Dallas, the third largest city in Texas and the ninth largest city in the United States. The traditional oil industry, the textile industry, the banking industry, and the emerging computer technology and air transport industry are the backbone industries of this cosmopolitan city, which only emerged rapidly after the First World War.

Petroleum processing companies, in particular, rely on the U.S. industrial system. After Houston was captured by the Allies, the Allied air forces began to patronize the Dallas urban agglomeration, and the oil industry chain in Texas was greatly damaged, which brought great difficulties to the economy and industry of the United States.

Compared to other major powers, there is no shortage of oil on the US mainland. But U.S. oil processors are too concentrated in Texas and concentrated in the Gulf of Mexico. This is not only because it is convenient for the transportation of crude oil by sea, but also because the United States has a strong naval fleet, making the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea the inland sea and backyard of the United States.

The Royal Fleet of the Han Dynasty blocked the Panama Canal like closing a small door in the back garden. Coupled with the Allied landing in Mexico and the loss of Phoenix, Texas suddenly became the front line.

However, in the eyes of the White House, the war in Texas is not deadly, at least, the United States still has the Great Lakes region. As long as you can defeat the Allies and drive them out of the North American continent, it will be worth it.

"It's not the same as when we landed in Europe in the First World War; It is also different from two years ago when we organized the landing of a multinational force in Africa; This time, we need to defend the American homeland, a paradise of freedom and democracy. For the sake of victory, there is nothing that cannot be paid, and if desired, all Americans, including me, can take up arms and go to war. ”

At Dallas's Dealey Plaza, at the risk of being bombed by Allied air forces, President Truman personally arrived at the front line and delivered an impassioned speech to the American soldiers preparing for a general battle with the Allied forces.

After the use of the nuclear explosion, various countries used their own magic skills in the diplomatic arena, but left a buffer period for the North American battlefield, and the chief of the US General Staff, General Bradley, mobilized 76 divisions and more than 1.1 million US troops to gather around Dallas. After reversing the war in one fell swoop, the number of American troops in local battles was always lower than that of the Allies, and for the first time in a large-scale battle, the balance between the forces of the Allies was achieved...... At least quantitatively.

After months of hard fighting, the Allies conquered Phoenix, the seat of the commander of the U.S. Western Theater, and launched two campaigns in the south and west. On the Western Front, the 10th Guards Army completed the deployment of forces, the 30th Guards Mammoth Tank Division was officially placed under the command of the Africa Command, and the 10th Army was supplemented with the 33rd Guards Panzer Division, regaining an iron cavalry force. Although the invincible "Fierce Horse" was replaced by a heavily modified "Tiger", Lieutenant General Zhang Houqun, who was able to play at full strength, was also satisfied.

Coupled with Ji Youqian's 3rd Guards Army, Liangzhou Army, Yizhou Army, Dongying's 1st and 2nd Army Corps, and the 1st Army Corps of the Western Regions, the number of allied troops on the Western Front also exceeded one million. As a lieutenant general, commanding millions of allied troops, Zhang Houqun can be regarded as a proud spring breeze and a happy day.

At Lovelock and Austin, the blocking forces deployed by Admiral Clark, commander of the Western Front, rescued the 12th Army and other forces that had been scattered in the Sierra Nevada, but they were also defeated by the pursuers. Six U.S. tank divisions destroyed more than 300 M4 Sherman medium tanks and 1,600 M26 Pershing heavy tanks at Austin.

However, the Allies only paid less than 100 overhauled "Tigers" and more than 200 "Siberian Tigers". With such a large battle loss ratio, the U.S. military had to retreat under the pressure of the Allies. In just over a month, the front was pushed from the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada to the Great Salt Lake region.

The 33rd Guards Panzer Division, the forward unit of the Allied forces, even attacked the outlying positions of the US forces less than 50 kilometers from Salt Lake City, and it was not until the US Air Force fighters ventured out to stop the aggressive momentum of the Allied forces.

On the one hand, the Han and U.S. air forces fought fiercely again over the Great Salt Lake; On the other hand, General Chen Shukang also stopped the lone advance of the western cluster in time. With Idawa and Oregon still in the hands of the U.S. military, and there are still a large number of U.S.-Canadian troops in the northwest, the western cluster is advancing smoothly, but the hidden dangers left behind are also quite large. The U.S.-Canada forces in the northwestern states had a way to outflank the Allied western cluster at any time.

Before the Allied forces and other forces in Phoenix City could break through the Rocky Mountains, even if the Western Cluster could penetrate the central part of the United States, with the strength of these 100 Allied forces, it would not be able to open up a bigger situation, and at the same time, it would face the danger of being surrounded by heavy forces mobilized by the American army.

Therefore, Chen Shukang ordered the Western Cluster to suspend the offensive and confront the U.S. Army in the Great Salt Lake area, while maintaining the oppressive posture of Salt Lake City and the Utah Plateau, Chen Shukang secretly ordered Zhang Houqun and Ji Youqian to be ready to march into Idawa and Oregon at any time.

In the "Hou Xi" plan, Zhong Yi did not intend to leave any outlet to the sea for the United States in the Pacific Ocean. If you don't cut the grass and don't remove the roots, there will be endless troubles. Of course, His Majesty is not a person who will be kind to the enemy, that is not called benevolence, that is called pedantry.

Except for southern California, which was to be returned to Mexico, the west coast of North America had been included in the territory of the Indian Kingdom by Zhong Yi. As for the United States of America, or the socialist countries that the American Workers' Party might build, as long as it is in the name of the United States, it will go to the Atlantic. There are many pirates in the Caribbean, enough for the American navy to play! The Gulf of Mexico is not small, and after the redivision of the territory, if the United States and Mexico are not satisfied in a few years, they can continue to practice in the Gulf of Mexico, and we promise not to interfere.

Zhong Yi thinks that he is still very particular, and decades later, things in North America have been arranged for them. As for the Pacific Ocean...... That's the same as the Indian Ocean, it's the sphere of influence of our big Han, what's the matter with the Americans?

It's just that the empire still has a long way to go to realize such a grand plan, at least, it must first subdue the Americans!

Whether it was the General Staff of the Imperial Army or the Allied General Headquarters in Los Angeles, everyone's attention was focused on the city of Dallas, where the two armies faced off. After Chen Shukang arranged the offensive and defensive plans of the West Cluster, he flew directly to Houston with a group of staff officers, and Long Xiaotian was so frightened that he sent two "Raptor" squadrons to provide escort.

"These big brothers, why aren't they afraid of being attacked by the US Air Force? Flying around in the war zone, Ye Shuai is like this, and Chen Shukang is still like this. "It's a great honor for these people to trust the Royal Air Force, but keep doing this, Commander Long said Alexander! If the Allied commander-in-chief were shot down in the air by the Americans, it would be a ...... The shame is lost to the whole world.

Long Xiaotian reported this problem, and no one else reacted, whether it was Jiang Shuai or Ye Shuai, they also did the same when they were on the front line. But this incident attracted the attention of His Majesty, which was very reminiscent of the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Yamamoto Isoroku, who was killed in the Battle of the Yellow Sea. In this life, the Yamamoto gambler also died a well-deserved death and sank into the Yellow Sea. But in the previous life, it was precisely because the radio code was intercepted and deciphered by the US military that Yamamoto was ambushed and shot down by a US military plane when he flew to the front line to inspect.

Yamamoto's death was an extremely heavy blow to the Japanese Navy, no less than the loss of a super battleship, and even indirectly caused the destruction of the Combined Fleet in the future.

Although the empire's wireless communication encryption technology leads the world, and the idea of "South China Wind Whisperer", which originated from the Americans, has improved the secrecy process, there is a precedent, how can it not be guarded against?

His Majesty issued an order that the principal commanders of the front line were strictly forbidden to fly around by plane at will, and if necessary, they must also strengthen escort measures on the basis of raising the level of secrecy.

This order, in October 1944, could only be regarded as a minor episode.

When Germany and the United States canceled each other's declarations of war and began arms purchases; When the French Liberation Army is formed, the European continent will be rekindled with war; In Texas, USA, when more than two million troops gathered and prepared for war, who would have thought that the final trend of this great war would be determined by this small episode.

After the publication of Zhong Yi's "107 Plan", that is, the "Declaration of the Han Dynasty", US President Harry Truman's-for-tat speech at Dallas Dealey Square brought the morale of the US military to a climax. In all parts of the United States that were not occupied by the Allies, military fever and reinforcement fever came and went, and Americans' patriotic fervor rose again after the nuclear bombing of Little Rock.

The U.S. government advertised that it was very difficult to build an atomic bomb, and even though Han claimed to have mastered the technology of making atomic bombs several years ago, the complex extraction process of nuclear raw materials determined that Han certainly did not have many atomic bombs.

This greatly alleviated the fear of nuclear explosions among the Americans, especially since the Han did not refute this, in 7. 13After the nuclear bombing of Little Rock, there was indeed no trend of using nuclear weapons again, which made most Americans believe that the Han Kingdom really only had those two atomic bombs.

"What if you pay the price of a few more cities being bombed? Americans can pay more than they do to defend freedom and democracy. ”

Congressmen who speak like this are often scolded, but after the scolding, Americans' nuclear fears have indeed faded a lot.

As Jiang Yunzhi said, "One or two atomic bombs will not dampen the Americans' determination to resist." Unless it is a wholesale bombing of a dozen or twenty pieces, it will be completely destroyed physically and mentally. ”

It's a pity that His Majesty just rolled his eyes at Jiang Shuai's strong murderous aura and ignored it.

The Battle of Dallas also went ahead as scheduled.

The Allied Jingzhou Corps at San Antonio and the 2nd Western Regions Corps formed a central cluster, crossed the fast-flowing Colorado River at Augustine, and engaged the Americans in a fierce battle at Waco.

The Xuzhou Corps, which set out from Odessa, formed a left group with the Nanyang 2nd Army Corps and the Moro Corps, and more than 400,000 allied troops connected with the cities of Big Springs and Colorado, and advanced to the important town of Abilene in western Dallas.

In Houston, the Qingzhou Legion, the Yuzhou Legion, and the Mexican Legion, which had just been rotated to North America, and the Workers' Party with a total of more than 100,000 men, formed the most powerful right-flank cluster of the Allied forces. In the Right Army, there are also units of the 77th Armored Army and the 101st Air Cavalry Division of the Coastal Corps, which are directly under the General Staff, which can be described as an elite gathering.

The U.S. military's defensive posture is indeed focused on the right-flank cluster from Houston. Bradley personally commanded seven armored divisions and twenty-one infantry divisions, with a total of 530,000 troops, and wanted to collide with Chen Shukang.

However, in Palesda, General Chen Shukang did not send armored forces to fight the American tank showdown, but avoided the defensive line that the American army was waiting for, and the whole army moved in the direction of the Mississippi River, as if to create a false impression of a feint attack on Louisiana.

Of course, Bradley will not be fooled, in the area east of the Mississippi River, although the number of American troops is not enough to encircle and annihilate this Allied force of more than 500,000, but they refuse to defend the Mississippi River, the largest river in North America, as long as they do not act recklessly, it is enough to protect themselves. Admiral Bradley was not worried that Chen Shukang would throw the two allied forces in front of Taras and cross the Mississippi River eastward, and he even preferred that Chen Shukang would do so. Because that just gave the U.S. military an opportunity to concentrate superior forces and encircle and annihilate the other two clusters of the Allied forces.

It's just that Mr. Chief of the General Staff's heart did not feel relaxed because of Chen Shukang's strange actions, as a top student at West Point at the same time as Eisenhower, General Bradley, who has been in the army for decades, certainly does not think that Chen Shukang is in a daze or has made a mistake. In a large-scale battle in which both sides dispatched a million troops, how could the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces be so incompetent?

The White House, the U.S. Department of the Army, and even all the political and military dignitaries in the United States are all paying attention to the Battle of Dallas. Bradley believed that the same would be true of the Han Kingdom, and that their high command would not be able to sit idly by and watch Chen Shukang's stupid moves. Then, this qiē can only prove that the Allied forces bypassing the defense of the US army must have a plan along the way.

Figure what?

The Chief of the General Staff did not see it clearly, and the leading officials of the US War Department did not understand it, and the White House ...... Ask those who only talk about military tactics to understand military tactics, "unless I'm crazy!" Bradley never pinned his hopes for the defeat of the Allies on the politicians in the White House, "as long as they don't come to make trouble!" ”

In Bradley's hesitation, the battle was still raging.

Whether it was Abilene or Waco, the Allied and American forces were brutal. For example, the series of meat grinder battles on the battlefields of the Soviet Union and Germany were different, and the vast majority of battles in North America were positional battles. Airplanes targeted clearance, artillery carpet bombardment, then armored charges, flank advances, this qiē, all of them are no different. It's just that both the Allies and the U.S. military are deliberately avoiding street fighting.

The Allies did not want to bear the extremely high casualty rate in street battles, and the Americans did not want to destroy cities too much in the Great Patriotic War, not to mention that in the Allied sequence, there were some notorious colonial troops. What the consequences of putting those guys in a city, especially after a stubborn resistance, have been demonstrated many times in other battlefields around the world.

Zhong Yi would not have thought that the notoriety that he deliberately created for many shady reasons in the colonial area was even more terrifying than the atomic bomb in the hearts of Americans. Although, in fact, the United States has more mixed races than other countries, and American GIs have left their traces in many parts of the world, it is not so pleasant to let those filthy monkeys leave something in the bodies of American women.

Therefore, the two sides tacitly set the battlefield outside the city, or the U.S. military thought more about driving the Allies back to Mexico than thinking more about the city defense war.

But it soon became clear to the American GIs that the so-called "war away from America" was so unrealistic. Even if the U.S. Air Force is trying its best to maintain the balance in the sky, the war on the ground is still not easy to win. Even after they had recaptured a position with heavy casualties, they would find that at the end of the day, the Allies had advanced some distance, even if it might have been a few meters or a trench.

At Wichita Falls, the U.S. 11th Army, supported from Oklahoma, was stubbornly held back by the 13th Army of the Han Xuzhou Corps. The 13th Army, which had more than 30,000 troops, was stunned and held back more than 100,000 American troops for a week, without advancing an inch.

Subsequently, the Youzhou Regiment and the 3rd Army Corps of the Western Regions, which handed over the Phoenix position to the Mexican army, under the command of General Wang Tiehan, bypassed the southern side of the Rocky Mountains, captured Clovis and Amarillo in succession, and approached Oklahoma, the empty city in the sky along Route 25.

Bradley didn't care about what tricks Chen Shukang was playing on the right, and ordered the 11th Army to abandon the reinforcement of Abilene and return to Oklahoma as soon as possible.

Since replacing Gasri as the capital of Oklahoma in 1907, Russia has developed rapidly and has become one of the important inland transportation hubs in the United States, with nearly a dozen national highways intersecting here. Once the city fell into the hands of the Allies, its convenient transportation would become a nightmare for all surrounding cities. Allied forces, already highly mobile, could quickly travel to the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains and all the major cities in Kansas and Missouri via a convenient road network.

In other words, if the Russian city falls, then the U.S. military's hold in the Dallas area will be useless.

While ordering the 11th Army to return for reinforcements, Admiral Bradley also sent an urgent telegram to the War Department, asking General Stimson, Secretary of the Army, to mobilize nearby American troops to block the Youzhou Army.

This time, the Allies made a move higher. With the strength of 200,000 troops of the Youzhou Legion and the 3rd Army of the Western Regions, it is not easy to shake the densely fortified Oklahoma City. However, in terms of the important strategic position of Russia, General Chen Shukang, commander-in-chief of the Allied forces, believed that as long as the Youzhou Army launched a preemptive attack and broke through the defense line of the Rocky Mountains, it would be impossible for the US troops to remain indifferent, and it would be impossible for the US troops to return to the rescue and rescue them.

Encircling Wei to save Zhao, encircling the point to send reinforcements is a classic tactic left by the ancestors, once the head of the three heroes of Huangpu, how could Chen Shukang, who is familiar with military books and experienced in a hundred battles, not come easily, such as an arm?

Before the campaign was launched, the powerful Youzhou Army was left behind in order to break the deadlock at a critical time, and it worked. The U.S. 11th Army, which had been blocked by the Xuzhou Army for several days and was eager to rescue Russia, was running back and forth, in a loose formation, dragging back and forth, and even reconnaissance troops were rarely dispatched.

In the vicinity of Sutun, it is not surprising that it fell into the encirclement arranged by the Youzhou Army under the command of General Wang Tiehan.

Eisenhower, who commanded the American Workers' Party to join the campaign, sighed and was speechless for a long time after hearing that the 11th Army had been surrounded. When he was a lieutenant colonel, he served in an infantry brigade of the 11th Army before he was recognized by General Marshall. It was Eisenhower's old unit, and now, under siege, it was short of life. And he, the deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Workers' Party and the former general of the American army, has become their enemy and embarked on the road of armed establishment of power!

Pathetic, or ridiculous? Eisenhower's long sigh, who would understand?