Chapter 506: The American Revolution of 1912 (Part I)

However, the veteran troubles in the history of the U.S. military were only petty fights, far from enough to reach this level, so Woodrow Wilson, who was already dissatisfied with Pershing, naturally thought that Pershing was deliberately alarmist and did not want to listen to it, but soon the evolution of the situation proved Pershing's judgment......

Not long after the negotiations broke down, the veterans launched an attack, although the veterans of New York could not get to Manhattan Island, and naturally there was no way to take Wall Street on the island, but there were also banking institutions on the shore, not to mention that it was not only New York that had veterans on the streets. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 However, the angry veterans, if they were once very good at fighting, were generally a rabble, and the federal army, state militia, and the oligarchic private armed forces were dispatched to kill the rioters and quickly defeat them. It is worth mentioning that the armored vehicle that was put into combat for the first time in combat (by the United States) had a good effect beyond expectations during the suppression, which also allowed the US government to increase the purchase of this new weapon, which in turn promoted the progress of wheeled armored vehicle technology.

In just a few days, tens of thousands of veterans were arrested, and more than 1,000 were killed on the spot or lynched mercilessly by their descendants, setting a new record in the history of the United States. What is even more terrifying is that this turmoil has not ended here, the real revolution has just begun!

Pershing's fears had finally happened, the veterans of the siege of the bank were just outcasts who had been incited to attract the attention of the Union Army, and the real target of the rebel leaders was precisely the arsenal that Pershing had predicted. Although General Pershing had made an accurate prediction in advance, the problem was that he did not have enough authorization, and only the armies of several metropolises such as New York and Philadelphia were temporarily under his command, and the result was simply unguardable.

Just when some idiots were still breathing a sigh of relief that the riot had been "quelled", the bad news that the arsenal had been occupied by the rebels suddenly came, and the smiles on their faces instantly froze. And it didn't take long for them to hear worse news, that the lost arsenal was not the only one......

After opening the arsenal, taking out all kinds of weapons from it, fully arming themselves, and getting enough ammunition, these veterans quickly soared in combat effectiveness, and the members of the Datong Party in the United States, who had been holding back, organized them according to the plan that had been prepared for a long time, and marched towards Detroit, the most important industrial city in the United States today. Well, the revolution was not intended to focus on the northeastern United States, where the ruling class was at its strongest, but on the shores of the Great Lakes with its industrial cities and borders, something that even Pershing did not expect.

With the surge in demand for automobiles, Ford Motor Company has developed rapidly over the years and has become the world's largest automobile manufacturer, but the poor economic situation in the United States has also greatly affected the company's profits, coupled with the fact that Ford is still in a period of rapid expansion at this time, and the cash flow is very tight, even if Henry Ford has an idea, it is impossible to raise the wages of workers so quickly, and the work on the production line has no opportunity to take a lazy break (and the 8-hour work week has not yet been implemented), The intensity of the work was unimaginable before, but the wages were not much higher, and the workers were deeply resentful.

Now that the United States is in a deep economic crisis, the capitalists are not having a good time, not to mention that the unemployment rate is so high, no matter how hard the work is and how low the wages are, as long as they can barely make ends meet, the workers can only continue to grit their teeth and endure it. But Ford's invention of the production line has quickly spread to the ground, and the burden on American workers in the machinery industry has skyrocketed, almost describing it as dire straits.

The arrival of the rebels was like a torch thrown into a powder keg, and the unbearable industrial workers in the rebel army "let everything be without money" (from this slogan, it is clear that Li Hui did not want the American Revolution to succeed at all, but such a slogan is undoubtedly extremely incendiary). They joined in one after another, and the size of the rebel army grew rapidly.

At the time of the capture of Detroit, the total strength of the rebel army was only more than 100,000 men, after all, only a few veterans were really too poor to support their families, and not everyone among them had the courage to risk a quick death to gamble. But with the addition of workers, the situation soon changed dramatically, although the average living conditions of workers are even slightly better than that of veterans (the United States has a deep tradition of standing forces, although soldiers earn a lot when they are on duty, veterans are very ostracized when looking for jobs, and the government has no policy support, which makes it very difficult to find employment, which is also an important reason why American veterans are often poor). But their base is much larger than that of veterans, and even if the proportion is lower, the number of potential thieves is bound to be higher.

In fact, even Li Hui, the mastermind, did not expect that once the workers were mobilized, their enthusiasm to participate in the revolution would even exceed that of the veterans in a more difficult situation. It turns out that once you have mixed up in the system, you will inevitably habitually feel a fear of the system and the rulers, especially the soldiers who emphasize "obedience", and if they are not really embarrassed to live, they really dare not rise up against the government and the oligarchs behind it; The workers outside the system, on the other hand, are more likely to be incited into the revolution because they lack political and military knowledge and are unable to clearly understand the strength of the ruling class......

Of course, although it is a bit like the feeling of getting on a thief ship by mistake, the workers who are highly organized and disciplined and hard-working are always the best soldiers, and because of their class nature (they are the most revolutionary and organized. Once they join the revolution, their consciousness is higher than that of those veterans. In fact, after the revolution fell into a low ebb, many veterans fled or even defected, and almost all of them persisted to the end from workers' backgrounds......

In less than a month, the total strength of the rebel army increased to more than 600,000, and the front swept the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie, and important cities such as Cleveland and Buffalo fell one after another, shocking the whole United States and shaking the world!