, It may not be possible to continue to sit on the throne of the president of the United States......

As a man who knew the army, Theodore Roosevelt thought that it was more important to have a living force, and if the Chinese army in Kansas really continued to advance eastward, it would certainly cause a heavy blow to the economy of the nearby areas, but from another point of view, it was also tantamount to throwing himself into a net, which was convenient for the US government to deploy troops to encircle and suppress, because the closer to the core area of the United States, the more developed the industry and the stronger the mobilization ability, and after the distance from the South Pacific Railroad, the deployment of troops would not clash with the US troops protecting the road. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the end, Theodore Roosevelt still chose to transfer troops to protect the flank of the American army, first stabilize the overall situation, and buy time for the American army to upgrade its equipment and tactics......

However, the Heavenly Punishment Column is precisely the nemesis of the militia guerrillas, first of all, they are not afraid of harassment, and the biochemical soldiers also need to rest after being tired, but they do not have the physiological need to sleep (some people who are sick and cannot sleep can still live well, indicating that sleeping is not actually a necessary behavior to maintain normal human physiological activities, and the existence of this mechanism is actually to avoid excessive physical consumption and lack of rest. Their spirits will never get tired, nor will they have negative emotions such as irritability, so methods like sparrow warfare are completely ineffective against them. More importantly, the Heavenly Punishment Column has its own "mobile supply station", and there is no need to divide troops to protect supply lines or collect supplies, and without dividing troops, the guerrillas will have no chance to attack......

What's more, the Heavenly Punishment Operation was originally prepared to be killed, and there was no need to distinguish between real civilians and guerrillas, as long as the Americans were uninvited, they would be killed on the spot; As for ambushes, it is important to know that the cyborg will never be negligent, as long as they can detect it visually, they will definitely be able to notice, so it is also extremely difficult......

It should be noted that the guerrilla warfare methods of the American militia are very different from the guerrilla warfare during the anti-Japanese period in China in history, except that they like to destroy communication lines are the same, they fight more in the cities than in the countryside, who calls the level of urbanization in the United States too high, and most of the population is citizens? However, after encountering the Heavenly Punishment Column, they often did not even have the opportunity to fight in the streets, starting from Kansas City, every time the Heavenly Punishment Column conquered a city, they would unceremoniously set fire to the city, just like the famous Northern General Sherman did in the Civil War......

As a result, the American guerrillas, who had intended to use the shelter of the buildings in the city to give the Heavenly Punishment Column a little color, were blinded, and in the face of the raging fire caused by the incendiary bombs, they either abandoned their tasks and fled the city in panic, or they were faithful to their duties and burned to death in the city. Firefighting, you say? I'm sorry, but when the Heavenly Punishment Column set fire, look at it, where the fire is too small, where their cannons will be called......

After the burning of Kansas City, the Heavenly Punishment Column descended the river to attack St. Louis, which was geographically important, and the defenders of almost a division, although stubbornly resisted, quickly collapsed under the powerful artillery fire of the Heavenly Punishment Column, which rivaled that of the field army, and St. Louis soon suffered the same fate. It is worth mentioning that the Heavenly Punishment Column also dropped a large number of drifting mines into the lower reaches of the Mississippi River, blowing up many ships, and causing panic everywhere in the lower reaches of the Mississippi River, which had been stable and peaceful for many years.

So far, the Heavenly Punishment Column has killed and wounded more than 50,000 US troops, more than 60,000 militiamen, and burned down two important cities. But what Theodore Roosevelt didn't expect was that instead of continuing downstream, the Heavenly Punishment Column chose to cross the Mississippi River eastward, and then go north to Chicago, an important industrial base along the Great Lakes!

You must know that Chicago is a large city with a population of more than 1.5 million, and it is ranked first in the entire United States, if it also falls and is burned to the ground, not to mention how big the economic loss will be, the political impact alone will be unbearable for the Roosevelt administration, so he immediately called the nearest reinforcements, although the number of garrisons in Chicago should be enough, but it is more reassuring, and there is one thing to do is to transfer the citizens, otherwise the enemy can cause great casualties just by shelling.

The order to evacuate the citizens soon proved to be prescient, the Heavenly Punishment Column did not attack the city of Chicago at all, but only used the advantage of their own heavy artillery to shoot a longer range into the city and frantically poured thousands of 210mm shells into the city, because the US anti-balloon weapons and tactics have begun to take effect, the artillery bombardment of the Heavenly Punishment Column was not fired by balloons (Note 1), so the accuracy is naturally not guaranteed, but their main purpose is to create panic, so as long as the shells are fired into the city, as for whether they hit high-value targets, It doesn't really matter......

Note 1: However, the Heavenly Punishment Column can be replenished with new weapons at any time, and after discovering that the US military began to shoot balloons, the doppelganger immediately deployed dozens of anti-aircraft guns to also shoot American balloons and airships, these are mature anti-aircraft guns that can fight World War I aircraft, and their accuracy and rate of fire are much stronger than those temporarily modified anti-aircraft guns in the United States. The fact that the Biochemical Soldier can automatically master all the weapons that the system can produce and that is within the capabilities of his class without learning is also very convenient again.

It is precisely because of this that the superiority of the long-range artillery capability of the Heavenly Punishment Column has only been weakened to a certain extent, but it has not completely disappeared; after all, the artillery performance and artillery quality of the Heavenly Punishment Column are superior, and the gap between these two points can also be widened when neither side can calibrate the long-range artillery bombardment. (To be continued.) )