readx; Chapter 336: The Northern War Situation

Just when the Huo family and the He family were busy for the upcoming wedding, Chicago, located on the shore of Lake Michigan and the base camp of the Huo family's army in the American theater, was also in a tense and busy situation. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because Chicago is located east of the Mississippi River and is not in the Huo family's occupation plan, except for those who are useful to the Huo family's army, other civilians basically stayed here and did not drive them out. However, despite this, Chicago, which originally had a population of more than one million, has lost at least a quarter of its population, and it is conceivable that even if the occupying Huojia army leaves here, the city will face a long-term depression. Of course, it is also a headache for the United States zhèngfu in the future.

Now for the Huo Jiajun, the most important thing is to defeat the military offensive of the Americans, and then keep their spoils.

"Boom!"

With a slight friction sound, Wu Guangzong put the last small red flag in his hand and inserted it on the sand table, then clapped his hands, staring at the sand table where more than 2.5 million troops from China and the United States faced each other along the Ohio River and the Mississippi River.

As China and the United States continue to deploy troops on both sides of the two major rivers, the atmosphere of war is getting stronger and stronger, and as the supreme commander of the Huo Jiajun Theater of Operations, studying the sand table has become a thing that Wu Guangzong must do almost every day, and of course today is no exception.

The fire in the house was very strong. It makes the spacious war room look as warm as a chun, so it also makes Wu Guangzong, who grew up in the warm climate of southern China, particularly adaptable. Therefore, his thoughts were also more agile and his attention was more concentrated, and even the kettle that was boiling on the stove had already made a loud collision sound, which did not disturb the commander of the American Theater of Operations who gathered his attention in the slightest.

"Squeak!"

With the hoarse sound of the door opening and a gust of cold wind, Wen Wen, the political commissar of the American Theater of Operations and Wu Guangzong, the chief of staff wearing a thick military coat, walked in together.

And the drastic changes in heat and cold made Wu Guangzong shiver at the same time. I couldn't help but come back to my senses.

"My commander, why did you drive the Jing guards out again, look at it, look at it, if it weren't for the two of us just coming in, it is estimated that this furnace will be extinguished again!" I took down the reddish kettle that had been burned by a vigorous fire at the bottom.

"Hehe, Lao Wen, let's not talk about him! He's an old problem, I don't think he can change it in this life!" Wang Xiangzong said with a smile.

Regarding the comments of the two partners, Wu Guangzong just smiled faintly and did not say anything. Now the entire Huo Jiajun knows that when Wu Guangzong is in the war room, he will never allow anyone else standing next to him, because this will affect his thinking and cannot make him really calm down. Think about war!

"Hehe, everyone knows my problem. Let's not mention it, let's talk about it, what's the weather like outside now? In December, there have been several heavy snowfalls here in succession!"

Speaking of serious things, the faces of the three of them became serious.

"This year's winter in North America has been cold on all sides, such as Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, where the lowest temperature in January was only two or three degrees, has now dropped below freezing, and the Ohio River has frozen for a short time. If we enter the coldest January, the freezing situation in the Ohio River will be even worse!" Civilization said with some concern.

The Ohio River and the Mississippi River, these two rivers with abundant water and stretching for thousands of kilometers are the core of the defense mechanism of the Huojia Army in the American theater, when the Americans were weak in the past, they did not feel it, but after the military strength of the Americans was greatly enhanced this year, the two wide rivers, as well as the many inland river warships of the Huo Jiajun across the rivers, really showed their power, and now these two rivers have become a natural danger to prevent the Americans from recovering the territory of the West and the Great Lakes!

Whether it is the Huo Jiajun or the Americans, these two great rivers occupy an incomparable core position in the military strategies of their respective sides.

"In addition, according to the predictions of our in-house meteorological experts, the temperature in January will be four to five degrees lower than now, and the upper reaches of the Ohio River, nearly 300 kilometers north from Pittsburgh, will have a frozen thickness of more than 15 centimeters!

After listening to Wang Xiangzong's words, Wu Guangzong's brows furrowed tightly, if it is really like what the two of them said just now, then the Ohio River, which is regarded as a defensive barrier by the Huo family's army, will lose half of its defensive role in this cold winter, and the frozen river channel upstream of it also constitutes a gap of more than 300 kilometers in the front of the Huo's army's defense line. At that time, the Huo Jiajun, which was inferior in numbers, would face a severe test of war.

"Can you blow up the river?" staring at the wide sand table, Wu Guangzong asked abruptly.

"I'm afraid not, the temperature in January is too low, almost every day the temperature is below zero degrees Celsius, and even if we blow up the river with shells, but at night, the river will freeze again, and we will not get any benefit at all except wasting shells. ”

Although he knew that the words of civilization were very correct, Wu Guangzong couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"Commander, if this is the case, then the defensive pressure of the Diao Fei Corps in the north is probably much greater than we imagined, with only ten divisions in their hands, less than 200,000 troops, defending a front of more than 300 kilometers, the pressure is a bit great!" Wang Xiangzong looked at the red and blue military comparison chart on the sand table, and asked with some concern.

"What do you think?" Looking at the map, Wu Guangzong pondered for a while and then asked.

"I want to take out five of the eight cavalry divisions in our hands as a campaign reserve to strengthen the corps on the Northern Front!"

After a pause and letting the two of them digest his point of view, Wang Xiangzong continued: "According to the strategic goal that the young master gave us only a small victory and no big victory, blocking the Americans west of the Mississippi River and keeping the territory we occupied, our war with the Americans this time should be more dependent on the strong fortifications we have built in the past two years, carry out defensive operations, and then strike at the Americans' sharp spirit step by step, and then the two sides will re-establish a confrontation on the Mississippi River to maintain this balance of power between the two sides!" And in this kind of pure defensive warfare, if the cavalry division, which is a mobile force and has stronger offensive strength, is simply used to defend and maintain law and order in the rear, or only as a campaign reserve, this is undoubtedly a waste of their strong combat power!"

The formation of the cavalry units of the Huojia Army in the Americas, in addition to the cavalry having a strong mobility ability and being able to quickly strike at the guerrillas penetrating into the Huojia Army in the United States when the transportation is still underdeveloped, in addition, the large number of cavalry units quickly assembled by the Americans also made the Huojia Army military department make up its mind to form a strong cavalry unit in the American theater.

However, the cavalry structure of the Huo Jiajun is different from that of the Americans, the size of a cavalry division of the Americans is only about 10,000 people, while the cavalry division of the Huojia Army is a master regiment of 20,000 people.

And in terms of armament, almost every cavalry division cavalry of the Huo Jiajun is equipped with Type 80 cavalry guns and pistols designed and produced according to the Type 80 rifle!

Even each cavalry squad of 12 people was equipped with a 'flower face' submachine gun to strengthen the Huo family's army's firepower requirements in the face of encounters, and then a platoon had a light machine gun, a company had five light machine guns and a heavy machine gun, and the entire cavalry division was equipped with 1,200 'flower face submachine guns', 200 light machine guns and 98 heavy machine guns, as well as 72 mortars of 60 and 82 calibers.

In addition, there are twenty-four 75mm field guns newly researched and produced using hydraulic re-entry and retreat machines, as for the larger caliber artillery, it is not that Huo Jiajun does not want to distribute them to the cavalry division, the key is that the heavy artillery, bad road conditions, will seriously slow down the cavalry troops, so it is only equipped with some light artillery to strengthen the firepower of the cavalry division!

However, despite this, the weapons and equipment of the Huo Jiajun cavalry division still far exceeded the cavalry units of the Americans, because in addition to the number of nearly 300,000 cavalry far surpassed the Huojia army, they only just guaranteed that each person had a rifle, and the pistols were seriously insufficient, less than 20 light machine guns and heavy machine guns, and artillery was a scarce resource.

"In the thousands of miles from north to south, in addition to the north, our central and southern defense lines are supported by river warships, and the pressure on defense is relatively small, in addition, the severe cold of winter will also test the American guerrillas, I am afraid that they will be difficult to find trouble with us when the time comes, with five guard divisions, and then three more cavalry divisions, it will be enough to protect our rear railway lifeline and deal with all kinds of emergencies!"

"And the cavalry of the Americans is much larger than ours in numbers, although it is difficult for them to surprise behind us with the river flotilla in the central and southern lines. But in the north, this threat is infinitely magnified, because the thick ice will be the best help for the Americans to attack westward. Moreover, we are completely unable to defend the more than 300 kilometers of the river, and if the American cavalry detours behind our northern garrison and flanks us, I am afraid that our northern defense will face a serious test, and even because the difference in the number of troops between the two sides is too great, they are still in danger of defeat. Therefore, we must strengthen the strength of the Diao Fei Corps in the north to help them block the threat from the American cavalry units, and only the cavalry can deal with the cavalry, so we must mobilize a sufficient number of cavalry troops to go north!" Read. )