Lancaster County, north of the Pacific Railroad North Line and south of the Pratt River, is now a heavily guarded military exclusion zone. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 This corner of eastern Nebraska has been tightly sealed off by the military police of the Missouri Army Group, the Nebraskahua militia, and various military personnel. Anyone entering or leaving the area is subject to interrogation by military personnel. Roads, bridges, and even fields are guarded by military personnel. In any corner of the Great Plains of North America, it is probably not as heavily guarded here. The plains of Lancaster County are now the assembly area of the reinforced Sixth Army, the main force of the great in-depth assault that the East China Army is about to launch. Whether it was Donghua's Missouri Army Group, or the king of Donghua, or even Zhu Jishi, this group army, which was probably the most powerful in history, was the decisive force in the "Autumn Wind" campaign in Donghua. This is a strong army armed to the teeth!

The core of this group army was eight infantry corps that had been shipped from the Ming mainland, Japan, and Korea, including the elite Ming Imperial Guard, which was transported from the Ming mainland by steam sailing ships in three batches, and one of the divisions came with Zhu Jishi.

There is also the Imperial Japanese Army Expeditionary Force, which is almost the entire strength of the pocket army of the Kingdom of Japan, but the elite army policy of more than ten years has made this army no less effective than the Ming Imperial Guard.

There are also the First Army, the Second Army, the Third Novel Army, the Fourth Army and the Sixth Army of the Ming Army, all of which were adapted and expanded from the original grassland corps, and belonged to the elite troops of the Ming Royal Army second only to the Royal Guards.

In addition, there is a Korean legion, which is an elite unit formed by the Joseon king Zhu Guohong, who is eager to make achievements on the battlefield, after he became a pro-government. Five of these eight corps were in place by the end of August 1875. Three armies, as well as a reinforced heavy artillery group, came across the ocean in September and October. It's all now in Lancaster County, just a stone's throw from the forefront.

Except for the eight armies that came from Asia. The Sixth Army was also attached to three Donghua Army. They are the Donghua King's Guards and the Donghua Army's First Roman Legion and the Second Roman Legion, the former is King Juan's Guards, which is naturally also elite. The two Roman legions were made up of whites from the Kingdom of Donghua, who were dual nationals like the yellows, but their second homeland was not the Ming Dynasty but France and the Roman Empire, and according to a decree of Napoleon III, whites and mixed-race whites throughout the Mexican Empire. Both had French and Roman nationality and were also referred to as "Romans" by Juan.

Therefore, most of the whites in Donghua are loyal to Donghua and France at the same time, and they also have the obligation to fight for Donghua. Therefore, the Donghua Army is not an all-yellow army, and the number of white officers and soldiers is not less than 100,000. They were organized into two "Roman legions" by Jujuan, and they were also the elite of the Donghua Army.

By the way, unlike the "Chinese exclusion policy" of the American Empire, the Kingdom of Donghua did not exclude whites. Because the country has been subordinate to the Mexican Empire for the past decade or so, and is under the direct administration of the Mexican Empress Mathilde I, it is natural that white people will not be excluded as a minority. However, the whites of Donghua do not have any supra-national treatment. Their children, like their yellow children, received the same standard Tung Wah national education as their mother tongue. French as the first foreign language.

A team of carriages galloped on the road leading to Lancaster's county, and on this carriage, the banner of Zhu Jishi's generalissimo of the Ming Empire was fluttering, and a large yellow star was waving in the wind. His arrival in Nebraska did not alarm too many people, not even a few high-ranking generals. With Han Si assisting Zhu Juan, and Liu Jiong and Liu Kunyi in Washington, Zhu Jishi was quite relieved. Moreover, Juan had already shown considerable military talent in the previous war, and now the war situation is relatively calm, and there are few fierce confrontations on the Missouri River line. Zhu Jishi did not want his arrival to interfere with the preparations for the ongoing big war. Accompanied by Luo Junqi, he went to inspect the Sixth Group Army, which had just been taken over by Liu Mingchuan.

In his own opinion, his place in the North American war was as a spiritual symbol of the entire empire. Let every Donghua or Chinese soldier see their emperor and know that their emperor is on the front line with them!

Whether it is the Ming Army or the Donghua Army, after these years of construction, it has gradually become an efficient and sophisticated war machine, and he has long been no longer required to personally command the war, and he does not have the ability to command an army of up to millions of people. At this time, the Ming Emperor's mind was already thinking more about the aftermath of the war and the structure of the new world power system. Some clandestine work has been going on intensively for a long time. Zhu Jishi knows this truth deeply, a war that he doesn't know how to end should not start at all!

Outside the car window, there is a flourishing scene of autumn harvest in the Great Plains of North America. Everywhere there were ripe wheat fields, and the harvest had already begun, but it was only the elderly men and women who were working in the fields, and it seemed impossible to return all the crops to the barns. The impact of the war on the economies of the three North American countries can be seen.

"If there is more capacity at sea, it would be better to bring some more labor and immigrants to North America." Zhu Jishi leaned on the back of the carriage seat, and said to Luo Junqi beside him, "Before, we still ignored the impact of Donghua's comprehensive mobilization on production...... If this 'Autumn Wind Operation' can be won, there should be no major battles in North America by the beginning of spring next year, right? ”

Luo Junqi, who was beside the emperor, was also in his fifties this year, but he still looked very energetic, and he seemed to be quite confident in the development of the battle situation. He smiled and said, "King Juan and Han Shuai will definitely fight this battle, maybe they can force the American Empire and the Confederate States of America to admit defeat." Even if this goal is not achieved, most of them will allow Americans to recuperate for more than half a year, and may not recover until next summer. ”

He paused, and then added, "Although the American Empire and Britain are both industrial powers, it is still very difficult to arm and maintain an army of more than 3 million people and the world's largest navy. Now the armies of the American Empire and the Confederate States are armed with weapons and equipment accumulated over the past 10 years. If these weapons are depleted in the war, it will not be easy to re-equip a large army. ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, isn't Donghua like this? The pre-war stockpile of weapons and ammunition can equip up to 2 million troops and sustain their high-intensity combat needs for 12 months. However, the fierce fighting in August consumed far more supplies than was expected before the war. It is also far more than the output of the Donghua Arsenal and the import of sea, and without the support of a large number of stocks, the war simply cannot be fought. The troops and supplies needed for the upcoming "Autumn Wind" operation were much more than the Battle of the Missouri River in August. According to the plan, Donghua will invest 1.3 million troops and 5,000 artillery pieces and more than 1,000 mortars, and each artillery (mortar) is prepared to consume 10 base numbers (all 50 rounds) of ammunition. More than 3 million shells will be consumed alone! With such ammunition consumption, it has almost caught up with the First World War in history! However, the industrial level of both China and Britain and the United States is far inferior to that of the major belligerents of the First World War. We are only in the middle of the second industrial revolution, and the era of electrification has just arrived.

Zhu Jishi groaned: "Obviously, our pre-war estimate was wrong, this war consumes not only human lives, but also steel!" We have a 10-fold advantage in human life, but compared to industry, we are only on a par with Britain and the United States! (To be continued......)