The Allied forces that had won the great victory at Lauton were not repaired.

General Wang Tiehan's battle plan was ...... by the high command More precisely, it was supported by His Majesty.

Whether it is Chen Shukang, Ye Weixun or even Jiang Yunzhi, they all have some doubts about such a bold idea. The U.S. military is not a national/military, and this war is not a civil war. Fighting in North America, where the Allies had never set foot before, they were far less familiar with the terrain and other information than the U.S. military, which was fighting on its own soil.

Relying only on the maps collected by MI5 agents and aerial reconnaissance, the Allied intelligence was still quite flawed. On the West Coast and the Mexico-US border, the situation is even better.

Now that the Battle of Dallas has reached a range close to the central and core regions of the United States, it is predictable that the Allies will encounter more difficulties and encounter stronger resistance from the Americans.

Think about how many spies Japan sent to China before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War? If you think about it again, the military map in the hands of the Japanese army is even more detailed than that in the hands of the Chinese army. However, after entering the interior, entering places that Japanese spies had not touched, whether it was Taihang Mountain or Shudi, the Japanese army still suffered a lot of losses.

Before the "Hou Xi" plan was decided, the high command did refer to Japan's strategy of invading China, and Ishihara even participated in the formulation of the "Hou Xi" plan throughout the process.

In the eyes of many people at the Allied Headquarters, the early stages of the North American War did have many similarities with the development of Japan's war of aggression against China. All of them were suppressed by the absolute superiority of the navy and air force, all of them were aggressive in momentum, and all of them achieved incredible results in the early stage of the war.

However, Marshal Ye Weixun, chief of the general staff of the Imperial Army, has always reminded everyone that "the final victor of the war of aggression against China is China, not the invincible Japanese at the beginning of the war." ”

His Majesty was also deeply convinced of this. In the eyes of others, the victory of the Chinese War of Resistance was of course due to the participation of the imperial army, but Zhong Yi, who is familiar with another period of history, is also very clear: in that life, without the Han Empire sending troops and South China participating in the war, the Japanese still lost, and it was the current opponents of the imperial army - the Americans who lost.

At that time, without the checks and balances of the empire-led Greater China Alliance, the United States would be much more powerful than it is now. Fighting on two fronts, he defeated Germany in Europe and Japan in the Pacific, and established the status of the United States as the hegemon of the world in one fell swoop.

What Zhong Yi admires even more is that the Americans can always choose the most appropriate time to enter the war, so as to obtain the greatest benefits. Although, this is largely due to the unique geographical advantages of North America.

However, the current Han Empire has broken the fate of the United States to stay away from war, and the paradise of peace in the eyes of the Orientals or the peace paradise that the white people call has moved to South China. At the moment when the Pacific Fleet was completely annihilated at Wusongkou, the Americans had already lost their right to calmly choose whether to fight or not to fight.

Even so, will the Allies on the transoceanic expedition repeat the tragedy of the Japanese army?

The Allied commanders, who were accustomed to victory, did not think much about this issue, and even the word "lose" did not appear in their minds at all.

Ye Shuai was able to cool down and vaccinate everyone in this atmosphere, and in Zhong Yi's heart, he still agreed very much.

"Only the faint monarch can't listen to the advice of the contrary!" His Majesty thinks that although he is not good enough to be wise and powerful, he is not a faint monarch...... Wu Jiayi must be excepted, which is the exclusive nickname of the goddess of martial arts, which is not counted.

However, on the question of whether the Youzhou Army was steadily advancing or fighting a big battle, Zhong Yi still resolutely supported Wang Tiehan's seemingly unrealistic combat plan. The location of the Youzhou Corps is not good, if you focus on the battlefield north of Dallas alone, they are in the middle of the two mobile corps of the US army. At Sunflower Ridge, the 27th Army was still engaged in battle with the Southward Advance Corps; In Wichita Falls, Bradley's Northward Advance Corps was just over a hundred kilometers away from Lawton.

In the eyes of most people, it is a miracle to be able to complete the victory in the middle of the gap between the two major corps of the U.S. Army and completely annihilate the 11th Episode Army of the United States under the condition of the U.S. Army's onslaught on Sunflower Ridge.

The swift withdrawal of the Allied forces near Lauton City, which had become a tired army, and the search for opportunities to fight the American forces again was a necessity in the eyes of most people.

For example, Ye Shuai and Chen Shukang all thought so, and even Jiang Shuai, who has always been unruly and known for daring to throw surprise troops, also believes that the Youzhou army, which has a large number of new soldiers, is not suitable for continuous high-intensity combat.

It seems that within the entire Allied Army, only His Majesty supported Wang Tiehan's battle plan of "rapid northward advance".

Strategic hesitation is an absolutely lethal act on a rapidly changing battlefield. Without waiting for the telegram from the Allied General Headquarters at the first time, and hearing the news from Wan Qingshan, commander of the 27th Army, that the US troops were about to retreat from Sunflower Ridge, Wang Tiehan sent a telegram to Chen Shukang again: Fighter planes are rare and fleeting, please make a quick decision in chief.

Admiral Chen Shukang forwarded the original text to Wei Qingge, the battle has been fought here, and it has deviated from the Allied army's previous operational plan for the Battle of Dallas, and Chen Shukang does not dare to make an arbitrary decision.

But the more this happened, the more it reminded His Majesty of the debate between Mr. Lin and Taizu, who were wearing coats and holding a handful of soybeans, about whether to fight Changchun or Jinzhou first, as well as the original text of the telegram that was painted like a landscape painting.

"Hit! Trust the judgment of the front-line commanders, only they know the specifics best. As we sit in our offices, staring at maps and battle reports, we are not as clear as the front-line personnel who are facing the battle better. ”

His Majesty's attitude was very resolute. I have the impression that after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, His Majesty rarely intervened in the formulation of the campaign plan so resolutely.

Jiang Yunzhi's eyes showed a trace of worry, "Let professionals do professional work", this sentence was said by His Majesty himself, and it was once regarded as a wise move by His Majesty to respect and trust talents.

What is it that makes His Majesty so actively involved in this campaign? Especially the battles with the participation of the Youzhou Army.

Feeling His Majesty's unusually resolute attitude, Ye Shuai, who had been staring at the map for a long time and had not made a sound, suddenly picked up the pencil, "Your Majesty, Jiang Shuai, look, how is this?" ”

The ...... that Zhong Yi drew Next to the arc, Ye Weixun drew two thick straight lines, starting from Lawton, but ending not in Oklahoma City in the northeast, but in Ardmore, another small city directly east of Lawton.

These two paintings are also quite exciting, Jiang Yunzhi almost blurted out: Are you going to add a hood to them? It's just that Jiang Shuai, who has experienced the first experience of love and is a little slippery, is a stable person after all, and his long-term high position and extremely prominent strategic vision made him immediately realize Ye Weixun's thoughts.

Forcibly inserting between Oklahoma City and Lawton is indeed difficult for some strongmen. However, if the 300,000 Allied troops under the command of Wang Tiehan went straight east and cut off the connection between Russia and Dallas, then it would be a good move to echo Chen Shukang's right army, or advance to Dallas in separate ways, or attack Oklahoma with a combined force.

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In late November, the right group, commanded by General Chen Shukang, the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in North America, no longer swam on the west side of the Mississippi River, but devoured cities south of the Arkansas River with its powerful attacking power.

After Wang Tiehan led the Youzhou Army to launch successive flank battles, the allied army's multi-pronged attacks turned from slightly subtle advances to frantic assaults. Admiral Bradley, chief of the General Staff of the U.S. Army, was very skeptical, "Could it be that the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces has been replaced by a Japanese?" ”

Seeing the Allies' regular formation of decisive charges in battle, of course, with the coordinated charge of the infantry and tans, Bradley's mind was a little confused, "Is this still the troops of the Grand Alliance?" Is this still the Han Army, which is known as the two young master armies along with the U.S. military? ”

But then, Bradley understood that almost all of the charging were Han colonial troops. "Damn, this is a typical bully, such a fight, a battle is tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of casualties, of course the Han State with a population of billions in the colonial area is not afraid, but the United States is afraid!"

Counting the whole of North America, how many troops can be mobilized? Ten million? It's up to the sky! But what about the Allies? Not counting other countries, the four major governors of the Han State alone could easily send out 10 million troops. Although the combat effectiveness is a little worse...... This can't be said nonsense, after equipping the Han equipment, the Americans are enough to suffer those monkeys.

"Damn the Han people, this is to use this shameless tactic to fight the American warriors!"

Reading is understanding, but Bradley found himself in a nowhere better way to solve the problem. Every day, huge casualties on the battlefield are reported, and more troops must be sent to fill the positions. In field warfare, after both sides had invested heavily in armor, trench warfare was useless, and the line between attack and defense was blurred.

With both armies under heavy artillery fire, heavy casualties were inevitable. In Colorado City, in Abilene, in Waco, in Palesda...... On more than a dozen local battlefields, the two armies competed to see who could not support it first.

Today I will take a position, and tomorrow you will take it back. This will cause your artillery to blow up one of the enemy's artillery positions, but immediately, when the coordinates are exposed, it will invite a fierce return fire from another enemy artillery.

It may not take more than a day for the front-line troops to be disabled from the rotation of one regiment and one brigade to the dispatch of a division. In the morning, they ran to the battlefield vigorously, and before night, they were carried down by a cold corpse.

The North American campaign finally showed a more brutal side in late November. It's just that, compared with the entangled and destructive street battles of the Soviet-German war, the Allies and the U.S. military are more in the field, and they retreat when they die, and they advance when they are alive.

An army of millions, that sounds like a lot. There are many countries in the world with a total population of less than one million. However, in such a war, the so-called army of millions seems so vulnerable.

Bradley soon discovered that there were no more reserves in Dallas, and that there were no recruits mobilized on the spot. After receiving reports of battlefield casualties tonight, he will have no troops to send tomorrow.

The Allied forces of Wang Tiehan were between Dallas and Russia, and the more powerful Chen Shukang was at Pine Bluff.

This is not a conspiracy, this is purely a power oppression, and it is an upright conspiracy.

All the armies are there, and if you defend me, I will attack, and human lives will be exchanged for human lives. A simple method of warfare, but an unsolvable tactic.

After more than a month of fighting, the total number of American troops near Dallas has been reduced to 600,000! Due to the lack of troops, Bradley had no choice but to begin to shrink the defensive area, and voluntarily abandoned his position west of the Brazos River.

Of course, this will not satisfy the Allies, and the participation of the 5th and 6th Army Corps in the Western Regions, the 7th Army Corps in the East, and another batch of Mexican armies will not have to worry about rotation at all. The Battle of Dallas began to develop in favor of the Allies.

"Dallas is an isolated city again, and millions of U.S. troops are trapped in it." Such news not only made the politicians in the White House panic, but also made the Americans in the United States feel desperate.

Even if there is a nuclear explosion, there is no more atomic bomb in Han anyway. But isn't the U.S. military an opponent even in a conventional engagement? Didn't the previous newspaper say that before Christmas, the U.S. military could send the Allies in the south back to Mexico?

Christmas is really coming, but ......

Within the scope of the Grand Alliance, only a few European countries and Israel and other countries are still insisting on Christmas, and in countries where Han culture is the mainstream, of course, they are more concerned about New Year's Day and Spring Festival.

But in the United States, can there be worse news of such news on Christmas Eve?

"Gentlemen, tomorrow is Christmas! But I don't know if we'll ever have a chance to spend the next Christmas together! ”

In the Blue Room of the White House, Truman leaned back on the sofa in frustration, and his words made his henchmen feel even more desolate. Originally, the president was supposed to stand on the balcony of the Blue Room and give a Christmas speech to the people. But...... The president canceled this important practice.

Without the "Manhattan Project", without even the news of a victory, how can the president face the people? Sue them, is there no way for the United States to win the Great Patriotic War? Or put the blame on God - to declare to the people that "God no longer bless America."

"President, gentlemen, I don't think we should be like this! The people are expecting us to lead them to defeat the Han fascists and win the Great Patriotic War. We are America's last hope, and we must not lose faith first. And ......"

At Truman's invitation, the veteran general George Cartlett Marshall stood up again, with a pair of eagle eyes and a firm gaze, "Even if we lose the Battle of Dallas, we still have millions of troops, we can still build ten warplanes a day, and two aircraft carriers are launched every month, we are not vulnerable." Defeat cannot defeat the American people's hope for freedom! What we should do now, President, gentlemen, is to boost the morale of the people to fight, and, of course, more importantly, to find a way to save those besieged soldiers. ”

Truman raised his head, and the White House thinkers sat up straight. Admiral Marshall at this moment will become the backbone of everyone and the anchor in the hearts of everyone, including the president.

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"Fellow citizens,

I'm Harry S. Truman. I stand here today to wish you all a Merry Christmas!

But, I know, no American would be happy at this time!

Damn the Han fascists, and that evil coalition army, have invaded our country. Moreover...... I admit that I was frustrated, because in the previous phase of the war, the American army was not able to effectively defend itself against enemy attacks. We've lost a lot of land west of the Sierra Nevada, and ...... New Mexico and Arizona.

But what I want to say is that it is the land of America, a gift from God to the American people. No one can take it away from us. The free American people will not succumb to the brutality of the fascist army.

In the early days of the United States, our ancestors faced even more dangerous situations than they do now, but their bravery overcame all difficulties. For us, they sorted out their few belongings and began to cross the sea in search of a new life; For us, they toiled in sweatshops, enduring the whipping of leather whips and plowing hard ground; For us, they fought and gave their lives in places like Concord, Gettysburg, etc.

In the young life of the United States, it has always been to face danger and become strong. ”

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Every president of the United States is a master of speech. Truman, who had just been in the Blue Room with a desperate expression, walked a dozen steps away and his face was full of determination.

"We have to fight, for the country, for the loved ones, for freedom, for democracy...... We will not admit defeat, and every American will be an indomitable fighter in the fight against the aggressor.

In Dallas, there are still hundreds of thousands of our soldiers trapped there. I regret that as President of the United States, I can't get them back home and spend Christmas with their mother! But I promise that we will not give up a single soldier, we will not give up a single battle.

God believes that all beings are equal and all are free. But for the sake of justice, for the sake of defending our country, what is the sacrifice? ……”

The 1944 White House speech of the President of the United States was also considered wonderful and inspiring in later generations. Many people will even compare it with Roosevelt's famous "God bless America" after the "Wusongkou Incident".

However, the difference is that the Americans were full of confidence that even though the Pacific ship was badly damaged, they still believed that the United States was capable of defeating the "evil Han State".

And today, no matter how brilliant Truman's speech is, it cannot give the Americans enough confidence. "Will we still be able to defeat the Grand Alliance armies? What if the Han Kingdom makes another atomic bomb......"

"We need a victory, a victory that will give the people confidence back! General George, no matter what you need, as long as you can bring a victory to the United States, as long as the current American government can still take it, no problem! ”

At the end of the battle-filled but tangled speech, Truman hurried over to Marshall's side as soon as he left the balcony and walked into the Blue Room.