readx; Chapter 285 is like a bamboo

As the night darkens, Chicago, once with a population of more than a million, begins to slowly be engulfed in darkness and gradually fall into a deep sleep. With the occupation of the Huo Jiajun and the relocation of a large number www.biquge.info of industrial population and their families to Nanyang, Chicago, once known as the Pearl of the West, has lost its prosperity and hustle and bustle!

However, compared to the darkness of the city, the train station on the outskirts of Chicago is full of people and bustle!

Retracting his gaze from the soldiers who were waiting in line, the excited look on Wu Guangzong's face also became a little calmer.

"Lao Wen, after we leave, everything in the rear will depend on you alone!"

"Hehe, don't worry, Guangzong! After so many years of being a political commissar, those things in logistics are still difficult for me, but you yourself, if you go to the battlefield, you must be careful!" Wenming patted his old friend on the shoulder, and said with a little worry.

Although it is our duty to uphold honor and put life and death aside from the needs of a soldier, this mission of Wu Guangzong and his Fourth Route Army is the heaviest among the Seventh Route Army in the entire American Theater. Although the early stage may be very smooth, if Pittsburgh is taken as planned, I am afraid that it will directly face the attack of the 300,000 US Army! Even if the training time of these American recruits is too short and their combat strength is limited, the huge numerical gap between them will put a major pressure on the Fourth Route Army, which has only 50,000 black servants. Therefore, as the political commissar of the American theater of operations, civilization is very worried!

"Don't worry. After so many years of fighting, I have never encountered any kind of dangerous situation, but I haven't come here like this! Okay. I'm leaving! Everything in the rear will depend on you!" As he spoke, Wu Guangzong solemnly saluted, turned around and led a group of staff officers of the American Theater Command onto the train!

As the columns of troops began to rush to their respective targets, the second offensive of the Huo family army, which was also the largest offensive since the beginning of the American War, kicked off! The headquarters of the 180,000 Huo family army in the entire American theater, plus the 320,000 servant troops, except for those who remained according to the order. Everything else is transported by train to their respective war zones!

Although the Americans had already made some precautions in the states and had conscripted many National Guardsmen. In just two days, Deng Shan's First Route Army occupied all the major cities in Wisconsin, such as Madison and St. Paul, along the railway, because this state was not within the territory planned by Huo Jiajun in the future. So the First Route Army simply occupied the city. As for the towns and villages, which do not have much interest, they give up!

Compared with the First Route Army, the Second Route Army was not slow, occupying Michigan in three days! The Third Route Army took Illinois, Indiana, and part of Ohio. However, the Fourth Army, led by Wu Guangzong himself, took four days to complete the strategic mission of occupying Ohio, Pennsylvania and part of New York because of the relatively distant goal of the operation!

However, compared with the offensive of the entire Northern Route Army of the American Military District, with the help of the convenient road and rail transportation network in the Great Lakes region of the United States, it is like a bamboo. The offensive of the entire Southern Route Army led by Wang Xiangzong was much slower. Desolate, backward, and sparsely populated areas west of the Mississippi River. Except for Texas and other states close to the Mississippi River, which are a little better, the rest are almost a wilderness! Therefore, it took the three troops of the Southern Route Army nearly three weeks to complete the entire strategic task! Most of the three weeks were spent on the road!

The Huo Jiajun American Theater of Operations buried itself in a frantic attack in accordance with the battle plan that it had already drawn up, and took the entire Great Lakes region in only three or four days, because the offensive was too fast, coupled with the backwardness of the US internal intelligence system, it was not until the Fourth Army took Pittsburgh, the most important industrial city in the United States, that the United States zhèngfu could be regarded as getting the exact news!

This time, the whole United States was completely in a panic, and the enemy's forward troops were only 300 kilometers away from Washington, the capital of the United States!

At this time, the United States could no longer care about the further decline in the stock market caused by the eastward advance of the Huo Jiajun, and it did not care whether the 300,000 new troops had been able to defeat the strong Chinese! At this time, the Americans completely put down everything, Washington, Philadelphia, The 300,000 soldiers trained in New York and other places, in addition to leaving 50,000 garrisons, the remaining 250,000 troops quickly advanced nearly 200 kilometers to the entire northwest, because the size and number of Chinese troops had not yet been clarified, so the American troops advancing eastward took a defensive position and did not take further military action, but launched the newly established War Department Intelligence Section to probe all the intelligence of the eastward troops of the Huojia Army!

Unlike before, the eastern and southern parts of the Great Lakes are now the most prosperous areas in the United States, densely populated and industrially developed, so in this kind of place, the Americans occupy a natural home advantage, so even if the Americans' intelligence and reconnaissance capabilities are several levels weaker than Huo's army, it is difficult to guarantee that they can still keep their secrets as before!

Therefore, after occupying Pittsburgh, Wu Guangzong immediately ordered his troops to start building fortifications 30 kilometers away from Pittsburgh along the railway! As the Americans gained more and more information in their hands, they also began to find out the truth of Huo's army.

The American Military District used blacks as a servant army to occupy cities in the rear. Therefore, the 250,000 newly formed US Army began to press on the Fourth Army of the American Theater stationed in Pittsburgh step by step!

From the 12th of July to the end of July, 250,000 U.S. troops finally reached the periphery of Pittsburgh City and began to confront the 4th Marine Division stationed there!

The new offensive launched by Huo Jiajun, which was like a bamboo, could not help but break the relatively calm situation between China and the United States, and it also stirred up monstrous waves in the entire international community! As soon as they received the outbreak of the Sino-US war again, the world's powers, such as Britain, France, and Germany, as well as the second-rate European countries such as Spain and Italy, threw away their incomparably headache economic crisis investigation and research report and set their sights on the American continent, which is far away from the Pacific Ocean!

And the mainstream newspapers of various countries, such as "The Times", "French News", and "Frankfurt Times", also put the news of a new round of war between the United States and Huo Jiajun on the front page for the first time after the outbreak of the economic crisis!

Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Gladstone, who looked tired, pinched his eyebrows vigorously! As the prime minister of the world's largest power, although in the eyes of outsiders, he is the most powerful person on the planet, but few people understand how difficult he is now facing as the prime minister of the British Empire!

Because of the thirteenth economic crisis in the capitalist world, the economic turmoil, the bankruptcy of factories, and the rapid increase of unemployed workers caused heavy losses to the entire empire! Moreover, the troubles of the British Empire did not stop there, and the turbulent situation in Egypt had already dragged the empire to the brink of war, and if it were not for this sudden outbreak of economic crisis, I believe that war would have broken out long ago! In addition, the rapid rise of Germany was also a serious challenge to the world hegemony of the British Empire, and the rapid proximity of France to the barbarians also complicated the situation in the whole of Europe! Moreover, the turbulent Balkans were also involved in the sensitive nerves of the Empire!

The current outbreak of the Sino-American war has also made Gladstone have to devote another part of his attention to the Americas. If their plan can be realized, then both the United States and the Chinese will be caught in endless war attrition and confrontation! They will no longer be able to threaten the world hegemony of the Empire!

"Mr. Earl, has the intelligence of the Chinese in the Far East arrived?" Although the Huo Jiajun had not yet established a state, it was very different from the lifeless Qing Empire because of its strong military strength and rapidly developing economy. Therefore, in order to distinguish the two forces, the newly born and powerful Huo Jiajun became China by the entire Western world because of its banner of the Chinese People's Army played abroad!

"Yesterday it was here, Prime Minister!" said the Earl of Granville, who served as British Foreign Secretary.

"Oh! So what did Gwener say? Didn't we already reach an agreement with the Chinese? Why did they launch such a big offensive and send more than half a million troops to continue to attack the United States to the east?" From Gladstone's continuous questioning and somewhat angry eyes, it can be seen that the current situation within the United States has indeed involved him a lot!

"Prime Minister, the Chinese explained that the purpose of their new offensive to the east was only to expand strategic space, gradually deplete the Americans' military superiority, and keep their newly occupied territory in the United States. And they also promised that from now on, they will strictly abide by the cooperation treaty signed between our two sides and will never go further east!" said Granville.

"Mr. Earl, do you think the words of the Chinese are credible?"

"Credible!"

Hearing his words, Gladstone couldn't help frowning and asked, "Why? You must know that the Chinese are very different from their fellow Qing people, and even if they faced the pressure of the entire Western world, they still did not give in!"

Gravel knew that what the prime minister said was that when the Chinese People's Army was just established from the flames of war, almost every Western country hoped to be able to sign treaties with them that were beneficial to all countries, such as opening treaty ports, one-sided most-favored-nation treatment, consular jurisdiction, and so on! However, unlike the weak Qing people, these Chinese had very hard bones, threatened various countries with war at every turn, and did not compromise in the slightest after that world-shaking military parade and demonstrated their strong military strength!

In addition, the Chinese have signed a large number of cooperation orders with various countries, and under the combination of soft and hard measures, they have safeguarded their sovereignty and achieved equal international status! )