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Chapter 270: Hesitation and Persistence

Looking at the two telegrams on his desk, Huo Shan was silent! This time he didn't know whether his decision was right or wrong!

'Alas!' With a faint sigh, Huo Shan picked up the telegram submitted by Wu Guangzong about immigrating to the three western states of the United States and building a railroad from Seattle to Los Angeles, and read it again!

Although he knew that by doing so, he would indeed be able to consolidate the Huo Jiajun expeditionary force's occupation zone in the western part of the United States, and even the shortcomings of too few troops would be able to make up for it!

A big reason is not because of the United States, but because of Britain and France, two countries that have a lot of interests within the United States! Just like in World War I, although the United States gained enough benefits from the war, it is not excluded that Britain deliberately did it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAlthough the Americans also understood that by overthrowing the British, they would be able to take away a large number of colonies and vast markets from these gentlemen! But the billions of pounds in foreign debt owed by the British were also something that the Americans could not give up! Coupled with the strong navy of the British, it was inevitable that the Americans would join the Allies in the later stages of the war!

Now it is the same, the United States has received a large number of loans from Britain and France, which the two countries cannot give up, not to mention the factor of economic crisis!

In the past, the main scope of activities of the Huo Jiajun expeditionary force was only west of the Mississippi River in the United States, which was just able to weaken the national strength of the United States. It is also in line with the British intention of suppressing the United States and preventing it from continuing to grow bigger! Therefore, it has been so long since Huo's army landed in the United States. The British did not express their unequivocal opposition! Other countries that did not have much interest in the United States did not say anything!

But if this plan of war had been carried out, and the Americans had been crushed across the Mississippi River like a raging tide, the British would no longer sit idly by!

In the last post-war negotiations between Huo Jiajun, Portugal, and the Netherlands for the South Seas, the British had already retreated once, but as the pride of the world's first power, this time in the United States, the British would never retreat again!

This is what really gives Huoshan a real headache. To what extent will the British interfere? Will they really send troops directly? He really has no idea what level of interference the British will have!

Although he is now taking advantage of the economic crisis to make a lot of money from it, this is just a bunch of numbers, and it has not been turned into gold and silver and shipped back to Nanyang! Therefore, the Huojia Nanyang Territory, which is undergoing large-scale infrastructure construction, no longer has much money to support a large-scale war with the Americans to expand and protract!

Officially, because of these many factors, Huo Shan has always been hesitant to take advantage of the situation to occupy the western states of the United States!

"Alas. The British! No matter where you go, you can't get around them!" Huo Shan couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart!

Now almost all the South Sea territories that the Huo family army can directly control are islands, and the threat of the British naval fleet is too great!

However, now Wu Guangzong and their Americas Theater are all ready, and once implemented, they will be able to occupy the states west of the Mississippi River in the United States, as well as the states comparable to the eastern coast of the United States. The Great Lakes region is industrially developed and densely populated! As long as it can be scavenged here for a month, then half of the wealth of the United States will fall into the hands of the Huo Jiajun, the mountain of machines, and a large amount of gold and silver wealth. And the many high-level talents and skilled workers who coveted him the most!

Thinking of this, Huo Shan really couldn't give up. Therefore, it was worth even risking the intervention of the British! However, the Huo Jiajun's troops in the United States were only about 180,000, and even with the ineffective black servant army, there were only 500,000, and it was too reluctant to occupy the huge Mississippi River west and the Great Lakes region!

"Shouldn't we give them a little more troops?" Huo Shan couldn't help but touch his chin and secretly thought to himself! At this time, he didn't feel that as Huo Jiajun got more and more trophies from the United States, driven by greed in his heart, he had fallen deeper and deeper into the quagmire of the American war! Moreover, he had long deviated from his original strategic goal of just wanting to take the Hawaiian Islands and force the United States to cancel the 'Chinese Exclusion Act'!

"Leizi, call Huo Long to find it!"

The military headquarters of the Huojia Army is located behind Huojia Villa, the training base where Huojia Army started! After several successive expansions and renovations, it has become the location of the base camp of Huojia Army, and a series of important military-related departments, such as the General Staff Headquarters, the General Political Department, the General Armament Department, the General Logistics Department, and the Academy of Military Sciences, are all located here.

"Young Master, are you looking for me?" In less than half an hour, Huo Long had already arrived in Huo Shan's study.

"Come, sit down first!" Huo Shan said, pointing to the sofa in front of him.

After taking the teapot handed over by Lei Zi and filling the teacup in front of the two of them with water, he asked, "Have you seen all the new military plans for the American theater?"

Hearing this, Huo Long couldn't help but be stunned, but then quickly replied: "Yes, I have already seen it! Moreover, I have also conducted war games with Huo Shi and Huo Hu, and there is no problem with the plan! Moreover, there are many American regular troops in these places, and they will not cause many casualties to our army!"

"Hehe, I know! Don't worry, I agree to this plan!"

After hearing this, Huo Long couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, he thought that the young master was going to stop this military operation!

"What does the young master mean?" Huo Long couldn't help but ask.

"This is a military operation of our magnitude, although there is no danger of failure. However, in this way, we will also dilute our already small number of troops! Even if we can rely on our geographical advantages to gain an advantage in defense! However, compared with the 300,000 troops that the Americans are currently training, they are still too far behind in number! In addition, the Military Intelligence Bureau has already sent the latest information, and the Americans are already preparing to recruit a second batch of recruits of the same 300,000 troops! Moreover, they have already begun to recruit officers from abroad to purchase ordnance! In the future, our American theater will face great pressure in the future!

Huo Long understands Huo Shan's current concerns, even if the entire American theater has 180,000 regular troops and more than 300,000 black servant troops to help, it is really a bit powerless to occupy such a large territory! Moreover, it is difficult to concentrate all the troops in their hands together, compared with the home advantage of the Americans, they can easily concentrate these 300,000 or even 600,000 troops into one point to attack, in the face of more than their own troops, no matter how high the quality of the soldiers of the Huo Jiajun is, it is impossible for the weapons and equipment to block the military attack of so many people today. And once a point is breached, it is very likely to cause the collapse of the entire defense line, trapping the Huo family army and danger! In fact, it is very simple to solve this weakness, as long as it ......

"Young Master, the strength of the American Theater is indeed too weak, do you see if we can continue to send troops there! Even if the regular troops have garrison tasks, they can use reserves!" Huo Long couldn't help but say.

In fact, when he received Wu Guangzong's military plan this time, he had already noticed that the strength of the Huo family army was still flawed this time! It was just that the troops of the three marine divisions had just arrived, and he didn't want the young master to ask for troops anymore! Moreover, he also knew that Huo Shan's purpose in waging this US war was to scavenge something well and speed up the development of the Huo family army itself! Take the Hawaiian Islands and consolidate the Huo family's army's supremacy in the Pacific! Then, if you are lucky, you can take advantage of the economic crisis to buy Alaska from the Americans!

At the beginning, he and Huo Shi also thought so, and the dispatch of troops and the implementation of the plan were also carried out in accordance with this goal! However, there was always a gap between the reality and the goal, and with the continuous deepening of the Huo Jiajun expeditionary force and the weakness of the United States, they had completely deviated from their original purpose of waging this war!

Now Huo Long thinks that he can take advantage of the opportunity that the United States is not ready to occupy more American land, defeat the American army, and then force the Americans to negotiate and seize the land of the western states of the United States from the hands of the Americans! At that time, even if the Americans do not agree, Huo Jiajun can completely rely on the barrier of rivers and mountains to get their own spoils!

"Huo Long, I can agree with your plan to continue to increase troops to the American theater, even if it is an increase of more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops and the training of our current population and reserves, it can be fully supported! But have you ever thought about what the consequences would be if we really did this?"

"Young Master?"

"Our strength in the Americas is getting stronger and stronger, the occupied areas are becoming more and more consolidated, and the strength of the United States will be seriously weakened by us in one war after another, and when Britain and France think that the strength of the United States has been reduced to an acceptable level, then they will take action! At that time, we will face the suppression of the entire Western world! At that time, even if we occupy more land in the United States, we must spit it out again! Because the land of our South Seas is basically an island, we are directly facing the threat of their powerful fleet, and we are not capable of confronting the capitalist powers led by Britain and France!"

"Although it is indeed a pity to spit out these lands, we have made a lot more money than the talents, machinery and equipment we have gained in the United States! But the soldiers do not think so! These lands have been won by them in the blood, sweat, and sacrifice of their comrades! If we retreat without a fight, it will certainly cause serious damage to the morale of the army. Moreover, the adverse effects it will cause will also seriously weaken the cohesion and combat effectiveness of our troops! At that time, we will be in great trouble!"

"After all, if the people's hearts are scattered, the team will not be easy to lead!" Huo Shan said with a sigh at the end.