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Chapter 242: Assignment of Tasks

"Lao Pang, hurry up and look, we're all waiting!" Wang Dong looked at this old comrade-in-arms who wanted to take the first place in everything, and said helplessly.

"Got it, don't rush it! Hey, Commander Wu is really generous! Not bad, not bad!" Looking at Pang Wan chūn shaking his head, the look on his face was a little surprised, but more of a happy look, the other officers of the Sixth Navy Division next to him couldn't help it!

"Lao Pang, it's almost there, it's time to show us!" Liu Tianming, deputy commander of the Sixth Marine Division, was also in a hurry, so after saying such a sentence, he reached out and snatched the telegram from Pang Wan's hand!

The telegram in his hand was snatched away, and Pang Wan Chūn didn't say anything, and it was clear from the excited expression on his face that he was completely immersed in getting a new campaign mission!

According to the regulations of the Huo Jiajun, one-tenth of the value of the materials captured by the army will be exchanged for the equivalent value of silver dollars and distributed according to the merits of the soldiers! Don't think that one-tenth looks like a little, but just like the current battle of the Huo Jiajun expeditionary force in the United States, if you occupy a city at will, it will be a huge harvest of tens of millions of dollars, and even if one-tenth of them will be distributed to the soldiers, then after this war, the 100,000 officers and soldiers who participated in the three divisions of the expeditionary force will also become not too rich and not too small! At least no one has a few thousand silver dollars, that's for sure!

It is precisely because of this reward system that every time the Huo family army has a war. Almost all the troops participating in the war marched forward bravely, because fighting a war is not only about military exploits. What's more important is the generous material rewards! Of course, being a soldier and eating food has also become a popular occupation in the provinces and cities under the jurisdiction of the Huo Jiajun!

"Oh, leap thousands of miles! Chicago! Commander Wu is really generous!"

"We're not bad, Houston is one of the largest cities in the southern United States! It's much bigger than Los Angeles we're occupying now!"

"Actually, it's not bad if we go east, New Orleans is no worse than Houston, and it's connected by railroads!"

Listening to the discussions of his subordinates, Wang Xiangzong's face couldn't help but show pity. In fact, he also wanted to take his troops to New Orleans! However, when he took Wake Island, Johnston Island, and Hawaii, the soldiers of the Sixth Division were almost divided into regiments and stationed in these places! The soldiers of the Sixth Division who arrived in Los Angeles together were only 15,000 men. The strength of San Diego and other cities, the strength that the Sixth Marine Division can really put into attack is about 10,000 people, after all, the soldiers of the 25th Division of the Army are still thousands of miles away, and there is no way to provide them with much support in a moment! Therefore, being able to take Houston is already the limit of the Sixth Division! After all, there are still cities such as Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, and San Antonio that need to be defended by soldiers on the way!

"Okay, now that the telegram has been read!, then I'll start to arrange specific campaign tasks!" Wang Xiangzong coughed lightly, attracting everyone's attention. Said with a smile.

This time, there were officers from various regiment-level units of the Sixth Division attending the meeting, so when they heard that they were going to assign tasks, everyone couldn't help but have nervous expressions on their faces!

"The logistics regiment and the division's subordinate jǐng guard battalion stick to the rear!" Hearing this, Sun Cheng, the commander of the logistics regiment, and Bai Lin, the commander of the division's jǐng guard battalion, immediately showed an expression of annoyance on their faces!

Among the combat units of the Huo Jiajun, the logistical burden is a regimental-level establishment of 3,000 people! The reason why the establishment is so large is that the establishment is so large. Huo Shan also took into account that the road conditions in this era were really too poor, especially the islands in the South Seas, and they basically did not have a decent road when they were still in a state of wilderness! If they did not make great efforts in logistics, the speed of the troops' advance would be seriously affected, and then the victory of the war would be affected!

"The 1st Regiment, the 2nd Regiment and the Artillery Regiment, as the main attacking forces of this campaign mission, will begin preparations to launch an attack to the east tomorrow!"

"Understood. Chief of Staff!"

This time, with the support of the railway, Wang Xiangzong also sent out his artillery regiment! In addition to the captured more than 40 artillery pieces of the Americans. The number of artillery pieces of the Sixth Division has already exceeded 100! No matter where it is, this is a powerful strategic deterrent force! However, Wang Xiangzong did not want to use them to attack the city and seize the city, and the weak defensive troops of the Americans only needed mortars, machine guns, and advanced Type 80 rifles to defeat them! These artillery pieces were to strengthen the defensive firepower of the troops and repel a possible military counterattack by the Americans! After all, the target of their attack this time was already the prosperous area along the southern coast of the United States! The Americans' army is afraid that even in the nest will launch a large-scale military counteroffensive!

Relying on the geographical advantage, the US counteroffensive force will be several times or even more than ten times that of the Huo Jiajun, and in the face of such a disadvantage, only by strengthening the heavy firepower of the troops can make up for the gap in the number of the Huo Jiajun!

"Okay, the mission has been explained, and the route of the march is already very clear!

Not to mention that the Huojia Army Expeditionary Force is busy preparing logistics materials and ammunition, preparing to launch a new round of offensive, conquer more American cities, and achieve greater feats!

At this time, the Taiwan Military Headquarters of the Huo Jiajun was also constantly deducing the war situation in the United States, trying not to let any unexpected loopholes appear in the entire military plan!

"Young master, wouldn't it be too dangerous to do this! Chicago and Houston are both important cities in the central and eastern parts of the United States, and if we fight them with such fanfare, it is very likely to provoke a strong backlash from the Americans, and it will not be too dangerous to rely on the troops of less than 40,000 troops in the two divisions of the Marine Corps and the 25th Division of the Army, which has little experience in warfare!" Huo Long put down the telegram in his hand and asked with some concern.

"Dangerous?Huo Long, do you think with the current military strength of the Americans can pose any threat to us?" Huo Shan put down the teacup in his hand and asked indifferently.

Thinking that the only remaining two divisions of more than 40,000 regular troops in the United States had been wiped out by the Sixth and Eighth Divisions of the Marine Corps in the three western states of the United States! And in order to form these two divisions, most of the national guards in the western states of the United States had already been transferred, and they could not cause any hindrance to the next military operations of the Huo Jiajun! After thinking for a while, he shook his head silently! However, as soon as he thought that the two divisions of the Huo Jiajun had leapt thousands of miles and punched the Americans in the stomach with one punch, and that the war situation of the enemy was all around, he couldn't help but worry!

"Don't worry, Huo Long! In a month's time, the 25th Division of the Army will be able to concentrate at least 60,000 troops, and although most of them are new recruits, their training is much better than that of the Americans! I believe that with their joining, our expeditionary force's numerical inferiority will also be compensated! Even if the Americans attack us at any cost, 100,000 men will be enough to hold out for three or four months! In such a long time, we will be able to bring back half of the wealth of the United States! So this danger is worth taking!" As more and more information was obtained in his hands, Huo Shan also had a rough estimate of the prospects of this American war!

It is doubtful whether the Americans, who have suffered heavy losses after this war, will be able to become the world's number one in terms of economic strength when they enter the 20 th century! And such a result is exactly what Huo Shan wants, weakening the United States, striking at the US economy, and slowing down its development speed is what Huo Shan has always wanted to do! This is also a long-term strategic task for the Huo Jiajun in the future! Only by suppressing the United States will the threat posed by the Huo Jiajun in the Pacific be reduced to the lowest in the future!

'Taking advantage of his illness to kill him', Huo Shan, who knows well that the Americans pose a major threat to the future Huo Jiajun to seize world hegemony, certainly cannot let go of this good opportunity to weaken it!

"I understand, young master!" Now that Huo Shan has decided to fight, then Huo Long won't say anything anymore! After all, Huo Shan is the core of the leadership of the entire Huo Family Army! Although he does not hold any specific positions in the Huo Family Military Administration Council and the Military Department, the people who now control the Huo Family Army are all the original Huo Family Cultivated Talents! Coupled with the wisdom and wisdom he has shown in the past few years, no one within the Huo Family Army can oppose the decision he made!

"The British army is already preparing to attack?" Huo Shan asked.

In order to be able to eliminate Muhammad Arabi's Fatherland Party and the rebel army and re-consolidate the British dominance in Egypt, this time the British mobilized a powerful fleet of eight ironclad ships, one destroyer, and five gunboats from the Mediterranean Fleet, equipped with 69 large-caliber naval guns, 88 small- and medium-caliber naval guns, and 70 "Mitriyoz" guns! In addition, the British ironclad battleship 'Infleczewhite' that had just been commissioned last year would also participate in this attack on Alexandria! Although the coastal defense facilities built by the Egyptians in the port are not weak, I am afraid that it will be difficult to stop the attack of the British fleet!" Huo Longshen said with some sighs.

"What's so greedy?" Seeing his appearance, Huo Shan couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"Yes, young master! The Infleclius-class battleship has a full load displacement of nearly 12,000 tons! The main gun caliber is 406mm, and the waterline armor is 610mm! I really don't know what kind of artillery fire can sink such a powerful battleship!" Thinking that Huo Jiajun still has to purchase materials to build destroyers and frigates of one or two thousand tons, and that the Mingxiang-class light cruisers that have now started construction have also encountered difficulties, and if they want to build powerful warships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons like the British, Huo Jiajun's own shipyard really doesn't know how long it will take to do it!

He smiled faintly, the shipbuilding level of the British is indeed strong, and it will take at least ten years for Huo Jiajun to catch up with the shipbuilding level of the seventies and eighties! However, Huo Shan, the white-class ironclad ship of the Infleclius, really didn't take it seriously! Whether it is armor, naval guns, or speed, he is already behind the times! Otherwise, the British would not have been transferred to the reserve after refitting it in 1884!