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As soon as he stepped into the study with hurried steps, Huo Shan had already seen the Minister of Military Affairs Huo Long, the Minister of War Huo Hu, the Director of Military Intelligence Huo Wolf, and the Chief of Staff Huo Shi standing by the wall looking at the large map of the Americas!

"Young Master, you're back!" Hearing the footsteps, looking at the tall young man who led Huo Feng striding in, Huo Long couldn't help but say with a happy face. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Well, what's the situation in the Americas like now?" Nodding his head casually, Huo Shan had no intention of being polite, so he asked directly.

Although radio communications have been developed continuously for two years, they have basically been applied to all the key departments of Huo Jiajun, compared with the short-wave and even microwave radios of later generations, they are far inferior in terms of information transmission efficiency! Moreover, a thin newspaper is far from being able to express the complicated war situation between China and the United States!

Hearing the young master's words, Huo Long, who was resolute and resolute, was undoubtedly verbose, and directly pointed to the large map of the Americas on the wall and said: "Since May this year, the Americans have formed three huge attack arrows on the 6,000-kilometer-long front of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, and in the past four months or so, other American units have continued to join other units, and as of October 15, 1884, that is, three days ago, we have detected 98 US divisional numbers!"

"One and a half million regular troops!" Huo Shan said.

"Yes, young master!" the United States, which became independent from the British colonies, in many systems. Even the civilization is in the same vein as the British, and the army is the same, a standard American division. It has two brigades, four regiments, plus other baggage soldiers, chasseurs and other arms, adding up to a reorganized division of about 15,000 people!

"Just now you said in the intelligence that heavy machine guns and new rifles have appeared in the US army?" Huo Shan asked with a frown.

"Yes, young master! The Military Intelligence Bureau has investigated clearly, and it is likely that these new weapons were secretly transferred to the Americans by the British!" Huo Wolf said.

"Well, I think except for the Americans. There is no country that is so interested in our war with the Americans!" After a pause, Huo Shan looked at the map and continued: "It seems that they were very unhappy to get the Cayman Islands and Fiji from the British population with these new weapons production technology!"

"Huh. If it weren't for the Egyptian army secretly commanded by Long Wei and the Cheetah Special Forces to trap the British so badly and drag them to Egypt, I'm afraid the British wouldn't have spit out the meat in their mouths so easily!" Huo Hu said.

Hearing this, Huo Shan nodded thoughtfully. "Is Muhammad al-Arabi's Egyptian army still confronting the British in Mansura?"

"Nope. Arabi and his national army have retreated to Qamur, one hundred and fifty kilometers northeast of Cairo City!"

"The British army has increased its troops?" Huo Shan asked with a frown.

"Yes, a week ago, Britain once again transferred 150,000 soldiers from China, Australia, Canada and India, plus the British ** team that is still confronting the Egyptian army led by Huo Zhiguang in the lower reaches of the Nile, and now the British soldiers in the entire Egyptian battlefield have reached 600,000!" Huo Shi said with a calm expression.

"In this way, including the 80,000 soldiers who have been killed or wounded by the British, the British have already invested nearly 700,000 troops in the entire Egyptian battlefield! Good guys, it seems that the British will not give up until they take Egypt!" Huo Hu said with a somewhat excited expression.

Hear his words. Huo Wolf couldn't help but say: "Egypt's geographical location is too critical, and it is about the control of the Suez Canal. Therefore, in any case there will be no compromise between the British and Egypt, and the war will only end if one side really comes to the bottom!"

Hearing this, Huo Shan nodded and asked, "Huo Long, how is Huo Zhiguang's ammunition reserves depleted, can they still hold on?"

"Young master, I've already asked, the mortars and rifles, machine guns and other new weapons we support are not more than five bases on average, and they can only support a medium-intensity battle! However, they still have captured British weapons as a supplement, so it is not a problem to support them for two months, but after two months, I am afraid that they will only have rifles left to use!"

"Damn, almost all of the British's Mediterranean and Indian Ocean fleets have been dispatched, and there are more than a hundred of them patrolling warships everywhere from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea!

"Huzi, don't swear in front of the young master!"

Huo Long glared, Huo Hu, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, couldn't help but shrink his neck, and touched the back of his head with a smile!

Everyone knew his temperament, so they just smiled and didn't say anything!

As for Huo Shan, he didn't pay attention to the conversation and laughter between them at all, and now his full attention was on Egypt and the United States, and even his attention to the war situation in Egypt exceeded that of the Sino-American war that could break out at any time!

"Egypt, Egypt!" After muttering to himself, Huo Shan turned around abruptly and said, "Huo Feng, let your navy cooperate with the Military Intelligence Bureau, and you must ensure Huo Zhiguang's ammunition supply no matter what!"

"Yes, young master!"

"Whether you can let the Huo family's territory expand again, it's all up to you!" Huo Shan said in a serious whisper.

Huo Long and the others glanced at each other, and their faces showed incomprehension at the same time, although the war situation in Egypt firmly dragged down the expansion of the British in the world, and also reduced the pressure faced by the Huo Jiajun in territorial expansion and economic development over the years, but looking at the young master's expression, it seemed that he was more concerned about this Anglo-Egyptian war than the second Sino-American war, which made them a little puzzled!

"Okay, Huo Shi, tell me about the battle situation on the American front!" Huo Shan asked after a few minutes.

"Yes, young master!"

Saying that, Huo Shi took two steps forward, picked up the long wooden pole that he had just put aside, and began to say with a serious expression with a large map pasted on the wall: "Now there are three American strategic groups in the north, the middle and the south distributed on our entire defense line!" Among them, the most powerful is their mid-line corps, which consists of the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 11th, 15th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 23rd, 26th, and 29th armies of the newly formed US Army, with a total of 782,000 troops, and the commander is William Tecusey Sherman! Louisville, Huntington, and other American cities!"

"The U.S. Army of the North, mainly located in Pennsylvania and New York, confronts our army across the Ohio River! Under its jurisdiction is the Second Army, the Seventh Army, the Tenth Army, the Twelfth Army, the Eighteenth Army, the Twenty-second Army, the Twenty-fifth Army, the Twenty-eighth Army, the First Cavalry Army, the Fourth Cavalry Army, and the Second, Third, and Fourth Divisions of the Independent Surprise Army, plus several independent regiments, with a total of 453,000 troops! The commander is Joseph Johnston!"

"Joseph Johnston!!" Huo Shan couldn't help but ask with some surprise. Hearing this name, Huo Shan's mind recalled that the information of the Military Intelligence Agency mentioned that this guy who was born in the West Point Military Academy and served as the commander of the Southern Army in the Peninsula Campaign, and was never really defeated!

"Yes, young master!" Huo Shi said.

"It seems that the Americans have really made up their minds this time, and even after the end of the Civil War, the senior generals of the Southern Army who were refrigerated have been used again!"

"Yes, young master! And it's not just Joseph Johnston who has been reactivated, and now the commander of the U.S. Southern Front Corps is also the once famous Southern Army General Pierre Beauret! Chayexs. The person who recommended them was the current commander of the U.S. Center Corps, William Tecusay Sherman!," Holwolf said.

"Well! It seems that this battle of the Americas is not as easy to fight as before, and the commanders of the three corps are all experienced and experienced veterans! In terms of command experience and ability to lead troops, they are even stronger than all the generals in our Huo family's army! If you want to win this war, I am afraid that the only way to win this war is to rely on hard fighting, to see whose fist is more powerful!" Huo Long looked at the map and said in a deep voice.

"That's fine, in the wars we have experienced before, either the other side is weak or poorly prepared, and it is impossible to truly test the combat effectiveness of our Huo Jiajun, and without the training of real tough battles, it will not be able to become a real iron army! Let the Americans come, I believe that they will still fail this time!"

Listening to the confident tone of the young master's words, Huo Long and the others couldn't help but feel their blood surging upward; for more than two years, the Americans have been going all out to expand their army, replenish equipment, and conduct strict training, but the Huo Jiajun has not been idle! With the cement and steel seized from the Americans, the Huo Jiajun has already built huge fortifications along the Ohio River and the Mississippi River! It is enough to make the Americans bleed when they hit their heads in front of it!

"By the way, what about the strength of the Americans' Southern Front Corps?" Huo Shan continued to ask.

"The corps of the Southern Front is mainly composed of the Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Fourteenth Armies, and the Twenty-fourth Army, as well as the Third Cavalry Corps and the Independent Sixth Cavalry Division! Several independent regiments are composed of a total of 325,000 troops! The commander is the Pierre Beaurett mentioned earlier! As for the remaining US troops, most of them are stationed in the eastern and southern states of the United States to maintain local law and order!" Huo Shi finally said.

"The strategy of the Americans is very clear, the southern defense, the center and the north army are on the offensive! They want to retake all the land around the Great Lakes in one fell swoop!" Huo Hu said. (To be continued.) )