"Poof!" Although he had already been mentally prepared, when Theodore Roosevelt really heard the bad news of the devastating shelling of the American Steel Company, he was still furious, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, and the telegram in his hand suddenly became speckled and shocking. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It is true that Pittsburgh's steel industry is too important to the United States, more than half of the steel production in the United States before the war came from here, and although the new ones built after the outbreak of the war have chosen other cities in consideration of diversification risks, the construction period of the steel plant is very long, and I am afraid that it will not be completed until the end of the war, and the United States can only rely on the broken steel industry with an annual output of 10 million tons of crude steel (Note 1) to support the war, and not only to supply the United States itself, and an ally that is almost like a bottomless pit to be satisfied!

But now that the incident had happened, President Roosevelt could not restore the destroyed steel mills even if he spewed more blood, but after listening to some suggestions from his own think tank, Theodore Roosevelt picked out three more constructive remedies.

First of all, it is necessary to strictly economize and reduce unnecessary steel consumption, and it is difficult to open source in the short term, so it can only be throttled, but fortunately, waste has always been serious in the United States, and there is still a lot of space in this regard; Then there is the emergency import of steel, although this will consume limited precious metals and foreign exchange reserves, and will further aggravate the burden of foreign debt of the United States, but now in such a situation, we can only look at the present; Finally, although the construction period of the steel plant is long, an engineer who knows the industry better came up with a proposal that sounded somewhat feasible......

"You mean, go all out to develop electric furnace steelmaking?" Theodore Roosevelt only felt that the construction period of the electric furnace was short, and the quality of the steel produced was also good, which was very much in line with the current needs of the United States. The only thing that gave President Roosevelt some headaches was that electric furnace steelmaking needed scrap steel, not as much as iron ore wanted......

Fortunately, the United States is also an old industrial country (compared with China and Japan, of course), and has carried out the world's largest infrastructure, and now it is still engaged in a brutal war, and the source of scrap steel is not too small, not to mention that even if it needs to be imported from Europe, scrap steel is much cheaper than finished steel......

These measures should have had a certain effect, but it was still difficult to fundamentally recover the huge losses caused by the destruction of Pittsburgh's steel industry, and Theodore Roosevelt finally couldn't help but make a clear request to the British ambassador to the United States that he hoped that the British government could mediate in the Three Kingdoms War.

Although he saw it more as a delaying tactic in his heart, the cruel reality of the destruction of Pittsburgh's steel industry had awakened Theodore Roosevelt, and if there was a real opportunity, the president would no longer resist negotiating peace with China, and that ancient country in the East on the other side of the ocean is now terrifyingly strong, and even if the American military and civilians can finally defeat it, they will inevitably pay an unimaginably heavy price, which may even make the United States fall out of the ranks of the first-class powers. Rather than this, it is better to honestly cede the land and pay compensation to avoid greater losses......

But in any case, Theodore Roosevelt would not let go of the Heavenly Punishment Column, firstly to avenge the hatred, and secondly, to win a victory in order to make the Chinese government lower its asking price.

More importantly, Theodore Roosevelt has seen the opportunity to annihilate this strong Chinese army, although it is a pity that Pittsburgh's steel industry has not been able to keep it, but after such a tragic bloody battle, even if the real strength of this force far exceeds his initial expectations, it must have been broken now, and on the side of the US army, Roosevelt's long-awaited West Coast reinforcements have finally all withdrawn to the east and begun to reorganize, and when this step is completed, the total number of regular armies in the northeast of the United States can exceed 1.5 million, And the average quality has also been significantly improved, such a powerful army composed of heaven and earth, even if the enemy is still in a state of full strength, don't want to escape!

At this time, the Heavenly Punishment Column was indeed very difficult, and after completely destroying the industrial area of Pittsburgh, there were already 6,700,000 troops of the two American armies forming a outflanking situation on the periphery, plus the US 12th Army, which had been fighting with it for more than ten days, the total strength of the enemy was nearly one million, and even in the heyday of the Heavenly Punishment Column, it was difficult for them to break out of the encirclement. What's more, now that most of the newly recruited 20,000 level 1 infantry have been lost, and Li Hui no longer allows the "clones" to waste precious metals to recruit more biochemical soldiers due to the completion of the mission, this terrible army that once terrified the Americans has suddenly come to a dead end at the peak of its glory......

However, the biochemical soldiers will not be afraid, and naturally they will not give up in advance, since they are unable to break through anyway, it is better to simply use the advantage of unlimited supplies and fight defensive counterattacks to consume the enemy. For the heavenly punishment column with more than 20,000 wounded soldiers in the team, this is also conducive to the recovery of the wounded soldiers and allows the troops to hold on longer. However, street fighting is definitely not good, for biochemical soldiers with excellent marksmanship and artillery skills, the farther the combat distance, the greater their advantage, and the street fighting that mainly fights in close combat will undoubtedly greatly weaken this advantage, if not, the Heavenly Punishment Column will not have to sacrifice more than 10,000 soldiers to complete the task assigned by Li Hui, obviously the urban area of Pittsburgh is not large, and it is only a small part of the neighborhood that needs to be conquered. And if it is besieged by the enemy on all sides, it can be said that it is the worst battlefield situation, and it is even enough to erase the advantage of the military quality of the biochemical troops, so what should be done?

Note 1: Under the market economy, there is generally some idle production capacity, especially in upstream industries such as steel, which were fully utilized after the outbreak of the war, and workers were mobilized to work overtime, before the Battle of Pittsburgh, the annual steel production capacity of the United States had exceeded 20 million tons, almost twice that of China. Of course, this is also because China has not yet carried out a general mobilization, but even if it does, because of the implementation of a planned economy, the production capacity of China's steel industry has already been fully opened, and the increase is unlikely to be as large as that of the United States. In the final analysis, it is still China's industrial base that is not strong enough...... (To be continued.) )