Marshal Li Xuanzhu casually handed over the telegram to the generals around him to circulate it, and after everyone read it one by one, their faces invariably showed a look of pride, which was a strong self-confidence that they felt from the bottom of their hearts because of the strength of the empire.

"Dashuai, do you want to pull a handful?"

"We're not his father, this war depends on themselves, what can we do...... Just buy them a few days, the order ......"

Speaking of which

All the officers present stood with their heads held high and their hands solemn, waiting for the commander to give the order.

Marshal Li Xuanzhu said in a deep voice; "From now on, a three-day division-level live-fire confrontation exercise will be launched to practice the field combat subjects of the armored corps, so that the young men can practice and convey the clearest signal to the Mi Guoyan."

"Yes, follow the orders of the commander." The generals replied in unison.

Marshal Li Xuanzhu looked at the far east with deep eyes, and muttered in his mouth; "The long-awaited telegram can be sent, now...... It depends on the response of the people of the United States. ”

White House, Philadelphia

In the Oval Office

"It's so shameless, how dare they do that?"

President Woolrod Wilson, who had just over three months left in his term, grabbed a stool in a rage and slammed it against the wall, and the beech wood stool simply broke two feet and turned into a pile of garbage scattered on the ground.

Faced with the angry president, White House security adviser Adam Smith looked at Chief of Staff Dawn with a headache, and the eyes of the two were full of helplessness.

This is already the tenth chair that the president has smashed?

The state affairs are difficult, and the poor are difficult to manage.

"Dear Mr. President, let's calm down, this will not help solve anything." Adam Smith opened his mouth to persuade.

"Calm down, how do you calm me down?" President Woodrow Wilson said with his hands frantically waving in the air, his pale cheeks congested and red with extreme humiliation and anger, and his face twitched nervously;

"Since becoming the goddamn president of the United States, I thought I was at the pinnacle of my political career, but who knew that this was just the beginning of an endless nightmare.

God testifies, what did I do wrong?

We lost the Battle of San Francisco, we lost the Battle of Salt Lake City, we lost the Battle of Washington and the Battle of Chicago, we lost all the battles, we lost more than 1.4 million soldiers, we lost all the chips.

California is independent, the Northern Union is independent, Texas is independent, Virginia is independent, New Mexico is shamelessly occupied by the Fusang, a huge country is dismembered and shattered, we lose the Pacific West Coast, we lose our future, and we even betray Alaska.

It is shameless to force the official recognition of the Northern Federation now, this is a stab in our back!

God, why should I suffer all this?

What am I doing wrong?

Thou shalt inflict such a cruel punishment, and I reverently kneel at thy feet, and ask for thy forgiveness, and pray for thy salvation of the Lamb who has fallen into the abyss of sin. ”

President Woolrod-Wilson suddenly knelt down, drew a cross in the void of his right hand, and prayed to God with a reverent expression.

His actions made the atmosphere of the Oval Office particularly awkward.

Everyone knows that President Schroeder-Wilson is unwilling to make a move that harms the interests of the United States, his term of office is running out, and he just wants to go through the last three months of his damn term peacefully, but he can't do it.

The ultimatum sent by the Ocean Empire was only given three days, and a live-fire exercise is currently being held at the Lyman Fortress, and if the demands are not met, it is possible to march eastward at any time, which is not a joke.

Donkey Party's presidential candidate, Davon Porter, is very clear; Meet him.

Now that his campaign is gaining momentum, and New Mexico's ongoing victories have fueled the trend, Davin Porter doesn't want anything to affect the current presidential race.

And all this can't get around the presidency.

Adam Smith drew a cross in the void on his chest as he moved, walked over and leaned down to persuade the president;

"Lo and behold, the general election voting is just over a week away, and the caucus can't afford any surprises right now, and Davin Porter, who was collecting votes in Chicago, sent a telegram with earnest words, he couldn't afford the terrible consequences of the Ocean Empire's intervention in the war.

Darvin Porter solemnly promises;

If he wins the election, he will make a fair and positive historical assessment of his predecessor.

The situation is now clear

The ultimatum telegram sent by the expeditionary force only gave three days, and we could only say yes or no, there was no third way to choose.

yes, then everything is fine.

Davenport will win this presidential election, New Mexico's military will win, the country will rebuild confidence to defeat any strong enemy, everything is OK, everything is going in a good direction.

When you step down as president, the new president will speak positively of you in history, instead of letting the Elephant Party president trample on you and pour all the smelly black stuff on you.

The dark memories will eventually pass and everything will be fine.

Mr. President, we have to face reality.

In the foreseeable future, it is impossible for us to defeat the powerful enemy of the Ocean Empire, and we must admit the harsh fact of losing the Northern Federation and learn to get along with the powerful enemy.

If your answer is no, the annoyed and angry Ocean Empire troops will cut off the vital logistics and transportation lines for us from behind, and the hundreds of thousands of American troops in front will be in danger.

That could lead to a second North American war, pushing the United States to the brink of unpredictable danger, and we cannot afford such a heavy price.

Among other things, the 100,000 U.S. soldiers fighting in New Mexico may never return to their beautiful homeland, and we will lose not only the presidential race, but everything, including your reputation.

We need your answer, and quickly, because there's really no time left. ”

Woolrod Wilson raised his head with a decadent expression, and at this moment he had aged for more than ten years, and he said in a dry voice; "Adam, do I have a choice?"

"I beg your pardon for my blunt remarks, Mr. President, that you didn't."

This is very straightforward, breaking any illusion that Woolrod Wilson is, he is indeed the president of the United States, but he is just a spokesman for the interests of interest groups, for the interests of the party group, for the interests of the capitalists, he is just a poor worm who can be sacrificed at any time. Valley knock

As a last resort, all you need is a bullet.

Woolrod Wilson believes that if he says no at this time, he may not be able to leave the White House.

For the Donkey Party

His presidency is an indelible stain, a constant reminder of the great humiliation he has suffered, and every time he appears in public, he uncovers the bloody scars.

Rather than this, it is better to die.

No, Woolrod-Johnson would never want to do that, and it was an easy choice to make, whether to be slandered after death or to try to justify his actions as a living president.

Everyone is sitting in the same boat, and the Donkey Party has to pinch its nose to help cover it up for its own electoral interests.

Once the decision is made, the rest is in full swing.

Two days later

Mr. Gong Yexuan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Ocean Empire in Philadelphia, as the special representative of the Royal Family of the Ocean Empire, presided over and witnessed the ceremony of the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the Northern Federation and the United States.

That night, President Woolrod Wilson did not attend due to ill health, but was replaced by National Security Adviser Adam Smith, and delivered an enthusiastic speech at the dinner, expressing his deep hope that the two sides would establish formal diplomatic relations of equality, friendship, and good neighborliness.

After the military exercise at the Lyman Fortress, which was more than 3,000 kilometers away, it died down, and everything returned to a normal state of alert, as if nothing had happened.

Fuso, betrayed.

from top to bottom

The Imperial Expeditionary Force has no intention of reaching out to pull a handful of Fuso people, let alone unprincipled good people, and it is also a matter for the British to make a gesture to buy them 3 days, and it has done its best to do it.

On the Albuquerque front, the fighting that had been dormant for three days suddenly rekindled, and the American army attacked frantically, and the battle became more tragic and bloody than before.

At this time, there were only 78,000 exhausted troops left under General Gentaro Kodama, stubbornly resisting the tidal wave of American attacks in the rubble of the city, struggling to support the crisis, every minute and every quarter of an hour was extremely tormenting.

meanwhile

The vanguard of the Ninth Division, the first to land in North America, was speeding south on a train from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles.

In today's era, the capacity of passenger trains, a train can transport 700~800 people at best, which is already the limit.

On the train, there are first-class carriages, second-class carriages and soft sleepers and hard seats, and the more luxury boxes, the fewer passengers can ride.

That's it

The 23,000-strong 9th Division needed 30 trains to transport it, and the passenger train from Salt Lake City had only four trains a day, and even if one train was temporarily transferred from other routes, it would only be five.

If you want to complete the transportation of the 9th Division, it will take 6~7 days.

The anxious Ninth Division, no matter how many people it could carry, just crammed more than 2,300 soldiers into one train, and the aisles, carriage connections, dining cars, and boxes were all crammed with people, until they couldn't fit anyone.

So

Five trains can transport tens of thousands of soldiers, and they can all be transported in two days, and the disadvantage is that these soldiers will have to endure a long journey of five days and five nights.

In order to support the dangerous New Mexico region in time, the 9th Division could not take care of anything.

The steam train in today's era often needs to rely on the station to add coal and water, the average speed is only twenty or thirty kilometers per hour, and the speed is slower when passing through the mountainous area, and often has to stop the train, a stop is two or three hours, or even four or five hours, a day to run two or three hundred kilometers to the sky.

In mid-November, the presidential election officially kicked off.

After half a month of bloody and bitter fighting, the U.S. forces finally occupied Abququiqui, killed General Gentaro Kodama and more than 60,000 officers and men under the commander-in-chief of the Japanese North American Command, and achieved a hearty victory and took full control of the New Mexico region.

The remnants of the Japanese army of more than 30,000 men fought and retreated, retreating westward to the Arizona region, where the American cavalry units were pursuing all the way.

At this time, the vanguard of the Japanese 9th Division, which was advancing along the desert Gobi Highway, met the remnants of the retreating Japanese army and engaged the US pursuers, and more than 10 large and small battles occurred between the two sides, and finally each retreated.

Seeing that the tide was turning, the Japanese had no choice but to retreat back to the Chambers and Holbrook lines in the Arizona area, and re-establish their defensive positions with the rugged terrain of the Colorado Canyon, while the U.S. forces occupied Gallup in New Mexico.

It was the front line of the confrontation with the Japanese side, and it was necessary to build a defensive line to prevent the Japanese army from counterattacking, and to start a recuperation after the Great War.

After occupying the core town of Albuquerke, the U.S. forces sent a detachment of troops to continue their sweep south to the border with Mexico, uprooting all the Japanese colonies along the way, and killing the settlers......

Until early December

The U.S. military has completely occupied the New Mexico region, recovering the southern oil fields, and winning a complete victory.

When the news broke, the whole country rejoiced.

In early December, the Northern Federation held a referendum, and the final count of 92.77% of the votes agreed to join the Ocean Kingdom in the form of a federation, and the Ocean Empire also became the Ocean Federation Empire, which is a confederation country, the full name is "Oceania and Shangri-La, Luzon Islands Territory and the United Empire of the Northern Union", referred to as the "Ocean Empire".

Since then, the Ocean Empire has included the vast territories of Oregon, Iowa, Snow Mountain (formerly Washington State) and Utah on the Pacific coast of North America, and has acquired sovereignty over Alaska through purchase, increasing the territory of the five North American states in one fell swoop.

The total area of the four states of the Northern Union is about 874,000 square kilometers, and Alaska, which was the largest state in the United States, has a total area of 1,717,500 square kilometers, which adds up to 2,591,500 square kilometers, plus 221,000 square kilometers of territory in the Strait State, the southernmost state in South America.

so far

The Ocean Empire recorded 2,812,500 square kilometers of land in the "Wool War", plus the empire's original 11,507,500 square kilometers of land, totaling about 14,320,000 square kilometers (including Panama).

In terms of territorial area alone, it ranks fourth in the world after Britain, France and Russia, higher than the 11,478,700 square kilometers of territory of the Republic of China.

On the second Wednesday of December, voting in the U.S. general election officially began.

The eventual winner of the election was Donkey Party's presidential candidate Davon Porter, who won 54.37% of the electoral vote and would take office in February 1913 as the new president of the United States.

The 2nd, 13th, and 16th Divisions of the Fuso Reinforcements arrived in the Arizona area one after another, and assembled in the towns of Ferragestaff, Phoenix, and Oro Valley on the second line in central Arizona, and in the Colorado Canyon area in the front, there were constant battles with American troops.

In the final analysis, the people of Fuso are not willing to fail!

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