readx; Chapter 262: Forming the Americas Theater of Operations

From the day when the Marine Corps was established in Huoshan, it was because the territories that Huojiajun could directly control were basically islands! The demand for amphibious troops was very urgent, but fortunately, in the southeastern coastal areas and the provinces south of the Yangtze River, there were many rivers and lakes, and almost most of the people could swim! There were a very large number of qualified soldiers!

Therefore, Huo Shan built eight marine divisions in one go! A total of about 160,000 troops! At the same time, it also served as a mobile unit of the Huo Jiajun! At present, the army forces in the various provinces of Nanyang have been reduced to 10,000 people, and basically after assuming the garrison mission, only the marines can go to the United States to participate in the war!

After listening to Huo Long's words, Huo Shan stood up, walked to the bookshelf next to him and took out a map of the South Seas! According to what Huo Long had just said, mark the garrisons and defense areas of each unit with a red pencil one by one!

"Don't move the 1st Marine Division, they still have to guard against the Ri themselves in the north! The Xisha Province where the 2nd Division is stationed is close to the Malacca waterway, and its location is too important, and it also has to guard against the British in the north, so it can't be moved! As for Nanyang Province and Nandu, there are no too strong forces around Nanyang Province, so a 40th Army Division plus a few garrison regiments is enough! In addition, Su Province is already the core of our Nanyang, and it is defended by the surrounding islands, and there will not be much of a problem with a 10th Division plus a regiment of the 42nd Division, as well as a few second-line garrison regiments! Similarly, Borneo Province has two regiments, the 5th Division and the 42nd Division, plus three garrison regiments, which can also guard the security there!" After finishing speaking, Huo Shan glanced up. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Three guys with anticipation on their faces!

"Send these three Marine divisions over this time! If there are more troops, our transport ships will not be able to support them now!"

"Young Master is wise!"

"Don't be a sycophant. I'll talk about the ugly things before, and now I will send you troops, but your army will be five times more than the current total amount of captured materials, do you hear that?" Huo Shan said.

"Don't worry, young master! When the time comes, we will definitely beat the Americans to the death!" Huo Hu said with a big grin.

Hearing his words, Huo Shan couldn't help but roll his eyes, "I'll give you more troops." The main task is not to fight the Americans, but to let you rob, understand? Robbery! Do you know what robbery is? Talent, machinery and equipment, gold and silver, antique calligraphy and paintings, and all other valuable things will be snatched back from me! Do you understand now?" Huo Shan looked at these guys with hatred of iron and steel, and knew that he was fighting and killing, and he didn't know at all what he meant by the young master! At present, the gross national product of the Americans is second only to Britain, the world's largest power. Moreover, the number and output of heavy industries such as steel, petroleum, coal, and machining are the largest in the world! Didn't Huo Jiajun go there to covet these things? Otherwise, why did Huo Shan increase his troops here again and again!

"I understand, young master! When the time comes, I will definitely explain to them, and when I get to the United States, I will fight less and grab more things!" Huo Hu quickly said with a sudden realization.

"Uh-huh. Go back, hurry up and arrange for the troops to board the ship and set off!" Huo Shan waved his hand with satisfaction.

"Then young master, let's go first!" Now that the mission has been completed, then Huo Long and the others don't want to stay any longer! You must know that the Americans are now mobilizing troops and materials to prepare for war with the expeditionary force of the Huo family's army. Therefore, they must race against time to send the follow-up troops over! You must know that it will take more than a month to get from Nanyang to the west coast of the United States, and the sooner you get there, the sooner you can join the war! Of course, in the end, they will be able to get more benefits!

Seeing Huo Long, they left Huo Shan and didn't go to see them off.

Went back and forth in the study twice. Huo Shan looked at the map of the United States hanging on the wall and couldn't help but touch his chin!

"Even with the addition of these three divisions, our troops there are only 150,000! Compared with the Americans, there is still a huge disparity! It seems that we should find a helper for them!"

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"Report!"

"Come in!" Wu Guangzong looked intently at the map of the United States hanging on the wall, and his deep eyes flashed with wisdom from time to time!

"Report to the commander! Taiwan military headquarters urgently telegraphed!"

"Oh, bring it over and I'll take a look!" Wu Guangzong moved. Throw the pencil in your hand and hurriedly take two steps forward!

Hear his words. The telegraph officer solemnly took out a document that had been translated from his folder and handed it to him, saluted, and left!

"Haha, good, great! Finally, I can let go of my hands and have a good fight with the Americans!" After reading the telegram, Wu Guangzong laughed loudly.

"What are you so happy about, Commander? I heard it from afar just now!" The voice came from far and near, and after a while, Deng Shan, who had already arrived in Chicago with reinforcements from the 25th Division, walked in with his legs raised!

Almost a week has passed since Huo Jia's army occupied Chicago on 1 June, and a week has passed, and the entire 25th Division, with a total of more than 80,000 regular troops and militiamen, has already come to the United States, except for 5,000 who are still serving as a garrison in western Canada! 15,000 people are holding the rear, 30,000 are supporting the 8th Marine Division that occupies Chicago, and 30,000 are supporting the 6th Marine Division of Wang Xiangzong in the southern part of the United States!

In addition, because of Huo Shan's participation, the economic crisis came quickly and ruthlessly, and the whole United States has now fallen into chaos, factories have begun to go bankrupt everywhere, the number of unemployed people has begun to increase sharply, and a series of criminal activities such as robbery, excitement, and murder have also begun to grow explosively! It is precisely because of this that the United States has been seriously restrained, and the United States now has only a little strength of the National Guard, an armed force! Moreover, the Americans have also encountered great difficulties in recruiting troops and purchasing materials!

The 50,000 recruits who had already begun training before the economic crisis did not dare to attack the Huo Jiajun army occupying Chicago and Houston at all, except for cooperating with the National Guard to hold on to important eastern cities such as New York and Washington! After all, the training time of the new-style army was less than a month, and the only way to start a war now is to send them to death! Moreover, the long-term failure to attach importance to the building of military strength has caused a very serious evil result, that is, the output of military industrial enterprises in the United States is too low! It simply cannot meet the equipment needs of large-scale troop expansion!

Therefore, what Wu Guangzong was worried about in the past, the US ** team would launch a large-scale counteroffensive after they occupied Chicago and Houston, did not appear at all. The only civil resistance movement was wiped out by the sea lion special forces because the population in the west was too small to make it into a climate! Therefore, in addition to constantly looting the surrounding cities, the current expeditionary force is constantly advancing to the surrounding small cities step by step!

"Old Deng, come on, the military headquarters has already called! Give us new instructions! Take a look!" Wu Guangzong grabbed Deng Shan's arm and stuffed the telegram in his hand with a smile!

"Theater of the Americas!" Deng Shan took the telegram and looked at it briefly, and couldn't help but ask in surprise.

"Yes, now the army headquarters has decided to strengthen the third, fourth, and fifth divisions of the Marine Corps to us! Then, because of the large number of people, your 25th Division has been reorganized into four divisions by the army headquarters, and in addition to the 25th Division under your original leadership, there are also 45th Division, 46th Division, and 47th Division! Together with the 6th and 8th Divisions of our Marine Corps, a total of nine divisions and nearly 180,000 troops form the American Theater! Wang Xiangzong and I will serve as commanders and chiefs of staff, and since there are no suitable candidates for the time being, the political commissar will be vacant for the time being, and you, Lao Deng, will be the first deputy commander! Yan Jiye will be the first deputy chief of staff! The two deputy political commissars will be served by the current political commissars of the Sixth and Eighth Divisions! The cadres that are lacking in the theater will be slowly replenished in the future! Hehe, how about it? We can do a big job this time, right?" Wu Guangzong couldn't help but say with a smile.

After listening to him, Deng Shan also finished reading the telegram in his hand!

"Alas!" sighed lightly, Deng Shan's mood was very complicated, counting from the Huo family's militia group, he had joined the army for almost ten years, especially in the years when he was in Canada, and the thousands of miles of uninhabited grasslands had almost smoothed out all his ambitions! Now, he finally caught up with a big war in the true sense!

"Don't worry! Lao Deng! As long as we fight hard this time, we will definitely be able to rip off a large piece of meat from the Americans, and maybe we will be able to take several states in the western United States by virtue of the obstruction of the mountains in the western part of the United States, and then you, the deputy commander of the American theater, will become the commander of the American Military Region! At that time, you will not worry about not having a war!" Wu Guangzong patted the old brother's shoulder and comforted him with a smile.

"Hehe, I would like to! But the Americans are not easy to bully! During the Civil War, they amassed nearly four million troops! Although they have suffered heavy losses now because of the economic crisis, as long as they are given time, I am afraid that they will definitely organize millions of troops again, so this battle is not easy to fight!" Deng Shan collected his mood, and his thinking immediately turned to the current war!

"I know, but our military equipment is much more advanced than the Americans, and the quality of our soldiers is even better than theirs, and our 180,000 people, excluding the 20,000 troops stationed in the rear, I am confident that we can defeat more than three times our troops! If we destroy the railroad and then take advantage of the favorable terrain in the western part of the United States, even if the Americans have a million troops, what does it matter!" Wu Guangzong said with full confidence!

"Moreover, it always takes time for the Americans to assemble troops, and the weapons, equipment, food, and medicine of so many people also need to be raised little by little, and in addition, the Americans are now in an economic crisis, so it is impossible for them to gather more than 100,000 troops in three months! If they really want to raise an army of one million! Hehe, even if the Americans are given a year, he may not be able to do it!"