Chapter 241: East, East, East!
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Chapter 241 To the East, To the East, To the East!
Since the Huo Jiajun Expeditionary Force occupied the city of San Francisco, the city, which was originally the headquarters of the 1st Division of the U.S. Army, has become the headquarters of the Expeditionary Force in the western United States!
After five days of continuous campaigning, the Huo Jiajun's expeditionary force has basically taken over all the cities with a population of more than 10,000 people in the three western coastal states of the United States! After defeating the US Army and the National Guard, which were originally stationed in various places, the Huojia Army has not encountered any other battles! Only sporadic resistance has been quickly extinguished!
Except that the headquarters of the Expeditionary Force ordered all citizens to only go out into the streets to buy necessary daily necessities, they must stay at home, and all commercial activities outside the permitted areas of the city should be stopped, and the streets seemed a little deserted! The Huojia Army Expeditionary Force had basically taken control of these three states! And the smooth operation of the war and the weakness of the US garrison force had obviously made the entire Expeditionary Force have even greater ambitions at the top of the Expeditionary Force!
"You see, there are two major railroads connecting the eastern and western parts of the United States, one of which is the Zhōngyāng Pacific Railroad from Sacramento to Omaha! The second is the South Pacific Railroad connecting the southern states of the United States! These two are nearly 4,000 kilometers together, and they are covered with the blood of our Chinese, and every inch of the main transportation artery paved with the flesh and bones of our Chinese is the route of our march this time! We want to teach the Americans a profound lesson from the north and south directions, from the railroad where we Chinese are buried with bones!" But the murderous aura and the implicit anger in the words are clearly expressed!
A group of senior officers of the Huo family's army. Staring closely at the map of the United States hanging on the wall, especially the two winding railroads highlighted in red pencils!
From the opening of the country by the British in the First Opium War to the founding of New China a hundred years later, the sufferings of the Chinese in the past 100 years have really been too great! Fortunately at home, it is also its own country! Except for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Northwest Rebellion, and the later invasion of China, which caused a large number of casualties among the people, there were basically no large-scale massacres! But this is not the case abroad! Over the past 100 years, millions of Chinese have been slaughtered! Nanyang and the United States are the two hardest hit areas where the Chinese have been bullied!
The natives and foreign powers of the South Seas wanted to exterminate the Chinese there by slaughtering them again and again. Therefore, after occupying the entire Nanyang, Huo Jiajun also retaliated by exterminating the filthy indigenous people whose ancestors were stained with the blood of the Chinese! The Americans wantonly squeezed the wealth of the Chinese and humiliated the Chinese like pigs and dogs, so in this Sino-US war, Huo Shan also wanted to make the Americans feel painful! Therefore, after receiving the report of Wu Guangzong's further military action, Huo Shan agreed without thinking about it!
Sharp eyes slowly swept over the cold faces of each officer, and the silent war room was filled with a solemn atmosphere. In previous political classes, everyone had already understood the cold-bloodedness of the Americans toward the Chinese! Therefore, no matter what kind of means were used to deal with the Americans, they had no opinion!
"Diao Fei!"
"Here!"
"Your Eighth Marine Division is tasked with taking Omaha, the eastern starting point of the Zhōngyāng Pacific Railroad! The remaining two regiments continue to the west and take here!" said Wu Guangzong, the whip in his hand was heavily pointed at a city on the coast of the Great Lakes in the northern United States!
"Chicago!" Diao Fei said excitedly.
"Yes, how can you be confident?" Wu Guangzong asked indifferently.
"Don't worry, Commander! The tens of thousands of regular troops that the Americans had managed to muster together have all been wiped out by us in the west, and now there are no exceptions to the so-called National Guard. The whole of Chicago is like a stripped-naked, and it won't be difficult for us in the Eighth Division of Marines to take it down at all!" Diao Fei even said dirty words!
Looking at the middle-aged officer who came back to his senses and showed a hint of embarrassment on his dark face, Wu Guangzong smiled disapprovingly! "Don't take it lightly! Chicago is not San Francisco, it is a place where the United States has been operating for hundreds of years! With a developed industry and a large population, it is indeed very easy to take it down before the Americans react, but if you want to defend it under the counterattack of the Americans, this is the problem you will face!"
"Yes, Commander! I'll be careful!" Hearing these words, the expression on Diao Fei's face also calmed down! Chicago is the real heartland of the United States! Even if the Americans' troops are not well trained, no matter how many troops are sacrificed, the Americans will probably have to keep Chicago, otherwise where will the Americans' faces go!
Seeing his appearance, Wu Guangzong knew what he had just said, and Diao Fei had already heard it in his ears! I believe that as long as Huo Jiajun himself does not make mistakes, under absolute strength, unless Huo Jiajun himself wants to give up! Otherwise, the Americans will not want to retake Chicago from Huo Jiajun!
"Commander Sun!" After explaining the combat mission of the Eighth Division, Wu Guangzong turned his head to look at a young officer standing on his right, who was not tall, had a somewhat thin face, and had the rank of colonel of the Huo Jiajun on his shoulder!
"Commander!" Sun Xin was the commander of the first regiment of the 25th Division of the Army, and the first of the first five regiments of the 25th Division of the Army to rush to San Francisco!
"Well, there are too many recruits in your troops, and they still need to be trained, so after the troops of the Eighth Division advance eastward this time, your regiment will take over the defense of San Francisco, Oakland and other cities!" After Wu Guangzong finished speaking, he looked at Sun Xin's face with a somewhat anxious and stopped expression, and couldn't help but smile faintly and said, "Don't worry! I will give you a chance to go to the battlefield!"
"Yes, Commander!" The 5,000 officers and men of the 1st Regiment of the 25th Division of the Army resolutely completed the task assigned by the commander!" Sun Xinshen said excitedly.
Today is the 29th of May, and I will give you one day tomorrow to prepare all the supplies necessary for the battle! After a day, all troops must follow the designated military plan! Go east, go east, and go east! Do you understand?" Wu Guangzong raised his arms and shouted.
"Got it!"
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"Report, San Francisco headquarters emergency call!"
After taking the telegram from the hand of the communications staff officer, Wang Xiangzong read it carefully, and couldn't help but show a happy smile on his face!
"How is it? Chief of Staff! Has Commander Wu agreed to our advance plan?" Pang Wan Chūn couldn't help but ask with some impatience! As the commander of the Sixth Marine Division, because the unit was formed relatively late, the Sixth Division did not participate in the Huo Jiajun's war to capture the South Seas like several other advanced divisions of the Marine Corps! In peacetime, in addition to fighting pirates in the southern Pacific, it is constant training and retraining! This is a rare military operation to attack the United States, and the Sixth Marine Division was selected for this rare military operation against the United States! Therefore, it is natural to seize this opportunity and make a few good fights!
"What's the matter, haven't you enjoyed the previous battles?" Wang Xiangzong put down the telegram in his hand, looked at this rough man with a rough appearance, a thick stubble on his chin, and a faint blue and black skin on his chin, and couldn't help but ask with a smile.
"Hehe, the Americans' army is too grassy, and they were all beaten down by the little rabbit cubs under my command with a single charge! Such an army can't stop our attack at all! And this time the young master gave us the task of robbery, since it is a robbery, then the cities in the east of the United States are much richer than the places in the west where birds don't shit!" Pang Wan chūn squinted his eyes slightly, and touched his chin with his rough right hand, although he has been in the army for more than two years, he is still a little uncomfortable with the feeling of his chin being smooth after his beard is shaved off! However, in the military regulations of the young master, it is clearly stipulated that the appearance of soldiers, short hair, and long beards are not allowed! Therefore, he had no choice but to cut his love! He gave up the beard he had grown for many years and replaced it with this bare chin like a girl that he had always looked down on!
Although Pang Wan chūn spoke vulgarly, everyone around him knew about his xìngzi, so he didn't say anything!
"Here, let's take a look! The headquarters of the expeditionary force has already agreed to our military plan!" said Wang Xiangzong, handing over the telegram in his hand!
"Really, I'll take a look first!" Regardless of whether others wanted to or not, Pang Wan took the telegram from Wang Xiangzong's hand! Originally, this rough guy couldn't read a single big character, but because of the internal regulations of the Huo Jiajun, the rank and promotion of each rank of an officer must have a corresponding level of education! Although it is not mandatory to know physics and chemistry, it is necessary to learn to read and write, as well as mathematics, geography, and other subjects that are very helpful for leading the army in combat!
Coming from later generations, Huo Shan is very aware of the importance of culture and education to a unit! With the continuous research and development of new weapons, the requirements for the quality of soldiers in weapons and equipment are getting higher and higher! It is already difficult to become a qualified soldier in a short period of time based on experience alone! Therefore, at the very beginning of the establishment of the Huo Family Army, Huo Shan set very strict regulations on the re-education of soldiers! Every soldier who has just joined the Huo Family Army must master 200 words after three months of enlistment and after completing the training of recruits! After half a year, the soldiers must have a primary school education level and understand simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division! In this way, in three years, almost every retired soldier of the Huo Jiajun basically has a junior high school education level! In this way, it cannot help but provide a large number of qualified teachers for the rapidly expanding primary school education of the Huo Jiajun, and also provide a large number of qualified workers for the booming industries in various provinces of the Huo Jiajun!