Chapter 446: A Doomed Offensive
Of course, there will be sequelae of this approach, but that is the sequelae of Russia, what does it have to do with China? And since it is a sequelae, it will not attack immediately, judging from the situation of the Soviet Union in history, how can it be decades later, and China needs the Soviet Union as MT at most within 20 years, and when China has the ability to single-handedly challenge the world, what does it matter if Lao Maozi has problems at that time? Even in a sense, if Lao Maozi has internal problems without use value, it is a good thing for China......
Li Hui agreed to let the prisoner of war camp cooperate with his mentor's plan, and the Bolsheviks soon ushered in unprecedented growth, and by May 1908 the number of party members had exceeded 100,000, and this was still the remnant of the purge selection, which was really amazing. www.biquge.info Li Hui also had to admit that although the purge was cruel, as long as the line was correct, there were great leaders like Mentor and Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Lenin's visit to China was actually a side within the Bolsheviks, and the Iron Man followed, so he came to the fore earlier. This kind of direct leadership, which can be called a saint, is indeed terrifyingly efficient......
However, Li Hui is not afraid of this, because he knows that both are difficult to replicate and sustain for a long time, and the foundation that Tsarist Russia can leave to the future Soviet Union is no longer as good as the current China, after its heavy losses, this gap is still widening, even if the Bolsheviks succeed in the revolution ahead of schedule, they will have to work hard for at least ten more years if they want to rise, and at that time, China's industrial strength will only be much more terrible than now, even if it does not reach the extent that the United States occupies one-third of the world in history, it can at least rank first in the world, And because of its size, the development potential is still incomparably great, and there is no need to worry about the threat of the Soviet Union at all.
Moreover, the Soviet Union faced the threat of the Western powers first and foremost after its founding, and from the point of view of expansion, Europe was far more valuable than Siberia to the east, and as long as the leaders of the Bolsheviks were not stupid, it was impossible to shift the center of gravity eastward before dominating Europe......
Although the number of prisoners was not as large as that of the Russian army, after repeated defeats in 1907, the number of American troops captured by the Chinese army had exceeded one million, but compared with the Russian prisoners of war, their use value was significantly lower. The Communist Party of the United States has not even been established yet, not to mention that they have not chosen the line of armed struggle in history, and they cannot help China at all, and although the Americans do not have such strong nationalist sentiments, their racial concepts are more stubborn than those of the Slavs who were once ruled by the Mongols, and the POW management department has adopted the method of issuing "death targets" to various POW camps, and has disposed of no less than 100,000 thorns, so that the POWs can finally accept the labor reform honestly and dare not cheat and play tricks, and want them to turn their guns against the US government? Don't even think about it, at least in a macro sense......
Not only were the American prisoners of war stubborn, but the American civilians in the occupied areas were generally not as docile as the Russians in Siberia, but fortunately, Li Hui had long been prepared for this, and after the victory in the Battle of El Paso, he began to transport batches of military troops from China to the other side of the ocean.
Li Hui's plan was to hand over all the farms and pastures in the occupied areas of North America to the military cantonment troops to manage, completely eliminate the space for the activities of the American guerrillas, and with the harsh deterrence of armor protection laws, urban guerrilla warfare could not be fought at all, because every attack on a Chinese meant that at least dozens of Americans would die, and the population in the western part of the United States could not afford to fight at all, so as long as the vast countryside was taken over by Chinese farmers and herdsmen, the guerrilla warfare of the Americans would be completely useless. What the? Hide in the mountains and continue to persevere? If you think about what happened to the Anti-Japanese Federation in history, you can understand how difficult it was......
Through these proven measures and persistent immigration, the area west of the Rocky Mountains was slowly but irreversibly turning into Chinese territory, which the U.S. government could not tolerate, and in April 1908, when the threat of a cold snap was still not completely lifted, the U.S. military launched a large-scale attack on the Chinese Rocky Mountain defenses......
Probably due to the climate, the focus of the US army's attack was on the southern front, and after a winter, the US army's weaponry has been completely replaced, and although it is still slightly insufficient compared with the Chinese ace division, there is no longer a grade difference, and all kinds of new tactics have also been greatly improved and popularized, so that the US army's combat effectiveness has been improved by leaps and bounds. If the armies of the two countries now open their posture and compete in an open terrain, it is almost impossible for even the ace unit of the Chinese Army, such as the Mountain Division, to win three times the number of American troops, but with the Rocky Mountains in hand, the situation will be very different......
In the absence of a regular air force, the impact of terrain is still very huge, especially China's mountain troops, which are originally special forces formed for mountain operations, which magnify the advantages of the Rocky Mountains to the extreme. The U.S. forces first attacked fiercely on the southern front, and after the setback, the central and northern fronts also launched an offensive with all their might, but as a result, it lasted more than a month and suffered more than 100,000 casualties, but it failed to recapture even a single strategic point.
Due to the help of terrain and fortifications, the casualties of the Chinese army are much smaller than those of the enemy, and the total is less than 10,000, and unlike the casualties of the American army, the proportion of dead and missing has reached almost half (the charge in the era of trench warfare is to send people to the head), because the Chinese side relies on the position to defend and counterattack, the proportion of deaths is less than 20%, and the wounded soldiers are withdrawn for treatment and recovery, and most of them can return to the battlefield, which is cheap. If this exchange ratio continues, the United States, no matter how large it is and its industry is developed, will be dragged down sooner or later......
But the failure of the offensive was not the casualty of US President Theodore Roosevelt. For the US Federal Army, whose total strength has increased to no less than 3 million, the casualties of more than 100,000 people are not a big loss, but the US Army has obviously gone all out, but it has only been a few casualties in more than a month, and the key is that it has lost, what does this mean? It shows that the U.S. Army's supposed overwhelming superiority in strength has not been fully exploited, and this is what really made President Roosevelt despair...... (To be continued.) )