Theodore Roosevelt thought about it, and there was no other way but to tear down the east wall and make up for the west wall, "I really can't do it, I can only give up San Francisco (San Francisco) and Los Angeles, take back the defenders on the west coast, and hold El Paso with all our might, as long as this place is not lost, we still have a chance to regain the west of the Rocky Mountains in the future." www.biquge.info withdraw the hundreds of thousands of elite troops on the West Coast to El Paso, and you can draw out some of the troops on the 'Albuquerque-El Paso Line,' and you should have enough strength to deal with those unsolicited bandits......"

The truth is correct, but such a determination is not easy to make, even if it is only a temporary retreat, Theodore Roosevelt will face huge pressure from public opinion, not to mention whether he can really recover the lost territory west of the Rocky Mountains in the future, President Roosevelt himself is not at all sure, although he does not want to admit it, but so far the battlefield performance of the Chinese Mountain Division, the Marine Corps and the Heavenly Punishment Column has made this tough guy's heart have unprecedented fear, and he sometimes even regrets that he was too hasty in the first place, It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in this world......

While Theodore Roosevelt was hesitating, the re-offensive of the Heavenly Punishment Column helped him to make up his mind. After discovering that the U.S. troops did not dare to come again, the Heavenly Punishment Column, which had completed the repair and regained its physical strength, withdrew from the Chicago residential area, which was no longer of great value, and marched eastward, aiming at Detroit, one of the centers of the new industry in the United States!

Although the automobile industry is not yet perfect and the automobile industry is not large enough, and even the most successful automobile company, Ford, is only a medium-sized enterprise with assets of only more than one million dollars, but after the United States has carried out a general mobilization, it has become the most important military industrial base of the United States in the north of the central Great Plains, and if it is lost, it will be an extremely heavy blow to the United States. Roosevelt immediately sent troops to the rescue, and the Great Lakes were able to quickly send reinforcements to the Great Lakes, and the workers in Detroit were armed and would take part in the battle if necessary.

Thus, in a short period of time, the defenders of Detroit reached more than 200,000, and there were a large number of combat-ready industrial workers as a backup. As for the problem of lack of creativity and imagination, the Heavenly Punishment Column has now penetrated deep into the hinterland of the United States, and there are targets that can be attacked in all directions, and any attack can make the United States unable to defend against it, so why dig out the hollow and think of any strange tricks?

What's more, even if there is no imagination, the routine of "wanting to retreat and attack first", which is specially written in "Sun Tzu's Art of War", will still be there, and the Heavenly Punishment Column will give full play to its long-range artillery advantages and bombard the city of Detroit, while quietly changing the rear team into the front team and preparing to retreat......

After retreating southward, the advance of the Heavenly Punishment Column approached Cleveland, another important industrial city not far away, because of the deception of the ancient Chinese art of war, the movement of the American troops was slow for two days, and as a result, Cleveland, which was short of troops, was conquered by the Heavenly Punishment Column in one fell swoop, including those reinforcements who arrived in time but lost their lives in vain, the number of American dead and missing exceeded 30,000, and Cleveland was finally burned to the ground like Chicago......

Theodore Roosevelt, who was finally so angry that he lost his mind, ignored the advice of Pershing and other army generals, and insisted on ordering the 17th Army, which had not yet completed its training, to immediately dispatch and drown the enemy with a sea of people, but was taught a good lesson by the small but fine Heavenly Punishment Column, and the US 17th Army, which had more than 300,000 troops, suffered heavy casualties under the fierce and accurate fire of the Heavenly Punishment Column, and was completely defeated in less than a week, with more than 100,000 dead and missing. The total number of casualties of the Heavenly Punishment Column finally exceeded the 10,000 mark......

Theodore Roosevelt was awakened by this fiasco, and he made a final decision, and soon a secret telegram was sent to Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the two armies on the West Coast were ordered to fill the fighting units directly with the new recruits who were still training, so that the junior officers and elite veterans could be replaced and transferred back to the east for emergency relief. Through this means, Theodore Roosevelt could obtain 300,000 or 400,000 mobile troops, and all of them were elite troops, and after he was added as the backbone to those newly established troops in the east, the US Government would have more than one million mobile troops available in its hands, and no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the Heavenly Punishment Column was, it would certainly have no way to survive against so many troops.

In addition, Theodore Roosevelt was determined to take Pershing's suggestion to completely destroy all railways, roads, and bridges within 200 kilometers of the enemy, instead of just stripping off a few sections of railroad tracks and laying a few mines. The Heavenly Punishment Column will lose the ability to conquer large cities and fortified fortresses......

No matter which choice the Heavenly Punishment Column makes, their strength will be greatly weakened, and the goal of the US military to annihilate them will naturally be easier to achieve, but this kind of unsparing method of destruction is also "hurt the enemy first, hurt yourself first." The damage to the future U.S. economy is incalculable, but what choice did President Roosevelt have? Long pain is better than short pain, if the Heavenly Punishment Column is allowed to wreak havoc in the elite area of the United States, the loss will only be greater!

Due to the excessive delay on the road, the US military was able to mobilize more troops, and it was more difficult to conceal the movements of the Heavenly Punishment Column, and as a result, after hitting Pittsburgh, it was found that the enemy's strength was far beyond expectations, and it was a pity to give up, and in the dilemma, he could only ask Li Hui for instructions through the message board, and now the distance was too far, and the military radio could no longer directly contact Wuhan, so he could only use this old method.

To be honest, Li Hui has always expected the enemy to be lenient, and when he formulated the heavenly punishment plan, he didn't expect them to be able to hit Pittsburgh, but since Pittsburgh is already close at hand, why not fight? This is the "steel capital of the world", before the war steel production accounted for more than half of the United States, even the current Tangshan can not compare, as long as it can be destroyed, even if the heavenly punishment column is exhausted, it is worth it! (To be continued.) )