Chapter 726: Plunder
Under the continuous offensive of leaflets and radio broadcasts in the Chinese Empire, chaos began to appear within the Boston Empire, but fortunately, it was already in the depths of winter, and the Chinese army temporarily gave up the attack, which did not cause the Boston Empire's army to collapse immediately.
The Boston Empire's top brass tried their best to suppress the fierce emotions among the people and the military, especially after the Chinese army used the identification plates around the necks of the dead corpses to publish the names and details of the dead soldiers, and the families of the families were completely boiling, and they began to strike and strike, while the soldiers of the army refused to suppress the angry crowd, and the whole empire was in chaos.
If the whole country is thrown into chaos, then when spring comes, when the Chinese army begins to attack, the Boston Empire can also be declared dead. In the end, Washington III made a choice, Marshal Pershing was removed from his post and thrown into prison, he will face a court-martial, although this is just a gesture, Marshal Pershing will not be punished multiple times in the end, but the state has set an example and given the people a reason to forgive the high-top.
Under the pacification of local governments, the mood of the people was calmed down, and peace gradually returned to the army, but as the most veticinal officer in the Boston Empire, Marshal Pershing's comeback was no longer to be considered. Although he did not finally defeat the Boston Empire through this incident, part of Su Zhizhen's plan had already been realized, and after this incident, the morale of the Boston Army would definitely be greatly frustrated. When this emotion ferments in people's brains, people's minds will be more confused, and by next spring, the offensive will achieve better results.
Throughout the winter, both sides fell silent on all fronts, whether in the bitterly cold north or in the hot south. Several years of war have made both sides do their best, and now their reserves are basically exhausted, taking advantage of the rare tacit understanding between the two sides, they are desperately accumulating strength. It is foreseeable that the next time the war starts again, it will be a decisive battle between the two sides.
The countries of the Axis group are desperately mobilizing troops and producing materials, but all countries are already overdrawing their national strength, and most of the young and strong people have also been sent to the battlefield.
Compared to the embarrassment of the Axis bloc, the NATO alliance is much better, although in order not to destroy domestic production, the Chinese Empire did not recruit troops on a large scale again, but in order to encourage the allies to actively participate in the war, Fang Ruijun came up with a contribution point method.
The method of this point was that the Chinese Empire placed observers in the armies of the allied countries, and they scored them. The Chinese Empire drew up a very detailed scoring data list for the number of allies participating in the war, the number of weapons used, the number of captured and captured prisoners, the amount of land occupied, etc., according to this scoring method, the observers would score the allies, and after the war, the Chinese Empire would provide the allies with post-war free financial assistance to help them resume production.
As soon as this scoring system came out, several major allies became excited, and even the Latin Kingdom and the Hawa Kingdom, which had previously shirked the dispatch of troops, immediately sent their own troops to assist the San Martin Empire in the battle. As for the countries that have already entered the war, they have fully shifted their domestic industry to the production of weapons, and at the same time have invested a large amount of domestic labor into the army, and the size of the army has been expanded as much as possible in order to obtain higher points.
Under Fang Ruijun's strange tricks, the combat power of the NATO army began to rise steadily, and the most advantageous thing is that such an increase will not damage the national strength of the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire has money, and if it spends money, it can win the war, and neither Fang Ruijun nor the Congress will spare money. Although it is necessary to give a sum of money to the allies after the war, the Chinese Empire has always been not short of money, not to mention that if it can not damage its national strength, the less money lost will be more than the money provided to the allies, which is also a win-win situation for both sides.
In this not very long winter, the combat power of the two sides is rapidly distancing, and the number of NATO troops is beginning to surpass the Axis powers, and at this time, the Axis countries are still ignorant of this because of the Chinese Empire's perennial information blockade and electronic interference.
Spring is blooming, the ice is melting, and the north of Wangxiangxing is ushering in a new spring. When the weather just began to warm up, Su Zhizhen immediately launched an attack on the last controlled area of the Boston Empire in the north. The Chinese army, which was strong and completely controlled the air supremacy, began a large-scale offensive, while the Boston army without Marshal Pershing could not even support itself.
Although Marshall, the former chief of staff of the Army who took over as Secretary of Defense, was also an excellent commander, his level was still some distance from the old Marshal Pershing, not to mention that the plague situation was getting worse and worse, which affected the combat effectiveness of the troops. The situation is so corrupt that even Marshal Pershing will feel powerless, let alone Marshall, who has slightly inferior means. In just one month, the Chinese army, which had advanced rapidly, advanced more than a thousand kilometers, and the army captured Harrisburg in one fell swoop, leaving the gates of Trenton open.
Trenton City is a very important place, it is not only the southern gate of Gotham City, but also an important passage connecting the north and south of Boston, once this place is captured, the capital and important command departments will lose all contact with the southern battlefield, and the heart of the entire Boston Empire will also be directly presented in front of the Chinese army.
When it was learned that the Chinese army began to attack Trenton, the Boston royal family and the top brass were in a panic, and now Boston's main army is either fighting on the Western Continent or attacking the San Diego Military Port in the south, if Trenton is captured, the Boston army in the north will not be able to resist at all, and they will only have to raise their hands and surrender.
It cannot be said that Marshal Pershing made a strategic mistake at the beginning, because in that case only that decision could have been made, and that decision had a good chance of success. It was only this sudden bubonic plague that disrupted all the plans of the Boston army, and the fall of the Chicago industrial area was a year earlier than expected, and the Chinese army, which should have suffered heavy losses because of this, suffered only minor losses, and the defeat of the Boston army was doomed.
Since the original plan could not be realized, the Boston Empire had to change the plan, and at Marshall's strong suggestion, Washington III decided to move the capital to Augusta in the south, so that not only could the government be under the protection of the main southern forces, but also could command the troops there to carry out a counteroffensive, of course, this was just Washington III's self-consolation.
Although the royal family and the top of the government fled safely to the south, the move was not without its aftereffects. After the royal family and the government fled to the south, the morale of the northern troops was severely damaged, and the city of Trenton, which had been firmly defended, was broken within two days, and the two most prosperous cities in Boston, Boston City and Gotham City, fell into the hands of Su Zhizhen completely because they left in a hurry, and there was no time to destroy them, and finally Marshall, who insisted on commanding the battle in the north, also had to choose to retreat.
The fall of Gotham Harbor deprived the Boston Empire of its largest trading port and financial center, and the entire banks of Financial Street were occupied by the Chinese army. The banks lining the entire street were the property of the Axis powers, with branches of central banks of various countries, many private banks even having their headquarters here, and the most terrible thing was that the gold reserves of the Boston Empire had not had time to be withdrawn.
Su Zhizhen's troops advanced extremely quickly, and the Boston Empire's national gold reserves were extremely large, which caused Washington III to retreat without having time to bring all the gold, except for his beloved jewelry, the royal family only took more than 300 tons of gold, and the other nearly 20,000 tons of gold fell into the hands of the Chinese army. As an industry of the Axis powers, the banks here were subject to confiscation.
Su Zhizhen also knew that the stakes were high, and he directly sent the gendarmerie to control the entire financial street together with his own guard brigade, and all the vaults were sealed with seals printed with Su Zhizhen's hand-seal, waiting for the country to send someone to receive it. When Congress heard of the seizure of a large amount of gold, it immediately asked the Treasury Department to send a special task force, and they carried out the inventory under the supervision of some members of Congress.
The members of the working group worked tirelessly for three months to count and found that more than 26,000 tons of gold had been seized, and more than 10 tons of other jewels and diamonds, which were not valued by weight, but were even more valuable than those gold.
The rich people of the Boston Empire like to keep their collection of antiques and paintings in the bank, and among them, whose bank vault is large is a status symbol, especially in this era of war and chaos, it is very secure to deposit valuables in the bank, especially the Imperial Bank, and this time it was all served by the Chinese army.
This huge harvest replenished the Chinese Empire's depleted treasury funds, which was equivalent to fighting for such a long time with the money of the Boston Empire, and by the way, it also developed its own heavy industry, and even provided free aid to the allies. Some people laugh and some people cry, this time it is all the rich people of the Boston Empire who are crying, and the most affected by them is naturally the royal family, Washington III has lost most of the royal treasures for hundreds of years, and he almost didn't vomit blood when he was angry.
After occupying the core of the Boston Empire, the Chinese army did not sit idle, Su Zhizhen ordered the troops to quickly clear the northern resistance, stabilize the occupied areas, and began to establish concentration camps in these areas according to the previous model, gathering people to clear the wasteland for farming.