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Chapter 240: The Occupation of San Francisco

With the continuous docking of transport ships, nearly 20,000 soldiers of the 8th Marine Division poured into San Francisco like cháo water, with the addition of these new forces, coupled with the guidance of the Sea Lion Special Forces, the victory of the San Francisco landing battle is not far off!

However, although the Huo family army is strong, there are also many soldiers in the first division of the US Army, so the gunfire rang out all night, and it was not until about eight o'clock in the morning that the entire San Francisco city gradually calmed down!

Looking at the American soldiers who walked into the prisoner of war camp with their hands held high and under the watchful eye of the Huo Jiajun soldiers, Wu Guangzong's calm and serious face could not help but show a faint smile! The most rare thing in this war between China and the United States is a cross-sea landing battle, and as long as the soldiers of the Huo Jiajun set foot on American soil, then with their excellent soldier quality and sharp weaponry, I believe that no American unit will be able to stop their surprise attack!

"Report, Commander! The results of this San Francisco landing battle have been counted!"

Looking at the excited smile on the face of the combat staff officer, he knew that the result was good without asking! "Okay, I won't look at it, you can just read it here!"

In this operation, the 8th Marine Division of our Marine Corps captured a total of 15,672 men under Major General William Harrison, commander of the 1st Division of the US Army, including 3 officers at or above the brigadier general level and 17 senior officers at and above the regimental level! 16,840 rifles and 58 artillery pieces were captured. Among them, there are 26 75mm field guns and 16 105mm heavy guns. Fourteen 155 mm guns and two 203 mm guns! In addition, the Navy also captured three wooden-hulled cruisers and six coastal patrol boats in the San Francisco Harbor!

"Well, is the capture very rich, and what about the casualties of our own troops?" Wu Guangzong asked with a smile.

"Because of the help of the Sea Lion Special Forces, the losses were not too great, two hundred and fifty-four people were wounded and eighty-six were killed, but four Sea Eagle Special Forces soldiers died on the battlefield last night!"

"Alas!" Wu Guangzong sighed in his heart. The reason why the battle of San Francisco was able to achieve the final victory of the war with such a small loss can be said to be the greatest contributor to the 100 jīng sharp special forces of the 5th Brigade of the Sea Lion Special Forces, if they hadn't knocked out the 58 shore guns that the Americans had arranged on both sides of the Kinmen Strait, and then took advantage of the opportunity of the Americans' negligence to take precautions, they dragged a large number of American ** teams and cut off their military command system. I am afraid that the casualties of the Eighth Division will not necessarily be able to take San Francisco if the casualties of the Eighth Division have multiplied several times!

"The bodies of the dead soldiers must be properly placed! When the war is won, we will bring their ashes back to China!"

"Understood, Commander, don't worry!" the young staff officer agreed earnestly!

"Well, now let the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd regiments rest immediately, and the 3rd regiment will set aside some soldiers to clean up the battlefield and maintain order in the city of San Francisco! The baggage battalion, the artillery battalion, and transport our equipment off the ship! The communications battalion should hurry up and set up the radio. Contact the 25th Division and the 6th Marine Division, and inform the Taiwan Headquarters of our situation here! We should also immediately find the largest hospital in San Francisco, and with the help of the medical equipment there, build our field hospital first, and get a good grasp of treating our wounded. If there aren't enough doctors, recruit Americans here. I'm not afraid that they won't cooperate!" Wu Guangzong commanded calmly.

"Oh, that's right! Send Yang Cunshan and let his three regiments guard our booty! If there is less or if he loses it, I will remove him!"

With the issuance of the new military order, the soldiers of the 1st Regiment, the 2nd Regiment and the Sea Lion Special Forces all began to rest, because the American barracks had long been turned into prisoner of war camps just after the occupation of San Francisco, coupled with the military order that no disturbance was allowed to disturb the people, it was difficult to find a barracks that could provide rest for 10,000 soldiers in the huge city of San Francisco for a while! Fortunately, at this time, the northern hemisphere was already about to enter June, and the weather was not too cold, and the soldiers who had not closed their eyes all night soon fell asleep! Their rest time was only three hours, and after three hours, they were going to launch an attack on the surrounding American cities according to the new military plan!

Since Huo Shan has decided to launch a landing war in the United States, he will definitely not let go of anything of value!

Wells Fargo, Bank of California, San Francisco Federal Mint and other financial units in San Francisco were immediately sealed by the soldiers of the 803rd Regiment, and the gold, silver, US dollars and various works of art stored in the bank vaults were packed and ready to be shipped back to Nanyang! Of course, Huo Jiajun's wealth is not only these, such as the thousands of large and small fishing boats staying in the harbor, hundreds of passenger and cargo ships and the goods on them, and the large and small factories in San Francisco, these things no matter who their original owners are, but after the Huo Jiajun occupied San Francisco, all these things became the trophies of the Huo Jiajun! Moreover, these things are just the beginning, and Huo Jiajun's appetite has just opened!

As the city of San Francisco gradually stabilized, the 801st and 802nd regiments of the Huo Jiajun, who had woken up three hours later, rode a large number of bicycles that had just been unloaded from the transport ship, and rapidly expanded around San Francisco as the center! A few limited large cities such as Los Angeles, and other vast areas of the western United States are not garrisoned at all, and as for the militia and the national guards, the soldiers of the Huojia Army Marine Corps did not take them seriously at all!

Therefore, after occupying San Francisco on 25 May, Huo's army occupied Oakland and San Jose southeast of San Francisco, as well as Berkeley and Sacramento in the northeast! Then, after a day of stability, Huo's army, with the help of bicycles, rapidly advanced at a speed of 150 kilometers a day in the western United States!

Compared with the speed of the Eighth Marine Division's advance with the help of bicycles! The advance speed of the Sixth Marine Division under the command of Wang Xiangzong was also not weak! On 25 May, Los Angeles was occupied, and then Long Beach in the south was occupied on the same day! On the evening of 26 May, a regiment of the 6th Division advanced to San Diego, a city in the southern part of the United States! However, unlike the 8th Division's various sorties, the 6th Division's attack direction was mainly to the south and east!

However, compared with the speed of advance of these two divisions, the 25th Division of the Army, which was moving south from Canada, was much slower! It was not until 26 May that one regiment of their forward troops took Seattle, the largest city in Washington State! At this time, the western United States was not in the future, there was no north-south railroad at all, and even there were few roads! Of course, the soldiers of the 25th Division of the Army, who were rushing on two legs, did not run as fast as the two Marine Corps divisions on wheels, but fortunately, at the beginning of the war, Huo Jiajun took into account that the western United States was too desolate and the road traffic was inconvenient, so a large number of bicycles were transported by transport ships to equip the troops! Five days later, through various ports in the northern United States, a large number of bicycles were handed over to the 25th Division, but the soldiers of the Huo Family Army, who came into contact with this new type of transportation for the first time, did not know how to ride at all, but fortunately, they were all adults, and after a day of familiarization, most of them were able to staggering on the road! Therefore, the advance speed of the soldiers of the 25th Division of the Army also became faster!

Compared with the slightly more prosperous state of California, the western states of Washington and Oregon are the wilderness of the wilderness! The Americans do not pay attention to this place at all, and even if they do, they do not have so many troops to defend it, so the 25th Division of the Army is not like a war, but more like a march!

"Commander, do you really want to do this? Wouldn't it be too risky?" Diao Fei, commander of the Eighth Division of the Marine Corps, looked at the large map of the United States on the wall, and couldn't help frowning and asked!

"Hanchen (Diao Feizi) You have to understand that we are not here to occupy the land of the Americans, we are here for profit and wealth, so those American country towns simply do not have what we need! Therefore, these places have no value to us, and there is no need to waste precious troops to occupy these poor and remote places! Our goal is always the big cities in the United States!"

"If that's the case, will these Americans sneak up on our logistical supply lines, or attack our soldiers, after all, we are an invading army compared to them!" Diao Fei asked puzzled!

"Oh, Hanchen! Have you forgotten that the United States is a nation of immigrants? How much national honor can a nation of adventurers and gold diggers build! And don't forget that in the western United States and in California, there are no more Mexicans and Indians, but they don't have the slightest affection for Americans, for whites! Besides, these villages and towns don't have our radios, and they probably don't know the news of our landing in the United States!"

"Report, Chief of Staff Wang is calling!"

"Oh, is it? Bring it to me and take a look!" Wu Guangzong took the telegram from the staff officer's hand, and after carefully looking at it twice, a faint smile couldn't help but appear on his face!

"Hehe, Lao Wang wants to go with me! Come and take a look!"

After a minute, after everyone had finished reading it, Wu Guangzong smiled and asked, "How is it?"

"Commander, I think the 20,000 officers and men of our Eighth Marine Division can undertake this mission!" said Xi Yongshen, political commissar of the Eighth Division, seriously!

"Commander, you give the order, I, Liao Xiangzhi, am willing to be a pioneer!" Liao Xiangzhi, the chief of staff of the Eighth Division, was also rapidly boosted by the adrenal hormone stimulated by the commander's almost crazy plan, and his tone of voice was full of urgency, and the excited look on his face was even more difficult to hide!

"Lao Liao, this is not good, how can you rob me of my job?" Diao Fei scolded with a smile!

"Okay, since you agree, then I'll give a new combat mission!"

"Please command, commander!" As soon as they heard the military order, the expressions on the faces of the three of them immediately became serious, and the soldiers' resolute and strict self-discipline momentum was undoubtedly revealed!