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Chapter 264: There are many soldiers and few generals

At this time, the intelligence system of the Americans had just been formed, and the intelligence departments of both the army and the navy were two or three big cats and small cats, and they had not even set up the shelves of the intelligence department, let alone go out to listen to the detailed information about the Huo Jiajun expeditionary force!

Therefore, although it has been more than a week since the Huo Jiajun expeditionary force has occupied Chicago. However, the United States has not even figured out the number www.biquge.info of troops on the two sides of the Huo Family's army! In addition, there is now another economic crisis, and the country is in chaos, which has restrained the more than 60,000 National Guard troops that originally remained in the eastern states! Even the 50,000 recruits who have been training for more than half a month have remained in Washington, for fear that the Chinese army will be like a surprise attack on Chicago, and maybe they will appear in Washington that night! Then these American politicians will become prisoners!

At present, the United States as a whole is in a state of 'rumors and trees'! As for the news that the Huo Jiajun has begun to recruit blacks into the army, they do not know at all.

Alan Arthur rubbed his somewhat stiff cheeks with a tired expression, because of the long-term lack of sleep, his eyebands had protruded, and his face was a little pale, if it weren't for the fact that the suit on his body was quite neat and his appearance was quite clean, otherwise absolutely no one would believe that this person with a serious lack of sleep would be the president of the United States who is in power!

"Henry, how is our army training?" a hoarse voice echoed in the conference room, fearing every day that the Chinese would suddenly take over Washington. I can't eat well, I can't sleep well! Now the United States has also erupted in a serious economic crisis. So much, such a heavy pressure is almost all on Alan Arthur, the president, almost to crush him!

"President, you better go and rest first, we can just keep an eye on it! The Chinese will definitely not be able to hit here for a while!" Secretary of State Frederick Theodor Forry Linheisen said worriedly.

The United States now has a crisis at home and a strong enemy outside, and it is even more dangerous than during the Civil War 20 years ago, and it can be said that the United States is now experiencing the greatest crisis since the founding of the People's Republic of China! If at this time, the news of the president's death due to illness comes out again. That will definitely cause the current political situation in the United States to be turbulent again! The United States, which is already extremely dangerous, will further slide into the bottomless abyss!

Now we must train the army as quickly and as best as we can, otherwise the longer the time drags on, the more stable the Chinese will stand on their heels in these places. It's really not easy to get rid of them in the future!" Alan Arthur shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said with a tone full of uneasiness!

Although now his heart is extremely anxious. However, the United States simply does not have the armed forces that can take action, and sending those untrained recruits to the battlefield is simply sending them to death. If he really does this, I am afraid that he will not be able to do the position of president for even a day, and he will be knocked out of power by the angry people! In the United States, human rights are taken very seriously by all white people! Moreover. The United States is also not Russia, which can not care about the lives of its soldiers!

"General Henry, say it!"

"Yes, President!" said Minister of War Henry Harry Adno, pulling out a stack of papers from his briefcase!

"Now we have recruited all the 300,000 soldiers we passed in the last army expansion bill. But we now have a serious shortage of qualified officers. And there weren't enough people to train them! So, even after three months. I'm afraid they won't be able to satisfy us either!"

Of course, it was able to recruit 300,000 soldiers so quickly, or thanks to the help of the economic crisis, a large number of unemployed people, providing sufficient soldiers for the army!

"How can there not be enough officers! Don't we have West Point Military Academy and Virginia Military Academy?" Vice President William Wheeler frowned, and during this period of time, his whole person became much more silent! It was precisely because he strongly advocated the passage of the "Chinese Exclusion Act" and refused to apologize to the Chinese that he attracted the Chinese's revenge and put the United States in an unprecedented dangerous situation! Although no one said anything to him in person these days, William Wheeler could still see their blame from the eyes of the people around him.

"West Point and Virginia Military Academy now have only 98 graduates each year, and even if the four classes are combined, there are less than 400 people, and the two military schools together are less than 1,000! Compared with 300,000 recruits, this is not enough at all! Moreover, the regular army of less than 30,000 people we left before was actually left behind as the seed of future troop expansion! But now they are either sacrificed or taken prisoner by the Chinese! We no longer have many qualified instructors!" Henry said.

"Then does your War Department have any good solutions to this?" asked Alan Arthur with a frown.

"Yes! We have come up with two methods! First, we must recruit back veterans who have been discharged from the army in the past! In particular, those veterans who have gone through the Civil War and have been on the battlefield! Although they are now old and it is impossible for them to set foot on the battlefield again, there is no problem at all in letting them train new soldiers! Moreover, their war experience is also very valuable to all recruits! Second, in view of the fact that there is already a serious economic crisis in the whole world! Britain, France, Germany, Many people in the prime of life who have actual war experience in Russia, a powerful army country, have lost their jobs, and we can hire them to come to our United States to train our soldiers and even directly serve as officers in our new troops! At that time, we will also be able to solve the dilemma of a serious shortage of experienced officers! I don't think there will be any difficulties for us in the United States!"

Everyone heard the meaning of Henry's words, the United States is originally a country of immigrants, and almost every European country has immigrants in the United States, so taking advantage of the economic crisis to recruit experienced officers from Europe and serve the American side is not too difficult to complete!

"In that case, then your War Department should hurry up and implement these two articles! If you have any difficulties, you can come to me!" Alan Arthur said with a final word.

"I see, President, I'll do it as soon as I get back?"

Nodding his head, Alan Arthur looked at a middle-aged man sitting on his left side in a neat suit, with golden eyes on the tip of his hook-shaped nose, and looked a little yin, and asked, "Raymond, what kind of situation has the current economic crisis in our country developed, and how much money do we have to use our finances now?"

Hearing this, everyone's eyes in the conference room focused on this middle-aged man! In addition to the war with the Chinese, what they are most concerned about now is this economic crisis that started in the United States and quickly spread to the world!

As the Treasury Secretary of the United States, Raymond Orr's face became ugly when he mentioned the economic crisis!

"President, in less than 10 days from the sharp drop in the stock market in New York on 1 June and the outbreak of the economic crisis to 9 June, nearly $2 billion of wealth has evaporated from the stock market! In addition, because the external market has shrunk sharply, the prices of grain, meat, cotton, and other agricultural products, which are China's main export commodities, have fallen by 20 percent, and the amount of exports has shrunk on a large scale, and it is estimated that the total export volume of our agricultural products will drop by about 60 percent this year! If there is still no noticeable improvement in the world economy next year, the export quota of agricultural products will continue to decline! Of course, this is not the worst of all, because of the decline in the prices of major agricultural products, there is no profit to be made in the sale of agricultural products, and many farmers have already allowed them to rot in the ground! The output of grain, cotton, meat, and other major agricultural products has dropped sharply! The agriculture of the United States has suffered a heavy blow!"

"And agriculture is the foundation of the national economy, and if agriculture is affected because of the economic crisis, then industry will also go bankrupt in large numbers because of the lack of raw materials and markets! Although because of the relationship of time, our current statistical data is not too accurate! However, at present, 326 large and small railways in the country have been built, and one-fifth of the operating companies have gone bankrupt! The collapse of the railway companies has also left a large number of iron and steel plants without a market, so in the most violent 10 days in the early stage of the economic crisis, the most severe steel plant has closed down. Including the factor of war with the Chinese, more than 300 of the more than 1,000 steel mills in the country have closed down, and more than 200 are still in difficulty, and the rest are encouraged to operate by cutting workers and closing factories! It is estimated that if the economic crisis lasts for a year, there will be less than 200 steel plants left in our country! And now our annual output of 8.2 million tons of pig iron and 3 million tons of crude steel will also drop by more than half by the end of this year!

"Agriculture, finance, banking, and iron and steel are the industries that have been hit the hardest by our current economic crisis! This is followed by heavy industries such as machinery and equipment manufacturing and coal mining! In addition, the closure of a large number of factories has also caused a sharp rise in the number of unemployed people, which has now reached nearly 1.5 million! Although this figure is our sampling estimate, the error will not exceed about 100,000!"

"In addition, the economic crisis has caused a serious contraction of the domestic and international markets! A large number of factories have closed down and the number of unemployed people has increased, which is bound to increase the burden on the people! Our Ministry of Finance estimates that this year's fiscal revenue is likely to be reduced by more than one-third compared with last year! This is still the most optimistic situation! If the war with the Chinese cannot end soon, this figure is likely to continue to decrease!"

The eastern coast of the United States and the Great Lakes region are the most important sources of fiscal revenue for the United States! In particular, the agricultural output of the Great Lakes region accounts for more than 60 percent of the total output of the United States, and the scale of industry also accounts for half of the United States, whether it is Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, or Cleveland, they are all important industrial cities in the United States, and the loss of any of them will have a major impact on the United States! If the Huo Jiajun really occupies these places, then the industrial strength of the United States will be reduced by more than half at once! The achievements of the country's development for 30 years have been lost!