The Battle of Dallas, which had placed many hopes on both the Allies and the United States, lasted 44 days and finally ended in the dry and cold weather of January in North America when the New Year arrived!

Bradley, chief of the U.S. General Staff, tried to recover all of Texas through the Battle of Dallas and drive the Allied forces to the U.S.-Mexico border, but the cities of Dallas and Oklahoma were occupied by the Allies, and the plan was completely failed. As a result, General Bradley was dismissed by President Truman as chief of the General Staff of the US Army, but he was replaced by his old boss, General Marshall, who had returned to the mountain.

And the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in North America, General Chen Shukang, was not very satisfied with the outcome of the Battle of Dallas. In particular, after Marshall took office, he rescued 200,000 American troops in Dallas through Operation Guò "Blizzard Knights", and with the support of Wichita Falls' Northward Advance Regiment, broke through the Allied blockade and retreated into the Rocky Mountains.

The latest news is that the U.S. army, which numbered more than 400,000 and had nearly 1,000 tanks, had arrived in Colorado to rest in the Denver and Colorado City areas.

Although in the Battle of Dallas, the Allies wiped out more than 600,000 U.S. troops and captured all of Texas and most of Oklahoma, but 400,000 U.S. troops fled and let go of the big fish that had fallen into the net.

Moreover, the retreat of these 400,000 American troops into the Rocky Mountains is equivalent to inserting a dagger in the back of the Allied forces, ready to run out and stab them at any time. This will cause great trouble for the next combat operations of the Allies.

Marshall gathered heavy troops on the other side of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, and once the battle began, the two armies were in full swing, but they had to be ready to guard against the enemy killed in the Rocky Mountains behind them, which required the Allies to leave troops on the Amarillo and Alva lines to counter a possible sneak attack by the American army.

The fish that slips through the net will play a great role in restraining zuò. The battle was like this, Chen Shukang couldn't be happy.

The location of the red and blue arrows on the map has changed a lot compared to two months ago. The southwestern part of North America is almost entirely occupied by red arrows representing the Allies, with the exception of the Rocky Mountains, where a few blue arrows are still painted.

On the western side of the Rocky Mountains, from the Great Salt Lake to the Grand Canyon, the troops of the U.S. Army's Western Theater are still resisting stubbornly. After losing the Nevada Line, Admiral Clark had no choice but to retreat to Salt Lake City, but effectively resisted the Allied attack. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the 3rd Guards Panzer Corps turned to Oregon and weakened the strength of Zhang Houqun's mountain clusters.

Coupled with the fact that after the Battle of Dallas, logistical supplies were prioritized over the troops on the Southern Front, so that the progress of the Allies on the Western Front was very limited. At the end of the Battle of Dallas, the Allies encircled Colorado and Utah on three sides, taking most of Oklahoma into their pockets. However, the survival of the Rocky Mountains also made it impossible for the Allied forces on the Western and Southern Fronts to converge in the central United States, and they had to continue to fight on their own.

Although, according to the map, the Allies have "liberated" nearly one-third of the land of the United States, and all Allied forces have quite dazzling records, annihilating more than three million American troops in total! But Chen Shukang knew very well that the shape was not as optimistic as reflected in the number of jù and the war report.

The ancient art of war has clouds: one blow, then exhaustion, and three declines.

Since the launch of the "Hou Xi" plan, the Allied forces have gone on expeditions across the ocean, and there have been few defeats. Strategically, however, the Allies had entered a period of exhaustion. Moreover, now the fighting has begun to penetrate deep into the hinterland of the United States, and in addition to fighting the American army, it will also face civilian resistance from the occupied areas. Don't underestimate those poorly equipped guerrillas, who are elusive and create difficulties for their troops, even more than the American troops on the frontal battlefield.

While considering the major campaign operations, the Allied commanders were also assigned personnel to take charge of local policing and guerrilla operations. Fortunately, the Workers' Party of "Uncle Sam" sent a considerable number of political workers to take over the civil affairs of the occupied areas.

"This won't work!" Chen Shukang, who was already good at strategic thinking, realized that if the war was infinitely prolonged, then it would definitely be the Allied forces that would be dragged down.

Facts have proved that within the Allied forces, quite a number of people of insight are aware of the idea that the Americans will fight a protracted war.

As soon as the telegram applying to return to the imperial capital was issued, the General Staff ordered Chen Shukang to fly back to Chang'an, and the telegram to report on the situation of the battle arrived almost at the same time. Summoning the commanders of the various armies in Dallas, which had not suffered much fighting, a brief impromptu meeting was held to make arrangements for the immediate operation, and Chen Shukang temporarily handed over the command of the Allied forces in North America to General He Zhuguo, the deputy commander-in-chief, and took a special plane to transit at Midway Island and return to the imperial capital Chang'an.

In the Weiqing Pavilion, Chen Shukang gave a detailed introduction to the situation and military deployment of the two sides on the North American battlefield at the meeting of the Military Commission, and then bluntly said that the possible "protracted war" would be unfavorable to the Allies under the encouragement of Zhong Yi.

Chen Shukang's eloquence was not outstanding, but several of his predictions and analyses won the appreciative eyes of several imperial marshals. Ye Shuai and Jiang Shuai nodded frequently, the so-called heroes saw the same thing, and Chen Shukang's worries coincided with His Majesty's previous formulation.

When the US military is inferior to the Allied forces in terms of combat strength, it no longer fights hard and does not fight major battles with the Allied forces. Instead, he took advantage of the vast depth of North America to engage with the Allies.

In the North American war, in the eyes of the Americans and even most of the people of the world, the Allies were the identity of the aggressors after all. Even if there is a "voyage of 3,000 years" and the cover of the American Workers' Party, there are very few whites in the land of the United States who really support the Allies, except for the Indians.

The Allies can fight a war of attrition because the Grand Alliance has a population unmatched by anyone else in the world, and there are countless colonial forces that see war as their most promising profession. But the Allies could not fight a protracted war, because neither from the point of view of the "lack of help" of the people nor from the point of view of North America, far from the roots of the Grand Alliance, could not and could not afford to delay.

Listening to Chen Shukang's discussion, Zhong Yi was distracted again, and he remembered the scene when he was in the academy in his previous life, when the instructor explained the famous "On Protracted War". Zhong Yi listened very carefully to that class, and most of the content is still fresh in his memory.

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but they are not the decisive factor, and the decisive factor is people, not things." "The deepest roots of victory in war are found among the people." As long as the common people of the whole country are mobilized, it will create a vast sea of annihilation of the enemy, create remedial conditions to make up for the shortcomings of weapons and so on, and create a prerequisite for overcoming the difficulties of a war.

At a time when the Chinese nation was dying and the whole country was looking down on the prospect of the War of Resistance Against Japan, this article by Taizu not only inspired the people's will to resist the war to the end, but also objectively evaluated the situation of the war, and most importantly, it pointed out the correct line, principles, policies, and strategic art of the people's war in the War of Resistance against Japan.

Zhong Yi can change history and change the destiny of the country and the nation, but it cannot change the wisdom of great men.

Heroes emerge from troubled times, and the Americans were able to develop the United States of America into a world-class economic and military power in just over a hundred years, and if it weren't for Zhong Yi, they could have used the opportunity of World War II to develop the United States into the most powerful country in the world, not one! In another time and space, the United States is the world hegemon.

So, in this life, will the United States, which has been invaded, have a unique vision and outstanding national talents? I'm afraid there will be more!

The American version of the "protracted war" is bound to cause even more trouble for the Allies.

In Zhong Yi's mind, for a short moment, he fell into a hesitation: Do you want to continue to use the atomic bomb? During this period, the unrestricted nuclear bombing of the United States was not to force the United States to surrender, but to completely destroy the United States and turn rich North America into a desolate place in North Africa and the Middle East.

"No, you can't!" The hesitation was only for a moment, and Zhong Yi immediately came to the police. In doing so, it is not to prosper the big man, it is a crime against the entire human race.

If it were not for the powerful power of the atomic bomb, the destruction of US nuclear facilities would not have been so smooth.

But the use of the atomic bomb must be of sufficient value and unlimited use, and the ultimate outcome of nuclear proliferation must be the self-destruction of mankind. Zhong Yi is a dictator, a narrow nationalist, or a careerist, but definitely not a psychopath!

Only a neurotic would want to destroy the miè earth.

"Shu Kang, stay in Chang'an and rest for a few days! Accompany your family and don't have to rush back to the front. ”

Seeing that Chen Shukang's report was finished, several marshals either nodded in approval or exchanged heads to discuss with each other, Zhong Yi tapped his fingers on the table: "It seems that after listening to Shukang's report, everyone's views are still relatively consistent!" I think we can formally discuss the 'Zheng He' plan." ”

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If the European Allies want to land across the ocean and open a second battlefield on the east coast of the United States, the first condition is to clear the US Navy of its presence in the Atlantic. Although the Three Treasure Eunuchs went to the Western Ocean and not the Atlantic, His Majesty still thought of this name at once when considering the Royal Navy's Atlantic combat strategy.

If it is said that on land, the history of Han expeditions is innumerable, but on the sea, for thousands of years, the greatest glory must be owned by the Yongle fleet of the Ming Dynasty. Although the commander of that fleet was a eunuch, Zhong Yi still thought that he was a pure master among the Han men! Except for the defects in some aspects, the Three Treasures Eunuch has achieved all the aspects of a good man's ambition in all directions.

Therefore, for the Atlantic battle plan to be named "Zheng He", His Majesty did not hesitate.